♪ i will always love you ♪ you you ♪ second hour. a final good-bye to a music legend at the place where it all began. a celebration of the life of whitney houston. ♪ and i will love you

♪ i will always love you >> the moment capped a moving funeral service that began with these remarks. >> we're here today, hearts broken, but yet, with god's strength we celebrate the life of whitney houston. >> opening the service, joe carter, pastor of the new hope baptist church, houston's famous friends one after another gave stunningly poignant tributes like actor and filmmaker tyler perry. >> there was a grace that carried, a grace that carried her from heaven down through miss cissy houston. a grace that brought her up through singing. a grace that from what i

understand she wasn't supposed to be able to speak let alone speak because of an incident that happened as a child. but there was a grace that kept on carrying her all the way through. the same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts, sold all of these albums and just done some amazing things, won all these awards. she's sang for presidents, and there was a grace that kept on carrying her. >> gospel singer and pastor marvin winans eulogized houston who was a long-time friend. he started by thanking houston's mother for bringing the service back home to newark. >> i want to thank mama houston, cissy, for your just willingness to forget about everything else and have this service here. that took a lot of courage.

and because of that, you brought the world to church today. >> houston memorably made her film debut in 1992 in "the bodyguard." her co-star kevin costner recalled her struggle to land the role and her triumph. >> it's a tree we could all hang from. the inexplainable burden that comes with fame. call it doubt. call it fear. i've had mine. and i know the famous in the room have had theirs. i asked her to trust me, and she said she would. a half hour later she went back in to do her screen test, and the studio fell in love with her. the whitney i knew despite her success and worldwide fame still wondered, am i good enough? am i pretty enough? will they like me? it was the burden that made her

great, and the part that caused her to stumble in the end. whitney, if you could hear me now, i would tell you you weren't just good enough. you were great. >> alicia keys, stevie wonder, r. kelly, cece and bebe winans honored houston with their voices. aaretha franklin had to cancel because she wasn't feeling well. bobby brown was there for a while, but he said he wasn't happy about being asked to move three times and that security kept him from seeing the daughter he and houston had together, 18-year-old bobbi kristina, so he left because, quote, i refused to create a scene. he did mention his ex later during air performance in connecticut with his group new

edition in this video just in to cnn. >> i want to give blessings to my ex-wife, whitney houston. i love you. i want to give a lot of blessings to my kids. my fiancee, my brothers, and all of you. >> that was bobby brown tonight. eloquence flowed from the pulpit as those close to houston offered their praise for her. bishop t.d. jakes is stirring and he's the producer of "sparkle." i had a chance to speak with him shortly after the service came to a close. >> her family, cissy houston, and bobbi kristina what they have to deal with over

white hot light of the world stage, and what you did is the rarest of achievements. you set the bar so high that professional singers, your own colleagues, they don't want to sing that little country song. what would be the point? now the only one who sings your songs are young girls like you who are dreaming of being you someday. so to you, bobbi kristina, and to all those young girls who are dreaming that dream, but maybe thinking they aren't good eno h

enough. i think whitney would tell you guard your bodies and guard the precious miracle of your own life. and then sing your hearts out knowing that there's he a lady in heaven making god himself wonder how he created something so perfect. so off you go, whitney, off you go. escorted by an army of angels to your heavenly father. and when you sing before him, don't you worry. you'll be good enough. [ applause ]

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okay. time to get mysterious. jacqui jeras is here. >> don, i miss you. >> i miss you, too. i'm so tired i'm punch drunk. saturday night mysteries. what do you have this week? >> it's presidents day weekend, don't you know? we had to pick a mystery that has to do with one of the presidents, at least maybe the first lady. this has to do with our 16th president's wife, mary todd ling kun, and it has to do with a portrait that's been hanging in the presidential library museum in springfield, illinois for years and years. turns out this portrait you're looking at is a fraud. that's what it should be looking like. that's the original, believe it or not. this portrait was purchased in 1929 by the lincoln family and donated to the museum. the curator wanted to have it restored. in the process they learned tats portrait has been modified. she was wearing a cross

necklace, but in the next picture she's wearing a broach of abraham lincoln. it was penned by mr. francis carpenter. they don't know if it was actually done by him, either. her facial features and hair has been modified. they don't know who the artist was, but they decided believe it or not it's the most famous painting in the museum. they're going to keep it around. >> that is a saturday night mystery. >> indeed. >> this is interesting. it has to do with the milky way galaxy. there's so many mysteries surrounding the galaxy. some new images have created one more mystery unfortunately, more questions than answers. the european space agency took these images, never seen before patches the cold gas. that's what you're looking at there, these are basically

islands of carbon monoxide. they can help astronomers learn how stars form and things like planets. they might map out the regions. this next image you look at here, this has to do with microwave radiation. do you see that spot in the middle there? that's microwave fog, and it's unusually energetic, and they don't know why it's there. >> you see it right in the middle? >> do you see the yellowish and kind of the whitish colors? it gives off the brighter light basically, so they don't know. there are a couple of different things that could be causing it. if one is correct it could be a huge deal, right? have you heard of dark matter. most of our galaxy is made up on the dark matter. they say that spot could be evidence of the annihilation of dark matter. we don't have any proof that dark matter exists. that picture potentially could do it. >> you know, i haven't eaten all day, and now you have me wanting a milky way. >> that actually sounds pretty tasty right now.

>> is there a milky way in the machine back there? i want one. >> what do you do? >> there's a little snack machine over there. i'm going to get a milky way in a second. >> what else do you have? >> we have one more mystery for you, don. this has to do with stonehenge, right? mystery has surrounded this thing for thousands of years. the basic consensus is this thing is used for spiritual worship and burials. one researcher now says maybe it has something to do with sound. we'll tell you what we're talking about next. talking about next. i guess i'm helping them save hundreds on car insurance. it probably also doesn't hurt that i'm a world-famous advertising icon. cheers! i mean, who wouldn't want a piece of that? geico. ah... fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent oh dear... or more on car insurance.

can i show you this? >> did you get one in the break? >> there's no milky way in the machine, so i get this. >> the peanuts have protein. so that's better, right? >> it satisfies. >> i know you're going to be eating it while i read this next story. >> number three, bring it on. >> number three, stonehenge. we were talking about this before the break, and the big mystery, of course surrounding this. everybody has wondered how the heck did they do this 5,000 years ago and get those stones and lift them up on top? what did they use this strange formation for, and largely it's believed it had to do with spiritual worship and burials. this researcher now, steven waller, says these stones were created to give the special sound phenomenon.

apparently ancient people had this myth about echoes being spirits in rocks. he says this formation was used to create this kind of illusion that people would take like two pipers would play music surrounding the rocks, and it would create this interference kind of pattern. the sound waves would clash with each other and give off louder and softer noises depending on your location. i mean, it's something we've experienced, kind of an echoey sort of thing. he said that they would basically have these piper shows, and it would give this unusual type of magic aal sound illusion that nobody had heard before. >> that's still really cool, though. >> it is cool. >> apparently the scientific community is iffy on believing that or not. go ahead and be the judge for yourself. >> ooer other peoppeople on twi laughing because i want a milky way. you want to know my guilty pressure, the thing i do bh i'm tired and go home. i have a snickers bar -- there's

nothing like a snicker bar, plain lay's potatoes and the coca-cola from costco. it is awesome. it's like salty, salty, salty, sugar, good night. >> i don't know how gu to sleep after all that, my friend. >> i won't have any trouble tonight. thank you. appreciate the saturday night mysteries. >> take care. time to check some of your headlines. an arizona sheriff has stepped down from a state leadership post with mitt romney's presidential campaign after the "phoenix new times" published allegations he tried to deport a former boyfriend. the sheriff acknowledged he's gay, but denied the deportation allegations. he's also a republican candidate for congress and he vowed to continue his campaign. the pope has inducted 22 new cardinals including two americans. the archbishop of new york and

the arch bishop of baltimore. the new cardinals play a role in deciding on the new pope. also named was the first native-american saint, a 17th century mohawk woman who suffered from smallpox. tens of thousands of russians took part in rallies today to smt presidential candidate future tin. the election is scheduled for march 4th. they say they're paying people to attend the rallies. they say putin should win back the position. the world watched today as whitney houston's family and friends said their good-byes to her. the funeral was held for the superstar at her hometown church in newark, new jersey. so many famous faces were on hand it to pay their last respects. tyler perry, kevin costner, stevie wonder, alicia keys and so many more. after the funeral many of whitney houston's family and friends gathered at a newark restaurant sxchlt susan candiotti has more. >> reporter: as the rain came

down after that funeral, friends and family of whitney houston, including a number of celebrities, came to a private dinner, a repass after the funeral. they gathered together no doubt to swap stories and comfort each other after the experience they had just been through. a number of notables, we saw kevin costner who spoke so eloquently at the funeral. afterwards he came out and waved at spectators standing across the degree. we were kept at a great distance across a good six lanes of traffic. people who came here wanted to experience some peace of what happened earlier today. we also saw tyler perry and dionne warwick, angela bassett, jesse jackson and al sharpton that waved to the crowd across the street. undoubtedly for many an inspirational experience and also a very comforting one. don, back to you. >> thank you very much for that. whitney houston had the good for

fun in her career to meet and collaborate with some of the best minds in the business like michael walden. he co-produced this hit for her and so many others. listen. ♪ oh i want to dance with somebody ♪ ♪ i want to feel the heat with somebody ♪ >> i want to welcome narda right now. what a great song. did you sing that for us the other night? you sang for us -- >> i may have when we were on. i think i sang "how will i know" for you. i think i sang "how will i know" for you. >> tell us how that came about, "how will i know"? how did it go. ♪ there's a boy i can ♪ he's the one i dream of

>> i'm so struck by her power. she had so much power to be so beautiful at 19 years old, thin and gorgeous. i was like, wow. >> you know what's interesting is one of her voice coaches said it's rarely you can get a singer who has a great tonality to his or her voice and a singer that's athletic with a muscular voice. whitney houston was the rarity that had both. she had a great tone and could do about anything vocally. >> that's it. she had both. she could do very sensitive like her aunt dionne, a very sensitive creature like a cat, stroking a cat. very tender. at the same time unbelievable power, and this is what we love about her. both sides of the range, yeah. and also she's a spark plug. >> yeah. knew when to restrain and pull it back like with the national

anthem, and maybe a little bit to get your emotions up. i'm sure you were -- you watched everything closely, the services, what did you think? >> i felt the spirit of whitney in the room to comfort and to bring a deep love to everyone there. that was the magic i felt. i was very happy that i was there. i was very happy to see stevie here. i was happy to hear kevin costner's words. the choir that first began the whole thing was incredible. that got the whole thing just very whitney vibes. >> we saw it from a distance, even though the camera was in there. it was a pool camera where it's one camera angle and one news organization is controlling it, and then we all just take the feed. we don't see the faces and there's no can you telut-aways e one camera. take us inside and tell us how people were doing and everyone was reacting? >> everyone was very respectful.

they sat in their pews until they felt the spirit, because someone said the right thing. everyone had to stand to echo that sentiment. i felt people were being so respectful and very sharp to hear every word spoken and to hear every lyric sung. if something hit them, boom, they wanted to act right away. tlchs no lag time on anything, and that was the most beautiful thing. they were so respectful for whitney, for her day. this is whitney's day. >> i told bishop jakes when he would preach, when he did his thing, i found myself like sitting in church going amen. it had that sort of real down-home feeling to it. can we talk a little bit more about whitney and how you produced for her? how did you build those hits for her? what was it like to write and produce a track for whitney? did she have her voice in mind. did she say i'll go here with it

instead of there. let's try this. >> with whitney we new we needed a strong chorus. she can sing anything and we found a hit chorus. clive would say i think i have a great song here. see what you can do with this. it was about trying to find the right arrangement that would feature her the most. she's incredible so in writing or producing for her, make room for her to shine. make room for her to be the star. again, she's an angel. she's a heavenly earthly angel we'd never known or seen before. so always very much aware of making room for her voice. >> narda, thank you. just the last thing if you can. do you think she had another chart-busting album in her? >> absolutely. i was excited to work with her again. god took her home. there's a thing called god's hour or god's timing. she's home now to rest, and we

love her and send love and respect her. on my time, if she was here with us on the earth, i would in the studio with measure right now because i'm so enamored with her beauty and sfaspark plug energy. >> we have to run. thank you. we'll always love her. >> love you, too. thank you, don. thank you. >> we'll be right back. imagine if you could always see life [music] in the best light. every time of day. outdoors, or in.

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music and dancing to celebrate the carnival celebration. sasha darlington is in the middle of it all. sasha. >> reporter: the party has definitely gotten started here tonight, don. we're at the samba drum, and that's where ryo holds it's incredibly lavish parades. hundreds of dancers are lining up ready to go in, and in front of them one of their lavish floats often with barely dressed women on top sambaing the night away. there are another two nights after this, and these parades go until after the sun comes up.

80,000 people pack in the stands and this is carried live around the country. another 200 million brazilians can tune in. as you can see, all of these schools have different themes. these women here resident vionas, and then right here behind me we have gladiators. this isn't the only party in town. in fact, across the city neighborhoods are holding what they call block parties. it's not a couple hundred people. in some cases more than a million people turn out for block parties to follow samba musicians, plenty of drinking and partying. don, this carnival is just getting started. >> all right. thank you, sasha. forget kobe and lebron. the only nba player anyone is talking is this guy, jeremy lin. we're not just talking about him here in the united states. his popularity is spreading around the world. that story is straight ahead. but first -- tonight we're

honoring a woman who has given many children with cancer what her own daughter couldn't have, a place to learn and make friends. this week's cnn hero helps these kids reclaim their childhood by giving them their own preschool experience. >> morgan was a very happy child, had friends, and then one day when she was 2 years old morgan was diagnosed with leukem leukemia. we were devastated. to make it worse because of the chemotherapy she had no immune system. she could not be around other children. i was driving morgan to the hospital, and all of her friends were going to the preschool. i thought, we need to start a program for children with cancer where they can socialize and have friends and learn and play. >> my name is nancy zuck. i give children battling cancer a preschool experience. exposure to it a simple childhood cold or illness could

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so this was either a very unfortunate choice of words or ignorant that read chink in the armor. it was yanked after a half hour. a network spokesperson later apologized promising an internal review and disciplinary action. he came off the bench and lit a fire under the knicks leading them to seven straight wins before friday night's loss. so there's your joke, if it was one. not funny, because they won. lin has taken the basketball world by storm and not just here in the united states. sports fan in china are taking note. cnn is in beijing for us. >> with his unbelievable performance on the court, jeremy lin has bahama an american sensation, and the linsanity is

starting to spread afterway around the world to china. the taiwanese american 23-year-old from california is winning over fans here in a kuntz where there's as many basketball buffs as they are americans in the world. >> china has a wide and inclusive sense of national identity, and it embraces even a chinese-american born of taiwanese parents in palo alto who is a devout christian. >> he's already garnered 1 million followers on china's version of twitter. his jerseys sell fast on the popular e-commerce site. the void yes has been viewed half a million times on the chinese internet poking fun at asian stereotypes while capturing the imagination of a nation obsessed we had

indication and success. he prove that is asians can succeed in basketball, says this fan. but lin's success here isn't a slam dunk. lin didn't grow up in china, and he didn't rise through the ranks of the nation's sport system like yao ming. >> he represented the nation and stood tall in the world to show china could stand tall. on the other hand, i think that jeremy lin will eventually grow on chinese. >> he gives players like me a lot of confidence, this fan says. he's not too tall just like us. when yao retired from the houston rockets last year, the nba feared the game here could lose momentum. now they're hoping the 3'63" player who the media have calmed a supernova can one day fill yao's shoes. this might just be a burst of talent, he says, but i hope he

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deployment is meant to show friendship and support for countries in the region and show iran's military resolve. it was a day that was filled with emotion, sadness, reverence, but ultimately joy. stop the prompter right there. whitney houston one week ago at this time we were breaking the news to the world that whitney houston has died, and it certainly does not feel like a week has passed. there's been so much information and so much said about whitney houston, but today was all about love and respect for her. thank you so much, viewers, for watching us this entire week, bearing with us, going through this story, and to the houston family, friends and fans, our hearts and prayers go out to you. millions watched today. the funeral services for whitney houston and we have heard so much from her and about her from her friends, her family, and her collaborators, but tonight we want to leave you with whitney

in her own words. i'm don lemon in new york. see you from atlanta tomorrow night 6:00, 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. good night. it was about what fit with my voice, what song did. when clive heard me sing "the greatest love" which is the first song he grasped onto and said that's where we're going to go. we finally have someone that can sing great ballads. ♪ the greatest love of all ♪ is happening to me >> so i'm proud to carry that torch. i'm proud of that. when you do it you give the best you got. i worked really hard, you know, and i gave it all i had, you know. that's all you can expect. i feel at home with it. i feel blessed to have, you know, received all these accolad accolades. that's the way i feel. i fell in love with a ea