the third week in a row and the radar is showing that total and we're looking at another chance of accumulating snow late thursday into friday. >> tom satre, have a great week. we have a great lineup for you. cnn spotlight, whitney houston is next. thanks for joining me. have a great week. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ ♪ ♪ i found the greatest ♪ >> an unforgettable voice. ♪ ♪ the greatest love of all ♪ >> a troubled life. whitney houston's death silenced a musical legend and left behind a grieving young daughter. three years later -- >> 21-year-old female in the bathtub, face down, p.d. is en route. bobbi kristina brown is found

lifeless in the tub just like her mother. ♪ >> tonight, the triumphs and tragedies of a mother, a musician and her famous family. ♪ ♪ >> central park, 2009 whitney houston and her daughter bobbi kristina brown perform for "good morning america". >> i've got my baby. >> bobbi kristina brown wanted to follow in the footsteps of her mother and her father bobby brown to sing and act. ♪ ♪ >> but for now her biggest stage was social media, singing adele's ballad on twitter. posing poolside in a bikini and with her true love nick gordon, but that love may have come with

a price, family tension and division. >> the family and the sources that i spoke with all said they were very concerned about her relationship with nick gordon. they believe deeply that he is not good for her and i will tell you the thing that struck me when i was having these conversations, this same conversation sounded like what we were hearing about bobby and whitney all those years ago. >> in bad times and good what never changed was bobbi kristina's love for her mother. in 2012 she told oprah winfrey it's her mother's voice that keeps her afloat. >> i can hear her voice in spirit talking to me and telling me, keep moving, baby. i'm right here. i've got you. she's always with me. i can always feel her with me. >> this past august she celebrated whitney's birthday tweeting a photo of a birthday

cake with the caption happy birthday, mommy. bobbi kristina has left little doubt about the void created by her mother's death which made this tragic news more shocking. >> possible cardiac arrest. 21-year-old female in the bathtub, face down, p.d. is enroute. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> the late superstar whitney houston's daughter has been found unresponsive in a bathtub full of water. >> her husband and a friend located her in the bathtub and they immediately started cpr on her. she was transported to north fulton hospital. >> her condition was so grave doctors put her into an induced coma and meantime investigators are trying to determine what happened to bobbi kristina inside her atlanta home.

her father issued this statement, we are currently investigating the events that led to the hospitalization of bobbi kristina. we continue to request privacy in this matter. there are still so many unknowns. was it an accident or something worse? who was she with the night before? were drugs involved? >> right now they did not see anything on the scene that would indicate that. no alcohol or drugs laying around that would indicate that. >> one thing is clear, by any measure, this is a tragedy, leaving family and fans reeling and remembering back to much brighter days. ♪ and i will always love you ♪ >> whitney houston, the shy jersey girl who belted her way to superstar dom, six grammys

and a record seven consecutive number one singles. for a time, she was pop's greatest love of all. ♪ ♪ it is the greatest love of l all ♪ >> to hear her voice was a miracle because for anybody to be able to do with a voice what she did with hers speaks to a divine order. >> whitney houston, the icon, unimaginably talented, but also fatally flawed. >> there were many different sides to whitney. there was the performer, the consummate professional, was there the addict and you never knew which whitney you would get. >> if houston was blessed by the heavens, she was most certainly cursed with her own demons. whitney houston died here at the beverly hilton on february 11th, the voice of a generation

silenced forever. a tragic ending to a life filled with promise that was almost preordained. with a gospel legend for a mother and a cousin named dionne warwick, houston was born to sing. >> when we first saw whitney and you first heard whitney, you knew there was something special happening here. >> legendary music producer clive davis certainly knew, he discovered houston and changed her life forever. he packaged and polished the 19-year-old sensation into a pure, pop princess at least on the surface. alexis chu, now executive editor at "intouch weekly" reported on whitney's death for "people" magazine. >> one source that worked with whitney tells us she was definitely not a goody two-shoes in any sense of the word. >> houston's bad girl side may

have ultimately drawn her to r & b bad boy bobby brown. >> she was a girl from the streets of newark and she fell in love with a bad boy with a good voice. her fans, yes, were very shocked and those who knew her best really weren't surprised. houston and brown traded rings in 1992, a personal high matched only by a professional one that very same year. the bodyguard grossed more than $400 million and launched the top-selling soundtrack of all time. but even as the crossover superstar commanded millions for movies like "the preacher's wife," she increasingly struggled with her fame. >> did she ever talk to you about the stress of fame? >> she said to me you don't know what it's like being me. i'm stressed out all of the time. >> that stress was only compounded by houston's often rocky marriage. >> they were very happy at first, but pretty soon their

relationship turned pretty volatile, and when she was under pressure she tended to turn to drugs and alcohol. >> when houston began a string of missed appearances and cancellations many pointed their finger at bobby brown for his wife's mounting troubles with drugs. >> i hate to say that she had started before she had met bobby brown. >> we have to live -- >> houston's increasingly erratic behavior played out before the cameras in the short-lived reality show "being bobby brown," but when brown spoke to cnn in 2005 he insisted he and his famous wife were finally sober. >> working on a year and a half of sobriety and my wife is working on her year. so we're really doing good and i'm proud of her. >> yet her attempts at recovery only ended in relapse for houston and the years of drug abuse had taken their toll.

>> i was shocked at her condition, her vocal condition. >> what happened to whitney houston's voice? >> i think that the psychological impact of being who she was drove her into -- into lifestyle habits that ultimately were destructive. >> by may 2011 whitney houston was divorced. her attempt at a comeback a year earlier was in shambles. with all these crushing, personal setbacks she entered into a voluntary outpatient program for drug and alcohol treatment. 14 friends say she just needed a break. >> i know that she was pacing herself because she was preparing for the movie. i don't know exactly what she went through to do that. >> that movie was "sparkle" and by the time whitney houston began doing press for the film she did seem like a different woman. "access hollywood's" shawn

robinson did the last one-on-one interview with her. >> when i saw whitney houston in her eyes i thought this woman is coming back. >> but looks can be deceiving especially when you're talking about whitney houston. her final days when we return. ready for another reason to switch to t-mobile. get 2 lines of unlimited 4g lte data for just $100 bucks a month. it's america's best unlimited family plan. and it's only at t-mobile.

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♪ ♪ with a new movie and a new sparkle of her own, a seemingly healthy whitney houston started the new year poised to perhaps make that long-awaited comeback, but behind the scenes some now all-too-familiar and alarming behavior. alexis chu now with "intouch weekly" reported on whitney's death for "people" magazine. >> her friends said although she'd gone to rehab and had a great experience filming "spark "sparkle," she started partying again and dpel back into the

same spiral. >> three days before the annual grammy awards show whitney houston was staying here at the beverly hilton. it was here where over several days sources say the pop superstar was seen consuming considerable amounts of alcohol and acting erratically. >> garrett kennedy of "the l.a. times" was covering a pre-grammy press, vent at the beverly hilton when the singer raised eyebrows at the hotel pool seen here in this tmz photo. >> one of the conversations i had with the grammy staffer were that security were getting calls from bests that she was doing handstands by the pool and that was pretty bizarre. >> and then there was this. >> kennedy says houston smelled of cigarettes and alcohol when she burst in on her mentor clive davis. >> come say hi -- >> come say hi to your god father. come say hi to your god dad. >> i just said you're a mess right now and you're

embarrassing yourself and i'm embarrassed for you. >> the pop star appeared anything, but disheveled or disoriented later that night. >> whitney houston attended a pre-grammy party at this hollywood nightclub and as she walked the red carpet witnesses say she had it together and was on her best behavior. ♪ ♪ >> adam ambrose is a publicist for "true hollywood". >> she walked along here holding hands, in fact, with bobbi kristina and they both looked radiant. when they arrived they were looking fantastic. >> houston was even up for a little impromptu entertaining. she surprised everyone when she joined her friend r & b grammy nominee kelly price on stage. ♪ ♪ >> it was very sweet. it was actually very touching when she went on.

♪ ♪ >> fun times, but too much of a good time? not so says kelly price. while she says that houston had champagne at the party she denies reports that things got out of hand with her friend. >> this was not a woman who was depressed, upset, high, drunk. she was clearly in her right mind. she was not acting erratic. >> but access hollywood shaun robinson says the pictures taken thursday night tell a whole different story. >> i said who is that? what the hell happened? what happened in three months that took her from this person who seemed to have it all together to this person who looked very dishevelled and just kind of not there. ♪ >> in a sad reality, houston hadn't been herself in years, at

least not the one fans had come to love at the height of her superstardom. her struggles with addiction and the loss of her once incomparable voice and the pressures of fame had all, but destroyed houston's once magnificent facade and by saturday, february 11th, any hope of a comeback would be over. hours away from attending clive davis' annual pre-grammy celebration whitney houston was in her fourth-floor suite here at the beverly hilton when a music executive staying on the floor above hers was jolted awake by a loud thus. >> a member of her entourage went in and discovered her unconscious in the bathtub, partially submerged. ♪ >> the member of the entourage called 911 immediately. >> within minutes paramedics arrived, making desperate attempts to revive her. >> her brother gary was in the room and his wife pat,

obviously, praying for a miracle. >> houston's close friend kim burrell received a troubled car and raced over to the hotel. >> you could feel that something was terribly wrong and by then i saw the yellow police tape down the hall. i rushed in the room and i said what's going on here, and pat told me, she's gone. >> whitney houston was dead on the eve of music's biggest night, one of its biggest icons was gone. she was only 48. >> bobby kristina broke down in the hotel lobby and was just screaming over and over again, what's wrong with her? what's wrong with her? so we can only imagine what was going through this girl's mind, but her mother was her world. >> i wanted everything to just stop. wait a minute. because what i felt was

happening i didn't want to be happening. ♪ ♪ >> but there was no stopping it. a victim of her own addiction, toxicology tests revealed houston had cocaine, xanax and marijuana in her body as well as a muscle relaxant flexaril and benadryl. the county coroner determined the cause of death was accidental drowning with the heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors. a life built on triumph ended in tragedy, but for those who knew her the mega star known as the voice will always sing on. >> when someone like that dies the music takes on a new meaning. the music takes on a meaning now that whitney is not here and a song that makes me very emotional. it was that song "all at once" and the lyrics are so, so strong. ♪ all at once >> and then it hit me that

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♪ ♪ it was february 12, 2011. a year before whitney houston died. a pre-grammy party. >> miss whitney houston. >> whitney was back, back from years of erratic behavior and

drug use. ♪ walk on by >> where's the voice? you're saying she being aren't sing? >> no. ♪ the more that i wake up >> rock 'n' roll hall of famer sam moore was in the audience, an old houston family friend he and his wife joyce knew the girl everyone called nippy growing up was in trouble. >> she came in and she looked over and she saw me, and i said nippy, hey, baby! she started to -- and she fell on her knees and i said don't get on her knees and she was sweati sweating, and i said high. >> high on drugs. far from the girl he first met decades earlier. >> i thought she was the cutest little thing. >> whitney came to call him uncle sam and as quickly as moore watched the girl he called

nippy ride, he watched her fall. it was the early '90s. >> when i first realized that she was using i saw her on tv. she always was perspiring and doing this with her face when it's wet. >> at that moment he knew she was an addict. he knew because sam moore was an addict himself. he believes whitney's own family helped fuel her. >> the family declined to comment and did not respond to our questions about these claims. whitney's brother michael talked about it with oprah winfrey when he and his mother both gave their first interview since whitney houston's death. >> we played together, you know what i mean? and everything that you do together when you're growing up and when you get into drugs you do that together, too, and it just got out of hand, you know? just -- this drug is rough.

>> something sam moore knows all too well which is why he tried to intervene that fateful night three years ago, but her entourage pulled her away too quickly. then, he says, he talked to whitney's cousin dionne warwick. i said dionne, she's struggling. this ain't cool. you know what she said to me? malicious gossip, sam. what are you doing? i'm just telling you, she's getting high. sam, stop. stop. you're starting rumors. there's nothing wrong with her. >> warwick's spokesperson says dionne didn't feel it was her place to discuss houston's personal matters. sam stepped away. moments later whitney's daughter approached him. >> here comes bobbi kristina, uncle sam. i said, hi, baby. uncle sam, i said yeah? help my mommy. and before i could say anything

this guy -- literally pulling her away from me. >> a moment that haunts moore to this day. she was one of the greatest voices. ♪ and i will always love you >> you knew what she was doing, why didn't you help her save that voice. she could have had a legacy, but where is it? it died with these people. that's the legacy. ♪ >> now her only child bobbi kristina brown is in peril. unbelievably, she, too was found in a bathtub and now lies in a coma clinging to life. mother and daughter who shared a love of music, a love for each other and an extraordinary bond. time will tell if they will also

share the same fate. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ she's a multiplatinum powerhouse. >> her ability to connect with people, these songs may be better than anybody ever. ♪ ♪ >> who made her name in country music. ♪ ♪ >> she just had a charge in her that was twice her age. >> for a decade she's been building an empire and an image. >> i think that you could make an argument that taylor is the anti-miley. >> from the branding to the voice.