are you ready to go? >> reporter: mrs. obama balancing her role as wife, mother, and first lady while challenging a negative image that she insists is off the mark. cnn, washington. cnn newsroom continues right n.o.w. >> reporter: hi, everyone. it's 1:00 on the east coast, 10:00 on the west. we've got a busy hour ahead. almost two days after whitney houston's death in a hotel bathtub, one day after an autopsy turned up no signs of trauma or foul play, the chief coroner for l.a. county says we do not know yet how houston died. here's what we do know. the coroner's office is denying reports that officials told the entertainer's family houston likely died of a combination of alcohol and pripgds drugs. a spokesman says it's too early to rule out drowning or to rule it in. toxicology results won't come back for weeks. my colleague, don lemon, is outside the coroner's office now. you were at the briefing.

what else did we learn? >> reporter: we learned that whitney houston was seen about an hour before her death by someone in the very hotel room where she died, according to ed winter, the assistant coroner here. the person left the room and then came back about an hour later and found whitney houston's body inside the bathtub. and then ed winter said her body was removed from the bathtub. they tried to revive her. they coop revive her. of course, at 3:55 a.m. pacific time she was pronounced dead. as you know, you had been covering these beats when stars die, when people die. they want to do toxicology reports. and usually they have some sort of idea just from doing the autopsy which, by the way, has been completely. they might have an idea or a suspicion about how that person died. but using the toxicology reports, that's the final word. and i pose that question to ed winter a short time ago during a

briefing. and i spoke to him afterwards, as well. here's part of our conversation at the briefing. and i'll tell but our conversation afterwards toxicology report is a con firmd firmz, you have some -- confirmation, you have some idea as to what the cause of death might be. i know you don't want to speculate. >> no, that's not true. you can look at a body and not know what the cause of death is. you might have a suspicion, but the person could have suffered a heart attack or an embolism or something. and no matter what medications they're taking, until we run a tox and see the level and what's in the system, we're not going to speculate. >> reporter: what he's saying if you read between the lines is that they have their idea about what it is, but until they're 100% sure, randi, they don't want to say, well, we think it's this. they want to be sure. this is very high profile, as you know. >> of course. and one of the things that there's been a lot of talk about

is prescription drugs, of course. given whitney houston's history. are officials saying anything about prescription drugs, what might have been found in her hotel room? >> reporter: yes, they are. as you said, there have been reports that it was a combination of prescription drugs and alcohol, right? well, the coroner won't go that far. but what he will say and what he is saying, s that, yes, there were prescription bottles found. and initially the coroner's office did not release the information. he said there were prescription bottles found in the hotel room, but it wasn't anything that out of the ordinary that would make them go, huh, what's going on here. quite honestly, he said, i have more prescriptions than was found in the hotel room. but as you know, if those prescriptions are taken in the wrong way, right, they could lead to someone passing out, being unconscious, and if they're in a bathtub, maybe they

pass out and go under the water. that's speculation. and randi, you and i talked on line a little about the photographs. you've seen the photographs, haven't you? of whitney houston leaving that club on thursday night. >> the scratches and the blood on her leg. >> yeah. yeah. and so -- kelly price, the last person that she performed with, talked about that. she said, listen, we were having a good time. yeah, there was champagne flowing. whitney had some champagne. she left the club 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. anyone who would leave at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, if you've been dancing, it's hot. you would be sweaty, you might be little tipsy. we don't know how much she had to drink and if there was interaction with the prescription drugs. again, you see the pictures and see that they're not flattering pictures of her leaving a club, club true on thursday night. one of the last times she was seen publicly. >> yeah. so tragic. don lemon for us outside the coroner's office. thank you very much for your

reporting. we also want to pass along word from a source close to houston. the star's body will be flown to her native new jersey for a funeral on any or saturday. more details on that as we get them. much more on whitney houston. we're also focused on the president's $3.8 trillion budget which he announced this morning. among the goals -- cut spending to reduce the deficit. that includes defense cuts. it would spend more on education and infrastructure. and to raise revenue, the rich get hit with a buffett rule that would tax millionaires at 30 first. still, by the end of his fiscal year, the deficit would stand at $1.3 trillion. republican leaders want more spending cuts and promised a fight over raising taxes. live pictures now of a large fire in long branch, new jersey. take a look at this. we're told one of the four buildings burning is an apartment building. we're not sure which one or if anyone might be trapped inside. you see the amount of smoke there. the apartment does house 30 to 40 people. smoke is so thick, you can baly see what's happening on

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police in beverly hills have put a security hold on whitney houston's death investigation. that's common in high-profile cases like this one. it limits what authorities can say in public at least until

official reports are released. my guests today on facetime has a pretty good idea of what's going on behind closed doors. larry koblenski is one of the country's best known forensic scientists, nice to see you. the l.a. assistant coroner told our don lemon that it's too early to draw any conclusions on the cause of death. do you buy that? >> i think ultimately we need to know what the toxicology report says because we have to determine, first of all, whether it was an accident or death due to natural causes. obviously? -- foul baobviously if it was attack, embolism, you need a tox report to shed more light on the case. >> i'm glad you brought that up. oftentimes in cases like these, we're interested to hear about the drug tests and toxicology report. we're always told it takes, i

don't know, six to eight weeks. why does it take so long? >> i don't think it does. i think that if this is a high-priority case, i think they can get results in a week or two. i think they worry about dotting the is and crossing the ts. and since this is such a high-profile case, they have to take their time. if they want to do any exotic tests, it might take a little longer. >> when you look at the situation in whitney houston's hotel room, we have the assistant coroner saying that she was in the bathtub. he confirmed it. winter did confirm for reporters she was in the bathtub. she had been removed from the bathtub so they could try to revive her. does the fact that she was in the bathtub and then moved, would that hamper the investigation at all? >> well, certainly the first thing to do in a situation like it is try to save a life. so removing her from the bathtub and performing cpr is absolutely appropriate. however, there are things that might be disturbed, you know,

evidence that she drowned, for example. typically when people drown, there's a froth that appears coming out of the mouth and the nose. moving her might disturb that, and it might not be so evident. however, on autopsy, finding water in the lungs, finding water, spongeiness in the lungs, finding froth around the trachea, all of those will be indicative of a drowning. that's certainly a possibility. >> uh-huh. what about a nondrug-related cause of death, a heart attack, as you mentioned, or maybe an embolism. would something like that have been apparent this early on in the autopsy? >> yeah. i think if it was an embolism they would have seen it on autopsy. however, if it was a transient, electrical arrhythmia-type problem, that would not have been seen on autopsy. i think they have to look ought all of these possibilities.

clearly they found bripprescrip drugs in her room. although that sounds not an indicator that she died of an overdose, certainly the amount of medication and the types of medication that they will find in her body could result in a c conclusive opinion about her cause of death. >> i want to be clear, woe don't know what drugs might have been in the hotel room or might have been in her system at all. if there were, how long would the drugs stay in the system? in other words, how long would the coroner have to try and find out what's in her system, especially after death? how long does that stay there? >> that sometime not really an almost here. they remove all kinds of body fluids, urine, blood, i -- -- i fluids. they will have organs to look at, tissues to look at. tell not pose a problem for the toxicologists. they will know definitively which drugs are present if any, and the quantity of these drugs.

and then a pharmacologist, toxicologist can determine whether or not there is a lethal overdose or synergistic effect from multiple drugs and perhaps alcohol on top of that. all of those are possibilities. >> sounds like a host of possibilities. thanks, as always appreciate your expertise. >> it's a pleasure. in the days before she died, witnesses reported seeing whitney houston acting tipsy, looking messy and partying. so the question -- should friends have done more to intervene? we're going to gets into that angle of the story next. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn.

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the champagne was flowing. it was a party. i've heard so many things about people saying that, you know, she was erratic, she was this, that. she was none of those things. and i have to go hard on making sure that people understand, it was a good party. there was nothing negative about it. it was positive. we had great music. her daughter was there. my children were there. they're all around the same age. it was that kind of environment. >> that was kelly price talking about the pre-grammy party two nights before whitney houston died. houston actually sang with price that night in what would be her last performance. joining me is bob forrest, a certified addiction specialist and part of vh-1's "celebrity rehab with dr. drew." this is a tough conversation, i feel like we have this conversation too often. kelly price that whitney houston was a little tipsy from the champagne. for someone with houston's history of drug and alcohol abuse, what does that say to

you? >> well, it says to me that she had fallen off. i had heard a couple, three years ago prior to her "oprah winfrey" thing through the grapevine, that she was doing well, she was with good people, she was sober, she was building a foundation to a sober life. to hear that she's having little champagne tells me that shee's fallen off and isn't as focused. happens all the time. it's important that the people around the addict kind of call them to that. and i guess this wasn't being done. you know, sad. >> is that what happens with celebrities who have addictions? i mean, do they not get the tough love that maybe their friends should be giving them? are they surrounded by enablers in many ways? >> they certainly are. and it's very difficult for people to understand. celebrities get actually substandard care because everybody kisses their you know what's. when somebody like whitney houston goes to a treatment

center, everybody treats her specially and differently. it's actually -- you know, a real downside to the celebrity culture that you can't get adequate, honest drug treatment in america. and it's difficult. celebrities seem to -- some seem to be able to figure their way through it. but it's very difficult. and they have all kinds of con see ae concierge service, that tough love often doesn't happen with celebrity clients. >> i know that you didn't work collectively with whitney, but you know the stories and ups and downs. is there a different mentality for celebrities when it comes to addiction? >> it just -- eventually when they get the foundation, they get in with good people and people that don't want anything from them and don't expect anything from them, that they just be sober and help other people get sober. that is what the 12-step fundamental base.

once they do that, it's golden. there are examples in the media. i talk about robert downey. he's not the star of the biggest movies in america because he's still doing drugs. you know what i mean? >> uh-huh. >> he figured his way through it, and it's wonderful what happened. what's sad about whitney is she had figured her way through it, too, and now here we are. i've been here the last four years for heath ledger and anna nicole smith and michael jackson. and this idea that prescription drugs are killing people. that's what's killing people. not illicit drugs, prescription drugs. when i heard she was tipsy and there was prescription drug bottles found in her hotel room, i just -- i deal with this 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 3 5 days a year. that's a bad, bad combo. >> we don't know what exactly was found in her hotel room yet. we're waiting on that. i want to ask you about

whitney's daughter, bobbi kristina. listen to what a family friend, kim burrell, had to say. >> i had an tunlt to sha-- an opportunity to share privately. they were very close, loved each other very much. they got along like best friends. she's overwhelmed. she's hurt. but she has hope. we prayed and talked briefly. i was able to hold her and encourage her and love on her. and in time, in time she'll be okay. >> let me ask you it that. do you think she's going to be okay? not only did she just lose her mother in a high-profile death, but this is a girl who would care for her mom and try to help her navigate hotel lobbies and things and play the mother role in taking care of her. >> yeah. this has been going for decades in america. the co-dependency that's formed in the adult child. you know, it is -- it's rampant

where the child becomes the adult and parents the addict in their life. a parent addict. you know, she's going to have to see do some soul searching and get angry and get the -- and do some things that are necessary to gain her own emotional autonomy. it's going to be difficult. and i fell for her. that's immediately what i think all these people, their kids involved and these people, deaths, it's awesome. >> yeah. it is. you think about her daughter and michael jackson's children, and anna nicole smith's children. it's just very sad. >> heathllerg's little daughter. just awful. >> you're right. pop forrest thank you for the work you're doing and trying to help people. we appreciate your time today. >> sure. thank you for having me. friends say whitney houston had cleaned up her life in recent months. but was her long-time struggle with addiction ultimate lea family nor her death? up mix, jane velez-mitchell joins me from los angeles. she's been talking to houston's

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today we are remembering whitney houston and her impact on all of our lives. fans laid flowers and left messages on the sidewalk outside the beverly hilton hotel where she was found on saturday. whitney houston was more than a singer, she was also an inspiration to so many. jane velez-mitchell joins me now from los angeles. she's the host of hln's "jane velez-mitchell" program. you were there this weekend through all of the crying and all of the tributes that we witnessed from afar. what really struck you it the reaction from celebrities and from whitney houston's fans? >> reporter: well, it was amazing to see the fans converge at the beverly hilton while whitney houston's body was still inside. and they really formed a spontaneous chorus almost of

crying, and they had candles. they were singing whitney houston songs. i thought it was extraordinaire that the whitney houston fans knew all about whitney's demons. they had all the facts, almost like a reporter would. they could separate that from her talent. and they wanted to focus that night on her genius as a singer. and just the love, the people crying, people talking about their experiences. how she was as it's a cliche, but they had said the soundtrack of their lives, and it's true. for so many of those folks. i was there as they were think issing. that was so touching that they -- as they were singing. that was so touching that that's got together, strangers, got together and sang a medley of songs. >> one of the things happening now is obviously investigators and loved ones are trying to piece together her last few days and hours. have you gotten information it the reports that she was acting strangely, walking around the hotel a bit, looking confused?

wearing mismatched clothes. anybody talking about that to you? >> i want to be careful. it's lake a galike a -- it's li game of telephone. we know she was at the hollywood party. like your previous guest said, she was in recovery. she went to rehab less than a year ago and has been in rehab several times. when you're in recovery, you're not supposed to have even a drop of alcohol. as a recovering alcohol myself, 16 and hopefully 17 years in april of sobriety, i will not gatherle with mouthwash with alcohol in it. i will not eat food with a drop of alcohol because i know it can trigger a binge. once i get that to my system, i have no control over my behavior. when i heard that she had been drinking champagne thursday, and we heard that from kelly price who was at the party, a chill ran through me. i know the consequences of that

for somebody in a recovery. it is a slip, it is a fall. you don't know where it's going to lead you. we heard stories about her partying at the hotel and that one of the reporters that i'll speak to on my show said he saw her with two drinks, one in each hand. what w i don't know what was in the drinks, but he claimed she was mumbling and not coherent. there's video of her interrupting an interview involving clive davis and two female singers in which she appears to be a little bit out of control. again, it's very hard when you're dealing with this issue to say anything definitively. i want to obviously restate that we do not know her cause of death. that's part of the insanity this disease. a person in their addiction will never, rarely cop to the fact that they're actually using. unless they're confronted in some kind of intervention situation. you have to kind of extrapolate from behavior.

and of course you hope that you're wrong. so you don't want to elk trap late and pass judgment on somebody and be wrong. for example, if somebody goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours and they've got a history of addiction, they take their purse and stuck in there. your first thought is, oh, are they in there using. we'll never know for sure until we get the tox tests back. certainly the fact that she was drinking champagne, that means she did slip from her recovery. >> let's talk about the legacy she left for young women. she inspired so many young female singers, young girls who wanted to grow up to be whitney houston. now, with her death, there is an equally important lesson here, as well. >> i do feel that this should be a wake-up call to america. d we do want to wait for the tox test to come back. big if, if it is connected to prescriptions drug use, this has to be a wake-up call to america. enough already. we have seen too many of our great artists die from illegal

prescription drugs. more people dying from o.d.ing from legal prescription drugs. and doctors don't understand that when they give people powerful narcotics for back pain or leg injury, that they are creating addicts. so i think the time has come for america to wake up and say hold on a second. there's something seriously wrong here, and we need rethink what we're doing and how we're doing it vis-a-vis prescription drugs. >> well said. jane velez-mitchell, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. and still to come today, mitt romney may have won the big cpac straw poll this weekend, but he's not the one that's getting all the attention. be aware, washington. tea party patriots are alive and well. >> coming up, sarah palin's big swipe at republican leaders and warning about the tea party.

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before the break i asked who is the only person to win the cpac straw poll yet never officially run for president. the answer is then virginia senator george allen. he won in 2006 by a narrow margin over john mccain. congrats to alex for tweeting the right answer first. well done. sarah palin is keeping the gop edge in her latest comment. she says she's not concerned that mitt romney is the right ticket in november. >> i trust that his idea of conservatism is evolving. and i base this on a pretty

moderate past that he has had, even in some cases a liberal past. >> her comments not making picking the nominee easier. doug high is a republican strategist, ed espinoza is a democratic political consultant. they join us from washington. doug, to you first on this one. is mitt romney conservative enough? >> oh, i think he is. i think whoever we nominate will be conservative enough. that's what this process is about is finding out who is that conservative that's going to be best against barack obama. it may be mitt romney, it may be rick santorum. perhaps someone else. but whoever we nominate is going to be a conservative candidate and hopefully defeat barack obama come november. >> ed, what do you make of sarah palin's comments? >> i love sarah palin. she's good tv. i think that she's good at recognizing opportunity. if she senses that there's an opportunity for there to be fracturing and some -- potentially a brokered

convention that maybe she will come back into the process. i don't know that as much as we talk it it, i don't know that it will eventually get that far. but like doug says, the nominee will be conservative. the problem that romney's got is that people aren't convinced he's conservative yet. he's got teamwork do there. >> let me -- he's got work to do there. >> let me ask you, he said that romney bought his straw poll at cpac. is this sour grapes? we know the campaign according to santorum paid for people's registration at cpac to vote in this poll. what do you make of it? >> ultimately that's how you win straw polls. that's in large part how michele bachmann won the iowa straw poll last year. ultimately rick santorum is at his best when he's talking about conservative issues. that's what i'd like to see more of. as a catholic what went to bishop mcguiinnis in winston-salem, north carolina, i was impressed at how santorum addressed the issue of contraceptives which is important right now. i'd like to see him focus more

on that because that's where he's at his best. >> is it sour grapes? wouldn't he have done the same thing if he had the money to do so? >> i don't know. he sat out of the iowa stroep for the same reason. didn't -- straw poll for the same reason. didn't have the money. he's been smart in going to states that don't have winner-take-all delegates. he got proportional representation. he skipped florida. everyone thought it was a bad move. then he went and won three state. his strategy, very different than romney's. he -- romney needed that cpac straw poll. i don't know how much it's going to help him. but he needed to win it. it may have about as much effect as bachmann's iowa straw poll or herman cain's florida staup. either way he still needed it. >> we know how those went. let's stay with rick santorum. he got himself into a tight spot with his comment about women in the military. should they serve in combat. listen to what he said. >> when you have men and women together in combat, i think that there's -- men have emotions when you see a woman in harm apes way -- harm's way, it's in

our culture to be protective. and that's -- that was my concern. i think that's a concern with all of the militaries. >> how do you think that's going to impact his campaign, doug? >> i don't think it really will. ultimately we're going to have this process be about -- this is what the process has been around, who's that conservative candidate, who's going to address the issues that directly face this country every day. we've got a budget now that's been submitted by the president. and while his chief of staff, former obm director, doesn't know that it takes 50 votes in the united states senate to pass a budget, we know that the obama administration's planning more debt, more deficits, more spending and more taxes. the republican candidate who can best address that is the one who's going to emerge. >> let me ask you because i know you love talking about sarah palin. she made a comment over the weekend on long island that she's unsure of the presidential run. do you think she's just teasing the gop a bit, or is she going to really mess things up at the convention? >> are you trying to tell me

that sarah palin did something that gets her attention? classic sarah palin. and like i said, i love seeing more of her. if other people love seeing her as much as i do. i think she's good entertainment. and hey, if she decides to jump in at the convention, more power to her. >> all right. >> who knows what she'll do? >> who knows? who knows? and ed espinoza, thank you very much for joining us. it is fair game today. his amazing firsthand frequents syria have made him a target of the syrian army. the brave young man known as danny and his journalistic request to sell a serious story. . ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but we talked for hours... everyone else buzzed about the band.

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we want to take you live to the east room of the white house. you see it there. we are preparing for the president. he is going to award national medals of arts and humanities today. actor al piccacino is among the recipients. you see there a picture of dr. joe biden. also poet rita dove will be in attendance. sarah jessica parker is in attendance, as well. we wanted to bring you live pictures. we'll ton watch that. as soon as it gets underway, we'll bring you more information. now to syria where government foersds continrces c unrelenting bombardment of homs and other towns. they've endured nine days of

shelling. one shocking target today was a cemetery. [ explosions ] >> a syrian human rights group says at least 11 civilians have been killed in homs and elsewhere as well as three soldiers. more than 680 died across the country last week. most of them in homs, according to opposition activists. the onslaught by government forces includes artillery, tanks, and armored personnel carriers. in the latest bid to stop the slaughter of civilians, the arab league is calling for a joint peacekeeping force for syria. ads the shelling of homs continues, the government rejected the proposal calling it an incitement to terrorism. the revolt is a major focus t u.n. with the general assembly expected to take up a draft resolution that would condemn human rights violations in syria. it's said they need more information before making a decision on whether to support it. you'll recall that russia and china recently vetoed a u.n. security council resolution denouncing the assad regime.

much of the incredible reporting on holmes has come from a brave young syrian who was known recently only as danny. >> bombs and shells, everyone -- it blows in the air or comes up to the buildings. look at the bodies. look at the bodies. these are rockets. these -- they are firing rockets on us. we've got more than 40 people dead. hundreds of injuries. look at this -- look. look! all dead bodies. we're not animals, we're human beings, we're asking for help. >> courage us on reporting like this -- courageous reporting like this earned danny the moniker of the voice of home. it placed him in the crosshairs of the syrian military. danny decided to flee the country. his family is anxiously awaiting

any news of his whereabouts. >> we're not expecting danny to arrive in lebanon until late tonight. he says there are activists with him now. >> calm down. >> okay. >> enough, calm down. >> who could be calm in a situation like that? danny's mother says her greatest fear is that one day she would turn on the news and see images of her dead son. finally a phone call they had been waiting for. >> human rights in lebanon. >> what, what? >> he's in lebanon? he's in lebanon, in beirut? >> a happy ending. the voice of homs made it to safety and soon will have a reunion with his family. still on to come, a freak accident at a florida church has

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time now to take stories making news at street level. first to st. petersburg, florida

and what officials are calling a tragic accident. the pastor's daughter now fighting for her life after being shot in the head by a church member. it happened after morning services at the grace connection church yesterday. officials say hannah kelly was injured when a gun her boyfriend and two other men were handling went off. investigators say the gun's owner has a hpermit to carry th weapon. no other charges have been filed. 14-year-old brittany jones has been found in wisconsin. her father was seen taking her from a hospital in missouri. jones turned up in a hospital in milwaukee moments after she was seen in st. louis. she was taken into custody of the illinois family and children's services after doctors said she was getting inadequate care at home. the parents of robert champion are suing a charter bus company in the death of their

son. you recall robert champion died as a result of a hazing incident last december. his family is holding a news conference today. investigators are still investigating that case. chris gregoire is scheduled to sign a measure legalizing same-sex marriage next hour. the move came after the house approved the bill after other states had taken similar action. it would be the seventh state to allow same-sex marriage with gay and lesbian couples. so new york's madison square gardens now home of the knicks. the point guard ended up in the pros by way of harvard. that in itself is extremely rare. but what knicks fans are going extremely crazy about is that since he burst on the court about a week ago, the team has won five straight games.

yes, hard to believe. and now as a committed christian, some are comparing lin to pro football tim tebow. a magazine is urging newt gingrich to drop out of the race, but with one state under his belt, is that really fair? and a brand new national poll out this hour. wait until you see who is at the top now.

what's happened to newt gingrich? in a matter of weeks, he's gone

from front runner to, some would say, also ran. a publication is even calling on him now to step aside. let's get the latest on this and all things politics from our reporter peter hanby. peter, i understand to ask you about that, but i want to ask about these new polls. very tight race coming from the research center. santorum on top. >> yeah. this is big news for rick santorum. he's essentially tied with a margin of error with mitt romney. these are the two national front runners, rick santorum who was an also ran a few months ago. you see the conservative base really getting behind rick santorum. conservatives, tea party supporters, evangelicals are moving away from newt gingrich who was the conservative standard bear for a while and rick santorum. if you look in this poll, conservative tea party supporters, most of them, a vast majority say mitt romney is not

conservative enough. so romney has had trouble reaching out to them, connecting with them over the last couple weeks. this is really in the spotlight of the republican race right now. he's tris to appeal to them. also he's flipping the number of voters. he's taken an 8-point hit in a match-up against barack obama. that's bad news for mitt romney looking to the general election. of course, independent voters, as always, decide the general election. romney is kind of walking a tightrope right now. >> one thing that could certainly help rick santorum is the national review very conservative magazine asking gingrich to drop out of the race. is that their way of saying, hey, give all your support to rick santorum, we need it? >> yeah. this is an editorial they wrote today. quote, it would be a grave mistake for the party to make someone with such poor judgment and persistent unpopularity as

presidential nominee -- this is about newt gingrich. when he led santorum in the polls, he urged santorum to leave the race. this magazine is borne out of the very conservative movement newt gingrich is appealing to. they were instrumental in goldwater, they endorsed ronald reagan in 1986. when your own people are telling you to go, that's a bad headline for newt gingrich and could be a problematic narrative for him in the coming weeks. he's really waiting for these march 6 super tuesday dates, so it could be a long slog for him before then. >> he's also said he's going to take this all the way to convention, so we'll see what he decides to do here. peter hanby, thanks so much. nice to see you. thank you, everyone, for

watching as always. i'd love to hear what you thought of today's show. you can continue the conversation with me on line. you can find me on facebook and twitter as well at randikaye@cnn. cnn continues with brooke baldwin. >> i'm brooke baldwin at the top of the hour. rapid fire. let's begin. first up, i want to begin with the investigation into whitney houston's death. here's what we know so far. her body will be flown back to her native new jersey. a funeral, we're told, could be held there either friday or saturday. the autopsy is complete, but it's still too early to tell from killed whitney houston. the los angeles coroner's office warns not to jump to any conclusions. >> you have a body and you don't know what the cause of death is. you might have a suspicion but the person could have suffered a heart attack or embolism or something, and no matter what med kaications they're taking,

until we run a tox and see the level, we're not going to speculate. >> that's from the coroner's office. we're going to pop a little box here for you. live pictures as we're waiting for a press conference from the beverly hills police department. they could speak any moment. we're keeping an eye on that, and as soon as we see someone step behind the podium with all those mic flags, we'll let you know as it happens. i want to go to syria. the country's ambassador to the united nations admits syria has problems, but says they're for syria to solve internally. in fact, he says, quote, is there one among you whose country does not have shortcomings or problems? would you be the one to cast the first stone, end quote. at least 1500 people have died in syria in the last year. today president obama released a $3.8 trillion federal budget. raise taxes on people making

$250,000 a year. limit deductions on the wealthy, make college tax credit permanent. make millionaires pay 30% of income taxes. >> you need them. you're the ones who see your wages stall. you're the one whose cost of everything from college to groceries has gone up. you're the ones who deserve a break. >> we hit the highlights for you a second ago, but you can get a complete breakdown of the budget released today. just go to cnnmoney.com. students at a columbia high school had to be evacuated today after a chemical spill. four teachers, nine students had to be taken to the hospital. we're told they're being treated for exposure to lye. they had it out while they were

cleaning the boilers. jerry sandusky can see eight of his grandchildren and can leave his home to see lawyers. he is under house arrest. he is accused of molesting ten boys. also the development about tim curley, now ex athletic director, his attorneys have filed a motion to drop a perjury charge. they say jerry san -- lawyers for gangster is back in court today. he is accused of murdering 19 people all the way through 1985. prosecutors have accused bolger of trying to delay his trial. lawyers dispute that and say they are indeed preparing for his trial.

the new jersey senate passes same-sex marriage. governor christie says he will veto the bill if it reaches his desk. just the opposite in washington. the governor there is scheduled to sign a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. lawmakers passed that bill on wednesday, and we will show you that moment live as it happened for us during this hour. the winner of the $336 million powerball jackpot bought the ticket in rhode island, so check your tickets. apparently the winning ticket was bought at a stop&shop in newport, and so far, no one has come forward to say, yeah, i won. the lucky person has up to one year to show up. >> back now to the investigation into the death of whitney houston. here's what we know briefly. the autopsy is now completed. still too early to tell what exactly killed her. don lemon has been working the story with me all weekend. he's now standing live outside

the l.a. county coroner's office. we know cause of death won't be released pending the toxicology reports. >> i have some breaking information, new information. the viewers are the first to hear, you're the first to hear it on this show. our producer just spoke to ed winter, the assistant of l.a. county. he says he believes whitney houston's body is now gone from the coroner's office. you're hearing it first here on cnn right on your show, brooke. he says the body is gone. within the next couple hours, he believes the body is scheduled on a flight to go back to new jersey to her home town of newa newark. that's what her mother and family had requested, brooke. so you're hearing that. also i spoke with the assistant coroner just a short time ago,

and we talked about the circumstances surrounding whitney houston's death on saturday. he said she was seen in her room, brooke, one hour, about one hour before her death. and then everyone went away. she stayed in the room. then when the person came in the ro room. me removed her body, and of course, that didn't happen he also says prescription drugs were found in the room. >> he wasn't specific, i know. i also want to ask you about her husba

husband. just say a prayer. just say a prayer for my daughter. say a prayer for my mother, and if you can find the time, please say a prayer for me cuz i'm going to need it. >> so he had a tough time getting through saturday. where is he now, don lemmon? where is bobby brown and also give us an update on that daughter that's in and out of the hospital, bobbi kristina. how is she? >> i'll do both for you. he was in mississippi and then went to tennessee, was supposed to perform in tennessee, skpand instead of doing that the second night -- you saw that performance -- he flew here to los angeles to be with his daughter, to come pick his daughter up, bobbi kristina. because on the night whitney houston was pronounced dead in

that hotel room, bobbi kristina went to the hotel room to see her mom's body. police wouldn't let her in. she became hysterical. she went to the hospital. the next day she became hysterical again. they had to take her back to the hospital again because she was still upset. she is out of the hospital now. her dad is believed to be here in los angeles to pick her up. they could be on their way back now, not exactly sure, but he came here to los angeles taking his daughter back to the east coast. >> don lemmon, thank you. as don broke the news minutes ago, we know the body of whitney houston no longer at the l.a. county coroner's office. her body will be en route to new jersey where her family will be holding a funeral either friday or saturday. in the next couple minutes, we're going to talk to my colleague, nancy grace, about what she learned. what she learned in those hours of corresponden.

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show live there tonight, and whether, and it's too early to say, i know, but whether this will be ruled an accidental death or not, we've heard from correspooners today it's too so tell. my question is will others be held accountable here as well moving forward? >> well, all the answers are going to lie in two places in my mind. one, that bathroom and bedroom of the beverly hilton hotel right behind me, the death scene, and also in her blood, in the vials that now hold the blood of songbird whitney houston. that's where we're going to find the real cause of death. we're going to find out what was in her system, and i'd like to find out who, if anyone, put it in her system or gave it to her. now, will charges stem from this? let's take a look at anna nicole smith and the allegations that came down against all the people surrounding her, including her fiance, howard stern. take a look at michael jackson,

conrad murray. and not only that, if you recall, archie bunker, carroll o'connor, brought the dope dealers into court that gave him the final drugs that caused his death. i would like to know who was around her, who, if anyone, gave her a drug or who slipped her or pushed her underneath that water. apparently no signs of force or trauma to the body. who let whitney houston go under her water? >> might it have been one person, might it have been multiple people? all excellent questions. again, we don't know the cause of her death. we have confirmed we heard from ed winter, the coroner chief, sang, yes, there were medication bottles found in her hotel suite. we also heard from her friends she was imbibing in at least one alcoholic beverage on thursday.

let's talk to the woman whose grammy party she was attending that night, kelly price. >> i heard so many people saying she was erratic, she was this, she was that. she was none of those things, and i have to go hard on making sure people understand. it was a good party. there was nothing negative about it. it was positive. we had great music. her daughter was there, my children were there, it was that kind of environment. >> so she's saying nothing negative, nothing wrong about the party. nancy, i know you get in on the nitty gritty details. what did you learn in l.a. about the final hours leading up to her death? >> well, right around the time of her death, at the time of her death, as a matter of fact, there are apparently three different prescription drug containers for benzoyl diazepam.

they were medicating her out the ying yang. she went to that party beautiful, cool, calm, collected. when she left that party, there was blood coming down her leg, her hair was soaking wet, she was sweaty and disheveled. something went wrong at that party. there is an acrimonious argument with a lover. her daughter has had to go to the hospital twice under suicide watch at the death of her mother. but there are a lot of unanswered questions. >> what should that drug be used for, a, and you mentioned it was three drug containers? where were those found? >> allegedly three different bottles of benzodiazepam were found in her room, each from different doctors. there are a lot of different street names for the drug, but

very often people that drink -- and i'm not saying this about houston because i don't know it yet -- that overdrink will take that to avoid a hangover effect. >> to avoid a hangover effect. i'm sitting here listening to you. this is the first i've heard of it, especially the fact you're saying allegedly prescriptions from three separate doctors. what does that tell you if that, in fact, is the case? >> well, another thing, the nicky fine pharmacy in l.a. has reared up again. remember, that came to the forefront in the michael jackson case. where is she getting all these drugs? who are these doctors giving her these drugs? just like with jackson, just like with elvis presley, just like with anna nicole smith, and will someone be held accountable? i'm not ruling that out right now. america loves whitney houston. she is our beloved songbird.

did you hear her sing at super bowl xxvi, the national anthem? i want answers. >> where are you getting the news about the prescription bottles and the three doctors? >> from reporters that have been there at the scene and have found out, this is what they are reporting and telling me. >> okay. nancy grace, if you get any more information, because that certainly is news to us here, let us know. pop back in front that far camera and we'll put you on. quick reminder, nancy is going to be in l.a. for her show there tonight following the investigation into the death of whitney houston. meantime, i want to go talk syria here. we're told they're going door to door to door taking people away. all the explosions? this is a cemetary. this comes as the united nations prepares to vote on a resolution

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the story shaking the middle east is moving forward today in syria. syrian army forces resume shelling various neighborhoods. the primary target, the district southwest of the city center. payton walsh is keeping track of all of this for us from syria's neighbor, lebanon. nick, obviously no letup in the assad government crackdown.

>> we're told they were awakened at 5:00 a.m. by continued shelling. they are concerned that in the district to the north, syrian troops have been moving in over the past five days. unrest taking place there, and the concern is they'll move south into baba ana, 4500 people losing their lives. >> over this past weekend, we heard from al-qaeda's new leader essentially speaking out in support of the rebels. is there a worry that al-qaeda, other militants, will try to seize advantage of the chaos within the country? >> reporter: it's really a broad statement in what he calls the lions of greater syria. there has been a residency in

the syrian unrest in much of the arab spring in the last year. people are concerned about that, though, perhaps they will drag out. they didn't offer practical help from al-qaeda, but we have seen in december in damascus and more recently in friday in aleppo, significant blasts, a government stronghold, which u.s. officials and the media have said are like al-qaeda in the past, al-qaeda in iraq. as this drags on, there could perhaps be a window for these extremists, these radicals to bring these kinds of tactics. but i should point out, syria uprising is not something you've seen at this point, brooke. >> but also as the conflict widens and drags on, what about fears of slaughter spilling over in other parts of the region? we have neighboring turkey and also lebanon where you are. are they concerned?

>> there are concerns, and everyone has tried to keep in hiding. on friday there was a slight bit of unrest, now, this sort of tension does occur periodically but appeared to have been exacerbated by what is going on across the border. at this point there is no real concern. many are concerned that you might see this refugee problem escalate. that could change. let's talk money. $3.8 trillion by president rkts

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forget accommodation in the president's new budget. today the white house believes in the tax plan. republicans, new taxes on the well-to-do. that includes new taxes on millionaires, expiration of the bush tax cuts, plus tens of bill yonds of dollars tax on financial institutions. and the deficit would be below $1.33 trillion but would be sky high in 2018. that's due in part to the spending plan like transportation projects and hiring teachers and emergency

workers. from a height house pwhite hous what is the goal here? >> the president is trying to sell his vision, and that is invest to create some jobs, tighten the belt, cut spending a little bit but not too much so that the economic recovery, which does have some positive signs lately, isn't hurt. that is the plan here from the white house, the president outlining his priorities. which priorities is he outlining? some that are pretty popular despite the fact that the government's spending still remains a concern for many voters, the teachers, firefighters, police officers, hiring them and keeping them on the job. these are things that poll very well, and then the way to pay for it, with taxes on wealthier americans also does pretty well. listen to what president obama said on that point earlier today. >> do we want to keep these tax cuts for wealthiest americans,

or do we want to keep investing in everything else? education, a clean energy, a strong military, care for our veterans. we can't do both, we can't afford to. some people go around and they say, well, the president is engaging in class warfare. i say, that's not class warfare, that's common sense. that's common sense. >> the goal here, brooke, is not to get this past where president obama would be able to do that or he would take their proposal and incorporate it -- >> brianna, brianna, forgive me for doing this to you. we have to go straight to l.a. to beverly hills police. the press is on their way right now in the death of whitney houston. >> we would do this for any unintended or unexpected death for someone of her age. as of right now, it's not a criminal investigation. we have concluded our portion of

the investigation at the hotel. we have a team of investigators that are specifically assigned to this case, but as of right now in this state, it is a coroner's case. >> lieutenant, can you squash the rumor? someone said a family member somewhere was informed that prescription drugs were involved. can you at least say yes or no? >> i'm at the tail end of my prepared statement and then i'll answer any questions. >> i'm sorry. >> at this time we are not going to comment on any specifics about miss houston, the condition of her body, the condition of the room or anything that we may or may not have found in the course of our investigation. as i stated, right now it's a coroner's case. there will not be any more information coming from the beverly hills police department until the coroner has completed their investigation and the toxicology results have been completed. at that time, we, like you, are waiting for the determination from the coroner's office as to

the cause of her death. and right now we're not going to speculate on what the cause of that death might have been or what may have contributed to her untimely passing. with that i will answer your questions. >> getting back to my point, i don't mean to hammer the point, but could you at least say yes or no that xanax or any other prescription medication, that information came from someone in the department to the family, or can you even talk about that? >> i have no information on where that came from at all. >> do you know if it's true or not? >> i have no information. >> how about the 911 tapes. will that be released soon? >> right now our standard of protocol follow the conclusion of investigation and where that investigation needs up. the specifics of the case will be released and the 911 tapes, i expect, will be eventually released. it is pending and we need to

preserve the integrity. >> i have a question. it's been reported that some of your officers found prescription drugs by the nick he i. >> i don't have any specific information about what was found in the hotel room, and i don't know where that information is coming from, so no, i can't confirm that and i can't deny it. [ inaudible ] >> no. we don't know the cause of death. we would not release that information to anybody. we're waiting for the coroner's office to tell us what the cause of death was. >> per the investigation, do the detectives expect to serve warrants at any pharmacies? >> i don't know what the detective intends to do at this time. i don't have any specifics about the investigation.

>> so the point -- we're not conducting a homicide investigation at this time, we're conducting, we don't want it's a normal investigation for someone of age many. >> it's all about the possibility that prescription medication. it will got what the? >> it got kwi fet. integrity rity keep confidentlial about everything you listen to. no, i don't know if i have the specifics on the investigation. we'll follow the evidence where that evidence leads us, and at that time we'll make a

determination. [ inaudible ] >> i don't know whether or not she was able to see her mother at all. >> you mentioned that a member of her friends found the body, but do you think it was maybe a family member? >> ms. houston was found by somebody in her. i know once her staff found out, they let us know right away. >> have you been in touch with bobby brown or any member of her staff today? >> i personally have not been in touch with her staff or family. you would have to check with the coroner's office on that. we don't anticipate any time

soon, about two or three weeks, but the. we drkd there's always more work to be done, and it won't be concluded until the coroner does their findings. [ inaudible ] >> i don't have any information on that. it was all relayed to us secondhand by whoever found her. my understanding is she was out by prior to any. >> when there is a distinction between homicide and an accidental death investigation, does that mean you ruled it out? >> we have not ruled anything

out. we're conducting a death examination, but we won't have anything going in the recorder. when we know, we'll contact the media and you guys will be the first to know. >> nationwide, i'm sure schallenberger lynn. with all kind of kwemz that investigation is still very much sealed. a couple nuggets i noticed saying, it's not a criminal investigation. also who was in the room saturday. the lieutenant was saying her body was found by someone on a personal staff, and members actually pulled her out of the tub. she was not responsive, she was. i want to bring in don lemmon. he's been working this story for

the last couple days. >> i asked about are mitzy. there are reports and you frerd. talk to me about the mickey fine. >> and let's, real quickly, brooke, let's all take a deep breath. i'm sure, as you have been reporting, you would say the same thing. let's take a deep breath because there's so much going around, so much information. people saying one thing and it turning out to be another. i know because the michael jackson investigation, as. beside i

besiding it has been said there were several prescriptions found in whitney. >> no, sir, we don't. no one knows that. when i spoke to the coroner not long ago, he spoke on camera, and afterwards i spoke to him. what he said to me was this, which was aly. there weren't that many prescription drugs found. it wasn't that out of the ordinary. >> i big step for all of this. that's where the prescription drugs are. i think it's important to point out here, was she underwater? we don't know that.

you heard mike rosen. here's the only thing that came out initially live on cnn saturday night and he confirmed whitney houston is dead. he said that whitney houston's body was found in the room. now we know she was found in the tub. she was initially found in the tub by a member of her personal staff. we believe here that it was possibly her sister-in-law that found her. she had been seen in that same room an hour before, she was alive. somebody pulls her out of the tub. they. by the time they get there, whitney is out of the tub, they cannot revive. and we've been talking about people saying, oh, whitney was disheveled or whatnot.

all right, she's been abused there. sometimes it's hot, it's sweat twri, and even if you're not drinking or what you have you. >> here are the pictures we heard from kelly rice today. yes, there was champagne flowing, yes, they were partying, but she said it was a good-spirited party. we cannot read too much of these images here of whitney walking out of this party. i think there was hope, though, but the issue is, we will not know we thooet. >> you're right, it's going to be a couple weeks. if you go someplace and there's a bunch of people and you're celebrating rkts.

>> i don't know how she was. she could dissefled or have you. we'll wait for all thoerz areas to come in. they could be being as 4 weeks. but i will d. they have initial indications of what happened. they just want those toxicology reports so. in a case, they did not want, so. as you know, the body is being felony back now, we learned it first on this show that her body is gone. within a couple minutes, two will go on a plane gak to. >> friday or saturday.

don lem minimum, i haesht tshl. before the whitney houston news conference, we heard from lieutenant mike rosen. we were talking money. we were talking about that $3.8 trillion federal budget. does the president have the support on capitol hill to get this thing passed? kate baldwin is standing by live on capitol hill. we'll get a check-in with her after this quick break. . peter. i can see that you're busy... but you were gonna help us crunch the numbers for accounts receivable today. i mean i know that this is important. well, both are important. let's be clear. they are but this is important too. [ man ] the receivables. [ male announcer ] michelin knows it's better for xerox to help manage their finance processing. so they can focus on keeping the world moving. with xerox, you're ready for real business.

a couple minutes ago we zipped on through the president's budget that he unveiled today and we heard the rationale from the white house. republicans say the president's budget is doa, as in dead on arrival. kate jackson has the reaction for us from capitol hill. kate, daire i ask? >> i don't think it will be a surprise to any of our viewers how the republicans are reacting to the president's budget. comments range from it's purely

a political document, irresponsible mockery, disappointing. the criticism goes on and on. where congressional republicans are really focusing their criticism of the president's budget plan is on the area of taxes, on the area of deficit and debt. no surprise, we know they've been fighting about this for a very long time here in congress are very much opposed to tax increases and very much opposed to the $1.5 trillion in new revenue that increases taxes on wealthy americans in different forms as well as eliminating corporate tax loopholes, so they are very much critical of that, and even before this budget request came out this morning blasting that element of it, and they're also critical of the president's budget request, brooke, saying it's not doing well. the president says it will reduce the budget by some 4 trillion over ten years. republicans here say it is not doing anything to seriously tackle the country's long-term debt problem which we know has

been an ongoing fight up here. so the criticism is kind of across the board. and bottom line, probably additionally, no surprise to you, it's very unlikely this document, this budget, is going anywhere up here on capitol hill as the house is controlled by republicans and house republicans are already planning on putting forth their own budget late next month. brooke? >> key word again today, request. reject, modify, accept, all of the above. we'll see if anything happens. kate baldwin, thank you very much. and did you watch? grammy performances getting a lot of budge today, but so are the commercials. willie nelson. in fact, i hung out with him last night. right before his show. coming up after this quick break. stay right here. ck pain. imagine you, with less pain.

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did you watch, did you watch, tune in to the grammy awards? why don't we begin with the triumphant return of adele. ♪

>> whoo. can you imagine that voice coming out of you? when it comes to winning awards, adele was queen last night. listen to this, her powerful performance, hard to believe she had vocal cord surgery three months ago. the british singer won all six grammy awards, including major honor, national song and album of the year. not only was she scooping up awards left and right, her music was featured in a major commercial. ♪ >> that is the new york ps 22 choir. they were featured in last year's oscars and now they're in a target commercial. speaking of ads, one featuring a

coldplay song starring willie nelson is getting 1 million clicks on line. here's part of it. ♪ >> you have to watch this whole thing. jump on line. that is nelson covering coldplay. the chipotle foundation supports farm aid, willie nelson puts on those farm aid concerts. while that ad was playing last night on television, guess who i was hanging out with? yep, willie nelson himself on board his bus before his show last night in atlanta. and we talked about a lot. but the grammy winner talked to me specifically about his newest music education. i asked him about growing up in a tiny town out of texas picking cotton and singing. here's what he said.

>> i heard -- it was like an opera out there in the cotton fields. one guy would sing a line over here and another one over here. i learned a lot about music and communicating. >> from working the fields? we had an amazing chat. that's coming up on music monday. speaking of music monday, back to last night's grammy awards, if you watched this show, you know that this guy is one of my favorites. you know bon iver, huge win best new artist. i sat down with him for music monday. here's part of the interview you actually didn't see, when i asked him who in the end he would dream to collaborate with, here's what justin told me. >> i would like to work with

bonnie raitt. i have friends that i dream of making music with and putting together odd bands and just different people you meet on tour. i think you just take it as it comes. i don't really think about it these days. >> last night in his acceptance speech, justin vernon had academy letters for the sweet hookup. sometimes there are no words. rather than try to fight for the right words, i'm going to avoid the litany cliches and just let the music speak for itself. the whitney houston performance that ignited america, next. when you have tough pain, do you want fast relief?

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♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ oer the ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rockets red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was