santorum. fred, back to you. >> everyone said this was going to be very unpredictable, so just buckle in, enjoy the ride here. all right, thanks so much, paul stipe houser. have another political update in one hour from now. and reminder for all the latest political news, you know exactly where to go our website, cnnpolitics.com. much more straight ahead in the newsroom. christine romans is here. >> nice to sigh. >> have a great afternoon or midmorning. >> you, too. you are done for the day, right, that is good for you. >> take care. >> live from studio 7. suzanne malveaux is off today. get you up to speed for this wednesday, february 15th. she will be laid to rest on saturday in newark, new jersey, but the investigation into the death of whitney houston just beginning really. authorities now looking closer at the pills found in her hollywood hotel room the night she died a source close to the case tells the l.a. times that the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed.

in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. >> reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting here as well as sporadic, heavy automatic machine gun fire has been heard and this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built nuclear fuel rods. president mahmoud ahmadinejad helped insert the rods into a reactor at a research center in tehran. it is broadcast live. his government insists the technology is needed for medical purposes. western nations believe the iranians are focused on building a bomb. today's move is a defiant

response to western sanctions over its nuclear program. iran is also showing defiance by repeatedly threatening to close the strait of hormuz. it is a critical shipping lane for the world's oil supply. we are taken there aboard a uss aircraft carrier. >> just remain vigilant as we come through. >> reporter: part of that vin lens, machine gunners to defend off small boat attacks, many of the jets were stowed on lower decks to prevent them from getting hit if the lincoln comes under fire and helicopters hovering overhead to detect approaching ships. negotiators in congress reach a deal that will keep money in your paycheck this year. they have come up with a tentative compromise for extending the payroll tax cult t could make -- it means if you make $50,000 a year, could you get $83 a month, you hang onto the government doesn't take a conference committee could sign off on that deal today. it would extend the tax cut for the roast of the year, prevent a cut in fees for medicare doctors and also extend emergency federal unemployment benefits.

a new poll confirms it, rick santorum is on a roll. the cnn/orc poll shows santorum ahead of mitt romney in the race for the republican presidential nomination and it's 34% to 32%. when you factor in a sampling error, it is a virtual tie. both candidates are on the trail today, santorum in north dakota this hour, romney holding a roundtable and rally later today in michigan. telemark earth who rely on robocalls may have to work a little bit heard. >> press 1 now on your phone to speak with a live operator. >> the federal communications commission considering new rules that would force those companies to get your permission in writing before they can contact you with those automated phone calls and text messages that rule would not apply to calls made by actual people. the make other of a popular cancer-fighting drug is warning doctors and patients about a counterfeit version in the u.s. and now the fda is investigating. cnn senior medical correspondent

elizabeth cohen joins me now. what is this fake drug masquerading as avastin? >> calling itself avance it is not avance, doesn't have the active ingredient in avastin. >> does it work? >> it doesn't work. doesn't work. the fda has center wills to 19 doctors' practices and hospitals saying, hey, we have reason to believe that you have got some fake stuff, that you should not be giving patients. >> we know if anybody has take than or harmed by it? >> with he don't know. they haven't told us yet. we know these 19 practices seem to have it. we don't know if they gave it to patients. we don't know if they did for once, one-shot deal or many times over. now, these -- this is an iv treatment, not something you are going to to the drugstore around get, something would you go to your doctor's office or hospitals to get. china, some patients did get it, did get the fake version. >> how do you know if your avastin is legitimate? if you are using avastin now, how do you make sure yours is legitimate? >> tell your doctor to check the box, i will show you the box it

is actually very easy to spot the counterfeit. first of all, the counterfeit is in french the labelling is in french, the one on the right that would be your first clue, if you are seeing french. the second thing, you notice christine on the bottom right hand corner it says roche, it isn't labeled roche it is labeled genentech in the bottom left hand corner, two of the things, and there is more, now we know about this it is easy to get the counterfeits to you the of the system. >> what is the company saying about this? where did it come from? do they know? >> the folks that make avance have nothing to do with this it is counterfeit. >> they don't want counterfeits -- >> exactly. ? some, want of a better term, some bad guys who said, gee, we can get money for it $2400 for a 400 milliliter vial of this stuff, a lot of money to be made in counterfeiting these expensive drugs. >> thanks, elizabeth. fda scrambling to stop another life-saving medicine from running out, a drug that treats kids childhood leukemia, dozens of drugs in short supply in america.

in five minutes, elizabeth will join us again and talk about it with the chief medical officer and cancer drugs and shortages, not anything want to hear. she will be laid to rest on saturday but who will be there to mourn her in the latest details on the whitney houston funeral. an unflinching look at the life of a syrian hitman. >> he could see the protesters were unarmed but he fired anyway, claiming it was kill or be killed for not carrying out orders. then, just how secure is airport security? not very for the owner of this stolen rolex watch. yes. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge!

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make sure a life-saving drug doesn't run out it treats kids childhood leukemia and adults with rheumatoid arthritis. elizabeth cohen joins me again and eight long with the chief medical officer for the american cancer so you hear drug shortages for cancer patients who are children. and you just think doctors and parents are very concerned about this. why is there is a shortage elizabeth? couple different companies that make the drug called methotrexate, they depend on this drug. right now, there is enough drug but they are worried that in two to three weeks there won't be any. one reason, the reason appears to be the major manufacturer of this says they have had to stop making because of significant manufacturing and quality concerns that's why they say they have stopped making it. there is some other folks who make it but they couldn't ramp up quickly in time to immediately fill that hole. now, the fda is saying that they have convinced them to ramp up

the manufacturing so they can make sure that the crisis will be averted but kind of a close call. >> i want to ask you, because we talked to the pharmaceutical lobby group, a multidimensional problem, working with stakeholders to solve it. is it going to get solved and why shortages of such an important drug? >> shortages for a number of drugs starting five or six years ago and continuing to increase. met though trek said is probably the worse because we can actually cure that disease. >> this is a drug that cures children's cancer? >> part of several diseases, including pediatric cancers. >> wow what is the fda doing about it? what is the medical community doing about it to make sure this is not going to happen this drug will be available? >> the fda's hands are tied but

they can't do much. they ask if the companies will stop producing the drug but can't demand the companies tell them. >> this could happen again, another shortage? >> is going to happen again. >> so what are we going to do about it? this seems unacceptable. >> this is from the fda this is about 115 trucks that's what -- 115 drugs are in shortage, because companies don't have to keep making a drug if it's not making them enough money. they can just decide to stop if they want to. >> so, is this the question of shareholders over patients? >> in some respects it is. now, there are a number of reasons for some of the shortages in some case, they can't get raw materials, in other cases it is very difficult technically to make the drug and somebody makes a mistake and that can delay production for three or four months, a goodly number of these drugs are affected by the fact that the bush administration, george w. bush administration, around 2003, actually set limits on what companies can charge for generic drugs and most of these

drugs, by the way, are generic drugs. >> the same was to make them affordable for people who needed them? >> that's right. now, the companies can not make a profit off of them or they want to raise the price, now, one legal way they can raise the price is they can stop manufacturing them for three to six months and then bring them back on to the market. >> then you get authoritiages. >> you get shortages in the three to six months which they are not manufacturing, yes. >> if you the parent of a child who needs one of the drugs or a doctor, cancer doctor who relies on one of these drugs, you are still concerned today this is not going to get resolved quickly? >> you know, we at the american cancer society, a number of other professional society have been working on this about five years. i actually first had to deal with a drug shortage issue in 2007. we have been asking for congressional hearings, which there have been some. we need legislation to require that the drug companies must notify the fda so at least they can tell the medical community that this problem is about to

occur with a specific drug. by the way it is not just cancer drugs, jent toe micen, a common antibiotic used in hospitals, is in short supply as well. >> why is that in short supply, the same reason? >> same reasons. >> wow. doctor, thank you for joining us. elizabeth cone, we will keep following it, following it to make sure this gets resolved. thank you, both of you. all right, funerals have a way of opening up old wounds in every family and the funeral for whitney houston is turning out to be no exception. susan candiotti joins us from newark, new jersey you where the pop star will be laid to rest this saturday. susan, what do we know about what this service will look like? >> reporter: well, christine it is a beautiful church inside, certainly, the new hope baptist church. that is her childhood home, whitney houston's, where she sang as a child, we have all seen that home video time and again since her death on saturday night. when she sang in a choir there as a youngster. we know this, we fully expect every one of the 1500 seats inside this church to be filled.

it will be a private service, invitation only. we know that it will be officiated by reverend joe cart earthquake the pastor of this church, as well as the eulogy will be from reverend marvin wine nans. now, he is a family friend here and he is -- goes way back with the family. he, himself is grammy-award-winning singer and artist and he owe fish yatd at the marriage whitney houston and her husband, bobby brown in 1992. you can hear an exclusive interview with marvin wine nans tonight with anderson cooper on his broadcast at 8:00 eastern time. >> you know, susan, you mention need officiated at the wedding in 1992 of whitney houston and bobby brown. and there's some talk today about, you know,ly be there, won't he be there, who will be there and who will be left off the list. do we know? >> you know, we don't. there are a lot of unanswered questions here, in particular involving bobby brown. no official word, of course,

been checking into that. we also don't know, for example, whether -- and what kind of contact he has had with his daughter. we know that he put out a statement. we know that he went to california on sunday to meet with her. we don't know whether that occurred. we don't know whether he is attending. and we are still waiting for a list of those who will be here. we do know, for example that reverend jesse jackson will attend, the singer chaka khan will also be here and a myriad of others. so, you know, but you can get a sense of how much she is certainly loved in this community by looking over my how old is and seeing the flowers and candles and personal mementos left behind for whitney houston. >> some saying the family doesn't want him to be there but clearly, there is just a lot of speculation about this event and laying her to rest and a lot of focus on the family now i think must be kind of uncomfortable. susan candiotti, thank you so much. all right. he says he was ordered to kill or to be killed, a syrian man

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a syrian opposition group says at least 20 people have been killed already today as government forces again pound the city of home he is and other places were people are demanding an end to the bashar al assad refresh sheen. the embatted president announced today that syrians can vote later this month on a new constitution, but at this point, many syrians and analysts are calling all of that window dressing. armed resistance to the regime grows in homs and across the country. cnn's arwa damon has cross backed into syria. she has got some really compelling reporting here. she found a group of opposition activists giving medical treatment to a man who describes himself as a paid assassin of the assad government. he had been call the in an ambush, not disclosing arwa's location or her team's location for their own safety but listen to her reporting. >> reporter: said is a paid killer, these men would like to see him dead but instead, they are tending to his wounds.

said agreed to be filmed by cnn as he received treatment from opposition activists he asked we obscure his identity, enough so that the government can't recognize him but he wants friends to know that it's him and that he is a changed man. his captors keep said blindfolded so he can't identify them in the future. i can't untie your eyes because i am afraid of you, he says, his gun close by. why are you doing this? why are you killing us, he asks? said says he worked in the ministry of interior prison and was wounded when the minibus he was traveling in came under fire. he doesn't know by hospital. his story is chilling. we would go out with the officers from the prisons, he says, for each mission we would get 25,000 lira, never less than 20,000. that's $4 to $500, more than

most syrians make a month. they gave us guns with scopes and you seat body as if you are look agent yourself in the mirror. he could see the prose testers were unarmed but he fired anyway, claiming it was kill or be killed for not carrying out orders. he admits he killed 60 to 70 people. once he says he split a man's throat. two policemen have captured another man, he recalls, a major put a gun to my head and said slaughter him. he said i'm going to count to ten. he coxed the gun, fired into the air and put it to my head again. i slaughtered him. saae it claims the regime turned him and nears monsters who would have kill third own father, promising them wealth to fight terrorists. now he thinks differently.

these guys i am with i used to see them in a different light, he admits but since i have been with them, i have seen only good. he seems ready to give up the names of others involved in kidnapping opposition members. a lot of men from this area have a have been kidnapped by government supporters for money there is no way to confirm saad's story or be sure he hasn't been coerced but now's bargaining chip, his captors intend to trade him for some of those abducted. he may have killed their friends and comrade bus they vow to treat him well. arwa damon reporting from inside syria. >> more reports from arwa as it is safe for her team to send us new material. apple ceo tim cook is reacting to concerns about working conditions at one of the tech giant's biggest manufacturing partners a human rights group complained about a company called fox con, a chinese company that makes the iphone and ipad.

fox is conaccused of abuses including very long hours and employing underaged workers. tim cook talked about it at a tech conference in san francisco. >> no one in our industry is doing more to improve working conditions than apple. we are constantly auditing facilities going deep into the supply chain, looking for problems, finding problems and fixing problem. and we report everything because we believe transparency so very important in this area. >> an independent group is now auditing conditions at several apple suppliers in china, including fox con. cook says those rules will be published monthly on apple's website. mitt romney is struggling to get the republican nomination all tied up with a bow. instead it is all tied up in a knot between him and rick santorum. we will talk with the gop inside

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the polls. find out what former white house press secretary ari fleisher thinks is fueling this he will join us live in a moment. then, seems even the dogs have something against romney, we will tell you why. and later, top tips on how to get money for your child's college tuition. don't miss that now. despite the money -- despite the money, despite the organization and despite the fact that mitt romney has done this before, he has not sewn this thing up. poll after poll shows mitt romney and rick santorum in a statistical dead heat. can santorum build on that momentum and what does romney need to do to get the nomination is all the while, president obama is edging up in the polls. joining us is ari fleisher, cnn contributor and former white house press secretary for president george w. bush. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> let's start with the santorum surge. can he keep this going or is santorum the latest romney alternative? >> he is the latest romney

alternative but by virtue of the fact he is the latest and almost a one-on-one ray he can keep it going that's what distinguishindistinguishines it from the other has beens in the polls, took a week or two, divide and conquer for mitt romney, he divided and conquered. newt is increasingly to the side, it is one-on-one and a grave threat to mitt romney. >> if you are in the romney camp, you have got the money, you have got this amazing organization, you have got the fact that you have done this before. how are you feeling about the facts fact that rick santorum is right up there with you in the polls, not anything that anyone six months ago in new hampshire that first debate predicted. no, you talk to people in boston, they did predict they were going to have to work for this nomination, it was not going to be handed to them, they are being tested and they are a fine top-notch organization, they know what they are doing. but if i'm mitt romney, i do two things, one is i really sharpen my economic message and make the case that i am the reformer, i am the one who can go to

washington and fix the entitlement crisis and fix chief tax reform. he needs a shorter, sharper, economic message that is credible from a conservative point of view and you he is credible from an economic conservative point of view. >> interesting you bring up the economy that is something that seems to be playing better in the president's favor now you the stock market higher than ever in his president circumstance the up employment rate slowly, slowly falling, eyes gast prices are rising, voters don't seem to be concerned about that they are saying, voters in our polls are showing they think he is doing a better josh on the economy. >> i have seen that, too, but all if all that is valid, then why is the debt so high and how come the president doesn't have a plan to do anything about it? so is there a trap here for republicans, if they run exclusively on unemployment, because with he don't know what's going to happen to unemployment, even if unemployment does drop, there is still remains a grave threat to the economic future of this country and it is called the debt, and that is an issue where the president has been awol, has -- is still awol and if he has a second term, he will be

even more awol. so there's still a lot for republicans to focus on there for the good of the country. >> something the romney ads tried to target or paint rick santorum a life long politician who has vetted to raise the debt ceiling several times. >> that is the other part. romney needs to sharon his economic message, make it short, concise, credible are, but two he does have the opening against rick santorum because people still don't know a lot about rick santorum. i think he is on the right track when he says rick santorum is a washington insider but he has to go beyond that not about biography it is about policy. that is where he has the opportunity to paint a picture of rick santorum where rick santorum could alem to be a big spender, et cetera, on some of the things that frank lay a lot of republicans were big spender on in the 1990s and in the 2000s. >> ask you about foreign policy, talking about all these new developments with iran, we have got this issue in syria, deteriorating issue in syria, china's heir apparent coming to the united states, yet still

talking about the economy in our own race here. could it be that foreign policy emerges as something that could be a turning point for one of these candidates in the weeks and the months ahead? >> well, certainly the reality of world is you never know when you're going to wake up and all of a sudden there is a foreign policy crisis under way. that's just wait it goes, if you recall in 1999, there was a military operation in kosovo that president clinton ordered and september 11th changehood the world, we're very domestic focused country on september 10th then international and terrorist focused. you never know the trick to running for president is the american people want somebody they can see in that oval office have confidence in and the judgment they can handle whatever is thrown at them. >> for now, it is not a general election for mitt romney. i mean, he is trying to nail his own party nomination and he is trying to really appeal to the conservatives in his party. he even used the clunky phrase, severely conservative when he was -- when he was governor. he is really still struggling to

appeal to that conservative base. what does he need to do? >> looking forward to the cnn debate next week, i really want to see what mitt romney's response is, what was he thinking? what is a severe conservative seen in odd phraseology. he does have that conservative problem, he always has. that's why i was going took what i said about economics, mitt romney does have a credible case tomakers he is a reformer on entitlements, background in finance, something that people will believe n he is vulnerable because of his flip-flop on social issues but when it comes to core economics, that can get him through the night and that's where he needs return. >> core economics, nothing more core to it central to it than our relationship with china, the chinese vice president visiting the u.s., he is like lit next president of china. he met with president obama yesterday. when i see the pictures, i think is a marriage of two people who are so different. you know, i mean this relationship it is communism and it is democracy.

the world views of these two countries are two different but as hillary clinton says, we are in the same row boat, we need to be rogue in the same direction. how important is this relationship to this race? >> well, sometimes we are not in the same row boat, we are actually whacking each other with our paddles, i was there in 2002 last time in happened when a vice president succeeded the chinese president and they have this interesting transition system. look -- >> not elections, it is -- and must be so interesting for him to be here while we are duking it out on the republican side and theirs is much more mysterious prospect there. >> you just get the tap on the shoulder over there and all of a sudden, you get the job, if you're the one. look, the relationship with china is fraught with opportunity and risk. i happen to think that china is going to have a massive bump in its future, they just cannot do what they are doing to their labor pool, their environment, the basic human rights of people that is economy emerges, sharply grows middle class. the same token, with avenue big stake in becoming middle class that means consumers for american products.

so, it is going to be a tumultuous future in china. we need a president of maturity and wisdom to manage that and difficult for any president, democrat or republican. it is national self-interest more than political party, determine what we need to do with china. >> people arguing we manage election cycles they manage 10, 20, 30-year outlooks. >> until a volcano interrupts that you 10, 20, 30 years and they have a democratic volcano shaping up. their system is fraught with problems. much rather be america than china. >> ari fleisher, nice to see you today. >> good to be here, thank you. as mitt romney slips in the polls is he in danger of losing the dog lover vote? why some new york protesters and their dogs took to the streets against the republican candidate. ry0 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle

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a new top dog in town. >> best in show at the 136th annual westminster kennel club, america's dog show, is the pekingese. >> malachi, a 4-year-old pekingese, named best in show at the westminster kennel club in new york, the pint-sized pooch beat out six other finalists, 6,000 total entries, the first time in 22 years that a little pekingese has won at west win officer. malachi's owner whose dog has notched up 115 wins nationwide, now he will retire. as crowds cheered on mall like kai and his pals inside madison square garden, a four-legged backlash against republican presidential candidate mitt romney was brewing outside. jeanne moos explains. >> reporter: inside madison square guard opinion, think of them as the hoity-toity 1%. show dogs, getting groomed for westminster, america's most

prestigious dog show. and outside the garden, the 99, the rabble, doggy protesters. how do you feel about mitt? they may turn their back on the press but a dogs against romney protest outside westminster was a treat we in the media couldn't resist. do you have a problem riding on the roof? it is that old story again about the time back in 1983 when mitt romney took his family on vacation with his irish setter, seamus, in a dog carrier tied to the car roof. he made a windshield for the dog. >> oh, did he really? made a windshield for a dog? >> yeah. >> that's very nice. your dog is your family member, i don't think we have taken one of his children and put them on the roof. maybe we have. who knows. >> reporter: saki the pug game came to a protest on back prak. >> like a human roof rack there >> the roofer rack says -- >> i don't go 65 miles an hour down the highway. 126r789 hours. >> climbed up there regularly, enjoyed himself. >> comedians won't let go of the

you story. on "snl," a romney impersonator threatened his dog when he wouldn't stop barking. >> you want go back on that roof? >> reporter: one of president obama's advisers tweeted out this photo with the caption, how loving owners transport their dogs, protesters keep dogging romney with stuffed animals fastened too their roofs. in littleton, colorado this car actually got pulled over by police. police say a motorist called 911 to say that she saw the door open on the kennel on top of the roof, that there was a big white dog inside. not this dog. show dogs don't ride on the roof but then neither do 99 percenters. how does pety travel? >> pety always travels inside, gets the whole back seat. >> reporter: otherwise, he place with the gearshift. true, there were only a very few dog protesters, but every vote counts. >> this is a dog who will not vote for romney. >> how do you know?

the 99% outside aren't different from the 1% inside, just another dog and pony show. >> who ties his dog to the roof of his car. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >> americans out of work. >> reporter: new york. all right. do you feel guilty about leaving your dog at home during the work day? guess what new cable channel hopes to ease your fierce. after four years of planning, dog tv makes its debut this work, the channel worked with trainer, owners, vets and dogs, of course to create what it says customized entertainment, everything from the right music to camera angles, everything that will appeal to dogs. dog tv. it is not a done deal but pretty close, talking about extending the payroll tax cut. find out what it means for your finances. and tokyo has long been the world's most expensive city but now a new town has taken the top honor. can you guess the most expensive city in the world today. osg mu-

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that's smarter power today. rick santorum is blasting the obama administration as elitists who look down their noses at ordinary americans. joe johns is live from the political desk in washington. san for rim was talking about the administration rejecting a plan by republican paul ryan to overhaul medicare. the rhetoric got very intense t was a red meat moment. >> i think that's right,

christine. he sees it as elitism as least as far back as new hampshire, even maybe farther than that. he wants to get everybody a college education though now as santorum rides santorum rises in the poll, people are paying a lot more attention to his speeches. listen. >> don't you see how they see you? how they look down their nose at the average americans? these elite snobs. >> strong language there. but he is trying to reach out to blue collar independents. and if the polls are any indicator, it could be working. >> mitt romney losing ground when it comes to like built. what are the latest polls showing? >> this is our poll.

it shows romney's popularity has taken a 13-point drop among republicans. 34% hold a favorable opinion down from 67% in january. among all americans, 34% described him as likeable. which is also down from last month. the drop in the polls is evidence that the barrage of negative advertising directing on romney's behalf might have had a boomerang effect. >> and you mentioned the negative advertising. you know, santorum taking aim at the negative advertising, portraying romney as rombo. >> right. look at that. the guy looks very much like mitt romney. >> he does. >> and he's sort of spraying mud all over the place. >> he can't miss it. he's missing santorum. >> exactly. a humorous take and this is all sort of about the buffer, if you

will, against negative advertising by romney in several states. and he's got ads out in three states going after santorum. you know what the negative advertising did when romney or the romney pro romney super pac, if you will, went after newt gingrich. it's very effective. although sometimes the candidate can get some of that mud on himself. >> as that ad tried to portray. joe johns, thank you so much. talk to you soon. the latest political news, you know where to go. cnnpolitics.com. top of the hour, i'm christine romans in for suzanne. she will be laid to rest on saturday. the pills found in her hollywood hotel room on the night she died a. source close to the case says the doctors who wrote those

prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. artillery machine gun coming from the city of homs. government forces are set on flattening every neighborhood that might hold disdants. arwa damon is in the besieged city. >> reporter: various sounds of artillery impacting here as well as sporadic heavy machine gunfire has been heard. this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. >> just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built fuel rods. ahmadinejad helped insert those

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safe nor effective and should not be used. we still don't know what killed her, but authorities are looking very closely now at the pill bottles found in whitney houston's motel room on the night that she died. a source close to the l.a. times says the doctors who prescribed the pills have become the new focus of the investigation. don lemon is with us. it's still a mystery what killed whitney houston. what is the latest on the pill investigation? >> that's right. we no longer, by the way, need to attribute the l.a. times. i just got off the phone with ed winter, the chief coroner. here's what he's telling me. subpoenas did go out to several doctors and several pharmacies looking into whether they actually prescribed the medications that were found in whitney houston's hotel room and

they said they did go out. so far he hasn't heard from the pharmacies but all of the doctors have been cooperative thus far and what they are trying to do is figure out if what the doctors prescribed, were they actual prescriptions and whether or not there were multnom multiple preskripgs. if you go to a doctor and a pripgs is written and then you go to a dentist. it's called doctor shopping. so far, ed winter says it doesn't look like it. everything appears to be above board. and the reason they want to talk to the doctors, right, that they sent out these subpoenas, they want to get as much information as possible. they go into a doctor and say, listen, i'm having trouble with something else and then the doctor will recommend another doctor and so they have gotten information like that.

this doctor recommended a dentist, perhaps. nothing out of the ordinary, again, the corner oner is sayin. so farther cooperating and everything appears to be okay. interesting note, mickey fine was one of the pharmacies that prescribed medication for twhit knee houston that they found in the room. but according to the coroner, whatever mickey fine prescribed wasn't a medication that would kill whitney houston if taken, and i'll say that with a caveat, if taken as prescribed. >> do you know if the subpoenas are routine, to check all the doctors? >> yes. >> they are routine. and the fact that she travels

and the fact that she was referred to another doctor. but you've got to make sure -- >> can i say something? >> she did have doctors on the west coast and pharmacies on the west coast and doctors and pharmacies on the east coast, too, that they are trying to get in touch with. let's say everything is above board on the west coast but then you go back east and you say, wait, we didn't know about these doctors. but at this point, i want to say, the coroner is saying it doesn't look like their any foul play so far here and i spoke to him just moments ago. he confirmed this. and beyond what the l.a. times is reporting. just one more thing, i want to get in here, we talked about the toxicology results usually six to eight weeks and i asked him specifically -- and i'm going to look at my noits. i asked if you have gotten any prelimbs. he said so far they have gotten no prelims but they have

expedited the toxicology reports. i said, when do you think, ed? he said maybe four to six weeks. he said, you know what, you have to remember, and this is no disrespect to whitney houston and her family, they have an average of 50 cases a day. that means we have 49 other cases, 49 other families wondering what happened to their loved ones. >> all right. thank you so much, don lemon. thanks. like any funeral, the preparations for whitney houston ds burial is stirring up old family drama. here's a look at the stories we're covering. i'm going to talk to an addiction specialist about this huge rise of prescription abuse in america. and using civilians as human shields in syria. >> reporter: there have been reports of using humans as

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where she found her voice? >> yeah, that's exactly right and it's going to be a relatively small invite service. we learned from the church that gospel singer is going to be the one to give the eulogy at the request of whitney's mother, cissy houston. the service will happen saturday at noon. and while the church is considering putting a big screen outside for fans, christine, that hasn't quite been figured out yet. but a lot of fans are clamoring to somehow be connected or a part of this. people will be gathering around the church even though they won't be able to get inside. >> there are also rumors that the family doesn't want bobbi brown in attendance. he married her in 1992.

could he be there? >> whether the family wants him there, not authorized by bobby brown. we are not focused on false reports for that matter. that doesn't answer the question as to whether or not whitney's family -- it's not clear if they are trying to block him from being there or how he feels about it. here's the thing. we know that bobbi kristina has been with him since she got out of the hospital. she's doing better but the reports that bobby wouldn't be invited to the funeral is pretty understandable. think about the tumultuous history over the years. again, those are just reports. we know that bobbi kristina's

relationship has not always been easy with her dad. i would hope that they would defer to bobbi's wishes. >> she's a young woman clearly grieving over her mother. it's so hard to decide what to do. do we know who else is going to be there? >> we have confirmed that chaka khan will be there and aretha franklin, whitney's god mother. we expect to see tyler perry, clive davis. but, christine, think about it. she had so many fans and friends and people close to her. a tough invite list to put together. they have about 1500 seats in all is what we've been hearing now.

still, pretty tough task at hand for whoever is going to have to be in those seats. >> a.j. hammer, thank you so much. all right. we're just getting this online video now of syrians being detained by forces. opposition activists, including the use of citizens as human shields. a deteriorating situation all around in syria. nick paton walsh is reporting from there. >> reporter: it's rare that you get tangible evidence like this video to examine, which appears to show civilians being used to protect a syrian armored unit. looking like a pro government rally but then this youtube video shot on sunday around

damascus turns much more sinister. they standstill, pushed forward. their captures have been report that the army was using detained civilians as shields to prevent the opposition from shooting at them. now the video seems to show that. slowly they crotch, then kneel. a child saying, mom, will they shoot them? soldiers advance down the road and then they lie flat. it's unclear what followed in one of the more disturbing videos to emerge from a crackdown felt hardest here in the city of homs shelling devastating lives, blood bags running low. there was credible evidence of war crimes in syria, abuses, and charges that perhaps will make

more soldiers like these defect. this youtube video purporting to be shot north of the opposition stronghold. their resolve is strong but also is that of the well-equipped army. military is key when it comes to an army like that of syria, accusations of war crimes can in the future make more loyal soldiers fight on to the bitter end or make those wavering perhaps jump over the fence like those soldiers that you've just seen defecting. it appears that a number of defections are relatively small we understand because many of the soldiers don't fight in the areas that they are actually from but that could change. nick paton walsh, cnn, beirut. the likely next president of china, find out why he's

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a small town in iowa today? this is a trip down memory lane. the story from ted rowlands. >> this is mr. xi. >> reporter: thrilled when they found out that xi jinping is coming to their town of iowa. >> i found these pictures. >> there he is, the likely next leader of china standing in their kitchen back in 1985. he didn't speak much english but that didn't matter. >> he used to smile and twinkle. >> reporter: xi wants to see the mcleans again and others that he met on his trip 27 years ago. iowa governor was serves when she came in '85.

>> he was so pleased with the warm and friendly. >> reporter: his lineage runs deep in the communist party but jon huntsman believes that he can be good for american business. >> he's gone out of his way in recent years to bone up on economics and knowing full well that these are the issues that are going to determine whether or not the united states and china are going to get through the years to come. >> reporter: china has been blamed for the loss of american jobs but from 2000 to 2010, the state enjoyed an increase in

exports. the governor of iowa thinks that xi can help with that. >> i think it's very helpful to the state of iowa. >> people here are excited, including the mcleans who say that they are honored that the man standing in their kitchen 27 years ago wants to come back. >> just for a little time, spend an hour, hour and a half, that's significant. >> ted rowlands is joining us from iowa. >> reporter: i'm in muscatine. >> i don't know why it says des moines. i grew up right outside of muscatine. iowa is the bread basket of america. it's just amazing. people must be buzzing about how

important he is now. >> reporter: oh, yeah. absolutely. who knew? he's going to be in this house, he had dinner in this house back in 1985. he will be here for about an hour and a half and he wanted to meet with the people that he met 27 years ago, just like yourself. you eye wants make an impression on people. as you know, he's going out of his way from des moines to here to meet with the folks that he met back in 1985. it's a great story. >> that is a great story. some of those folks are snow birds. some of the people who knew him are probably in florida right now because it's the dead of winter. if you're retired, you try to get out of muscatine. >> reporter: and a few of them came out. >> and the governor, did he think that they were going to get big business done or is this

more of a ceremonial stop before he goes down to california? >> reporter: well, the business aspect of the trip starts late this afternoon tonight in des moines. business leaders and governors from around the midwest will be there. that's the business part. this is before they get down to business in des moines. >> that's awesome. ted rowlands, have a good lunch, will you? say hi to my friends in iowa. >> reporter: of course. u.s. goods pirated by china, some of the sticky issues in the complex relationship between the two countries. joining us to talk about that is a professor from texas joining us skype from chicago. the visit to the u.s., it's interesting because this is a visit not for the american audience, is it? this is securing his essention?

>> well, this is an indication that this guy is going to be the next president of china, but more importantly, he needs to have the strength to deal with the current leaders of china. he's dealt with protesters here in the united states. he seems to be pretty unflappable. there are two markets. the chinese markets is important but the u.s. market is also important to him. >> behind the scenes, he's going to hear stories about companies that are angry about losing their intellectual property rights, especially those in technology, they are getting their trade secrets stolen. how much can the administration push those issues with him and should they be? >> they have to push hard. this is the analogy like football, a new team playing as hard as they can, we have to do

the same thing. we have to push back. but the other thing to understand is that china is the largest importer of agricultural products in the world and sales of technology products is very significant. this has to be a dance where both sides realize we have something to gain and something to lose. one of the interesting things that people talk about is the issue of re-evaluating the chinese currency. the chinese, if they did what we asked them to do, which is increase their by 20%, part of that is inflationary. >> our prices would definitely go up. we still had the president yesterday talking about, you know, fair and balanced trade. we don't have fair and balanced trade. we have a huge deficit. we buy so much more from china than we sell, even though we have record exports from china, we have record imports.

can that big imbalance continue? >> well, no. you can't have a trade balance that's unbalanced the way it is right now. but there is good news. one of them is agricultural in exports to china that have gone up significantly. the other thing is that apple has had a blowout of their products in china. they are able to sell 20% more in price than they are able to sell in the united states. gm in china, company after company after company -- >> let me talk about apple for a second. you said that we need to think about the chinese. we've invented here and build it there, but there is serious soul searching going on about the conditions under which some of those products are made and the american consumer dollar.

what are you getting when you spend your dollar? people are asking these questions now. >> and they are legitimate questions but that's just not true. there are a lot of protests by chinese about their working conditions. and what we've seen is that wages in some of these factories that make these high-tech products have gone up 20 to 30%. they say if you want us to continue to work, you're going to have to pay us more. we need to be concerned about that. which can't act like we're the only people that see these things and the chinese don't care. a challenge that they face is simple. they promise their people they are going to continue to grow their economy. they have 100 million poor people. >> yeah. >> so they've got to do it. >> and we know that stability is the most important thing, economic growth so they can have stability and keep their system as it is. thank you so much.

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this question about sobriety, what is sobriety -- >> right. >> xanax and champagne but not hard drugs, big conversation on what is sober and what is hollywood sober and what we kind of accept as sobriety in america. what do you think? >> well, i think alcohol played some role but we won't know for sure until we get the toxicology results back. whitney houston had been public about her struggles. she had been to treatment several times. a lot of people knew that she was struggling again with something. apparently they found pill bottles but the indisputable component that we all agree on is that she was drinking champagne and for people like me, as a recovering person, using substances after

treatment, be it a legal substance like alcohol or illegal substances like crack or prescribed medications like x xanax are very risky. and it's clear what was happening to whitney houston is she had relapsed and she was out of control and the bottom line is death and unfortunately she didn't get that last chance. >> can you be sober from hard drugs but drink champagne and take prescription xanax? is that considered sober? >> no, not in the way that hazelden would define it. i don't know what treatment she got over the last few years but my gut says that it included an after program except when under

the care of the a doctor. that's a really critical point here, christine. look, i have had several surgeries in the 18 years that i have been clean and sober. i've been in the dentist chair in the last 24 hours. and part of my recovery program from the dentist chair has been to take some pain pills. i always tell my doctors that i'm a person in recovery. while it's not bad to use mood and mind altering substances, prescription medications, the key is to use it in a way in which the doctor can monitor them. >> i think we have a screen that shows the number of deaths every day from overdoses, 100 people die every day from overdoses in america. if that were whales beaching themselves every day, 100, it would be a national epidemic that we would be trying to find out and get to the root to save

these whales. as people, have we accepted the baseline that we have a drug and alcohol dependency problem and we manage around it? >> the most used and abused drug in america is alcohol. but what we at hazelden is encountering now and our friends in the field, prescription medications are a new and growing threat for people who are in recovery and just before the baby boom generation reaching 50 years old. as we age, the use of prescription medications is likely to become more relevant. that's why it's so important that people in recovery view their recoveries of being all about a drug is a drug is a drug and while we can't ask alcohols and addicts to take pain

medications, they have to use them very carefully and there's no doubt in my mind that something had happened in the last few days of her life in which she was deeply under the influence of substances, legal or illegal. >> we'll get toxicology results in eight weeks, maybe a little less. but it's a mystery and a very bright star that is no longer shining. thank you so much. very nice to talk to you. thank you for that insight. hopefully somebody can be helped and reminded of the one day at a time and working their own recovery. thanks. >> christine, if you don't mind me just saying, if somebody is out there who has been treatment and under the grips of prescription medications or has had a relapse for other substances, don't try to do it on your own. it's okay to ask for help. it's never too late until it's too late. reach out and ask for help. it's there if people ask for it. new studies indicate

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have a stan herman uniform on. >> reporter: he branched out into the world of the designer uniform. >> twa. that cute? you would look good in it now. >> reporter: stan herman has been designing uniforms for 40 years. so popular his uniforms arguably cover more bodies than any other designer on the planet. >> i was a hot designer on 7th avenue and somebody approached me and said, would you like to design uniforms? i said, what is that? i discovered that i loved doing it because it was like branding corporations. >> when the hostess seats you on the plane, she will be dressed like this. >> reporter: today remaking the

uniforms at sephora? the inspiration, the employees. >> we want to feel good and that's such a good feeling, whether it is this or that. >> they are showing this on the runway and this at the hotel in new york. cocktail uniforms she designed in spill-proof silk. >> for me it's not the uniform at all. it's really one dress, more like a cocktail dress really. >> reporter: but how do you design a uniform that suits, well, everyone? >> it's almost like a reality competition. let me see how i can take these constraints and make them look fantastic. >> the most important thing is like built. when you put on your dress in the morning, if i don't like it, i'm a grumpy guy. if a corporation walks around in a uniform that they don't like,

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we know that being overweight and not exercising is bad for your heart. but did you know that breathing in bad air can be bad for your heart? can pollution contribute to a heart attack? >> it can. and it also affects your heart. this is a new study. they have found this before but what this study adds is that it doesn't take long for pollution to hurt. you can see in the city where the pollution rates go up over seven days, heart attack rates also go up. >> what is it about the heart and pollution in the air? >> there are a couple of different things. all of the bad stuff in the air does a bunch of things. it damages the vessels so they

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no arests still in the robber of supreme court justice breyer. this has raised concerns whether justices should be offered protection. >> reporter: a law enforcement official tells cnn there's nothing so far to indicate that steven breyer was specifically targeted when an assailant robbed him at the point of a machete. but that races a good question, are they protected? here in the washington area

where they live, justices often move around without visible security. his home is here in washington. nothing in front of his houses. two supreme court justices live on this street in virginia. we look for visible signs of protection. nothing. that's where we met a former director of the secret service. like many top government officials, there's no extended protection when they are at home. >> shouldn't they have some level of protection when they are with them at all times? >> i don't believe that they necessarily need protection 24 hours a day, seven days a week. if you are going to do protection, you have to do it totally because if people are in fact watching to see where you may be vulnerable, they are going to have to wait until that protection goes away. >> reporter: 24/7 protection is expensive and invasive to

privacy. a spokesman said that the agency is aware and is assisting in the investigation of justice breyer. one form of protection is their relative anonymity but there have been close calls. justice david souter was once mugged. clarence thomas was the target of a racially motivated situation. >> they have -- there is a potential that they could get to one of our public figures, yes. >> reporter: other experts say that justices at the federal district court level face greater threats to their security their supreme court