a voice silenced. music superstar, whitney houston passes away and now investigators are trying to determine why her life was cut short. >> i decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow ♪ ♪ remembering whitney. a star studded tribute at last night's grammy awards. ♪ i will always love you night's grammy awards. ♪ i will always love you ♪ i will always love you captioning funded by cbs

this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, february 13, 2012. and good morning everyone. i'm terrell brown. we begin with the investigation into the death of whitney houston. the los angeles coroner's office says an autopsy has been performed. still, it will take weeks to determine exactly how the 48-year-old superstar died. houston was found dead in her beverly hills hotel saturday afternoon. she was remembered at the grammy awards. elizabeth sanchez has the latest. elizabeth, good morning. >> good morning, terrell. music's biggest stars came out for a celebration, but it turned into a tribute celebrating one of their own. the grammys paid tribute to whitney houston as investigators work to figure out exactly how she died. ♪ and i -- >> jennifer hudson sang one of her most well-known songs. "i will always love you" and the

night began with a star studded audience bowing their heads in prayer. >> we've been truly blessed to have been touched by her beautiful spirit. >> houston died in the bathtub of her fourth floor hotel room at the beverly hilton on the eve of the grammy awards. nominees and fellow artists on the red carpet say she was an inspiration. >> you fantasized about being like her someday. >> she was such a great voice. we lost her way too early. >> many of music's biggest stars say it cast a shadow over the awards show. it could be weeks before investigators can answer questions about what caused the singer's death. >> there was no visible signs of trauma and foul play is not suspected. >> her autopsy was completed sunday but officials are waiting for the toxicology test results. >> the grammy award winner's career started to fade after reports of drug use. investigators haven't said if they found any illegal drugs

inside houston's hotel room saturday. houston made her last known public appearance thursday in hollywood. some say the pop sensation was poised for a comeback. she just wrapped filming of a new musical drama due out this summer. meanwhile, this has been hard on her family and friends. her daughter was rushed to the hospital yesterday. she was treated and released for anxiety and her father, bobbi brown skipped his concert to be by her side. live in los angeles, elizabeth sanchez, cbs news. thank you so much. houston's former husband, bobby brown arrived in los angeles last night. he was swarmed by reporters at the airport. he performed in mississippi saturday night and was overcome with emotion on stage. in a written statement, brown asked for privacy. >> elton john paid tribute to houston during his show in las vegas last night. with all the trouble she went through, it was easy to forget how brilliant she was.

>> she could sing gospel, she could sing i will always love you and make you cry. and she was the most beautiful woman i think i've ever seen. she was incredible. >> john added that houston had one of the most beautiful voices he had ever heard then dedicated a song to her. ♪ >> there was reaction throughout the entertainment world to houston's death. dolly parton who wrote the hit i will always love you said i will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and i can truly say from the bottom of my heart, whitney, i will always love you. barbra streisand said she had everything, beauty, voice, how sad it could not bring her the same happiness. mariah carey said she will never be forgotten was one of the most beautiful voices to grace the earth.

more on the passing of whitney later in this broadcast. in politic, in washington, president obama submits his budget for the 2013 fiscal year to congress. it calls for $4 trillion in spending cuts. $1.5 trillion in new taxes mostly by allowing the bush era tax cuts to expire the end of the year. for families with an annual income of $250,000 or more. $110 billion in short term job stimulus spending. the budget is sure to be hotly debated as the elections approach as is the white house position on contraception and religious institutions over the weekend. rick santorum had harsh words for the president and mitt romney. whit johnson reports. >> despite a distant finish in the main caucuses. >> this is a two-person race right now. >> a rising rick santorum sunday took sharp aim at republican rival mitt romney. >> mitt romney is the author of romney care, which is the biggest government expansion in

the history of the state of massachusetts. >> santorum blasted the white house also for its latest concession on a contraception rule. >> there's no compromise here. >> it requires insurance companies, not employers, including religious organizations to foot the bill for birth control benefits. across the sunday talk shows, white house chief of staff, jack lou spent most of his time defending the change instead of promoting the 2013 budget. >> we have broad consensus, not universal that this is an approach that's right. >> the contraception issue has been a rallying cry for republican presidential hopefuls all jockeying for support from a fractured conservative base. santorum's three-state sweep in colorado, minnesota and missouri this week wasn't enough to top mitt romney in the delegate count. accidental praise from candidate ron paul. >> do you think mitt romney, if he's the nominee, can beat barack obama? >> yeah, i do. i do. i think i could beat him too.

>> republican candidates and voters will have a little time to breathe. the next primaries aren't until february 28th in michigan and arizona. whit johnson, cbs news, washington. overseas, greek lawmakers approved an austerity budget. the harsh new budget means that greece can receive the next installment of bailout money. that money is needed to keep them from defaulting n its loans. prior to the vote, riots broke out in athens and at least six other cities. the trouble started as more than 100,000 protesters marched on the greek parliament. they threw firebombs and rock at police who responded with tear gas. at least 45 businesses were damaged. more than 120 people were injured. switching gears now, cbs "moneywatch" time on a monday. gas prices on a steep climb and opening your wallet and purses for valentine's day. don't forget. ashley morrison here in new york. >> we won't forget. good morning, terrell. overseas stocks in asia jumped.

after greece approved the austerity deal. nikkei gained half a percent and the hang seng also added half a percent. on wall street, investors are keeping a close eye on the situation in greece. they're hoping the dow will rally after losing 61 points last week. the nasdaq stayed flat for the week. another spike in gas prices according to the lundberg survey, the average cost of a gallon of regular has jumped nearly 12 cents over the last three weeks to $3.51. there's more money missing from bankrupt trading firm, mf global. a court pointed trustee says an additional $400 million is missing from customer account. they filed for bankruptcy in october after it could not account for more than a billion dollars. americans are expected to spend more tha $17 billion on sweethearts this valentine's day. according to national retail federation, the average person will spend $126.

that's up 8.5% from last year. and that includes $1.5 billion on candy. and some very lucky person will be able to spend a lot more on valentine's day than last year. a single winning powerball ticket was sold in rhode island. whomever is holding it has won $336.4 million. they still haven't come forward yet to claim winnings. terrell, i never understood it. if it was you or i, we would be running as fast as we could. >> or i'd come to work and be smiling all day and not say anything. >> that's not fair. >> ashley, good to see you. thank you so much. coming up, powerhouse singer adele cleans up at last night's grammy awards and tops it all off with an amazing comeback performance.

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♪ and the home of ♪ and the home of the brave who can forget whitney's star-spangled banner. you cannot. she performed it in january 1991. in tampa, florida. just ten days after the u.s. went to war against iraq for the first time. it's considered to be one of the best renditions ever. became a huge hit. raising over half a million dollars for the american red cross. during her long and illustrious career, she became the most decorated female artist in history. among her awards, six grammys, 30 billboard music awards and 22 american music awards. her single from her movie "the bodyguard," i will always love you, sold over four million copies in the u.s. alone. making it the biggest selling single by a female artist ever. as we told you earlier in the broadcast, she was honored during the grammy awards last night. even her sudden death couldn't dampen music's biggest night.

ines ferre takes a look at the celebrations. >> the 54th annual grammy awards crowned a new queen. adele. >> adele, welcome back. >> it was a triumphant return for the british singer. she gave her first comeback performance following surgery to repair her vocal cords. the crowd went wild. >> an emotional adele swept the awards. she matched beyonce's record for most wins in a night for a female act. it was also a comeback for chris brown. he performed twice, the first on the grammy stage since dropping out of the 2009 broadcast. brown also won for best r&b album. >> i don't know, man. i'm nervous. i don't know what to say. >> ll cool j was the first host in seven years. bruce springsteen opened the show followed by some of the best talent in the business. best rock performance went to the foo fighters who said making music is about being human.

>> it's not about what goes on in a computer, it's about what goes on in here and in here. >> the human element shown through with repeated nods to jennifer hudson gave a moving tribute to houston. >> but the grammys were also about celebration. the beach boys reunited for the first time in 20 years for some good vibrations. >> we've gotten busy doing other things and we finally focused on getting together for our 50th anniversary. >> we're getting better each year too. >> each year they welcome new artists and remembers those from the past. ines ferre for cbs news. and country star glenn campbell was honored during the grammys. >> got the choir here. >> 75-year-old brought the house down performing his classic rhinestone cowboy. it was a number one hit in 1975.

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here's a look at the weather. in d.c., 45. atlanta, mostly sunny skies, 52. breezy in detroit, 33 degrees. partly sunny skies, 45 in denver. mostly cloudy, 47 in seattle. the leader of al qaeda says it's time for the regime of syrian president bashar assad to go. in this video released on the weekend, called on muslims to support the rebels to oust assad.

the assad regime blamed terrorists for the uprising. europe remains in the grips of a deep freeze. hundreds of people have died as temperatures continue to plummet making this the worst winter in decades. tony guida reports. rescuers in southern kosovo cheered when they found a five-year-old girl alive. she had been buried for ten hours after an avalanche flattened her house under 33 feet of snow. her parents and seven relatives were killed. romania's death toll rose to 68 today after three more bodies were found. montenegro is under a stat of emergency. roads and railways across most of the country blocked by snow. the deep freeze across europe began in january. in the past week, temperatures hit 40 below zero in some areas. more than 100 people have died in ukraine. in poland, 20 people died in the last 24 hours. even rome had two blizzards in two weeks.

sunshine this weekend melted & much of the snow. canals in amsterdam became bike paths. the lake in hamburg a skating rink. they forecasted gradual warming later this week. tony guida, cbs thus, new york. a flight from japan was quarantined in new zealand after a flu scare. workers in haz-mat suits boarded the plane after passengers, mostly students, were reportedly ill. a flu epidemic is sweeping across japan. officials said none of the passengers arrived from tokyo had flu-like symptoms. so everyone was allowed to get off the plane. coming up off your local news, a wrap of grammy night. including a special remembrance of whitney houston. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news."

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♪ where do broken hearts go the untimely death of whitney houston has hit a new jersey community especially hard. it's where houston grew up and where neighbors and friends watched her go from church choir to superstardom. michelle miller reports. >> michelle richardson lived down the block from her in new jersey. their childhood together seems like yesterday she says. >> i'm still at the stage that i don't believe it. like i really want somebody to say, this is did not happen. >> all were welcome in the houston home, she says. where gospel singing cissy and her husband raised them in a strict but loving households. >> she wasn't one of those

celebrities who grew up and forgot where she came from. >> everybody in the neighborhood would come jump in the pool, turn into a barbecue. >> neighbor rolando tune and his mother knew her only by a childhood nickname. >> nippy is all i knew. i never knew whitney until she made that first big album. >> when houston made it big, the town renamed its elementary school after her. but it was a few miles away in newark where houston found her voice in the choir at new hope baptist church. >> she had a voice like an angel. >> a voice childhood friend tracy mumford witnessed in action at houston's first club date in new york city. >> she sounded like a grown woman. she turned the place out. >> mumford also attended what was supposed to be the struggling star's comeback concert in central park three years ago. >> she grabbed my face like this and she kissed me on my forehead. i said you know, this concert is not about you singing.

it's really about you taking your life back. >> though some say she never really did. harlem's apollo theater was quick to show its respect. this is where she filmed her debut album video for the greatest love of all. ty woodson broke into tears after hearing the news. >> i want people to remember her music. her legacy. no one can ever take that away from her. she will always be dignified as one the of the true legends of music. >> they grew up listening to that music. >> she's going to be greatly missed by everyone in the community and as a whole. >> gone too soon. >> exactly. a legend gone too soon. >> gone but always remembered in her hometown. michelle miller, cbs news, east orange, new jersey. coming up after your local special coverage from los angeles on the legacy of whitney houston. we'll hear from award winning producer and close friend quincy jones. also an interview with diane warren who wrote a number of

houston's songs and we'll hear from aretha franklin, houston's godmother. all that and muchmore a little later on "cbs this morning." that will do it for the "cbs morning news" this monday. appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown. take care. i'm terrell brown. take care. have a great day everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tac -- www.vitac.com

your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. remembering whitney houston at the 54th grammy abardes. i'm elizabeth sanchez