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>> tomorrow, family and friends will bid a final farewell to whitney houston. >> today, the world witnessed an emotional farewell at the church for whitney got her start. >> about 1500 friends and relatives of whitney houston gathered for a final farewell at the church where she saying as a child. >> what i know about her is that she loved the lord. >> tyler perry celebrated her faith, while kevin costner spoke of her courage when she was not sure she was good enough for the film. >> i told her she looked beautiful. i told her i would be with their every step of the way. >> the pastor delivered her
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eulogy. >> father, we thank you for this life. >> ♪ angels from the choir ♪ >> the pop superstar was celebrated in song by stevie wonder r kelly and alicia keys. ♪ it's a long, long way to have beaven ♪ >> per ex-husband, bobby brown was invited to the ceremony, but left shortly after arriving at the church. he was told there was no room for his entourage of nine people. saturday was a celebration of the life of the mother,
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daughter, a friend, and start who was so suddenly lost. whitney houston will be laid to rest in westfield new jersey. >> only a week and a half to go before the next two contests in the republican race. will santorum be able to maintain his momentum? >> what do -- what are we to make of >> santorum? is this more for real? do we have that to-person race we have been waiting for for so long? >> it feels as though mitt romney is having a tougher time beating him back. as opposed to gingrich, who had
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issues, some baggage. it was very easy for mitt romney to undermine him as the conservative alternative. there is not a lot of room on santorum's right. there is not a lot of baggage. he is the father of seven children. he is attempting to -- he is attempting to paint him as labor-friendly. going after him that way in states like ohio and michigan. so far too limited success. we will see how much he is able to continue going- negative. it ricochets back onto yourself and that is going to be a problem. >> let's do some time traveling
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to the future. it is february 29. the date after the michigan primary. let's say it santorum upsets romney in a state where he has family ties. what stories will be assigned by the newspapers? >> the pressure goes to mitt romney to justify continuing to run. that will be how lot of pundits take it. why is he standing in this race? please justify your continued participation. it seems the conservatives are rallying around a candidate. i do not think mitt romney will go. i do not think he will buy that argument. but that is where the media attention will go. >> have you signed that story
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already? >> we should probably get ahead of it. >> you guys are days ahead of every story. >> fast forward to this sunday. what do have in store? >> we will be talking to the 2008 presidential nominee john mccain. we will talk to him about afghanistan, syria, iran. and the republican race. >> that sounds like a good show. >> a reminder, you can watch this tomorrow morning at 10:00. >> in this video the apple store employees can be seen listening at the wall separating them from the store.
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>> on the other side of the wall jayne murray was being brutally murdered. >> to topple store employees stand next to a wall and walk away. what they heard there turned out to be the murder of jayna murray. at the time, they did not call the police. >> i think it is unforgivable. >> if i was screaming for help, it is a tragedy. >> the woman in the security video testified at the trial of brittany norwood. she said she urged women are doing in the store. that was followed by screams yells and she heard a woman say, "god help me." the man in the video is the
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apple manager. he thought the noise was "drama ." >> i cannot understand why they did not do anything. >> brittany norwood was sentenced to life without parole. the judge criticized the apple workers for their callous indifference. >> we still have not even gotten a sympathy card from them, at apple corp., anything. >> the workers did helped detectives unravel brittany norwood's claims that the robbers and are rapist killed murray. >> i think steve jobs would be upset about that. >> we reached out to topple, but the company declined to comment. >> you have been warned and now it is take a time in prince george's county. there activating the dozens of
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speed cameras on multiple streets. starting today, at drivers who were caught on camera going faster than the speed limit can expect a ticket. for the complete list of locations, go to our website. >> still to come, extra pain at the pump. the price of gas is soaring but we break down how many people -- how much people are really spending. >> if you are in the market for some new wheels, we have the list of the most reliable cars. >> i am arch campbell with the weekend's best bets. >> we have been talking about the potential for winter weather on sunday. what will happen? my
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>> lexus tops the list of the most dependable vehicles. they had the fewest complaints about problems experienced by drivers. the worst performers were chrysler vehicles. for the list, go to wjla.com. >> if you are hitting the local roadways tomorrow, it does not look like the storm will be too effective. >> we will look for things to deteriorate, if you want to call it that, as we move to the late afternoon hours. it is not going to be that bad outside, especially around the beltway. it appears to be worse south and
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west of d.c. quite a ways out. high temperatures today, 59 degrees at reagan national airport. it is 46 now. our temperatures take us to george washington university, 45 degrees. earlier, 60 degrees. 58 for a high in alexandria. temperatures holding in the mid- 40's across the immediate metro. this is the storm system, the area of low pressure that is going to zip just to the south of us. it will remain far enough south that we will be on the northern edge of this. that is why our snow totals have been cut significantly for the
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immediate metro area. not even a winter weather advisories for us. that shows you how weak the system will be. if your travel plans to take you to southern west virginia or eastern kentucky, you might run into some problems. they could be looking at six to 10 inches of snow. we're going to look for temperatures to slowly rebound to 40. the clouds continue to increase, and by afternoon we are calling for some light snow showers. by about midnight tomorrow night, everything will be gone. here are the projected snow totals, less than an inch for the d.c. metro. frederick, at number montgomery county -- northern montgomery county, you might just see flurries.
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the extended outlook shows are temperatures are going to warm up nicely. mid-50's on tuesday and wednesday. an updated look at the forecast 24 hours a day at wjla.com. bob ryan wrote an interesting blog about the system. >> this winter has been so mild. >> a lot of people really love the snow. >> it is still early. >> thank you. isn't it romantic comedy court action adventure or both? >> arch campbell
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