backup at the beginning of her career for the hit single "i'm every woman" for chaka kahn.old from unwith of our producers there on the ground with you, casey or i should say away from where you are now. the security hold by the beverly hills police department, so, all this have confirming what you and i have been talking about and your reporting revealed to us, typical of a case like this. >> right. yeah, you know, it's again, they want to make sure that all of the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed and don't want any mistakes to be made. the last thing a police department or county agency wants is for someone to come back a couple of weeks, months from now and point fingers and say that things were not done properly. so, there's obviously a certain degree of sensitivity and dell casty that has to be used in handling the investigation here. and we also need to bear in mind the 24 hours news cycle, harris, you asked me earlier, about if we had he' heard word on a funeral arrangement coming down or anything like that, it's only been about 24 hours, really, since this new

take a listen to what chaka kahn said last night. good stuff. >> whoever flew her out to perform at that party should have provided someone to be there, to somehow look -- just keep the riffraff out of the situation. just keep some of the dangerous people away. >> was she very vulnerable, do you think? whitney, even to the end, to that kind of situation? >> absolutely -- i am. i'm very vulnerable, as an -- i mean, i'm not -- i will never do cocaine again. i know that. but we are sensitive, highly sensitive people, entertainers. >> reporter: yeah, so that was chaka khan last night on piers morgan. and yesterday i went to that club, the last pictures of whitney houston seen in that club. one of the managers said it was very hot in there, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, anybody leaving that club would be sweaty. and again, we don't know whitney's frame of mind or how she was that night, because we weren't inside whitney's mind. we'll have to wait for this to play out, the toxicology reports to see in all of this. so back to you. >>

i saw chaka kahn talking about her planning how to come to these parties.t is, you don't have to come to them at all. there is no reason you need to be there. and to be in an environment where there's druinking and drugs, and more importantly, a false sense of self. that was the worst place on earth for a newly sober whitney houston to be. >> chaka kahn was saying given the history, you arrive at the grammys a day or so before, certainly not a week. she last performed with her friend kelly price. they were at a club friday night and had a couple glasses of champagne. she said it was all fun and good, not all innocuous partying, but especially for a chronic addict, isn't one glass of champagne too much? >> it's always too much. and here's -- you showed drew's outrage. we've been trying to talk about this for years. addicts need to not do anything. they need to not see doctors for sleep medication, they need to not worry about their backache i ing, they need to not worry about sleeping, they need not one drop of champagne. we've been screaming about this for

i'd have never done that. >> the great chaka kahn, christine. on piers morgan. she said back in the late '90s and 2000s, she got high with whitney and bobby and they would sit around and talk. she says she knows that's what happened, but she should have been more careful and have had better people around her, watching over her, regardless of the circumstances of how she died. >> don lemon, thank you so much, don. we'll be talking to you again very, very soon as the story continues to develop. >>> all right. she had amazing range as a singer, but whitney houston's personal life was full of incredible highs and lows. randi kaye takes a look back. >> reporter: whispers about whitney houston's troubles began to surface shortly after she appeared in this michael jackson tribute concert. ♪ >> reporter: looking rail thin, the appearance fueled rumors that her health was rapidly declining. she defiantly denied those rumors in this infamous 2002 interview with diane sawyer. insisting that she didn't have an eating disorder and didn't have a crack addicti

. >> we hear that jennifer hudson may perform and chaka kahn and you think if jennifer hudson nails thiso nurture her like he did with whitney houston in the 80's and presented jennifer hudson with the first grammy and jennifer hudson talks about what a great honor to receive that from whitney witness and how she idolized, and a unique opportunity to honor back somebody who inspired her own career. >> clayton: an interesting night and speaking of interesting people who have a really strong compelling female voice, certainly, whitney houston led a lot of people in that direction, and really showed them the way. and adele, she could have a standout night and listen to a little of her. a really, really strong voice. ♪ rolling in the the deep . >> clayton: this song is a huge, huge hit this year. and what do you expect? >> i think the night is ade adele's to walk away. a quick parallel. look at adele and one of things they had in common come from r & b background and transcended genre, and adele sold 6 million records and people are lucky to sell 300,000. >> clayton: and they're on the top o