north jersey community bank c.e.o. frank sorrentino says his bank never offered easy money, even during the housing boom. >> since we've been in existence, our credit standards have pretty much been the same. we have this funny policy-- we like to lend money to people who can actually pay us back. >> reporter: the big unknown is what the more stringent loan process will do to the housing market. some say the pendulum has moved too far in the wrong direction, making it too hard for people to borrow, and too difficult for the housing recovery to build a foundation. >> i think going from so loose policy to so tight policy is not a good thing, and there are people who can actually afford to buy a home and move on. >> reporter: housing expert andrew barroscas disagrees. he says lending standards got too loose and, now, they're just right. >> they are a lot more stringent than where they were, but they're right about at norm of where they should be in order for banks to take the risk. >> reporter: as for safi's new place, sh

in north new jersey, kelly wright, fox news. >> houston will be laid to rest as fair view cemetery in west field alongside her father, john russell houston, jr. who was buried back in 2003. bobby brown said he left the service early after security guards repeatedly asked him and his children to change seats. he said he didn't want to risk creating a scene. >> the other big story we are following tonight is the trial of george huguely. at this hour, the defense is wrapping up its case for the jury. paul joins us live outside the courthouse. paul? >> reporter: will, just before 3:00 this afternoon, prosecutor dave chapman began summing his case up for the jury. his voice began to waver. he appeared to become emotional as he described for the jury exactly what the commonwealth believes happened to yardley love. dave chapman reminded the jurors what they had heard from the witnesses over the last two weeks. quoting from an e-mail. the letter was an apology for the way he acted when he choked love in february of 2010. but the e-mail was an angry exchange in which huguely told love that "i

the people of north new jersey is very proud of her and legacy behind.r going on saying, god is in heaven and we know whitney is in heaven with god right now. very proud mayor. the governor lowering the flag to half-staff amid criticism because whitney's sordid past but the governor taking a stance whitney deserves this honor. whitney is an american icon who contributed so much not only to african-americans but to all americans representing throughout the world and that talented voice. rubbing can i minor recalling her work, she was god's gift to me and i was god's gift to her because of her i am here. ricky is the banld director for jay leno. having so much of an impact. i could go on. tyler perry, quoting roman, nothing can separate us from god not principality, nothing. there is more. it was just a touching, moving memorial that whitney is gone but not forgotten. as one entertainer told me, james walker that works with a lot 6 artists, james said we were enamored but sometimes we enabled her. her bodyguard said today, our stars give us so much and we

particularly in north jersey. i understand you can use a 15% rate on investment income rather than the higher 35% top rate on wage income. we've been told that increasing the rate on capital gains will discourage investment. warren buffett said that he had worked with investors for 60 years, and he's yet to see anyone not even when capital gains rates were 39.9%, back in the mid-70s, he's never seen someone shy away from a sensible investment, because of the tax rate on the potential gain. people invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. unquote. now, according to the national income and product accounts tables, the top tax rate on investment income significantly changed over the past 80 years which you're very familiar with, which i've heard you speak about many times. it was as high as 39.7% in 1976, and now it's, today, 15%. yet investment grows with the cycle. chairman, in your opinion, do changes in the capital gains tax rate mainly affect investments already made rather than new i

jersey after her sudden passing on saturday. there is a possibility that the family will building a funeral this friday at a sports arena in north new jersey. that could accommodate about 18,000 fans. we will continue to keep you updated on this story. >>pam: new details surrounding fiji need. regulators are investigating the pipeline safety practices after two different welder's claim that some of the company's lines contain defects in or not care properly. the two-man race concerns after working on pipelines last year. all of this follows the deadly sandron the explosions that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. new details in a report in friday's police standoff in vallejo. police say it started as an illegal marijuana deal. to buyers were robbed of their cash. for the residents were the suspects were held up eventually caught on fire. >> the new information that we have is that through the investigation on friday and the subsequent investigation, we're able to tie the vehicle used in the robbery in and left in front of the house to the suspect's that committed the robbery. presumably our suspects are associated with

straight ahead this tuesday morning, the body of whitney houston all arrive in your home town of north, new jersey. now we are learning more details surrounding her sudden death. >> it is tuesday, february 14. >> i am cynee simpson. we begin with traffic and your weather every 10 minutes. first, meteorologist adam caskey. >> happy valentine's day. let's take all look at the live super doppler 7 radar. we have little energy triggering some echoes on the radar screen. i do not have any reports of any action hitting the groudn. but you could run into a little bit of raindrops are snow flakes mixed together north of the metro area. up and down the i-81 corridor. a few sprinkles this afternoon across the region. not a big deal. again, what you saw on the radar was not hitting the ground at this time. high temperatures well into the 40's, even near 50 degrees and spots. sunshine and even into the mid 50's. thursday a good chance of rain. clearing out by friday. the termperatures are looking up, and the low to mid 50's wednesday through friday. >> we are hitting the road and everything is working in our

randall pinkston reports from north new jersey. reporter: the rain could not keep whitney houston's fans from the memorial that has sprouted up outside the new jersey church where she grew up. >> she was a beautiful person, beautiful voice, no one will ever be able to replace her. reporter: funeral services for the late singer will be held at this church on saturday. gospel singer and pastor marvin weinens will give the eulogy. >> it did take too long to know she's still that little girl from new jersey. reporter: weyans remembered the last time she performed on stage. >> we sang together "we go to the rock" and it is that rock of salvation, that faith we have in jesus that sustains us during times like this. reporter: the 48-year-old houston was found in the bathtub of her beverly hills hotel room on saturday. investigators are waiting for toxicology results to determine what killed her. her family has chosen to keep the funeral private. fans say they understand. >> if this is the only way that we're able to express our condolence

will help incentivize the deployment of offshore windmill farms off of maryland or delaware, new jersey or north carolina, all the way up to maine. what we've learned is wind production tax credit doesn't get the job done, and nobody's going to build a windmill farm off of any of our coasts in the united states until there's an investment tax credit that will help out. senator snowe and i have offered legislation that provides for an investment tax credit, 30% investment tax credit, and it would inure to whoever deploys the first 3,000 megawatts of electricity that are generated off of our shores. so it's not one year, two years, three years, four years, but it would basically, first come, first served. if you get your windmill farm out there and producing electricity, whoever comes up with the first 3,000 megawatts, you get the tax credit. would you just give us some reaction to that in terms of whether that seems to make any sense, whether that's consistent with where the administration wants to go? as it turns out, the cost of that is just i think a couple billion dollars a year over ten year

while everyone's gussied up in hollywood, in north brunswick, new jersey, all eyes were being focussedn the 69th annual u.s. open of bowling. pete web e as you probably know won is for a record fifth time which is a major accomplishment. pete was, to say the least, excited. >> strike to claim it. a strike to claim it! and he got it! >> are you kidding me! that's right! who do you think you are? i am! get it right! >> jimmy: hold on a second. what did he say at the end there? can we play the end back? just the end part back? >> that's right. who do you think you are! i am! get it right! >> jimmy: who do you think you are? i am! get it right! i don't know what that means. i know what i do know though. i've said this before. bowlers are a very passionate people. speaking of passion, we had a new episode of "the bachelor" tonight on abc. narrowed the field from three to two. lindsay and the nefarious courtney remain. courtney is the villain this year. people really hate her. they say she's just trying to seduce ben to win. which isn't that the point of the show? what am i missing? it's not

particularly in north jersey. understand you can use a 15% rate on investment income rather than the higher 35% top rate on wage income. we have been told that increasing the rate on capital gains will discourage investment. warren buffett said that he had worked with investors for 60 years and he has yet to see anyone, not even when capital gains rates were 39.9% in the midst 1970's, he has never seen someone shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gains. people invest to make money. potential taxes have never scared them off. according to the national income and product account tables, the top tax rate on investment income significantly changed of the past 80 years. in produce big about it. it was -- i heard you speak about it. it is 15% today. yet investment grows with the cycle. chairman, i in your opinion, do changes in the capital gains tax rate mainly affect investments already made rather man new investments being considered -- rather than new investments being consider

jersey. it is chilly off to the north but it is not bitterly cold.sidered, a very pleasant february day. temperatures, at 16 degrees were yesterdayy at this time. temperatures tomorrow will be chilly in the morning. near freezing in many spots. it may provide a little light snow. east of the blue ridge, i-95 corridor, nothing more than a few flurries. as we get through the day, it a lot of thish will dry up. we do not think it will have any impact. futurecast tries to attract some of this note to the north and west. -- track some of the snow to the north and west. by wednesday, high-pressure is sunshine back into forecast. fuller is possible in the morning. cloudy skies midday. -- flurries possible end the morning. degrees. be warmer on wednesday. 53 on thursday. the next cold front will move in with a pretty good chance of rain on thursday. another nice looking weekend. >> the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. moving you forward. >> every family is dysfunctional degree.tain going through some growing pains. made it off

tracking light to moderate snows from areas north of the harris berg and upstate new jersey but it is the winds here with a clear sky in maryland. 21 at baltimore. the gusts have been up higher pushing 30 in baltimore and this is what is makes it feel like there. air temperatures in the 20s feeling like windchills in the teens. feeling like 16 above in baltimore and the rest of this evening, 20s. we stay breezy and cold. again, the windchill factor will be down in the teens. a clear monday, but there is another wrinkle in the forecast as we head toward your valentine's day tuesday night. >>> mobile news and weather offerings. you can check out our growing list of apps and the growing weather team, live cameras in the palm of your hand. you can search for wmar in itunes. >>> tonight the owner of a cab company has made security changes like the ones you have seen in big cities. his overnight signs visor was stabbed by a customer. the cabby will make it but the search is on to find the suspect. >> here is more on this investigation. >> reporter: this abc taxicab is now part of a police i

. >> tense moments at north liberty airport in new jersey. the airport had to be shut down briefly last night when the united shuttle air express plaintiff was forced to make an emergency landing. the pilot noticed the landing gear problem while approaching the airport. passengers were evacuated using humorous andthe emergency chutes. no one injured. prisoners now can get ipods. and best buy is getting friendlier and kinder with its latest return policy. linda bell has more. >> good morning. let's begin with best buy. changes may be coming. sources telling us that the web site the unofficial apple blog says the retailer will extend its return policy to 30 days on all products sold starting march 4. already right now there's a 30- day returned or exchanged policy on on some items and a 14 day return policy for laptops. if you're looking for an inexpensive tablets, amazon is now selling refurbished versions of the kindle fire on its web site at a $30 discount, $159. if it includes the same one-year warranty as the new ones. ipods may soon flood

pending legislation or ballot measures in 2012 include washington state, minnesota, north carolina, maryland, new jersey, new hampshire and maine. they and others will be watching to see the ultimate outcome from in the california legal battle. >> ifill: today's ruling is limited to california, but, in a 128-page opinion, the federal panel emphasized the broader constitutional principle. judge stephen reinhardt, writing for the majority, concluded: "proposition 8 serves no pupose, and has no eect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gay men and lesbians in california." we get two views of the decision and its fallout. david boies is one of the attorneys for the american foundation for equal rights, which supports same sex marriage. and john eastman is chairman of the board of the national organization for marriage, which argues same sex marriage is not protected under the constitution. i want to start by asking both of you gentlemen something else from the court's decision today and ask you to respond. the court also said that california used initiati power to target a minority group an

most of this will stay to the north of us and continue that northeastward trick up to pennsylvania and to new jersey and new york. the temperatures, some upper 50s. 58 in bethesda and arlington. we're looking at 59 in college park and 57 here. but still 61 in springfield. and still 59 in great falls. upper 50s in reston and sterling. and at about 57 here in leesburg. it had is for tomorrow. we have a high wind watch for you. frederick county north and west. loudoun county north and west. under the high wind watch. the perimeters could be 58 miles per hour or higher. we could see that in the immediate metro area. we're going to see the winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour. the high-wind watch, north and west. you could do some things tonight or early tomorrow before you leave. secure the loose objects. bring in the smaller tables. bring in the smaller light chairs. especially the plastic chairs that will be blowing all over the place and put those basketball hoops on their said that have not been in concrete yet. windy and warm for you on friday. showers, maybe a little higher tonight. high wind watch fo

jersey, yeah, 47. and love valley, north carolina, 52. yeah. got some wet weather down through the southern tier of states. we got snow around the great lakes. no great shakes, one to two in >> good morning. we have some cloud cover this morning. we have a slight chance for it rain shower. it should not be a problem. >>> this morning, we have answers to your daily diet dilemma. we've got our nutritionist here with advice on everything from smart lunch choices to nutritious snacks if you're allergic to nuts. joy, good to see you. >> happy heart day. >> happy valentine's day. let's get started right here. this one coming from jamie in texas. she joins us live via skype. happy valentine's day. what's your question? >> hi. mom was recently diagnosed with diabetes. she and i are both overweight. we're now working together to lose weight. but our hardest issue is eating something that makes us feel full at lunch. can you offer any suggestions? >> jamie, i think it's so great that you're doing this together with your mom. i'm betting that your success

north of the metro. more in the extended forecast coming up. >> whitney houston's body back in new jersey today where she grew up. local mourner's created an impromptu vigil for this evening sensation. -- the singing sensation. the funeral will take place this weekend and four more come here is j. win big with the story. -- for more, here is jay. >> her body flown back overnight from los angeles. bobbi kristina and bobby brown plume back east had of her body. they are planning a final family funeral. >> saturday at new hope baptist church. >> this is where it all started. this is her singing their back in 1979. as the concert she honored her god daughter. >> one of the greatest singers that ever stood before a microphone. miss whitney elizabeth houston. >> there are serious questions about what killed the 48-year- old singer. we know her aunt founder in the bathtub. prescription drugs including an antibiotic and valium were found as well as alcohol. these pictures show champagne and beer in the suite. as director of security from 1995-2002, he spent 12 hours per day with whitney houston. >> the reality o

rate around 10% to 13% lower than firefighters, teachers, and police officers, particularly in north and jerseyi understand you can use of 15% rate on investment income rather than wage income. did we have been told about increasing the rate will discourage investment. warren buffett said he had worked with investors for 60 years, and he has yet to see anyone even when capital gains were at 39.1%, he has never seen anyone shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. people invested to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. according to the national income, the top tax rate on investment income significantly changed over the last 80 years, which i have heard you speak about many times. good it is as high as 39.7% in 1976, and now it is 15%. investment grows with the cycle. in your opinion, to changes in the capital gain tax rates mainly affect investments already made rather than new investments being considered? the latter is what drives growth. what is your opinion? >> you are pulling me into a complex topic. ate economic theory says t

north and to the east. there it is, into central portions of new jersey and now our cold front is redeveloping now to the westout in west virginia. i mentioned that we already have severe thunderstorms down in western virginia, eastern portions of tennessee, western north carolina. they're going to have tornado watches issued to our south. for us, we have potential for thunderstorms around here during the middle of the afternoon. up ahead of this front, nice surge of warm air, should warm us into the low to mid-70s, maybe even 80s down to the south and then the cooler air will start to work in behind this. wind are really going to pick up, as mentioned shall as we get into the late afternoon and early evening. >> my map takes a little time to develop but it's word waiting for. these are the wind warnings. this goes into effect at noon. here in washington, we are looking at wind advisories where winds could be 40, 50 miles per hour. be ready for those winds. if you have loose objects outside on your deck, trash cans, bring them in later this morning. here is future cast. looks like we're going to have some thu

for the start of it, so be sure to avoid north dukeland and west lafayette street when you're heading out this morning. >>> 5:32 right now. flags across new jersey will fly at half staff tomorrow to honor the late singer whitney houston as plans for her weekend funeral starting to take shape. now, investigators continuing to look into actions -- her actions and days before her sudden death. abc 2 news' sherree johnson joins us with more on this story. reporter: megan, on saturday, one week after her death, whitney houston will be laid to rest in her home state of new jersey. the private service at her childhood church will include about 1500 mourners. there will be performances by stevie wonder, aretha franklin and bbweyon. her exhusband bobby brown has been invited to the funeral, putting to rest rumors that he's not welcome. sources close to her investigation say the singer was partying and drinking heavily in beverly hills shortly before she died. houston's past addiction has some questioning why new jersey's governor decided to fly the flags in the state at half staff today. new jersey will be houston's final home. the cemetery where her fat

jersey. police believe the thefts took place over a three-year period with six happening in harford county and others as far north as connecticut. >>> let's get to the murder trial of george huguely, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend yeardley love and the woman who knew yeardley love the best, her mother, took the stand. >> reporter: it was certainly a slow moving process monday and tuesday for jury selection but the speed has picked up. we've heard from six witnesses including yeardley love's mother, her sister and roommate. >> reporter: whitely broke down on the witness stand as she described walking into yeardley love's bedroom and finding her face down in the bed it was bloody. george huguely's defense team plans to argue there was no intent to kill yeardley love, and therefore, there can be no first-degree murder conviction. if fact if there's no intent on felony murder, breaking and entering and larceny, the jury will have to lay quit -- acquit on all of those if they can't get beyond a reasonable doubt. george huguely himself will not testify at his trial, but we will hear from him. the prosecution says

production tax credit and that would help incentivize when the forms of maryland or delaware, new jersey, north carolina, all the way up to the state of maine. if the credit does not get the job done, nobody will build a windmill farm off the coast until there is a tax credit that will help out. senator snowe and i have offered legislation that will provide a credit to whoever deploys the first 2,000 megawatts of electricity that are generated off our shores. it would basically be first come first serve. you get your windmill farm out there and producing electricity. who ever comes up with the first 3,000 megawatts you get that tax credit. give us reaction to that in terms of whether that seems to make any sense. as it turns out, the cost of that is a couple billion dollars of year. it is not a heck of a lot of money. >> i would be happy to talk in more detail about that. there are different ways to do these things, but we agreed we want to make sure that we are preserving, after a comprehensive tax reform, a set of well-designed special incentives for improving our use of renewable energy reso

. >> rising star in princeton new jersey and we will be in nothing further carolina. >> yeah, -- northa. >> but tonight the dc improve it is historic. >> there is still some seats available, rain pryor and mark skippy price. >> i have grown to cope that is just the way it is we are here in dc washington dc the best way to travel is to do as locals do so i can't wait to lie, cheat, lobby, and say no to everything obama presents. >> there you will fit right in >> i want to says the gate to have you both here i am glad for continued success you have great chemistry and energy together. >> thank you. >> if you do it have me on. >> a new sitcom >> there you go. >> alison back to you. >> what a treat thank you so much. and proper prune -- improper pruning can ruin your landscape potential annie yu is getting tips from derek thomas with thomas landscape good morning. >> good morning alison. derek and i have had so much fun outside but we were ready to come inside right derek. >> we brought the pruning gear inside. >> and now we are going to do some valentines debut kays it is just around -- b

jersey. and it could soon reach the u.s. supreme court. reporting live in north baltimore, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> all right, thank you very much, mike. now, same-sex marriage is currently legal in six states and washington, d.c. >>> in his own words, if are the -- for the first time, a jury hears from george huguely, accused of killing cockeysville native, yeardley love. both students attended there. jessica kartalija joins us with more on how the chilling testimony had the defendants in tears. jessica? >> reporter: vic, love's family, huguely, and at least two jurors were in tears today, after they heard what happened when huguely learned his former girlfriend, yeardley love, was dead. >> reporter: yeardley love's family leaves a virginia courtroom in tears today. former university of valacrosse- - virginia lacrosse player, george huguely admitted he wrestled with love, but said he never strangled or punched her. the footage was recorded hours after love's body was discovered in her own apartment in may of 2010. huguely told police he had gone to

approved the sale of the new jersey announced a proper of two hundred million dollars thus the russian tycoon and currently presidential hopeful became the first non north american and be on. the nets haven't been very successful in the n.b.a. last couple of years do you expect the same success to come to the nets with praha fast to chelsea and regret much i think mr program of has in store great level of confidence in our franchise and over the last couple of years we have been rebuilding getting ready for a big move to brooklyn and i think we've set ourselves up to be quite successful this offseason as we're very we have a lot of flexibility when you think of draft picks the salary cap we've got a lot of space. and we've got short term contracts so we're going to be in a position to truly entertain lots of different possibilities so i'm very confident that we will bring a great product to brooklyn next year of course americans are not so conservative as the brits but are. all of the tea the fans happy about the new russian owner yes absolutely no conservative moral i mean none who are none whatsoever i mean i think the. braced michael from the time he

most of the action is north and east sifty as it pushes up into southern new jersey.rm front later today. the cold front kind of starting to develop out in the west and west virginia, that could bring us a round of showers and thunderstorms. some of the storms could be strong and a lot of wind. up ahead in. front, sunny skies. we'll get a round of showers and thunderstorms and later, the winds could gust up to 60 miles per hour, some cases even more than that behind the front later this afternoon. here is the future cast. it will not show you the wind but will show you the potential for showers and thunderstorms. thunderstorms developing around 3:00. notice they are east and south of the city and thunderstorms to be stronger. we'll clear out, lots of wind later this afternoon and tonight and, again, wind advisory, high wind warning. 75 today, 38 tonight. you know, something has to give and a dry weekend with highs where they should be, upper 40s to lower 50s. >> that's going to be strange after today. >> it's going to be where it shut be. >> here is julie wright. >> a

jersey is the resting place for whitney houston. >> straight ahead we take a look. >> big winter garrett county moves through the mid atlantic region. we're just a little few far northwe'll talk about the forecast, president's day tomorrow, coming up. coming up. it's 42 degrees and cloudy. it's where you spend a lifetime so your kids can go to college. so you can actually visit that beach proudly displayed on your monitor. for that, you work through lunch. or as we like to say, lunch through work. perfectly balanced hormel compleats meals. freshness sealed for flavor. in over 30 varieties, it's the lunch that works. turned out to be a deadly situation. it claimed the lives of four people in washington. three skiers were killed and a snowboarder was killed. authorities say the snowboarder was with two friends when he trigger ed the avalanche that carried him down 500 feet >>> the fate of george huguely and closing arguments wraped up. jury begins deliberations on wednesday because of the holiday. one prosecutor choked up as he recounted the story of the night that yeardley love died. local defense attorney told 11 news the jury needs to decide whether or not huguely

center, the smell was linked to new jersey with overnight had a major oil leak affecting folks that live in pennsylvania, delaware as well as cecil, harford, and north baltimore counties in maryland. >> it smelled like natural gas, and that was what was concerning me. any time you have a strong odor of natural gas, obviously the issue of explosion and the catastrophe that can result in that. that was a concern. >> ironically, the public information officer for the harford county emergency operation center said he smelled it as he left his harford county home. thomas said atmospheric conditions were just so that the oil fumes stayed close to the ground. however, he did point out there were no threats to anyone's health. >> none of them posed any significant risk to the citizens of the county. >> at this point fire and emergency officials feel the odor should have cleared the air. they are reminding anyone if they do smell anything suspicious, to call 911 immediately. lowell melzer, wbal-tv 11 news. >> you can call snookie. >> right. jersey can't get a break when it comes to those jokes, though. >> in "consumer alert" a boost with hundreds of thousand

. >> viewers north and east of the city a less than fragrant way to start the day. just call it plain stinky. a major oil leak in south jersey led many people to the south including maryland in a plume of what smelled like natural gas. 11 news reporter lowell melser has more from howard county. >> over at the bel air volunteer fire department, the action started early. >> the calls increased in volume between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. and declined around 11:00 a.m. but we've received and responded to frocksly 40 calls for service. >> before 7:00 a.m. calls started calling in about a possible gas leak that seemed to be concentrated in a large area that consumed most of the northeastern part of the county. >> a detective, you -- something isn't adding up with this because the calls were concentrated and such a quick amount of time. >> after a few phone calls to other jurisdictions, and with help from the county's emergency operations center, the smell was linked to the pallsboro refinery which had major oil leak to the tune of 6.6 million gallons. affecting folks who live in pennsylvania, delaware, and cecil, harford and north baltim

it's being debated in new jersey and could make its way to the united states supreme court. reporting live in north baltimore, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> all right, mike. thank you. >>> same-sex marriage is currently legal in six states and washington, d.c. >> a big change for the baltimore police department, as it deals with faumout from a controversial arrest. at the preakness stakes. denise is in the newsroom to explain the impact on the rights of the public. denise? >> reporter: well, kai, a new police policy says city police captain stop people from filming crime scenes. this comes nearly two years after officers deleted this video from a man's cell phone of an arrest at the preakness in 2010. chris sharp shot the video, and he is now suing the police for violating his rights. just days ahead of his federal court hearing, the police department announced their new rules that states that the public is allowed to record officers on duty. officers can still seize a camera if it contains evidence of a crime, however. kai? >> denise, thank you. the justice department has weighed in on th

north carolina. she's expected to attend the funeral on saturday. new jersey's governor has ordered all state flags to fly at half-staff on saturday. in the meantime, investigators have requested all of houston's medical records. they want to know why those prescription drugs were inside her hotel room at the time of her death. >>> michelle, thank you so much. it is time now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. the chicago tribune reports former illinois governor blagojevich is head today colorado next month. he will serve his 14-year prison sentence for corruption at a federal prison outside denver. >>> a story from the carolina journal online website says a preschool student was told to eat cafeteria chicken nuggets after a north carolina state employee decided the lunch she brought to school was not nutritious. that lunch has a banana, potato chips and apple juice and a turkey sandwich. >>> went on a shopping spree at the new york annual gift fair. he reported spent $20 million in four days, then was taken in for psychiatric obs

drizzle and patchy drizzle towards the north on monday >>isabel: this is a live look at the whitney houston funeral held at the new hope baptist church in new jersey& applause) praise to-whitney. when whitney houston and i were getting ready to our headlines were she said that we had to come over. we came over to the house and she said. we will take a look into my closet. and i'm going to tell you what we're going to do. i had some uniforms made. >> this is remembrances. thank you for watching. we will see you tomorrow at 8:00 a.m.. easier than actually going to the bank. mobile check deposit. easier banking. standard at citibank. makes it easy for anne to view her finances from anywhere.

north baltimore, megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. just hours ago... whitney houston's body arrived in her home state of new jersey.ersey.the singer is expected to be buried either friday or saturday.while we're waiting to learn more about houston's caase of death... we're gettiig an iiside look at her final days.oneeof houston's last interviews... was with the entertainnent news show, "extra."a-j calloway sat down with houston in november... to talk about the "sparkle" movie remake she was working on at the time. aj calloway: "how does it feel to be on set and doing your thing?"whitney: "well, itts uh, i'm comfortable. i'm very comfortable now because i think over the years, being a mother, the marriaae, the mother, the whole thing, you know what i'm saying? i've matured innso many ays, and my daughter is my greatest insppration. she has trained me for this role. she trained me. she trained me good." housttn died on saturday... at the age of 44.it could be weeks....before we learn her cause of death. the rights of citizens to videotape police on the job... federal court. a man who was threatened with arrest for ta

jersey, 47. love valley, north carolina, 52. yes. we have wet weather down lou the southern tier of states.e southeastern atlantic coast. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. here around the washington region, the nearby suburbs and in downtown washington, it is near 40 degrees. farther west and north in the mid to upper 30s, south and east, hitting the low 40s for southern maryland. there may be a few sprinkles reaching the ground. later today, greater chance, though, of sprinkles late afternoon into this evening. highs in the upper 40s. then on wednesday, partly cloudy and afternoon highs low 50s. rain likely on thursday. and friday and saturday, some sun back. coul >>> this morning, we have answers to your daily diet dilemma. we've got our nutritionist here with advice on everything from smart lunch choices to nutritious snacks if you're allergic to nuts. joy, good to see you. >> happy heart day. >> happy valentine's day. let's get started right here. this one coming from jamie in texas. she joins us live via skype

jersey. we also now know that houston's cousin dionne warwick is in north carolina with the family helping plannto cnn for special live coverage of that funeral with our pierce morton, soledad o'brien and don lemon. >>> over to syria where the constant bombardment isn't the only concern. now new details on a pipeline explores that blanked homs with thick black smoke. >>> plus looking for answers about the controversial mississippi -- our ed lavandera chases after former governor haley barbour. >> governor, ed lavandera, can we talk to you real quick? >> let me get my instructions -- >> reporter: can you come out and talk to us here in a second? >>> president obama on the move today to try to sell voters on his economic agenda. at the same time his poll numbers are on the rise. his approval rating is up to 50% for the first time in eight months, at least according to our new surveyor, but many americans still are hurting, even in the shadow of the company he showcased and praised today. our dan lothian traveled with the president to wisconsin. >> reporter: long before u.s. jobs flew overseas for