but, no, i wasn't the one that got whitney on drugs.rt of her life before -- >> way before. >> -- you and she got together. did you talk about it? did you worry about it? >> i worried about it when, you know, we first got together, until i tried it. and when i tried it, for some reason i have an addictive personality. unexplainable. but i know i wasn't the one that, you know, got her addicted to drugs or i'm not the reason she's gone. >> you've said to me point-blank, i am not responsible for whitney getting hooked on drugs. >> right. >> would it be fair to say that if you didn't harm her in that way, your relationship didn't help her in that way? >> our relationship was great. i had 14 beautiful, beautiful years with that woman. >> and that's not revisionist history? that's not a chance of, after the fact, setting the record straight in bobby brown's way? >> no. i can -- i can honestly say that i loved that woman with everything that i am. and i believe she loved me the same way. >> the night she passed away, bobby, you continued and d

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whitney's last movie. >> and alicia keys with stevie wonder.er great moment between the two of them. >> phenomenal. stevie wonder doing "higher ground." a little "empire state of mind." now the unofficial theme song for new york. >> any low lights for us, things you didn't like? >> apart from the artist lip-syncing? >> yeah, yeah. >> too much of that. >> that does happen. that does happen. it was cool, though. think about the awards. it comes from the fans. there's a grassroots feel to it a little bit. >> you felt that when justin bieber was performing and everybody -- it's a real fan-driven event. >> very cool. bruno, thanks. we'll be back with more after this. very cool. bruno, thanks. we'll be back with more after this. nks. we'll be back with more after this. bored with your one trick lipstick? then lead a double life! with new blast flipstick from covergirl. creamy color on one end, shimmery color on the other. so you can flip your look from demure, to daring. new blast flipstick from covergirl. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back, everybody. time for in

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whitney houston, i mean, it was a gorgeous rendition by jordan sparks singing whitney and of course bobby christina was there and spoke her first words. i can't believe the poise on bobby christina. i thought she'd be a nervous wreck but she was so comfortable and gracious in thanking the audience. sitting next to bobby christina, a little controversy unfortunately comes with a beautiful night of performances and is raja, brandy's younger brother who is i guess dating whitney in the epd. no one knows the exact details of the relationship but he was sitting next to bobby christina. pat houston, whitney's sister wanted to be. she asked for him to move. he wouldn't move. there was a report of eight uniformed officers being inside the theater trying to remove him. then pat had to ultimately make the call do we want to cause a big scene? she said no. so he stayed there the rest of the night. sadly it reminds me of whitney's funeral a little bit with bobby brown. wanted him to move and ultimately he leaves and it seems to be a little drama wherever we go. it was a beautiful, beautiful night. a

van huesen and whitney got along famously, and they were also the perfect blend of talents. >> i'm anngineer by training, so i've always been pretty organized and systematic about things. i like to think of myself as a creative problem solver, working with customers to come up with just the right combination of products to satisfy their needs. >> the only real technical background i have is what i picked up in the field, handling equipment repair projects, and managing work groups. my strong suit is sales and management. i like dealing with customers, negotiating contracts, and getting people to do things for me. i'm a great believer in the gentle art of persuasion. >> walt van huesen and don whitney pooled their skills, their financial resources, and theicourage, and started up valve resources incorporated. the company had two missions. the first was to sell valves, instruments, gauges, and related products cto incling oil refineries, utility companies, general contractors, and municipal governments. the company's second mission was to provide repair services for those products, both

i wish that whitney's situation had turned out differently. >> absolutely. matt's going to have more with bobby tomorrow. okay. so if you were home last night and you were watching "the voice" it was the big elimination round. if you didn't see it, you're going to play along with us. if you did you already know what happened. okay. team adam had a sing-off between two people. let's watch the two again. ♪ how you like me now, how you like me now, how you like me now, how you like me now ♪ ♪ strumming my pain with my fingers, singing my life ♪ >> we both said tony would have been eliminated. i think we were wrong. >> we were wrong, right? >> that's rude. >> tony stayed. katrina got eliminated. >> see, it's very difficult when you only hear ten minutes of it. i mean, ten seconds. >> i probably still would have picked her. >> yeah. they're both talented. it comes down to what you like, you know? >> next up, team cee lo. let's watch these two. ♪ if you don't know me by now ♪ you will never, ever know me ♪ >> now, we both said juliette should get cut. but we were

. >> bobby brown says he was not the one that got whitney houston hooked on drugs.e'll have more of the interview and i will talk with the daily beast allison samuels what she describes as whitney's private hell and the lessons to be learned. we begin with two states stopped from taking action that is critics charge would limit women's rights. in texas federal courts stepped into a fight over cutting state funds to planned parenthood, all the result of laws passed by the republican controlled state legislature and in oklahoma the supreme court halted an effort to grant person hood rights to human embryos. joining me is erin carmen. good to see you on this. this certainly would be categorized by a lot of people as a setback for republicans in the two states, the texas battle still waging, though. >> what happened in texas is the lower court said you cannot discriminate against planned parenthood. you're going to be punishing almost 100,000 women receiving almost the primary health care from planned parenthood. >> similar to the argument on the federal level as well w

>> 'cause they don't pay attention until they have to. >> whitney says it's time to start. rating approaching junk status. it spends more money on public employee pensions than it does on the state university system. arizona is so desperate, it sold off the state capitol, supreme court building, and legislative chambers to a group of investors and now leases the buildings from their new owner. then there's new jersey. it had the highest taxes in the country, a $10 billion deficit, and a depressed economy when first-year governor chris christie took office. but after looking at the books, he decided to walk away from a long-planned and much-needed project with new york and the federal government to build a rail tunnel into manhattan. it would have helped the economy and given employment to 6,000 construction workers. lots of jobs. >> yeah. i canceled it. i mean, listen, the bottom line is, i don't have the money. and you know what? i can't pay people for those jobs if i don't have the money to pay them. where am i getting the money? i don't have it. i literally don't have it

also a first listen at whitney houston's final song.jordin sparks who did the great tribute to whitney at the billboard music awards. take a listen here. from the movie "sparkle" which will be whitney's final role when it comes out in august. ♪ celebrate >> the song is called "celebrate" and, you know, apparently it's getting good reviews. early buzz. obviously a sentimental favorite because it's whitney's final song and her final film role as well. congrats to jordin who gave her a beautiful tribute. >> and whitney is playing jordin's mom in "sparkle." so probably touch -- >> touches on fame and drugs. a little bit of real life in there. >> it's going to be good. >>> on a much lighter note, we're getting the first look at the trailer for "anchorman 2." let's take a look. this is hilarious. >> get ready to ride the palomino stallion. >> we're going to be broadcasting from a hot tub full of scotch. it's jean creaming time. >> it's cream in your jeans. >> no, rick, you need to say something different. something on your own. >> you're goin

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he said, i didn't get high on narcotics before i met whitney. i smoke weed.ut, no, i wasn't the one that got whitney on drugs at all. he said drugs were part of the singer's life way before they got together and, of course, got married back in '93, divorced in 2007. he says it's just unexplainable how one could say i got her addicted to drugs. he's been clean and sober. >> i believe that's true. i did interview someone close to the couple, and she also confirmed that it was not bobby brown that got whitney houston hooked. that is true. >> bad rap. >>> well, khloe kardashian and lamar odom, there will be many people upset about this, they are canceling their reality show. >> oh, man. >> they are canceling it. kris jenner is very, very upset about it. apparently she gets 10% of the earnings. she's very upset. they called it quits and don't want to do it anymore. i mean, i think there will be many, many people upset about it. >> the real deal is he obviously got bounced from the lakers and to dallas and traded to the mavericks, and he's already off that team and

houston, honored with the millennium board. >> ♪ i will always love you ♪ >> whitney houston's sister-in hand to accept the award. bobbi kristina thanks everyone who was there for her family during the good times and bad times. >> i am just glad to have been in the life of such an incredible woman. there will never be another. >> they also paid tribute to the beastie boys and donna summer. >> mineral virginia, is getting help to rebuild from the earthquake last august. >> how are you all doing? doing >> country star alan jackson giving a free concert in mineral last night. towns and cities all over the country competed for the concert if. people voted on nine and mineral got the most votes even though its population is less than 500 people. >> after the earthquake and you also for all this damage and hardy, a lot of people started voting for this city even if they were not from this city. >> we wound up with 30,000 votes and it was a great concert. >> 500 people and getting the 30,000 votes. the concert generated $150,000 to help rebuild the schools. the earthquake caused a lot of studen

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. -- whitney houston swears. i saw you look away from the screen and utter these words, "what happened there?" do you have an answer to that question? >> i do not. i thought she looked so pretty and so alive and so real, such a big thing could come outside of that little body of hers to sing. it is weird when the world talks about someone that you have a level of intimate knowledge about them. i remember when it happened. i was watching on television and i was watching all of the programs that were suddenly talking about her. i'm sitting there thinking, how did i come to the point where i actually knew famous people? it is an odd thing to look at. to know that you had some kind of intimate relationship with her, a professional one, and now the world is talking about this person. that was not my first instinct, was to come on your show or piers' show the show. dion reachne to me and said, would i come speak -- dionne reached a out to me and said, would i come speak? and i said that i would. i wrote a speech about

whitney tilson joining us now. of the einhorns, ackman, paulsons, gundlachs, who do you want to hear from? >> ackman and einhorn. i respect the research they do. i know them personally. they're great people, as well. always good to hear what they're going to talk about. >> certainly going to be interesting. let's talk about jc penney. the stock hit today. seeing the worst drop in 24 years on the disappointing earnings report. you're long jc penney. you looked on a hero on barnes & noble. >> right and green mountain, too. >> i won't say you look like a zero now but the stock is heading closer to it than where you thought it was going to be. >> yeah. it's important to understand. we're buying more and view this as an opportunity. our view of how much jc penney is worth five years from now isn't changed and it's important to understand why this happened and the reason is jc penney like many department stores got in the cycle of running like 800 promotions a year and conditioned their customers to only shop when they w

talk about whitney. okay. what type of relationship did you all have with whitney over the years?don? >> oh, well i used to live with my father and whitney when i was younger. and we had a lot of fun. >> good, clean fun? >> oh, yeah. >> did you ever see any of the dysfunction that has been written about so much about their relationship? >> never. >> nope. >> never? >> are you talking about drugs -- >> i'm talking drugs, i'm talking about violence. >> that has never been -- >> i'm talking about, you know -- >> i've never, in my life, ever seen that. >> i heard -- i heard a lot of stuff in the media when i was younger. i was completely oblivious to it. >> it was never -- >> i didn't even know that anything was going on. i see my dad, i didn't know anything was going on. >> is that because they were so good at keeping it from you? or is that -- >> that could have been it. >> they were so happy. >> well, bobby, what was it? >> well, you know, you don't subject children to, you know, things that, you know, you don't want them to be around, or to be a part of their lives. >> when things

>> i tried to reach out to whitney's mom.>> and it's been two months. >> yes. >> does she just not want to talk to you? >> no, i wouldn't say that. i know she's going through it deeply, deeply going through it. she lost her only daughter. i love her dearly, and i'm here anytime. anytime she wants to talk. i'm here. >> i want to ask you about your current status. you were involved in a dui arrest not long ago. >> yes. >> are you clean and sober right now, bobby? >> i'm very much clean and sober from narcotics. i do drink. i'm not allowed to drink for the next 30 days. i do have a cocktail occasionally, you know. i will again, i know that. but i'm seven years clean from narcotics. you know, i'm living -- i'm living the life that i want to live. >> other people continue to talk. and the doubters are out there. >> they can doubt all they want. >> and when they worry, bobby, and they look at bobby brown and they say, our fear is this will end badly, too, you say? >> i say, you've got the wrong one. you've got the wrong one. >> let

whitney is joining us from omaha. if you had to pick one insurance company, would you pick aig with an overhang whatever gets above 29 or so? >> wouldn't pick aig. maybe a met life or a different ball game. you look at a bank holding company and shed that status, maybe that can be accumulated, but for me it's way too much unknown. >> value investor to value investor. when would you say? good idea or not? >> it's interesting. the discount to book is intriguing. >> i don't own it. >> he will probably be right. >> dominos is unveiling a new product that many think could be a game changer. patrick doyle is up next to tell us what is now on the menu. [ horn honks ] hey, it's sandra -- from accounting. peter. i can see that you're busy... but you were gonna help us crunch the numbers for accounts receivable today. i mean i know that this is important. well, both are important. let's be clear. they are but this is important too. [ man ] the receivables. [ male announcer ] michelin knows it's better for xerox to help manage t

oh, my goodness, whitney, he's adorable. but whitney and her family face another big challenge.o weeks, he's shipping off to afghanistan. >> this will be like a whole different level of hard. >> reporter: but somehow you know she'll get through it. just as these two families came through an almost unimaginable ordeal. their love and their faith unshakable. >> we are just glad that we've been a part of it and god has given us the strength to get through it. >> for more of matt's stories and others i hope you'll join me as i host "dateline's" 20th anniversary special tomorrow night at 10:00, 9:00 central time right here on nbc. up next, kate gosselin on life after her reality show. her kids, and her new job. after this. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card. ear

the magazine talked to whitney houston's hairdresser. the hairdresser says the last thing she remembers houston saying is quote i just want to love and be loved. the june issue of "vanity fair" is on newsstands now. ♪ >>> hack so far sissy spay sec best known for playing loretta lynn has a new memoir out. >> the section about my childhood is the part that people don't know about it. that the part of my life that i've really never shared. >> reporter: memoir is filled with details about her personal and professional life. and that's your eye on entertainment. bow gad is that ban, cbs news -- bigad shaban, cbs news, los angeles. >> severe weather alert day. today friday morning, may 4t

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. >>> bobby brown talks about whitney houston's death.find out what he says about her drug use. ♪ >>> and find oust about the inspiration behind some of the top breakup and love songs. >>> the artist advancing to the finals is jermaine paul. congratulations. >> she nodded before they said it. alicia keyes' former backup singer beat gaithersburg native erin willett last night to advance to the finals of "the voice." willett celebrated her 23rd birthday on the national stage. she even told her coach blake shelton, let's go out and get drunk. erin and the three other semifinalists appeared on the "today" show this morning. erin talked about singing for her father who passed away during the taping of the show. >> i definitely had him with me the other night. it was really incredible, just basically taking in the entire moment. it kind of was an overcome with emotion type of situation and it's just incredible. i mean, to be part of the show and as far as i've come i can only be proud of myself and really just ready for the journey ahead i gues

. >> reporter: single mom whitney weaver had no job and no insurance, but when she came here to santa clara urgent care center, alexander got an exam, received several x-rays and a prescription for medication, all for free. >> they were willing to fund the bill so he could get the care he needed. it means so much to me. i just -- i don't know what

. >> reporter: whitney and her son benefitted from bay area surgical management's new safety net program which is offering free medical services to 1,000 patients who qualify in santa clara county. >> if you're pregnant and you have prenatal issues or a sick child, you don't have insurance, you have to compete with level one trauma victims. and that's where we fill the gap. >> from flu to fractures to foot surgery. the program offers patients specialized care. >> reporter: the safety net program was rolled out and so far 150 surgeons and specialists have agreed to offer free care. this doctor helped save a patient's life by surgically removing his cancerous bladder tumor. >> i see people who come in late because of these issues because they didn't have coverage. >> reporter: now the uninsured and underinsured in the south bay have a place to turn that's eliminating their physical pain

for bob brown said he was not responsible for the whitney houston's drug and alcohol problem.first public interview since her death he says he is clean and sober and has been off of narcotics for the last seven years. he says he is not the reason she is gone and drugs were a part of her life way before they got together. for full coverage of today's entertainment headline watch in the insider at 7:00 p.m. and entertainment tonight at 7:30 p.m.. we will be back after this break. you're going down! it's all over! no! it's not over yet! sofas that can take anything life throws at them. soft pick [ banker ] mike and brenda found a house that they really wanted. it was in my sister's neighborhood. i told you it was perfect for you guys. literally across the street from her sister. [ banker ] but someone else bought it before they could get their offer together. we really missed a great opportunity -- dodged a bullet there. [ banker ] so we talked to them about the wells fargo priority buyer preapproval. it lets people know that you are a serious buyer because you've been credit-app

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he said he did not introduce whitney houston to drugs. in an exclusive interview with matt lauer brown cimed his drug use started way before he entered the picture. in fact brown claims before meeting houston he only smoked marijuana and drank beer. the interview airs wednesday and thursday on "today." a $200,000 lamborghini stolen more than a year ago from a san francisco dealership has been found in northern california. finally nadya suleman, the so-called octomom has filed for bankruptcy monday claiming as much as $1 million in debt. the chapter 7 bankruptcy would seize almost all of her assets. she said bankruptcy is what's best for her kids. you got to worry about the kids too. >> how do you get a million dollars in debt. whose giving you a million dollars. >> you're probably having a lot of difficulty feeding that many children. >> yeah. having a hard time. >> very difficult. >> a million dollars? >> yeah. that would be tough. this comes to us from kntv, in smoe san jose, california two little girls have spent six months apart. they

we have all new, just uncovered images of whitney houston. were marked by pain and struggle, these candid home movies show you just how much life was left in the star. >> reporter: whitney unguarded. >> i don't need a film crew. >> reporter: pumped up for a film crew. and playing for the camera. >> this is me. i'm like having that -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: a rare look at a super star, worried about her image and her look. >> okay? >> that gold comes off that. >> but look how that comes out of the black and into the cream, though. >> reporter: the white tux with the black necklace was so stunning, the picture was used on the back cover of her funeral program. recording the moments is her friend and stylist, tiffany dixon. >> we've all heard reports about whitney's drug use. did you ever see anything like that over the years that you were with her. >> i never saw any of that. i was never part of any of that. >> reporter: also tonight, we have j-lo, topless and tattooed. our behind the scenes exclusive, about her brand new video. plus, we ar