this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason. you wait for a voice like that for a lifetime. record executive clive davis told the mourners at whitney houston's funeral today, and one week after houston's sudden death at age 48, many of the best-known voices in the world of music were raised in farewell at the church where it all began. elaine quijano was there. ♪ she was born in newark she was heaven sent ♪ . >> reporter: friends and family said good-bye to whitney houston in the church where she first sang as a young girl in the junior choir, a chorus of voices paying emotional tributes. singer alicia keys wiped away tears before her performance. ♪ can you send an angel ♪. >> reporter: houston's cousin deion warwick read a poem of remembrance. >> don't grieve for me. for now i'm free. i'm following the path god laid for me. >> reporter: after kevin costner, who costarred with houston in "the bodyguard" recounted how she was plagued with doubt at times and wondered if she was good enough. costner said she was. >> escorted by an army of angels to your heavenly father. when you sing before him, don't you worry. you'll be good enough. ( applause ) >> reporter: the man who discovered her, music executive clive davis. >> whitney was purely and simply one of a kind. >> reporter: whitney houston's fans were kept outside the security perimeter, blocks away from the church. vonda smith came from dallas, texas. >> almost every one of herself songs had a message and it touched your heart. >> reporter: just before the funeral began, there was a moment of tension. houston's ex-husband, bobby brown, was invited but left the church in a dispute over seating arrangements. inside the church, sister-in-law patricia houston spoke of houston's faith and the bond she shared with her mother, cissy. >> in her final days, she held on to what you taught her to believe in. i promise you, she did. ♪ and i ♪ . >> reporter: the final song of the more than three-hour service was reserved for houston herself. ♪ will always love you ♪. >> reporter: whitney houston will be buried in the town of westfield, new jersey, not far from where she grew up. she will be buried next to her father, john huston. anthony. >> mason: elaine quijano in new york. thanks, elaine. overseas at the vatican, 22 new cardinals received their red hats today, two americans among them. allen pizzey has more on the ceremony and how it may impact the catholic church going forward. >> reporter: the official name for the ceremony is an ordinary public consistory. ordinary being something of an understatement for what is in fact the pope's way of putting his stamp on the future of the church. the cardinal's principal job is to choose a new pope from among the ranks and the increasingly fragile benedict xvi has now created more than half of those eligible to vote. 12 of the voters are american. the star among the 22 new cardinals at today's ceremony was undoubtly new york's timothy dolan. not only did the pope embrace him longer than any of his fellows. cardinal dolan is also being talked about as the first potential american pope, as unlikely as that may be. in the meantime, he and the newly elevated cardinal edwin o'brien of baltimore have a more pressing job. the catholic church and the obama administration are at serious odds over a number of issues, including birth control and abortion. the pope remindedly the new princes of the church that they must cooperate with him in what he called the delicate task of governing the church. behind the glorious pomp and ceremony lurks a dark presence dubbed "vatileaks" leaked vatican documents of detailed corruption, financial mismanagement, a bureaucracy in disreal estate, and clerical infighting. many see cardinal dolan as a welcome antidote to that image. >> this is the hat i want to put on the empire state building and the home plate at yankee stadium and the statue of liberty because it's for all of new york. it's not for me. >> reporter: he'll need that sense of humor. the u.s. church has huge problems. settlement of clerical sex abuse cases has cost in excess will $3 billion and driven eight disees to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. but for today at least, the new princes could bask in the well-wishes and adulation of the faithful. >> i remember! how are you? >> reporter: allen pizzey, cbs news, vatican city. >> mason: general motors reported its biggest annual profit ever this past week, $7 billion for 2011, quite a u-turn for a car maker that had to be saved by a government bailout just a few years ago. now, with the michigan primary just 10 days away, where the candidates stood on that bailout is a very big issue. brad glende assembles car bodies at the g.m. plant in oryan, michigan. his previous job in wisconsin disciplined four years ago when that g.m. plant closed. >> i had to pack up my family and we moved over here to michigan, didn't know what to expect. >> reporter: he's one of 1800 workers producing the small chevy sonic and buick verrano, 800 cars a day. two years ago this plant was idle. glende has no doubt the government bailout accelerated g.m.'s turnaround, though some business and political leaders, like mitt romney, opposed it. >> i'm glad the obama administration didn't listen to them, you know. i think there are a lot of job opportunities that would have been lost. >> reporter: under g.m.'s profit sharing plan, each employee will receive a $7,000 bonus next month. bill jennings says that will pay dividends beyond this plant. >> i'm able to put my daughter through college because i have a job. central michigan university has another student, and it goes on and on. >> i love the auto industry. i want to see it thrive and grow. >> reporter: romney's opposition to the g.m. and chrysler bailouts could be his achilles' heel in michigan. car companies have add 15,000 manufacturing jobs here in the past two years, and each job is said to support another nine in the state. >> anyone that says we should have let the auto industry go out of business, they'll be lucky if they make it out of michigan. >> reporter: device carlson is c.e.o. of coherrix, a company that makes machines that lets manufacturers check cars in 3-d. they have added 20 high-tech jobs in the past year. >> it is certainly possible that without the bailout, a large amount-- a large number of the automotive suppliers would have gone out of business, and we certainly would have been one of them. >> reporter: doug davidson is chief technical officer for koherrix, a lifelong republican he says he can't vote for romney because romney opposed the bailout. >> i am looking for the manufacturing candidate, and rick santorum has talked more about manufacturing and making it more important in the united states than the other candidat candidates. >> mason: while santorum also opposed the bailout of g.m. and chrysler, he's attacked romney for inconsistency, saying romney did summit the bailout of wall street and the banks. for more on the state of the republican race, we're joined by cbs news political reporter scott conroy. good evening, scott. scott, to start with, how important is is a win in michigan for mitt romney? >> michigan isn't just important for romney at this point. it's absolutely essential to his white house hopes. you're talking about a candidate who was born in michigan. his farther was a popular governor there. he won michigan in 2008 and people are going to ask if he can't win michigan where can he win to the extent we might see a major push for someone else in the race. it wouldn't be easy for that to happen but you're going to see republican look for potential presidents like jeb bush. two-third of the delegates up for grabs in the race are still available after the supertuesday election march 6. it's not totally inconceivably we will see more candidates. >> mason: meanwhile, newt gingrich supporter are wearing chicken costumes. take a look at this. >> let me tell you, if you're afraid to debate newt gingrich, you sure can't debate barack obama. ( cheers and applause ) >> mason: is newt still in this race? >> gingrich has been counted out of this race more than once ask i'm not going to do that again. what he has on his side is sheldon addleson, the billionaire who has donate the millions of dollars to a superpac mopromote, his candidate and we're told he is on the verge of giving him another it will 10 million. addleson is in some respects mitt romney's best friend, an interesting chess match going on right now. >> mason: scott conroy, thanks very much. two developments to report in the same-sex marriage debate. the maryland house of delegates passed a same-sex marriage bill last evening. the state senate and the governor are virtually certain to go along. just hours before, new jersey governor chris christie vetoed a similar measure in his state. later, a u.s. olympic hopeful with a difference. the looming shortage of primary care physicians. and the latest on the arrest of the would-be capitol hill suicide bomber. those stories when the cbs evening news continues aeo. love this stuff. i'm starting to feel a change no longer feeling slow. i can't believe i thought irregularity was my normal. now i don't miss a beat. activia helps with occasional irregularity, when eaten 3 times a day. i knew lisa would love her new normal. ♪ activia love your new normal and introducing silky, fruity activia harvest picks. one more way to enjoy activia. to grazers... kenmore is in the lives of over 100 million americans. that's why no fridge in america has more capacity. we put more in, so you get more out. kenmore. whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ on my feet and exactly where i needed more support. then, i got my number. my tired, achy feet affected my whole life. until i found my number. i tried the free dr. scholl's foot mapping center. in two minutes, i got my foot map and custom number. i'm a 440. that matched up to the dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts with the right support and cushioning i need. i am a believer. i'm a believer! i'm a believer. go to drscholls.com to find your closest walmart with a foot mapping center. 8% every 10 years.age 40, we can start losing muscle -- wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. 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>> they do, anthony, and they spent a good deal of time trying to find that out. one of the reasons this case spanned almost two years was they put an awful lot of effort trying to learn khalifi's network, his friends, his family, his contacts, his finances, to make sure that if they arrested him, they weren't leaving anyone behind, and they are fairly convinced that he was a lone wolf. >> mason: john, there's been a decline in these kind of cases over the past year. why do we think that's happening? >> i think there may be a number of factors. i mean, one factor may be cases like this are very discouraging to those who might be forward with a plot like this. but i think the other is the death of al qaeda's propaganda master, anwar awlaki, as well as the death in a similar drone strike of a person who ran their "inspire" magazine, their online puplication. they have had a slowdown in propaganda and charismatic speakers who can reach people. >> mason: at the same time, in this case, john, as the government was investigating, didn't they effectively provide khalifi with a bomb? 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