not haeroin, not cocaine but zanex, ambien. vip drugs. i was watching the assistant chief coroner today. he s not ready to say anything yet as of tonight. but it does seem like this story of joplin and hendrix and morrison, what a pattern. and it s very important. it s very tough to talk about especially right after someone just passes, but i think we have to remember. in as much as her voice was an inspiration to so many people, her life and the way she led her life should be a cautionary tale to so many folks who want to get into this business and who just want to drug addiction, if it doesn t kill you, it can kill your talent. and so i think that s very important for us to reflect. it s uncomfortable to talk about. it s also a very teachable moment for so many people who looked up to her. i think the rule is take the fantasy as it comes. don t try to create it. kate coyne and david wilson.
from your office. i m the one that talked to the family and i did not give that information. they might have talked to somebody from beverly hills. i don t know. but would that be too soon to determine that without the toxicology tests? yes. yes. okay? thank you. all right, that was assistant chief and that last series of questions for the assistant chief coroner ed winter just shows you with the competing jurisdictions there, sometimes difficult to figure out where information is coming from. as far as the coroner s office is concerned, as you heard him say, there s a security hold. in other words, they re not giving out the details of this autopsy yet. they ve got another at least four to six weeks before they get the toxicology results, which will tell us a lot, but also, the beverly hills pd were there on the scene investigating, so they, obviously, some folks there were talking to members of the media. let me bring in dr. robi ludwig, who is a psychotherapist, and chri
congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. we ve been through this before, remember? we ve seen this movie. we don t need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. let s go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprising turn-around. what are you hearing there? what made them decide to make this move? jessica a surpriseding turn-around and sharp and surprising reversal by house republicans on the issue of the payroll tax cut. as you know, one of the demands house republicans have been making all along during this month s long battle over extending the payroll tax cut is their incidentses that the payroll tax cut and other measures be included in the deal be paid for. be covered and paid for by offsets tha
they did tell us some very important things. they told us that there was no foul play involved. so this is not a murder case. and no signs of trauma. no physical injuries associated with her death. so we do know that she was found in the bathtub of her hotel room in los angeles. we also know that the paramedics on the scene tried to revive her with cpr but were unable to do that. so right now we are waiting for those tests to give us the all-important answers, and for the coroners to come forward with their official cause of death and tell us what happened here. > and, david, apparently whitney s 17-year-old daughter was also taken to the hospital hours after her mom s death. what do we know about her this morning? well, bobby christina brown is a teenager. she is whitney houston s only child from the marriage she had with bobby brown. the teenager was taken to the hospital according to a source close to the family. she was released. she was just described as being overwh
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