also, saying that it was, it was just, unthinkable news, her death. so, great emotion here that no doubt will continue right on through the grammys tonight and i did talk to the president and ceo of the recording academy, neil portnow and told me they will be paying tribute to her, so it will be a very interesting night tonight. all right, hal, thanks so much for the update. we ll check back with you to see what more they can learn about what happened to wit whitney last night and he was just talking about the guest and we re understanding that jennifer hudson will be singing the tribute to her and a who s who of the industry finest, alicia keyes, mary j. blige, dr. dre, tony bennett, elvis costello shall everyone was there at the party. tonight you ll see the host, ll cool j. a man we to on this network, knows whitney well and the 48-year-old as we look back at some of the highs and lows. do you remember when you think
to craft his accomplishments and propose an optimistic plan for the future and three, i think the republicans with the thousands of debates, negative attacks against each other, i think it sort of turned off, i think, maybe independent voters. dave: let s take those in two, one, is it simply the jobs numbers and two, have the republican attacks hurt the party and helped the president? well, it s certainly possible, but i want to say, there s only a 3% rise and that was within the margin of error and we should be careful about interpreting these. if the train comes into the station five minutes late. if obama goes up in the polls it doesn t mean that the public opinion changed. the head to head where i get interested in this. it was close and we ve seen romney in the lead and now the head to head you see on the screen now, did not look good for any of the republican candidates and what do you make of that? i don t think it s really going to matter the. i think once the republica
afternoon and stars downstairs and no word later in evening. was it because of the cover of all the celebrities in the lobby that we didn t know about this until late? well, the time line, actually the time line is interesting. we were coming over here to report on this party gone on, 30 years, call it the hottest ticket in town before the grammys and coming here about five o clock and it was just before four o clock our time. remember the time difference, that she was pronounced dead. the news actually got out within about an hour or so afterwards and we came over here, instead of covering the party we were now covering the death of a major, major recording artist. alisyn: and hal, thanks so much for the update there. obviously, we ll check back in with you as the investigation progresses just what happened in that hotel room. and police say there were no illegal drugs found, the first reports out and people wonder abouted that she had a long public struggle with substance
to turn gold. in los angeles, william la jeunesse, fox news. alisyn: you know, when you look back at the music videos that s what s so obviously shocking because she s so young and shocking because she s icon and because we all grew up to her music and she s the sound track of our lives, but when you look at her life in the past ten years, everybody was worried, obviously, about her health, but looking back at the beginning, and you see how beautiful she was and how talented and then, i can t get over the pointyensy of clive davis having the party below her room. the beauty all of it. clayton: and the messages pouring in and remind them a lot of michael jack s death and the twitter messages from celebrities, people knew her as well.
her fourth floor room here at beverly hilton, hotel security was trying to resuscitate her, it didn t work and paramedics took over and tried for 20 minutes to no avail and pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. 3:55 los angeles time that s just five minutes over 12 hours ago. and exactly 12 hours ago, and it s been a dizzying 12 hours for all of the night police were going through her hotel room, trying to determine what had happened in the hours prior to her death. while four floors below, almost in a very eerie thing, they were partying, a pre-grammy party, a big one, hottest ticket in town, the clive davis party, she was supposed to be there instead that became more after memorial service and outside this hotel, in this plaza area, groups of people gathered and they were singing whitney houston songs. it was a it was very emotional. we ll throw it back to you.