find no evidence that they spoke publicly about their disease ever. glenn campbell fights alzheimer s, featuring maria shriver with a message from vice president joe biden. shep: according to a study, people fear getting alzheimer s more than any other disease except cancer. government researchers say more than 5 million americans now have alzheimer s and 42 million adults care for someone with alzheimer s. awareness is a big key if we re to find a cure. when famous people step forward to talk about the disease, it raises awareness. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. shep: president ronald reagan not only helped end the cold war, but he also had a sense of humor. one of these stories, the one i m going to tell you, i told to general secretary gorbachev and he laughed. [ laughter ] the story was an american and a russian arguing about their two countries and the american said, look, in my country, i can walk int
altering event. each had alzheimer s and we can find no evidence that they spoke publicly about their disease ever. glenn campbell fights alzheimer s, featuring maria shriver with a message from vice president joe biden. shep: according to a study, people fear getting alzheimer s more than any other disease except cancer. government researchers say more than 5 million americans now have alzheimer s and 42 million adults care for someone with alzheimer s. awareness is a big key if we re to find a cure. when famous people step forward to talk about the disease, it raises awareness. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [ cheers and applause ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. shep: president ronald reagan not only helped end the cold war, but he also had a sense of humor. one of these stories, the one i m going to tell you, i told to general secretary gorbachev and he laughed. [ laughter ] the story was an american and a russian arguing about their two countries and the am
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 time
be attending. he plans to perform a few hours later at a casino in connecticut. dr. drew joins us with more on the drug angle. first, jason is outside the new hope baptist church with more late details. there s new information about who is going to be at the funeral saturday. what do you know? reporter: i can tell you earlier, i spoke to a woman named kim berrell. it may not be familiar to some people. those in the gospel community, she was well known. she was friends with whitney houston for 13 years. they were extremely close. she will perform. the song is called i believe in you and me. it was a song whitney loved and was chosen by her family. i asked kim what will be in her mind when she sings that song on saturday? i feel strong because i have to represent what i know she would want me to say and feel and make the people there feel. whitney was a caring and loving person. in that regard, i ll make sure that my delivery will be some form of strength, especially with
kevin costner will be speaking during the funeral services for whitney houston. and her former husband, bobby brown, has now officially been invited. susan candiotti is in newark, new jersey, this morning. susan, authorities are also making special arrangements to try to maintain some security, also maintain a perimeter around the new hope baptist church since so many will be in attendance? reporter: that s right. after doing a walk through of the church we re seeing some of the new security measures falling into place. for example, perhaps you ve noticed right away the biggest change, we re no longer allowed to stand in front of the church right across the street from it, but we have been pushed back across the street and behind a parking lot. the parking lot behind me is the one where it is believed that the celebrities and all the invite tees, some 1500 people, it s one of the parking lots that they ll be using. they have moved us back on the other side of that. so over