whitney houston s final hours. nuclear standoff. it happened in japan. could it happen here? i always thought it was fatally flawed. unfortunately, fukushima proved me right. safety concerns over an aging nuclear facility. deadly cargo. would you believe this laser printer is a weapon of terror? we ll show you how al qaeda got these printer bombs through security and onto planes. revealing investigations, fascinating characters, stories with impact. this is cnn presents with your host tonight, randi kaye and dr. sanjay gupta. good evening. whitney houston will be remembered as one of the greatest voices of her generation and many of her closest friends say the troubled star was poised to make a comeback. but that comeback, as you know, was tragically cut short with her untimely death. whitney houston s soaring talent was shadowed by her struggles with addiction and her marriage. don lemon looks at her rise to fame, her fall from superstardom, and final hours in he
they were desperate to tell the monitors about the government cra crackdown there. opposition activists say regime forces have surrounded the city for three days and that power and water have been cut. this was said to be the scene in the city. they cannot verify the images, but they are said to be of an opposition rally in support of military defectors known as the free syrian army. a message was delivered to bashar al assad during a visit to lebanon. today i say again to the president of syria, stop the violence. stop killing your own people. the path of repression is a dead end. meanwhile, syrian media report al assad said he s granting amnesty for the crimes. it s the top of the hour. the cnn newsroom starts all over again right now. we re following two major developments in the cruise ship disaster on the italian coast. two americans are among the missing. that s according to to the state department. 120 were reportedly on the ship. only 118 are accounted for. da
old, but amazing new technology is already on the horizon for the year ahead. new computers, cameras, gaming consoles, gadgets. everyone s going to be talking about and wanting. and we have tech reporter katie linendoll to tell us all about them. hi, there, katie. so tell us, what are your most anticipated gadgets for this year? yeah, so a lot coming out in 2012. but i have to tell you, first, 2011 was all about the year of the tablet. and now get used to this buzz word of ultra books, because 2012 is the year of ultra books. that means light, portable, compact, and efficient. and according to intel, who has trademarked the word, they say by the end of 2012, 20% of all consumer laptops sold will be an ultra book. there are certain spefgss that make it an ultra book. we talk about how thin it is, less than 0.8 inches thick and it s going to weigh less than 1.3 pounds. five to eight hours of battery
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change between today and tuesday. but, look, i think this is a volatile environment, where people are going to walk in undecided or semi-decided, and maybe as many as 50% could switch during the course of the caucuses. he s not the only one hoping undecided voters will break his way. michele bachmann was out today too. she hopes iowans will decide to back a native daughter so she can prove the pollsters wrong. well, the new year is bringing new violence to syria. video posted on the internet shows the funeral of a child today in one village. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of these images, but activists say at least ten people were killed today, but there is hope of a brighter future. [ singing ] syrians in the city of home celebrated the dawn of 2012 by hoping for the end of president al bashar s regime. arab leaders have toured the city. the search is under way in mt. rainier national park for a gunman suspected of killing a female park ranger. park officials sa