with by texting the word awake, followed by 632. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this february the 13th. a lot going on today. including a fight between mick romney and rick santorum, over the cpac straw poll taken last week. and we get reaction from clint eastwood s halftime in america clip in the super bowl. more details could come in today in the death of the great whitney houston, whose body was found in a hotel bathroom on saturday afternoon. the results of an autopsy won t come for a number of weeks. investigators looking into whether houston may have drowned in her suite at the beverly hilton hotel, just hours before she was scheduled to attend a pregrammy party.
if you watched the grammys last night you know it was a soulful tribute to whitney houston. one performer there still too shaken up to sing and we ll talk about all the winners from last night. a massive budget battle. an election preview. it seems to be. the president is unveiling his final spending plan before the 2012 election today. and you know what, it s mot even delivered to capitol hill and the gop is already on it. what are they going to say about it and how do we know this will be the preview of the general election campaign? and lin han sanity. look at this guy. knicks new sensation, jeremy lin, making headlines on the other side of the globe as well. keep your eyes on that one. this is one of those sensations that just sort of came out of know where. did you know about him before they wrote about him this weekend. never heard a thing about him. i don t know a lot about basketball. i do. i couldn t believe i didn t know this guy. wait until you hear
sometimes if i have enough energy to. only in america. barbra streisand is having a special grammy moment. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. tonight, politics, pop and barbra streisand. we begin with president obama getting the business from conservatives. listen to mitt romney today, the at the police call action conference. it s been a great conference so far and for that i suppose we should acknowledge president obama. he s the conservative movement s top recruiterment errecruiter. it turns out he really is a good community organizer. i just don t think this is the community he planned on organizing but he did. so how is the president s re-election campaign fighting back? joining me is stephanie cutter. welcome, stephanie. so a bit of an old timing over this. what i can t understand is why nobody saw it coming. nobody saw it coming? the criticism from the catholic church on contraception? peers, let s remember when we started on this debate. the pre
in charlotte. you re still a very, very active performer. what type of toll does it take on a legend like you are, and like whitney houston was, not only the actual tour dates, but also having the paparazzi and people watching your every move? well, i think for the more experienced artist, one is pretty much used to that. but for a young artist, perhaps of whitney s age, it may have been very disconcerning to her. i don t don t know. you will be perform iing tomorrow night. will you be doing some sort of tribute to whitney? yes. there will be a moment of silence and tribute for whitney houston here in charlotte. there s one other thing i would like to say though before i hang up. and that is this. i would just like to caution younger artists, male and female, and particularly those who are in the very high level income, and that is that they should be prepared for what you re going to do when your success plays out. i would like to put it in the words my dad put it into
this pregrammy party. that office saying that they have not heard any not received any request. but tm z is reporting as you can see that there is some type of a police crime scene vehicle outside of the beverly hilton hotel. that is not a good sign. it s looking that this may be in fact where 48-year-old whitney houston s life was cut tragically short tonight. harris: i m seeing it now on twitter. i tweeted out for people to send me their messages, their feelings, their thoughts. so many people expressing how missed she will be how shocked they are. alex wasserman, lewis carroll so many others. i remember that interview she did with abc news diane sayw,r in 2002, bob bow brown was seated next to her. the biggest devil is me.