early to tell what killed her. that s, of course, all pending the toxicology results. don lemmon is covering the story for us just outside the l.a. county coroner s office. don, bring us up to speed. you and i were listening to the press conference, our viewers were as well. beverly hills police, you also spoke with the assistant county coroner there in l.a. what do you know as of this moment? reporter: well, you heard some of it, brooke. you heard them say that their investigation at the hotel pardon me; we re right outside the coroner s office where there is an ambulance coming through here but you heard me say the investigation at the hotel was over. whitney houston s body has been released, and the coroner told our producer here just a short time ago that to the best of his knowledge, whitney houston s body has been removed from the coroner s office and it will be on a private flight soon back to the east coast, back to new jersey. what we also know, brooke, is what
all right, show time i was going to say, it s going to be a hip-hop morning here. get it started. let s get it started. welcome, everybody. as i mentioned we re coming to you from the diner. every morning we tell you what we re eating. so i m going to tell you what we re eating, i got to read this one. specialty of the house. this is called the kroek and dagger, two eggs over easy with bacon or ham, sandwiched between french loaf smothered in sauce, cheese, served with home fries or grits. coming in at 27 can i hold it up for you? 27,000 calories right here. and i m going to put that in front of our guest panelist today who is joining us is congressman aaron shock. he s the republican from the state of illinois who i saw your picture on the front of men s health. i m not eating a whole lot of those. that s not how you get abs like the congressman has. i should mention he is joining our panel and women have all been on twitter to have you here today. appreciate you
independently. al awalaki was a top member of al qaedaing and personally declared war on the u.s. a missile from the u.s. drone hit his car in yemen. president obama makes no apology and calls his death a major blow to al qaeda. he directed the failed attempt to blow up an airplane on christmas day. in 200 he directed the failed attempt to blow up cargo planes. and he repeatedly called on individuals in the united states and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda. in an interview with cnn s erin burnett today, leon panetta defended the rational for killing al awalki without giving him a trial. this individual was a terrorist. yes, he was a citizen, but if you re a terrorist, you re a terrorist. and that means we have the ability to go after those who would threaten to attack the united states and kill americans. there s no question that the authority and the ability to go after a terrorist is there. barbara star has bee
gup gup gupta. ted, we saw alberto alvarez, he described dr. murray pushing down on michael jackson s chest with his left hand, telling alvarez they needed an pla ambulance. he says two of jackson s children came into the room. watch this exchange. paris screamed out daddy. when you heard paris scream out daddy, was she describing? yes, s cry something. yes, sir. did you escort the children out or indicate to them to go out of the room? yes, sir. dr. murray said don t let them see their dad like this. don t let them see their dad like this. and i proceeded to turn around to the children and kind of ushered them out and said, kids, don t worry, we ll take care of it, everything is going to be okay. also today in the courtroom, prosecutors played the call alvarez made to 911. ted rollinss, i know being in the courtroom, you re looking at the jackson family, how did they react to the news of paris and her crying that day? reporter: well, i could see la toya jac
photograph that the saline bag you see where it has a slit or a cut in the bag where i m pointing in people s 28? yes, i can. okay. did you observe that on that day, june 25th, 2009? no, sir. and again, referencing your diagram where you had drawn an apparatus at the bottom of this saline bag, would that can you see those two pictures, mr. alvarez? yes, sir. the saline bag that you drew as reflected in people s 27 on the right here, you show the saline bag coming down and terminating, and then it appears there is an additional apparatus attached to it. is that accurate? yes, sir. looking at the saline bag as reflected in people s 28, is the apparatus visible or would the apparatus have been, to your recollection, connected to this port? it is not visible, sir. okay. so to be clear, people s 28, what i m calling a port, you see this you understand to what i m referring at the bottom of people s 28 as it is shown right now? yes. that will be reflec