we are just getting the details of what caused whitney houston s death. as you know, she was found last month in the bathtub of her hotel room in beverly hills. let s go to kareen wynter who joins us live from los angeles. what can you tell us? hi, candy. what i can tell you, the final cause of death has been determined to be drowning from heart disease as well as cocaine. that s right. there was cocaine in whitney houston s system at the time she was found submerged in a bathtub at the beverly hilton hotel back in february the day before the grammy s. the toxicology report also showed while cocaine and other met tab beau lights were found in her system and contributed to her death, what s interesting, marijuana, xanax, the drug fl flexeril and benadryl, they were also found but we are told those weren t contributing factors. there was no trauma or foul play suspected. it us anticipated we could get a more detailed report regarding those toxicology findings in the next coup
soaring. plus, employers asking job applicants for their facebook passwords, shocking, but likely legal. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news this hour in sanford, florida. just moments ago the chief of police announced he s temporarily stepping aside, a move over the handling of the trayvon martin shooting death. martin is the unarmed black teenager killed by a volunteer who has not been charged. update our viewers on the very latest. reporter: wolf, the city manager in sanford has long said he will not fire the police chief bill lee. he would wait until federal investigators looked into this case and looked into his department to determine whether to fire the police chief, but we are hearing the police chief will step down temporarily and scott cotter will step in as interim chief. we ll hear more about what the police chief had to say as he decided to step
will bring it to you when they ve decided. thank you, kate baldwin, there on the hill. now this. here we go, top of the hour number two. i m brooke baldwin. i want to talk iran here. we have hit on today s advances in the company s new program. we re going to circle that back here. the targets are in israeli. in new delhi, it wounded at least two people. they seem to think this is a terror campaign against hoz bolla. brian, what do you know? brooke, even before this bomb threat in new delhi, the homeland security and the fbi put out a bulletin. this was last week, and it was intended for law enforcement agencies. it says, in light of attentions over iran, they were maybe concerned iran might attempt attacks inside the united states given last year s foiled plot to. i think that is going to help keep them in control of targets around the u.s. but they said the dhs and the fbi have received no specific threats to jewish organizations, facilities and personnel in the unite
the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting here as well as sporadic, heavy automatic machine gun fire has been heard and this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built nuclear fuel rods. president mahmoud ahmadinejad helped insert the rods into a reactor at a research center in tehran. it is broadcast live. his government insists the technology is needed for medical purposes. western nations believe the iranians are focused on building a bomb. today s move i
showing whitney houston 10 years ago envisioning a happy ending to her story instead of the one we re watching now. 10 years from now, give me the perfect life for whitney houston. retired. sitting, looking at my daughter grow up, become a great woman of god. grandchildren. a perfect day is like on a sunday or something like that, when we like, like sit and, you know, we either watch tv or like listen to gospel music or have breakfast together. that was whitney houston and her daughter 10 years ago. instead, a long flight home after a life cut far too short. the question, of course, now is why. we don t know either precisely or even approximately how whitney houston died. we know she died saturday afternoon at the beverly hilton hotel. a member of her entourage found her in the tub, in the bathroom of her fourth floor suite. she wasn t breathing. an l.a. county coroner official today refusing to say whether or not she drowned or what role, if any, alcohol or drugs mig