Whitney Houston's Saturday Funeral to be Streamed Online

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Fans worldwide who want to bid Whitney Houston farewell will be able to watch her private funeral on the World Wide Web. Her publicist, Kristen Foster, announced that The Associated Press will be the pool camera for the Saturday ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, and the AP will stream the service on livestream.com/aplive. Houston died in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday at the age of 48. Her body was flown back to her native New Jersey on Monday. Some fans were disappointed when they learned that the funeral was private and no public memorial was planned. Houston was born in Newark and the service will be at New Hope Baptist Church.

Whitney Houston's body taken home to NJ for Weekend Funeral

Whitney Houston's body has been flown home to New Jersey late Monday for a funeral to be held this weekend, said two people who have spoken with her family.

Houston's family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and funeral Friday at Newark's Prudential Center, an arena that hosts college and professional sport events and seats about 18,000 people.

Funeral arrangements were being made by Newark's Whigham Funeral Home, which handled the 2003 funeral of Houston's father, John Houston, according to the two people who spoke to the AP.

However,A coroner's official says some prescription medicines were found in the hotel room whereWhitney Houston died but not in large quantities.

Houston's body was released to the family late Monday morning.

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