Preliminary autopsy findings: The Los Angeles County Coroner performed a three-hour-long autopsy Friday morning, but did not report a cause of death pending additional toxicology tests. The coroner's spokesman said Jackson had been on some prescription medications, but added that little more information would be released at the request of the LAPD.

Media coverage: Television stations continued to follow the Jackson mania throughout Friday. As medical examiners began Jackson's autopsy, network news cameras showed police towing a BMW from Jackson's $100,000-per-month rented home ''because it may contain medications or other evidence that may assist the coroner in determining the cause of death,'' a police spokeswoman said. The car belongs to one of Jackson's doctors whom police say is not being investigated but is wanted for an interview.

Drug speculation: Various reports said Jackson had been given Demerol or morphine shortly before his death. Brian Oxman, a former Jackson attorney, said on NBC's Today show Friday he had warned the singer's family about possible abuse of prescription painkillers.

''I said one day, we're going to have this experience. And when Anna Nicole Smith passed away, I said we cannot have this kind of thing with Michael Jackson,'' Oxman said. ``I don't know what caused his death. But I feared this day, and here we are.''

LAPD officials told the Los Angeles Times that they had no information on any injections.

911 tape released: A polite man reports Jackson was on a bed and not breathing or responding to CPR, not mentioning the star's name. The unidentified caller said Jackson's personal doctor was present. ``We have a gentleman here that needs help and he's not breathing yet. He's not breathing and we need to -- we're trying to pump him, but he's not, he's not.''

Music craze: Bill Carr, Amazon's vice president of music and video, said Friday that once the world learned that the pop icon had died Thursday, the website sold out within minutes all CDs by Jackson and by the Jackson 5. And six of Jackson's singles made it to the Top 10 of iTunes' list of most-purchased tracks -- Man in the Mirror, Thriller, The Way You Make Me Feel, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Black or White and Smooth Criminal -- in what may be one of the best barometers of his most popular songs.

Internet slowdowns: Traffic on news websites was so heavy following Jackson's death that many users weren't able to access them. PC World reported that on Thursday night, about nine out of 10 visitors couldn't get ABC, CBS, the L.A. Times or CNN Money websites to load. On Friday, CNN reported that Facebook had also been inaccessible at times.

SOURCE: Compiled from Associated Press reports.

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