LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR: A neighborhood in suburban Houston, Texas, is really just in shock this morning. A Clear Lake mother will be arraigned on charges of capital murder tomorrow for the drowning deaths of her five children. Thirty-six-year-old Andrea Yates could face the death penalty if she's convicted. We get more on this story now from CNN's Eric Philips.</s>ERIC PHILIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Houston police led 36-year-old Andrea Yates away from her home in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake. Authorities say she confessed to killing her five children. And they believe four boys, ages two through seven, and a 6-month-old girl were drowned in the family bathtub. Three of the children are seen in this home video attending a birthday party just days ago. The mother called police to the family home at around 10 in the morning.</s>JOHN CANNON, HOUSTON POLICE: She led the officer to a back bedroom, where on a bed there was a sheet. And when the officer found that there were four children at that time on the bed that were dead at the scene. A second officer, then, came by the residence, and he did a search of the house and found a fifth child, who was in the bathtub of the residence.</s>PHILIPS: The children's father was at work at the time. He tells police that his wife, the mother of the children, has been suffering from postpartum depression for about two years, and that she was on medication.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's just so sad and that she didn't reach out for some kind of help.</s>CANNON: It's a rather disheartening thing to see and it will be for sometime.</s>PHILIPS: Eric Philips, CNN.
Houston Mother to Be Arraigned in Drowning Deaths of Her Five Children