to watch fox throughout the day, and we hope to see you back here tomorrow. i'm gretchen carlson. shepard smith reporting now. a former beauty queen and her ex-husband gunned down and now we're learning what happened right before the shooting as the parents tried to protect themselves. plus, a little girl kidnapped in front of her mom. ahead, you'll hear from the hero store worker who helped save that child. and from the confessed kidnapper on why he says he did it. let's get to it. and good afternoon to you. first from the fox news desk this morning, damage control from the white house ahead of this new book about which gretchen was speaking, that sometimes critical of the president and the vice president. analysts say the book is unusual, coming from a one-time cabinet member, while the president is still in office. the former defense secretary,

robert gates', memoir is due out next week, but newspapers have already published parts of it. secretary gates served during the bush administration and then for two years under president obama. secretary gates wrote that president obama doubted his own strategy in afghanistan. and that the president was skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail. secretary gates wrote, i never doubted obama's support for the troops, only his support for their mission. but the biggest slam is aimed at the vice president, joe biden. gates wrote, the vip is a man of integrity, but that he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. of course, secretary gates is a longtime republican and it is not much of a surprise that his views do not line up with a democrat. the white house immediately shot back and showed support for the vp. aides let photographers take pictures during the president's weekly lunch with vice president biden. they pretty much never allowed the media in for these meetings. analysts call it a clear sign

that the president supports his second in command. but for all the attention the criticism is getting, the memoir also has some praise for the president. secretary gates called him a man of personal integrity. and as for president obama's overall afghanistan policy, secretary gates wrote, i believe obama was right in each of these decisions. we have team fox coverage on this. let's get first to ed henry, who's live with us this afternoon at the white house. i'm guessing this isn't going over very well. gretchen dipped into your question of jay car anyway thne and you guys do not feel like best of friends. >> it's a new year, maybe a new day, but the bottom line is they are not happy with the book. it's extremely rare for someone in the cabinet, especially the war cabn't iinet, dealing with and peace, not just iraq in the aftermath, but afghanistan, the heavy focus here, and this briefing with jay carney. they're especially upset about characterization of vice president joe biden.

that's why, as you mentioned, they come out and show these pictures of the president and the vice president today, getting along fine, having this lunch. i've been here covering this president for five years. they do this lunch basically every week. cameras are never allowed in, reporters not allowed in either, by the way. jay carney insists, the reason they opened this up has nothing to do with the book. it's because, as you know, white house news photographers, video photographers as well, have been pushing for more access, so today's the day they decided to provide that. he also offered a sharp defense of the vice president, that he's a key adviser to the president, and more broadly, i think it's important to note that the white house's case is that the president has always liked a differing group of views, especially involving the war in afghanistan. >> he expects to hear competing points of view from every member of his national security team. a lot of you wrote about or talked about at the time that the president picked a team of rivals. and when you pick a team of

rivals, you do so in part because you expect competing points of view and competing opinions. >> and in fact, jay carney also went on to sharply deny the broad allegation you mentioned from secretary gates that the president made the tough decision to surge troops into afghanistan, but did not ultimately believe in the mission. he insisted, jay carney, that the president understood the mission of sending men and women into war. said also that when the president came into office, the policy in afghanistan was a mess, he's tried to straighten it out, and made no secret to people around the world that he wants to get troops out by the end of 2014, and they say that's nothing new. >> ed henry outside the white house. a little bit warmer day. good to see you, thanks very much. let's continue team fox coverage now. lee game reabriels here. you're a former fighter pilot, with robert gates. i guess you've been working some of your friends and sources within the services on reaction to this. what are you finding out? >> shep, i did reach out to the pentagon today and they declined

to comment on this. but members of president obama's national security team are speaking out. the national security council put out a press release today, and they expressed their respect for former secretary gates, but they said that they disagreed with his assessment on vice president biden, calling vice president biden, quote, one of the leading statesmen of his time. the nfc also defended the president on afghanistan, saying, in part, quote, deliberations over our policy on afghanistan had been widely reported on over the years, and it is well known that the president has been committed to achieving the mission of disrupting, dismantling, and defeating al qaeda. that's for people in the military. those of us who have worn the uniform know that even as we serve, we give up some of the very freedoms that we protect. for example, expressing our opinions on the president, because he is the commander in chief. so, shep, it's really no surprise that military declined to comment today. >> yeah, no surprise there. once you're out of the military, though. once you've served and moved on in the private sector or whatever, you can say whatever

you want. this is still america. what are people saying? >> i spoke with one former army general who said this is really quite a bombshell. take a listen. >> it comes from a man who is venerated inside the military. a person who is regarded extremely well on both sides of the aisle. and a man who normally keeps his opinions very close to himself. so here we have a man who literally opens his heart inside these 600 pages. >> now, former -- now, the former white house senior adviser, david axelrod, was a guest on the "today" show today. they asked him if he ever got the sense that former secretary gates seemed, in any way, disgruntled during his time as secretary of defense. here's how he responded. >> absolutely not. in fact, i was surprised when i saw the stories yesterday, because i always felt they had a good working relationship. he always indicated that he had a good working relationship with the president. >> now, of course, this all

comes at a crucial times in terms of u.s. policy in afghanistan. we're now in 2014, which is the year that the combat mission there is expected to end. and chuck, it's still unclear whether any troops will remain there after this year. >> it certainly is. that's a matter that must be attended to. lea gabrielle, thank you. newly published e-mails and text messages suggest that an aide to the new jersey governor, chris christie, knew about an apparent revenge plot against the mayor, who refused to endorse the governor for re-election. this has been big news in the to be tabloids for a long time. state officials closed two lanes of traffic near a bridge in forft. lee, new jersey, on the very first day of school. it triggered hour-long traffic tie-ups. it was nightmarish over in fort lee. it delayed police and emergency vehicles. it was really awful. one official in charge of new york and new jersey bridges, that's from the port authority, has already resigned.

the mahler of fort lee, who's a democrat, and said to be a political rival, initially said the state was punishing him, but that he did not endorse governor christie. he later backed away from those comments, though. the gop presidential favorite denies this was payback at all and says his staff was not involved. governor christie says the lane closures were part of a traffic study. but the e-mails that are out today. they are available out there, if you want to google them, you can. the e-mails will be trouble for governor christie. at least in local politics, for quite some time. and if he decides to run for president, rest assured, they'll end up in campaign ads. there is no question about it. they're an easy google away, if you want to take a look. an employee at a target store in california hailed as a hero to try to stop a kidnapping. but now the suspect has spoken out about what went down. and you really need to hear what he said to say. and what is the most stressful job you've ever had or you've ever heard of? one that had you pulling your hair out or cursing your boss or

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declared dead today stood up and told a different judge that he is not guilty in a huge scam. the feds accused this man in this sketch of stealing more than $20 million from investors before he vanished back in 2012. the cops say they pulled him over for a traffic stop on new year's eve and figured out who he was. probably no easy feat, considering how different he looks now. look at these two pictures. there he is before he ran on the left and on the right is how he lacks now. investigators say that he convinced his family in georgia that he'd killed himself, but was actually working odd jobs down in florida. cops say they also found hundreds of pot plants at the home they suspected he was renting under a false name. the judge ordered him to stay behind bars for his trial. as for the family, it's another matter. a quick-thinking target worker helped save a 7-year-old girl from her kidnapper, that's according to cops in the san francisco bay area. it's an incredible story. the suspect took the young girl from her mother, apparently at

gunpoint. investigators put out an amber alert and they say they quickly found the girl, because of that target worker. the worker said she saw the suspect in the store parking lot acting, well, very strangely. >> at one point, i seen him grab his steering wheel and start to shake it. that was just really off to me. that's when i knew, like, something was wrong with him. >> so she wrote down the license plate, saved all the information, gave it to police when she saw the amber alert. we have a picture of the suspect. he admits he did kill this girl in a bizarre jailhouse interview. yesterday he told a reporter he did it as a plea for help. he says he has special abilities and that the targeted child, because he believed the mother was part of a conspiracy against him to prevent him from seeing his own 7-year-old son. >> saw them in the parking lot. the mother made a very, very obviously effort of turning -- while she was loading her groceries, of turning and looking right at me. not just glancing at me, she looked right at me. and then she turned and

started -- continued loading her groceries. and again, she turned and looked right at me again, as if she was signifying to me as if she was a part of this. >> that was a cue to you to take her daughter? >> to at least follow them and see what was going to happen. >> cops say the man did not physically harm the girl, tha thankfully. he said he never had any intention to harm her. what else did this suspect say? i don't understand how he puts this stuff together, but i guess most people couldn't. >> yeah, shep, he says he was an all-american boy, an all-american man, that he's not mentally ill, but the reporter you saw there who did the interview said he's either mentally ill or pretending to be. his name is david douglas, and listen to him describe what happened directly after the kidnapping. play this. >> we were both shaking. i mean, i was shaking in fright, she was shaking in fright. she laooked at me and she said, i'm scared, and i looked at her and i said, i'm scared, and we

kind of laugh-cried, to tell you the truth. >> he also admits he followed three other girls the very same day he kidnapped 7-year-old natalie calvo, but he grabbed her because she was the easiest and he knew very well that her family would be devastated. listen. >> i have a son of my own, and i can imagine, i can just imagine my mom, my mom, i can imagine my -- sharon. i can imagine her parents watching this. sure. swlult. you have to appreciate how desperate i am. i'm sorry. just a moment. >> no formal charges filed yet, jeff, but he is being held on $4 million bond. >> what else has the target employee said about this encounter? >> well, you know, he's a loss prevention specialist, which means she goes around target, making sure people don't shoplift.

she said the suspect walked in wearing his backpack, which set off red flags. she followed him, asked him if he needed help, and watched him on surveillance cameras for extended periods. she said he was in the parking lot for hours and hours, and that's when she used the camera to zoom in on his license plate, write down the plate number, and later it was her roommate that told her about the amber alert. listen. >> she said a description of the car, and i was like, hold on, that sounds like somebody earlier at my job fits the same description. i was like, it's kind of weird, and she said, you should call. >> and police found the suspect and the little girl at a nearby marina a little bit later on. he'd been living at that marina for the better part of 2 1/2 months. jeff? >> trace gallagher, live in los angeles. thank you, sir. the search right now off the coast of virginia after a u.s. military helicopter went down at sea. it's the second crash that we know of, of a military chopper in the last two days, and officials say a total of at least five americans are now dead. the latest on the rescue mission, coming up from the fox news desk. [ male announcer ] this is betsy.

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it's a place named one america's most veteran friendly employers. next is information and entertainment in ways you never thought possible. welcome to what's next. comcastnbcuniversal. search teams are looking for one person who is said to still be missing after a military helicopter crashed off the coast of virginia. navy officials said it happened hours ago off virginia beach and five people were on board. they say rescuers have found four crew members, but one of them died. again, the search still underway for the fifth. this happens after a separate helicopter crash and killed four u.s. airmen. that happened yesterday, about 6:00 local time on the north sea coast of england, about a hundred miles from london. british authorities say that the pave hawk helicopter, as they call it, slammed into the ground during a low-level training mission. police say the crash left an

area of debris on the marsh, about the size of an american football field. let's bring in michael k., a adviser to the uk ministry of defense. he flew the british equivalent of this same chopper, right? >> yeah, i did. actually, shep, i was one of the guys that trained the instructors to train the pilots on the tactical events that go on with such missions. but before i go on, shep, what i would like to say, my thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of the crew that perished. and it's a stark reminder, really, of the inherent dangers and threats and risks that are involved with this courageous role that these guys carry out. >> the locals are saying that something didn't sound right and that the thing was really low. but these fly low as a matter of course, don't they? >> you're absolutely right. and i think it's extremely difficult to tell, certainly so early on in the crash. what we do know, this was an hh60g helicopter. and one of its main missions is combat search and rescue. it has to go in, deep behind enemy lines at low level, at

night, in high-threat environments and pluck down the airmen or special forces guy that may be taken hostage and take them out of the high-threat environment that they've been incarcerated in. so the inherent risks involved with what these guys do, the mission statement, if you like, is very dangerous. so what these guys have to do is, they have to do a lot of training to prepare for that. what we know at the moment is that the aircraft was at low level. it was in the marshland area on the eastern side of the uk and in this area, which is where i used to train a lot of my guys, is air-to-sea gunnery ranges and they're slightly to the west of that. and we know there are lots of bullets around the crash site at the moment. what this is telling us at the moment is that these guys are likely to have been on a training mission at night, at low level, just going through all the dynamic possibilities that are involved in this combat search and rescue role that they're involved in. >> we hear about these sorts of crashes much more frequently than we would like. but when you consider the amount of hours that these birds are in the air and the amount of time that's spent there, would you say that the record is pretty good? >> i would say the record is

fantastic. i think what we have to do is, you know, with all these crashes, you get a board of inquiry that serenes. they have to go through an incredible amount of data and evidence before they come to a judgment. the two main things are mechanical error or human error or pilot error. they'll have to go through the cockpit data and voice recorders, look at the weather, analyze what the crews were up to in the 24 hours up to the training sorte. they'll have to look at the radar traces. there's so much evidence of what they need to sift through before they can come up with any sort of real calculated evidence as to why this tragic accident happened. >> all right. michael kay, good to see you. >> you too. a freight train carrying crude oil and propane went up in flames in canada. it's the second incident surrounding trains hauling crude in just a week. last night, authorities there say a train derailed and caught fire in eastern province of new brunswick, in an area where not

very many people live, at all. still, the fire was large enough to force officials to evacuate about two dozen nearby homes. last week, a different oil train derailed and exploded in castleton, north carolina, outside fargo. nobody got hurt in that blast, but more than a thousand people had to evacuate in that area. keep in mind, the number of oil trains on the rails is booming these days, as domestic oil production increases. the amount of car loads now carrying crude each year in the united states is roughly 40 times what it was just five or six years ago. more information in the shooting death of a beauty queen and her ex-husband. have you heard about this? cops say they've arrested several suspects and they're providing stunning details about what happened before these killings. plus, tickets to the super bowl. they're going for a few bucks. now one guy claims the way the nfl is distributing the ticket is against the law. so he's talking about suing the national football league.

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fox report now. more of the headlines. the man who died in an avalanche near vale, colorado, he was the 24-year-old grandson of the founder of that ski resort. that's according to investigators. that injured three other people in the backcountry near vale. they all pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. right now, police are not saying which suspect shot and killed a man at the mall's parking garage last month, after he refused to give up his car with his wife inside. she was not hurt. and a deadly police shooting that triggered riots across england in the summer of 2011 was lawful. that's a decision from a jury in

london. the officer said he shot and killed a father of four, because police thought he had a gun, and he was about to open fire. much more from the fox news desk right after this.

police say they've arrested five people, including some younger than 18 in connection with the shooting death of a former beauty queen and her ex-husband. that beauty queen was monica spear, miss venezuela of 2004. she became a popular soap opera actress. on monday night, investigators say she and her ex were driving back from vacation with their 5-year-old daughter. they were on an isolated road where the cops say somebody had set up sharp objects that blew out that car's tires. according to investigators, workers put the vehicle on top of a tow truck and then the robber showed up. police say the family locked themselves inside the car before the group started firing and killed the parents. officials say the little girl is now in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the leg. keep in mind, venezuela has one

of the highest murder rates on all the planet and investigators say this is just the latest in a long list of attacks on celebrities. our steve harrigan is following this from our south florida newsroom. he spent lots of time reporting in some of the world's most dangerous places, including venezuela. this type of setup is apparently pretty common there, right? >> it is, shepard, if you're going to take a risk on some of those lonely highways outside of the capital, it's sort of a poor man's ied. the thieves will put sharp objects or rocks on a highway at night, they'll disable the car and they'll come out to carjack it. that apparently is what happened here. now, the tow truck operators were initially under some suspicion, but apparently spear flagged down one of the tow truck operators. they fled when they saw the gunman come. when the gunmen came out, the terrified family locked themselves in the vehicle, to no effect. at least six shots were fired through the vehicle, hitting spear in the head, killing also her ex-husband. she's lived in florida for several years. she was robbed six different

times in venezuela, so she moved her for security reasons. she was back there on holiday. and her family here, especially her father, devastated by the news when they heard it on television. >> she was a very sweet girl. she was very, very smart. and as a mother, she cares a lot about her daughter, which is now alone. >> just the details about this crime show how desperate and brutal it was. one of the suspects, age 15, one age 16, gunning down a mother and father in front of their 5-year-old child, and all for a 12-year-old toyota corolla, shepard. >> wow. what is the danger level over there these days, steve? >> shepard, when you get in a car, it's pretty common for the driver to tell you to roll up your window and pull your arm in. because they'll take your watch off. also, it's common to roll through red lights at night. the u.s. embassy right now is

using an armored vehicle back and forth from the airport. i think if you're going to cover news from anywhere outside of caracas right now, in venezuela, you need an armored vehicle and a gunman to get you around. if you want to see the super bowl in person here in newark, new jersey, it will cost you. but one jersey man, that's where the super bowl is being held, in the meadowland, claims the process is not only expensive, it is legal. according to his lawsuit, the nfl made available only 1% of tickets to the general public at face value. the guy says that forces most people to buy seats from other sellers, who always jack up the prices. he says that violates jersey law, which requires that 95% of tickets go to the public. well, the nfl tells us, it actually gives a majority of the super bowl tickets to the teams, and those teams hold lotteries for their own fans. and in a statement, the league also claims the nfl's super bowl ticket distribution process has been in existence for years and is well-documented. we are confident it is in

compliance with all applicable laws. fox news senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano is here. you're a former new jersey supreme -- what do they call it, superior court justice? >> about five miles from the meadowlands. >> as whacky as things are in new jersey these days, the idea that the nfl would do this, knowing what the laws are, that they would open themselves up, seems radical. >> well, the nfl appears to be doing this year what it has done in previous years. and that is, distribute the tickets to a wide variety of sources, which ultimately, each of which ultimately sells them to the public. that's their defense. now, there's never been a super bowl in new jersey. and new jersey, for better or for worse, has the most pro-consumer laws in the union. >> yep. >> and so this issue has never actually been tested in new jersey. so the question is, is the distribution of these tickets villa other distributors? some to the giants, some to the jets. some to fill in the blank.

whoever the two teams are who will be playing the super bowl. they have yet to be determined. does that comply with new jersey's compliance that 95% of the tickets be made available to the public. this lawsuit could force a federal judge to make that decision. the issue is, will the judge rule on it now, when there is time to change the distribution policy, prior to the super bowl, or will the judge take his or her time and rule on it for future super bowls, which probably won't be in new jersey for a while. >> there was another way to handle this, and i want to get to that in a minute. but i want to show people what these super bowl prices are like. this is stubhub, this is where you get everything. and these are not the most expensive tickets. we've now gone to some -- well, this is just prime seating. you don't get to pick. here's field, right? and these seats along the sidelines, you don't get to know exactly what zone. we're talking $17,000 a seat. >> who has that money? >> there are some as high as $100,000. and there are some listed on here, actually, that are more than $600,000. but anybody who's ever used

stubhub knows that there are always outliers. look at this, $649,000, that's a load of it. the $17,000, they're getting that. >> guess who the lawsuit claims is making the difference between the face value of the ticket and what's actually paid. >> who? >> the nfl. now, if that is true, it's frustrating the new jersey policy and it's unlawful. but we may not know if it's true unless there's a hearing with testimony between now and the super bowl. >> he could have asked for a temporary injunction, right? >> yes, if he had asked for a temporary -- >> the plaintiff, i mean. >> yes. the lawyer in this case is a well-known lawyer in new jersey, bruce nagel, with an excellent reputation for creative litigation. if the lawyer in this case had asked for a preliminary injunction and the court decided, okay, i'm going to decide whether or not to give one, this will be resolved in a week. but the way he asked for it, it may not be resolved until after the super bowl, which would make it moot, because the next few super bowls are not scheduled in

new jersey. >> no, certainly not. >> plaintiff guy wants money. >> yes. he wants money, because he wants the difference between what he's actually going to pay for a ticket and the face value of the ticket is. that profit is eventually being kicked back to the nfl. >> lots and lots and lots of tickets. thousands of tickets will go for more than $10,000 a piece. >> yes. >> welcome to new york and new jersey. >> i hope the judge grabs this case and resolves it before the super bowl. could be a fascinating outcome. you and i could end up with some pretty cheap seats, shep. >> i hope to be there. we'll see what happens. what will probably happen, they'll create a big traffic tie-up around the thing before -- >> would the traffic tie-up have anything to do with political revenge? >> i certainly don't know, but i've read some interesting e-mails today. >> agreed. three former major leaguers have just punched their tickets to cooperstown. we got the alerts on our phones just before this newscast.

the former starting pitcher, greg maddux, got in with the most votes, more than 97% of voters gave him the nod. right behind maddux, his long-time teammate in atlanta, tom glavin. frank thomas rounded out the hall's newest members. fellow power hitter greg biggio fell short. and barry bonds and roger clemens, sammy sosa saw their votes drop. all of them tied to baseball's so-called steroid scandal. thisser yoo's official induction ceremony is set for july. cooperstown, three new faces. a new list is out of the most stressful and least stressful jobs in america. we'll go through the top five most stressful and the bottom five least stressful. and there's still time to tell us about your most stressful job that you've ever had. you can tweet it @shepnewsteam or use the #stressedout. we may be able to read some of

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19 minutes before the top of the hour. does your job stress you out, enough that you want to throw in the towel and get a new career. we have a list that ranks the most stressful and least stressful jobs in america. it comes from careercast come. the fifth least stressful job is up here on the monster wall and it is seamstress or tailor. that's hard to argue with. but the fourth, a tenured university professor. if you do it right, it can be a very stressful job. and i had a lot of professors who did, worked late into the night, so that can be stressful. jeweler? i don't know, attention to detail. there are probably some time constraints. anyway, it's said to be the third least stressful job. hairstylist. i know this is wrong, because linda, the hairstylist, who works over here in our green room along with so many other

hairstylists, they have to deal with all of the people who sit in their chair's crap and they do get stressful. auditologist, don't know what they do. someone who -- back up a little bit, prompter with, and i can read that. an audiologist is someone who diagnoses and treats hearing problems. let's talk to researchers who said they studied physical demands, whether your job puts your life at risk or put the lives of other people at risk or in your hands. greg bledsoe, he comes on at 5:00 here on the east coast. are we supposed to talk about the most stressful ones now? >> first, can i just say this survey is a scam, a scam on america. the jobs that are considered the most stressful -- >> we haven't gone through those yet. when am i supposed to do that? let's do that now. >> the ones that are the most stressful. >> the fifth most stress is what? >> a bank coordinator. four is airline pilot.

>> right. >> three is firefighter. two is military general. one is enlisted military personnel. >> those are the five most stressful jobs in all of america according to this survey. >> also on the list were police officers. my point here is that most of these jobs are also the most admired. they're the ones that you want to do. boys grew up playing cops and robbers. they don't play tenured professor and multimedia artist. >> true. there's that. but to argue that being a combat troop with your family at home and you in harm's way, that that would not be one of the most stressful things in all of the world would be a really ridiculous argument. >> true, but it's also incredibly gratifying. if you look at these jobs that are least stressful, there were no deadlines. i think that's an important part of the job, having a deadline. life has a deadline, it's called death. and no one misses that one. you don't sleep and wake up, whoops, i missed death. you're dead. >> i always think that most of these surveys are usually just about getting attention for

whatever your website is in the first place. >> exactly. the least stressful job you can have is doing this website. >> it must be stressful on "the five." >> it is. i'm heavily medicated at all time. i'm medicated right now. but before we used to say, that's life. now we say, that's stress. who was the first person to start linking the idea of stress to everyday anxiety? for example, job stress is good. if you don't have job stress, you really don't have a job, in my opinion. >> to a point. >> yeah. >> but if you get consumed with stress, doctors will tell you, it will eat away at you and it will be one of the most injurious things to your body. >> what would you do if you're not working? >> i kind of look forward to the day where i can just sit on the beach, go read a book. >> everybody says that. they're going to say, i'm going to plant a garden, no, you're going to jump off a bridge. people love to work. the idea that stress is part of your job is a lie.

you know where stress comes from? >> i work to live. >> you know where stress comes from? relationships. and here's a good example. a lot of high-powered people work in this building. i've been stuck in an elevator with them, where the elevator breaks down. that's stress. and the people that handle it the best are the high-powered people. the low-level manager that's sitting there going, i'll call somebody, figure it out. i'm popping xanax, gripping the wall. >> but you could go, if i get stuck in this elevator, i don't want have to do this show today. what would they do? who would do it? would you do it? >> think about this least stressful baloney, the tenured professor. most of those guys are miserable. because yo progress with achievement. you could suck forever. there's no way to judge how good you do that job. >> you could suck forever, but if you're a good professor like some of those that i had, you use this tenure as a safety net, and then you go do everything

you can. i had professor who is went with me on travels around the world, they helped me get better at things, who stayed up at night and worked a hundred hours a week. i don't know if they were the exception or the rule, but i had them and i appreciate them to this day. >> i didn't have those professors. >> you should have gone to ole miss. >> i went to berkeley. my professors were slightly unstable. >> you and berkeley must have been a crazy bag of fun. >> it was a good time. >> i bet it was. all the stories that we could told. >> greg gutfeld, we'll see you in an hour and 13 minutes. i want to hear what some people have been saying. i forgot about this. what we did was, we asked you for some of your thoughts on this and people talked about stressful jobs. the most stressful jobs they had. this is mark. what'd you find out? >> by far, the most responses we're getting are teacher, air traffic controller, and nurses. >> i get that. >> and cops and firefighters. >> don't forget nurses. >> i kind of like this one, a receptionist for a divorce lawyer. just having to look at sad people, crying all the time.

>> talk about stress, and angry, crying sad people. what else you've got? >> flight medic nurse. 160 miles an hour at night in a helicopter the size of a phone booth. >> you know my grandmother was one of the first flight nurses in world war, i believe, i. grandmother nanny. >> stressful job. >> why is casey steegel messaging us? >> he says television is most stressful. >> casey is clearly stressed out. you're just sitting around tweeting. all right, air traffic controller, teacher, do not forget crazy nurse. >> and parenting, of course. >> isn't that the truth? that's one i don't have to do. what's over here on the wall? you may have heard it's cold in many parts of the country. but while millions of americans are bundling up, folks in another part of the country are dealing with triple-digit temperatures. have you heard what's happening in australia and brazil? it's really hot in australia, but wait until you see brazil. brazil pictures are always good. [ male announcer ] this is george.

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eight minutes to cavuto now. temperatures are slowly climbing and things are calming down. that so-called polar vortex as they like to call it had troigerred record low temperatures across many states. the city of new york has broken cold records that have stood for more than a century. it's cold enough to freeze sections of the hudson river. the local forecasts are all over this. there's cameras all over the river that are showing all the ice. in the meantime, while much of

america is freezing, 120 degrees in some spots in brazil. the picture on the left side of your screen is rio. workers at the city's zoo gave an malls frozen treats to help them cool off. far cry from what it's like for animals and people here in the united states. i'm looking at australia too, man, they are burning up. >> yeah, it's summer. it's the peak of summer down there so that's what they're getting. changes here, this is really the central part of the country and eastern part of the country. i was in arizona this weekend, and it was 70 in the desert and hiking, it was spectacular, the heat is there, the cold is across the east. and this is how much better we are than we were 24 hours ago. it has him proved, temperatures 20 degrees for the most part better than it was. mobile alabama, 19 degrees. that's a deep freeze, down across parts of the deep south.

these temps right now still feel like the teens. these temps, though, keep that in mind, that's 20 degrees warmer than you were 24 hours ago. >> if you can keep this up through the weekend, it would be awesome. >> it's looking pretty good. 13 in marquette, back up above freezing in new york, target 26 on thursday, friday, you're at 37 degrees, saturday same story, you're above freezing, we warm up here across the south. take a look at that, 52 in boston for your saturday, so the warmth comes back, and after this, this is horribly cold air coming behind me at any point. so the next week we're looking pretty good. >> it's going to be mid 40s over there in the next few days, i don't understand that. >> it seems to be a good time for folks who spend their days riding the waves. surf pros have been jetting over the atlantic and it's an

incredible thing to sea. a low pressure center has caused the black swell with waves 50 feet or higher. photos showing a couple of surfers banging a big one off the french coastline there. heavy waves rolled into this portuguese town, only a few miles away from that spot, an american surfer rode a 28-foot wave. it's the biggest wave anybody has ever ridden in the world. you don't have to be the pope to ride in the pope mobile. we'll see who got to cruise through the streets vatican style.

it's one thing if a friend gives you a lift. it's quite another if that friend happens to be the pope. >> this happened at the pope's

general weekly audience. he noticed this man in the crowd. you can see the guy hung out in the pope mobile. it's a priest from argentina, the pope knew him from way back when. he kissed children and stuff as they hung around the pope mobile. he was moved by the whole thing and was shocked. >> the whole world's talking about it, but he lives in his own little place and he seems to act like he always did. he sneaks out in the middle of the night and helps people out at night? >> the people's pope doesn't do that justice. and on this day in 1958, the legendary child star of chess, bobby fischer became the world's youngest ever national champ. the kid had been playing for years, despite his age, the young grand master was virtually

unbeatable. in 1972, he would prove he was among the best in all the world, taking down his soviet opponent in a cold war era grudge match at the world championships in iceland. bobby fischer won it big, 56 years ago today. and if i had been on camera, you would have seen me bite it right there. oops. all right now we know, it's official, obama care is making people sick and it's not just the rich. it's kind of everyone else. welcome, everybody, glad to have you, i'm neil cavuto. 47% of workers now say the money being taken right from their paychecks, 44% are seeing higher out of pocket costs as well. nearly 20% say they now are fewer doctors in their plans and the folks getting hit the most, middle class workers. home