reporter: former english football player jeff thomas invited him to raise $1.5 million.homas wants to ride the day before the professional race. reporter: hello there. welcome to the web news with our pick of the stories making the online headlines. coming up on today's show, web users a tribute to leak onee kuan yew. and a scene from "the matrix" movies revisited in legos. web users in singapore have been paying tribute to see their former and first prime minister lee kuan yew, who died monday morning at the age of 91. a steady stream of people have been visiting for the past month to leave messages for the city state's father and mourn his passing. his son, who is the current premature, has posted a series of facebook -- of messages to facebook updating his father's health and his turn for the worse. as people of singapore waited news with bated breath, it was a way to get the real news, a week before, a note has said he already die, generating a lot of issues on social media. he was criticized by others for his authoritarian tactics, but many have hailed his 31 years

prosecutors say that jeff on thomas smoke marijuana instead of feeding his daughter. the 21 year-old father is lock up on $75,000 bond. >>> right now it is 5:33. lets check with katie and variety tore y cold day. you might need a puffy coat. >> what a great the idea. pull all of your big sweater back out. yes, it is so tough. it is such a tough month. we have ex-dreams. we have these little tastes of spring where it is a nice mild day like yesterday. we have flirted with 07 degrees in many spots yesterday. crazy. but now we're stuck in the chill again. outside we will go to the boardwalk plaza. it is dry here on the board. it will will stay that way every where. just so windy and cold. so storm scan on days like this is incredibly deceiving. the completely empty. you will see full sunshine. you have to just factor in the the wind and these temperatures. this graphic, says it all. this is your forecast right here. it is chilly windy and enough to note that is win and it makes it feel colder then thermometer read. speaking of let look at those wind chills. here's how it

jeff: pleasure. jennifer: thank you. steven: and joining us are caitlin huey-burns and kenneth thomas. i want to ask you, at the end of the day, how many republican candidates will be in the field this year? jennifer: we're hosting a big republican leadership summit here in new hampshire in april. as of now, we have 18 speakers lined up who identify themselves as potential candidates for the spot. we are really excited about the breadth of our list of possible candidates. i think it is possibly the largest, most ever, most qualified field of presidential candidates that we have seen in my lifetime. folks i really starting to feel the energy. steven: jeff kaufmann, your take on the number? jeff: right now, we have about 14 that i would consider interacting with the republican party of iowa on a regular basis. we have inquiries from others. i don't think -- i don't know the answer to that yet. it continues to grow. i couldn't agree with jennifer strong enough. this diversey that we have across the political spectrum is exciting. grassroots republicans out here in iowa have a very tough c

jeff sessions introduced the bill on capitol hill and it passed unanimously. >>> he just wrapped up oscar toasting gig. neil patrick harris sharing his love for thomasting the anniversary with this new video. it's clear harris is just a little obsessed. >> i have spent hours watching the same episodes over and over and over with my kids like a broken record to have some stupid [ bleep ] tell me i don't know as much about thomas the tank engine as you do. yeah, run, run, run! >> that's certainly an interesting tank on thomas. i happen to be a thomas the tank fan. when george karlincarlin. >> i can't watch anymore. the eyes aren't moving the mid-south isn't moving. >> my daughter was obsessed with emily for a while. they do grow out of it but still a good series. >> a funny skit. >> bring it back to life here. >>> now time for a look ahead. new secretary of defense ashton carter will be on capitol hill. he'll be defending the administration military budget request for the next fiscal year. it will be the first appearance before the senate armed services committee sense he took office. >>> happy birthday to jessica beal 33 miranda richardson is 57. kee

thomas? >> okay. we'll see how fast this moves along there in indiana. john thanks. >> thanks. >>> joining me now on the telephone, jeff law. it's great to have you with me. i'm a graduate of emmis communications. >> great. >> are you satisfied with what you heard from the governor today? >> well i think the governor's moving in the right direction. obviously this has been a firestorm and it's caused pretty significant kaj to a state that has really come such a long way in the last 30 years, thomas. this has been a setback, but you know we all make mistakes, and i'm hopeful the governor and the legislature can learn from this and rectify this very quickly. >> jeff, you used the word "mistake." the governor wouldn't go that far to say that this is a mistake and a repeal would be necessary. do you think there is a way to fix this without repeal? >> well, i this i a repeal would be the most advisable but if you can specifically put legislation that says lgbt people are specifically exempted by this i think that would be a step. would i rather see it repealed yes. >> when i think about indiana, jeffrey, it's one of a numbe

councilmen hari harry thomas, jr., in the campaign that saw vincent gray win the campaign have also pled guilty to charges. >> if you participated in back room under the table deals with jeff thompson, i urge you to come forward now and own up. we are not going away. >> reporter: machen without charging gray left no doubts. he feels the former mayor had knowledge of that shadow campaign. gray insisted all along he did nothing wrong. >> wham i going to plead to -- what am i going to plead to? i have nothing to plead to. >> reporter: in his last interview before leaving office he talked about prosecutors unveiling their plea agreement with thompson three weeks before the democratic primary which gray lost to muriel bowser. >> three weeks before the primary, 1 week before early voting started. >> you have got to be upset about that. >> i can't possibly be happy about it, bruce. i really believe my record substantiated the case for a second term. >> reporter: d.c. council member mary cheh questioned today how machen handled the investigation of gray. >> it was not his place to put that out there and make such a sweetheart deal with the primary figure, mr. thompson, thinking th

jeff: pleasure. jennifer: thank you. steven: and joining us are caitlin huey-burns and kenneth thomas. ask you, at the end of the day, how many republican candidates will be in the field this year? jennifer: we're hosting a big republican leadership summit here in new hampshire in april. as of now, we have