. >> a beauty queen and a well known soap opera star, monica speer were driving toward venezuela when road and blew two tires. the objects were placed there. the car had already been hooked up to a tow truck when the bandits arrive, spehr and her ex opened the door. listen now to venezuela's interior minister. >> we're conducting a full investigation the municipal police will determine what happened. >> the tow truck drivers who showed up, monica speer is a popular soap opera star on telemundo. venezuela is one of the most dangerous places on earth. 95% of the murders go unsolved. telemundo issued a statement saying she was a great actress and a great woman. >> thanks. >>> we're going to be right back, plus hannity at the top of the hour. >>> the thing i find the most offensive was the attack on mayor bloomberg during the inauguration. there have been many inaugurations, those attacks were vicious, mean spirited. and really the mayor is owed an apology. whether you agree with mayor bloomberg or you didn't. yeah, he's clean, boss. now listen e, duck. i have an associate that met with,

former miss venezuela monica speer gunned down in a roadside robbery in front of her daughter.y were returning from a new year's kvacation in central venezuela when they ran over something sharp and they got a flat tire. two tow trucks arrived that's when the robbers showed up. spear's husband was also killed and her daughter was shot. >> her father and mother were killed. >> right in front of their little 5-year-old. 5 suspects were detained. not clear if any tow truck drivers were called. she was crowned miss venezuela in 2004. she was a well-known soap star on telemundo. >> one person is dead three others injured after a large avalanche took place at vail counsel t -- vale mountain in colorado. authorities warned there was a considerable avalanche threat in the area. he is the 5th in the rocky mountain region in the past two weeks. >> the nation's largest bank is settling the madoff tab with a steep penalty. >> jp morgan will pay to settle several charges. the bank turned a blind eye missed obvious warning signs that madoff was a ponzi scheme. it paid out more than 16 millio

speers and her ex-husband were gunned down in their car on monday night.aughter was also shot but she survived. >>> former president fidel castro making his first public appearance in nine months attending the opening of an art studio in havana. he last appeared in public last april when he attended the inauguration of a school. he led cuba for 48 years before falling ill and handing over power to raul who became president in 2008. >>> frightening moments for people in florida after they were rocked by an earthquake that hit off the coast of cuba. one woman saying she was working on the third floor when she felt the earthquake shake. it rattled on the ground as far north as orlando. no reports of any damage or injuries. >>> a lost dog survived more than a week of snow at sub zero temperatures. a 1-year-old boxer was found nine days after he went missing on a family trip. a woman decided to look and she found the puppy in an abandoned warehouse. >> i cried. i did. i was happy. i looked at him, i didn't know if he was alive. he kind of opened his eyes a litt

he was speer fishing when he said he got quite a surprise. >> something was tugging on my leg, i thoughtmight have been one of my dogs but a shark was dragging up behind. i couldn't feel it at that time. >> instead of going to the hospital he swam to shore stitched up his leg himself and went to a local pub. >> he was properly stitched up at the hospital later that day. >> one tough guy. >> an 11-year-old illinois girl has been selling cupcakes for two years and now forced to shut down by the government. after chloe's success story was in the local paper the health department stepped in saying she doesn't have the required permit. she has to have a licensed kitchen. >> come on. >> the one size pits all mannequin getting a make-over. stores like david's bridal they are adding tattoos and curves to americans. they stanned thousands of bodies and applied the body to mannequi mannequins. they look more like the average woman to increase sales. >> the big game is a big draw. about 400,000 people heading to new york and new jersey for super bowl xlviii. the problem is, there are only 108,000 h

like the maile cyrus idea everybody who comes off a reality show it is very package to cover pretty speersthe musicians that are authentic. >> i think there is room for all but the pendulum has swung into that direction the manufactured pops out of maybe people were overloaded then along comes adele and she is almost like the antidote to justin be better. she has a point of view she is a strong woman not prone to the trappings and writes her own music. how about that? melissa: watched the reality shows if you want to be popular or a success you have to be a certain physical image you cannot be adele or larger than a super model. it has to be edgy that attracts attention that would get you into trouble that you have to have these. is there a billion it is about musec? >> you do have to make music ttat people love than anything is possible and adele proved that to the nth power. on her own terms. she did not adhere to anything normal but she made the most beautiful album anyone had heard in a long time and it touched them. and she has done that as well people feel they needed this. they did

time, there was a repackaging and slightly altering argument that had been debated in the public's speer for a long time, and i confess that's just, again, beginning to be something we have happen more and more in the brief, and the legal briefs filed in the case, and, you know, justice scalia only reads the brief. [laughter] scoffs at blogs out there. [laughter] you can imagine others say, well, you know, if i wanted to know the extended version of the argument, i don't want to have the page limit version or interested in a specific issue, look, there's a series on this issue. go to that if you want to know more. i don't know if we'll have the official blog post for a particular case or, like, the doj blog where they get it offer theirs or have their own version. i wonder if they play the broader role. in my mind, ultimately, that's a good thing because if you don't want to access it, you don't have to, of course, the briefs will be there. the affordable care act case, i think, probably is the example now of bleeping of roles, and it leads to the briefs being one of many parts of the pu

and congresswoman jackie speer has had a storied career in her path to capital your feel. just faced personal touches can expect professional setbacks and losses and has risen above all of that to save her agenda in congress and become a leader in the democratic party. so let's get right to the conversation. this is all about seconds, how do you start over, whether it is tragedy of economic necessity or simply boredom? is a second act a path of self-discovery, imagine of the time is right? >> how much time do you have? >> they will kick us off in half an hour. >> in my case i grew up in india, and since the age of 12 my dream was clearly to save the world. at the age of 12 i remember in my school uniform crossing the street, going to the world bank office on a dusty, hot summer day in new delhi and asking them how do i get it job. they said go get a ph.d and come back. which is what i did. from save the world the upscale dining, it baffles me. but it's been many twists and turns th. and with mckenzie in the middle, and the last wrong was a combination of i would say fashio

here is jackie speer, a democrat out of california. utah law demeans the dignity of same-sex couples for no rational reason. er.t is jackie spei pageites in on his twitter that the supreme court halts "lawless" utah gay marriages. that thean alan writes lgbt community of utah deserves marriage equality now. virginia on our line for democrats. i am a democrat. i have been a democrat my entire life. it my little brother is gay. i believe this is a distraction from a lot of the other things that are going on in our country at the moment. we need to focus our energy on things that are going to make this country better instead of tearing people apart. this is one leading example of how people are opposed to each other instead of working together. host: do you think this is going to become a bigger issue heading into the 2014 congressional ?lections question caller: i hope not. there are bigger issues that we are facing, especially a lot of the ways that we are missing money right now. there is a true opportunity for us to change things. we