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Ding ding ding ding ding. those two, two out of 233. richard hanna and florida congressman ileana ros-lehtinen, two republicans who have long bucked their partys line on gay marriage. as i said, less than 1% of the republican partys congressional membership. big picture we are led to believe that something is changing on this issue in the republican party. leaders in the republican party evolving on the issue of gay rights. and that is true of some people who could be called leaders within the r...

And i told him hes not doing a good job because hes discriminating against male models. >> gretchen: im glad to know you were watching the segment. >> brian: soso were they. >> gretchen: thank you souch. at least i was paying attention and it was quite easy to do, if i do say so myself. lets do some headlines. three minutes after the top of the hour. california family desperate for help finding three relatives they say are missing in mexico. robert munoz, his wife, cecilia and grandson were trav...

Further increasing the senate majority for the democrats which makes it even harder for republicans to move out of the wilderness. >> thank you so much, blake. john, i owe you one next time we talk, all right. >> no problem. >> appreciate it. making news this morn wk police in brazil have, quote, temporarily arrested three people in connection with the deadly nightclub fire. two members of the band and one of the nightclub owners are in custody. a fourth person is being sought. at least 233 pe...

Were told by the bodies of people who succumbed to the smoke and firefighters had a hard time getting in. grn reporter andrew downey is joining us from sa ocho palo, brazil. >> thanks for being with us tonight. reports say the club was packed. what did firefighters face when they got there? >> well, i think once they got there most of the damage had been done and because the fire spread so quickly, as you said, a fire went onto the roof and started on the roof because of the-- and caused a lot o...

Kenned about nuclear war heads in that region. >> steve: apes of wrath. >> gretchen: lets get to your headlines. the trial of khalid sheikh mohammed and his willing aged co-conspirators begins today. a key issue in this trial, we should say it begins again, again because this was once upon a tiff five years ago. the key thing is whether the u.s. tortured their men. the attorney also ask that the prisons they were taken to be preserved. last night police shot and killed a guy in a bar. a man sh...

And the same rivers so-called miracle on the hudson, the u.s. airways plane landed after hitting a flock of geese and all survived thanks to the cool headed maneuvering of coolheaded pilot chesley sullenburger. >> and in brazil the number has been changing, but at least 233 people have died inside a nightclub there. police say most of the victims suffocated. others were trampled, trying to escape the "the kiss" nightclub in santa maria, a university town in southern brazil. workers say a flare o...

They thought people were trying to escape without paying their bills. we should stress, once the security guards released there was a fire, they did on the doors but there are questions about the safety and security issues, were the doors big enough, and these are questions that the police and authorities will look into right now. >> andrew, has everyone be accounted for? could the death toll still rise? >> well, the death toll right now is 233, authorities have announced the names of most of th...

Might not understand things that seem very everyday terminology to me in my, in my community. so. >> sean: yeah. >> a great thing. let me put up on the screen, you shot an ar-15 i think a 30-0-6, a shotgun with a slug and shotgun with a slug and pelts. >> just a waterfall round. >> sean: and were showing them on the screen, explain, if you can, the difference. >> well, the difference in the firearms, first, one is-- to begin theyre all semi automatic, i want to get there. these are all semi auto...

To the nra and the administration over this? is there simply no area for compromise and if not where does it leave the american people? >> well, i think, matt, that what we have got are very different views about what needs to be done to prevent the kind of tragedy that took place in newtown. >> obviously, that was not an answer to the question specifically, nia, but you have a political article saying the president is now trying an end run around the nra by rallying groups, churches, medical or...

House standards is actually a lot. here are some of those dissenting votes. >> bridenstine. >> eric cantor. >> cantor. allen west of florida. gohmert. >> former congressman allen west of florida. >> allen west of florida. yoho. >> eric cantor. >> cantor. >> you dont have to be a member of the house to be elected speaker, but votes for former congressman allen west pretty much are far out, dont you think? heres congressman louis gohmerts explanation. >> we cannot be about business as usual, and t...