police took pistorius into custody, he s 26 years old, and just in the last minutes they have confirmed that he has been charged with murder. they are also planning to have a hearing, i believe tomorrow at which they will oppose the request that pistorius has made for bail. and there we see him in the gray hoodie right there. what more do we know about the background, the relationship between him and the model? the reports i ve been hearing is they had not been dating all that long. yeah, we don t think they ve been dating all that long. it s a relatively recent relationship. they ve been seen in public a lot. interestingly, just yesterday, she tweeted a message basically saying, hey, valentine s day tomorrow, what do you have up your sleeve for your love? so she was clearly in a happy, playful mood expecting to have a good valentine s day. so this really came out of nowhere. no one knew of any problems in the relationship.
like early education, even though it s a red state idea, they re against it, thomas. i don t envy speaker boehner. that s why i m saying the president has to be strategic, he has to talk about what we re going to get done. and part of that is gun safety. we critically need that. you know today s valentine s day, thomas, it s also the two-month anniversary of newtown, connecticut. over 1,700 americans have died from gun violence these past two months. congress needs to start acting. two, infrastructure spending. you look at over five years ago. remember that bridge, thomas, in minnesota that collapsed? sure. well, that was structurally deficient for 17 years. they knew it was and by the way, that bridge and 75,000 other bridges were structurally deficient. well, guess what happens? 140,000 people still went on that eight-lane bridge until it finally collapsed. well, in pennsylvania, we have 4,000 bridges that are structurally deficient. and again, 75,000 across the
difference at this point does this valentine make? from defense secretary nominee chuck hagel, i ll say anything to confirm your love. and an awkward valentine s day for steve cohen, he exchanged a couple of public tweets who is a friend of a model. his response, nice to know you were watching, happy valentine s beautiful girl, that message was deleted a short time later. they insist the two just friends. look what mommy is having.
here. what this is about john mccain and lindsay graham, and they just don t like chuck hagel and that s what s driving this process more than anything else. personal differences more than real policy substance right now. my thanks to our special valentine s day panel. keith gets the prize for wearing red today. thank you so much. i went a little more cupid-y with mine. thanks so much. thank you. if you work full-time, you shouldn t be in poverty. waging war over minimum wage. the president wants to raise it, but there s already some pushback from republicans. we are sounding off on that next. plus, an olympic athlete and parolympic star. the details ahead. and our question of the day, is the nra s wayne lapierre hurting the republican party? we ve all had those moments. when you lost the thing you can t believe you lost.
able to go back home and defend it before your constituents. great to see you this morning, thanks for joining me. thanks for having me. absolutely. coming up next, he was the first double amputee to run in the olympics, but the man known as the blade runner is a suspect in a murder. and it s a new segment we kicked off this week. today s pick comes from the spirit of valentine s day, why it s a good reason to have a significant other. married people are less likely to have a heart attack. that s good. he s laughing over there. they re laughing at number one. wait until you see number five because you might not believe it. all right. then our runner-up, the harlem shake is taking youtube by storm. one person starts dancing and then when the music drops, others bust a move. you can head to my facebook page for both of these very cool stories.