Sexual encounters. The obamas are about to have a permanent address in washington d. C. The former first couple will be on hand in a few hours as their official portraits are unveiled at the smithsonian. Those are some of the stories on this monday, february 12th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. And we say good morning, on this monday. Were going to start this half hour with President Trump poised to send his 2019 budget to Congress Today but the tax cuts have already rendered it outdated. Calling for an extra 300 billion in spending and adds billions more for the Opioid Crisis and border security. Its expected to fall short of the longterm goal of eliminating the deficit. It includes 2 billion designed to repair the nations crumbling infrastructure. A whole lot of big numbers at the core of this but theyre saying its dead on arrival but theyre putting a big push into all of this today. Interesting timing for it all. Meantime the president is under fire for referring to Domestic Violence claims against an aide after mere allegations and calling for due process. Those comments after two exwives of rob porter accuse of spousal abuse. They said its a tough time for him but made no mention of his accusers. She said the tweet implied shes a liar. But senior white house aides are defending the president s comments and the way the allegations were handled. Rob porters gone from one of the top aides to donald trump, our president , to no longer working there. I think the president , like the rest of us were shocked and disturbed by the allegations. But looking at pictures, police reports, detailed allegations by these women and yes, we are a nation of laws, we are a nation of due process and all sides should be heard out. Kellyanne conway insists the president still has confidence in his chief of staff, john kelly and has no plans of replacing him. Kelly is accused of knowing about the allegations against porter for several months and doing nothing about them. Meanwhile, conway also spoke about the memo on the russia investigation. The president is still inclined to release it. Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are willing to black out any part of the dock md considered necessary to protect sources and methods. Its a rebuttal for the memo that accuses the fbi of abuses. The president approved the release of the gop memo against the advice of the fbi. This week, a columbus, ohio suburb prepares for the sad task of saying goodbye to two Fallen Police officers. The vigil was held for them. Both were shot responding to a 911 hang up call in wester vill. They have now released that call. Heres zachary kiesh. Reporter police ambush, two officers killed in the line of duty. Whats your emergency . Police officers. Whats wrong . He shot the Police Officers. Reporter the first call from the suspects wife, fearing for her and her daughters life. Im hiding in the bushes but my daughters in the house. Shes 1 years old. Please. Reporter officers are on the scene, immediately met with gun fire. We have two officers down, critical. Reporter the suspect, a convicted felon. Just three months ago his wife told authorities he threatened to kill her and her daughter. He always carried a gun. As you can imagine, i was quite emotional. But we will get through it. Reporter Community Still reeling and emotions boiling over as people try to capitalize off the tragedy with phony donation websites. Theres a special place in hell for those people and my wish is that it becomes very soon. Reporter as for the suspect, hes still in the hospital. His condition is not being released at this time. Our thanks to zachary for that. It took a staggering more than eight hours before the victims of a tour crash could be recovered. They had to hike to the west rim. The weather and terrain were too rough for vehicles. Three of the six tourists on board were killed. Are sightseeing flights over the grand canyon are suspended right now. They say airspace is just too crowded. Federal agencies are investigating the cause of that crash. Investigators in russia recovered one of the black boxes from an airliner that crashed near moscow. You can see the video of it. All 71 people on board died just minutes after take off from the countrys second busiest airport. There was no emergency call from the aircraft. The search for debris is expected to take yet another day. Its scattered over a wide area. Heavy snow is making access to it very difficult. Its been more than a year since a commercial airliner crashed anywhere in the world. An explosion and fire at a power station has thrown much of the northern part of the island into darkness. Parts of san juan and other areas were without power. Authorities said they should have the lights back on wan day. The explosion took place on the same day the main utility claimed 75 of the island was restored 145 days after hurricane maria. 500 people were moved out of businesses in the diamond bar. The semi was carrying about 1,000 gallons of hydrogen. Congress is taking a new step to fight the deadly flu epidemic. The bill would mandate research aimed at creating a more effective flu vaccine. There are other efforts aimed at fighting the virus already under way. Well get the details. Reporter packed hospitals and waiting rooms. The number of flu cases swelling. Now an experimental new drug giving people some hope. A japanese drug maker says its developed a pill that can kill the virus within a day. Even if it lives up to the claim, it still has to go through the fda approval process and wouldnt be available in the u. S. Until next year at the earliest. It doesnt bother me, as long as i dont see it go in. Reporter the severity of this years flu strain renewing the call to get the vaccine. A history of diabetes, lung disease, cancer, some other immune suppressing illness. They are going to be more fragile. Reporter 33yearold joey smith from dallas says, he wasnt high risk and got his flu shot. He feels lucky to be alive. From the flu and sepsis and pneumonia. Reporter Health Officials warning the flu puts you at risk for other illnesses. That sets the body up to a secondary bacterial pneumonia. It can be very fast acting and very severe. Reporter part of the problem is doctors tell us you are contagious before you show symptoms of the flu. Thats why its important as soon as you feel sick to stay home. And its costing more to fill up your tank. Gas prices are up an average of seven cents a gallon. The survey blamed the higher crude prices. 2. 65 a gallon, 45 cents more than a year ago. The people behind the new peter rabbit movie are being criticized. Sony pictures and the Production Team say Food Allergies are a serious issue and they should not have treated it as a joke. Theres been a call online for a boycott of the movie. Still peter rabbit took second place for the movie. A lot of reaction online to this one. Apparently, theres a line in the film where they talk about his allergy. I dont know if its black berries or blueberries and so parents with children who have allergies did not take lightly to that. You have a rabbit, do they have allergies . Frank did not approve of peter rabbits behavior. In fairness peter does apologize at some point in the film. I dont know if it makes it all okay. It does, it does. And an arkansas woman has beaten Mother Nature by giving birth after entering men and that woman is the grandmother. She and husband had, cody, needed a surrogate to have kids, so patty offered to help. And patty took hormone shots to counter the effects of menopause. Her grandson is said to be doing well. Were seeing the first pictures there of cross. What a gift. A lot of people complain about their motherinlaws. I dont think shell have any complaints. No, shes not able to. A miami teacher is fired after she married another woman. Parents call for the beloved teacher to be reinstated. The miami archdiocese says she broke a contract. And up in the sky is it a bird . Is it a plane . How about over 1,000 drones lighting up the sky at the winter games. Well show you how they did it. You are watching world news now. Ayep, and my teeth are yellow. . Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. And they whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. Trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. Suppositories for relief in minutes. And dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax. Designed for dependable relief. A couple of lightning strikes left smoke coming from the top of australias tallest building. Check that out. It stands a little over 1,000 feet high and was hit by a number of lightning bolts during this bad storm. The storm also knocked out power to more than 10,000 homes. Quite a scene there. Parents at a Miami Catholic school are demanding answers after learning that a popular first grade teacher was fired without explanation. This just days after they found out the teacher married another woman. Reporter it was a dream wedding. Marrying her samesex partner last weekend on the sands of the florida keys. But, after this video and photos were posted on social media, she found herself out of a job, fires where she taught for nearly seven years. The firing leaving some parents outraged. Unbelievable. Reporter parents first learning of the decision and describing it as a necessary decision. The diocese saying she broke the contract she signed when she began teaching at the school. According to the contract all employees, including School Teachers are considered representatives and any conduct inconsistent with that can draw disciplinary action. Up to termination. Abc news learning four other teachers were disciplined for attending the wedding. This, despite pope francis saying gay people should not be discriminated against, and should be respected. She writes i married the love of my life and was terminated as a result and therefore im not the right kind of catholic for the job. The teacher hired an attorney and the school is looking for a relacement. And miami dade does have an ordinance preventing that but makes an exception for religious institutions. And the states discrimination law doesnt cover sexual orientation, so shes going to have an up hill battle with the courts. Coming up, the record setting drones creating a stunning Opening Ceremony moment. And youll be seeing a lot more of them during the winter games. Youre watching world news now. Fast like stop staring atcaps help youthe clock fast,st, like stop worrying about your boss fast, like wow, youre already asleep fast. When life keeps you up. Zzzquil helps you fall asleep in as little as 20 minutes. Taking a looking at the medal count. Norway is in the lead overall with eight total medals. Only one is gold. Canada is in second place with six. Netherlands in third with five. But three of germanys four are gold. Team u. S. A. Has four medals after winning its second snowboarding gold medal last night. Go team u. S. A. Yeah but those norwegians. You know, former president george h. W. Bush used to always talk about a thousand tones of light. Now we know what he was finally talking about. For those of you who caught the incredible drone show you know exactly what were talking about. It captured spectators and a captured a world record. Here is matt gutman with more. Reporter the drone show broadcast during the Opening Ceremony didnt just dazzle, it smashed a world record. 1218 drones set off by intel creating the largest ever swarm of synchronized drones. The largest number of drones previous to that, just over 500. Creating threedimensional figures, a snowboarder coasting over the sky, eight doves fluttering in the stars and, of course, the olympic rings. So, whats that in your hand . This is a drone that flew at the Opening Ceremony. 1200 flew to create the snow border and the olympic ring. This waigs 330 grams, about the weight of a volleyball. We wanted to make it plastic and foam. We wanted to make it lightweight. Reporter a smaller number of drones will fly here every night during the medal ceremonies. This is something thats completely different from what you have ever seen before. Its a new form of story telling. Its where its sort of like digital fireworks. Reporter the drones rely on Sophisticated Software that controls the drones. Its beautiful, but not easy. There has been a lot of challenges. You can never predict weather. Reporter the drones can only fly in certain areas under certain conditions. What the Olympic Committee described as lodgist kalish shoes caused the cancellation of the live drone show during the opening ceremonies. Last years super bowl halftime show painting that giant American Flag behind lady gaga and for the premier of wonder woman. You literally have point of light, multiple points of light you can control in the sky and it can create such a beautiful experience. Thats what we want to create across the world. Love the reaction of the spectators. Indeed. No, they were looking at that interesting torch lighting ceremony. Theres a lot of people online. There was a lot going on there. Yeah, there was. Yeah. Thanks for that report. Coming up, a cold, busy couple of days. We have more. Its never much, just whats left after i break a dollar. 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Well, President Trump spent most of the weekend responding to scandals. While a familiar face returned to abc news. Time for your weekend rewind. President trump speaking publicly for the first time about the Domestic Abuse scandal involving his former close aide, rob porter. It was very sad when we heard about it. As you probably know he says hes innocent and i think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent. This weekend the president is also under fire for taking partisan sides in the russia investigation, refusing to release the democrats classified memo. Last week he ordered the release of a gop memo, even though his own Justice Department called it extraordinarily reckless. This week the white house has a newfound admiration for the fbi. And what were seeing is the problem when you have someone who lacks character in the oval office. It infects the whole. A new concern about the flu striking the same person twice. A few weeks back it was maybe 25 to 30 patients a day. I think now its more 4050 patients. Gloria copeline has very unconventional theories on how to avoid the flu. Inoculate yourself with the word of god. Really . I had no idea jesus worked at cvs. Watch as officers storm the car and grab the suspect, dragging him out before the flames explode inside the car. All the passengers were cleared out before Police Arrived and no one was hurt. A u. S. Struck gold for the first time in pyeongchang, giving the u. S. The first and only gold medal. Tonight was the Opening Ceremony. It was a lot of fun until trump stood there pointing out which countries with sholes. Shole, shole, nice, never heard of that country. Hole. Never know when you have the urge for a frozen treat. When its going to hit you. A woman riding her horse the way wendys drivethru to get a frosty. The clerk behind the counter was maybe a little surprised. What did the horse have . Horse and a burger. One way to go through drivethru. The famous laugh is back there on the weekends. By the way happy birthday to Abraham Lincoln today. You know who else celebrated the birthday . Mama macedo. Happy belated birthday, mom. Birthday . Mama macedo. This morning on world news now, new yorks attorney general takes on Harvey Weinstein and company. A producer of repeatedly sexually harassing an employee at his company. What impact this might have on the half billion dollar sale of that company. A fallout after President Trumps sympathy o