Plus, the new owners of a house featured in American Horror story say they are living a reallife nightmare. Youll see the unexpected surprise theyre getting from hundreds of obsessive fans. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. We condemn Domestic Violence in all forms. He has not said it. Why has he not said it . Im the spokesperson for the white house and the president. The white house muddles its message on rob porter. Ive never seen one instance in Something Like this. The president at the very least should come out and express some solidarity for these victims. The Senate Begins on Immigration Reform. Time for political posturing is behind us. This is the moment for a narrow bill. If the democrats want to make a deal, its really up to them. The president s daughterinlaw taken to the hospital after opening a letter with white powder inside. That powder was cornstarch. The former white house aid omarosa continued her Harsh Criticism of her former employer. We would be begging for days of trump back. In Southern California, smoke inside a plane forced more than 140 people to evacuate the aircraft. All that today is mardi gras. The city of new orleans preparing for the days celebrations. Send me a beat. This olympian is a professional swiss skier. Hanging out there like laundry. Thats got to be good for gold. All that matters. Former president obama and First Lady Michelle Obama unveiling their official portraits. I tried to negotiate last gray hair. I tried to negotiate smaller ears. Struck out on that as well. On cbs this morning. Back to back 1080s. Chloe kim is the cream of the crop, an olympic Gold Medalist. Americas newest super star. Its official. How about this for a curtain call. Olympic champion. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Good morning. Welcome to cbs this morning. As you wake up in the west. The Trump Administration is trying to sell a sweeping budget plan to congress. It includes big cuts to medicare and food stamps and an increase in defense spending. But that message is still being drowned out by the uproar over abuse allegations against a former senior white house aide. President trumps press secretary read a statement yesterday condemning Domestic Violence. She said it was dictated by the president , who has made other statements, praising his former staff secretary, rob porter. Porter resigned nearly a week ago, but there are still Unanswered Questions today about what the administration knew about his alleged abuse of his two exwives. Major garrett is at the white house with the latest on this story. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. The Trump White House still in a state of turmoil as internal speculation continues about the job security of white house chief of staff john kelly. And basic explanations from this white house and the chain of events leading up to the dismissal of a Top White House aide, well, that time line and those explanations remain in conflict. Mr. President , do you have a vetting problem . Reporter President Trump ignored questions monday surrounding the resignation of his former aide rob porter who he appeared to defend last friday. He says hes innocent and i think you have to remember that. Reporter porters first wife, Colbie Holderness, disputed his innocence in the Washington Post, writing, living in constant fear of robs anger chipped away at my independence and sense of selfworth. Im very close to hope hicks and i dont worry about her in that respect. Reporter also responded to white house counselor Kellyanne Conway who on sunday was asked about Communications Director hope hicks purported relationship with rob porter. Ive never met somebody so strong. Reporter holderness disputed conways characterization, writing, her statement implies that those who have been in abusive relationships are not strong. I beg to differ. The president supports victims of Domestic Violence. Reporter mixed white house messages on Domestic Abuse are taking a toll on republicans according to arizona senator jeff flake. The political fallout i think is significant. Reporter and questions remain about the time line of porters departure. There are things we could have done better. Reporter the white house claimed that a photo of porters first wifes bruised face forced his resignation. It took chief of staff kelly 12 hours to reverse his support for porter. White House Press Secretary sanders would not explain the delay. We learned of the extent of this situation involving rob porter last tuesday evening and within 24 hours, his resignation had been accepted and announced. Reporter adding to the confusion is the conversation the white house said kelly had less than 40 minutes after the daily mail First Published accusations about Domestic Abuse linked to porter. What that conversation was remains a mystery. So too a mystery, what White House Counsel Don Mcgahn told kelly about the abuse allegations and the relationship to porters security clearance. Major, thanks. The question about why so many people in the Trump Administration do not have proper security clearances is a whole separate story. Theres a backlog of more than 700,000 cases. One investigator tells cbs news the White House Security process, quote, is the peak of what the problem is throughout the government. Jeff pegues is outside fbi headquarters in washington. Jeff, good morning. Reporter yesterday, the white house blamed the fbi for delays in the security clearance process but in a sign of the strain between the bureau and the white house, the fbi responded in a statement saying essentially all they do is the background check. They do not grant security clearances. So help me god reporter nearly 13 months into the Trump Administration, more than a dozen top officials are working with an interim security clearance. Among them, the president s soninlaw, jared kushner. Rob porter was on that list until he resigned last week amid allegations of Domestic Violence. To me it suggests a breakdown in the security clearance system. Reporter this is a former assistant director of the fbi. He says some officials in the Clinton Administration relied on interim clearances but that it is unusual for so many officials to not have full security clearances at this point. To have someone with an interim security clearance for over a year seems very excessive. Sort of defeats the purpose of having a security clearance process in the first place. Reporter he says within fbi headquarters, there is a special unit called spin or special inquiries. It handles White House Security clearances which are designed to be expedited in about 45 days. Once the fbi completes its investigation, its findings are handed over to the white house, which has discretion in deciding whether to approve a full security clearance. My real question was about how he could be doing this job without a security clearance. Reporter lisa brown was a staff secretary in president obamas white house. You want to make sure that they arent working for a foreign government, that they are upright and honest person, that they arent somehow going to be susceptible to blackmail. Reporter thats why the security clearance process is essential in any white house. Cbs news has been told that rob porters Background Information was turned over from the fbi to the white house at least eight months before his resignation. Wow, thats interesting. Jeff, thank you so much. Law enforcement sources say the white powder sent in an envelop addressed to donald trump jr. Is cornstarch. The letter was mailed to the manhattan home of his motherinlaw. Donald trump jr. s wife vanessa opened the letter yesterday. She called 911 and was taken to the hospital along with her mother and a third unidentified person. Everyone is okay. New york police and the secret service are investigating. Lawmakers on capitol hill today are focusing on two issues with longterm consequences. The Senate Continues a rare openended debate on Immigration Reform. Congress has less than three weeks to replace the dak ta program protecting young undocumented immigrants. The president s budget director on capitol hill right now to Sell Congress on the new budget framework. Nancy cordes is there as well. Nancy what do you think the priorities are for the president s budget . Reporter well, they certainly want to enact some cuts to domestic programs. Whether theyll be able to do that remains to be seen. Certainly the budget director Mick Mulvaney is going to make the case today in conversations with members of both the house and the senate. He is going to sit down with them and go over this plan. Which calls for 4. 4 trillion in federal spending in 2018 and 2019. Setting aside 18 billion for a border wall and about 200 billion for infrastructure. But the proposal would also cut about 500 billion over ten years from medicare. And about 200 billion from the program that provides food stamps. Even with those cuts, the budget would still add about 7 trillion to the deficit by 2028, which is something that some fiscal conservatives will find difficult to handle. Now, the reality is that the senate struck a budget agreement last week that would cover the next two years. So the chances that any of this is going to get turned into legislation and then into law is pretty slim right now, gayle. Oh, boy, a lot of work to do there. Nancy, heres the question for you. Mitch mcconnell is opening up the senate this week to an immigration debate. Do you think they could reach an agreement . Whats the thinking on the hill . Well, theyre going to hold a series of votes over the next couple of days on partisan and buy partisan issues. For example, one of the first amendments up is going to be this proposal from a trio of republican senators, cotton, grassley and cornyn, that allows a path to citizenship for these socalled dreamers in exchange for ininvestigationed Border Security and some changes to immigration rules that democrats argue will severely limit the number of legal immigrants who are allowed to enter the u. S. Those democrats say they do not believe this plan can get the 06 votes needed. Frankly, gayle, theres a lot of pessimism right now that any of these plans will get the 60 votes necessary to advance whatever comes out of the senate to the house. All right, nancy cordes, thank you very much. The father of a 5yearold cancer patient will not be deported for at least a year. Jesus was granted a temporary stay yesterday. Just hours after we shared his story. Manu Manuel Bojorquez is outside the church that gave sanctuary to the undocumented immigrant. Reporter he sought refuge inside the church when it appeared he would be deported. He refused to leave when the deadline to turn himself in passed. After an agonizing day of the wait, the father of five learned he will be allowed to stay in the United States for at least another year. Jaden couldnt contain his excitement. The 5yearold who is battling leukemia learned his father would not be deported. Jesus application for a stay was denied last week by u. S. Immigration and customs enforcement. The Agency Reversed itself monday citing humanitarian grounds. He and his 10yearold daughter were overwhelmed. Im going to get to go home with my kids and my wife. Reporter his wife sonya is 5 months pregnant. Handling jadens cancer drug puts her and her baby at risk. She was excited jesus was grant add oneyear stay. He was brought from mexico as a toddler in 1989. He has been deported twice in 2006 and 2010, returning to the u. S. Illegally each time. In february 2016, he was sentenced to 90 days in federal prison on a criminal misdemeanor charge. His wife and children are all u. S. Citizens. He was due to be deported monday. What do you say to people who think youre here illegally, that means you should not be here . Ive been here since i was a little kid so i feel like i come from here. Reporter the 30yearold undocumented immigrant has to regularly check in with the local i. C. E. Office. He also can get a drivers license and a work permit for a year according to his lawyer garrett wilkes. He gets to go home and be with his family tonight. Without any worry that someones going to come to his house in the middle of the night. Reporter he thought he might have to live at the church for at least a few months. He now plans to apply for citizenship. A process which can take years. But there is no guarantee that i. C. E. Will give him another stay once this once expires. Thanks. It is deadly flu epidemic is taking a toll. More than 17,000 flu related hospitalizations have been reported in the u. S. Since october. 3yearold alivia died yesterday in indiana after testing positive for influenza. Vladimir duthiers is here. Reporter federal Health Officials are urging those sick with the flu to stay home from work or school. While the recommendation is critical to helping prevent the flu spread, it is estimated to cost businesses across the country billions of dollars. My kids got sick. I got sick. My parents got sick. Since were a family business, its we just closed down for a week. Reporter after five of its seven employees called out six last month, sherrys chocolate art in kalamazoo michigan had to temporarily shut its doors. That immediately impacted the stores bottom line says manager ashley rapperty. Huge amount of profit loss and then employees not getting paid, that affected them too. Reporter employee Consulting Firm estimates this season the virus could cost about 25 million employees to miss at least four eighthour shifts. The study projects that could cost the u. S. Economy more than 21 billion in lost productivity. But sick employees arent all to blame. The children and School Closures are another reason workers are staying home. This season, more than 40 School Districts in at least 13 states have closed because of the flu. Many in an effort to eliminate any trace of the virus. She just had a heart for teaching. A heart for students. Reporter thats how Lindsay Foster remembers 38yearold heather holland. The second grade teacher from texas died last week from complications with the flu. She truly cared about the kids she came in contact with. Reporter one of hollands former students is fosters daughter. Now 16yearold mary grace. I think i would describe her as somebody who tried really, really hard with me through everything. It wasnt just my child, that she was that kind of teacher for. She just had a heart for teaching and a heart for students. Reporter hollands husband told a local texas newspaper she planned to pick up flu medication but felt the 116 copay was just too high. After finding that out, he reportedly bought the prescription a week later. By that point, his wife symptom. Another reminder how important it is to take it very seriously. And stay home from work or school if you feel you have it. It moves very quickly in some cases. Thank you. Another american teenager grabbed gold at the olympics with an historic performance. Chloe kim soared to a dominating victory in the womens snow board halfpipe. 17 years old. She joined fellow american red gerard as the youngest Gold Medalist in the olympic snow boarding history. Wow. Ben tracy is in pyeongchang with a look at u. S. Mastery on the mountain, ben, good morning. Reporter good morning. So chloe kim was good enough to make the olympic team four years ago in sochi but she was just 13, so she was too young to compete. She is now a much older 17 and you could say shes waited a lifetime for this olympic moment. She is the queen of the pipe. Reporter by the time chloe kim dropped in for her final run, she had already won the gold medal. This is a glory run. Reporter and she made the most of it. The first woman to land backtoback 1080s in the olympics. Lets see the second, chloe. Reporter proving shes worthy of her halfpipe hype. The phenom from torrence, california, soared above the rest of the field, grabbing gold by nearly 10 points. 98. 25, chloe kim, your olympic champion. Reporter team u. S. Arrial gold took the bronze. For kim, it is sweet, her parents are immigrants. Knowing we all worked really hard to get to this point is so amazing. Reporter we also got our first look at twotime snow boarding Gold Medalist shaun white. Oh, my lord. Reporter one of four american men who qualified for the halfpipe final. Theyre hoping to continue team usas gold medal sweep in snow boarding here at these games. Only chloe kim was confident enough to send a tweet in the middle of her competition. She said, wished id finished my breakfast sandwich. Now im getting hangry. Arent youre supposed to be in some sort of zone . How do you have time to tweet . I dont know. I mean, like, what else am i supposed to do . I think, like, watching the contest just makes me more nervous and more anxious because its, like, youre just waiting there. Reporter so you may think chloe kim has some sort of strict nutritional regiment when shes competing. According to her twitter feed, she had two churros the day before her competition and was seen eating ice cream after she won