We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. These flames are brutal. Gusting winds just fuelling those flames. The prospects for containment are not good. A deadly wildfire rages through Southern California. Nerve wracking to see a fire up on the canyon heading your way. The president s legal team scoffing at the idea that Robert Mueller is building a case for obstruction of justice. Its certainly evidence that goes to obstruction of justice. I believe the president is no more above the law than any other american. John conyers is expected to announce that he will not be speaking reelection. Does he face Sexual Misconduct allegations . Alabama Senate Candidate roy moore now has the backing as President Trump. The president told him he would be with him 100 and to go get them. Whiteout conditions in parts of dakota. A win for pittsburgh and it is good. Bozwell. And all that matters. Billy bush isnt backing down from his criticism of President Trumps remarks. I would also like to say thats not me on the bus. You dont get to say that. On cbs this morning. That is the cbs evening news tonight. Im jeff glor. Jeff glor made his evening news anchor debut last night with his family cheering him on last night. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. We have to say congrats to jeff glor. Its so nice when your family is proud of you. I thought that was cute with champagne to toast. He did a great job. Im gayle king with Nora Odonnell. Deadly wildfires exploding across Southern California this morning. Flames are racing to the city of ventura, home to more than 150 thu people. Thousands of homes are under mad toir evacuation orders. People rushed to escape overnight and the flames caused Power Outages to over 260,000 customers. At least one person was killed in an accident related to the fire. Theyre saying now the containment is at zero percent. More than 30,000 acres are burning northwest of los angeles. Santa ana winds with pushing the flames and jamie is in ventura. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Over my shoulder you can see this is one of several homes on fire right now in this neighborhood. The flames are spreading so quickly firefighters are just trying to save as many structures as possible. They havent even begun to contain the flames. Snool thousands of californians have left their homes overnight as flames raced into their backyard. Im not having to wait around to have somebody rescue me so im out of here. Others werent as eager to leave. Its our home. You cant panic. You just go with the flow. Its just the wind. You dont know where its going to go. Winds moving at more than 50 Miles Per Hour are driving the flames west making conditions more difficult for first responders. Within winds like this, fire growth is just absolutely exponential. The fire chief says more than 500 fiertds are on the ground, desperately working to gain the upper hand. As far as getting ahead of the fire, thats exactly what were doing right now, but its in defense of structures and property right now, not actually trying to put the fire out. You can see those flames out there. Power just went off. Flames torched a key transmission line knocking out power for more than 360,000 customers. The only thing were seeing right there are streets. All the homes in this area, power is out. Venture a county sheriff. Areas that arent necessarily affected by the fire are being affected by sporadic Power Outages as the fire burns down the power lines. Reporter because of these strong winds and dark skies, firefighters are not able to deploy helicopters to start in this fire fight and because winds could pick up later today there could be even more destruction later. Thats not the news they need to hear today. Thank you very much. The newest white house comments about the firing of the National Security advisor Michael Flynn are raising obstruction of justice questions. President trumps lawyer are now trying to separate mr. Trump from that talk saying its impossible for a president to obstruct justice. Margaret is at the white house with the latest on this story. Reporter good morning. Sources tell cbs news that the president was informed in late january by white House Counsel of inconsistencies in Michael Flynns statements about his russia contacts. They insist at the time it had not been determined that flynn had lied. A distinction that could make the difference as to whether the president himself committed a crime. Flynn lied and they destroyed his life. President trump may have obstructed justice if in fact he knew that general flynn had lied to the fbi at the same time he urged former director james comey to stop investigating him. But mr. Trumps personal law, john dowd, strongly disputed that telling cbs news the president cannot obstruct himself because hes the countrys top Law Enforcement officer. Yet past u. S. President s have faced obstruction of Justice Charges during impeachment charges. Im going to ask him myself, is there proof of that . Reporter now attorney Jeff Sessions was an alabama senator when he argued president clinton had obstructed justice. This matter involving thissism peachmethis impeachment is about perjury and obstruction of justice. Reporter a tweet suggested he knew early on that flynn had committed a crime. Attorney john dowd claimed he was the word smith who crafted it. The lawyers are the ones that understand how to put those tweets together. Reporter yet monday white house advisor suggested someone else who typed it. I know that what mr. Dowd says is correct, that he what he says is he put it together and sent it to our director of social media. Reporter whether the crafting of that post was the result of sloppy wording or revealed the president s prior knowledge is now in question. Sources tell cbs news that prior to flynns plea the president had been informed by white House Counsel that flynns statements were similarly misleading when he gave them to both the Vice President and to the fbi. It wasnt until the white house was presented with a transcript of flynns calls with the Russian Ambassador that it became clear he had lied. All right. Thank you so much. Controversial alabama Senate Candidate roy moore now has an endorsement from the president and backing from the Republican National committee. The rnc actually reversed itself overnight three weeks after drawing support after sexual misallegations against moore. At least nine women say the candidate groped or pursued them some when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. Moore will hold a rally tonight. Reporter good morning. This rustic venue will be teeming with supporters tonight and a prominent one in particular. Former white house strategist steve bannon. This even after one of moores accusers has come forward with new evidence. We dated for a brief time, and we kissed with my consent, and im very sad that hes decided to say he doesnt know me. Debby gibson was one of the first to share her story to Washington Post of moores Sexual Misconduct. She says she was 17 and moore was 34 when they met in 1981. In a followup interview the now 54yearold presented a High School Graduation card from moore. I wanted to give you this card myself. I know youll be a success in anything you do, roy. Moore has denied knowing any of the women who have revealed their alleged encounters with him. I do not any of these women, did not date any of these women and did not engage in Sexual Misconduct with anyone. I feel like this is personally to be a fact, a lie. Reporter allegations against moore some say are moore. The poll shows moore leading the senate rate 4943. Moore is ahead because of his key supporters are more likely to turn out at the polls. His vote is an older person and people tend to vote more than younger people for obvious reasons. Theyve got more time to vote. Were ready to go. With a week until the election volunteers for moores opponent, Democrat Doug Jones are scrambling to rally suppo supporte supporters. We need all the help we can get. Reporter a representative for roy moore tells cbs news moore knew debbie and her family, but does not recall any formal dates. President trump will hold a rally friday night in pence cola, florida, but its unclear how much of that will focus on the Alabama Senate race. That special election as you mentioned one week from today. Thank you. Michigan Democrat John conyers is set to retire from congress in a growing Sexual Misconduct allegations. He will not seek reelection. They will make an announcement this morning. A former staff member came forward yesterday with new allegations saying conyers put his hand up her skirt in church. Conyers has denied any wrong doing. Cbs news has also learned that conyers grand nephew, Michigan State senator will run for his seat. Billy bush has returned to tv to challenge President Trump who is reportedly denying that his voice is on that infamous access hollywood tape. Bush appeared on the late show last night after writing a New York Times op ed responding to the president. The former today show cohost described hearing his interaction with mr. Trump on that tape as a gut punch every time. He did not mince words on colbert echoing the same charge he made in the times. You cant say that. That is your voice. I was there, you were there, thats your voice on the tape. Billy bush pushed back hard on President Trumps reported denial of the access hollywood tape. In the last 14 months of my life ive been dealing with it. You dealt with it 14 minutes and went on to be the president. The tape was released one month before the president ial election. You can do anything. Grab them by the do anything. Then President Trump issued a public apology that same day. I said it, i was wrong and i apologize. After the tape surfaced more than a dozen women accused mr. Trump of Sexual Misconduct, the president denies all of the accusations. Then last month the New York Times reported that not long after his time president elect trump told the republican senator that he wanted to investigate the recording adding, we dont think that was my voice. According to the times, mr. Trump has continued to suggest that the tape was not actually him. And that struck a nerve with bush who says he believes the women who have accused the president of wrong doing. Youre reopening wounds on them too. Enough is enough. Bush wrote an op ed titled yes, donald trump, you said that. In it he says there were seven other guys on the bus at the time adding every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act. Surely we thought none of this was real. So you think he was sort of if i thought it was a man detailing a Sexual Assault strategy to my i would have called the fbi, not just reported it to my executive producer. Well, bush says in 2000 nooif when the ta 2005 when the tape was made, he was on the apprentice and everybody had to kiss the ring a little bit because he was making so much money for nbc. Im glad he didnt become away from owning what he said was his own mistakes as well. Well, lawsuits are being filed to challenge President Trumps plan to reduce the size of two national monuments. The president was in utah yesterday to sign the proclamation shrinking the protected land. It reduces bear ears and Grand Staircase escalante from nearly 2 million acres to a million. Environmental groups say protections are needed for archaeological and cultural sites. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of the biggest cases of its term. Lines started forming yesterday for a seat inside the court. They will hear argument from a colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple in 2012. The court ruled in 2015 that the constitution protects same sex margination wide and now it will decide just how far that protection goes. Jan crawford spoke to both parties in this landmark case. Reporter as you can see, this case is attracting a lot of attention and its a right to free speech and free religion against a right to be free from discrimination. A devout Christian Baker on the one hand and a same sex couple who just wanted a wedding cake. Jack phillips had been making wedding cakes for nearly 20 years when they walked into his Masterpiece Cake shop outside denver. He asked us who the cake was for and when we said it was for us, he said he would not make a cake for a same sex wedding. Mullins and craig were getting married in massachusetts and were planning a celebration back home colorado. I was embarrassed that by mom had to see me go through that and you know, to be honest, i started to break down and i cried. I tried to respectfully apologize that i couldnt create this thing. Phillips who grew up drawing and painting says his cake are personal artistic impressions. I serve everybody so in this case i will gladly sell you anything in my shop but this is an event i cant create a cake for. But to mullins and craig it was discrimination. They filed a complaint against phillips and won. What we went through was humiliating and painful and degrading and we didnt want another loving couple to have to go through that. But for phillips the ordeal was also painful. Phone calls were coming, harassing, swearing at you to where my wife was afraid to come into the shop at points. There were tears and it was just like whats going on . What do we do . Phillips stopped making wedding cakes so he wouldnt be forced to violate his believes. And what if the Supreme Court rules against you . If we have to close the business in order to stand for our faith, then thats what well do. Now, phillips lawyer says the case could affect all kind of Creative Professionals and force them to create art works that may conflict against their religious believes but the couple says this is just a straight up case of discrimination. Really interesting to hear those arguments. Let me ask you about the other big news out of the Supreme Court, them upholding the president s travel ban, said it would take full effect. What can you tell us about that decision . Reporter this is a win for the president. Its a temporary win, but it basically means that the travel ban can stay in effect while all these appeals play out. That the Trump Administration will be able to fully enforce this ban until all these lawsuits are resolved. Now, two judges in hawaii and maryland had said that the restrictions on trumps travel order had to be limited and that travelers with bona fide connections to the United States could not be kept out of the country, but with the supreme cou courts order yesterday in most cases citizens from eight countries will be unable to enter the United States. It applies to people from six mostly muslim countries and north korea and venezuela. All right. Thank you. A star line backer for the Pittsburgh Steelers is hospitalized this morning after monday night football. He fell after a hard hit and appeared to be unable to move his legs. He was carted off the field. Reports say that he has a spinal cord concussion and hes improving. 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