Voters has him at 35 , his highest number yet in our polling and up from 22 in october. Trump leads his nearest rival, ted cruz, better than two to one. Former frontrunner ben carson lost half of his support, falling to third. Everyone else is in single digits. The poll was taken before trump called for a temporary ban on states. Garrett. At. Reporter donald trump has long professed a love for polls, and these numbers might add to his fascination. A new nbc news wall street journal poll showed 42 of republicans support trumps call to ban muslims from coming to the u. S. , 36 oppose it. Among all voters, nearly six in 10 disagree with the plan while 25 support it. I have to do whats right. Have a problem. Its a serious problem. Its got to be solved. Reporter in addition to leading our poll nationwide, republicans give trump a clear advantage on terrorism and the economy. 40 of g. O. P. Primary voters say they are very confident in trumps ability to deal with terrorism, 51 say the same about his approach to the economy. And yet, trump remains divisive. 23 of g. O. P. Voters said he is the nominee they would be most dissatisfied with. We need to take off the blinders of political correctness. Reporter drafting close behind trump, texas senator ted cruz. 30 of republican primary voters are very confident cruz could handle terrorism. Hes also seen as the second choice of 26 of trump supporters, outpacing his republican rivals. The course of a president ial election, the voters are going to make a decision about every candidate, and ultimately, the reporter cruz today picked up the endorsement of bob vanderplatt, a leader among social conservatives in iowa. Scott, vand areplatt has backed the two most recent exwop caucus winners, mike hug bee in two 8, and Rick Santorum in 2012. Pelley major, thank you. Today, the investigation of the San Bernardino massacre took f. B. I. Divers to a lake near the crime scene. Theyre looking for a hard drive missing from the home of the ciferls, syed farook and his pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik. Another focus is their 24yearold neighbor, and carter evans has the latest on him. Reporter Law Enforcement sources tell cbs news, Enrique Marquez is cooperating with the f. B. I. , that hes told them of a 2012 terror plot he and Syed Rizwan Farook allegedly hatched then scuttled. Marquez could face charges of providing Material Support for provided two of the assault weapons used in the San Bernardino attack. But the more thats revealed about marquez the more puzzling it is for those who knew him. He was really outgoing. He was never violent. Reporter Viviana Ramirez was a college classmate. Just the fact that he is friends with him doesnt mean that he did it. Reporter marquez had converted to islam and visited this mosque a couple of times three or four years ago, according to a spokesman. A mosque member who met marquez says he seemed to be searching for direction, was exploring islam, and later said he wanted to convert to buddhism. Another friend tells cbs news, when he talked about islam, he talked about it in the past tense. He told me that he deconverted years ago. Something else marquez may have shielded from his friends was that he had a wife, a russian woman who is related to farook by marriage. But neighbors of marquez say they never recall seeing his wife. Today, outside the house where family members have shunned mother spoke briefly in spanish captured by cell phone video. My world is upsize sidedown, she says. My son is a good person. Marquez lived in the home behind me, right next door to where his childhood friend farook once lived. And scott the first of the funerals for the San Bernardino victims was held today. 27yearold Yvette Velasco was laid to rest. Pelley carter evans, carter, thanks. Tashfeen malik got into the United States on a fiance visa, extremism. Margaret brennan has been looking into that. Reporter Tashfeen Malik arrived in the u. S. With her 2014. Just two months earlier, she passed a u. S. Government background check that found no suspected ties to terrorism. She was granted a k1 visa, even though the f. B. I. Now believes she was radicalized before she met farook. The state Department Says malik an interview at the u. S. Embassy in pakistan. She also filled out a questionnaire where she was terrorist activity . Organization . Five u. S. Agencies also vetted her, checking her fingerprints against two databases. Neither her name nor image showed up on a u. S. Terror watch list. Malik gave an incomplees home address, which could have raised red flags, but its not clear if it was intentional. Now congress is demanding to know what questions she was asked and to see her visa application. House republican matt salmon and they say the vetting process is has got all these faille saifs, but apparently there arent enough failsafes because she got through the system and how many others have gotten through the system . Reporter 35,000 other foreigners received k1 visas last year. Just 618 applications were denied. Earnest said the program will likely be changed. If somebody entered the United States through the k1 visa program and proceeded to carry out an act of terrorism on american soil, that program is, at a minimum, worth a very close look. Reporter the departments of state and Homeland Security admit that no screening will ever be 100 secure, especially, scott, in a case like this, where there were no history of ties to a terrorist group, and malik did not make her extremist views public. Pelley Margaret Brennan at margaret, thanks. Law enforcement is blind to the plans of some terrorists because encrypted. Heres nancy cordes. Reporter this is where terrorists turn these days when they want to talk undetected, a messaging app, called telegram, available for free on any smartphone. Its the goto application for terrorist communication. Reporter elliot zweig is Department Director at the middle east Media Research telegram has set it up that even they themselves dont retain the information. They cannot monitor the content. Reporter and there are dozens of other apps just like it, featuring powerful encryption Law Enforcement cant crack. That is a big problem. We have to grapple with it. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey revealed wednesday that one of the two men who tried to attack a garland, texas, Conference Center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that morning. And to this day, i cant tell you what he said with that terrorist, 109 times the morning of that attack. Reporter so congress is considering legislation that would compel Tech Companies to unscramble and hand over suspicious and encrypted messages but many of these Companies Operate outside of u. S. Telegram was founded by a russian and is based in germany, and experts warn that isis is testing out its own encrypted rely on outside companies at all. Even u. S. Tech companies have balked at the notion of new laws. They say encryption is there to protect all kinds of personalidate doot and if they give Law Enforcement a way in, scott, eventually, hackers will find their way in, too. Pelley nancy cordes on capitol hill. Thank you, nancy. Connecticut is about to become the first state to ban anyone on a Government Watch list from buying a firearm. That is something that congress has not done, despite a request from the president. Governor dan malloy announced today hell do it by executive order. Supreme Court JusticeAntonin Scalia is under fire tonight for comments he made during oral arguments yesterday. The court was hearing a challenge to affirmative action at the university of texas. Heres our chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford. Reporter Justice Scalia was describing an argument made in court papers by opponents of affirmative action. It does not benefit African Americans to get them into the university of texas where they do not do well, says scalia, as opposed to a slower tracked school where they do. Scalia was referring to the mismatched theory that minorities admitted through affirmative action tend to enter at the bottom of the class. Then they have trouble competing. With that in mind, scalia continued, i dont it stands to reason that its a good thing for the university of texas to admit as many blacks as possible. But outside the court, no one cared about the legal arguments. Scalia was deemed racist. Minority leader harry reid even took to the senate floor. But it is deeply disturbing to hear a supreme Court Justice endorse racist ideas from the bench. Its not the least bit racist. Reporter stuart taylor, coauthored the book that pioneered the mismatch theory. Justice scalia used rather awkward words, but the point he correct that when you dramatically lower academic standards to let in a racial group into a college who wouldnt get in otherwise, theyre going to have trouble competing with the people who got in the oldfashioned way. Reporter now supporters of affirmative action say the mismatched theory understates the real advantages that minority students get by schools. And, scott, they point out that the Graduation Rates for minorities at u. T. Austin, well, theatre highest of any Public College in the state. Pelley jan crawford in the washington newsroom. Thanks, jan. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl is speaking for the First Time Since he was released in a prisoner swap last year. Bergdahl was captured by the taliban in 2009 after he warnedded from his post in afghanistan. His first interviews are now on the podcast serial, and david martin is at the pentagon. Reporter the armys investigation of bergdahl portrayed him as a cockide idealist, an image he seemed to the soldier the army has charged with desertion, and some have branded a traitor, told an interviewer he abandoned his post in an effort to draw attention to problems within his own unit. Reporter bergdahl said it wasnt long after he walked away that he realized how stupid. Reporter it took the taliban about a day to find him. The next five years as a prisoner of the taliban. Much of it was in a pitchblack room. Reporter bergdahls stunt backfired not only on himself but also on his fellow soldiers. Their lives were put in greater jeopardy by having to spend several weeks hunting for him. The army still has not decided what to do with bergdahl. He faces charges that could bring a life sentences, but investigators have recommended he not spend any more time in prison. Scott. Pelley david martin at the pentagon. David, thanks. Tornadoes are rare in the pacific northwest, but people who live in the town of battleground, washington, near the oregon border think their town was hit by one today, and David Begnaud is there. There really is a tornado. Reporter it looked like a tornado to People Living in we got multiple calls. Reporter the unusual weather came amid four days of fastmoving pacific storms that left much of oregon and washington a mess. What did it look like outside . It looked like the wizard of oz out here. There was debris flying everywhere, trees flying down the road, peoples sheds, pools, trampolines. Reporter since monday, as much as 18 inches of rain has swelled northwest rivers and saturated the ground, toppling trees. A landslide closed the interstate connecting oregon and washington most of today. Told the department of transportation has hopes, this is hopes at the moment, to reopen at least one lane. Reporter governor jay islee declared a state of emergency. Two people died, including a 72yearold woman who drowned overnight had her car in clactskani, oregon. Her husband was able to crawl out of the sunroof. Back here in battleground, washington, what witnesses say looked just like a tornado scott, no one was hurt. Pelley david, thanks. Coming up, more people become ill after eating at chipotle. With toothpaste or plain water. The c. E. O. Of chipotle apologized today as more people reported getting ill after eating in a restaurant in boston. There are now 141 suspected cases of norovirus at boston college. Heres anna werner. Reporter the shutdown of this chipotle in boston is the fifth healthrelated crisis for the restaurant chain in six months. Boston college says students who ate there came down with norovirus, which causes nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Tim fox is a senior. Severe stomach pain, like, really sharp pain, something i never really felt before. Reporter stay Health Officials believe this outbreak employee who contaminated the food. Chipotles healthrelated issueses began last july with a small e. Coli outbreak in seattle. In august, 100 people were sickened by norovirus in california. Then starting in october, dozens of customers in chipotle restaurants across nine states came down with e. Coli infections. The chain temporarily closed 43 of its restaurants. Data shows chipotle is the fastest expanding restaurant chain in the u. S. , opening 799 restaurants since 2009. Sales have more than doubled to 4 billion. Im sorry for the people who got sick. Reporter c. E. O. Steve ells pledged to overhaul food safety proat colz in an interview with nbc news. The stock has rebounded today but is still down almost 25 since august. And just a short time ago, authorities in seattle announced because of repeated violations. 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