This is the cbs weekend news. Secretary tom perez won the day. Thank you so much. Reporter perez is now the new chair, narrowly defeating minnesota congressman keith ellison, a charismatic progressive in the second round of voting. And the motion i would like to make to the body is the motion suspending the rules, if i may, to appoint keith ellison, deputy chair of the Democratic National committee. cheers and applause reporter in his First Official act as chair, perez offered ellison the job of deputy, hoping to build a crucial alliance with ellisons younger, more activist wing. Ellison accepted. We dont have the luxury, folks, to walk out of this room divided. applause we dont have that luxury. And i just want to say to you that it is my honor to serve this party under the chairmanship of tom perez. Party at its lowest point of power in 100 years. You want to give me a good sendoff, go vote . Reporter under president obama, other party lost about 1,000 state and federal elections, including 11 seats in the senate, 63 seats in the house, den ten governorships and, of course, the white house itself. The partys new leaders share a populist blueprint for rebuilding. The previous d. N. C. Chair Debbie Wasserman schultz, resigned in scandal last summer after a trove of leaked emails suggested she had favored clinton over sanders in the democratic primaries. The party is nearly leaderless, and they need a leader. Reportearr lry sabato is drerveght center for politics at the university of virginia. Even if President Trump is very unpopular in 2018, the republicans probably wont lose the senate and may, indeed, gain senate seats. Reporter and on the republican side, President Trump recently appointed roona romney mcdaniel, niece of former president ial candidate, mom, as r. N. C. She replaced reince priebus, who now s, of course, the president s chief of staff. Ninan tony, we havent heard much from president obama. Im curious if he has weighed in. He has weighed in. He believes under perez and ellison the democrats will march ahead. Ninan President Donald Trump tweeted today he will not, attending the Correspondents Dinner this april. He wrote the tweet comes after a lunch today with republican governors of florida and wisconsin. Heres errol barnett. Reporter after spending last weekend at his winter white house in florida, the president is expected to have a quiet weekend in washington. This morning, he started his day by boasting on twitter the National Debt in my first month went down by 12 billion versus a 200 billion increase in obamas first month expect that he has, great optimism for future of u. S. Business and jobs. I love this place. cheers and love you people. Reporter friday was his muchanticipated address to the conservative Political Action conference. One by one, were check off the promises we made to the people of the united states, one by one. A lot of promises. Reporter he also sharpened his attacks on the press. A few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Reporter later friday, several news organizations were excluded from an offcamera press briefing. Reporter in his weekly address, President Trump attempted to bridge a divide, highlighting black History Month and his plans to help minorities. Weve lost a lot of our best jobs to other countries, and this has hurt American Community very badly. This week, i met with manufacturing c. E. O. S. Were going to be working on bring back those jobs, and i mean really goodpaying jobs. Reporter tuesday night, President Trump will address a joint session of congress. Cbs news will carry it live. Democrats, reena, who have opposed his immigration policies, have invited Muslim Americans, refugees and socalled dreamers to join them in the audience. Ninan and some of those democrats not sure theyll chaik the pretty hand. Lots to watch. Thanks, erring on. A kurdish tv reporter was killed today by a roads idmb. 30yearold sheefa ghurdi was a wellknown war correspondent. Youre electrocute her last report before she died. The tv channel she worked for praised her journallively and said her reporting broke stereotypes in a maledom naipted profession. To the outskirts of mosul, where iraqi forces, backed by the u. S. Military, are slowly taking ground from isis. This past weekend, they retook the airport, and started pushing deeper into iraqs secondlargest city. Heres davids reporting from the front line. Reporter day seven battle for western mosul and the iraqis, by their own account, are moving very slowly. Their operations are being disrupted by isis drones, sometimes operating in swarms of three to five. They are offtheshelf quadrocopters which drop hand grenades or artillery shells and in this video releaseed by isis appeared to score a direct hoilt an iraqi pern carrier. Hundreds escaped into the surrounding desert, but an estimated 700,00 700,000 remaind inside their homes. U. S. Advisers are operating closer to the front lines in an attempt to hospital iraqis better coordinate their attacks. General joseph votel, commander of u. S. Forces in the middle east, independent the medevac helicopters and the Field Hospital set up to receive american casualties. But there havent been any sense the battle for west mosul began. Iraqi medevacs on the other hand, flew twiks missions on friday, signs of american support are everywhere. Apache helicopter gunships wait for missions at a base 40 miles south of mosul, as do these mobile rocket launchers under the comoond of lieutenant mary floyd. Whats the range of those rockets . So our rockets can go from 50 kilometers to 70 kilometers. Reporter so youre in range of mosul where we are now. We sure are. Reporter less than 10 miles south of mosul, american howitz rer on call 24 7. Their mission is to suppress enemy fire. You get report backs on damage youve caused . We do. Reporter and in the words of the captain geoffrey ross, give the iraqiing the gumption to move forward. So in the time youve been here, circ i cantu really discuss how many weve fired but its considerably more than we thought we were going to shoot when we left fort hood. Reporter the iraqi strategy is to take back the city and deliver small bites. Yesterday that cost them four dead and 53 wounded and an american officer says its going to be hard every day. David martin, cbs news, south of mosul. Ninan a White House National security staffer resigned after eight days in the trump administration. The maryland woman is a Muslim American whose family imgraipted from bangladesh. She was a holdover from the obama white house, who had hoped to stay. She told her story to jeff pegues. It was a very tense and unwelcoming feeling. Reporter rumana ahmed worked as a staffer on the National Security council during want obama administration. When President Trump took office, she decided to stay but quickly became uncomfortable. I got both of those looks of oh, my god, look, are you know, im surprised youre still here. But you also had others who who were very cold and ignored the fact i was there. Reporter shes hoping to change minds, even though as a Muslim American woman she was offended by want president s rhetoric on the campaign trail. At the end of the day you might not convince everybody but there might be one or two people willing to listen. Reporter did you jins be of convince anybody over there . There was no opportunity to interact with anybody. Reporter in the chaotic early days, ahmed believes she and other staffers were often cut out of the policymake process. You kind of actually found out about things as they came out in the news, and that wasnt just true of some of us who stayed, but it was also true of some of the trump staffers as well. No hate, no fear immigrants are welcome here reporter ahmed says one of the last straws for her was the president s executive order banning travel from seven less than two weeks into the trump presidency, she quit. What did you say . Walking into that building was becoming more and more difficult every single day because everything that administration was doing stood against for what i stood for as both an american and a muslim. Reporter there has been a lot of turmoil on the National Security council. Just this past week, President Trump named h. R. Mcmaster to replace Michael Flynn as National Security adviser. White house officials did not have a lot to stay about miss october melds comments, theenl they wish her well. Jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. Ninan the u. S. Customs and Border Protection agency gave an update yesterday on President Trumps proposed border wall with mexico. The agency says it will begin accepting construction bids early next month and in april will begin awarding contracts to build the wall. The president also wants to hire another 5,000 Border Patrol agents. But for now, local Law Enforcement agencies are being asked to help grld the border. Carter evans shows us how all this is playing out in reporter it happened suddenly. A man desperate for help in the harsh arizona desert. speak spanish . Okay. Reporter after he got some water from pima county sheriffs deputy karl woolridge, we learned that 24yearold Jesus Gonsalez had been wandering for four days after crossing the border from mexico 60 miles away. Is this unusual . Not at all. Reporter now the department of Homeland Security would like local officers like deputy woolridge to voluntarily tyke a new role so they can act as immigration officers. If you had to put those people in your jails, would there be enough room . No, were right there at capacity. We dont have the manpower to really get into immigration enforcement. Reporter even though jesus may have broken a federal law thats not a problem for a local sheriff. My responsibility is Public Safety in this county. Thats my responsibility. Reporter pima countys newly elected republican sheriff maap officers who protect roughly 1 million residents across 9,000 square miles along want southern border. If your deputies are viewed as immigration enforcers, how does that impact their ability to do their job . We wouldnt get a lot of calls that we get. I mean, where people witness crimes or are victims of crime, out of fear that that would lead to deportation. Reporter so deputy woolridge didnt detain jesus. Instead, he called a nearby Border Patrol agent who took him into custody. What happens now . I really dont know. Reporter this is where your job end. This is it. Reporter the sheriff here welcomes want president s plan to immediately hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents because, reena, he says hes needs the federal help. Ninan carter evans, thank you. Coming up, a preoscar awards party turns into a protest against the president s travel ban. When i finally told my doctor, he said humira was for people like me who have tried other medications,. But still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. In clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. And many achieved remission. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections. Including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers,. Including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions,. 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Reporter not long after the oscar red carpet was unfurled in hollywood, another gathering down the street on friday brought out slebilities with politics on their mind. This is our time to resist. cheers and applause reporter around 1,000 people rallied in Beverly Hills outside the headquarters of hollywood power broker United Talent agency. They railed against President Trumps proposed travel restrictions on seven muslimmajority countries. I send you my warmest regards from tehran. Reporter one of those most impacted by the proposed ban, oscarwinning iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi sent a message from iran. He decided to boycott sundays ceremony in protest, even though hes again nominated for best Foreign Language film this year. I continue and spread to defy other injustices keep on hoping reporter the event was sponsored by u. T. A. , as a substitute for its traditional preoscar party held each year during the movie industrys most glamulous weekend. With whats going on in the world, isnt this a time to take movie our resources and our time and our influence and talk about whats going on in the world . Reporter along with all the talk of civil rights and artistic expression, the event was an attempt to grab the worlds attention on the one weekend its collective gays is focused on hollywood. Lets get out there, lets makes some noise, throw our arms around our very own community, and show the world what were made of. Reporter jamie yuccas, cbs news. Ninan well, still ahead on 48 hours investigates, the horrors of stalking and tells us how a cbs star is fighting to save lives. We danced in a german dance group. I wore lederhosen. Man. When i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasnt finding all of these germans in my tree. I decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna. The big surprise was were not german at all. 52 of my dna comes from scotland and ireland. Ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. Get started for free at ancestry. Com. Ninan an estimated 7. 5 million men and women are stalked each year, and that only accounts for the reported cases. Many victims are hesitant to speak out and bring their stalk tore justice. According to actress Pauley Perrette from the cbs crime drama n. C. I. S. , the laws have to change. 48 hours correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates. Reporter the career of 22yearold singing sensation christina really likes thi song. Reporter from youtube performances to the big time i came in like a wrecking. Reporter tvs the voice, to concert tours. You griez awesome reporter and then in 2016, the promising star, while welcoming fans at a meetandgreet, was shot dead, the victim of an obsessed fan, a stalker. She had a stalker in the sense of the modern age that we live in of celebrities having to put themselves out on social media. Reporter Orlando Police detective Michael Moreschi she had no clue that this man was stalking her over the internet or that she was in any danger at all. Thanks for listening that poor girl with her arms wide open, just heartbreaking. Reporter do you feel that could be you . I think every victim feels like that that it could be us. Reporter actress Pauley Perrette from n. C. I. S. Says she has been stalked for more than a decade and has found Law Enforcement sometimes slow to help, although her stalker has never explicitly threatened her life, she fears what could happen next. Im so scared sitting here talking about it. But we cant keep this a secret. We have to get these laws changed. Im i here for other victims. Reporter when it comes to stalking, celebrities get most of the attention, but the majority of cases involve everyday people stalked by someone they know. Being stalked is like being a prisoner, and it doesnt end. Reporter peggy is a lawyer and a single mother. Her stalker is a man she dated briefly. After the relationship ended, she began sending her increasingly disturbing emails and voice mails. Im going to dedicate my whole bleep life to wrecking yours he decide descroid everything. After chr murdered, it really hit home for me that, that could be my reality. And this is basically the problem. Reporter six years ago lenora claire, a casting director, met her stalker, justin massler. A lot of people are asking me, since youre jesus christ reporter he had a history, having been arrested in 2010, for stalking ivanka trump. Lenora says that although she empty justin just once, the havoc he wreaked on her life was ongoing. Lenora does not want me to stop contacting her. I shouldnt be fearful any time get a knock at my door, but i am. Its just will he find me . Reporter you can see erins chilling report in a special twohour edition of 48 hours, tonight right here on cbs. Up next, a shoutout to cbs news birthday boy, Bob Schieffer. 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Bob schieffer, renowned broadcast journalist, political commentator, author, cancer survivor, and bona fide living legend, according to the library of congress. Today, bob earned another distinguished title octogenarian. Good evening. Ninan for more than half of his 80 years, Bob Schieffer worked at cbs news, covering major events, including j. F. K. s assassination, the vietnam war there are so many people from this area who are in vietnam. Death that im a newspaper exprrpt this is the name of the game. Reporter every Political Convention since 1968, and 14 president ial inaugurations. Today marks my official debut, as it were, as moderator of face the nation. Ninan he anchored face the nation for 24 years, in addition to anchoring week day and weekend broadcasts of the cbs evening news. And thats it for us today as i say gone for this last time. Reporter schieffer retired in 2015, but he still shares his insights with us as a political contributor. Tonight, all of us at cbs news hope hes enjoying a agreement birthday celebration. And this must be the year of the milestone for bob. He celebrates another one on april 15, his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, patricia. And thats the cbs weekend news for this saturday. Theres more news right now on our 24hour streaming channel cbsn at cbsnews. Com. Im reena ninan in new york. Thanks for joining us, and good night. Announcer the following program is sponsored by operation smile. Every year, hundreds of thousands of children are born with cleft lip and or cleft palate. Dr. Bill magee why should any child, anywhere on this planet, have to live a life of misery. Kathy majette a lot of people think that children that are born with these deformities are cursed. Just imagine a life alone, that nobody wanted to be around you. Brown bags over their head. Theyre never allowed to leave their house unless they have a bag on their heads. 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