Wooduff plus, mark shields and david brooks reflect on the senate vote to curb filibusters and the rest of the weeks news. And we explore the enduring impact of president kennedys 1,000 days in office. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Wooduff americans and the world marked the 50th anniversary today of one of the 20th centurys defining moments the assassination of president john f. Kennedy. Hari sreenivasan reports on the days events. taps playing reporter the gray skies at Arlington National cemetery this morning, matched the somber occasion. Joined by family members, the president s sister and last surviving sibling, jean kennedy smith, laid a rose at the grave, where a flame burned as it has for the last half century. Hours later, at dealey plaza, in dallas, people gathered in bitter, wet cold as bells tolled at 12 30 central time the exact moment when the president was shot, as he motorcaded through, 50 years ago. Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings said his city has grown since that horrific day. While the past is never in the past. This was a lifetime ago. Now, today we the people of dallas honor the life legacy and leadership of the man who called us to think not of our own interest but of our countrys. We give thanks for his life and service. We offer condolences to his family. Reporter the mayor unveiled a new memorial, imprinted with words from a speech that president kennedy had been set to give in dallas. It also rained in the slain president s native boston, as governor Deval Patrick laid a wreath at the kennedy statue, outside the massachusetts statehouse. Oh beautiful. America, america across the reporter across the city, music marked the day at the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum. And excerpts of his speeches were read aloud, including the address to the nation on civil rights, in june of 1963, five months before the assassination. We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and as clear as the american constitution. The heart of the question is whether all americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities. Reporter the remembrances extended around the world as well. In britain, kennedys granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg laid a wreath at a memorial to the slain president. We have come here today to honor his memory as this monument does so well. But today is a difficult day as it is a reminder of a moment of profound sadness for my family, for america and for the world. Reporter and back in washington, the 44th president met with peace corps volunteers carrying on the legacy. The organization was created during the kennedy presidency. President obama said today the kennedy assassination reshaped the secret service, and that the agency does an outstanding job. He told abc news he does not worry about his own safety. Historians join us to reflect on the kennedy legacy later in the program. The u. S. Has stepped up pressure on afghan leaders, to sign a security deal by years end. Defense secretary chuck hagel said today that otherwise, there wont be time to plan for keeping u. S. Troops in afghanistan past 2014. Afghan President Hamid karzai said yesterday he wants his successor to sign the pact, after elections next spring. Today, his spokesman said we do not recognize any deadline from the u. S. Side. Secretary of state john kerry headed to switzerland this afternoon to join sixnation talks with iran on freezing its nuclear programs. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov had arrived in geneva earlier. That in turn raised speculation that negotiators may be edging toward a compromise. In a few minutes, Margaret Warner updates us from geneva. United nations sponsored Climate Change talks were scheduled to wind up in warsaw, poland today, but delegates from more than 190 nations kept talking. Theyre trying to fashion a deal to reduce carbon emissions. Its supposed to be adopted at a 2015 summit in paris. The u. S. Special envoy acknowledged its been slow going. I dont think anybody expected anything different from that. There are disagreements that are part of these negotiations and we are still two years from paris so certainly this was never a metric of success for this agreement that these big issues would go away. Wooduff hundreds of environmental activists walked out of the talks yesterday, over the failure to make headway. The pakistani physician who helped locate Osama Bin Laden has been charged with murder. The lawyer for Shakil Afridi said today the case relates to the death of a patient in 2006. Afridi was already facing re trial on other charges. The doctor ran a Vaccination Program that helped the c. I. A. Find bin laden. Pakistani officials regard him as a traitor. The death toll from the typhoon that struck the philippines topped 5,200 today. The countrys National Disaster agency also reported some 23,000 injured, with 1,600 still listed as missing. The agency said only about half the city of tacloban has been cleared, so its likely the number of dead will go higher still. Wall street scored new gains to finish out the week. The Dow Jones Industrial average added more than 54 points to close at 16,064. The nasdaq rose 22 points to close at 3,991. The s p 500 hit a new benchmark, closing above 1,800 for the first time. For the week, the dow gained just over 0. 5 . The nasdaq rose 0. 1 . Still ahead on the newshour adjustments in signing up for health insurance; a possible compromise in the iran talks; whats behind the stock market run; shields and brooks and the kennedy legacy 50 years on. The Obama Administration announced several changes today that they say will make it easier for americans to sign up for Insurance Coverage under the new federal health care law. Jeffrey brown has the story. Brown some of the key changes involve timelines for enrollment. First, people trying to get new coverage starting january 1st now have an extra week to finish enrolling. The new deadline to sign up is december 23. The administration also announced it will push back the start of next years Enrollment Period by one month. That effectively means that in year two of the program, americans can start signing up in midnovember 2014. Late this afternoon, officials announced another change for this year insurers will be able to directly enroll people in three states florida, texas and ohio. Louise radnofsky of the wall street journal has been following all of these developments and is here to explain. Welcome to you. Thank you. Brown so if we start with the changes for this year, this one about pushing it back a week. Whats behind that . Well, the main reason behind it is the Administration Says people have had problems getting into the site and they havent had very much time to get their stuff together in time for january 1. What the insurers are saying is the extension for other people create a more compressed time frame for them. They only have a week to process some of the applications if it turned up on december 23. Brown this is, first of all, from the pressures of the roll out, the problemes, and also the explected eye dont know, glut, perhaps at the end of the year. Year. There are questions about whether the site can handle it and whether the carriers can handle it, too. Brown just to be clear, you can seen up later to be covered in 2014. You can. Typically insurance starts on the first day of the month. Brown this was done as you said, in consultation with the insurers . There are differences in what what had to be worked out. The insurers say they were told about it but they didnt think it was a good idea. Theyre very concerned about it now and saying so pretty loudly, so the consultation appears to have been somewhat one sided. Brown to deal with this expected influx at the end of the year, the administration came out today and said they actually feel a little bit better. What are they looking at . Well, theyre looking at the same data were looking at that seems to suggest there is an uptick in interest in november both in the federally run and statebased exchanges. It suggests more people were going through the site. That said, what the insurers are saying, theyre having difficulty still with the data coming from people when they complete the signup process. The more people that get through, the harder it is because theyre checking it manually in a lot of cases. Brown but they feel a little bit better about the technology at this point. They feel a little bit better for the technology, as you said, in the direct movie enrollment process. But thats something they wanted at the beginning and its only just ready now. Brown what about this other announcement, direct enrollment from insurers in three states. This is kind of a pilot program. It is. Its where the insurer basically gets to help somebody sign up for a plan that they hope will be theirs in the end of it. There have been a lot of technical problems with making it work as bended. There has been some exploration for a workaround and it sounds as if it is just working well new to enough now to test it out. Brown why these three states . These are among the biggest ones having their states run by the federal government because they chose not to do so. It seems an obvious way to start. Itt seems plans in those states were able to persuade the administration they would be willing to be the guinea pigs. Brown will that be allowed in other state . That seems to be the hope. Again, the administration is having trouble getting people sign up on their own and they need all the help they can get. Brown now next year, pushing it back enough. This is very different in terms of reasoning. What the insurers have been saying is they dont think theyre going to have enough information for the First Quarter of next year in order to set their rates around april for the 2015 cycle. They think they might be uncertain because there have been lastminute changes to law, the administrations decision to disigz to allow carriers to sell policies that have been canceled and it could lead to uncertainty. And they will err on the side of caution, and that means higher rates for 2015. Brown also, of course, it plays into the politics. It immediately got criticize bide skeptical republicans. It has certainly not been lost on this people that this sidesteps the midjeer election person of 2014. People will not be going through open enrollment while also voting. The republicans were quick to discuss that. Brown that means we wouldnt know the number of people signed up or the rates. We might know the rates. Theyre certainly not plastered out there and most people are not seeing them the way reporters are. Brown did the white house respond to republican comes . The administration emphasized it did this change the open enrollment delay change based on the need of insurers, and certainly that is a very compelling reason for them to have done it, perhaps even beyond the politics. They want to see them work as they intended. Brown california this week decided it would not pick up people who had lost their insurance because of the new a. C. A. , bucking what president obama himself had asked for. What were seeing from california is a division among democratic states about what to do. The president s move was designed to take political pressure off the law, and some supporters of the law, but some say it could damage their prospects for success and theyre preparing to stay the course on it. Brown some states are going along and some are making decisions like california. Among blue state typically youre seeing states with a wellworking state exchange are more willing for people to give up the policy than people who dont have the exchanges available. Brown louise radnofsky, from the wall street journal, thank you very much. Wooduff talks over Irans Nuclear program appeared to be gaining momentum as negotiators met for a third day today. Our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Margaret Warner is in geneva covering the story for us. I spoke to her a short time ago. Margaret warner, hello again. So tell us what happened today. Judy, it has been a total roller coaster day. I mean, it began with clearly a change in at mott fear from last night. It ended with now all the Foreign Ministers are either here or are coming to geneva. The day began with a meeting between the Iranian Foreign minister, sareef, and Catherine Ashton, the e. U. High rep and u. N. Cochairman for these talks. And ist only lasted unlike yesterday where it went for hours it only lasted maybe 90 minutes, and then they left and consultations continued among the two groups. Foreign minister zarif on tv explained it this way. He said there were issues that were raised yesterday, he said, that we didnt agree on. And he said the delegations consulted their capitals and in some cases had results. In other words, it seems to me that on some of the issues, the 6 its u. S. , chinese, french, russians, germaps and british did move traups way enough to satisfy tehran. However, the rest of the day was just a complete toking and froing. 200 of us reporters were camped out in the intercontinental lobby, at one point forced to order wine to keep a seat in the wine bar. That happened about 5 00 p. M. , frantically trying to glean anything. The only people talk were upon iranians. The Russian Foreign minister flew in. After much prodding, the state Department Said finally after 11 p. M. Our time that secretary kerry would come. And its just been announced all the Foreign Ministers are. Lavrov came on his own. But asked whether Catherine Ashton had had invited kerrero whether he was arriving on his own, a western source said to me just minutes ago that as a matter of fact she had talked to kerry that it was decided if there is a deal she wants all the ministers here, and, therefore, it would be good if he came. But this person went on to say, this is not to mean that a deal is done. There is a lot of intensive work thats still going on, and im told it is going on, the negotiations are going to continue into the night tonight. Woodruff so, margaret what, do we know . What do you know about what theyve agreed on and what are the sticking points still . Warner well, judy, the sticking points kind of remain the same, but according to even iranian sources and theyre the only ones who denied before that this point was resolved the whole squabble over the right to enrich, irans insistence that this deal recognize iran has a right to enrich has been resolved and finessed. And that is along the lines i think you and i talked about one affect and gwen and i talked about last night, and the position is the Nuclear Proliferation treaty does not mention a right to enrich or deny the right to enrich. And so theres a way to not grant iran a right to enrich, but simply wording it in such a way that either side can take what they want from it. And foreign minister zarif did an interview again this morning in which he indicated flexibility on those terms. He said, unalienable right so we dont need anyone to recognize it. We just want them to respect it. What we dont know yet, judy, is the french had jammed up the works. That was already the deal between kerry and zarif, and what we dont know is what exactly thigh tried to do and how that has been finessed. Woodruff give us a sense of what will happen now that secretary kerry and other Foreign Ministers will be there gl. Warner nobody knows whether this deal, if its going to be done, can be done by tomorrow, or can be done by sunday. Because certain sticking points remain. Not only the fate what kind of construction can continue, for instance, on this plutonium reactor, which as we have had discussed, is pretty much impefersous to being bombed one its finished because it would spread dod deadly radiation. The other issue, im told, is zarif upped the price in the way of sanctions relief. The question is what could president obama and or the europeans give in the way of some limited sairvegzs relief that would not unravel will entire system of what is really strangling irans economy, which are restrictions on their oil exports and their use of the Global Financial system. Woodruff so, margaret, sounds like youre reporting this right spot weekend. Thank you. R this has been a notable week for the stock markets, particularly for the Dow Jones Industrial average, the benchmark index thats closely monitored and thats reaching new milestones. But there are questions about whats behind the rally of late and whether it reflects the fundamentals of the economy. Newshour economics correspondent paul solman hit the Trading Floor yesterday in search of some answers. The story is part of his ongoing reporting making sense of financial news. Up, up and away, yep. Reporter mark otto at the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, when the dow ended above 16,000, another record for the headline stock index of 30 major companies. Other stock indexes are hitting new highs as well, as Companies Continue to report healthy profits and recovery chugs along. And yet, the recovery is weak and unemployment, high. Even on the exchange floor, there was little enthusiasm. Why . I think everyones a little bit worried. I mean, you hear the