Theyll kill you. And then you have the assad government, which restricts visas. Right now, there are no visasc for u. S. Based correspondents. Ifill plus. The egos in this business laughter ifill . A starstudded cast revives a play about the politics of broadway and thec comedy backstage. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. c ifill Canadian Police announced today theyve found no connection between two fatal attacks this week on soldiers. That word came as parliament cheered the man who put an end to yesterdays shooting assault. applause a heros welcome awaited sergeantatarms Kevin Vickers at the opening of the days session of parliament. He was visibly emotional as lawmakers stood in thunderous applause. applause o it was vickers, a former Royal Canadian mounted policeman, who shot and killed the gunman stalking the halls of parliament yesterday. c the incident touched off panic as Police Rushed in, and lawmakers and staffers scrambled to get out. The goal of these attacks was to instill fear and panic in our country, and to interrupt the business of government. Ifill today, just 24 hours after the chaos, Prime MinisterStephen Harper insisted canada will not be intimidated. We will be vigilant, but we will not run scared. We will be prudent, but we will not panic. And as for the business of government, well here we are in out seats, in our chamber in the very heart of our democracy and our work goes on. applause ifill and in a chamber often divided by politics, unity was the message of the day. c yesterdays events were a shared national tragedy. It is fitting that we have come together in this place immediately, to let the world know that canadas values are strong, our institutions arec resilient, and our people are united together. applause it only strengthened our commitment to each other, and to a peaceful world. Now, let us not become more suspicious of our neighbors. Let us not be driven by fear. Because in canada, love always triumphs over hate. Ifill police now say the lone gunman, Michael Zehaf bibeau, was a recent convert to islam with a long record ofc violent crimes. They released Security Camera video today showing the gunman running into the Parliament Building with a rifle. c minutes earlier, hes seen entering the National War Memorial grounds, where he shot and killed Corporal Nathan cirillo, a member of the honor guard. Park benches near the site filled with flowers today as canadians paid their respects. Back at the parliament, lawmakers paused for a moment of silence in remembrance of cirillo. Ifill family members of the shooter condemned his actions. In a statement, his mother, susan bideau said we wish to apologize for all the pain, fright and chaos he created. We have no explanation to offer. I dont understand and part of me wants to hate him at this time. Ifill police now say zehaf bibeau had recently applied for a passport, apparently intending to go to syria, but he was not under surveillance. c i can confirm that zehaf bibeau was not one of the 90 highrisk travelers that the r. C. M. P. Is currently investigating. According to some accounts, hec was an individual who may have had extremist beliefs. Ifill his attack came just days after another canadian with islamist militant ties rammed two soldiers with his car near montreal killing one before being shot dead by police. It remained unclear if the two incidents were connected, but Prime Minister harper pledged aggressive countermeasures. Investigators said theyve found no connection between the two incidents, but Prime Minister harper pledged aggressive action. In recent weeks ive been saying that our laws and Police Powers need to be strengthened in the area of surveillance,c detention, and arrest. They need to be much strengthened, and i assure you mr. Speaker, that work that is already underway will be expedited. c but the city of ottowa stayed on edge. At one point today, as the Prime Minister and his wife laid flowers at the War Memorial Police drew their guns and forced a man to the ground. He was later arrested for disturbing the crime scene. An in other news, six west africans who traveled to connecticut are being quarantined for possible exposure to ebola. Officials said today the family arrived on saturday. Planning to live in the u. S. They will be monitored for 21 days. There was also word a new yoro3 hospital is testing a patient who has ebolalike symptoms, and who worked for Doctors Without Borders in west africa. Ifill in nigeria, suspected boko haram militants kidnappedc at least 25 girls in a remote northeastern town. It came amid ongoing talks aimed at freeing more than 200 other girls seized by the Islamist Group in april. The abduction also raised further doubts about the governments announcement last week of a ceasefire. Woodruff new questions surfaced today about the u. S. Strategy to confront Islamic State forces. The Washington Post reported moderate syrians will be trained to defend themselves, but not to try to retake territory. The report cited unnamed u. S. And allied officials. Islamic state militants already control large swaths of syria and neighboring iraq. Ifill the maryland man whoc allegedly jumped the white house fence last night was ordered held without bond today. Dominic adesanya was quickly arrested by Uniformed Secret Service agents and their dogs. He was unarmed, but hes chargec with punching and kicking the dogs, and making threats. White house spokesman josh earnest said today the challenge is to balance security with public access. I think the point is it certainly would be possible to build a multi story bomb proof wall around the 18 acre white house complex of the white house, but i dont think that would strike the appropriate balance that i described earlier. Ifill last month, another fence jumper made it past five layers of security into the white house. c woodruff californias prison system will end its policy of locking down inmates based on race. Guards have frequently invoked the policy after racial violence among inmates regardless of whether theyre directly implicated. c the settlement would end a long standing civil rights lawsuit. Ifill a batch of strong earnings reports sent wall street surging again today. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 216 points to close at 16,677; the nasdaq rose 69 points to close at 4,452; and the s p added 23, to finish at 1,950. Ifill still to come on the newshour. Innovations aiding the fight against ebola. What Michael Browns autopsy tells us about what happened in ferguson. Fake grades, fake papers, and fake classes at the universityc of North Carolina. Why its hard to know whats happening in syrias civil war. And an allstar cast revives a comedy about the laughs behind the curtains of broadway. c woodruff the World Health Organization reported the Ebola Outbreak is still racing well ahead of efforts to stop it. West africa needs at least 4,000 more hospital beds and thousands more workers. c and while drugs and vaccines are still being developed, theres a push to see if science can find new and different answers. The president s team had a meeting on that subject today. c shortly afterward, our science correspondent miles obrien sat down in the Briefing Room with the president s top science adviser, john holdren. Go holdren, thank you so much for being with us. Happy to be here. For people who are uninitiated, a little bit about this group and this meeting. What was the goal here today . Well, the president s council of advisors on science and technology is a group of leaders from the scientific, engineering and biomedical communities from around the country who advise the president on a parttime basis, bringing perspectives from that widerc science and Technology Community to bear on the policy issues the president has on his plate. Of course one of the big policy issues the president has on his plate now is the ebola challenge. c and the idea of this meeting was to call together the members at the president s request to share their ideas with him, particularly about what capabilities, ideas and approaches from the private sector and the academic sector could be married to what the government is already doing on the ebola challenge, which is a lot, in order to amplify and improve the effectiveness of the whole effort. Lets talk a little bit about technology here. Are there Technological Solutions out there that are within the time frame of the Current Crisis that could ent, and one of the things we think about, of course, is protecting our Health Care Workers is there a better garment, a better procedure that your group is seeing. In fact,e have been working inside the government on better personal protective equipment, they call it ppe. We had a twoday workshop october 10th, 11, with over a hundred innovaters, inventors, Public Health practice particular neses, doctors, working on how to improve these garments. Of course part of the challenge with the garments we have, is making sure you put them on and take them off in a way that is safe. But a further problem with them is that theyre not air conditioned. And a lot of those workers are going out in hot and humid environments. The workers can only stay in these garments for maybe 40 minutes to an hour. Were working on garments3 that can be cooled. We also have assistance from nasa in this space. This is very much inside the government, an interagency effort. Nasa knows how to make protective suitsc that work in extreme environments. Were tapping that expertise along with others to end up with better suits so that the Health Care Workers can work longer and safer. So if we can put a man on the moon, we ought to make them safe to deal with ebola. Exactly. Exactly. Lets talk about another technological solution i read about. I was a little skeptical about it, the idea that robots could somehow be employed to deal with this crisis in a way that would protect human beings. Is that realistic at this point . In fact, we were having a workshop, my office, the office of science, technology and policy and a number of other partners on november 7th on potential uses of robots in the ebolac challenge. Perhaps the best example of how a robot can be useful is cleaning up and decontaminating a room that has had ebola patients in it, contaminated stuff in it. Obviously if you have a robot do that and do it effectively, it would be safer than having a human being dealing with all of that contaminated waste and mess. But robots are they really ready for that . I think they probably are. I mean, you would be amazed at what robots can now do. You know, we have robots being developed that can fight fires. And go into dangerous fire situations that you wouldnt want to send a human fireman into. We can certainly make a robot that can decontaminate a room. I suspect thats not within the time frame of the immediate crisis, however, right . I wouldnt be so sure. I think we could probably adapt somec existing robots to be useful in the Current Situation in a fairly short span of time. All right. Lets talk a little bit on the science side for a minute. I know this is not your particular area of expertise and there are other peoplec in the government thank you for recognizing. You are a physicist and i get that. But there are a lot of people who have been working for some time on vaccines. Absolutely. But ebola has been around for a long time and were still waiting for a vaccine. Is it still quite some time before one might be available . Obviously, the Current Crisis has ramped up the interest and the effort in developing an ebola vaccine. There is a promising vaccine in what they call phase one testing right now. Looking to confirm the imun logical response that one is looking for in a vaccine that would then, if it passes that test, go into what they call face two andc three testing where they are looking for efficacy and the absence of any unmanageable side effects. It is possible that we would have a vaccine by sometime next year. These time scales are challenging. Youc have to do Clinical Trials to be sure that you are dealing with a vaccine that is going to do a lot of good and not a lot of harm on the side. And with luck we will have a vaccine in a matter of months, not in years. But then you have the challenges of ramping up the production. And one of the things that the pcast, the president s council of advisors on science and technology is looking at is how can the government and the private sector working to to make sure that we have the Production Capacity that would be needed the moment we have a good vaccine. I would be remiss if we didnt talk about the travel ban. Much discussed, much misunderstood. The question is, you know, if you are trying to stop the spread ofc a disease, isnt it prudent to stop the spread of the people who might be carrying the disease, an wouldnt it be prudent to initiate a travel ban from people coming out of these countries . c a travel ban is actually a bad idea in that it would make the American Public less safe and our challenge of dealing with this epidemic. How so . The reason is, if you place a travel ban, first of all, you only catch a modest fraction of the people who are moving around. We have, for example, about 150 people a day traveling directly to the United States from these countries, that is not on a broken itinerary where they stop for a week in london or paris or brussels in between. About 150 a day. 55 of those are american citizens who have a constitutional right to another 10 are greenstates. Cardholders who one is not sure their permanent residence. Were not sure that it would be a great idea to keep American Green cardholdersc from returning. But the worst thing about a travel ban is that it would drive travel underground. Right now we are able to identify and monitor the people who are coming in from these countries. As you know from the newspaper, we now have them all funneling into five airports. Everybody who comes in from these countries is advised to monitor and report in every day on their temperature and whether they are showing any symptoms. You put a travel ban on, youre going to travel the travel underground there are lots of routes where people can get into this country without being noticed in the net you would have under a travel bew and will you have far less control, far less insight, far less monitoring than you have now. You would, in addition, of course, with a travel ban, make it much harder for Health Workers toc come in and out. Make it much harder for us to control the epidemic there. If we cant control the epidemic there, the sources from which it could spread to the United States will propagate and again in that longerterm respect will also been worse off. To the extent that you are dealing with this country, an epidemic of fear more than an epidemic of disease, would announcing a travel ban to the extent that it might allay some fears would, it be prudent in that respect. I think placing a bad policy for reasons of optics is almost always a bad idea. In fact, as a scientist i would venture to say it is always a bad idea. If this is a bad hlicy, we shouldnt do it. And we should use our ability to communicate with the American Public and to educate them to persuade them why it is a bad idea. It is a bad idea because it dr. John holdren, thank you so much for your time. My pleasure. So far the more immediate ebola threat domestically, at least, has been the fear and anxiety it has sparked. Online we break down the impact this kind of stress can have on your health that is on our rundown. Woodruff protests continue in ferguson, missouri. 75 days after Michael Brown was shot and killed by police, the latest round last night was sparked by the leak of details from an autopsy report of brown conducted by the county to thec st. Louis post dispatch. Joining us now is dr. Judy melinek, a forensic pathologist and associate professor of pathology at the university of center. She reviewed the autopsy for the postdispatch. Dr. Melinek, thank you very much for joining us, so you were provided with a copy of this autopsy report. What did you take away from it . What did you learn . What i got from the report was that there was a gunshot wound of the thumb that is going from the tip of the thumb towards the wrist. And that particular wound they had microscopic section of. So this is new information. Theres particulate material in that wound that is consistentc with gun powder. And we now know that there have been one or two gunshots in the vehicle. So that is most likely the shot that occurred while thec struggle was occurring in the vehicle. And it indicates that the hand was in line with the gun, meaning that the thumb was pointing towards the muzzle of the gun for the trajectory to make sense. Woodruff so what does that tell us about what happened . Why is tha