peter hill, a u.s. army test pilot who died in really dramatic circumstances while flying test flights in a new plane that the army was considering buying at the time. in the 1930s, the army air corps wanted a big, new bomber to add to its fleet. and boeing designed one to try to get that contract. boeing was almost kaput as a company at that point. they basically bet the whole future of their company on trying to win this army air corps contract. and what they built was a whole new approach. instead of two engines, it had four. it was huge. its wing span was more than a hundred feet wide. it could fly faster than previous bombers, it could fly further. it could hold tons more bombs than the army had been able to put in a plane like this before. but on october 30th, that boeing test model number 299, the 299 had an ace test pilot named ployer peter hill at the controls. it was being evaluated by the army to see if they were going to invest in this huge, amazing new plane that could do so much more than

with more on disturbing details and the response on capitol hill, peter doocy is live in washington. first, there was a big meeting last night? >> there was. it was interesting. we watched as some of the president's top advisers arrived. defense secretary chuck hagel, hh secretary jay johnson was here, hhs secretary sylvia bureau well, and dhs secretary, jay johnson, and they were meeting on saturday night to figure out how the feds and states could work together to basically find everybody that came in contact with one of the ebola patients and stop the spread of the disease. the new ebola czar ron klain was at the white house not at this meeting according to a readout provided by the press office. then this morning, we heard from dr. anthony fauci from national institutes of health. he says it sounds like the two nurses that were following protocols that are okay in a field but not okay in a hospital. >> what's clear now when you're in an intensive care setting, doing things you would never do in the bush or in the field in africa, very invasive type procedures, that that's not the

with more on disturbing details and the response on capitol hill, peter doocy is live in washington.rst, there was a big meeting last night? >> there was. it was interesting.

canquestion today, how low the kodak oh peter cook on capitol hill where lawmakers are asking tough questionsut the ebola crisis. we begin with julie hyman as u.s. stocks extend a worldwide selloff until we heard from bed president -- think of st. louis fed president james bullard. >> that was really the turning point. andael mckee spoke to him he talked about some of the challenges facing the economy right now, particularly globally. however, he went a step further in his comments to michael mckee. listen in. >> i think a reasonable response from the fed in the situation would be to invoke the cause on the tape or that says the tape was data dependent and we can go apposite on the taper at this juncture. >> and other words, the winding down of quantitative easing, maybe the fed could posit that. analyst whog to an pointed out there is not much more of tapering ends on the date of easing. one other caveat is he is not a voting member of the fed at this point in time. nonetheless, the market did seem to take it as a signal of what policymakers are thinking. of a slow climb rather than a sharp

i'm erica hill. >> i'm peter alexander in for lester holt. he is in san francisco.area products. sheinelle jones with us today and dylan dreyer is in bermuda. she rode out hurricane gonzalo as the storm came over the island. >> you can see at this point -- we're looking at the video from last night. dylan was safe as was our crew. that is our first priority. this morning, beautiful sikies. the people living and vacatio vacationing on the island are looking to see what damage is left behind. >> we go straight to dylan in bermuda. good morning. >> good morning, guys. this is the strongest hurricane i have been in. this is the strongest hurricane bermuda has seen since 2003 when hurricane fabian came through. we had the crazy winds come through. it was still manageable. we could get around the hotel. everything was fine. the eye of the storm comes through. not even a breeze. it was a calm as it could be. then the storm really raged on. the back side of the storm is the strongest side of the storm. we saw lashing rains and winds that were just billowing the wi windows.

peter cook is on capitol hill with that part of the story. it's both republicans and democrats asking the tough questions today. >> it was pretty bipartisan. republican certainly were allowed or the house oversight committee hearing today. the publicuestioning statement made by the cdc and the policy choices made by the obama administration. especially in light of what we have seen in new york. it was the chairman of the panel leading the charge right at the beginning. take a listen. >> it would be a major mistake to underestimate what ebola could do two populations around the world. misstepser fumbles or or relying on postulate certainties told by us by people who cannot defend how that certainty came to be and when it fails to be correct how they could have been so wrong can no longer be tolerated. >> over the course of the four hours, lawmakers questioned how members willice be protected against ebola in west africa. 4000 will be over there. some of the nation's pandemic supplies may be outdated. a union leader asked lawmakers for more tra

scott peters was arrested yesterday afternoon along a road near crystal lake. earlier in the day, authorities were called to his home in holiday hills for a possible domestic dispute. police say peters shot two deputies when they arrived, and exchanged gunfire with a third before running off. it triggered a massive manhunt ... schools were locked down and residents were told to stay inside. >> relieved. we were waiting. it was a rough day. >> we have described his unique clothing, shorts and t-shirt and people her that and called us. he walked down the road came out of the wooded area and was walking down the road. >>peters is charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm. he's being held on a one million dollar bond. the deputies who were shot, are in good condition. police are still looking for the gun that was used in the shooting. there's a very special piece of artwork on display in washington, d.c. in fact, the size.. and what this art is made of... just might surprise you. jorge rodriguez uses a six-acre segment of the national mall as his canvas. soil and sand are his tools. his man-made wa

>>peter: the cargo at the top of a hill with nobody watching it overnight. that should never have happened. unbelievable. >> i'll be interested to see how that affects the dynamics in a state like mine where a lot of the land owners who have problem with this have problems with it because of the imminent domain concerns. when you look and are talking about the european union today and their decision, other markets that we've been talking about is getting to the head of the epa even saying it's going to be developed. another thing to consider is the most efficient way of it gets to our refineries or anywhere else because what you're looking at, it's just another way to get it off shore. that doesn't mean it's not going to the same exact place that keystone would be flowing to. so from the political aspect of this discussion, i mean, do you think it's just boiling down to -- yes, i'm frustrated with the project too at this point but like the substance that we're talking about, where is it coming to play? >> you see all kinds of issues where the debate is focus

. >> eyewitness i'm peter i support home sharing i own a condominium on katrero hill in the supervisor cowen district i use my spare bedroom for home sharing i'm on the neighborhood katrero next door community i saudi in a home sharing unit when i invested my x home country london it struck me i could use my spare bedroom for that it soda empty for several years my children are grown it is unused space. i'm semi retired this makes it possible to continue to live in this very expensive city. which i've grown to love so much over the last 25 years. i love the idea of using an asset and being able to offer visitors in a place where there's no hotels i have an elderly come up that are living one block away with children they have their own place. this is also an economic committee i want to make a couple of economic points i have been to afford a cleanerer and she also comes and changes the guest room in addition, i buy supplies food and breakfast it from a local grocery store opt the library so i'm helping the city multiple this thousands of other hosts and the economic impact is substant

our chief washington correspondent peter cook is on the hill. >> it will be a rough day for dr.eden of the cdc, he will be the star witness at the hearing before the house energy subcommittee. he will be with other directors, such as that from the nih, and the top executive from the company that owns the parent company that owns the dallas hospital where of course the original ebola patient was first treated, so all of them are going to face some tough questions from this committee. we have already had to house vulcans call for dr. frieden to be fired before the cdc's handling of this crisis, the scare in the united states, and you can be sure that he will get some very tough questions from the tough questions about the cdc response and what should happen with u.s. policy toward this crisis and whether enough has been done already. >> peter, some lawmakers are calling for a travel ban for flights to and from countries hit hard by ebola to west africa or from west africa. what do we expect to hear on that? >> i would expect there will be lawmakers, perhaps democrats as welcome as

stage on capitol hill as lawmakers slam officials over response to the deadly virus, we're covering all angles with chairman of medicine of newark beth israel medical center and dr. peter leoni, infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the university of north carolina chapel hill. he joins us now by phone. before we get to all of those stories, there are new stories tonight that i want the two of you to respond to. bob, i will start with you. according to the star ledger in new jersey, a woman, a passenger at newark liberty airport is in quarantine. she did not feel well. she's a health official returning from africa. it would appear that we have another ebola case on our hands, your reaction. >> my reaction is those people who come from this endemic area and caring for the patients should be quarantined and should be quarantined for 21 to 30 days, and it's irresponsible for us not to quarantine them and irresponsible for them to wander around the streets. gerri: we'll get to that. dr. peter to you, about this woman in new jersey at newark liberty airport. yet another health official coming in from africa. what i don't understand. it seems that health

hills with our top story. >> the mechanical county sheriff says he has no idea where scott peters is. he should be considered armed and dangerous. they need the public's health. >> 52 year-old scott b peters. >> shares as asking anyone in the community who knows where he is to give them a call >> consider to be armed and extremely dangerous. he shot to police officers. we simply do not know his whereabouts at the time. >> just after 1:00 this morning. a domestic situation at home in a 1300 block. that is in the village of holiday hills. the suspect fired through the door. >> one of the deputies in her right leg in the other in the legs and abdomen just below the bulletproof vest. >> wife and daughter a rare in the home are able to make it out of the house safely and there now hopinhelping the sheriff's department search repeaters. >> called me and asked if i have heard hut gun shots. and that there police outside. about 2:00 and the morning ago and looked outside. there police cars. the one downside to talk to my next-door neighbors and a police officer went over to us and told us to

hill. tom, you know, practically speaking here -- because we were just mentioning with peter brooks that the terror threat level in canada was just raised a few days ago after this deadly incident with a suspected islamic jihadist being involved in all of this. what does it mean, you know, in the u.s./canada, practically speaking, when you raise a terror threat alert level? what is being done when that happens? >> well, what it's supposed to be, especially at targets that are supposed to be hard in the first place, like the parliament building or the u.s. capitol building or the white house, there should be not only additional security but a heightened sense of security as to a potential attack. and so there's going to be a lot of questions in this case of how somebody with a rifle can get through the front door unopposed. so that's going to be a critical issue. we're going to have to find out exactly. but at the end of the day, for the person who is just deranged, whether he's a copycat or a jihadist, the motives are not relevant to the point of how do you get through the front door with we

peters and if clark. another retired colonel. i revealed the book of the grounds maneuvered on capitol hill tonight sure that big safari got to work its wonders on the predator. another unorthodox thinker who played a pivotal role in turning the predator into a world changing technology is someone whose photo i can show you. a techno- scientist of extraordinary intellect and ability who got interested in the predator when it was still just a test knowledge of fun by the army. snake park called him the man with two brains. in the book by mutual agreement i call him fans and i describe in detail some of the major innovations come up with to the predator. they include figuring out to strand predator video back to the pentagon and other senators from anywhere in the world, mapping out a unique satellite fed up to the big safari crew could fly predator over afghanistan in the fall of 2000 from a ground control station in europe and creating a new communications architecture that made it possible in 2001 for cruz in the united states to fly armed predators on the other side of the globe for the first time ever. that's a little hard to s

ail taking a break from the real the i of capitol hill and finding survival skills to make back to washington. good morning from washington, i'm peter alexander. it is tuesday, october 28th. thises the the daily rundown. election day is one week from today. the big questions are can democrats stop a republican wave, and can both parties save struck struggling incumbents? paul's pac shall have six figures to air this ad starting today on foreign aid saying roberts voted to stop sending our money to countries who hate america. yesterday mitt romney who carried kansas with 60% of the vote in 2012 joined former senator bob dole on the stump. that's where kansas city nbc affiliate reporter spoke exclusively to romney about his own future. >> are you thinking about it anymore? >> you know, i'm not running. not planning on running. but i am here to support pat roberts. really the people of kansas are going to make a decision that the whole nation is waiting to understand. and that is, are we going to have three times where people vote for barack obama or just two? >> as republicans worry about deep red kansas, democrats are nervous about s

peters and snake clark. another retired colonel who stayed on his job as a civilian. and i reveal how bill grimes maneuvered on capital hill. another person that changed it pivotal role in bring on the drone is someone whose photo i cannot show you. he was interested in the predator when a test product and flown by the army. clark calls him the man of two brain. i have described the major innovations he came up with. and they include figure out how to stream predator video live to the pentagon from anywhere in the world. mapping out a big setup so they can fly over thousands of elevations. and creating a new communication architecture that made it possible in 2001 for crews in the united states to fly armed predators over the other side of the globe for the first time ever. that is a little hard to see but that is a diagram of how the system works. as i explain in the book, making that link to a uav on the other side of the earth isn't as simple as subscribe to satellite. you cannot just shoot it up and bring it back down on the drown. and you cannot hopscotch the signal from one satellite to another without the distance t

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note for peter and his family, and i'll read other family names who are part of the rocksy market tradition, tony and [speaker not understood]. they give a lot to district 11 and the mission hills neighborhood. we have to sponsor our 4th of july picnic and parade. i think it's the only 4th of july picnic and parade we have in san francisco. happens to take place in mission terrace. peter is a big part in that, out there barbecuing by the balboa -- in balance bow he a park for that event. it has also been the big factor in many of our neighborhood activities and supporting a lot of our neighborhood events, neighborhood organization efforts. had i very, very generous with his support. ~ his it's been fabulous to get to know you over the years. i think it would be -- i would be remiss if i didn't actually talk about the sandwiches that are at rocksy market. and my legislative aide francis shea had written up for me some of the keys to ordering sandwiches at rocksy. it's best that you don't call in the order, that you actually spend a little time in the aisle, crammed in the aisle at rocksy market that way you get to meet the folk who are making your sandwich and you can rub elbows

hill from his reasons. the situation now, we are standing by the address from the prime minister of canada. we believe that should happen shortly. one of the things we did not mention, peter, is that in the prime minister's speech, and it just and to addressing what happened and what measures may be taken, we do know that the toernment is poised introduce surveillance powers and protection of forces. we know that it is crucial to investigating and tracking sources of security threats to canada, people now being used, radicalized, people who have been involved in one way or in the other with terrorist activity. we do know that the public safety minister is poised to table a bill. it would be a bill that increases the powers. one of the main cars it would increase would be blanket , people who come forward. after several supreme court rulings, they encouraged the to consider the protection it gives. it is incomplete protection. they would propose blanket protection, similar to police informants. people who give information and greaterm out would have protection. we are also being told that the bill would also would create a corporation with other security forces around the

peter cook has been gauging into his crystal ball. prospects for bipartisan dealmaking? >> prospects are not good. early indicators from strategists in both parties on an outside capitol hilllly believe we are looking at gridlock on steroids over the next teat of years if republicans take control of the senate, and that's not a lot, as you said. tina parties so split, conservative republicans so opposed to everything the president wants to get done, they are already starting to -- push back against any head of compromise. already pushing for votes to repeal obama care, approved the keystone pipeline, and that could really poison the well early on in the next session of congress. plus, republicans see little indication right now the president wants to play ball with them. >> i think you will definitely histhe president breakout veto pen on republican priorities. i don't think he is going to want to change anything regarding his obama care bill. i'm sure on major energy issues, he will not want to change anything. i think you are going to look at trench warfare over the next couple of years. >> mitch mcconnell said in an interview this week that if he is majority leader, a f

peters in washington. martha: we want to take you back to ottawa canada now with has been a shooting at parliament hill, whichlockdown be at a have been told to leave the building. prime minister harper is safe and was taken to a safe place outside of the building. the cbc reporting this. an active situation. one victim was taken to the hospital after being given cpr. the witness says there were four shots fired from a large rifle, from a man chased from the war memorial by the military, so very tense and very active ongoing scene. reportedly shot outside of this building earlier today about 9 9:52 is when we got reports of this. an active day in parliament in the middle of the morning on this wednesday morning. multiple shootings. inside the building is the big fear at this hour this shooter remains on the loose so we will continue to stand top of this breaking news, lot of questions of who could be behind this. bill: yesterday we were reporting about the two canadian soldiers run over. one of them killed as a matter of fact in quebec by men with jihadist tendencies. we already have questions about that stor

you have to kind of -- >> i mean, peter rig mentioned taste treats, agencies, but the foreign diplomat circle must be -- you have the committees on the hill, but often the foreign diplomatic community, you can, you know, work out when a story is going to rise and come to the four were you can actually report on it and go to our house official and say this is what everyone is saying. is that true. and another good way, all these think tanks around town. they meet with administration officials all the time and often will not give you exactly what the conversations were about. you talk to enough of his people and you can get a pretty good impression. a story recently. and you can get a good kind of idea of what the white house is doing just by hearing the chatter around town. that is the way you have to do it. you can't get -- people just do not phony back. >> news agency. >> i guess. [laughter] >> that actually is true across the board. i am certain that some people get called back faster, but the frustrations felt are pretty much across the board. i was fascinated when political magazine did a poll of white house correspondents. and i will

peters is here. good to have you. former white house press secretary for president obama robert gibbs. abc news political commentator and npr senior analyst cokie roberts and on capitol hillhe host and managing editor of tv one's daily morning show, news now roland martin. >> we have a lot to talk about. cokie, i want to start with you. i was reading about the ebola virus and the gentleman that's in dallas how he contracted it. you know we've been hearing people, come to the show there's no reason to be worried unless you exchange bodily fluids. you're thinking somebody has to spit in my face or have sex with them. this guy in texas got the disease carrying a pregnant woman by her legs helping a family member -- okay. they are yelling at me, we don't know that's how he got the disease. i read in the "new york times" that's one of the things he did. a brother of the woman, alex talking into my ear, a brother of the woman who was carrying her by the other leg i believe contracted the disease and died. >> we don't know -- >> we don't know. >> i don't want to say anything disgusting at 6:00 in the morning, but we don't know what her situation was. let's just put it that way.

peters and snake clark you just can't see them. another retired colonel was civilian bill grinds and i revealed how he maneuvered on capitol hill tonighthey got to work its wonders on the predator. another orthodox thinker that orthodox thinker that played a pivotal role turning them into the changing technology technology is someone whose photograph i can show you. the techno- scientist with an extraordinary intellect and ability to got interested in got interested in the predator when he was still just in the technology by the army. snake clark called him the man with two brains. in the book by mutual agreement i describe him in detail some of the major innovations he came up with for the predator. they include figuring out how to stream predator video live to the pentagon command centers from anywhere in the world, mapping out a unique satellite setup so that the big safari crew to fly the predator over afghanistan in the fall of 2000 from the ground control station in europe and creating a new communications architecture that made it possible in 20014 crews in the united states to fly armed predators to the other side of the globe

peters and snake clark. another retired colonel who stayed on his job as a civilian. and i reveal how bill grimes maneuvered on capital hill. another person that changed it pivotal role in bring on the drone is someone whose photo i cannot show you. he was interested in the predator when a test product and flown by the army. clark calls him the man of two brain. i have described the major innovations he came up with. and they include figure out how to stream predator video live to the pentagon from anywhere in the world. mapping out a big setup so they can fly over thousands of elevations. and creating a new communication architecture that made it possible in 2001 for crews in the united states to fly armed predators over the other side of the globe for the first time ever. that is a little hard to see but that is a diagram of how the system works. as i explain in the book, making that link to a uav on the other side of the earth isn't as simple as subscribe to satellite. you cannot just shoot it up and bring it back down on the drown. and you cannot hopscotch the signal from one satellite to another without the distance t