President s assad and putin meet in moscow. The same day the u. S. And russia signed a military agreement minimizing the risk of flights over syria. Willing to serve as speaker of the house, demanding support from unruly factions in the House Republican caucus. Somebody what to have this job. Joe biden tells a new version of his role in the bin laden raid. The story for years was that biden was against the raid. I told him he should go, but follow his own instincts. Killed in the line of duty. He advanced toward danger. Dangerous wet weather is sweeping across the southwest. An arizona woman is rescued after waters swept her car off the road. Wednesday, october 21st, to future day. Some of the predictions were spot on, like videoconferencing. A bizarre scene in indiana, this man dancing on his girlfriends burning home, armed with a butcher knife. A man ran onto the ramp intent on catching his plane. A dominant game for the cans can say city royals, up three games to one. This ball was drilled. Murphy has homered for the fifth straight postseason game. The new york mets, a 30 series, 52 the final. All of that matters. Martin omalley breaks out in song on the campaign trail. Maybe now we got bad blood on cbs this morning. Wolf blitzer, lincoln chafee. Why are you doing so poorly in all the polls . Youre an old, single loser. You dont have any friends. Announcer this mornings eye opener is present by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. The republican deadlock over the next speaker of the house could be about to break. The house ways and Means Committee chairman paul ryan now says he is willing to do the job his way. Senior gop leaders have urged the former Vice President ial candidate to run. The house will vote next week, more than a month after Speaker John Boehner says hes ri resigning. Ryan says conditions must be met before he runs. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill with his list of demands. Nancy, good morning. Reporter good morning. First and foremost, ryan says the different wings of the House RepublicanCongress Must endorse him by friday or he wont run. That turns the tables on hard line conservatives hoping to extract concessions from their next speaker in exchange for their support. What i told members is, if you can agree to these requests, and if i can truly be a unifying figure, then i will serve. Reporter ryan laid out his demands first for the caucus, then for the press. We need to move from an Opposition Party to being a proposition party. Reporter then, he said, the house rule book must be changed. It needs to include fixes that ensure we dont experience constant leadership challenges and crises. Reporter the last request was personal. I cannot and will not give up my family time. I may not be on the road as much as previous speakers but i pledge to try to make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message. Reporter most House Republicans were happy to oblige, after begging the far of three to take the job. There was overwhelming applause. I didnt see anyone booing. Reporter one candidate dropped out. Hes the right person at the right time. Reporter ryans unusual approach is a reflection of his strong leverage, as a conservative who has also cut deals with democrats hes seen as one of the only people who can unite his fractured party, after hardliners threatened to force out current Speaker John Boehner and doomed his replacement, kevin mccarthy. Ryan warned them as speaker he would work with the other side. My greatest worry is the consequence of not stepping up, of some day having my own kids ask me, when the stakes were so high, why didnt you do all you could do, why didnt you stand and fight for my future when you had a chance to do so. Reporter House Republicans have been meeting behind closed doors this morning to discuss this further. And hardliners know if they dont get behind ryan, they will be blamed for him backing out. Ironically, this is the kind of hardball approach they say theyve been looking for in their next speaker. Nancy, thank you. This morning Vice President joe biden is trying to distance himself from Hillary Clinton by trying to highlight his closeness to president obama. But he also faces new questions after giving a new account of his role in the decision to kilos a. M. Kill osama bin la. Major garrett has more. Reporter good morning. The president ial watch is a fullblown distraction for the white house, which has to referee a public debate about who is more important to president obama, a former secretary of state or his Vice President. The joe biden president ial tease, episode 100, or so it seems, was on display. I have now traveled over 1,100,000 miles as Vice President. Reporter at a dinner honoring walter mondale, who lost his race for the presidency. Biden generated a debate about how important he was to the president , one example, traveling overseas. John kerry is a great secretary of state. Hillary clinton was a great secretary of state. But there are times when only the Vice President , if its known of his relationship with the president , can speak for the United States when the president cant be there. Reporter bidens attempt to diminish kerry and clinton surprised some in the white house, as did his revision i have the history on privately advocating that president obama approve the plan to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. I told him my opinion, that i thought he should go but follow his own instincts. Reporter this is how biden described his role in 2012. Mr. President , my suggestion is dont go, we have to do two more things to see if hes there. He walked out and said, ill give you my decision. Reporter bidens new version also suggested potential rival Hillary Clinton appeared indecisi indecisive, although they portrayed herself at fully on board at her recent appearance in south carolina. I recommended to the president that he go ahead. His advisors were split. Reporter the white house refused to play fact checker. This is not the first time a significant political event has prompted differing recollections from people who participated in it. Reporter at that same briefing, there are those here at the white house who while they admire bidens loyalty and service to the president are nonetheless becoming tonguetied, confused, and just a bit fatigued about the Vice President s decisionmaking process. Thank you, major. A managing editor of Bloomberg Politics joins us. Confused and fatigued pretty much describes me, particularly on the subject of the new york mets. Well get to that later. Biden. Does that controversy play into the decisionmaking process . Theres no doubt that joe biden and Hillary Clinton have spent the last week shadow boxing, from the moment in the debate when she started talking about how close she was to president obama. Shes be able saying, you stay out of this race. Bidens basically saying, hey, if i want in this race, im going to get in this race, and ive got an argument to make. I think in the end the decision hes making now is deeply personal. Its not about her or the debate or anything else. Its not about the Benghazi Committee tomorrow. Its gut check time. I wonder if hes looking for a reason to go or not to go. There are people close to him in the last few days who have told me he changed his mind on a daily basis on what he wants to do. If hes in, well see him in iowa at the jeffersonjackson dinner. If hes not in, we wont. He says one thing publicly, and could it be true that he says Something Else to the president privately . Yes. On the basis of reporting that ive done, not in this moment but a couple of years ago, people around biden said he would often in meetings adopt stances that were not his stance in order to try to tease out disagreements in the room, in order to try to serve as the president s doing a service to the president so that it would seem as though it wasnt clear what he would do. He would go off privately and express his view. We dont know what he expressed to president obama privately. Thats a matter that will never be known except those two guys. Any indication that paul ryan wont get the backing of the entire party . Everyone here at this table knows, the best negotiation is the one where you really mean youre willing to walk away. He doesnt really want this job, that gives him a lot of power. There are still some people on the right who dont want him. Thank you, john. Cbs news will hold a debate with the Democratic Candidates next month. You can see it on november 14th, 6 00 p. M. Pacific time, here on cbs. Breaking news, a u. S. Marine pilot died when his plane crashed in britain. The f18 fighter jet had just taken off in eastern england. It went down 7 miles from the base. So far the cause is not is known. A surprise from moscow this morning where embattled syrian president Bashar Al Assad met with russian president Vladimir Putin whose military is supporting assad in the military were in syria. Mark strassmann has more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It was about a shabashar al ass trip since war broke out in syria. It was also another sign of who is now running the show on the government side of the syrian conflict. This was a lot more than a courtesy call. It was a thanks for everything and i mean everything call. With Vladimir Putin effectively becoming Bashar Al Assads air force, the beleaguered leader smiled as he hasnt smiled in years. Moscows attacks have largely been against other antiassad forces, some of them supported by the u. S. And the west. The attacks have served to shore up the crumbling syrian regime. The syrian president said he had come to express his huge gratitude. The russian president hailed the syrians for standing up to the militants, he said, almost on their own. They never have been on their own. Assad has been supported by the iranians and allies from lebanon. And the introduction of russian jet bombers with dubious intent may prolong the war rather than bring it closer to an end. And of course it brings russian planes into airspace the u. S. Has been using in its antiisis campaign. A new u. S. Russian memorandum of understanding, kept secret under demand of the russians, has been agreed on certain protocols to try to keep russian planes and u. S. Planes apart. But washington says it does not constitute u. S. Cooperation or support for russias military activities in syria, norah. Our reporters reached out to the white house to see if the United States had any intelligence about assads trip to moscow. Officials declined to comment on what its strategic importance might be. The vatican is strongly denying a report that pope francis has a small brain tumor. The story is that he recently saw a brain cancer specialist who determined that a small spot on franciss brain could be treated without surgery. The vatican calls the report unfounded and seriously unfounded. Thats terrible. The nypd is mourning one of its own killed in the line of duty. Officer randolph holder was shot in the head tuesday night after a gun battle. He was pursuing a suspect in manhattans east harlem neighborhood. The Police Caught the suspect several blocks away with gunshot wound in his leg. Holder was a Third GenerationPolice Officer. His father comforted grieving officers at the hospital. The Police Commissioner says holder is the fourth officer murdered in the city in the last 11 months. Our condolences to his family. Police in south florida say a black man shot and killed by an officer was armed with a handgun. The Palm Beach Gardens police say a gun belonging to cory jones was found at the scene of sundays shooting. They say it was purchased legally by wellknown musician and city housing inspector. Mark strassmann is live with the investigation into the shooting. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning. Police here say not only did jones own the handgun they found at the scene, but records show he bought it three days before his shooting death. Police here have yet to say how many times the Police Officer shot at jones or whether jones shot at the officer at all. Palm beach Gardens Police officer raja told investigators he was confronted by an armed cory jones. The handgun was found on the ground outside the vehicle. Mr. Jones purchased the handgun three days before the officerinvolved shooting. Reporter jones played drums at the bible church of god in Boynton Beach where the bishop said his grandson is no criminal history. Hes just been a lovely grandchild. The thing which happened to me, i cant explain it. I cant understand it. Reporter officer raja had a clean record after six months at the Palm Beach Gardens police department. He also served on the Atlanta Police from 2008 to 2013. In 2013 he received a written reprimand for repeatedly mishandling evidence and paperwork and was called derelict in his duties for careless handling of the documented cases. Jones, a wellknown musician in the boynton area, was driving home from a job early sunday when his car broke down on an i95 exit ramp. He called a band mate, who went to the scene. He called roadside assistance for jones, then went home. I left him. He gave me a high five, said thank you, thanks for helping me out. Reporter another band mate played with him in a reggae band, future president s. He taught me a lot about patience and understanding. Reporter this Early Morning shooting, which apparently had no other witnesses, has reignited the debate about whether Police Officers should wear body cameras. Officer raja was not wearing one and his unmarked vehicle did not have a dashboard camera. Very confusing story. Thank you, mark. A major shift this morning in screening for Breast Cancer. For the first time in more than a decade, the American Cancer Society is recommending that most women wait until the age of 45 to get a yearly mammogram. At age 55 they can switch to every two years. These new guidelines are fueling the debate on how breast to fight the disease. The chief of breast surgery in mount sinai hospital in new york joins us. Good morning. Im 41. I havent had a mammogram. Should i still get one . Absolutely, you should. The guidelines are very clear that we should start screening mammograms at age 40, because theres an absolutely clearcut reduced risk of dying from Breast Cancer beginning at that age. Those recommendations should not change. What is the American Cancer Society is doing . A fair amount of speaking out of both sides of the mouth. On the one hand they want to reduce what they call harms related biopsies, which are fear, anxiety. On the other hand, they say they stick with their mission to save lives, and theres only one way to do that, and thats to continue with yearly mammograms. I read every line of this. They also recommend against manual exam by your doctor, which ive always had in every single one of my visits. What . Agreed. My question is, if theyre saying no to mammograms every two years and not examining yourselves, how will these Breast Cancers be found . Theyll be found the size of golf balls, which is a huge step back. Why would getting screened less be a good thing . Its not a good thing, gayle, i completely agree with you. I think its done with two goals. Number one, cutting costs. I think that they should be focusing their efforts elsewhere. Mammograms are a test that are clearly shown to reduce the risk of dying from Breast Cancer. This is not one place where we should be cutting back. And to be clear, insurance does cover mammograms starting at age 40. It does. These guidelines and shift in positions could influence that, and thats concerning. Thank you, doctor. Three High School Hackers could face y, announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Explosive allegations about college basketball. Trippers and escorts with recruits at a Staff Members invitation. The news is back in the morning right here on cbs this morning right here on cbs this morning. The possibility of a flare swas almost always on my mind. Thinking about what to avoid, where to go. And how to deal with my uc. To me, that was normal. 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