Woodruff then, an intimate look at Edward Snowden. With the journalists behind the oscar nominated documentary citizen four, which takes viewers inside the first days of one of the biggest Intelligence Leaks in u. S. History. We didnt manufacture the kind of thriller aspects to it. That actually came with the story. I started receiving anonymous emails from a stranger making claims of mass government surveillance, you know and then we met in congress hong. Hong kong. Woodruff and its friday mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the weeks news. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a Political Drama thats gripped the state of oregon came to an abrupt end today. Longtime governor John Kitzhaber announced hes resigning over allegations of influence peddling by his fiancee. In an audio statement, the veteran democrat said he broke no laws. Woodruff hardhit new england is bracing for blizzard conditions and brutal cold, again. A powerful, weekend storm could drop two feet of snow in coastal maine, and blast the region with 70 mileanhour winds. In boston today, crews kept working around the clock to remove six feet of snow from three earlier storms. Plows are also being brought in from other states. President obama today condemned the killings of three young muslims in North Carolina as brutal and outrageous. They were shot dead by a neighbor, in chapel hill. Police cited a parking dispute, but the victims families called it a hate crime. In his statement, the president said he said the f. B. I. Is checking whether federal laws were broken. Islamic state fighters in iraq attacked a major base today where 400 u. S. Marines and other troops are training iraqis. U. S. Officials said the americans were not involved. Instead, iraqi troops killed most of the attackers at the sprawling alasad air base in anbar province, west of baghdad. In washington, a pentagon spokesman said the assault involved 20 to 25 fighters. Early indications are that yes, some of them did detonate their vest, detonate themselves. And then they were followed by roughly something on the order of 15 or so other fighters. It does appear now that most if not all of them were wearing iraqi uniforms. Woodruff at the same time, the militants have seized control of a nearby town. In pakistan, taliban militants stormed a shiite mosque during friday prayers, and by the time it was over, 20 people were dead. Another 45 were wounded in the 8attack in peshawar, in the northwestern part of the country. One of the militants blew himself up to create a diversion for the others. The prorussian rebels in ukraine made a new push for territory today, before a truce takes hold. Alex thomson of independent Television News is in the rebel held city of donetsk, and filed this report. Because the agreement said no cease fire till midnight, heavy fightings continued across eastern yiewcialg today. The countrys president Petro Poroshenko visited troops near kiev and told them there is a long road ahead. translated i dont want anyone to have any illusions and so i am not seen as naive person. We are still a very long way from peace. Nobody has a strong belief that the peace conditions which were signed in minsk will be implemented strictly. Reporter the European Union has cautioned russia, if they ignore the deal they could face further sanctions. In rebel held sticks almost all the shops are shot, the power supply intermittent and the sound of shelling every day. All our friends are preparing their basements because people are afraid. Theyre tired from the war. Nobody needs this. There is no zone in donetsk entirely safe from the daily shelling. Several people are injured and killed with every day thats passing, not stopping in the runup to the cease fire scheduled to come into force midnight saturday. Woodruff the u. S. State department charged russia and the rebels are violating the spirit of the peace agreement. There are new signs of improvement in the eurozones economy. Growth in germany, the blocs largest member, expanded at more than double the expected rate at the end of 2014. Spains economy also accelerated in the fourth quarter. The european report, and rising oil prices, helped wall street; the Dow Jones Industrial average gained 47 points to close above 18,000 just short of a record; the sandp 500 did reach a new high, near 2,100; and the nasdaq rose 36 on the day; for the week, all three indexes were up. And New York Times media columnist david carr died last night. He collapsed in his office, just a few hours after moderating an online conversation with Edward Snowden, the National Security agency leaker. Carr was wellknown for pointed observations on modern media. He also wrote a memoir about battling drug addiction. David carr was 58 years old. Still to come on the newshour what to know before sundays health care deadline; how Sensory Technology is taking prosthetic limbs to a new level; an inside look at boko harams campaign of terror in nigeria; a rare glimpse of the man behind the n. S. A. Leaks; plus, shields and brooks on the weeks news. Woodruff sunday marks the deadline for enrolling in the state and federal Health Exchanges this year. The push is on once again to get people to sign up. There are signs that perhaps more than ten million will enroll, less than initially expected, but better than a revised estimate showed. To fill us in on the latest, were joined again by Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health news. And susan dentzer, a Health Analyst for the newshour. Good to see you both again. Thank you. Woodruff time to talk healthcare. Mary agnes carey, overall, how has the process been going the second year . The web site is better, actually works and thats better for everyone trying to enroll. The federal government said right now weve got about 10 Million People who have enrolled and picked a plan. Most of those people about 7. 75 million, with the federal exchanges in about 37 states and the rest are from the states run exchanges. Woodruff how many of these who are signing up are people who are returning, who are part of the system last year and how many are new . 42 are new enrollees and 58 are reenrolled. What we dont know about the 58 thats important, did they actively reenroll or pick a new plan . Thats important because if you didnt go back and evaluate the price of the plan, the subsidy, how much it could buy, you could end up with a subsidy that buys less and end up in a plan that costs you more or less, if you are automatically reinvolved and didnt activate yourself. Woodruff so those are factors being watched. Absolutely, well learn more about it later in the year. Woodruff soon the expectation number shifted. It was 10 million, then lowered now looks like better than that. Whats going on . It is the fact that the administration was expecting a maximum of 9. 9 million to enroll in the open Enrollment Period and looks like we overshot that. Looks higher than 10 manager. Thats lower than what others estimated including the Congressional Budget Office which was estimating 12 million enrollees. But looks like well probably come in about the middle 10 million, 11 Million People. Woodruff are they pinpointing what the challenges still are out there . For one thing, its hard to get people who havent already had coverage to sign up. We know thats the case. We also know that the Congressional Budget Office for example, was expecting more employers to drop coverage and send their workers to exchanges and that hasnt happened. Employers have actually stuck with their coverage. So that accounts for the Congressional Budget Office lowering its estimates about how many people would bay coverage through the exchanges. Woodruff you have been looking at gender. Youre seeing more women signing up than men . Fascinating, second year running by 10 percentage points, more women are signing up than men. Ability 55 enrollees are women, 45 are men. We dont have any reason to believe more women are uninsured than men, so what explains this . Nobody really knows. People fall back on explanations that women care more about health and healthcare sometimes and they are the primary buyers of healthcare for their families. Woodruff more son sensuous . We see interestingly of people who got covered last year who actually used their coverage, the signs are a lot of the people who used their coverage were older women with chronic illness. So these are women who really needed coverage and theyre using it. Theyre using it to get care for conditions that they have. Woodruff Mary Agnes Carey, you looked especially at latinos and how the signup is going among that group. What they did you find . This is a key demographic for the health law, younger and healthier, and these are the people you want in the histic pool. The department of health and Human Services decided to devote a third of its media budget to latino outreach and enrollment versus 10 last year but its still a rough road for a variety of reasons, like many people who havent had Health Insurance before many latinos are confused about the process of deductibles and copace and so on. In the past, many latinos said we just paid cash. Even witheven with the subsidy, theyre wondering if its worth enrolling. But much focus on this demographic group. Woodruff hanging out will is the tax penalty is out there for those who dont sign up. Its going up. Thats on the one hand. On the other hand, were looking at the prospect of the Supreme Court looking at a skys that could end up with the subsidies mary agnes just mentioned being declared unconstitutional. How are people how are the experts dealing with all this . People are focusing on the fact that penalties do go up, as you said. There are different ways to calculate the penalty but more or less the penalties for not having coverage in 2015 are two to three times higher than the first year around. For example, one level of calculating it individual penalty went from 95 in 2014 to 325 in 2015. So dramatic jump. So there is that issue. We will get next month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case king versus furwell that youre alluding to and that will have the court look at the issue of whether subsidies that go to help Purchase Health coverage apply to only purchase coverage through the statebased exchanges or through all the exchanges including the federal ones. Woodruff creating a pushpull going on here . Sign up because you will be penalized if you dont. On the other hand, the whole thing could change. Thats right and a lot of this is people wont even know about the penalty until they file their tax ifs they havent paid attention to act Affordable Care act enrollment. Many didnt know about the mandated coverage till they signed their taxes. Woodruff well talk to you again. Mary agnes carey, susan dentzer, thank you. Thank you. Woodruff now, advancements in technology to help people feel. Science correspondent miles obrien had much of his left arm amputated last year after an accident while on a reporting trip for the newshour. He has since been exploring leaps forward for modern prosthetics. Last night, he tested a prototype robotic arm. And tonight, one of the hardest things to replicate that might finally be within reach. His story is part of our breakthroughs series. Adjust as needed, okay . Hand without a sense of touch isnt really a hand at all. Its more like a pair of pliers. Watch blindfolded hand amputee igor try to pick up blocks without a sense of touch. Not very productive. That was no sensation . No sensation. Reporter you were literally going blind. Reporter watch what happens when the Sensory Perception is turned on. Its like night and day. If i grab it just right, i feel all three fingers, or two fingers. Then i know i have it then move it over and drop it. Reporter is it the phantom hand you feel it in . To me it feels like my hand. Feels like something between my two fingers thats vibrating. Reporter for igor who lost his hand in an industrial accident four years ago, something powered by battery and made of plastic, metal and silicon can become his hand. This is what every upper limb amputee like me dreams of, not just wearing a functional tool, becoming whole. But i probably shouldnt get my hopes up too high. Will you have your hand . No. Will you have something that will make you forget you dont have a hand . Yeah. The implanted e. M. G. Is implanted directly into the muscle knee dustin is a researcher. When you see the prosthesis touch something you feel it. Not here but in your fingertip thats visually colocated with the prosthesis, a big jump to being what you are. Reporter he is hoping to find way for amputees to access the Untapped Potential of a new generation of prosthetic arms. Thats incredible. Reporter as i discovered at the Johns Hopkins university applied physics laboratory, researchers have made a lot of Progress Engineering a near human arm, ability decipher muscle contractions in my stump, i was able to turn that into fine motor control with relative ease. Century is a different game, more complex because you stimulate, but then it goes to the brain and complex ideas of perception like what do you feel and how do you feel it is a much more complicated process. Reporter the problem is twofold Touch Sensors for prosthetics need improvement but the bigger challenge is making sensory information understand bible and useful to an amputee. What were looking at is the xray of his arm probably a couple of weeks after surgery. Reporter in 2011, surgeons implanted electrodes that encircle the three main sensory nerve bundles in igors injured arm. Youre looking at the three different electrodes, so you can see the points and the device itself, this is on the you will nare nerve. There is another one on the median nerve. News another one on the radial nerve. Thats the index finger being activated . Reporter sensors in the prosthetic hand igor wears transmit impulse also through a computer and these wires into the electrodes inside his arm. The electrodes stimulate the sensory nerves theyre attached to, and igors brain does the rest. So in my mind i actually feel like im doing this when i have it between both fingers. Reporter really . Is it Second Nature to you now . Yes. Reporter you dont have to think about it so much . No i dont have to think about it so much. Reporter igor is able to feel this way with 20 channels of sensory data delivered by the implanted electrodes. Its statice am radio compared to what were born with. To control the hand normally theres thousands of axions that control parts of the fingers. We right now can talk to ten. So you can imagine that connection, that interface still needs to be worked on and thats where were making progress but were still behind what biology can do from an engineering perspective. Reporter across the country at a lab at u. C. L. A. Mechanical engineer Veronica Santos is trying to close the gap. For a long time people have been trying to build robots that emulate humans but theres now a way we can actually directly impact someones quality of life by building a robot that becomes part of someones body. Reporter in dr. Santos bayou Electronics Lab theyre construct ago language of touch that a compute around human can both understand. Theyre quantifying it with mechanical Touch Sensors that have objects of different sizes and textures and are able to transact the information into data a computer can understand. For example, miles if you put your hand in there to stop it we would be able to record the posture when it came into contact of you and the general areas of the fingertips making contact and how much pressure there was or how much the skin was deforming as you made contact, but those are the types of raw precepts you would give to someone and with training they would put it together and say, hey, i think im touching something soft. Reporter the training includes machine learning. The data is used to create a formula or algorithm that gives the computer ability to each common patterns between items it has in its library of experience and something it never felt before. Were interested in developing this idea of artificial haptic intelligence. Reporter making it useful for an amputee is the big challenge. Patrols thect and Robotic Technology has far surpassed the ability of an amputee to command a limb or understand what the device is sensing. The bottleneck is melding the technology with the biology. I think one of the challenges is understanding how much information can you flood someone with before, you know, they cant make use of it in. A per pocket world, if we did our job right, you wouldnt even know wed done our job. Your prosthetic hand would feel like your native limb where all of the robotics algorithms and intelligence we it bilt in at the very low level act just like your spinal cord. You dont even know theyre there. All you know