Canada Defiant After Deadly Terror Attack
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: @THISHOUR, we're getting our first look at the shooter, the killer in yesterday's deadly rampage in Canada's capital. Canadian government officials have confirmed that this photo shows Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who killed an army reservist at a Canadian war memorial and went in to attack parliament. This photo appeared on an Islamic State Twitter account that has been shut down. Earlier this morning, a much better picture as far as I'm concerned, members of parliament in Canadian honored the man who ended Zehaf- Bibeau's shooting spree.</s>BERMAN: I think they were honoring him but also honoring the pride and defiance of an entire nation. Kevin Vickers, the sergeant at arms, carried the symbol of authority. The parliament did get back to business today. It was Vickers who reportedly fired the fatal shot that brought down the killer. Police say Zehaf-Bibeau was killed inside the parliament building after fleeing Canada's war memorial where he shot dead 23-year-old Corporal Nathan Cirillo. Cirillo died standing guard before the Tomb of Canada's Unknown Soldier. Earlier, Prime Minister Stephen Harper laid a wreath at the site. From there, he went to parliament where he promised to crack down on what he calls an enemy devoted to killing anyone who opposes Islamic ideology.</s>STEPHEN HARPER, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: Our laws and police powers need to be strengthened in the area of surveillance, detention and arrest. They need to be much strengthened. I assure you, Mr. Speaker, that work which is already under way will be expedited.</s>BERMAN: CNN is all over this story with reporters in Ottawa as well as Washington, D.C. Our Chris Cuomo, "New Day" anchor, is at the war memorial where Corporal Nathan Cirillo was killed yesterday. Chris, what an ordeal for Ottawa yesterday. It went on for hours and hours. They feared for a while there might be more suspects. This was happening in a city that is not used to this kind of chaos in any way. What is the mood there today?</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, NEW DAY: It's certainly sad, mixed with shock, John. You say it perfectly. This place has had four homicides in the last calendar year, four. Think about that, in terms of -- it bespeaks virtue, crime is not present. They have a good handle of it. Something like this is upsetting in every way imaginable. You can see behind us they still have the place set up for solemnity here. They're no longer working the forensics of the area, though it's still taped off. This entire story, this entire situation is about balancing extremes. You have a low crime area that has to do with the most frightening kind of crime right now. You have a country that has to renew its commitment to this. It's already been very committed. They have 90 people under watch. This man and the man involved in Monday's death were both flagged by Canadian intelligence authorities, both had their passports removed. The hardest part of this, the biggest unknown will be the most difficult to answer, and this is how do you deal with this ever-present new threat of misguided people who misunderstand the nature of faith and use it as an outlet for violence?</s>BERMAN: You bring up a good point, Chris. I know you've asked the question all morning. This guy was deemed such a threat that they froze his passport. Yet, somehow he got in Canada's parliament building with a gun, awfully close to the Canadian prime minister. The prime minister this morning called him a terrorist in no uncertain terms. What more do we know? What more are investigators turning up about this shooter?</s>CUOMO: I think it's very interesting the way that the investigators are approaching it. To answer the first part of your question, one part of the question is easy, the security around parliament was unsatisfied factory in this situation. They had four different types of police forces involved, but the coordination wasn't there. Again, a little of that comes from what threat awareness they had. That will change certainly. It's just what the present realities demand. The harder fix is how do you stop someone like the shooter yesterday? On the U.S. side, what we're hearing is that he was deeply disturbed as an individual. That's why he sought out Islam as a convert. He was desperately seeking some type of validation, but those qualities appear in so many being watched on both sides of the border, John, that the biggest challenge is how to deal with what is a very real threat. Frankly, they don't have great answers.</s>BERMAN: No. It's a numbers game. Chris Cuomo, great work up there. We appreciate your time. Coming up for us, there are little more than 2,000 patrol officers along the U.S. border, the northern border with Canada. Is that enough to keep America safe? How the U.S. will now be tightening security after the attack in Ottawa. Then, they snatch money, lie to their parents, skip school, all because they wanted to take a trip to join ISIS. Is there now a threat, a young threat in the United States that is being overlooked?</s>MATT OLSEN, FORMER DIRECTOR, NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER: I would say the most likely type of attack is one of these home grown violent extremists or lone offenders in the United States.