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captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. the first clue anyone had was the woman at the bank. she came to the window to withdraw $15,000. then, in a calm manner, she told the teller that men were holding her family hostage in their nice suburban home. tonight, a connecticut jury has done something very rare. they've handed out the death penalty for one of two men charged in one of the worst home invasions in memory. that woman at the bank was later murdered back at her home. so were her two daughters. only her husband lived after a savage beating to witness today's verdict. our own michelle franzen is covering in new haven connect cut for us tonight. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. justice not revenge. the words of dr. william petit in response to those death penalty decisions handed down for steven hayes, the man convicted of assaulting and

killing his wife and daughters inside their home in 2007. as the jury's decision was read -- >> i was really crying, crying for loss. >> reporter: an emotional william petit says his thoughts remained on his family. >> probably many of you have kids. michaela was an 11-year-old little girl, you know? tortured and killed in her own bedroom, you know? surrounded by stuffed animals. and haley had a great future. she was a strong and courageous person. >> reporter: the jury of seven women and five men deliberated for four days before voting to send steven hayes to

death row on all six capital felonies, including the murder of a person under 16, and the murder of a sexually assaulted person. in court today, several jurors cried as the sentences were read. deciding this life or death case, clearly difficult. hayes' reaction was different. >> he actually smiled in the courtroom. >> reporter: he smiled? >> yeah. he's internally at peace with the verdict. that's what he wanted. >> reporter: hayes is the first of two defendants charged in the 2007 crime. prosecutors say he and the other suspected defendant forced jennifer petit to go to a bank and withdraw funds. she slipped a note to her teller that her family would be released if she returned with the money. but they were killed, the girls tied to their beds and the home doused with gasoline and set on fire. dr. petit was beaten, tied up in the basement and left for dead before he escaped.

he says even with today's sentences, there is no such thing as closure. >> a hole with jagged edges and over time, the edges may smooth out a little bit. but the hole in your heart and the hole in your soul is still there. >> reporter: up next, december 2nd, formal sentencing for hayes and then the co-defendant is set to stand trial next year. >> michelle franzen in new haven covering that awful story to start us off tonight. michelle, thanks. we turn now to homeland security. two weeks ago it was toner cartridges discovered after they had been converted into potential cargo bombs. on board u.s. bound aircraft. today, we learned of tougher security standards from the feds. our justice correspondent pete williams is at the department of homeland security tonight. and pete, i know part of what's going to be regulated are these toner cartridges. but you have to play the odds. what are the chances the terrorists are going to use them again? >> reporter: they say here at homeland security, brian, that they can't rule that out.

these rules do extend the pan on all cargo shipments from yemen, which is where those two packages last month came from. and they apply as well now to somalia. another country where al qaeda is operating. starting today, all cargo shippers cannot put high risk cargo on passenger planes. which carry about a third of air cargo coming into the u.s. what's considered high risk will depend on intelligence about the sender and the content, and all packages sent by mail overseas must be screened individually. now, for those cartridges, airline passengers from now on cannot carry toner or ink cartridges that weigh over a pound on any passenger flight, and this applies to any flights operating domestically as well as those coming in from overseas. >> pete williams on these new cargo rules and these changes come just as the tsa is also changing security rules for passengers, including much more aggressive pat-down searches for those who opt out of the new

full body image scanners or for those who get chosen for them. it's all getting decidedly mixed reviews from travelers. our report from nbc's tom costello. >> if you have any items in your pockets, you may be subject to additional screening. >> reporter: it's the latest tactic in the tsa's ever evolving approach to aviation security. full-body scanners able to peer underneath clothing. and for passengers who opt out of the scan, a much more personal full pat-down with officers now using the front of their hands and more vigorously searching nor weapons and explosives. the tsa chief says it's a direct response to al qaeda. >> we believe this provides the best possible technology to identify those non-metallic explosive devices that we know have been used before. >> reporter: the challenge for the tsa, searching those private areas of the body most consider off-limits but used by criminals and terrorists to hide drugs, weapons and explosives. most recently by the underwear bomber who nearly brought down a delta northwest flight last

christmas. the full body scanners obscure passenger's faces, while a screening officer in another room has but a few critical seconds to look for anything suspicious. the tsa uses two different types of technology called back scanner and millimeter wave. right now, 317 units are in use at more than 65 airports nationwide. millimeter wave uses radio waves to peer under the clothes and back scanner systems use x-ray technology. >> christmas day last year was a wakeup call. >> reporter: it's all critical technology, says the former head of security at israel's airport. but identifying unusual behavior and questioning travelers who stand out is just as critical. >> you may not know during the interview how the terrorist is actually a real terrorist. but what you will know if that person is lying. >> reporter: for travelers, the security over privacy tradeoff often comes down to gender.

men, less offended. >> it is what it is. >> reporter: women more. >> just personal space, invasion of my personal space, my body. >> i understand why it's needed. however, you know, from a personal standpoint, it is an invasion of privacy, to an extent. >> reporter: and 2 million people moving through tsa checkpoints every day. tom costello, nbc news, denver. one more aviation note here tonight. after last week's explosion of an engine on board a qantas airbus 380 super jumbo in singapore, the airline said today it would keep its fleet of six a-380s grounded for at least another 72 hours while they check out what they call anomalies in engines on two aircraft. the ceo of qantas said engineers found oil where there shouldn't be oil on two of the rolls-royce engines. the presidential commission investigating the bp oil disaster held its first hearing today. the panel hasn't found evidence that bp sacrificed safety in its

oil drilling operation in order to save money. we should tell you the commission's chief counsel also expressed some irritation directed at congress saying the fact that the panel had no subpoena power makes it harder for them to get at the truth of what happened there. president obama is preparing to head to indonesia tonight after spending the last several days in india. the president wants to tap into that country's growing economic power to create jobs back home, while walking a tight rope between two neighborhood adversaries who are both u.s. allies, india and pakistan. our own lee cowan is traveling with the president in new delhi tonight. >> reporter: all the colors of india were on diplomatic display this morning. the president was welcomed at india's presidential palace, before he and the first lady quietly paid their respects at a memorial to ghandi. the white house bills this visit as a job hunting mission and the today the president was quick to point to recent trade deals that he says are proof that india is

no longer just a destination for u.s. outsourcing. >> i want to be able to say to the american people, when they ask me why are you spending time with india, aren't they taking our jobs? i want to be able to say they just created 50,000 jobs. >> reporter: india's trillion dollar economy has made it a global power. enough that it now wants a permanent seat on the u.n. security council. an idea the president endorsed while addressing india's parliament. >> in the years ahead, i look forward to a reformed united nations security council that includes india as a permanent member. >> reporter: but dogging him throughout the trip has been pakistan, a u.s. ally but bitter rival of india. the president called for dialogue between india and pakistan but india's prime minister says not until pakistan cracks down on terrorist safe havens. >> you cannot simultaneously be talking and at the same time be

terror machine as active as ever before. >> reporter: experts say the remark was aimed directly at pakistan. >> the pakistan government is not strong enough to be able to take an agreement with india into the public domain and sell it politically. >> reporter: since his arrival, it's been a pretty hectic mix of policy, commerce and culture. some the president reveled in, some not so much. he was reluctant to take to the dance floor over the weekend. but first lady michelle obama has been dancing, even hobscotching her way from one indian venue to another. the next stop, the president's boyhood home of indonesia, then korea and japan for economic summits. ones that the president hopes will resonate with recession weary voters back home. lee cowan, nbc news, new delhi. former president george w. bush has a book coming out tomorrow, and he spoke at length about it in advance for tonight's special hour-long broadcast with matt lauer. the conversation includes some

frank talk about the former president's drinking. that part of the conversation takes place in the midland, texas church where george and laura bush were married. >> in the book, you say faith is a walk. it's a journey. toward greater understanding. you can't prove that god exists but that shouldn't be the standard of belief because you can't prove god doesn't exist. >> exactly. >> what was it in your life, president bush, that made you re-examine your own faith and take a deeper look at it? please, have a seat. >> thank you. i didn't like the person i was. i was drinking a lot. my parents did me a great favor, they planted the seed of faith, but i would go to church so i wouldn't irritate my mother. >> president bush says his faith helped him quit drinking cold turkey just after his 40th birthday. >> yeah, i would have a beer. the book starts out with laura saying can you tell me a day you haven't had a drink? and when you drink too much the

answer is, yes, i can. and i couldn't remember a day. and i could easily have a beer or two or a martini before dinner, bourbons. i was a drinker. now, i wasn't a knee-walking drunk. >> you were a habitual drinker, rather than an alcoholic? >> exactly. in either case, alcohol becomes central to your life and i finally woke up and realized that i did not want to live a life where alcohol was central. i'm convinced had i not quit drinking i wouldn't be sitting here as a former president. because i chronicle a few incidents where alcohol made my quick tongue not only quick but caused me to be stupid. >> you can see more of the interview, the entire interview airs in a special tonight, "decision points: a conversation with george w. bush." that's tonight at 8:00, 7:00 central time here on nbc. when "nightly news" continues, our special series

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>> reporter: after decades of bigger, better, more, now experts say the epidemic of accumulation is waning. for financial and also psychological reasons. >> the whole problem of an affluent society is that we are stressed. the simpler that things get, the better off you are. >> reporter: 23-year-old kelly sutton can count all the things he owns. >> my name is kelly sutton and i'm getting rid of everything i own. >> reporter: he started a online worldwide minimalist movement called "the cult of less. qulgts everything you own fits in two boxes and this? >> yeah. >> reporter: mostly it's personal connections he's collecting these days. >> my apartment is less of a sing chew ware and more of a place, so it encourages me to be more social and live more out in the world. >> reporter: he sold, donated and disposed his way to less than 100 possessions. with the average new home, now

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50 years ago tonight, john f. kennedy was elected president of the united states. to mark the occasion, "life" magazine, and they're now life.com, opened their archives of previously unreleased photos of that campaign, including students chasing down the candidate in a convertible, a lounging young massachusetts senator. a reminder of the era of the campaign trail before there were cell phones. and jackie kennedy, alone on a bus, looking both solitary and quietly regal at the same time. it's when you look back on the

coverage of election night that you realize how much has changed in just two american generations. >> to all americans, i say that the next four years are going to be difficult and challenging years for us all. >> the election of 1960 was so close that president-elect kennedy didn't claim victory until the following afternoon, a full 18 hours after nbc news coverage started from 30 rockefeller plaza, studio 8-h. >> and now from nbc news election central, chet huntley and david brinkley. >> interest in the election was high. the dashing 43-year-old junior senator from massachusetts versus the cagey veteran, the incumbent vice president richard nixon and millions of americans stayed up late watching the results. >> florida, nixon has taken florida. georgia, kennedy has taken georgia. >> it was a nail biter as

kennedy's early lead dwindled. in los angeles, nixon finally came out to make a statement at 3:20 a.m. eastern time. >> while there are still some results still to come in, if the present trend continues, mr. kennedy, senator kennedy will be the next president of the united states. >> i don't know whether that was a concession or not. >> i suppose it was a concession, but i never heard one just like it before. >> the uncertainty continued for hours. in the end, kennedy's margin of victory was just over 100,000 votes out of more than 68 million cast. finally, the president elect and his wife, jacqueline, then pregnant with john, jr., started their brief tenure as america's first couple. >> now my wife and i prepare for a new administration and for a new baby. thank you. [ applause ] >> john f. kennedy jr. was born less than three weeks later and

he would only have his father in his life for three years. that's our broadcast for this monday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. as always, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com finding it in their hearts. tonight johannes mehserle's father speaks out since his son's sentencing and he has something to say to the familiar el of the man he shot and killed. for months todd