on our broadcast tonight, on notice. as these protests keep spreading across the country, what could be a looming showdown in the place where it all started. running mate. the wife of a presidential candidate makes some rare, honest and emotional comments about what the process is like. the massacre at seal beach. tonight, new video of that awful moment at a salon and new details tonight about the suspect and what might have set him off. kodak moments. if you're old enough, you remember them all. but now the great american brand is going through a moment of crisis while trying to stay relevant and afloat. and another royal wedding. this one not quite so well known but it does give us a colorful glimpse into a fascinating and once hidden world as a king marries a commoner.

once hidden world as a king marries a commoner. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. back on september 17, very few people had heard of the protest movement called occupy wall street, but they did and they sure have since then. and so far there have been over 1,000 arrests across the united states as the movement spreads. they share a heritage with other big protest movements in american history. some of them have changed history. even though this protest doesn't look the same or take the same shape exactly any two days in a row. it's on the move. the players change. but the center of the message is increasingly resonating. the crowds tell us that. now the polls tell us that. but tomorrow here in new york an important moment arrives right where it all started. it's where we begin tonight with nbc's mara schiavocampo. mara, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening.

protesters here at zuccotti park are bracing for a showdown with police tomorrow because the park's owners say they want the group temporarily moved, this as demonstrations continue to take hold around the country. almost one month in, the occupy wall street protests are growing in number and intensity. thousands taking to the streets in at least 190 cities nationwide. [ chanting ] >> reporter: the latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll finds 37% of americans support the protesters, with 40% of wealthy americans backing the movement, more than any other income group. >> what we've witnessed across america in the last several weeks are our citizens taking to the streets born out of frustration. >> reporter: in washington, d.c. today, eight arrested after gathering at the capitol. the last few days have seen an escalation in demonstrations and clashes from boston to seattle. overnight, police in portland

cleared the streets, tearing down tents. >> we're going to stay here as long as is necessary to ensure that the street remains open. >> reporter: now protesters in zuccotti park in lower manhattan where the movement began are bracing for a showdown. >> nobody's leaving. they can carry everybody out in handcuffs like they did on the brooklyn bridge. >> reporter: after vowing to let them camp out indefinitely city officials now say demonstrators must leave for park maintenance. park owners want them out. >> they have now decided they want to clean the area and they are going to do that. we'll stand by to make certain that the peace is maintained. >> reporter: demonstrators say the cleaning is an excuse to sweep them out for good, so they are tidying the park themselves and have vowed to stay. brian, organizers are telling protesters to be here tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. to, quote, defend the occupation from eviction. the nypd will be here as well and both sides say they are prepared for potential clashes. brian? >> mara schiavocampo in lower

manhattan tonight starting us off. thanks. now to a story that was just breaking as we came on the air last night. a shooting rampage in a beauty salon in the seaside town of seal beach, california. the folks who live there say the target was the gunman's ex-wife. the issue was a custody battle over their 8-year-old son. nbc's kristen dahlgren is with us from seal beach tonight. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. here outside the scene of the massacre, the memorial and the grief are both growing. this is a community still in shock as we learn more about who the victims were and also what may have sent the alleged gunman over the edge. in a small town like seal beach, almost everyone knows someone touched by the tragedy. >> he was just a great guy. >> reporter: like mary stearns, a 30-year client of salon owner randy fannin, one of eight killed yesterday when a gunman entered his crowded salon and opened fire. fannin's wife escaped, but at a terrible cost. she saw him get shot?

>> yeah. i don't know how she's going to live with that. >> reporter: police say 41-year-old scott dekraai was in full body armor with multiple weapons when he entered the salon. minutes after the shooting he surrendered peacefully. while police won't discuss a motive his ex-wife michelle was a stylist here. friends say she was also one of the victims and in a custody battle with dekraai over their 8-year-old son. john kate was michelle's attorney. >> from the very first time i met her, she indicated to me that she was frightened of him. >> reporter: but dekraai's neighbors say that they were shocked to see him on the news. >> my husband said, that's not him. he's talked to the man many times and said how loving he is. >> he was always a nice guy. my dad passed a couple years ago. he'd come over, help out. he actually took the trash out for me a couple times unexpectedly. >> reporter: leaving a community to wonder just why this happened and clinging to each other in their grief. >> he devastated many people

today, but we're going to be all right. >> reporter: now there is a vigil planned here tonight. also, charges against dekraai are expected to be filed tomorrow. brian, the one shooting victim who did survive is still in critical condition but police say she is showing signs of improvement and expected to pull through. >> kristen dahlgren, seal beach, california, tonight, kristen, thanks. a 31-year-old connecticut man was found guilty today on 17 charges related to a home invasion, robbery and murder that shocked the entire country. joshua komisarjevsky faces a possible death sentence for the '07 crime. he was convicted of breaking into the cheshire, connecticut, home of dr. william petit, sexually assaulting his wife, two daughters, tying them down, setting the house on fire in what was the most awful crime a lot of people can remember. mother and both daughters died of smoke inhalation.

his accomplice was also convicted and is on death row. in l.a., the trial of michael jackson's doctor went on. the prosecution called its very last witness today. one of the leading experts on the powerful anesthetic propofol. the prosecution's case is expected to wrap up monday. then it is the defense's turn. sources close to the case say the defense will argue that michael jackson had taken an anti-anxiety medication hours before his death and never told dr. conrad murray. that, the defense will argue, is what killed jackson, not the propofol. meanwhile, the drumbeat against iran continued at the highest levels of the u.s. government for that alleged plot that sounded contrived to people like a hollywood movie plot. the one in which an iranian american hires mexican drug lords to kill the saudi ambassador in washington. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is on the story again in washington tonight. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. acknowledging that this alleged plot was ham-handed and there is no proof it was sanctioned by iran's top leaders, u.s.

officials are trying to rally the world against tehran. today the president said he's taking no options off the table meaning more economic pressure against iran. the administration is so confident of its evidence the president himself was making the case today. >> this is a -- not just a dangerous escalation. this is part of a pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior by the iranian government. >> reporter: in a highly unusual step, u.s. officials sought out iran's diplomats at the u.n. to complain. u.s. allies like britain's prime minister cameron have been briefed on the evidence and say it's credible. the prime target, saudi ambassador, jaber is an like a son to the saudi king, an outspoken critic of iran. another potential target was michael orin, israel's ambassador to the united states. who could have concocted such a plot? today, the fbi told the senate intelligence committee iran's elite quds force of the revolutionary guard, not known

to be bunglers, was directly involved. >> we believe there is a connection with the quds force and we believe the head is aware of this. and so this was a quds force action. >> reporter: the head of the quds force, a veteran spy master, is one of five iranians sanctioned by the treasury on monday. but the senators say there is no evidence the alleged plot went any higher to iran's top leaders. >> there was no knowledge of either president ahmadinejad or the supreme leader. >> reporter: the ate ayatollah accused israel with u.s. help of killing five iranian nuclear scientists in the past two years. something u.s. officials will not discuss. how to explain that a one-time used car dealer from a gang that couldn't shoot straight could be involved in a plot directed by iran's top spies? one official told me, don't forget our own cia once considered killing fidel castro

with an exploding cigar. they say the entire u.s. government would not sign onto this evidence if it weren't true. brian? >> andrea mitchell in our d.c. bureau tonight. andrea, thanks. now we turn to politics. the campaign for president and a rare moment of candor today from the spouse of a candidate for the gop nomination. she spoke honestly and emotionally about the toll it takes to run on her and her husband, the governor of texas, rick perry. she also talked about president obama. our report tonight from nbc's kelly o'donnell. >> hello there. how are you? anita. >> reporter: a public display of the private side of anita perry today, exposing both her deep christian faith. >> amen. >> reporter: and deep frustration over attacks on her husband's campaign. >> we have been brutalized by our opponents in our own party. so much of that is i think they look at him because of his faith.

>> reporter: at a prayer breakfast in south carolina where 60% of republican voters say they are christian, today mrs. perry wiped tears recalling her grandfather who had been a deakin and then used biblical references to declare god revealed to her that her husband of 29 years should run for president. >> he felt like he needed to see the burning bush. i said, look, let me tell you something. you may not see that burning bush, but there are people seeing that burning bush for you. >> reporter: governor perry's campaign soared at first but faded after poor debate performances. >> i think the debates have been unfair. i think he's been the recipient of arrows. >> reporter: mrs. perry's tone took on a sharp edge later today at more secular campaign events, mocking gop candidate herman cain's 999 tax plan. >> when i hear 999, i want to call 911. >> reporter: and the president. >> someone said it may take 40

years to recover from president obama. i'm like you. if he's re-elected i don't know that 40 years is going to be enough. >> reporter: although anita perry has been first lady longer than anyone in texas history, that public life has apparently not made the scrutiny and strain any easier seeing her husband run for president. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, washington. we have a health story in the news tonight. an update on the outbreak of the deadly bacteria linked to cantaloupe. two more people have died bringing the death toll to 23 now, making this officially the worst case of food-borne illness in 25 years in this country. 116 people in 25 separate states have gotten sick. health officials say it may not be over since it can take months for symptoms to appear. they say people could have been eating the bad products as far back as july and not know it. up next on "nightly news" tonight, an iconic american brand fighting to stay alive as the focus of the nation changes. and later a commoner who's

now a queen after a royal wedding in a place none of us really ever get to see.

brand names of our lives, unless you ask someone who's just now coming of age what they think of kodak and in that case it's not likely to register much of a response. kodak quite simply was how america took pictures. they made the cameras, the film, the flash cubes, developed prints for us. they made rochester, new york, a world class small city, but the world passed kodak by, by and large, and now they are hoping to avoid bankruptcy while wondering what their future picture looks like. our report tonight from nbc's rehema ellis.

♪ ♪ will you remember the times of your life ♪ >> reporter: for decades, people turned to kodak to capture their precious moments. inventor george eastman started the company 131 years ago in rochester, new york. he put photography in the hands of amateurs. from the $1 brownie camera to the instamatic. >> the brownie. >> reporter: memories shot on kodak cameras, processed on kodak film. ♪ >> reporter: but in 2009, the last kodachrome pictures were printed as the focus turned to digital. >> digital is far better. >> reporter: people are now more likely to share vacation photos on facebook than the old slide carousel don draper pitched on "mad men." >> this device isn't a spaceship. it's a time machine. >> reporter: and while kodak invented the digital camera in 1976, technology writer david desalvo says, the company failed to keep pace with the digital revolution and competition from fuji.

>> the kodak decline tells us in the new economy when you get behind, you are very likely to stay behind. >> reporter: kodak's latest attempt to get ahead involves hiring a law firm that specializes in restructuring, sparking rumors of bankruptcy. rumors kodak denies. back in the '80s when times were good, kodak had 60,000 employees here in rochester, new york, alone. now there are fewer than 20,000 worldwide. the downward trend has many fearful about how things at kodak will develop. >> don't panic. >> reporter: at a recent meeting hundreds of kodak retirees worried that company benefits will fade away. ina moreno was with kodak for 34 years. >> i have great concern that what i worked for and what i thought was going to be there is not going to be there. >> i ask you to be calm and be patient. >> reporter: bob hopi manages the retiree group and remains optimistic. >> other companies have been on the verge of bankruptcy and turned around. you don't know what's going to happen.

>> reporter: he hopes the company's renewed emphasis on areas like digital printing will help kodak stay in the picture. rehema ellis, nbc news, rochester, new york. and in the near term, this next item will have as much consumer impact in american homes as peanut burt is about to go up in price big-time. the extreme heat and drought in the south has not been good for peanut crops. today companies including smuckers and kraft were warning they are going to have to raise peanut butter prices 30% to 40% next month. consumers can buy it now to save later on. this goes for a lot of different peanut products. when we come back, a rare sight. a cheating runner and an idea that could be a revolution for the british throne.

the backdrop was foggy but it didn't stop the repair work at the top of the national cathedral in d.c. today.

stone masons removed damaged upper portions, two tons of it, from the cathedral to repair the pinnacles damaged by the earthquake that shook a lot of us up in late august. there is no way we can really do justice to this next picture, but it is on our website tonight if you want to take a good long look. as one writer put it, it is one thing to photograph a meteor or the milky way or the northern lights. but all three in one photo? that's tougher. kudos to photographer tommy eliassen who captured the incredible scene thanks to mother nature in norway. just as the boston marathon had the famous rosie ruiz, it might have been a little weird that one runner in a recent uk marathon wasn't as out of breath as the other runners after he finished third. turns out rob sloan spent the last six miles of the race on board a city bus and then hid behind a tree. until the rest of the runners came by.

he's been stripped of his medal. speaking of the uk, the prime minister there, david cameron, says this potential game-changer should at least be discussed in the modern era. changing a law on the books for more than 300 years that governs royal succession so the girls would have the same right as boys to inherit the throne. interestingly, all of this is being raised before newlyweds william and kate perhaps have children. but if the law is changed, it will almost certainly mean their first child, boy or girl, will go on to the throne. up next here tonight, different royals in a different place. a royal wedding like none we have ever seen before.

finally tonight we take you to a part of the world a lot of people haven't seen. television cameras hardly ever go there. in fact, the people there lived without television until very recently. but tonight the tiny himalayan nation of bhutan is the center of the world's attention because of another kind of royal wedding. our own ian williams traveled to bhutan for this special occasion. >> reporter: they call it the land of the thunder dragon and today in an ancient fortress the

dragon king, the prince charming of the himalayas, married a queen whose beauty is the talk of this tiny nation. if it sounds like something from a fairy tale, well, this is bhutan, one of the most remote and isolated places on earth which had no roads or currency until the 1960s and no television until 12 years ago. at dawn at a time selected by astrologers, 31-year-old king jigme khes married jet pema in a traditional buddhist ceremony. she's ten years his junior and a commoner, the daughter of an airline pilot. the two met 14 years ago at a family picnic. crowds came from across the country for a glimpse of the revered royal couple who vowed to meet personally with as many people as possible. 63-year-old dofu traveled six hours on foot. i had to be here, she told me, i wouldn't have missed this for the world. >> we are really excited. we cannot express our happiness. that's why we came here to witness the royal wedding.

>> reporter: there were no heads of state here today, no foreign royalty or international celebrities. they weren't invited. the king said he wanted a wedding for the people, not an extravaganza like the british royal wedding. he studied at oxford, the new queen in london. but bhutan is uncertain about the modern world, choosing to measure progress by what they call gross national happiness. the new queen is capturing the imagination here. >> she's very beautiful and kind. and simple. >> she's very hot. >> reporter: a response that suggests not all outside influences can be kept at bay. today's wedding was the biggest international media event the country has ever seen. all for a couple who must determine just how closely bhutan will embrace the 21st century while preserving its soul. ian williams, nbc news, bhutan. >> i guess they look kind of happy. that's our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening.

we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com right now at 6:00, nbc bay area news investigating the growing concern over hate crimes in one bay area city. good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm janelle wang in for raj mathai. >> too many white supremacists. a stunning statement about a city known as a place of