nbc's anne thompson with us tonight from one of the four apple stores in manhattan. anne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. but, you know, it's more than that because steve jobs didn't just change the way we communicate. with his keen eye for design and a sleek pair of white earbuds, he made his customers cool and today they showed their appreciation. the grief mirrored steve jobs's worldwide reach expressed from times square to tokyo in its own unique way. >> someone who did so much. makes me want to do more. >> to me it's comparable to the day that princess diana died. i guess steve jobs was one of my heroes. >> he opened our minds. we saw the world differently. >> reporter: his products brought the news to fans in atlanta. >> i heard about steve jobs's death on my mac book pro. >> i was on twitter on my ipad. >> i heard about it on my ibook g-4. >> reporter: on this morning's "today" show, matt lauer demonstrated the power of the products. >> an ipad, ipod, iphone. look at it. that's impact. >> reporter: they are everywhere. an iphone in the war zone

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> coming up next, food trucks are all the rage, but not just great businesses for chefs, also great businesses for folks making kitchens for the trucks. we'll show you. >>> as the food truck scene goes gourmet in the bay area, so do the tiny kitchens in the trucks. kris sanchez takes us to hayward with a look at where the small kitchens are made. >> reporter: food truck fair is created, exotic and increasingly high brow. >> it is more a move towards gourmet. >> reporter: skip designed his truck. an outside stereo system. inside, a $10,000 pressure frier. >> i can tell you 99.9% of the trucks for the last 30 years, it was to sell mexican and american food. now for the last three years, we haven't make any of those trucks. >> reporter: they went from making six trucks a year to making two or three trucks a month. he hired eight more employees to serve customers as diverse as their cuisine. >> i have different customers. we have from real estate agents, architects, catering. >> reporter: this truck is the brainchild of an architect turned chef. >> you c

anne thompson here with us in new york. thanks, as always. >>> even with all of this to contend with, there's still no agreement in washington about remedies for the unemployment rate. and a funny thing happened to president obama on the road today, pushing his plan. some bad news regarding a big store chain got in the way. our own kristen welker traveling with the president tonight, joining us from emporia, virginia. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, this is day two of the president's campaign style bus tour, which has been billed as a trip to sell his jobs plan in these key swing states of virginia and north carolina. president obama had harsh words for congressional republicans again today. >> their plan says we need to go back to the good old days before the financial crisis when wall street wrote its own rules. our plan says, we need to make it easier for small businesses on main street. >> back in washington, republicans kept up their counterattacks. >> i know he's desperately interested i

anne thompson, nbc news, annapolis, maryland. >>> and that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" and then tomorrow evening. "today" and then tomorrow evening. good night, everyone. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. i'm diane dwyer. the occupy wall street movement

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >> great story to end our broadcast on a monday night.nk you for being here with us. as we start a new week, i'm brian williams. you have heard of little pink houses. here's a big one. the white house is pink tonight for a great cause. 25th anniversary of national breast cancer awareness month. we'll see you back here tomorrow evening. we'll see you back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> right now at 6:00, for the rst time in months, rain in the bay area. you see all the green on the radar maps. it might be sticking around for a while. good evening and thanks for joining us on this monday. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. >>> tonight, police in the east bay are

our report tonight from nbc's anne thompson with our making a difference. >> reporter: one professionalr describes racing as solving a series of problems, taking a curve, finding the line, beating the competition. but few drivers have attempted what timmy tyrell, jr., wants to do. >> i don't want people to be sick. they can die and i don't want that at all. >> reporter: nicknamed mini, he's particularly concerned about one friend, ella daye. >> i had a bump in my brain that caused me getting cancer. >> she was really, really sick because of the cancer and i really wanted to help her. >> reporter: so this 7-year-old started doing what he loves -- racing go carts to help raise money for families of children with cancer like ella. he calls it mini's mission, burning rubber to help another. mini races every saturday night from march to december. each lap one-fifth of a mile around the track. so far he's raised $7,000 and counting. at each contest, mini collects congratulations. >> very proud of you. >> reporter: and cash. the money goes to the jeffrey verastik fund. >> i would like to prese

we begin here tonight with anne thompson. >> reporter: this recession has spared no one. but it's devastated older workers. people 55 and up who lost their jobs are less likely to find new ones. the amount of time to find a job tripled for workers 65 and older, going from 11 weeks in 2007 to 31 last year. a lag that continues today, says the ceo of retirement jobs.com. >> we do see that, it takes people over the age of 50 about 30% longer to find work once they've lost their job. >> reporter: 64-year-old mary coangelo knows just how hard it is. >> i send in applications all the time, i get no response. >> reporter: it's been two years since she had a full-time job. >> i think it's my age. i think a lot of companies feel that the younger people have more time to offer, whatever. but i don't want to retire. >> i never planned to be broke. i never planned to be out of work. >> reporter: gail ruggles said she can't make ends meet with a series of part time jobs. >> you don't shop for new clothes, you don't get your glasses fixed. you are supposed to take a medication seven da

anne thompson, nbc news, king george, virginia. >> by the way, there is more information on mini's missionla and how to help the cause on our website. please note our new web address, nbcnightlynews.com. tomorrow night here, the book that changed the game in women's health is turning 40. we'll look at the ground-breaker that was and is "our bodies ourselves" here on the broadcast tomorrow night. that is our monday night broadcast as we start a new week in a new home. thank you for being here with us. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night.

nbc's anne thompson has our making a difference report tonight. >> reporter: what makes an angel?o? wings? jennifer nyland has a different answer. >> what's an angel to you? >> oh. bobbie burnett. honestly. truly. >> reporter: 29-year-old ago, bobbie burnett made a stained glass angel for jennifer's mom suzie to help her battle cancer. >> i thought that was all i was ever going to make. but now, after 40,000 more, i don't feel that it was my choice. i was selected to do it. >> reporter: today the basement of bobbie's indianapolis maryland home is an angel factory. >> you can cut those and she's going to do the body. >> reporter: four days a week, 90 volunteers cut, solder and assemble what bobbie calls the caressing collection. >> not everyone who has cancer goes into remission. but everyone has hope and concern or care. they need love and they need trip. >> reporter: her angels watch over cancer patients around the world. >> to england and to ireland and to spain. >> reporter: the nearly $1 million raised is helping johns hopkins cancer center buy this machine for patients underg

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our report tonight from our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson. >> reporter: theund of joy from the earth's 7 billionth person will also be the sound of alarm. the child enters a world where 900 million people have no access to clean billion. nearly 1 billion go to bed hungry and 2.6 billion have no adequate sanitation. the nature conservancy's lead scientist says we can thrive in a crowded world. >> this planet can support 7 billion people. the trick is how to deal with common resources we all share. >> reporter: the most pressing issue is water. >> people say water is the next oil. it isn't the next oil. it's irreplaceable. >> we are using water faster than it becomes available. this is why water tables are falling. >> reporter: 18 countries are overpumping including china, india and the united states. saud i arabia wanted to be self-sufficient but will soon stop growing crops because it depleted a water source. when the world moved to a meet based science rising food prices add to food insecurity. >> probably the biggest hurdle is the fact that tonight at the d

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anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >> great story to end our broadcast on a monday night. being here with us. as we start a new week, i'm brian williams. you have heard of little pink houses. here's a big one. the white house is pink tonight for a great cause. 25th anniversary of national breast cancer awareness month. we'll see you back here tomorrow evening. we'll see you back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com evening. good night.

our "making a difference" follow-up report tonight from nbc's anne thompson. >> reporter: as fast ascan, 7-year-old mini tyrell runs to his vision of heaven. the nascar pit at the martinville, virginia, speedway. and an invitation to meet jeff gordon. >> you must be mini. >> yes. >> reporter: all because of mini's mission. racing go carts to raise money for children with cancer. >> what you did was the most incredible thing i've ever heard of. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: gordon was touched by mini's story last week on "nightly news." >> when the going gets tough, the tough get going, all the way around the track at break-neck speeds. >> reporter: about how mini wanted to help his friend ella. >> it's a bad cancer that i want to take away. just throw it in the trash can. >> reporter: gordon has raised millions of dollars for children with cancer. but thought he could learn from mini. >> i have a 4-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son. and the things and values that i want to instill in them is to be like mini. >> reporter: to inspire mini, gordon matched the $7,000 mini rai

nbc's ann thompson has more. >> reporter: the sound of joy from the earth's 7 billionth person will also be a sound of alarm. the child enters a world where 900 million people have no access to clean water. nearly 1 billion go to bed hungry and 2.6 billion have no add kwapt adequate sanitation. but it's said we can thrive in an increasingly crowded world. >> this planet can support 7 billion people. but the trick is, how do we deal with common resources that we all share. >> reporter: the most pressing issue is water. people say water is the next oil. it isn't oil. it's irreplaceable. >> we are using water faster when it becomes available. >> reporter: 18 countries are overpumping, including china, india and the united states. saudi arabia wanted to be self-sufficient in wheat, but will soon stop gring the crop because it has depleted an underground water source. when it comes to food, the world has moved to a more affluent meat-based diet increases pressure on the land and rising food prices add to food insecurity. >> probably the biggest hurdle is the fact that tonight at the dinner ta

anne thompson will have the latest developments coming up on the "today" show right after "news 4 today>> a virginia man faces bigamy charges. prosecutors say he had four wives all in different cities. court records show that isaac costello jr. married a woman in chesapeake in 2000. in 2008, he married another woman in henrice county. in 2009, he married a third woman in hopewell. and he married a fourth woman in july in virginia beach. he pleaded guilty in chesterfield in april and faces other charges in similar counties. >>> it's supposed to be one of the happiest days of your life, but at one bride's wedding, the bridesmaids purses were stolen right out of the church. the six women stored their purses in a podium in a room below the sanctuary. but right after the ceremony, the purses were gone. one of the bridesmaids, who was afraid to be identified, worried that the thief might figure out where they live. they lost more than their cell phones and driver's licenses, they also lost their sense of security. >> it's very alarming to think, while we were upstairs and our best friend gett

nbc' anne thompson is here is details. >> good morning, ann. you know what makes the missions so dangerous are the temperatures which are now at around 70 degrees below zero and that turns jet fuel to jelly so rescues outside the warmer months are rare but this woman says her life depends on it. the remoteness and adventure that attracted rene nicole ducert threatens her recovery. >> it gets less and less. >> the 50-year-old suffered a stroke in late suggest leaving this retired nuclear engineer to do simple subtraction and blurred vision. >> if you're watching satellite tv and the signal gets scrambled and you see mixed pixels here there and everywhere. >> the doctor at the south pole urge she be evacuated as soon as possible but the national foundation that funds the station and raytheon polar service that employees doucertte claimed the condition was not life-threatening and she was clinically stable. >> the statement is patently false. >> reporter: her attorney calls the decision unreasonable, insensitive and unethical. >> the standard oper

here's ann thompson with that story. >> the sound of joy from the world's seventh billion person also. the child enters the world with no access to clean water. nearly one billion go to bed hungry. the nature conservancy's lead scientist says we can survive. >> this planet can support seven billion people. the trick is, how do we deal with common resources we all share? >> the most pressing issue is water. >> people say water is not the next oil. it is irreplaceabl. >> water tables are falling. >> 18 countries are over-pumping, including china, india, and the united states. saudi arabia wanted to be self-sufficient in wheat but will soon stop growing the crop because it has depleted an underground water source. when it comes to food and the world moving toward a more affluent meat-based diet increases pressure on the land and water supplies. >> probably the biggest problem tonight is tonight at the dinner table there will be 219,000 people not there tonight. tomorrow night, another 219,000 people. >> it took a century to hit the 2 billion mark. then population exploded. the most recen

nbc's ann thompson has more on the woman's fate. good morning, ann. >> good morning, richard. the weather is now the biggest obstacle in renee nicole's way to a hospital and treatment for what is believed to be a stroke. the temperature at the south pole station is around 72 degrees below zero, and a forecast of snow are keeping the cargo planes that would carry her out grounded. those planes are actually six hours away from dusur at the base. these are not special rescue planes planes, but, rather, regularly scheduled cargo planes due to drop off supplies now that the weather is warming up in antarctica. it is spring down there. she's very angry that the -- they refuse to send a special rescue flight when she suffered this suspected stroke seven weeks ago. they said her life was not in danger, and in an e-mail she sent to friends last night her frustration with the weather and her employer are front and center. she writes, "i know the weather is fickle and harsh in antarctica, but there are weather windows that open up where it is possible to fly in for a rescue evacuation in

. >> anne thompson.nk you. >>> three women dead and four injured after a personal watercraft collided with a boat in a los angeles reservoir. the women were riding on the personal watercraft. >>> the u.s. mining for gold in japan at the world gymnastics championships. the women have swept the first three gold medals. michaela maroney says it shows they are the best. >>> the quick roundup of stories for this week. the royal visit from queen elizabeth will reignite debate on whether australia will become a republic. >>> apple will celebrate the life of steve jobs on wednesday at his headquarters in cupertino, california. the cofounder died this month at age 56 after a long battle with pang reattic cancer. >>> and a california preacher is predicting the end of the world, he says it will happen on friday. >>> and the population will hit a record 7 billion by the end of the month. >>> and spain's running of the bulls has strolled into an arizona town. a couple dozen bulls challenged 200 runners to stay in fro

ann thompson has been following a major story and both of those possible medical options are very seriousshe was. it took her 12 hours to get from the south to christ church in new zealand. because they are 17 hours ahead of us, she probably headed to the hospital where she will tomorrow just exactly what happened in her head seven weeks ago at the south pole. the doctor at the south pole said she suffered a stroke that left her with impaired vision and speech problems. the national science foundation that runs the south pole base and said they didn't think her condition was life-threatening and would not send a special flight to airlift her out of the south pole. she had to wait seven weeks until yesterday when a regularly scheduled cargo flight landed and took her out. that was not without risk as she explained when she landed in new zealand. >> coming from south pole on the unpressurized plane which i was worried about whether it could do damage or a stroke or who knows what else, they kept the plane at low altitudes so if something ha happened to me, but luckily nothing did. it was a

anne thompson will have the latest developments coming up on the "today" show right after "news 4 todayht now european stock markets are set while asian stocks rose after a huge jump on wall street. in germany, the dax is down more than .5%. japan's nikkei ended up almost 2%, and hong kong's hang seng also ended up almost 2.5%. right now u.s. futures are down. this comes after stocks rallied after european leaders promised to come up with a plan to resolve the euro zone debt crisis by the end of the month. the dow closed at 11,433. nasdaq up more than 86 points, encloseding at 2566. and the s&p 500 ended up at 1194. >>> someone is worse than a wedding crasher. six bridesmaids had their purses stolen right out of the church. it's a news 4 exclusive you saw at 11:00 last night. six women tried to hide their purse behind a podium in a room under the sanctuary. after the ceremony, the purses were gone. one of the bridesmaids who's afraid to be identified worried that a thief may figure out where she lives. she said they lost more than their purses and cell phones and driver's licenses, they

anne thompson has more. >> reporter: the sound of joy from theette's 7 billionth person will also be of alarm. the child enters a world where 900 million people have no access to clean water. nearly 1 billion go to bed hungry. 2.6 billion have no adequate sanitation. but the nature conservancy lead scientists says we can thrive in an increasingly crowded world. >> this planet can certainly support 7 billion people. but the trick is, how do we deal with common resources that we all share. >> reporter: the most pressing issue is water. >> people say, water's the next oil. it isn't the next oil. it's irreplaceable. >> we are using water faster than it -- than it becomes available. this is why water tables are falling. >> reporter: 18 countries are overpumping, including china, india and the united states. saudi arabia wanted to be self-sufficient in wheat but will soon stop growing the crop because it has depleted an underground water source. when it comes to food, the world's moved to a more affluent meat based diet increases pressure on the land. rising food prices add to food insecur

mary ann thompson, whose husband set free 50 exotic animals from his own private zoo last week beforeys she wants to reclaim the half dozen animals that survived that ordeal. we're talking about three leopards, two primates and a bear, all cared for by a staff at the columbus zoo since all this unfolded. the zoo says it has no legal right to keep theance mall the animals but they're doing everything they can to prevent having to keep the animals back. they are hoping that mrs. thompson would leave the animals at the zoo in the care of our professionals. we're trying to get authorization from government authorities and agencies to ensure they say at the zoo. ohio governor john kasich starting a task force to write a new low to make it tougher for people to own their own exotic animals. police were forced to kill four dozen animals from tomtom son's property including rare bengal tigers, lions. bears and giraffe. jenna: amazing to believe that there is no law that will keep them at the zoo after everything that happened. unbelievable. update you what will happen with these animals and w

anne thompson has details on that. good morning. >> good morning, matt. she's in conflict of interest -- christchurch, new zealand this morning. there were supplies dropped off and picked up. after seven weeks of pleading, renee nicole finally left the south pole. she sent a photo of herself before heading out to meet the cargo plane that would take her away. that plane represented hopes and risk. it was unpressurized and she worried what could happen to her brain, already injured by a suspected stroke. she said the pilots agreed to fly at a lower altitude if necessary. >> i think i'm comfortable that the plan they have will work if i run into difficulties. i hope to god i won't run into any of that problem. >> reporter: the conditions were foreboding. the temperature, 72 degrees below zero with a wind chill of 109 below, around takeoff. on the first leg of the journey to better care. after stopping in antarctica to change planes she boarded a pressurized plane for the trip to new zealand and a hospital with the machines to evaluate her condition. >> i ha

. >> reporter: mary anne thompson's trailer pulls away without the animals she calls her children. the animals are under quarantine following orders from the ohio department of ago culture. the indefinite quarantine will allow an opportunity to conduct a full and appropriate investigation as to the health status of these animals. >> praise god. that's an answer to prayer. i know she thinks they are her pets and stuff. they're not like cats and dogs. >> reporter: jack hannah said the animals are exactly where they need to be. >> i know what the conditions were. you wouldn't want to see it. the animals aren't leaving the zoo and that's the right decision. what's right is right. what's wrong is wrong. this is right. >> reporter: thompson wants the animals she said she owns back. last week her husband terry thompson released more than 50 exotic animals from his property in rural ohio and killed himself. within minutes calls began pouring into 911. >> yeah, there's a lion on mount perry road. >> i'm pretty sure i just saw a wolf. >> we live next to terry thompson and there is a bear and

anne thompson has details on that. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning, matt. happy to tell you she's in christchurch, new zealand thshgs morning. this began with a first cargo flight of the warming season. it dropped off supplies at the south pole and picked up renee-nicole douceur. after seven weeks of pleading, renee-nicole finally left the south pole. she sent a photo of herself before heading out to meet the cargo plane that would take her away. that plane represented hope and risk. it was unpressurized and she worried what it could do to her brain, already injured by a suspected stroke. when i spoke to douceur over the weekend, she said the pilots agreed to fly at a lower altitude if necessary. >> i think i'm fairly comfortable that the plan they have will work if i run into difficulties. i'm just crossing my fingers and hoping to god that i won't run into any of that problem. >> reporter: the conditions were foreboding. the temperature, 72 degrees below zero with a windchill of 109 below around takeoff on the first leg of the journey to better care. afte

ann. >> your deputies found the owner terry thompson dead and all of the outdoor cages open. ngs on his body that indicate whether he was killed by the animals or by another human being? >> well, ann, that's still under investigation right now. we're waiting on some preliminary autopsy reports and as soon as we have those reports back and get some of those reports done we'll be able to release that information. >> but don't you want to warn people who are already worrying about animals on the loose as to whether or not there may also be a killer on the loose, sheriff? >> well, ann, the type of animals we're dealing with, all of them were considered at this point. we started emergency broadcasting as soon as this thing happened. these are not your normal pets. these animals have been caged for a long time and, you know, we wouldn't take any chance with them last night and we certainly wouldn't have our citizens take any chance with them today. >> are you going to try to qu k quickly assess whether there may be a killer involved so people can be adequately warned about that? >>

ann road being closed. >> and that was nbc's brian thompson reporting from new jersey. officials say the storm has knocked out power to more than 2 million homes from new jersey to maryland. now rob mayeda's here with a look at a forecast that is so much more pleasant. >> indeed, around here. good news for the northeast. the nor'easter is moving fairly quickly. right now, it's almost cleared cape cod. it's heading up to maine. today we'll probably see less travel delays across the northeast as the system continues to move on out. we may get a taste of winter weather toward the end of our seven-day forecast. we'll have a look at that coming up if a moment. this morning, 40s and 50s outside. it's chilly outside. as we get those low clouds and a sea breeze picking up this afternoon, the coast will be running a little cooler. for now, not much of a sea breeze. winds slightly offshore at 8 miles per hour. for the morning, we have the low close reproaching for parts of the coastline. today, easily the warmest day we're going to see for the week ahead. by halloween, we'll see