jim maceda, nbc news, london. >>> that's our broadcast on a wednesday night. 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 >>> good evening, everyone. i'm janelle wang in for raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. staying safe in san jose as crime continues to take the headlines. how do we keep from becoming targets? in half an hour a meeting will answer that question and everyone is invited. nbc's bay area george kiriyama has that story. >> reporter: the crime in the city has reached crisis mode. here at the library in south san jose, it's happening days after a very violent weekend. three homicides in a span of four hours, one of them happening not too far from where councilman lives near oak grove high school. the others were in east san jose. they will be talking to neighbors about reporting crimes and how to be good witnesses and the councilman says this has been in the works for a few weeks now and cle

jim maceda, nbc news, italy. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt. have a good night, everyone. >>> good evening. i'm diane dwyer. >> are you feeling lucky in evening? the jackpot for the power ball reached a near record, $600 million and then some. >> the fever is across the bay area and the country. we are at a location that has a history of producing smaller jackpot winners. hello, george. >> reporter: it does have a history. we are inside a lucky store for the lottery. this is called the wall of winners. smaller jackpots from scratchers. they have had two $1 million winners here. they would like to add home of the power ballwiner to their resume. people are driving in from san francisco hoping the luck of the store will rub off. they sell an average or $3,000 of tickets per day, even when the jackpot is not high. you can imagine they will sell more than that today. california has only been playing power ball since april. we may see a little history tonight. the biggest power ballwiner ever

joining me is jim maceda in london.re do we know about how she survived for the past two weeks? >> really an amazing story. this morning it was actually the recovery workers who stopped in their tracks when one of them heard faint cries for help and under the debris saw a female waving her hand. the workers then frantically cut through rods and bricks, they had saws and drilling equipment to do that. and soon after wearing a purple scarf, could you see live video of the woman being pulled from the rubble and rushed off to a military hospital. she was described as being in a mazing shape in fact she could even walk at the hospital after given some basic nutrition. only this morning the death toll passed the 1,000 mark and there are still hundreds of bodies believed to be buried in that rubble. of course there have been other miracle survivors, you'll call the miracle babies pulled out of the mexico city earthquake rubble which i covered back in 1985, the man who survived a month with no food after the haiti earthquake th

jim maceda, thank you. >>> new developments on the kidnapping case in cleveland and what the suspect is telling police about those abductions. jeff rosten is in cleveland again for us this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, savannah. ariel castro is waking up behind bars here at the cleveland county jail. he's in isolation. that means no contact with other inmates. he's also on suicide watch, but sources say he's talking to police. and overnight, we got the details of his chilling confession. >> ariel castro. >> reporter:. >> reporter: ariel castro. >> in his interrogation he talked about himself, three girls he's accused of kidnapping, raping and who he blames for it. law enforcement sources tell our affiliate wkyc castro describes himself as cold blooded and addicted to sex. that he couldn't control his impulses. the sources say that castro gave investigators exacting detail about the abductions down to what michelle, amanda and gina were wearing when he took them. castro appeared docky during questioning the sources say, showing no remorse saying he expected to