ron allen, nbc news, patterson, new jersey. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday.p next, "football night in america" followed by "sunday night football," the colts versus the saints. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. and for all of us here at nbc news, good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

thanks for watching nbc bay area news at 5:00. nbc nightly news is next and then we'll have more local news on the bay area at 6:00. see you then. good night. >>> marching on. a day of demonstrations here and around the world as tens of thousands take to the streets, at least one protest turns violent. >>> bank backlash. growing outrage over all those new fees and how you can avoid them. >>> to the rescue. tonight a dangerous mission to evacuate an ailing american woman stuck on the south pole. >>> and making a difference. how one woman inspired so many others in the fight against cancer. others in the fight against cancer. tonight, the making of an angel. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. the chorus of protests over big money and hard times reverberated around the world today as tens of thousands took to the streets and across the u.s. to europe and all the way to johannesburg, railing against banks, corporate profits and the wealthy. but it was in rome that things turned violent with reports of at le

anne thompson, nbc news, indianapolis, maryland. >> and that's nbc nightly news for this saturday.ester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" then right back here tomorrow evening. good night, everyone.

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> speaking of flying, a new chapter in aviation history was written. the boeing dreamliner is now a reality. it flew its first real flight with paying passengers on board today -- tokyo to hong kong -- on the 53rd anniversary of the first 707 flight. while we are not flying faster today, the dreamliner is a modern and efficient plane and the cabin pressurization is designed to make flying less taxing on passengers. >>> here's all the evidence you need to see the u.s. space program is done for now, idle. they will be open for tours because they are not working on any spacecraft in there anymore. think of it this way. it was built to house the space race with the russians originally. right now, american astronauts depend on the russians when they need a ride into space. >>> when we come back here tonight, news tonight about the science behind gaining weight after you lose weight in the first place. se weight in the first place. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. of all the time bombs in the american economy set to explode with dire consequences this is a big one. staggering debt from student loans. everyone is told a college education is a way to get ahead. college tuitions though keep going up. so does the borrowing. we just hit an awful milestone. our nation's combined student loan debt has now hit $1 trillion. that averages out to $24,000 per student. it's now larger than credit card debt in this country and it comes just as an entire generation is just starting out. today the president suggested one fix. more on that in a moment. we have two reports to start out with tonight beginning with nbc's john yang in chicago. >> reporter: for millions of college students the joy of graduation is quickly followed by dread. a new life with old debts. university of illinois at chicago senior andrea watson will owe about $40,000 notary public student loans. >> mm-hmm. very scary to know that before i even get that first real career job i'm going to ha

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. tonight here we are revealing for the first time the results of our brand new nbc news wall street journal poll and the numbers reveal a new frontrunner in the gop race -- herman cain. this will be an unwelcome development to the forces at the center of the gop who are trying mightily to blunt the charge from the tea party and others on the right and unite somehow behind a future nominee like mitt romney who the governor of new jersey endorsed just yesterday. but as we learn tonight the numbers are still very much on the move and we begin with our white house correspondent and political director chuck todd. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, look, the republican establishment may believe they know who the republican challenger to president obama is going to be, but republican voters have not gotten the memo. >> my top priority is 9, 9, 9. >> reporter: at tuesday night's new hampshire debate, businessman herman cain and his economic plan were center stage. in t

attitude with the premier of rock center with brian williams with in-depth stories from established nbc news reporters along with new team members veteran newsman ted coppel. it begins at 9:00, 10:00 central time following the singoff here on your nbc station. >>> now here's a look at other stories making news early today in america. elsewhere, and like elsewhere on the east coast, winter-like weather conditions reeked havoc on drivers in maryland. icy roads caused one driver to lose control, slamming into a light pole. police were on the scene of a prior accident when the crash occurred, making matters more dangerous, the storm knocked out traffic signals throughout the state. >>> thousands of zombies strolled through southern california hoping to devour a guinness world record this weekend. seattle currently holds the record for the largest group of walking dead in one place at 4,700 zombies. organizers of long beach aes fourth annual zombie walk believe they have the numbers to net a new world record. guinness representatives were present but have yet to hand down an official decision. >>

. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. why it happened we'll leave to the experts but it happened. tonight because of a freak storm, over 2 million americans have no power. there are towns without gasoline or food stores. halloween has been canceled in a number of communities because streets are dark, trees and wires are down. the storm affected upwards of 60 million americans in all. it tracked across the entire country, and when it arrived out east it dumped snow on a lot of places where they hadn't yet raked leaves this year. those heavy trees were no match for heavy snow and look at some of these totals. 20 inches in hartford, connecticut. 30 in plainfield, mass. more than that in new hampshire. and it's where we begin tonight. nbc's ron allen is in hartford for us. ron, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, brian. this is still the scene in so many places across new england. look at all these trees and power lines still down. all these homes in the dark again tonight. in fact, across the state

bad job approval numbers, loses to romney by 9 points in our nbc news poll in new hampshire, brian. >> chuck todd in our d.c. newsroom starting us off. chuck, thanks. as we mentioned, these two men only granted one sitdown interview today. it was with nbc's jamie gangel. she's with us tonight from lebanon, new hampshire. jamie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this is a big endorsement for mitt romney. it sends the message that he's the choice of a popular republican governor that many in the party wanted so run. and romney left open the possibility that if nominated, he would consider chris christie for vice president. why are you endorsing him? >> he's the best person for the job. it's simply on the merits, and the fact is, that we need to make sure that barack obama's a one-term president for america's future. and i've looked at all the republican candidates, i've met with many of them. and there's no question in my mind that governor romney is the person who gives us the best chance of winning back the white house in 2012. and i want to do everything i can to help h

richard engel is the nbc news chief foreign correspondent. and an assistant secretary of state under pk. richard, i want to start with you. you have new information on details about gadhafi's alleged death. >> the libyan officials and rebel commanders are saying with a unified voice that gadhafi is, in fact, dead. they have made an announcement speaking from the prime minister, in fact, in libya that moammar gadhafi is dead. how he died remains a 34is tri. one rebel commander involved in the operation has told nbc news the following sequence of events. he said that two rebel units this morning, one the tiger unit, the other called the al tharouk unit, were traveling through the southwest portion of the city of sirte. they came across a factory. it is a factory that makes animal feed. it is part of an industrial area in the southwest portion of sirte. they saw a group of vehicles parked in a building adjacent to this animal feed factory. they thought it was suspicious to have such a large number of vehicles in this industrial area. the rebel un

adrienne mong, nbc news, kabul. >> and for more on these fast-moving developments in the middle east let's bring in nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. andrea, what are we seeing here? >> reporter: well, fast-moving indeed. u.s. officials tonight say the capture of that senior haqqani leader is a very big deal because his duties included finding ways to get terrorists across the border from pakistan into afghanistan and also choosing targets to kill americans, targets such as the u.s. embassy, nato headquarters, but also the intercontinental hotel which was bombed in kabul last june. the importance of capturing him alive is that he may have had cell phones or other communication devices which could now lead to other suspects. interestingly, kate, the pakistanis tonight are saying that it's not a big deal, that he was not such a major leader. they are trying to downplay someone who was obviously operating out of pakistan. also of course the tempo of u.s. and nato moves against key terror targets is really increasing. this is the reason for the state department tr

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mike taibbe, nbc news, new york >>> nbc's richard engle is here with us tonight. you have been in the thick of it so many times with troops i know you're still in contact with. what are you hearing from them about the end of this war? >> reporter: when you spend time with troops they become your friends. we are still in contact via e-mail and facebook. and they are saying that it wasn't worth it. that the difficult re-entry home, not coming back to the economic opportunities that they thought they would have, problems with their families, problems with their spouses, it wasn't worth it. and that is the same message i'm hearing time and time again. >> if we pose the same question, is it worth it to the average iraqi citizen what do you sus we'd hear? >> reporter: i've spoken with iraqis. they say toppling saddam hussein was the best thing that could have happened to iraq but that everything else they could have done without. >> let's look at what iraq, this current government faces right now. they've got a turkish incursion on their northern border, terrorism that

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mara schiavocampo, nbc news, new york. >>> while america's unemployment situation is the key issue behind growing national protests. today it will be on president obama's agenda as he hits the road to promote his plan for getting americans back to work. for more on that, we go to nbc's tracie potts in washington for us. traci, good morning. >> reporter: hi, lynn. good morning. the senate rejected that plan this week and republicans have introduced their own that includes easy, government regulations, oil regulations and a tax overhaul. they say it will create 5 million jobs. democrats insist no jobs will be created through tax cuts. it's one of the things the president discussed yesterday with house speaker john boehner. the republican speaker was called -- the president called him to congratulate him on three new free trade agreements with colombia, panama and south korea. that, the white house says, will create 250,000 jobs. south korea's president is here in the united states, big dinner at the white house last night. today he and president obama head to michigan to a plant that's maki

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nbc news, new york. >>> and america's unemployment situation is the key issue behind growing national protests. today it will be on president obama's agenda as he hits the road to promote his plan for getting americans back to work. for more on that, we go to nbc's tracie potts in washington for us. good morning. >> reporter: hi, lynn. good morning. senate rejected that plan this week and republicans have introduced their own that includes easy, government regulations, oil regulations and a tax overhaul. they say it will create 5 million jobs. democrats insist no jobs will be created through tax cuts. it's one of the things the president discussed yesterday with house speaker john boehner. the republican spooebl speaker was called -- the president called him to congratulate him on three new trait agreements with colombia, panama and south korea. they say that will create 250,000 jobs. south korea's president is here in the united states, big dinner at the white house last night. today he and president obama head to michigan to a plant that's making cars that were designed in south kor

new nbc news polls in iowa show cain surging. in iowa, romney and cain are neck and neck with perry in fourth. in new hampshire romney's lead is bigger, but again, it's cain in second and perry in fourth. don't forget iowa and new hampshire are swing states. president obama does not fair well in either state. >> chuck todd in our d.c. newsroom starting us off. thanks. as we mentioned, these two men only granted one sitdown interview today. it was with nbc's jamie gangel. she's with us from lebanon, new hampshire tonight. >> reporter: this is a big endorsement for mitt romney, it sends the message that he's the choice of a popular republican governor that many in the party wanted to run. and romney left open the possibility that if nominated, he would consider chris christie for vice president. why are you endorsing him? >> he's the best person for the job. it's simply on the merits, and the fact is, that we need to make sure that barack obama's a one-term president for america's future. and i looked at all the republican candidate

jim maceda, nbc news, logar, afghanistan. >> what an incredible story out of afghanistan tonight. >>> in this country, the justice department today asked a federal appeals court to block alabama's extremely tough new immigration law which took effect last week. federal officials say the state law invites discrimination against all foreign-born residents and they are especially worried about its effect on children. our report tonight from nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: alabama's new immigration law is perhaps most confusing to children. in just one week they have been told teachers will not single them out, but when a group of students near birmingham with hispanic-sounding last names was told to assemble. >> our principal told us to come -- all the mexicans to come to the library. >> reporter: it was all tears. >> half of the kids were crying. >> reporter: as the kids enjoyed a birthday party this week they explained the school meeting was, in fact, to make sure they understood school officials would deport no one. >> we are already looking at about a quarter of our hispanic popula

rehema ellis, nbc news, rochester, new york. >>> and in the near term, this next item will have as muchr 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

robert bazell, nbc news, new york. >>> now we turn to wall street where today this is what passed for good news. the deal last night to save europe from collapsing into a heap of debt. so the dow went on a run today, up 339. nasdaq gained just under 88. s&p up almost 43 points. the dow jones industrial average is now up 13% from its low earlier this month which all brings us to our friend david faber from cnbc. i know you're not here to defend wall street, but here's the question. this disconnect, how many people will get hired in this country because the dow is on a good run and had a good day? how does that wash over into the rest of the economy? when are we going to feel it? >> yeah. we won't feel it perhaps for some time, if we feel it at all. something else we heard which was potentially good news was the report on the growth of the u.s. economy. 2.5% is how much the u.s. economy grew in the third quarter of the year. that was better than many had anticipated, given we were worried we were headed into another recession. but that's still not fast enough, brian, to actually generat

tom costello, nbc news, seattle. >> we'll take a break. en we come back in a moment, the news from netflix today deciding the customer was right. >>> his next birthday will be his 70th. while paul mccartney has had more yesterdays than he'll have tomorrows and while the golden years for him will differ from other folks', at least sir paul mccartney is once again a happily married man. he married his long-time girlfriend, nancy shevell, a businesswoman who is barbara walters's second cousin, by the way. they married in london on what would have been john lennon's 71st birthday. >>> speaking of london, big ben is leaning. the top of the spire is about a foot and a half out of plumb and while it was never perfectly straight, thanks to some inexact victorians, it's gotten worse to the point where some tourists who take pictures of it notice it's not perfectly straight. researchers say the ground is shifting beneath it, and it may soon be visible to the naked eye. >>> consumers spoke. netflix listened. they have caved in to pressure against the

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. protesters here in new york who are part of the movement that calls itself occupy wall street that has spread across the country are claiming victory tonight. what was going to be a showdown in a public park today did not happen. this protest movement is showing strength. it's still growing, changing and spreading, while some are trying to define the focus and the mission from this point forward. we begin tonight with nbc's mara schiavocampo in lower manhattan. mara, good evening. >> reporter: brian good evening. on day 28 of the occupy wall street movement, hundreds of protesters went head-to-head with police as celebrations turned to clashes. >> back up! >> reporter: 14 more arrested as police tried to control jubilant crowds spilling into the streets. just moments after it was announced demonstrators would not be removed from zucotti park here, where they've been camping for the last month. video posted online showed a protester after he was allegedly hit by a police officer's motor

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. >>> tonight there's a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll and you're not going to believe who the new republican front-runner is. hint. 999. >> the 9-9-9 special. >> that is so cool. >> with surging poll numbers comes a little more scrutiny. >> someone once said simplicity is genius. >> rich republicans think it's genius. >> it's a package. 9-9-9. >> 9-9-9. >> the 9-9-9 plan replaces payroll tax. >> with a 9% flat income tax the poor would pay more while the rich would have their taxes can ut. >> the democrats would never put a 9% sales tax on the poorest americans. >> i've gone through the math. >> i don't think anybody in this town takes herman cain seriously. >> his tax plan doesn't make sense to me. >> the pizza guy who says 999 999 times -- >> flavor of the week. >> herman cain flavor of the month. >> haagen-dazs black walnut because it tastes good all the time. >> support for mitt romney won't budge. >> he can't break 25%. >> it is amazing his number doesn't move. >> i'm asking you to reconsider. >> the other candidates decided romney was going to be the nominee, too. >> gov