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On our broadcast tonight why so high. What sent the stock market way up today, in the midst of this awful economy and what does it mean arsenic in Apple juice. A new study from consumer reports, getting a lot of attention tonight. It's about the Jews kids drink and the risk of cancer fall from grace for a well known law man who was one share for the year. Tonight, he's in a jail named after him. Following the shocking news of his arrest in what is accused of doing trial. The man who tried to kill Ronald Reagan, asking for more time away from his mental hospital. But it turns out he's been lying about what he's really doing what he says he's at the movies. Also tonight about last night nightly news begins now.

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good evening. Even in this bad economy with so many folks out of work. If you have any money at all connected with the stock market dairy is a good chance you made money. Today, the market was at Bay. The Dow was up almost 500 points Nasdaq and S&P also up today and coming off some pretty good shopping numbers over these past few days. Some folks are wondering what this means that if there's anything larger at work here CNBC's Sue Herrera starts us off tonight from CNBC global headquarters so soon. That's the question, what is at work here.

Basically, you're right. Brian. We have had better economic news lately. But what really sent Wall Street soaring today was that central banks from around the world through an economic life line, if you will, to Europe's troubled banks Wall Street has been very worried that all the debt problems that have been unfolding. If you will, over the past year or so in Europe would spread here to the US, and what the central banks did was they made it extraordinarily cheap for those banks who meet to get extra cash they can now get it and borrow it from banks around the world for a very minimal sum it basically buys those banks some time to get their economic house in order.

So is this by any chance, larger good news for the folks watching tonight, whose investments or perhaps retirement accounts did indeed have a good day

I think it is. I think it's a step towards resolving what has been a huge crisis and that's what's led all of the volatility on Wall Street. One day, you look at your portfolio and its up like today, you could look at your portfolio. Another day, and it's down bid if this helps smooth out the volatility that we've seen on Wall Street lately. I think that is a big step in in a in the right direction really for the American investor and the American consumer

so thanks for helping us out with us who who wear from CNBC global headquarters tonight. Now we turn to health news and a staple of so many American families in the news. There's a new study out tonight in consumer reports. It's about Apple juice and specifically what Senate test found arsenic in samples of ordinary store bought Apple juice and some of the levels they found a raising concerns about the risk of cancer. Our report here tonight from NBC's Tom Costello

it's yet another warning about potentially troubling levels of arsenic in both Apple and great choose inorganic arsenic has been linked to skin at long and bladder cancer. Consumer reports tested 88 you samples and found 10 percent of total arsenic levels higher than the limit of the FDA's sets for drinking water that limit is 10 parts per billion. But for 154pound adult, not a child

kids have much smaller weight select smaller bodies. They don't need that much to reach their daily arsenic. When it's a day. Some of the best known brands in America have or sick in their Apple juice.

It was just two months ago that the doctor I show raised similar concerns about arsenic and Apple Jews at the time, the FDA question those findings

but the sum total of that Davis says that that the arsenic. We have in in the US Apple juice suppliers that is at very low levels at levels that don't cause that's to be concerned

the FDA says it would be concerned of arsenic levels exceeded 23 parts per billion. On the today show this morning, the juice industry noted only one consumerreports sample for grape juice exceeded that level

the juices are safe and the industry is committed to meeting whatever science based standards the FDA sets if FDA scientists decide that the science justifies changing standard. The industry will need it.

Because kids drink so much. Apple juice. Consumer reports is calling for a new national standard on arsenic levels in Jews not to allow those levels to exceed 3 parts per billion. And that would be considerably less than the current standard for water, which is 10 parts per billion. And the FDA now says it's considering a new standard that will reduce consumers exposure to arsenic in Apple juice too many parents that just makes sense.

These are children. I don't need to be more and more special

surely not simply expect here arsenic tears

the question how much arsenic is too much. No one is calling for parents to stop giving their children Apple juice. The issue really is about setting new tougher standards.

And Tom what parents watching tonight, especially with young kids are gonna wanna know about is is brands brand they serve at home if it's on the list or not and if so, what should they get

and that the trouble is that the results really varied at different levels of arsenic not only be tween brands. But even with in grants even bottle to bottle, and it was produced in multiple countries including the US, the complete consumerreports list is on our website. NBC nightly News dot com. But again, the headline is up for the first time now. The FDA says it's going to look at setting these new guideline

all right, Tom Costello in our Washington Newsroom tonight without Tom thanks, and now we turn to presidential politics. The increasingly wild race for the G O P nomination. A lot of political tides will tell you in a way, it's very UN Republican party. It's personal, it's messy it's unsettled sooner or later somebody has to emerge. And while leaders have risen and fallen. We get the first results from I will remember in less than five weeks. But until then, it's Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich trading jabs Herman Cain, looking like he is sticking with it while under attack. Our report tonight from NBC's Lisa Myers

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with no Gingrich on the rise. Mitt Romney today went on the air, Hampshire, emphasizing that he is a creature of the private

I spent my life in the private sector. I've competed with companies around the world.

And in an interview. Romney took a shot a Gingrich for train. The former speaker is a career politician and Washington insider

the speaker Gingrich is a good man. He and I very different backgrounds. He spent his last 30 or 40 years in Washington. I spent my career in the private sector.

Been rich countered with the jab about Romney's wealth underscoring his own humble beginnings.

I was successful. Romney, with starting back when I baby sat four Riley. The new accord before Riley, Kansas and then when I choose concern over the bowling alley. This is automatic machine. I said I worked as a partner

with the emergence of Gingrich's his main challenger, the vulnerabilities of both candidates were on display. Romney became testy when pressed about man baby house insurance in Massachusetts.

It's a Brett. I don't know how many hundred said this too. This unusual interview that fact. All right, let's do it again.

Gingrich rolled out some of his trade mark incendiary rhetoric coined a federal judge in anti religious bigot and suggesting congresswoman Michèle Bachmann is factually challenged tired

voters will be pretty good over time distinguishing between people. In all fairness, people don't know

the greatest danger to Newt Gingrich is success because what he's doing well, he tends to exaggerate, hence the make the big mistake

as for embattled Herman Cain. He showed no sign of quitting today and proclaimed that stupid people are running America Lisa Myers NBC News Washington

former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was soon today by a new accuser in the child sex abuse scandal. The first one to Sue for damages. The men here, identified in court documents as John Doe AAA is now 29 years old he says Sandusky molested him from nineteen ninety

soon it was 10 years old to 96, says the abuse happened the Penn State locker room at Sandusky is falling, and on the road in a hand written statement, the man talked about as anguish. Now that's scandalous

become public, saying quote I'm hurting, and have been for a long time because of what happened, but feel now even more tormented that I've learned of so many other kids were abused after me, a former Colorado share of who was well known in the Rockies for his toughness and bravery is now sitting in a jail that bears his own name after being arrested on charges that have shocked his community outside Denver. Our report tonight from NBC's Miguel armor gear

shackled and appearing frail. It's a stunning fall for a man once revered as a law enforcement icon in Colorado, Patrick Sullivan, the former share above a wrap the whole county arrested yesterday by deputies from the department he once ran, accused of trying to exchange methamphetamine for sex with the man

a sadness for our community. But beyond well beyond the sadness. No one is above the law.

Patrick Sullivan spent a life time in law enforcement in the Denver Metro area in 108. He made national headlines when he crashed his S UV fence to rescue deputies and a wounded teenager who were pinned down by a murder suspect. With the machine gun

we need to address these weapons that were primarily it designed and manufactured as military weapons to kill and maim people

in 114 Sullivan served on President Clinton's national Commission on crime prevention. In 2000. He served on a state wide meth task force, and in 2001. He was named national share of of the year. Investigators believe Sullivan had been bonding suspects out of jails in the Denver area. Today it is out here in Sullivan's bond was set at half a million dollars. So far, the former sheriff and his lawyer, are talking tonight he's being held in protective custody in the Patrick J Sullivan jail. The very jail named after him. Miguel McGarry NBC News Los Angeles

it's not a news from overseas. New fall out from that attack yesterday in the British embassy in to run. Today, the UK, ordered the embassy close they call their people out ordered all Iranian diplomats out of the UK immediately and a history making visit today by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Myanmar. The first visit to that repressive regime by a top US official in more than half a century. There've been some signs of reform. Recently

Secretary Clinton says she is there to see how real they are Vice President Biden is on a visit to Iraq. Just a few weeks before the US troops there complete their withdrawal. Among the more than one million Americans who have now served in Iraq over these past eight years Biden's own Sun Bowl in the Delaware national guard encourages traveling on this trip with the vice president and is with us tonight from Baghdad and giddy

good evening to you rhyme that's right will Vice President Biden is marking the final weeks of the devices eight year US war here in Iraq. They say the a bomb administration is fulfilling a promise to the American people. He re affirmed the final withdrawal will happen before December 30. And, after meeting with Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki today, he said. The US is about to begin a new chapter, launching a civilian mission to help Iraq. The bill, but that's unlikely that US troops will ever return. Here, we were able to grab a few moments with the vice president today became passionate when asked whether Americans have a moral obligation to the thousands of Iraq war veterans now returning home

every American business out. If you want somebody who knows how to handle pressure. Who knows how to handle billions of dollars worth of. But who knows how to operate under fire, hire a veteran. We have an obligation. They fought over here, they've gone through these dot awful stands and deserts in the middle of a war there in God for sake of places on Afghanistan. They shouldn't have to come home and fight for a job.

What is happening here is described as the largest moment a movement rather of military equipment since world war II, Brian. No one is quite sure what will happen to Iraq after withdrawal. But the vice president, says the US will have a quote robust security relationship based on what Iraq decides the US expects to lead based behind a significant presence of US contractors and also CIA operatives right

and, and you can hear the C 17 and C un, 30 cargo planes in the air above you. At the top. A report. They're gonna be so busy over the next few weeks and Curry is in Baghdad tonight and safe travels to your team we'll have more vans exclusive interview with vice president Biden tomorrow morning on today, the Reverend Billy Graham. We learn tonight, has been hospitalized near his home in North Carolina. He was admitted. Earlier today, suffering from what appears to be pneumonia, said to be doing well though tonight in stable condition. Billy Graham is ninety three years old. Now he's preached around the world for more than 60 years and was counselor to so many US presidents, he says. In fact, see looks forward to being home for Christmas still ahead of us tonight on nightly news as we continue along the way, and I went

day evening John Hinckley what he's really up to un. Those needs from his mental hospital. Why the secret Service agents who've been tailing him say he's dangerous and he's a liar and later old school right there in the heart of America's high Tech capital school where there's not a computer inside and they like it just that way.

By the time you come to us in prime time. You're going to know what happened right you won't necessarily know what we have

to tell you we talked slightly and take a different view of things.

At ten nine central on NBC.

Well, back here tonight with a story about the man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan. Back in 100 John Hinckley is now 56 years old is asking to spend more time outside the Washington, DC mental hospital where he's been treated now for three decades. But today the federal government strongly objected to that request, arguing that Hinckley is lying to even his own doctors about one of these really been doing on all those hospital leaves that he already enjoys. We have more on this tonight from our Justice correspondent Pete Williams

the man who shot and nearly killed President Reagan outside a Washington DC hotel in 100.

Went to a Virginia bookstore this past July, stopped and looked at covers of books about Reagan and presidential assassins. A federal court was told today. The government lawyers say John Hinckley never admitted looking at the books and told his doctors he went to a movie, secret service agents assigned to watching police saw happen. The government says. For the past eight years. A federal judge has gradually been granting Hinckley longer visits to his parents home in a gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia, about a hundred miles from Washington. Now he and his doctors are seeking much longer visits lasting up to 24 days each, eventually allowing him to live in Williamsburg, as a mental hospital out patient in court today. Government lawyers strenuously argued against it. Thankfully, they said, has a long history of deceptive and secretive behavior in court documents, the Justice Department says his conduct reveals significant risk factors for future violence. But as Hinckley listen today. His lawyers said. In eight years of visits. There's never been a hint of risky behavior. As for the bookstore browsing the lawyer said lack of candor about attending a movie does not make him dangerous Hinckley began the visits to both his parents by his father died three years ago, and his mother turns 87 next month. Government lawyers say Hinckley zone brother Scott has called it debatable whether Williamsburg is the best place for him. Scott Hinckley declined to talk about it today.

A ruling from the judge is expected for months. John Hinckley may not get all the freedom he once. But when he comes to court, he usually gets something Pete Williams, NBC News a federal court in Washington

and up next. It's one of the rare schools these days not rushing to fill up the classroom with computers, also a holiday season tribute to the American military on like any other. We've seen

meet the candidates is now to really go through a candidate's record here held accountable for decisions they've taken for what's motivating them. This attempt in a balanced way really go in debt. Get to the bottom of the where candidates stands

we're back with an education nation report tonight and as high technology becomes more and more part of most school experiences in this country, we have a school that is rejecting technology completely to tell you about, and you might be surprised by where it is and who the students are our report from our education correspondent emails

at this Silicon Valley elementary school technology plays a pivotal role. Make sure you have the iPad with but just across the valley.

In America's technology teachers say hi tech and learning. Don't miss at the Walldorf School of the peninsula learning is hands on blackboards, chalk even shovels but no computers. Oddly enough, the parents of most of these kids Obama by Turkey

I try to pull back for all on the computer.

His dad Joerg Heinrich is a Google vice president he's flood in 24 7 but doesn't want that Gore's kids

I think they're providing them with the crate tied to it. That is not constrained by technology. But critics insist be children

the Walldorf method is almost 100 years old. A nation wide. There are 30000 students at a hundred sixty schools

here in Silicon Valley Walldorf education with a fall garden experience comes at a hefty price it costs more than 17000dollars for kindergarten through eighth grade and 24000dollars for each year of high school in the upper grades Walldorf students do use computers but sparingly and when it's appropriate when it enhances learning then we'll use it

being able to think creatively and imagination are much more important than this. Being able to know how to Google something

and education experts say despite decades of computer use in schools. The benefits are hard to compute just introducing technology has not been shown to have magical effects on student learning Walldorf points to a graduation rate of nearly 100 percent as proof that old fashioned teaching still has value in modern education, where he met Ellis NBC News out as California

first lady Michelle Obama unveiled this year's White House Christmas decorations. Today, with some special guests in attendance. US military families have become a special cause to Mrs. Obama are being honored as part of this year's decor. One of the highlights is a Gold star families tree with ornaments containing messages from loved ones of those who've made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Another feature is a likeness of the Obama family dog bowl and there's one hidden and everywhere on some are a bit easier to find than others. Another break and when we come back. What happened last night. And what's happening tonight.

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so before we go tonight. A quick word about last night. Those of you who watch the first live feed of our broadcast at 6, 30, Eastern time saw it and heard it our fire alarm went off and it kept going off for pretty much the whole broadcast. It's not supposed to sound in here, but it did. There was never any danger just to our hearing little bit of danger would have made it more worth it while I look for the guy responsible. I just wanted to thank those of you who expressed either concern or support today and we just wanted to thank you for bearing with us and apologize for what was probably not our smoothest effort around here hopefully things will go better out in our backyard tonight. This is a big night every year we're here in rock Center in New York with thousands of our closest friends outside. That would include tonight, Mr. Roker Savannah Guthrie entertainment including Bill blame the beads. It's all tonight on NBC, as they like. The most famous Christmas tree in the world right here at 30 rock and that is our successfully completed broadcast for this Wednesday night. Thank you for being here with us. I am Brian Williams. We do hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. Good night