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This is tom brokaw reporting on nbc's "nightly news." >> nelson mandela was honored by new york city in a way usually reserved for presidents, astronauts and hometown world series champs. he came here to continue his campaign against apartheid. president bush said u.s. sanctions would stay on until certain additional steps are taken. but for the most part this was a day to celebrate mandela. the man who spent 27 years in prison was given a hero's welcome. governor cuomo calling him a symbol of indestructibility of the human spirit. mandela seemed tired, not quite ready for it all. jesse jackso...

I really haven't drank caffeine since. >> good for you. >> i can recall being in the oakland coliseum, i think it was 1989, krs 1 was performing. then this living, breathing giant came out and all of us were in you a. we were so accustomed to our leaders being killed. here was a man who was fully human. he embraced violence self-defense when it was the most logical and yet deeply courageous thing to do. he had done hard time in prison and he had come out on outside showing us black people could take courageous stands and sur vooifg vif being on point as leader of a great movement and thrive on...

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Do anything big until that's the case. that bothered me. there was a personal moment. howard fineman noticed it more than i did when he seemed to be talking in a rare way from a man who is somewhat distant about the personal problem he's had of being president. he's had to be scrutinized. he does not like being scrutinized. i don't know who does. he doesn't like being constantly attacked. nobody does. what keeps him going is the personal meetings he has with people when he finds out he may have saved a life because of a child being able to get health insurance. it's almost the way when you tal...

>> much later. the first time we met actually was in oslo. this is the conference i invited him to the conference. in the car i said to him a few months from now you may come back and i come back here for different reasons, i'll come back here and celebrate you and you will get a nobel peace prize because i nominated you for it. it was really special. he was a really special man. >> nobel peace prize laureate professor elie wiesel. thank you for your thoughts and your time. after the break, positives signs for the u.s. economy. what they important tend for the soon to expire unemployment benef...