From the pope francis of faith one day before he heads to cuba and then on to the united states. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. More difficulty this morning for migrants and refugees trying to make their way across europe. Croatia has closed all but one Border Crossing with serbia. Now the army is on alert and the government threatening to close the last crossing, too. Croatia has been overwhelmed with refugees coming from syria and other place. More than 13,000 have entered in just the last two days after hungary closed its border with serbia. Lawrence lee is along the serbiacroatia border. Everything is relative of course and even hope to the conditions here are frankly inhumane, its 40 degrees here at the moment, there are babies and tiny children all sitting in the dirt, waiting for a bus, for something to take them further north in the direction of the croatian capital. But everything is relative and at least its better than
And then, elevating californias father Junipero Serra to sainthood, the first canonization ever to take place on u. S. Soil. We get with ama daetz. Reporter father Junipero Serras elevation to sainthood was the first canonization on u. S. Soil. Its seen as controversial by some who say that he enslaved nativeamericans. Others say it acknowledges hispanic peoples contributions to the church. The curator of mission deloris was part of the canonization ceremony. He even got to meet the pope. I thank the holy father for canon sizing Junipero Serra. I ask him to continue to support native peoples throughout the world but especially in california. Reporter pope francis urged the crowds to spread christs message throughout the world. A man says hes now inspired. The canonization was my first, and it was unbelievable. Its fantastic. I have no words. Reporter pope francis hailed serra as a man who coat, sought to uphold the dignities of the community. He stopped by the white house for a ceremon
Busy transforming stage in the alter to get ready for another historic event, a mass in front of the hundreds of thousands perhaps even millions, on the Ben Franklin Parkway. It is all part of the day to second of what has been a busy schedule for the pope since a arriving in philadelphia over 20 hours ago. We hope he is getting those last bits of sleep before another jammed packed day of event. We are keeping him busy for sure. Today is sunday september 27th, glad you are with us im Nicole Brewer. Im quarter von tiehl. We are live at the Ben Franklin Park because. You mentioned those crews transforming stage you can still them still at work doing a terrific job. Ben franklin parkway i got to tell you, they have done a terrific job these sanitation crews cleaning the the street getting garbage out of the way and wiping them down. They look brand new ready to start crowds to start filling that parkway for mass this afternoon at 4 00 p. M. Quiet right now but again you want to get here e
Original. Good evening on this historic night from washington. Pope francis greeted by tens of thousands of americans here in our nations capital. Stopping the pope mobile, lifting children to bless them. Speaking english on the south lawn of the white house, calling america a nation of immigrants, founded on religious freedom. Quoting Martin Luther king jr. , issuing a call to action on climate change. Then uttering those three words god bless america. The images of this day. President obama, the first lady with the pope, waving from that balcony. Later, walking the path along the rose garden. Faking to the streets in the pope mobile. That jeep wrangler. And just a short time ago, making history here. The pope and the saint, canonized right here in the u. S. We have Team Coverage of every moment, every step tonight. Abcs chief Foreign Correspondent terry moran, traveling with the pope and leading us off. Reporter on a glorious sundappled morning at the white house, the president s cab
Stories were watching this morning starting with oil. Wti crude closing higher than brent yesterday. That was the first time of august 2010. Watch for Inventory Data. Well get that at 10 30 eastern time. And break in the last hour a new report coming up from opec predicting that oil will rise to 95 barrel but only in 24 years. Also on tap we get durables goods and personal income and spending and at 10 00 new home sales and Consumer Sentiment but some of the numbers came earlier when the Commerce Department released spend dag at a yesterday. We got november Consumer Spending rising. 3 last month. That came in line with forecasts. Also apple making it easier to nominate a director but there are restrictions. In a new filing that it put in with the sec the tech giant says its going to be eligible to make a nomination. A shareholder or a group of the 20 shareholders must hold 3 of shares continuously for three years. So also the good news there is it prevents some of the shorttermers. 204