boy, have they been looking forward to this. >> tonight, we take you inside this incredible comeback. good evening, thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we again with the powerful and deadly storm, hermine. killing two people since making landfall on friday, including taking the life of this driver in north carolina. and dangerous severe erosion. and ginger zee in breezy points, queens, has been tracking the system for weeks now. >> reporter: it seems like the storm that will never end, and for some, it's like the storm that never happened. people got away from it. tonight, big breakers taking a bite out of new jersey beaches, eroding this shoreline in holgate. in ocean city, large waves, dangerous rip currents, and blustery winds busting beachgoers' labor day weekend. rough waters rocking passengers aboard the royal caribbean's anthem of the seas, bound for bermuda from new jersey. >> eating in the restaurant, dishes g >> reporter: and further south, in parts of powuoson, virginia, neighborhoods under water. >> you've got to make the best of the situation. >> we've dealt with this our whole lives, we just don't take our cars out in it. >> reporter: hermine first making landfall as a category one hurricane early friday. it's been a night of tornado warnings, torrential rain. the eye just a couple of miles away. i was in the eye as it made landfall, tracking it all as 80-mile-per-hour winds battered the gulf coast, tossing trees. thousands without power. more than 60,000 in florida still without service tonight. and claiming one life. >> ferocious. absolutely ferocious. >> reporter: pasco county, just north of tampa, still under siege with flood waters after more rain from a different system fell on the already saturated land. the governor urging people to evacuate their homes. not done yet, hermine marching north, hitting georgia and the strength winds, gusts toppling this tractor-trailer in columbia, north carolina, killing the driver. and in hatteras, the storm spawning a tornado, dumping these trailers into a creek and injuring four. i want to articulate again, this is not a rainstorm any longer. so, many will not see a drop of rain let alone clouds. but the beach erosion and advisories through maryland, new what we're concerned about. as the waves push down the shoreline. and let's go to long beach island, new jersey. as some residents are taking no chances. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, hermine taking aim at the same coastal communities devastated by superstorm sandy. homes toppled, entire neighborhoods destroyed. belongings turned into piles of trash. four years later, rebuilt, but not willing to take any chances. >> we're in watch mode. >> reporter: governor chris christie declaring a state of emergency, emptying out beaches that should be packed this holiday weekend. the biggest threats -- coastal flooding, rip currents, and beach erosion. crews working through the weekend to shore up sand dunes to keep the storm surge at bay. knigge, cutting his weekend high tide. >> i'll take a storm like this any day. >> reporter: take a look. the dune here already taking a hit from the crashing waves this weekend. tonight, the beach here is closed. tom? >> thank you. we'll get back to ginger zee. what's the forecast? >> reporter: it includes hermine taking a bit of a north and northwesterly track back towards nantucket. there's no direct hit, you can see the coastal part of it will just be the piling of wind and waves. we put on the futurecast, you can see, very little rain makes it way on to the continental part. monday, 7:00 p.m., some rain bands in eastern long island and parts of the rhode island coast. hour. some places could see 50. it's just, we don't get rid of hermine until thursday. so, piling of waves and water, that's going to be the issue. tom? >> ginger zee, thank you so much. let's turn to politics. both campaigns expected to amp up. donald trump swaying to music at an african-american church in detroit. and hillary clinton aiming for ohio's swing state territory tomorrow after time with donors. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: donald trump marking a major first. >> i am here to listen to you. >> reporter: swaying along, making the rare direct appeal to african-american voters. >> i fully understand that the african-american community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right. subdued tone. >> i'm asking for the vote of every single african-american citizen. you're living in poverty, your schools are no good. you have no jobs. what the hell do you have to lose? >> reporter: trump supporter ben carson showing him around his old detroit neighborhood. >> when i was growing up, it was a very my luggage. hold on. >> reporter: meanwhile, pastor mark burns is admitting he overstated his resume after this contentious interview. >> thank you so much. i appreciate you coming. >> reporter: as for hillary clinton, she's been noticeably quiet on the trail, and avoiding the press. >> is this going to change? >> all the time, as hillary is on the trail, hundreds of labor day to election day stretch, it's going to ramp up even more. >> reporter: clinton will be on the trail here in ohio tomorrow. but no word on when her next full-blown press conference will be. >> mary, thank you. now to a story that has gripped much of the country for nearly three decades. an 11-year-old boy, snatched from his bike, never seen again. the break in the case that may finally mean some closure for a family and a community. here's gloria riviera. >> reporter: tonight, a major break in the case of jacob wetterling, nearly 28 years since he vanished. authorities confirming the 11-year-old's remains have been found. >> my prayers and thoughts are with that family. >> the family actually needs peace, to know where he is, not to wonder, "is he still out there?" >> reporter: the family releasing a statement saying they are in "deep grief" and "did not want jacob's story to end this way." was kidnapped from the streets of st. joseph, minnesota. >> reporter: jacob's story captured the nation's attention. >> it's very discouraging. the mornings are, i think, the worst for me. it's like another, another day. >> reporter: it was 1989, in st. joseph, minnesota, when a masked gunman abducted jacob who was riding his bike home from the video store with his brother and a friend. since then, investigators daniel heinrich. he's currently in jail on child pornography charges, which he denies. abc news affiliate kstp reporting it was heinrich who led authorities to jacob's remains. his status now changed to suspect. over the years jacob's family turned anguish into action. in 1994, helping to pass jacob's law, requiring child sex offenders to register in every state. a man police say escaped from his handcuffs and then disappeared. here's ron claiborne. >> reporter: tonight, authorities in las vegas looking for an alleged killer -- this man, 25-year-old alonso perez. perez was arrested for murder friday morning and placed in an interrogation room, in handcuffs. police say when the detective left the room, he made his move. >> he actually twisted the handcuffs until they broke. after they broke he was able to flee the building. >> reporter: once free, perez allegedly stole this pickup the truck was recovered saturday but no sign of perez. earlier this summer, in florida, an accused murderer broke free from his handcuffs inside a courtroom and escaped. dayonte resiles was captured a few days later. perez, a convicted felon, is accused of fatally shooting mohammed robinson. the alleged motive -- robinson let a door close on a woman who was with perez at a mcdonald's. how is anybody supposed to feel safe right now? anybody in las vegas? >> reporter: police say it doesn't appear perez grabbed any weapon when he made his escape, but they do believe he is now armed and dangerous. >> thank you. next to the vatican, and the big headline about mother teresa. she's now saint teresa. here's alex marquardt. >> reporter: to manysh more than 100,000 worshippers packed into a sunny st. peter's square for the canonization of mother teresa. pope francis telling the adoring pilgrims that the newest saint was a "tireless worker of mercy." >> she was an amazing woman, and so i think it is really important that this day has finally come for a lot of people. >> reporter: the so-called "saint of the gutter" was born in 1910 in modern-day macedonia. but it was in the slums of calcutta, india, that mother teresa found her home and her life's work. she died in 1997 and was put on pope john paul ii -- now a saint himself. two miracles have been attributed by the vatican to mother teresa. curing tumors in this indian woman and a brazilian man. the tiny nun who won a nobel peace prize was not without her critics. some accused her of wanting the spotlight, of poor and unhygienic medical treatment, and of trying to convert those under her care. none of that mattered to the masses today, which included 1,500 poor and homeless guests. after the canonization they were treated to a pizza lunch, served by nuns, courtesy of pope francis. >> alex, shoe -- thank you. next, a significant earthquake striking oklahoma this weekend. wells linked to fracking now shut down. with the frequency of these quakes on the rise, there's here's lauren lyster. >> reporter: this sudden shaking sending stone plunging from the top of this building. >> i'm going, oh, my gosh. wow, i can't believe this. >> reporter: food thrown from the shelves of this grocery store. the question tonight, was this 5.6 magnitude earthquake man made? 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