Packed st. Peters square as Mother Teresa was made a saint. Her heroic efforts to comfort the poorest on earth earned her the Nobel Peace Prize and now sainthood. The worlds faithful made the pilgrimage to witness an unforgettable moment. The vatican estimates 120,000 people stood before st. Peters basilica as a mother became a saint. These were modern people under the tyranny of their devices and social Media Standing in a place thats 500 years old, but what happened here cannot entirely be captured in mega bites. Megabytes. This was one of those times to immerse yourself in the moment joyful catholic hymns. It was all here, the flags of multiple nations, the hallelujahs, the sea of upraised smartphones, the parishioner from chapel hill. You witness these events probably once in history, its just overwhelming. Reporter antwon quesh was sitting in the balcony where pope francis delivered his homily. He spoke of a tiny woman who in his who were spent left to die on the side of the road. Our friend from chapel hill grew up in india. He never met Mother Teresa, but she often visited his parents home and wrote letters to his mother. On one of her visits my father who was suffering from cancer was cleared of cancer. Reporter a miracle he said, no doubt. And then last year his mother lay in hospice care on her deathbed. And i took Mother Teresas letter and i put it on my prayed around her. Two days later she began drinking normally and she lived for four months. Reporter a miracle he said no doubt. To elevate Mother Teresa to sainthood the Catholic Church had to rigorously verify two miracles after her death, phenomenon that scientists and medical experts could not explain and now the moment had come. [ pope speaking ] translator we so decree that Mother Teresa be enll im at a loss for words to tell you exactly what it felt like, but i was exhilerated and tearing in my eyes. Reporter for these two people who live in albania, the nation of Mother Teresas birth, they could feel her presence here. Its not just we are proud because we are albanian. She belonged to the whole world and being here when she became a saint, its something, you your lifetime. Its something very special. [ singing ] reporter it was a home to be treasured for all time. [ singing ] reporter Mother Teresa died 19 years ago at the age of 87. Her rise to sainthood was remarkably swift. It can take many decades, even centuries for someone to be venerated as a saint. Homelyn though she is officially a saint homily even though she is officially saint she will always be known to the world as Mother Teresa. Remarkable day there. An estimated 120,000 people filled st. Peters square for the canonization today. We got some more breaking news to share with you, this time out of rocky mount. Police report finding a body this afternoon. The Police Confirm the body of a 50yearold man was pond between Outback Steakhouse and renaissance inn near gateway boulevard. Police call it a suspicious death. Officers have not released the mans name or how he died. Two men are charged with murder after a fight at a fayetteville sports bar. The fight happened in a parking lot. Heres how it all unfolded. Three men were inside of the 301 wing sports bar before an altercation outside became physical. Fayetteville Police Arrest and charged hubert underwood ii and Stephen Rosser with first degree murder. The victim was 52yearold michael mansfield. Police responded to a assault of assault at the bar on North Eastern boulevard around 12 30 sunday morning. Were told the three men were in the bar before the confrontation. When they left the bar, there was a physical altercation that began in the parking lot. Mansfield was assaulted and left unconscious in the parking lot as underwood and rosser drove away. Medical center. Underwood and rosser are held without bond at the detention center. Thanks. A man is in custody in connection to the shooting death of a raleigh man in august. 20yearold jeffrey reneso faces murder charges in the debt of 23yearold laquan anderson. The father of two was found dead behind a home on cross street august 18th. Deputies are ok missing woman in moore county, christy willis, last seen around 1 30 this afternoon in the area of juniper lake road in taylor town. Willis is believed to be in her 40s and wearing a blacktop and blue jeans. Multiple Law Enforcement agencies and k9 teams are involved in the search. We should know more this week about the discovery of a boy missing for 27 years in minnesota. Investigators found the remains weekend. He was 11 years old when he was kidnapped in 1959. 53yearold Danny Heimlich was named a person of interest last year. He gave officials the information they needed. The storm system that was once hurricane hermine is still creating big problems for beaches as it slowly moves away from the east coastful hermine continues to turn up dangerous waves and coast. Hermine continues to turn up people pack the shoreline for the Holiday Weekend. There could be Tropical Storm force wind and flooding. New york citys beaches will be off limit on labor day because of rip currents. Back in our area farmer are worried after hermine left acres of crops under water. Governor mccrory and other state leaders toured the damage today. Drowning under 2 feet of water are these soybean crops. If theyll rot, mature out or dry out. Reporter farmers met to assess damage left behind from Tropical Storm hermine, also getting a firsthand look, governor pat mccrory, the states Emergency Management director and agriculture commissioner steve truxler. Were here today to listen, try to find solution to the problems and hopefully prevent this from happening again. Reporter because this happens a lot, farms adjacent to federal fish and wildlife sites suffer. The refuge land they say is not equipped to handle heavy rain, so the runoff runs off onto their land drowning their crops. So this farm cant drain. So not only am i holding my 5 inches, im holding a good portion of that refuge water on my land. Reporter governor mccrory says hes currently working with the federal government to try and protect farmers from going through this again system that comes through or a run of the mill rainstorm that throws their crops into chaos. The army corps of engineers and the wild leaf. Farmers say they are wildlife. Farmers say they are keeping a very close eye on their land crossing their fingers the floodwaters recede quickly allowing them to every sage the rest of their crops. A small portion of highway 12 is closed in kitty hawk until wednesday. Theres a detour, parallel the state d. O. T. Is concerned about ocean overwash on highway 12. The surface is a little heavy on kitty hawk tonight. In durham a sewage backup caused a real press for some residents this afternoon. Complaints mess for some residents this afternoon. Complaints were reported on hillcrest drive. The repairs should be handled by property management. Officials have not yet confirmed if repairs are underway. It was a huge show of support for Law Enforcement restaurants are recognizing those who put their lives at risk every day. Plus a new view of the impact of hermine on the North Carolina coast, the latest images from the u. S. Coastguard after flying over the outer banks to assess the damage. We had beautiful weather around here today. Check out the temperatures right now, very comfortable outside, 66 in wake forest and at the tv studios, 60s and 70s and even 50s showing up out time for new scratchoff tickets from the North Carolina education lottery first tuesday first tuesday whats up . How ya been i am so sorry. First tuesday. Right through there. Tuesdays kinda my lucky day. And yours. And yours singing getcha scratchoffs on the very first tuesday. Tuesday. Ttuesday. Tututuesday. mandoline finishing riff adelle at first, i was so happy to teach in North Carolina. But weve fallen to 41st in teacher pay, 44th in perstudent spending, and a lot of us even have to buy school supplies. Governor mccrory talks about raising our pay, but he tried to cut Education Funding to its lowest budget share in over 30 years. Like over two thousand other teachers, im having to move to another state so i can do what i love and make ends meet. Live from the raleigh newsroom with ken smith and katheryn brown, wral news on fox 50. Police are investigating a deadly motorcycle crash in fayetteville overnight on north reilly road near cissna drive. 39yearold Melanie Lewis lost control of the motorcycle and crashed and died at cape fear valley medical center. This Labor Day Weekend many those who risk their lives every day. The event is called feed the force. Today and tomorrow several dozen restaurants will offer free meals to Law Enforcement officers in uniform. The owner of omalleys pub in raleigh started with a couple dozen partnering restaurants shortly after the ambush on Police Officers in dallas earlier this year. Today participation has grown to more than 120 restaurants all across the state. I dont know that i had a i just was hoping that it would work and i didnt know how big it would get or how far it would spread. I just wanted it to be successful and now that i look back on it i certainly think that it was or that it is successful. You know, its always something that you want to do. You want to help them because they help you. Its just the right thing to do. For more information on restaurants that are participating you can go to the feed the force a good meal for a good cause raising money for people hardest hit by the earthquake in italy. Capri restaurant served up a dish called pasta amatrice which originated in amatrice, one of the towns hit hard by the quake. 100 of the proceeds will be donated to the italian red cross. Hundreds of people headed to downtown raleigh today to celebrate their heritage, still american cultural festival. Temperatures are creeping back up. Amy will explain when well see newspapers say its time pat mccrory and republicans in raleigh tell the truth about our schools. Instead of putting our children first, billions in tax breaks that could have lifted North Carolinas schools have been diverted into tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. And what are we left with . The ratio of teachers to students is worse. Pat mccrory stop taking North Carolina backwards. The African American cultural festival wrapped up today with singing and dancing and lots of fun on downtown African American communities here and around the world. There were items of clothing, jewelry and home decor. Wral is a proud sponsor of this event. Officials with the u. S. Coastguard flew over the outer banks today to assess the damage from hermine. You can see waves crashing up to homes on the beach and drivers going through flooded parts of the highway in this video and water reached up to another road into front yards of some homes. The coastguard is in the process of assessing damage here and in virginia. With all the rain that weve received Public Health officials are reminding everyone to dump the outdoor containers that may have collected water in your yard. Removing standing water is one of the easiest and most effective ways to get rid of mosquito breeding sites. I noticed today when i was letting the dogs out, i had some of those in my yard. Thats important advice. Get rid of them. Mosquitoes are bad in my yard right now. We have a little creek in the backyard which doesnt really help matters. Lets go ahead and talk storm system. Luckily its far enough offshore its not really bringing big impacts to the northeast, but theres been very little change with this storm. 70 mileperhour winds are still the maximum sustained winds at the moment moving east, northeast at 5 miles per hour. Its about 400 miles east, southeast of ocean city, maryland. Look at the track. The model is still indicating its going to make a little turn north and west before it turn back out north and east. Notice how it gets very close to massachusetts and we still hurricane, Tropical Storm warnings in effect for southern sections of massachusetts back down to new york city and parts of maryland and new jersey as well. So they could still have some pretty gusty winds for the Holiday Weekend but certainly not huge impacts like we were thinking they were going to have as this storm system is a little farther offshore which is great news for them. Back at home its heating up, 90s very soon, likely just after the Labor Day Holiday. Well be staying dry for a the entire week and then allergy problems, if youre suffering from allergies like i am, its because the weeds are very high right now. Ragweeds a big issue for ragweeds a big issue for some of you and pig weed. Heres the durham sky cam. They had a home game today and last game tomorrow, 66 at the airport, partly cloudy, winds currently calm. Temperatures right now town by town 59, a cooler spot hill, 66 in raleigh, 68 in irwin, 7 degrees in fayetteville. It feels really good outside with dew points in the 50s and 60s. It wont for long. Big heat will move in this week. Right now we have cool air thanks to hermine. We have a northeasterly flow that continues tomorrow. So its still comfortable tomorrow, but notice how these mid90s by thursday. So it will heat up as we head through the workweek. These hot temperatures stay with us for quite some time. This is through next weekend. You start to see temperatures moderating a little bit with deeper reds back down to the sow, but no real cool air expected across the area for quite some time. Get ready for some heat, very nice tonight, mostly clear skies, 60. We have some communities in the outlying areas in the 50s, some of you getting even cooler than 60 dieoff night. For the labor degrees tonight. For the Labor Day Holiday a lot of the area pools it will be the last day theyre open, low 70s at 10 00, mostly sunny. It will be nice in the afternoon to hit the pools, upper 80s for highs. The uv index is high at 7 but not in the extreme category like we typically get during the summer months. 91 the High Temperature on tuesday, so as the kids head low 60s for the bus ride to school and low 90s with plenty of sunshine for the bus ride home. 93 degrees the High Temperature on wednesday. Well go up to 95 thursday, mostly sunny, pretty quiet weather pattern hot and dry, 90s through next weekend. Two thumbs down on the 90s. Its september, looks like we can still get some big heat. A big game nfl is opening up this see, next why cam newton thinks thursdays game will be so different from the super bowl. And dale earnhardt, jr. Talks about his recovery from a im roy cooper, and you deserve the truth about the crime lab. When i became attorney general, we discovered a backlog of more than 5,000 dna test kits and years worth of shoddy investigations. But what governor mccrory isnt telling you is that we cleared the backlog. We also solved over 2,000 crimes we fixed the problems at the crime lab, thursday night is the big super bowl rematch between the broncos and the panthers. Now cam newton doesnt talk about that last game at all. Someone asked him how many times hes watched the super bowl and he said thats a personal question. He also shrugged off other questions about the game and kept repeating how different this game is going to be. The panthers sure hope so because the offense didnt look too great against denver the last time these two teams got together. About that game cam says it has nothing to do with this one. Completely different, completely different, two teams thats different, a couple guys went elsewhere. We have a couple guys that went elsewhere as well as got some additions. So did they. You know, its not necessarily looking back at certain things that can help us, which were going to do, that but these are two completely different teams. How big do you think that guys closet is . Hes got like 50 hats. You can watch the panthers play the broncos on wral, kickoff at 8 30 on former tar heel quarterback bren renner has been all over the place since his last snap at chapel hill. His latest stop was in pittsburgh with the steelers. Jared fialko caught up with him in the final preseason game. Reporter funny how life can change with a simple phone quarterback job. Then one more call. He coeing is my profession i want coaching is my profession i want to get into and i love playing the game. As long as i can play it, im going to keep pursuing it. Reporter five cities, five pro franchises since 2014. Thats five different playbooks to learn, a lot to master and quickly when auditioning for a new lease on nfl life. All this crosses your brain when youre up till 2 00 in the morning and you have to wake up at 6 0 job is on the line. Its all between the line. I view it as if youre going to law school or any type of school, you have to cram for thattest it. Reporter the odds were always long hed make the 53 man roster and yesterday pittsburgh released him. I think i maximized what i could do in the two weeks. Reporter but for the carolina product its never been about the destination, just the journey. Im going to give it one more year and see if anything transpires. I know theres a lot of league and you never know during the season. So i just have to stay prepared. Reporter renner reports back to clarksville, tennessee, to resume coaching duties, still not ready to give up on that pro dream. Jared fialko, wral sports charlotte. As for renners old team the loss to judgment in the past now for North Carolina georgia in the past now for georgia, the heels look ahead to game two in illinois. The qb of the way. Hes played a lot, but this saturday was his first game as the guy. He didnt turn the ball over and thats something larry fedora was quick to point out. I was pleased with his poise. The first thing we had asked him to do was take care of the football and i dont ever remember him throwing the ball into any coverage. So i thought he did a nice job. I think he got a little antsy a couple times and had some time think hell be fine going for it. I really do. Keep moving the chains. A couple times i got greedy, forced the ball downfield or throwing the ball away, just got to keep moving the chains and play for the offense. Dale earnhardt, jr. Isnt thinking about retirement. Today at a News Conference at Darlington Raceway he said his no. 1 focus is getting back to normal right now. This is the first time earnhardt, jr. Talked since announcing he wont drive again this season as he continues to hes been dealing with vision and balance problems and has already missed several races. Junior says he definitely does not belong in a race car today, but he is seeing some progress. I feel like the recovery is going really good, starting to see improvements as were going. It seems like this has lasted a really, really long time, but when you look at it on paper, that short period are very give me a lot of confidence. Modern League Baseball tonight, bulls get the win 106 over norfolk and the mudcats 3 2 wins are over winston, salem. The bulls final game of the season is tomorrow. Martin truex, jr. The winner of the southern 500 at darlington, race highlights coming up on wral. Check this out. A football fields sideline is going viral. Take a look. South carolina. I dont even know how you do that. You can see the side line out more than a little crooked. Someone snapped the picture. Its being shared now all across the country. They dont know what happened, but the field was approved for playing. No way. That person could lose their job as well. They are working on fixing it before the next home game. I hope they get a handle on that. Is he . We want to congratulate leah baker and lee hart, the couple married today under blue skies and sunshine. We wish them well. Pretty day today for a wedding, gorgeous out there. How about the week . The Holiday Weekend is going to end with fabulous weather, a little bit warmer tomorrow and the heat returns tuesday, 91 for the high tuesday, plenty of sunshine and hotter wednesday, up to 93, but enjoy the rest of overnight tonight. It will be another comfortable start to the day tomorrow. Im ready for my favorite time of the year, fall. Almost here. Shut it, no. Come on, fall. Thank you for joining us tonight and this weekend. Remember to wake up on morning news weekdays on wral at 4 30. Newspapers say its time pat mccrory and republicans in raleigh tell the truth about our schools. Instead of putting our children first, billions in tax breaks that could have lifted North Carolinas schools have been diverted into tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. And what are we left with . The ratio of teachers to students is worse. Funds for textbooks and supplies are scarce. Hot car. How they described the accident, and why they are asking for support. Patients in a North Carolina community are left scrambling after the states largest private Ambulance Service plans to shut down and. The suspect killed in a shooting that left a Raleigh Police officer hurt, had several runins with the law. What we learned about prior calls for help from the home where the shooting occurred. Im ken smith. Lets rewind. Learning more about the suspect who was killed in an officer involved shooting in raleigh. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. This week. K9 officers search the goodyear plant in fayetteville. Durham County District attorney decides not to retry Darryl Howard for murder. And Tropical Storm hermine spawns a tornado that injures four people. Wake county Public Schools reported few problems, as traditional
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