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Pope Francis to Canonize Mother Teresa; President Obama and Prime Minister May Meet; Earthquake Felt in Seven U.S. States; Race for the White House. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired September 04, 2016 - 04:00   ET

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): On her way to sainthood. Thousands gather at St. Peter's Square to mark the canonization of Mother Teresa.

And Barack Obama holds a second day of high stakes diplomatic meetings during his final G20 summit as U.S. president.

Plus: Donald Trump goes in front of a predominantly African American audience for the very first time as a candidate for the White House.

Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world, I'm Zain Asher. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.

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ASHER: All right, it is official; in the coming hour we will no longer refer to her as Mother Teresa but as Saint Teresa. It is finally happening. She is officially about to become a saint.

You're looking at St. Peter's Square there in Vatican City. Tens of thousands of people have gathered at the Vatican for this ceremony to witness history unfold right before their eyes.

Mother Teresa was, of course, a Roman Catholic nun, who devoted her life to helping the poor, the forgotten, the sick, the marginalized of society. She was known as the Saint of the Gutters. She was, of course, recognized for her work. She did receive a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 but she passed away in 1997 at the age of 87.

CNN's Vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher, joins us live now from St. Peter's Square.

Now, Delia, this must be an extraordinary thing to witness. It is a very sort of long and complicated process to become a saint. She passed away in 1997. Explain to us the last 10 years.

What has happened to bring us to this point?

DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you're right. Normally, it is a very lengthy process. But in Vatican terms, Mother Teresa's process has been fast tracked.

John Paul II was the one who, back in 1997 when she died, said we don't want to wait the standard five years that they normally wait after somebody dies, we want to speed up the process, because he was already convinced that she had led a saintly life. And so the Vatican did that. It's taken about 20 years but that's a short time in Vatican terms.

And it culminates in this day, Zain, where, in about a half an hour, we will see Pope Francis come to the altar behind me; a cardinal will read to the crowd something of the life of Mother Teresa and ask the pope formally to declare her a saint. So that happens right at the top.

And then there is a mass, which goes back centuries, of course, the tradition of making saints in the Catholic Church.

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GALLAGHER (voice-over): And then there is a solemn procession with a relic of Mother Teresa. The relic is a vial of her blood in a wooden cross that is carried up.

That is very symbolic and important when it comes to saints because, throughout the centuries, you've always taken some part of the saint and buried it somewhere. And on top of that the churches that you've seen in Rome and many places around the world have been erected. So this is a ceremony which goes back centuries.

We all know, of course, about Mother Teresa but one of the things that the Vatican looks for is not just her works during her life but miracles. And the two miracles which they determined for Mother Teresa were an Indian woman, Monica Besra, who they say was cured of stomach cancer when she tried to Mother Teresa, and a Brazilian man who had a brain infection.

And he held a holy card with Mother Teresa's picture on it up to his head. He slept with it under his pillow. He and his wife prayed to her for his healing. The abscesses on his brain were medically, inexplicably disappeared.

And the Vatican said this is the second miracle needed to make her a saint.

I want to say, Zain, that Pope Francis, in his typical spontaneous manner, has just told everybody that he will be offering a pizza party for the poor and the homeless here in the Vatican after the ceremony, 1,500 of them, some of them from Mother Teresa's house here in Rome.

And that is his gesture and his way of celebrating this day -- Zain.

ASHER: Oh, that pizza party, I would love to take a front row seat at that pizza party.

You mentioned these sort of two miracles. I'm just curious, I mean it must be such a tricky thing to verify. If somebody says I was cured, I was healed because of Mother Teresa

interceding on my behalf, how does the Vatican actually go about verifying that that's actually true?

GALLAGHER (voice-over): Well, frankly, that's part of the reason why it takes so long. Because there's first a kind of gathering of people who claim to have received miracles. They have to have the medical evidence. I've seen some of the scans of the before-and-after, for example, in the case of the brain infection --

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GALLAGHER: -- of the abscesses on the brain of the man from Brazil. So there is a lengthy process whereby, in the first instance, they talk to the local doctors, in this case, for example, in Brazil, then they bring all of that medical evidence to Rome, to the Vatican. They have their own medical doctors who examine it and decide whether or not it can be explained scientifically.

And that's their main thing. It has to be a spontaneous healing. It has to have occurred after the death of the person in question. And it has to have occurred because the people prayed particularly to that person. So that is their criteria.

It does take some time to sift through a lot of the claims of miracles. But, in the end, they have determined that these two people were, indeed, healed by the intercession of Mother Teresa. That means Mother Teresa asking God to do the healing -- Zain.

ASHER: As you mention, a difficult thing to verify and a wonder it has taken almost 10 years. Delia Gallagher, we'll check in with you in about half an hour or so from now. Thank you so much.

A busy day there at the Vatican where our Delia Gallagher was.

But also a busy day for world leaders in Hangzhou, China. They're gathered there for a second day of the G20 summit and they just attended the official opening ceremony. See all the world leaders, all 20 of them, I believe, gathered there.

Earlier the American and Turkish presidents said that they will be cooperating to make sure that those behind that failed coup attempt in Turkey a couple months ago face justice.

And, separately, British Prime Minister Theresa May and Barack Obama said their ties between their country will remain strong and special despite Brexit. Our Matt Rivers joins us live now from Hangzhou, which is the city hosting the G20 summit.

I want to talk more about this meeting between President Erdogan and Barack Obama because that must have been a somewhat awkward meeting, especially given Turkey's role in the fight against ISIS, perhaps targeting Syrian Kurds, and also the coup attempt as well. Just walk us through that.

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, both leaders certainly have a lot to discuss. This was the first time that they had met face to face since that failed coup attempt back in July. Both leaders sat on opposite sides of the table. They had a private meeting and then both gave one statement each to the press afterwards.

And initially, in both statements, both President Obama and President Erdogan reaffirmed their commitment, their alliance in the fight against ISIS. But it was President Erdogan who did bring up some of the strained tensions over the past month -- or two months at this point now.

And specifically talking about America's role in what happened in Turkey. And what he meant by that was talking about a Turkish theologian that lives in exile in the United States right now, named Fethullah Gulen. Now it is the Turkish government's position that Gulen is the man responsible for organizing that failed coup attempt back in July.

Previously they had requested that the United States extradite him back to Turkey. Now after this coup attempt, President Erdogan has said his government is gathering more evidence against Gulen that they plan on presenting to the United States to make their case that he's the man responsible.

President Erdogan said that to the press. Here's a little bit of what he had to say.

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RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, PRESIDENT OF TURKEY (through translator): Against this terrorist, before the coup attempt we had put some documentation, amassed some evidence, which we have submitted to the United States. And the post-coup attempt-related documentation and evidence therein will be amassed and they will be submitted to our friends in the United States. The efforts are still under way.

We had welcomed delegation from the American ministry of justice and a similar delegation from the Turkish ministry of justice will go to the United States.

Our minister of justice and minister of interior will travel together to the United States, whereby they will concentrate their efforts on the elaboration of this evidence.

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RIVERS: And I think, at some point down the road, what most people are expecting is that, after that evidence is presented, that Turkey will formally request the extradition, once again, of Gulen back to Turkey.

But the fact remains that this is a very, very important alliance for the United States in its fight against ISIS. U.S. warplanes routinely take off from an airbase in Turkey to attack ISIS targets. And so both countries have a lot at stake in this relationship.

That's why you saw President Obama take the time out to specifically have a bilateral meeting with his Turkish counterpart. Certainly a lot for those two men to discuss with lots of implications moving forward.

ASHER: And, Matt, just sort of putting Turkey aside, I want to talk about the relationship between President Obama and British prime minister Theresa May because they also had a press conference as well. And the focus was really on the fact that the relationship between the U.K. and the U.S. --

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ASHER: -- will still remain special despite the fact that we are now in a post-Brexit world. Just walk us through that.

RIVERS: What you heard from both of those leaders when they came out -- and this was the first meeting that they've had together at a major international conference like this since Theresa May became prime minister not long ago.

But that you heard from both sides, despite what happened with that Brexit vote, that this is a special relationship. President Obama said that the United States does not have a stronger partner in the world. And that's exactly what you heard from Theresa May.

But the fact remains that her job here, as she said herself, is to start laying the groundwork to re-establish some of these trade ties with some of the other largest economies in the world. And the United States is probably, for the U.K., at the very top of that list as its largest trading partner.

So she has a clear interest here to make sure that the relationship with the United States stays strong so that, in the future as they begin to lay out these details, a new trade deal that could benefit the United Kingdom is -- eventually comes to fruition. So that's what you heard.

Britain, she says, is open for business. They want to start laying out framework for these trade deals. But even Theresa May herself admits that that will not necessarily be easy, that it will not be smooth sailing all the time, as she put it. So still lots of work for the new British prime minister.

ASHER: But as she said, Brexit, of course, means Brexit. There's not going to be any sort of second go-around, any sort of new referendum. So she did clear that up right off the top. OK, Matt Rivers live for us there, thank you so much. Appreciate that.

I want to turn now to the U.S., Tropical Storm Hermine is winding itself up again, regaining strength to batter the eastern U.S. in the middle of holiday weekend Labor Day, officially on Monday. Forecasters say Hermine will have hurricane force winds on Sunday of up to 120 kilometers per hour.

The weather service expects widespread flooding from Atlantic City south, all along the coast to the state of Delaware; 38.5 million people could be affected by the storm. And people are taking it very, very seriously. In fact, no swimming will be allowed on New York City beaches on Sunday.

Forecasters expect Delaware and New Jersey to be spared from particularly heavy rainfall.

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ASHER: It's bringing back memories for me because I was in New York during Hurricane Sandy.

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Superstorm Sandy.

ASHER: Superstorm Sandy, as you said, yes, a very intense experience. The entire city completely shut down and then we had that power outage.

VAN DAM: And they learned their lesson, I'm sure, because people are heeding the warnings.

ASHER: All right, Derek Van Dam. Thank you so much. Appreciate that.

Officials in the U.S. state of Oklahoma are shutting down 37 wells that exposed with toxic wastewater. The governor says they may have actually played a role, played a part in that magnitude 5.6 earthquake that hit on Saturday. Shaking was, in fact, felt across seven states.

The United States Geological Survey says that several powerful quakes have happened recently near injection wells used in oil production. That state's earthquake badly damaged several buildings in one city and injured at least one person.

And Oklahoma wasn't just the only place where there was an earthquake. There was also another earthquake in the Southern Philippines. There are no immediate reports of damage, although that could change. That was a 5.9 magnitude earthquake there.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at a depth of 12.5 kilometers. It hit a largely remote area. No tsunami warnings have been issued.

All right, coming up next on CNN NEWSROOM, Turkey takes new military action in Syria. How they're opening up an all-new line of attack next.

Plus: Donald Trump spent the day courting minority voters at a church in Detroit but, outside the church, he wasn't so welcome. That story coming up next.

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ASHER: All right, want to turn now to the fight against ISIS. Turkey is expanding its military operations in Northern Syria. Take a look here.

These images actually show tanks, Turkish tanks, moving from Turkey, rolling across the border, into Syria, this is all part of a plan to push ISIS out of nearby villages in Syria. The Turks also enlisting the help of Syrian rebels as part of this effort as well.

In the meantime, the Turks are also working on this. I'm not sure if you can actually tell from these images but the Turks are also planning the construction of a border wall near the Kurdish town of Kobani. This wall is about four or five days in the making now.

The plan is to improve their security by keeping out Kurdish separatists. That is the goal of the Turks.

But not everyone is happy with this. You have angry demonstrators protesting against the wall and a lot of them have actually ended up clashing with police.

In the meantime, inside Turkey, officials say that security forces have killed more than 100 Kurdish PKK militants in the southeast just on Saturday alone. State media said that seven Turkish soldiers were killed and 21 others wounded.

In the meantime, staying in that region, in neighboring Iraq, security forces are trying to pass along an urgent message to civilians who are trapped inside ISIS-held towns. And they're trying to do this by dropping thousands of leaflets south of Mosul on Saturday. I want to show you what these messages say.

They say, "Our goal is to clean your town from ISIS soon. Protect yourself. Don't be human shields for the enemy. Leave the town immediately. You don't have enough time."

Certainly ominous words. Let's hope they are able to make it out.

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All right. And time for your daily dose of U.S. politics. Donald Trump, you may have heard, is trying to turn around his unpopularity with African American voters. The U.S. Republican presidential candidate took his campaign to Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday. You see him there on the microphone.

Basically he was attending a service at a predominantly black church. He talked about how he would improve the economic prospects in the black community if he were to become president.

So the question is, did he win them over? Was it a convincing speech?

Here's our Jeremy Diamond with more.

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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump took his outreach to African American voters right to the African American community here in Detroit. Donald Trump's spoke to the great faith ministries where he abandoned his characteristic brashness, in favor of a little bit of a more subdued tone.

DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: For centuries, the African American church has been the conscience of our country For centuries, the African-American church has been the conscience of our country. So true.

It's from the pews and pulpits and Christian teachings of black churches all across this land that the Civil Rights movement lifted up its soul and lifted up the soul of our nation.

It's from these pews that our nation has been inspired toward a better moral character, a deeper concern for mankind, and spirit of charity and unity that binds us all together. And we're bound together and I see that today.

This was -- this has been an amazing day for me. The African American faith community has been one of God's greatest gifts to America and to its people.

DIAMOND: That rhetoric was very different from the kind that Trump has employed on the campaign trail in recent weeks, as he's made his outreach to African American voters largely before predominantly --

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DIAMOND: -- white crowds.

Donald Trump has talked about African Americans saying that they have, quote, "nothing to lose in voting for him," saying that they have no jobs, no schools.

I also caught up with Dr. Ben Carson, who went with Donald Trump to his childhood home here in Detroit. And this is how Dr. Carson talked about Donald Trump's remarks.

DR. BEN CARSON (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, if you ask him about those comments, though and allow him to explain it, you'll see he said very readily, I have a lot of African American friends who are very wealthy, who do very well and I know that the majority of black people don't live that way.

But the problem is we have a very large percentage of people in our inner cities who are not experiencing any of the benefits of our society. And that's a problem for all of us. DIAMOND: But here outside the church where Donald Trump spoke to African American voters, there were a number of protesters who showed up and they said that they're not going to forget Donald Trump's brash words anytime soon.

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ASHER: That was our Jeremy Diamond reporting there. And you heard him mention some of the protesters. Let us show you them. Take a look here.

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ASHER (voice-over): While Trump spoke to the congregation inside the church, the protesters you see here were actually outside the church.

I think they're saying, "No Trump, no Trump," calling him to leave the city.

Trump, of course, has been criticized throughout the past year and a half for very divisive rhetoric that alienates a lot of minorities.

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ASHER: Some other news we are following, a nearly three-decade search for an abducted U.S. child has now come to a very tragic end. Authorities in Minnesota announced Saturday they found the remains of this young boy, Jacob Wetterling. He was 11 when he was abducted in 1989.

The "Star Tribune" newspaper reports a longtime suspect in the case actually led authorities to the remains. The suspect was already in custody on child pornography charges. Wetterling's disappearance garnered worldwide attention. It was actually recently featured on the CNN series, "THE HUNT WITH JOHN WALSH."

Jacob's mother, Patty, went on to help create the National Sex Offender registry.

After the news her son's remains had been found, she told CNN in a text, "Our hearts are broken. There are no words."

All right, time for a quick break here on CNN and we are minutes away, literally minutes away from Mother Teresa's canonization. She's about to officially be made a saint. We'll have live reports from Rome and Kolkata during -- in the next few minutes. We'll be back after the break.

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: All right, welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Zain Asher. Let's get you caught up on your headlines at this hour.

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ASHER: And a live look for you now, which is around 10:30 at the Vatican, where the canonization mass for Mother Teresa is happening, as I speak. Thousands of people, you just saw the images there, thousands of people have gathered in St. Peter's Square for this event to witness history.

The Roman Catholic nun devoted her entire life to helping the poor in India and she's about to become a saint less than 20 years after her death. Let's talk more about this. I want to go back to a woman who has covered many a canonization, our Delia Gallagher, joining us live now in Rome.

So, Delia, just explain to us, at what point do we stop saying Mother Teresa and start saying Saint Teresa?

I presume at any moment now?

DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: That's correct, Zain. It will be in about 10 minutes, I should say. What we're looking at right now is the cardinal who is in charge of the congregation for saints; he is reading out the life of Mother Teresa.

And just after this he will pronounce a formula in Latin, formally asking Pope Francis to declare her a saint.

Then we will hear that beautiful litany of saints, that sung Gregorian chant that you hear when they make a pope, too, and they invoke the blessing of all the saints of the past on this new saint. And then Pope Francis also reads out and official declaration in Latin, declaring her a saint.

And at that moment, about 10 minutes from now, she will be known as Saint Teresa of Kolkata. Of course, this is the culmination of many years, as you said, almost 20 years of Vatican investigation into her life. A lot of people know about the great works that Mother Teresa did with the poor.

But the Vatican has their own official process, as it were, to declare somebody a saint, including finding two miracles. The two miracles for Mother Teresa were an Indian woman, Monica Besra, who was said to have been cured of stomach cancer of praying to Mother Teresa, and a Brazilian man, who said that his brain infection was cured when he held a picture, a holy photo of Mother Teresa, to his head and slept with it under his pillow and prayed to her for his healing.

So the Vatican, after some investigation with doctors and so on, of those miracles, declared those to be the two miracles. But it's not just about the miracles. It's about the life of Mother Teresa. It is a life which, in some ways, dovetails with this pontificate because it's a life of service to the poor.

And Pope Francis, in a gesture which we've just learned about in the last few minutes, will be offering a pizza party after the ceremony for 1,500 poor and homeless here in Rome. It will be in the Vatican.

And it's his way of doing a symbolic gesture to the poor, something which is so important for his pontificate and, of course, was also for the life of Mother Teresa -- Zain.

ASHER: And, Delia, you can really feel the excitement and the passion behind you for all those people ready to witness history. Stand by. We will check in with you in about 10 minutes, as you mentioned, when the official canonization --

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ASHER: -- takes place, when she is officially made a saint. So do stand by.

In the meantime, want to go to Kolkata, India, that is where Mother Teresa actually founded her Missionaries of Charity organization. CNN's Mallika Kapur, get this, she actually grew up in Kolkata and she met Mother Teresa as a child.

So, Mallika, I was so excited when our producers told me that you knew Mother Teresa, that you'd met her when you were a young girl growing up in Kolkata. Just explain to us, first of all, how you met her, number one.

And I just want to find out, did you know back then that this day would come?

That you would in the midst of a woman who would one day be made a saint?

MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Zain, good question. You know, it wasn't just me who knew her. I grew up in Kolkata in the '70s and '80s. And honestly, for anybody who lived here during that time it was quite common for us to have our lives intertwined with her in some ways, simply because she was so accessible.

She lived here in the heart of the city. This is her house right behind me. And the doors were always open. Honestly, anybody could walk in. You could walk in simply to say hello. Or you could walk in to pray with her no matter what religious background you had. You could walk in and ask the nuns to pray for you.

She was, honestly, very, very accessible. And I did come here a fair amount because my mother volunteered and continues to volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity. So many times I would just tag along with my mother (INAUDIBLE) to meet Mother Teresa.

Did we know back then that this day would come?

Quite honestly, no, only because Mother Teresa was just like any other Kolkatan. She was so (INAUDIBLE). She was so approachable. And I have to say honestly, back then, we knew she was somebody very special. But I certainly, for one, did not realize that I was watching the work of a saint.

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KAPUR (voice-over): When Mother Teresa came to India, a young nun following her calling, she came to this bustling city in the East and never left. Kolkata became her home.

It's where my home is, too. I enjoyed a simple, happy childhood here. It revolved around family, friends, school. And Mother Teresa figured prominently in each of the spheres of my life.

KAPUR: Initially, Mother Teresa was part of the Loretta Order of Nuns, the same order that set up this school, Loretta House, my school. And I remember sitting in these very classrooms, listening to nuns tell us stories about Mother Teresa.

KAPUR (voice-over): Locals call her simply Mother. And I often saw Mother and her sisters going about their work, helping, caring feeding the poorest of the poor. Back then, I had no idea I was watching history unfold.

She lived in the heart of the city, in this simple room where she later died. Visitors from all faiths and all walks of life were always welcome at Mother's house. It's where I first met her.

KAPUR: She gave me this prayer and then she took my hand in her hands. She had a really firm grip.

And then she said to me over and over again, "God bless you, my child, God bless you."

KAPUR (voice-over): Mother adored children and many local families, including mine, often helped out at her home for abandoned children.

KAPUR: When I was a little girl, I wrote a poem on Mother Teresa. And the next time I came here, I had just tagged along with my mother, who was volunteering here at the children's home.

And Mother Teresa met me and she said, "Come here, come here, I want to show you something."

And she had taken my poem and framed it -- and, by framing, I mean putting it in a sheet of plastic. And she had stuck it right here.

KAPUR (voice-over): Some residents complained she put Kolkata on the global map for the wrong reasons: poverty and desperation. But most locals are protective of her. They say they're proud our city produced a saint.

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KAPUR: Very soon she will be Saint Teresa and it's a day of great pride and immense joy for the people of Kolkata -- Zain.

ASHER: Mallika, that was a really touching piece, very personal story. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. I want to go back now to Vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher, who

is joining us live now from St. Peter's Square.

So, Delia, I understand that some of the nuns who actually knew Mother Teresa from the Missionaries of Charities are actually in the audience there. Explain to us, what must this day be --

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ASHER: -- like for them?

GALLAGHER: Well, you know, Mother Teresa has nuns all over the world and one of the places where she was most active was here in Rome. She had a great relationship with John Paul II.

They established a house right next to the Vatican. So many of her nuns are already here. Some of them have come from India. And we see them all walking around.

It's quite a beautiful sight to add those saris to many of the other things that you see here in Rome.

I think the pope is about to pronounce that official proclamation. So we might want to take a listen in. He will say it in Latin. It is a proclamation which goes back centuries in the Catholic Church. It is the moment when Mother Teresa will become Saint Teresa of Kolkata. Take a listen.

POPE FRANCIS, PONTIFF, ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: (Speaking Latin.)

GALLAGHER: OK, Zain, so that was it. That was the moment. You heard the great applause from this crowd and now an hallelujah being sung in thanksgiving for the life of this woman.

What we're going to see now, Zain, is them bringing up a relic of Mother Teresa. This is a vial of her blood in a cross and it is part of the tradition of the Catholic Church, that they keep a relic of the saint, something that was part of her body.

They've done it since the earliest centuries. And what they've done with those relics is bury them, often the first saints of the Catholic Church were martyrs. They were killed. So they kept their bones and they buried them and then they erected churches above them.

Indeed, that's why St. Peter's church is here because it's said that the bones of St. Peter were buried under this church. So this is a very important, symbolic moment as well in this ceremony, to have a relic of Mother Teresa here, to also be venerated along, of course, with this important declaration of her sainthood -- Zain.

ASHER: You know, Delia, as I was sort of listening to Pope Francis read mass there, I'm just wondering to myself, I mean, what must this moment be like for him, for the pope?

Because since the pope became pope in 2013, he has really been focused on helping the needy, helping the poor, helping the marginalized, much like Mother Teresa. Surely she must be a woman who he request really relate to.

GALLAGHER: Yes. Well, it's interesting, Zain, that Mother Teresa had a very close relationship with John Paul II. She knew him very well. He was a big fan of hers. Pope Francis has told us that he never actually met Mother Teresa. He saw her at a synod of bishops here.

And he said I watched her moving amongst the bishops and how she related to them and he said I wouldn't liked to have had her as my superior. So he didn't know her in a personal way. But certainly his pontificate very much follows what her life was about and that is the priority for the poor.

And that is something that Pope Francis wants to emphasize. That is something that now Saint Teresa lived for and both of them following on what Jesus talks about in the Gospel, that of making the poor a priority and outreach to them.

So this is also the Year of Mercy for Pope Francis. This is kind of the culminating event of that because the idea of the mercy of God towards everybody and, therefore, kindness to your neighbor and helping the other and so on. So these kinds of themes are coming in to play in this ceremony as well -- Zain.

ASHER: Delia Gallagher, thank you so much.

And for our viewers --

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ASHER: -- who might just be tuning in, just want to quickly recap the breaking news. It is 10:45 am local time in Rome on September 4th. This is the day when we are witnessing history. Mother Teresa has now officially, officially been made a saint by the Catholic Church. This is a process that has been 20 years in the making.

They have now recognized two miracles that have been attributed to her. We just saw Pope Francis there in his canonization mass. Again, Mother Teresa is now officially Saint Teresa. CNN NEWSROOM will be right back.

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ASHER: Welcome back, everybody.

Police in the Philippines are looking for three people they want to talk to, they want to question, about Friday night's deadly explosion in Davao City. This is a blast (INAUDIBLE) for you that killed 14 people. It took place at a crowded market.

The blast actually ended up wounding about 70 people. The national police chief said that it was caused by an improvised explosive device or IED made of mortar rounds. And he believes that's an indication that this was the work of terrorists, of extremists.

People in Davao are in shock and in mourning. They actually came to lay flowers for a vigil and pray for the victims of the blast.

In the meantime, protesters marched through Central London on Saturday, calling on Parliament to put Brexit on hold. British Prime Minister Theresa May says that Brexit means Brexit. She told her cabinet recently that there will be no second chance, second referendum or any other attempt to stay in the E.U. by back-door politics.

But march --

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ASHER: -- organizers seemed undeterred.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What I hope that the march will show is that there's a growing movement of people that care passionately about our future in Europe, that this is the start of a public discourse between this movement and government and we hope that it's going to inspire more people to get involved, take action, get organized, contact their MPs, build networks within their own communities.

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ASHER: It is unlikely, though, that protesting will change anything: as Theresa May mentioned, Brexit does mean Brexit but, nevertheless, anti-Brexit marches were still held across the U.K. on Saturday. CNN NEWSROOM will be right back.

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ASHER: Let's turn back now to U.S. politics. Just want to explain something to our international viewers out there.

In the United States, it is common practice for a supporter to put a politician's sign on their front lawn. So if you support Donald Trump, you might put a sign with Donald Trump's name on it in your front lawn. But it is apparently becoming equally common for people to steal those signs. Here's our Jeanne Moos with more.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Smiling Michael Ricatto was in --

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MOOS (voice-over): -- no mood to smile when thieves kept stealing his Donald Trump lawn signs.

MICHAEL RICATTO, DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER: They're trying to shut me up.

MOOS: But rather than shut up, Michael put up a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thieves.

RICATTO: I'm choosing Trump and stay the hell off my lawn and let me express my opinion.

MOOS: This Florida real estate investor also didn't appreciate the F Trump graffiti on the nearest mailbox outside his Queens, New York home.

He put up about 100 reward signs featuring a suspect's photo captured by surveillance cameras.

The presidential campaign has kept cameras busy recording people stealing Trump sign, usually jumping out of a car, grabbing signs and jumping back in.

Jeff Weiss (ph) of West Hartford, Connecticut, caught two teens red- handed in his driveway.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stealing my Donald Trump signs.

UNIDENTIFIED TEEN: Yeah. We are.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know. Why would you do such a thing?

UNIDENTIFIED TEEN: Because we don't agree with your political views.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is that the right thing to do?

UNIDENTIFIED TEEN: Well, we're teenagers so I think we have a little bit of leeway in this.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you?

UNIDENTIFIED TEEN: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I chose not to press charges.

MOOS: But others chose a reward. Linda Tirelli said she couldn't get over when people defaced three of her Trump signs in New City, New York.

She replaced them and then put up a $1,000 reward.

LINDA TIRELLI, DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER: My message to the vandals is this: not my neighborhood, guys and you're not going to intimidate me or bully me, OK? I'm still going to vote for my candidate and I wish you would respect that.

RICATTO: And every time they take a sign, the next one gets bigger and better, I guess pretty soon the whole house will be a Trump sign.

MOOS: Try stealing that, you pranksters. Or are they liberals?

RICATTO: Could be a liberal prankster. I don't know who it is.

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, smile.

MOOS: -- New York.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, thank you.

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ASHER: Lots of personality in that piece there.

All right, that wraps up this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Zain Asher. I'll be back after the break with another hour of news from around the world. Don't go away.