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WBZ CBS Overnight News September 5, 2016

Welcome to the overnight news, im elaine quijano. Hermine gaining strength and threatening to become a hurricane. The slowmoving system already killed at least two people including a homeless man hit by a falling tree in florida and a truck driver blown off the road in North Carolina. Storm warnings and watches are posted along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to massachusetts. Our correspondent is on the jersey shore. Reporter after mowing through florida as a hurricane, Tropical Storm hermine chewed the coast of georgia and carolina saturday bringing heavy rains and punishing wind. Rough seas rocked this Royal Caribbean cruise ship en route from new jersey to bermuda. Now, hermine may crash a 5foot wall of water into the midatlantic. Menacing picturesque coastline from maryland to massachusetts much newly rebuilt after tony voss, the mayor of Seaside Heights new jersey. How bad was the damage when sandy came through . Devastating. Devastating. All built over the last four years. The icon, the memories, the roller coaster in the ocean. Devastating. Reporter sandy devastated thousand of homes in ocean county. Residents arent taking chances with hermine. Emergency coordinator, bill hibble. Whole when the wind shifts. Im concerned with the bay area. Reporter new Jersey Governor Chris Christie put hermine in context. I want to make this clear. This is certainly not sandy, nowhere near that. Reporter he warned against complacency. The biggest thing, people not to be lulled by the nice weather that nothing is going to happen. Washing out Holiday Weekend plans. We didnt thing it would be this bad with the waves being this, you know, tall. But i would imagine the undertoe would take you right now. I could understand their concern. Instead of one last weekend of summer fun. Beaches for hundreds of miles along the Atlantic Coast are closed and swimming is forbidden. Farther south, storm cleanup continued as officials tried to restore power to thousands of homes from florida to virginia. So far midatlantic impact is economic. I see empty tables. The owner of seasides on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, new jersey. Today we were expecting a lot more people. Because of the storms and the scare, a lot of people turned out, they had a lot of cancellations what i hear. The motel people. Reporter as hermine continues to churn up the coast, officias are warning residents to secure loose items so they dont become projectile. Elaine, in Seaside Heights, many homes were elevated after sandy. For those that werent, the Fire Department handed out 500 sandbags. Thanks. Meteorologist Pamela Gardner tracking hermine at wbz in pamela. Elaine, the storm continues to turn up rough seas and strong winds. Max wind 70 miles an hour, moving east northeast, 6 mild an hour. Soon to take a turn toward the midatlantic states. Where we have warnings and watches in place, also across southeastern new england. The storm will continue to push slowly north, northwest, and linger to our south and west here. Tuesday morning, 75 mile per hour winds, thats equal to hurricane strength, tuesday into thursday. The storm exits out to sea. And then we are done with it. But, prior to this, we could pick up some beneficial rain in southeastern massachusetts. One to two inches of rainfall, with the heaviest rains staying offshore. And those max wind gusts, 50 Miles Per Hour from time to time right during labor day. We are also dealing with some intense wind gusts of 35 to 60 miles an hour along the coast. Primarily through tuesday morning. With major emotion likely across the beaches. Elaine. Pamela gardner, pamela, Mother Teresa was proclaimed a saint by pope francis in a ceremony that drew an estimated 120,000 people to the vatican. Our seth doan was there. . Reporter the faithful packed st. Peters square beneath a portrait of now Saint Theresa of calcutta i think we will have teresa. Because of her tenderness, we will continue to call her Mother Teresa. I think people recognized her as a living saint. When she was alive. They knew it. Reporter rick farrell and mary baseloni came from anchorage, alaska. She gave of herself. She lived to help the poor. Reporter pope francis from her order listened on. The pope noted mother ter redefended human life, the unborn and the abandoned. Mother teresa was called the saint of the gutters and before becoming pope, francis was referred to as the bishop of the slums. Both put the poor at the center of their ministry. And today, pope in rome, indian flags were flown with pride. While in calcutta formerly where Mother Teresa focused missionary work half a century others watched the canonization on a large television screen. Erin and paul traveled to rome from dallas. Theyre not catholic but said Mother Teresas appeal is universal. Great humanitarian. Great compassion for the, the, the less fortunate. So, she means something to many people. Regardless of faith. Reporter the albanian born dedicated her life to those in the shadows, was honored today in the bright sunlight. Less than two decades after her death. Seth doan, cbs news, rome. We want to note the passing of dabney montgomery, a tuskegee airman in world war ii and civil rights activist in selma, alabama. He served as a bodyguard for dr. Martin luther king jr. In 2007, montgomery was issued a congressional medal of honor remained active in his final weeks talking to schoolkid about his experience. He was 93 years old. Coming up next, this weekends powerful earthquake in oklahoma shakes up the oil and the u. S. Is rushing into a deal with russia to try to end syrias long and brutal civil war. Officials spent the weekend trying to reach an agreement. Margaret brennan is traveling with president obama at the g20 summit in china. Reporter u. S. Officials thought they would be announcing a ground breg russia to coordinate air strikes in syria. But there was a hitch. There still remains a couple of tough issues. Reporter russia pulled back from their initial agreement from the u. S. It would have ended the Syrian Regime air attacks on civilians and enabled aid to flow into besieged starving cities like any alliance with russia would be extraordinary given their propping up dictator bashar alassad, by bombing the rebels trying to overthrow him. Mr. Obama admitted america now needs russia if it has any chance of ending the war that killed 400,000 people and created 5 million refugees. If we do not get some buyin from the russians on reducing the violence and easing the humanitarian crisis then it is difficult to see how we get to the next phase. Reporter russian president vladamir putin and president obama may try to revive the deal when they meet tomorrow. The trip got off to awkward starred yet when just after landing a chinese official yelled at National Security adviser susan rice. And tried to block her from joining the president s motorcade. Prompting the secret service to intervene. President obama downplayed that incident saying he understands how much strain countries are under when they have to host the u. S. President given his sizable security entourage. Margaret brennan, thank you. Labor day marks the beginning of the homestretch for the president ial campaigns with nine weeks until the election and new cbs news Battleground Tracker poll Shows Hillary clinton leading donald trump by 8 points in pennsylvania. In North Carolina, our poll shows clinton four points ahead. For more on this bring in Errol Barnett and cbs news election director, Anthony Salvanto in washington. Your numbers show clinton in but weaknesses remain. She has the the lead nationally. She has the leaden enough states. Battleground states if the election were held today sunny would be in a commanding position. But, for a frontrunner she has remarkably high unfavorable numbers, and she also has issues with the trust question. What is part of that its exemplified by peoples skepticism over answers to the email server question. Where many more people say that her answers are becoming less president ial candidate tim kaine is doing damage control on that front. Lets listen to him on abc. Slow did make a mistake. She made it by deciding she wanted to use one device rather than multiple devices. She has apologized. Said it was a mistake and learned for tip. For republicans what are people saying about donald trump perceived immigration policy shifts. Mr. People think he has been steady than think he has become easier on people who are in the country illegally. But this underlines the balancing act he has. He is trying to appeal to broader base of voters who dont like his current policies but also trying to keep his base happy. His number two, governor mike pence, defending the policy. Lets listen to what he said sunday. We are going to build a wall. We are going to enforce the laws. Going to end catch and release. More than a generation. We should explain all of this is part of Donald Trumps overall minority outreach. Any proof that is working . He is not polling well. We might not expect polls to move overnight or over the course of a week. Lets listen to donald trump speaking at a black church in detroit. I am here today to listen to your message. I hope my presence will also help your voice to reach new audiences in our country. I notice he said new audiences there. Might those be moderate republicans . Yeah, could be. You have got some moderate republicans who heretofore said they dont necessarily like the rhetoric out of his campaign. Watching him try to reach out to a broader base could bring some of them back into the fold. It is all fascinating stuff. Cbs elections director, Anthony Salvanto. Thank you for your time. Elaine. Errol barnett. Thank you. 11yearold Jacob Wetterling disappeared on a rural road near his home in central minnesota. Jamie yuckas is there. My favorite food is steak. Favorite color is blue. Jack on wetterlings face etched in the mind of parents since october 22nd, 1989 when he his brother and a friend biked to a Convenience Store to rent a movie. 11yearold jacob would never come home. Mother, Patty Wetterling pleaded for his abductor to come forward. We will hope and pray one day we will have the answer to the one question we have asked forever. Where is jacob . Saturday, Stearns County sheriffs deputies confirmed jacobs remains were located after long time suspect, Danny Heinrich led the fbi to a farm sources say he gave the location as part of an ongoing plea deal. According to court documents. Heinrich was questioned in connection to the case in 1990 but never charged. Neighbors say they always knew he was a suspect. Everyone just got to talking. Everyone heard about it. He is a suspect back in 89. They booked him. Took his mug shot. Took hair samples. The lives of parents and children in minnesota. Went everywhere. Had to be home for dinner and bedtime. You could room anywhere. Life changed after that very much. Jacobs family has not spoken publicly. Patty wetterling did tweet out. Our family is drawing strength from all your love and support. We are struggling with words at this time. Thank you for your hope. Jacobshope. The case had implications in 1994, Congress Pass aid law after Jacob Wetterling that required states to set up sex offender ridge trees. Elaine. Thank you. A powerful earthquake rattled central oklahoma saturday. The 5. 6 quake centered near the city of pawnee tied a state record felt in seven states. And renewed concerns about the disposal of waste water from oil and Gas Production which has been linked to the recent outbreaks of quakes in oklahoma. Here is mireya villarreal. Facade came down. Off this old building on 6th pawnee, oklahoma covered the sidewalks. The small city the latest epicenter of concern over oklahomas oil and gas industry. It was bad. Whole thing was going like this. It was bad. Reporter in 2015, oklahoma averaged 2. 5 earthquakes a day with magnitude of 3. 5 or higher. A total of 907 last year compared to 2 in 2008. Oklahoeo connected increase in quakes to disposal of waste water from hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Sought our day. Saturdays quake, prompted the state to shut down waste water hills in state history. 37 scheduled to be closed. If we stopped all the activity tomorrow. Not like the earthquakes would stop tomorrow. The seismologist of u. S. Geological survey says induced earthquakes by waste water as naturally caused ones but could change if oklahoma and states where fracking is booming dont take note. Is there a chance things could get worse . We expect the regulatory steps are going to help overall. The rates are going to go down. And the hazard will go down. We dont have an exact crystal ball. So there is the potential certainly for more earthquakes. There is potential for bigger earthquakes than what we have the 37 waste water wells set to shut down are a small fraction of the 4,200 currently permitted by the state. Elaine, oklahoma governor declared state of emergency for the affected area. Mireya villarreal, thank you. Still ahead, the story of a sick child and healing power of horses. To begin visibly clearing up skin in as little as 12 hours. And acne wont last forever. Just like your mom wont walk in on you. Forever. Lets be clear. You know your heart loves megared omega3s. 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Hackensack University Medical center sponsors the four day program. Lots of joy on the farm. There is exercise. Getting dirty. There is just endless, physical, emotional, recreational, social. Reporter despite their size and strength. Horses tend to be very calm. Studies have shown children who spend time with them experience lower levels of stress. Pediatrician, steven percy says riding also helps build muscle and coordination. Children, issues with walking to get them on the animals and moving limbs in a different way really helped them. Reporter kaya regained something her parents long to get back. This has brought so much happiness to her. She looked forward to this so long. Its just really nice to know that these opportunities are there for them. To make them feel special. Marley hall, cbs news, new jersey. Up next, the heart warming story of a College Football star and finally tonight. When Florida State opens its College Football season tomorrow night against ole miss. A boy from tallahassee will be watching and rooting for his lunch buddy. Mark strassmann has the story. Reporter monford cafeteria served up something special. A handful of Florida State Football Players were visiting. One of them, travis rudolph, the teams star wide receiver, noticed one 6th grader in particular. I saw him by himself. I was like, yo can i have a seat and eat with you. He was like, sure why not. We started off having a good conversation. That kid was 11yearold, bo passkey. You looked up, there he was. What did he say . He said, whats up, dude. Reporter someone nearby took sitting far away. You see, bo has autism and often eats lunch by himself. On the days he is sitting alone. Those are the days it bothers me more than it bothers him. Leah passkey is bos mother. She posted to facebook saying this is one day i didnt have to worry if my sweet boy ate lunch alone because he sat across from some one who is a hero in many eyes. Im any just moved with emotion at his generosity and his kindness. I dont know what made him pick bo. But i am so grateful he did. Rudolph. Travis rudolph could score a million touchdowns this season, and never come close to making one family so happy. I havent gone through bullying. But i have seen it. I dont like it. I feel like it is wrong. Honestly, a cool person. I will hang out with him any day. Bo. Right here. Reporter when bo walked into lunch wednesday. Every kid wanted to sit with him. I am a superstar. Everybody recognizes me. Mark strassmann, cbs news, tallahassee. Thats the cbs overnight news for this monday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. Welcome to the cbs overnight news. Im elaine quijano. Standingroomonly in st. Pet peters conveyor, when pope francis elevated Mother Teresa to sainthood. Saint teresa revered for her work with the poorest of the poor on the streets of calcutta, indiana. 120,000 faithful filled the square in the front row where sisters of saint teresas order missionaries of charity. Beside them, 1,500 Homeless People and 13 head of state and government. And at least one royal. Quee

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