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Pope Francis Canonizes Mother Teresa; Hermine Strengthens off Eastern U.S. Coast; U.S. and Turkey Recommit to Defeat ISIS; Race for the White House; The Black Eyed Peas Fight Violence with Music; "Bridget Jones' Baby" Due in Theaters. Aired 5-6a ET

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): It is official, Mother Teresa will now be known as Saint Teresa. Tens of thousands of people gather in St. Peter's Square to pay tribute to the woman who advocated for the poor.

And he's had two big meetings with two major allies. The latest from Barack Obama's final G20 summit.

And officials in the U.S. state of Oklahoma are shutting down wells that dispose of toxic wastewater, saying that these wells may actually have played a role in an earthquake felt across seven states.

A warm welcome to all our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Zain Asher. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

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ASHER: All right, Mother Teresa is now immortalized. She's officially a Catholic saint. In case you missed it, about 10 or 15 minutes ago Pope Francis canonized the late Catholic nun in front of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican, gathered at St. Peter's Square.

Mother Teresa, as I'm sure you know, devoted her entire life to helping the poor, the sick and the marginalized. She was actually nicknamed the Saint of the Gutters and she ended up receiving a Nobel Peace Prize for her work back in 1979.

CNN's Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher has had a front row seat.

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ASHER (voice-over): Lucky you, for all of the festivities.

I have to ask you, what changes from this point onward?

When someone becomes a saint, what's new now?

Other than the title and the mass, the ceremony and the mass, what's different now?

DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Well, you know, Zain, really for a lot of people Mother Teresa was already a saint and in the early days of the church, that's the way it happened. People said it's lived a wonderful life, we know that they have saintly qualities and we declare them as saints.

From about the 15th century onwards, the Vatican decided they're going to do an official process to weed out people who were kind of charlatan saints.

So that's why we see this long, investigative process to declare somebody officially a saint. And what that declaration means for the Vatican is that that person is in heaven and has the beatific vision, they call it, they can see God directly.

That beatific vision is something that has inspired poets and writers throughout the centuries because it's this idea that you are in the direct presence of God.

So what does that mean?

That means that people can pray to you and you can ask God to help them with whatever it is they need. And hence the miracle part of the story.

So that's really the kind of technical thing about being a saint. But, of course, saints have been declared as such from the very beginnings of the church, without the need for all of the Vatican officiality (sic), as it were.

But this ceremony goes back at least to the 1700s. It is a mass. It is something which the pope has already declared, as you mentioned, that she's a saint with an official Latin formula. They brought up a relic of her blood in a vial, in a wooden cross. That is also something which is very symbolic and important for saints, that they have some kind of a relic, whether it's bones of their body, pieces of their clothing, that are venerated in churches throughout the world.

So it's a ceremony that is filled with symbolism. Of course, saints being very important for the Catholic Church and for the people. There's about 100,000, maybe, more here, there's 80,000 that can fit in the square.

But really the whole idea of what they call popular piety, that people pray to these saints. And the church wants to recognize that, that there were people who lived holy lives, who did good.

That's something that Pope Francis wants to emphasize, especially amongst the poor and that is being celebrated today in Mother Teresa's life -- or Saint Teresa, as I should call her now -- Zain.

ASHER (voice-over): We keep on having to correct ourselves. My brain automatically would say Mother Teresa but it is technically Saint Teresa. What's interesting, Delia, is that this actually took 20 years for

this to happen. She died in 1997 and that might for our viewers at home sound like a long time but actually the path to sainthood can take a lot longer than that. That's the expedited path.

I'm just curious; why do you think that Pope John Paul II actually was so keen to rush this sainthood through for her?

GALLAGHER (voice-over): Well, because I think he recognized what I was saying before, that the people were already calling her a saint. And if you remember when John Paul II himself died, there was that Santo Subito --

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GALLAGHER (voice-over): -- and that element of people calling for somebody to be made a saint is taken quite seriously here at the Vatican. That's the way they did it in the first centuries.

They do listen to that and they do say, yes, you know, we know that this person did a lot of good works in her life. We still want to go through the process. So they still send people out to read everything she's ever written, anybody she's ever talked to. That's why it takes a long time.

And one of the interesting things that came out of that investigation, Zain, is that Mother Teresa also lived a great kind of interior suffering. She said that she had lost her faith many times. It was a secret during her lifetime.

But it came out afterwards. So it adds a whole other dimension to our understanding of this woman -- Zain.

ASHER (voice-over): Yes, it's nice to sort of know that, you know, she is human, you know, she did go through things, she did have her, I guess, weaknesses regarding her faith. But thank you so much for painting that picture of her life. Appreciate that, Delia Gallagher, we'll check in with you a little bit later on. Thank you.

There are no immediate reports of damage after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook the Southern Philippines. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at a depth of 12.5 kilometers. It actually ended up, fortunately, hitting a largely remote area. No tsunami warnings have been issued. So that's good news there.

In the meantime, officials in the U.S. state of Oklahoma are now shutting down more than 3 dozen wells that dispose of toxic wastewater. The governor says that these wells actually may have actually played a role in the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday, so-called manmade earthquake. Yes, they do exist.

The U.S. Geological Survey said that several powerful quakes have happened recently near injection wells using oil production. Saturday's earthquake badly damaged several buildings in one city and injured at least one person and shaking was felt across seven states.

We heard earlier from a Texas resident. Take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was in bed and, all of a sudden, I think the first thing I noticed is I heard the walls of my condo, which is in a 26-story high rise on Main Street, start to crack a little bit, kind of like it would in a storm or strong wind.

And then the next thing I felt the bed just move back and forth. It was a mild moving back and forth. And it was just once something. Maybe that's just me.

Then, it was three or four, five times in succession after that, I'm thinking, oh, this is an earthquake. So immediately I looked out the window. And I can see the tower next to me, which is the tower that lights up green at night here in Dallas.

And the glass on the side, I could actually see that shaking a little bit. And I'm thinking this has to be an earthquake.

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ASHER: That sounds absolutely frightening. In the meantime, staying in the U.S., Hermine is winding itself up again, revving itself up. The storm may batter the U.S. East Coast Sunday and could actually last through midweek.

Tropical storm warnings are in effect from Virginia all the way to Massachusetts. Forecasters say that Hermine will once again have hurricane force winds and leave a mess behind.

This is already a mess here. The weather service expects coastal flooding from Atlantic City south, all along the coast to the state of Delaware. The storm could actually end up affecting 40 million people in different ways.

I want to talk more now to our meteorologist, Derek Van Dam.

Just explain this to me. Be our science guy for just one second. You're an expert in this.

Explain, how does it work in terms of a storm going from a tropical storm and then revving up again and becoming a hurricane?

I grew up in England so I know nothing about hurricanes.

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DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: That's fair enough. These things do happen. But now it's transitioned to what is called a post- tropical storm because it already had its hurricane characteristics. Went over land, lost those characteristics, now it's going over the warm Gulf Stream waters in the Atlantic Ocean and it's going to reform hurricane-type characteristics again.

I don't want to repeat the word. But that is why it is allowed to be called a extratropical system or a post-hurricane or post-tropical Hermine. That's the methodology and the terminology that we use as meteorologists and National Weather Service.

But my point to you at home, when you're listening to this, going, man, Derek, why do you got to throw all these terms out at us?

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ASHER: Of course all of this happening on Labor Day weekend, when people should be on the beach celebrating --

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VAN DAM: This timing couldn't be worse.

ASHER: -- couldn't be worse.

VAN DAM: Not a beach day today or --

ASHER: Well, there's always next year.

All right, Derek Van Dam, thank you.

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VAN DAM: Put it on the calendar.

ASHER: Appreciate that.

It's been a busy day of high-level diplomacy in Hangzhou, China. World leaders are gathered there for the second day of the G20 summit.

The U.S. president met earlier with leaders from two vital American allies, both the U.K. and Turkey. British prime minister Theresa May and Barack Obama said ties between their countries will remain strong, despite the Brexit.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Despite the turbulence of political events over the last several months, we have every intention to making sure that that continues.

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ASHER: And Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Mr. Obama both said that they will operate to make sure those behind the failed coup in Turkey face justice. Take a listen.

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OBAMA: Turkey is a strong NATO ally, a critical member of the coalition against ISIL. Our military, our law enforcement and intelligence cooperation has helped push ISIL back, especially along the Syrian-Turkish border. But we now need to finish the job.

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ASHER: All right, let's talk more about this. White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski is standing by for us. She's there in China.

So, Michelle, I just want to hear a little bit more about this meeting or this press conference between President Erdogan and President Barack Obama, because it must have been a somewhat tense, somewhat awkward meeting, only because we know that the U.S., of course, needs Turkey.

But at the same time, the two countries do, of course, have their differences, don't they?

MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes, you know, we never know exactly how things are discussed behind closed doors. We just see this outcome, where both sides want to really highlight the agreement, want to really make their statement, in some cases to make the other side feel better about the very real tensions that everybody knows are there.

And here we saw President Obama, really talking up how much the U.S. stands behind Turkey. I mean, he talked about the condemnation that the U.S. has expressed for what he calls "the savage coup attempt" and the terrorist attacks that followed that, how much the U.S. and Turkey agree and work together in fighting terrorism.

But then when it got time to hear from President Erdogan of Turkey, he talked about the way he wants the extradition of this cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States. Turkey has submitted extradition requests to the U.S., not yet all the information that deals specifically with the coup attempt.

And the U.S. has been extremely diplomatic in addressing that, saying, well, there's a process that will be followed. The U.S. takes this request very seriously. It will be looking at all of the information.

In fact, when we asked the White House, is there anything about this very insistent extradition request that bothers you, the White House was careful to say no, they're going to look at that request and basically let the process play out.

What the White House has expressed, in a fairly, again, diplomatic way over the last few weeks, is this crackdown that Turkey did after the coup attempt, the arrest or firings of some 50,000 people, including teachers, sports youth ministers, people associated with television and radio stations.

And the White House has said that, yes, they, they do have some concerns about how Turkey is upholding democracy. But what they'd like to emphasize, as we heard today, was how much the U.S. stands for democracy in Turkey and how these --

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ASHER: All right, Michelle Kosinski, live for us there, thank you so much. Appreciate that.

Coming up next on CNN NEWSROOM, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989. Now the authorities here in the U.S. say they've found his remains. How the tragedy shook his community and a nation -- coming up.

Plus: Donald Trump is welcomed inside an African American church in Detroit but not everyone is happy he was there. That story coming up next.

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ASHER: All right. Donald Trump is trying to turn around his unpopularity with many African American voters. The U.S. Republican presidential candidate took his campaign to Detroit, Michigan, Saturday, where he sat and attended a packed service in a predominantly black church in that city.

And this is, by the way, the very first time he has directly addressed a large black audience since he began his presidential bid. And not everyone was in favor. CNN's Jeremy Diamond has 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 --

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DIAMOND: -- to African American voters largely before predominantly 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. One person who was less than impressed with Trump's visit was Detroit's mayor. Take a listen to what he had to say.

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MAYOR OF DETROIT: Anybody can say that, in cities in this country, we have too much poverty, we have too much crime and the schools are in bad shape. Everybody knows that.

What are you going to do about it?

And still, we haven't heard -- and I was hoping today -- that Donald Trump would not just describe the problem, that he'd offer some solutions. And, again, it was nothing but reading somebody else's words off a page.

POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM CORRESPONDENT: So to be fair here, he said, right at the beginning of his remarks, "These are my words. These are my remarks and they come from the heart."

(CROSSTALK) MAYOR: Wait, Poppy, let's be real. You saw the release here. They gave him the questions ahead of time for the interview and then even the question of, "Do you believe in the Bible?" he had consultants scripting his answers.

So I don't believe for a second -- when you're speaking from the heart, you look at people in the eye. You talk to them directly. You don't read off a piece of paper in words that sound foreign to you.

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ASHER: That was Detroit's mayor there.

Let's talk about polls now. A new CNN Poll of Polls shows that Hillary Clinton's once double-digit lead over Donald Trump has now been cut in half. You can see Hillary Clinton there has 42 percent support for Donald Trump's 37 percent. And that is, by the way, in a four-way match-up. It includes Gary Johnson and Jill Stein as well.

You compare that to Clinton's lead, her 10-point lead, immediately after the Democratic convention. Now it is cut in half. The poll is an average of the five most recently released national surveys.

Another big issue for U.S. presidential candidates is how to handle the violence that we've talked a lot about on CNN in places like Chicago, which is the third largest city in the U.S.

According to the "Chicago Tribune" newspaper the city has already passed last year's homicide total. And it is barely even September now. In August alone, 92 murders were reported.

A group of musicians wants to do something about that. The Black Eyed Peas have put together a star-studded remix of their 2003 hit, "Where Is the Love." Profits, proceeds will benefit an educational nonprofit. CNN's Poppy Harlow spoke to members of the group.

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WILL.I.AM, THE BLACK EYED PEAS: Well, all the proceeds go to education?

I have an after-school program in East Los Angeles, I've started it about six years ago with Lorraine Jobs (ph), where we get kids on track to go to college and then we surround that program with robotics, computer science; we send them to China to learn Mandarin and Cantonese.

And these kids are like failing in a poverty-stricken area. This year we had our first year class that graduated; 100 percent of our students went off to a four-year college.

TABOO, THE BLACK EYED PEAS: Thank you. I'm glad that you said that it was one of your favorite songs.

When we recorded in 2003, it was at the heels of 9/11 and so many questions we were asking amongst each other. But one of the main questions was, where's the love?

So 13 years later we joined forces with a lot of great people, not just celebrities but also clergymen, council members, community members, people that lost family members.

And the whole thing was, how do we give back and show the love that we have for humanity?

And I'm really glad that we're able to strike a chord again with this 2016 revision of the song.

HARLOW: Well, you guys partnered with a mapping company and a data company. And what it found absolutely fascinated me.

In terms of the cities and the parts of cities that are facing the most gun violence, what was the net result of that?

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WILL.I.AM: The net result is really to just make people remember and pay attention to, you know, how these cities are configured. Like Brentwood, where I went to elementary school, a kid got $11,000 for their education.

The neighborhood that I live in, if I would stay there, got $4,000 for their education.

And to have these maps so people can just see how much money we spend on, you know, education versus incarceration, is absurd because it's those same kids that had the low investment on education that end up incarcerated.

If only we had protected them and gave them you know, proper and equal education at an early age, they wouldn't end up in jail.

APL.DE.AP, THE BLACK EYED PEAS: You know, we're just asking everyone to participate and break the cycle and do your part and, you know, spreading love, communication.

And instead of before striking, you know, it's about really having a dialogue and communicating with the officers and civilians. And we just need to really spread love in our daily lives.

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ASHER: Our Poppy Harlow with a remarkable interview with The Black Eyed Peas.

Nearly a three-decade search for an abducted U.S. child has come to a tragic end. Authorities in Minnesota announced Saturday they have found the remains of this young boy, Jacob Wetterling. He was just 11 years old when he was abducted, when he went missing in 1989.

The "Star Tribune" newspaper reports that a suspect in the case led authorities, gave them clues to where the remains actually were. The suspect was already in custody on child pornography charges. Wetterling's disappearance garnered worldwide attention. Jacob's

mother, Patty, became an advocate for families of missing children. She helped create the National Sex Offender registry.

All right. Mother Teresa is now officially a saint. So we are calling her Saint Teresa from now on. I have to remember that. But the late Catholic nun wasn't without her critics. Why some say her deeds never measured up to her global reputation. We'll have that story coming up next.

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Zain Asher. Let's get you caught up with your headlines at this hour.

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ASHER: People in Hong Kong are voting for a new legislative council. The council's role is similar to that of a parliament in other countries. It's Hong Kong's first major election since the 2014 pro- democracy protests, often referred to as the Umbrella movement. So a lot of people will be watching these votes closely.

All right. Mother Teresa is now officially Saint Teresa. Pope Francis canonized the late Catholic nun just a short time ago in front of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Saint Teresa devoted her entire life to helping the poor and the needy. She was, in fact, nicknamed the Saint of the Gutters and she received a Nobel Peace Prize for her work back in 1979. Our Delia Gallagher, Vatican correspondent, joins us live now from Rome.

So, Delia, just curious, what is next in the process?

I mean, we saw Pope Francis read out a little bit about her and her bio. We had that canonization mass. We had that prayer, in which she was officially made a saint.

What is next?

Is this it?

DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: This is it. The moment actually has happened when he announced that official formula in Latin making her a saint. The mass is still going on.

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GALLAGHER (voice-over): This is a traditional Latin mass that they say. And the reason they say it in Latin, it's not only for the tradition but for the fact that the people here are coming from all over the world.

It's one of the really interesting things, being at the Vatican, is that you get to see Catholics from all over the world but in different disguises as it were. We've seen Mother Teresa's nuns here with the beautiful saris on. Those are nuns. But they're not nuns in the way that some of us in the West are used to seeing them.

So they continue with this canonization mass. It officially makes her a saint. Her saint's day, the anniversary of her death, is tomorrow, September 5th. This then kind of sets her up there with the rest of the saints from the beginning of Christianity.

So it's really a kind of a one of the most important events that the Vatican can do. Of course, as we were saying earlier, you know, it used to be that making saints was just something that people said, this was a saintly person. She lived a good life. We know she's a saint.

But the Vatican also has their own investigative process. It normally takes a long time for Mother Teresa; it was so-called fast-tracked because John Paul II wanted to get her up into sainthood right away.

So they started that process very shortly after her death. It took about 20 years but within that process, they had to look for two miracles.

And the two miracles that have been attributed by the Vatican to Mother Teresa were an Indian woman named Monica Besra, who it's said was cured of stomach cancer when she prayed to Mother Teresa, and a man from Brazil, who said he was cured of a brain infection.

He had abscesses on his brain and he held a holy card with Mother Teresa's picture to his head. And he slept with it under his pillow and he and his wife prayed for his healing. And the Vatican determined that that was the second miracle needed to make her Saint Teresa -- Zain.

ASHER (voice-over): Yes, so it's interesting, because the church essentially -- and doctors basically can't explain the healing through any other way -- they end up attributing it to some kind of miracle. And the likelihood that it was Saint Teresa who interceded on their behalf.

What's interesting to me is that you mentioned earlier that Pope Francis didn't --

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ASHER (voice-over): -- actually know Mother Teresa personally. But they did share a sort of similar world view, especially comes to the view that Catholics should be -- take it upon themselves to help the poor, to help the marginalized, to help the needy.

GALLAGHER (voice-over): That's right. And he just actually said that in his homily. He gave a homily here, a talk at the mass and he said that what Mother Teresa represented was that going out to the peripheries. That's been the theme of his pontificate and her life embodied that, before he even came along.

But of course, they were both following the gospel values of Jesus, of helping your neighbor and going out and making the poor a priority. So he reiterated that just a few minutes ago, saying that that was the main call for all Catholics and, indeed, all people around the world.

But he said, for Catholics, it's not just about going out and helping other Catholics. You've got to go and help people regardless of race, religion and ideologies, and so forth. It is about transmitting love.

And that was Mother Teresa's point. On a one-to-one basis, she wanted to be with the person who was suffering, the person who was dying. And that is what Pope Francis has called on people to do today -- Zain.

ASHER: All right, Delia Gallagher, live for us there, thank you so much. Appreciate that.

And as our Delia Gallagher was just mentioning, the fact that it was these two miracles that led to Mother Teresa to become a saint and one of those miracles is a woman in India's West Bengal state, who says that Mother Teresa actually saved her from a life-threatening illness.

CNN's Alexandra Field talked to her and, as you see, while Mother Teresa is certainly revered and honored by many, her legacy has also been criticized. Take a listen.

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ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mother Teresa's ascension to sainthood is rooted in a modest village in Eastern India.

FIELD: You believe really that you're here today because of a true miracle.

FIELD (voice-over): "I have been cured by Mother Teresa's blessings, not because of doctors' treatments," she says.

FIELD: Thank you so much for having us here in your home.

FIELD (voice-over): Monica Besra says there was a miracle here 18 years ago.

"I saw a spark of light emerge from Mother's photo and reflect on my tumor," she tells us.

Later a pendant given to her by one of Mother Teresa's missionaries was placed on that tumor.

"The sister left the locket on my stomach where I had the tumor and tied a black thread there and put me to sleep. When I woke up at 5:00 am, I saw there was a photograph of Mother Teresa behind me. I told Sister that the big tumor in my stomach is no longer there. Then I showed everyone where the tumor was and the locket."

FIELD: The majority of people here are Hindu. But after she was cured, Monica converted. There are now about 10 families in the village who are all Catholic. They even built a church in Mother Teresa's name.

FIELD (voice-over): To the Catholic Church, she is a saint in part because of Besra's miracle, one of two needed to fulfill the church's requirements for canonization.

But Mother Teresa's critics say the canonization is more veneration for a woman whose deeds never measured up to the size of her global reputation. Some have made allegations about poor hygienic conditions at facilities run by her charity.

A longtime volunteer for her organization, the Missionaries of Charity, rejected the claims, calling them "rubbish."

Dr. Chatterjee (ph) is one of her most vocal critics. He doesn't believe there was a miracle. He credits doctors who had previously treated Besra. Some doctors claim her tumor was really a cyst caused by tuberculosis.

DR. CHATTERJEE (PH), MOTHER TERESA CRITIC: Even in India, hardly anybody believes the miracles to be genuine. Her doctors made statements to the effect that there were a number of those.

FIELD (voice-over): But Mother Teresa remains revered the world over. Catholic sainthood will further cement her legacy of doing good among admirers, among believers. To them, Monica Besra is living proof -- Alexandra Field, CNN, West Bengal, India.

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ASHER: And, in fact, CNN's Mallika Kapur actually grew up in Kolkata and met Mother Teresa as a child.

Mallika, you actually knew Mother Teresa.

Obviously, you didn't know back then, how could you, you didn't know back then that she was going to be one day made a saint.

But just how strong are your memories of her?

Do you remember what she was like as a person and any sort of specific conversations you may have had with her?

MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She was really approachable. She was very accessible. And, frankly, she was really friendly. I did come here to Mother House quite a few times, because my own mother volunteers here with the Missionaries of Charity and continues to do so.

So I used to just tag along with my mom when she would come over here.

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KAPUR: And Mother Teresa did have a special connection with children. She adored children. So whenever there were children in the house, she would found out and she would come and say hello.

And I remember her being very little. But she was a powerhouse of energy. She was really quick. She'd be darting around the house, here one minute, here another minute.

And when there were children, she'd always make it a point to come say hello, to hold my hand, to say, "Bless you, God bless you my child. God bless you."

So I have many such anecdotes like this. But it wasn't just me, you know.

For all the people who were here in Kolkata during the '70s and the '80s, sort of the year that she was at the height of her service, it was very common for people to have their lives influenced by her or intertwined with her in some way or another because she was so approachable and so accessible.

And even right now, I'm outside Mother House. You can see this great building behind me, where they have a massive, massive poster of her on the walls today.

Now the doors to this house where she lived, which was her base and where she later died, the doors to this house were always open. And anybody could just walk in here. And they were always welcome here.

ASHER: And, Mallika, just curious, it's been obviously 20 years, it's been such a long time.

Does the younger generation there in Kolkata, the teenagers, the 15- and 16-year olds, do they really understand who Mother Teresa was and what she meant to that city?

KAPUR: It's interesting you bring that up because I had a moment a few months ago with my own children, who are not yet teenagers, but, you know, they studied about Mother Teresa in school as a part of history.

And I thought to myself, oh, my God, I guess what I saw was history unfolding, history writing itself when I was a child. And I didn't realize that back then.

But, you know, she just does have such a profound reputation globally and to the younger generation today, who weren't around when she was there, yes, she does have special meaning, because she's an Indian, she's a Kolkatan. And for people across the country, people are very, very proud of her.

ASHER: All right, Mallika Kapur, thank you so much for sharing your memories, your stories and your own children's perceptions of Mother Teresa. Appreciate that, thank you.

Want to turn now to the fight against ISIS. Iraqi security forces dropped off tens of thousands of leaflets south of Mosul on Saturday.

The messages read -- I'm going to read it to you -- "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. We do hope the citizens and the civilians there make it out safely.

Turkey, in the meantime, is expanding its military operations against the terror group in Northern Syria. Take a look here.

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ASHER (voice-over): These images actually show tanks from Turkey rolling across the border into Syria; this is, of course, all part of the plan to push ISIS out of nearby villages. They've also enlisted the help of Syrian rebels as part of this effort.

In the meantime, the Turks are also working on this, the construction of a border wall near the Kurdish town of Kobani. It's four or five days in the making. And the plan is to maintain security by keeping Kurdish separatists out of the country. Angry demonstrators have been protesting against the wall and have clashed with police.

Meantime, inside Turkey, officials say that security forces killed more than 100 Kurdish PKK militants in the southeast on Saturday. State media says that seven Turkish soldiers were killed and 21 others wounded.

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ASHER: Dozens are arrested in Venezuela, all for peaceful protests. How the president was involved -- that's next.

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ASHER (voice-over): More than 30 people have been arrested in Venezuela for making fun of President Nicolas Maduro. Mr. Maduro was actually inspecting a state housing project when scores of people -- you see them there -- started banging on pots and pans, jeering him, mocking him, making fun of him, of course.

His popularity has been on the decline because of the country's economic crisis. The arrests on Saturday actually followed a massive anti-government protest that took place two days ago on Thursday.

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ASHER (voice-over): These are pictures of the aftermath.

We know that at least 70 people were wounded. The national police chief says that the blast was the result of an improvised explosive device or IED, made of mortar rounds.

And he says that's an indication that terrorists, that extremists, were probably involved. People in Davao are in shock and in mourning. They came to vigil to lay flowers and pray for the victims of the blast.

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ASHER: Locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus are rising in Singapore, of all places.

The ministry of health announced 26 new cases Saturday, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 215. The tally was at 151, including two pregnant women, on Thursday.

And Bridget Jones is back. And this time she has a baby on board and two suitors. We'll look at a new romantic comedy that is hitting theaters. That's next.

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ASHER: Bridget Jones is once again coming to a theater near you. And this time, she's having a baby. This is the third film in the popular franchise. And once again, there are two competing men for Bridget's heart. CNN's Neal Curry sat down with the stars of the film to find out who they think Bridget should choose.

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NEIL CURRY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fifteen years after first appearing on the big screen, the romantic disaster area Bridget Jones is back.

RENEE ZELLWEGER, ACTOR, "BRIDGET JONES": I'm pregnant?

CURRY (voice-over): For Bridget Jones, the character created in a series of newspaper diaries by Helen Fielding, captured an army of female fans, who empathized with her calamitous search for a soulmate.

HUGH GRANT, ACTOR, "DANIEL CLEAVER": Oh, no, it's not possible.

CURRY (voice-over): Colin Firth and Hugh Grant memorably battling for her favor.

PATRICK DEMPSEY, ACTOR, "JACK QWANT": For better or worse, fate has brought us together.

CURRY (voice-over): Today Bridget is 43. Her relationship with Firth's "Mr. Darcy" has ended and "Grey's Anatomy" heartthrob, Patrick Dempsey, replaces Grant in her affections.

COLIN FIRTH, ACTOR, "MARK DARCY": So you have no idea which of us is the father?

CURRY (voice-over): With the stakes raised by the addition of a baby and two potential candidates for father, we invited the two male actors to make their character's case to be Bridget's perfect partner.

FIRTH: Oh, it's impossible because Mark doesn't make a case for himself. It's part of his problem.

She's a lot better off with the other guy. I've been nothing but a disappointment all these years.

"DARCY": I bright you an iced tea.

Thank you.

"KWANT": I brought you a Super Juice.

"JONES": Oh.

"KWANT": Let me carry that for you.

"JONES": Thank you.

"DARCY": Can I carry your phone?

DEMPSEY: I think going into the unknown with Jack is a good thing. It's a clean slate.

ZELLWEGER: Hmm.

DEMPSEY: Which is good and bad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Give her a little kiss, you know, on the forehead there.

Oh, I was talking about the baby.

FIRTH: I was never there for you. I never made you feel like you could depend on anybody. I'm always away. I'm always --

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FIRTH: -- on the phone. I don't focus on you properly. So I think it's -- you'd be much better off with whoever else you find.

ZELLWEGER: That was brilliant.

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ZELLWEGER: Did you see what he did?

Did you see what he did?

He played the empathy card.

Oh, it will be all right.

FIRTH: Yes.

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DEMPSEY: I can't say anything. There's nothing I can say.

ZELLWEGER: Like a genius, right?

DEMPSEY: Very well put.

ZELLWEGER: Wicked genius.

FIRTH: Oh, come on, you cannot go with him. The guy's a jerk.

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"DARCY": Good God, Bridget, you're immense.

CURRY (voice-over): The movie marks the return to filmmaking for the Oscar-winning actress following a five-year hiatus. All the cast admitted to being both nervous and excited about reprising the franchise.

ZELLWEGER: It's an interesting new dynamic. It's a more sophisticated sort of competition, I would say, because they're both great guys.

DEMPSEY: Why can't she have both and sort of work it out?

It's their issue to work out.

ZELLWEGER: Look at you.

DEMPSEY: Right?

I think that's the progressive, modern

FIRTH: The male, hurry, by the next movie. DEMPSEY: Yes.

ZELLWEGER: That's a great idea.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bridget, who do you want to be the father?

CURRY (voice-over): While time has moved on for Bridget Jones and her suitors, the filmmakers are trusting their audience has moved with them. The original movie returned 10 times its budget at the box office. A repeat of that kind of business could give birth to yet another sequel -- Neil Curry, CNN, London.

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ASHER: Oh, nice to see Renee again.

Well, Zoo Atlanta is welcoming not one but two newborn giant pandas; 19-year-old Lun Lun gave birth to twins on Saturday. We're seeing images of mom and cubs now. The babies are tiny and very pink. It's the second set of twins for Lun Lun. They're her sixth and seventh cubs with Zoo Atlanta's male panda, Yang Yang.

All right, thank you so much for joining us. I'm Zain Asher. For viewers in the U.S., "NEW DAY" is just ahead. For everyone else, the "BEST OF QUEST" starts in just a moment.