He's not giving up.
All I have asked for is a fair hearing and an up or down vote.
Weld says he'll keep taking Spanish lessons.
He's a man with great power.
But that's not enough.
But it may be enough. Today the only man with the power to force a Senate vote,
Republican leader Trent Lott, again called the nomination
dead. A senior Democrat rated Weld's chances as zero.
Lisa Myers, NBC News, The Capitol.
When we come back we'll rejoin Tom Brokaw and Calcutta for NBC News in depth.
What will it take to make Mother Teresa the next saint in the Catholic Church?
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On NBC. NBC News in depth tonight back in Calcutta and as you can see the images
of Mother Teresa still are being put in place here.
She was known in the city as the Saint of the gutters.
But getting to be an actual saint in the Catholic Church is a much more complex
and mystical process. In the old days it was a lot faster.
St. Francis of Assisi made sainthood within just two years.
Now it can take decades. In modern times the shortest road to what
is called canonization is believed to be 27 years. A 19th century French nun St.
Therese Le Zur from whom Mother Teresa took her name.
Tonight NBC's Richard Roth reports from the Vatican on how long it might take for
Mother Teresa to become Saint Teresa. For the Catholic Church they are powerful
symbols that enthrall the faithful. More than 2,000 saints inspiring acts of
devotion. But it's not the church that makes a saint. It's not even in the power
of the Pope. By Catholic teaching only God decides who deserves a halo. The
process can take decades or centuries and isn't supposed to begin until five
years after a person has died. It's a time in which we allow the emotions
of the moment, the dust to settle, to see what is truly the work of God.
American Robert Sarno is a Vatican detective at the office investigating
claims to sainthood. This is where the paperwork will come for the case of
Mother Teresa where they will sift through every moment of her 87 years.
Did she lead a holy life? Did she practice the virtues? They examine her writings to
make sure that what she said and spoke was orthodox. But there's a backlog here
of 200 cases. Some still aren't closed after 400 years. The process is rigorous
and complex and bureaucracy isn't the only hurdle. Before someone can become a
saint there has to be a miracle. Help me understand the the miracle phenomenon.
Most cases, 99.5% of cases, are medical cures. Cures from a disease or from an
illness or a life-threatening situation. So was Mother Teresa a miracle worker?
More than a hundred Vatican consultants may be asked to verify claims. Requests
are flooding into the Vatican from the streets of Calcutta to the Archdiocese
of Los Angeles. The message is simple. The woman who left a legacy of good deeds
deserves a fast track to sainthood. The Pope could hurry the process and senior
advisors say he might. I would not be surprised and I would be, I would say,
well done, most holy father. In his 19 years at the Vatican, John Paul has
already put more people on the path to sainthood than all his predecessors this
century. But the Church says it's not the Pope or the voice of the people deciding
Mother Teresa's fate. It's the will of God. Richard Roth, NBC News, the Vatican.
And a Vatican official has told NBC News that all this devotion to Mother Teresa
following her death may be taken as a sign by the Vatican. It could fulfill the
waiting time requirements for her to become an actual saint in the Church.
I'll be back with more later from Calcutta, but now to my colleague Brian
Williams in New York. Brian? Thanks Tom. And just ahead the Air Force launches an
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extraordinary life. Plus the latest in the ongoing investigation into the death
of Princess Diana. That's tomorrow on Today.
Tonight, a special look back at the life of Mother Teresa on Time and Again
followed by complete live coverage of Mother Teresa's funeral on MSNBC. Once
again from Calcutta tonight and as this city and India prepare to honor Mother
Teresa with a state funeral, others around the world are honoring her in
their own way. That takes us from Calcutta to Seattle. College students
whose lives were deeply affected by their experience with a woman they
called Mother, our American spirit tonight. Megan McArthur is only 21 years
old and yet what she has seen, what she has experienced. It's hard. It's the
hardest thing I've ever done. Matt White also is young, 23. Too young, he thought,
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people would never want to come to. But for Lynn Herrick, it was simple. Deep
inside of me, there was a calling to experience poverty like that. Three
students at Seattle University all in a program to send student volunteers to
Mother Teresa's missions in India for two months. With no training and little
money, they went to Calcutta last year to help save lives. On Lynn's first day at
an orphanage. I didn't know where the cloth diapers were kept. I didn't know
where to feed the children and there was no specific orientation or one person in
charge of directing us, but we had to dig our hands in.