welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. >> and i'm natalie allen in atlanta, georgia. you're watching cnn newsroom. >> continuing now with our coverage of the deadly mass shooting inside a place of worship here in charlston, south carolina. the 21-year-old suspect dylann

roof was captured thursday across the border in north carolina then brought back here to charlston. police say he spent an hour at wednesday night's prayer meeting before killing nine worshippers in cold blood. authorities have opened up a hate crimes investigation into the shooting and then take a look at this. there's a still image, a chilling snap chat video that sh showes a bible study. this was shot by one of the victim before the violence unfolded and can you see the suspect highlighted there in the corner of the image. a touching moment now for one of the sons of one of the shooting victims on thursday evening. chris singleton, baseball player, for charlston, southern university surrounded by love and support from his teammates and his coaches just one day after he lost his mother, sharonda coleman singleton. listen. >> i just think about her smile. she smiles 24/7.

that's what pushes me through things like this is her smile. we will get through it. our church will get through it. it will be tough but we will press on. >> that's what it takes. you see people coming together saying they will get through it with the help and support of others. singleton attended emanuel ame church since he was 12 years old. this city prides itself as a city of faith and now it is in deep mourning for the loss of nine victims. six women and three men between the ages of 26 and 87 years old. more on the innocent people who were murdered in the middle of a bible study class. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: today in charlston, hymns and organ music echo over a faithful city left in a state of disbelief. nine worshippers killed here in cold blood as they prayed

together last night murdered police say just for being black. >> i'm in my fourth year of pastoring here at the church. >> reverend pinckney, who also served as state senator, was silenced at this historic black church. survivors relaying horrifying details. his cousin saying the killer was intent on his target. >> he asked for the pastor, where's the pastor. he set next to my cousin, reverend pinckney, through out the not tire bible study. >> his empty desk in the state capitol decorated in his honor. 41-year-old father two of was serving state legislature for nearly two decade. >> sweet loving man. dedicated public servant to his community and dedicated servant to his faith and his congregation.

>> if we could bow our heads for a word of prayer. >> i among those he led in prayer with myra thompson, she was teaching boiible study as s was shot. something extremely terrible has happened to my mom tonight o. please pray for her and my family. pray asap. he posted but it was too o late. height school speech therapist and track coach had been gunned down.late. height school speech therapist and track coach had been gunned down. as prayers echoed in the aftermath, tywanza sanders, seen here, he was a beloved local barber. cynthia hurd, from the city library was also killed. the library was closed today and confirmed her death on their

facebook page writing quote dedicating her life to serving and improving the life of others. service also the mantra for de payne middleton-doctor. mother of four working attes with layian university. she lived for her faith. >> what was that like for to you find out that someone that was so dear to you. >> my heart dropped. it just dropped. my heart dropped. i fell to my feet. >> reporter: lives of service cut shockingly short in a city now singing to fill their silence. >> hardly imagine what the families are going through. and that son that lost his mother. that was alina machado reporting for us. earlier i spoke with rafael,

from ebenezer baptist. he is talking about how his community is trying to make sense of the tragedy. >> it is a sad and tragic day, not only for the people of charlston, but i believe for freedom-loving people everywhere. but this strikes for home especially for those of us at ebenez ebenezer baptist church. we weep with our brothers and sisters at emanuel church. 41 years ago this month, 1974, alberta williams king, morning of martin luther king jr., was murdered in our sanctuary while playing and sing the lord's prayer. she and one of our deacons tragically lost their lives that day. so we've witnessed this kind of pain and yet we know what it's like to transform your pain and into power. that's not only the story of

ebenezer but of emanuel. this church has known violence before. its days go back to slavery. co-founded by denmark messy who led slave rebellions. as a result of that the church was torched in the 1800s. >> burned down. >> so they've been through this kind of thing before. they are still standing. it didn't break their spirits then and as we stand with them, i believe that it will not break their spirits now. >> what do you make of the fact that one of the polls that i saw on the news cbs new york times poll shows that 61% of people polled believe there are more incidents of racism since the rodney king riots in los angeles 23 years ago. what do you make of that in. >> i don't know. i mean, i hadn't looked at the data. but we are in this moment, aren't we, where we are having this conversation about race.

because we are witnessing a rash of killings and shootings. young black men and women who feel unsafe and as i move throughout my community, i'm hearing people say we're not safe. whether we're in a hood, hoody, or wearing a bikini. we're not safe. whether we are on the streets or in our own churches. and so we've got to pay attention to what's going on in this moment. refocus and recommit ourselves to peace and justice. and there are glimmers of hope. i hosted earlier this evening an interfaith multiracial prayer vigil at our church. and i'll tell you that there were people there, black and white, across face tradition, christians, muss lives and jus all gathered in the house of prayer saying that we stand together. we have do that not just in this moment in response to this

tragedy but we have to say no to the kind of hate speech that has become too common place in our public square. some of that hate speech quite frankly comes through and some of the political rhetoric. we hear word like we need to take our country back. and we heard echos of this coming from this misguided young man as he walked into the peace and serenity of the sanctuary and somehow felt that these people had taken something from him and he thought it was his duty somehow to take their very lives. he pulled the trigger but the question tonight is who else, what other hands were on that trigger. >> jon stewart intentionally not funny in his opening monologue last night. what comedian had to say about the tragedy here in charlston, just ahead. i don't want to live with

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a few weeks ago, cnn's freedom project looked into the fishing industry in thailand. now o unfold human rights abuse is back with its family after being rescued from a thai boat. he had been missing for nearly a decade. cnn was at the airport for what was a very tearful and emotional reunion with his mother. >> reporter: they had given up on their son. missing, feared dead, for years. since they tracked down his parents a few ngos had been delivering food to them. they were reduced to picking through garbage it find things to sell. to make money to eat. >> it's really not hard to see

why young men like their son risked their lives to go to sea to try and earn some money to alleviate their extreme pof oerty. she doesn't have much. but buttons up her best shirt to welcome her son home. his sister has also come home to see him. he hasn't even met this little boy he's been away so long. his father is too week to come, too overchemmed. i never thought this day would come, she says, my heart is pounding. she's never been to the airport before. she sits and waits patiently. as she has for almost a decade. >> translator: all i want is to see his face. that's the way a mother thinks, she says. one by one, dozens of sons, brothers and fathers come home. they spot him.

>> let's go home, let's go home, his mother says. don't you go anywhere. i feel like i'm going to faint. she takes a good look at him. he's much thinner. he looks so much older. he's in shock at first. can barely speak. but says i'm so happy. i didn't think i would make it back home. i was drunk and they took me to the boat and i told hem i wanted to leave but they didn't let me, he says. they hit me and forced me to board. there was so many men. they told him he could go for a three-month trial and leave if he didn't like it. he's been gone eight years. the boat went to shore in indonesia. i got off to get drinks. the captain got angry and stabbed me. i was stranded there. now he's home.

he won't go back, he says. and they won't let him. >> i'll never ever let him go. but hundreds are returning home to the same poverty and now need to find jobs to feed their families. cnn, bangkok, thailand. >> sweet, sweet reunion there. full in the full weight of the catholic church into saving our planet. the pope says there is a moral imperative to care and act now warning about dooms day predecks about climate change can no longer be met with irony or disdane. >> translator: this is our home. it's been ruined, and damaged, and it's affecting all of with us be especially the poor. >> the planet, he said, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. his message comes as literally

circular to be distributed to priest and the more than 1 billion catholics around the world. drawing directly on the teachings of his name sake, the pope says st. francis has to care for all of creation. we are not god, he writes. we must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in god's image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures. that's a quote. promising he is not recommending a return to the stone age the pope is calling for a lifestyle revolution away from the cult of capitalist consumerism an take a swipe at modern day progress saying, another quote here, our immense technological development has not been accompanied by a development in human responsibility, values and conscien

conscience. >> big word from the pope. >> yeah. 9,000 acre forest fires forcein evacuation. that is a weather scene related to cloimate change -- >> nine of the ten years occurred since the year 200, showing the rate of increase of our warming planet and climate change.0, showing the rate of increase of our warming planet and climate change. there are 57 active fires in the al alaska at the moment. but the card street fire in the key nie peninsula. look at this footage. harrowing moments for 250 firefighters trying to battle this fire. they did get away quite luckily but still 9,000 acres still burning. however it is getting more and more contain bid there is concern about the wind changing direction. this fire is costing taxpayers

$160,000 a day totaling over $1 million so far. there are still a lost structures threatened with this fire. you can see some of the resulting damage from this particular forest foyer. again, 9,000 acres have already burned or are still burning. there is some of the wreckage there. melting the interior of vehicles left out, to the extremes and elements there. there is a lock at alaska to show you what part of the state at the moment has the highest fire risk. right over the central portions. that's where we have critical hot fire danger at the moment. but here in the peninsula where the fire is located that particular area has an elevated fire risk and this particular region is next to sterling just outside of anchorage, by wait. can you see on the satellite image, you see the smoke lulting from the card street fire. it is all thanks to the blocking area of high pressure with above

high temperatures. that will continue in places like anchorage. that is not the only area experiencing excessive heat. we are talking 10 to 15 degrees above where they should be this time of year. you factor in the humidity levels, natalie, and you and i are no stranger to this because we just have to step outside our offices. >> no o kidding. >> it is very hot. setting record on the east coast and west coast. by wait, death valley, reaching temperatures of 115 degrees fahrenheit. >> oh my. yeah. >> not nice. >> not nice at all. okay so we can't complain. thanks, derek. you're watching cnn "newsroom" here. coming up, we take to you prayer vigils and services honoring the victims killed in the charlston church massacre. problem and i've got the solution. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep them all digital.

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welcome back to cnn newsroom. what happened here inside this church back behind me. there's no other way to put it. it was heart breaking and painful to know what would happen with the people in this

chur here in charlston an so many places across the out. people remember the victims inside this church who are killed. this was a memorial service that we want to show you. it was held earlier at the second presbyterian church of charlston. and then in the city of new york people gathered thursday at the first ame church bethel to remember the victims. and then in the city of chicago, mourners met at chicago river there. they held a vigil to honor the fallen. >> america responding so nice to see as they always do. host of the popular american program the daily show is speaking out about the shooting calling it a simple case of racism. jon stewart usually starts his show with a fun aye monologue. but last night he said it was no joke. >> they are already using the nuance language of lack of

effort. this is a terrorist attack, a violent attack on the emanuel ame church in south carolina. it has stood in that part of charlston for 100 and something years and has been attacked viciously as many times as many black churches have. and pro pretend that, i heard someone on the news say, tragedy has visited this church. this wasn't a tornado. this was a racist. this guy with a rodesia badge on his sweater. you know, so the idea that, you know, i hate to use this pun, but this one, is black and white. there's no nuance here. >> jon stewart is a guy that knows thousand make the point and the point is that there is nothing funny about this. it is heart breaking and painful. it started a lot of debates around the country and a lot of discussions given what happened. thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i'm george hall live in

charlston, south carolina. >> i'm natalie allen. george and i will be back with another hour of news for you right after this.

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