the northeast are bracing for yet another blast of heavy rain and possibly even more floods. flash flood watches and heat alerts are posted across storm ravaged louisiana tonight while hard hit communities in the northeast could see heavy thunderstorms by wednesday. president biden on tuesday will get a firsthand look at flood and tornado damage in new york and new jersey. more than 50 deaths have been confirmed in the northeast in the aftermath of hurricane ida, which made landfall in louisiana, more than a week ago. more deaths were reported in both the north and the south over the weekend and we have reports from both regions tonight. cbs mola lenghi leads off our coverage in central new jersey. good evening, mola. reporter: good evening, jamie, manville new jersey here, was one of the hardest hit communities in the hardest hit state in the northeast. all over town, you see sights like this, what s left of people s homes, people s lives. now, these folks got it bad, some folks go
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DOVER â Inspiration for interacting with the world and reckoning with a not-so nice past can be found in the teachings of Black Elk, who lived from 1863 to 1950 and helped heal his native community.
âBlack Elkâs story is very similar to a lot of broad contours in the Abenaki story, the way Abenakis engaged with and survived their encounter with the new world that they faced,â said Damian Costello, author of ââBlack Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicismâ and international expert on the subject.
Costello will present Re-Indigenizing our Relationship with Nature: The Legacy of Nicholas Black Elk, Holy Man of the Lakota, at Dover Free Libraryâs Dessert Social fundraiser at 7 p.m. Aug. 12 at Dover Town Hall. Donations of desserts and pastries are being requested for the event.