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Yahoo
23-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
How the Lenape Nation fights to protect the Delaware River
For the Lenape Nation, an indigenous tribe in Pennsylvania, the Delaware River is their ancestral home and a place they come to pay their respects. Clan Mother Shelley Windamakwi DePaul and her son Chief Adam Waterbear DePaul have dedicated their lives to protecting the river. Asked about the significance of the river, Adam DePaul said, "There are pragmatic reasons — it's huge for traveling, of course, it provides food, but the spiritual significance, the cultural significance, the river just communicates so much humility." Keeping a balance between nature and development motivates the Lenape's activism. "What can we do to keep the balance, or in many cases restore the balance?" Shelley DePaul asked. "Because our early ancestors lived in balance, and now we need to relearn that." "Finding a new harmony" Partnering with other organizations, the tribe's efforts helped lead to a 2021 ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin after concerns that those chemicals could cause health problems and hurt aquatic life and ecosystems. In 2002, they helped kill a proposed dam on the river that would have created a lake along the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border. "It's really important to understand that we are not against construction and development," Adam DePaul said. "It's because there is severe and unwarranted risk to the environment and/or to the cultural history of the area." Now, they're fighting against the construction of huge warehouses near the river because of concerns about pollution draining into the river. "It's often one of the biggest points that people just don't deal with, that there's no realistic plan for," Adam DePaul said. Whether it's protesting or lobbying, the Lenape are fighting for their future to pay homage to their past. "The time that many of us feel that we're in now is all about finding a new harmony with all of our new neighbors here and establishing friendships and partnerships," Adam DePaul said. National environmental reporter David Schechter and a team of CBS journalists spent five days traveling the length of the Delaware River to explore problems facing America's waterways. Watch "An American River" here. Vatican announces Pope Francis' funeral details as his burial requests are revealed From the archives: 1970 Earth Day special report with Walter Cronkite Remembering Pope Francis, the Catholic Church leader who broke with tradition
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ticker: NewsNation Commemorates 30th Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing
Top of the Ticker: On April 19, NewsNation aired a special marking the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, America's deadliest homegrown terrorist attack. Airing at 9 p.m. ET, the two-hour report featured archival footage from NewsNation affiliate station KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City providing details of the tragedy as it unfolded, from the newsroom to the scene of the attack, which occurred at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. CNN's Digital Plans: CNN CEO Mark Thompson gave a sneak peek at the network's revised digital strategy to The Financial Times. CNN will debut one product this year with more set to be unveiled in 2026. Thompson said this year's release would be a 'non-news digital product' that will still be heavy on information. Awards Watch: Two MSNBC hosts were surprised with on-air honors from Voto Latino. The Weekend co-host Alicia Menendez and MSNBC senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels were announced as the recipients of the organization's Truth in Journalism Award and Trailblazer Award, respectively. The duo were celebrated by Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend, along with Voto Latino CEO and president Maria Teresa Kumar. Celebrating Earth Day: As part of its Earth Day coverage, CBS News 24/7 debuted the hour-long documentary An American River on April 19 at 1 p.m. ET. Climate watch correspondent David Schechter hosted the special, which examined the health of America's rivers. Top 100: ABC World News Tonight anchor and managing editor David Muir was recognized as one of Time 100 for 2025. Former ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer penned Muir's tribute in the magazine's annual issue. Also in the magazine space, CBS Mornings co-host Nate Burleson was one of nine current and former athletes celebrated in Esquire's first-ever Mavericks of Sports feature. Burleson was recognized alongside cover star Caleb Williams, Naomi Girma, Dan Hurley, Donovan Mitchell, Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, Paul Skene, and Lindsey Vonn.
CBS News
16-04-2025
- General
- CBS News
Flooding threatens millions of Americans, yet many keep building homes in floodplains
An estimated 40 million Americans live in floodplains , facing a risk of catastrophic flooding that puts them and their homes in danger. That includes Steve Rodriguez, whose home near a creek in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, floods so often, he paid to raise it 10 feet. Some of his neighbors went even higher, 20 feet or more. The flooding risk is made worse by more intense rainfall driven by climate change and by unchecked development. "They've overbuilt the area and you get a lot of runoff from the malls, from the street, parking lots," Rodriguez said. Local governments are trying to solve the problem by voluntarily buying homes and demolishing them. In the last 25 years, local governments have tapped into federal programs to buy at least 14,700 homes for flood-related reasons. Many people in his neighborhood took a buyout, but Rodriguez turned it down. The way the U.S. has built in floodplains is "a huge problem," said Maya van Rossum, who leads the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, a nonprofit that fights to protect the river and the communities that depend on it. Homeowners who refuse to take a buyout are sometimes offered government funds to elevate their houses, but van Rossum said that option doesn't completely protect them and contributes to possible flooding elsewhere. "It is very sad when people have suffered severe loss from a flood event, but it does a tremendous disservice for the politicians to come in and listen to their sad stories and then respond with solutions like this," she said. "Because that sad story is going to be repeated over and over and over again. And that is not fair to anybody." Rodriguez admitted people probably shouldn't live in floodplains but said the buyout offer he got in 1999 didn't make sense for him financially. The creek has flooded a dozen times since, and now he feels stuck. Van Rossum said the problem is bigger than just one homeowner. "When there's been a catastrophic event, you will see massive devastation and in the year or two following you will see massive rebuilding at great expense and then the whole cycle will happen over again," she said. National environmental reporter David Schechter and a team of CBS journalists spent five days traveling the length of the Delaware River to explore problems facing America's waterways. Watch "An American River" on Saturday, April 19, at 1 p.m. ET on CBS News 24/7. Taylor Johnston and Grace Manthey contributed to this report.
