i am a huge fan of c.s. lewis. was not ware of his experience with the war, and of how he was using his books to make people aware of the horrors of the war and write about it in his -- or bring the themes and help the audience wrestle with the themes. as native american, living in the united states, one of the things that we suffer -- at that time we wrestle with is our history that has been marginalized and dehumanized and so how do we -- how do you think -- trying to think how to best phrase this question -- tolkein and lewis brought a dialogue regarding the horrors of war to their audiences. as a nation, we tend to celebrate our exceptionalism and yet we don't know how to talk about the fact that 30 lines below the statement, all men are cateed equal, refers to natives as merciless indian savages. what can we done today help our society deal with it own horrors. >> thank you for that. one thing i do in my western civilization class that i teach at the kings college. some students here who endured hi rantings. t

this is marked c.s. so we don't know if this is confederate. but one of the guys was telling me this is really an old piece. but the handle is made from an old wagon spoke, wagon wheel spoke. this is one of the punches. and, again, you heat the metal up. when the metal is hot, you hit it with the hammer. and it will punch a hole in here. versus drilling it. this is a folding tool. it looks like a hammer. but the back part is rounded. so if i wanted to make a 90-degree bend in my metal, i would just hit this along a line. and i could hit it straight up and get a nice 90-degree bend. and the different hammers. they're the basics. the hammer. the cross pin hammer. because this is straight across here. and then we have several different kind of punches. my favorite thing is to ask kids especially, hey, you become a really good blacksmith when you know,000 drill a square hole. of course we know you can't drill a square hole but you can punch a square hole. again, heating the metal up, punching it through with a hammer. you would get a nice square ho

this is just one of the drugs that the c.s. foundation supports for the research. we're just hoping to get out there and get more people involved this weekend. >> got it. really quickly, before we leave you, we want to give you the information on the screen. the ride is sunday at 8:00 and we have a link with more information on our website and on the nbc 10 app. caitlyn rose, thank you for being with us. good luck this weekend. >> thank you. >> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> we were in the middle of the longest heat wave of the summer and it's been comfortable lately and now we have showers around the clouds and showers helping to keep the -- and overnight when a lot of you are sleeping and coming in tuesday when a lot of you are awake. we have cloudy skies across much of the area now. you can see this and it looks fairly threatening and 79 degrees and went south at 9 and humidity is relatively high and it will be higher tomorrow. very oppressive tomorrow and we're not even into 70 degrees and the clouds and th

is a huge fan of c.s. lewis i was not aware of his% experienced with the war and how he was using his books to make people aware of the horrors of the war and write about it or bring some of those things and that help the audience rose with those things. as a native american living in the united states, one of the things that we suffer, that we wrestle with is our history that's been marginalized dehumanized. and so how do you think that's what i'm trying to think out of this phrase this question. tolkien and lewis brought a dialogue regarding the horrors of war to the audiences are as a nation we tend to celebrate our exceptionalism and yet we don't know how to talk about the fact that 30 lines below the statement all men are created equal in our declaration of independence it refers to native as merciless indian savages. how do you think what they did with the war can and should be done today to our society deal with its own horrors of its own history speaks yes, great question. thank you for that. one o

she quoted c.s. lewis. "i pray because i can't help myself. i pray because i'm helpless.y because the need flows out of me all the time waking and asleep. it does not change god but prayer changes me." and so that's my goal, to come out into this community and with the powerful tool of prayer to offer hope to all those hurting today. >> you mentioned, pastor mccracken, that you met adam at katie's wedding. i heard he was a proud virginia tech hokie. what do you remember about him? >> that katie was talking about him, all of the friends of katie, she walked me around and introduced me to everybody and so i was overwhelmed that day but everybody around was just smiling just like adam and happy and joyful. you know, adam and alison and vicki and all of these people have close-knits to our congregation, in addition to adam and miss katie being best friends, and people have been raving about what kind of person adam was. katie said he was the personification of christianity, always happy, always joyful. i think that what my endeavor through all of this and goal through all of