This is the new US Vice presidents ancestral village on more than 8000 miles from Washington D.

C.

Residents like Ross Shivam are sharing in her victory.

We do take immense pride in her with three.

I wonder what she has on her whom she has become today.

Harris, born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, both of whom immigrated to the United States to study made history by becoming the first Asian American hold the second highest office in the US She's also the first woman and the first black American to be elected vice president.

Priests at the temple until a Sandra Parham village bathe the local date Ian milk and prayed.

Harris visited the village when she was five and has often recalled walks with her maternal grandfather on the beaches of the southern city of Chennai during annual trips from the U.

S.

She's been in close touch with her family in India, including her uncle, Gopalan Bala Chandran, and I didn't need them to tell me anything I knew she was going to be Oh, he says he plans to attend her swearing in ceremony in January, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Harris's win was historic late on Saturday.