Voice of America: Aerial view of flooded town of Boa Vista do Gurupi, Maranhao state, Brazil, 11 May 2009Officials in northeastern Brazil say 40 people are dead and some 300,000 others are now homeless following the area’s worst flooding in recent memory. One aid group there says that although water levels have begun to recede in some areas, they are still rising in places such as the jungle state of Amazonas. Forecasters say the unusually heavy rain has been falling for more than two months …