Good morning Major storms brewing in the Atlantic may send people praying they're called. Mary and Joseph but Florida is still dealing with the after effects of we'll check in with people there last week will also have a reenactment of a Twitter war between 2 museums in London and author Daniel olders new book is set in a spooky and surreal Brooklyn but some of the problems the character faces are definitely of this world the book shot a house fall and communing with spirits it's Sunday September 17th news next. From n.p.r. News in Washington. Britain's national security threat level has been lowered from critical to severe. Progress in the investigation into Friday's explosion on the London subway a 2nd suspect was arrested today a 21 year old man was taken into custody in west London yesterday an 18 year old man was picked up in. Southern coast president trumps tweet following Friday's bombing has angered some British officials who say Trump has again revealed classified information from a foreign government N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson says the president has already faced criticism for that and he may well get more when he meets with world leaders this week after the latest terrorist attack in London he said that Scotland Yard had the terrorists in their sights before the bombing it's not clear whether he heard that on Fox and Friends or from a classified briefing but that earned him a stern rebuke from the British government and that might come up again when he goes to the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week North Korea's missile tests will certainly be on the UN's agenda this week N.P.R.'s reports President Trump says he spoke with his South Korean counterpart on the phone last night as President Trump tweeted this morning he talked with the South Korean president about Rocket man apparently referring to the North's leader just days ago North Korea say over a missile over Japan the latest in a series of tests defying the international community and been in South Korean counterpart resolved to respond with even stronger sanctions ambassador Nikki Haley at this hour on c.n.n. But she also warned that at some point the Pentagon may step in trying every other possibility that we have but there's a whole lot of military options on the table if the u.s. Feels forced to defend itself or its allies Daley said quote North Korea will be destroyed. N.p.r. News. The United Nations is calling me on Mars offensive against Rohingya Muslims a textbook example of ethnic cleansing more than 400000 have fled to neighboring Bangladesh over the last 3 weeks and the B.B.C.'s Jill McGiver ng reports aid agencies say 1300 unaccompanied children are among them aid workers say some of the children arrive with other families from their villages but several 100 all completely alone most are exhausted by a journey on the 4th of about a week some are deeply traumatized by what they've seen of the youngest are only 3 or 4 The children are placed with other families to protect them at night and visit children's centers during the day in some cases their parents died in the violence in others the children fled with their family but became separated in the chaos on the way the B.B.C.'s Jolie gibbering this is n.p.r. . As of this morning the access road to Florida Key West is back open after being shut down because of hurricane residents are being allowed to return to their homes or what's left of them but water and power are not fully restored and officials are warning people to bring enough supplies to sustain them for awhile along Alaska's coastline sea birds are again washing up on the shore Elizabeth of member station. This is the 3rd as of August about 800 of the species Shearwater and film are have been found dead along the coast of the Bering Sea apparently from starvation Julia parish with the University of Washington says this latest style is part of an alarming trend she says before 2014 it wasn't uncommon to see Massie bird deaths every 3 or 4 years and now we're seeing $1.00 to $2.00 a year so that's a big difference and it just points to a more rapid and persistent shift in the system according to the National Weather Service in Alaska the Bering Sea has shown a trend of warming for about the past 50 years last year was the warmest one on record and pears says this could be affecting the sea birds regular feeding spots for n.p.r. 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And this is the call in this week which talking about wildfires I there my name is Harrison Welsh member Good morning my name is Richard Chaz and this is Barbara McKenzie My question is about the damage that the wildfire Corps along any particulates could get right through Carpenter's Yeah I'm over here and mean we don't typically have very big fires but we do some firefighters out west all the time her turn was evacuated and the horizon just paved out in front of you or you should be seeing the mountain and the whole atmosphere and feeling of the town is different now thank you very much thanks thank you. Since only the start of this year 47000 fires have burned more than $8000000.00 acres across the country that's an area the size of the state of Maryland Richard Chazan called us from the woods of southwest Oregon where he's lived for nearly 6 decades we talked about what it was like to live in an area where wildfires are so common Well I'm getting too old to go fight them but in my youth I went to a number of fires and fought them and fire is a necessary part of living in the forest but what we have here is. A combination of factors that make these fires far more disasters than they need to be and we had horse prairie fire around here that was like 10 miles away but it was completely out of control and the smoke was coming in and we had friends that were notified they might need to evacuate and so that's pretty close to home they the wind changed and so we did not have to run for it but these fires when they get going they'll be moving at 1015 miles an hour so you know when you drive. None of it we have 75 that doesn't seem very fast but when you're in the woods you're just trying to outrun a 10 mile an hour fire to see how far you get is it hard I mean how if they tell you to evacuate how long do you have until you have to get out well that's an unknown quantity you might have 15 minutes you might have 6 hours. You know but this isn't flat ground this is rugged territory and we're not talking about oh dang we last the family China you know we're talking about life and can you just give me a sense of what it feels like what it smells like what you see when you're so close to a wildfire. Well when the winds change so that will we we could see a little distance I mean it there is a huge I would call a mushroom clouds but it's almost like thunder head of smoke coming up on I was talking to a friend of mine who's just a few miles away one of the people that I would have gone evacuated to call it and he said they were up on top of the mountain looking towards the southeast where the fire was and you said you'd see trees just explode into flames and for the people again you know the longer is are out there actually fighting the fire you know it's 13040 degrees near those flames and it got to say really hot it's hot oh yeah and you filthy black and it's frightening you know the thing to know is that there's a tremendous amount of life that is in these woods from insects to you know the Bears and the big cats but there's lynxes and weasels and the creatures are simply burnt alive they've got no place to run which a child lives in Southern Oregon you know the horse prairie wildfire which has burned more than 16000 acres fire season has been more destructive than expected burning through 9 western states I asked Michael codice about the scale of the problem he's the author of the book mega fire the race to extinguish a deadly epidemic flame prior to say 1900. I've we saw about one fire a year on average that was bigger than 100000 acres and we see close to 10 fires a year on average of that size now and how severe are they well it depends on how you look at them you know certainly there have always been huge fires in America's more remote forests and wildernesses and those fires often are doing something you know beneficial to the forests in remote areas but as those fires get closer to human habitation and infrastructure and development then they become much more threatening We also have seen a change in the fire mosaics as fire scientists describe them which is a mix of low severity burns and medium severity burns and high severity burns where a number of these fires have far more land in them that's very severely burned and consequently it's hard for those forests to regenerate Let's talk a little bit about the people who live near where these fires may be burning How do the communities cope well you know we've seen a huge increase in development in the fire prone landscapes and in the us you know one Forest Service study estimated that nearly one in 3 u.s. Homes are in what we call the wild land urban interface which is where development meets forested lands and public lands that are prone to burn very often they're there unaware of the risk that they face because you know wildfires in a given landscape or a fairly infrequent event so they haven't seen a fire there in 10 or 20 years so they don't think that they're really at risk which may mean actually that the risk is increasing year by year and they're very much do obviously these fires cause property damage but they also carry health risks Yeah they carry any number of health risks you know right off the bat you know aside from the mortal threat of the flames that might burn down your house you've also got a problem. With smoke and now that we're seeing these fires increase we're seeing a lot of smoke in the air and that can be very dangerous to you know the elderly young people people with other health risks like asthma or lung problems but it also is just. Dangerous to almost anybody because the smoke and travel hundreds of miles right yeah the smoke can travel thousands of miles in fact the most recent smoke map that I looked at showed about 2 thirds of the country covered with wildfire smoke to some degree and much of that smoke is coming from fires that are thousands of miles away and then you know later on you will all you can also see health impacts from damage to watersheds lot of the chemicals that are used in retardants that are dropped on wildfires are not necessarily good for wildlife or for humans and you know a lot of the sediments and debris flows that can come from Burn zones in the mountains often carry things that can contaminate watersheds or your make it very difficult to keep the water supply clean for a community and that can go on for years after the fire. You mention that these fires are increasing Why are they increasing there's a number of drivers of the increase in wildfire you know one big one is climate we've seen the fire season expand in much of the Us West by more than 2 months that's due to the fact that it's warmer so climate is a big driver of the wildfire problem we've also you know in many of our forests seen something of a rebound effect from the fact that we put out fires in all of our forests for a century which allowed a lot of fuel to build up particularly in some ponderosa pine forests and say Arizona and New Mexico these were forests that had a natural fire cycle of you know a low intensity fire burning through every 10 or 20 years so it's pretty simple math to figure out that if you put out every fire in one of those forests for a century you're going to end up with say 10 times the natural fuel and that means that when a fire finally does break loose in one of those forests it behaves entirely differently than it did historically what should be happening in your view now to stop this part of what we need to do is think less about being at war with Wildfire and a little bit more about how to live with wild fire fire is natural to these forests as rain is and so moving into a forested landscape with the thought that you know if a fire breaks out of this forest we're going to be able to extinguish it or stop it is probably less healthy attitude about the landscape where you live and thinking in terms of we're going to have a fire in this landscape how do I make my property and my community less likely to be negatively impacted by that Michael codices deputy director of the Center for Environmental journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder thank you very much thanks so much for having me on. 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And now for a bit of fun imagine an epic battle between science and history the Science Museum in London pitted against the city's natural history museum using only items from their exhibits as weapons who would win that's what one person asked last week during the museum's hash tag Ask a curator day on Twitter the museum's took the challenge and launched into a Twitter war for the purposes of this dramatic radio portrayal of the battle royale the 2 museums will be played by 2 Brits Gemma waters as the Science Museum and James Hider as the Natural History Museum we have dinosaurs no contest the Natural History Museum is full of old fossils the we have robots a Spitfire at ancient poisons boom Ok we were going to do this but here come the locusts find the tell us a very deep b.s. Find the task Kashi and only think curse the magnifica obviously we won't use this d.d.t. Insect spray on display in our new mathematics gallery so instead will fight them off with this giant killer a British made in 6 watts a 2nd 190-1930 7 in the Sea Dragon from the Book of the Great Sea Dragon by Thomas Hawkins 18 folks we were all set to call it a draw but then we saw this turns out we have a dinosaur and it's 3 d. Printed in my opinion dinosaur trumps Sea Dragon in the end science and nature declared themselves both winners and we agree. You're listening to n.p.r. News. Here in tune with public radio k.c.b. X. The time is 818 Mandy harp with your case c.b.s. 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Headlines the Islamist group Hamas says it's ready to dissolve its control of Gaza and allow the Palestinian Authority government to govern the territory it's also agreeing to hold general elections the United Nations is calling me an Mars' offensive against Muslims a textbook example of ethnic cleansing the majority Buddhist country says its forces are attacking terrorists as hundreds of thousands of flee Florida utility companies are reporting more than a half 1000000 homes and businesses in the state are still without power a week after hurricane it that's down from more than $6000000.00 outages. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from pro quo just partners with the u.s.c. Show a foundation to enable access to the visual history archive for helping students and researchers understand the impact of genocide through video interviews with survivors learn more it. And from have a Lera tax automation for businesses of all sizes works to simplify sales tax and other business taxes with real time rates and automatic filing at. A v.a. L.a. Dot com. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. In St Louis last night protesters smashed windows and threw objects at police in a 2nd night of demonstrations over the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man in 2011 Officer Jason Stokley shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith following a car chase Stokley claimed it was self-defense but the officer was heard saying on an in-car video camera that he was going to kill Smith the prosecution alleged the policeman also planted a revolver in Smith's car which was found to only carry stock d.n.a. We're joined now by John Collins Muhammad an alderman in St Louis who's been taking part in the protests Good morning sir. Are you and. Can you give us your reaction to the verdict arm. Are completely frustrated completely frustrated. There's a planet. Almost feel. No hope whatsoever and now with this verdict everyone. We're just trying to be optimistic just trying to calling on to and hold on to just a little bit a whole. Thinking that all laws actually matter but time and time and again we see the same scenario a young black man or young black woman of color is shot down by police and that officer gets of quit it no indictment or non guilty verdict the same scenario happens again and again and again. And there's always pool and there are a lot of don't matter what we want to believe in our hearts so much that it does that even though we know in our hearts and in our minds that there's also the want to get off scot free we want to just believe that no the justice system is going to work this time it is time for justice and it will represent us sir you cannot be protesting how is the community responding to this verdict in your view complete unification is complete unification they can then tears come or not because I can insert the same sermons and share the same sentiments that we are share of national station. Of course you want to have some people who don't agree with the dollar and that's Ok because I believe it's you can't disagree but I've been disagreeable but we are sad so much support and so much love from the community and it's a beautiful thing this city is yes I'm fortunate that I have to come on this unfortunate reality this is a trial without jury and in its ruling the judge who heard and decided the case said he had agonized over the evidence but in the end there was simply he was simply not convinced of the defendant's guilt I don't want to get into the specifics of what happened in the courtroom but was justice not served the prosecution made its case and a judge issued a ruling. Justice will not last justice was not served you know sometimes justice is blind I mean it is clear as evidence that that man Jason Stokley is guilty was guilty and should been convicted should had build quality and that did not happen I mean we've seen the evidence we've seen the gun listen to the tapes we watched the interview we heard it we heard it all before the same scenario again that the Trayvon Martin back to to marry writes back to Michael Brown is all the same scenario and every time the white officer gets off just as was nice or if justice was served Jason Stokley will be dead right now Stockley has as we know said that he is innocent and acted in self-defense John Collins Muhammad is an alderman in St Louis thank you so much for joining us thank you. Here's a sobering thought there's a good chance that you are one of the 143000000 u.s. Consumers whose personal information was exposed after the hack of Equifax that's one of the major credit reporting agencies your name Social Security number birth date address all potentially out there leaving you open to identity theft so are you one of them how could that impact you and how do you protect yourself here to help guide this is Lisa Gerstner She's a contributing editor at Kiplinger's Personal Finance and she joins me now welcome to the program and you for having me all right so walk us through this how do you find out if you've been impacted by this hack where you can go to the site that Equifax has set up to get an idea of whether your may have been impacted honestly at this point I think it's probably safe for most of us to assume that our information is out there somewhere whether was this breach whether it was some other breach and it's just been so random in the past few years that that's the premise I think people should be working from right now right I'm going to check if it's happened to me Ok I think it's Equifax Security 2017 if I'm remembering that you are properly Ok Hold on. Secured really 2017 and see what that pops up and then there's a button that says potential impact and that's where you check your name asking for my last name which I'm putting in it's asking for the last 6 digits of Mr Security which I'm not going to say on air. But see what it says. Ok based on the information provided we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident so bad news for me it's telling me to enroll in trusted id premier What is that Yes So when you enroll in trusted id premier it gives you different services to help protect against search attacks identity theft so one of them is 3 bureau credit monitoring Bell bonded to your purport from each of the 3 major credit agencies for any changes like a new address new accounts that will help you identify if someone has tried to open accounts in your name so it's just this package of services they're offering for free but it's only for a year's You have to keep that in mind that after a year you're still they need to protect yourself beyond what the service offers but what if I don't want to use Equifax because frankly they were the ones that were breached so you know are there other options there are other options if you're wary of using Equifax there are other credit monitoring services for example credit card that is when it's free and they just announced they're adding more to their service so along with monitoring your Trans Union credit report free they're going to start monitoring your Equifax report for free so that covers 2 out of the 3 agencies and ideally you want to cover all 3 and there are paid services from companies like life lack an identity card that offer 3 bureau monitoring and the best thing you can do in terms of checking your credit reports as well as going to in your credit report dot com and every 12 months you're entitled to a free credit report from each of those 3 major agencies and you can look through them and look for any problems you've written that the strongest measure you can take is to put a freeze on your credit files how does that work right so when you put a freeze on your credit files it lacks new creditors from seeing your credit report and that's if someone is trying to get credit in your name they're not going to be able to you so at least guards you from new account Fred and you sought to be on guard for fraud on your existing accounts you need to check your credit card statements all these different things outside of New Account fried but it is one area that you can really use and strong prevention on well I'm going to now spend the rest of my afternoon doing everything that you just advised Lisa Gerstner is a contributing editor at Kiplinger's Personal Finance thank you so much thank you. We're keeping an eye on 2 storms out in the Atlantic hurricanes might cause problems for the East Coast of the u.s. In the coming days and Forecasters say Tropical Storm idea is expected to intensify into a hurricane and hit parts of the Caribbean already devastated by hurricane we rely on forecasters to tell us just how bad these storms will be and where they're headed they're getting better at those kinds of predictions but predicting the level of flooding remains tricky and in coastal Georgia flood predictions from were way off Georgia Public Broadcasting Emily Jones reports that forecasters are looking at ways their mistakes could improve future predictions forecasters predicted Arma would cause a storm surge on the Georgia coast but they didn't predict how much of flooding it would cause and how far inland the water would reach Chuck Watson of and he research studies storms our models correctly predicted the tides at the 4 plastique age that's the one official tide gauge on the Georgia coast but there was a lot more water stored in the marshes up and down the Georgia coast lie wide grass the salt marshes the existing model didn't account for all of the water stored in them during low tide Watson believes it's that standing body of water that only pushed across roadways and into people's homes Kelby Phillips lived it firsthand late last Sunday night he thought Irma had spared his one story house on St Simons Island on the southern Georgia coast the search started coming in oh my God was looking out the window and she saw something on the house they managed to escape as the water flooded the street his yard and his house Phillips isn't sure how deep the water got inside but it was above the power outlets in the walls I don't think there's too many things that we can actually say that are usable some of the antique wooden items we can salvage because it's all solid we're going to rethink its work absorbs ocean water and it's just total. It's tragic. On the mainland Missy Kennedy was watching the forecast at her parents' house that forecast showed Erma turning farther and farther away from coastal Georgia so she figured they'd be Ok instead they got about 3 and a half feet of water around the marsh from home and plenty of that water got in you know on the t.v. And the neighbors were watching it was going towards the west where everybody evacuated to so we thought we were safe researchers are trying to figure out what mistakes they made when creating the models they very much want to help homeowners like Kennedy and Phillips of void being blindsided by future floods Watson from n.t. Research says they learn from every storm and they'll learn a lot from this one he's already tried a new simulation just a slight change to the model of the amount of friction caused by spar time the grass that's in the marshes and it turns out that that boat the numbers for flooding by about 15 percent almost 20 percent Watson says he's already testing his new models on typhoons heading Vietnam and Japan eventually he says the research could lead to more precise forecasts to help people better prepare in the meantime the Kennedy family isn't sure whether to rebuild they had just finished restoring the house from last year's hurricane Matthew When Irma hit and they're worried about the flooding the next hurricane could bring for n.p.r. News I'm Emily Jones in Brunswick Georgia staying with hurricane Irma retirees across the country had no idea what happened to their 2nd homes in Florida some of gone to Florida to find out for themselves as N.P.R.'s Camille Adama Oscar reports from Fort Myers. At the woods not camping resort Sheila Lunsford is raking up were injured as a generator homes in the background So anyway we're doing the best we can to get cleaned up get ready for season because that technically starts October 15th that's when the snowbirds are expected to arrive. Florida is one of the most popular destinations for some loving retirees it's hard to count the number of seasonal residents in the state but it's estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands many out of state owners weren't here to see how their homes fared in the storm so they're hearing the bad stories on television of course because a lot of them are in Michigan Canada you know I don't know what they're hearing Lunsford is one of the woods most residents who live here year round that means she's been busy with more than just removing debris she's also been sending updates to residents who are currently up north Lunsford doesn't have any or net access so she texts the photos to someone in Chicago who e-mails them to residents we have been furiously for the past 2 days taking pictures so it's helping tremendously for them to be able to see that there's you know is damage or no damage Hurricane Arma had an even impact around Fort Myers a manufactured home that lost an entire addition to wind damage sits right next to one that was untouched one park looks pristine while one down the road is severely flooded that means anxiety for owners who can't see their property for themselves German and Garmin live in Greenwood Indiana and they couldn't take not knowing some snowbirds couldn't drive down because of the gas shortages the Gorman's flew to their Fort Myers home as soon as the airport reopened. We pile into their golf cart and take a tour of the community gets in the. Trees down. Generator nor the. They were relieved the damage wasn't worse some siding was blown off their home but that's it their Florida car a 96 Buick Park Avenue was unscathed. But people who can't make it to Florida are desperate for information Christopher. O'Connor is in New York he has a vacation home in Naples you know we're up here no access no knowledge no live pictures nobody down there to help us he's frustrated with the information he is receiving from the company that manages this property I literally within the space of 30 minutes got to step completely conflicting e-mails from there was flooding there was no flooding so which do you believe he's heading down soon to assess the damage for himself. N.p.r. News Fort Myers. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. This is Liz log started September 17th 2017 where we consider matters of space the stars and the universe. Eventually when NASA astronauts are sent to explore the deep which is a parcel or system they probably won't be able to bring everything they need for survival with them on the space ship like enough food and water to survive for many months or even years spent on the surface of Mars Jean Jacques Amelie has some ideas on how to address that problem he's director of the controlled environment agriculture Center at the University of Arizona and his team has worked with NASA to develop a kind of greenhouse so astronauts can grow crops while in space Jean thanks for joining me you're welcome it's great to be here right tell me about the project. We need to produce food in space because we cannot bring sufficient amounts to survive for any great extent of time we also can put together these food systems that produce not only the calories that we need to eat and survive in the nutrition that we need to survive but also produce oxygen from the carbon dioxide that we breathe and they transpire they give off water that goes into the atmosphere and we can collect that as potable water can you describe what it looks like the Mars lunar greenhouses a cylinder It's about 8 foot tall and about 800 feet long it's collapsible it's light weight the lights are overhead the plants are growing in rows parallel to the long length of the greenhouse with lettuce screens on the innermost rows and the taller plants on the outer most rows so we fill up as much of the volume space as possible. To provide as much plant biomass so that it utilizes the electrical lamps most efficiently meaning capturing all the light that the lamps are putting out and then hopefully providing sufficient amounts of food water and oxygen I often ask is to scientists who are involved in in some part of getting humans into outer space for long periods of time and and possibly you know making manned missions to 2 planets why do you want to be involved in that. Well personally well well personally I come from a background of food production small farm in southern New Jersey. I appreciated Nassau all my life and we recognize that we have to feed people no matter where we go and I like to think that if we can do in that in a system there then we can learn to do it better here on Earth and feed ourselves more efficiently through controlled environment agriculture 110th of the amount of water to grow a head of lettuce in our system compared to the open field so there's many good reasons to take what we're learning now and apply it into agriculture here on Earth and do it as soon as possible that's Jean Jacques Lemaire Lee He's director of the controlled environment agriculture Center at the University of Arizona thank you very much thank you very much I appreciate this opportunity. This is n.p.r. News. Earlier this year. 25 . There was. A new study may have some answers. And you can hear Morning Edition weekday mornings from 3 to 9. Will be mostly sunny today on the central coast winds will be from the west 20 miles per hour in the. Ninety's San Miguel 9182. 777473 coastal cities 747272 and. For 70 degrees it's $840.00. With these headlines demonstrators are planning to return to the streets of St Louis today for a 3rd day of protests over the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man police say a small group of demonstrators turned violent last night British police have arrested a 2nd suspect in connection with Friday's explosion London subway train they say a 21 year old man has been taken into custody and. 10 European Union finance ministers have agreed to push ahead with changes to the way online companies are taxed they say Internet companies including Google Amazon and Apple avoid paying millions of euros in taxes every year. Support for n.p.r. 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What's the situation with the electricity What is the neighborhood look like now so parts of the community have a lecture the big parts of the Jones and not have electricity unfortunately we know that contractors are working you know out of the because we've seen the numbers drop dramatically by what we anticipated and what's happening in fact the communities of color are the ones that are still without electricity and it's been very unfortunate to see that what is the what does it look like I mean when you walk around what are you seeing Oh there's a lot of downed trees trees that I wouldn't ever want to uproot it out of the ground McCue street but I know I've been there since I was a kid the day after the hurricane when I went out there were certain roads are just lost and while some of the start happening with the community members we're going out into the streets themselves because they're like nobody's going to come out here and help us so we have to help ourselves so we're going to cut down these trees and make sure to clear the roads because people need to be able to get in and out and we needed to be able to get in and out because we were bringing resources and to the community and bringing food and water supplies to you know the community as well as the elderly population who were in apartments who couldn't leave so yeah you're saying that you're bringing food and water into the community why is that the necessary How has the community there been holding up I mean the most by car thing I do which hurts the most is that you're coming out and just like we were just going in very basic like hot dog that I caught on on them before I coming up. Something like thank you because I haven't eaten in 3 days and that's a lot of what we've been seeing because the my house and then here Red Cross of the men here Red Cross has been coming in very still I'm only and even yesterday it was community organizations that got together put their resources to gather and we held a cookout and what Haiti will be set off to $200.00 people and that was you know the church is donating box the chickens and I was community organizations coming together not the Red Cross not the money not the city of Miami not any of the people in this community organization and that's the frustrating thing because they don't see our communities that communities in need and that's like how what you do with making decisions as to what communities are needed because we're literally going into a week of people with no electricity anymore and well off to begin with they have very limited transportation there and food deserts where they're probably like one or 2 on a store that they have to get their food from and so there was definitely not enough for the community and so that's why there are organizations like ours who stepped up because if we're not doing it we don't know going to do it. Right that's Francisca menaces He's the director of policy and advocacy at the Florida Immigrant Coalition thank you so much for speaking with me thank you so much. In the town of Williamsport Maryland there's a small body shop that's built a big reputation restoring old full platens And as N.P.R.'s John it's 2 reports it's also preserving some fond memories. This shot restorations he says he started paying attention to when he was 10 years old and when he was 14 he talked his older brother into buying a car rabbit. Rabbit so. He literally the day I started I was 14. But I want to work when he was 16. And everything about it put in. And then it really started by the time Bob was 19 he was doing full restoration of his day job was building houses but he'd come home and work into the night. When the housing market busted in 2009 he bought this little shop just outside Williamsport and started restoring Volkswagens full time word of the shops artistry spread and now he has a 2 year long list of vintage be. Waiting for him and his small crew to work. Their magic is on display today at cookers annual open house in front of the shop satisfied. Perfectly restored cars one gem is a Midnight Blue 964. Casper she's from Edison New Jersey and her. Back to her teenage years in the late 1970 s. I actually had on mechanics she took it for 2 years and thought she'd be an auto mechanic her boyfriend my husband had a v.w. Bug back then. His brother had one he had a 65 you know in the winter when it didn't start pushing it and I said I want a Volkswagen you know. So for $600.00 she bought this car and another 1969 Beetle The $69.00. The floor was so raw You could almost put your feet out. And I brought them home she looked like Oh my God what did you do. This is not see if. It is to me it wasn't. Ultimately Georgina who became an office manager not a mechanic couldn't do the restoration herself so she asked Bob and his crew to make her dreams for her car come true and now 64 beetle shines like a diamond with. A set to make this happen Bob and his crew take the cars apart and restore them piece by piece either to their original condition or version. Is an understated hot rod with a high powered engine and a roll cage the other specialty of cookers is restoring v.w. Buses like skis he brought his to the open house from Cherry town Pennsylvania I found. $100.00 for the Minsky says he didn't get around to restoring it because he was busy raising a family and. Had him give it the treatment. I described what it is it's 896421. It was the most expensive it was like $2600.00 new and 60. So a $100.00. And what's it worth now. Nearing 150000. In just the past few years the market for vintage v.w. Bus has skyrocket. That people used to pay to have hauled away $20000.00 plus So what's the big deal. Partly it's just their design and simplicity and partly it's the story. That go with them says advanced You can't go anywhere without getting stopped. Trying to take pictures and I got scared because people like. David a bruise he has a story too it's attached to his $960.00. It's part. And. It's been in the family. Here from pop. Picked up along to his grandfather who used it on his farm in North Dakota in the 1960 s. So he died in 1974 it was. And it's 1900. And I went up. To New Mexico it sat for 27 years in the New Mexico sun and brought it to West Virginia lives now. If you can restore it you got to take it. Did you ever see using it I did. 5 years old and he was working on it. And was. Fun to get up in the bed and throw. His back and I got the 1st one he says if you do that again you're going to get a weapon and you know. Do you do it again I do not remember the spanking by making him apologize to. Pick up matching the original faded blue paint that covers 80 percent of the vehicle is more valuable with your original paint on it but for a bruising the truck's monetary value isn't the point. For him is his grandfather's name and address still stenciled on the doors. North Dakota. N.p.r. News to see photos of the restored go to n.p.r. . We all inherit traits from our families but in Daniel Jose olders new book The main character Sierra Santiago finds out she has inherited the ability to manipulate the spirit world it's called Shadow house fall and it's a sequel to the bestselling shadow shaper where we 1st meet the young mural artist the world she inhabits is as true of Brooklyn as I could to try plus lots of magic or you know nothing is very magical So I don't even know that's an additional thing but the murals start to come to life around her and that's really what sets her off on this journey to understand that she's a shadow shaper which is a form of magic that allows her to put spirits into art and then bring them to life to fight the bad guys are doing things to get done is a Brooklyn full of magic I mean a lot of people think of Brooklyn and think of sort of a car toast. So that's one that I really did want to address too because this is a book about Brooklyn and so many times we see New York and Brooklyn specifically represented and it just seems like this one big happy family which is a terrible lie there is in the movement of people there is a certain kind of slow moving violence in gentrification and that is a point thing to talk about in the book so Sierra you know it was born and grew up in Brooklyn and now she feels it being taken out from under her which is an underlying theme of the book both in you know what's happening in her world and then who she's up against you know as she's learned how to shatter shape I want to get back to that but I want to say that reading this reminded me so much of the sort of mysticism that so many Hispanics encounter in our daily lives you know I grew up with family members communing with spirits it's not unusual was that one of your inspirations absolutely I was think of it as the whole shadows shaper cipher is kind of a reclamation of the ghost story we see ghosts represented all the time with as just these creatures that jump out of closets and he people's brains just over and over and I think Western literature is so insistent on making the dead evil right I think the rest. The world and for the rest of history we've always had much more complex and often beautiful relationships with our dead ever so many of us that's why we're here and alive today and thrive in it because of the work their ancestors did I wanted to honor that on the page in a way that was also to tell a great story you know an exciting fantasy novel where the spirits are there to lift up the main character instead of trying to kill her and you know brain. I have to ask you I don't know what your heritage is. I'm Cuban and Jewish Wow Ok I'm Cuban too Ok and. Now we see each other. Why why fantasy though I mean why take the supernatural in infuse it into a young adult novel. Mostly because I'm a big dork and fantasy I've always loved fantasy and always looks Yeah so I'm glad yes that makes me that makes me happy is an answer you know you know better as of what else can you say I'm a dork. I love Star Wars you know I grew up watching these movies and reading these books and in love with them and I also grew up looking for myself in them and not able to find myself you know as a lot you know as a man of color where was i usually doom sidekick or a clown or a bad guy and that you know I didn't have the language for that at the time but I felt the loss and I turned away from my beloved John or because it didn't love me back and then I discovered Octavia Butler and Juno Dia's who writes about Latino nerd in this so beautifully and you know so many authors who are out there doing it and doing the work and now more and more which is so exciting and that's really what kind of brought me back to that John Wright and reminded me how much I love it and that we can tell our stories through this medium of fantasy and science fiction and like I said you know you do really root your books in a current reality the 1st book talked a lot about gentrification this book Shadow house fall talks about police and the security apparatus that threatens Sierra and her friends that's not the magical world that echoes this world exactly Well I think fantasy is at its best when there's a balance and a grounding not to say that it always has to be in this particular world you know dead set but there's an element that feels true there you know me as I can is famous for just the small nuances of how hill portray his characters you know. Put in their shoes on feel so human that it kind of allows us to then go along on the ride of dragons and flying through the air and everything else I think the same is true in terms of balance in the book in that I create and this is my goal anyway in has to give us a broken that feels so real both in love and in tragedy and allow that to then ground anchor the story so that the fantastical elements are kind of woven into it in a way that feels balance so sometimes that is about the painfulness of being treated like a prisoner in a place that's supposed to educate you and sometimes it's about the love of the people who live on your block and know your name and watch to grow up you know the National Book Award long list for young adult fiction just came out and there are remarkably a lot of people of color on this list you've been so involved in the We Need Diverse Books campaign is this groundbreaking It's fantastic the only sad thing is that it's remarkable that it's you know we had to fight so hard to get to like the basic level of just recognition and that's always you know something that I think has to be part of the story is the struggle that got us here and the years and decades and even centuries of time that literature has tried to races so I can honor that past and celebrate this amazing moment that list is gorgeous and there is so much vitality and amazing this in that list and there's a broad swath of different stories being told that's a literature that truly reflects the world which is literature is job literature is job is to tell the truth so here we are having fought for this moment it's exciting to be here Daniel olders new book is called Shadow house fall it's the sequel to the bestselling Shatner Schieffer thank you so much thank you it's been a pleasure. 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