david bowman is a professor of pyro geography at the university of pennsylvania. david, you're joining us from bruni island in australia. we appreciate you being on the show. this is your area of specialty figuring out how geography and fires interact . why was this so bad? well, it was bad because of a whole constellation of factors uh, extreme weather, drought and managed grass fuels and inappropriate. uh, uh, sort of urban design i suppose. uh and the reliance on mass of actuation and those things escalated so quickly. um, it's terrifying scenario when you have people literally diving into the ocean to side logs. that's. that's, that's not, that's not acceptable. that's, that's not a deputy. so you said a constellation of reasons, and i think that's really interesting because we look at this and we tend to point to one thing or it's because of the wins, or it's because of urban planning or whatever it may be. but you're saying actually for something to get this bad, there needs to be multiple factors that come into play. that's correct. and one of the, the thing

in his opinion temporarily blocking rules j david f bowman says he hopes the state and school boards can negotiate in good faith and strike a balance between protecting transgender students and the rights of parents to bring up their kids. three school districts in monmouth county were sued by the state back in june after adopting policies that require teachers and staff to inform a parent if their child wanted to use pronouns or school facilities that did not conform to their sex at birth. that injunction is temporary while the larger case plays out in the state's civil rights division. temperature attorney representing the marlboro board of education saying that process could take years. in the meantime he writes the school district is now severely constrained in its ability to notify parents about important issues involving their minor children which is tragic on many levels. we're exploring avenues for appeal. meanwhile, down in virginia, counties are at odds over whether to adopt governor glenn youngkin's guidelines on trans students. the roanoke board unanimously approved rules

david bowman is a professor of pyro geography at the university of tasmania, and he explains why the fund has been so devastating. this was bad because of a whole constellation of factors uh extreme, whether uh, drought and managed grass fuels and inappropriate. uh uh, sort of open design, i suppose. uh and the reliance on mass evacuation and those things escalated so quickly. um, it's terrifying scenario when you have people literally diving into the ocean to side they lodge. that's. that's, that's not, that's not acceptable. that's, that's not affected, the things of famous or the, or what's called a grasp bias cycle. and hawaii is the icon of that. where you introduce grasses from tropical regions. very right. boss ross is, and i have no headboards 90 potable as to 8 them. so you have this extraordinary biomass of grass fuels and then you get a drought. and basically you've got it effectively. it's like cetera, writing a landscaping, petrol. and it will unite as a spock and a strong wind. and you cannot out run this far. and that's why we're suspecting that so many people little a

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good evening, superior court j judge david bowman promised a decision on the state's efforts to ban theseicies temporarily for now. he said that decision will be coming shortly but did not define exactly what he meant by that. so we'll be watching for wee the rest of the week for a ruling to come dowk n. but today in court, the state argued that irreversible harmdei would be done to transgender kids if the school facilds statd that child coming out to their parents as transgender pare they communicated with the parents back at home. prt on the other sidt e of this, you have the middletown school board president who says, how can parents help their children if they don't know what's going on? noi truly do believe that t the policy now in placrue with this state, if lifted, will help the children not only throughout the state and middletown, but the whole country. and that'sand middthe what we r. >> we really need to help our children. p today we saw protesters on both sides of this, kid about 100 parents and kids supporting their school boards and roughly ten transgender activists. now, go

>> good morning, david fed governor michelle bowman speaking this morning expects additional increasestion and says monetary policy is not a preset course. she is going to monitor data here's her test for saying if we have enough. evidence of inflation is, quote, on a consistent and meaningful downward path. she added that the labor market remains tight with demand for workers outstripping supply. her comments were also made, by the way, by new york fed president john williams released this morning and echoing concerns that friday jobs report may have been more hawkish than the market first thought among the concerns inside that report, job growth has been consistently greater than population growth and that's reflected, by the way, in the still strong wage gains out there. the unemployment rate kicked down and even slowing payroll growth seen by some as a result of there not being enough bodies to higher rather than an unwillingness to hire. chris ruppki writing this could be the first time in economic history payroll employment drops which normally indicates a recession, but the reas

the david m rubenstein national center for white house history and senior historian at the white house historical association will moderate the conversation. our first panelist is leslie green bowman president of the thomas jefferson foundation which owns and operates monticello in addition to this work. she has served by presidential appointment on the committee for the preservation of the white house under president's joe biden donald trump barack obama george w bush and bill clinton. stuart mclaurin is president of the white house historical association leading the association's nonprofit nonpartisan mission to support conserv. station and preservation at the white house with private funding john stanwich serves as the national park service liaison to the white house overseeing the national park services responsibilities for the care of the white house and its grounds as well as the park areas immediately surrounding the white house. finally. we are joined by lydia teterick curator of the white house. she has been part of the white house curatorial staff since 1979. tetrick has lectured and published articles on the white house collection and specializes in historic photographs