steven friedman is the founder of the k to 12 school shooting data base, which documents campus attacks. i spoke to him earlier and started by asking him about the increase in school shooting since the 19 sixty's. yeah. looking at more than 2400 incidents back to 1966. what is really changed in the last 5 years? is the number of incidents that are occurring and not only their frequency, but when there are planned attacks and schools that are becoming more deadly. okay, so the last 5 years have been particularly bad. now when we look at texas, it's got one of the most relax gun laws in the us, people over the age of 21. don't need a license to carry a gun. i believe. can you explain to us how politicians justify this complete lack of gun control when shootings keep happening and as you say, all getting worse in the last few years? yeah, the, the limitless gun control is based on an interpretation of the constitution that the people are allowed to carry. guns by any means. did any place that it's very difficult to dissuade people that take that viewpoint on it? yeah, i mean we, we heard i

here with more on the health of housing is beth friedman, ceo of harris stevens. good to have you with us. what are you seeing on the ground right now? new home sales, because basically, people who own used homes aren't moving. >> yeah, i mean, existing home sales are just stalled right now, because sellers don't want to let go of great rates that they have. so the new home sales are moving, which is a good thing. we just saw that warren buffet invested something like a billion dollars into home builders. so there's a big bet there, but i think buyers are on the fence right now, because rates have gone up. they have doubled. the highest they have been in nearly twenty years. so there's less affordability and there's less inventory. it's a little bit of a sluggish housing market right now. it's going to take some time to reconcile that and so we're kind of waiting it out. we wish it was busier, but we have a challenge with inventory and with rates and i think because inflation has come down and that's a good story and we did not enter a recession, that's another go