THIS IS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA IN FOCUS.

POTENTIAL FALLOUT FROM THE WAR IN IRAN.

COULD THE CONFIDENTLY TO TENSIONS AT THE UPCOMING MIDTERM ELECTIONS AS SOME ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ANOTHER LENGTHY ENGAGEMENT?

FLORIDA IS HOME TO THE MAJORITY OF IMMIGRANTS FROM HAITI, BUT SOME MAY BE FORCED TO RETURN TO THE ISLAND NATION DESPITE CREATING A LIFE IN AMERICA AND SHUTTING THE MISCONCEPTIONS ON NUCLEAR ENERGY.

THE EFFORT TO INTEGRATE MORE ATOMIC ACTION INTO POP CULTURE.

HELLO, I'M JENNIFER CRAWFORD.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

THE IMPACTS OF THE WIDENING WAR WITH IRAN BEING FELT ABROAD AND HERE AT HOME, A SELL-OFF OF STOCKS LEADING TO THE DOW DROPPING 500 POINTS TODAY.

DEEPENING A WORLDWIDE STOCK MARKET.

VOLATILITY, OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRICES ALSO JUMPING LEADING EXPERTS TO WORRY ABOUT INCREASING PRICES AT THE GAS PUMP.

COULD THESE CONCERNS STRETCH INTO NOVEMBER'S MIDTERM ELECTIONS?

WGCUS TEDDY BYRNE HAS MORE ON THE ROLE.

THE IRANIAN CONFLICT CAN HAVE WITH VOTERS.

>> SO FOR MORE ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF A REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN, I'M JOINED BY BETHANY BOWRA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AT FGCU.

SO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

>> I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE.

>> SO I WANTED TO GET YOUR EXPERTISE WHEN IT COMES TO VOTER PERCEPTION OF WORLD EVENTS.

WE ARE MONTHS AWAY FROM A MIDTERM ELECTION THAT COULD RESHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE.

AND EVEN THOUGH THIS ESCALATION WITH IRAN JUST STARTED, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY LOOKED AT HOW VOTERS ARE RESPONDING TO IT.

>> YEAH, WE HAVE SOME POLLS THAT HAVE COME OUT OVER THE WEEKEND LOOKING AT HOW AMERICANS VIEW THIS CONFLICT.

DO THEY TRUST THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS A PLAN TO DEAL WITH THIS CONFLICT?

AND WHAT WE FOUND IS IT'S LIKE A ROUGHLY 60, 40 SPLIT.

ABOUT 60% OF AMERICANS SAY THAT THEY OPPOSE THE STRIKE ON IRAN AND ABOUT 40% GIVE OR TAKE SAY THAT THEY SUPPORT IT.

BUT THEN IT GETS A LITTLE BIT TRICKY WHEN YOU START ASKING ABOUT IF THEY THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG-TERM CONFLICT, IF THEY'RE CONFIDENT THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS A PLAN FOR HOW HE'S GOING TO HANDLE IT, THOSE NUMBERS ARE KIND OF ALL OVER THE MAP.

BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, IT LOOKS LIKE MOST AMERICANS ARE OPPOSED TO THIS KIND OF STRIKE BECAUSE THEY'RE FEARFUL GIVEN OUR HISTORY OF WORSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, MOST PEOPLE ARE KIND OF FEARFUL OF INVOLVEMENT IN THAT REGION.

SO LOOKS LIKE INITIALLY MOST AMERICANS ARE OPPOSED TO THIS KIND OF CONFLICT MOVING FORWARD.

IT REALLY WILL DEPEND ON KIND OF WHICH DIRECTION THIS GOES IN TO DETERMINE WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT IT IN THE FUTURE.

>> SO IT REALLY JUST RECENT EVENTS HERE.

BUT HAS THERE BEEN ANYTHING IN THE POLLING THAT HAS STUCK OUT TO YOU?

IT MAY BE THAT YOUR SURPRISED ABOUT.

>> YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE THIS BECAUSE WE'RE LIVING IN SUCH A POLARIZED ENVIRONMENT RIGHT NOW.

SO IT'S DIFFICULT SOMETIMES TO FIGURE OUT IF PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVED THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE SAYING OR IF IT'S JUST THE POLITICAL PARTY THAT'S FORCING THAT THAT'S CAUSING THEM TO THINK THE THING THAT THEY'RE SAYING BECAUSE ONE OF THESE POLLS ACTUALLY BREAKS IT DOWN BY REPUBLICANS WHO SELF IDENTIFY AS MAGA REPUBLICANS AND REPUBLICANS WHO SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT MAGA REPUBLICANS AND IT'S ABOUT A 30 POINT SPLIT BETWEEN THOSE 2 GROUPS ON WHETHER THEY SUPPORT THE WHETHER THEY TRUST THE PRESIDENT HAS AND IDEA MOVING FORWARD, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, WHETHER THEY SUPPORT TROOPS ON THE GROUND OR NOT.

SO THAT KIND OF DISTINCTION, I THINK IS REALLY INTERESTING AND REALLY IMPORTANT TO WATCH MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE IN A MIDTERM ELECTION, ESPECIALLY MOBILIZATION IS WHAT REALLY MATTERS A LOT MORE THAN PERSUASION.

MOST PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW IN A MIDTERM ELECTION HOW THEY PLAN TO VOTE.

IT'S JUST WHETHER THEY ACTUALLY SHOW UP AND VOTE OR NOT.

SO IF YOU HAVE SUCH A SPLIT, EVEN WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THEIR VOTERS, IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING TO WATCH.

MOVING FORWARD TO SEE HOW THOSE ATTITUDES TRANSLATE INTO VOTES IN NOVEMBER.

>> SO HAS THERE BEEN ANY CONCERN THAN COMING FROM THE PRESIDENT SUPPORT BASE?

HE HAD PREVIOUSLY STATED AND GONE ON RECORD THAT HE WAS AGAINST ANY SORT OF REGIME CHANGE.

BUT NOW WE HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN IN VENEZUELA WITH PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO.

NOW WITH IRAN.

IS THERE BEEN ANY KIND OF POLLING DATA THAT SHOWS THE VOTER PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT THAT NOW HAS HAD A DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW.

REACTION TO WHAT WAS SAID.

I GUESS.

>> YEAH, I THINK THAT PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS ARE KIND OF EVOLVING AS THESE THINGS HAPPEN BECAUSE I THINK THAT BECAUSE THERE WAS SUCH A FOCUS ON NON INTERVENTION EARLIER IN HIS TERM AND CAMPAIGNS.

THIS IS KIND OF A THIS IS A BIG SHIFT IN.

SO IT'S KIND OF SOMETHING VOTERS HAVE TO COME TO TERMS WITH THEMSELVES AND DECIDE.

DO THEY ACTUALLY SUPPORT IT NOW THAT IT'S HAPPENING OR ARE THEY GOING TO STICK TO KNOW?

YOU SAID NO INTERVENTION BEFORE.

SO WE NEED TO STICK TO THAT.

JUST GONNA BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THIS CONTINUES IN THE FUTURE.

ARE THESE JUST THE 2 INTERVENTIONS THAT HAPPEN?

IS THIS SOMETHING THAT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE THAT THERE'S REALLY NO WAY TO KNOW IS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO JUST KIND OF FIGURE THAT OUT AS WE GO.

>> AND THEN AS THIS CONFLICT CONTINUES, THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY HAVE AN IMPORT BAN, AN IMPACT ON THE UPCOMING MIDTERM ELECTIONS.

SO WHAT ARE ANY OTHER ISSUES THAT YOUR KEEPING AN EYE ON WEATHER, BOTH INTERNATIONAL OR ABROAD THAT COULD AFFECT THE POLLS?

>> AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT FOR MIDTERMS BECAUSE A LOT OF AMERICANS ARE VERY FOCUSED ON COSTS AT HOME AND DOMESTIC POLICY AND AFFORDABILITY.

AND THOSE ARE THE ISSUES THAT A LOT OF VOTERS ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON.

SO IF THE TENSION FROM THE PRESIDENT'S ADMINISTRATION KIND OF TURNS OUT WORD AND LOOK AT FOREIGN POLICY, IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW VOTERS RESPOND TO THAT BECAUSE MOST OF THE TIME WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A MIDTERM ELECTION, THE PRESIDENT'S PARTY DOES POORLY ANYWAY.

JUST HISTORICALLY WHEN THE PRESIDENT WINS AN ELECTION, HIS PARTY USUALLY SUFFERS A LITTLE BIT IN THE MIDTERMS THAT IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW.

SO THAT ALREADY KIND OF PUT REPUBLICANS A LITTLE BIT AT A DISADVANTAGE WHEN IT CAME TO THIS YEAR'S MIDTERMS.

SO AS PEOPLE ARE FOCUSING ON AFFORDABILITY AND OTHER FOCUSING ON GAS PRICES AND GROCERY PRICES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE PRESIDENT RESPONSE TO THOSE CONCERNS AND HOW HE FRAMES THIS IRAN CONFLICT MOVING FORWARD AS SOMETHING THAT IS IMPORTANT FOR AMERICANS, FOR THE SAFETY OF THE COUNTRY AND FOR EVERYONE HERE VERSUS HIS ATTENTION KIND OF GOING ELSEWHERE.

AND I'M NOT FEELING LIKE HE'S PAYING ATTENTION TO THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO THEM.

>> PROFESSOR BAUER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND FOR OFFERING YOUR EXPERTISE ON THIS TOPIC.

>> THANKS.

HAVE A GREAT ONE.

>> FOR MORE ON OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE LATEST BETWEEN IRAN AND THE UNITED STATES.

YOU CAN VISIT US AT WGCU DOT ORG.

COMING UP, HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS AT RISK OF LOSING THEIR TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS.

WE EXAMINE THE REASON HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS LEFT THE CARIBBEAN NATION.

THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES SAYS FLORIDA HAS THE LARGEST POPULATION OF HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS LIVING INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

BUT MANY MIGHT HAVE TO RETURN TO HAITI IF THEIR TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS IS REMOVED.

SOME SEE THIS AS A BLOW TO A CARIBBEAN CULTURE WITH DEEP CONNECTIONS TO THE SUNSHINE STATE.

FOR MORE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI.

WE ARE NOW JOINED BY DOCTOR DELPHINE GRAS AN ASSOC PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT FGCU.

AND I APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH.

TAKING THE TIME OUT OF YOUR SCHEDULE TO JOIN US AND TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HAITI AND THE UNITED STATES AND TPS.

BUT FIRST, I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND YOUR YOUR CONNECTION TO HAITI.

>> YES, SO THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE.

I THINK THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC.

I AM NOT A HAITIAN DESCENT.

I'M ACTUALLY A FRENCH ORIGINALLY BORN AND RAISE AND WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL MUCH LATER IN MY LIFE.

IS DEEP CONNECTION ACTUALLY BETWEEN FRANCE AND HAITI BECAUSE IT TENDS TO BE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG.

AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SLAVERY, WE USUALLY POINT THE FINGER AT THE UNITED STATES.

AND SO.

IT'S ONLY YEARS LATER AND MY EDUCATION THAT I FOUND OUT THAT NOT ONLY THERE WAS A LONG HISTORY BETWEEN FRIENDS IN HAITI, BUT THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD CONTRIBUTED TO THE VERY SITUATION THAT THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN RIGHT NOW BY A FORCING PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY BY OVER EXPLOITING THE PEOPLE.

THE ISLANDS AND THEN FORCING THEM INTO A DEBT THAT HAS REPERCUSSIONS ALL THE WAY INTO THE PRESENT DAY.

>> CAN YOU TAKE US BACK AND EXPLAINED IF THEY HAD THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION ARGUABLY IN WORLD HISTORY.

CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION?

>> YES, ABSOLUTELY.

AND SO COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY HAS BEEN BRUTAL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

BUT THE WAY THAT IT PLAYED OUT IN HAITI WAS MORE BRUTAL THAN ANYWHERE ELSE THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS.

AND PART OF IT WAS BECAUSE THE MAIN CONCERN WAS TO MAKE AS MUCH PROFIT AS POSSIBLE, NOT CARING ABOUT THE LAND OR TO PEOPLE THAT WERE USED TO EXPLORE THE LAND.

AND SO THROUGH THAT OVER EXPLOITATION OF THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE THE SOIL WAS DRAINED OF ITS RESOURCES.

NOW IT'S A HAS A DEFICIENCY IN NUTRIENTS.

AND AND SO PATIENTS HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE.

ALL ALONG, BUT IT WAS A VERY BRUTAL REGIME.

AND SO IT TOOK SEVERAL DECADES FROM WHAT CAME ALL.

AND OF THE 18TH CENTURY TO FINALLY FOR INDEPENDENCE IS DECLARED.

BUT NONE OF THE COLONIAL POWERS AT THE TIME WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE INDEPENDENCE OF HAITI BECAUSE THERE IS THIS FEAR THAT IF THIS INDEPENDENCE IS RECOGNIZED AND EVERYWHERE ELSE THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS CAN SEE THAT REBELLING AGAINST SLAVERY CAN WORK.

AND SO YOU END UP HAVING AN EMBARGO FROM MOST COLONIAL POWERS AND HAITI, WHICH ESTABLISHES THE SECOND REPUBLIC IN THE HEMISPHERE.

FIRST BLACK LEAD, A REBELLION LEADING TO THE CREATION OF A REPUBLIC ENDS UP PAYING THE PRICE BECAUSE THEY'RE ISOLATED.

AND THEN DECADES LATER, ALMOST 40 YEARS AFTER THEIR INDEPENDENCE, THEY'RE FORCED TO SIGN A TREATY ACCORDING TO THE AGREE, RIGHT?

BUT THEY'RE FORCED TO A DEBT TO THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE AMOUNT OF 150 MILLION FRANCS OF THE TIME WHICH WOULD AMOUNTS TO BILLIONS IN TODAY'S CURRENCY.

AND SO ALL THE WAY INTO THE 20TH CENTURY, HAITI HAS HAD TO USE DIFFERENT METHODS THAT IN A WAY UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS THAT HAD BEEN USED DURING COLONIZATION BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO REPAY FRIENDS.

SUCH A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY.

THEY ARE CURRENTLY PAYING THIS SO THEY PAID IT ALL THE WAY IN THE 20TH CENTURY.

THEY'RE DONE PAYING THE DEBT BUT ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH UP 2.80%, OF HAITI'S BUDGET WAS DEVOTED TO REPAYING DEBT.

AND AND IT ALSO CONTINUED OVEREXPOSED STATION OF THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO BE ABLE TO REPAY SUCH AN AMOUNT.

>> WE WERE DISCUSSING EARLIER, HAITI IN 2010 BEING DEVASTATED BY AN EARTHQUAKE.

AND IT HAS JUST DESTROYED THEIR ISLAND NATION.

MANY OF THOSE HAITIANS IMMIGRATED TO UNITED STATES.

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CHOSE TO COME TO OUR COUNTRY?

>> AGAIN, THERE'S A LONG HISTORY THERE.

>> THE YEAR THE 20TH CENTURY, THE U.S.

ACTUALLY OCCUPIED THE ISLAND FOR 3 >> AND SO THERE IS THAT CONNECTION OF THE U.S.

GOING TO HAITI BEFORE HAITI GOING HERE, ALTHOUGH YOU DID HAVE HAITIANS THAT ANY GREETED WITH THE FRENCH TO NEW ORLEANS.

SO IF YOU ENJOY YOUR BEEN YEAR IN NEW ORLEANS FOOD, THERE'S THE HAITIAN PEOPLE SAY FRENCH BUT ISRAELI HAITIAN FRENCH INFLUENCE THERE.

SHE LOOK AT THE CREATION OF CHICAGO.

THERE IS ALSO HAITIAN INFLUENCE THERE.

SO THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SMALLER WAVES OF IMMIGRATION THROUGHOUT TO DEVALUE DICTATORSHIPS.

I'M GOING BACK A LITTLE BIT IN TIME.

BUT THROUGHOUT THE DEVALUED DICTATORSHIP.

YOU HAD.

THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HAITIANS THAT TRIED TO COME TO UNITED STATES.

BUT THEY WERE DENIED ENTRY.

JUST, FOR EXAMPLE, WITHIN THE DECADE IN THE 80'S, YOU HAD MORE THAN 20,000 PEOPLE THAT TRIED TO GET ASYLUM STATUS IN THE UNITED STATES.

11 MANAGED TO GET THAT STATUS AND ALL ALONG.

THEY WERE DENIED A ASYLUM.

BECAUSE THEY WERE CONSIDERED ECONOMY, MIGRANTS AND SO UNDERSTANDING HOW THE UNDER DEVELOPMENT OF HAITI HAS HISTORICAL ROOTS HELPS US SEE THAT IT IS MORE THAN JUST AN ECONOMY PROBLEM.

AND SO WHEN THE DISASTER OF 2010 HAPPENS, PAUL FARMER WHO WAS A DOCTOR WHO WENT TO HELP THERE, EXPLAINED THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A NATURAL DISASTER BECAUSE IT HIT SO HARD BECAUSE THEIR HEAD BEING CENTURIES OF DESTROYING THE LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE OF OF THE COUNTRY.

AND SO YOU HAD 1 MILLION PEOPLE THAT WERE DISPLACED AND SO OBVIOUSLY THE UNITED STATES HAD TIES FROM ITS PREVIOUS HISTORY.

YOU HAD PEOPLE THAT HAD FAMILY MEMBERS.

THERE WERE ALSO VERY CLOSE TO HAITI.

AND THEN IN TERMS OF THE CLIMATE IS A FAIRLY SIMILAR CLIMATE, RIGHT.

AND IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK, WHICH WAS A GOAL FOR MOST PEOPLE, FLORIDA IS IS AT FIRST SEEMED LIKE IT WAS THE BEST DESTINATION.

AND AFTER THAT EARTHQUAKE, THE U.S.

GOVERNMENT EXTENDED TPS TO HAITIANS AND THAT ALLOWED THEM TO COME TO OUR COUNTRY.

>> TO WORK AND TO LIVE FOR ABOUT 18 MONTHS, 16 YEARS LATER.

THE COUNTRY IS STILL REBUILDING.

HOW DOES TPS, HOW HAS TPS HELPED PATIENTS?

>> RIGHT.

AND SO TPS IS TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS.

AND SO ONLY IF YOUR COUNTRY QUALIFIES.

SO IF THERE IS SOME EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION HAPPENING IN THE COUNTRY, IF THERE IS A MINISTRY VIOLENCE, DO YOU QUALIFY FOR TPS?

AND SO TPS, OBVIOUSLY AT THE TIME OF SUCH A DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE.

BIG, BIG CHECKED ALL THE BOXES.

AND SO THAT'S HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO COME.

AND OBVIOUSLY, WHEN YOU SUDDENLY HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO PLACE TO LIVE.

THEY HAVE BENEFITED FROM BEING HERE.

BUT THEY'VE ALSO CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO OUR LIFE IN FLORIDA.

AND I THINK THAT'S THE PART THAT PEOPLE SOMETIMES FORGET IS HOW VALUABLE THEY HAVE BEEN TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR STATE.

>> I KNOW THE LATEST STUDY SHOWED THAT OVER HALF OF THE NATION'S PATIENT POPULATION LIVES IN THE SUNSHINE STATE.

MANY OF THESE HAITIANS WORK IN HEALTH CARE.

YOU MENTIONED THEY ARE NURSES.

THEY ARE THRIVING IN HOSPITALITY, AGRICULTURE.

THEY HOLD MANY JOBS HERE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

IF TPS IS TAKEN AWAY, HOW DOES THAT IMPACT SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND THE STATE AS A WHOLE?

>> YES.

SO I'M GETTING A LIVE EMOTIONAL BECAUSE IT AFFECTS EVERYBODY.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

OUR NEIGHBORS WERE TALKING ABOUT OUR STUDENTS.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR COLLEAGUES LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT HAITIAN MYSELF, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO COULD SPEAK TO THAT ON CAMPUS.

WE HAVE A HAITIANS TO AN ORGANIZATION.

WE HAVE MANY, VERY TALENTED STUDENTS AND FACULTY AS WELL AS STAFF THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSITY.

BUT IF YOU CONSIDER THE FACT, FOR INSTANCE, THAT ABOUT 22% OF OUR WORKFORCE AND THE SAD STATE OF FLORIDA ARE IMMIGRANTS AND THAT.

A QUARTER OF ARE NURSES LIKE HOW DO YOU DO IF YOU DO HAVE NURSES A QUARTER OVER NURSES ARE IMMIGRANTS ABOUT HALF OF OUR HEALTH AIDES ARE ALSO IMMIGRANTS AND OBVIOUSLY RIDE THE SERVICE INDUSTRY.

THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO OUR ECONOMY, TO OUR LIVE TO OUR LIFE STYLE AND AND DAVE BEING ABLE TO DO SO WITHOUT ANY WAY TO MOVE FORWARD.

AND THAT'S THE PART THAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND IS IF YOU HAVE TO PS, YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CITIZENSHIP NOR RESIDENCY.

SO YOU'RE ALWAYS IN THAT TEMPORARY STATUS.

SO IT'S NOT LIKE THEY HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING THE RIGHT WAY IS THAT THERE IS NO WAY OUT OF TPS.

IT'S EITHER YOU HAVE TO P S OR YOU DON'T HAVE IT.

AND THEN SO.

WHAT THAT MEANS IS RIGHT NOW.

IF YOU TAKE IT AWAY, YOU END UP HAVING NO HOME, NO STATUS, EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT HAVE SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

>> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERTISE AND YOUR PERSPECTIVE.

IT'S SO IMPORTANT.

>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

THANK YOU.

DR CRAWFORD JOINING US TODAY.

>> AFTER THE BREAK, A FUSION OF POP CULTURE AND NUCLEAR ENERGY.

HOW IN NAPLES, AUTHOR IS HOPING TO DISPEL MISINFORMATION ABOUT NUCLEAR ENERGY IN ENTERTAINING FASHION.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES UTHMEIER FILED A PETITION WITH THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION TO ALLOW SMALL SCALE LOW-RISK NUCLEAR REACTORS TO PROCEED FORWARD WITH OPERATIONS WITHOUT A FULL IN RC LICENSE.

THIS MOVE COMES AS PART OF THE RESURGENCE IN NUCLEAR ENERGY.

AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN NOTICE LOOKING TO GENERATE MORE POSITIVE NUCLEAR VIBES THROUGHOUT POP CULTURE.

>> TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RESURGENCE IN NUCLEAR ENERGY INTEREST.

>> WE ARE NOW JOINED BY SEAN CONNORS AND NAPLES RESIDENT, AUTHOR AND FOUNDER OF THE ATOMIC GARAGE MOVEMENT.

SEAN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.

IT'S NICE TO BE HER.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO BE WHAT DOES THIS ATOMIC GARAGE MOVEMENT?

>> WELL, THE TIME A GRADUAL MOVEMENT AS A PUBLISHING COMPANY, WE SET UP TO TAKE THE TOPIC OF NEW KILLER ENERGY.

AND MAKE IT MORE ACESSIBLE TO POPULAR CULTURE.

SO THERE'S SO MANY SCIENTISTS, A NEW KIM ENERGY AND ENGINEERS, AND THEY'RE SO FACT BASED.

PEOPLE REALLY LEARNED THROUGH STORIES.

SO WE THOUGHT THAT THE GOOD GUYS WEREN'T TELLING THEIR STORY.

WELL, ENOUGH.

SO WE SAW WE'VE BEEN THAN A FICTIONAL CHARACTER AND A SCENARIO WHERE WE WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT NEW KILLER ENERGY IN A GOOD LIGHT AND SHOW HOW IT CAN BE A POSITIVE FOR THE WORLD RATHER THAN A NEGATIVE.

THIS MANY PEOPLE ARE MISTAKENLY.

I THINK IT IS.

>> AND WHY?

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT NUCLEAR ENERGY?

>> I'M FORTUNATE NEW KILLER ENERGY EFFICIENT CAME INTO EXISTENCE JUST PRIOR TO WORLD WAR.

2.

AND AS EVERYBODY'S FAMILIAR WITH NOW, THE FIRST DEPLOYMENT AND THE KILLER.

AND HE WAS AS A WHOPPING.

SO NOT A PSAKI HIROSHIMA AND THE MANHATTAN PROGRAM MANHATTAN PROJECT WAS ALL ABOUT BUILDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

WE NEVER REALLY LOOKED THAT UP.

LEARNERS.

YOU FROM NAMPA POINT AS AS A SOURCE OF GOOD.

IT WAS MORE OF A SOURCE OF OF WAR AND IT WAS HARD TO SHAKE ITS HARD TO SHAKE THAT HISTORY AND TO MOVE IT OVER INTO ENERGY PRODUCTION AS OPPOSED TO DEFENSE.

>> AND A LOT OF THIS ALSO THINK OF CHERNOBYL, THE DISASTER IN JAPAN AND AND IT'S HARD TO BALANCE THAT WITH THE POSITIVE.

>> WELL, THERE'S THERE'S 3 ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED IN COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR ENERGY, 3 MILE ISLAND HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

AND DO ANY OTHER INDUSTRY THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT.

IT WAS A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

WE HAD A REACTOR MELTDOWN.

FROM FACTUAL STANDPOINT.

EVERYTHING OPERATED JUST LIKE IT SHOULD IN THE EMERGENCY AREA.

NO ONE WAS HURT.

NO ONE WAS INJURED.

BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF PANIC AND A FOREVER.

IT SAID NEW KILLER BACK AT LEAST 2 OR 3 DECADES IN THE UNITED STATES.

CHERNOBYL WAS THE WORST.

IT WAS A IT WAS A REACTOR NOT USE ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD LIKE THAT.

THE TRAINING WAS BAD AND THEY MELTED THE REACTOR DOWN.

THAT WASN'T IN THE CONTAINMENT DOME.

SO IS RELIEF IN THE ATMOSPHERE.

AND 35 FIREMEN DIED FIGHTING THAT RADIOACTIVE FIRE.

AND THEN IN JAPAN FOCUS HUMAN DIED.

SHE THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE AND THEN A TSUNAMI AND THEIR BACKUP GENERATORS AREN'T HIGH ENOUGH.

SO THEY FLOODED AND THEY MAY EXPERIENCE SOME A COUPLE OF MELTDOWNS AT FUKUSHIMA.

BUT AGAIN, REALLY NOBODY WAS HURT OR INJURED FROM THE NUCLEAR PLANT.

WAS ALL THE TSUNAMI AND THEY ORDERED AN EVACUATION OF THE AREA BECAUSE OF THE NUCLEAR PLANT.

THAT WAS PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT DECISION AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DIED IN THE EVACUATION.

NEW FILLERS REALLY SAFE TO MY WORLD IN DATA SAYS 0 POINT 0, 3, DEATHS PER CAROL WIGHT.

OUR IN TERRE WHITE HOURS ARE HOW YOU MEASURE ELECTRICITY ALMOST ON A STATE OR MASSIVE CITY AREA.

SO BASICALLY 0, 3, DEATHS PER CAROL AT OUR MEANS.

NOBODY DIES FROM THIS TECHNOLOGY.

>> WELL, AND IT SEEMS THAT AMERICANS ARE BECOMING MORE SUPPORTIVE OF THE USE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY.

A 2025 PEW RESEARCH STUDY SHOWED THAT 6 IN 10 PEOPLE ACTUALLY FAVOR EXPANDING NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.

AND THAT'S UP FROM 2020 WHEN IT WAS CLOSER TO ONE AND A HALF OUT OF 10 PEOPLE.

WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THAT PERCEPTION IS CHANGING A LITTLE BIT?

IF THERE'S NO OTHER REASON WHY YOU WANT TO LOVE NEW KILLER ENERGY.

>> LOVE IT FOR THIS REASON.

IT IS THE BIPARTISAN ISSUE OF OUR TIME.

DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS READ AND BLUE STATES, PEOPLE THAT ARE FEARFUL OF CLIMATE CHANGE OF PEOPLE THAT I DON'T THINK CLIMATE CHANGE IS A BIG DEAL.

THEY ALL AGREE THAT NEW KILLER ENERGY IS A GOOD IDEA.

AND THE REASON THEY DO IS BECAUSE THAT NEW KILLER ENERGY CAN PRODUCE SO MUCH ENERGY FROM SUCH A SMALL FOOTPRINT.

AND IT CAN DO IT WITHOUT EMITTING ALMOST NO CO 2.

AND ITS RELIABLE SO FROM FROM PEOPLE THAT WANT MORE ENERGY AND WANT TO ELIMINATE ENERGY POVERTY IN THE WORLD.

THEY WANTED KILLER ENERGY PEOPLE THAT ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE.

ONE, YOU'RE HEALER, ENERGY.

I SEEN YOU CAN LEARN A G IS A GREAT UNIFIER AND MAYBE CAN GET US PAST THIS.

THIS ARGUING IT IS GOING ON IS POLARIZATION THAT WE HAVE IN THE COUNTRY.

BUT I THINK THIS IS I MEAN, PRESIDENT BIDEN'S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

THERE'S A LOT TO ADVANCE NEW KILLER ENERGY AND THEN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION CAME IN AND THEY CONTINUED AND ACCELERATED ON THOSE PROGRAMS.

YOU CAN GO BACK 3 AND FOR ADMINISTRATION IS NOW CONTINUOUSLY MOVED.

MACIEL ENERGY INTO A MORE POSITIVE ROLLED IN DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS.

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE, PEOPLE AND HAVING DEPARTMENT ENERGY, REPUBLICAN PEOPLE PARTY AND THANK CHRIS THE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

NOW, BUT THEY'RE ALL HOPE ROLE.

NEW KILLER UNIFYING CONCEPT RIGHT NOW.

YES, YOU ARE SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS.

THIS IS THE SUBJECT OF YOUR VERY FIRST NOVEL THAT YOU'VE AUTHORED.

>> CALL CHAIN REACTION.

AND IT IS IN THE ATTEMPT TO HELP A LITTLE.

BUT YEAH, CHANGE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY CAN NOW TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT.

>> YOUR BOOK, OK?

SO WE SET UP A MISSION WHERE WE WANTED TO MOVE NUCLEAR ENERGY INTO THEN THE POPULAR CULTURE.

WE LOOKED THAT WAY.

WHY HASN'T THAT BEEN DONE?

WHY ARE WE LOOKING AT THE SUM THE SIMPSONS, FOR EXAMPLE?

AND SO THERE'S BEEN ALL THIS NEGATIVE OR THE APOCALYPTIC TYPE OF INFORMATION.

SO WE THOUGHT TO TO BUILD A STORY AROUND A POSITIVE ASPECT, A NEW COLOR.

SO WE TALKED TO PEOPLE IN POLITICS, PEOPLE IN SCIENCE AND TRY TO COME UP WITH A PLAUSIBLE STORY THAT.

PUTS NEW KIT NEW KILLER ENERGY AND A PERSON'S MIND IN A WAY THAT'S CREATED THEM POSITIVE.

>> GREAT.

GREAT INFORMATION AND GREAT INSIGHT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

YES, THANK YOU.

>> COMING UP TOMORROW, THE RETURN OF SPRING MEANS GETTING YOUR GARDEN BACK ON TRACK.

BUT NOT ALL PLANTS ARE CREATED EQUAL AND SOME MIGHT DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD TO THE LOCAL ECOSYSTEM.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

MAKE SURE YOU HEAD TO WGCU DOT ORG WHERE YOU'LL FIND ALL OF OUR STORIES AND EXTENDED INTERVIEWS.

HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN BACK HERE WEDNESDAY ON SOUTHWEST FLORIDA IN FOCUS.