>> tragic news in Kentucky's largest city following a mass shooting.

What we're learning about the suspect, the victims and the officers who jumped into action.

>> I think we had just a few people who had.

Not serious injuries.

What nobody was killed.

I >> Hopkinsville to continues cleanup efforts after when storms caused damages to homes and businesses.

>> The impact has just been generational.

>> It's a very special birthday for this very special Kentucky school.

>> We talk about Monticello.

The first thing I say is the >> downtown fixture and a small Kentucky town garners a centennial celebration.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Monday.

April, the 10th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for winding down your Monday night with OSS.

>> We begin tonight in Louisville where a tragic story is still developing.

At least 5 people were killed and 9 others injured in a shooting at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville this morning, 2 police officers were among those injured at last check.

One officer was listed in critical condition.

LMPD interim police chief said officers were on scene within 3 minutes of the shooting being reported.

She said officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect.

Connor Sturgeon who died at the scene.

She also said Sturgeon was an employee at the bank where the shooting occurred.

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>> Governor Andy Beshear also addressed reporters this morning adding that one of the victims killed in today's attack.

Tommy Elliot senior vice president at Old National Bank was a close friend.

>> And everybody who needs it don't be afraid to get some help.

Our bodies and our minds are not met.

To go through these types of tragedies.

And so I hope that all the brave officers stepped into the line of fire.

They're worried about one of their fellow officers.

We'll reach out for help when they need it.

I hope.

Every one of those bank employees and folks in that building, one that I know well.

And my ad campaign was out of that building.

Virtually everyone in it.

That's my bank.

I hope that they will all retail and get the help that they need.

There are a lot of people that are hurting today.

And if we have a place to focus our energy, I hope it is to surround them with the love and the compassion that we have been so good that one another.

>> One of the officers injured in today's shooting has been identified as 26 year-old Nicholas Wilt.

He was sworn in as an officer just 10 days ago.

The interim police chief said officer Wilt was shot in the head and has undergone brain surgery.

Doctors at the University of Louisville said the next 24 hours are critical.

8 others were injured.

Police said 3 victims including officer, will remain in critical condition.

3 more victims received non life-threatening injuries and 3 other victims have been treated and released.

Governor Beshear has ordered flags at state buildings to half-staff in honor of the people killed in today's Louisville bank shooting.

Flags will remain lowered until sunset on Friday.

He's urging owners of flags displayed on private property to be lowered as well.

The gun violence archive says this is the 100 and 46th mass shooting and 14th mass murder in the U.S. just this year.

Shortly after this morning's mass shooting, there was another shooting in Louisville, several blocks away.

Police said a man was shot and killed in a woman was injured outside Jefferson County Community and Technical college.

No arrests have been made in that case.

Police said it was not connected to the shooting at Old National Bank.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement about today's mass shooting.

He said and he got a tweet.

Elaine and I are devastated by the news coming out of Louisville.

Thank you to LMPD and our first responders for your bravery at the scene.

We send our prayers to the victims, their families in the city of Louisville.

As we await more information.

Congressman Morgan McGarvey, who represents Louisville and Washington, D.C., also issued a statement saying, quote, Today is a dark day in our community.

I'm heartbroken by the loss of at least 4 innocent Louisville Younes.

And yet another act of senseless gun violence.

This time and the heart of our city.

And I'm grateful for the heroic acts of first responders who no doubt saved lives today.

State Senator Gerald Neal, the Senate minority leader, serves the 33rd district in Louisville.

He put out a statement saying in part, quote, As we mourn and reflect on the devastating impact of today's events, we must come together as a community and society to find effective solutions and preventing the continuing scourge of gun violence.

We can do more and have an obligation to do more to prevent such tragedies from happening again.

We must do all that we can to take effective steps to ensure a safer community, end quote.

Here are comments from 3 Democratic leaders in the Kentucky House Representative Derrick Graham, Cherilyn Stephenson and Rachel Roberts.

Quote, We are beyond devastated by what happened in Louisville this morning as we and our nation indoor, not one but 2 shooting sprees in a span of hours.

We should not have to live like this living in fear.

And in a time where legislative inaction regarding gun violence has become the law of the land.

We must demand more end quote, Republican state Senate President Robert Stivers also commented.

He said, quote, After another senseless act of violence, the Senate stands firmly with the city of Louisville during this tragic time.

We will hold the victims, loved ones and friends and our prayers.

I commend law enforcement to rush to the same place themselves in the line of fire to protect the public and ended and obviously deranged individuals shooting spree.

If not for these heroes, even more families and friends would be mourning today.

And we have this from Kentucky House Speaker David Osborne.

This morning's attacks in Louisville are heartbreaking as lives are shattered by a senseless act of violence.

We mourn the loss of innocent life and hold those wounded in prayer as we do.

The families.

As details continue to unfold.

We also offer our appreciation to the men and women of the Louisville Metro Police Department for their response that surely saved countless other lives.

We continue to follow these tragic events.

An update on developments throughout the week.

Now to the western part of the state.

Hopkinsville is still dealing with the aftermath of a wind storm late last month.

The storm had wind gusts up to 90 miles per hour.

At least 60 residential.

And 25 commercial buildings were damaged.

Governor Andy Beshear visited Hopkinsville on Friday.

Our Casey Parker Bell spoke to the publisher of the Hop Town Chronicle.

Jennifer Brown about the governor's visit and the town's cleanup efforts.

>> There's been a significant revival in downtown Hopkinsville.

It's been happening over the last 5 to 10 years this felt like a real blow to the community and to what they want downtown to become.

>> Governor Andy Beshear made a visit Hopkinsville on Friday.

What did he say the state was going to do to help with cleanup efforts?

>> So I think they're they're trying to work out what can be done there are, as you probably know, some complicated formulas that determine whether or not the county where an entire state qualifies for FEMA assistance.

And we may not be at that threshold for that kind of help.

So there are residents in the community KET.

And trees down in their yard.

You know, trees house and they need help that technically some government agencies can't provide.

So the governor and local officials were talking about perhaps com going together.

So different resources that might also involve getting some nonprofits involved.

Just this weekend, I had an e-mail from a woman who lives in neighborhood.

on the edge of downtown.

And she told me she has.

Something in her backyard in terms of trees down.

But she's not capable of dealing with herself and she's out.

>> Sir, is there a chance that there could be federal aid even though we don't know yet?

>> We don't know The county emergency manager Randy Graham told me they need to reach a threshold of $328,000 in damages, which doesn't really sound like a lot.

But that has to uninsured damages.

they're still working on the assessment to find out what's going to be available.

He did also tell me that I'm right for the governor left town.

The county judge executive and the agree that they should declare a local emergency, which would then open up the avenue for the state to send in state highway trucks and billions to help with the the tree removal.

>> Jennifer Brown says estimates on the total amount of damage in Hopkinsville could be released as early as of this week.

A Western Kentucky school superintendent says a student died in an accident over spring break.

Fulton County School Superintendent Patrice Chambers posted on social media that a 7th grade student at Fulton County, Middle High School middle school died in a quote, spring break.

Tragedy at the beach in quote, the student has been identified as 13 year-old silent Freeman, according to the sheriff's office in Destin, Florida.

Freeman drowned Friday while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.

The deadline is fast approaching to register to vote in Kentucky's upcoming primary election.

The deadline to register is one week from today.

Monday, April 17th.

You can register online by mail or by returning voter registration cards to your county clerk's office.

The primary election is Tuesday.

May 16th.

The general election is November 7th statewide offices are on the ballot this year with voters deciding on governor attorney general auditor, secretary of state Agriculture commissioner and Treasure.

And we'll take a look back at the Kentucky General Assembly and what it accomplished during the 2023 session with leaders of some key advocacy groups in Kentucky representing businesses and youth and family advocates.

See that conversation tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

Current and future social workers are getting a new tool to better prepare them to conduct child welfare investigations.

The University of Kentucky's College of social Work is now using new virtual reality simulation in its training, the technology puts participants and scenarios they may encounter while making home visits and interviews.

The dean of the college says this gives students a better understanding of some of the challenges they may face in the field.

>> It's really a way to.

Engaging experience the full continuum of what an investigation is again, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that people are ready to conduct those investigations in a way.

That will lead to a helping better serve children and families across Kentucky.

>> Coming up tomorrow, we'll show you some of the real-life scenarios.

This virtual reality.

Technology puts students N. Now in other news state tax revenues are up again.

The state says Kentucky raked in more than a billion dollars in March.

That's up half a percent from a year ago.

It's the biggest march total in state history.

Budget director John Hicks as Kentucky's long stretch of revenue growth is taking place during a sustained period of overall prosperity.

And the Kentucky economy.

He says General fund receipts have now gone up 11 quarters in a row.

A new Kentucky law just passed is already headed to court.

The Kentucky Lantern reports that Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd will hear arguments tomorrow about Kentucky's random change of venue law.

It's a law that lets litigants request that a lawsuit challenging state laws, regulations or executive orders can be moved to another court and that new court would be chosen at random.

Many believe the new law is aimed at Judge Shepard.

Many Republicans have disagreed with his rulings in the past.

The challenge to the new law is coming from the skill games.

Machine industry.

♪ ♪ A widely used abortion medication could be pulled from the market.

More now in medical news, mifepristone is part of a to kill regimen used to and pregnancy in the first 10 weeks of gestation, about half of all abortions nationwide are performed using the drug.

It received FDA approval more than 20 years ago.

On Friday, a federal judge in Texas declared the FDA's approval of the drug was invalid shortly after that ruling, there was another ruling out of Washington state that would expand access to the drug.

The Biden administration has asked to KET mifepristone on the U.S. market as litigation plays out.

A federal appeals court is likely to weigh in this week.

We spoke to tomorrow we'd or the state director of Planned Parenthood Alliance advocates about the ruling and what it means for Kentucky.

>> This will impact Kentucky.

And so while abortion is banned in Kentucky, met her, Kristen is used for other the reproductive health care needs specifically.

If you are having a miscarriage, it is likely the medication that is going to be a prescribed by your provider.

And this will no longer be available to you.

That doesn't mean that there are other regiments my depressed only.

But there are there are other reasons why you would be prescribe mifepristone.

But they are pulling be, you know, never question entirely from the market and this will impact reproductive health and outcomes in Kentucky.

More broadly.

>> Tomorrow night on Kentucky EDITION will have reaction from David Walls of the Family Foundation on the legal fight over the strong.

Now, more medical news COVID-19 numbers are rising again one week after Kentucky's map was all green indicating low levels of COVID-19 in all counties.

There are now 2 counties in yellow Bath and Montgomery counties you see here are now yellow, which means medium COVID levels.

According to the CDC, there are 1500 new COVID-19 cases in the state.

Kentucky is below the national average for monkeypox vaccination.

According to new numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC estimates in Kentucky the at risk population for monkeypox now known as M-pox is 19,300.

And 44, only 21% of those at risk in Kentucky have received one dose of the vaccine compared to 37% nationally and only 12% in Kentucky have had a second dose nationally.

23% of those at risk have had a second dose.

The CDC reports Kentucky has had 104 cases of m-pox and FOX is spread through intimate contact with an infected person ♪ >> the Kentucky School for the deaf celebrate its bicentennial birthday today.

K S D is the 4th oldest school for the deaf and the nation and was the first to be supported by public funds.

>> We went to Danville to learn more about the school, its history and its impact.

>> Maybe we don't realize that really Kentucky.

He's been a big supporter of deaf education, especially west of here.

So all the education, the deaf education have been to the west of here.

All started here at Case D. Teachers were trained there in because, you know, students are trying to became teachers a graduate and then they would go West and they would establish other schools for the deaf in the West.

It was all based out of here.

We're the 4th school in the nation to have a 200 year celebration.

And so that's very important.

It's very important for us.

The impact has just been generational.

We have families that have been here for 6 generations.

>> then we have students that come here that it's their first generation.

I think the number of years my family is certain this camp is probably over 10250.

I graduated 95 in my family.

Like I said, we have really strong connections here.

My parents graduated from here.

My sister graduated from here.

My mother taught English here for several years.

My sister, my brother-in-law, worked here.

So there's a big family connection.

>> I'm graduating in the 2 nutty of its ability to have such an honor.

The same time, anything 200 years.

That's a long time.

A lot of history since either established in.

So I'm I'm proud and I'm happy and it's really a blessing to be here.

Everybody having the same type of mutation, same language through the great what's so special about Kst another death schools across the nation is our kids have full access to one which here.

>> The teachers themselves sign in ASL.

So you're getting that direct instruction if you're in public school and had to go through an interpreter but is not necessarily a bad thing.

But here it's great having that direct communication with with DACA, with teachers that time my fondest memory.

The hearing student has ability to here and get all the information constantly.

Their vocabulary increases greatly.

They're kind of ability goes up because they're constantly having access and a lot of times that a death child won't get that.

They don't know what's going on.

Without the school.

Or maybe students would struggle and and may not have the same opportunity that is in excess of a struggle with language understanding and cut into the behind.

And so this is really >> help to impact young students and their futures.

I've had a lot of language here.

More access than I would anywhere else access to American sign language and who knows where I would be without that right now.

Well, it is just like, like I said, such a home that a family so important to me to have the support of the staff of the teachers.

You know, they may be who I am right now.

They've made me feel and I just just proud.

Yeah, being here for 10 and just such a long time for school and I feel really proud of that.

So I'm hoping it will continue on.

You know, we will see improvements able see expansion, more students coming, more services, more programs and that, you know, they can serve the next 200 years of de students.

>> Here's to 200 more years.

ASD will be celebrating the bicentennial with the 2 100th anniversary gala.

The event is scheduled for April 15th.

♪ >> A statue in Southcentral, Kentucky celebrated a big milestone this weekend that doughboy statue which stands in the center of downtown Monticello turned 100 on Saturday.

Doughboy is a nickname for American soldiers who fought in World War.

One and to the residents of Monticello.

The statue is more then just a downtown fixture.

>> You talk about Monticello.

The first thing I say is.

♪ >> back in August, a great people in the community realize that this one and we here and of archery was coming up.

We wanted to do something to commemorate it.

So.

With lots of different agencies involved in it, we came up with a really what I liked was pretty good client in that van der Rohe.

Good problem because this is banned.

I mine fixture on Acela for 100 years.

It's something that those of us who live here say almost died >> being away from Monticello for 20 years.

A comeback today just for this.

And every time I come back.

I don't go around the bypass.

I don't do any of that.

I come by this man.

>> Because that on Acela to me.

He also he's protecting us.

And that's what this is all about.

It is a physical.

>> Presence and helps of biking them for what they've done.

You know, you can say it is often as you want to when I can look at that and think somebody cared and that.

But at the >> My great grandfather, Homer Alexander is commemorated on the doughboy his registration card has an X on it.

He couldn't read or write.

So he did the aches.

And then if you'll notice it says his mark and then someone put his name the side of it.

My great grandfather was one of the wounded home roads and are on there.

But also there are >> and that have been ♪ >> and there are forces of some time.

He is AM and the ad is there watching over them.

>> And every I mean, my brother serve my dad served their names are not on there, but they recognize who this is and what this is about.

This is about every one of them.

>> according to the National World War, One Museum, the term Doughboy might originate from American military operations on the Mexican border when soldiers would find themselves coated in white adobe dust.

Adobe's quickly became known as Doughboys as many were redeployed to Europe during World War.

One.

Earlier we discuss the Kentucky school for the Deaf turning 200 Toby Gibbs has details on that school's founding and more in tonight's look at this week in Kentucky, history.

♪ >> Dan Ball established a school that would later become known as the Kentucky School for the Deaf on April 10th 18.

23.

It was the first state supported school of its kind in the United States and the first school for the deaf west of the Alleghenies.

John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln.

The only president born in Kentucky on April 14th 18.

65 President.

Lincoln would die early the next morning.

4 years earlier on April 15 to 18 61 Lake and asked for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion in the Confederate states.

>> The governor of Kentucky barium a gofund said Kentucky would refuse to provide troops.

The race are citation was born.

April 11th 1945.

At Calumet Farm Citation would win the Triple Crown in 1948.

And become the first horse to win 1 million dollars.

Actress Patricia Neal, a native of Packard in Whitley County, won the Academy Award on April 13, 1964 for her role in the Paul Newman It.

On 4/10/1961.

Governor Bertie Combs appropriated $50,000.

The construction of a 4 o'clock on the state Capitol lawn in Frankfort.

The governor had seen a similar clock and Scotland, although the idea had its critics, the floral clock would eventually become a popular stop for tourists visiting the capital.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history, I'm told, begins.

>> Thank you to be that clock is my favorite on the Capitol grounds.

We're about 5 weeks away from the May primary.

Kelly Craft, a Republican candidate for governor is having a quote, kitchen table campaign event tonight and you'll see some of that tomorrow.

Plus, the Simpson County historian is using new technology to uncover more than 100 unmarked graves.

We'll take you there tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION, which we hope will see you 4, 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central where we inform connect and inspire subscribe to our e-mail newsletter and watch full episodes and clips of KET Dot Org can also find us on the PBS video app on your mobile device and smart TV.

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Thank you so much for watching tonight.

More from Louisville about the mass shooting tomorrow night on Kentucky edition as well.

We'll KET you up to updated and informed and I'll see you tomorrow night.

Take care.

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