>> We have to take action now.

We need short-term action to end this gun violence epidemic.

Now.

>> Louisville's mayor vows to act as a 5th victim dies after yesterday's mass shooting.

We can talk.

It gets federal help after storm damage in March.

>> We need to take a deep dive in to see where can we?

Carve and where these woke ideologies are starting and we need to cut them out.

>> And hear from Kelly Craft on the campaign trail with an all American swimmer.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

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

April, the 11th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you so much for spending some of your Tuesday night with OSS.

We begin tonight with the latest from yesterday's mass shooting at the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville.

A 5th victim has now died of her wounds.

That victim is 57 year-old Deanna Eckert.

3 patients are still in the hospital, including Officer Nicholas Wilt, who remains in critical condition.

Another 5 victims have been released today.

Louisville's interim police chief released more details about the gunman.

23 year-old Connor Sturgeon, including the weapon he used an AR 15 rifle.

>> We have learned that the suspect in this incident was a current employee National Bank.

We have also learned that he purchased the weapon used in this tragic incident on yesterday on April, the 4th.

He purchased the weapon legally from one of the local dealerships here in Louisville.

Executed a search warrant.

One is residents and we have recovered items and we cannot get into specific details on what we recover at this time.

Because again, the investigation is ongoing.

We want to make sure that we're providing accurate information.

The family deserves that the community deserves that.

>> Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said his focus is moving forward and trying to unify members of the community today.

He also made 2 requests of state lawmakers.

First, he asked for a little while to have autonomy to deal with what he called a unique gun violence epidemic in the Derby city.

Second, he encouraged lawmakers to do more to KET confiscated guns from ending back up on the streets.

>> Under current Kentucky law.

The assault rifle that was used to murder 5 of our neighbors and shoot at rest.

Read police officers will one day be auctioned off.

Think about that.

That murder weapon.

We'll be back on the streets one day under Kentucky's current law.

My administration has already taken action to remove the firing pin before turning confiscated guns over to the state.

Because that's all that the current law allows us to do.

That's not enough.

It's time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroyed the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors.

>> Mayor Greenberg also announce details for a community wide vigil.

It's scheduled for tomorrow night Wednesday at 05:00PM Eastern time at the Muhammad Ali Center.

The city is also making mental health professionals available at more than a dozen houses of worship tomorrow.

We also heard from Doctor Jason Smith with the University of Louisville Hospital at today's press conference.

His team treated the victims in yesterday's shooting.

Doctor Smith was candid about how shootings are all too frequent in Louisville.

>> But I'll be honest.

Caring for 3 shooting victims and plus the other that came in.

Is not a month.

Frequent day for us and the events surrounding this made this obviously much more difficult.

To be honest with you.

We barely had to adjust our operating room schedule to be able to do this.

That's how frequent.

We are having to deal with gun violence in our community.

I'll tell you personally, I'm weary.

I've been a little bit for 15 years.

All of it at University Hospital for 15 years.

I've cared for victims of violence and gunshot wounds.

And people say I'm tired, but I'll be answer.

It's more than tired.

I'm weary.

There's only so many times you can walk into a room.

And tell someone they're not coming home tomorrow.

It just breaks your heart.

When you hear someone screaming, Mommy, daddy.

It just becomes too hard day in and day out to be able to do that.

My team is fantastic.

They're they're absolute professionals and they're wonderful.

Sooner or later, it catches up to everybody.

You just can't KET doing what we're doing.

Because you just can't KET seeing these lives lost.

You can't KET seeing all the people with these horrific injuries coming through the door without doing something to try and help.

And I don't know what the answers are.

I'm a doctor.

I don't know what the answers are.

But to everyone who helps make policy both that state city federal.

I would simply ask you to do something.

Because doing nothing, which is what we've been doing is not working.

>> Doctor Smith also encourage people to donate blood.

He said his team use 170 units of blood yesterday, which is far more than the hospital has on standby on any given day you can find donation centers at Red Cross Blood Dot org.

When emotions, as you can imagine, are still running high the day after the mass shooting there in Louisville today.

I caught up with the deputy Mayor David James who talked about losing close friend Tommy Elliot, who was the senior VP of the bank.

>> When this happened, you may not have known the people directly that were injured or killed in this unfortunate and tragic event.

But you may know someone that has maybe somebody that you work with somebody, its cause and our goal.

And the people and just really been touched by this throughout the entire community and people know each other and they love each other in the city.

And it's it's hers to a court.

Yeah, it's very personal to me.

You know, I KET.

A military camp of tournament scheduled to go to dinner with him next week and just texted with him on Friday.

Coming hot for them.

His wife is a friend of mine.

I saw her to hospital straight.

And we were scheduled to go to dinner.

Souza sort of, you know, we hugged each other and could he have the we're safer?

And that her husband killed my friend.

And so, you know, we're all very connected to.

Each other in this community sport.

Having some common sense gun laws.

Has got to be something that we're focused on through the state, local governments in the state of Kentucky are not allowed to do anything with any got.

And so the fact that the weapon that was used to kill 5 of our friends.

To be auctioned off to somebody else is unthinkable to me.

How can that be logical?

How can we say that?

That's right.

It's not.

And so I really want to state legislature to to look at where we are and what needs to be changed.

>> U.S.

Congressman Morgan McGarvey who represents Louisville, says enough is enough when it comes to gun violence.

I sat down with him today and he's Louisville office where he described the moment he found out about the tragedy.

>> I was absolutely.

Read the feeling you're somewhat.

We first started getting reports there was a shooting.

And it's it's.

It's weird because you're almost hoping it's not a mass shooting that just something went wrong.

Maybe was a bank robbery, maybe maybe this isn't.

This isn't coming to our commute.

This epidemic of gun violence isn't coming here to Louisville and then the names are coming out.

Right?

And for me, I lost a good friend and Tommy because Louisville Small, my wife used to work with his at noon on me a long I got a call.

In the middle of the day.

Frantic from a woman who was are made of honor where the God parents of 2 of her children.

And she said on it, Jessica Barracks Houses, you can't find out anything about her husband.

Can you find out what happened?

I called LMPD very responsive as they were all day yesterday and you know, and they told me.

We can't conclude anything, but he's not on the list of and to have to call back and give that news, you know, Bales and comparison of what his wife and had to tell their 2 small children.

That night and this community is is going to hurt for a long time.

>> One of the things we have heard, it's about the responsiveness of the police of the first responders.

Within minutes of being contacted, they were on the scene and 3 minutes.

I mean, can you talk about the heroes and the quick response and that it could have been much worse in terms of the casualties and fatalities without question the brave actions and quick response of the Louisville Metro Police Department and all of our first responders save lives.

They saved lives.

There's young man who walked in with an AR 15 on the Monday morning after Easter and the police were on the scene and they.

>> They literally put their bodies in the line of fire and saved lives and we owe them.

I'm unpayable debt of gratitude for that.

>> We've heard a lot of thoughts and prayers.

Congressman.

You have been one when you were in the state Senate have proposed legislation that scene to be common sense and some people would say even bipartisan.

There was that now retired Republican who sponsored what many might call red flag legislation.

Where does the conversation need to go?

And many would say, particularly in this community, we're beyond conversation.

We want action.

What should be?

>> I appreciate the sincere prayers of everyone offering them because they're needed these families, these people, these individuals are community.

We need those prayers as we heal.

No policy is going to bring them back.

But policy is going to KET this from happening again.

I'm tired of saying there's nothing we can do.

We're doing nothing.

I'm angry and I'm frustrated by the lack of political courage to do something about this pass universal background checks, 90% of Americans agree that this is something that is good and necessary.

So we know the people who shouldn't have guns can't buy that.

Let's ban these weapons of war.

And some male walking with an AR 15 rifle yesterday as a weapon of war.

It doesn't need to be on any street, especially our street here in Louisville, Kentucky.

And I think we have to look at the mental health side of this.

We can't ignore that.

What we know now.

Is that.

The shooter.

I did reach out to someone.

He did say.

I'm feeling suicidal.

I'm thinking about doing this.

We know the shooter left a note.

We know the shooter live streamed what he was doing.

What if we had a law like an extreme risk protection order, a crisis of version, right?

Retention order at the person or people who KET this about and could have reached out.

Maybe maybe could have prevented this tragedy.

It's past time.

That we really come together.

That we say enough is enough that we have the will.

To talk about people's lives and public safety and stop this almost uniquely American crisis.

>> As we prepared tonight's broadcast, Louisville police released body camera video from yesterday's shooting.

We're still reviewing that video and we'll share it with you tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION.

♪ ♪ President Joe Biden has okayed federal help after storms hit Kentucky March 3rd and 4th, Kentucky was hit by tornadoes.

Straight-line winds and flooding landslides and mudslides.

The disaster declaration means local governments and some nonprofit groups will get help paying for repairs.

Governor Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that narrowly passed on the final day of the 2023, Kentucky General Assembly House Bill.

One 35 would have established a regulatory framework to allow self-driving cars, trucks and semis on Kentucky's public highways.

The bill faced an uphill battle after it was defeated.

And one Senate committee but allowed to pass another and eventually passed both chambers and his veto message.

Governor Beshear said, quote, House Bill one 35 failed in the correct legislative committee only to be moved and rushed through another committee on the next to the last day of the regular session in order to reach passage.

He went on to say the bill is, quote, ambiguous and broad and does not provide enough specifics, including about how it can be implemented, monitored and enforced, end quote.

On Friday, a federal judge in Texas blocked sales of mifepristone.

That's a drug that's part of a 2 pill regimen to and pregnancy in the first 10 weeks, the judge said the FDA's decision to okay the drug 23 years ago was based on unsound reasoning and studies that didn't support the FDA's conclusions.

Yesterday we spoke to tomorrow we'd or state director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates today.

We have reaction from David Walls, executive director of the conservative-leaning Family Foundation.

>> Well, certainly excited about the court decision.

We view it as a victory for the medical profession.

But more importantly that we do to victory for unborn children and and for their mothers look, the basis of the FDA approval, this chemical abortion pill to begin with was under false princes and frankly, was done in a in a legal manner.

The reality is pregnancy is not a disease.

It's not an illness.

And abortion is not health care.

And it has been troubling for many years.

I'm glad that it's coming to light to this court case, the process in which the FDA went through too, to a so-called or prove that this chemical abortion pill, which takes the life of an unborn child puts women at that the data is at least 4 times as more.

A more risky, then then a surgical abortion procedure.

And and and I think those those numbers are going to continue to unfortunately skyrocket as the FDA and the Biden administration has taken away some of the basic safety precautions like having an in-person doctor consultation in the process of prescribing this.

This deadly pill?

I mean, we do have to remember that that every time one of these pill successfully works, there is a death and the death of the unborn child.

But again, the FDA's approval of this was under that essentially that the pretense that that abortion is an illness and that this is a medical a pill to deal with a pregnancy is an illness.

And we just know fundamentally that's that's just not accurate representation of what pregnancy is.

>> The Biden administration is asking to KET mifepristone on the market as the legal case moves through the court.

A federal appeals court could decide on that this week.

Now Kentucky's primary election is 5 weeks from today.

Kelly Craft, a Republican candidate candidate for governor addressed supporters at a restaurant in Bowling Green last night.

She was joined by 12 time.

All American swimmer Riley Gaines Gaines who tied with the transgender athlete at the NCAA championships is outspoken against biological man competing in women's sports, crafts running mate, state Senator Max Wise sponsored Senate Bill, one 50 which bans gender affirming medical care for trans youth.

>> We need to take a deep dive in to see where can we?

Carve and where these woke ideologies are starting and we need to cut them out.

We've got to protect our young adults.

We have to make certain that there's a level playing field.

For girls that it's safe.

I don't mind there being a separate category for transgender sports.

That's perfectly fine.

And we also need to look at the mental health issues of all of our young adults.

All of our children.

I'm seeing this in grade having teachers come up to me.

I'm having parents come up to me.

>> Kraft also spoke on issues concerning drug abuse, education, jobs and the coal industry.

She continues her kitchen table tour tomorrow and McCracken Harden and boil counties.

She'll be joined by first district Congressman James Comer, who has expressed support for her campaign.

♪ Social work can be one of the most difficult jobs.

There is back in February.

Some social workers spoke before lawmakers in Frankfort about the challenges they face while conducting child welfare investigations.

>> While we have a fantastic police department.

We've had police tell us that they're not going out to visit with us because of the neighborhood that they're We're in the situation that we're being called down just because they're not coming to.

There's no, we're not going to go out with our no pan in peace and a pen and try to figure out what's going on.

One, how we can best.

Protect the family.

Make sure the kids are safe and figure out where we go from there.

There's nobody at this that has not into the phone and for hours but has not new and boom.

>> The on what their actual job duties or 2 ensure that in town hands.

What they need, whether it be at the We really need 6 months out and 2, you're the only consistent is in these 2 men have been won.

>> The University of Kentucky College of Social Work says it wants current and future social workers to be prepared for what they will encounter on the job.

The college has introduced new virtual reality.

Technology is says give students more hands on training, which in turn will help them better serve Kentucky's children and families.

>> You actually don't see a lot of kind of these immersive.

Trainings in these public power for spaces.

Several months ago, we started and what we're calling the East Service Initiative.

And that initiative was really a recognition that it's the future of social services going to be in the dish on tax base there in COVID.

We started transitioning to >> March while learning platforms and I'm figuring out how we could meet the needs of the community and meet the needs of our students.

And this ideal as a first of all platform where students can practice came out.

>> We can do papers and we can do class activities and we can plays and things.

But it's really difficult to capture the true essence of what it's like to go out and then investigate an instance of child maltreatment.

This allows for depth of experience it.

You can mimic the space.

>> When you're talking to families, you have to be able to notice what's going on in the environment.

You have to be able to see indicators that you wouldn't be able to set up in the classroom necessarily.

And so this allows them to kind of practice that we modeled these case in virtual scenarios on actual cases in terms of >> incidents of child abuse and neglect in through the the our interaction.

You conduct your interviews and you craft a prevention you do your collateral and follow up visits.

So it's it's really a way to.

Engaging experience the full continuum of what an investigation is.

We don't want to put someone in that situation where there is a second room in the corner there and there highs becoming angry that virtually they can do that in a safe space so they can learn how to respond, how to >> How to use the skills to de-escalate.

And so that allowed them to practice the skills in a safe space.

>> I told you that the person who came to provide U.S. service was going to be more competent.

Better prepared.

We're confident in their ability.

He would say that's a good thing.

You know, the curry.

And so in terms of the way that it's improving services or improve the lives of tears.

A family.

It's doing just that.

>> Dane Jae Miller says another advantage of the VR simulation is it can be used as an exploratory tool for students who are trying to determine if they want to become social workers.

♪ >> A man and Simpson counties using a special radar to find unmarked graves as our Laura Rogers tells us, it's helping people learn more about their ancestry and uncover hidden histories and Kentucky communities.

>> At first glance, you might think Billy Wilkerson is a new dad.

It looks like a muggy, of course, like a baby stroller.

It's not, however, new life he's tending to today.

But lives long past its important for people to understand.

Then in order for us to know about our history, we have to go and see the history of our family.

like that, that gone home built in 18.

47?

Well, the historic property once served as a safe house for soldiers during the Civil War.

We do after the Civil War, the soldiers look that was being treated as wounded.

The union came through dispatch them.

Wilkerson is using ground penetrating radar to find what he believes are 9 unmarked graves of those soldiers.

>> What the data shows is a different layers of soul underneath our feet here, of course, it goes from an inch away down to 43 feet.

>> Wilkerson finds a target.

He marks that spot.

When it comes to burials, especially an older style, like what we're on right now.

>> It shows like cross sections to and like the ground was the starter.

But it was dug up.

>> We also recently scanned the Caldwell Slave Cemetery on Octagon Hall property finding unmarked graves there as well.

Wilkerson services are becoming more popular.

>> The GPR is is taking off here recently.

I've actually got cemeteries and charges that have been asking for me to come out and stand there.

Cemetery.

>> The estimates he has scanned around 20 cemeteries and Kentuckyian Tennessee.

It's kind of.

>> I heart breaking in a way because we have let our cemeteries deteriorate.

People just lost him in Terri's a cemetery preservation committee in Hawkins County recently services.

We went up there to search for a mass grave from 1918 during the Spanish flu.

We actually was able to locate the mass grave and it 18 and a half feet long by 30 feet wide.

>> Wilkerson says this work has made him feel closer to his own communities.

I fell in love with this place.

I'm always learning something new of our history of our town just about every day.

Or Kentucky Edition.

I just love it here.

I'm Laura Rogers.

Billy Walker sent offers the GPR services in exchange for a donation to the Simpson County Historical Society.

>> OK, we leave you with this final story today is National Pet Day.

And if you have a pet, you have plenty of company in Kentucky.

The World Population Review says 64% of Kentucky households have at least one packed.

That puts Kentucky night among the states.

Wyoming is first.

Pets tend to be more common in rural areas than urban areas about 46% of Kentuckians own a dog in about 32% own a cat.

And thanks to our KET employees for sharing photos of their four-legged friends.

Fun stuff indeed.

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