♪ ♪ >> it shook this community and it shook our Commonwealth.

>> We remember those lost to the old National Bank shooting one year ago.

Kentucky basketball fans.

You can cross the name.

Scott Drew off your list.

>> You have really high up in key to filter out the press to come from.

This water stream for them.

>> It's a micro plastics, magnet how it works.

Who's making it and how it can be used to clean our water.

And Kentucky is now home to a high-tech wind turbine with some low tech lawnmowers.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KU Team Millennium Fund.

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

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

Thank you for taking off your Thursday night with us.

>> We begin tonight with a weather alert.

The state is urging people to KET an eye on the weather as strong storms are possible tonight.

Mainly east of interstate 65.

And there's a chance of severe thunderstorms north of the how Rodgers Parkway.

So please be weather aware and stay informed.

One year ago yesterday, the city of Louisville was devastated by the shooting at Old National Bank that took the lives of 5 employees.

There yesterday.

The city held a day of remembrance.

>> In the span of minutes.

Overall, national team members were lost forever.

Judge Barrett.

Dina occurred.

Tommy Elliot.

Giuliana Farmer and Jim Todd.

These were extraordinary, loving and gifted individuals.

We're here today to remember them.

To celebrate their lives, which were filled with passion and marked by a true spirit of generosity.

>> In the days following a April 10th, I was often asked how we get through it, cancer still the same.

We'll get through it together.

And we will continue to deal.

How it's made us feel.

And what we've lost together.

I can tell you there's ever a day and I don't think there will that we will be passed.

I don't think there's a day.

But I will be.

But hopefully it that can help us to do those right things be kind to each other to realize every moment in life is precious.

I want to thank everybody.

U of L and in that hospital for fighting as hard as he did.

And you did your best.

And that's all anybody can be asked.

The fact the officer will still with us.

It's an incredible statement on the care that he got U of L hospital and it is a miracle of God.

So thank you for your work.

♪ 2.

>> That friend Tommy on the old National Bank CEO and did the event by encouraging attendees to consider donating blood.

>> State lawmakers are back in session starting tomorrow in Frankfort and they continue their work on Monday.

This is the two-day period when the Kentucky General Assembly will try to override any of Governor Andy Beshear's vetoes and they can still pass bills but they forfeit their ability to overturn any vetoes by the governor by law.

The session has to be over by Monday at midnight.

The governor signed 144 bills passed by the General Assembly.

He vetoed 27.

He talked about some of the bills he signed and the ones a veto.

During his weekly news conference today, he defended his decision to sign House Bill 509, a bill that would amend the state's open records law.

The change has been criticized by open government advocates and many in the news media.

Critics of the bill say if state workers personal cell phone messages are not subject to open records, laws, they might deliberately communicate that way in order to avoid any public scrutiny.

We have the governor's response in tonight's Legislative update.

>> The part that is addressed by this bill, which is text messages.

On personal phones has only been and part of the open records law.

If you look at what we court decisions came out for about 5 months.

And so this idea they would destroy the open records law when it's only been a part of the open records law for a brief period of time.

We look at all the great journalism.

It's been done to the open records law as it existed before.

You know, I think is is an over reaction.

A second is it is specifically tailored.

For the court decision that came out.

What the advocates, those being quoted said in arguing that case was that fish and Wildlife refused to provide state email addresses to the commissioners and they were forced to do.

Public work.

On the province ocean.

The current bill says you have to give them.

In email address and they have to use it.

And if not, they violated the law.

I can say from enforcing we actually pull records, especially when there's bad actors unless we get in on that public email.

On that public email.

A bad actor is ultimately not going to turn it over.

Now I get that they're members of the press.

I'm a very different opinion.

But I've been transparent in my reasoning and talking about and what communicate with my staff.

I communicate with them face to face.

I do it or leave over the phone.

That's that's how we do.

I'm still the generation.

We talking to a form instead of just hype.

>> And other legislative news, a Louisville Democrat is throwing a Hail Mary pass in an attempt to get rape, incest and more medical exceptions added to Kentucky's near total ban on abortion state.

Senator David Yates has filed what's called a discharge petition to bring his bill directly to the Senate floor for a vote.

>> Because Kentuckians deserve to know where your elected official stains on this issue you deserve.

Didn't know where they stayed.

>> Are you tired of the political promises?

And I would maybe do this if this is an opportunity.

>> To make that change.

>> A Republican lawmakers bill for abortion exceptions hasn't gained traction either in the Legislature.

This session, Yates introduced Hadley's law in January.

It's named after the woman who you saw standing behind Yates who told her own story of rape and incest in an ad for Democratic Governor Andy Beshear.

>> Today, Senate by 99 has not even been assigned to a committee.

It didn't receive a hearing.

If this bill had been given a hearing, I would have been here to testify.

I would have said how sexually abused by my Stephanie for years and became pregnant at the age of 12.

And I would describe the feeling of being scared.

Middle school are taking a pregnancy test by myself in my bathroom.

Right after school.

Terrified about what it could mean for my future.

>> Not all abortion advocates have rally behind this bill.

The Kentucky representative for Planned Parenthood tomorrow we'd are says narrow abortion exceptions.

Don't move the needle for abortion access.

However, she says Kentucky lawmakers not taking up Hadley's law is quote, so cowardly, end quote.

Also today, the governor signed Senate Bill one 11, which requires insurance companies to cover the cost of speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering before he signed the bill.

We heard from its most prominent advocate in Kentucky basketball player Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

3 million Americans deal with stuttering.

One of them is former Kentucky Wildcat star Michael Gilchrist who went on to Plan B a he lobbied successfully for the bill.

>> That game 2002.

>> I had I mean to come in team.

2 UK.

So the state can.

And unfortunately.

Unknown to help state and on soon.

Those like myself, instead.

The confusion, you know, those kids, you know, mom whether to stand, you know, and the in big time tease and stuff like that.

You soon.

I just want to thank you guys.

Just being heard.

This magnitude, you know, and ♪ I'm Adam.

Just nasty champion here the common person made a ruling that the so room.

I want to thank you for the opportunity.

>> Well, also today the state released the numbers about legalize betting in Kentucky during the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

The state says Kentucky has placed 2.5 million individual bets during the tournament with the bets totaling 57.7 million dollars.

The Louisville NAACP is calling for Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Marty Pollio to resign or be fired.

The group is unhappy in part because of a hastily called transportation meeting.

Louisville, public media reports that in a split vote last night, Jefferson County Board of Education voted to cut transportation to all magnet and traditional schools except for majority black magnets.

The NAACP says the meeting time was a surprise and that many in the black community attend church services on Wednesday nights.

For Lexington music artist educator, nonviolence advocate and now author.

>> Devine Koroma K-Pop represents connection to community and has our full expression of culture.

Kerr AMAs also known in Central Kentucky for his work in the Lexington mayor's office to help curb youth violence.

His first book called Pages full of Rhymes, draws Thos.

Draws celebrates his 20 year career as an independent artist and rapper that features over 100 verses.

He says the 135 page Ryan book was a therapeutic space for him to express its joys and challenges and inspire change for unity and peace.

This new book pages full of rhymes, right came out in February of 2024, thanks, right.

And so I we've got a picture of it on the screen right now.

>> This is your first book, not your last.

That's a There we go.

Ready name.

Unemployment comes owed.

So tell us about what inspired you to write this book and what are we going to see inside?

>> So I you know, when I was a I was the avid reader.

My parents always made sure that I read a lot.

And the majority of those books were black history books and they weren't just books for the purpose of reading, but they were purpose for you.

And so I always thought it was a pipe dream.

Maybe one day.

You know, our write my own book.

But then when I got in hip-hop, I me creating music and expressing myself through song.

Maybe we'll scratch and that it should be an author was a different kind of yeah, right.

And now celebrate my 20 20th year.

Yeah.

As independent hip-hop artists and God just put it on the heart to everything into kind of this one I'm I'm thinking of legacy.

You know, I want one space where my children, my grandchildren can come and not only learned of my works of art, but what inspired me about hip-hop culture, how does it connect to community?

What is hip hop?

What was the grind like starting slim mix?

Tapes idea Trump to uploading things on the social media and I've been around long enough to honor all.

That's right.

Yeah.

And I just felt it was time.

And you know, I'm here.

We are a useful around and we just celebrated the 50th.

>> Anniversary of hip-hop that last year it was a perfect way to kind of bland.

All of this work together.

>> You can watch my full interview with hip-hop artist activist and author Divine Promise Sunday morning at 11, 30 Eastern.

>> 10, 30 central right here on KET ♪ >> we still don't know the name of the UK men's basketball coach.

But we do know who it isn't.

Scott Drew coach at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, announced this morning.

He was withdrawing as a candidate for the UK job.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports a private plane owned by UK Booster Joe Craft flew jurors family from taxes to Lexington and back yesterday.

All of this comes one day after coach John Calipari flew to Fayetteville, Arkansas, as he accepted the coaching job at the University of Arkansas on Tuesday, Calipari released a video announcing he was leaving UK after 15 years saying it was, quote, time for new voices.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky are looking at a possible solution to a growing concern, plastic pollution.

They're studying natural deep.

You tech solvents.

These solvents are essentially a magnet made of natural materials that can attract the tiny pieces of plastic that are threatening animal and human health.

>> What we want to do it here in my lab is one too developed the new Castle and green and industry is.

We'll use solent but most most the so in time to read from actually my first of fields.

So we use that means we all sign o come tonight that natural and not one based.

So we think the EU member differently.

>> And this one time many to be cheaper the materials and selfies.

Why the demand of though you can get from.

In from the from the Browns microplastics one application I feel is very exciting and very interesting.

Each year there will be around 1.5 meeting, cons of plastics will be the 5th trash into the ocean.

And the plastics can break down.

During their notion either caused by the sharing all caused by night.

The breakdown of putting mercy into smaller particles.

Eventually they end up either floating sir, face of the the water all settled into the floor of the ocean and which can be taken by the fees and by the algae either of these and in the ocean.

And eventually they end up in our human.

Human life consumption of food.

Now being exposed to the water that contains microplastics.

So that's been be concerned.

You mentioned that you can simply needs the the S and you feel.

And I mean, they've over here with the water contaminated with microplastics.

You can either secant so the plastic to from the water into that.

So when face thank you can remove it.

And if you're in for you, that microplastic, there's a way that maybe the coward microplastic and make some youthful product from it so that the another.

Use of the plastic was then.

This guide them, you know, and feel we can remove them from something.

From, you know, they life.

>> UK researchers say it will take more time before the technology makes it out of the lab into the real world.

One possible use creating test KET that detect the presence of micro plastics and water sources.

It's a popular social media platform, especially with young folks.

But Congress is considering a ban on TikTok if its Chinese owner refuses to sell it this week, U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate minority leader talked about why he supports the proposed ban.

>> The day 170 million Americans are active users.

The social media platform.

The People's Republic of that reach.

Is it too?

The sheer violence?

And the plan to?

The competition roles like to insist.

That U.S. users personal information.

Browsing histories.

These rooms.

And other sensitive were kept out of the The prc's some shoes.

And proper games.

The claim.

What it shows young Americans.

This is what they want to see.

Not what the PRC you want.

But the company's own words shutter the trying to see game.

Everything you say.

And in Toronto.

That's the truth.

TikTok confusions unwilling move from Corning claims the regime.

>> The House has already passed the bill that could lead to a ban.

The Senate hasn't acted yet.

The bill's critics include U.S.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Those critics say that this is a really a free speech issue.

The sound of the wind is music to Louisville, gas and electric and Kentucky utilities.

That's because the 2 utility companies have just put up the state's first utility went our van, the 165 foot tall turbine went up in Mercer County.

The companies will use data collected from that.

Our bond to determine the potential for wind as a source of renewable energy in Kentucky, a different kind of renewable energy is used to KET the grass trimmed near the turbine.

Sheep are grazing nearby.

♪ >> Getting enough sleep at night is important for our health as adults but for children, it's critical for their development.

A new center has opened in Central Kentucky to meet the growing demand for children's sleep care.

The tempers Salee Pediatric Sleep Center is helping eliminate the obstacles that come between a child.

>> And a good night's rest.

>> That not many sleep centers around, including a in Kentucky that serve a change in the set.

A sleep center was specifically made forced children.

It's a part of the children hospital in the previous a location to be behind the able to children less than one year of paychecks.

And it was 18 months of age to the economy.

We need to complex medical conditions.

Newborns hold those now they will be a lack of the same time are watching porn and Spacey.

Close Heat center.

They asked specifically cater to teens and space up to children who have some sensory issues.

Many children who have ADHD to some other things that we should use have a company to sleep problems in children is very important.

Different from my dolls and they're growing and developing the first 2 years of life to then sleep 30 miles out of.

24.

So sleep more and be no.

That's very important for you development and gold.

Keeping mask, ADHD kind of like hyperactivity who are attention?

These order because it that passion learning inability to learn those are all very important consequences led the too density for when when they wake up they will move mountains.

That's what we hope to achieve.

In Kentucky.

The Dow opening of the Sleep Center to allow too many who need Kalbi Daschle to achieve their full potential and move mountains.

>> Since it's opening in March, the center has been running daily clinics, but sleep studies will begin April the 15th.

♪ >> Yesterday we showed you teen poets and Lexington as they competed to win the title of Lexington, Youth poet laureate back in February, bus, the new Lexington Youth poet laureate is only the second team to hold that title.

Well, today we bring you the first and poet to be in this position.

The of that >> I'm going to continue to use the experience.

I had as Lexington, you put lawyer for a building block for the rest of my life.

First time I wrote a poem was around elementary school.

The more and more I wrote the more and more I just enjoyed it.

And I found so much love and so much expression within each piece that are right.

I think it's also a tool.

A Carnegie Center has long banned the place for developing your voice and for writing books and poetry.

>> But we found that there was another opportunity that we could provide with youth poet to elevate young voices with urban word.

We really wanted to part with them to show young people that they can engage in the community and the courts today.

>> I did a lot of speaking.

I got to meet so many great and amazing people.

I met Chris Crystal Wilkinson, the previous Kentucky per Lauria and I read DeMar She has like 3 published books of poetry and I got to interact with these great people and just have been giving advice or have them listen to my poaching, which really introduced to me the type of impact writing can have on people and the type of importance reading has on your community and society.

It's also important to write for yourself.

And then you write for yourself and understand yourself.

And then you can also share that understanding with the people around you.

When you share with other people, there becomes a connection.

It takes a lot of courage and bravery to stand up in front of an audience of not only your peers, but these may be some folks that you really looked up to and aspire to be and for them to have that courage and bravery to stand and deliver something, not just something that they think that something they truly feel and something that maybe is a part of them.

That is scary to talk about or I'm uncomfortable.

That's what pushes about.

I definitely think my putter has grown since the position to me right now.

It's about making sure that my poetry has meaning I write about different topics are a lot about race and how that affects But also like historical racial inequality and definitely not quite where you can have high school.

And I think.

I've grown along not just as a poet, but also just as a person because of Richard.

I've learned what it is, you know, to talk to people, to connect to people.

use people as resources, to enjoy yourself, even if it's kind of a stressful situation.

I'm very grateful for all the black hole.

It's all the parts of color or the LGBTQ+ codes in Kentucky because they're short stories are being told and they're being heard around us a lot of times in society, people of color have had.

A way of assimilating are keeping themselves quiet.

But when you see other people.

Sharing their voices and sharing their stories.

It makes you want to show your voice your stories.

Wow.

And the more people we have sharing what the goat sharing, what they go through, the awareness we can have, the more.

The more opportunities we have to fight all the injustices around us.

>> Congratulations to her, of course.

And March to time placed first in the young black bourses writing contest put on by the Carnegie Center for Literacy and learning.

Well, coming up tomorrow night, a look at new safety measures in made county schools.

>> It's a simple as push button help comes.

It's essentially life alert for the schools.

It's a geo fence that surrounds our entire school campus.

>> Faculty and staff are equipped with a special device to the press of a button signals the appropriate alarm for help, whether it's a medical emergency or safety threat.

A closer look tomorrow Friday on Kentucky edition.

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