>> Well, we need right now.

One word is law.

>> An eye of grief and compassion as Kentuckians look for comfort after Monday's mass shooting.

>> Was going to be one of the hardest things that they have ever done in their lives.

A survivor talks about what it takes to get over a mass shooting.

>> When people think of caviar from Kentucky, they think, oh, you know, it's that's not it's not real caviar, but I'm here to tell you it is real.

>> And forget Russia.

This delicacy hails from the waters of western Kentucky.

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

April, the 13th, I'm Renee Shaw.

>> Thank you for winding down your Thursday with us.

We began with the latest from Louisville.

3 days after the mass shooting at Old National Bank that left 5 people dead.

>> 2 people remain in the hospital.

That includes Officer Nicholas Wilt, who was shot in the head.

He remains in critical but stable condition.

People gathered last night at Louisville's Muhammad Ali Center for a vigil to honor the shooting victims.

More on that as our mass shooting coverage continues.

>> The bells tolled because no one is an island unto themselves.

>> Each is a part of the main everyone's death diminishes me.

>> So do not send to ask for whom the Bell tolls.

It tolls for thee.

Tommy?

Giuliana.

Fathers.

Mothers, grandparents.

Children.

Friends.

Each one, a child of God.

These are irreplaceable.

Kentucky is taken far too soon by a senseless act of violence.

That is certainly making me.

I feel heartbroken.

I feel like I've relived it over and over again.

>> I've lost loved ones in the city to gun violence over the years.

It is devastating and it's a jarring realization that in a lot of ways.

You can't really be safe.

And a lot of places and this calling on us to figure out what we do to stop this.

>> I lost one of my best friends on Monday.

But I've got to friends.

And more that survive.

Because LMPD got there in about 3 minutes.

These heroes rushing directly in.

Without pause without regards to their own safety because they KET lives were on the line.

Heroes like LMPD Officer Nicholas.

Well, who's fighting for his very life for doing the right thing.

And officers like CJ Galloway who after being hit himself, stayed until the entire scene was secure.

I give them thanks personally for their selflessness for their bravery and operate.

And I hope everybody else joins me praying for Officer Wilt's healing.

We have to come together as family.

>> We have to lean into love.

We have to stand together and to me loves inaction.

Word love is about addressing the root towns.

Is that create this public health crisis, which is what gun violence is and dealing with all of the social determinants of health to create healthy, safe communities everywhere where you had a bank, whether you're at search on a street corner at the movie cinema at a mall.

You should be safe in a classroom.

You should be safe.

What we need right now.

>> One word is left.

In a world where we hear a lot of arguments.

A lot of anger, people try to appeal to hatred and division.

About just love.

Love for one another.

Love for even those.

We disagree with.

Answering words of anger with words of love.

One responsibility.

I know I have is to focus and lift up my friend Tom.

It.

And his family.

And families and loved ones of Josh Juliana.

Jim.

Love compassion, humility, empathy.

They've got to be able to lead us to a better place.

Well, my faith is tested.

And maybe even shake.

And I do believe.

I still believe.

I believe in a loving God that one day.

We'll explain to me how this could happen.

But I believe in heaven.

And Tommy, I will see you again and we will see all of these incredible individuals again.

>> Another person in attendance at last night's vigil was Whitney Austin.

She was shot 12 times in a similar mass shooting at a bank in Cincinnati in 2018.

Speaking to KET.

Austin told us what it was like to hear about Monday's tragedy.

And she offered some advice on how to help survivors of gun violence cope.

>> At first I was in a state of disbelief.

Didn't think that it was a mass shooting, thought that it must have been another incident of gun violence, but really quickly, it became clear that it was.

And my first thoughts were with my friends in the banking community to check and make sure they were OK and my second thought was about my experience and take me back to that moment.

As far as what's happening in the state of Kentucky.

My organization is focused on a piece of love.

Let's lay shun called version and rights retention car for short.

And we have had bipartisan support from the beginning and we continue to have bipartisan support.

So I am eager to see how far we can take car with our next session.

What it does is allow for a legal path to temporarily transfer a firearm away from a gun owner who is in crisis, a gun owner who is intent on harming self or others.

We don't have that option today.

And while we don't know everything about the shooting that happened on Monday, it has come out that there were warning signs and that this person was suicidal.

But yeah, we didn't have a tool to do anything about it.

And car could be that tool.

I can only offer what helped me in this situation and it is making sure that we anticipate the needs of the survivors for me, people would show up with meals.

Gift cards help take care of my children.

Be my show for to physical therapy and mental health therapy I received endless supply of letters of encouragement.

We must do all of those things for these survivors and for survivors of gun violence across our state because it's really difficult whether it is the mental journey that they're about to take, where the physical journey they're about to take.

He's going to be one of the hardest things that they have ever done in their lives.

You know, I feel really comfortable telling you about what happened to me.

And I use that as a tool to affect change.

But I know many survivors of gun violence.

You don't want to talk about it at all.

And so I think it's being respectful of each individual just asking.

We want to talk about this.

What can I do to help you?

Because many times.

You're not in a position to organize your thoughts to tell people what you need and to ask really makes a difference.

>> Louisville's office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods works to make the city free of violence for all people after Monday's mass shooting at Old National Bank.

The office is working to curb gun violence and provide support directly to those who need it.

>> The primary role in our offices to bring the convener for the last several years.

We bring in organizations across the city from different disciplines together to look at solutions about violence, how to work with victims of violence, how to intervene with drivers of violence, how to work with communities, mobilize communities.

So we have a vast network of partners within within Louisville that we work with every single day.

And that's, you know, cross the medical field across the faith-based field across, you know, law enforcement and other agencies, community-based organization.

So to natural fit for us when the tragedy strikes that we have the ability to call all of our partners together and figure out collectively, how can we do this together to address the, you know, the needs little eyes right now this time you never prepare for a tragedy that occurred yesterday and you can you can train for that.

You policies until it actually happens.

You know, there's not much you can do to ready yourself for that except be trained.

But we haven't learned their office every day as we address gun violence in our city and the impact of gun violence every single day we're looking at how do we provide counseling services to our general community and how they heal during this process?

And then also down one have been available to provide similar support services to the first responder that are on the front lines dealing with this incident.

I think the primary thing for us to focus on right now is, you know, this the healing right.

If we're asking people to come together and work together, we've got to make sure that they're capable of doing that and that their needs are being met.

Right?

Let people impacted by gun violence and different ways in our city, right.

Either directly or indirectly.

If I live in the I'm exposed to gun violence every day, but I'm not attracted to him.

That's going to have an impact on the right.

We have to learn to trust each other that we're all working together to the same.

You know, goal is to reduce a clue of all safer city for everybody.

It is gun violence, you know, president and locally.

Aspen is little room.

Very safe city.

Yes.

You learn to understand that.

And you know, you have to live your life to the best you can and not be afraid.

But I was be prepared.

I was be packed.

One thing that we know about all of those is that we are one community.

We are brothers and sisters here for about one percent degree separation, not 3 degrees separation.

Everyone who knows each other, you know, on a familiar with each other and it's a good place to be in a safe place to be.

>> Callanen says his office addresses gun violence and 4 different ways by intervening among those causing violence, building trauma, resilient communities, promoting violence reduction solutions and actively supporting healthy youth Development.

And Louisville.

Around 30% of mass shootings between 1966, 2021.

Happened in the workplace.

According to the violence project, Non profit, nonpartisan Research Center funded by the National Institute of Justice.

Jennifer got be a licensed clinical social worker and assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Kentucky says workplace violence not only causes long, lasting, physical and psychological problems.

For those who experience it.

But for their families, coworkers and the community as well.

But she adds there are ways to heal after the violence.

Sometimes it is so overwhelming that we feel like giving up.

>> Some people are left feeling isolated, scared alone, seeking help other people have notice that this is really a time where we have to pull together as a community and they've done that in church groups and in neighborhoods and schools in particular.

I think that we have a lot of potential here in Kentucky to help each other out.

And when we do that, it's really beautiful.

No matter what your views are or your values, you can.

It will improve your mental health to let your voice be heard to be able to find a forum for that.

That's safe and appropriate and be able to speak up about when you see something wrong going on atrocity, whether that's be active in advocating for your legislature for how you feel about.

>> What's going on both in the city Council or the community group or the state level.

There's lots of levels and those people do deserve to hear from us about how we feel.

So I do think that's another.

We've got people can heal is that they can.

Speak up for what they believe in what they think is important.

I would highly encourage people right to access mental health services.

There are bailed on this community.

>> To connect with the groups and communities.

Already available.

And if one is not available, create your own group.

What we do know is that what helps us to stay allies and mentally healthy is to be able to find those things in your life where you can make a difference.

>> Those fees that you and >> impact the things that you care about, the people that you care about and that you can see that every day when we're able to deal with that anxiety and that despair that.

>> Sense of ex essential to add.

Only when we see that there is hope.

So we have to KET finding ways to connect.

>> To the hopes that is there.

And I believe it's out there.

>> As you heard her say, God be encourages people to connect with the community support group or create your own.

If one is not already available.

♪ ♪ >> Turning now to politics, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft.

>> Continues to track the state on her kitchen table to war.

This morning, she stopped and Lexington with us, Congressman James Comer of the first congressional district.

Our Casey Parker Bell was at a breakfast shop where politics was on today's menu.

>> The next governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Ambassador Kelly Craft.

>> Kelly Craft continued her kitchen table.

2 are of the commonwealth with a stop at the biscuit belly near downtown Lexington.

>> And it was my family and our home.

But the most important piece of furniture with the table, the kitchen table, it is around that kitchen table where I learned from my mom and dad while their actions.

Hard work.

Your faith in God and you do right by your neighbor.

>> About 40 people attended crafts event.

The former UN ambassador it on many of the common themes found her commercials from education.

>> Well, the first thing I'm going to do this make certain that parents have the rights to be involved in their child's education because our children have the whites to have their parents involved in their education.

So my first official act, I'm going to dismantle the Kentucky Department of Education.

>> To combating the opioid epidemic.

>> So we need to hold the Chinese accountable.

We need to make certain extent and all does not come into our state.

>> She was joined by her running mate state Senator Max wise Wise was the sponsor Sen about one 50, the controversial legislation, some of called the most extreme Tran's bill in the country.

>> Because of this whole nonsense craziness.

This happen.

But if you don't stand up for conservative values, if you don't stand up to this, we will get run over a pushover what?

We want to get tough.

We're not going to have that with Kellie clap as governor >> Also appearing with Kraft was first congressional district Congressman James Comer.

>> She's running for the right reason.

She can't be ball.

I think we need people with integrity and ethics in public office.

And I think Kelly Kraft is the right person for the job.

>> The event was old-school politics.

It Kraft took questions from community members who worked the room.

But the focus is on May 16.

>> Election Day.

We have 33 days to close this out for the future, Kentucky.

This ticket can be sure political machine to be in November.

Let's get behind Kelly Kraft him back and let the let them the next governor, Lieutenant Governor that.

>> For Kentucky edition.

I'm Casey Parker Bell.

>> Kraft spoke with Casey about Monday's shooting at a bank in Louisville.

She said she's praying for the families impacted by the tragedy and that as governor, she would work to improve mental health treatment to help prevent future mass shootings.

>> Another campaign commercial is on the air in Kentucky.

>> And it's not supporting a candidate.

Instead, it's critical of Governor Andy Beshear and makes claims about his stance on transgender issues.

>> are ready to make decisions about changing their gender.

>> The ad is from a political action committee called States Solutions which is affiliated with the Republican Governors Association.

Kentucky is one of just 3 states electing a governor this year.

Now an update on Kentucky's senior senator U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky tweeted this today, quote.

>> I'm looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday.

We've got important business to tackle and big fights to win for Kentuckians and the American people.

Senator McConnell has been away from the Senate since he fell and suffered a concussion on March.

The 8th.

♪ Those who have been behind bars face many barriers when reentering society.

>> But a new Kentucky nonprofit is trying to fix that advocacy based on lived, experience or able for short aims to build trusting relationships between people getting out of jail and their communities.

We spoke with Marcus Jackson, executive director of able about why these connections matter.

>> Our mission is to really build and foster relationships of trust.

Most Kentuckians with lived experience and the community because the community can be so much better if we all just like we belonged are included.

I was released from prison December of 2018.

I came out.

I started doing criminal background expected that tore Urban League.

Then I begin to work for the ACLU of Kentucky.

Everyone looks at me and what I'm able to do now and they say, hey, he's an exception.

He's different.

Not different.

What opportunity looks like for returning $8.17, an hour at their money.

Not enough to support my family.

But what it did was that sense of belonging to someone trust and need to bring me into that space.

And it was that opportunity to really change the trajectory of my life.

I think a lot of people truly understand that hasn't been to the system to just look like a you can get a job.

You can get together.

You can do this.

But this is so much that goes on in the mind can leave 2 recidivism backed incarceration.

We believe that re-entry must begin the moment that you walk into an institution, not 6 months before you're released.

Not one time when I was incarcerated.

Anyone ask me why.

What do you want to do it?

What do you want to be after this?

For me, I want it to be an attorney.

And people spend more time telling me why couldn't be an attorney in telling me, well, this is what you need to do.

And then when I was released and came to her in a silent vigil from the current rate of people that we're all use and things like that that lit a fire under me.

And now the skies, the women, we need more U.S. reaching back be in that example showing people exactly what you can do.

Trim again.

You know, if I've never been incarcerated is hard for me to speak up and tell you what he should do, how you should do it, why you should do it.

That's what's great about a will.

Because we all been there.

We've explained our situation.

We've experienced addiction.

We've experienced losing children.

We have faced that fire.

And now we want to do is help others just making little bit easier for them to come out.

Now you have a dream.

Let us help you get there.

Let's connect with the people that we know that it helped us get there.

So that you can use those resources well to compliment.

You really wanted to do.

>> Jackson says that able is currently focusing on issues related to voting rights, jury service and running for and holding political office.

A University of Kentucky researcher with a higher roots is trying to find answers after the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical spill.

Doctor Erin Hames has launched an online health tracking survey to gather the data needed to answer some very important questions.

>> My heart is with the and how scene and watching that traumatic events that unfolded following the derailment and then the burning of the rail cars.

A lot of attention that's been around me one mile 2 mile radius of the site.

But I want to launch a health survey tracking survey that low wind go well beyond the one to 2 mile interested in recruiting and hearing the experiences.

>> The symptoms and environmental concerns the county's in including Columbiana County, but then surrounded one man out.

It's it not been for building a disaster response survey and protocol for engagement with the community.

So how being that meeting part of the survey, though and not and then string.

Yes, I think that this them this could be a format.

droughts, other investigators wanting to work with me and he was out.

What they're experiencing will be documented.

And shared so that we can help them to her.

That's the ultimate goal is to bring the community the resources they needed, the help they need to better understand their exposure, help mitigate any effects of error.

Is.

>> Doctor Haynes says the initial phase of the program will take about 2 years and she hopes thousands of people will participate.

She's also hopeful to secure funding for longer study.

♪ ♪ You know, that Kentucky lakes and rivers make for some good fishing.

They're taking advantage of that and western Kentucky by harvesting a delicacy.

Our Laura Rogers pays a visit to Grand Rivers.

>> Kentucky is home to Fort Bend Hayes.

>> When people think of caviar from Kentucky, they think, oh, you know, it's that's not it's not real caviar, but I'm here to tell you it is real.

>> David Fields left a career in education to pursue a new opportunity at America's Best caviar and Grand rivers.

>> I just was looking for a different challenge.

Basically taken the principles that I teaching and coaching.

And I'm just applied them.

>> Here at the Lake City, Fresh Fish market.

Fishermen are running with the catch of the day.

We're having what we call our spring run.

>> So the fish are really looking to spawn and lay their eggs.

That's why we're busy right now than normal.

>> Fields says he's volume is among the largest in the country.

Thanks to location.

Withdraw from Kentucky like?

>> Like Barkley, the Ohio River, the Mississippi River.

We get fish out of like Cumberland.

I get fish from up around the Louisville area.

Once those paddlefish and sturgeon are brought to the market.

>> It's time to process the eggs.

And though it may be called America's best caviar.

The old says the product has fans all over the world.

>> Have a lot of international customers and they will tell me about the history of caviar.

Coming out, the Caspian Sea and this is as closely related to that as they've ever had.

>> Those conversations with this customers also part of the process.

The old says it has taken a lot of studying and experimentation to get his caviar just right.

>> That kind of done my homework on the eggs on how to process them, how to take maybe an egg.

That's a little compromise and do something with it to make it better.

>> Fields says the only thing separating his product from the more expensive companies are the size of the eggs and how delicate they are.

>> But they're more of a creamy texture.

>> He emphasizes it is not a one man operation.

>> It does take everyone involved in this team to make it work.

>> For Kentucky edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you, Laura.

The season for harvesting paddlefish caviar in April.

The 30th and if you're curious about the price, one out cost $40.

No one wants to face a cancer diagnosis.

Treatment options exist.

Bought a what do you do when your only option is out of reach?

>> You know, I would say if you have the good fortune of living in a larger city like Lexington, our Louisville likely can get some treatment.

You know, without needing to travel.

If you live in a rural community, you simply don't have treatment available in your local community.

>> Meet the woman behind travel to hope the new nonprofit fundraising to send cancer patients to their hard to reach treatments.

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Thank you so much for your time tonight.

I'm Renee Shaw and I hope to see you right back here again tomorrow night.

Have a good evening.

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