>> This is an epidemic of our own making.

>> One Kentucky congressman pushes to stop gun violence.

>> This is the part that we grew up close my hometown I love the city and we wanted to give back some way.

I thought, well.

What better way to get back in the program that has proven so effective this whole time.

>> Healing with course, is the unique therapy program helping people affected by Louisville's recent mass shooting.

When you actually take care of yourself, your stress or anxiety.

Those things can relieve a lot of medical issues.

And meet the woman, bringing a healing touch to Louisville.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Friday.

April, the 28th.

>> Thank you so much for joining us and starting your weekend off with OSS.

I'm Renee Shaw.

>> Less than 3 weeks after a mass shooting in Louisville.

The congressman for Kentucky's largest city join members of the U.S. House gun violence Prevention Task Force this week to call on Congress to take action to stop gun violence.

Congressman Morgan McGarvey, a Democrat recounted the moment he learned about the mass shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville that killed 5 and injured others.

He said he's asking his Republican colleagues to come to the table to help draft gun legislation.

>> The be honest.

I'm gotten anywhere yet.

But I'm not giving up.

And over the coming weeks, my friends and colleagues here in the Gun Violence Prevention task force will continue to appeal to our colleagues across the aisle one-on-one.

>> In hopes of turning.

These are the thoughts and prayers to meaningful action in polls.

This is an epidemic of our own making and that means we have the power to stop them.

>> Kentucky's 3rd district Congressman Morgan McGarvey was joined by U of L health chief medical Officer Doctor Jason Smith, a trauma surgeon who was on call the day of the shooting at Old National Bank.

He urged Congress to pass legislation to stop gun violence.

>> The simple fact of the matter is that between a mass shooting on Monday in a mass shooting occurred on Saturday had 18 other gunshot wounds in my community.

That week that I had to deal with.

>> And that is not just Florida.

There's no town.

There's no city.

There's no place in the United States that is not having to deal with.

This is not having to understand what we're going through is not going to >> according to the gun Violence Archive Gun Violence is now the leading cause of death among children in the United States.

The Lexington Herald-Leader today endorsed candidates in the Republican and Democratic primaries for governor.

The newspaper is backing Republican Ryan corals, the current commissioner of agriculture.

It called calls him, quote, the adult in the room.

Among the candidates on the Republican side and says he's the more quote, qualified choice among the Democrats.

The Herald-Leader picks Governor Andy Beshear.

The newspaper says, quote, few politicians anywhere have been tested as he has the editorial praises his handling of COVID and Kentucky's deadly tornadoes and floods.

Now you don't want to miss this Monday.

We have 5 Republican candidates for governor on Kentucky tonight.

You will see and hear from Daniel Cameron, Kelly Kraft Eric Deters Alan Keck and Ryan corals all on the same stage.

It's the first time Cameron and craft a been together in a TV appearance.

That's Monday night at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET, Kentucky tonight.

Kentucky has paid a Florida-based company more than 150 million dollars to take charge of debris removal from the devastating Eastern Kentucky floods last summer.

But a botched cleanup has left some flood victims with demolished property and littered streams that's causing more flooding for people who still live there.

The problem was discovered and reported by 2 reporters with the Louisville Public Media and the Kentucky Center for Investigative reporting journalists, Justin Hicks and Jared Benett expose the experience of Letcher County couple Don and Melissa Young whose double wide trailer was destroyed by cleanup crews prompting the big question for the reporters who's to blame?

>> They spend some time in Virginia and got a sort of alarming call from their SOT is a home run his side home security camera that their whole home was being demolished when they weren't there.

And so they rushed back and found that the home was pretty much demolished.

And, you know, in that intervening time between the floods and when the home was demolished, a that they would go back in 2, they're kind of surprise would find that a lot of their belongings were actually that damage or could be sausage.

And they were putting into it Toad said and and saving this stuff for one, they could get back with a bigger car and somebody to help lift them.

But by the time they got back to the most of that stuff had been demolished and loaded into a dump truck without their knowledge without their permission.

>> notice, right?

They didn't get ample notice that this was even happening.

Exactly right.

That's right.

You'll learn more about the reporters, discovery and responses to it.

In an interview Monday night right here on Kentucky Edition.

>> Time now for the end of Week check in an analysis of some major political developments in Kentucky this week with a dynamic duo, husband and wife of Jared Smith and add the Piper Piper Smith government and public relations firm.

It's good to see you both.

Thanks for being with us.

Thank you.

Thank you know, so we have 18 days into the primary and you know that in person, no excuse early voting is May 11th.

So a lot of people are already thinking about for him.

They're going to vote if they are registered Republican or Democrat in the primary.

I'll go to you first, Abbi, what do you make of the dynamics in the good that Oriole primary for the GOP right now, particularly between the frontrunners Daniel Cameron and Kelly Craft.

What do you make of what's going on in those campaigns?

>> Yeah, it's a great question.

And one that we talked about our fight has Kentucky Politics weekly at this morning.

You know, I if I'm I'm a little nervous right now.

I think that practice certainly got her messaging out and she's very well known.

World look bright.

We're out of the wings as of Wednesday, gotten up on the air and you got to see in his eyes everywhere.

I think that is that definitely something to watch.

He is definitely the candidate.

I think that is using the messaging that is like everyday Kentuckyian the nose, what they needed and what back to the leader at this point.

It at all about money and the airwaves.

So we'll have to wait be.

>> So Jared Smith, you know, Abby said, you know, Ryan corals finally got on TV this week.

Alan Keck had an ad and the first time coming out in these are more biographical sketches, if you will.

They're staying positive kind of finding who they are is being relayed Abul to Kentuckians, et cetera and being the adult in the room, I think is what Alan Keck is trying to point out.

I mean, is it too little too late to try to ramp up your campaign with 18 days left?

>> I get into that a little too late for my comfort level when I'm running campaigns.

However, I think commissioner for and Alan Keck heard there's a good spot, especially for girls.

He's got money.

He's up on the air now.

You know, the the big thing for corals is how compelling thing is.

The second ad is first at a very good instructor at the same with Ccac, you know, and everybody star status.

They checked out.

But, you know, Kelly Craft first ad was months ago, right?

And entertainment.

Ed is was, you know, a couple weeks ago.

So it's either a brilliant strategic move to wait and go all in these last 3 weeks or or because somebody know what?

>> Well, we know that voter turnout typically in these primary contests in the governor's the runoff off year, if you will, not all that high.

And so is there a path for victory either Abby or Jared for someone like Ryan corals to come in between Cameron Craft and take this thing, right?

I mean, it's got low voter turnout and a 20% undecided.

Is there a path to >> We have we have to go way back in history to the not been Jamie Tomer Al Hunt election to to see it happen.

It happened last time right?

Bevin came in 3rd, one October Heinrich were bickering at each other.

I think that's what Mister Pearl's Open he can do here.

And I mean, there's history of that happening.

It's just the eyes just and that's a you know, it's short short times to the election.

Yeah, you know, I like to been up earlier if I could have been, but, you know.

Yeah, he said Peter Connell told him years ago to save everything to the end and then let it go.

So.

>> We'll say, leader McConnell is rarely wrong, right, Abbi?

>> Right.

The King himself, you know, I the other 2 candidates as well.

I was a danger kid that grows and maybe some of the others because I think they will vote.

You know?

Yeah, I think Peter's and, you know, even my and we're going to pull votes from those that report that Hargrave.

So I think we'll have to see who really loses in that area.

I would watch black in county and in particular on that one.

I really think it's interesting, our debtors and back to the decide the outcome of this reps like they're going to pull it off the way.

>> From one of the top 3, I don't think girls is as a as a distant 3rd.

I think he is 2.

It's set you know, if cameras long game Kraft is to do was because he's just he was close.

Not only has a lot of again, same amount of money is camera does.

If you don't include pack stuff.

And so it is it would be really to see it deters takes away Trump voters in northern Kentucky from Pratt from Cameron.

Also or it can't take away what we would to me be for all supporters and moral in plastic.

And I got a lot of plastic.

That's what I'll be looking at on election night.

>> Well, thank you for bringing that up, Jared, because that was going to be my follow-up.

So we think about beaters in northern Kentuckyian we think about some of those special elections and even the primary last year when those mainstream Republicans fell in the primary, right?

I mean, who who comes out to vote and a primary like this and could deters really.

Have a great impact.

Maybe not to be a victor bought could really have an impact.

>> The Republican primary voters in this electorate that this Ari could craft is talking to with her at.

We're talking to the diehard Republican primary voters.

So be interesting to see if they.

They show up and enforce for her or if they show up.

And I got we've known, we know, of course, for a lot longer work that we're going to stay with him.

>> Yeah, interesting.

And so the last thing I'll ask real quickly in under a minute about this ridge best to get a report that came out from a Louisville public media in the Kentucky Center for Investigative reporting about what many would call the botched cleanup, debris and eastern Kentucky after the flights, some people had their property to store.

But that to me than getting notice.

And with just finding out and then other folks have debris that's piling up and causing more flooding.

Could this be a problem for Governor Beshear?

Not necessarily in the primary, of course.

But beyond that, Jared.

>> I just think any time you do it in these disaster areas where it's, you know, bureaucracy, Pontiac, to see the federal government state Emergency management Army Corps of Engineers.

You know, everybody's involved a lot of times but also gets dropped.

A communications.

I don't think it's a problem now.

>> You know that I did read that story in a car with 2 people lost all their stuff.

And we're even told that how you got to move out by X amount.

I hope that it sticks to get stick to immediately.

And I hope that they get reimbursed.

I noticed a turn down the field.

That is a terrible what they're told to appeal and then they were peeled and they were denied it.

So they need to take some of that right away.

And that but states too early to tell this is the problem in the fall.

>> OK, real quickly, add to give you the last word.

>> I totally agree.

I think I think it if anyone wants to go after Bashir, he he certain from unemployment to pottery on.

I think that there's plenty of room to do that.

But I think it's too early to tell on that.

Yeah.

>> Well, thank you, Abbi.

Piper, Jerry Smith, appreciate you so much.

Have a good weekend.

>> You too.

Thank you.

>> And today's health News, Kentucky's flagship university is planning a major expansion of its healthcare facilities today.

The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees gave final approval of the nearly 2 and a half billion dollar plan that calls for a new 300 bed tower at the Albert be Chandler Hospital renovating the labor and delivery units and creating up to 8 additional operating rooms.

The board also approved UK's plan to begin the design phase of a new hospital in the Hamburg area.

Hospital officials told the Herald-Leader the expansion means UK health care will need nearly 5,000 new employees.

Construction is already underway on a new health education building, which will house for health related colleges.

A UK graduate is giving the university its biggest gift ever.

Stanley Pigment graduated from UK in 1981.

With a degree in engineering.

Now Pittman and his wife, Karen, are giving UK 34 and a half million dollars.

It's the biggest single gift and UK's 158 year history.

UK President Eli Capilouto is recommending that the College of Engineering be renamed the Stanley and Karen Pittman, College of Engineering.

This is not the pigments first gift to UK their total gifts.

Now top 55 million dollars.

♪ Since 2017.

The Veteran's Club has provided equine therapy to help veterans overcome challenges related to PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

But you don't have to see combat to experience life altering trauma and the Veterans Club is now opening its doors to first responders and Louisville residents who were affected by the old National Bank shooting earlier this month.

>> We have divisions of our equine program.

One as you cross the so tight and mentoring, which is so what we'll do here today.

It's where we use horses, too.

Get in discussion about, you know, things that folks need to get off their chest and things that need to heal from and that's very It's less about horsemanship more about being able talking offload.

Some of these things today is the special session for the community at large.

Really.

But we're also targeting a lot of former law enforcement Any kind of first responder folks who worked at the Baker and the area who who were impacted by the shooting that occurred at Old National Bank a couple weeks ago.

What the folks impacted that they saw was combat.

And that's what we're in the business of helping people overcome.

I never thought in a million years that.

I never have to have a session like this.

We'll talk about grief will talk about anxiety and fear.

We'll talk about coping skills will talk about long-term care.

We have clinicians coming to help get folks plugged in for long-term care if they need it.

But the goal is for us to for them to be able to not necessarily forget, but to create an opportunity where it doesn't impact them in a negative way anymore.

Right.

To have a memory without feeling like you're there feel like you're in that space again.

>> They bring me out of my shell.

Huge and that's the number one thing when I get out of it is no Russian animals talking of events.

Why we're doing it.

It's like is she the for fall on the ground?

It's kind of our feelings are going away.

we will have more positive when we leave.

>> We're never going to forget about what happens in Louisville, right?

We're never going to forget about that.

And and the people who have had experience it are never going to forget about it.

If they're carrying this and harboring this pain and this fear in this, you trauma.

Then we need to be there to help address that.

>> Isolation is the worst thing you can do to a veteran or first responders that suffer trauma coming out here.

And, you know, working with the horses, even if it's to help Scott rush up the barn, clean up the mow, the lawns out here.

Get nice and good looking that's that will get you out of house and stopped isolation.

My hope is.

>> That we put more plans in place that we invest more money in the mental health because what we don't do that all this trauma falls on the shoulders of the first responders in our community schumann's.

We can only take so much.

And then we need good first responders.

And so we need to do that will favor and hear them when they say we need help.

This isn't a one-time thing will be opening up this program for those folks indefinitely.

As long as there's a need because it's it's You can't really overcome that in one day.

Such good work there.

>> The equine facilitated mentoring program has helped over 3800 veterans and first responders in the last 6 years and has an open door invitation to those affected in the Louisville mass shooting to receive care and community.

A new website is tracking incarceration and Kentucky.

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy said it launched the website to give everyone a better understanding of the mass incarceration problem in the state and what needs to be done to fix it.

Kentuckyian parts rates.

40 1% more people per capita.

>> Than the U.S. average.

A very share of our in incarcerated population in Kentucky are incarcerated Class D our lowest >> Felonies.

So a lot of in a lot of drug-related crimes.

What we've done is really >> work to break down what the problem with incarceration in Why people should care how it's harmful rather than making our community safer.

>> And then really clearly highlights some ways that we can change that we have a data tracker that shows, you data going back to 1985. for incarcerated people in Kentucky for jails and State prisons and then also for the beyond that, for probation and parole system where people are not incarcerated, but they're under correctional control.

Really important data point as we can see that incarceration, I'm actually has gone up 250% in Kentucky since 1985.

In looking at I'm not just the incarcerated population in Kentucky.

I'm not just jails and not just the state presidents, but also adding in people who are on a probation and parole.

>> We call that the total correctional population.

That gives a better sense of how but much bigger problem this is and even our high numbers of people in jail and are high numbers of people in in prison.

It's it.

>> Approximately 95,400 people right now.

If you count probation, parole plus jail population plus prison population.

That's a huge number.

Now, the as big as the 3rd largest sitting in our state.

>> And even then, >> that number does not people incarcerated in federal prisons in our state.

Where we already have 3 federal presence in Kentucky.

Thousands of people incarcerated there.

There are also people who are only charged with offenses and in the system who are there >> pretrial and this is incredibly harmful.

It's very, very costly, too.

Counties in Kentucky currently is spending according to the state budget for 2020 for the enacted Budget.

The spending on corrections is 722 million dollars.

That's a huge investment in a poor state.

>> Ashley Spalding said the data on the on Lok Kentucky website comes from different state and national sources like the Kentucky Department of Corrections and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

♪ >> And 24 team come Aletha Livingstone founded Tip it forward.

A program that provides message therapy or massage very to therapy.

>> To underserved communities using funds provided from client tips.

We went to Louisville to see this mobile clinic in action.

>> To put forward was started in 2014 and my private massage therapy practice.

I was meeting people that couldn't afford the standard rate for massage therapy.

So I fumbled my tips that I received and to a fund that allowed access to people who couldn't afford the care.

Hence the name to that forward.

We provide therapeutic touch acupressure mindfulness, education.

We have holistic care KET.

Massage therapy is not covered by insurance.

So those on a fixed income, our minimum wage working on a minimum wage can access the care.

So we expanded to care in underserved communities with a mobile woman's clinic.

One of the main things that will KET a person from going to the doctor because of the bill, you really don't have a lot of free services.

So I think what she offers is great.

And I wish you there are more buses like this around the community that was actually at an event and I saw the services that they were doing.

And I was just kind of interest is more so curiosity.

I decided to go ahead and give it a try at noticed afterwards, a change.

>> I could change my concentration.

A change in like my sleep pattern.

My focus ability not like, oh, wow, this really does work.

The touch itself and that pressure that was a plaid relieved.

A lot of tension and stress automatically.

Once one side was then the other side wasn't like I felt completely on I felt really good on the left side and on the right side, I felt way tents.

And when they were both tents like that, I felt.

>> I do not decide normal.

I guess I didn't even notice until I got the treatment massage therapy.

Really decreases pain.

It can decrease stress and overwhelm.

It can be good for insomnia and headaches.

>> There's quite a variety of things that can help address when you actually take care of yourself, your stress or anxiety.

Those things can relieve a lot of medical issues.

We need to focus on our mental hills.

Our clients face complex needs.

They're facing gun violence.

The stress that comes with having a chronic disease, I might be having worked challenges.

They need care.

That address is what's going on with them on a physical, mental and emotional level.

And that's what our model provides that would love to see from to pay forward.

Just more exposure and just >> getting the attention that they deserve.

I feel like it really benefits those who are not as fortunate.

>> The tip it forward, Mobile clinic will be at the Park Duval Community Health Center on Wednesday for more information visit to put forward Dot org.

♪ >> And April, on a high note with one of the many wonderful activities planned near you and Kentucky.

Our Toby Gibbs has more in this.

Look at what's up around the Commonwealth.

♪ >> Celebrate all things Apple Watch at the 27th annual Mountain Mushroom Festival in urban this weekend with mushroom themed activities such as a morale market mushroom cooking demonstrations, countless contests and so much more.

This event is sure to be a fun guy.

Head back to the good old days during the 11th annual spring plowed a and Campbellsville the Saturday say the art of lard rendering in-person browse from the number of wonderful vendor boats.

Watch a chainsaw sculpture artist.

We're participating.

I logs getting competition in this family friendly event.

Kayaks on down to Katie's this Saturday for the Little River Festival.

This event will feature 4 amazing live bands, arts and craft vendors, food trucks, children's games, kayak, demos and so much more.

>> Gourmet need suburban bar and a cigar lounge will all be in Colombia.

The Saturday spring of the city farm will feature 80 hand selected vendors showcasing one of a kind handmade items with Baker's Potter's candle makers and more.

This is one event you won't want to miss.

>> Come enjoy a day of food, music and art.

During Somerset Foods Caucus Saturday.

Choose from over.

25 different food and spirit vendors.

Listen to hours of live music browse the different art or watch the first-ever 12 Person Grill off competition to see who will be the community's first official grillmaster.

The second annual rustic rebel.

Our crafts and vendors.

There's an Elton this Saturday.

We would working baked goods.

Supple, leather goods, vinyl creations, a boutique clothing and so much more.

There's a little something for everyone.

Kickoff.

The large yard sale season with the annual Kentucky 86 Yard sale this Saturday running from us.

62 in Hardin County to Highway 60 in Breckenridge County.

This day is full of vendors.

Food yard sale, fair and plenty of 5.

And that's what's happening around the Commonwealth.

I'm Toby.

Get this.

>> Thank you, as always, Toby Gibbs.

There's a new push to get Kentucky kids to brush and floss.

We'll tell you all about it.

And you'll meet a Clay County high school student helping to spread the word.

That's Monday night on Kentucky.

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Have a good weekend.