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>> I'm master solar system.

Ambassador talks about the significance of the cosmos and today's solar eclipse.

>> What we hope to see what we're up there is a point at which you can enter beating with a new solar drug therapy that would stop that from happening >> what could the key to curing to devastating diseases be found in space?

Some Kentucky researchers are trying to find out.

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April, I'm Renee Shaw coming to you from Paducah.

>> And the path of totality for today's eclipse.

And we've got some great coverage for you.

Thanks so very much for joining us tonight.

Now it's hard to top an eclipse, but coach John Calipari's may have done it.

It appears the longtime coach of the UK men's basketball team.

He's moving on.

There are reports that Cal Perry is about to reach a deal with the University of Arkansas to become coach there for 5 years.

The news comes after the cats.

Early departure from this year's NCAA tournament.

That loss had some fans grumbling about the team's lack of postseason success in recent years, we talked a long time.

Kentucky sports reporter D*** Gabriel about cows likely departure.

>> Cal Perry going into the meeting with Mitch Barnhart didn't have much leverage.

This had the leverage.

But now when you got somebody else in your corner who was a viable and it for your services?

I mean, if you know, a junior college came in and try to iron up.

This is Arkansas powerful school deep, deep pockets and all kinds of booster money out there from Tyson Chicken and Walmart.

They come in and say we want your and we'll do it takes to get you.

That's leverage.

Now up area is on toll said here's what it's going to take to And UK said, I don't think so.

And so as I understand it now, the deal, if it isn't done, it's going to be done.

You got a fan base.

It's unhappy.

You have an institution as not satisfied with what's been happening.

You got another school.

That will be happy to have him.

So, you know, when you factor in the fans, this might be a win win, win.

It's such a thing is possible.

Now that all depends, of course, Kentucky ultimately hires if and when.

Cal Perry does.

Lee, as I understand it, they're going to make Danny Hurley say no, they'll reach out to Nate Oats there in the conference in Alabama who just signed an extension.

But now there are funds available to buy him out because you don't have to spend twice as much to buy at Cal Perry.

I think you've got to look at Drew down and Baylor, you know, maybe Todd Golden at Florida.

You got a high coach at Iowa State, but you go through those names who are more than just names are accomplished.

Coaches.

But your Kentucky, you have what you believed to be the premier basketball program in the country.

So you all to yourself you a 2 year fanbase to your tradition to go out and get what you believe is the best coach possible John Calipari came here from Memphis.

He had already gotten commitments from the likes of DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall.

And when Cal Perry switch to Kentucky.

So today fans need to remember that they followed him here.

And I gotta think do follow him to Arkansas.

However, as Perry, I firmly believe, honor his commitment to Kentucky.

I don't know if anything could right him away from that.

This job is a meat grinder and in be Smith told me, well, he was still here.

They had a conversation with blue holes left Notre Dame, South Carolina and he said hopes told him privately, man, you got to get out of there because it's the kind of job he just wears.

A coach now and Cal Perry kind of kids around when he talks about a new age in dog years.

A new coach in Kentucky, but he's not wrong.

I mean, when you look at the weight on his shoulders and he's Kerry, quite frankly, he's carried well.

He's done more for the people in the state of Kentucky when it comes to the tornado relief.

Hurricane relief telethon for Haiti.

And we awk want it is done so much for people across the commonwealth, but in this day and age was always been this way, Kentucky.

It's what have you done for me lately.

So now is a chance for a fresh start at his age in Arkansas.

That doesn't happen >> the latest on cows, possible departure tomorrow night on Kentucky edition.

Well, the eclipse as common gone.

KET, of course, is in Paducah, one of the towns in the path of totality.

The eclipse is proving to be a big boost to local tourism, the Paducah Convention and Visitors Bureau says the governor's office estimates 150,000 people were in western Kentucky for the eclipse.

>> That means spending in areas, shops, restaurants and hotels.

>> We were just and with the amount of people who have come out to Paducah, we have folks coming from all over the people and different different shops have talked about how they've met folks from different states, folks from different countries and they've all converged here on Paducah.

Of course, you know, they could sell for just last for a couple minutes, but I think they're going to find a place that they'll enjoy coming back to for a lifetime.

>> The Paducah Cdb tells us they've recorded deaths and town from 22 states.

Plus Canada and Poland, the NASA solar System, Ambassador program and its volunteers have been bringing the stars down to Earth for over.

25 years, the lead up to events like solar eclipses are the busiest times for the ambassadors who spend their free time traveling and educating people on the matters of earth space and other sciences.

A NASA ambassador visited shelf of all last week to tell local astronomy enthusiasts about the significance of today's solar eclipse.

>> 2017, I think was the first year I became a solar system.

Ambassador was actually a intensive interview process.

You know, I had to write a little essay why I wanted to be a solar system.

Ambassador, give them a few references of people that I've worked with in the past were not on NASA's payroll by any stretch of the imagination.

But we are offered a lot of support from them.

We get access to mission scientists and engineers.

We get a news fresh.

Fresh out of conferences.

Every year is there's lots of training sessions and things like that.

So they they do their best to support us.

And it's a pretty small a portion of NASA as well.

>> It's a grassroots program.

We're going to plant the seeds and watching them spread.

And that's what we've done.

So we have ground troops.

16.

2, more than 1300 over the years.

They get to the topics that they know will be of interest to their communities, too.

So they can.

It can be Earth science.

It could be the Webb telescope that could be rovers on Mars.

Human Space flight.

Whatever they feel will be interesting to their communities.

>> We've been working with Dan Price for years.

We love working with him high-profile cosmic events like solar eclipses and days and the information about in an international space Station.

It's a great reason to bring the community together.

>> I've written for a number of papers across the bluegrass, the paper has been the State Journal and Frankfort.

When we have events, I kind of have a captive audience.

I have people that are already enthusiastic about space exploration or whatever topic I have to happen to be discussing that evening.

But with the newspaper, it could be ranging in age from like 4 to 90.

>> And from a wide variety of backgrounds.

So they have to make sure that there's something in there for everyone.

When I present information, I do it to enhance people's experience or enhance people's understanding of the world around them and help them to make better connections to start to think critically about some of the things that they observe a day-to-day basis or things that they observe maybe once every 20 or 30 years were very busy.

Now with the eclipse coming up.

>> Essentially the eclipse is a star party.

In the daytime.

And you really are the last eclipse that the that the total solar eclipse in 2017.

Ambassadors reached almost as many people in one day as we do generally been a year in person.

Please eclipse this.

Don't come along all the time.

There.

>> Pretty rare events.

There's usually one about every 18 months somewhere in the but it's rare that we get one here in the United States that were able to is able to be seen by so many people the next big eclipse, the next big solar eclipse.

We have going across the nation is in 2045. so.

>> Given now, while you can.

>> Last October, the Simons Foundation approach breweries throughout the United States, including 2 here in Kentuckyian asked them to make special eclipse bears for the 2024 solar eclipse dry ground brewing and Henderson Brewing Company partnered to make 2 special beers to help celebrate this astronomical phenomenon.

♪ >> The Duke of was lucky enough to be in the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse they came through.

And at that time we read a special beer for the that time it was cold.

Umbra.

It was a coffee notes.

Tell so a darker beard, a kind of tie-in with the eclipse.

This time when it came around, we were approached by the Simons Foundation in New York City to travel up there and they have chosen breweries in each state that was on the path of totality in Kentucky says we had smaller breweries in western Kentucky.

They chose to dry ground in Henderson Brewing Company.

And Anderson, so, Doug, where me and I from Henderson went to New York City and that with the Simon Foundation along with about a dozen or so of the other breweries along the path who were going to be involved.

Doug, in I kind of decided, well, we've already get this beer we brewed before for the 2017 eclipse.

Why don't we do that as a collab?

You come down to our space and will breathe that and we'll go to Henderson in Breaux, a blog version of that.

So the beer we brew.

The 2 o'clock pm is a coffee milk.

Still, it's brewed with lactose sugar.

So like those friendly and a local coffee roaster, we use their beans.

It's a dark beer, not super high in alcohol around 5 and a half percent.

So not super heavy.

Like you would expect a lot of dark beers to be very sweet.

Nice roasting coffee finished the light side of that being the 02:00:02PM, Beer.

We breathe in Henderson is a bull on style which is bringing some early as a normal style where you think Gardere.

But with lighter grains.

They also use local coffee beans and they use cocoa nibs to give it a little bit of chocolaty finish as well.

>> The idea around the collaboration being.

>> We breathe the dark beer.

They breed a live version of that beer to go along with the eclipse, the sun and the moon.

We'd love to bring it Don't know when the next eclipse is coming in.

Maybe 150 years for we get to brew it again.

But we love the area.

>> Each brewery chosen from states along the path of totality named their special eclipse beers based on the time of complete totality in their city.

Pretty cool.

And we have more eclipse coverage coming your way from Paducah tonight.

Joy Das for Eclipse 2024 Akt special report.

It's a half-hour special at 8 Eastern 7 Central right here on KET.

In other news today, Lexington is getting 10 million dollars from the federal government to help pay for a 200 acre business Park near Interstate 75 in Georgetown Road.

The city bought the land from the University of Kentucky in 2018.

The park has 23 lots and will be the future home of light manufacturing agribusiness and possibly corporate offices.

>> What we're talking about here is jobs and the economic opportunity for the people of Fayette County in Lexington.

We need land for industrial development in Fayette County.

And this is an opportunity to bring new industry, new jobs, manufacturing and other tenants to the business It is estimated that this park will create over 1700 high-quality jobs.

Annual local tax revenue is estimated at 2.9 million once the park is fully developed, developed in the city is already actively marketing to 23 loss in the industrial park.

>> This is the last piece of funding that we need to complete the infrastructure.

Altogether.

Funding for the infrastructure.

That's roads, sewers, sidewalks, the things that the city puts an totals about.

22.4 million and it is a compilation of local state and federal funds.

So our economy here in Fayette County is running full steam ahead right now fully recovered from the pandemic and breaking records for the number of people who are employed here.

There are almost 3,000 more people employed now in Fayette County than there were right before the pandemic.

>> The city says infrastructure work will begin this fall and should take about 18 months to complete.

The cleanup continues after storms hit Kentucky last Tuesday.

The storms caused one death and Campbell County about 30,000 customers lost power.

As of this morning, there were still about 2000 people without electricity and say it in a fee and let your counties speaking last week, Governor Andy Beshear said as people rebuild from this storm and other recent weather disasters, it's important to make homes more weather resistant because that he says these weather emergencies, they're not going away.

>> We are changing the way that we build our infrastructure or even changing the way that we build homes.

Now after the tornadoes in the west, in the flooding in the east, for instance, every one of these homes that we dedicate.

habitat homes for Hope Bora is House ministries is is building.

They're all being built not just to withstand a flood waters, but tornado winds and the rest.

We got to make sure the materials were using.

That's everything from siding to the nails to the are are the type that can withstand what they face.

And I believe that we can do that when it comes to an E F one and eof 2.

Now what came through the west does pretty tough and we want to do the best we can.

There more severe weather is is not just our futures are present.

And while we hope that we won't see major ones or even ones like this, just think about how many days we've had recently.

Last year, where rightfully so everybody's news agencies, newspapers in the restive city going to be really careful today.

>> The governor urges people to stay weather aware.

There are storms in the forecast Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

>> With today's total solar eclipse men.

Yeah, bas have space on our minds.

A Louisville based nonprofit is also looking to space to find a cure for devastating diseases last month when a SpaceX rocket took off for a resupply mission to the International Space Station.

It carried with that research from the national Stem Cell Foundation.

We spoke to the CEO of the Foundation about their research.

>> The National Stem Cell Foundation actually does 3 different things, research, education and advocacy, and they are all interconnected.

But in our research platform, we fund research and for specific areas, neuro degenerative disease, autoimmune disease where childhood disorders and regenerative preparing for us.

That means orthopedics.

One of the most exciting things we're doing now is that since 2018 we've been funding a first in study of nerve degeneration on the International Space Station using three-day brain organoids derived from the cells of people with Parkinson's disease and primary progressive.

MS.

The ability to observe cells interacting in space in a way, not possible on Earth is providing valuable new insight into how these disorders develop and accelerating biomarker discovery for early diagnosis and opening the door to potential new selling drug therapies for these and other neurodegenerative diseases that affect 10's of billions of people worldwide.

We just launched for 6 time on Space.

6.30, on March.

21st and our next flights will include cells from patients with Alzheimer's disease and test drugs in development for treating or inflammation, which is common to all these disorders, about 30% of the cells in your brain and spinal cord or actually nerve cells.

Each nerve cell has a community of cells around it that water it.

He did take out the garbage can KET it healthy if those cells top talking to each other for any reason, then they will.

They will stop taking care of the nerve cell if they will neglected and it will began to degenerate.

And that is sort of the genesis of neuro degenerative disease.

Inflammation is a common marker for all nerdy genard diseases.

So what you're trying to see is where inflammation begins and how to stop inflammation from impacting.

In a way that creates these disorders and keeps him progressing.

Nerd agenda.

Diseases include diseases like Parkinson's and MS an A L S. Alzheimer's dementia is of all kinds in space.

In 3 D you can see the cells talking to each other in a way that's not possible on earth.

And because you can see those cells interacting in a way that you've never seen them before.

And and because met ration is accelerated on the International Space Station, which means that you can see in an accelerated way what's happening with these diseases, which is especially important for us studying nerve degeneration, which is which are commonly diseases of older populations.

This this is a study of Parkinson's disease and primary progressive MS and what we hope to see what we're up there is a point at which you could enter beating with a new solar drug therapy that would stop that from happening.

And after 6 flights, these are intuitive missions that were gathered data from every flight and with every flight we learn something new that informs the next flight going up.

>> The National Stem Cell Foundation says it will be involved in more space launches and will use information gathered on this mission to guide their research.

Plenty of excitement at Rupp Arena in Lexington over the weekend.

And it didn't involve basketball dance blue 2024.

Is an annual fundraiser for the Kentucky Children's Hospital Hematology and Oncology Clinic.

Take a look at the moment when everyone found out this year's grand total.

That's more than 2 million, $129,000.

Dance blue is a 24 hour dance marathon with no sitting and no sleeping.

The campaign has raised more than 22 million dollars since it began in 20 0, 6, >> Louisville's waterfront is a finalist for USA.

TODAY's top RiverWalk.

This is the last day to vote online.

The park wasn't always considered one of the best in the country.

In fact, it has come quite a long way in the past 20 years and side Louisville's Kelsey Starks explores the past present and future of Louisville's Waterfront Park.

>> I mean, Waterfront Park is the gateway to downtown.

It's a gateway to our commonwealth.

It is the first thing that you see if you're traveling in from many different directions of our of our downtown.

>> People who won't come downtown.

We'll still come to waterfront park because they they don't consider it quite downtown.

>> So waterfront park.

Helped by downtown downtown is helped by water park.

And at that is just crucial for downtown right now, which is continuing to struggle.

It is a waterfront park.

>> He's done a tremendous.

For our city for our downtown before Waterfront Park was here.

And this was all just wasteland environmentally contaminated land.

People wouldn't invest in downtown.

People would say why would you go down there?

Why would anybody go down there?

With good reason since Waterfront Park has has been constructed.

We've a tremendous amount of economic.

Prosperity in the surrounding area to look at.

Slugger Field, which was actually kind of part of this waterfront.

Redevelopment is such a such a wonderful asset in a manatee.

We have.

But to look at the the growth on Whiskey Row and center which wouldn't be here if this was still.

A pilot, John, right.

And soccer stadium, the botanical garden.

there's been so much spinoff.

Positive effect.

And then add to that we have created this beautiful space where people can get to the river.

And that's what people really want to do.

People are just innately drawn to water and waterfront park creates this beautiful space that allows people to enjoy that and a lot of different ways whether you come down for an event or listen to some music.

Come down for a food festival or beer festival where you just want to take as serene walk on the River, walk, quiet walk.

You can do that and so many different experiences you can have here in the park.

Add to that all of the events that we have in the park that draw such a big of people from all over the region.

It actually we are the most visited destination in downtown Louisville.

>> You can see the full conversation and look at face for the newest development under way by watching it online on demand at KET DOT Org.

And you can look for new episodes of inside Louisville Sundays at 12 noon Eastern.

11:00AM Central on K E T and don't forget to go to USA TODAY Online and vote.

>> For Waterfront Park >> today we look back at the creation of the capital's floral clock, the birth of a Triple Crown winner and a football game with an unusual final score.

Our Toby gives has all that.

And this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Henry Clay made history twice this week.

The congressman, senator secretary of state and presidential candidate was born April 12, 17.

77 in Virginia.

And he took part in a duel with John Randolph of Virginia on April 8th 18?

26 after Randolph insulted him in the speech on the Senate floor.

Both men fired.

Shots missed, then shook hands.

Kentucky is coined the phrase.

Remember the Alamo during the war for Texas Independence.

An outfit called the Kentucky Rifles used the phrase during the battle of San Jacinto on April 8th 18.

36 about a month after the siege of the Alamo in San Antonio.

>> April 9th 18, 80 Kentucky University now called Transylvania each center college in what's believed to be the first organized football game in Kentucky.

History.

The game was played in a cow pasture.

The final score was 13 3 fourths to nothing next to a scoring system different than the one we use today.

Happy birthday citation.

1948.

Triple Crown winner was born.

April 11th 1945.

At Calumet Farm in Lexington Citation was the first race sources.

Winnings topped a million dollars.

On April 10, 1961 Governor Bar calms OK, $50,000 to build the floral clock in the state Capitol.

Some made fun of the clock but eventually became a popular tourist attraction and remains so to this day.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Joe begins.

>> April is national.

Donate Life Month and U of L kicked off last week by honoring organ donors.

>> My brother was a life of the party.

He would give you the shirt off his back even when he didn't have it.

>> Hear from a family member.

What organ donation means to her and what U of L health want you to know about becoming a donor that's tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION, which we hope you'll join us again for at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central where we inform connect and inspire subscribe to our Kentucky Edition email newsletters and watch full episodes and clips KET Dot Org.

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Thank you much from so much for joining us from downtown to do got one here for the solar eclipse will see you right back here again tomorrow night.

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