>> 120 years and never had.

A lot this.

We have 5 feet in our archives discussed.

We donned our our worst nightmare.

>> The floods didn't spare the oldest rule settlements school in America.

>> The GOP primary for governor wouldn't be a very spirited race.

>> What we learned from Fancy Farm in tonight's inside Kentucky politics.

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Addition this Friday.

>> August the 12th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your Friday night with us.

>> Kentucky's flooding death toll is now.

39 last night, Governor Andy Beshear announced the death of another person and breath of county.

He didn't announce the name but Breasted County's coroner told the Lexington Herald-Leader he's Tony Calhoun age.

52, the newspaper said he was an actor, screenwriter and producer.

Calhoun help make a documentary called The Untold Story of Bad Tom Smith, which aired on KET and other Kentucky TV stations.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky released pictures showing his visits to flood damage parts of eastern Kentucky on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, Senator McConnell visited Pike.

Let your not and Floyd counties on Tuesday and was in breath it and Perry on Wednesday, Senator McConnell put out this statement quote, during my travels throughout Eastern Kentucky, I had the opportunity to visit the families and communities affected by catastrophic flooding and surveyed some of the areas that have undergone the most extensive damage.

I'm deeply grateful to the Kentucky National Guard emergency personnel and volunteers working around the clock to clear debris and save lives.

I've been in contact with the president.

He says federal officials and state local leaders since the beginning of this disaster.

And we'll continue to use my role in the Senate to advocate for extensive federal aid for eastern Kentucky.

McConnell joined the entire Kentucky congressional delegation and Governor Andy Beshear calling on President Biden to expand individual assistance in the areas affected by the flooding.

When flooding struck eastern didn't wash away just vehicles and structures that also took with that part of the region's history.

The h**** settlements school and not county house, the collection of books, photographs, musical instruments and other items dating back more than a century.

Now, staff and volunteers are working to salvage as much as possible while helping others in the community.

I had a conversation with a 94 year-old woman on the porch of the day.

You said we lost absolutely everything, but we're OK. >> Because nobody died.

That's how bad this flood is.

Is that?

Okay means nobody's dead but think around 2 o'clock in the morning the flood water started to come out >> The staff that happened to be here made an effort to, you know, get things like laptop computers to save some of the more valuable artifacts and things that were important to our history.

But while they're doing that, you know, the water came up 2 feet in a matter of 10 minutes.

>> It's hard to imagine that that Little Creek running out there got up into the parking lot, led long gotten to the building got into their with such force that it blew the doors after a making.

Sure our staff and our guests on campus were safe.

>> One of the first things we did was to go in those archives to see what we can save.

Thousands of documents of thousands images.

And I think at that moment these are not 3 of us on campus.

We have a lot of very historical not only related to the founding and the operation of our school, but just, you know, journals and letters and photographs of this region.

Our biggest concern was fired.

So many of our records were in fireproof cabinets and 120 years and never had flood waters in our buildings like this and to have 5 feet in our archives was just beyond our our worst nightmares.

I'm a writer.

I was an English professor.

>> I'm seeing books.

From, you know, to seeing these these historic new to full books that are just completely destroyed and that the archivist said of been volunteering Lake from Bree and all these other places of said this one is not salvageable.

That just breaks my heart because these books have a history.

They were here for a reason.

We realize that.

>> If we're going to make a real effort to save anything we had to get help.

And so we put the word out to our fairly vast network of supporters at times we had as many as I-35 volunteers who were taking your separating them and blotting them and hang them to dry.

People KET that what was at risk of being lost was.

You know, a real tragedy and that we need to do what we could to preserve what we're able to preserve.

We actually went up to lows in about 5 to chest freezers and so freezing them kind of suspense them.

And it gives us time once we've dealt with the immediate need that then we can turn our attention to things that are in our freezers.

One of really wonderful gifts that we recently received was a collection of dolls.

Summers handmade by some of the most famous and well known dozen workers in history.

And those were in our archives except for a couple of incidents that were in the bottom of the pile.

Everything it's escaped.

Damage.

>> The only way that we've been able to do what we what we have for ourselves and for the community is through peoples generosity.

It was very chaotic for a few days.

The quickly.

>> Shifted from recovery mode into We we offered our campus up and he started writing cooking the meals ourselves for quite some time.

You know, we're one of the very few organizations that had hot meals and had beds and had the supplies that they needed.

Even though we're we're struggling to recover.

We want to make sure we can help those around us.

This is a very family centric area and we see ourselves as part of that family.

>> Well, they certainly are Bill Bryant and a panel reporters will be discussing Kentucky's flood response.

Plus, President Biden's visit to Kentucky on Monday and other news of the week on comment on Kentucky tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

An ex Louisville police officer will plead guilty to falsifying an affidavit in the Breonna Taylor case.

The Courier Journal reports that in court today Kelly Goodlett attorney announced good but will enter that guilty plea on August.

The 22nd it and March of 2020 police raided Taylor's apartment with a search warrant saying they were looking for drugs.

Her boyfriend fired shots and you didn't know they were police officers.

Police fired back killing Taylor.

Good luck is accused of falsely claiming that a postal inspector verified Taylor was receiving packages for her boyfriend at her apartment.

This week's COVID map is out and it shows a very slight improvement from last week.

There are 9 now 79 counties and the red or high category.

It was 80 last week.

>> The Red Group includes high population counties like Jefferson and Fayette, 30 counties are yellow or medium and 11 counties are green, which means low COVID activity.

Governor Beshear discuss Kentucky's current COVID situation and what he expects in the future during his news conference yesterday.

>> This is what people think is going to happen now, right?

We're going to have.

I want to call them surges because you can't compare it to Omicron or Delta or even off of that increases in in cases followed by what we hope are are just as quick decreases in cases, positivity rate up a little bit.

2.

You know, we hope that this would be going down and down since this is more of a leading indicator.

But now.

It's just a PCR test.

And, you know, going to get a PCR test unless you think you have it, maybe you didn't already test positive on an at home hospitalizations continuing to go up.

So nothing like the steep rises in the past this shows that COVID is less severe.

Causes less severe on the set used to.

But that's still a lot of people in the hospital.

Folks.

>> Kentucky's positivity rate was 18.0.

41% at last check earlier in the week.

Also, Kentucky now has 11 confirmed cases of monkeypox, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The U.S. has more than 10,700.

Congressman Andy Barr of Kentucky's 6th congressional district is denouncing the inflation reduction bill that just passed the U.S. House.

The Bill Spence 430 billion dollars over 10 years.

Much of that money goes to clean energy.

The bill's backers say it will lower prescription drug costs.

It also allocates money to hire more IRS agents.

In a statement, Barr says, quote, the partisan and fly shun recession and IRS Army Act triples down on Biden's failed economic agenda that plunge our economy into recession.

Democrats are enacting historic tax increases on job creators and energy producers that will be passed down to middle and lower income families already being crushed by inflation, unquote.

Another congressman from Kentucky, John Yarmouth of the 3rd district backs the bill.

He says the new IRS agents are needed to make sure the rich pay their taxes.

>> This legislation finally makes the biggest corporations start paring paying their fair share in taxes and insurers that rich tax cheats start paying what they owe.

The inflation reduction that is fiscally responsible, fully paid for and has been strongly indoors.

But top U.S. economists across the political spectrum.

Not one American family making less than $400,000 a year will see their federal tax bill increased by this legislation, not by a penny.

The Inflation Reduction Act is also the biggest investment the U.S. government has ever made to combat climate change.

It leaves drugs us a hint of nearly every other country in terms of our commitment to tackling this crisis.

>> The legislation has already passed the U.S. Senate on a party line vote with Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Both voting no.

Every year.

The city of Bowling Green host 24 Motorsports events drawing thousands of people who add millions of dollars to the local economy this week.

It's the try 5 nationals celebrating a classic car dating back to 1955.

>> I've been coming here to honor for 40 some years.

I use a professional drag race and I raced out here when I was in my teens need 20's, 30's.

And so when they decided to have that right, 5 nations there and I might try 5, not that actually.

That's why I'm here every year.

>> With an idiot like the U.S. economic impact stretches out over several days.

A lot of these people will come into town early.

We have a welcome party on Wednesday night.

And then this van is a three-day Havana.

>> The year on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and with all these people filling up our hotels, our restaurant, doing shopping and seeing our other attractions, the economic impact is absolutely wonderful.

>> There's your first.

>> Bowling Green is an amazing place to do something like this because of the demographic that it can pull.

There are so many cities surrounding the city of Bowling Green within 500 miles of here that it pulls an extremely large.

The amount of people from all over within a short drive.

It.

>> We've got cars from all over the United States here this weekend, enjoying our beautiful beach fan Park 374 Acres is right now.

Covered with all these fabulous cars.

>> It's beautiful it at the end of a new it was just made their letters in the country.

You know that alone here that comes over 1000 cars a year.

We all do.

>> A great show coming down here.

And it's just the right here.

A lot to track him.

It's a good place to come.

Tourism brings and of the leisure dollars that he keeps our taxes.

>> A lower dazzle, a local resident.

>> I just like 700 some miles down here.

It's about about 8 hour trip course of the motor home and for a lot.

>> Well, as our draft.

>> Everybody knows about Bowling.

Green Beach been a drag strip.

The same family zone for years.

And it's just a great place to be.

>> I think in part.

Just a nostalgia landmark for all current Phase II is because of the drag strip that's been here for years.

That covered grandstands is such an added value.

There's great fans all over rice tracks.

But bear that we're the only one that's covered.

So this brings in a locked car thief, the U.S. that one right here.

>> I love the track.

The folks who organize your minutes just to get a good place to go.

>> It's my hobby.

You know, beautiful cars and, you work on Bill something from the ground up.

Which is double.

Expensive, too.

What a lot of fun.

>> These cars are what the American muscle car is all about.

>> Here and try Pfizer, even industry projects place to be.

>> Kentucky State University in Frankfort has partnered with Google to give its students the digital skills they need to prepare for the workforce case.

KSU is one of 30 historically black colleges and universities or HBC use as they're called taking part in the grow with Google's HBCU Career Readiness program.

>> So the grower Google Program is an initiative that will help us prepare of students and digital literacy design thinking and project management.

It's opportunity for our students to have a evidence of what they're doing so they can get.

>> The pair for positions and corporate America and for the update there linked in profile.

So this opportunity with the grow with Google is this opportunity to put resources?

Also professional networks in the hand of HBC use, especially Kentucky State University.

>> And also bring in experts to the table to help us redefine what we're talking about.

What is a good curriculum?

What curriculum is going to pair out students to be ready for the curve for the workforce to be career ready, but also to be successful, long term.

And that's digital literacy is the foundation for that in this century.

This institution now with the partnership with the Google experts.

>> And even community expose them bringing their expertise to help us to translate the educational.

Now that into practical knowledge around 2 letters, that's the main benefit.

But also the connection to real world experience.

But then job places after they get tickets.

The platform.

>> That's going help the community and the Commonwealth as a whole in the area for economic Development College, a responsible for taking literacy and education and developing opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know.

>> In athleticism, we call that practice practice practice because you have to respond.

Same thing with the career workforce.

When you practice here in education, have the opportunity to demonstrate.

>> When it come time for your career, you working on a billion dollar project.

>> People feel comfortable because you've already had to practice here in post secondary, especially at Kentucky State University.

The long-term goal of this project is to related to each of the courses within the curriculum to go beyond just the stem and tell that to get a journalism involved because we know journalism, you know, the media development content creator, all of these areas are interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary to give them a line to all of our courses.

So long term, we want all of our students to participate to benefit and we're able to say that 1500 more students over a four-year period able to touch point in this and the fit for this investment.

>> Time now for end of week review of some significant political developments in the Commonwealth with the duo of partisan pundits we have with us today, an attorney by trade Morgan Eves is a former Richmond city commissioner and former legislative advisor and liaison and Governor Andy Beshear's administration.

She currently works as an education policy consultant.

And we're glad to have Julia Bright Kreidler is a political operative who served in senior roles in numerous legislative and statewide races.

And she's the founder of Bride Strategies, LLC.

Thank you both.

Let's start with you, Julia.

So Fancy Farm is a 6 days behind us.

It's the unofficial kickoff to the general election season.

What can we expect from now until Election Day in November?

>> Well, I think one thing that's really you know, that if you are myself and I had a couple days to sort it, is that the GOP primary for governor?

>> It's going to be a very spirited race.

>> I think the other major take away from anybody watching TV or was there an addition?

Was that up really hasn't been much.

We have a great image of young Republicans who are to our office holders seeking office.

And it's it's not it's certainly didn't beat the families to be almost.

You can just decade ago.

>> And so I want to ask you, Morgan, that question because we know that Republicans are dominant and numbers and voter registration and even then people represented on that stage Saturday.

So tell us about how Democrats gain some ground and create a larger bench for themselves.

>> I would agree with Julie.

I think between now and November, we're going to see the GOP gubernatorial feel solidify.

>> And I think based on the energy that those candidates can bring and the policy points talking points, stump speeches that those candidates are making for our state legislative races which are on the ballot in November.

That will bring the energy up for either party.

Andy Beshear, our governor was clearly the target of most of those GOP speeches at Fancy Farm.

He's pretty hard to beat right now.

He's doing great helping our folks in eastern Kentucky.

And I think people are seeing that compassion firsthand and that is a quality that's very hard to campaign against.

But I think we'll see how that gubernatorial field really affects the spirit and the energy of the November legislative elections.

>> So we'll wait and see and will be here along the ride.

That's for sure.

So let's talk about the flooding in eastern Kentucky.

The president came in Monday.

Both of Kentucky's senators were here.

Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Ron Eastern portions of the state.

And there's talk Julia of a special legislative session to expedite relief aid to that area.

What more have we learned in the day sense?

>> I think one of the big takeaways from the senator says it was the stories coming out.

Unfortunately, about the amount of folks are really struggling with FEMA to Niles.

You know, we had President Biden come in and say this to come up, stopping it right up alongside the 2 tech in some.

Fortunately, senator rates meant rep says 9 of those counties and he has made pleas on social media about the number of folks who are struggling and need is helping tonight by FEMA so he's he's asked folks, whether it's his constituents are not to reach out.

They can talk with your appeals process and some other planners and in tips as well.

So I think a special session is absolutely in order to help our fellow brethren in eastern Kentucky to despite, you know, some of the issues going on with >> and Morgan Eves to you.

The governor has been explicit about KET after FEMA KET applying.

Apply.

Apply even though you're getting those knows because some people are being denied.

Who could qualify for aid.

So it seems this is a bipartisan agreement that FEMA needs to step it up.

>> You're right, Renee, he hasn't had the same message during the tornadoes and western You know, just a few months ago and he is really out of our state delegation, congressional or statewide.

He is the person that is going to be most easily able to get through to FEMA.

He has that connection with President Biden.

And, you know, in addition to fame, I think you saw the governor and the president work together to get that 100%, 100% federal funding for debris removal and search and recovery efforts for the first first 30 days of that emergency declaration, which is going to be so important getting people on a road to normal saving the local community.

Hundreds of millions of dollars.

But to your point into Julius Point, you know, all of that is it is a part of a bigger hole.

And a big piece of that is getting the money to these folks quickly.

And I think unfortunately disasters and where and when people are really struggling, as when you see the most bipartisan support and camaraderie and certainly the situation with FEMA is no different.

And I have absolute faith that our governor will work together with our a federal partners at FEMA.

And when the White House to ensure that all of citizens over in eastern Kentucky get the help they need and deserve.

>> Well, we know if a special session is called and they have worked out an agreement, an arrangement before they are officially called in.

It can be a pretty quick process.

You know, 5 days or maybe even less.

So we'll KET our eyes on that.

I thank you.

Julia Bright color and also Morgan Eves for being with us today.

Have a great weekend.

So much.

Thank you.

I'm ♪ ♪ >> the calendar says August but will seem like October.

And one Kentucky town and check out the zoo and see a movie all in the same place.

Can you tease?

Toby Gibbs has more in tonight's look at what's around the Commonwealth.

♪ >> Enjoy music in the square is Ashlynn concludes its Broadway night Summer concert series this Friday.

Grab your chair and your friends and enjoy dinner drinks and live music under the stars.

A Bug's Life is making its way to the Louisville Zoo this Friday night as part of the great clips a Safari series settled into an evening with the animals and enjoy a movie under the stars in one of the wildest theaters in town.

Your winning bluegrass in the Park Folklife Festival is back in Henderson this weekend.

Enjoy live music kid friendly activities.

Food folklife displays and more in one of the top 10 events in Kentucky.

According to the Kentucky tourism Industry Association.

It's October somewhere, right?

The annual maysville October Fest is this weekend in historic downtown Maysville celebrate the town's German heritage with live traditional music.

German folk dancing Breyer's wines, Lakers, authentic German cuisine and much more.

Go back to school in fashion with the backpack Bash and Campbellsville this Saturday at the Miller Park amphitheater.

Local students can get free backpacks and school supplies to help give them a great start to the school year.

Light up your evening at the Water Lantern Festival in Louisville this Saturday night.

This family-friendly event brings together people of all ages to create a magical evening filled with fun, happiness and hope.

The driver error will be performing at the promo West Pavilion at ovation in Newport this Saturday joined Brothers Ross and Rocky luncheon rock out to pass it and some unreleased music created during quarantine.

Music is all around the commonwealth with the John McHugh and in the Circle Band Concert in Owensboro this Saturday, help celebrate the QX.

55 year music career as you tap along about old and new music.

And that's what's going on around the commonwealth.

I'm told he had.

>> Thank you to be a lot of great things happening across the state.

Hope to go out there.

Make it a good weekend and beyond nursing homes face a potential increase in nurse staffing mandates.

But operators say they're already facing a shortage of workers.

>> If there is a minimum staffing requirement, we will adhere to It is concerning because it's one more thing.

One more metric.

Then we will have to focus on and and again for us.

The biggest concern is where are these individuals to come from?

>> On Monday, we look at how the potential need for more nurses would impact long-term care facilities across the Commonwealth.

We hope you'll tune in for that.

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