♪ >> We ought to be able to our kids.

We are going to be unlike anything we've ever seen before.

Pretty historic that.

>> Plans are right on schedule for a massive development in central Kentucky that will create 5,000 jobs >> so you can run, but you can't hide.

We're going to be when she goes and we're going to see justice until it comes down like the Mahdi want to.

>> Protesters rally in Bowling Green seeking justice.

67 years after the lynching of Emmett Till.

>> That's not something that you ever anticipate experiencing or having to go through while still?

>> As we prepare to mark, a somber milestone in Kentucky history.

We hear from those who worked around the clock to track the storm.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Monday, December, the 5th, I'm Renee Shaw.

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

>> The largest economic development project in state history is moving forward.

A large crowd gathered today in Hardin County's Glendale community where construction is well underway on an electric vehicle battery plant blue oval as K will produce batteries for Ford and Lincoln Electric vehicles that will employ thousands of people in central Kentucky.

>> We're here today making history as we celebrate the official groundbreaking of the biggest economic development project this state has ever seen.

>> We are honored to be in Glendale to begin the next chapter in Ford's story.

Brutal.

Ask, hey, will help for to reach his goal, producing an annual run rate of 2 million electric vehicles globally by late 2026.

>> This is revolutionizing or maybe Kentucky's economy and you're going to see so much more.

>> Ward's made some big bets on electrification.

Because we believe in our ability to lead the electric revolution.

>> I'm told these 2 facilities together.

We're going to be the largest in the world in terms of production.

>> Right here in just blended community.

This joint venture company will employee 5,000 people in high tech.

Good paying jobs.

>> That's 5,000 great careers in clean manufacturing facilities right here in Central >> Now the world and the economy is changing really fast right now.

What you're seeing here today and how we're going to train people is going to ensure that we lead in that future economy.

We need a workforce trained in the latest battery in advanced manufacturing technologies.

We intend for that work force to come from Central Kentucky.

And we're developing training to be delivered to them right here on this site.

>> We manufactures some of the most advanced battery in the word right here in Kentucky.

The community has been.

>> Welcoming us with open arms and we look forward to continuing to grow our relationship with that.

Brown.

We're standing Governor Patten was very close to a large facility on Steve Beshear >> try to land a large facility on of talk to both of talk to one a little more the other and I can say it was worth the wait and everybody agrees.

Now each of them and others had a big role in this.

This is 10 plus years of investment in the making.

So thank you to everybody who made that possible.

>> Louisville, ask a battery park is a huge step forward for Ford and for the industry.

>> Up to the tease that every next generation of Kentuckians are going to have are going to be bigger that any we could have ever imagined in.

You see it in the size of this project behind us.

This is game changing to Kentucky.

But more importantly, it's it's game changer for the people of Kentucky.

>> Officials say plans are running right on schedule and that the battery plant is set to be up and running by 2025.

Governor Andy Beshear just made it official.

He is running for a second term.

The governor filed his paperwork today at the secretary of state's office in Frankfort.

The governor had already announced his plans to run again.

He has said that Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman will remain his running mate today.

Governor Beshear was asked if he thought his policies regarding COVID-19 would hurt his chances of being reelected.

>> You look at this last Good it or elections across the country knows that with strong and leadership were almost universally reelected and the prowl we made the hard decision to make the right decisions.

I was going to be the last people that any mission and what I we save more lives with him and we have to now.

Okay, I'm really proud of our team did together regardless of any consequence.

>> Governor Beshear will have some competition in the Democratic primary.

As we've reported, Jeff Young is running for governor as a Democrat.

He just lost a race for Congress in the 6th Congressional District.

And Happy Martin now says she will run for governor next year as a Democrat.

Martin was the Republican nominee for governor in 1999.

Losing to Governor Paul Patton.

Has he won a second term cross?

As we reported state Senator Ralph Alvarado who serves Clark County and part of Fayette is resigning to become state health commissioner in Tennessee right now.

He is the chair of the Senate Health Services Committee.

Senate leaders say with Alvarado leaving the vice chair, Senator Steve Meredith will move up and become chair.

Senator Donald Douglas will become the vice chair.

Other changes.

Senator Jason Howell will chair the Agriculture Committee.

Senator Max Wise will take over the Economic Development Committee and Senator Stephen West will lead the Education Committee.

A bill honoring the wife of Kentucky.

Congressman Andy Barr is headed to the president's desk.

The cardiovascular advances in research and opportunities, legacy or Carol Act supports research and raises awareness for of alveolar heart disease.

Congressman Barr introduced the bill in the House last year in honor of his late wife Carol, who want to spec to Lee died from the disease in 2020.

The bill unanimously passed the House today after doing the same in the U.S. Senate last week.

Republicans took the U.S. House.

Democrats kept the U.S. said, what does that mean for Kentuckyian for members of Kentucky's congressional delegation?

We'll discuss the national political picture with a panel of political experts on Kentucky tonight at 8 Eastern 7 Central tonight right here on KET.

An update now on a story that we brought you Friday on Kentucky edition as a Kentucky city finds itself connected to the 1955 Emmett Till tragedy.

Dozens of protesters gathered in Bowling Green Saturday to call for justice against the woman whose accusations led to tales of brutal murder in Mississippi.

Carolyn Bryant Donham claim that the 14 year-old till whistled at her causing her husband and his half-brother to torture and kill him.

An all-white jury acquitted the 2.

It was discovered in recent months that now lives in Bowling Green groups from out of state organized a demonstration both at the Warren County Justice Center and outside Dawn's apartment complex.

>> We are seeking justice and this woman behind us here she can run, but she can't hide.

We're going to be when she goes and we're going to seek justice until it comes down like the muddy waters will go to the United States.

Justice Department will go to the White House.

We've been to all these places before we bend the and we'll go again.

>> Both private security and local law enforcement kept protesters from stepping onto the property word lives.

There are warrants for her arrest was found earlier this year in a Mississippi courthouse.

A grand jury declined to indict her.

The Saturday protest included the Black Panthers, the lion of Judah, Armed Forces and a group called True Healing under God the NAACP chose not to take part saying in a statement it would rather focus its energies on those currently being discriminated against.

>> You have 2 more years to get your real ID.

That's the ID card that will allow you to fly domestically or interim military base.

The deadline to get one was May 3rd 2023, but the state says the Department of Homeland Security has extended Kentucky's deadline to May 7th 2025.

Governor Beshear says the state has made great strides in the last 2 years and that the 2 year grace period is welcome news.

We are less than a week away from marking the first anniversary of Kentucky's deadly tornado outbreak.

Bowling Green was among the hardest hit cities with 17 deaths and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed.

Tonight we're hearing from western Kentucky University's white squirrel weather and disaster science operations center about predicting severe weather events and the role those warnings can play in preventing tragedy.

♪ >> As a forecaster, a lot of time going through data and trying to figure out how each event is going to play out based on the data available to you.

And then as you get closer to the event we rely heavily on things like satellite and radar to tell us what's happening at that moment.

We were watching this shape up about a week in advance.

♪ >> We could see the potential for this to become a dangerous event.

I remember that day storm started firing up in northeastern Arkansas around 4 o'clock.

And I sat down at my desk at 4 o'clock and I didn't get up until I lost power at around one 20 in the morning.

Part of what we do at the university is whether support for all events.

Graduation was was the number one for our forecast but never did.

We think it was going to come in early devastate town and cause it to be canceled.

Working with Doctor Durkee and the students.

We were tracking the storm, the quad State storm that went through my field of Princeton.

>> And as we were tracking that one, this other storm developing lingering down in Tennessee.

I want to get into Warren County.

We KET it was on the ground.

We were getting those reports are police Department survey campus one last time to make sure there was nobody outside.

They took shelter and then we're giving us some media reports after it and hit the of the amount of damage.

>> I initially thought that maybe perhaps, you know, there are some areas of my home that were missing.

But I soon realized that what I was looking at was not.

Coming from my house or my yard is coming from someone else's.

And that's when I realized that we had severe devastation.

We had damage on campus.

We have no injuries on campus, which was good.

But we all had with the devastation all around campus.

We have a lot of people affected.

>> When I finally.

Went down and saw were a lot of the destruction was it was still just an incredible sight.

I was not dissipating that level of damage.

>> After the tornadoes of December 10th and 11th at solidified my desire for.

>> Whether while not every event will play out and have a major disaster associated with it.

It's important to take them seriously in the event that something were to happen.

Weather is the biggest impact or when you look at disasters.

>> Around the world weather is that is by far the biggest when you look at all the different areas.

So it's very, very critical.

We've documented somewhere around 50 tornadoes in every aspect of severe weather, large hail floods, damaging winds.

While we've seen some pretty devastating things on those trips over the years.

>> I've never been in the epicenter of this type of destruction.

>> Obviously, this was a tragic and disasters and then and it's not something that you ever anticipate experiencing or having to go through while still?

But from a learning and forecasting perspective, it provides you the greatest learning opportunities that you can imagine.

You're standing in the middle of someone's life in a pile and it's just rubble and debris.

There's more to a damage survey that just going saying, OK, this tornado did this much damage and this kind of area.

There's also a mental and social aspect to it.

You have to talk to the people and kind of get their stories of what they experienced that night.

>> Unique hating.

The the likelihood the expectations of the forecast is very challenging.

I think for a lot of folks, they're putting up Christmas decorations.

It's warm outside.

There's severe weather threat and it's pulling all those emotions together and it's bringing a certain level of sensitivity.

We have to be aware of of that sensitivity as we communicate this information.

>> WKU Meteorology and disaster science programs have received national awards for their work.

The Disaster Science Operations Center just officially open this fall and is located inside the environmental sciences and technology building on campus.

♪ ♪ Playwright, poet and civic journalists.

Constance Alexander for Murray.

Kentucky has braved the complicated and profound when it comes to aging and end of life issues the way home a spoken-word opera artfully weaves the story of 2 women dealing with cancer diagnoses and the reporter who captures their real-life experiences last week I spoke with Constance about the peace designed as readers theater that has been performed in and out of Kentucky.

>> 2 women, local women or regional women.

>> Volunteer to be interview.

Both of them were fighting cancer.

And they agreed to be interviewed throughout their process of dealing with cancer.

The 2 of them never met.

One of them did not have any health insurance because she had been a cancer survivor when she was 37.

Flight that as I wrote about it, this other woman who was an older person.

Read the articles and heard some of the radio pieces and asked if she could contribute some money to help this woman.

Her name in that.

But I is to reset to help to restart pay for some of her hospital cost.

So the 2 of them never met.

But they Larry, their interview them.

And after those interviews were over in after the project was over, I still have their voices in my heart to an head.

So I should write something.

And then I got the idea if I could write something that could also raise money.

4 cars is associated with the uninsured or cancer breast cancer, women's health.

That kind of saying rather than get royalties for this piece.

I just wanted to see it performed.

Anywhere.

Any place to raise money for these issues so that that was the original idea, the title, the way home.

Originally, the tire was otherwise.

And that was based on a Jane Kenyon.

How am called otherwise.

Jane King with your noted COVID who died of leukemia when she was in her late 40's.

That had been the name of the peace.

And then as I was writing it in writing the end.

It just came a pardon me the lowering the way home came the Permian the end of the play and I call it why it is.

It is a player Reader's theater or spoken for.

But I remember when I can't that line and it just came to me.

I just broke But it is also talking about.

>> The access to insurance and not having the money and and the co pays and having to pay out of pocket.

>> But also the humanity of people who stepped in the gap to h***.

Yeah, it's beautiful.

Yeah.

Constance is really beautiful.

Art of story for Theresa.

>> Is that they put her on another chemo drug.

>> She went to a local pharmacy to inquire about the cost and everything.

And then they called her later and said we'll pay for it.

She lived in Trigg County and Katies Kentucky.

Just the humanity that you can't find in a small tear in and there are lines in the play about that.

That new.

Where she loves that people.

Well.

All right, says what I like best is when you think positively there are people along the way to help you find your to the confusion.

Just like my friends and inform us.

It's yeah.

One of the things about a piece like this is that we don't always talk about these issues.

I have a pro fair, really, that the arts are way 2 service issues that we need to talk about.

And we need to exchange our wisdom and our insight center frustrations with a lot of these topics and certainly end of life issues is is warrant and it's one that touches all of us.

Absolutely.

>> You can see my full interview with costumes, Alexander about her spoken word opera called the Way Home Sunday at 12 noon Eastern.

11:00AM central on my conversation series connections right here on KET.

♪ Medical schools across the country offer courses focused on anatomy, physiology, pharmacology.

>> But what about, of course, on culinary medicine.

In tonight's look at medical News, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine is introducing a new class that will teach nutritional and dietary curriculum to the next generation of doctors.

>> Culinary medicine combines the art of cooking with the science of food.

So you think about the science of food and how it impacts our body in a healthy way or not a healthy way.

And then you think about the art of food preparation.

So how can we combine that art of cooking in science of food.

What we know about food to benefit health, many health conditions can occur because of our nutrition because of what we eat are we don't eat.

And so understanding that many chronic or short-term health conditions can be influenced by food is a reason to educate medical professionals around this.

>> Food definitely like very important to my knowledge because what are you doing?

Hospital?

One of the medicine you pay is only a short period of time by the water you're going to eat will be my building your system.

So just have to be realized what the consequence off, what the food you eat.

>> So for someone who's battling an illness?

If they're taking in a lot of processed foods, a lot of heavy, let's say Fried foods, ally, lacking whole foods in their diet.

They're setting up potential stage for inflammation.

A nutrition can really set the stage for healing.

It provides plenty of nutrients, vitamin C and zinc, for example, we know are really important to healing.

>> I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2020 may and I was in shock for a couple weeks and that doing that time.

I went through 2 major surgeries would last 8 to 10 hours small during this process.

They remove the gallbladder and panics.

So which is all the delicious fried food and a very healthy food, which I enjoy a lot and they have to focus on the.

Fibers, proteins and veggies.

>> So patients that are recovering from what say chemotherapy or radiation treatments and there recovered from cancer, let's say, but they can have a consistent metallic taste in their mouth for weeks to months.

>> So as I started the chemo, the same food, it's different to me.

And the I know it's the same food and I know what it's supposed to taste like.

But when you eat, it pays to France to food.

I'm able to eat and not able to eat is chance to might buy it a lot in past couple years.

>> The course is 8 weeks long.

There's a lot of information packed into those 8 weeks.

Then we launch into a macho, dedicated to different chronic diseases.

So there's one of them in a box syndrome, one on cancer when on G I health of the Micro mental neurological disorders.

And so and each one of those models are on a chronic condition.

There's something for students to watch some things for students to read and then something for students to do so.

Conor in Medicine has a place in the conversation as it relates to nutrition and food that can serve our bodies.

Good in a positive and health promoting way.

Really interesting.

This new course will be offered to medical students at 3 campuses in Lexington, Bowling Green and northern Kentucky.

♪ >> December is a busy time of year for Kentucky football.

Here are the 6 winners of high school football championships Friday and Saturday won a title Beachwood 3, a Christian Academy for a boil County.

Frederick Douglass and 6, a Bullet East.

Also, we now know UK will play Iowa and the music City Bowl December 31st.

Western Kentucky will play South Alabama in the New Orleans Bowl on December.

21st Louisville will play Cincinnati and the Fenway Bowl in Boston on December 17th.

There's some irony there because Louisville's football coach Scott Satterfield just announced he's leaving Louisville to become Cincinnati's coach next season.

A legendary Kentucky sports figure to governor Lieutenant Governor and a decision on a state capital.

Toby Gibbs connects all of that.

Tonight's look at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> With a legislative commission decided Frankfort was the right town to become Kentucky's Capitol city on December.

5th, 17 92 Frankfort offered several town, lots building materials and $3,000 cash the best offer of any town that submitted bids.

Jefferson Davis died December 6th, 18 89 in New Orleans.

The only president of the Confederate States of America was born in present-day Todd County in 18.

0, 8, after the war.

He was in prison for 2 years but never tried for treason.

He then traveled to Europe and then return to the South.

Kentucky's first woman Lieutenant Governor took office December 9th 1975.

Thelma Stovall, a Democrat also served as secretary of state 3 times, state treasurer and state representative and a political career that lasted 30 years.

>> Kentucky's first and so far, only woman governor was born December 7th, 1936.

Michael Lang Collins served from 1983 to 1987, about her accomplishments helping to bring the Toyota plant to Georgetown.

Kentucky's first Governor Isaac Shelby was born December, 11th 17, 50 in the Maryland colony.

He fought in the Revolutionary War settled in Kentuckyian 17 83 and became governor and 17.

92.

He served as governor again during the war of 18, 12 and personally led a group of 3500 volunteers.

Thanks.

Sports broadcaster K would like for called his first University of Kentucky basketball game December 5th 1953.

As Kentucky played Temple.

Redford's previous experience was calling high school football and basketball games for W H L an in Harlan.

With this week in Kentucky history.

I'm told he gives.

>> Thank you, Toby.

Join us tomorrow night for Kentucky Edition, we continue our look back at the Western Kentucky tornadoes one year later.

Meet some volunteers bringing new meaning to the term home for the holidays as they fix up homes and let renters become homeowners.

That's coming up tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central on Kentucky EDITION where we inform connect and inspire subscribe to our weekly Kentucky Edition email newsletter and watch full episodes at KET Dot Org.

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