>> The latest courtroom twist in the continuing back and forth over abortion.

New action from Attorney General Daniel Cameron.

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We've got different flavors and need to cope.

They come in to help some of the flavor too.

>> Insights into a hot dog eating from the first Kentuckian headed to the big show.

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

1st, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your evening with us.

We begin tonight with a shocking story out of Floyd County in eastern Kentucky, a deputy and a police captain are dead and 6 other people wounded in what the sheriff calls a planned attack.

The Floyd County Sheriff's Office says officers arrived at a home yesterday in the Allen community to investigate a domestic situation.

Sheriff John Hunt says a man appeared to be waiting and when officers arrived, the sheriff says that man opened fire Hunt says this lasted for hours.

And at first it was unclear where the shots were coming from.

The victims.

Names have been released.

They are Deputy William Petri and Captain Ralph Frasier.

5 other deputies were hurt along with an emergency management director and a police dog also died.

Police eventually arrested.

49 year-old Lance Stores.

He's accused of murder and attempted murder.

He's being held in the Pike County Jail on a 10 million dollar bond.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron wants the courts to reinstate Kentucky's abortion ban.

Yesterday, a Jefferson County judge temporarily blocked the trigger law that went into effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the Roe v Wade decision a week ago.

The judge's ruling allowed abortion to resume.

Attorney General Cameron filed an order with the Kentucky Court of Appeals asking the appeals court to overturn that judge's decision and ban abortion once again.

A hazard attorney is offering pro bono legal services for people prosecuted for providing or getting an abortion.

Michelle Lawson tweeted the offer of the day of the Dobbs decision.

Her tweet has been retweeted over 13,000 times and liked by more than 35,000.

She says the response has been greater than she could have imagined.

She spoke to our Casey Parker-bell.

>> What made you want to do this?

What?

Why did you send that tweet?

>> And I think when the national news records comes out and you have something that's so large, you sort of feel powerless to do anything.

And so I wanted to find something that was with him, not our KET, and it's definitely within my power to offer these products services for people.

And I just really wanted to help in that.

The essay in Mike is some of that Ashley worker visors right now, the trigger law that was put in place here in Kentucky.

It was the city clean target worker virus.

So and that was definitely part of the influence on.

>> Lawson says she has already received calls from clients about the impact of the Dobbs decision.

Some Kentucky Democrats are unhappy about a potential deal to appoint conservative Republican Chad Meredith to a federal judgeship in eastern Kentucky.

And we'll discuss that with Morgan Eaves and Iris Wilbur and are inside Kentucky politics segment.

That's coming up in just a few minutes.

We told you yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the EPA did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky praised the decision saying it will help Kentucky companies produce cheaper energy.

Charles Booker, though, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky is blasting the court's decision and a statement, he says, quote, Climate chaos is very real.

And this destructive ruling will only make it worse as Kentucky.

And we will be especially harmed by this shameful rollback, unquote.

We've seen a sharp increase in the number of Kentucky counties with high levels of COVID.

The new map out today shows 43 counties and the red that's up from 22 counties just a week ago, Fayette is high.

Jefferson is Medium.

Governor Andy Beshear says there's no need to panic over this.

>> So why would you see, you know, some more COVID out there and we also see just a little bit of an uptick in hospitalization.

I don't think it's anything to be worried about getting clean, show the line chart.

But to be mindful and certainly since we had the lowest point.

We have increased some.

But if you look at any point in this pandemic.

Misses the most moderate increase that we have seen.

And we don't necessarily expect that to continue.

But we will watch it.

And certainly when it comes to real serious illness, ICU, if you show it and ventilator, still of the lowest points that they have been throughout the pandemic.

>> The governor is also urging people who live in red counties to wear masks and public, especially when they're in big crowds.

Someone has filed a second class action lawsuit against the J M Smucker company.

The company that makes Jif peanut butter at a plant in Lexington.

And May.

The company recalled 40 products containing jif peanut butter because of concerns of a salmonella.

A South Carolina man already filed a lawsuit.

Now the Lexington Herald-Leader says an Illinois woman is suing claim she became sick after eating jif peanut butter.

Today is July.

1st, the day tolls increase on 3 bridges over the Ohio River connecting Louisville to Indiana.

And the increase is bigger than usual.

Usually it's 2.5% because it's tied to the rate of inflation and inflation is more than 8%.

The increase is more than 8%.

A driver where the riverlink account will pay $2.40 instead of the old toll of to 21 a driver without a riverlink account could pay $4.80.

Kentucky leaders look for ways to hold down the costs but couldn't reach an agreement with Indiana.

It's a proud day for Kentucky for the first time ever a Kentucky and will take part in the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest in Coney Island on the 4th of July.

Bartley Weaver is from Bowling Green.

He posted video on YouTube of one of his practice sessions while he described part of his strategy.

Switching kept a co.

I've got different flavors in each code.

That kind of helps on the flavor fatigue.

You know, the hot dogs don't change the flavor.

But the water does so.

Almost everybody uses that to their advantage.

Whether they have.

One flavor, multiple different flavors.

I like to mix it up because you know what?

Sometimes?

Sometimes the strawberry lemonade sitting right.

>> Haha, I imagine don't try that at home.

Folks.

Weaver tells Wbko he recently took part in the world to Molly Eating championship.

The world brought worse eating championship.

>> And the world pumpkin pie eating championship.

So he feels ready for the hot dog contest.

Good luck to him.

♪ ♪ We haven't had a measurable rain and nearly a month and farmers are concerned about their crops.

This national drought monitor map shows parts of Kentucky in a moderate draft.

And you see that here in brown, the hot and dry conditions are tough on crops and also livestock and those who care for them.

A Warren County farmer and his daughter-in-law tell us they hope this holiday weekend bring some much needed rain.

>> If we get down to far as like a harbor shull car, it's going to be devastating.

>> I would say that every single farmer probably across the state right now, weather is top of mind.

>> Everybody is currently in the same boat right You know, all especially the ones that got we've got corn out early.

>> We've probably got about 600 acres of corn that is in those the silken and costly states.

And anyway, that's that's critical for rain.

>> If we don't get rain and if these temperatures don't come down, we're going to see a lot less or corn yield in South Central Kentucky.

Then we're normally used to.

>> And about through the 2 to 3 weeks, you can lose a whole because of no rain.

>> Of course, I think already there for the high court you know, a lot of people haven't even done their second cutting of hay and and it's not they And so you take, you know.

>> Fortunately, my husband have a small part of 1000.

We're already have at this point.

And, you know, and if not already had your second cutting of hay us.

So, hey, it's going to be extremely short this year.

You know, if something now turn around and we can get, you know, pretty decent line here saying.

>> All of our economic crops depend on rain.

So it effects everybody from the vegetable producer.

He's trying to produce a crop all the way to your livestock and grain producers.

Your producers, their pastors are drying up.

And so they're concerned about what they're going to feed the animals on top of heat stress.

I will the heat for one.

Get some have really >> It just is just You know, course they have all this higher that, you know, we're not that we don't have.

And so it's just I don't know.

She's really hot and and hard and you have to keep lots of water to him course fade.

And you want to do that either.

Early in the mornings are light and afternoons kuz.

>> The hot yourself.

Just Karen.

>> You know, for the >> we're lows were yellows and yield every day.

>> Some of the crops when we go out there and take a look at it, they've probably already been damage.

We probably already see yield loss with those.

But if we look at all of agriculture, we need to write.

>> The Ponce drawn up.

That means extra work for us.

You've got to, you know, find more water.

And for all, she got to keep them watered because, you know, you don't understand how much water usually is.

And upon, you know, sometimes a certain pond will supply, you know, a whole herd of cattle.

And you take wants that dries up.

When you go to start trough, you might have to 5 or 6 times a day.

>> We are to make up, especially with the in curries put everything out this time fertilized fuel has made a big, big change on us.

There's this year.

>> We definitely are eyeing, you know, for the So we can, you know, cover crops, maybe helpfully turn around.

And at this point, I don't know some probably hardy.

>> Damage to where if it did Ryan, it's they might not come out of it.

But just a good Ryan gives, you know, slow Rhine.

They won.

It all comes at once.

It seems like it wants to run off.

So a good slow Ryan would be awesome.

>> Best case scenario is that we get rain we've got about about half of our core is it's it's Hartman, but it's still it's still got the potential to come out.

Mains are still we still got potential for Baines so I mean, if we get if we get rain, this this weekend, the first of the wake, we will still, you know, we will have a day some crop.

♪ ♪ >> Time now for our regular Friday night feature where we have inside Kentucky politics prepare up a partisan duo of pundits to break down the News of the Week in Kentucky.

Politics with us this segment.

And right now we have a Cyrus Wilbur.

She's a principal at the government relations for McCarthy, Strategic Solutions and Frankfurt.

She's vice president of public policy and external affairs for Greater Louisville Inc and a political operative who has worked on campaigns for Republicans for giving a tutorial congressional and presidential candidates.

And also joining us, Democrat Morgan Eves, a former Richmond City commissioner and legislative advisor and liaison between the executive and legislative branches and the Beshear administration in 2019, she currently works as an education policy consultant.

So we're glad to have both of them with us today.

Let's start with the judicial nomination, which whether it's rumor, it's fact I'm gonna let Iris kind of sort this out for us.

So this judicial nomination, possible potential in Kentucky has world Democrats and I'll get more guns perspective on that.

And they've not been shy of their condemnation of this possible presidential pick of Chad Meredith.

Chad.

Meredith served under the governor, Matt Bevin administration, some controversy there.

First of all, Iris, tell us to Chad Meredith is and can you straighten out if he is a possible contender for a federal judgeship here in Kentucky.

>> Well, thanks for you know, Mister Merritt is a lifelong Kentucky and a practicing attorney us.

It's some of the pieces of his resume.

You know, he's a bona fide with tremendous experience.

A great resume here.

Clark and the District Court federal district court and also court of Appeals to the latter part of your that will be up to you have President Joe Biden, whether or not he nominates Mister Merritt to the bench in and clearly must go through the Senate confirmation process.

As of You know, as of this conversation, we only know of a pending a senior counsel, a that what that would create that they can see.

But no nomination has been made at this time.

>> And that is U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell of Kentucky's Eastern district.

She announce she's going to take what they call senior status.

So that would create that vacancy.

We understood that today.

But I do want to ask Iris again.

Real quickly, though, there was reporting from the Courier Journal originated the story that perhaps President Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

It struck a deal when it comes to the nomination of Chad Meredith, perhaps to stave off any blocking a future nominations that the president might put forth.

>> Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has made no making a priority regarding these a federal appointments, sort of his agenda and right now is that allegedly a rumored to be between the Senate minority leader and President Joe Biden.

You know what we're experiencing the Commonwealth hearing.

A lot of vocal opposition from Kentucky Democrats.

I would question you take it up with your party leader, the current political composition washing D Washington, D.C., as that, you know, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is the minority leader.

And so I know Congressman John Yarmouth of Louisville has expressed deep frustrations.

it does not get And also I don't if I were him, I would take it up with Joe Biden, the Democratic leader in the party leader and Washington, D.C., and also consult with his at Senate majority, a Democratic counterparts.

>> So I want to go to the needs to get that response.

Yesterday in a press conference, Governor Andy Beshear this rumored nomination indefensible.

It particularly because of the last-minute gubernatorial pardons.

And I'm Matt Bevin administration for which we believe Chad Meredith may have had a role are involved, man, where rapists and murderers were giving last-minute pardons.

What can you add to this conversation about Democrats?

Frustration with this possible nomination and more information about the rationale for such.

>> It's obvious to the Renee why Democrat a statewide but likely nationwide would be upset with potential nomination.

This is someone really goes against.

Obviously the Democratic Party's values who is you know, anti reproductive rights.

Who stymie executive you know, at the state level and 2, as you allegedly played an active role and the controversial pardons of our our past governor.

So it's easy to see why the Democratic Party and our Democratic elected officials would take issue with the potential nomination.

I also think of the appearance that 3rd of the fix is and is not a great look for either party.

You know, that is why many people find politics inaccessible and why they are disheartened that their voice doesn't really matter.

It's because politicians sort of do these these backroom deals.

But it doesn't mean I don't understand the the president thought piecing Senator given given his open an active lobbying against previous a Democratic nominations when it comes to federal judgeships, but at least at the state level, I understand the opposition.

You know, the federal court system is set up so that the federal District court a trial with the ability to appeal those decisions to move on out to court of appeals and ultimately the Supreme Court.

But just because of the potential nominees and the background of easy to see why, why Democrats are upset.

Pretty unusual to see someone like Governor or any governor for that matter disagree publicly disagree with a member of their own party.

And I don't disagree with Iris insertion that we need to take that up with our party leader and that ultimately President Biden and I think by vocally against a potential nominee, that is exactly what Governor Beshear and like the Democrats are doing.

>> Morgan needs and Iris Wilbur, thank you so very much for joining us today.

Happy Independence Day weekend.

>> Talking about death can be difficult preparing for death, even more so one Kentucky woman is trying to make both easier.

>> A big part of what I do is acknowledging that we are, in fact, going to die.

Yeah, I work in sex education for a while and it's very somewhat like I find myself saying things like that day.

>> Everybody does.

Haha.

>> What we're doing this evening is an advance care directives, which is fancy for living well, is an extremely detailed version of the living >> I is a person specifically a woman in terms of the ancient Greek word who provide services.

So it's not really directly part of birds or death or any part of life.

A death doula is a person can be anybody.

You don't have to be a who cares for people at the end of life.

We do.

Advanced care different disposition legacy projects, comfort >> Home funeral.

Ing.

I do celebrate services, all sorts of stuff.

You're kind of like the event planner of the end of Life.

>> I lost both parents an early age and one of them had a living will.

And that made things very easy.

One of them did not.

And that made things very complicated.

So having had those I would advice to anyone to have these kinds of the things in order for the past.

>> Something I like to say his death.

Is it something that comes to you?

It's something you're born with it.

Something you carry with you.

There's nothing wrong with being prepared for it.

You as an individual have the right to care for your dad.

Start to finish.

Without a funeral director.

So you can do all of it yourself.

But because of the legal use of it, because, you know, you do have to talk to the corner.

You do have to get a provision or gift certificate from the health department.

You have to know those words.

>> It can be really intimidating task.

Yeah, I've never heard of it before.

>> And I don't think most people have, but hopefully that's going to change.

>> And what wished 3, 4, and 5 are really written to do is talk to your family about how you care for a dying person.

>> Hey, people are definitely more open to talking about death because it's much more prevalent.

And I also think death doulas and alternative death services are kind of having a moment.

And Desmond Tutu aquamation for his disposition time did an article about death Doulas.

You know, we're we're becoming more prevalent are becoming more obvious.

And I also think social media plays a huge part of that.

Like we're more accessible to people than we've ever been before.

So there's definitely a shift and really.

I hope a cultural shift into doing more of these things, though.

I also have friends who are hospice nurses have said Lee, this is a thing now.

People want to spend time with the body.

They don't always call.

Before.

They were called immediately when a person that now they might wait an hour or 2 before they make that call.

That's something we absolutely encourage you to do.

Originally.

You know, I honestly in my training, especially expected this to be.

>> Like a lot more resistance.

I didn't expect everybody, Bill.

Yeah, let's change this interest rates.

Let's go.

But that's not what happened at all.

People have been really, really >> accepting, really, really excited, really, really supportive of it.

>> I think our culture, we.

Streamlines the death industry into a very in-person all somewhat.

>> Corporate model.

>> That's not the way I my.

Death to be.

And so I like that warning is out there and that others are providing options for new >> Remember if people I have an opportunity here to actually change something I can actually affect.

>> Our world work for the better.

>> And this is maybe the first time in my life I've ever done something that I was like, oh, this.

This is a good way.

>> Haha, I can make big changes here.

I can actually do this.

And yeah, that's that's a big part of it is.

I can make the change.

♪ >> From the 4th of July to hot air balloons to Shakespeare.

There's something for everyone.

The next week in Kentucky.

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

>> The Merry Wives of Windsor made their way to Kentucky for the month of July.

The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival will be putting on this classic play at Central Park in Louisville from July.

1st through the 24th come enjoy one of Shakespeare's greatest hits this summer.

Come up up and away to the mark on the hot air balloon glow at the Taylor County Fairgrounds on July first and second, this year's event will have 17 different hot air balloons participating throughout the weekend.

See the balloons up close, talk to the pilots and even get your picture taken in the basket to kick off your 4th of July weekend.

Celebrations.

The Appalachian Center for the Arts Presents Legally Blonde.

The musical junior this weekend in Pike will see this beloved movie and musical come to life onstage.

Watch the Self Empowering Journey of Elle Woods with a little song and dance thrown in as she learns.

There's more to her than just being blocked.

>> Since to the city of Warsaw has been putting on the Warsaw River Days Festival.

Enjoy a weekend full of food.

Live music fireworks, a river run walk and even a parade come enjoy a festive 4th of July weekend.

>> Every run or walk would be better with a little color to paint the park 5 K color run is this Saturday at Kingdom come state park in Cumberland.

>> Be prepared to be doused with colored powder as you make your way through the beautiful The Monticello Market is back in downtown Monticello this Saturday.

Come see pieces from local artists, business vendors, crafts, antiques, food trucks, and more.

The market is held on the first Saturday of the month from April through October this month, special features a hot Rod festival with plenty of hot rods and custom cars to go around.

>> We the kingdom, big daddy, weave and Don ready.

We're albeit Madisonville City Park for the annual praise in the park this Sunday.

This free event features 2 stages of entertainment, food trucks, vendors, and even a fireworks display.

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

I'm to begin.

>> Every Friday, Bill Bryant has comment on Kentucky at 8 Eastern 7 Central Tonight, Bill and a pal of Kentucky reporters discuss the fallout from the Roe v Wade abortion decision and other political events of the week.

So don't miss that.

Coming up in a bit Monday on Kentucky Edition, a special programming commemorating America's Independence Day.

We'll bring you a brief history lesson about the events leading to July 4th, 17.

76 and we're asking Kentuckians, what does America mean to you and where there is a group of Kentucky veterans.

All women take an honor flight to our nation's capital.

So join us for that Monday on Kentucky Edition.

Thanks so very much for being with us this week.

I hope you have an extraordinary holiday weekend.

We hope to see you right back here Monday night, 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky Edition, worry inform, connect and inspire.

Make it a great weekend.

Will see the sun.

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