>> The day that we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

>> One expert says that's how much the U.S. Supreme Court changed history this year.

The court's actions and what could come next ahead.

We have an F 14.

Tomcat.

A famous for the top gun movie.

>> The missile that that aircraft is a Phoenix missile.

It's quite a large mass was 13 feet long.

>> Meet the man who make old planes look new again.

Plus, a new telescope is bringing us the best pictures of the universe ever taken.

Well, last an expert about what we can learn about the mysteries of space.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the Kaye E T and down that for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Preston down the public affairs and the Kaye E Team Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Tuesday, July 12th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your evening with us.

>> Kentucky's COVID positivity rate has jumped again.

It's now almost 17%.

According to numbers released by the state yesterday.

That's up from 15.0.

75% a week ago and around 13%, just 2 weeks ago, 16,244 Kentuckians have died since the COVID pandemic began more than 2 years ago.

The increased COVID numbers are prompting some people to begin wearing masks again.

The Georgetown Toyota plant is now requiring masks for its workers.

According to the Georgetown News graphic, Scott County is one of the 37 Kentucky counties in the high category for COVID case numbers.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says the U.S. Supreme Court term that just ended was the greatest term for the court in 70 years since the court ordered an end to school desegregation or segregation in 1954.

Senator McConnell spoke on the U.S. Senate floor yesterday.

He praised the court for following the rule of law and the wording of the U.S. Constitution.

And he said the court was right to overturn Roe v Wade.

>> Last month, the court One of the most egregious legal and moral mistakes.

None of the 20th century.

Almost 7 countries.

And our world.

want to bore shun on demand.

But until 2 weeks ago, the Supreme Court but mistakenly decreed.

The Constitution forced America.

The want all 50 states have been on this issue like the North Korean.

was even like France or Germany.

Of course, there is no command like the in our Constitution.

That is what the court finally recognition.

There's nothing in the Constitution and forces ocean radical water.

One of the origin.

>> McConnell says it was an honor for him to stand alongside those who have opposed abortion.

The last 5 decades we talked about the Supreme Court's decision on Roe and other key rulings during the last year last night on Kentucky tonight.

More on that in just a few minutes.

Yesterday, Governor Andy Beshear announced Kentucky has a 945 million dollar budget surplus and he said his policies contributed to that surplus.

Well, today, House Speaker David Osborne said Kentucky's Republican led General Assembly deserves the credit and a statement.

Speaker Osborne says, quote, This is what happens when you commit to sound fiscal policies and responsible tax reforms in order to foster economic growth as we have over the past 5 years.

While there are some, including the governor who seem committed to spending every available tax dollar, the House will continue to pass budgets aimed at meeting today's needs while planning for the future.

Yesterday's announcement is the result of those efforts to build a stronger Kentucky end quote.

Bulletproof vest saved lives.

The latest proof the shooting of a police officer in Louisville on Sunday as we told you yesterday, a suspect shot a police officer at Shawnee Park during the Dirt Bowl basketball tournament.

WDRB reports police were trying to arrest a man wanted on 12 charges.

Police say that man shot an officer in the chest.

Police Chief Erika Shields says the officer would have died if he hadn't been wearing a bulletproof vest.

Police fired back at the suspect.

Herbert Lee, a man convicted of crashing a stolen car and killing 4 teenagers in 2008 Lee was taken to a Louisville hospital.

Kentucky has 483 million dollars to spend on ways to fix the state's opioid problem.

That money is from a settlement with opioid manufacturers.

So how should it be spent?

9 members of the Kentucky opioid Abatement Advisory Commission will play a big role in that decision.

KETK see Parker-bell was there for the group's first meeting.

>> Whether it's the people who have been victimized by addiction, whether it is the children of folks who have lived in homes, which have been obliterated by addiction, whether it's the family members of folks who have had to watch their loved ones be hospitalized or put in the ground because of this nation.

We need to hear reality.

The opioid Abatement Advisory Commission held its first meeting today.

They heard presentations on how Kentucky has been spending money to prevent further opioid addiction.

Lately, we've turned to a couple of different other things.

And that is, again, transitional housing.

And we really learned a lot through COVID that there were a lot of folks they could benefit from a telehealth model.

But the community health centers to not a lot of didn't have the infrastructure to support there.

Kentucky is already spending money to combat the opioid epidemic and the commission will distribute 240 million dollars of the more than 480 awarded to the state.

>> But then Ingram executive director of the Office of Drug Control Policy says programs already in place need to grow.

Well, I hope we get to the final help take.

Some of these programs are already exist to scale.

We couldn't find new programs.

The may be beneficial.

Just want to work There's a lot to look at a lot of study.

>> The opioid Abatement Commission will award money to projects in communities fighting the crisis.

Bryan Hubbard, the executive director of the commission, says they will work to identify the best ideas.

>> Well, we want to make sure that we are able to identify partners within the state who come forward with it.

Concepts notions and ideas that will help us reinforce the infrastructure that you just heard today.

And that infrastructure has to focus on prevention, treatment and recovery.

And the protection of long-term results when it comes to reverse and the strands of both opioid use opioid deaths and all the negative consequences that come with it.

The commission will begin taking applications for grants by the end of October.

>> And they will ward some of the first grants by January for Kentucky edition.

I'm Casey Parker-bell.

>> The Opioid Abatement Commission will also be traveling the state on a listening to were it will visit 8, Kentucky town's to hear from people about the impact of the epidemic on their lives.

The commission's next meeting is scheduled for August.

The 29th.

Kentucky's Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee will meet Thursday in Campbell County.

The meeting is set for 5.30, to 07:00PM at northern Kentucky University's but Trouba student Union Ballroom.

The governor appointed a panel that is traveling the state hearing from people about using medical cannabis to ease pain and help Kentuckians with other medical problems.

The governor is also looking at things he can do by executive order about medical cannabis after the Kentucky General Assembly didn't take action during the session earlier this year.

Mayfield has a youth development center.

Again, the December tornadoes cause structural damage to the center's roof as well as busted water pipes collapsed walls and damaged floors.

After 6 months of work, the center reopen today with Governor Beshear on hand.

The center houses.

45 young offenders offering them counseling and re-entry back into their homes, schools and communities.

America has a new poet laureate and she lives in Lexington.

The Library of Congress has name to Limon has the 24th poet laureate her one-year term began September 29th.

The librarian of Congress as Limon is a poet who can x and that her poem speak of intimate ruse and way that help us to move forward.

Limon is a California native who now lives in Lexington.

The job is based in Washington, D.C., but a poet laureate is not required to live.

There.

That's not the only honor for Kentucky brighter Silas House.

A professor at Berea College is the winner of the Duggan's prize for outstanding mid-career.

Novelist houses a New York Times, best-selling writer.

This is the biggest prize given to an LGBTQ writer in the United States.

2 novelis when it every year.

He is the author of the book Southernmost which is now being made into a movie.

Silas House was a guest on KATC connections last October.

You can check that out online.

Maybe you've already seeing some of the amazing pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, which sent back its first pictures today.

It's a 10 billion dollar project.

The new pictures show distant galaxies farther away than anything humanity has ever seen.

For some insight into the telescope and what it can teach us.

We talked this afternoon with Ben Mouth for us.

The executive director of the Morehead State University Space Science Center.

>> I have to say I was absolutely blown away.

It reminded me of the hole to hole and the whole what's known as the whole altered the building, which are these extraordinarily deep images of basically a blank piece of sky where you can see that the into that said the deepest regions of space and far back in time.

And this was even deeper and more spectacular than even the whole team, too.

So it the just the first image was was almost my mom's like you have to say it's an extraordinary instrument.

It's the extraordinary image coupled with real science status.

That's that's different from the first set of calibration.

And, you know, he's obviously going to prove to the most incredible instrument ever built in history to cite just from this one image.

So we're looking extremely distant, a cluster of galaxies and they're owning that catalogs within that just because you really don't see him with the world's largest ills.

And this particular one is S and they see 0, 2, 0, 7, 2, 3, So you can see the dozen or so galaxies may be several dozen actual.

In the foreground of the image and they take on sort the shapes.

The morphology is that you would imagine from galaxies at this point in the history universe, which is about half the age of the universe.

That's what we're looking now at here.

There are about 5 million light years away.

And so we can see, you know, more modern type Nazis.

I'm Stacey spiral galaxy to reseal political galaxies and some interacting systems.

But the really cool thing for me, at least is that you see features of gravitational lensing.

So there are these little sort of curved features and what looks to be smeared lie.

And those are facts.

The their single galaxy or a set of galaxies whose life has been the store did by some massive gravitational mass in between.

And all sometimes they created what are known as Einstein warnings where Einstein Arts and they're clearly visible in this image of the by the way, that data was borne out by spectroscopic analysis because they can take a look at a mirror image of galaxies, for example, and show that the spectrum are due in court to release the same.

It's a galaxy that slide has just been distorted and and broken part of this intervening probably supermassive black hole.

Is there some really, really low surface brightness galaxy that are extraordinarily distant and appears to be about 10 billion years old.

And, you know, the 13 0.4 billion year old universe.

That's most of the way back to the beginning of the entire universe.

So when you're seeing galaxies are 10 plus billion years old, all that 6 score, Maryland, a memorial.

And this is all all in one.

And that's the first is that these images that are so D and therefore so far back in time will ultimately show us the very first generation stores and the very first generation gallatin's that fact that really is one of the primary objectives of the James Webb Space Telescope is to see so far back to time that we can see the very first year of star formation in the very first mural of the Galaxy aggregation.

And it will answer a lot of questions about all that we have about galaxy formation and instill revolution.

Right now we're we're seeing those structures, galaxies and stars and nebulae in a much more modern universe and to hear this park back in this out into space.

And therefore, this far back in time helps us put together the pieces of the puzzle from the very early stages of the universe.

It's extraordinarily tight ball colleagues and then soar it's true.

Ordinarily excited about the the initial results of a long time coming.

Most of the NASA centers at some room putting James went together it was such an extraordinary process to get it produced and and many people, but most of their career in 2 buildings, instrument.

And so everybody's just extent that the initials ♪ >> A judge backs Governor Andy Beshear's power to appoint members to the state executive Branch Ethics Commission during the session earlier this year, lawmakers passed House Bill 3.34 over the governor's veto.

>> It allows the attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and AG commissioner to each pick.

One person for the commission, all of those officeholders right now are Republicans, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Jaysh or make Judge McKay Chauvin block the new law from going into effect saying it diminishes the governor's constitutional duty to ensure ethics codes are faithfully executed.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron says the ruling will be appealed.

The just concluded U.S. Supreme Court term had the impact of an atomic bomb.

That was just one of the comments on Kentucky tonight last night as a panel of attorneys and law professors discuss the overturning of Roe v Wade and other important decisions from the high court.

There was disagreement about whether the Roe v Wade decision and the comments about from some of the justices suggest major decisions, reversing other issues beyond abortion.

I think that's deeply troubling.

>> A Justice Alito.

If he really means it and the majority that he wrote really means it that any an enumerated non textual right is there for at risk because abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution.

There wasn't a long tradition protecting the right to choose before Roe was decided and certainly not in the 19th century.

If that's our template, that's going to be our standard.

A whole lot of other an enumerated rights that we take for granted are also going to be at stake and Justice Thomas, whatever one may think of him was at least honest about that in his concurrence.

He said, I think we should reconsider the same sex marriage decision.

We should reconsider the right to contraception.

We should reconsider a whole lot of other rights involved the involve the right to privacy.

And because they're also on a rated and we should not only reconsider them, we should overrule them at the first opportunity.

>> It's possible that Justice Thomas said that as as as Sam was saying, I'm not so sure that that's what Justice Thomas was saying.

I think he was saying more.

We should look at this through the lens of privileges or immunities, which is another clause in the 14th Amendment.

But I'll I'll grant us and that I don't know what Justice Thomas would then do, but assuming that Justice Thomas would look askance at some of those rights, the that Sam mentioned, he's only one person.

The chief justice didn't say that Justice Alito very clearly said that those are different cases and the dissenters, obviously wouldn't think that way.

So it it strikes me as being a 2 one on that.

And that particular issue.

I appreciate the fact that we're really getting at a granular level with the doctor here there's a lot to talk about.

>> You can see more of last night's insightful discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court by stream streaming Kentucky.

Tonight on demand at KITV DOT Org.

Slash K why tonight now next Monday night on Kentucky tonight we'll talk about the 50 years of title 9, the landmark civil rights law that open school Athletics for women and girls that at 8 Eastern 7 central.

♪ The Fayette County Clerk's office is in the process of digitizing more than 60,000 pages of historical property records containing information about in slave people from the late 17, 100's through 18.

65.

The records will become available to the public through an online database.

Thanks to the Digital Access Project, a partnership between the Fayette County Clerk UK's Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies and other community organizations.

When you think of indeed you think of a deed to the house.

>> Or maybe a deed to your car.

But the deans in the county clerk's office documented real estate livestock and also human beings.

Those people were units of property.

They were chattel.

They were a commodity.

Those wind up in the deed books.

The digital access project is both the President Ation and an interpretation project for the history of African Americans and especially in slave people in the Bluegrass region last summer, we started the conversation with the Blue Grass Community Foundation about partnering with the community in digitizing these documents.

We thought it was really important to start documenting and then interpret thing.

These records.

Fayette County is already digitizing.

A deed records, but they're going in reverse chronological order.

It's going to take a while before they get to those earlier records.

So what we're doing is providing student workers.

We already have a team of students who are going downtown to the county clerk's office and actually taking the deed books and digitizing them once they start back its coup.

We want to get of the volunteers and other workers to come on board and help.

>> Continued the shun project.

Right now.

We're playing unknown digitizing 137 books, which is about.

Over 60,000 pages.

Be books.

Wheels and burnt records.

There will be 2 versions of the records.

>> One will be in the county clerks, regular database.

The other one will be searchable on a separate but connected site.

So instead of going to the basement of the county clerk's office, can people from around the world around the country as well as here in Lexington can go ahead and go to the website and be able to see and search for these documents.

Have seen customers come from other states.

You have to pay.

Cost of travel.

Gas prices are or they had to >> get on the plane and come here.

You got to some people think you can researcher records in one day.

It's hard to do that.

You have to go from book to book the Index, the Index and by having them available digitally, people can sit at home and researching on their phone.

There, laptops to computers and free of charge.

We will hopefully have digitized everything within 3 years.

But the interpretation, the transcription of all the seeds that will take a while.

There's multiple entries on a page and that's what makes it challenging.

You have an entry on page one.

You can also have another entry on page one and it goes into page to then Page 2 starts in the entry into Page 3.

0st goal is to get the information digitize the mix.

Go is to get them separated.

Numerically in be able to index each entry so people can have easier access to.

This is groundbreaking for Kentucky because we're going back to the beginning with taking existed to a time period due to civil war.

It's impossible to understand what.

We are living through now without understanding the past and especially the past.

>> That included slavery, the importance of slavery to the economy of this region can't be overstated.

This was life defining economy, defining politics, defining and culturally defining every record, his its own unique purpose in value.

>> Especially if we're talking about is lady individuals, everyone.

Of those in slave people was a human being.

We're trying to give them names and some kind of identifying information so that we understand each as individual humans.

When you can start to see people in the past as humid and then you start to understand how it is that people made choices and what decisions created the times that we live in now.

♪ >> I'm Doug Flynn.

And here's a story from this season of Kentucky.

Life.

>> The Aviation Museum of So a nonprofit were located that blue grass field in Lexington, the restoration crews are part of what we call the Tuesday night crew.

And group of volunteers that that maintain the museum constructed displays move aircraft on occasion the restoration work.

We'll get a aircraft from the military and he's been in storage for some time.

So the challenge is to get it in here, be at the aircraft or the cockpit and restore it is close to its authentic conditions so that the visiting public can have the experience of of their craft and the environment.

One of the projects being worked on by the restoration crew here.

>> Is the cockpit of an a 3 sky warrior aircraft.

This gigantic vessel size and scope are matched only by the work and dedication of the volunteers who have spent years bringing life back to this old beauty.

This particular one is about 62 years old.

>> So it was built around 1959.

5 years ago.

This airplane was in very rough condition.

It was said not in the desert for a Maintenance crew that was responsible for this airplane.

They were in very general when they cut the nose section off.

So we actually had a lot of parts that we have to repair.

To get to the point where it's at right now.

And we've had several people, several crews working on probably as many as 25 people fire to go back at them all up.

We have an F 14.

Tomcat made famous by the top gun movie.

>> The missile that that aircraft is a Phoenix missile.

It's quite a large mass was 13 feet long.

We tried to get one from the Navy and what not successful.

>> So we have a group of 3 restores and our shop and also been expressed from primary focus of aviation museum in addition to presenting.

>> Aviation history is the education of youth to experience the many facets of aviation career.

>> learn enough to become interested in becoming a pilot.

Take advantage of our aviation summer camps.

Again, a stepping stone aviation education.

>> The Aviation Museum of Kentucky isn't all inspiring place.

And while it's often jokingly called Kentucky's best kept secret by some of its staff and volunteers, it's a secret.

Well, we're finding out and exploring for yourself.

>> If you like that story, you want to tune into Kentucky edition tomorrow night.

So what does it take to become a pilot?

We'll find out as we check out the pilot program at UK.

You and Richmond and you can always check out great stories like that from Kentucky life on Saturday at 08:00PM Eastern.

Our Doug Flynn and the crew take you all over the state.

We sure hope to see you again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky edition where we inform connect and inspire.

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You can also follow me on Twitter at Renee K E T. Thank you so much for joining us this evening.

We hope to see you right back here again tomorrow night at 6.30, eastern for Kentucky edition.

Take good care.

Now, see you tomorrow night.

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