♪ ♪ >> We came from the mountains of Appalachia into the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

>> The Republican nominee for vice president talks about his Kentucky ties.

>> This is a serious problem that we have out here that we can't continue doing this.

>> There's a disappearing act in Kentucky.

That's raising concerns.

So what's the answer?

Fashion is.

>> A form of communicating.

It's a way of telling the world what's what's important to us?

>> The Kentucky Derby Museum is showcasing Derby fashion from the past and present.

And a new exhibit.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KU Team Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Thursday, July 18th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Good to be back with you.

And thank you for winding down your Thursday with us.

Kentucky has more cases of pertussis also known as whooping cough.

>> Details in today's look at medical news.

The state says it's confirmed 130 cases of pertussis in Kentucky so far in 2024. so far, the infection rate is the highest since 2016 and there were 463 cases and 2017 when there are 449 8, Kentuckians have ended up in the hospital this year for infants.

One school age child and 3 adults.

Doctor Steven Stack commissioner for the Kentucky Department for Public Health says infants are at greatest risk, but anyone can get it and the urges people to get a vaccination for it.

Governor Andy Beshear says he backs a federal proposal to ease restrictions on marijuana.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is recommending marijuana be reclassified as a schedule.

Three-drug.

It's a schedule one drug right now, meaning it has the same status as heroin and LSD.

If it became a schedule, three-drug people could use marijuana is an alternative to opioids.

The governor sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA saying he supports the proposed change.

Kentucky lawmakers say the state's victims notification platform is not up to s**** since 2021, the automated service Vine has had troubles that leave victims in the dark, according to a recent investigation by the news, Kentucky additions, June Leffler has more in tonight's Legislative update.

>> Vine stands for Victim Information and notification everyday.

Let's crime victims know their alleged the perpetrator is behind bars in court or out in the community.

It's a product of Equifax which press.

We help victims and their families become safer and more informed through timely offender released court case and protective order.

Notifications.

>> The fine was founded in 1994 in response to the murder of a young little woman.

Mary Byron, after being incarcerated for r*****, assaulting and stalking.

Mary.

Her assailant was released, but she was never informed despite requests from her family to be notified upon his release.

On Mary's 21st birthday, her assailant approached her with a gun, fired shots at close range and killed her instantly automation plays a crucial role and finds effectiveness, especially against human error.

Like in Mary's case.

But the state court system has not handed over central information for that whole to work.

>> Citing privacy concerns for victims and now financial costs to the courts.

We began to have concerns about the potential monetization and protection of our court data.

>> Despite these concerns, we worked with after us to add language to read at a share agreement to require them after performing a search to delete court record data.

However, we later learned and this wasn't happening.

And at that point, that's when in 2021, the court data we shop sharing the court data without Chris.

They now they now want us to finance the cost of the notification platform to the tune of 500,000 for one-time implementation fee and 300, 360,000 for service fee for the first 12 months with annual service fees after that, that propose costs far exceeds any cost we currently undertake for comparable services.

>> The head of the Administrative Office of the court says a new state case management system will provide that automated information.

But that is not a quick enough.

Explore Jefferson County Republican lawmaker.

This is extremely frustrating that we're now 3 years in and the court is not providing this information that would be rather simple to provide.

>> And it's not very costly.

And we said a couple $100,000.

There was no requests to be easy that to make that to to make that budget requests to meet their budget request was made.

>> And I know you say, oh, it's only a couple 100,000 but for our branch that that is what we don't have a lot of extras.

You guys will start hearing me.

Talk about.

We are in the process of an RFP for a new CMS.

There's additional cost they're coming in.

This isn't just a one-time fee.

>> So what I would suggest is that we bring the court system in here every 2 months to give us an update until this is resolved.

There's going to be a situation that something happens very badly.

And I want to be very clear that it's not acceptable.

It hasn't been acceptable for a long time and it needs to be resolved.

>> WDRB in Louisville highlighted finds flaws last month.

Their investigation found the platform has experienced local outages sometimes lasting up to 3 weeks for Kentucky edition.

I'm John Leffler.

>> Thank you.

June.

The administrative office of the courts as prosecutors often KET victims up to date.

The can offer as much or as little detail to best suit victims needs State Representative Jason Amos says that approach, though, leaves cracks in the system.

Last month, a federal judge blocked a Biden administration rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students.

And now the 6th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to lift that injunction.

The rule would expand federal protections against sex discrimination and harassment to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

And it would require the use of a student's preferred name or pronoun and require schools to allow students to participate in athletics consistent with their gender identity.

The role was supposed to go into effect August 1st.

But with the initial court ruling and the appeals court's decision yesterday, it won't.

Kentucky Attorney General Russel Coleman is praising the appeals court's decision, calling it, quote, a victory for common sense.

Well, U.S.

Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican nominee for vice president says he will be buried in Kentucky during his acceptance speech last night at the Republican National Convention.

That's talked about his family ties to Kentucky.

Here are some of his remarks.

>> Now what I proposed to my wife, we were law school and I said, Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt in a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky.

♪ ♪ I guess standing here tonight.

It's just gotten weirder and weirder money.

That's the that's what she was getting.

Not cemetery plot in Eastern Kentucky is near my family's ancestral home and like a lot of people, we came from the mountains of Appalachia into the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and ♪ Now that's Kentucky coal country.

One of the 10.

♪ Now it's one of the 10 poorest counties in the entire United States of America.

They're very hard working people and they're very good people.

They're the kind of people who would give you the shirt off their back, even if they can afford enough to eat in.

Our media calls them privileges and looks down on them.

But they love this country.

Not only because it's a good idea, but because in their bones, they know that this is their home.

It will be their children's home and they would die fighting to protect him.

♪ >> 2 members of the Kentucky General Assembly say they see a change and Donald Trump since the assassination attempt on him last Saturday.

State Senators Phillip Wheeler and Shelley Funky from Meyer are both delegates to the Republican National Convention.

Wheeler told the Lexington Herald-Leader that Trump appeared to be, quote, moved and from our says there's an air of humility and gentleness at the convention.

Former President Trump gives his acceptance speech tonight and you can see it right here on KET.

Republican Congressman Andy Barr of Central Kentucky's 6th district wants new leadership at the Secret Service after the attempted assassination of former President Trump last Saturday on social media.

Congressman Barr says, quote, the security failures at the Trump rally show a severe lapse in leadership by Secret Service director Kim Cheatle Cheadle.

I'm calling for her immediate resignation.

End quote.

A young woman from Kentucky continues to be outspoken in her support for reproductive rights.

Now, Hadley Duvall is appearing in a campaign ad for President Joe Biden last fall.

Deval appeared in an ad supporting Governor Andy Beshear's reelection where she spoke becoming pregnant at the age of 12 after being raped by her stepfather.

The ad was credited for motivating many Kentuckians who previously voted for Donald Trump to vote for this year in this new ad for the Biden campaign.

22 year-old from Owensboro calls out the former president and his newly announced nominee for vice president.

The new Team, Trump and JD Vance don't care about women.

>> They don't care about girls in this situation.

They will continue to take our rights away by the exceptions for survivors.

>> Duval recently graduated from Midway University last month.

She appeared on MSNBC alongside Vice President Kamala Harris.

Ken Talkies on employment rate was unchanged from May to June.

It was 4.6% both months, according to the state, the June rate was a half a percentage point higher than June of 2023.

The number of Kentuckians with jobs was just over 2 million in June.

Governor Andy Beshear continues his trip to Asia.

Here are some of the pictures on your screen of the governor in South Korea.

He says he met yesterday with ADA E I L a manufacturing company in the car industry.

The company has a facility and Callaway County.

He also toured and facts, research and Electronic Center, a company with more than 330 workers in Campbellsville, Kentucky.

We're saying the loss of farmland across the United States and that includes here in Kentucky Census data indicates over the last 20 years we've lost 17,000 farms.

And 1.4 million acres Kentucky Farm Bureau says that's not sustainable and they're making efforts to stem the tide.

Our Laura Rogers tells us more.

>> I grew up on my dad, checking cows and square, Belen hay and house in the >> It was a way of life for us and this parts.

>> Markets wise men of Winchester wanted to continue that way of life into adulthood.

>> I love the agriculture.

It's really my passion.

>> That's why wake up every morning at the crack of dawn to go do what I do and stay out all day.

>> As a young man in his early 20's.

Wiseman already has his own farm here in Clark County.

It previously belonged to former agriculture teacher Jack Weiss, who passed away in 2022.

>> They sat in the front yard every day.

He thought I would do a good enough job to suit him and KET it up to his standards and up to his specs like he would want.

That means more to me than anything to know that I'm doing a good job in his eye.

>> His dad said that they tried to talk him into doing something besides He says he couldn't talk about of after their father's passing, Jax daughters reached out to Marcus Wiseman asking if he wanted to purchase the land that had been in their family close to 50 years, even when they're gone, you still trying to do the things, you know, would make them happy.

She says the farm now being lovingly cared for by the next generation.

What police, her father, it really warmed my heart because I KET this was a young man that my dad would have worked with.

Him would have enjoyed.

>> The fact that he got to have the full.

>> It is stories like this that are the idea behind the Kentucky Farm Land Transition Initiative recently launched by Kentucky Farm Bureau.

That's our Most Valuable resource that we have.

An agriculture is the land that we own.

If you own that land, you can be more profitable and higher.

Profits are incentive to KET that land in the hands of active farmers.

That's what this initiative is about.

If we can KET this land in production, agriculture, we're better off.

>> Kentucky Farm Bureau is working to preserve prime farmland.

>> They forecast if current trends continue, we would lose more than half of our farmers over the next 60 years.

>> That's not sustainable for us here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

We have to have our farmers to the fuel in close with the Kentucky Farm Land Transition Initiative aims to find solutions, offering resources for farm families connecting service providers and advocating for public policy.

If there's a selling farmer and they sell it to a younger beginning farmer, there are tax credits that you can get for actually keeping that getting that to a young farmer.

>> Eddie Melton is a 5th generation farmer and Webster County.

My great, great grandfather actually put the farm were alley-oop today together, it's meaningful that you get that to continue that tradition on.

>> He hopes these efforts will do the same, starting the conversation about what can be done to support generational farm families and a new farmers have a discussion with them about how can we go through a transition here and KET this land and agriculture?

>> And make the subject a little easier.

>> More mouths to feed and lest land to grow your food.

That doesn't really go hand in hand.

>> Free markets, Wiseman, he's proud to help supply that food and carry on the legacy of Jack Wise at his Winchester Farms.

>> It tells stories any time you drive past a certain tree in the front yard.

I can see him sitting underneath it talking to him.

Every time you pull in and out of the gate, we just really loved it.

>> He says he would love that activity is still going strong on the farm where he called home.

And I just think that would make my dad happy.

We're Kentucky edition.

I'm Laura Rogers.

>> Thanks, Laura.

You can learn more, find resources and contact the project cordinator online at K Y farmland, transition dot com.

We've gotten word of 2 celebrity deaths today.

Legendary comedian and sitcom Star Bob Newhart has died at the age of 94 and he had a Kentucky Connection.

Newhart starred in a Kentucky Lottery commercial just a few years ago.

Also, journalist and commentator Lou Dobbs, the CNN fixture for many years.

He, too, has died.

He's being remembered by Congressman James Comer of Kentucky's first district.

Como writes, quote, Lou Dobbs was a patriot, loved his country and will be deeply missed by so many.

Please join me in praying for lewd his family and his staff, unquote.

♪ The doors will soon open on a new groundbreaking community health care center in Lexington, the nonprofit addiction recovery organization, Isaiah House has announced it's partnered with the Lexington Rescue mission to launch an outpatient health clinic with a focus on serving some of Kentucky's most vulnerable populations.

>> Affordable treatment options for the clientele.

The TSA officers and the clientele of the rescue mission serves.

I really don't exist in the past that they need to for these clients to access care in a timely fashion.

And that's really the big issue is that, yes, there's there are providers who will provide care to these clients, but let's say they need access to a dental appointment.

I can take months and months and months to get them into work.

They need to go see a physician.

Great.

We'll see you in 7 months.

They don't really have the capacity to wait that long.

And so our goal is to for move those barriers to timely treatment and to be that provider for them as people think falling off from >> And just to worry about getting that next section.

As you know, and it's going to have a key to life.

You know, if you live, you got can come in and have, you know, to help out.

When I was so many lost and amendments.

I did not care about my have.

You know, I you know.

That works in mysterious ways.

We have a tremendous number.

Hundreds of clients that we serve at it as a half of patients across the state who are going to be rent reintegrating back into phase 2.

>> We're committed to helping them find affordable transitional housing and then continuing their care with us at the facilities like this.

That will obviously be schedules.

We will also be serving clients of the mission on a walk-in basis so they may serve meals here, provide clothing here or access to hygiene products and say, hey, you know, was the last time you went to the doctor because I think just pursue their relationship with them.

They may be brought into the loop that some things that that person that individual struggling with it say when you consider going up to the as a house of love to care for you.

I certainly hope that the that the for this collaboration that we're doing with the mission will have a tremendous positive impact on curbing Obviously, we look at every single person experiencing homelessness on an individual level.

And if we we are able just to help one person and change one life for the better than it's worth it.

We need it, you know, And she sent out here right now.

>> And from everything that's going on from north to south, that makes sense.

That's just and fee and no one taking Ohio and it's a place to take care.

>> The new clinic is scheduled to open this fall.

♪ >> Parts of Kentucky are to drive because of the recent lack of rain.

That story begins.

Tonight's look at weather and climate.

Here's the latest map of Kentucky from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows the drought picture as of Tuesday as you can see, parts of central Kentucky on U.S.. >> Liver of south Eastern Kentucky are a light orange color indicating a moderate drought.

The yellow area is considered abnormally dry.

The rest of the state is white.

That's normal.

We're cooler today after highs in the 90's earlier in the week.

Thank goodness for some relief, but you can expect that heat to return as summer continues.

Many people suffer from migraines when the weather is hot.

Doctor Brian of the Norton Science Institute says it's not the heat itself that causes migraines but changes in the weather and other factors.

>> What I think it really gets to is it's not so much a particular weather pattern, whether it's heat or rain, it's when there are changes happening.

Okay.

So for people who are susceptible to migraine.

Their brain is going to be more likely to trigger migraine when there are changes to their environment.

And so in this case, when we're getting changes where we're getting a change to extreme heat, that is certainly one change.

But something particular about heat that result and other changes is with heat were more likely to become a bit more exhausted dehydrated.

Electrolyte depleted and those things also individually can be migraine triggers.

And so I think what you're seeing here.

Is a potential for more of the pool.

Migraine triggers stacking on top of one another.

And so then it is those multiple triggers coming together, which I think it's going to result in the higher likelihood of having a migraine attack.

What can we do about it?

Well, the reality is that we can't change what weather is going to come in, but maybe we can identify that because certain weather patterns are going to be coming in.

We need to look at altering our behaviors to avoid those other migraine triggers.

Okay.

So that means things like making sure that you're staying well hydrated, making sure that you're getting plenty of electrolytes, making sure you're avoiding other triggers.

So, for example, alcohol, you know, it's a big trigger for migraine and so, you know, in a situation like this, you might want to shy away from, you know, having a, you know, a drink or 2.

You might want to make sure you're getting plenty of sleep and not, you know, staying up late and disrupting their sleep patterns.

♪ ♪ >> We are 2 months past the Kentucky Derby, but the big race makes news all year round.

Last Wednesday, the Kentucky Derby Museum revealed its new exhibit see and be seen 150 years of Derby fashion.

It shows the progression of fashion from before the Kentucky Derby to the present day.

>> Horse racing just internationally have been tied together for centuries.

And really because horse racing was so associated with the social elite coming to the racetrack to show off.

The latest was just sort of par for the course.

The Kentucky Derby dressed beautifully dressed and wonderful hats.

That was what was expected of you to come to the Kentucky Derby for many, many years 100 years of fashion That's a lot of research.

That's a lot of sorting through photos and sorting through all different kinds of trends and journalism.

So it's been a really fun about year and a half trying to conceive exactly what story you're trying to tell, which you know, stories we could tell with the ensembles we had available to us coming out from a historical perspective.

It's been so fascinating because there are amazing things that you can read sociological E and culturally into what people choose to wear because really fashion is a form of communicating.

It's a way of telling the world what's what's important to us?

A lot of the ensembles you'll see in this exhibit are pieces that are newly acquired for a permanent collection.

We were very fortunate to work with the Kentucky a science center to bring a lot of the items that they were removing from their collection and transferred into hours.

We've also worked with a historic institutions like the Filson Historical Society and the Kentucky Historical Society too.

Yeah, bring this amazing range of items from 150 years of derby.

We have pieces dating back to the 18 40's 18 50's 18 60's, which is incredible because it helps us tell the story of racing in Kentucky before the Kentucky Derby and show how racing in Kentucky has always been about.

I'm looking your best at the racetrack.

We really wanted to engender that community spirit.

Bring that into the way that we were telling the Derby story and really get the community involved.

And so we held a fashion contest in 2023.

And we were really impressed at the range of items that we received from from that contest they were so colorful, so creative, so beautiful.

The combinations were so wonderful and it gave us an opportunity to I'm really showcase you know, imagination of the people who come to the Kentucky Derby and what goes into creating a perfect ensemble are perfect or be had.

We tried to really tell stories that are not just talking about, you know, the the elite, the fashion but everyday people, people that maybe, you know, you may know some of these people who entered the fashion contest.

You may come and say.

>> You know, we want to have that kind of recognition because really our job is to make history relevant and make history.

Interesting to what you care about.

And so we hope that you walk into this and not only feel like you're walking through history, a wonderful lesson of how fashion has evolved at the Kentucky Derby, but that you're also started walking through your own derby crowd.

Not everybody has the opportunity to go to the Kentucky Derby and then a lot of our visitors are from out of state as well.

So this is a chance for them to have derby every day and to come here and walk through a derby crowd and see those amazing outfits.

>> Although this exhibit is temporary, it is set to become permanent ahead of the Kentucky Derby museums.

40th anniversary next year at a Ron until next year's 100 51st Derby.

As the Republican National Convention wraps up, we'll get some Kentucky perspectives tomorrow as we go and side Kentucky politics.

Plus flooding in recent years has some eastern Kentucky ends looking to move to higher ground and help is here to make that happen.

We'll tell you who's helping who and how it works.

That's tomorrow night on Kentucky EDITION, which we hope you'll join us for its 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central.

We inform connect and Inspire.

Thank you so much for watching tonight.

I'm Renee Shaw and I'll see you right back here again tomorrow.

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