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>> How one community is responding to a water crisis.

Which everybody has to cut back some.

So we'll track it.

But trying to buy a little time.

>> Plus, restaurants need water.

How one Marion business is getting by with less.

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♪ ♪ Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION from Monday, June 27th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you >> for joining us this evening.

>> The national ACLU, the ACLU of Kentucky and Planned Parenthood are now suing to stop the abortion ban that became law in 2019 in Kentucky Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled there is no federal constitutional right to an abortion leaving states to decide what to do.

Kentucky had a trigger law on the books banning abortion as soon as the decision was announced.

The lawsuit from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood says the Kentucky Constitution protects the right to privacy and bodily autonomy.

The ACLU was there Friday night as hundreds rally for abortion rights in Louisville.

>> ACLU has a message politicians posting these extreme in crow measures.

We will see you at the courthouse.

We will see you at the state house, the ballot box and in the streets.

Repairing the fight in statecraft for a state constitutional right to an abortion.

We cannot afford to stay quiet when our lives on the line with this decision.

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade and dismantled.

>> Constitutional protections for abortion fed of existed for nearly 50 years.

We never wanted to see this day.

Never doubt that a reduction have consequences.

We've worked for this day to never come.

But we've just seen an extremist right-wing credit.

>> Take a toll on fundamental rights to privacy and too bad.

They're bodies.

He and Kentucky.

I'm extreme as to write weighing state legislature and that did trigger law.

But instead of the bans, abortion access in Kentucky.

>> Forcing someone to carry a pregnancy against their will.

We'll have live extreme consequences.

We're seeing them to indoor serious health risk.

Upon continued pregnancy and childbirth.

>> Making it harder to escape poverty derailing their education and career plans and making it more difficult to leave an abusive partner, the ability to access an abortion has been central to people's efforts to achieve equal status in the workplace.

The body to make critical decisions about their lives, families and careers.

And one thing is for sure.

We have made to back down.

We will never stop fighting when the protests low and the social media post become fewer and fewer.

We have to keep fighting.

I like going into a portion excesses are starting Kentucky.

Those of you who've been silent, you can no longer We must not forget that there's work to be done.

We best protect Kentucky's constitution by voting down amendment to >> This is upsetting on so many levels and this is and extreme deprivation of rights for women in this country.

And in Kentucky, it's especially cruel.

Kentucky law is so extreme that a teenager rate by a family member is now forced to give I my daughters today have fewer rights and their grandmother had.

We've got to do something about that.

I think what the answers we have to do is to put Roe v Wade into law at the federal level to protect the rights of women, not just in Kentucky, but across this country.

>> We have an extreme long.

It's going into effect here in the commonwealth that we know it's going to make times help.

And one thing that's important to I will do everything within the city's power to limit the damage.

>> Builder of the Republican candidate for mayor of Louisville put out a statement about the court's abortion decision.

He says, quote, I understand the strong emotions on both sides of the abortion issue.

I'm choosing to leave the decision making on this issue in the hands of the state and federal elected officials who have the ability in their roles to affect legislation related to abortion, unquote.

It's not just Louisville.

Over the weekend, there were protests in Frankford, Morehead and Lexington and Lexington Friday night.

Hundreds filled courthouse plaza pledging to keep up the fight for abortion rights.

♪ >> This really today is going to impact the win and there will be thousands of women get the key.

Who won't have that access people to fly to Massachusetts, able to fly out the New York able to travel to California to get their post.

This hurts just this first women and understand that this ruling, this really impacts even those who become pregnant by virtue of rape or incest, they have no recourse.

Heat.

I mean this.

This sets women back.

To second-class citizenship.

I think what you will hear from us.

Is a continued focus on the extremist.

>> and in Frankfurt, that.

The majority of Kentuckians.

I do not agree with what has happened today and we will.

We will focus on making sure that we're elevating the voices victims of rape or incest and making sure that where Daniel Cameron, the the leadership of the Republican Party is failing to protect those that we stepping into that breach.

>> I'm right now a fourth-year medical student.

I'm currently living and working in Columbus, Ohio.

So why are you here today at this rally?

So I am a native Lex and Tony and I care very much about the city.

I grew up here.

I'm educated by the public schools and I grew up with the community here, particularly the Indian-American community here has been my rock and my home and I care very much about the city and I care when I feel like our rights are under attack.

I actually want to be a reproductive health care provider and the whole reason I went to medical school in the first place was to be able to get the training to be able to have these difficult conversations with people and have conversations about contraception and abortion.

And it's really kind of a difficult thing for me now because I don't think that I can train and a lot of the United States now and get that comprehensive training that I want.

And I don't think that the legislature realizes or, you know, the people who are making these decisions, I don't think that they realize that.

When they make decisions that impact patients, medical students.

We have to go elsewhere.

We can't get the training that we need here where it's hostile towards reproductive health care.

And so now I'm forced to go to the, you know, the West Coast to the East Coast in order to get my training.

I'm if I want to be a comprehensive reproductive health care provider.

So patients are at the forefront of my mind when I'm thinking about all of this because Julie?

All of this affects our patients.

It affects their ability to get access to care in a timely and effective.

And honestly a cost-effective manner as well.

There are so many.

Costs associated with child care, transportation, accessing care like the actual abortion itself cost money as well.

Patients are going to suffer.

And I think that this is a life-threatening decision that the Supreme Court has made.

I really think that their patients who are going to like this is this is going to be a fatal outcome for a lot of patients that are not going to get lifesaving abortion care.

>> Earlier today I spoke with constitutional law professor Joshua Douglas, who teaches at the University of Kentucky.

He wanted his legal.

We wanted his legal insight into trigger law in Kentucky and whether the nation's highest court might now revisit other rights.

Professor Douglas, good to see you.

Thank you for your time.

Thanks for having me.

So the Roe versus Wade reversal on Friday.

I want to ask you, are there any exceptions and Kentucky law that would allow for illegal abortions.

Very few.

The Kentucky law, which is now in force.

>> Says abortion is allowed only to protect the life of the mother or a knife, vital organs.

>> So no rape or incest.

That's correct.

That became effective immediately wants the Supreme Court decision came down and we know that some states had a 30 day role that moment like a grace period.

But Kentucky was as soon as that verdict came down, it was in effect.

>> That's right.

It's called a trigger law.

Basically the law the legislature passed said if the Supreme Court does overrule Roe v Wade abortion is immediately illegal in the state.

>> Yeah.

And they had passed in 2019.

That was on the Governor Bevin administration.

And so that is a done deal.

We know that there are lawsuits are being filed but is not the Supreme Court lawsuit by abortion activists and advocates is not the Supreme Court.

The definitive answer to this question about legalized or outlawing abortion.

>> Well, it is with respect to federal law, I suppose there could be a claim under the state constitution that there should be some right to and the quality principles or whatnot under the state constitution.

Very curious to see what other sorts of claims that brand.

>> Right.

And so we'll keep our eyes on those developments there.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there was been several pieces about her, but one that was done by The Washington Post said that she wasn't the biggest fan of Roe v Wade is didn't think it was the best case to settle abortion rights.

The Washington Post story made this year says she suggested a ruling protecting abortion rights would have been more durable.

It has been based on the equal protection clause of the Constitution rather than the privacy argument.

Can you expound on that?

Why does it make a difference?

>> Well, because Roe v Wade rested on this idea of substantive due process.

This concept that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment includes various right to privacy woman's right to choose etc.

And yet the opponents of that have basically said that it's not explicitly in the the equal protection clause, which is in the Constitution is understood to make sure there's equality between a very different groups, including between the sexes.

There's some Supreme Court precedent that call that into question as well, though.

>> Right?

So a living constitution versus an original interpretation of the Constitution.

Is that what we're saying here?

>> I mean, a little bit.

Justice Scalia one said that he might the dead Constitution.

The you know, that he doesn't want to live in constitution that would evolve with current But that only the text as we know, we've never actually lived under a regime.

But the 6 or 5 in the majority.

Plus, the currents in the Dobbs case, overturning Roe v Wade really gets us closer to that ideal.

>> There are some concern about this being a revolutionary, a ruling not just in terms of a reversal of abortion rights, but also because of what could com could there be reversals of same sex marriage protections contraception protections?

Do you see this being precedent setting and some way?

Well, it is extremely precedent setting in terms of the Supreme Court recognizing an individual fundamental right for individuals.

>> That then gets taken away is the first time the court has ever recognized the right and then reverse it and said, no, you don't actually have that right.

But also the underlying legal analysis of the Dobbs decision does call into question the underlying legal analysis of the contraception cases of the same sex marriage cases.

Now the court claim that it was not touching those decisions.

Justice Thomas said in his concurrence that he would.

So, you know who to believe.

But it certainly plants the seed to undermine the privacy interest involved in a lot of those cases as well.

Yes.

>> The court has previously overturn precedent.

If you think about board versus Brown versus the Board of Education overturned Plessy versus Ferguson.

So that has been established.

I mean, is this the definitive decision or could we see a future court?

Should it flipped and and different type of partisan makeup?

Reclaim abortion rights?

Yeah, federal constitution.

I mean, the one thing that's really stark about this decision is that it's really just about the change, the composition of the court.

That's really the only thing that's changed between Roe v Wade.

>> Planned Parenthood versus Casey in 1992 reaffirmed Roe.

So we're talking about precedent upon precedent that Brown versus Bart societal understanding of racial inequalities had greatly evolved mean plus he was obviously wrong with separate but equal.

But society have evolved.

I'm not sure that anything has changed today with respect to the abortion debate except for the composition of the court.

>> Anything in the dissenting opinion strike you?

That's not where they.

>> Yeah.

Well, so most of the time when the justices dissented, they usually say I respectfully dissent, hear that word.

Respectfully was not The other thing that's interesting is that this is a joint dissenting opinion by the 3 a more liberal justices on the court.

Normally don't see a joint opinion like that.

I think they did that to show some force to their understanding of the issues.

Thank you, Professor Douglas, I appreciate your time.

Thanks for having me.

>> The Family Foundation of Kentucky is reacting to the Supreme Court's decision.

Earlier today.

We spoke to Michael Johnson policy advisor to the Family Foundation.

He told us the foundation agrees with the court's decision and you talked about the antiabortion amendment on the Kentucky ballot this fall.

>> The family tradition thinks that overturning Roe v is it is a great outcome for Kentuckians, a sport, both it there.

Born children and for their mothers and for the news all across the nation coming to falls or from a legal a public policy perspective, yes, for life constitutional well be coming up in November of this And Kentucky's will have an opportunity to vote for that to ensure that a is it regulated and decided by the Kentucky General Assembly that no state court 10 kind of create their own.

Well, the wait decision, egregiously wrong decision that would find a right to abortion or invent a right to abortion, rather in the Kentucky state Constitution.

So for a public policy perspective, that's the next step.

It will be important thing that voters we have a say on in November.

And then the practical compassion or a side of the pro Life we we don't only care about saving the people aren't our children, but also caring for their mothers and for helping us their mothers with those children.

Once the board, if there's a network of pregnancy, help centers throughout the Commonwealth.

And that assist women and their families are facing an unplanned pregnancy or having difficulty.

They provide resources and help in many ways that network he's already been doing great work in stands ready to to do more.

>> Abortion is the topic this evening on Kentucky tonight at 8, our guests include state to state lawmakers and leaders of Kentucky Pro life and pro-choice organizations join us for that at 8 Eastern 7 central on Kentucky tonight.

Other news now a man pardoned by Governor Matt Bevin is now accused of assault and strangulation.

The Kentucky Enquirer says 20 year-old Jaheem Bandy of Covington is accused of pinning a woman against a wall, putting his hands around her neck and making it hard for her to breathe.

And court documents say he's accused of choking and assaulting another woman in a dispute over money.

Governor Bevin pardoned Bandy and 2019 after he served 2 years of a 13 year sentence for robbery and assault.

Bevin said he thought Bandy had turned his life around.

The state will spend more than 3 million dollars helping grain farmers in Western Kentucky after last December's tornadoes damaged a grain elevator in Mayfield, the money will help farmers process grain.

The governor says everyone will benefit.

He says helping farmers process Gray will help keep the supply chain working.

Graves County was one of the hardest hit by the tornadoes, December 10th and 11th with more than 2 dozen deaths.

Hancock County Aluminum plant will stop production and lay off about 600 workers century aluminum blames the increased cost of energy.

The company says it will shut down its plant for 9 to 12 months starting in August.

And the county judge executive says he has no assurance the plant would reopen after that.

The Owensboro Messenger Inquirer says the plant is Hancock County's second largest employer.

♪ ♪ A community with a severe water crisis is getting help from the National Guard.

Mary, a town of about 3,000 Crittendon County has less than 20 days worth of water for the entire community on Thursday and Friday, the National Guard was on the ground in Marion handing out water to help curb the crisis.

Our Casey Parker Bell was there.

While water was being distributed.

>> I'm really worried.

>> And then on the next and my Jordan runs come in and out of water.

>> This is like George used to hold 183 million gallons of water.

That water line used to come right here.

But now it only has about a foot and a half of water and that can supply the city of Marion.

>> It's been hectic.

this is not something that obviously we seeing come in.

>> Mary, in this in this crisis because of a sink hole in the levee around Lake George, they were forced to drain the lake to prevent flooding like George had enough water to supply the community for years.

Now the town is relying on a much smaller like for the water means traffic is November.

1st.

>> You know, they're not specifically my family no matter what I mean, you know, we're here to help him sport as best we can.

>> Until a long-term solution can be found.

Short-term options include the National Guard and the count water to residents and it last night.

>> It's great.

Is bluffing.

Really lucky to have the National Guard here with those were here.

>> We we're going to help take care of you.

You know, just reassure the public that that everything's going to be OK. >> Like Georges Basin has been left, cracked and dry and left.

Marion residents unexpectedly changing their watch time.

>> We've got brand-new roses out of Kandahar, bam, right now 9-1-1, people, words me, my husband, my 3 babies.

>> But the bottles of water offer temporary answer.

You pull up, popped the trunk and get delivered little plastic bottles of hope.

Those cases will have to help make do until the problems result.

All right.

Thank you all.

>> We're going to get the day by day.

So I will say there.

There's a lot of things going on behind the scenes right now that we're testing in trying it changes daily.

But it, we we are making progress.

We're praying.

>> I want your news to start gotten our savior.

He's going right away.

>> For Kentucky edition, I'm Kasey Parker Bell.

>> The water crisis is having a big impact on a hometown diner that's been there for decades.

Restaurants use a lot of water serving it cooking without washing dishes and providing restrooms.

The 88 dip is adjusting how it runs its day-to-day operations, taking measures to conserve its water consumption.

>> What a great little town is.

Just small town life.

Kind of like the picturesque things you might see on TV.

Right now as it stands within 2 weeks will be out of water.

We have port-a-potties.

We've got the restrooms closed.

We have snow, water tanks outside having water hauled in.

Try not to use any city water to extend that 2 week period.

>> Went to work things out there.

You know, we've seen several businesses do that with the bathrooms and stuff like that.

So there's ever been made.

>> It's been a challenge which we're not using China plates that much tougher.

We're using all disposable where which is kind of an inconvenience for the customer, as well as an additional expense rather than watching the plate away.

If it does run out, we've.

Talk to family members to live outside the city.

Take showers and that kind of stuff we have and maybe conservation efforts yet.

But should those coming to?

>> We have a local mind that we pull all the water we need out of which is right next to our city maintenance garage.

But it's 0.4% higher fluoride than is allowed by the state.

So we can.

He said if we could drain off some of that water, get to the Underground river that is located in that mine.

It could be possible.

We could stop all the water we need from there.

States has no you can't pump that water because it is 0.4% for millions higher than what it should do.

So that's kind of slap percent of the >> It's just everything we try.

It seems to be what stop.

It will both.

Business owners, the chain locations that are in town and the workers because we have to reduce our payroll.

>> What have we don't have a business.

It's got it's going to hurt.

Everything here.

Right now we're at about project.

The cost by the time fall gets here.

What we can depend on the fall rains to kind of take care of the problem.

It's going to be a 7 to $11,000 spent.

That's not reimburse.

That's just, you know, com.

Straight out of thin air.

That's been a big impact.

>> Looks like long-term.

Do your workout for term.

There is concern.

>> This affects one of the basics of life, food and shelter water.

I mean, it's one of the basics of life.

You just can't do that.

It's a strong community, very strong committee that we've done it before.

We always work together and pull together.

Pretty much get taken care of our own.

♪ >> 2 Kentucky athletes who won medals at the Special Olympics.

USA Games were recognized for their achievements today, a celebration was held at Bowling Green's Circus Square Park for Kasey Freeman of Sampson, County and Breonna Goood of Barron County.

The national competition was held in Orlando earlier this month.

The 2 athletes won medals including gold and bowling.

>> Wow.

Hard work pays off.

Haha.

It was awesome.

>> It makes it feel excited in.

I never saw myself getting this far I I'm still kind of shocked and still trying to get used to the fact and Olympic gold medalist and it.

Crazy >> Casey and Breonna one goal together and doubles bowling.

They also meddled in singles and team events Bowling Green Parks and Recreation hosted today's events.

Congratulations to them.

One of the most familiar songs and the world has a Kentucky tie.

Plus, why Fort Knox is home to America's gold Reserves.

>> Toby Gibbs has all that.

And this week in Kentucky >> 28 1930, by the day the world found out gold was headed to Kentucky.

That's when the federal government acknowledged plans to move.

Kentucky's goal reserves from the coast to a more secure location in one, that location was sport knocks.

The move was complete by 1937.

President Franklin Roosevelt paid for not to visit in 1943.

Andrew Way to black electrician wanted to move into a white neighborhood in Shively a Louisville suburb in the 1950's.

No one would sell in the House until finally, a white family bought a home and transferred the deed to Wade.

>> On June 27th 1954, a bomb went off under the weight home.

No one was ever arrested or indicted.

But Wade was accused of being part of a communist plot to buy the home and blow it up to start a race war.

Louisville's Jewish Hospital in plan the first self-contained artificial heart on 7/3/2001, the hard way to pounds was made of plastic and metal and was about the size of a grapefruit.

It was the first artificial heart that didn't have wires extending out of the patient's body.

You might not know the name Mildred Hill, but you know our work.

She was born in Louisville on June, 27th 18, 59.

He became a songwriter and wrote the melody for the song called Good Morning to all published in 1993, someone later added new lyrics to it and called the new song.

Happy Birthday to You.

And that's a look at what happened this week in Kentucky.

History.

>> Thank you, Toby.

We hope you'll join us again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky Edition where we inform connect and inspire.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Take good care.

And I'll see you tomorrow night.

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