>> Health officials confirm a measles outbreak in Central Kentucky.

So what are the symptoms of this highly contagious virus to be on the lookout for?

But it's the right approach.

If you want to change the Constitution to propose it and go through that process that the Constitution provides rather than doing it by executive order.

Birthright citizenship be coming to an end.

We discussed a Kentucky congressman is proposed amendment following a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

It's time they battled back and said no, we want the capital to say here and we're willing to do our part to make sure it does stay here.

>> We'll take a trip into the past to explore the founding of Kentucky State Capitol.

I mean, the time to really jump the family will be good and on it does to be talking about it, >> And an iconic vehicle makes a death-defying jump in southern Kentucky.

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

♪ ♪ Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Monday, June 30th.

I'm Kristi then in our Louisville studios, filling in for Renee Shaw.

Thank you so much.

>> For joining us.

Well, first up tonight, health officials are confirming a measles outbreak in central Kentucky.

More in tonight's medical news.

Health officials say 4 new cases were reported last week.

3 of them are in the same household in Woodford County.

The Kentucky Department of Health says that outbreak has now spread to Fayette County, although there have yet to be any confirmed cases in Lexington, the Jessamine County Health Department is also warning that people were exposed to measles at the righty.

Be Aquatic center.

That confirmed exposure occurred on June 20th from 02:00PM to 07:00PM.

A 4th case reported last week was in Todd County.

Health officials say that person was exposed while traveling internationally and is not linked to the case is in central Kentucky.

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory virus that can cause serious issues, especially in young children.

Symptoms typically begin to show up 8 to 12 days after exposure and include a high fever, cough and red watery eyes.

The rash associated with measles usually appears a few days after symptoms begin.

We'll have more on this story, including an interview with Kentucky's outgoing commissioner of Public Health Doctor Steven Stack tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION.

Well, turning to Frankfort now, state law may lawmakers say they will form legislation to combat the housing shortage.

The Kentucky Housing Corporation commissioned a study last year that found the state is short.

Hundreds of thousands of homes that goes for houses and rentals for people of all incomes.

That same year lawmakers formed a housing task force to find solutions to the problem.

>> The bad news is that the problem has not gone away in a year.

The good news is that so many of the potential solutions that you all talked about.

We've already talked about.

These are in in We've been looking at other states.

We've we've really I think we're going to and our goal for this task force is to really tee up some of these pieces of legislation that them so that when session starts, they can just go right to committee and we can really get a lot done.

So I appreciate you all for kind of re re setting the table, making sure that everyone understands that this problem is not close to going away, but I am encouraged by the fact that we we already have a lot of these solutions identified.

State and national policy experts suggest and relaxing building and zoning codes and that healthy injection of state funds for new developments.

>> We'll give you more insight from that meeting in tomorrow's Kentucky edition.

We're looking now to Washington.

The U.S. Senate is debating President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

The bill was sent to the full Senate following a weekend vote allowing the bill to move forward.

2 Republicans voted to kill the bill.

One of them was Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Here he is on the Senate floor over the weekend explaining his vote.

>> They know they are controlling the deficit.

They know that the ensuing years will add trillions.

to shredding 2 trillion this year.

But we they're anticipating the authors of the bill and dissipating adding more than 2 trillion next year.

That doesn't sound at all conservative to me.

And that's why among them.

>> With Democrats united against the Republican president's legislation.

Voting is expected to last into the night in the Senate.

Republicans are racing to meet Trump's 4th of July deadline to pass the bill.

The House is being called back to session for votes as soon as Wednesday.

If the bill can get out of the Senate.

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its final opinions for the current term just last week, the court issued 164 opinions during the most recent term, the highest number in a decade earlier today, I caught up with Samuel Marcosson, a professor of law at the University of Louisville.

He breaks down how some recent rulings are impacting Kentucky.

The United States Supreme Court concluded its latest term last week.

Let's talk about some of the important rulings issued in the final days, starting with free speech coalition versus Paxton.

Now this case is centered around whether or not Texas could enforce a state law requiring pornography sites to verify a user's age.

Joining us is U of L professor Sam Marcosson.

Now we're talking about this case because Kentucky has a similar law.

So walk us through this case and the ruling.

Yeah, what Texas did as you say, Kentucky has done a similar thing, passed a similar law.

>> Texas said if you want to access.

Sexually explicit content on the Internet.

There has to be aged verification to make sure that you're an adult entitled to see that in that content.

And states have a lot more leeway in regulating access to sexual content when it comes to minors than they do to adults.

So the idea was to stop minors from accessing this material by forcing people to say I am an adult by showing I D privacy advocates who felt that this would burden people who didn't want to have to show ID that could compromise their anonymity or perhaps lead to identity theft, sued to say this law burdens my right as an adult to access this information.

But with the Supreme Court said was because this Texas's goal was to prevent minors from having access to material that would be harmful to them.

The state could require age verification that Internet providers of this material require you to go through a screening and provide that proof that you're an adult.

And Supreme Court said because of the important state interest that was involved, Texas and Kentuckyian other states could do that.

>> OK, OK?

Well, let's turn to the case about birthright citizenship.

A lot has been made of how this ruling this case is about an executive order issued by President Donald Trump to end birthright citizenship, which challengers in this case argue violates the 14th Amendment.

But the Supreme Court did not address the constitutionality of the executive order in this case.

What did they do instead?

>> Instead, what they said was.

They addressed an issue that's been percolating in the courts for quite a while now, which is the scope of injunctive relief that the federal courts can offer Lord or if there's been a violation.

And what the court said was what are known as nationwide are universal injunctions are inappropriate because they cover.

Thank you protection to people who are actually before the court so that the remedy could only be for relief given to those who are suing themselves.

And so if let's say I was a an undocumented immigrant.

And what but was not before the court.

And I had a child who was not before the court.

I couldn't get relief, but only those who actually sued essentially.

Now the court left open the road of class action lawsuit where people can sue as a class if they're certified under the rules that govern class action lawsuits.

But it struck the very to a great degree limited who can get relief and the scope of orders that federal courts, especially district courts border.

And that some of the critics of the court.

Myself included.

I believe that this was truly troubling because it meant that the government can with impunity.

The executive branch.

The show orders that violate people's rights and and not be held accountable and not have the courts step in and say you're violating the Constitution, making it much more difficult to get real relief that stops illegal, unconstitutional Executive Branch action.

Okay.

>> And we know Republican Congressman Andy Barr in Kentucky's 6th district who is seeking an endorsement from President Trump and his U.S. Senate campaign.

He was quick to say he's introducing an amendment to end birthright citizenship.

What's that going to look like?

How will that factor in?

Well?

>> That would be the appropriate way to do with the president tried to do, which is to say the Constitution, the 14th Amendment.

Provide citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

What's become known as birthright citizenship.

That's been the law for well over 100 years settled in Supreme Court precedent, the plain text of the 14th Amendment.

And if we're going to change that, we ought to change it by amending the Constitution as Congressman Barr is proposing to do rather than by executive order.

The president, in my view, has no authority to issue.

I don't think that's going to go anywhere because of how difficult it is to amend the Constitution.

You have to have super majorities in both the House and the Senate and then an even greater super majority of the states to ratify a constitutional amendment.

And there's no indication whatsoever that those super majorities exist either in Congress or in the states to ratify such an amendment.

But it's the right approach.

If you want to change the Constitution to propose it and go through that process that the Constitution provides rather than doing it by executive order.

That is blatantly in violation of the Constitution.

>> Well, professor Sam Marcosson from the University of Louisville, thank you so much for your time and expertise.

Happy to be here.

♪ ♪ ♪ Hall of Fame horse racing Trainer D Wayne Lucas has died.

His death comes a week after his family said he declined an aggressive treatment plan for a severe infection.

Lucas was one of the most accomplished trainers in the history of horse racing.

His horses won 15 Triple Crown races and brought home 20 Breeders Cup victories and he won the Kentucky Derby 4 times.

The Wayne Lucas was 89 years old.

♪ ♪ ♪ It's been more than 4 decades since the first HIV cases were discovered in the U.S..

But advocates say this stigma surrounding the virus still remains.

That's why they are taking the opportunity to address the stigma by raising awareness of HIV prevention and testing.

HIV doesn't target one demographic.

It it can be anybody.

It's estimated that worldwide about 40 million people are living with HIV.

Currently that's kids, man, women, the whole gamut.

>> And it's estimated that somewhere over 42 million people have died of AIDS.

I think HIV AIDS is still a health emergency is still something we need to be focused on.

It's not the time to cut back funding or cut back attention that we're giving it.

As soon as we do that, we're going to drop right back to where we were, which is additional infections, not only across Kentucky, back across the world based on kind of the population size of Kentucky were about kind of standard for what we would see on the HIV rate and the population.

But I don't care if it's a million people.

If it's one person we want no people living with HIV.

We want to make sure that we are at okay this virus from human history forever.

The stigma surrounding HIV has improved.

I want to say that first, but it is not gone when HIV drops off of becoming a hot button topic less people are talking about it.

So it kind of Wayne's off people's mind.

Just yes, which happens.

All of us slips into the back of our brains, which is a bad thing around HIV.

We've got to remember back protect yourself.

I think in the U.S. has done a good job in here in Kentucky of making testing accessible.

And there's even at home test you can buy at a pharmacy like this and take home and do your own test.

So there's no excuse not to be tested.

And you may think I don't think I have it.

I don't know.

But just know.

Just know.

Get a little peace of mind and it's going to help.

I think everyone because again, if we know it's a month living with HIV can help them in a million ways.

But we have to nobody status.

Any time someone gets a positive result.

You know, the first thing we do is check in on them.

How are they doing?

And we are armed and ready to make sure that the next steps for them are as smooth as possible.

We cannot take away their fear, their anxiety, but we can do is walk them through all the medication options and ensure them that that will be with them.

The whole well are all the way as they go through that.

And that's linkage to care access to medications, support, education.

We are really darn good.

That kind of be an all encompassing nonprofit, Able Kentucky with the technology from pharmaceutical companies like Gilead and others.

We have the tools to do that.

We've got to get tested.

Get on the right medication.

If you test positive, we stop them from the transmission to the next partner and that's how we end HIV.

And we're close currently, there's this big beautiful bill apparently from Washington, D.C..

But what that is doing is cutting a ton of funding from health organizations like a ball, Kentucky.

We're losing almost $200,000 and prevention testing that $200,000 less that we can have to help from people.

From spreading.

It took to more folks.

It doesn't matter if you've already about blue, doesn't matter the tone of your skin, who your partners are, doesn't matter like this is HIV can impact everyone out there.

We know what we see it.

It's true.

I'm not making that up.

So anyone out there that's like that's just that community.

You get some really foolish.

Don't ever say that again because it's not true.

It's never been true.

It's not true today.

>> For the past 14 years, a ball, Kentucky has participated in national HIV testing Day offering free HIV testing at local Walgreens pharmacies.

This nationwide effort happens each year on June 27th and to date has provided more than 82,000 free HIV tests.

♪ ♪ ♪ And this weekend, students from around the world came to Lexington to compete in the run for the robot and international robotics competition.

Organizers say robotics can teach children stem skills as well as communication team building and other life skills they can use in whatever career they choose.

More on how robotics is growing our future workforce in tonight's Education Matters segment.

>> And here we go.

>> First Tech Challenge has launched a brand new event had called the premier event.

So Kentucky is one of only 8 events this summer, the toppings.

This is a brand new pilot idea and it's a further level of competition is happening in what used to be our offseason.

So these students have qualified from their regional events to compete at this global international event to their teams here from multiple countries that all advance top of their regional events, a profit for this exciting event.

And so what they're doing today is they are competing in 10 matches, which is a more than you ever have a regular season building a robot.

Their programming that robots are bringing in those computer science principles.

But on top of that, if you notice when you walk through, you'll see that each team has a team identity, right.

Each team also it operate somewhat like a business.

>> Right.

And so they are they're budgeting their writing grants.

They're coming up with their team logo and their team name and their team design.

And there's also interviewing, right?

So they interview with a panel of judges.

And so they're learning that public speaking aspect.

And so they really are getting a holistic education as a result of working with these robots.

>> He's callous issues that happen every single day.

Everybody's I mean, anything can go wrong.

But having a backup just improving over time and learning how fix those mistakes is a big thing.

Will we bring almost our entire worship?

You can see we have drills with extra batteries, everything if you could possibly need for about its practice for about 2 weeks and really rebuild our ally because there is a major issues or that I mean, this practice practice practice and trying proving as much as possible for the competition.

>> Kentucky is a beautiful place.

And I think when people come here and they see what is here and it really draws attention to the industry that we have and to the industry that we're growing.

And so we're going to need this talent to come here.

And so bringing them here for an event like this, they're getting too.

We have students who got to tour the Toyota facility as part of their part of their time.

Here we have colleges here showing, you know what's here in Kentucky.

What can you do here?

And we have industry partners here showing, you know what jobs are available and I think people would be will be surprised.

You know, when they come out to see just what all is right here in Kentucky.

>> Switching gears now, thousands of people gathered in downtown Somerset over the weekend to watch a replica of an iconic car jump a fountain in town Square.

The jump was performed by the Northeast.

Ohio Dukes Stine crew.

That pays homage to the classic Dukes of Hazzard television show.

The gathering was part of the summer nights.

Crews and ongoing car show series that has become a beloved tradition for Pulaski County.

Having the generally jumped, the found downtown had been a running joke among summer nights.

Crews organizers for years, but in celebration of the event's 25th anniversary on Saturday that Joe became a reality.

>> We've talked about doing this for 10 to 15 years when we figured it out a way to make this thing happen in real life.

And find out how much support and the support been.

Unreal.

It's amazing how many people from all walks of life have reached out and are excited about the U.S. it to you.

If we pull this thing off successfully.

But we have community say, hey, let's do this too.

You know, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

We're seeing that was something that screws throughout the country.

So I suspect that this month it might be the first found jumpers about this, but it probably won't be the last to nothing.

The be some younger generation.

When I say younger, 20's, 30's, even teens, bills the 20 years from now I'll be talking about.

I know that I'm generally jump the fountain will be dead and gone.

The dust to be talking about it, even the and >> it's a hazard at there's John Schneider and Byron Cherry who played Boeing Coy Duke respectively.

We're in Somerset for Saturday stunt.

♪ ♪ We all know Frankfort is capital of Kentucky, but and that come to be as we close out Kentucky History Month.

All right.

Emily Sisk explore the founding of Frankfort and how it's remain.

The capital city.

♪ >> The history of Frankfort is that it's really the story of a scrappy underdog.

>> That scrappy underdog began as a land inhabited by Native Americans.

Then it became the frontier.

It was the part of it.

>> Well, for a number of years in 17, 86, a revolutionary war general named James Wilkinson purchase land where Frankfort sits today.

The Virginia legislature, it gives him a mandate to establish a town here that he names Frankfort.

James Wilkinson is a very interesting character in Kentucky history and national history as well.

He was a bit of a rogue and a scoundrel.

Heavy actually spied for the Spanish government.

But he got one thing, right.

And that was establishing the town of Frankfort in 17, 86.

>> A few years later, Frankfort was sold to a wealthy businessman named Andrew Holmes around the same time Kentucky was established as a state and began looking for its capital City.

Louisville, Lexington and Petersburg in Woodford County.

All one of the title.

But Frank France landowner had a trick up his sleeve.

>> Andrew Holmes made a bet that included not lots of land that could be used for this purpose, but also the use of his home for 7 years as the Capitol building, while a permanent capital was being built and he also promised building supplies in the form of locks and hinges boxes of glass nails and some cash as well.

And Frankfort had other advantages like its geography.

>> It asked Ed between the >> growing commercial districts of Lexington Double.

All it also was along the Kentucky River, which made it easier for communities up and down the river to send delegates to the new legislature.

>> So Frankfort, outbid all the other towns and became the capital.

But what about the Capitol building were political powers would convene the structure.

We know today has been around for over a century, but it's actually the 4th Capitol Building in Frankfort history.

The first 2 Capitol buildings.

>> Did not come to good ends both.

These buildings were located along Broadway in downtown Frankfort on what was known as the Public Square.

>> They were really developing at a period of time where there is a lot of really, really quick rapid development and not any regulation.

Both the first and second Capitol buildings burned down the 3rd old state Capitol building was used from 18, 30 until 1910.

>> Well, the government's eyes out grew the structure that led to the construction of the 4th and current building in the early 18, 100's Frankfort had one of the largest populations in the state industry's been from a number to the railroad to bourbon.

If you visited Frankfort during the Mid 19th century, the smell of bourbon and whiskey from an teen.

>> And being distilled would have been thick in the air because of the number of stories here in the area.

You also had tobacco and him and horses and manufacturing, all of which made this a very bustling hub has river traffic and rail traffic shifted to a highways and other ways of getting goods around the country.

>> But also affected the way that Frankfurt's economy operated.

Today, the capital City's population is around 28,000, which make some people wonder why it remains the capital.

>> Doctor Seaver says Frankfort represents the majority of small town.

Kentuckians.

>> It's important to me that the state Capitol in Kentucky is not one of the bigger, better known cities within the state.

Kentucky has so many remarkable small towns.

And I really think Frankfort is emblematic of that heritage.

>> For Kentucky Edition and Ali says, thank you, Emily, Kentucky.

History is our topic on Kentucky tonight.

>> As Kentucky History Month comes to a close join guest host Chip Polston and a panel of Kentucky history experts as they discuss how Kentucky's past shape Kentucky today.

See that tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

And here's more history for you.

We have 2 presidential visits and an early 4th of July celebration as our Tony Gibson looks back at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> In Virginia Assembly divided Kentucky County into 3 counties on June.

30th 17, 80 Jefferson County named for Thomas Jefferson, Fayette County name for the Marquis de Lafayette and Lincoln County name for General Benjamin Lincoln.

On July 4th, 17 94 40 veterans died together in Jessamine County in one of the first known 4th of July celebrations west of the Alleghenies.

President James Monroe visited Lexington starting July second, 18, 19, the state for days and gave a speech at Transylvania University.

>> Former President Richard Nixon visited Hyden on July second, 1978 in his first public appearance since she resigned.

The president say 4 years earlier, Nixon spoke at the dedication of a recreation center named after him.

The state created the Kentucky State Police on July.

First 1948, replacing the Kentucky Highway Patrol.

Morgan's Raiders commanded by General John Hunt.

Morgan battled union troops for several hours in Lebanon on July 5th, 18 63 Morgan set fire to some buildings to force Union troops to surrender.

And that's what was happening this week in Kentucky history.

I'm told the Good News.

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