music >> What's the House speaker doing to help Ralph Alvarado make the move to Washington?

[MUSIC] >> Kimberly Guilfoyle is a wicked, evil person.

She thought I was going to be a sucker, and I'm not a sucker.

[MUSIC] >> A Trump supporter from Kentucky makes a bold charge about a Trump insider.

[MUSIC] >> Cities that have done this have taken the survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest out of hospital from less than 10% to greater than 60% just by mapping Aed's.

[MUSIC] >> And she knows what it's like to survive cardiac arrest.

What one woman is doing to save other lives.

[MUSIC] >> Production of Kentucky edition is made possible in part by the KET Millennium Fund.

>> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky edition for Thursday, October 8th.

I'm Marvin Bartlett.

Thanks for joining us.

Central Kentucky sixth District congressional race is getting more national attention.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports U.S.

House speaker Mike Johnson will be in Lexington tomorrow for a fundraiser with Republican Ralph Alvarado.

The Herald-Leader says guests are expected to pay $3,500 per person, or 5000 if they want a picture with Speaker Johnson.

His opponent's campaign calls it a high dollar fundraiser and says it proves Alvarado will just be a rubber stamp for the Republican agenda.

Outside groups are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into this race on both sides.

Alvarado's Democratic opponent is Zach Dembo, a former federal prosecutor and Navy veteran, a pro demo PAC just released a new poll showing Dembo ahead 47 to 38%, a nine point lead.

But that is a pro Dembo group.

Dembo is trying to tie Alvarado to former Governor Matt Bevin.

Alvarado was Bevin's running mate as Bevin unsuccessfully ran for reelection in 2019.

Here's part of a TV ad now running.

>> He was Bevin's running mate, backed his attacks on seniors, Medicaid and kept silent while Bevin pardoned hundreds of criminals, including a child rapist.

>> The commercial concludes with Governor Andy Beshear carrying a cardboard cutout of Matt Bevin.

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers is blasting that ad.

He says Alvarado joined other Republicans to condemn Bevin's pardons.

When Alvarado was a member of the Kentucky State Senate.

Stivers says, quote, only Matt Bevin is responsible for the sins of Matt Bevin and any attempt to blame someone else is simply gutter politics.

Zach Dembo ads on the subject are false and misleading.

The sixth district race is our focus on the next Kentucky.

Tonight.

Join host Laura Rogers for that next Monday at 8:00 eastern, 7:00 central here on KET.

Eric Deters a northern Kentucky businessman and longtime Donald Trump supporter, says Kimberly Guilfoyle asked him for money in exchange for political favors.

Guilfoyle is a former Trump adviser and Fox News personality.

She is now ambassador to Greece.

Deters says just before her confirmation hearing, she asked him to give her $100,000 to help retire her American Express debt.

The Wall Street Journal says it has texts of her request, according to deters.

She promised to help him contact government officials who could help him with some tax problems.

Deters blasted Guilfoyle and was critical of President Trump in an appearance today on M. S now.

>> Kimberly Guilfoyle is a grifter.

Kimberly Guilfoyle I have no doubt has done this to more than me.

She's doing it right now in Greece.

I know Corey Lewandowski did this stuff.

I know Kristi Noem did this stuff.

I have no personal knowledge of anybody else in the Trump administration being involved with this stuff.

>> We should note the embassy said on behalf of Guilfoyle that her career in and out of public service is guided by deep and abiding values.

You said you were Trump before.

You've been Trump all along.

What does this do to change your view about Donald Trump and the administration that he leads.

>> You and I might disagree with this, but here I can sum up my feelings about Trump World this easy one.

I like most of his policies.

Two, I cannot stand his megalo mania, his egomania, his, you know, Mount Rushmore talk, an arch talk.

I support the ballroom.

Donald Trump loves billionaires and any mega politician, he doesn't care about average rank and file people unless they're for his votes.

I cannot stand President Trump personally.

Okay?

I cannot stand Kimberly Guilfoyle, Kimberly Guilfoyle is a wicked, evil person.

She thought I was going to be a sucker.

And I'm not a sucker.

All I care, I'm a good dude.

>> Peters ran for governor in 2023 and for Congress in 2024.

He says he did not give her the $100,000, though he had given her money before to speak at his Freedom Fest event in northern Kentucky.

Republican Congressman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky's second district, doesn't want to see the development of AI slowed, but he says he does want it stopped dead in its tracks.

If it goes too far, Guthrie, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, was one of the speakers at the Punchbowl News Tech Summit in California Wednesday.

He says he has been approached by many Kentuckians who have expressed concern about the threat AI poses.

Guthrie says he doesn't want to see strict regulations put in place that would slow U.S.

innovation and give China the opportunity to take the lead on AI.

But he does believe Congress needs to establish federal safeguards and says he supports bipartisan legislation that would require AI developers to maintain a kill switch to stop AI models that pose a threat.

>> Well, I think as Ted just said, a kill switch so that Nathan said it's bipartisan or that I think that's one thing that we absolutely need to do.

If it goes rogue, you can stop it and have to make sure they have those in place to do it.

The others are really trying to figure out exactly what they are.

These things change, just change by the week as we're trying to figure out, where do you put in place?

And we're working through the Graham bill to try to see what we can do now and then, what we need to look at in the future.

>> Guthrie believes lawmakers could pursue bipartisan AI legislation during a lame duck session after the November elections and before new members of Congress take office in January.

U.S.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky says we need to keep an eye on a pneumonic plague case in Russia.

Last Friday, a lab worker died of the plague in Siberia.

Here's what Senator Paul said on the Fox News Channel.

>> Well.

>> I'll tell you one thing that's very disconcerting about this is that a book was written in the last year called Biological War, a Scenario.

And what happens in the book is a lab in, in, in, in, in, out, out in the east part of Russia leaks or leaks.

Yersinia pestis, the plague.

And it goes on to infect the world within days.

Now, that's not what's happening, but it's disconcerting that this scenario was written about a year ago because people are worried about it.

The plague, it's happens naturally, and there's a couple of hundred cases a year that get it.

Most time treatable with antibiotics.

In this case, wasn't, but it is alarming that they're not saying they've cultured anything.

If she died from an overwhelming infection of the plague, they should be able to culture the plague from her blood or from her lungs, or from some tissue.

And the question is, did they or are they just not telling us the truth?

We do know from defectors in the 1970s and 80s that they were weaponizing the plague.

So we do know that.

And so it is concerning.

And I think we should be doing our due diligence by looking at satellite images, looking to see what their military is doing, at least in the press reports that are unclassified.

It looks like some people are insinuating there's more activity than you would normally get.

For one case of the plague, which makes us concerned.

Could it be weaponized?

>> Yesterday on Kentucky edition, Doctor Stephen Stack said there's no reason for Kentuckians to be worried about the Russian pneumonic plague.

Stack is secretary of the cabinet for Health and Family Services.

U.S.

Senator Thom Tillis says Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is as sharp as ever.

Tillis is a Republican from North Carolina, retiring in January.

Tillis says he's had conversations with McConnell since McConnell's return to the Senate after a three month absence.

Tillis appeared on M. S now and said he's had conversations with McConnell about Senate business and continued U.S.

help for Ukraine.

Police have arrested a mother, the mother's boyfriend and a social worker after the alleged abuse of two girls in northern Kentucky, Wlwt reports.

The social worker is accused of endangering the children after he let the girls go back to that home.

Lawmakers questioned the state agency he worked for today in Frankfort.

More in tonight's legislative update.

>> So this particular case represents a catastrophic failure, I think, of the system in protecting these two young girls.

So what protocols or what standards does a frontline worker have when assessing a child for removal, particularly with visible signs of abuse?

>> DCBS.

Cannot take custody of a child on their own.

We don't have the authority.

Unlike law enforcement, who can take place a child into protective custody.

DCBS cannot that you know that has to be reviewed by again the judge and the judge has to think that there is enough evidence there to warrant a removal of a child from the home.

>> I think I'm looking to get more into not placing the child back into the home.

And how do we how do we get to where we don't do that when it's when it's there's visible signs of abuse and.

>> We want to make sure we have all the information to be able to make that determination that the child cannot remain safely in that home.

So after interviewing the child, our workers would go to the home.

And again, like I said, and interviewed the parents, oftentimes there's relatives who are able to take placement and immediately take the child out of the home or the perpetrator will agree to leave the home, giving us time to complete.

Again, more of that safety assessment and work with, we'll go to the judge and get the petition in the court orders that we need to be able to place that child on our own.

We cannot say that child is in our custody.

You know, or direct.

Whether or not that child is, you know, you know, to be returned to a parent or not again, without a court order.

And going through that process, we are not able to intervene.

>> The Gallatin County Attorney is pursuing four charges against the social worker.

Wlwt reports the girls school made the initial call to Protective Services and later called the police.

Once the girls left school.

Two Kentuckians detained by Ice are now free and a water company wants to raise rates.

What would that mean for customers?

Our Toby Gibbs has more in this.

Look at headlines around Kentucky.

>> From Louisville Public Media.

A federal judge has released a Louisville woman who's been in Ice custody eight weeks.

Ice agents arrested are.

Melbourne, Donga, August 12th.

When she and her husband appeared for an interview as part of the process for getting a marriage based green card.

Her legal team said Ice broke the law by taking her into custody.

[MUSIC] Louisville Public Media reports.

Aminata SEEK, a Kentucky State University basketball player, has been released from Ice custody after being detained August 7th.

[MUSIC] Kentucky American Water is asking for a rate increase.

W e KU reports.

The company wants a 16% increase for residential customers, a 19.5% increase for businesses and a 20% increase for industry.

A typical homeowners bill could go from $51 a month to 60.

This still needs public Service Commission approval.

The PSC will take public comments next Tuesday morning.

[MUSIC] Lincoln KY says the City of Bellevue started covering up its flock cameras starting Tuesday.

The City council recently voted to stop using the technology, and it's cheaper to cover the cameras than to remove them.

And dependents Erlanger and Newport have also ended their flock programs.

[MUSIC] Those are tonight's headlines around Kentucky.

I'm Toby Gibbs.

>> Thank you.

Toby.

This year's Fafsa is out.

That's the free application for Federal Student Aid.

If you or your child is attending college next year, experts say you should fill it out as soon as possible.

It's one of the first steps to getting any aid when it comes to paying for college.

That's the subject of the next education matters.

>> One of the bigger changes that we've seen this year over the most recent years, Fafsa, is that families have to have an FSA ID created on the spot.

This is something that usually we would have to create those two weeks in advance.

However, you can create those and get access to your student aid account instantaneously.

That's one of the major changes that we've seen out of the Fafsa this year, for sure.

Having those accounts created one for the student and one for the parent or contributor.

If you ever have dependency questions on that as to who qualifies as a contributor, please always reach out to your key outreach counselor or your school counselor.

They can help you with those answers.

And I always encourage families to have their Social Security cards with them, have their IDs in the event of any sort of verification concerns.

And to keep the previous year's tax return form with them, just in case.

>> Yeah, we're looking right now at what it looks like you're tutorial on your website there.

So you can see exactly what you're going to go through as you do this.

But people still run into issues.

What are some of the common, most common mistakes or questions you think people have about the Fafsa?

>> I would say some of the big concerns are about what money gets placed on their Fafsa form when it when it comes to financial contributions, how do we place that money on there, whether it's savings accounts, retirements, you name it, if they are business owners or own farms, anything like that, the Fafsa asks questions about real estate, and a lot of families don't know initially that this doesn't include the property you live in.

This is if you own other homes outside of your own personal property.

So those are some of the major concerns that that at least I see out of it.

>> And there are a lot of changes this year.

Audrey, tell us about some of the changes.

>> Yeah, some of the changes is at the very beginning of the Fafsa, where it's asking some students to identify and, and use their government issued ID and hold it up at the very beginning of logging into the Fafsa.

And it won't select every student to do that.

So that's one of the changes, but it's just to protect real taxpayers dollars by trying to eliminate identity theft and fraud across nationwide.

I was going to mention that some of the common misconceptions that parents and students have is I don't need to file the Fafsa.

I won't qualify for anything.

And that's a huge assumption.

A lot of families do qualify, and they don't claim that funding because they simply just assume they wouldn't be eligible for the Pell Grant or other funds that the Fafsa provides.

And so it's very, very important to file the Fafsa, even if you don't think you're going to qualify, because that's the first step to getting financial aid at most schools in the state, is to file the Fafsa.

Then it enables us to give them other aid once they get to our institution.

>> And that includes merit based aid as well, right.

You have to fill out the Fafsa for most of that.

Is that right?

>> Yes.

So the Fafsa is going to be required for some institutions to award any, any aid for that student.

Yes.

So but but if you need a student loan as well, the federal direct loan is going to be the best option for that student.

It has a low interest rate and that does require the Fafsa to be completed.

So I would suggest to any family to apply to to excuse me, to complete the Fafsa.

The first year.

See what you qualify for.

If you're going to only qualify for loans and you know you're not going to need to take out loans, then that's the only time you should need to file it.

>> But but most people do fill it out every year.

And that's another thing that people get tripped up.

>> On, right?

I would encourage students to always fill out the Fafsa, even if they think they're not going to qualify, because everything changes like this year.

The methodology for the Fafsa has changed.

So now more than ever, people have been eligible for the Pell Grant.

And a lot of our students get eligible for the state grants and scholarships.

And I know at Octc specifically, we require Fafsa to be on file for anybody that fills out a scholarship application.

So and a lot of colleges do the same thing.

>> See the full conversation with Kelsey Starks hosts a panel of financial experts from around the state on paying for college.

2027 Education Matters.

That's Monday, October 12th at nine eight Central.

[MUSIC] According to the American Heart Association, more than 350,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest each year outside a hospital, and 90% of them do not survive.

There's a nationwide effort to bring those numbers down by mapping locations of automated external defibrillators, better known as AEDs.

The so-called cardiac crusade has a strong advocate in Lexington.

I had a chance to talk with her earlier this week.

I'm here with Sarah Katzenmoyer, who has a very personal reason for wanting to increase awareness about AEDs.

She's here to share her story.

Thanks for coming in.

>> Thank you for having me.

>> So, Sarah, literally five years ago about this time, you were dead on the streets of Lexington.

>> Yes I was.

>> Tell me your story.

>> I was dressed as a zombie, getting ready for the parade in front of the Kentucky Theater, getting ready to go out behind Michael and Ola.

And I got started on the first version of the dance, and apparently I dropped dead.

And people gathered around me and made enough of a scene that a bystander named Charlotte Callan came over to see what was going on, and she had just had gotten certified for CPR.

So she took charge and made sure it was done the correct way, which is compressions only at first.

And she did CPR for ten minutes because the ambulance had trouble getting through the horde of zombies.

I believe there's usually 1000 zombies and 10,000 spectators.

>> Because this was a zombie parade.

Did people think it was part of the act?

>> I'm shocked that she would do CPR on me because it is part of the act.

We rise from the dead and start doing our thriller dance.

>> Yeah.

Had you had any history of heart problems?

>> No, sir.

>> None at all.

>> Which is a good question.

Sudden cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Regardless of your health, regardless of your zip code.

>> Yeah.

And so you were in the hospital about ten days and didn't know what had happened there for a while.

When you did realize what had happened and found out that there was an AED just yards away at the Kentucky Theater, how did that make.

>> You feel?

There wasn't.

We thought there was all this time, but there wasn't.

But Fred Mills thankfully had one installed just recently, and I went down and mapped it myself on our AED map.

>> Okay.

And that's your mission now is to get these AEDs mapped all over the city.

Tell me about the program that we're calling cardiac cats.

>> Yes.

Cardiac cats is my version of the team in Lexington.

The parent organization is Cardiac Crusade, and he's going across the country, city by city.

Greg is the founder and Cardiac Cats is.

I thought it would be fun, obviously, for obvious reasons in blue and, you know, go cats.

My initial thought was to have a Louisville and Kentucky med students compete.

Cats versus cards, cardiac cats, cardiac.

But I haven't gotten expanded that far yet.

I'm focusing on Lexington first and then hopefully Governor Andy Beshear is supporting this.

And hopefully we can get more counties involved.

But right now we're working on Lexington.

>> So through this app called Pulse Point, correct.

>> Point App, and it's if you search for it on your smartphone, it's NEAR in a gold square registry near registry.

And if you download that app anytime, you're out anywhere and you see an AED, it really is as easy as adding a video on YouTube to your account.

And basically you, you know, you're the blue dot on the map and you line it up with the AED.

Wherever you see it, you take a picture, you verify the address.

And there's a couple of questions you can or cannot answer.

If you can't and you put it on the map, if you're certified, it's gold and 911 can use it immediately.

And anyone with the app, if you're not certified, it's gray.

And then my cardiac cats will see that as low hanging fruit, and they'll run out to verify them because we're giving them practicum and service hours for every AED they map, they earn an hour.

>> And how many AEDs have you been able to identify since you started this?

>> When I started in January, we had four on the map.

They were at Planet Fitness because they've done theirs all over the country.

We now have about 200.

Just this past few days with the press conference that the mayor had recently, they have been adding all the ones in city buildings, city owned public places.

And so those are gray ones.

And we'll have our our volunteers go out.

So I expect to be up by 250 within a couple of weeks.

Okay.

We want to be 150 cities that have done this have taken the survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest out of hospital from less than 10% to greater than 60% just by mapping AEDs.

>> So the idea is to get to a point where people can just pick up their phone and say, Hey Siri, or hey Google, where's the nearest AED?

>> Yeah.

>> And they'll know immediately.

>> That's exactly what started this.

Greg Koons wife died of sudden cardiac arrest, and he got to thinking, why can't I find the nearest Starbucks, for example?

And and I can't find the nearest AED.

So that's what started all this.

And if we get enough on enough maps, Google and Apple will talk to us and it will become a push notification so that if you're in Starbucks and there's one at the McDonald's next door, you can find it very, very easily by saying, where's the nearest AED?

>> Have you found the businesses have been really happy to take part in this.

Once you make them aware.

>> Well, our kickoff is October 16th at 5 p.m.

at West Sixth Brewing.

That is when the those kind of volunteers are going to start hitting the streets and knocking on doors.

So I really haven't had that interaction with the businesses yet.

At the press conference two days ago, Mayor Gordon did ask all businesses and organizations in Lexington that have an AED to put them on the map, and they will be gray, and then I can send my cardiac cats around to make them gold.

>> Okay.

And as we say, you're focused on Lexington, but every city in Kentucky ought to be taking part in something.

>> Absolutely.

And a lot of times local fire departments just take this on as a volunteer thing.

Sometimes it's just some civic group that wants to do it.

I mean, anybody could do it.

I mean, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts could take this on as a project in Boston and Buffalo.

They had high school civic teachers get classes to do this for credit.

And then the kids, when they would even go on vacation with families, would see them at an airport.

And they did it as like a competition within a class.

>> We assume that everybody knows what an AED is, but they probably don't.

What it does is deliver a shock to the heart, right, and can get the rhythm back.

>> It is the only thing that can bring you back to life.

CPR gives you time.

CPR, you've got to do CPR.

You've got to call 911.

You need to do CPR.

And then the next thing is you need to find out where the nearest AED is.

If that person's heart is not beating.

>> You have to feel so fortunate that you've survived this really, because it was a long time before the help got to you.

>> That there was an amazing chain of care that got me to where I am.

Absolutely.

I would just love the community to help us out because you never know if you map an AED, that might be the one that saves your loved one's life.

So just help us download the app and start mapping them.

>> And you told me you've been part of that thriller dance about 15 years.

Are you going to be there?

>> This.

>> Tonight?

You're going to be there this year too?

>> Yes, sir.

You can't stop me.

>> But you have to think about it.

When you're going down the street each year about.

>> It is.

>> Your close.

>> Call of a full circle moment, actually, because I'm very fortunate that I'm able to do it.

>> Yeah.

Well, it's a very important program.

We're glad you're here to tell us about it.

>> Thank you.

>> For having me.

And thanks for sharing this information.

>> Thank you very much, Mr.

Bartlett.

>> You can get more information online at Cardiac crusade.org.

Backslash.

Lexington.

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Will those dollars benefit private or public school students?

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