♪ >> the way to the bar.

All you like.

>> What Senator Rand Paul is saying to Kentucky voters one week before Election Day.

>> The idea that that is not a real factories, sort of put your hands?

Well, I think there's plenty of studies on that case.

Numbers say otherwise.

>> Differing views on whether climate change is one of the factors causing inflation.

It's important that we're not just listening to one soul student and were rather listening to an accumulation of a lot of students.

Students tell their own stories and a brand-new public ation.

And how many packages move through UPS and Louisville during the holiday season.

That number may surprise you.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Tuesday, November.

1st, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you so much for spending some of your Tuesday night with us one week to go before Election Day.

And today Senator Rand Paul was on the campaign trail in Georgetown.

>> Talking about inflation and announcing pandemic shutdowns.

>> Tuesday at the Red Way.

>> First side and we now have more >> all with a majority of comes the obligation to turn >> I suspect to be the tip of the spear.

People are sick and char gas prices rose 3 rise of it.

>> All I we are facing >> It's it's all led to the >> We We have people losing about a 3rd.

All we should say would never, ever again, we this isn't about gay power.

people.

>> About moving out and taking away a lot about and letting people as they want.

>> The this is to bring you all to review the cell phone to you.

40 $1 K because guess what?

In the free all day for the average for the last several $1000 to the the previous administration.

The I think Joyce is clear on Tuesday.

I think people we >> Senator Paul's get out.

The vote tour includes stops in Richmond, Georgetown, Elizabeth Murray and Hopkinsville Senator Paul's opponent, Democrat Charles Booker is spending today and Carter Route one and Boyd counties.

He plans to vote early and Louisville on Thursday and he's encouraging his supporters in Louisville to vote with them.

We'll catch up with Booker later in the week.

Here's a reminder about some key voting dates in Kentucky in-person absentee voting wraps up tomorrow.

Then on Thursday, November 3rd and no excuse early voting begins.

Check with your county clerk about where you're supposed to vote early voting last through November.

The 5th, then election day, of course, is November 8th with the polls open from 06:00AM to 06:00PM.

What's causing inflation.

That was one of the key questions asked during last night's Kentucky tonight right here on KET.

Our panel of economists talked about many things including spending policies, the war on Ukraine and the effects of the COVID pandemic.

But there was disagreement over whether climate change is playing a role.

>> In turn, does today situation?

I I don't know of any any careful stop excuse me if any careful study is trying to look crop failures or whatever.

And how that has affected inflation.

I think the biggest effect he's been spansion monetary policy, not only United States, but virtually every other country in the world is engaged in this too, to fund expansion or fiscal policy.

And we have had some supply issues partly recovering from the supply chain disruptions.

But also we've had a lot of countries, as Janet mentioned here, Chara is but its boot on the neck of the fossil fuel industry in causing causing less of a supply.

And so I think you look at money, how much money is circulating out there and how many goods and services chasing is are the basic the answers to what's going on with inflation.

But the idea that they were not were not the drought's, the floods, the wildfires that are they're seen around the world.

>> Which have all gone up as as the climate has as the temperatures have the idea that that is not a real factor is sort of put your head in the sand?

>> Well, I think there's plenty of studies on that patient would say otherwise.

And I we can debate that may be on another another panel because this is a somewhat different, but it's the kind of but but anyway, it's on a different topic because if we're talking about creating more resilient economy, a boost in United States and around the world and to do that, we have to recognize that we are.

We have already and we're decades into a period of more chaotic climatic conditions.

And so the kind of supply chains that we've created that are global.

We're not necessarily build to withstand those sort of pressures.

>> Our panelists also discussed some other reasons for inflation, the role corporations play and how long this inflation could be with us.

You can see more of that at KET DOT Org Slash K why tonight coming up next week on KET up review of the November 8 election.

You can see that discussion Monday at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

As we told you last night, the University of Kentucky nursing student and the ski was one of 150 people killed during a crowd surge during a Halloween gathering in Seoul, South Korea, U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky released a statement about it.

He said, quote, and was studying to be a nurse, a profession fitting of her reputation as a kind and selfless friend to all Elaine and I are praying for the DC family in this difficult time and offer our deepest condolences to everyone affected by this tragic disaster.

Rim on a muzzle Lee has died.

He served in Congress from the Louisville's areas.

3rd congressional district for 24 years from 1971, to 1995.

The Courier Journal reports he was one day shy of his 90th birthday.

MS only was Catholic and opposed to abortion rights, putting him at odds with most of his fellow Democrat.

He was known for his work on immigration issues appropriate since he was the son of an Italian immigrant.

The current congressman from the district, John Yarmouth said in a statement for 12 terms, he provided the people of our city constituent service with a smile always going out of his way to do all that he could for those.

He was so proud to represent.

Kentucky's COVID positivity rate is up again.

It's now 9.17%, according to the new number, just released.

That's up from 7.0.

64% a week ago last Friday, the new COVID map showed all 120 counties were either in the low or medium category with 0 counties in the red, meaning high.

In today's health news November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month Kentucky unfortunately leads the nation and lung cancer cases and mortality rate and chronic lower respiratory disease is the 4th leading cause of death in the Commonwealth.

Alan Hahn is a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing.

She says smoking is taking a toll not just on our health, but on our health care system as well.

>> Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in the world?

Actually.

And Kentucky is one of the leaders than that.

I'm sad to say are adults smoke at really high rates are children are smoking electronic cigarette products at high rates.

It takes its toll and around 10,000 people in our state die every year needlessly really from this addiction.

It's a severe addiction and not only is it a total our health, but we spend billions of dollars in health care costs, treating people who are smokers and it's and employers spend millions a month and billions a year not only in health care costs, but it the productivity losses as well.

>> Hahn spoke with us back in Friday in February for our KET form fighting to breathe, which was focused on lung health.

You can see the entire show and a three-part series about the latest research on best practices for treatment and prevention on-demand, a K E T Dot Org slash health.

The University of Kentucky is embarking on an ambitious two-year research project focused on medical marijuana House Bill 604, which was signed into law earlier this year, sets aside 2 million dollars to create the UK Cannabis Center last week.

The director of the New Center told state lawmakers that one study her team is working on will help gauge of marijuana can be used to help treat cancer patients.

And she told us why this research is so important.

>> If you want to look >> to see is a medicine effective.

Is it effective for certain medical condition?

What dose is effective?

You have to do a randomized placebo controlled study to determine the advocacy.

And then what though, says you need.

How big the signal is for that condition that you're trying to treat.

Unfortunately.

It is so difficult.

So incredibly difficult to do.

Cannabis research for some of the reasons that we talked about it, a schedule one drug.

Which of this physician cannot prescribe it legally by law.

That's federally illegal.

That also makes research so much harder.

And so there's a there's a very good reasons why some of the research hasn't been done.

But most of it has been done with like serving in Iraq.

So if a patient is enrolled in a medical cannabis program.

They will start that program.

And then.

last week.

How are you doing?

Like what is your quality of life and like, how is your condition improving?

And that's important.

And it really gives us a way to start to tease out what dose is.

Maybe we think people should use.

To really take it to the level of a medicine approved by the FDA, which is what we're used to in the United States.

All the medicines that we have access to FDA approved to go through that process with medical cannabis is long and arduous and we're just not there.

So the field of science, his body and it's really exciting and there's a lot of research going on and it it's a really good time to be able to do this kind of work.

But we really have to kind of take it up and not to really include those good controls that we know how to do.

What we're finding out as we designed this trial is that there are some medicines that interact with Candace that could have really detrimental effects on patients.

And so that is a last absolutely the last possible thing that you would want to do.

And so I think you have to be really careful and you need that data to be able to show you what's the safest way to do this are their medicines that you cannot cope prescribed with cannabis.

What and what will happen.

And so I really think that you just need to calm, cool, collected approach to it and really determine whether it's safe before we college medical cannabis.

>> But Malone, a says the cancer trial will be finished by June 2024.

At the earliest, she added that 2 years for a study this size is lightning fast.

♪ The price of gas remain stable in Kentucky.

That's some good news.

Triple A says the average price of gas is now $3 and $0.37 for a gallon of regular unleaded.

It was $3.40 a month ago.

The cheapest gas in Kentucky right now is in Simpson County.

That's along the Tennessee border.

They're an average is 308 a gallon.

The national price average is $3 and $0.76 a gallon.

UPS is hiring in Louisville.

According to the Courier Journal, the company needs 3600 seasonal workers at its world port hob in order to handle packages for the holiday season.

The UPS Peak season runs from November through the second week in January, an estimated 4 million packages a day come through Louisville during that time.

The state is helping Trigg County upgrade its industrial park.

Kentucky will give the park half a million dollars.

The money is from the produce Development initiative program.

The goal is to attract more industry and more investment to trade county.

Last week, a Jefferson County Public Schools was awarded its largest monetary donation and history from novelist and philanthropist.

MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donated 20 million dollars to JCPS our Kelsey Starks sat down with Superintendent Doctor Marty Pollio to talk about how the money will be used.

>> Well, you know, 20 million dollars can go a really long way.

And doctor Marty Pollio I Harry has big plans for this big donation.

So tell us exactly where is this money going to go?

Yeah.

Well.

>> First of all, thanks for having me here today.

I'm so excited to talk about it.

It's always good to talk about something like this.

But, you know, we have well, first and foremost, we go back to student assignment that we changed in JCPS for the first time in 40 years.

>> On June, 1st, that was a unanimous vote.

But a part of that was making sure that the schools and our choices own if schools, its students in West Louisville got to stay close to home that we resource the schools in an equitable way, which is never happened before and really doesn't happen across the country.

We can do it.

Budget wise, but its supplementary funding that is such a struggle for schools in high poverty areas to fund that can be PTA zoar booster clubs or alumni association.

You know, athletic booster clubs, ticket sales, all of these things that make the school very attractive, you know, a PTA lower poverty school might raise $100,000 in the course of a few weeks to replace a playground.

You know, high poverty school may not have that to nutty.

So what we want to do is provide equitable funding.

This an unrestricted gifts gives us the opportunity so that our schools in West Louisville will have the exact same opportunity as any other school around the county.

>> And that's the key there.

Unrestricted gift.

You get this phone call and they say you have this money so important that you can use it for whatever you think and the district deems to be the the best use for it.

>> Yeah.

And Miss I spoke to her representatives did directly speak to her, but, you know, it was refreshing to hear her say that they feel that, you know, first and foremost, they love what we're doing in JCPS.

They love their future state, which is our vision for JCPS.

Want to get behind it.

But to have her say that we are the experts on education.

And so she is not going to dictate how to use that.

It's just something you don't see much.

And it's it's inspiring to be honest with you to to know that someone is willing to do that and she's doing it on a large scale across many different organizations.

And I know some other school districts as well.

>> That's right.

As we've heard about the other school districts, the Louisville Urban League just got a large donation as well.

>> Tell me about that phone call when you get the phone call, it's out of the blue right?

>> So back we go back to I got a consulting company.

Didn't know they were consulting companies for philanthropist.

And I got an e-mail that said they'd like to interview me for an anonymous donor.

And so we did about an hour interview on Zoom back in June.

I didn't hear anything after that.

I was I wasn't sure maybe I didn't pass the test.

Whatever was until about 3 weeks ago, I get a phone call from the Scotts representative at that time.

She said, well, the anonymous donor is Mackenzie Scott.

And I thought, wow, this could be a nice one.

From what I've heard.

I was expecting maybe a million or 2 million when she said 20 million unrestricted almost fell out of my seat.

I really did.

I and you know, you don't know how to react on that out.

Yeah, and I hang up the phone and I'm so thankful to hang up the phone afterwards and I'm like this is got to be a joke.

Someone's playing on has a lot of a few weeks later.

We got the money wired to us.

So just an amazing process.

To be honest with you.

>> And I think a lot of people are wondering to what is the connection with Mackenzie Sky like my JCPS to even know.

>> Well, I wonder that to have a guy did give some so, you know, and like I said, they there are notice a secretive, but they don't let you know exactly why they've chosen it.

you know what?

The indications were the work that we're doing around racial equity, the work that we're doing around like our student assignment plan and changing all the things that we're doing in JCPS.

And I talk about it.

A lot of different spaces.

So fortunately someone heard it and I think told MS Scott about, you know, she was out there looking for public schools.

And I'm so thankful that she's funding public school districts.

You know that is the is the foundation of our nation is our public school system.

And so, you know, for me being a public school employee for 26 years of public school, dad, both my parents were public school teachers.

You know, I was a public school grad to have someone step up and fund that.

It's just amazing.

But it's it's hard to pinpoint a reason.

But we were told it's because of our innovative work we're doing in JCPS.

>> Well, we appreciate it and KET up the good Hank, you so much.

Renee, back to you.

>> Thank you so much.

Kelsey and congratulations to JCPS.

Today is the first day JCPS students can begin applying for schools to attend next year.

The new student assignment Plan designates a new choice zone for students who are assigned to primarily high poverty schools in West Louisville.

This is not Mackenzie Scott's only big donation to Kentucky in recent days as we have told you, she donated a million dollars to the Urban League of Lexington.

And that's the biggest single gift in the organization's history.

♪ >> Are you curious about how Kentucky schools are working?

Well, there is now a team of students reporting between classes to tell you last month the Kentucky Student Voice team launched a website called the New E U the online publication is run by student journalists and the focus of their reporting is Kentucky's education system.

Our Casey Parker Bell spoke with a couple of the student journalists and they're managing editor about the new venture.

>> I think that the new the EU is doing an amazing job kind of destroying this policy that you can't do or make the changes that you want to see in the world until you're an adult, we're kind of shifting students for thinking that they are an expert in their own educational experience and should be treated as such so they can write about these things even when they don't seem like they're deemed as a professional by the rest of the world, they can make change who they are now.

Not tomorrow.

>> The new ad you launched in October, the brand-new public Haitian is led by student journalist.

We'll focus the reporting on education issues across the state.

17 students received training this summer to prepare for work on the new site and the new EU will share their content with other Kentucky news media.

The Web site's managing editor and professional journalist transferred Stauffer says student journalism is already making an impact.

>> Rates for the rogue elephant Lee about how important student journalism already is.

What makes you say that student journalism is so impactful?

>> I think first of all, student journalists are journalists, even if we look at just the past couple years alone, journalism by students, he's been so groundbreaking and so critical, whether it's high school journalists in college journalist breaking news as they covered the spread of COVID-19 and its impact on there.

Campuses or right here in Kentucky, we had student journalists at the manual read.

I break a story about Kentucky State police training materials that voted that letter which led to the resignation of the Kentucky State Police commissioner.

These are just a couple examples that underscore that the work young people do and the way they see the world is necessary to holding systems of power accountable and making positive change.

We want to see in Kentucky.

>> The new EU hopes to supplement traditional news sources like newspapers.

And I'm curious, how could the journalism being done by students help the coverage that we're already getting from places that people traditionally think of?

>> Absolutely.

I think in this and kind of 2 ways, the first is that without adequate access to journalists and media, including the process of Tessa painting in it, students are removed from the process of having hands on experience with verifying facts and speaking truth.

The power in civic spaces, which has been important throughout history.

And it's especially important right now.

We need young people engaged in media.

And number 2, when it comes to the vast span of issues related to education, Justice Stevens player really critical, powerful role.

And we know that young people are ready.

Service sources for firsthand accounts to journalists about what's happening in school.

What's happening with young people today?

It only makes sense that our next, but there is making sure that young adults have the resources or in space to tell those stories themselves.

>> Why is it so important to have that student perspective in journalism?

>> Absolutely.

Yeah.

There's a lot of importance in listening to the voices of students, especially since students are the ones that are firsthand experience saying all the intimate interactions of being in school every single day.

They're there for 8 hours a day even longer every single day, excluding breaks.

So they see a lot of what happens internally.

And they also have their own personal experience of the impacts of what happens, how their mental health for their physical health or how social settings, how all of those impacted by what's occurring in their schools.

So there's a lot of importance in elevating those student voices to talk about Kentucky education in the educational system overall because they are the ones personally experiencing it.

Experts in that experience.

>> How do you think that having access to students generally will improve the journalism that you all are doing?

>> Yeah, there's a lot of different perspectives because every single student is navigating entirely different lives, different backgrounds in different schools.

And we see a lot of diversity across Kentucky about the kind of things that are happening within schools.

The differences across schools and students don't experience this.

It's important that we're not just listening to one soul student.

They were rather listening to an accumulation of a lot of students because a lot of them have had their own different experiences and all of those combined to give us all a better idea of what the school systems really are like for students.

>> Middle what types of stories are you hoping you are an editor?

So what types of stories are you hoping that you all can tell with the new year to you?

>> Yeah, of course.

So I think that students are bringing in a very much be a conversation about what bias in journalism, the INS and how it actually needed and also justified in the work that we do because we're able to bring in all these different perspectives.

We're kind of used to debating on these basic humanitarian right to the point where it just kind of seems like a no-brainer to us.

So I think that when we have students writing about the issues they care about, they need to be biased because we realize that this isn't some sort of political concept to argue about.

This is about our lives.

>> The new EU has 17 journalism fellows that received training from professionals the summer to prepare for their work on the publication.

But they're managing matters that are says they're always looking for more students interested in reporting and improving education across the state.

All of the students working for the new ad.

You are paid to write and report.

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Take really good care.

Have a great night.

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