♪ >> That hasn't being done about already.

Using her platform to better the world.

We take a look back at the late former first lady Rosalyn Carter's trip to eastern Kentucky.

>> The summer you can make it.

You can sweat it out.

But in the colder, the winner are you cannot go back to my constituents and guarantee you we're not going to have a blackout one.

I have people tell me that it's coming.

>> Lawmakers question if Kentucky's energy grid can meet winter demands.

>> I didn't think I could change the on switch.

I don't think there was no change.

Come and that is.

So let me guys a house and that's where it started.

>> How a father and his daughter are helping each other through addiction recovery.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Monday, November, the 20th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for starting off the week night with us.

>> Former first lady Rosalyn Carter passed away yesterday.

The Carter Center in Atlanta announced that the wife of former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday afternoon at her home in Plains, Georgia, with her family at her side, Roslyn Carter was married to Jimmy Carter for more than 77 years.

Both of them came to Kentucky in 1997 to work on a project known as hammering in the Hills and partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

The Carters help build 50 homes in eastern Kentucky.

And just one week.

>> There are a lot of people involved with Perry Hills Project probably way more than we needed to build those houses because people want to be a part of all kinds of people show up to work.

Some of them are professional.

Some of them are just wrong to in this case because President Carter and Rosalynn Carter, we're going to be there.

It was just an opportunity to get to know them captured a lot of video during the Jimmy Carter Project.

And so these are some shots of people working on President Carter's house and he is right there.

Look at that areas in with the red handkerchief on President Carter really worked on his house and Rosin worked on the first lady's house.

We didn't do anything without her.

This is the first to the first lady's house.

My wife is gotten very involved habitat.

She said, why don't we do a first lady's house next door to President Carter's house so he didn't get all the attention.

I want to look at that 2nd half >> Because that hasn't being built by all run.

I think it fits of laughter.

What women can do and the reason I want to point out is because I think the groups of women all across this country at the don't really believe they could get out and build a house, but they can and I want them to do it.

And that would just put add a whole new dimension to have a tap.

>> What an inspiration.

Roslyn Carter was.

96.

The former president.

Now 99 remains at the couple's home in Georgia after entering hospice care himself in February.

Governor Andy Beshear put out this statement about Missus, Carter's death, quote, our country is mourning the loss of a great first lady with the passing of Roslyn Carter Missus.

Carter lived out her faith and values every day spreading love and kindness.

Wherever she went.

Brittany and I are praying for the former president and the entire Carter family, unquote.

As the holiday season big ends.

We approach one year since tens of thousands of Kentucky homes lost power.

>> And 2 people died during Winter Storm.

Elliott, those events that began last Christmas Eve are on the minds of Kentucky.

Lawmakers who heard from a state energy policy adviser last week.

Lawmakers question if renewables or coal could best support Kentucky's grid.

>> Can you guarantee that we can meet that demand that our families are not going to be put in the black and in the cold and the women are the summer.

You can make it.

You can sweat it out.

But in the colder, the winner are you cannot go back to my constituents and guarantee you we're not going to have a blackout one.

I have people tell me that is common.

>> I can guarantee you that we have the generating technology to ensure that the reliability of the grid is maintained, whether that is false or renewal depends on the characteristics you would like to achieve.

And grad school as as a policymaker.

I think it's important too.

Think about the characteristics you want to maintain rather than the particular type of fuel which can be tough if you tear down your infrastructure.

That is true that when recommending to us that we don't tear down that we KET that as a reliable source in the future.

>> I'm not recommending any retirement that goes between the utility in the Public Service Commission.

What I'm most concerned about is the pace of technology change and what characteristics we would like to maintain and have here in the state.

I think we have a whole suite of technology options across all fields that can help us meet that.

Louisville, gas and electric and Kentucky utilities initially blamed a frozen natural gas pipeline for the Christmas power outages.

>> They also said Cole backfired and that the units couldn't KET up as the temperature dropped, protecting Kentucky's electric grid was one reason lawmakers gay for passing Senate Bill 4 which became law earlier this year.

It requires utilities to get state approval before shutting down coal units.

Just this month, the Kentucky Public Service Commission approved LG and E and K use plan to retire to coal generation units while also declining the company's request to shutter 2 more.

Well, the election is behind us now.

We look ahead to the Kentucky General Assembly session begins January 2nd and we'll preview the session with 2 members of the Kentucky 2 members of the Kentucky Senate.

All women.

It's ladies night on Kentucky tonight.

Join us and send us your questions and comments at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

Kentucky is getting more money to help with flood recovery.

A nice turn.

Kentucky Pham approve nearly 21 million dollars to reimburse the Kentucky division of Emergency Management.

The division worked with contractors to remove more than 100 tons of debris following flooding in the summer of 2022, the money was made available through a federal grant that helps local communities recover following a disaster.

The state is also getting money to fight domestic violence.

The federal Violence Against Women Act is providing Kentucky with 2 million dollars and turned that money is being given to 32 organizations across the state that work to combat domestic violence.

The state is also working on a project to help gather accurate data about domestic abuse and Kentucky to help make policy recommendations that could prevent people from becoming victims and improve outcomes for survivors.

It's a done deal over the weekend.

The United Auto Workers Union overwhelmingly ratified new contracts with Detroit's big 3 automakers that will raise pay across the industry.

Ford workers voted by nearly 70% in favor of the new deal.

While the vote was closer at GM and Stellantis, thousands of workers at Ford's Kentucky truck Plant and Louisville are on strike for weeks.

While terms of the new deals were big negotiated.

The new four-year agreement means an immediate 11% raise for workers at Ford.

From building cars to making them street legal.

The state is encouraging Kentuckians to avoid going to county clerk offices for vehicle related services in early January.

The reason the transportation cabinet is updating its database system and says the pause and service is needed to transfer more than 350 million records starting December 29th, certain vehicle related services will be suspended, including car registration and license plate.

Renewals, title transfers and the issuance of disabled parking permits.

The suspension is expected to last 4 to 10 days and could lead to longer wait times want service resumes.

Well, the UK football team is coming off a loss this weekend.

But Kentucky's blood supply.

He's winning.

Kentucky was able to fend off Tennessee in the Kentucky Blood Center's annual Big Blue Crush Blood Drive the margin Muslim, though, with Kentucky receiving just 132 more donors this year, more than 2000 people in each state donated blood during the weeklong contest.

This marks the 21st time Kentucky has won the competition.

The Blood center also saw its biggest turnout since before the COVID-19 pandemic donations will be used to supply more than 70 hospitals in Kentucky with blood.

♪ ♪ November is lung cancer awareness Month, all cancers, lung cancer is the most deadly, but advances in surgery and medical treatments are improving.

Survival rates, even and those diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

Like Scott Kindred of Lexington, we spoke with him and doctor Timothy Mullet of the UK Market Cancer Center about living longer with the disease.

That story in today's medical >> So cancer diagnosis as a hard thing for us to talk to patients about because there's a lot of especially early I may see a patient in there just been discovered to have something wrong and they're long and then we're looking at that and trying to sort out what stage this is.

I'm trying to determine what the best recommendation for treatment that's going to be.

We're trying to get that message out that this is a message of hope, not a message of a terminal disease.

>> I was diagnosed with lung cancer and 2014.

And that's like.

Am I the right upper part of the Little mermaid from I have cigarette smoking habit about a year and a half later.

Give or take it had spread to my bones on the slate for myself.

I didn't give a lot of thought because I still had the feeling that I still have things I want to do and see, I have had a total of 30 rounds of radiation altogether.

I've had 39 infusions of immunotherapy.

Which at which time they believe it was mid 2019, I went into remission.

Lace said I was currently any be no evidence of disease to lung cancer, like many >> Has been influenced by understanding more of the genomic or the genetic basis for their disease.

And so that allows us to develop some targeted treatments for you understand some of the order called biomarkers some of the specific features of an individual's cancer.

And that allows us to get much more precise with the kind of therapy that we can deliver medical research and the advances have come such a long way over the years myself.

Contributing my life survival to medical research has come so far.

Kind of describe my experiences as as exploring uncharted waters.

>> Because that's kind of where I'm at.

I think the important thing is that.

For most people.

There are treatments that are available for lung cancer today.

That are going to extend their life and they are much less toxic than they were in the years past.

And so we're able to offer treatment to more people and we're able to offer curative treatment for some people have an earlier stage of this disease.

Even in late-stage, we're seeing patients that are living longer much longer than what we've seen in the past.

You know, gives you more You know, to to kind of lives life and share your and offer hope to the communities.

Because at first I didn't know I couldn't find anything on support or lung cancer.

And that's also where stages partially came from stage is little cancer support community.

We have about 162 members.

We do have a virtual platform that meets monthly.

I really see.

This is a time that is very different from what I 15 years ago.

Which was.

We were very fortunate to find somebody with an early stage disease and we didn't really have a lot of options for patients with late-stage disease.

Now we're finding more patients with early stage disease because of screening.

And we're more effectively treating those patients with late-stage disease because of advances in our medicine.

And so it's a time of hope.

It's a time to understand that and going forward where we're going to see a very different disease.

If someone gets a diagnosis, too, you know, there is help out there.

>> In July, Governor Andy Beshear signed a bill establishing the long cancer Screening Advisory Committee.

Doctor Mullet and Scott Kindred both serve on that committee which is focused on significantly increasing the number of lung cancer screenings in Kentucky.

You can learn more about long health in Kentucky by checking out KET 3 part series called Fighting To Breathe.

You can do that online on demand at K E T Dot Org.

Slash health.

♪ >> Walker and Rhonda Hanley are both graduates of the Isaiah House Addiction Recovery program.

>> They're also father and daughter.

They believe the Isaiah House gave them the ability to beat addiction.

When other centers could not.

So an addiction and I didn't have friends >> didn't have family because dollars a person.

No one wanted to be around.

I was whole and like resentments >> and had abandonment issues.

>> I tried to fill it with drugs and alcohol.

I didn't go to church got prescribe some pain pills from the doctor.

And because I've gotten fi and it was long from there, you know, I've hours taking pain pills and whatever action get those prescribed anymore.

I went to heroin.

So I mean, you've done some solace.

16.

36 now when I first got to the Isaiah House, I had to surrender.

I had to give it all over to God had to get my wife to God and get my family over to God and would pray for them.

And he gave my dad back to me.

You know, like for him to be here in this program with me, it's undescribable throughout high school.

I KET drinking this stuff and just party and lead to one thing after another like marijuana.

>> And peels and crack cocaine stuffed us for about the last 40 years.

I've been doing something.

To come to the house.

I didn't think I could change be honest, which I didn't think I was no change.

>> Come and it just so let me guys a house and that's where start that had been to treatment.

Before.

Like at the Hope Center.

What was missing was a spiritual part.

And and I know that's what I need now.

>> They're just loving and caring I know that there's not another rehab facility or treatment facility here that offers the love.

They do.

And that's why I wanted to work for them.

And I KET this is where God wanted me.

And that's where I wanted to be.

I get up every day and I'm happy to come to work.

I get to meet off some people every single day that again is no judgment are just like I am.

You know, I was I am them.

It's amazing.

The feel-like come back on in their eyes.

Like I came was being down broke in and this place just it.

It will help.

She revealed with God that from the inside out and heal.

It gives you the opportunity to heal.

>> I don't have that order.

And I just want to get closer to God.

Can you do want what little bit of time I've been here?

It gives me purpose.

I mean, I feel like I'm purpose now have goes I set for myself.

Notice feels like a much cooler.

That's what I feel like.

My purpose is to help people that was like me.

That did not know how to come from the same family situation that didn't have a chance of society said well, just go die in prison or you're going to be a recall.

You i-four that that's not true.

You know, he recalls happened.

Then start to start with yourself for it.

>> I can't express the joy that I have in life with God working through both it's like my heart is full.

You know, fairytales do come true.

If you say long enough.

And let God work.

♪ ♪ >> 40 years ago, the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors in downtown Louisville.

Since then, it's survived a fire, a pandemic and most recently a re-branding.

Now Kentucky performing Arts and Compass is a campus of arts facilities including the Brown Theater as well as old Forster's Paris town hall.

Kentucky additions.

Kelsey Starks takes us there.

>> The initial vision to and arts to help make move all the great, the great destination of that it needed to be at the project began with Governor Julian Carroll in the in the 1970's with the vision that every great city nice to have a great performing arts center before the center was Bubbles resident our company's little orchestra, Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet stage one family theater, PNC Broadway in Louisville.

They would perform anywhere throughout town.

You know, there were a number of different venues, but there was not one that could bring everybody out.

So that was a that was a key driver toward getting this building.

This building It was a process that that took a while to get in place worked.

Construction began in 1980, and November.

19th 1983.

The paint still wet in some parts of the and hope the Opening Night Gala event was held.

♪ >> Ladies and gentlemen.

>> I am Gallo to date the Kentucky Center for the Art.

Let's get right to it.

>> We know years ago when I was in Egypt, the shooting, the 10 just before I part of the Red Sea.

I remember saying that.

I don't get it.

I remember distinctly saying.

If this works someday, I'm going to open an art center in Louisville, >> that was not just a celebration of of this new building is also a fundraising event.

To finish construction of the bomb hard year.

So Whitney Hall was open.

Whitney Hall is named after Robert S Whitney, who was the longtime conductor who orchestra the bomb heart theater named after a more its bomb Hart, who was the founder of Kentucky Opera, was still being worked out.

So the $750 Ticket Opening Night Gala featured a master of ceremonies.

Trump has performances Florence Henderson.

Problem with Tom a from a plus Fairbanks junior.

George Stevens produced the entire event.

The senator stands as as as a beacon for the hearts and a key driver of tourist offer.

They put the commonwealth in any given year.

We're bringing in people from at least counties throughout throughout the state.

>> We bring in people from all 50 states throughout the union and several every year as well.

So a key, a key driver of tourism, a key economic driver.

And I KET, you know, cultural and thought not just for move over for the commonwealth and up for the country in the region as well when that when the building was built, one of the I want to KET things Wendell Cherry wanted to see happen was that the experience was not just within the year the entire building needed to be the experience.

We worked Humana Foundation and donors to put together an extensive collection of 20 th-century art.

One of the the piece behind me is a reasonable some peace to the largest in the country.

And she worked in found So she spent her time scouring the streets.

Are we going to work in the hours?

Go into construction sites, picking up pieces from the construction site here to put together the piece behind So night, Wave Moon was assembled in our New York studio and then in pieces out to be assembled as part of the of the larger art experience.

That one that one has when they go through the doors, the John Chamberlain peace, the color gates of those are crushed one of our founding fathers, David Jones, share that share the tail.

But he thinks one of his cars were in there.

But I do know if that's accurate or not, probably apocryphal, but it makes for a great story.

But yes, those are those are crushed And, you know, given the fact that we're talking about automobiles as the building was being built, that installation was happening.

So this was clearly.

Part of the larger vision of this building.

We always meet part.

On arts terms the the voices that are on our stages are authentic to to where our world is to what the artists have to say.

All right.

With audiences audiences want audiences are looking for.

So you know, the the concept of art may look different, but it's always about the same thing.

It's always about meeting people where they are meeting the artists where they are meeting the art where it so that we are presenting an accurate and authentic reflection of our world.

>> And having a really good time doing it.

>> Beautiful facility.

Now you can see the full story about Kentucky performing arts online on demand at KET DOT Org slash inside Louisville tomorrow.

We'll take you behind the curtain to say parts of the center audiences usually don't get a chance to see you.

Want to join us for that.

We look back at the opening of the Brent Spence Bridge and the Kentucky connection to an American president.

And it is a Abraham Lincoln.

Our Toby Gibbs has that and more and this look back at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> You probably never heard of Governor George W Johnson of Kentucky.

Kentucky did not so safe from the union during the Civil War Confederate sympathizer set up a pro Confederate government in Kentucky on November.

20th 18 61 Johnson became the first of 2 Confederate Kentucky governor's.

Happy birthday to early radio pioneer and inventor Nathan be Stubblefield.

Born in Murray on November.

22nd 18, 60 among other things.

Stubblefield invented a battery operated wireless telephone.

>> America's 12 President Zachary Taylor was born November 24th 17 84 in Virginia.

But his family moved to the Louisville area a year later and Kentucky was his official residence throughout his army years when he died in office in 18, 50, he was interred in Louisville.

We are the odds while shot and killed President John F Kennedy on November.

22nd 1963 and the announcement of the president's death came from Max killed up JFK's deputy press secretary who would later moved to baby Mill.

Kentucky have become a well-known newspaper editor.

Astronaut and UK Long story Musgrave blasted off from the space shuttle Discovery on November.

22nd 1989.

The Brent Spence Bridge connecting northern Kentucky to Cincinnati open November.

25th 1963.

It was named after a long time.

Northern Kentucky Congressman.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history.

It begins.

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There's just no mommy and daddy's and Mary Pratt that they chose MS. And this glad that we were the ones chosen.

How sweet will and Tosh o Ulan have adopted 2 daughters from China.

>> Taja also helps other families prepare for the adoption process and provide support for birth mothers tomorrow night.

How her work has even gotten the attention of Congress.

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