♪ >> Pictures just released show the engine separation and fire just before the deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville.

>> She appliance is Kentucky.

>> General Electric's ties to Kentucky are now 40 million dollar stronger.

>> Kentucky has had a problem with cancer for a long time.

And why one expert says those most at risk for lung cancer are the least likely to get screened for it.

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

♪ ♪ >> Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Thursday, November.

The 20th, I'm Renee Shaw and we thank you for spending some of your Thursday evening with us.

New pictures from the National Transportation Safety Board show the engine separating from a UPS Airlines plane.

>> Just before the plane crashed on November.

4th in Louisville, it's part of the NTSB's preliminary report on the crash released today.

Take a look at the 6 pictures that show the engine separation.

The pictures show the left wing engine and pylon separating from the wing.

The left engine also caught fire.

Let's look closer at picture.

Number 4, you can see the engine on fire above the plane.

Despite all this, the plane still cleared the airport fence, but the plane never rose more than 30 feet above the ground.

The plane then crashed into a storage yard and 2 buildings, 3 crew members and 11 people on the ground were killed.

The report says investigators found 14 cracks in the area where the engine was mounted to the wings.

Pylons.

Governor Andy Beshear comment on that today.

>> I've only gotten too.

>> very fairly quickly.

The preliminary report that came out, certainly what jumps out is the fatigue or stress cracks want to learn a little bit more about what that means.

I do know that the plane had undergone at least from what I read the regular suggested maintenance and reviews.

But but certainly this is something we have to learn more about them.

In the end, this was a UPS plane that was involved.

So UPS needs to be a part of the healing and to help the families.

They've set up a significant fund that right now is providing a lot of help.

So we're watching the situation, but I am I am at least plays that UPS is is directly communicating with families with those impacted and will continue to hope and encourage them to do their part to rebuild.

>> The NTSB says it could take a year or more to release a full report on the crash.

In other news, the governor also talked about General Electric appliances and its decision to award 40 million dollars to 4 plastic suppliers in Kentucky.

The suppliers are based in Lebanon.

Williamsburg, Greenville, and Frankfort.

They will supply GE's new laundry plant in Louisville.

This is part of GE's plan to invest 3 billion dollars and U.S.

operations.

Today the governor talked about GE's long-term commitment to Kentucky.

>> Over a 5 year period alone, GE appliances has been very good to Kentucky, announcing over 1 billion dollars in new investment in creating over 2600 new Kentucky jobs as one of our most prominent employers in manufacturing leaders.

GE appliances is helped establish Kentucky as Americans destination for advanced manufacturing and job creation.

In return, our workforce in our ability to deliver results and slanted us the honor of being GE appliances, flagship location.

The appliance is Kentucky.

When I look at GE appliances, this used to be one of the largest, if not the largest employer in Kentucky.

That's that's that's UPS right now.

They've gotten down to just a couple 1000 jobs in the lull in the last administration.

They started growing from there.

They really started growing when they were able to break away from the bigger GE, become their own companies with their own margins.

That didn't contribute to that overall.

GE stock price.

And just to see the growth now up to 80,000, strong is incredible.

>> We have incentivize these investments, but all are incentives bar burned here in Kentucky.

We don't just give cash payments so you don't create the jobs.

You don't get the full incentive.

>> Also today the governor announced Toyota is investing more than 204 million dollars in its Georgetown plan to boost production of hybrid vehicles.

The expansion will mean 82 new jobs.

Stories about the famous Hatfield and McCoy.

Family feud attracts thousands of visitors to Eastern Kentucky every year, but tourism officials say the historical sites tourists are seeking can be hard to find.

Our McKenzie spent tells us how Pike County Tourism hopes the Kentucky General Assembly can help add fuel to the growing tourism industry in eastern Kentucky.

>> People around the world have heard of the Hatfield McCoy feud, but officials say out of towners coming to Pike County can easily get lost on their way to the historical sites.

>> Pardon me that you got a better chance of seeing God.

Then you do make a cell phone call or your GPS to work.

The cell signal just does not get down in there.

The people are lost.

They spend most of their time running around looking for the sites.

>> The stream of visitors to Pike County is only increasing, according to the marketing director of Pikeville Pike County Tourism, tourist spending in the county has increased by more than 30 million dollars from 2017 to 2023.

>> Our Web site along for the Tor which focuses on our region, has had 160,000 views so far this year 112,000 Sessions, almost 100,000 users.

That's a lot of people.

So people want to know about the Hatfields and McCoys and other things will be offering a region.

>> Officials say the tourism draw of the Hatfield McCoys has a significant impact on the locally owned business is of eastern Kentucky.

>> Motorcoach group for 3 knots and 4 days would drop $36,000 in my community.

We don't shop Walmart.

We don't eat at.

Bob Evans are going corral.

We that mom and pops and we shop mom and pops all of my lodging is a locally owned.

There's not one piece of my lodging property that is owned and operated out of state or out of my territory.

When we speak of mom and pops, lifting them up.

The past 4 years of COVID, what it has done to them.

The bulk industry.

The families and SUVs.

They are the people that KET that mom and pop alive.

>> The Pikeville Pike County Tourism Board is asking for increased signage in the U.S.

one.

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56 corridors.

The signs will direct tourist towards sites like the Randolph McCoy, house and other areas where the family fighting broke out.

Co-chair of the committee and Pikeville native Senator Phillip Wheeler says he'll support this request during session.

>> Our committee made it a Senator Boswell, who's watching from the sunny state of says with no pay.

>> He said, you know, a business with that signs is no Very good advice from a very good business >> The extent we can help out will definitely try to do that.

This upcoming sessions.

>> The Pike County Tourism Representatives also mentioned that with the increase of tourism in the area.

The need for lodging is also growing.

Duke for Kentucky edition.

I'm McKenzie Spank Direct.

>> Thank you.

McKenzie in Kentucky as a whole travelers spent over 10 billion dollars in the state last year and almost 4% increase from 2023.

We will take a deep dive into how tourism I can bolster the eastern Kentucky economy on the upcoming episode of Kentucky tonight.

We'll take you on a Technicolor field trip to Pike Bell and Boyd counties that are trying to make the most of the mountains trails and re-imagining old surface mines.

I'll be joined by a panel of tourism and economic development experts and we'll, of course, take your questions and comments.

That's Monday night at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on K T. And independent federal agency is dismissing a complaint that Kentucky power customers are unfairly subsidizing projects and other states.

The Kentucky Lantern reports the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said the complaint by the Kentucky Public Service Commission and Kentucky Attorney General Russel Coleman failed to show Kentucky Powers Arrangement was, quote, unreasonable or unduly discriminatory.

Kentucky power serves more than 150,000 customers in eastern Kentucky.

The PSC and General Coleman had argued customers subsidize more than 60 million dollars and projects that critics argue lack necessary guardrails.

Both groups plan to appeal the decision.

Last night.

President Donald Trump signed the bill ordering the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

That's after its passage by the U.S.

House and U.S.

Senate on Tuesday.

One of the leaders of the release, the files movement as it was called Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

He reflected on the bill success and he talked about what's next.

Colleagues are.

>> Watch what we what we accomplished was we got the people's house to work even though the speaker of the House didn't want to do the people's will.

We use something called a discharge petition and it even surprised me when we got to the finish line, how quickly things happened once it passed in the House.

This the speaker of the House urged the Senate to modify the bill.

He didn't like it, but he had lost control of the house here.

Then we got the bill past exactly as Roe Conn and and I wrote ID, but a win before it even went to the Senate, they agreed by unanimous consent to pass the bill before they even received it.

I've never seen the Senate move this fast.

They didn't change a word of a Greenie punctuated and we put some some very tight guardrails on the things that they could read act.

There's concern than the president's going to open a bunch of investigations to KET the disclosures from happening.

Here's the reality.

There are 1000 victims of Epstein sex-trafficking ring there.

Dozens of perpetrators.

There's no way you can open enough investigations to KET us from getting the files that will implicate most of these men.

So I think we're going to see justice.

I'm excited the you know, if there's any whoa.

We you've seen here today and yesterday here in the House of Representatives that we can actually get a bill passed.

If the people want it bad enough.

>> Since the bill now has President Trump's signature, the Department of Justice has 30 days to release the files.

3 lawyers are suing the 3 m company and the 3 m company is suing them.

Plus, an honor for award war.

2 photographer with Kentucky ties our Toby Gibbs explains in tonight's look at headlines around Kentucky.

♪ >> The News Express reports 3 lawyers including one from Pikeville are suing the 3 m company claiming the company made a faulty dust mask use by coal miners.

But 3 M is Countersuing.

The lawyers saying many of the 850 cases are false and that the lawyers are trying to force 3 m expensive litigation to use as a bargaining chip to encourage expensive settlements.

The landmark in Hammond to Pikeville is one of the 3 lawyers.

They deny 3 M's claims.

About 75 people protested outside the Greenup County Board of Education Office.

According to the Daily Independent.

They're not happy with how the school system is handling a criminal investigation into for teachers accused of abusing 5 special needs children.

The protesters want an overhaul of school board members and the superintendent on November 12, the board voted to demote the superintendent, but she's still has a job with the school district.

One protester called that a slap in the face.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell says Somerset will get a million and a half dollars in federal funding for a new Army National Guard Readiness Center and vehicle maintenance shop.

According to the Commonwealth Journal, Kentucky military facilities will be getting 147 million dollars in military construction funds this year.

A Kentucky photographer killed during World War.

2 is being honored and France, Val Popov Franklin served in the Army pictorial service.

Amazon, the combat photographers who filmed the Allied invasion of France on D-Day in June of 1944, he was killed in combat in France in August.

Now the Bowling Green Daily News report.

His name will be among those on a new memorial in a nearby town honoring U.S.

soldiers killed nearby.

With headlines around Kentucky.

I'm Toby gives.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> Move over.

>> That's the message from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Cabinet wants to remind Kentuckians about the slow down move over law.

>> During this crash Responder Safety Week, no matter what time of year it is pulling over can save lives.

>> We're raising awareness of the risks.

First responders face when working near roadways and making sure drivers know that the law is not optional.

So in Kentucky over the past 3 years crashes involving emergency vehicles responding to an accident.

>> Resulted in more than 1000 collisions.

There's about 360 injuries and 6 deaths.

So just what those numbers alone, I think that gives us a real good group.

Good sense that this is very important that our motoring public knows that when they see those lights out there, that is very important for them to either slow down and or move over.

>> The slow down move over law requires drivers approaching a vehicle with flashing lights or a warning signal to move over a lane if it's safe for slow down significantly, if they cannot, the law was expanded in 2024 to cover all vehicles, including disabled vehicles.

Don't want to come to a stop because we need that steady flow of traffic, but at least slow down so that if somebody was to Dort out from a card, >> then they are likely to be able to react to that particular situation.

It's important that they use caution, reduce speed and watch out for people avoid distractions, stay focused on the road and be prepared for certain movements.

So under Kentucky law, any person who violate the slow down move over law?

>> It may be fined between $6500 or face up to 30 days in county jail for both.

The goal is not about tickets.

It's about saving.

Loves a lot of times.

We think maybe this may not happen before it happened someplace else.

That doesn't happen in Kentucky.

You know, you see it on the news, but it's always another state.

Those types of incidents actually happened here in Kentuckyian >> we want to make sure that all our motoring public is safe.

And although we do want to make sure that they're safe, but we want to make sure that those folks that are responding to these accidents are safe and they can make sure that they're safe by paying attention, slowing down and just simply moving over to another land that would create space for our first responders.

>> The state law was expanded last year to also protect any stationary vehicles on the side of the road that have on flashing lights or warning signals.

This includes emergency vehicles and tow trucks.

♪ ♪ Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among men and women and Kentucky ranks the worst in the country when it comes to new lung cancer cases.

That according to the American Lung Association.

In today's Medical News, we hear from one expert at the University of Louisville's Brown Cancer Center about the challenges Kentucky faces when it comes to getting people screened for lung cancer.

>> And Kentucky has had a problem cancer for a long time.

And this year year and the bottom of the list among the worst of all states in terms of deaths from lung cancer, especially in men.

And why this is in Kentucky has a right to use and smoking is a big part to back.

It was a big part of Kentucky.

Many people smoke still, we're leading the nation in the West, Virginia on the number of adult smoking.

That's close to 20% of the dough people smoke in Kentucky.

It's much more.

50 1% more men.

The U.S.

average.

So smoking is a big problem causing on consent.

The other problem in Kentucky is that radon is welcome to come in in Kentucky because of the limestone, the ground, the reactive gas that comes from you know, parts of it.

>> With Tripoli zoo, the limestone and gets into the houses and the people and he reacted gas.

Be also why lung cancer is a big problem in Kentucky.

>> It has to do with access to health care, especially into parts of Kentuckyian these 2 parts of Kentucky.

What people don't have as much access when cancer is diagnosed So the sum of the parts of Kentucky, some rural areas where the deaths from lung cancer is exceedingly high, much, much higher than that.

It's that cancer has 2 features that makes it very dangerous.

So you can have it and you don't feel that it doesn't cause any symptoms.

Initially, you would not have a new call for a chance been a breathing problem.

But you may already have in your lawn and to find it early, you have to get screened.

So the guidance are a few between 50 80 and you smoked a pack a day for these 20 years who are at a high enough risk that you should have a screening CT every year begin between 50 to 80 and that's where you find it in the state routes may be smaller and dying and you can be removed and you're cured.

This doesn't happen.

Then that he had a tricky feature among cancers it spread, so to be fast.

So if you don't find into the weekend, he's really sure and it spread to other parts of the body.

It becomes for the most part incurable.

I'm only a minority between 9 and 20 person who would be eligible for a sweeping get the screening CT.

And why is this?

And this have reasons.

There are small groups they may be in the now.

They've heard stories that you can so you can go to the anyway.

So this is fatality, too.

And the ruling about finding something that cannot be cured.

So we have to educate everybody but finding good to be with us.

We need can be sure that's the best way to cure it.

So part of it is education.

The reasons why maybe cancer screening is this used in mammograms or colonoscopies.

It is also that it requires a doctor's order and you can adjust property.

Didn't get that s duct.

Asked to see you as to our goal with this decision with to associate decision-making lung cancer 150 years ago was a very weird to see some very rare disease.

the next 100 years.

Plus smoking, it became the most common cancer cure and dream of the future of the modern medicine that we make it go >> And its state of lung cancer report, the American Lung Association says only 21% of Kentuckians at high risk for lung cancer were screened, which was not significantly different than the national rate of 18%.

It could be a photo finish in this year's Big Blue Crush.

Tennessee still leads Kentuckyian donations by Kentucky made up some ground yesterday.

Tennessee is ahead 12, 70 to 12, 60.

Okay.

Come on, guys.

This annual blood drive is in its 38th year.

Kentucky leads 22 to 14 with one tie and Kentucky has won the last 3 years.

Given get a long sleeved white T-shirt while supplies last and you can give at any Kentucky blood Center.

You're asked to make an appointment first, but the centers will accept walk-in business as space allows go.

Cats.

♪ ♪ >> Thanksgiving for many means gathering with family and food, but also marks the beginning of dare to care food Bank.

>> The Louisville based nonprofit organization was created after a 9 year-old boy died of hunger on Thanksgiving Eve.

Back in 1969, today, they say the need is even greater.

>> It's very much a problem up today.

Yeah.

As much as it was, then it is even more so today, just the past 2 years we've seen a 48% increase in demand for the services that we provide in terms of having access to food, which is, you know, just incredible.

When you think about last year we had distributed 27 million pounds of food.

That's about 22 million meals.

Starting from in 1969, was a truck and food where they collected and then started sharing it with neighbors.

And so we've grown tremendously.

We've grown with the demand and the need.

And one of the things that we're really working h*** o* too is how can we not only just supply the food, but how can we help families to stabilize?

And instead of just surviving, how can they thrive?

And that's the a newer model that we're looking at in working with then today's time in terms of equitable food access, no matter where you live, you have access to food.

And so we're building that infrastructure out.

Now.

But it is reflective of what we started within 1916.

I yeah.

>> And those numbers at 48% increase in the last 2 years is yes, it is just it deeply concerning.

Why is that?

I mean, I'm any of us know the price of food is a great thing for disaster that has sent something to do with it.

Absolutely.

I think it's it's been the perfect storm, if you will, you know, you have the the Post pandemic benefits.

They cease to exist.

You have inflation.

You also have inflation and gas prices, inflation and food.

You go to the grocery store, the average working family experiences this every day.

And if you already struggling and then on top of all the things that you're experiencing now, it was almost a perfect storm.

So you had less resources coming into the community higher need that was now manifesting as a result of inflation in gas prices and food.

And that that really catapulted into what we're seeing the day of this increase in demand.

We haven't families for the very first time visiting some of our partners.

We with 300 pardon 400 partners out 13 counties that we serve in.

We're seeing families coming for the very first time.

>> And I know some of the federal funding cuts are impacting you all.

That's part of the puzzle.

Absolutely.

We've seen at 36% decrease in a federal commodities that as a part of what we distribute to dare to care just this year lawn.

And so we don't know where that's going to land and that the same time we're seeing a decrease and federal support, we are seeing an increased need in our neighbors, needing food, access to food.

You can learn more about the story of Bobby Ellis, the 9 year-old whose death spurred the creation of Daraa to care on this week's inside Louisville with Kelsey Starks.

>> That's Sunday at 12 noon Eastern.

11:00AM central right here on KET.

We thank you for joining us tonight and we will see you right back here again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central on Kentucky EDITION where we inform connect and inspire.

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I'm Renee Shaw and I will see you right back here again tomorrow night.

Take a tear.

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