>> We'll Kentucky's largest city need a new police chief.

A decision today from Chief Erika Shields.

Will she stay or will she go?

>> I had a 20 year-old cousin who committed suicide and took his life.

A personal story about gun violence as the state looks for solutions.

>> It's not talked about a whole lot.

And what is talked about, there's misconceptions about.

>> There's an easy way to catch lung cancer early, but it's not for everybody.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky.

Addition for Monday, November.

21st, we thank you so much for watching.

>> I'm your host Chip Polston in tonight for Renee Shaw, Louisville's police Chief Erika Shields is resigning.

The mayor elect Craig Greenberg released a statement today saying Chief Shields offered to resign and he will accept a resignation as he takes office on January.

Second 2023, he says she will remain on the job through February 28th Greenberg says the search for a new police chief will begin immediately and he will seek input from throughout the Louisville community.

He thanked Shields for her service.

He says improved public safety is Louisville's top priority.

Shields.

Resignation comes as Louisville deals with 141 homicides so far this year, a proposal in Frankfort would create a new office to study the causes of gun violence and offer recommendations for reducing it.

Our Casey Parker Bell reports.

Without.

>> Acknowledging that you have a problem and exploring the problem.

It is extraordinarily difficult to figure out what's going to impact the problem.

>> Kentucky legislators heard a proposal to create a new office to study gun violence under bill proposed by Louisville, Democrat cut her hair and the state would create the Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

>> The office will also collect and disseminate data and make recommendations related to gun violence policy, community-based gun violence, intervention and prevention programs.

>> The officer function like the Office of Drug Control Policy and collect data on the problem and offer proposals to reduce gun violence.

Parents spoke to her personal experience with gun violence during the meeting.

I've had a lot of young people and which I've worked with who have lost their lives to gun violence.

>> I've also had a lot of young people who were have been perpetrators, a gun violence and then very personally.

I had a 20 year-old cousin who committed suicide and took his life.

Karen says she was unaware of similar programs in other states.

>> But once Kentucky to take charge.

>> It is my hopes and goals we are on in the top states to do that and lead and become that model.

>> O J Oleka president of the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities says the office will need to study more than just data on guns.

He says the view should include issues that lead to gun violence.

>> My concern would be if we focus our attention and efforts on.

The front end.

As opposed to the socio-cultural environmental factors that may push someone into that condition again, a poor economic environment, bad general government policy, that lot of people down in the case of a pandemic.

Or just simply not having any options or resources and so that it leads people to this particular outcome.

>> The weapon of choice is the gun.

So there lies an issue there.

Even if a in a news gun is is, you know, no problem.

And so I think that's why, you know, she's attending to stay away from weather.

Now we're trying to legislate whether or not people have guns but identify the circumstances that surround what you know.

Makes it more likely for a weapon to be used in that way in the new build policy and strategy based on what you learn from the data they were able to collect.

>> For Kentucky edition, I'm Casey Parker Bell.

>> According to the Gun Violence archive more than 2500 people in Kentucky have been killed by a firearm since 2014.

Alan Keck, the mayor of Somerset, says he's running for governor.

He made the announcement just about an hour ago there in Somerset as he joins the race.

He becomes the 12th Republican candidate running for governor in 2023.

There are now 17 total.

KET has occur in Somerset and we will bring you more on kicks announcement tomorrow night on Kentucky edition.

Some workers at the Mayfield Candle factory say they were punished for cooperating with safety inspectors after the December tornado that killed 6 employees.

A lawyer says he filed charges Friday with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of 20 former workers with Mayfield, consumer products.

The filing says the company is denying workers compensation because the workers cooperated with the OSHA investigation.

First responders and the public will walk from that candle factory to the Mayfield Court Square on December 10th.

The first anniversary of the tornado.

That's a 2 mile walk.

The Fraternal Order of Police is hosting the walk along with the Graves County Volunteer Fire Association registration is at 08:00AM Saturday, December 10th with the walk starting at 9.

The last disaster recovery centers in eastern Kentucky are closing this week.

The centers opened after the late July floods.

FEMA says the centers will close at the end of the day tomorrow.

But help will remain available.

The centers are located at the Breathitt County Library in Jackson.

The not county Sportsplex in lab earn the Letcher County Recreation Center in Whitesburg and Hazard Community College in hazard.

Now, FEMA says if people still need help, they can call the FEMA helpline at 800, 621-3362, or go to the FEMA mobile app or log on to their account at disaster assistance dot Gov.

Congressman Andy Barr of the 6th district is reacting after a federal appeals court struck down a horse racing safety law.

He co-sponsored the horse Racing, Integrity and Safety Act passed in 2020 thoroughbred horse owners and trainer sued.

They said the law would turn government power over to a private organization and that would allow industry insiders to regulate the industry without any government oversight.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck it down last week in a unanimous decision.

2 of the 3 judges were appointed by President Trump.

Congressman Barr put out a statement about the court's ruling.

He said, quote, the horse Racing Integrity and Safety Act was carefully and thoughtfully crafted over a multiyear process in consultation with industry stakeholders, equine advocates and constitutional law experts to create a national uniform medication, anti doping and racetrack safety program to enhance the safety and integrity of thoroughbred racing.

I'm confident that this transformational and beneficial reform will ultimately be upheld in, quote.

As we told you last week, Republicans will take control of the U.S. house in January after winning a majority of seats in the midterm elections on November.

8th on the U.S. Senate floor on Friday, Senator Mitch McConnell congratulated his Republican House colleagues on the win.

It will be Senate Republicans.

Great pleasure to partner closely with them.

Serve alongside the new Republican out.

>> I want to congratulate the soon-to-be speaker McCarthy and all of the new and returning members of Congress across the capital.

His election will be transforming the People's House.

Reckons rubber stamp and 2 are sorely needed truck about.

The composition of the new House demonstrates that the 2 you're going to Josh and with reckless and radical far-left policies is not just limited.

So call red or purple states.

New Republican Congress, men and women.

Have been hard but their neighbors even and the blue states like New York and California.

>> Republicans will not be able to take control of the U.S. Senate.

So Senator McConnell will remain as Senate minority leader.

He was reelected Republican leader by other Republican senators last week.

2 more students have been released from the hospital following a school bus crash in Magoffin County.

The school district says the driver and 4 students remain hospitalized.

No updates on their conditions were provided.

18 students were on the bus when it went off the road and flipped onto its side a week ago today.

Flu and other illnesses continue to KET students out of the classroom.

Here is the latest map from the Kentucky School Boards Association.

51 School Systems have closed down or switch to to at-home learning at some point in November because of students and staff getting sick.

Now the shutdowns have affected more than 145,000 students.

A Kentuckyian killed during the Korean War has been identified some 72 years later.

Army Private First Class Robert Wright of White's bill was reported missing in action in Korea in 1950, he was 18 years old.

He was presumed dead in 1953. scientists used DNA and dental analysis to identify remains as right earlier this year.

Journalist at the Courier Journal voted Friday to join a union according to Louisville TV station, WDRB.

The vote was 22 to 4 journalist will join Indianapolis Newsguild the CWA, the same union that represents workers at the Indianapolis Star.

Both newspapers are owned by the Net.

The Courier Journal Workers filed for union recognition in August.

At the time they complained about staff shortages and cost cutting.

Expect to see coach Mark Stoops on the UK football sidelines a while longer.

The coaches signed an amended contract extension through the year 2031, this means his base salary will go up to 8.6 million dollars a year.

Plus incentives his salary now is 6.3, 5 million.

Squeaking dog toy.

That looks a lot like a Jack Daniels, whiskey bottle and the makers of Jack Daniels are not laughing about it.

In fact, they're suing saying that we violated trademark law.

The company is asking the Supreme Court to hear its case against the maker of the bad spaniels toy.

And Jack Daniels is getting support from Campbell Soup, Levi Strauss and others.

Jack Daniels is owned by Louisville based Brown-Forman.

♪ ♪ ♪ It's still legal in Kentucky to paddle students as a means of discipline.

But few school districts are using corporal punishment.

A Louisville man has been on a crusade since he was in middle school to end the practice.

The data shows disproportionately is used on students of color and those with disabilities.

Renee Shaw sat down with Notre Dame freshman, Alex Young who graduated from Louisville's saying Save your high school to learn how his years long advocacy is making a difference.

>> Alex, thank you for stopping by the Louisville studio.

It's a pleasure to meet you in person.

>> Thank you for having me, Renee.

It's always exciting.

When we and feisty Moises, I'm happy to be.

>> Well, and we should just say now you're as a freshman at Notre Dame.

So we know that's going well.

And but you're still very active and your crusade to and corporal punishment and Kentucky.

Many people would ask, is that still going on?

>> Right.

Absolutely.

So we started this effort in 2017.

I'm actually started as an effort in the Kentucky Youth Assembly, which is our mock government program here.

I was shocked when I found out the corporal punishment so existed in Kentucky.

That's KET students were still being paddled in schools in the 21st century and thought to myself that we had to do something about it.

Here.

>> Is it widespread or is it just a few districts who are still employed this?

So it's mainly just a few districts when we started in the 2017 school year, the 2017, 20 eighteen's clear, there are 452 instances in Kentucky.

So it still occurring frequently.

Fortunately last year we got it down to 17.

So our efforts have made a huge impact.

>> So even there's even though there's no statewide law, you believe that you have testified.

I've seen you testify for many years about this.

You believe that that alone is also making a death?

>> Absolutely.

So when we started, there are 452 instances.

Last year we got down to 17 and we've had conversations with superintendents actually in the 2017, 2018 school year, Clinton County was one of the counties that saw an exponential increase in incidents that year.

I called the superintendent the next day when that report came they didn't realize that they were using corporal punishment to that degree in the next year.

They're incident rate cut in half.

When we the 2019 year and the General Assembly, Whitley County banned corporal punishment the next week after our testimony.

Well, so we have made that impact.

>> Of course, the chair of that Regina Huff us from Whitley So you made quite the impression.

>> This is this happening mainly in elementary school?

>> Yes, we're seeing it mainly in K through 12 but specifically K through 8.

>> K through 8 and what are the reasons are?

Do you know what behave attitudes or expressions are causing this to be the resort of punishments.

Well, and it's it's not reported on a state state reporting.

Data requires the incidents the demographics about students.

But when we don't have the exact information on what students being quickly punished for.

But we do know.

>> The most principals and superintendents will say that's an extreme measure.

One other alternatives have not worked.

But I still believe that is not an appropriate alternative.

And women 6, the results that interesting.

>> Have you learned demographic information about the types of students, the backgrounds of the students or the gender, racial composition of the students who are more subject subjected to corporal punishment.

Yes, we have some nationwide.

There was a report in done and I think 2008 to students of color were much more likely to be paddled nationwide in Kentucky.

We haven't seen as much but disparity because where it's used as are in those rule districts where we have higher white population.

But the most concerning part about the demographics are the 2019, 2020 school year.

46% of the instances of students with disabilities last year when they're 17 instances, 7 of those involved since with disabilities so it's just it's awful.

How are we paddling students with disabilities?

How do we think that that is an appropriate measure in the year 2022?

and how do we move forward to fix that?

All right.

>> And is it the measure of last resort or is it the default?

>> Well, we don't superintendents and principals will claim that its last resort, but why are we paddled since the disabilities?

How is that a resort at all, right.

What goes wrong to the point where we're heading a kid that is in need of help?

>> So talk to us about what kind of emotional trauma paddling could impose on a child.

Absolutely.

So the American Psychological Association actually defines corporal punishment as an adverse childhood experience.

>> Students are receiving this type of handling this punishment and they go home and don't feel safe.

Many times in their home and now they're going to school and don't feel that that safe relationship fostered when School Safety Act was passed by Senator Max Wise, a lot of things they talked about where trauma informed having schools that are safe place for students.

I don't understand how we can have school sanctioned violence and then call that a safe place.

>> So what are you hoping for when the General Assembly convenes in January of 23?

Absolutely.

So one of our most proud accomplishment was last I was able to meet with Commissioner Glass and we're able to encourage the Kentucky border this board of Education to pass a regulation which severely limits corporal punishment, we believe will have an impact going forward.

So that regulation, it limits it so it would eliminate.

And Houston with IEP Individualized Education plan since with disabilities.

Have those it would stop them from being paddled.

It also requires counseling for any sudden that's paddled but what we want to see the Legislature do is to finally get this off the books.

And as we've tried in the past and it may take a while before we finally get it off the books.

But I'm hopeful.

>> And you plan a return visit when it's time to testify in person?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

We need to get this done for the future of our students.

Well, it's a pleasure to see you.

And for young people who think that maybe one voice doesn't matter, can't make a difference.

You Alex Young shows that it deed it can.

Thank you.

So thank you for your work on this.

And this great success to you and your academic career.

Thank you.

>> Now in 2020, the Kentucky House voted to ban corporal punishment.

But the measure idled in the Senate last year, the Kentucky Board of Education adopted rules restricting its use in public schools.

♪ ♪ >> In health news, some promising statistics for lung cancer November is lung cancer Awareness Month.

And a new study shows an increased rate of survival from the disease, which is the leading cause of all cancer deaths.

Kentucky additions.

Kelsey Starks explains the simple screening that could make a big difference.

>> Lung cancer is very treatable.

If it's caught early, the problem is it is rarely caught early.

Pam Temple Jennings with that Kentucky Cancer program is here to talk about the first and only screening test that is recommended for this early detection of lung cancer.

Tell us what this is and what it means.

It is such an easy test.

>> It is a low dose CT scan and there's no dies.

There's no prep work.

You go in your latest 7 minutes and it's done.

And but it's for very specific individuals.

So it has to be for smokers and then there's criteria to go along with the smokers.

You have to be between the ages of 50 80.

You have to be a pack a day smoker for 20 years or 2 packs for 10 years.

And you have to be asymptomatic, which means you can't have any breathing problems.

Really bad hacking cough, coughing up blood.

And if you stop smoking, it has to be within the last 15 years.

And then you're still eligible for lung cancer screening.

>> And that's the problem that so many of those symptoms.

So nobody even thinks to be screened for lung cancer until they developed a cough for something like that.

And then he at that point, it's it's usually too late.

Right?

And at that point, they don't qualify for the low dose CT.

They need to go on and have a full diagnostic, a chest X-ray and CT. And this is really a breakthrough that could help so many of course, tobacco use is the leading cause of lung cancer.

>> In so it does insurance pay for this insurance will pay for it.

>> The caveat to that is the patient must go to their primary care physician.

Talk to him about it and have what we call share decision-making where they talk about the benefits and the risks and the patient will then be asked also about their tobacco use because only if you're a tobacco user, are you eligible for this?

So you can't live with the tobacco user.

And anything like that in order to get this low dose, you have to be the smoking a user.

Okay.

>> you say less than 20% of those who are eligible for this type of screening actually get it.

Why is that for a couple reasons, even though it first came out and 2013, it's still relatively new it's not talked about a whole lot.

And what is talked about, there's misconceptions about.

So we're still trying to really educate the public as well as making sure physicians are talking to their patients about it.

Taking that little bit of extra time to talk about their tobacco use and then to see if there it's time for them to have a low dose CT scan.

it's very important point.

These types of screening efforts are not an alternative to quitting smoking.

That is still the number one thing you want people to do.

That's correct.

This is not.

>> Collect $200.

Pasco.

This is yes.

This is a way to catch him.

A lung cancer early.

But the other message that the physician and that we try to do is it's time to stop smoking anytime.

It's time to stop smoking.

And so the physician should be talking to them about.

I'm getting them in a smoking cessation class, calling the 1, 800 quit.

Now, which trained individuals to help them to stop smoking, get them into one of the different pharmacotherapy products that are out there available insurance pays for it.

Any of the over the counter ones.

And so people don't realize but to get a patch or a lozenge, all they need to do is talk to the primary care or even their dentist.

You can write a prescription and their insurance will pay for it.

And so everybody says I can't afford those well, yes, you can.

Because your insurance will pay for insurance.

Doesn't pay for your cigarettes and you can afford your cigarettes.

So that's where some of the education comes in.

It's priceless.

When it comes to your health >> All right.

Well, if you or someone you know what may be interested in this type of screen, be sure to talk to your doctor.

>> And to find out more.

>> Kentucky ranks last in the nation for incidence of lung cancer.

New legislation was recently passed to allocate money to this type of screening and education efforts all across the state.

Hundreds of children and central Kentucky will find gifts under the tree this year.

Thanks to a program through UK health care.

Each are members of the UK community participate in the circle of Love program.

Organizers said they were able to sponsor 614 children in need this year.

The gifts were loaded into school buses on Friday to be delivered to children in 10 counties.

>> These are gifts are going to be going to that may not be able to have any gifts Christmas.

All right.

Anything under the tree or if not, they may not be getting like their top wishes.

So each child has asked 3 Bush is that >> they're hoping for and a lot of times we make that happen to where they get everything that they asked for.

>> The program also collects gifts to distribute to pediatric patients.

♪ ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to a president and a vice president with Kentucky ties.

And you've heard of the Brent Spence Bridge, but who is Brent Spence?

Toby Gibbs has that and more in this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Way TV and Louisville signed on the air for the first time November 24th 1948.

It was an NBC affiliate Kentucky's first TV station and the 41st in the United States.

The Brent Spence Bridge Open November 24th 1963.

The double Decker Bridge connects northern Kentucky to Cincinnati.

Brent Spence was a Democratic congressman.

The serve northern Kentucky from 1935.

To 1963.

The University of Kentucky men's basketball team played its first game at Rupp Arena on November.

27 1976.

The 6 ranked Cats defeated Wisconsin.

72 to 64 in front of 23,266 fans.

Here's a trail of important Kentucky birthdays, Zachary Taylor.

The 12th president of the United States was born November 24th 17 84 in Virginia.

But before he was a year old, his family moved to an area near present-day Louisville.

Any considered Kentucky his home for most of his adult life.

>> After he died in office in 18, 50.

He was buried in Louisville.

Alvin Barkley, U.S.

Senator and vice president under Harry S Truman was born on November.

24th 18.

77 in Graves County.

Murray native Nathan, be Stubblefield was more November.

22nd 1960, a self-described farmer fruit grower and electrician, his successful research into a wireless telephone system contributed to the eventual development of radio.

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

>> I'm told begins.

>> You'll hear from Kentucky's newest gubernatorial candidate tomorrow night and we'll get you ready for Thanksgiving as the Salvation Army prepares for thousands of dinners on Thursday.

We'll also look ahead at what to expect on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

That's all tomorrow on Kentucky Edition.

I'll be back with you tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central for honoring Kentucky's veterans.

A K E T for him.

We'll take a look at some of the challenges faced by Kentucky veterans both mental and physical and what's available to help our veterans be sure to join us for that tonight.

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