Secretary of state Michael Adams has some ideas about why he won by the Republican candidate for governor.

Last.

>> To get something like this for then a hard reach in California.

A look at why some people are leaving the West Coast for Kentucky.

These are people who know intimately about their local environment.

How researchers at the University of Kentucky are taking a creative look at climate change.

>> There's a sense of awe and excitement.

You foresee.

>> And see one of Kentucky's hitting gyms, the largest natural bridge east of the Rocky Mountain.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky.

Addition for Monday, November 27th.

I'm Kristi that in filling in for Renee Shot.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Investigators have determined what caused a train derailment in Kentucky last Wednesday.

A C S X train with 16 cars came off the tracks near Livingston and Rockcastle County.

2 cars hauling Multan.

So far we're damage leading to a fire.

The derailment led Governor Andy Beshear to declare a state of emergency and C S X encourage people living nearby to evacuate.

They were allowed to return home on Thanksgiving Day.

CSX now says a failed will bearing caused the derailment.

All 16 train cars have now been removed.

Roughly 2500 tons of soil impacted by the spill was also replaced.

CSX is now in the process of repairing the tracks.

In a press release, the company said it was thankful to Rockcastle County authorities who helped respond to the incident and to the volunteers who help serve Thanksgiving dinners to the community.

State.

Representative Josi Raymond, a Louisville Democrat, wants to move from state government to city Government.

Raymond tells the Kentucky lanterns she will not run for re-election to the Kentucky General Assembly in 2024.

Instead she will run for the Louisville Metro Council.

She says she feels a Little Metro Council is acting on important issues while the General Assembly isn't Raman serves now and House district.

41, she will run for Metro Council seat number 10, the current council member Pat Mulvihill is not running again.

Secretary of state Michael Adams says the Republican Party made a mistake by emphasizing what he calls sideshow.

Attractions in an interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader Adams talked about Republican Daniel Cameron's lost in the governor's race.

He praised Cameron has a hard worker and an inspiring candidate, but he said outside conservative groups and their advertising focused on the wrong things.

Here's part of what Secretary Adams told the Herald-Leader credit.

I think running on the trans staff reading on stuff that doesn't impact people's daily lives as much to the point, almost an obsession.

I think that was a mistake.

That wasn't what I chose to do.

And it's really not something that Daniel chose to do.

It was really more of a tone set by the outside groups.

But I hope that we have learned our lesson, unquote.

Adams was the top vote getter in the November 7th election.

He told the newspaper he thinks that's because he intentionally tried to be more inclusive and transcend politics.

Some state workers could get another raise.

A report from the Kentucky personnel Cabinet released this month recommends pay increases for 349 of the state's roughly 1300 job classifications.

That's about 16,000 state workers.

Among them, social workers, probation and parole officers and in for an information technology workers.

The report says the raises would help the state recruit and retain workers.

The report also recommends 6, 4%, raises for all state workers the next 2 years.

A new cold weather shelter has opened up in Lexington to service people who may not have a warm place to live during the winter months.

The Hope Center is operating the facility which sits across from its location on Loudon.

In the past city leaders have opted to put people in hotels but took a different approach than they said will hopefully lead to people finding permanent housing.

And the worst thing that all of us can do is wake up and find a headline.

This someone has frozen on the streets of Lexington.

>> Because they didn't have a place to go.

We have a place for folks to go.

We have been in need for a long time in Lexington of a more comprehensive response in the winner for people who have nowhere to go.

And, you know, throughout the pandemic, we've worked with hotels and it's been kind of a mission, a mission match of different solutions.

But we started planning back in March of this year.

>> What can we do?

That would be results produce better outcomes for the people.

We have a need to each season to add additional capacity to provide a safe, warm, unstable place for folks to stay.

You might not seek shelter during times of the year when it might be warmer.

>> This is definitely needed resource.

It is something that for some persons might mean life or death, this shelter can except for the company men and women over the ages of 18.

>> We her son 2 persons accessing other happens.

Approximately 160 additional >> Now that folks are going to be here and we'll hear from our sun same period time we we have a space here on site where all the different service providers in town can come and set up shop and hold sort of hold court and the people in the room where they are for mental health needs health care needs job gains in education is anything they need.

We're going to bring here on site so that hopefully the goal being as many of these folks as possible when we close this in they have a place to go to a permanent place, an apartment or somewhere where they can go to that.

They don't so this structure that is built mail.

>> For those folks who are out there right now to come into.

Just fills my heart with joy.

I know it doesn't sound like I'm joyful right now, but I'm so excited in.

I'm so blessed to serve the first district.

>> City officials said the YMCA limp the city, the land to build the facility on Loudon.

>> About 100,000 people passed through with Miami Valley International Airport during Thanksgiving week.

>> That's according to WDRB in Louisville.

The airport says despite the big numbers, everything seems to go smoothly at the TSA checkpoints and baggage claim.

AAA said more than 55 million people were expected to fly over Thanksgiving and another 49 million were expected to drive.

Both numbers are up from last year.

The TSA says it screened more than 2.9 million people nationwide yesterday, the busiest day for air travel ever.

The Governor Scott remains in Lexington, the UK Wildcats defeated the Louisville Cardinals in Saturday's governor's Cup game.

The final was 38 to 31.

Kentucky was down 17 to 7 midway through the 3rd quarter.

But then scored 31 points the rest of the way.

One of the highlights 100 yard kickoff return by wide receiver Berrien Brown.

This was the 5th straight win for Kentucky over Louisville, Kentucky finishes the regular season with a record of 7, 5, in Louisville is 10 2.

Well, you'll see a familiar face on the Kentucky side line next season.

Coach Mark Stoops confirms he is staying at Kentucky after the win over Louisville Saturday.

There were media reports that students would take the head coaching job at Texas A&M we're on social media coach Stoops said he was contacted about the job but he wasn't leaving Kentucky.

The coach said, quote, After celebrating a big win against our rivals with players.

I love like family.

I KET in my heart I couldn't leave the University of Kentucky right now.

I have a great job at a place I love and I get to work with the best administration and greatest fan base and college football, right where I'm at.

I'm excited to say I'm a wildcat, end quote.

♪ ♪ American history tells the story of people moving west to explore their pioneering aspirations.

But today a number of them going east choosing to relocate from the West Coast to Kentucky.

Laura Rogers talk to Bowling Green Woman whose family recently made that move.

Last year.

The Pierce family purchased 7 acres of farmland in Warren County.

>> It's been a learning zones are first animals we got were actually goes.

We thought that the kind of coax managed to get.

Now we have been for about 2 hours.

>> And they escaped from the enclosure we And so we decide we're not going to goats.

Instead, they're raising a cow kids, chickens and turkeys.

>> Kentucky farming.

A new venture for Jennifer and her family who are native to California.

Hard to believe everybody that we KET and loved to come out here.

But it's been our dream to have a farm and have our kids outside a bunch and learn about animals and get you up on that kind of lifestyle.

>> Kentucky was on the short list of states where they wanted to move along with Alabama and Texas.

Kentucky News just.

>> Like other state that we've been too and just fell in love.

>> The pair says join a growing number of people relocating from California to the Bluegrass State.

We see it from all over the United States.

the West Coast is.

>> Been pretty prevalent the last few years.

That does peak your interest on what?

How did you find your way to bowling?

>> A real estate agent for nearly 30 years.

Chip Hightower says there are a number of reasons for that rent.

>> Our cost of living is significantly less than the West Coast all up and down the West Coast.

I probably taxes are significantly less.

Sometimes they're able to purchase a home.

2, 3 times larger than the one they're in for last because our square footage, prices are so much more reasonable.

>> We're says that certainly the case for her family.

She estimates in California this property would have gone for more than a million dollars.

It was just something that we didn't know if we'd ever reach out there and, you know, inflation and everything else that's going on and just kind of going crazy out there us living here.

We find California intriguing and beautiful and exciting.

I guess we don't see the traffic.

>> The high taxes, the cost of living.

>> Here's says her family was also drawn to Kentucky weather getting to experience all 4 seasons.

All that rain change in the fall.

We don't get that in California.

And sometimes even a white Christmas.

>> Last year, it's no.

That was like a new experience for us because it doesn't sound California.

Less about the mountains came out Christmas day notions white.

That was really cool.

>> She enjoys the quote, peace and quiet of her new surroundings.

>> There's so many people out where we live.

Our county was huge.

We always hear noise of cars and people and it's nice to be out here and you can actually hear nature.

You can find a place with 3, 5.15, acres and you're still 25 minutes into town.

>> Here's says she hopes her family cultivates a homestead that's loved and cherished for decades to come.

>> We just want to buy more land and more animals and set this grand jury met for them for the next generation after us.

For Kentucky edition.

I'm Laura Rogers.

According to U.S. Census Migration that nearly 6,000 people moved from California to Kentucky between 2021 2022.

>> Well, Kentucky has cyber Monday fever, and here's the proof.

The lane report says an analysis shows Kentucky is in second place among the 50 states for online shopping and sales research today.

West Virginia is in first place.

Most of the top 10 states are in the eastern half of the country.

Cyber Monday were first the Monday after Thanksgiving when many businesses offer online discounts.

♪ ♪ The University of Kentuckyian the Kentucky Climate Consortium, a statewide research network are joining forces to document climate change, but not in the way you might think instead of analyzing scientific data, they're recording oral histories to take a more intimate look at climate change and its impact in Kentucky.

>> Well, this is a really powerful form of documenting the historical record.

Really it the goal is to put individual stories on the historical record, the view the lives of people who whose lives are necessarily in traditional ways.

Well, history is also one of the most personal ways of documenting history.

So so the idea of documenting an event we're documenting an institution.

But doing it from the perspective of an individual's personal life story, their personal experience, their eyewitness is very powerful.

>> So the narrator's that we're talking to for the oral history projects really widely varied.

And one of the ways that we managed to get so much for it is by having a large team of interviewer's.

So rather than just me or me in just one or 2 other people doing interviews actually recruited a team of 12 interview.

ERs.

And so we all tapped into our various networks.

And these interviews are spread across the state.

So we have interviews that are geographically diverse, but also diverse serve backgrounds.

It includes everything from professors who have researched Clinton in Kentucky to Kentucky's who dedicated their lives to climate activism in order to mitigate climate change and adapt to the impacts already seeing.

So we're really interested in why people are motivated to do climate work.

What their work has to do with Kentucky in particular what they think some of their successes have been because we think that these stories can be motivation and inspiration for other people to do work as well.

Some of the ways that they're doing work around climbing Kentucky, of course, really to renewable energy solutions.

So solar is a huge deal and but also wind additionally, though, we have folks who are just trying to get people to be thinking and talking more about climate.

There isn't any other project that I can think of that really directly is documenting climate change and the people who work with climate change.

And so when we talk about this project, the climate project >> yeah, we're getting amazing information about climate, but we're also getting amazing information in the form of stories about the people who are working on climate and with climate engaging on this topic and those life stories are just as important as the work that they're conducting that they're describing in the interviews.

>> This project provides a counter narrative to the stereotype that Kentuckians are environmentally engage.

Don't care about local environment.

Don't care about issues like climate.

It really puts a lie to the idea that these issues are purely partisan.

You know, who knows a lot about their environment, an Appalachian who is the 5th generation to live on the exact same land.

The Appalachian who is trying to figure out where to site their family graveyard because they know that flooding risks are increasing Western Kentuckyian he's trying to figure out whether to rebuild or not, because we don't know of tornado alley, the shifting.

These are people who know intimately about their local environment and care about making it better, not just preserving but actually improving the environment.

And those are stories that we don't hear about Kentucky.

I mean, just the scope of these interviews really, really demonstrates not just how many Kentuckians, but in how many ways Kentuckians are showing care for the environment and showing up for the environment and each other.

>> The climate project is funded by the Kentucky Oral History Commission out of the Kentucky Historical Society.

♪ The burning of a courthouse.

Colonel Sanders appearance on a game show and the first Kentucky game at Rupp Arena.

Our Toby Gibbs has that and more.

And this look back at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Federal forces barred the courthouse in Mount Sterling on December.

Second, 18 63, the Union Army was using it as a garrison.

It was one of 22 Kentucky courthouses burned during the Civil War.

Happy birthday to George Washington.

Buckner born December.

First 18.

55 in Greene County.

He was a doctor and diplomat.

>> He served as U.S. ambassador to Liberia in 1913, to 1915.

Governor Sonny and Willis was morning in Ohio on December.

First, 18 79, his family moved to Kentucky in 18.

89.

>> He was governor of Kentucky from 1943.

To 1947.

And the only Republican to serve in the job between 1927, 1967.

December 3rd, 1979, a party at the Kentucky Capitol honored Lieutenant Governor Thelma Stovall for 30 years of public service.

She was Kentucky's first woman, Lieutenant Governor.

The party included a telegram of congratulations from President Jimmy Carter.

The University of Kentucky basketball Wildcats played in Lexington's Rupp Arena for the first time on November.

27th in 1976.

The Wildcats coach by Joby Hall, the Wisconsin 72 to 64 as 23,266 fans about Don.

Colonel Harland Sanders appeared on the popular TV game show.

What's My line on December?

First, 1963.

But it was before he was a household name.

And the celebrity panel couldn't guess his occupation as a fried chicken restaurant tour.

>> And those are the highlights this week in Kentucky history.

>> I'm too big.

It is.

>> Some call it one of Kentucky's hidden jewels.

The krills Bureau Natural Arch in Russell County.

It's the largest natural bridge east of the Rocky Mountains, but it almost disappeared from view.

Chip Olsen tells us more in history story that first appeared on KET Kentucky Life.

♪ >> Downstream from the Wolf Creek Dam situated next to the Cumberland River is a natural formation called the krills Bureau Natural Arch.

This are just one of Kentucky's hidden jewels due to the ruby this of the structure, 120 feet wide.

As you enter over, 36 PETA, vaulted ceiling and you walk through 100 feet to the Cumberland River.

>> There's a sense of awe and excitement when you first the But it's really special and because it represents Kentucky is the most natural arches.

These 3 states aside the Mississippi River.

>> For geologist Steve Martin, it's a great example of how these marvels are for.

Fractures in the Rock.

>> The temperature the greedy and see the need to create a When people come here to what they should look for which you can nose ears, the horizontal layers in the rock and just know that some of those layers are more resistant than others.

And that's what helped form the arch.

>> The Krills Burled Arch has been a draw for human beings through the centuries and still this rock formations play a role in human history is and the indigenous people have been using these shelters.

>> There's evidence of country knows him today provides us recreational activities.

>> Around the turn of the 20th century, local citizens would give another title to this arch.

The Rock House.

>> They do.

A lot of makes town mayor think there's a line of revival and when a bad storm was coming, everyone going under and and they were protected.

>> 40.

They came.

>> The right time.

The barge is actually located on the private property of the golf family.

Diana Goff remembers the story of how her father Thomas Goff learn to love the land from his father.

>> My grandfather took over a school aurora.

The boys are running the teachers and he made you would be on boys said they reached out to be really hard before lunch.

After lined paper.

Go out and play with them and the rockhounds wife a playground.

>> Thomas Goff grew up playing in exploring around the at age 5 is family moved away.

The goffs love for the Rock House never Years later, the land became available.

Thomas Goss would buy the property.

But within a few years, Thomas Goff and his wife Lorraine.

>> Found themselves at odds with plans to expand the capability of the Wolf Creek Dam.

These plans would have flooded the area submerging the urge for ever.

>> My parents and many local people.

The about the inside we have year for 15 and college I mean and didn't have.

And they proved the right house is very >> Eventually the National Park Service stepped in and named Krills Berle as in National Natural Landmark.

And Thomas Goff and won the battle.

>> Mister deserved a part of Kentucky's history by preserving this opening is very impressive.

Opening and the things that we could have been building of the day in.

>> Did a great service to the citizens of Kentucky to take any joy.

natural wonder.

>> Thomas Goff would die 6 months later, but his wife Lorraine carried on this loving tradition for the Rock House.

>> She fell and mom with the rockhounds her mind and my mother is 90.

We're going to bring cheap have.

On your She fed me.

I was along for the ride was too soon.

>> And the family to into this day.

Diana Golf believes Krills Bureau natural Orange still instills the beauty and peacefulness.

Her father found so many years >> I feel home and revive home when I heard and I hope that the people bank has to provide find up in and rather walk away from when hope for their future and being refined to taste food challenges that they're facing.

♪ >> What a beautiful Kentucky treasure.

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And what's next from the bus year.

Coleman administration in the next 4 years.

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