♪ >> It will be very, very difficult to knock off somebody who had that kind of support in May.

>> The race for Lexington Mayor may be drawing closer.

>> So this is not just the right thing to do.

It's the smart thing to do.

>> Kentucky has a plan to turn today's prisoners and to tomorrow's workers.

>> We still have over 500 kids on the way.

So the need is great.

>> How a new center in eastern Kentucky is trying to meet the growing need for services for children with autism.

I want to make my own recipes.

I want to make something that I can show people okay.

I made this and I personally think it's really good.

And a teen and southern Kentucky isn't just hitting the books for her senior year.

She's mixing things up and riding her own.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Monday, November, the 7th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending a little bit of your Monday night with U.S.. >> Flu continues to close schools throughout Kentucky and our medical news among them, the state's second-largest school system school was out today in Fayette County because of the number of illnesses among students and staff.

Let's look at the map from the Kentucky School Boards Association.

Fayette County is one of 25 counties that have closed school or shifted to at-home learning so far in November.

School is closed in Fayette County tomorrow as well because of Election Day.

On Friday, we discuss the race for mayor in Kentucky's largest city.

We continue our election twenty-twenty 2 coverage today.

We're breaking down the mayor's race in Kentucky's second-largest metropolis.

Lexington, the nonpartisan race is between incumbent Mayor Linda Gorton and current Lexington Council member David Kloiber.

Our Casey Parker Bell breaks down the race with some help from Lexington Herald-Leader reporter Beth Musgrave.

The horse capital of the world.

>> Is deciding who will run the mayor's office for the next 4 years in an unusually combative race.

>> The overall talent be We generally don't see that.

And and these non-partisan Lexington races.

And so these 2 really kind of gone at each other on various issues, whether the crime klebers, well, if you're used to a trust fund because you have your family's trust fund.

>> The mayor's budget.

It's not the mayor's job to get involved in that.

It's the mayor's job to direct planning.

There's been a lot of back and forth between the 2 of them.

The race for Lexington mayor is non-partisan and it's between Linda Gorton, the current Mir in dinners and David Kloiber plan, a current city council member who runs his family foundation.

Lexington's mayoral candidates have spent a lot of time discussing public safety.

>> Expanded one Lexington and safety to fight crime and its roots.

Mayor Gordon's crime policies aren't working.

She stuck in the past and refuses to adapt.

>> really wants to focus more on intervention focused our youth and also domestic violence, something that she just announced this week.

Glover really Koerber really wants to push a group violence intervention, which is a model.

>> Lexington set a record for homicides in a year last year.

37 this year, Lexington tied that grim number in September.

But the candidates have also sparred about Lexington's Urban service boundary.

That boundary sets were city services are available and is meant to separate the urban core from the cities surrounding agricultural area.

>> This is where they there is a pretty sharp divide between these 2.

So Gordon has long supported the urban service boundary believes that it works clever is really much more.

Let's open it and let's open it because of that.

We have a housing crisis and in Fayette County, Mayor Gordon raise just over $150,000 for her reelection campaign.

>> Paul Weber has raised over 640,000, but over 630,000 of that, he's come from loans Kloiber made to himself.

David Kloiber.

He's largely been able to self-fund his campaign.

>> And so he's spent north of $630,000.

And a lot of that's gone to target of advertisements.

And then Mayor has not even.

A 4th of what he has done.

Most of that's come from individual donors.

Some of that's come from the farming industry in some of that.

Also come from developers.

So it's 2 very different ways to fund a campaign.

>> But it appears Gordon may have a sizable lead in the race in the May.

Primary Gorton received 71% of the vote and the club are accumulated 14%.

>> The crime issue that appears to have some traction.

So a lot of people think that, you know, it will be very, very difficult to knock off somebody who have back kind of support in May, but not to count kloiber out.

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

>> Lexington could make history in a different local race this year.

The likes 3 at-large council members to represent the whole city.

Beth Musgrave says it looks like it could be the first time in Lexington's history.

A person of color winds an election for an at-large seat on the council.

There are also some interesting races and northern Kentucky today.

I caught up with Mark Pay the government and politics reporter for link Nky dot com to discuss a contentious state Supreme Court race in that area and a couple of competitive state legislative races.

He first shared with us the results of a recent poll.

The publication did about the 2 constitutional amendments on the ballot.

>> We?

>> For about 200 So they had to kind of it's a very unofficial poll that had to response to the pole.

That's so click through in response about 200 people respond on both polls about 65% said they would vote no on both amendments.

And obviously 35% said they would vote yes.

>> Were you surprised by just that on scientific poll, the results that came from those 200 surveyors.

>> Yeah, I think so.

Just because Northern Kentucky as leading very conservative right as you know, the primary elections pointed out that, you know, we have 3 liberty beat out 3 northern Kentucky Republicans that how important committee chairs in the Kentucky Statehouse.

So I I.

You know, I'm curious if Apple will hold up once Election the ballots come in on Election Day.

Yeah.

>> Something to watch out for.

Certainly these regional dynamics to play a major part.

Let's talk about another regional race there.

And that's the Kentucky Supreme Court District.

6, which current incumbent Justice Justice Michelle Keller against a state representative Joe Fisher.

So this has been an exciting race to watch in some developments as it relates to some accusations of the partisan nature of of this race.

Talk to us about how it's plying up there.

>> Yeah, it's Bennett kind of a back and with them.

Right?

We seen the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Committee, a mix.

>> Bres concern over Representative Fisher Supreme Court campaign twice this year.

Now >> there are expressing concerns initially that Representative Fisher is running a partisan campaign for a seat that is traditionally nonpartisan and then the United States federal court got involved in the United States Court of Appeals got the ball and said you know, the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission couldn't vets investigate complaints against Fisher or his campaign.

Representative Fisher filed a lawsuit in early October.

It said he thought the commission was seeking sanctions against him for a campaign violation from branding himself as the conservative Republican.

And then just last week we saw Representative Thomas Massie, who is the U.S.

Congressman in the 4th district campaigning with state Representative Joe Fisher for that seat.

So it's been really interesting to watch an I think another.

The important point to point out is incumbent justice Michelle color is a registered independent, has, you know, called out Representative Fisher to for running a partisan can't campaign, but she's raised a significant >> of campaign money more than Representative Fisher.

>> Yeah, interesting race indeed.

And I'm sure you've got a couple of state legislative races that are also things that you're eyeballing anxious to see.

You already mentioned, you know, alluded to how that the primary out calm and some of those races played out.

But now what do you expect when it comes to the general election and some of those key state legislative contests?

>> Yeah, there are 3 races that I would say are important appear.

There are there are some ones in the background that I think will also.

Impact the region depending on how they play out.

The first one I'm looking at is the 60th district which is currently held by incumbent Buddy Wheelie that district used to be formally made up of very cut downtown Covington, which is one of the largest cities and Kentucky after redistricting.

It put a lot of that district out into some more suburban areas and not could be interesting for Representative Wheatley.

He's running against a Republican named Stephanie Dietz who has spent a lot of it's one of the most expensive House races in Kentuckyian without district can redistrict that.

And Stephanie Dietz spending a lot of money.

It could you know, it could potentially flip the other seat.

The second race I would say is Senate district 20 and that senussi here nor there, Kentucky.

It's currently hope by a Senator Paul Hornback, but it didn't always reach up in tears.

Now, this new district after redistricting, this new district stretches all the way from southern Kenton County down in Franklin County and the politicians running for that are are no stranger to politics.

Up here in Northern Kentucky, we former Senator Jeff Brandes a Republican who wasn't Boone County and then and Franklin County.

You have Democrat Theresa Barton, who was a judge executives and they both were popular during their tenure.

Has led us as legislators and then up here, Jay Williams was a Republican in Boone County, which is a very Republican area.

And then down in Franklin County, you have Barton who is the Democrat in a very Democratic County and Franklin County.

And so be really interesting to see how that plays out.

>> Another interesting race to see how it plays out as House district.

67 that we discussed last Friday during our inside Kentucky Politics segment, I said that State Representative Rachel Roberts was a domestic violence survivor.

She is a rape survivor.

I regret the error.

Thousands of Kentuckians have already cast a ballot.

Secretary of state Michael Adams says more than 253,000 Kentuckians voted during the three-day.

No excuse in-person voting period.

Republicans slightly outnumber Democrats.

Polls are open tomorrow from 06:00AM to 06:00PM.

We'll preview tomorrow's election on Kentucky tonight.

This evening will have veteran political observers from all sides to break down the races for the U.S. Senate.

The U.S. House, the Kentucky General Assembly and the 2 big races for mayor as well as those 2 proposed constitutional amendments.

That's tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

And join us again tomorrow night at 8 Eastern 7 central, far our election coverage live for 2 hours.

I'll be joined by former secretaries of state Bob Babbage and Trey Grayson and journalist Al Cross and others.

Plus, we'll check on with some of the campaigns who are sprinkled throughout the state and that's tomorrow night on KET at 8 Eastern starting time.

The Kentucky Democratic Party transferred money to other states instead of using it here during this election cycle.

That's according to a story in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The newspaper looked at Federal Election Commission records.

The records say Kentucky Democrats transferred 1.2 million dollars to the Arizona Democratic Party.

Arizona has close races for governor and the U.S. Senate, Kentucky.

Democrats also sent money to Kansas and Minnesota.

All of this comes at a time when Democrat Charles Booker lags behind his Republican opponent, Senator Rand Paul and fundraising.

The Kentucky Democratic Party's executive Director, Sebastian Kitchen says this is a commonly used tool that can mutually benefit the state, getting the money and the state giving it.

When inmates can find a job, they're less likely to return to prison.

That's the thinking behind a new prison to work pipeline program announced today by Governor Andy Beshear.

He says it will help prisoners, but it will also help fill jobs at a time when businesses are struggling to find enough workers.

>> This program will be at all 13 state prisons and 19 local jails.

The currently house state inmates, employers across all 120 counties will now be able to virtually interview incarcerated.

Kentuckians, the ultimate goal is for these folks to have a job, a job start date before they leave present.

The pipeline program will also help individuals that the resumes and preparing them for interviews.

We know we absolutely know through decades of research and data that when these individuals have employment and housing, they are far less likely to re-offend, which makes us safer and therefore less likely to return to present.

>> We've always worked hard in the Department of Corrections to provide job training to our reentering inmates.

But job training is not the same as having a why is this so well, the data demonstrates very clearly that reentering inmates who have meaningful employment with the chance to advance in life to do much better exponentially better than those who don't do so.

This program will contribute to a lower recidivism rate do.

And that's a win for all of us.

>> The program is backed by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Chamber, president and CEO Ashley Watch says Kentucky's workforce participation rate is 58%.

The 7th lowest of any state in the nation.

Pike County has now been approved for direct temporary housing assistance after the July floods, FEMA just added Pike to the list which already includes breath it.

Floyd, not Letcher and Perry counties.

The program gives flood victims options including travel trailers, not all flood victims are eligible.

Flightline is going out a winner.

He won Saturday's Breeders Cup classic at Keeneland.

>> By 8, one 4th links our record now Lane's end Farm says flight line is retiring and will stand.

It's tied at the farm in Versailles.

A stud fee has yet to be determined.

The four-year-old flightline ends his career on beaten.

♪ A new center in Prestonsburg has open for children with autism.

The Appalachian Valley OT Autism Center is run by the pipe Full Medical Center which opened its first ABA center in 2020, but quickly discovered another location was needed to accommodate the growing need for autism services in eastern Kentucky.

>> it?

>> Autism is not a disability and a lot of people think of it as such.

It's just a different ability and what they does, it allows them to open up their minds and open up their ways of communication and gives them a voice in a way that they haven't had before.

What a, what a B, 30 as applied Behavioral therapy that uses recognition that uses a reward uses, encourage meant it does really an amazing to get kids run the spectrum, the focus of their attention on to what the to what the task at hand is, which may be teaching them to speak and maybe teach them to Q onward.

Social interaction is a very productive.

And welcome service that is a one-on-one therapy.

No more.

>> Monsters jumping on the.

>> Island.

Rbt arrest or behavior.

Take I work with the children.

101.

We do ABA therapy with the kids.

Kids at the table.

And we take them to the group time.

We do songs.

We do stretches.

We do art music with them.

But are it is that one person with a child?

>> This facility basically the same services apply for offers.

We have ABA therapy.

On top of that, we have speech occupational and feeding therapy as well.

So as for gamut, from the standpoint of what ABA therapy really represents for kids are on the spectrum.

There's a great need and the when you look in Pike for we families drive in from all over the region.

From Floyd County, Johnson, Bart, you name it.

We've got family tried that facility and Piper will hold about 120 kids.

We've got about 90 kids in the program right now.

But now in Pike full with that, the person for location with 90 kids in the program, we still have over 500 kids on the waitlist.

So the need is great.

So what I want to do, it's going to communities again where we can set up a center so that people don't have to travel.

>> we take kids in the program between the ages of 12.

We have part-time workers.

We have full timers with summers ago, 5 days a week for the 4 hours a day.

We said we have something going 2 days.

We something go 3 days a week.

This is very fun.

It's very interactive.

You know, as you walk the halls of the Avis or you'll see smiles on their faces and and really engage really love and what they're doing.

>> It was a terrible week.

>> The best things that one job.

What are my little friends?

I love my little friends.

I love that what?

He was able to, you know, say, say sounds.

>> Or she was able today to write her letters, you know, or this was writing their name and a smile on their face when they get to take you for a child who is nonverbal and were cheating them picks which is a picture exchange system or with using a device and they're able to tell you what they want and you get upset.

>> To hear child speak for the first time at the age of 6.

It's amazing to see a father dropped to their knees and cried, say I never thought I would hear my daughter's voice the first time her say daddy, it's it's just it's remarkable what the program doesn't, what our staff does it.

I can't put into words what it means for a family.

This is a service it's needed and it's our responsibility to as a regional facility, it offers her services were child is in need.

My dream was weather was named the front of it or not.

They have a be a center set up throughout this entire state so that every child that could be helped with this type of therapy is given the option the opportunity to be to do so.

>> According to the Kentucky Advisory Council on Autism, almost 83,000, Kentuckians have autism of that.

More than 25,000 our children under the age of 18.

♪ I school senior in Logan County is sharing her passion for cooking and baking with others.

>> 17 year-old Jenna calls has published a cookbook of our very own recipes.

It's a project 5 years in the making, although her love for being in the kitchen started well before that.

>> I've been in the kitchen for as long as I can remember.

which is far out we I enjoy cooking because when I was little I was cooking with my grandma's cooking with my mom.

And that was how we got to spend time together.

It's honestly just a lot of fun to see what you can create from to some flour and eggs.

I learned that Alex parenting with different foods in seeing how well things Perry other.

And so that's how I got interested in making my own recipes.

Welcome that he did it.

I first one in my YouTube channel because when I was 8 years old, my family and I I was watching food network and on the Rachael versus Guy, Kids Cook off.

It was this girl who was Amber and she had 8 to 10.

And I want to be just like her.

And she was so cool.

So that's how I got into wanting to be a YouTuber.

But then once I started doing it was just fun to me showing people have a different things.

And the kids also look to cut and that they can do.

It was also really fun to Their initial thought happened when I was in 8th grade because I had been experimenting in the kitchen, making different kinds of things.

And I read a couple of them down.

And I look, you know, I want to KET making things like this like I want to make my own recipes.

I want to make something that I can show people like, hey, I made this and I personally think it's really good.

And so that's when the idea of why don't I just put it in a cookbook for it to making the S P's, trying them out for affecting them, making sure that every ingredient, right?

All the baking times are right.

Top 10 year.

I was on that in 2017, we filmed it in 2016 of December of 2016 and then 2017, when aired of in 7th grade.

And that was a really like pivotal point in my cooking journey.

Living on a farm has shown me how food gets to our tables and that food doesn't just come from.

Grocery story comes from a farm or somebody has to grow it and being able to grow the food that we make in our espy's has really inspired the theme of the cookbook, which is cooking through the season.

So it's things that are in season in Kentucky.

is grown on the farm will be what is in season and what you can use.

Personally as freshness to the dish.

When you grow something yourself and you can put it into your own recipe, it's just it's rewarding that you grew it and you made this and now you're enjoying it.

And it's nourishing years.

There are always different things that you can make and anybody can learn to cook.

It doesn't take rocket science to make something that tastes good.

And that is fueling for your body.

And that is just something that you can always enjoy all throughout the year.

And it's really Kentucky.

Proud recipes and almost every one of the rescues there, something that can be found in your local markets or from a local farmer that you can utilize in your kitchen.

If you have that going to have that dream go for If you have a really supportive family and supportive community like I have, it can definitely help you want to achieve your goal more because you want to give back to these people that have given so much to you.

Way to go, Jenna.

Kohl's.

She credits winning a shark tank grant from the FFA Foundation.

She says the $5,000 in funding help speed up the timeline for getting her cookbook published.

>> Cooking through the seasons is available now on Amazon.

♪ >> It was 123 years ago this week, the election that would end with the governor's assassination.

Plus, the beginning of University of Kentucky football.

>> And the beginning of bourbon, maybe Toby Gibbs has more in this.

Look at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Republican William Taylor won more votes than Democrat William Goble during the November 7th 18 99 election for governor.

But the results were disputed.

The Democrats claiming Goble want someone shot Goble and the Democratic led General Assembly declared him the winner.

He was sworn in and then died.

The court sided with the Democrats.

Taylor fled the state and Lieutenant Governor John became governor.

>> Bacon College opened in Georgetown on November.

11th 18.

36.

It was named after Sir Francis Bacon and was founded by the Disciples of Christ Church.

It closed due to a lack of funding at 18.

51 reopened in 1958.

Closed in 18, 60 and eventually merged with Transylvania University in 18.

65.

The University of Kentucky played its first football game November 12, 18 81 UK was known at the time as AnM College or Kentucky State College.

The team played Kentucky University now known as Transylvania University using an early football scoring system and 1, 7, to one.

11/11/1972, the football Wildcats played their last game at stole field, also known as McLane Stadium.

UK beat Vanderbilt 14 to 13.

Bourbon.

Whiskey may have been vetted November 8, 17 89 legend has it.

That's the day Elijah Craig first distilled bourbon from corn in where else?

Bourbon County.

And that's what was happening this week in Kentucky history, I'm told, begins.

>> Thank you to be Gibbs as you're getting up tomorrow morning, particularly if you're an early riser, enjoy a lunar eclipse visible right here in Kentucky.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is between the sun and the moon.

The eclipse will begin just before 04:00AM Eastern time.

It will be at its peak just before 06:00AM and then by 08:00AM it's back to normal.

Enjoy it while you can.

NASA says this will be the last lunar eclipse until March 14th 2025.

Coming up tomorrow.

Full election coverage.

And we'll tell you about a new program that lets state police notify a school if a child is part of a domestic violence situation.

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So long.

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