>> Governor Andy Beshear just won a second term.

But what will he do after that?

It was just a headache to go through that.

The USDA discriminated against some farmers in the past.

Now it's helping those farmers.

>> Kentucky has the floor highest smoking rate in the nation.

>> But that's not the only factor in Kentucky's high lung cancer rate.

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♪ ♪ >> Hello and welcome to Kentucky.

Addition for Thursday, November 9th.

I'm Casey Parker Bell filling in for Renee Shaw who's being inducted into western Kentucky University's Hall of Distinguished Alumni safely.

>> Governor Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency as firefighters battle more than 60 wildfires and Easter and southeastern Kentucky.

Those fires cover about 11,000 Acres W E KU Radio reports 9 crews from Idaho and Oregon.

If you've arrived or on the way to help with the firefighting effort.

Steve Croll of the state Division of Forestry says the relief effort from those 2 states will help Kentucky firefighters get some badly needed rest.

There are fires as far south as Whitley County as far north as Carter County.

The wildfire situation isn't being helped by this drought.

The area you see in Orange is in the moderate drought category.

That includes most of the area battling wildfires.

The yellow area is considered abnormally dry.

In Kentucky, governor's are limited to 2 terms in office serving a maximum of 8 years.

Governor Andy Beshear's victory on Tuesday means his next term which starts next month expires in 2027 since he can't run again.

That has some wondering what's next for one of America's most popular governors.

>> You guarantee that this term of art finish this term as before looking at it and think every single day I have left a special.

It's an opportunity.

And that's when you've been the governor during a pandemic and tornadoes and floods.

But then also, I mean, landing the the Ford plants.

I mean, the 2 biggest battery plants on planet Earth.

The game-changing state changing investment that that's going to be.

You get to see what.

One day.

Just one day can do for the lives of Kentuckians and maybe for the next 10 years, I'm going to serve every single day these next 4 This job will have my soul attention.

I love this commonwealth.

It's where my kids are.

Kids are growing up.

I want to leave it in the very best shape I can so some people saw hardworking governor the first term.

And in this work just as hard because every last moment is precious.

And I'm saying that with 4 years of them left, we're going make sure that we make the very best of it.

And then after that, we'll see what we just came off an election.

Wilson freshman in high school lot.

Listen.

8th grade.

I'm happy that their lives are going remain stable.

Frankfurt's been really good to us.

I'm just living in this moment.

>> Caters the big pay raise and the sheer wasn't the only one asked about his future political aspirations.

>> What she does testify would run for governor in 2027.

I think that's a little bit like putting a Christmas decorations up for Halloween.

We just got through this election and we have a lot to accomplish.

We've a lot of really good things going on in Kentucky.

And so my main focus is going to be continuing to support this administration moving forward and then we'll see what comes in the future.

But right now there's just so much potential we've got make sure that we will work really hard to see that through.

Drew Governor Beshear's, well-known senior adviser, former state representative Rocky Adkins.

>> Told the Kentucky Lantern he, quote, Still has fuel in the tank for a future run for public office.

Congressman Morgan McGarvey of Louisville know something about his future plans.

The first term Democrat announced today he will seek a second term in 2024. in a statement, McCarthy says his campaign has already raised $750,000 >> time now for an end of week review of the governor's race essentially.

And this is happening on Thursday.

We're taping this on Wednesday.

Full disclosure and we have 2 of our favorites here, Abby Piper and Jarrett Smith, a Piper Smith.

And we're glad to have I know you've gotten some rest, but the work now begins right cause.

We're happy days from session now.

Don't start.

I know some 50 some.

Yeah.

Okay.

So let's enjoy a breather while we've got it.

But you know, you guys never breathe.

But let's talk about the main takeaways from Tuesday night and the bus Bashir decidedly of Governor Andy Beshear.

Does he have a mandate to ask you that got over that 50% fit?

What?

50 to 53% does he have a mandate?

>> I mean, I think he could say he does.

Yes, you know, he performed very strongly.

He won.

Counties of people did did not that he was going to win like Boyle, Henderson, you know.

And so I do think he has a mandate.

But the problem is you have a super majority in the Legislature that's Republican.

And, you know, they have a history of not playing.

They being both the governor's office and the Legislature have a history of not playing well together.

Well, we heard on Wednesday the governor had a press conference and he was asked about his relationship with the Republican dominated.

>> General Assembly, he says will the phone works both ways and he's made a comment about how one lawmaker who had just been in his office, but on the floor and said that he hadn't spoken with the governor.

We've seen some tweets from legislative leaders that pretty much say, you know, we have nothing to gain by really working with him.

>> That's right.

How do you think this is going to go?

I think it will go much like it has the last 4 years.

But I will say in your there are >> very strong account.

And even Democrat legislators who say the sheer did not approach them, did not talk to them through some, especially sir, through some of the COVID COVID things.

And so I I don't think it's going to change much.

And as it relates to that relationship and I don't think there's interest really on either side are no motivation on either And so is he a lame duck governor really like really lame duck and starting out, right?

Governors do have a good degree you know, bandwidth for what they can do through executive order and some of those names and >> I told you he has left be sure it will be interesting to see what he chooses to do with that.

And we obviously have a new attorney general and as always the check to that.

So it will be interesting to see what kind of power East decides to will.

That's going to miss and dynamic between Russell Coleman, that and the governor.

It will be it was definitely very interesting.

And >> we have 0.

You notice some of the rising star on the and in the GOP.

So be sure to see if he tries to nationalize a lot of stuff.

You know, sue Biden over staff are just on the hop onto r-ga or I got to the right and also to the other Republican attorneys generals that are the usually have no merit.

Don't go anywhere just for clicks and whatever.

Or if he plays more like, like, like he was a U.S. attorney.

You know, right by the book, I'm here to do a good job.

I want to do a good job, you know, stuff like that.

So it will be interesting to see.

>> I do think the real question is, is he another attorney general, aspiring governor?

We don't know yet.

We don't know >> And when Jacqueline Coleman was asked if they were from Wednesday press conference about what about next?

You know, the 4 years after this?

Well, I'm just concentrating on what what they all say.

Wright should, but >> that's going to Yeah.

Time will tell.

Time will tell.

So so let's talk about the is he still is right now.

Turn to General Daniel Cameron talk about how he underperformed and what's next for him there that there is a pretty good by Dave Cotton, Candy, Meese about how one state wide failure election does not portend.

You know, you're the rest of your political future.

You look at it, presidents and governors, Bill Clinton who lost and who went on to become president.

I mean, so they're still he's 37 will be 38 in a couple of weeks there.

Still time for him to ascend the political ladder.

Certainly an and I don't think he's going anywhere unless he chooses to.

>> And he's he's got places he can land for a little bit.

And we talk about Lily pads in politics.

And and I think he's got some places he could land for a while.

But even when Jonathan Shell, we saw that after his his defeat, he managed to get back in the field.

He worked his tail off for McConnell and came back to to land back in a seat where he can wield some power and and do some good for Kentuckians.

I think you'll see something similar from Cameron.

Yeah, that's an ultimate redemption story, right?

There lost his primary in 2018 to an educator because all that conversation about that, Travis, Brenda.

>> It is curious to see that Daniel underperform even Matt Bevin was I thought was I would need an expected that I'm coming to think that maybe the public's but the wrong candidate for.

>> And the candidate quality matters right to the left thinks I'm I think they're going to be some campaign.

I think his closing argument wasn't was the best argument from the camp and what he so long to do that so long you know, I think the commission calls, I think would be a different story.

I think he brought statewide appeal, you but the Trump, the Trump wing of the Republican Party decided they want to Cameron and you know, the governor won.

>> So Abby, have to ask you.

Had there been commissioner corals as the Republican nominee where there have been a different outcome on Tuesday night?

>> I think the race would have been much I think that if we learn anything, even just looking at some of the outcomes in Ohio and Virginia, even Mississippi, and then over last night that we're seeing that people come closer to the middle are going to do and perform better.

And coral certainly would have been able to do that.

And I think that's what happens with primaries.

Is it?

You know, when you have all Republicans or all Democrats choosing the person that goes forth often it's hard to get the most moderate person, the best person to win through that through that gate.

I think that's what you saw.

Yeah.

And so there's already conversation Jarrett about 2024 and there's complaints that the governor hasn't done enough to help those state legislative >> seats and that they've lost more since he's in power.

So there's a lot of work he has to do with that when the legislature comes up next year.

>> There is.

But what you saw in Virginia were they went from of a lot of the media focus on the Republicans flipping the Virginia Senate.

Instead, the Democrats took the House and kept the Senate.

But, you know, pretty much ending Youngkin's not national presence.

Broadway.

You're seeing voters are voting on abortion, whether it's that or not the Dobbs.

This isn't so somebody said the Just Garber said the Dobbs decision was the worst thing happened to the Republican Party since And so I think you're seeing that.

I mean, you see these the ballot in Michigan Amendment here, the one in Ohio where they change the words and put unborn child in the in the statute.

And it still it was still the way was Want to remember which one?

But that, you know, so I think women's reproductive rights is a winning message for Democrats across the country.

No matter what I have read the state is yeah.

>> Which is a flip from what we thought Republicans often use that as as one of their social wedge issues.

So a referendum on abortion and perhaps a referendum on former President Donald J Trump as well.

So we'll have more conversation later about those things.

Thank you as always, guys.

Always a pleasure.

Thank you.

♪ ♪ >> In the past, the Department of Agriculture discriminated against up to 50,000 farmers.

Now the USDA is making up for that with the discrimination Financial Assistance Program.

One group is making sure farmers here in Kentucky are getting the support they need as they go through the application process.

Discrimination, Financial Assistance Program is a 2.2 billion dollar program.

>> For farmers who face discrimination in farm own programs prior to 2021, this discrimination can be proven by documentation.

For those who do not have the documentation you a lawsuit over time or in some instances there was no documentation established.

Those farmers have the opportunity to tell their story.

>> I'm a 3rd generation This will be 70 years that my family has.

Stewart is and maintain this land.

We were sharecroppers for the majority of it was just perfect to be able to come back and buy something that my family has already put their blood, sweat and tears into it.

That loan process was a little bit different than what I remember as a child or what I've heard from other people.

So completed every task that they need to.

As far as the lone guys just like you would approval at a bank.

But then I was denied a request because my property wasn't done correctly.

So that was a whole consortium of different problems where I had to talk to the field office in Washington, D.C., to get approval stating that there should be no issue.

But my field office said that was an issue per the loan requirements which later found out there was 9.

I also asked my city, they said they had no arguments against it, that it could be approved.

So that's how my fight with that swim.

Milo got press back and a missed opportunity to grow that season.

Very frustrating was very time-consuming money wise to because you still got a word.

But you got to meet these quotas and get meat this time.

You're trying to balance all that and you're looking to have contractors come in and start clearing out some land cutting down trees.

But you can you and yeah, you're stuck in between a slim, but where you put money into it and you start your investment into this lifestyle that grew up with.

But at the same time, I'm not seeing the return because I can't.

Finish the rest of the process to do.

>> The discrimination.

It is not only based on race.

It also includes jinder.

It different protected classes.

We've had a lot of veterans veterans who who either went off to Vietnam and came back and needed to get loans to KET their farms going, where there were times in their narrative that some of the other landowners around them were in collusion with us.

USDA officials to to not help those veterans get the loans that they needed because the large landowners want to sweep in and take their land in Kentucky.

We're partnered with black soil and they have membership.

>> These local groups have memberships where we're able to reach into the farmer community or here right now.

I'm in the Kentucky that office.

It also serves as the blacks.

Okay.

Why fulfillment center many times when farmers are coming into the the filaments enter the other delivering their seasonal produce of their local needs and also gives us an opportunity to open up the conversation around the defense program.

A lot of times we're able to help the piece together.

Your story.

>> Sometimes the incidences have happened so long ago that the documentation isn't there that the person that they have the experiences with perhaps are no longer with agencies or no longer living.

And so it is our goal as the technical assistance support to really ensure that Farmer has the confidence that they need them to complete their application.

A lot of farmers know a lot of that stuff was never kept.

The receipts.

And when they go to the office and asking for ply their applications.

Last thing we have to reapply application may help me find some of my paperwork that I need to.

>> And request that.

So what they're doing is key because it's people that's from this community that know these farmers and know how to get to date information or make sure they get that information for that.

It is very hard to truly calculate the total cost of these >> There are some that are social.

There are some that are, you know, physical and in regards to the toll that it takes on people's mental >> But more than a depressive feeling of.

How do you recruit people into becoming a farmer wanting to get excited about growing food or owning land win?

>> This is the uphill battle said they see so many around experiencing.

So why would I want to pursue that?

So I really think it causes the loss of a deeper pipeline of individuals wanting to participate in agriculture.

I think it.

>> Don't give up because almost did Although it's in my blood.

It was just to go through that.

But I wouldn't trade it up for nothing because once you achieve in, you get the process going.

You've got your land.

It's glorified this.

>> Farmers who qualify could receive up to $500,000 depending on the number of applicants.

The deadline to apply is January 13th 2024.

♪ ♪ >> The American Cancer Society has new recommendations for lung cancer screenings.

More in today's medical news under previous guidelines, the American Cancer Society recommended annual screenings for those.

55 to 74 years old, a current smoker or former smoker who quit within the previous 15 years and smoked a pack a day for 30 years.

Now the recommendation is yearly screenings for people ages 50 to 80 who are current or former smokers and smoked at least one pack of cigarettes a day for 20 or more years.

We spoke to the American Lung Cancer Association in Kentucky say it's a welcome change, particularly in our state.

We're lung cancer.

Deaths are 17% higher than the national average >> the new ACS guidelines that just came out.

I mean, if you quit smoking more than 15 years ago.

>> You would be.

>> Under their guidelines and recommended for screening.

And Turkey has the 4th highest smoking rate in the nation.

And it's it's not surprising.

Then that we also have the highest, a lung cancer incidence.

And we're rates in the nation.

It's associated not exclusively so.

And so it's important to address that because there is stigma around lung cancer.

And in fact, there are other causes of lung cancer, like exposure to radioactive radon.

And second hand smoke and or both even worse.

Tell it's it.

The guidelines specifically focus on smoking.

But the point that I make is there are other risk factors as well.

So early detection is critical.

Lung cancer is.

Most often asymptomatic until it's in its more advanced and therefore, more difficult to effectively treat so early detection is the key better treatment outcomes.

>> The American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society recommend people talk to their doctor about the benefits limitations and possible harms before deciding to get along screening.

♪ >> Veterans Day is Saturday.

We have a special veterans day Kentucky edition tomorrow.

>> Meet a man who played a unique role in the U.S. military during the Cold War.

We'll talk to Kentuckyian who served and an atomic test site.

That's tomorrow on Kentucky edition.

Speaking of Veterans Day, Paris honored veterans Wednesday with Bourbon County High School students and the band's taking part.

There was a parachute jump traveling, Vietnam wall and several speakers organizers said they wanted to thank veterans and teach students learned the value of service.

♪ >> The event that we held in pairs to it the first time that we have had one here in pairs.

It's part of our week of Valor.

Doing the leading up to.

A veterans day.

We have programs each and every day.

This is one of them.

We have Trevor Wall.

We had the various members speaking to our West.

>> He is 101 year-old war war.

2 veteran for those who?

No, I don't because I believe is pretty well known here in Central Kentucky.

He was a red ball express driver during war.

2.

He drove a in support of General Patton and the 3rd army as they marched through Germany in the Redbox pressers, you know, they drove the ammunition trucks in the fuel trucks.

And so they had a pretty dangerous job.

And and Mister West had a whole lot of interesting stories to share.

Intel.

>> My favorite part was getting talk to Doctor West.

We just overall amazing man that I was able to I feel honored to shake his hand.

I'm told us a story.

He actually never told anybody before.

He told us about his experience on the Red Ball express of what's called.

Well, he would take mail and deliver it.

♪ >> I think it's important that that we continue to celebrate our veterans for a multitude of reasons.

It's it's been the veteran.

And the and also the veteran's family.

Who has suffered and sacrificed to make sure that we remain a free country and we have the freedoms and the ability to do the things that we that we are able to do.

And I think it's extremely important that we go up to them.

>> Because they pretty much gave everything for this country.

The reason that we're all staying here today, you know, the freedoms we have because of them.

>> Service was Porter I expectations.

>> As you came in the man, who would you expect to serve your country as did my father, my grandfather, my father, before >> We had several brothers also this served this nation.

It's important we serve this country.

That's how we get your freedoms that we get in people a lot of times forget that in the state of Kentucky, only 8%.

Of the member of the people of Kentucky have ever worn a uniform.

So it's a very, very small group of people that we.

Depend upon to make sure that our freedoms are here for us.

And so they allow us to.

Do what we do like what we like protest what we don't like is on their on their bikes that were able to have our fields.

>> One way to honor those who served the weekend is full of Veterans Day activities and more.

Our Toby Gibbs has some of the details in this special Thursday edition of around the Commonwealth.

♪ >> This Saturday is that runs day and there are some important events happening across the state to honor the sacrifice and dedication of our veterans.

The city of Florence is hosting its annual Veterans Day program on Saturday at 02:00PM.

The service will include patriotic music from the Ackerman, Middle School chorus and the Florence Community Band and Chorus.

You'll also hear from a distinguished veteran speaker with refreshments to follow.

If you're in Frankfort Saturday morning, consider joining the Kentucky Historical Society is Veterans Day Cemetery tour as a way to observe the holiday veterans from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century been laid to rest at the Frankfort cemetery as well as other historical figures such as Daniel Boone after the cemetery tour, there will be a highlights tour of the Kentucky Military History Museum at the state Arsenal.

This year is the 60th annual Veterans Day Parade in Madisonville.

They have marching bands, color guards, decorated vehicles and more.

This is the largest veterans day parade of the state.

So join the thousands of spectators and cheering on and saluting our veterans.

Apart from the Veterans Day events.

There are other great events going on this weekend.

The Highlands Museum and Discovery Center a national and he's throwing an attic sale tomorrow and Saturday admission to the museum is not required.

SOCOM browse their selection of furniture, housewares and other unique good script.

Happening Saturday is new jingle Fast in Louisville.

This event has everything you need to get into a festive mood.

Cookie decorating gift wrapping an ugly sweater, fashion show that even mister and Missus Claus themselves.

There's food music and holiday vendors to shop from.

Be sure to check it out.

Ginger bread is delicious to aid in the right hands.

A delight to look at as well as southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center has of Gingerbread House contest every year starting on Monday.

These dazzling decorative displays will be available for viewing come check out this gingerbread gallery and leave inspired for your own bakery building this holiday season.

Today kicks off the first ever.

Lexington Bourbon Week from the organizers of Burger weekend.

Crave comes an event for the beverage.

We do best over 20 participating.

Businesses have prepared an old fashion as well as a signature bourbon drink for the event.

So there's something for everyone to enjoy track your progress on the Lexington Bourbon, we kept for the chance to win tours at core Roses and Heaven.

Hill distilleries.

And that's what's happening around the commonwealth.

I'm told the Good News.

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We want to say congratulations one last time again to our Renee Shaw.

You'll get to see next tomorrow night.

Have a happy Veterans Day.

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