♪ >> In those hard hit and was there some more complicated areas where the crews need to get in?

So it takes more time.

>> How close is swing into action when the lights go dark?

>> Yes, there are certain risks.

And following the aftermath of a hurricane.

>> Kentucky since help to our neighbors to the South.

>> If I had to put it in 3 words, I probably say colorful fun and out of this world.

>> And learn how this ballet celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month.

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♪ ♪ >> Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Tuesday.

The first day of October.

I'm Laura Rogers filling in for Renee Shaw.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Kentucky continues to clean up from the remnants of Hurricane Helene, which dumped up to 7 inches of rain in some parts of the state over the weekend.

And Kentucky is preparing to help other states more as we begin tonight's weather coverage.

This is video of some of the downed trees and damage in Lexington.

There are still some Kentuckians without power today, although the number of customers without it is now below 10,000, Kentucky had no storm-related deaths.

The death toll in other southern states now tops 158.

Kentucky is sending help to some of our neighbors hit hard by Lane.

Governor Andy Beshear announced Kentucky's role this morning.

>> Thus far, we're deploying National Guard are Kentucky emergency management incident managers as well as 9-1-1 dispatchers to North Carolina.

We stand ready in other ways to the Kentucky State Police and I know so many other groups that are ready, the volunteer to help our fellow American folks.

They're hurting.

And this is our time to stand with them and to help them through the coming weeks and the coming years, we have shown nearly 3 years after the tornadoes near Lake 2 and a half years after the floods that there's a light at the end of the tunnel that we can stand back up and we can rebuild.

But in this darkest hour that they're going through, they need to know that we care.

>> Today the Kentucky National Guard sent 11 airmen to Hickory, North Carolina.

The fatality search and recovery team also known as F search will work with corners and other local officials to recover human remains.

It is difficult work and can be hard to bear.

But the team says it's important to bring closure to storm victims.

Families.

>> I'm really grateful for everybody's your leadership for their ability to get everything generated and get us out the door as quickly as possible.

I know this is a really difficult time, especially with North Carolina and all they're dealing with.

And so for everybody to come together in such short notice to get us out the door, the airman, to be as prepared and willing to go as they is phenomenal.

>> The team says there are risks involved in this operation can be grueling both physically and mentally.

Kentucky.

Utilities serves more than 1 million customers across the stage 5 days Lane, one percent of their customer base is still in the dark.

Renee Shaw talked with list Pratt who was a communications director for LG E and KU Energy about how they're working to restore power.

Renee.

Well, thank you, Laura.

And thank you, Liz, for a few minutes of your time.

We appreciate your driving in from Louisville to talk with us about this important issue.

>> And about the power that's being restored first, let people know what is the coverage area of KU LG how many customers, businesses, residences are served.

between LG E and KU.

We serve about 1.3 million customers and our customers are spread out across.

>> More than 90 counties here in Kentuckyian we have some customers down into Virginia where some tell us about the power outages that are related to this latest lane and how that restoration process is going.

Since since really, Helene started moving in through our service areas on September.

27th in totality we had more than 220,000 customers affected by this storm.

So crews through that time crews have been responding to about 1600 reports of wires down to more than 160 broken poles.

And in addition to our crews in business partners working in the field, we brought in additional support.

So in total, we had more than 1000.

Individuals, mind technicians and support personnel through our business partners and even our sister utility in Pennsylvania.

Ppl you coming in to support our customers to get power restored and currently today, we're more than 99% of customers restored of customers who are impacted by the storm.

So is there a particular region or area of the state that that one percent is residing that still waiting to have their power back on.

You know, at this point, there were areas that were hit harder to Lexington in particular, had some of the strongest wind gusts.

So from Lexington and Richmond of Maysville, those were some of our hardest hit areas.

Also down into Pine bill.

But really the outages occurred across our service area.

And so what crews have been doing for the last several days is what we refer to as the heavy lifting.

This is repairing those broken poles and damaged equipment and restoring those lines that are down.

And so in those hardest hit areas, there's some more complicated areas where the crews need to get.

And so it takes more time for some of those complicated locations.

So crews have been working everywhere from along mountain sides to in tight spaces in backyards requiring specialized equipment too busy city streets.

And so through all of this safety is always our top priority.

Where do you think the one percent will be joining the other 99%?

Any idea?

We will continue working with our customers.

There may be some cases where as crews enter an area during that assessment process, identified that at the at the customers property that there's damage that may require an electrician.

So there may be.

So we work with our customers throughout the restoration process to identify if there may be damage is a customer's property.

That is a safety concern that before we can restore their service, they may need to in the law, Trish and make repairs so that we we can safely restore that power when a lot of us media folks look at those power outage maps and I want you to clarify because not every power outage that maybe you even see if we look at that map now is related to the Halloween storm.

>> Right.

That there could be other things that have happened that don't give a full picture of how it's being condensed or prescribed to a particular weather-related incident.

Can you explain that?

That's a really great point.

So based upon, you know, being able to track our customer outages during a storm event, we will track those customers who have been impacted so often times.

That's why you might see those numbers are fluctuating and those numbers continue to climb.

So has crews assessed locations as customers were reporting outages.

That's what being really saw.

Those numbers climbing.

And so that's why in totality, we now know that more than 220,000 customers were affected by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.

So let's talk about the consumer questions will call it right because we know that there are some people just taking the Lexington area, for example, who were without power for 2 or 3 days.

Maybe 4.

>> And people wonder what's taking so long.

What's your response?

Sure.

So I'll start first by kind of explain a little bit about our prioritization process.

>> So we're getting up to a storm.

We are monitoring the forecast.

We are mobilizing our crews and our resources across more than 40 cruise centers that we have across our service territories in addition, we're coordinating with utility partners, if so that leading up to a storm coming into our service area.

So as that storm system continues to move through first, our focus is public safety protecting the public.

So as reports of downed wires are coming in, we want to we are responding to emergency situations protecting those downed wires in really addressing public protection.

And so as we're doing that, we're also been moving into restoring power for critical community services that may be hospitals, our police and fire departments and so will look at our at our at those critical community services.

Then we move into how can we restore power to as many customers as we can.

And so as we move through that prioritization process, we start getting down into the repairs and that is what I refer to as the heavy lifting.

That's where it is.

Crews manually getting to a location to replace a pole to restrain downed wires, moved debris to be able to access our equipment.

So that takes time as crews are entering areas, especially in these hardest hit areas where they are manually moving through by each outage.

So in the remnants of Hurricane Helene, in particular, our crews were responding 2 more than 2,800 events in an event is an outage location that's affecting customers.

Susie, think about crews moving through our service area as we're able to restore power in areas, then we also start moving our crews.

So I mentioned our crews centers that gives us the ability to move our crews to help move to areas that are still affected by it.

And so as we're bringing in partners as removing our crews, that process and that coordination is taking place in real time to get power restored to affected customers.

And then as we're moving through the repair process, we're then getting into individual outages.

That might be a at a customer's home or business or it might be only a couple customers on that particular outage.

So we move through that prioritization process to restore power safely.

And as quickly as possible for all of our affected customers.

Renee, we'll have more with Liz Pratt tomorrow.

>> About how the energy company is keeping up with technology when it comes to delivering power.

It was back to court for the sheriff accused of killing a judge.

And today's hearing included video of the shooting.

Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines is accused of shooting and killing Judge Kevin Mullins and as Letcher County Courthouse office on September 19th Stein's pleaded not guilty last Wednesday, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports that during a hearing today a special prosecutor played surveillance video from the judge's office that shows Stein's shooting Mullens.

Police have already said that the 2 had argued before the shooting.

Today the judge ruled there was probable cause to send the case to a grand jury.

The grand jury will now decide whether to indict Stein's Stein's announced his decision to retire as Letcher County sheriff yesterday through his attorney, he said it was not related to the charges.

Then Attorney General Daniel Cameron sought records from 2 doctors who provided abortions at a Louisville clinic in order to build a criminal case against to them.

That's according to records from 2023 unsealed in Franklin County and reported today by the Lexington Herald-Leader.

According to the newspaper, the records could be used as evidence in order to indict the doctors for violating Kentucky's near total abortion ban.

Charges were never filed after 2 courts sided with the doctors.

Wearing a mask in Kentucky's largest city could soon land you in jail.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg says he wants to explore enforcing an old city role that prohibits masking in public spaces.

He says the suspects in a recent shooting outside a high school football game or wearing surgical masks and other items to cover their face.

>> This is not an isolated incident.

LMPD officers see time and time again.

When assailants when trigger pullers are wearing masks to conceal their identity.

Shooters are exploiting protections that were put in place during COVID.

And so the chief of LMPD in my administration, we are working right now.

I'm looking to reinforce this ordinance that has been on the books since 1983 in our city.

>> Mayor Greenberg said his administration does plan on updating the ordinance to allow for certain exemptions related to public health.

But current ordinance carries a fine of up to $100.50 days in jail or both.

Murray State University's president will leave that job next year.

Doctor Bob Jackson says he will retire on June.

30th 2025. the university says he will continue as ride a son as a special adviser to the Board of Regents.

Jackson has been president since August of 2018.

He says serving in that role has been a life time honor and the capstone to his professional career.

Kentucky is full of Cincinnati Reds fans and today they are remembering the legendary but controversial page Rose Rose died yesterday at the age of 83 as a part of the 1970's, Big Red Machine Rose earned the nickname Charlie hassle for his aggressive playing style.

The Reds won the World Series in 1975.

1976.

Rose was voted.

National League MVP in 1973. and he is baseball's all-time hits leader.

Later, he was banned for life for betting on baseball and he did a prison term in 1990, for filing false income.

Its returns.

Happy birthday to former President Jimmy Carter who turns 100 today.

He is the first president to reach that milestone.

President Carter was in office from 1977.

To 1981 during his presidency.

He visited Bardstown and we have some pictures of that visit in 1979 and he was in eastern Kentucky in 1997 as a former presidents for a Habitat for Humanity, Home building project more than 1300 people built.

52 homes in Pike County.

♪ ♪ Hopkinsville Hospital will soon have new owners.

Some critics don't like plans for a student apartment complex in Lexington and there is praise for an eastern Kentucky tire cleanup.

Our Toby Gibbs tells us more and this look at headlines around Kentucky.

♪ >> The Murray Ledger and times reports Samaritan's Purse just dedicated its final home to Mayfield neighborhood devastated by a December 2021.

Tornado, Americans, purses and International Christian Relief Organization.

It provides aid for people with physical needs, including needs related to natural disasters.

Not everyone likes a plan to build a 251 unit student apartment housing complex near Lexington's.

Historically black old town neighborhood.

That's from the story by WB.

KU Radio, according to subtext to St. Louis real estate company, the complex will be needed housing for a growing University of Kentucky.

But people living in the area were able to push out people who lived there for generations.

The Lexington Urban County Council has the final say.

Volunteers cleared hundreds of tires from the love.

I support from the Big Sandy River.

The Appalachian News Express says the Pikeville City Commission praise the effort during its September 23rd meeting.

According to Hop Town Chronicle, Hopkinsville Jennie Stuart Hospital plans to join with Deaconess Health based in Evansville, Indiana, after Jennie Stuart Board of directors signed a letter of intent last week.

Ines has hospitals, clinics and medical offices in Indiana, Kentuckyian Illinois.

Jimmy Stewart CEO Eric Lee says world hospitals today face big challenges and the public will benefit from this new arrangement.

If you're headed to Evansville for its fall festival, leave the wrong at home.

A Gleaner says the FAA is banning drone flights over the area for October 6 to 12 with violators could be fined as much as $75,000.

♪ Morehead just dedicated to public mural created by Abbie Grace.

It honors forehead.

And it's 2 sister cities, its state public radio says the mural is on the side of Fat, daddy's and features images of birds representing Morehead Ali Mina in Northern Island and Yang Shu in China.

With headlines around Kentucky.

I will be here.

>> Thank you, Toby and 2 people will be inducted into the Louis B 9 Kentucky teacher Hall of Fame next month as state.

Why committee selected Arthur See Hail and Linda Kingsley for the Honor.

Hale taught math and science for 54 years at Ohio County High School Kingsley taught English and debate at Owensboro High School for 29 years and still works today as a substitute teacher, they'll be formally inducted in a special ceremony November 22nd at Western Kentucky University.

♪ ♪ The Avalanche and Regional Healthcare Foundation for healthier communities donated $70,000.

2, 7 eastern Kentucky school districts impacted by the 2022.

Floods to promote the well-being of students and staff.

Each district received $10,000 each officials from Floyd Perry not lecture Leslie breath.

It and Hazard independent school districts received their checks on Monday.

>> I think the reason we're all here is because we all love our communities and we all know that our schools are the hearts of our communities.

And we are here to support our schools and our kids, the foundation since the flooding in 2022.

Has given way almost 2 million dollars to individuals who needed assistance and we're still helping individuals stay the disaster recovery center here and has a mature county.

We had 3 schools that had to be.

>> Completely renovated along with 5 other different facilities in our district.

And so we are still working to finish Taos.

And so students who law schools must home some lost everything they had and that's trauma.

Some families are still.

Building back, just getting back into their new homes or 2 other home.

Some are still living with family members and others.

So there's the needs are great and widespread.

It could be and thanks for their own home, whether it's appliances or and continued support with food and clothing.

>> we lost 2 schools in the flood in Perry County and we lost all the technology that we with all schools and work pretty much a one to one district's out.

We can use some of this fund to Chromebooks laptops, computers back that use in a clash or >> this money will go into our counts for family resource and youth service centers.

And that's directors will use it to directly impact their families and students from which we're sinners.

Our great prices and partners for families but could provide food, clothing, hygiene items, cleaning Adams.

Essentially if a family needs that our resource center found a way to get it.

We got so much money on them again.

And then it kind of war off.

But then like one of the schools that lost.

But as for Chromebooks actually last week, he was like, I'm still not back to where I need to pay.

>> They've got a song side and we can go back and tell him we've got more common.

We still have nays.

As I already said, it takes a long time to rebuild from what we went.

30 lives in taken place.

Schools was a big day of stations are school says so.

>> We know that our communities are resilient.

We know that our kids are resilient, but we also know that we need to give them all the help and assistance that we possibly can to make sure that we're not just investing financially in Appalachia, but we're investing through our children in Appalachia.

>> School districts also received mouthguards for student athletes from Delta Dental of Kentucky.

♪ ♪ This is National Hispanic American Heritage Month.

And tonight we are spotlighting the Bluegrass Youth Ballet.

The group recently debuted a new dance created by the founder and director of the Bluegrass Youth Ballet who says she was inspired by a true story that she heard while in Mexico where she grew up.

>> I am from Leon Mexico and I moved to the United States when I was 22 to pursue their career.

And ballet after my performing career, I was.

I had this dream of creating a place that was very inclusive and it had a positive environment.

10, our mission, West Educational and cultural.

And I was able to use some of my background too, create some of the ballet's that have a lot Latin.

They are in and they are, you know, educational, cultural in nature.

So it's been 21 years.

I'm very happy to be able to bring some of that here to our community and to educate I families and our children about what an every K is it just, you know, have fun with it.

I am the cheetah.

>> It's really exciting.

Is colorful.

It's fun.

And so with all your friends is very exciting and be able to like put Ray, this story has been and experience.

>> I was able to visit Disney to town called advice on that and this town, everybody in the village create anybody has so these little creatures are carved in wood and they are very colorful and unique and it has were started by the early 90's in Mexico City.

So when I started doing researching research, I found very interesting and it just felt, you know, like just organic, too, turn this into a valley because of the stories based on a true story of the early 90's being see can having a dreaming and dreaming all these creatures that transform from elements of earth and screamed that him.

It has and that word other.

But he has the city is just the name that he heard his too.

♪ >> I would say lightheartedness of in the way it makes you feel.

I think after even just watching it from the side that even just watching it and the audience after you see it, you just feel a sense of light and joy.

And I think that's the best part when we first time that we're just kind of getting the movements and trying to get and the crowd or a fee.

But as you going to kind of embody the character, for example, the cheetah.

>> A new kind of the fiercest time went on a kind of a graduate ♪ >> we really wanted to work with children.

I really liked children.

I think that they are you know, in such a wonderful stage of immersion and engagement and I learned so much from each one of my students.

And to me that was just, you know, the natural thing to do because I really like to work with kids and I know that kids can do so much when we have high expectations of them and they've never prove me wrong.

So, you know, I'm always just standing on the wings to absolutely amazed of.

But what they can do a little bit of direction and energy and >> training.

>> Very nicely done.

Weather caused several performances to be canceled over the weekend, but they are planning to have makeup performances on October.

12th and 13th at the Bluegrass Youth Ballet studio.

To Paris.

Iconic photos from this summer's Olympics are currently on display in Bourbon County.

>> A lot of these images can only be seen here in Paris, Kentucky.

>> In an exclusive photos from the world stage make it to a gallery in Kentucky.

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