♪ >> Housing is a solution to so many of our problems.

When we're celebrating today, we're celebrating transformation in people's lives.

>> A new project that's putting a roof over the heads of some of Louisville's most vulnerable.

I sent.

>> It's a step-by-step process of all women aiding those false beliefs about purse for Thomas.

>> The push from Kentucky to get Indigenous Peoples Day declared a federal holiday.

We want to give students those skills to be responsible in their behavior responsible in this election.

The choices that they make.

>> How several colleges and universities are coming together to combat drug and alcohol abuse on campus.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Monday.

It's October, the 14th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for starting off your Monday night with us.

More help is now available for victims of domestic violence in Kentucky.

Secretary of State Michael Adams says his office is partnering with a company called Delete Me.

The partnership allows those in the state's safe at home program to have their personal information removed from the Internet.

Participants must opt in to the program.

The Kentucky General Assembly passed the safe at home at last year.

It allows people fleeing domestic abuse to shield their home addresses from the public record.

>> Without a court order.

>> The news comes as Secretary Adams is said to be considering a run for governor and 2027.

That's according to the Harvard Law Bulletin, which recently profiled Adams, who was a Harvard graduate.

The Republican is him and his second and final term as Kentucky secretary of state.

Both he and current governor Democrat Andy Beshear are term limited, meaning they can't run for the same office again under state law.

Earlier this year, Adams received the John F Kennedy profile in Courage Award for his role in expanding voting rights in Kentucky and fighting conspiracy theories about election fraud.

Now to this year's election, which is just 22 days away.

How many younger voters will participate?

It's a number that can go up and down from election to election.

We'll talk about the youth vote with a panel of young Democrats and young Republicans tonight on Kentucky tonight.

We hope you'll join us for that at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

A revealing in PR investigation uncovers what TikTok executives KET about the addictive and harmful nature of the social media platform on teens.

What's more?

It's been discovered that kids as young as 15 were stripping on TikTok for paying adults.

We told you Friday about how a Kentucky based reporter brought to light faulty redactions from a lawsuit filed by the state attorney general's office, Kentuckyian more than a dozen other states are suing TikTok for the mental health dangers it poses to teens, Kentucky.

Public Radio's state Capitol reporter Sylvia Goodman unveiled the Secret Internal communications showing a disregard for their effective tools to limit usage and knowledge of the algorithms that prolong kids use that KET them from eating sleeping and even making eye contact and so much more and a continuation of my conversation with Sylvia from Friday.

She talked with us about the end goal of the 14 states attorneys generals and suing TikTok and where things go from here.

>> Us important to know that these are all happening on the state level here.

So they're each focused on their state's consumer protection laws and they can each person each progress differently, depending on the state and they can each take different illegal tactics as well.

So it's not like a federal lawsuit where they're all combined now making moves together.

So in this specific lawsuit, can Kentucky Attorney General Russel Coleman is suing based on Kentucky's consumer protection laws.

And he is asking for, I believe it's $2000 for each violation of the consumer protection law.

And he's also asking that content that TikTok P. Remove that their profits that they've gained a violations against minors be taken away from them.

So they cannot profit from what the attorney general alleges is harming minors.

And he's also asking for the judge to issue an injunction against this behavior in the future.

Let's talk about how you came across all of this, right?

Because as we understand it, you took the redacted documents from Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is the what the documents he had and you are able to C the redacted or blacked out elements of those documents.

How did you do that?

Sure.

So really how it started at the very beginning is our incredible Enterprise.

Capitol reporter Joe Sonka just told me, Oh, I think this lawsuit is going to come in sometime today in Scott County of all places is not where you'd expect the attorney general to >> be making news.

And I just was checking for that last regularly.

Honestly, I didn't think it would be a huge story.

I mean, like we said, this is being filed and 13 other states in already been filed in many of those states.

And we've seen plenty of reporting out of them.

And then I finally got the Stockman back.

I noticed large portions redacted, which is not necessarily unusual, but it certainly is noteworthy and honestly, every time I see redaction, I do a few things to see if I can get behind it because oftentimes is information that is of value to the public eye.

You know, obviously don't want to be.

Revealing personal information about someone or things like that.

But when it comes to especially a lawsuit like this of such public interest, I want to see what's behind that.

And I wish I could say I used some incredible technique.

I use some high tech software, but it really wasn't.

I just was checking if the text underneath that redaction was intact and it was and I was able to literally copy and pasted and pasted into a new document.

It.

We're talking the lowest level of technological awareness here.

And I was able to read every single word of the redaction.

Well, I'm sure the attorney general's office wasn't pleased about this, right?

What was their response to your finding?

>> So the attorneys jet, but the attorney general was not pleased from my understanding immediately or soon after I reported some early reporting on answers about what action.

>> On the local level they filed in state court to have the >> complaint sealed.

And the judge a accepted that that was yesterday afternoon that the judge said that it was OK to seal that document.

But I got it originally as a public document and the redaction was faulty and was able to get all that information when it was still a public document.

So where do we go from here, Sylvia, we know that this story, a man not to say that's just the beginning as you've been working on this for a while.

But for those of us who are just now reading you and Osaka in NPR's.

>> Reporting, I mean, this is got a whole nother life to it right now.

>> It definitely does.

I mean, one of the things I was talking about when I was working with NPR reporters is that basically every paragraph of this reaction feels like a story of its own.

I could go into depth about each one.

I mentioned one of them about the internal investigation into their screen time the edges and there are no guardrails, but there's a lot more to dig into here.

Really.

And we'll continue to do that and continue to look into it.

But as far as this lawsuit itself, those these I suspect will take a long time.

Any lawsuits of this kind of caliber of reach our?

>> Going to take a long time.

And so will.

>> And I might expect to still be looking into this years from >> And Washington is taking notice of the NPR report on Friday.

A bipartisan pair of senators, Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn have asked TikTok to turn over, quote, all documents and information related to disclosures about child safety.

>> Some of Louisville's most vulnerable will soon have a place to call home, state and local officials along with community leaders broke ground on a 40 unit apartment community for families and individuals living with HIV and AIDS who are homeless or at risk of losing their home.

House of Ruth is the organization behind the new facility called Red Key Landing.

The facility was made possible through a 6 and a half million dollar grant from the American rescue plan U.S. Representative Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky says the new facility will save taxpayers money.

>> Both extraordinarily happy.

Then a little bit cent.

It is so wonderful.

This new 40 room complex is coming in.

It's going to tackle so many of the challenges we see for people who are still impacted by HIV AIDS virus.

It's a little disheartening.

To see the stigma that is still attached.

To see the problems that the individual's face this many decades later.

And then again, bounce back to heart warming.

Why?

I'm so glad we have places like the House of Ruth, because think about it.

Housing is a solution to so many of our problems and what we're celebrating today.

We are celebrating transformation in people's lives.

We're celebrating stable housing.

We're celebrating the ability for people to get the care to get the medical care they need to have a stable roof over their head.

The guests Stable housing here at the House of Ruth.

Will cost the taxpayers less money.

It's going to save taxpayers money to invest in stable housing.

That will increase their ability to get medical care that will decrease the amount of incarceration and crime that goes into it.

And so it shows why these programs are so valuable.

>> The new facility will also have an on-site food pantry.

Today is Columbus Day, but a number of states and cities across the country.

The second Monday in October is also recognized as Indigenous Peoples Day.

It's a counter celebration recognizing the resilience and contributions of Native Americans and 2021.

The Kentucky General Assembly passed resolutions recognizing today as Indigenous Peoples Day.

The resolutions noted many tribes have lived in Kentucky for thousands of years, including the Cherokee Shawnee and Chickasaw Angela Arnett Garner is one of the people most responsible for pushing state lawmakers to take action.

She says the focus continues to be getting the day recognized as a federal holiday.

>> I believe that it's been proven that.

And can track it is that, you know, we we've passed 30 35 either county city or say Prop indigenous people say proclamations since 2007 chain.

I think that, you know, if you can demonstrate that it can be good that you can garner widespread support.

And I one of the most staunchly conservative states in the United States than it can happen anywhere and they need to consider and the you know, if you can neutralize this issue politically and one of the most concerning of state and they need to take a look at federal recognition.

I've been in touch where that is.

some of that representatives that have offered legislation.

But they always included.

That stipulation that they want to discontinue Christopher Thomas a while also providing new legislation for recognition of indigenous people say, and I think it's just going to take time.

I think it's a step-by-step process of eliminating those false beliefs about purse for Thomas.

>> An estimated 30,000 indigenous people are living in Kentucky today.

Last week we hosted a live call in to help get answers to some of your questions about enrolling in Medicare, a Federal Health insurance program for Americans age 65 and older questions continue to Kamen Medicare enrollment open enrollment begins tomorrow.

So today we're answering more of your questions with the help of Justin Alt an agent with Kentucky Health Solutions.

It's part of Katie's next chapter initiative which focuses on the rewards and challenges of aging.

>> Yeah, so part A and part B is what we call the original Medicare.

So that's kind of your base is the way I look at it.

And then we add on top of that with your secondary things like Pardee Park Co those Medigap slash Medicare supplement plans.

Right?

And so is usually your hospital and skilled nursing care.

Part B, is your outpatient medical.

So doctors visits er ambulance, things like that.

And then your part B is prescription drugs and then the C and supplement those generally will help cover some of the other costs, depending on what you need.

>> And you did.

And Roland, each part individually.

>> Not always.

So kind of depends.

So part C includes A B and B, OK, what kind of confusing with the other option?

You could also just have original Medicare with a Medigap or Medicare supplement, and then a stand-alone part B.

So it's kind of like you have your AB base and then you have the option one, which is the Medigap Medicare supplement with a stand-alone party.

And then as option to you could do it in vantage instead.

So you choose option one or option to based off your body.

>> That makes really good sense.

Okay.

Here are some some viewer questions that we've gotten in the days since our Colin program.

Can you talk about the $2000 cap on medication costs?

Will that all come at once?

I would be spread out over the 12 months of the year.

>> Yeah.

So it will.

It could potentially come all at once.

It depends on someone's specific medications.

So the way that we usually will do that as we'll sit down with our clients, grab their list, we plug it all in and it will kind of tell us when are they going to hit that $2000 cap?

So it kind of breaks it down.

Some people that take very expensive.

Brand-name medications will probably hit that cap within the first couple of months of the year, potentially.

And so what Medicare did the reason you have that part of the question of can we spread it out is they brought out a payment program so you can call your drug plan company, whether it's up parts the advantage or if it's a stand-alone drug plan.

And you can ask them, I'd like to be part of the payment program and they can take your medication costs and spread it over the course of the 12 months.

That would be 0 at the pharmacy.

You just pay the company that set payment over the course of the 12.

>> Sounds good.

Okay.

Next question.

What is the latest?

My Yeah.

When is the latest?

My husband can enroll in Medicare.

He has his regular insurance paid up until August, but he turned 65 in February.

>> So that'll come to depend on the type of coverage that this person has.

So because when you first turn 65, that's what we call your initial enrollment period.

It's the 3 months before the month of in the 3 months after your 65th birthday.

As long as you're enrolling, your part B or your part C playing during this period, you won't have a penalty on it.

So with this person, if it's employer coverage that they have this long as it's considered credible, they can stay on the employer coverage through the end of August and then they would have a 60 day window to sign up.

It's called a special enrollment period to sign up for anything for Medicare.

If it's individual coverage such as through the connect marketplace, those plans once you turn 65, if you're eligible for Medicare, you have to sign up for Medicare.

You cannot stay on that individual coverage right?

>> But you cannot sign up for Medicare on the exchange, correct?

Yes.

So that exchange is completely separate from what you turn 65.

If you're eligible for part A and B or even just you are no longer eligible for the marketplace or at least not things, right.

You could still pay full cost, but that gets pretty pricey at that age.

So we understand there is a Medicare open enrollment period.

That is from Mike October.

The 15th to sometime in December.

>> October 15 through December 7th.

That's the annual enrollment period.

Is the specific term they use because that's where you can make changes to the advantage in the drug plan.

So for the following year, any changes made during this period?

The last change you make is the one locked in that starts January.

1st.

>> All right.

Last question.

I turn 65 in June of this year, I tried to enroll in Medicare part a because their website says most people qualify for haven't heard yet.

If it was approved, why ever be able to get Medicare Part B?

>> Yeah.

So with that, it's that question.

With most people qualify for for no premium because, yeah, as long as you've worked at least 10 years or 40 quarters and Pedram Medicare taxes a spree for part B, that part has a monthly premium so you can apply for just if you have other coverage set up.

But if you want to apply for both at the same time, usually do that at the same time.

So if you missed applying for that part B, you could still try to apply for it.

If you're within that initial enrollment period.

If not, there's a Medicare general enrollment period that starts at the beginning of the year.

Usually.

>> Well, Justin, thank you for taking these questions with the associated.

No problem.

Happy to help.

Thank you.

And you can learn more about Medicare enrollment.

And the plans offered by logging on to Medicare Dot God of.

>> And you can see our full one-hour Colin program that we did last Monday to hear answers to other commonly asked questions that is available online on demand at KET DOT Org.

Several Kentucky universities and colleges have come together with the Kentucky Distillers Association for the launch of a new initiative to reduce drug and alcohol abuse on campus.

The Kentucky Coalition for Responsible Alcohol and substance misuse education or as may will help higher education providers take an individual approach and keeping their students safer.

More of that in tonight's Medical News.

>> The goal of the coalition is to promote healthy and safe campus environments.

Right?

So we fit into the framework of the drug free and safe campus communities.

We want to make sure that we're teaching behaviors that set students up for success.

Some of those behaviors are decreasing the risk right involved with alcohol consumption.

And so we're looking at teaching alcohol responsibility, decreasing impair an a drinking and driving and substance misuse education.

Although we are housed at the University of Kentucky, we are partnership a month 11 colleges and universities spread throughout the great commonwealth of Kentucky.

When we're developing the program we took into consideration that the unique character is-is that every institution possess.

Right.

So the where they're located, their student population as well as their budget will determine their type of programming for the needs of one campus is very different than the needs of another campus.

And so there's not this magic recipe that I can put out there and and solve the problem, however, and that that moment we've got to work with the institutions directly.

They need to be at the table.

They need to drive the needs so that we have everybody there telling us this is what I'm seeing on my campus.

This is what I'm looking for.

They do have the autonomy to select what best meet the new needs of their students.

So some may consider doing targeted workshop campaign awareness and other opportunities mocktail events, opportunities.

But again, that's going to be based on what's most beneficial to their student population and their stakeholders.

We're going to be meeting regularly.

We're going to be doing a shared assessment so we can understand what are what are the behaviors like on all of our campuses respectively?

How do we work together to meet those needs to reduce that.

The harms a brown substance misuse on our campuses.

shared survey is a big piece of that to help us understand the problem.

And then from there to provide the training and the support and resources for the schools involved.

We also will provide some financial resources for those schools, too, create a strategic plan based on those data points, but then have money to implement that strategic plan since a lot of schools do not have additional resources for health promotion work and or substance misuse prevention.

Like when you know better, you do better right?

And if we think once I go to college ahead, the leeway in the freedom to just be to explore, to engage in things we don't necessarily make great choices, right?

And so we want to give students those skills to be responsible in their behavior responsible in this election, the choices that they may but also want, you know, better share that that knowledge with other people.

And so that's again, we talk about student engagement.

That's how we'll get students engage, will teach them about bystander training, how to advocate for themselves and others, but also how to be a part of the solution and not necessarily the problem.

♪ >> Louisville's oldest independent bookstore celebrated 45 years in business this year.

AOC Harris, our Kelsey Starks explores the history of the family-owned treasure.

That is Carmichael's Bookstore.

>> We're second generation family-owned and second generation weapon on.

>> Carmichael's Bookstore first opened its doors in 1978.

On that corner of Bardstown Road.

And Bonnie Castle just a few blocks from where it is today.

>> It was 2 floors and so new and used books after a couple of years they moved to the current Bardstown Low road location at longest and then Heidi Brothers opened up in the back.

So we had the bookstore and coffee shops, energy and then Ramsey's.

The restaurant next door opened up.

So that really became a hub for Bardstown Road.

>> For its founders, married couple, Carol Bessie and Michael logs.

It was a perfect storm.

You could say Bardstown Road was just starting to emerge after the 1974 tornado outbreak.

Carole and Michael, who combined their names to create carmichaels wanted to create a family-owned neighborhood bookstore that would last.

>> I think that Carole and Michael were extremely smart in the locations.

They chose.

They chose corners in neighborhoods.

So it's hard not to think of us as a neighbor when you're walking your dog, pastor doors every day where when you're jogging by, were literally in the neighborhood.

>> Now in 2 neighborhoods, Carmichael, second location opened on Frankfort Avenue in Louisville's Crescent Hill neighborhood in 1999, their 3rd location, Carmichael Kids opened in 2019 just about a block from their original location.

Caroline Michel, retired and sold the store to their daughter and her cousin in 2019, keeping it in the family.

>> How did that day is the bank you now?

They have about 30 employees in there, 3 stores and a handful are still family members.

They say it was that family and community mentality.

That was their heartbeat through the pandemic.

>> We ended up being closed for 3 months.

So we completely head up and our business model.

We had to pivot and rely on our website which we built out.

We had to rely on delivery and curbside pickup.

It was very sweet.

They would leave us notes.

One day we came in and there is a heart made of rose petals on the front stoop that somebody had made just to say that they missed a U.S..

It was really heartening.

But it was also very scary time because we honestly didn't know like a lot of other businesses will only be able to survive this.

>> Now they've been surviving for 45 years.

Louisville's oldest, independent bookstore and one of the oldest in the country and getting a national following.

>> We have a unique relationship with our local rapper Jack Harlow, who is a regular customer of Carmichaels.

He is a true blue reader.

We can attest to that.

But we're also really honored and kind of amazed that we as an independent bookstore got name checked in his song and he actually shot part of the video on our stupid our Frankfort Avenue Store.

And it's so funny that we get we'll get online orders from places all over the country saying I saw you in the Jack Harlow video and we want to order something or people were visiting for another reason.

They say, oh, we have to go to carmichaels because it's in the Jack Harlow video.

So we think that's super cool.

And really, honestly, I don't know of any other independent bookstores.

You could brag on that.

>> Michaels is just one part of the newest episode of Inside Louisville.

That is all about reading.

You can stream it now online and on demand at KET DOT Org.

We have a couple of birthdays and some interesting Kentucky.

First as our toe begins, looks back at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Kentucky's 6th Governor George Madison died in office, October 14th, 18 16.

He was the first Kentucky governor to die in office.

He'd only been governor for 40 days.

He was succeeded by Gabriel Slaughter who was sworn in the same day.

Jorge Madison, by the way, was a second cousin to President James Madison.

Happy birthday to Richard.

Am Johnson born October 17, 17, 80 near Louisville Johnson served in various offices before becoming vice president of the United States in 18, 37 under President Martin Van Buren.

>> Georgia Davis Powers was born October 1990, 23 in Jimtown in Washington County in 1967, he became the first woman and the first person of color elected to serve in the Kentucky state Senate where she served for 21 years.

Country music legend Loretta Lynn made her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry on October 15, 1960.

Lawrence Welk and his orchestra performed in Rupp Arena on October 17, 1976.

The first band to perform there.

Former UK basketball coach Adolph Rupp was in the crowd.

A crowd so Big Rupp Arena ran out of popcorn.

The Kentucky Colonels, the Louisville based team in the American Basketball Association played their first game on October 14, 1967, they lost to the Indiana Pacers.

117 to 95.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history, I'm told, begins.

>> Thank youto be gives to do it for us tonight.

We hope to see you right back here again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central on Kentucky EDITION.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Take good care.

♪