If the strike over the latest on a deal between Ford and Union workers and what it means for workers.

Paychecks.

>> There's blood stains on the floors.

can make you.

Relive what that time was like.

>> This Kentucky town was the center of the key civil war battle.

So is the town now haunted?

>> It's very startling to have this colorful inch long insects, sort of white, a white down on your shoulders.

>> And it's just what Kentucky needed a new bug.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Thursday, October.

26.

>> I'm Christie then in for Renee Shaw.

Thank you so much for joining us.

And Lynn in could be in sight to the United Auto Workers strike more than a month after it started.

The strike began September 15th, 8700 workers at the Ford Truck plant in Louisville joined the strike October 11th.

They U A W now says it has reached a tentative deal with Ford as part of that deal, workers will get a 25% raise over 4 and a half years.

Plus cost of living raises it would add up to about $40 per hour 4 top scale assembly plant workers by the end of the contract.

That deal still needs approval by Ford's 57,000 Union workers.

It's hoped that the 4 deal could set the pattern for other agreements with the other 2 automakers with this deal, workers have returned to the will of a Ford truck plant.

In political news.

They Lexington Herald-Leader today endorsed Governor Andy Beshear's bid for reelection.

The newspaper's editorial said Bashir has been an unflappable presence throughout some of our past U.S. history rising above politics to emphasize the needs of all Kentucky INS.

He has created a better Kentuckyian deserves a second term to continue his work.

The Herald leader said this year's Republican opponent, Attorney General Daniel Cameron chose not to meet with the newspaper's editorial board.

The newspaper says according to its policy, he was disqualified for endorsement consideration because of that.

The Herald leader also question whether Cameron quote, Can rise above his extremist rhetoric aimed at the for this right-wing portions of the state.

The newspaper is also endorsing Michael Adams, the Republican running for a second term as secretary of state.

The editorial annnounced announcing the endorsement praises Adams a quote, a stalwart defense of democracy and his willingness resist the most extreme elements of the former President, Donald Trump wing of the Republican Party.

Adams worked with Governor Beshear during the COVID pandemic to allow early voting and expanded voting by mail.

The Herald leader praised Adams is Democratic opponent, former state representative buddy Wheatley and said he would be a fine secretary of state.

But the newspaper said a Republican led General Assembly would never agree to his plans to expand voting in Kentucky.

It's been 8 years since Kentucky commissioner of Agriculture.

The position is about more than just farming.

Kentucky's AG Department is also in charge of regulating things like pesticides and beehives to gas pumps and even roller coasters.

Renee shot recently sat down with both candidates, Democrat Sierra in low and Republican Jonathan Shell.

>> It's been really interesting to travel across the state because every region of Kentucky really has a different issue that they're facing in something that they want to get from the commissioner of Agriculture and I'm very fortunate have grown up in the agriculture community.

So it's been a lifetime in western when I was a high when I was in college all the way through my cooperative extension extension experience and my involvement with different agriculture organizations over the course of my career here, what's been really interesting about this race is that agriculture doesn't just impact the rural Kentucky ends that we typically think about.

And I in this is something I've been talking about a lot on the campaign trail that every Kentucky in votes for the commissioner of agriculture because it really impacts every Kentucky ends live.

It's been interesting to see how that message plays for urban audience is we typically think about agriculture in the Commission of Agriculture's office is doing work in production, agriculture, but it does a lot to help consumer the consumer side of the conversation.

So there's a lot of space in that feed.

Access space for commissioner of Agriculture to play an advocacy role to really make a difference.

I mean, one of the things I'm gonna spend a lot of time focusing on is thinking about how we get our Kentucky Farm products from the farm gate into the corporate supply chain in advocating for farmers in corporate boardrooms because we haven't had the same, you know, space at the table when we're talking about workforce development, economic development advocating for markets that other industries in Kentucky have.

And I think that that's a great place for your commissioner of agriculture to advocate for Kentucky farmers is that those tables and in that space, I've been really pleased with this campaign.

>> And how we've been able to motivate from a grassroots perspective of getting people involved that filled this disenfranchised in many ways in politics.

The word that they don't feel like their voice is being heard.

You know, your average American, your average Kentucky.

And that's out there.

You know, my wife and I we struggle to pay our bills.

I mean, I'm a farmer.

She's a nurse practitioner.

We've got 4 kids.

Yeah, and a lot of personally, Phil, Frozen out of the economy.

I personally feel frozen out of cultural experiences and I think that many Kentuckians feel the same way because whether it's you know, in this cancel culture that we have now you can feel free to express yourself in the way that you fill in.

You believe, you know, we've lost that American experience and you almost feel frozen out of it.

And the people that I talked to, they feel frozen in their circumstances right now.

Whether you're a, you know, wealthy to the comparison of other people or whether you're middle income, what myself or my family or whether you're a small business owner.

It's hard to plan for the future anymore.

It's hard to be able to grasp beyond your current subsistence place to be able to look to the future to plan, not only for yourself, but for your kids.

Future and beyond.

And so you know what?

I've what I've really enjoyed about this campaign is that I feel like I'm going to have those conversations to understand people's plight and their areas better to where the eye can see where this disenfranchisement this frozen.

This comes from and I'm not saying I've got the solution for.

I'm not saying that I'm going to go in there.

They by circumstances or change, but I feel it.

I understand it.

I know it.

And that's what they're getting.

>> Watch the full interview with both candidates for AG Commissioner Sunday morning at 11, 30 East earn 10, 30 central on KET connections.

We're 12 days away from the November 7th election.

And you will see the candidates for Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Jacqueline Coleman and Republican Robby Mills next Monday on Kentucky tonight, moderated by our Renee Shaw.

And you can send us your questions.

Join us next Monday at 80 Stern, 7 Central.

Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted 412 to 10 in favor of a resolution supporting Israel in its fight with Hamas.

6 members voting present.

Only one Republican voted no.

Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

Massey says he condemns the Hamas attack on Israel and believes in Israel's right to defend itself.

But he gave several reasons he couldn't back the resolution.

Massey says the resolution calls for sanctions on a sovereign country and that often leads to war.

He says the resolution commits the U.S. to foreign aid, which we Ford.

He says it includes an open, ended promise of U.S. military support and he says it could bring the conflict to other countries.

On the Senate floor yesterday.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky denounced Anti-Semitism remarks and incidences in the United States since the war with Hamas began.

And he says there is no comparison between the attack on Israel and Israel's response.

>> There's no room for false moral equivalency.

Let me repeat that.

There's no room for fall are all we must not forget who is responsible?

And we must hold them accountable.

Terror and self-defense or not.

The center.

I want to start of the war.

But the other side.

We'll finish it.

And United States must give Israel the time space and support.

To bring Anderson people home.

>> And bring murderers terrorists.

Justin.

>> Senator McConnell also released a statement about the mass shooting in Maine that left 18 dead and 13 wounded.

McConnell said, quote, I was devastated to hear the news last night of a deadly shooting in Lewiston, Maine.

I know the entire Senate stands behind our colleagues.

Senator Collins and Senator King as they helped their state marshal.

Its response, we pray, especially for the victims of this senseless violence for their families and for the law enforcement personnel working tire slee tirelessly to save lives and bring the suspect to justice, unquote.

Governor Beshear has ordered flags lowered to half staff for victims of the mass shooting in Maine.

And Senator McConnell also praise Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana after House Republicans elected him speaker of the House yesterday.

The House had gone 3 weeks without a speaker after Republicans ousted Congressman Kevin McCarthy.

McConnell said he and Johnson would be meeting soon to discuss the growing list of important business Congress must address in the coming weeks.

Johnson won unanimous support from House Republicans in yesterday's vote.

Congressman James Comer of Kentucky's first congressional district posted this on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Quote, I was proud to support my friend, Representative Mike Johnson today to be the next House speaker.

He is the right man at the right time.

And this Republican conference stands behind him.

I look forward to working with him to advance conservative priorities and hold the president accountable, end quote.

Congressman Andy Barr of the 6th district in Central Kentucky posted this picture of himself with the new House speaker and Congressman Barr wrote, quote, Mike's and wavering dedication to our conservative agenda will allow us to quickly return to the work of the American people.

Please join me in congratulating Speaker Johnson, unquote.

The only Democrat in Kentucky's House delegation is Congressman Morgan McGarvey of Louisville.

He says he's glad Republicans finally picked a speaker but doesn't seem impressed with the choice.

McCartney said, quote, to reach any consensus, traditional Republican still had to bow to the most extreme wing of their party and select a far-right Republican who reflects their own popular an extremist views.

Speaker Johnson played a key role in trying to invalidate the 2020 election results supports a national abortion ban and has introduced a federal don't say gay bill to further isolate, vulnerable, vulnerable LGBTQ youth, unquote.

McGarvey says he's at least really the House can resume its work again.

Now, the latest on Kentucky's opioid battle this week.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron released a letter he sent to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security O Hondo Mayorkas.

It employee the department to stop the flow of fentanyl to the U.S. according to Customs and Border Protection, the amount of fentanyl seized in the U.S. has steadily increased in recent years.

The pot, the powerful opioid is the leading cause of overdose deaths.

Both in the country and right here in Kentucky.

Cameron is one of dozens of state attorneys general suing Meta.

The parent company of both Facebook and Instagram.

The suit argues that the company purposefully hurt young people's health by creating addictive features, while claiming those features were safe.

Those features include infinite scroll.

The constant alerts, the lawsuit says Medic Re 8 and those features to get young people hooked and that the company KET they were hurting young people's physical and mental health and hurting their ability to sleep.

The New York Times quotes meant as saying it has done many things to support families and teenagers.

And it's disappointed by the lawsuit.

More homes in eastern Kentucky will soon be built on higher ground.

Governor Beshear was in letter and Floyd County today to make the announcements in Letcher County.

The new Grand View neighborhood will be off us.

23 near Jenkins, roughly 115 homes will be built on the 92 acre lot, which was donated by 3 brothers.

Gregory Garre KET and George Johnson.

In Floyd County.

The Wayland fired volunteer Fire department sold 4 acres of land that will be used to build dozens of homes.

A dozen Federal government set aside 300 million dollars for these projects.

The teen eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund which was created after historic flooding last summer is also helping to pay for the new housing project.

Today's announcement comes days after it was announced that money for housing recovery in the Stern and western Kentucky is now in the hands of groups who can help.

Governor Beshear says 13 and a half million dollars was given to these 9 nonprofits that are focused on helping Kentuckians recover from the 2021.

Tornadoes in western Kentucky in the flooding in eastern Kentucky.

That happened just 6 months later.

The money is coming from the Rule Housing Trust Fund which lawmakers created earlier this year.

Governor Beshear says this first round of money will be used to build 115 new homes and repair more than 40 homes.

Today the state honored members of the Kentucky National Guard in action on the southern border.

And Governor Beshear presented the guard with the governor's outstanding unit citation award.

More than 750 members of the Kentucky National Guard.

We're in the southwest helping federal forces by providing additional security and aviation support.

>> I know the level of security around these issues.

We have not been able to hire service of the traditional want to call it home ceremonies another what she publicly recognize your important parts.

>> About 150 Kentucky National Guard members are still there.

Governor Beshear praised the group saying they've been there during Kentucky's many natural disasters.

Members of the interim joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety were briefed yesterday on suicide rates for Kentucky's National Guard members.

According to the data from the presentation, the National Guard is an understudied group.

>> If you look at 2013, does the National Guard have higher suicide rates?

Does active component have lower 2013 at first made its enough.

The National Guard had much higher suicide rates than the rest of the the evening active duty population.

So there were good healthy conversations about that early on what we've seen over time, though, if you look at the rest of the over the last decade, as these numbers have kind of been floated.

So some years the National Guard does have a little higher suicide rate than the active component.

Sometimes it's a little lower.

The only trends that are really holding consistently from is that the entire veteran and military population does continue to have a significantly higher suicide rate than the general population.

So the conclusion we take from that is none of us are immune.

None of us have figured it out.

None of us have solved the suicide challenge yet.

And so we will not rest.

We will continue to improve our programs.

>> Also brought up at the meeting, a budget proposal for the newly formed urban search and Rescue program.

It would add funding for a statewide type one rescue treat team and how a helicopter aquatic rescue team with wasting capabilities and extended rescue aid programs for teens.

♪ ♪ >> The study of marijuana is hampered by a number of things including state and federal regulations and limited funding here in Kentucky.

It's now legal to possess medical marijuana.

And the General Assembly is funding the UK Cannabis Center to research Medical marijuana on the next episode of Kentucky Health, the center's director Doctor Shana Battle.

Onus says public opinion of medical cannabis is way ahead of the science.

>> Are we being too cautious with is an opening.

I didn't talk about the thalidomide.

Then.

Of course, there are other examples of when of community groups have pushed for the release and use of medications.

I think one can even think about when AIDS just on the horizon and there was a push by the community that was affected by that for the release of medications before complete trials were done.

Is that something that you see might happen even with marijuana?

>> I mean, I think it's already happened, ahead of of of the trials that the FDA would typically use to approve a drug we have seen medical cannabis in.

I think what 3 quarters of the United States.

Now it's it's Permissible Inc.

I think we're already there.

I think we already have.

Permitted it way ahead of where the science is.

The science is so far behind public pressure and public opinion that it's in very saying in that it is for several reasons out of our control, right?

That cannabis as a schedule, one drug it's very hard to get FDA permission to study it and so on and so forth.

There's just too many regulations to be able to study it quickly and effectively but it leaves us so far behind.

And so now we have the situation where it's available in almost every state.

It's available to large population of patients.

The studies aren't there to back it up.

If the studies were there to back it, that it would have FDA approval for many different conditions from many different indications.

Now.

Lower.

Not there yet.

>> You can see Doctor Wayne Texans full interview about medical marijuana this weekend, Kentucky health airs on Sundays at one 30 east earned 12, 30 central right here on KET.

♪ >> He and invasive species now cause Kentucky home.

It's called The Spotted Lantern fly.

Scientists warn the past could have severe repercussions for the state's economy and quality of life.

>> While air flight is an invasive species that's originally from Deja, they were accidently important to the United States.

Starting in Pennsylvania is the first confirmed discovery.

There was in 2014 and ever since they've spread to multiple other states, this initial discovery was in Gallatin County, Kentucky, which is by Sparta, Kentucky.

That's one of the city's The infestation that was discovered there, it was observed by homeowner.

They have legalized and they notice these bugs and they reported it when we're trying to be very helpful and the infestation there is pretty small compared to other spots that you might see say in Pennsylvania or West Virginia.

We don't know if there are in other counties.

We have people making comments right now as we're talking about this past that they've seen it in many different areas.

But we can't verify that without physical evidence of some sort or a photograph of the insect.

So spyware fly zone over 70 different types of plants, maybe up to even 100 different types of plants they love to feed on they have all these different plants that they'll feed on.

But their preferred host says Tree of Heaven.

We do have troops have been in the state.

It is a very common invasive plant in the state and they love to be in railroad They'll be along the roadsides.

They like really disturbed habitat and they grow in these big clusters.

They have kind of compound leaves the bark looks vaguely like cattle of skin.

They're very smelly tree.

If you crack the sticks of them were if you come on down, it's all very rancid.

And that is the host that they like to feed on the most.

They don't bite or sting people or animals, but they do land on us occasionally is very startling to have this colorful inch long insects sort of white, a white down on your shoulder.

So startles people and then the honey do that they produce.

This is their fecal material that happens as they feed on the sap of the plan.

It's very sticky.

Gets all over everything recruits, black sooty They recruit stinging insects that want to drink it and it sort of reduces our enjoyment of the outdoors.

There will be insecticides that people can use right now.

We're hoping that people won't necessarily go out to the store, buy a bunch of products and start spring.

Every insect that they because we just don't want to see that kind of impact on the environment.

But in the future, you may have your trees injected with certain products.

Some people may spray the insects themselves with different compounds and that can help.

Larson says if you think you see a spotted lantern fly, take a picture and send it to report a pest at U K why DOT Edu and please include the name of the county where the picture was taken.

♪ ♪ >> 5 days before Halloween, you may be planning a visit to a haunted house.

Well, how about a haunted town?

The town of Perryville was home to one of the bloodiest battles in the civil war.

Thousands of soldiers were killed today.

The city's reputation for being one of the most hunted little towns in the country may be tied to that grizzly battle.

>> The residents, both those who passed on from a childhood and those who still live today.

>> Have had an experience of some kind with that, which they cannot explain.

>> We had this horrific battle fall 1962.

>> There are stories from residents and visitors alike that they've seen do store her ghost.

>> There are several homes in town.

>> That have handwriting on the walls from soldiers who a listing in the House and maybe Dodd, they was typical for them to write their name, their rank and where they were from.

Some drew pictures of home, a horse, a house >> for the 2 month that that is very common.

There's blood stains on the floors.

>> can make you.

Relive what that time was like.

>> According to Legend, Sam is a Confederate soldier.

Who fought.

>> And died in a terrible.

It is said.

Visitors and residents alike.

What you can see him sometimes on a dark night.

Usually hot.

He will walk out of the opera house dressing is for Confederate uniform.

Cross March and throw.

And walk up the Hill to the Senate to one of the counselors told him parable of a haunting.

>> Has to do with our local beautician.

They were sitting on the front porch of the HP bottom House, which is actually on the battle to grounds.

And she was with a friend of hers.

And they were just enjoying the night when they had a Confederate soldier.

They could identify by the color of his bring India.

>> Walk out of the theme, which is just in front of the home as it sits now made in that and address them in generic form and sending them ladies.

The Lamb will give our position away and he turned and walked back in the same direction from when she come materializing, if you will, as the approaching the materializing using walk away.

>> In the care parks, house in front of the K for the town was settled.

It's said to be a young girl.

That lives in that house and people when driving by are walking by.

>> We have seen her up here in the window and she looks down at the end.

She doesn't waive.

She doesn't smile.

She says standing there looking out the window.

>> Learning history and learning what it was all about and where it came from.

If it goes different architecture of the battle.

Just come for you, Joe experience and learn something from that.

I think that's what's important about to >> we have a wealth of history.

The hauntings are part of that history.

Our motto is our history is our future.

That's what makes care.

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