>> Donald Trump criticizing Senator Mitch McConnell again and some say this attack went too far.

>> Then we learned that most then one in people would die.

And the other.

>> Help is here for people with Lou Gehrig's disease.

>> Which means a lot.

It takes How black students were actually educated before integration.

>> How this month's all-black school house is still teaching many lessons.

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The owner Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Monday, October, the 3rd, thank you so much for joining us.

I'm Renee Shaw.

>> The death toll from Hurricane Ian is now 88.

According to CNN and across the state, more than 600,000 people are still without power after the storm hit last week.

Help is there from Kentucky.

This is video of Kentucky utilities trucks as they left Lexington last Wednesday.

They went into a staging area in Tennessee before moving on to Florida to help restore power.

The lock of rain is a problem now in parts of Kentucky.

This is the latest map from the U.S. drought monitor.

Now yellow means abnormally dry and that now includes parts of central and southern Kentucky.

That was not the case a couple of weeks ago.

Brown, which you see in Western Kentucky means moderate drought Kentucky's fall want wildlife season began a wildfire season rather began Saturday and runs through December.

The 15th, it is illegal to burn out doors between 6 in the morning and 6 at night within 150 feet of any woodman's brush, dry grass or other flammable materials.

Tim Ehling is with the Daniel Boone National Forest.

He says the lack of rain could KET fire crews busy.

>> We're it has been dry.

And September was was quite No rainfall was quite a bit below average.

And here we are in October.

Seems like that pattern is continuing.

So it is a concern.

You know, we're we're getting that first frost probably any day now that also contributes to the dying off of vegetation, grasses.

It relieves I've already seen some leaves falling on the ground.

So we're in fire season unless we get some rain, it potentially could be a rough versus what has happened.

Here's people may leave their camp site next day.

You know, Anna camp for the night before they think the camp Fire is out.

And they leave and then it turns out it was still very hot bed of ash.

The wind kicks up.

And the ashes.

Get blown out, maybe into a pile of leaves, you know, in the fall.

So we asked people poor little water on it.

There are those ashes up with a stick.

Dealing with the back here and make sure it's CU and you can safely.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> To Eastern Kentucky town's could be getting an economic boost.

Thanks to new funding by the federal government.

The city of Jenkins in Letcher County and McKee and Jackson County were among 8 cities in the South selected for the recreation economy for rule communities program.

The program is an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to draw more people to national forests and parks.

The chair.

The McKee Trail Town committee said the project will provide economic growth and new opportunities for the city.

>> Trans and one record.

This growing industry.

So I thought this would be appropriate way to get professional help to kind of how to be a good, a tourist destination.

We're trying to figure out how can we make the Forest Service, you know, an economic asset to us.

So we've got over 15,000 acres of National Forest Service in our counties to over 27% of our property is I have been public lands.

So I read about this grant assistance.

I said that sounds like we would be a perfect candidate boards and were requirements is you have to have a lot of public land in your community.

So I packed sounds perfect for our community.

work with them.

That can trail can group to try to establish recreational opportunities.

So that is a one-stop wait.

City one-stop, Wake County of housing people in the city and still increase in the community.

We feel that Jackson County could move to get wearing to open.

That is contacting because we're not too far off the interstate from the northern end with all this National Forest Service property that basically the passes over the news for logging in some camping in the 70's that established this week, Ali trains, which is saying I mean trail, the longest in Kentucky that goes all the way from Tennessee need to almost Ohio.

And then we have and transcontinental bike route that goes from coast to coast assessment about 3 to 4,000 people a year right through that trail comes right.

Correct.

Crowd and both people who are looking for by June and showers place is to tap.

So we're kind of like a a natural herb with those 2 trails for years.

We'll have a regional trails coming through our community, which is huge.

So if we can no package all this together and get people back to us to want to experience for the whole week long experience in our county.

They're going to bring in our team are professionals and help us to very process help us establish goals.

And you know, so it may be some but actual tools in order to get to where we want to go.

So we're excited that maybe this helping us develop the plan could also help set up something to help.

Local people that want to start a business.

It started we could hurt her actors and sector because we really, you know, that's a a good mover.

>> The U.S. Forest Service said the federal planning team will work with each community over the course of 4 to 6 months to develop strategies for their outdoor recreation economies.

If you're not a registered Kentucky voter, but you want to be remember the date October 11th.

That's a week from tomorrow.

You have to register by October, 11th to vote in the November.

8th know midterm elections and you can register in person or online by that day.

At 4 o'clock.

If you want to register by mail with your county clerk, your mail has to be postmarked October.

11th at the latest.

If you're not sure if you're registered, go to go vote K why dot com to find out.

We'll talk about the race for the U.S. Senate and the issues in that race with Democratic nominee Charles Booker on Kentucky tonight tonight.

We also invited Senator Rand Paul, but he did not respond to our invitation.

You can see our interview with Charles Booker at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

There's new criticism of former President Donald Trump after he accused Senator Mitch McConnell of having a quote death wish and a social media post Friday Trump criticized McConnell for McConnell support of a spending plan to KET the government operating and to provide money for Ukraine and for communities hit by natural disasters and the post Trump said if McConnell supported the measure, quote because he believes in the fake and highly destructive Green New Deal and he's willing to take the country down with them.

He has a death wish.

Trump was also critical of McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Trump's secretary of Transportation.

A Trump spokesman denies that Trump met death wish in the literal sense.

He says McConnell is hurting himself politically.

Senator McConnell has not responded to the attack.

A former state lawmaker is headed to prison.

Robert Goforth pleaded guilty in May to billing Medicare and Medicaid for prescriptions.

Customers didn't pick up go for 1000 pharmacy in Clay County, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports a judge sentenced Goforth to 2 years and one month in federal prison.

He'll report November 18th.

Goforth is a former Republican state representative who ran for governor in 2019.

History is made in Lexington, as Angela Evans becomes the first black county attorney in Kentuckyian the first black woman lead prosecutor Judge Pamela, Good ones.

Warren Evans on Friday.

Evans won the Democratic primary in May.

And since there is no Republican running the outgoing Larry Roberts resign.

So Evans could take office early.

Evans is a former member of the Urban County Council who also served as a public defender and an assistant attorney general.

78% of Kentuckians gambled last year, according to the National Council on Problem Gaming, as Kentucky expands gaming with historical horse racing machines.

Some are concerned about the potential for problem gambling.

Our Casey Parker Bell explains a proposal heard in Frankfort that could address this issue before it gets worse.

>> As our society moves towards a a legitimate buys.

Ation acceptance of gambling is part of our culture.

We need to have programs that.

Educate last week.

Legislators heard a proposal on how the state can help address problem gambling.

>> The state would set money aside initially $150,000 to help get people into treatment.

John Arnett, a former attorney and a gambling addict, says the program could get people help before it's too late at the time that I was going through the active part of my addiction.

There were no gambling councilors in northern Kentucky.

There are no treatment facilities in northern attack, but some state legislators say the initial $150,000 may not be enough.

>> I'm just curious about how these funds are accessed by the patient to him.

Do they?

They go and how do you establish eligibility?

Our?

>> I guess recommendation or discussion would be that those wreck that those funds would flow through either a certified gambling counselor who would bill for services rendered as they do for treatment of substance use.

And that would primarily and its grid getting larger.

Go to insurance companies.

>> Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer didn't say whether he would support state money helping provide treatment for problem.

Gambling.

But he did say legislators should consider whether the treatment should be funded.

We spend a lot of money.

>> Counseling and prevention for things that are illegal like drugs, which continue to be a pro, basically negative influence on our society.

My rhetorical question today is, is it really the job of the taxpayers to fund?

Recovery programs for addictions to things that are legal for Kentucky edition.

I'm Casey Parker Bell >> thank you, Casey.

According to the Kentucky Council on Problem Gambling about 160,000 Kentuckians have problem, gambling traits and 64,000 have a gambling addiction.

Around 20,000, Americans are currently living with a l ast or Lou Gehrig's disease.

According to the A L S association, 5,000 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year.

The FDA recently approved a new drug to treat a last despite concerns by some in the scientific community.

They say the drug did not undergo the same rigorous testing.

Most drugs do.

But one Kentucky man battling the disease says a L s patients like himself did not have time to wait.

>> This is a great, great win for the homeless community patients when other initially diagnosed are just devastated.

That attack know that just because of the severity of it and you know, anything that can give them help in any type of medication, drug treatment or anything that can give an extended life expectancy.

I mean that they they're they're searching for that.

They're wanting that this was something that we were, you know, that we we were excited to promote it and one can get for our patients.

It could potentially add tend 18 months.

>> To a person's lifespan.

Now, that doesn't sound like much tonight, but when you consider that somebody they'll asked dies within 18 months or the Max 5 years, the 18 month.

Good at anywhere from 25 to 70% of their life.

>> It's gone through 2 phases so far and has proven to be so far safe and effective.

The phase 3 trial for this drug is going to be done by 2024.

And this is what makes this so great.

The FDA does not usually approve a drug without a phase.

3.

>> Trial COVID kind of taught us that that we needed to get drugs to market faster mail is people really can the word to wait.

>> Along the years, years or even sometimes decades process.

>> 4.

A drug that could go through all the research and studies and the approval process.

>> They're desperate.

There.

Is there live to really have a 3 to 5 year.

Mike Spann, once you're diagnosed with a less.

>> As best is people are diagnosed and one in people are dying on the other end.

>> As far as we know right now, this is not a this is not causing any harm.

So if it has any promise it all, it's worth.

It's worth the risk.

>> I might live to see my son graduate high school.

I lived to see our young this.

What we had to school my with the sea.

My daughter graduate my sons.

Could there be risks?

Yes, it could be.

Let let's face terminally ill.

I'm going to take that risk potentially if I think there's a reward for him.

>> According to loss association, some insurance companies will not pay for the drugs.

So not all a L S patients will have access to it.

♪ >> The Courier Journal will have a new landlord.

The newspaper says a company called 5.25 West Broadway.

Louisville bought the eight-story building for more than 11 million dollars.

The building remained the newspaper's headquarters.

Kentucky has too many barriers keeping adults from going to college and that's keeping them from finding good jobs.

A new report from the Kentucky Council on post-secondary education addresses ways to change that.

The report says Kentucky has one of the lowest workforce participation rates in the U.S. at 56.3%.

The council says too many adults can't go to college because they're working full-time.

Their parents or they have poor health or food and housing insecurity.

The report urges the launch of a statewide portal with financial aid information, expanded financial assistance, a simplified admissions process and expand its support for students who need help with food, housing and transportation.

Here's more college news.

Murray State University is celebrating 100 years as an institution.

I recently sat down with MSU President Bob Jackson, who just coauthored a book about the university's ton Tenney.

All celebration.

>> We are blessed with wonderful faculty, warfel staff, wonderful students that is made Murray State a special place for 100 years now.

>> And and >> you know, over that entire long period of time, that's always been the case.

We just KET we just KET bringing individuals in and few people leave.

It seems any from from the standpoint of.

>> I'm not for most of us who are there and and >> factory roles in leadership roles are not from there.

But week, all mater write, write This.

My undergraduate alma mater.

I love the place.

So I landed there a long time ago and I've had the for good fortune doing a lot of things.

But that's the story of a lot of faculty members and Daines and chairs and administrators.

That's what makes it a special place.

>> You can see my full interview with MSU President Bob Jackson online right now on demand at KET DOT Org.

Slash connections.

♪ Bullet counties last all-black school house has a new purpose.

The Bowman's Valley schoolhouse closed in 1957.

After schools were desegregated, the one room build in sight for decades, boarded up and in disrepair until a group of volunteers got the building donated to the Bullet County School District and moved it next to what's Dale School restored one room schoolhouse for white students at a ceremony last week, it was announced that the Bowman's Valley School would serve as a museum and learning center.

Volunteers and those who attended the school said it's the best way to connect the past and the present.

♪ >> This it means a lot to help education and developed.

>> How black students were actually educated before integration.

It had to be say that's how it got started.

But what about the school set about 6 Miles where it's located now?

And it has been there for a long time.

It had been a news since Brown versus Board of Education and that school no longer in use.

It was closed down the students were integrated into the other existing schools.

And it just sat there and it deteriorated.

So tell me Ott who drove by, he said and KET and felt that with that school should not just dissolve and be torn down and she gathered phone and said we're going to do this.

We're going to move the school.

So that was kind of an undertaking.

You know, he was like why, you know, it's just going to be a building.

Know we're going to fix up.

We're going to make it good.

>> It's an opportunity for us to acknowledge and celebrate the rich history and heritage of education in our community.

My mother's, my sisters, my cousins all went to the school before me.

I went to school in 1956.

Were I attended the first grade.

>> And after that, we were moved to Robi Elementary School.

As for important to me to see that people took interest in our school to KET it going.

So people wouldn't have some history behind the school that they attend.

We got to acknowledge the history that have all.

>> Hadn't been through it and to ensure that folks know where we come from and the growth that we made through generations because we want to continue to grow.

We don't want to be a finished product.

And so it's extremely important to acknowledge where we've been several years where we are now and where we need to continue to go in order to try and provide educational opportunities and and to make for a better future for every one of our community.

I would just like to say, thanks to all the people that had this Don, its work is really a preview to us.

All my family and I'm very quiet.

♪ ♪ >> The Bowman Valley Schoolhouse Restoration Project took 14 years and more than $100,000 to complete.

The museum is open to the public by appointment.

♪ We're in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month.

It actually spans 2 months from September 15 to October.

15th.

I recently spoke our Sadie's Harnett, a local teacher and artist from Peru about what we can learn from each other during the celebration.

>> We have, you know, like I always encourage our students to learn about the culture, even though we are the friends.

I think it's okay you know, I make a big difference on their life and theirs.

They won their encourage, you know, feel like the about different cultures.

You know, I'm from Fayette County Public School and they are suffering.

He's been ahead the months through many at the because her out.

But that's an indicator I I tried to do my best to teach our kids.

The friend called to my foot the nation in where I am mostly white Americans.

So it's important for them to know and do not experience the front focus, for example, that I think the first of all, they're not going to see whether very important.

I thought months ago and to, you know, to watch our performances and to say that, because I I don't think that whenever a experiencing something that I do want to talk about your beautiful performances and this is the dress and everything.

I mean, it is.

>> Magnificent and color for a year graft.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, it took us a long time food.

Yes to that that we are.

We did perform with a, you know, live with But it's one Who made that happen?

Yeah, well, it certainly is beautiful.

And you're just in chance when you watch it.

So what do you hope people will take away from this month-long celebration about, you know, appreciating our Hispanic Latino brothers and sisters.

We are all the same, you know, as so.

Therefore, we have said, though, the Francis, but for sure, we are all this and we're all people overall import them, which is actually something that we have to all remember all of us we'd be on the defense.

Bring this mom is like we just need to pay attention to more to the fun things.

But in reality, this although year long is that we are here where Preston we're in for Don, we're very import them or force so to have to, you know, get along understand each other, which is important.

>> Hispanic Heritage Month officially ends October.

15th, you know, Kentucky hands of excelled on the basketball court and the Supreme Court so begins as a little bit of both and a key civil war battle in tonight's look at this week in Kentucky, history.

>> It was Kentucky's biggest civil war battle union and Confederate forces met in Perry bill on October 8, 18.

62 losses were heavy on both sides.

It was one of the bloodiest battles the entire war as a percentage of troops killed or wounded.

The union suffered greater casualties, but the battle was still a strategic victory for the union.

It into the Confederate offensive and forced the south to withdraw from Kentucky for the rest of the war.

>> One of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justices.

Louis Brandeis died October 5th 1941.

At the age of 84.

He was born in Louisville.

In 18, 56 became a lawyer and was eventually appointed to the high court by Woodrow Wilson.

In 1968.

>> He was the first Jewish Supreme Court justice and was considered the court's leading defender of free speech Brandeis, retired from the court in 1939.

Happy birthday to former NBA player Chris Whitney.

Born October 5th, 1971, in Hopkinsville.

He played in Christian County High School, Clemson and began his NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs before moving on to the Washington bullets.

Denver Nuggets and others before retiring in 2004.

People from Kentucky to New York Watch the so called Peekskill Meteor streaking across the night Sky on 10/9/1992.

It was a Friday and at least 16 people, many of the high school football fans shot video of it.

26 pound meteor hit a 1980, Chevy Malibu in Peekskill New York.

The car which had been worth $300, then sold for 69,000.

And that's a look at some of the big events this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.

>> Thank you, Toby.

And speaking of history, a staple in downtown Lexington is celebrating a milestone.

The Kentucky theater is turning 100.

It survive several recession's, a devastating fire and COVID tomorrow.

We'll look back at the theater's history and a look at what's coming to the theater in the near future.

We do hope you'll join us again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky.

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We talk about the issues in the U.S. Senate race here in Kentucky.

Democratic nominee Charles Booker will be with U.S..

Senator Rand Paul did not respond to our invitation to attend, but we hope to take your questions on this very important race.

That's tonight, 8 eastern 7 central right here on to it until I see you a little later.

Take really good care.

Have a great night.

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