♪ >> We start just have a reservoir of energy to pull from.

They can just KET rolling and bring that into the atmosphere and intensify.

>> All eyes on Hurricane Milton.

We talked to an expert about what we can expect from the rest of hurricane season.

>> And history.

We are watching a genocide.

A live stream on your phone.

>> More Kentucky reaction to the Israel-Hamas conflict one year later.

>> A future.

It is just expanding that and we're connecting all over the globe through this wonderful gift that aviation has given us.

>> And at UK you, today's students are tomorrow's pilots.

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

♪ ♪ Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Tuesday, October, the 8th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for winding down your Tuesday with U.S.. >> 3 people are dead after a medical helicopter crash last night in Owen County.

>> The crash was near state route.

22 in Owenton and close to one of KET.

He's transmission towers Arie back live stream says the crew was on its way to pick up a patient.

All 3 victims were based out of Grant County.

They've been identified as Gail.

All Inman Bethenny Aiken and James Welch.

Preliminary accident and incident notification by the Federal Aviation Administration says the helicopter struck a guy wire this morning.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear called the crash.

Heartbreaking and asked for prayers for the victims, families and colleagues.

The Legislative Ethics Commission just dismissed a complaint against State Representative Cheryl and Stephen Cent of Lexington, a Democrat.

>> Republican activist from Jessamine counting filed that complaint after Stephenson and a lobbyist Co purchased a Frankfort condo.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the commission voted.

There was no reason to believe Stevenson violated the state ethics code.

Stevenson says the complaint was just election year.

Politics.

She is the House Democratic Caucus chair and a candidate for reelection next month.

The Jefferson County School System says it investigated state Representative Daniel Grossberg, a Democrat of Louisville after claims of inappropriate behavior when he helped shop around a school trip to Europe in June.

The Courier Journal says JCPS found, quote, an efficient amount of evidence Grossberg.

His wife, Erica, is a Spanish teacher at Ballard High School and a phone call with the paper.

Grossberg says he is not surprised JCPS cleared him of all allegations.

Grossberg is accused of sending inappropriate texts to several women, which he also denies.

Kentucky has a new law gets political deepfakes.

The General Assembly said political candidates can sue anyone that alters their image to make them say something they never said or do something that never happened as our June Leffler reports.

Kentucky's top elections official once the same protection.

Secretary of state Michael Adams says voters rely on his office to figure out how to cast a ballot.

>> He says if voters see images of him that can't be trusted, then how can they trust the election process and impersonation of me or my deputy secretary for senior staff of the state Board of Elections or a county clerk.

>> Actually could do more harm.

Then impersonation of a candidate.

A Lexington Republican helped pass a law this year.

That takes aim at political deepfakes.

>> And you're right.

I think that the process and distrust of of was actually being said is, is the greatest danger to a voter.

>> And we want to protect that as much as possible and said the one.

31 when a long way.

And yet there's this tension between free free speech and some of the space and laws in some states have gone pretty aggressive.

Do you have any thoughts on what's that balance between the free speech element and the protection of the process.

>> So I think a law that would, for example, prohibit someone from pretending to be me by clipping my voice or my image and generating something that says the secretary of state says don't vote on Tuesday.

But on Wednesday, things of that nature.

There are already laws against a voter suppression.

They're not written like this like New Hampshire has.

I think I think that's an easy longer right.

And I think it's an easy lot of defending the courtroom.

I think it's a easy love to see a pill.

It's a lot trickier when we start talking about candidates.

Because the First Amendment protects parenting.

To some degree partakes impersonation.

And so there's a you know, there's a periphery out there that's little and tested and we just won't know until we pass some laws and see what the courts say.

>> Current law says political deepfakes count as electioneering.

If they're released within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election for Kentucky edition.

I'm John Leffler.

Thank you, June.

And now in World News yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that heightened conflict.

>> And lead to more than 41,000 deaths.

Yesterday we brought you a pro-Israeli gathering and Louisville.

Last night students led a vigil on Lexington's a UK campus calling for an end to the strife.

>> It's a day of mourning and a day of recognition for what has been happening in Palestine for a year.

And 76 years.

Genocide.

Time in history.

We are watching a genocide.

A live stream on to our phones.

>> What's taking place is a humanitarian crisis where all individuals part of a greater society.

And so it's our responsibility to use our voices to speak up against injustices and to just let politicians of representatives at every level know that no matter how much time they let pass, we will not go silent.

>> Want to believe that we are different from those in the past.

Understood by and watched as people were systemic police blotter.

Ourselves.

We could have allowed the horrors of America unemployment.

We would have allowed the horrors of colonization.

We would have allowed the doors of every genocide and the Holocaust ever encounter a Wanda.

Now this moment.

It's what you would have done that.

>> It's not just something that Arabs and says speaking be speaking up against its something that anyone who cares about human lives as it should be.

Speaking up for.

And so we're here to raise awareness on a college campus as many students who can use exposure to what's going on and who can learn more about what's happening so they could use their voices.

>> You are able to smile, resilient children of >> We're here to speak up against Zionism and the Israeli terrace with Jim.

We're not at all.

Speaking up against the Jewish community.

We actually have many Jewish allies who are standing with us and who our speakers.

So our only intention is to speak up against the Israeli government and our own governments and for supporting it.

Yeah, I think this past year has taught us a lot about our funding and where it's going and people are becoming more aware that America's but need more of our tax dollars supporting violence in other regions of the world as opposed Putin ahead to our own country and supported marginalized communities here in our own country inside.

Definitely think play a role in our election and and people start to use the voice and let them know that our voices matter and we do have a say in the upcoming election.

>> It gives us hope and the ability to KET on going to fight for them.

So please don't ever stop by to talk about Stein is free.

>> Turning now to weather developments.

Florida is bracing for its second catastrophic hurricane and less than 2 weeks.

Hurricane Milton is predicted to hit near Tampa Bay late Wednesday night with expectations of destructive winds, flooding and a record storm surge.

Our Chris T-dot and spoke to the forecasters with the Climate Prediction Center about this historic hurricane season and why stronger hurricanes are becoming the new normal.

>> Nat Rosenkranz you've been forecasting hurricane seasons for years and years now.

So tell us as we watch Hurricane Milton Beryl toward the Florida Gulf Coast with Hurricane Helene.

Still fresh in our memory.

How unusual is it to have 2 hurricane so intense back to back?

>> So the 2, 2, hurricanes that intense, you know, it's a racial category 5, a region covered for that's pretty uncommon.

Within 10 days of each other.

It's not uncommon to have a couple of those in the Gulf during the busy season.

So 2006, it was a busy season alive.

Back to the West coast of Florida.

So it's not unprecedented, but it's a pretty rare conditions that made this happened last couple weeks.

>> Yeah, this hurricane season has been.

Abnormal to say the least, right, because when we thought it would be really busy like this, it really wasn't what was going on.

>> Yeah, kind of started off busy.

It's like a good roller coaster sarnoff busy.

We had a little lull in there.

Parson, Russell see busy kind of wasn't.

And that and September kind of came It does know we are still in the hurricane season until November.

30th.

>> Yeah, because we started out with Hurricane Beryl and that reach Category 5.

>> I did early as Category 5 on record.

So was like, all right.

Let's do we look, they're busy season that, Rick, it's going to happen.

And then we had the law they West African monsoon that scene for a lot of these kind of what so far the north it wasn't seeing the hurricanes right way that we see have seen for the past.

You know, 60, 70 years and then the sea surface temperatures at least kind of KET getting warmer and warmer.

So now we've got some of these seeds from the after monsoon and also for central American clusters of thunderstorms.

There.

They just have a lot of energy to work with so they can just there's room to really ripe environment.

>> And so the warm sea surface temperatures is that at one major factor for Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene, both being able to power up so quickly.

>> Absolutely.

They warm sea surface.

Temperatures hand that was at death's because they've been so warm this entire year.

They're warm.

They're above normally warm all the way down to 1000 feet below the ocean surface.

So they've got these storms just have a reservoir of energy to pull from and they can just KET pulling and bring it up into the atmosphere and intensify.

>> So is that something that's going to KET happening with those warm ocean temperatures?

So is this going to be the new normal this kind of in more intense, more frequent hurricane?

>> A lot of the modeling does point to.

That's more of the tropical storms are going to reach hurricane strength for the hurricanes are going to reach that Category 4, 5, strength.

>> Thank you, Christiane, like Elaine, Kentucky's weather will not be affected by Hurricane Milton.

>> Medicare's open enrollment period begins a week from today.

>> The Federal Health Insurance Program is for people age 65 and older.

But it can be complicated to navigate last night as part of Katie's next chapter initiative that focuses on the rewards and challenges of aging.

We assembled a team of experts to help answer your questions about how the program works.

If one did not sign up for a drug plan D at age 65 can.

One enroll later when older and with more prescriptions.

Yes, but it's going to cost a lot more.

A lot more.

So when a person delays enrollment into part D the truck, then a fat.

>> And they did not have any type of creditable coverage, which means coverage that's equal to Medicare.

Then they will be penalized and they are penalized for every month.

They went without coverage.

And so it can be quite significant for someone who might have gone without coverage since January one of 2006, which was the first day we had prescription drug coverage under Medicare they're looking at a penalty well over $80 a month that with same.

That's they're premium.

Plus the penalty.

So it's not at 5 supple.

I tell people to look at prescription drug coverage like they do auto insurance and homeowners insurance are not always filing a claim, but you definitely want it when you're in a car wreck or you know what, there's a fire in your home.

Yeah.

you have to look at as catastrophic coverage even if you're not on and on taking medications.

Now you can get answers to other commonly asked questions by watching the entire program online on-demand, Medicare enrollment.

Colin, okay to you can see that at KET Dot Org.

>> More money for dispatchers and a change of location for political fundraiser.

Our Toby Gibbs has that and more.

And this look at headlines around Kentucky.

♪ >> And Republican State House candidate is moving his planned fundraiser saying that someone has threatened a well-known guest appearing at that fund-raiser and Northern Kentucky Tribune reports TJ Roberts of Arlington, the Republican nominee in the 66th House district.

We'll have Kyle Rittenhouse as a guest during an October night fundraiser.

But now it's became nationally known after shooting 3 men during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

In 2020 2 of those men died.

Robert says due to an online threat against Rittenhouse, the fundraiser is being moved from a private club in Covington.

2 of our but the restaurant in Florence.

Marshall County will get 9-1-1, dispatchers a raise.

According to the Lake news, the county is having trouble keeping its key 9-1-1, central dispatch or service open because of staffing problems during its October first made in the fiscal court, voted to pay dispatchers more per hour.

A move that could cost the county about $65,000 a year.

But that's still less than the $100,000.

The county is paying for overtime for 9-1-1, dispatchers.

WA KU radio reports of charity empathy.

Inaction is suing to recover money.

Kentucky INS last playing so-called gray machines slot style machines ruled illegal in Kentucky because they involve chance not skill.

It's a key has a law on the books passed in 17.

98.

It's people 6 months to file a suit to recover money lost during illegal gambling and that the inaction filed suit in Franklin County and asked for 3 times the amount Kentucky last playing great machines in the last 5 years and that the says it would give the money to small businesses and to the state to fight gambling addiction.

With headlines around Kentucky, I'm told the U N. >> Thank Youto be a new partnership at eastern Kentucky University Lights, aviation students train then go to work for Allegiant Air.

It's a program where the sky's the limit.

>> It's an opportunity for students to go directly from our program to the air, to Allegiant and without have cutting out all the extra work in between.

And we're also game that mentorship directly from future employers.

I was talking with several of the members of the Legion team that have come over to me and they said basically what they're going to give you enough.

A one-on-one partnership with the students and those that are applying teaching us exactly what they want.

>> We do a lot of mentoring.

There's a lot of professional development is things that you would normally get in a regional learned the hard way that you won't get anywhere What we do is we try to get the job, how to KET the job, how to prepare resume, things like that.

But through that mentorship in constant touch points, we decided that we can take this pilot straight out of school with $1000 and put him into an Airbus or Boeing streets remain.

Caroline, you can skip the regionals if you go to school it Eastern Tech university that you can.

You can leave here with 1000 hours and go straight into the workforce in a way that it takes every other program in America, 1500 hours of flight time for those of you who are flying those extra 500 hours are significant.

Are they not?

It is a game changer for eastern Kentucky University.

>> We've seen significant enrollment growth at the institution.

We've seen significant growth in flight hours.

We've seen a significant growth in this program and I could not be more proud of the individuals who are part of this program just for those who may not know program majors in this department include professional flight airspace management, aerospace technology, and really a new frontier.

We're really excited about an unmanned aircraft systems and really excited about what's next.

And the unmanned aircraft space.

We'll tell you.

We've had great success with this.

We've had 40 people go through so far, no problems just as in Vegas at the headquarters, they were very complimentary of the program, the students to go through.

So the quality is there.

>> And we're pretty excited about.

We have a number of our pilots are graduates right?

hopefully I'm looking at a much more than a joining us.

I'm cursed.

I person was born in South America and then came and lived in the U.S. all that happened because of aviation.

You know, >> were sent home was a century.

If not more.

>> Aviation has being that.

They're to connect the dots in ways that trains and ships and walking and cars couldn't do.

And so the future of it is just expanding that.

And we're connecting all over the globe through this wonderful gift that aviation has given us.

>> UK, you offered its first aviation course in 1983. the program boasts 100% hiring rate for its graduates.

♪ >> With the cost of living being as it is being mindful of spending and savings habits are much more routine for many of us.

>> Understanding the factors that can improve your credit score and maintaining good financial habits can impact how much you spend on big-ticket items like a home or car.

I sat down with a credit repair specialist army to Hutchins, president and CEO of Prosper, Kentucky, to learn more.

>> So credit scores are interest think their their numbers Friday, Iran from anywhere from 300 to 8.50, anything below 6.80, is considered poor credit scores 6 82 7.40, its good credit scores 7.42, 800.

It's very good.

And then 800 to 8.58 exceptional credit score.

So it's important that we have a good credit cuts is so important because it gives you so many oportunities of saving saving money because if you have good credit scores, you can have so many things that you couldn't top otherwise like applying for good credit cards of credit cards that give sue the wards like cash bako travel planes for having excellent mortgage interest rate for your lawn calls for a long term.

Most mortgages from anywhere from 15 to 30 years for a long term.

You could lose so much money.

One, your interest is not what what he wanted to be there for having good credit score Quite a huge financial savings.

So when we think about that 850 max, that's the exceptional marker right?

I didn't drink to 888 to 80850.

How do you get there?

How did those people land right there?

And that really optimal range?

It's quite war and its pulse able obviously, there are many people in us that have 800 and above credit scores.

So there are many factors that affect on credits course Ward, aren't they one your payment history, peace, possible payment.

He surveys extremely asun show of for having good credit scores fun people knees, credit card payment for poor Maney variety of reasons for losing good job or having medical debt or having other that said they could not manage very well.

And then they must credit card payment credit card.

When ease credit card payment or you're long payment or goods, car loan person along or mortgage payments.

That's 35% effect on your credit scores.

So a responsible payment.

He stories number one effect on your credit scores than other factors affect on credit scores such as could he do.

Tilly's Ation, Wolf, and we have good credit limits, but saying you will.

How do you spend you should more than 30% of your credit limit every month.

You need good payment history.

Again, we come back to a good payment history.

Then there are many other factors such as credit mix because all fun people complained they do not have could cut its course and here's why.

Because you don't have a good credit makes.

What does that mean?

Credit Meeks is like you may only have one student loan, therefore your schools are no, it's going girl healthy credit makes is very important for our credit scores, it could even makes means credit cards, loans.

It could be personal loans, car loans or mortgages and student loans.

Those are I consider as I always talk with my clients, credit scores consist positive and negative ingredients.

Therefore, those are your positive things.

You can still sort of credit cards.

Wright utilization of credit cards and loans to payments are Don in time on monthly term.

And I mean, loans could be personal car and mortgages.

The negative ingredients, our own credit score stood, bringing co schools.

Don't Sosa collections.

Those are late payments.

When you are late on your credit card or in your mortgage or loan mortgage loan, a car loan or personal loan, a late payments, RV shows on your credit scores.

Does control peeled credit scores than collections of the week.

If you don't take responsibility, severe medical bills, medical a hospital, so clinics they will sent to collection prior to God that will never appeared on your credit scores because medical facilities, hospitals and claims they do not report to credit bureaus.

2 o'clock FOX was union experience.

But was it goes to collection.

It shows 2 York County 3 pulled over for your score.

School We'll have much more from our man and a future broadcast of Kentucky.

Addition as she talks about repairing less than desired credit and >> the disconnect between wealth and good credit.

The University of Kentucky has its own genius, Dr. Loca Ashwood is a sociologist who studies rule identity and culture.

She is a 2020 format author fellow a recipient of what many call the genius Grant Ashwood will receive $800,000 over the course of 5 years.

No strings attached to continue her work and research.

Congrats to her.

I think I'm going to answer this.

I was shocked.

At first thing I said, are you serious?

Because it in.

>> Believe them.

I think I thought it was a prank or something.

I am low cash would.

And I'm a sociologist.

The best way to capture.

What I do is I work on issues of environmental injustice and also the opposite of that is achieving environmental justice for communities that have been targeted or had an undue burden of any sort of environmental contamination.

We know that most of the rural poor are in the southeast region of the United States.

And so environmental injustice is also about the targeting of communities that have less money for the most toxic and hazardous industries.

So when I work with those communities, it's never just about getting them clean water, though.

That's also crucial are working towards clean air, addressing some sort of disparity that they care about.

But also thinking about how the economic conditions gave rise to those disparities in the first place.

And how can we think about changing those economic conditions?

So there's more quality in rural communities.

One thing that I recently worked on were right to farm laws which sound very innocuous and and beautiful by name because who wouldn't want to have the right to farm?

We all should have the right to farm.

But these laws, in fact, have been used to enable the largest corporate agribusiness is in an industrial animal production facilities.

And in some cases, they've even been co-opted by the timber industry as well as mining groups to say, you know, if we move in next to you, you don't have the right to sue us for a nuisance in the event that we pollute your well, water are in the event that we're contaminating the air.

So right to farm laws have turned into this tool to KET rural people from having proper recourse.

If things go wrong, I think across the country, rural Americans are upset and worried about corporate power.

A lack of fair access to the marketplace at the decline of farming in many communities.

And that's a concern about corporate power.

That also shows that if we change and reform corporate law, we can give people more of a fair chance and help what people some people call Main Street America, but also rural America, smaller communities because big is not always better.

Small is beautiful, too.

And we agree.

Congrats again to Dr Ashwood do it for us tonight.

We hope to see you right back here again tomorrow night for Kentucky EDITION.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Take good care.

And so on.

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