So it's our birthday today.

One year ago today, Kentucky edition, Kate's Nightly News program committed to inform, Connect and Inspire made its debut.

Now, a lot has happened across our state since the launch of Kentucky Edition.

So here's a look back.

This is bad.

It's really bad.

Everything we've got is destroyed.

Everybody's lost.

Everything.

I've been running the tent in downtown Hammond since the flood.

As people were coming out of their homes, crawling out of debris.

They started walking towards us.

They this sort of damage is heartbreaking.

I'm driving on.

We're here today.

To fight for you.

I didn't know.

This is not a don't say beyond this.

It's a parent's heart.

They say they'll.

I think that this bill is one of the very first steps to end stigma, not just regarding periods, but regarding women in general.

Hazing is out of control throughout this country.

Any time you can have somebody come and give you a little cushion, especially after the pandemic and not really knowing that we're going to make it day to day story takes a lot of patience to be a bus driver.

You could drink any you could drink a cocktail.

You know, you bought it.

You can drink it however you like it.

Our goal is to grow the food in the community.

For the community by the community.

Zaire is beautiful and it is an essential part of who we are.

I think that if we stand up for.

Truth and we stand up for.

American principles.

That in the end we will win.

I believe if you're not founding themself, you can't be proud of anything around you.

There's something for everyone in this August.

There's something really fascinating about the anatomy of the horse.

I is like, really intelligent, really cool, and it's only going to get better and better.

Just like Kentucky Edition.

Now, when I've been away, you've seen Kacey Parker, Belle or Laura Rogers standing in the spot, but more frequently you've seen their compelling storytelling that breaks down important issues and events with unmatched dedication to their craft.

Always with the goal of connecting you to what matters.

During a stint in a halfway house, Kildare went back to school.

He earned a degree and decided to put himself to work building a business with each step.

There is one goal in mind.

I lost my mother when I was 17 years old.

To repeat drunk driver put the brakes on drunk driving under the watchful eyes of a former president.

Kentuckians took a moment to say goodbye to a former governor.

He was.

He was as talented and as good a person as anyone I ever met.

This facility is needed given how many veterans are going to need this care.

And it's needed so that people can stay closer to home in western Kentucky.

So our goal was to train athletes to start CPR, to know what it looks like and know exactly where to go to get one to bring it back.

So that's the bigger key.

It's not just the coaches.

It's an involvement of the entire team.

Some of you are probably just caught up in their games.

They're political pawns in a war to erase our community.

Oh, it's completely different from what I was growing up when I was here.

When I was younger, it was just a grassy area, small playground.

There was a boat ramp at the end of Pratica.

But now, you know, as you can see, they breed completely redone everything.

This is a transparent effort to disrupt our process and to undermine confidence in democracy.

I'm going to put up with it.

This is bright red, common sense, God fearing, freedom loving patriots.

It's saving, saving some beauty and being able to to share that.

It's not a view every college student gets to see.

Critical care was available.

Everything was gone.

And to be able to actually have something have a roof over our head, you know, and have something to cook on, have a place like my head and sleep at night, it's a blessing.

It really is.

There's little nooks and crannies of land out these old little farm roads where nobody ever developed.

And now people are on that land and there's no water.

The couple, soon to be a family of three, had to figure out another way.

We haul our water in transport from the total on the trailer to the tote in the pump house.

Then we get a pump deposit to the house.

The city of Owensboro, known for barbecue, bourbon and bluegrass.

Now paying tribute to one of its natives, a figure credited with some of the most influential photographs of the civil rights movement.

Very important man, very important to Owens world.

And I believe everyone should know about should be taught in schools.

I can't believe that people care about old ladies dancing.

Dora Paton friends are still adjusting to their newfound celebrity status after this.

Tik Tok video has racked up tens of millions of views.

But I don't know what they want me to do them or give them my signature.

Or what not.

There's nothing greater than being at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday of May.

The Edge family from Owensboro.

Long time Derby fans.

I've been coming to the Derby.

Since I was 12 years old.

But this is their first time having some skin in the game with the number four confidence game.

Being here is literally a dream come true with the Derby horse that.

He's not my.

Horse, he's my brother's horse.

But I keep calling him my nephew.

My four legged nephews.

And an old tobacco barn in Logan County.

Yeah.

A place where their creative collaboration began.

Clare Barth got married in the same barn just a little bit below.

Under the watchful eye of some loyal companions.

The best part is unloading the kiln and seeing the beautiful pieces that you've created.

Every one of those farm families is important to their community and to the region, to the country.

He is helping other people, which are tremendously enjoy.

But I get to farm again, you know.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Great work.

You may not see their faces, but you have seen their stories.

Their Kentucky editions team of talented multimedia journalists.

Producers and videographers.

Here's a look at some of the stories they've covered around the state over the past year.

When I was a little girl, my.

Dad always said, you can do anything that you want to do and you can be anything that you want to be.

And I've always believed that.

I knew about the exoskeleton, but I never thought never dreamed that I would be a candidate for one.

That's what's so beautiful about Title nine and why it even.

Worked.

And why it was worthy of implementing to begin with was because that's what everyone needed, was just that opportunity to show what they can do.

That's the difference between our sport to a lot of other sports is there's a real element of serious injury and death as that's why it is probably more important for us in our sport compared to other sports to really be at the forefront of it.

And yet we're one of the ones lagging behind.

You're having those tangibles that employers are looking for, your communication, your accountability, showing up.

There's still marketable aspects for me on any sports team.

Every ridge top fly over every hill, you'd come around kind of every bend you take.

There was more flooding and more flooding and more flooding.

All their belongings, their homes, everything they owned got washed away in these floods.

People had nothing.

It was a tragic situation for hundreds of families in eastern Kentucky.

My intention then when I get up, I'm going to go to work in the morning is not to like, hey, I think how many kids can I arrest today?

That's that's never, never a thought process for us.

It really is like, how can I be a positive role model?

You know, how can I engage my students in a meaningful way?

In my case.

But it is more than that.

It is more than just education.

It's creating an environment that they feel that they are loved and appreciated, and that makes them feel that they are worth a lot.

We're all playing games, especially tabletop role playing game like Dungeons and Dragons can be a really powerful way of achieving both the academic and also that social emotional component.

They are not who the society thinks they are, and when they walk through these doors, they get to shed all of that and just be young women who want to.

Make a change in the community.

And want to help them all here.

Oh, they bring me out of my shell.

Huge.

I mean, that's the number one thing when I get out of it is, you know, rushing the animals, talking to other vets, why we're doing it.

It's like as you see the fur fall onto the ground, it's kind of like our feelings.

I wasn't sure how people would feel about it if it would just be an eyesore or if it would be something that people loved.

And then when it was clear that people liked it and that they wanted it to be a part of the neighborhood at the least, and if not more, the community, you're right, it grew.

People are really writing what's on their hearts, that they are really afraid or they're feeling really alone.

And this is a place where they can be seen.

These young people are coming right out of foster care and they don't have experience with jobs there.

They don't have experience balancing a job and school.

And so they can't pay for their bills at home and they can't pay for college at the same time.

So it's just really difficult to cross that financial barrier.

When I was on the voices of the Commonwealth as a co-chair, my chairperson and I work together to expand.

They foster an adopted tuition waiver for young people who come out of foster care or have been adopted in Kentucky.

We're building 125,000 square foot resource center that we call an opportunity center.

Opportune study means conditions are right for your success, and we see a lot of people who've never had conditions that were right for their success.

And once they get the idea, once they understand that this is something they can actually do, there's no holding them back.

And we see people accomplish amazing things.

But I feel like it was great this year.

Autism is not a disability and a lot of people think of it as such.

It's just a different ability.

Think we have people who are nonverbal, autistic, we have people who are in wheelchairs.

We have people who have cerebral palsy.

And so we just call our workers, hear voices, their voices having only the stereotype of the profession that you get from entertainment could actually cause problems.

I think a lot of the local students and staff have been amazed at how much work goes into a larger production.

This is in a ten person, smaller, independent film.

This is, you know, it's Hollywood coming to Elmore.

Great.

Rolling, rolling, Rolling.

Thunder, 1971 was.

One of the most important parts of the program has always been empowering.

The young artists of Kentucky to realize just that, that they are indeed artists and go.

Use this geranium like pigment.

And so many of his paintings, so so many of his paintings do not look like he had originally intended.

And so what we did is we shot that actually for us.

And the analyzer at 387 white flowers in the painting.

And so as it turns out, 38% of the flowers in the painting had bromine, which meant that they were originally being traditional.

Playgrounds are environments where children play upon things.

We want play ecosystem to be a place where children come and play with things.

There's no instant gratification in guitar making.

For instance, you you have to work at it day after day, week after week until we get this piece just right.

Korean colors are very vibrant.

These are kind of my interpretation of to make it a little bit more fun and livelier.

And I think it's just really valuable to share my story of being.

Somebody who's from eastern Kentucky, who grew up with a bunch of beautiful traditions.

We just want to come and enjoy the horse races for the day and have a good time.

Represent Kentucky.

It's a beautiful day.

Every single student in here was engaged and, you know, secretly I'm teaching them how to like, you know, add personal touches to to their writing.

You have like a whole back story here in your story.

That's pretty sweet.

So you're going to have a slot jaw that moves up and down, oftentimes eyes that move left and right.

Some of the pieces here are even more complicated, where they have eyebrows that move or ears that wiggle.

Yeah, and boil it, boil it, boil, boil it.

When it's at 66 and a half percent sugar, you have Kentucky maple sirup.

They come here looking for opportunity and looking.

For access to this field.

Once it's about sits in your hand, that perfect size where your fingers can touch you, wrap it with a rubber band twice and then we put in a tray.

Currently, Camp Nelson has approximately 21,000 veterans and spouses interred.

There's really only one item that we make that we expect perfection in where as close to as possible order of.

So many great stories that make you smile, make you think and make you feel.

And you've heard the saying, It takes a village.

Well, Kentucky Edition is no exception.

There are several people working behind the scenes who make our nightly news program possible.

Here's a salute to them that's gonna make me cry up a little bit.

Thanks to the Kentucky Edition family for being the best and giving it your best every single day.