♪ >> She came in 94.

She attended She went to the races.

She charmed the crowd.

>> Remembering are worn all day at the racetrack.

Plus, can ambassador craft become governor crashed?

We know that adult and eastern Kentucky have some of the highest rates of insufficient sleep in the entire nation.

And why do so many Eastern Kentuckians have trouble sleeping?

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Tuesday, September, the 13th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your Tuesday night with us.

Kelly Knight Craft is officially kicking off her campaign for governor right now in Glasgow, Kraft is a Republican.

She served as ambassador to Canada and then ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump.

She's also the wife of coal billionaire Joe craft.

KET is there for Kelley crashed campaign kickoff and we'll have much more on it tomorrow night on Kentucky EDITION.

Also today, the Kentucky Democratic Party says Governor Andy Beshear has raised 4 million dollars for his re-election bid.

Before we elect a governor in 2023.

Will elect a U.S. senator members of Congress and members of the Kentucky General Assembly and judicial seats this year.

We'll also be saying yes or no to 2 proposed constitutional amendments on the November ballot.

You may not know much about amendment one voters passed.

It would allow the General Assembly to change the end date of a session with the 3 fifths vote in each chamber and it lets the House Speaker and Senate President call a special session right now.

Only the governor can call one.

It also changes provisions for when a law takes effect.

Amendment 2 has received more attention, as you know, since it deals with something that's been in the news, something people feel very strongly about.

And that's abortion.

The amendment asked if the Constitution of Kentucky should be changed to include this sentence to protect human life.

Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.

David Walls with the Family Foundation of Kentucky says this amendment is a once in a generation opportunity for the Pro Life movement.

>> It's a critically moment, an with with Roe being overturned, the issue of protecting on one likes being returned to the states.

Kentucky is uniquely to to ensure that our state constitution is is pro-life and we don't end up with a a a state level.

Judicial activism, decision that would seek to take away the ability of the people to our elected representatives, to protect innocent human life.

Kentucky has time and time again been a prolife state protected innocent human life to the General Assembly and going back over 100 years system this time and time again.

And so the the threat to a protecting innocent human life right now is state level activist for urgently the probe or shun industry this fall.

That challenge from the Commonwealth since Roe was overturned.

And so this is a very important that we make crystal clear in the Kentucky Constitution.

The 3rd is not a right to terminate the life of an unborn child or to require taxpayer funding for that in the Kentucky Constitution.

And so this is a a potentially a once in a generation opportunity for Prolife Kentuckians to get out and vote for pro life values.

>> On the other side of the debate.

Doctor, Caitlin Thomas, an OBGYN says abortion care is often a medical necessity that she says is safe.

And as a matter of privacy that she says should be protected.

>> Abortion is a complicated topic and people have a lot of different thoughts and feelings about it.

The vast majority of people, however, are not in favor of a complete abortion ban for all situations.

And that's what this bill or this is what that's what this amendment brings to the table.

It's very black and white in voting.

Yes, would prevent >> any and all abortions in the state of Kentucky to be eliminated even for life of mother, even for cases of rape or incest.

Those things that people typically find no more socially acceptable.

I guess.

>> Are Are you actively advocating for Kentucky voters to vote?

No on this proposed amendment.

>> Yes, I am.

I think regardless of your personal views this is a very slippery s**** in.

The constitutional protections of Kentuckians our Constitution really does protect our right to privacy.

And private decisions between you and your should not be.

I interfered with by the government.

I am not an abortion However, given the fact that one in 4 women will undergo an abortion at some point in their lives, every OBGYN have taking care of a patient has had an abortion.

And unfortunately, I've had many situations where patients have had to make that decision regarding their health and their future in the potential future.

The pregnancy.

>> Let's move on now to talk about some news of crime.

Lexington leaders are looking for answers after 9 shootings this weekend and a firm trend that could mean a record number of homicides.

KET is Brandon Roberts tells us what city leaders are saying about the violence and what to do about it.

>> We say community as well.

We need to be a call that said.

>> That was Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers responding during a press conference Tuesday to a question about how the community can help combat violent crime, which has increased considerably this year compared to 2021.

Weather is also urge residents to show appreciation for law enforcement firefighters.

You know, 1, 1, workers.

And others to KET people safe while pleading for help from members of the community.

>> To don't know what when that >> To get the ball.

>> Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton said the city has some things going for it.

Other cities do not many of which are also experiencing increases in violent crime.

>> We are seeing on our is race.

It is all.

And it is without shame.

There are too many dogs us with, you know, >> we must call out.

This is not here.

What we see it.

>> And reported every time >> She expressed confidence in this team and in Lexington is residence but admitted she is unhappy about the city's increase in crime and expect others are as well.

>> I want people to know >> share your frustrations every single day.

>> Gordon also said the facts about violence in lakes and have been ignored or intentionally distorted when discussed publicly.

And then a quick fix is misleading.

So far in 2022. homicides related to domestic violence are up 1100% in Lexington.

With 12 domestic violence, homicides, accounting for one-third and the city's total homicides.

Devine Karami is director One Lexington, an initiative aimed at addressing violent crime.

He talked about the cultural and societal shift in violence among youth.

>> We're not all fours.

So the unfortunate part, so I guess we can do.

But everything else When we street in a neighborhood school.

How we it at how the than usual lately in us.

So yes, there is.

Mediation mentioned people front of the teams that do >> For Kentucky Edition, I'm Brandon Roberts.

>> Thanks, Brandon.

It's not just Lexington, seeing an increase in gun violence last weekend was one of the deadliest in Louisville this year.

6 people were shot and killed in just 3 days.

Kentucky Edition contributor Kelsey Starks joins us from our Louisville studio to dive deeper into this disturbing trend.

Kelsey.

Well, recent decrease in these violent crime numbers was really overshadowed by this weekend when it was the deadliest second deadliest weekend of the year here in Louisville.

>> Doctor Keith Matt Miller, a trauma surgeon with U of L Hospital, joins me now to discuss the gun violence.

A few statistics this year alone, more than 120 homicides in Louisville.

More than 300 people injured by gun violence.

These triple digit numbers didn't used to be the norm but really have been since 2020.

We can all hear those statistics.

But you live and breathe it every day.

Tell us about the impact you're seeing.

>> Yeah, I mean, the statistics are what they are in their heartbreaking.

I mean, what our city has experienced over the last 3 years and really for as long as I can remember, this has been a problem for a very long time has been devastating.

I think the impact goes well beyond just those numbers.

Remember, these are suns daughters, fathers, mothers, folks, these individuals have families and that dynamic has changed forever.

Even those that.

Survived those injuries, they limit those injuries, the rest of their lives as do their families.

>> Into what kind of >> injuries are we talking about here and has it changed from years past?

But this increase?

>> Well, the volume has increased dramatically, as you alluded to since 2020, I think the nature of the injuries hasn't changed all that much.

If you look at the relative distribution across the spectrum meaning that the injury patterns today look very similar than they did 10 years ago.

There's just twice as many of them.

And I it runs the spectrum.

I mean, we've individuals who have spinal cord injuries and brain injuries.

Obviously that changes their life every day for the rest of their lives, changes the lives of their families.

Many require constant care.

Some leaving the hospital with very few physical injuries relevant to the to the firearm injury, but the psychological impact of what they've been through will be with them forever.

>> And so it's kind of hard not to see the elephant in the room.

We KET saying twenty-twenty that dramatic about 10200% increase in inner personal gun violence from those pre-covid time to now what we call the COVID Times.

Tell us your opinion on that correlation.

>> Well, it's heartbreaking first, but we have to remember that this was a problem before the COVID the 100% increase.

The court sided with the COVID pandemic has brought it to the front of all of our, you know, realities.

But I this is been a problem for a very long time.

>> In in recent study that was just published, that you are part of you compare the governmental response as to what you to public health problems, the pandemic.

And this what you call an epidemic.

Explain that.

>> Yeah, I think the the objective of that study was just to put these things in perspective and to say that COVID changed our lives.

Everyone's lives in countless ways.

We all you couldn't ignore it.

the gun violence epidemic that we've experienced in the a large part of our population has been able to get ordered, hasn't changed their daily lives.

And so when you look at it from the years of potential life lost perspective, what that means is that COVID predominantly impacts older individuals, gun violence, predominantly impacts, younger individuals.

So once you balance that out and compared in a proportionate matter, we've manner we've lost more years to gun violence during the COVID pandemic than we did.

Coat.

I always say this to follow up.

That's not to be emphasized.

The importance of of COVID or our response.

It was appropriate and proportionate.

But you can see there's something missing on the other side of this equation.

>> So now that we see those COVID numbers decreasing the amount of violent crime is not as of yet.

What do you think is going to change the trend here?

>> Well, it's interesting in that as you so rightly pointed out, these are 2 public health issues.

They both need to be approach that way.

Interestingly out of our COVID response, which we're talking about trillions of dollars over here.

The history of our gun violence response has been in the millions.

But out of this COVID response you're seen programs spinoff and implemented in cities like ours and across the country that are focused on addressing gun violence as a public health issue.

I think I'm optimistic in the sense that we changed our approach as a result of some of the success that we saw with our COVID response.

>> Very, very insightful.

Thank you so much, Doctor Miller for being here with us.

Renee, back to you.

>> Thanks, Kelsey.

And speaking of COVID, Kentucky's COVID positivity number has fallen again.

It's now down to 16.2 9% according to the state, it topped 18 last weekend, 20 the week before that on Kentucky tonight last night, 3 infectious disease experts told us people still made vaccines and boosters for themselves and for the people around them.

>> With the Omicron variant probably over 50% of people had such minimal symptoms that they didn't even know they had COVID.

So a lot of it's either asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic, but that doesn't mean they can spread it to other people.

So that's another reason why people need to, you know, proceed with the variant booster vaccine dose because you can be out and among people who.

Don't have a cough don't look like they're sick, don't have fevers and they can still potentially spread it to you or your family member.

>> First, we all know that individuals who are older than 65 years of age who so whatever reason, a weakened immune system either because they're immunosuppressants because there are receiving they've received a transplant or they have an autoimmune disease, etcetera.

They can get boosted, but their immune system will not generate a really great response.

And so we actually all need to be sort of, you know, I hate to use this courtyard that we all need to provide the force field around them.

So it's it's incredibly important that those of us who are immunocompromised and can generate a really good immune response get vaccinated in order to protect those who are most vulnerable in our society.

>> I believe this is the time at this point to get out and you better be boosted because it currently dwindles that way.

So that's exactly the same example of any kind of cell phone.

Few batteries die.

You plug it directly to the power and this is the situation currently without him in his system.

I believe if we get the bivalent vaccine will be able to stop the spread.

And this is very critical and little able as well to cut down on the domestic outcomes, especially.

As not to do it.

He said naming a compromise people, the elderly people.

>> We also discussed monkeypox the flu and concerns about the return of polio.

So you can see more of last night's conversation at KET Dot Org Slash K why tonight tonight on KET at 8 Eastern, a special program about youth mental health as more and more Kentucky kids are dealing with depression and anxiety.

Hear from medical experts and advocates about what we all can do to make sure kids get the attention they need.

>> When we screen students and schools are when we see the screen students who come into the clinic, you know, we don't just screen for, you know, what are the risk factors that place.

But we also screen for what are some of the protective factors in place, right?

So do you have a close friend right here?

You feel that you can go to for support.

Is there an adult outside of your family who understands you?

You can go to for support?

Is there somebody at school who you feel connected to?

Right?

And so, you know, we need to understand also what what is in place for our kids and make sure that we're building up their network as well.

>> We invite you to learn more about youth, mental health and suicide prevention tonight at 8 Eastern 7 Central on K T. Another Kentuckyian has died from the late July flooding in eastern Kentucky.

The state says someone died during cleanup efforts in Pike County.

That takes the death toll to 40.

They transport precious cargo and they received a little extra love and attention today in South Central Kentucky.

>> Warren County Public Schools hosted a school bus driver Appreciation Day.

Students got to say a special.

Thank you to those who get them to and from school safely every day elementary school served up launch and special boxes and kids made signs and banners.

>> They have a difficult job.

It's very hard.

It's I can understand probably stressful knowing that you have all the children safety.

All right in your hands.

But, you know, it's something that they take on with a smile and that they they really have a passion for it.

I know many of our best drivers in the district personally and they love their students.

They love having that responsibility.

They love being able to make sure that the kids get to school say each and every day.

>> Bus drivers also were invited to come in 8 launch with the students.

Many school districts tell lost that hiring bus drivers has been a challenge for them this year.

So nice to see them get some acknowledgement.

>> Well, we've all.

♪ >> We've all experienced it.

The inability to go to sleep or stay asleep.

But sleep deprivation has become a public health crisis.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC data shows 30% of adults report being chronically sleep deprived among the areas of the country, getting the least amount of sleep Rhule.

Appalachia.

To research >> as a society, we don't really prioritize sleep.

We think about almost as like.

A weakness.

You're not working hard enough if you're needing more sleep.

But in fact, we know that sleep is so critical to so many aspects of our health and well-being that I think a shift towards thinking about this is a priority is really important in the United States in general and in places like Eastern Kentucky, in particular.

Statistically the rates of sleep disorders are so high.

>> That we know that there are crisis and then if we KET going down this path, we're only going to worsen with worse outcomes.

We need to do research in these areas and we need to find solutions for these health issues before they continue to spiral.

We know that adult and eastern Kentucky have some of the highest rates of insufficient sleep in the entire nation.

The purpose of the study is to find out why adult and 3 Jun have some of the worst health outcomes in general and the whole nation.

And there are such strong bi-directional relationship between sleep and health.

So if we can improve people sleep in the region, hopefully we can improve their health overall.

>> When we started this project is really just focused on sleep and health, but several of our communities have been impacted dramatically by the recent flooding in eastern Kentucky.

And so we know from things like natural disasters that that has had a dramatic impact on sleep and all sorts of aspects of psychological and physical health.

Long-term insomnia, which is difficulty getting and staying asleep, sleep apnea, which is waking during the night, Sir Ken Shift disorder where individuals are a week at night and sleep during the day.

>> All of these together we think of them asleep, deficiencies and we know that they're correlated with cardiovascular disease.

Increased risk of stroke obesity, depression, anxiety.

We know things like working night shifts or shift work or other types of jobs.

>> That impact or disrupt us having regular sleep.

We also see that things like stress, things a lack of economic resources or poverty.

Those can have a really big impact in general women are more likely than men.

>> To suffer from these sleep issues.

We also know that socioeconomic status plays a large role in sleep.

So the lower your sister, economic status or another way to think that higher rates of poverty for Cissy to rip her seat and then people of color have higher rates of insufficient sleep insomnia for asking a variety of open ended in a few questions to hear about.

Participants lived experience with sleep and health problems and things that might be impacting that.

>> So we're going to have a variety of different measures within that that we can see how things like sleep and health problems actually changing over time.

>> Our project is actually structure to look at all 3 levels, the individual, the social and thus idol at the individual level, we will work with people in the future on things like sleep hygiene, improving your room and putting your habits, improve your thoughts and behaviors around sleep workplaces that expect long business hours.

That also in parks, people circadian rhythms and keeps them from getting the sleep that they would normally get.

During the night.

We are committed to working with individuals in the region to improve their sleep in the short term, the long term as best we can.

♪ >> People around the world continue remembering Queen Elizabeth in Kentucky, former Keeneland President Nick Nicholson talked with OSS about her bond with Central Kentucky and her lifelong fascination with and knowledge.

All of the equestrian world.

>> Her first trip here was in 1994.

And she came to inaugurate the Queen.

Elizabeth, the second challenge Cup.

Which is a race that was going to be running Keeneland.

It was quite an honor.

2 for came that she agreed that we could name race after she came in 94 she attended, came on.

She went to the races.

She charmed the crowd the whole day.

It was one of the most special days in the history of Cayman.

One of my favorite images of Cayman for ever was then President Bill taking her in the panic.

She wanted to meet the jockeys.

And so the jockeys lined up in their shoes.

She was in met.

Every one of them said something nice to everyone of them, Mr. Bassett misses bats are right there.

And we see a very young Pat Day and you see a very young Pat Day right there at photo.

That's exactly right.

Yeah.

And you also see at the end the Pat Day of his time, Don Brumfield was in within that.

But it was a it was a spectacular day and for 3rd, but racing in the United States and for especially for Keeneland and that was a public event.

Well, when she by all accounts, everyone who had dinner with her lunch with her all said the same First of all, how easy she wants to talk to.

And second of all, they were so impressed with her knowledge of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Science and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Bloodlines, which while related to the English but lines are somewhat different.

But she really KET her And she was very impressed.

Oppressive to people who are hard to impress her They all were in awe of the queen.

But the fact that she KET so much and cared so much.

The story goes that you want back.

To London.

And when the time came for, well, where do we go next year?

Next year?

Next year, she said, I want to go back to Kentucky.

Well, there were the there's 56 countries in the commonwealth and all and plus the United Kingdom.

So they're all water every year.

So all the diplomatic corps was very nervous about why we can't be going back to Kentucky.

But she wanted to the fact he insisted on it and they came up with a term called Incognito Love >> and so she came back 2 years later, a 96 and she came back again, an 89 that you came back again and 91 and those were all incognita holidays.

Interesting.

And according to the Wall Street Journal this week, those were the only in do holidays she ever had and her entire reign to come to Kentucky.

She came to Kentucky.

>> Queen Elizabeth last visit to Kentucky was in 22,007 when she attended the Kentucky Derby.

Tomorrow.

Our weekly chat with public radio journalist Rylan Barton about this week in politics.

And we'll talk about Kelly Knight is right now kicking off our campaign for governor and Glasgow.

We are there and we'll have complete coverage of rain tomorrow night on Kentucky edition.

We do hope we'll see you tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky edition where we inform connect and inspire subscribe to our weekly Kentucky Edition, e-mail news letter and watch full episodes at KET Dot Org and you can find Kentucky edition on your PBS video app on your mobile device and smart TV.

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