♪ >> Make somebody look you in the eye.

We'll tell you what else you need.

>> Why the governor is encouraging flood victims to not give up on getting help from the federal government.

Why the federal trial of a former detective involved in the Breonna Taylor case won't happen this year as planned.

After skyrocketing for montz.

Some home prices are starting to fall.

Will the trend continue?

>> I really admire anyone who had the grit and determination.

To take on a job like that.

>> And we take a look back at the pack horse librarians of Appalachia.

Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET and Element for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

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

The 15th, I'm Renee Shaw.

>> Thank you for spending some of your Thursday night with us checks will soon be on the way to people in eastern Kentucky who were impacted by the deadly flooding and late July.

>> Today Governor Andy Beshear announced more than 6500 checks for $500.

Each.

We're going out in the coming days.

They will go to anyone who was approved for FEMA, individual assistance total.

It's more than 3 million dollars.

The money comes from the team eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund.

It's similar to the effort that was made following the deadly tornado outbreak in Western Kentucky.

Beshear says the money is intended to help people with some of their immediate needs.

The governor also gave an update on FEMA's response.

The federal agency has approved more than 65 million dollars in grants.

Beshear says FEMA received nearly 14,000 applications following the flooding.

52% of them have been approved.

Local, state and federal officials pressured FEMA to re-evaluate some of the applications that were originally denied.

The share is encouraging anyone who has a question about their application to visit one of FEMA's disaster recovery centers and person.

>> Your claim make somebody look you in the eye and tell you what else you need.

We've seen FEMA do things in Kentucky, but they've never done before.

And that's going to help other areas that hit by natural disasters.

But we still need better for our people.

Do not lose the faith.

KET appealing.

KET working.

been just wiped out.

We want to make sure you get the largest amount that you can from what's available under FEMA.

>> And other news, Kentucky's ranking and child abuse is better than in recent years.

But the state's current 5th place standing nationwide.

It's still concerning.

Doctor Melissa Currie as a child abuse pediatrician at Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville and a member of the state's child Fatality Review board.

She testified yesterday in Frankfort about the recent child abuse death and near death report that shows a critical gap and early interventions.

One particular case you tell them made that clear a one month-old infant died suffocated by his mother who rolled on top of him after she had overdosed on heroin.

What's more?

The baby's toxicology reports.

He had fentanyl in his system.

>> So this was a baby who was identified as being at high risk at the time of the birth hospitalization.

A CPS report was investigated and unsubstantiated when the child was born.

Substance exposed.

Another referral was made 4 days before the death but was not accepted for investigation.

The parents met in rehab and both had significant substance abuse history.

The family lacked stable employment were chronically homeless.

This case reflects the lack of statewide consistent collaborative approach to substance affected families and plans of safe Care.

D CBS should review their current screening policies.

So you just heard about the case of the death where there were 2 CPS report.

One was investigated but unsubstantiated.

The other did not get screened in at all.

And that was 4 days before the infant died.

So we're recommending that the CBS review their screen and policies to ensure the adequacy of the existing acceptance criteria to implement a supervision and management review process for girls that involved children under 4 medically complex children or families with multiple prior referrals and to implement a process for professional reporting sources to seek supervisory review of decisions to screen out referrals.

They have made.

So when a doctor or a child care provider or therapist or a nurse makes a report and it screened out that needs extra attention because that was a professional who is making an objective report based on concerns.

>> Nearly half of all child fatality or near fatality cases reviewed found substance abuse in the home and that those caregivers dealt with addiction almost the same rate.

The review panel wants lawmakers to expand family drug court, educate parents about safe drug storage and provide lock boxes to them.

They also recommend more training on recognizing and reporting abuse for medical providers.

Police corners and county attorneys are prosecutors.

The federal trial for former Louisville Metro Police Department officer charged in connection with the Breonna Taylor case is now delayed by nearly a year.

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Brett Hankinson on federal civil rights charges last month.

His trial was set to begin in October.

I can sense.

Attorneys argue that wasn't enough time to prepare for trial.

Prosecutors and a federal judge agreed 2 more officers are also facing federal charges.

Another has already pleaded guilty.

Hankinson is the only one who was present on the night police shot and killed Taylor in her home in 2020.

The Kentucky Supreme Court will decide whether it's legal for Kentucky.

2 in voluntarily commit bolland violent offenders.

The General Assembly passed a law earlier this year that lets the state commit violent offenders if they are incompetent to stand trial and a danger to themselves and it doesn't matter where they would benefit from treatment.

That's a change from the old law that said they could be committed only if it would benefit them.

The treatment that is the court heard arguments yesterday and today KET provided coverage that you can see on our website KET Dot Org.

A defect and adequate protection led to a deadly explosion in a Kentucky community.

That's according to the National Transportation Safety Board which just released its findings in the 2019 natural gas pipeline explosion in Lincoln County.

The NTSB says the pipeline owned by Enbridge Inc had a preexisting manufacturing defect that coupled with the company's an accurate assessment of the pipeline's condition is reportedly what led to the rupture and subsequent fire.

One person was killed in the blast.

5 homes were destroyed and 14 others were damaged.

Kentucky has been given the green light to develop a major electric vehicle charging network Governor Beshear announced today Kentucky is set to receive nearly 70 million dollars for its electric vehicle infrastructure deployment plan.

It outlines high priority areas for EV charging stations.

The federal funding must be used to build fast charging stations that can fully charge a battery in 30 minutes or less.

And a press release Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray says he wants Kentucky to have a statewide network of EV charging stations by the year 2025.

In Education News, U.S. News and World Report ranks the University of Kentucky 100 37th among national universities and its new list for the 2022 23 school year.

The University of Louisville is 180 seconds.

Maria College was 26th among national liberal arts Colleges Center College was 55th on that same list while Transylvania was 100 and Secant Asbury University finished 14th among regional universities in the south.

Congrats to them all.

Speaking of center, the college is launching a new scholarship program for underserved students.

So the college says it's partnering with Schuler Education Foundation, which is giving the school a 20 million Dollar Grant Center College says an anonymous donor is matching that grant.

The Schuler Access Initiative aims to boost the number of Pell Grant eligible and undocumented students and liberal arts colleges.

Senator College in Danville was recently added to the program.

The school says this program will help more than 120 students afford Center college.

Kentucky State University is working to increase learning opportunities for agricultural students of color.

KSU is now a partner institution in the Agriculture Business Innovation Center, which is being funded by the USDA.

The center will be at North Carolina AG and Tech Nicole State University will serve as a technical assistance hub for AG based business development opportunities for minority students in food and agriculture.

You've probably heard about people buying a home sight unseen during the pandemic or maybe you pay tens of thousands of dollars above asking price for new home in recent years as Kentucky additions, Brandon Roberts reports some experts say the housing boom may be cooling off, but it's far from over.

>> Recently reported statistics have some real estate professionals and economists predicting the housing market, which was red-hot nationwide and in Kentucky in 2020 in 2021, he's beginning to will soon begin to cool off.

But one realtor in Lexington said it's not as much of a cooling off as it is a return to normalcy throughout the, you know, 2020 2021, we saw essentially one of the most rapidly escalating markets that we've seen, you know, in recent history, especially here in central Kentucky, kind of mimic a lot of the rest of the country.

>> And the correction that you've seen now is really more of a correction to.

>> More average appreciation we haven't you know, downside and median pricing or and home values.

More of a correction to normalcy.

>> The median listing price for a home in Lexington is hovering slightly under $300,000 and amount Underwood said has obviously increased over the last couple years.

The numbers also similar in a lot of surrounding counties bucking the historical trend of buyers spending less on a home by living just outside of Fayette County.

>> This point we've really become more of a regional market.

So it used to be that you could go outside of the county and get a lot more bang for the buck.

And that's somewhat true in some cases.

But on average, not so much in the area.

We do have an urban service boundary in Fayette which dictates our developable acres, which has in part led to are regional market place.

>> For potential home buyers in the Lexington area that have been waiting for the markets trend toward normalcy before trying to buy a home Underwood offered some advice.

Don't wait any longer.

>> There there has certainly been information like that in the media that we've seen where they have talked de-escalating pricing.

Really what it's been is a de escalation of the appreciation.

We're not moving us forward as fast as we are.

But we still are moving forward center.

That rain is still on the tracks.

Just moving a little bit slower.

And my advice to any home buyer right now would be to pick up the phone and call your realtor the sooner the better.

It's still more important now than ever to have a very formidable game plan.

When you enter the marketplace, we do still have a inventory that is not quite meeting.

The demand.

>> Underwood said although interest rates are currently elevated, they're actually at or below the historical man's.

He said there's not been a massive surplus in inventory or any real marginal decline in the asking price or the median home values in Central Kentucky.

Which leads him to believe the regional housing market is still quite strong for Kentucky edition.

I'm Brandon Roberts.

>> Thank you.

Brandon statewide.

73% of Kentucky.

Realtors expects sellers to drop their asking price 89% expect houses to stay on the market longer.

According to due to the July edition of the Housing IQ Survey of Kentucky.

Realtors nationally existing home sales were down about 20% from one year ago.

According to the National Association of Realtors.

♪ ♪ We know what we see in movies and television shows doesn't always accurately reflect real life.

But some professional say Hollywood is way off in its portrayal of what jobs they do.

An associate professor at the University of Kentucky wanted to explore that creating a radio segment called That's not how any of this works on the show.

He talked to different professionals to find out was real and what's fake when it comes to Hollywood portrayals.

We talked to a few of them as well.

>> What really crystallized for me the need to sort of break apart the stereotypes and the misperceptions was when my son became a medical doctor.

I feel that didn't know anything about and he would sit and watch a TV show or movie and just shake his head said that is not how this works.

And that's when it really started.

A light went on.

This is every profession the way to the person, the image we get of it in entertainment is is just going to be misleading.

>> I think one of the biggest things is they show things that are actually not really realistic.

So there are things that we'll never get away with in real medicine.

I think a lot of people's exposure to law in Hollywood in television and movies is courtroom dramas.

We had.

>> A legal expert medical expert, forensics expert.

In every case they KET exactly what I was asking and I brought them in a series, you know, tell me about your life is a law professor told me about your life as a a medical expert.

I'm what I don't know about it.

How long?

I maybe been filled with stereotypes or misleading portrayals of what you do.

Things like, you know.

>> These medications work this fast in a patient comes in, diagnosed and is treated all within a span of like 30 or 60 minutes.

That's not real.

But Hollywood and TV often don't show is in about one to 2% of our cases.

>> We don't know at the end of the day at the end of the case.

We might not know why that person died.

I'm seeing people arguing a point.

some big reveal that comes out in front of the jury.

Things like that.

>> I think law students learn pretty quickly that that.

Never happens in trial to most things are revealed well before and the number of cases actually get to trial in both the criminal context of the civil Qantas is a very small percentage of the total cases that are brought fellow physicians.

Attorneys judges, grieving family members often think we can do things that we can.

For instance.

One thing that you might think would be relatively simple is extremely complex.

What was the time of death?

You know, when we see Hollywood or or television.

Showing a coroner or medical examiner coming out of a death scene with a thermometer and saying I put the time of death at 04:25PM.

We all just burst out laughing and shake our heads.

>> With something like medicine or or maybe law.

Having only the stereotype of the profession that you get from entertainment could actually cause problems.

>> I think that it hurts patients.

Perceptions of what we do every day and how quickly we can get things done.

>> I think a lot of these young people think it's going to be all glamour, you know, walking into a crime scene at 3 in the morning where someone has I'm taking the life of their child with intent.

It's not glamorous.

There's more too.

>> Makes law a valuable part of society.

Then what gets portrayed in movies and television?

You know, it's not about getting up in front of a and performing or or trying to trying to make somebody look bad in front of a jury or something like that, but is instead about collaborating to build a project that add something to society.

I think it's important that for people to recognize that we're also humans.

>> We're not magicians.

We're definitely not God that we we're not infallible.

That mistakes happen.

But I think that's not always reflected in these TV shows.

>> If they can just show that it the winds and the losses that we have in medicine with our patients that those do come home with us.

I think it's that part that needs to be better per trade medicine.

Is that?

Once we leave work work doesn't really leave us.

>> If we know more about what it means to be a lawyer, we know more about what it means to be a doctor.

Then we're going to be more informed customers, more inform clients of of those experts when we're dealing with them.

>> Well, that's why you watch KTM PBS right?

A lasting tribute to a well-known thoroughbred is now complete a sculpture.

A Medina spirit was unveiled today at old Friends farm in Georgetown artists Tara's crafted the sculpture from 100 year-old dying sycamore tree.

It took him almost a month to complete the sculpture.

Medina Spirit died in December following a workout in California 2 months later, he was stripped of his 2021 Kentucky Derby win because of a failed post-race drug test.

He's now buried in Georgetown at the Farm for retired race horses.

Those attending today's unveiling say the completed sculpture exceeded their expectations.

>> It's monumental.

It's powerful.

It it takes you by surprise it.

I'd seen I've been following the process on online of him making it, but you don't realize the true scale of It.

>> And energy of it.

It's bigger than what I thought it would be.

It's more impressive than what I thought it would be FAU.

Just wonderful job to stunning.

>> A sight to see.

I'm sure Tara said working on the sculpture was a quote, humbling experience.

♪ ♪ Today marks one week since the passing of Queen Elizabeth.

The second it people around the world continue to mourn her death.

And that includes right here in Kentucky.

We spoke with a with a retired western Kentucky university professor who taught a study-abroad class in England and a native of Great Britain.

Now living in Logan County about the lasting impact of the cranes brain.

>> I remember as a child looking in much how Kraft book and there was a 2 page spread of Queen Elizabeth, if when in her coronation rose.

>> I never seen anything like that.

>> I was in awe of that picture.

>> Was is and my son I con shall we say.

I would love that.

And >> she where we live the whole.

She actually open the home of rage.

>> So lots of people actually got to see it.

And the tests.

>> Western had a relationship with a high school teacher.

Education did with hearts in college.

And I'm so.

>> When you take students there, there are students, you know, are teaching them through Western that we're lodged at Hellickson college, you know, in the middle of the United Kingdom.

And so it's just a great experience.

>> I was doing Windsor Castle guy duties in 1996.

And we did that for a moment.

And she was a resident that and basically we could see a walking the dogs, the call these.

>> While helicopter, it looked like it had emblem on it was landing right below us.

I said, I think that's the queen because we were very close to Holly Road House.

The castle that she lives in pollen and Burr and it was the queen.

>> He drove right past us.

And, you know, we could see you're in the car and you know all of that, if we could see where the party where she was going over everything.

So that was just a big 3.

All.

>> 1977.

We have the Silver Jubilee and straight passes everywhere.

We respect everything what she's done for the country.

The Kings and Queens before.

>> She lived out what she said, you know, for all of her life, whether it be long or short, you know that she would serve the country.

My husband, our talking last night about, you know, how she served in the more teens.

>> I want to talk about it.

It's just it's upsetting.

You know, she's been there all my life.

And I know it's not like a a promise that coming and going, but she's the spin that as a rock for everybody.

We should ask.

>> I was just thinking how it's just like the end of an era.

You know, there's always something about that.

That's really sad as she represents a lot to the people of the United Kingdom.

And she's been a friend to the United States.

>> Indeed, Day says he hopes King Charles will be a modern king except new ideas like Queen Elizabeth did both police tell us they will wake up early Monday morning to watch media coverage of the Queen's funeral proceedings.

♪ During the Great Depression.

The FDR administration began a program designed not only to create jobs to help Eastern Kentucky families in desperate times, but also bring books to the people of the region in an effort to increase literacy rates of other Appalachians, hungry to read and learn the stars of this program or a group of women who would ride horses and meals along dangerous mountain trails, bringing satchels of books and magazines to neighbors anxiously awaiting the visit from the pack horse librarians.

>> In the 1930's as much of the nation bloc to recover from a devastating 2 brush and the winner of the title, the Great Depression, the new Franklin Roosevelt Administration SOT ways not only to get Americans immediately back to work.

Want to use these new jobs to educate and expand culture throughout the nation.

>> Through arts and libraries.

>> Led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the Works Progress Administration or the WPA discovered an idea begun in Kentucky to teach people the power of libraries and the benefits that borrowing books would bring to their lives.

Her people initiated the Pack Horse Library program.

The idea was to establish a library in each county.

So with books and then hire women to write off into the mountains to deliver these books.

>> Citizens across the Commonwealth came to the aid of their fellow Kentuckians.

Kentucky's PTA and library organizations sent out request nationwide for the donation of reading Materials.

For the women who would ride into the mountains.

They were faced with a daunting task.

It was a job with many dangers as there were no paper roads.

They rode horses and mules along mountain paths or use creep Betts has highways.

The children of the pack or librarians.

Remember the stories from their mothers like Tina Sloan, Cook.

>> Who would face the elements?

>> In the winter?

Given the water that was flash up going to increase.

All rain or snow or you name it.

More than one occasion.

She would come home with her feet frozen and scared and my dad would ship the ice off before she would get all.

>> There are a lot of homes and there are, you know, rocks underneath the leaves that you can't say.

And just lots of things going on that you might not notice.

So you really are a lot.

And you have to really begin to trust your horse.

I really admire anyone who had enough grit and determination to to take on a job like that.

>> But for all the dangers, these Kentucky women proved their resilience.

>> They did what they had to.

>> Because they're ghost.

Get the books out there to to everyone and every town they want every time have a book in their hand and they are so If your if your horse to your meal dot.

>> You walked.

You want those 12, 15 miles to get those books to those communities.

And you can read the books.

5200 pounds of books.

There are now we claims they were strong women.

They were determined women.

>> One of the favorite stops for these riders.

What's the one room schoolhouse?

They were greeted by the voices and laughter of children waiting on the treasures held in the saddle bags of the book woman.

The Children.

>> Enjoyed seeing the Packers librarians come because that that was there.

You know, there was no that was their Internet to, you know, that was that was the way they got information for the magazine.

Joe, principally in the box that that they would bring.

>> Until the Packers Cain.

The only book ahead, Durian, both my history.

The Goma and then and that, of course, library came.

>> It was one of the riots.

>> But times of my life, do I believe that the Packers library project significantly increase literacy rates in the region?

You can not have that effect when you're actually working with schools when you're actually reading too >> adults when children are teaching their parents how to read.

Those are real tangible benefits from this program.

>> People loved the Bucs people love the program.

I think it was the wild success.

>> You're here.

Our thanks to Tom Buckle for producing that awesome report.

>> There aren't enough large animal vet Marion's in Kentuckyian experts say it's only going to get worse coming up tomorrow.

What's Kentucky doing to reverse this trend and how the shortage could impact you.

We do have to see you again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky edition where we inform connect and inspire.

Take really good care.

Have a great night now.

See you right back here tomorrow night.

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