♪ >> When the only begin to describe.

>> What happened in Kentucky Lane hits Florida.

>> It's a Ponzi scheme.

It's a bait and switch.

>> Senator Rand Paul says the federal budget.

It's hurting your budget.

>> And I remember feeling fine and I've never been to before.

>> And Judas priest guitar player talked about his last trip to Louisville and how it changed his life.

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

♪ ♪ >> Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Thursday.

September 26th.

>> I'm Laura Rogers filling in for Renee Shaw.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Florida and other southern states are bracing for the impact of Lane.

A Category 3 hurricane that could grow to a Category 4 before making landfall.

It's expected to bring heavy rain to Kentucky in the next few days and the state is getting ready.

Governor Andy Beshear urges everyone to KET an eye lane.

>> The impacts of this storm should be taken seriously.

And I encourage everyone in Kentucky to be weather aware of what we're going to see in the coming days.

As of now, we expect the remnants of the hurricane to begin affecting Kentucky this evening and especially into Friday.

But rain may continue all the way through Sunday and accumulate in various places.

>> The governor says he hasn't declared a state of emergency in Some other southern governors half but he says he will if it becomes necessary.

Ali will make landfall on Florida's Big Bend coast tonight, bringing catastrophic and life-threatening storm surge and flash flooding.

According to the National Hurricane Center, our Kristina and discusses how lanes impact on our Kentucky weather with National Weather Service.

Meteorologist John Gordon.

>> John, well, we're not expecting to see the catastrophic conditions that Florida and some of the Southeast may experience from Hurricane Helene in the Bluegrass State.

We are expecting to be impacted.

Can you tell us a little bit about the timing of that and what we can expect?

>> Yes, Lane is coming to Kentucky.

That's a fact.

We've been trying to tell folks that we're not going to get where they're going.

The big band going to getting a lot of wind and rain tomorrow.

Portions of the commonwealth will get between 2 and 4 inches of rain and the wind will be kicking up from the southeast part of the state up through Lexington N Frankfort eventually in the wall.

When somewhere between 25 gusting to 40, there will be some gusts in the 50 probably in an area from about Korea and Lexington towards Louisville.

In the afternoon, we're worried about what's called the dry slot.

We get a little sun and between about 2 5 o'clock tomorrow when the won't even begin to describe it.

Okay.

So what is this wind going to do?

What do we need to prepare for and what can you know, 40, 50 mile an hour.

Wind gusts do.

>> Great questions.

So folks don't leave things a line around the yard like a trampoline that's not anchored in garbage cans.

There's things that you can do that are out there right now that you can move in.

>> Kind of protect yourself.

If you're in a trucking company to gas, those diesels up.

Do not go empty tomorrow down the interstate.

The winds are going to be blowing.

We're going to have very hard, heavy rain there thing if you've been delaying and procrastinating getting your windshield wipers, get those wipers, go to your local place to put them on for its your wipers is going to be really nasty tomorrow.

>> Okay.

Let's talk about the rain isn't going to be coming down so hard that for people driving may be in the afternoon.

They're going to pull over.

>> There will be waves of it will not be continuous like that.

But there will be some waves, some of these bands that pivot from the Southeast to the northwest that will be kinda bad where you have to put your flashers on or slow down motorcyclists.

Yeah.

You want to get on to those overpasses, underpasses and contact.

You saw it coming nasty tomorrow and last but not least there's about a 2% probability.

There might be one or 2 thunderstorms, that kind of rotates.

We have to watch the threat of very, very, very isolated tornadoes.

And what about flooding and people driving on the roads?

Is that going to be an issue for tomorrow?

Yeah.

Thanks for saying that.

Yeah.

Turn around.

Don't drown.

Were very dry in Kentucky were very dry.

But this a lot of rain coming in as we get rain already this week so that it steady rain, not a problem at all.

If we get some burst of very heavy rain, hydroplane eating some right rain and some hilly country could cause some flash flooding in some spots, especially in the rugged country in the southeast.

Part of the state.

Okay.

We will watch out for that.

It sounds like it's going to be a very busy start to the weekend for you all their its rules, a bit wet.

So put on your rain coat.

All right.

Thank you so much, John.

>> The governor is urging people to use their weather radios as storms move into Kentucky.

The new program is making that possible for the 700,000 Kentuckians who are hearing impaired and the new program is named in honor of the late Virginia.

More the longtime advocate for the hearing impaired who provided sign language during Governor Bush years.

News briefings.

>> Through the newly an appropriately named more safe night's program.

That is more with a KET 700 free weather alert.

Radios specifically adapted for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing are available at no cost.

Thanks to a partnership between the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and hard of hearing in the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management equipped with pillow shakers and strobe light attachments.

These weather radios, which we're going to show you in a second are designed to alert people who are deaf and hard of hearing of severe weather in their area so they can take shelter to protect themselves and their families as one of the 700,000 Kentuckyian with hearing loss and mom of 2 daughters with United.

I can personally attest to how profound the impact will be from this polling for people like myself can access information, threw out a tweet.

Reynolds, we are in depend on other senses to KET that the way you.

You know, I don't has become a news.

And when when Conrad and go to see that act is to awareness, gone done just that.

The very tense to see her legacy carried on.

>> This was her pension.

>> Good.

I'm glad that her memory is still a live issue continues to serve the >> people in Kentucky.

>> The program starts with 700 radios.

But the governor says he will seek funding to make a radio available to anyone who wants one more on this tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION.

The results are in Kentuckyian to take advantage of adult education to get their GED.

Do make more money than those who dropped out of high school today.

And economists presented lawmakers with the findings of the state mandated study.

More in tonight's Legislative update.

♪ >> At some point we start to see fairly quickly, actually, that wages start to improve and they improved gradually.

But steadily and that affect does not seem to be declining during this time period.

We see that 16 quarters after enrollment.

They're earning about $336 more per quarter.

Then those who did not enroll.

For males, we see the same type of effect employment improves.

But we see that started to click decay.

And we see that became more quickly than we do for females.

What you see is that if we look at the total earnings, both from the fact that we have more people working.

Higher wages over this four-year period after enrollment that totals about $5,300 for women.

For men.

It's about 6,700.

Over that four-year period.

You were talking about the employment to defect decays over time.

Does that mean that people that go into these services and they do will for a period of time?

>> And then they fall out of the labor market.

That game that we see is declining over time.

And by 16 quarters, they're still doing better in terms of employment are more likely to have a job.

But that advantage has declined or decayed over time.

And so, you know, the general trend that we're seeing here is that, you know, at some point in the future, we would expect that that effect in terms of employment to disappear.

>> 2 years ago, state lawmakers directed the education and labor cabinet to study the effectiveness.

Kentucky's adult education program.

This week.

And Kentucky's capitol legislators met to discuss challenges facing healthcare services in the state.

A common theme of each presentation.

Kentucky's glaring workforce shortage in the healthcare industry.

Here's more on those challenges and potential solutions from Kentucky additions Clayton Dalton.

>> Kentucky is facing a serious problem.

Nearly every type of healthcare position for medical assistance to physicians has a double-digit vacancy rate across the commonwealth.

That's according to the Kentucky Hospital Association.

This is Institute.

A national think tank says Kentucky is projected to be short.

Almost 3,000 doctors by 2030.

But one Republican legislator offered what she believes could be part of the solution.

>> I think everyone here knows that the physician supply is lagging patient demand nationally and across Kentuckyian is the supply falls.

Patients end up waiting longer to see a doctor positions, experience burnout and we lose even more and more doctors.

We have a well trained group of physicians who have practiced or done that residency outside the United States.

And we want to find a way to recognize their training and provide a provisional license.

We can solve it by allowing these doctors who practiced overseas for at least 5 years and already have all the same training to practice here in the states.

And that's exactly what HB 574 would do.

>> And so it really is it's just that one change.

It's just to allow a doctor who is sponsored by a healthcare facility here in the state of Kentucky in the comic Kentucky, they get a three-year provisional license that allows them to practice as a full doctor.

But they have to be working at that facility.

They have to be supervised in some ways.

They have to have that ability to check and see.

Hey, you know, the way that they do billing in India might look a little different than the way that we do it here in the commonwealth.

And then ultimately as assuming that they don't have investigations pending, that they've been practicing the way that we would expect a doctor to practice after 3 years.

That license converts to a full license solving the health care workforce shortage is about more than physician shortages alone.

>> That's why the council on post-secondary education and the Kentucky Board of Nursing want to help veterans transition into health care jobs like licensed practical nurses, we have a chance to go visit Fort Campbell and talk to those at Fort Campbell.

>> And realizing that Kentucky, we were not doing nearly as much as we could to help many of these veterans who are coming out with leadership abilities, all kinds of training to really move quickly into the workforce in these conversations that we start having.

We start coming up with what we call bright ideas.

And this was one of the heroes, the healers with its about adult learners trim up.

And it's also about getting these highly-trained veterans and our work force that will stay in Kentuckyian stay in our workforce.

We're not trying to lower their standards at all.

We're just trying to make a pathway to where people can come from the military and have that background in the military and move on to the a viable field and then and then further on what you can open license, you can move on and do a bridge to get done.

And are we in so essentially trying to fill that gap, veterans would be able to take accelerated courses through the Kentucky community and Technical College system.

Kctcs.

>> To help prepare them for licensure exams.

Lawmakers said addressing these workforce challenges will be a focus of the upcoming 2025 legislative session.

For Kentucky edition.

I'm Clayton Dalton.

>> All right.

Thank you, Clayton.

The Kentucky Supreme Court sides with journalists and open records, advocates today.

The justices ruled the Courier Journal should have access to records from the Shively Police Department over a high-speed police chase in Twenty-twenty that left 3 people dead.

The local police department.

It said the information would tamper with an ongoing investigation.

The court says law enforcement agencies across the state have made that same argument to, quote, shield their public records from public scrutiny for nearly 50 years that Kentucky Open government coalition called the decision, quote, a major victory for open government and a major blow to police secrecy.

The police department now has to prove in Jefferson Circuit Court that releasing such records would harm the ongoing investigation.

As the House and Senate passed a stopgap spending plan yesterday.

Senator Rand Paul forced a Senate vote on a budget balancing plan.

He calls the 6 penny plan.

Paul says it will cut $0.6 of every dollar projected to be spent over the next 5 years.

He says the federal government is running a 2 trillion dollar deficit every year.

He says that's unsustainable and is hurting every American.

>> It's a Ponzi scheme.

It's a bait and switch.

The politicians come to you and say here, we'll give you this for free.

It's free.

It won't cost you anything.

We'll give you free college.

We'll give you $25,000 for a house.

It's free.

There's no cost, but it's a lot.

I the law by the trick.

The ruse.

It is a lot of the American people because it is paid for through borrowing.

And when we borrow, the Federal Reserve will buy the debt and you'll get inflation.

She's going to pay for it to inflation.

There is no free lunch.

You can't get anything for free something for nothing is a charade played on the American people by politicians who just want to gain power of your lives.

Americans will pay dearly for Congress is insatiable appetite for more and more spending the high level of spending.

Those currently crushing American family is just the beginning.

If we continue down this unsustainable path, American families will be forced to deal with even higher inflation.

Can Fisk a Tory tax rates, rising interest rates and a weak economy.

It will be harder to find a job and provide for a family because the deals made in the halls of Congress will always stick the taxpayer with a bill right now.

The average American family, their paycheck goes buys $1000.

Less of stuff.

You've lost $1000.

If you make the same income you made 4 years ago, your $1000, poor because of inflation.

Inflation came from.

These politicians are offering you something for nothing.

>> Senators voted down.

Senator Paul's 6 penny plan by a vote of 56 to 39.

♪ ♪ More progress for Kentucky's medical cannabis program with the first license being issued today.

More in tonight's Medical News.

Governor Beshear announced the business license went to Labs in Nicholasville.

The company is one of 5 safety compliance facilities to apply for a license and or the program.

Unlike dispensaries, there is no limit on how many safety compliance facilities can operate in Kentucky.

More than 4,000 dispensaries who applied for the program are hoping to be selected during a lottery scheduled for next month.

The Kentucky General Assembly legalized medical cannabis for qualified patients and 2023 setting a start date for January.

First 2025.

Dream DOT or hosted its 6th event of the year.

At the Healing Women's Recovery Center in Louisville.

They are the public health is Public Safety coalition had conversations with community activist and those impacted about substance use recovery, harm reduction and mass incarceration.

>> This is a 6 event we've done this year.

We did 5 last year.

We've done 6 this year.

So what these events too, we bring together different folks to really get a perspective years.

We usually have like the business community to fight community addiction, specialist addiction specialist products for mental health field.

>> Community members.

Elected officials, anyone that we can get out to really join these discussions and what we are discussing is you know how how we can.

Get folks the help they need instead of incarceration, especially folks who suffer from substance use disorder because we know incarceration isn't working when it comes to substance, use disorder move forward and there's creating more trauma.

It's a trick every month I wanted ladies, they were in recovery since we're here at the women still in place.

I really want to emphasize that point to the ladies that are in this program that, you know, recovery least amazing things.

And all 5 of those ladies were in recovery are in recovery.

And they're all doing amazing work across the state.

So I really wanted to.

>> Let those lady see what recovery really is.

And those ladies are living proof of work ever really is.

>> It shows our clients.

Hear that there are more resources out there than just a healing place.

The ailing places, a great foundation.

But it's not.

We're everybody can get sober.

Like there is a huge community here.

So many different organizations coming together.

It's beautiful.

I know when I was out there, I thought I was the only one.

Nobody understood what pain I was dealing with.

And when I got here, I realized that there are so many just like me struggling.

Brocade.

>> This is an issue that affects all of Kentucky.

It's not a rule or an urban issue.

It's not a black or white issue and it's not a Republican or Democratic issue.

It's 120 county Kentucky issue.

And we have to make sure that we focus across the state and not just in one or the other.

I watch these girls come in.

>> Last road again and to give them hope and allow others organizations to come in to give them resources just means the world.

>> The coalition focuses on 5 key areas, alternative to incarceration, expanding treatment, access, harm, reduction, education and equity.

The louder than Life Music Festival kicks off today in Louisville and among the acts scheduled to perform this year, Judas Priest for the band's guitarist Richie Faulkner.

It will mark the return to the same stage.

Jury suffered an aortic aneurism in 2021.

Faulkner recently talked about being rushed to University of Louisville Hospital to undergo emergency open heart surgery.

And what is taken to get back out on stage.

>> I think if anything is like a is the celebration for me more than anything that, you know, what went down that night?

You know, he depends on who you talk to us shouldn't be able to do that.

I was lucky to even get through the night an and carry on.

You know, it starts to come back in.

Put the festival's re-light or if it was like a bit of a bit of a triumph really took on of complete the festival, complete the gig as I was meant to do to put this fun, you know, doing in the show.

I remember when it happened and what it felt like on a member of thinking this is not usually what happens.

This is something that is unusual and I remember feeling fine.

I've never been to Remember the end of the show usually on his ticket or above my head, you know, in the year.

And I remember I couldn't do it.

And then from that, I remember going back to the dressing room.

I didn't want to make a fuss.

You know, I didn't think anything was wrong.

So I said, OK, well, if it they want to take you to the hospital to this and checks.

I'm looking to go wearing leather and stops can absorb up in the hospital wearing you know what?

I wear them state.

So open back to the dressing room got changed.

And in hindsight, I don't know how I did it.

I don't know how you know here, knowing what I know now about the condition and what happened.

Sometimes they question its to live, you know, and for some reason, I was able to get back to the dressing room.

It was on the other side of the the festival site.

You know, so I went back, changed.

Go back on the golf cart when back to where the ambulance was.

Go back and ambulance and we went from there.

There were there was the things connected with the surgery that happened near logically, you know, brings that.

So that is affected a little right side, some of picking and sometimes life.

They're going to have to practice a little bit more now, who was one of the the things off to the count full is vitamin K which is found a lot of green vegetables and Go to be careful how think nobody's life is too thick.

You know, he instructs Eritrean.

It is too thin.

If you've got the south, a lot.

And I say you go to kind of be in the middle, inviting high, make sure.

But I think I said that's one thing.

I would be wary of too much alcohol.

Mikey Garcia, things all of the, you know, worst diet and things like that before gently for the most Paul, I haven't had to adjust.

I lost all too You know, I'm grateful for that.

We are still get on the road to play.

And so and, you know, play with Charles and everything like that.

So it's just those little things that have to be careful.

>> Glad to see.

He has made that recovery Faulkner and the rest of Judas Priest's are scheduled to perform at the louder Than Life Festival Sunday night.

♪ Soon.

September could be the month to celebrate Kentucky icon Congressman Morgan McGarvey and Andy Barr of Kentucky up together introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate September as national Bourbon Heritage Month it's time to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.

Barr and McGarvey are co-chairs of the Congressional Bourbon Caucus.

Yesterday the U.S. House passed the Fix our Forest Ave. >> To which includes Congressman Andy Barr's amendment to create the White Oak Restoration Initiative.

Coalition.

That coalition will look at ways to help the growth of white oak trees.

White oak is used to make the barrels that are used for aging wine whiskey and Kentucky bourbon.

In a statement, Congressman Barr said, quote, White Oak is essential to Kentucky's bourbon industry and the broader economy of the 6th district.

The creation of the White Oak Restoration Initiative.

Coalition as a proactive step to ensure that this critical resource continues to thrive, unquote.

This bill still needs Senate passage.

This Sunday on inside Louisville.

We go inside the booming bourbon and history.

Kelsey Starks talks with tourism officials as well as Woodford Reserve's master distiller.

>> Elizabeth McCall, who is breaking barriers in more ways than one.

>> Okay.

So let's talk about urban this phenomenon which you have seen during your time at Brown-Forman and it's see, you know, the combination of tourism and bourbon and how the bourbon industry has really changed.

Louisville and Kentucky has a whole.

Yeah.

I mean, it's amazing to see what, because if you look back and we talk about the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, which they just celebrated a major milestone.

25 years of the urban trail and Woodford was at the forefront of that in 1996 when we opened our doors, we had there was one that we were there to distilleries.

You can visit and Woodford was one of them.

And and once they we presented this may zing concept.

People actually want to visit Bourbon, Distillery and see how it's made.

But it took off and by 1999, they had to create the Bourbon Trail and now there are so many distilleries.

We've just Heather, you had the craft trail and the bourbon Major Bourbon Distillery Trail.

Now it's all one and even got you have food in that as well.

And so it's just been a great resurgence of everything.

But it's gotten the whole every nook of the industry involved and excited and just talk about the economic growth.

It's had on Kentucky is just fantastic.

Very excited.

Proud to be a part of the industry.

That's really and major contributor.

>> How it started where it's going next.

We go inside Bourbon.

this Sunday at noon 11 Central on KET.

Well, they can't even drive yet.

But these middle schoolers are on a mission to Mars.

We join 7th graders at Mayfield Middle School on their visit to the Challenger Learning Center.

>> At Paducah, the Center opened more than 20 years ago and completed a major upgrade this summer.

We'll show you how they get kids excited about stem education while using teamwork, creative thinking and decision-making skills.

That's tomorrow on Kentucky Edition, we do hope that you'll join us again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky Edition.

Thank you for joining us.

Have a good evening.

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