>> The NAACP says Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron Pass to go.

>> You could drink in need you to drink a cocktail.

You know, you bought it.

You can drink and how we live.

>> And have it your way.

At a new bourbon tasting room.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Friday, September 30th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for starting off your weekend with us.

>> The NAACP is Louisville chapter is calling for Attorney General Daniel Cameron to resign or be impeached.

The organization says Cameron failed to conduct a fair and impartial investigation and to the deadly police shooting of Breonna Taylor in March of 2020 police shot and killed Taylor during a raid on her apartment.

Cameron did not charge anyone for her death, but a federal investigation led to indictments of 4 Louisville police officers.

The NAACP says if Cameron doesn't resign, the Kentucky General Assembly should impeach him this afternoon.

The NAACP told DOS it was Cameron's remarks at the Fancy Farm picnic in early August that pushed the group to take this step.

>> The attorney general is the number one in or cement officer.

Justice.

And inequality.

For him to stay in.

Frank Baum.

That he.

We'll is not.

And impartial stand, rather chief enforcement officer in this state to take the NAACP, take the position.

The call for his resignation.

When he is the first African-American to be elected to a statewide office.

It wasn't.

A difficult decision to but it was so important and fortunate that we had to make it.

>> Attorney General Cameron's office said, okay, you see this response, quote, I'm proud of the work I've done on behalf of every Kentuckyian I'm honored to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth as the Kentucky's 51st attorney general, unquote.

Sad news tonight from the Kentucky General Assembly C B Embry has died of cancer.

Senator Embry resigned a few days ago because of his illness.

He served as a state senator from the 6th district since 2015 in a statement, Senate President Robert Stivers said, quote, Seabees value served as a bedrock in the state Senate and his contributions to our Commonwealth stand out on their own.

He was a passionate advocate for public education, veterans issues and raise the bar on everything he touched, unquote.

Governor Andy Beshear also commented on senator and break saying, quote, he was loyal to the people of western Kentuckyian his contribution to the legislature over the last 20 years is in measurable.

He will be greatly missed.

Hurricane and makes landfall again this time in South Carolina as a category one storm, the official death toll from Florida is not in, but there are fears it will go much higher.

The storm caused massive floods on both Florida coast destroyed homes and left 2 million people without power.

44,000 utility workers are trying to restore electricity.

Governor Andy Beshear says Kentucky can appreciate Florida's paying.

>> A slightly we know what terrible flooding because like and how devastating it can be.

We understand that there are people right now on the roofs or other places that need help and need rescue.

We understand that right now they're probably trying to figure out how to get their power back on how much damage has been done to their water and their wastewater system.

And really importantly, given cell phone service back up because that's really when people can start reaching out and finding each other.

And oftentimes that's when hopefully the better news comes that you haven't lost as many people as you think you might have.

we remain.

Not just to recovery here in Kentucky, helping out our fellow citizens around the country.

>> Rain from me and is expected in eastern Kentucky this weekend.

Not county's emergency management director Jeff comes says he'll have spotters watching key trigger points to see if that weekend rain is likely to cause flooding.

He says if things look bad, rescue squads will respond quickly.

Continued good news about COVID in Kentucky.

Only 11 counties are in the red zone according to the CDC.

That's down from 22 a week ago.

It was more than 70 earlier this month.

58 of Kentucky's 120 counties are in the green, which means low.

That's good news.

Whitley County is canceling the rest of the elementary school football season because of threats and a hostile atmosphere at the Games.

The News Journal quotes the superintendent who says conduct was so bad at some games.

Police were called and there are real concerns.

Something bad could happen.

The elementary basketball season is still set to begin in November.

Striking new images of Jupiter released a spacecraft to sent crashing into an asteroid and a mission straight out of a Hollywood movie.

And Hurricane Ian forces, NASA to roll back Artemis one further delaying the launch of the rocket carrying a satellite built by Morehead State University.

We spoke to Ben Mouth for us.

The executive director of MSU Space Science Center about all the news from space this week.

>> Being hurricane season in Florida, the inevitable long happened and they made what I think was a very practical decision and decided to roll back the law cut to the vehicle assembly building.

You know, it's no easy feat.

The joint crawler takes at least today.

Look more than a day, too, crawl out there.

And then half a day to load it up.

And then another day to roll back.

There is a risk associated with the same charge of the and the longer that the spacecraft since the higher the risk of the that will have some difficulties on power, not because of the state state of charge.

And that was that you realize there are few things that you need to to to tweak and the home.

I'm working with the big Space network and our flight Dynamics facility at NASA.

Goddard.

It gives us more time to go through more simulations and increase our level of preparedness.

So it's, you know, it's good news in and have a little bit of increased risk, but also more time to prepare and increase our state >> Jupiter can get for it is really, really interesting.

Anderson 100 feature really buildable that struck me.

>> With your war, the northern and southern lights there.

Interactions with the southern wind and Jupiter's magnetic fields.

If you look farther out, you can actually see the rings that Jupiter.

They're also little many moons invented within the rings.

>> That are that are quite miserable.

So goes pretty features to see more sort of pure and deeper into into these planets.

Atmospheres with James with them.

Then we have been able to produce them.

The atmospheric features we've just never seen in that detail before.

It gives great information atmosphere.

Mom.

>> Was one actually that was kind of near and dear to our hearts because with our 21 leader ditch of the Dish and Morgan State.

We've actually dark before on its way out.

The purpose of the this experiment was to determine if it would be possible to send a spacecraft to an asteroid that was approaching the Earth bird its trajectory.

It's it's a sign of But but, you know, it's going 40,000 miles an hour.

You're trying to get it with another speeding bullet pending the speed with speeding bullet with another speeding bullet.

Millions of kilometers away is pretty extraordinary for the I can't imagine War well, isn't a demonstration that could potentially save your firm an extinction level of them.

>> NASA does have a launch window next month for the Artemis rocket.

But now for said he believes in November launch is more likely.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> Time now for our end of week review of some top political stories in Kentucky this week with a pair of political pundits.

We've got a husband and wife duo today at the piper in Jarrett Smith who ran a lobbying strategy and public relations firm called Piper Smith.

That has offices in Lexington and Louisville.

Thank you both for being with us.

So let's talk about thank you, Jared.

Its let's talk about the U.S. Senate race were less than 6 weeks out from the November elections.

And it seems like this has been a very quiet race between the Republican incumbent, Rand Paul and Democratic challenger Charles Booker.

Jared, I'll begin with What perspective can you give about?

Should we expect more intensity at this particular point and how would you categorize this race at this particular juncture?

>> Well, think you're correct.

We talk about the races may be sleepy by a past and rtd's.

This is a different kind of a statewide race.

Charles, there is not running as Republican Lite or as a Democrat that doesn't want to rock the boat rocking the boat.

He's running as a true progressive.

He's not hiding it.

He's not afraid just to say it is not for that area from pike a little And I think you're seeing a different sort of crowd respond to that.

You know, you had standing room only in the pike for the one-time use down there for Ali was really impressed me.

To be honest, I have tried to put the crowds together all over the state before and it's standing room only and painful.

It is for a Democrat is very, very impressive.

And so I think that as you will see, it's going to pick up.

It's going to ramp up, right?

You know, grandpa can't run and hide from him forever like he's trying to right now.

And so we'll I do expect it to pick up.

But this is this is a different election, especially with amendment 2.

I think that also will play into the intensity as we come down the home stretch here.

>> And so, Abby, to Karen's point about amendment number 2, this is the constitutional proposed constitutional amendment about abortion that would say there depending on your answer.

Yes or no.

Are you in favor of changing the Constitution where there'd be no right to abortion or the funding?

But how much of a factor do you think that will be?

And even the votes for either candidate and the turnout itself?

Do you think it actually drive off more turnout in interest than normal?

>> You know, that's a good question.

And I think that it really depends entirely voter base.

But Rand Paul's voters voting base has been a pretty unshakable block they had that time and again what they truly believe in they like to have it with wide margin.

So I'm not sure that there's anything to be surprised about here.

Yeah.

>> Well, we'll KET our eyes on that race as we get closer and closer.

Let's talk about some of that I really talk about and that school board races.

Abby Piper, I want to come to you because we think about school board races being also sleepy contest.

But over the last few years, particularly during COVID, you know, school boards are really embroiled in controversies around mask policies around teaching race in history.

Gender identity has been an issue that many school boards are grappling with.

Talk to us about how competitive these races are, who's funding them and the types of candidates who are getting into the school board race.

>> Yeah, You know, there's been record spending across the country in school board races that Yeah, high-spending we've ever seen in Los about 4, 5 years ago.

Yeah.

Nearly 15 million dollars in spending for a school board raised another million and a half recently in Denver seeing that's in large cities.

But you're also seeing is a small places like Camden, New Jersey.

And a lot of this is post-pandemic.

It has to do with that.

Parents wanting different choices and being told repeatedly that add the reports that they have is the elected ballot box is that they're there to advantage that there are group, the funding behind it.

We've seen record funding in candidates that are from teachers union.

We've also seen record funding in candidates that are pro charter school or on even if the party which has been putting up candidates and you'll see some of those.

And and Jefferson County and Kentucky right now.

And you I expect we'll see a lot more of those.

Yeah.

Jared, what can you contribute to this about weather?

>> Teachers unions are really pushing for their candidate who can help kind of make sure those public education policies are adhered to an advanced versus those who really want to disrupt maybe public education and make some change in some way.

>> Correct.

I mean, there's no secret that teacher unions like to play in these elections.

What I think you're seeing is the broader trend of nationalization of local offices and I think is actually about Trent.

You know, you want your Mayor City council, your magistrates of county judge to really not be involved national partisan politics.

You know that potholes are partisan, as they say.

But now you have disrupters talking about, you know, cat litter boxes in school bathrooms.

I mean, it's just unreal.

What they're talking about.

I got to be honest.

If you go to school board meeting, it starts talking stuff like this.

You need to bring a record.

How many parent teacher conferences you that ended for you should be allowed to stay.

>> Interesting.

So last House district number.

29, this is a Jefferson County race.

Republican incumbent Kevin Bratcher who time and time comes out.

The victor and some of these contests and all of these contests.

He's had challenges in sometimes run unopposed.

But this has been interesting.

Jarrett, I want to go right to you because this is I call it the ballot debacle where you had one candidate flipped parties, but he didn't change his registration soon.

It off and he withdrew.

And now you've got another candidate, the jet, the secretary of state says, well, I've already certified these ballots and this is a no-go what's happening here and where do you go from here?

>> Yes, so this usually happens every 10 years when they do redistricting.

Just, you know, people file to run and then re district happens before the filing deadline ends.

Usually it.

So you get these kind of It mix ups every 10 years.

So what has happened is after the filing deadline.

There's nobody in a district where there's a small state statute that a lot of people forget about that the local party has, I think 14 days to fill that vacancy even as after the filing deadline, Republicans did this to Representative Al Gentry in South Louisville and then the Democrats did it who will be next.

State Senator Amanda May's Bledsoe found somebody come in and the Lexington, such Kentucky area to challenge.

What makes this even more unique is the person that put on them ballot to challenge turned out to be ineligible.

And so the Democrats argued again, hey, we have 14 days to replace him and second halves.

Like enough is enough.

I got a call.

I got to stop it somewhere.

And that's and so that's a choice he made.

I imagine there's there's different statues.

I believe there's a Jefferson County statute.

It's at odds with the state statute.

This probably end up in court.

So I'm guessing.

>> Yeah.

So we'll KET our eyes on.

It was thank you.

It's been a Jarrett Smith and Abby Piper, appreciate you so very much.

Have a great weekend.

♪ >> Just like the food on store shelves, medical supplies also have expiration dates.

But what if the supplies can still be used in today's medical news supplies overseas rescues, medical devices, medications, and other supplies and ships them to communities in need.

The Louisville based organization is helping to save lives across the world.

And here at Home CEO Dan, the Sears explains how this group came to be.

As the West was started in 1993.

By the iconic doctor Norton Waterman.

Everybody knows him.

>> What he saw were things that were being thrown away.

So, you know, use concern from an environmental standpoint.

But as a humanitarian heart, he also recognize that the still have the capacity to save or change a life.

And so he established so S. >> What criteria to use to determine facility that's going to get your equipment.

>> Well, the first distinction is, you know, if it is an item with an expiration date, where is it in that?

All right.

So if it's going to go internationally to a developing country, hospital or clinic, it has to have at a minimum 15 months could date because we have to pack it and we have to ship it.

If it's less than that, it may go on a medical mission trip.

A war.

It's going to stay local and it's going to go wide variety of local partners.

If it's expired, it will be it will go to schools for teaching.

>> You can learn more about S O S on KET Kentucky Health with Doctor Wayne Tuckson.

A new season starts Sunday at 12, 30 Eastern 11, 30 central in the morning right here on KET.

Bourbon enthusiasts now have an additional stop to explore right here in downtown Lexington, the fresh bourbon tasting room opened in early September just in time for Bourbon Heritage Month and promises visitors an experience unlike any other.

>> A lot of bourbon aficionados force and the approach on you and they want you to drink it one way t of like Bourbon.

But she liked it more in a cocktail.

Sometimes I would have to ginger element for so I can really enjoy apartment.

I'm drinking.

I love the bourbon tours, but I did not see a place for my taste in the bourbon to war.

And so we felt like the industry could use a fresh We want to create a burden that would be approachable to everyone.

So from bourbon, kind of stores to new bourbon drinkers and you can drink it.

Neat, you can drink a cocktail, you know, you bought it.

You can record, however, you like we decided to get on this journey so we can help people find their taste just as I did.

We say start fresh finish, Rob Light.

We're offering an excellent starting place for a novice or bourbon aficionados.

Who wants to kick start a new journey on some different flavor profiles.

We want to be the starting place for your bourbon journey.

There's 2 million people that come to Kentucky every year.

>> to take part in the bourbon tourism aspect of our state.

We created our tasting rooms and downtown Lexington to guide people through our bourbon, but also to help them jump start their journey into other places on the boat.

Until when you come into the takes an experience, it is an experience that walks you through how to drink our bourbon.

A little history behind bourbon and then as well.

Some cocktails.

So it's just not your typical bourbon tasting experience.

It's fresh.

It's different.

It is emerged between have fastened and bourbon.

It will be totally different than anything they've seen on the bourbon tours.

I don't space, you know, Kentucky bourbon is a welcoming industry and everyone in the industry has been absolutely amazing.

>> And very supportive of what we're doing.

It some 9 billion dollar industry.

So there's enough, you know, to go around and I think that, you know, we offer something different.

I mean, is the first African-Americans to make bourbon in the state of Kentucky since slavery?

We wanted to do something different and we're glad we operate.

and and a level of excellence.

We want to set a standard.

>> And we'll continue to do that.

We just want everybody to come to Lexington, come to downtown Lexington and enjoy a fabulous tasting experience for a fresh start.

>> Experiences at the Fresh Bourbon Tasting room can be booked Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00AM to 05:00PM.

For those who've been a mammoth Cave National Park in the past 10 years, you may recall walking across a soapy surface as you left the cave, it's a precaution to avoid spreading a fungus that's proving to be deadly to bats.

Some of them now declared endangered.

>> We're incredibly concerned at the loss of the try colored bass.

So their losses is depressing.

>> I started doing work on that surveys 20 years ago in the study.

They were the most common batter.

One of those comebacks that I see in the past there was actually a joke, a wife and a new k. >> didn't have a try colored bad in know well that it can't possibly have been okay.

Unfortunately, in around 2005, a fungal disease got accidently introduced in upstate New York from Europe.

It's a fungal disease called white-nose Syndrome.

In 2014 15 when white nose was first coming here, we actually got to witness firsthand a large portion of this loss.

We would come in in the morning in the historic entrance walking the Tour trail and see.

Dead tri-colored bats on the wall because they have frozen to death overnight.

Because white nose syndrome that caused them to move into a place where the temperature was too low for them to survive.

>> You have is these these backs the climbing 90%, at some point, at least U.S. fish and wildlife assess the need for it to be listed under the Endangered Species Act.

There are people working on vaccines.

>> To help the survive white Nose syndrome.

There are people looking at treatments, people trying to figure out why some bats are susceptible.

Some bats aren't.

>> There are no spaces in nature that are in isolation.

I like to play it to the big game of Jenga that people play.

You know, they.

>> All these blocks are interconnected.

They're intertwined and you can start removing one piece here and they are.

But at some point you get a massive collapse when you start pulling away in a species we manage.

>> Their habitat to KET them in as good shape and try and KET them for being disturbed during hibernation in their cave site.

>> If you property that you have some wood on make it would do is bat friendly as possible.

That means that leaving dead and dying trees standing instead >> cutting with Diana soon as they that because that's right.

But habitat.

>> We know we have white nose syndrome on all of our tour trails.

So when our visitors come back off of their tours, we have them walk over a soapy.

Matt to try and clean their shoes off so they don't go into another cave and subject bats to white nose syndrome was in another place.

>> All of these the seas are a necessary part of nature.

It's concerning to us when we see these populations declining and we are working as best we can to make it to the populations for the future.

>> There are more than 1000 species of bats and tri-colored bats aren't the only ones in danger of extinction extinction, rather, several of them, including the northern long-eared bat at Little Brown bat are federally listed as threatened or endangered.

♪ >> Ring in October with soup dinosaurs and an early taste of Halloween.

Here's tow begins with what's around the Commonwealth.

♪ >> Jump into the Halloween spirit with the Hocus Pocus event in Madisonville tonight there will be a costume contest candle making electronic photo.

Both vendors and a food truck round out the night on a blanket with Travis and watch the Halloween classic Hocus Pocus.

Love with the side of the murder.

The Tony winning musical.

A gentleman's guide to love and murder is hitting the stage this weekend at the rest of the other on the 6 to speed up the line of succession to his natural charm and a sprinkle of murder on top.

Go back to prehistoric times for the Dinosaur Quest to Rex at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center this evening.

Join Doctor T Rex and used.

I know friends as they share amazing information into all kinds of mischief and show you why it's thanks to be extinct.

Like Cumberland Fall Festival.

Is this weekend in Monticello at the Wayne County Memorial Park, decorated, pumpkin or participate in the soup cook-off all while enjoying inflatables petting zoo for spent writing and more.

Coast.

6 bonfires scores.

All my sit around the bonfire.

Make sports while listening to music by denim and pearls PD animals at the petting zoo or going on a ride and Dawson Springs this Saturday.

It's all the ingredients for a perfect all evening.

Are you gonna call Ghostbusters?

Join the tri-state can of chases for an evening of paranormal investigations at Big Bow Lake State.

Historic site for Saturday evening.

Explore haunted areas of the park with a variety of tools and see what's up things you can find.

Joya call craft there in the market shepherdsville the Saturday American Idol contestants, Taylor and pray for the performing as well as delicious food trucks and local vendors.

And that's what's happening around the Commonwealth.

>> I'm Toby Gibbs.

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