♪ >> And people that want an abortion bill, given the force.

Pro and anti-abortion advocates say their fight is not over.

>> While I'm supportive of Donald Trump, I haven't decided to go on campaign formal formally endorse him.

>> Rand Paul explains what he's looking for before throwing his support behind the presumptive Republican nominee for president.

>> Our campers are learning something new there learning transferable skills, communication leadership steals.

>> Inside the summer cap.

That's training the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

What kind of our parking spots that everybody knows?

The cast loves to see.

And when they come to visit.

During the current tech solution to test the road feral cat populations.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Tuesday, June, the TWENTY-FIFTH, I'm Renee Shaw.

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

>> Louisville's police chief is officially out.

Mayor Craig Greenberg says he accepted chief when Jacqueline Gwen Burrell Wells resignation this morning.

He placed a former chief on paid administrative leave 2 weeks ago for her handling of a sexual harassment complaint.

Acting Chief Paul Humphrey is now an LMPD as interim chief of police.

Today he announced several new reforms the department is taking when it comes to reporting and investigating reports of sexual harassment.

Kentucky's junior U.S.

Senator was in Lexington today for a military medal ceremony.

Senator Rand Paul met with the family of us veteran Cecil Stuggle who fought in World War 2.

The family received military awards on his behalf, including a Bronze Star medal during the ceremony.

Senator Paul, thank the family for his service and his bravery.

>> This is a particular ceremony that we enjoy doing.

We've been able to do this several places around the state sometimes for veterans are still alive sometimes.

So their families.

I think it's something important that we remember a better chance.

>> Can have a free country.

Most people want to stand up and fight for it.

But it really is in our goal to be at war goals to be strong enough unity have peace through strength.

So we appreciate your your husband serve us.

The father Service and appreciate your family and what they've done.

A lot of families.

I have had lots of folks in the military and we appreciate all your family to send force.

Thank you very much.

>> After the ceremony, Senator Paul said he was still holding off on endorsing Donald Trump for president despite Trump handily winning Kentucky's Republican primary.

>> You know, I'm supportive.

I'm obviously not voting for Joe Biden.

I use a disaster for our country, but while I'm supportive of Donald Trump, I haven't decided to go on campaign formal formally endorse him because I'm concerned about all the debt we added during the Trump administration.

I'm concerned about the lockdowns.

I didn't like closing all the businesses.

I didn't like passing free checks out that we had tomorrow in order to pay.

Send people checks.

So there are a lot of things I didn't like.

>> Senator Paul said he's looking for a, quote, rock solid promise from the president that if elected, he will support Paul's investigation.

Enter Doctor Anthony Fauci and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's been 2 years since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion.

Shortly after that abortion became illegal in the state.

But some can talk.

INS are still fighting for reproductive freedom and getting the procedure elsewhere.

Kentucky additions June Leffler has more on the state's abortion landscape.

According to advocates on both sides of the issue.

>> Louisville's and W surgical centered was the last standing abortion clinic in Kentucky.

>> Now one of the center's co-founders calls on lawmakers and citizens to bring abortion access back.

>> Today were gathered with medical professionals, advocates and allies.

The launch a new statewide campaign.

Aimed at raising awareness about the dire consequences of these restrictive abortion bans.

The campaign will feature mobile billboard trucks like the one here today.

As well as 5 World billboards that will go up around July 4.

>> As well as urging Kentuckians to sign up rags calling for an end to the state's restrictive abortion law.

>> Reports from the Pro abortion rights research group, the Guttmacher Institute suggests Kentucky women are still determined to access abortions.

More than 4,000 Kentuckians traveled out of state for the procedure last year.

That's slightly more abortions than were performed in Kentucky in 2020 back when Roe V Wade was still the law of the land.

>> And people that want an abortion will get an abortion.

They are leaving the state for care.

Under duress.

Some people are.

>> Not getting the care that they need.

The extend women are going through to get an abortion tells anti-abortion rights groups.

There's more work to be done.

>> Tremendous amount of lives have been saved and I talk to women every day who made that decision?

to protect the life of the child to children.

Well, after not having access really gave it a second thought.

It's that time waiting time.

At the same time we've been surrounded by states that him that in a bit like Illinois that marketed the state aggressively.

We have drug what icon joined in poor to nurse and those are that are should be Abortion pills into the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

>> Americans living under state abortion bans are still getting abortion medications, though, that carries some legal risks.

Pro abortion rights groups focus on what they say is one of the most dire consequences of abortion bans.

>> Pregnant people hoping to have a healthy baby can be caught in an alarming medical limbo.

Doctors say.

>> Patients have very desire and pregnancy and face complications like premature rupture of membranes that are not compatible with continuing the pregnancy.

They put the patient at increased risk for bleeding infection, sepsis and even death.

And these are not viable pregnancies there too early the status to live.

If borne I counsel them the best I can and you know, in another state, the standard of care would be that your options are to induce or terminate a pregnancy and in in our state, that is not a legal option.

So we can certainly continue to take care of you here and tell you become 6 and then we can intervene or you can choose to go to a different state and access the care that is standard of care everywhere else in the country.

>> That might have an effect on aspiring doctors to medical students are less likely to applied to residency programs in states with abortion bans.

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges for Kentucky July 4.

>> Thank you.

June.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky says it's looking for plaintiffs to sue the state.

The ACLU sued on behalf of a pregnant woman in December.

That suit was dismissed at the ACLU is request when the plane to found out she had miscarried Kentucky right to life says the next national legal battle is ensuring unborn fetuses have constitutional rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court has disbarred a former Kentucky prosecutor.

Rick Boling was a commonwealth's attorney in Christian County.

He resigned last year before an impeachment proceeding by the state legislature.

Soon after the state Supreme Court suspended bowling from practicing law in Kentucky for 5 years.

All this after a series of misconduct actions, most notably bowling recommended former governor Matt Bevin pardoned a man involved in sexually assaulting a teenager.

The suspect's sentence was commuted but he was later convicted on federal charges for the same incident.

A first of its kind facility could be coming to western Kentucky and encouraging new numbers on a deadly form of cancer that is common and Kentucky details as we look at headlines around Kentucky.

♪ >> Western Kentucky City could be the home of the first commercial facility that would enrich uranium by vibrating it with lasers, according to local leaders, Australia known company global Laser enrichment signed an agreement recently that allows them to acquire a plot of land near the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site in far western Kentucky.

Wk MS reports the company has had to deal with the U.S. Department of Energy since 2016 to enrich the uranium tails or leftovers that are in storage at the former plant site.

This new process to enrich the uranium could turn depleted uranium stores into fuel for nuclear power plants.

The University of Kentucky study says deaths from colorectal cancer in Appalachian, Kentucky have declined over a 21 year period.

The Advocate Messenger reports from 1999 to 2020 were tallied.

The rates fell from 31 deaths per 100,000 to 24 per 100,000.

That includes 54 counties served by the Appalachian Regional Commission in other parts of Kentucky.

The rate dropped from 27 to 17.

A new study suggests that bird flu could survive through pasteurization.

But health experts say retail milk is still safe to consume earlier this year, bird flu was found in cows for the first time.

Will public media says the FDA is attempting to reduce the sale of raw milk by encouraging states that approve it to stop sales.

The Federal Drug Administration said months ago that commercial milk is still safe because the pasteurization process feels any living virus.

Christian nonprofit is building homes in eastern Kentucky counties damaged by floods.

Appalachia service project has built 24 new homes and repaired 40 homes and bres it.

Harland, not Leslie mug often.

And Perry counties, Kentucky Lantern reports the service project has 12 homes currently under construction and he's fixing up.

24 more.

They say they expect to finish 45 new homes and repair 65 homes by the end of 2024.

And that's a look at headlines around Kentucky.

I'm she left.

♪ >> Middle school students in Lexington spent a week having fun with stem.

That's science, technology, engineering and math, specifically cybersecurity.

It was all part of a week-long camp.

The partnership between the KC 7 Foundation allowed students to work closely with 2 of the best cyber analysts in the world together, they're proving that education matters.

>> We have basically take middle elementary students and put them in an environment for them to learn about cyber in cyber is all about security.

I'm keeping your private data from the bad guys.

>> So we've been doing investigations and for example, in the first day we did an investigation about a break-in into a museum that we have to look at artifacts and find out who did this.

And right now we're currently doing is we're in the hacking scandal like a group called Lock My Door, trying to restore all appliances and earn the most money to win.

And we have different roles like investigated case manager and and now CFO.

So I'm a CFO and I handle all the money.

And my analyst, they coach to find like information for the case manager.

So the case manager, they thought a packet about big answers at the analyst.

Find on the computer and my investigative this financial mission about that coming out.

>> We're hoping that this can't will open up their their minds so that they could see them sales operating in these specific roles.

My roll up.

My role is currently investigator.

My job is to investigate the artifacts and try and put criminals in jail.

I can also complete puzzles.

>> To earn money.

And I can also negotiate with the lack bite scammer to lower our price of the money that we need to pay to get our systems back online.

I really big interest because it's very interesting to know how the people who run these hacking scandals and also how can we I learned here is that.

Always make of what you put out on the Internet.

Some always careful what I did.

I my parents are >> our campers.

>> Are learning something they're not only about cyber, but there learning transferable communication.

Leadership steals they're working as cyber They are exploring teamwork, collaboration.

So the camp is providing a holistic for the summer for kids who normally would not have this opportunity.

It would not have had the exposure of cyber of having its ibis advocate.

>> Those kids are going around the world one day.

This is the camps second year running last year, 35 kids participated this year.

The class grew to 50.

♪ >> How do you grow a city and a thoughtful and responsible way attract new employers and recruit new employees all while keeping true to your identity.

That's one of the goals for Commerce, Lexington, whose reach goes beyond downtown, stretching into several neighboring counties.

The Bluegrass region is already home to several large companies with the University of Kentuckyian Toyota employ more than 25,000 people combined.

I recently sat down with Commerce, lacks president and CEO Bob Quick.

His team just came back from Salt Lake City, Utah couple weeks ago and we talked about the lessons that could be learned from their trip and Utah and bring them back to the Bluegrass.

>> We're trying to build a bigger, better Lexington.

And when I say one that made subjective of our community where we have that balance growth but we're trying to how we can better improve our quality of life are economic development opportunities and what we do this, we seek out the best communities and states of America.

And we were in Toronto when year as well.

But we seek what others are doing that we think would help us as we're trying to build a better call to place, right.

And also to grow our economy.

And we spend an awful lot of time out researching the Also, we try to match up the issues and opportunities that we have and some of our shortfalls right and try to find a community that's been able to take and 2.

Overcome on there and what we're trying to overcome a grow on our end.

Communities are very open with us.

A very Tell us about what if they can do it all over again, what they would do differently.

And so for us, that's a head start.

Yeah, that those are pitfalls that we can avoid right away.

And the other thing is we tend to go to communities a little bit larger regions a bit larger than we are because everything's going to be scalable.

Alright, however, we find that there seems to oftentimes be.

More of the issues we have in again, the different cities across the United States.

That not always because we've been to smaller communities as well.

And one of the other things that I I kind of chuckling every now and we'll go to communities and people say why did you how did you pick Oklahoma City?

Omaha, Nebraska, right?

Right.

What were you thinking when you went to Madison, Wisconsin?

And we've had those things are back at it.

So the nickel tax idea Wright came from Oklahoma City where they had a local sales tax that they could use that we do right.

And we kept trying a lot of different things to rebuild our schools because quite frankly, they were starting to show the wear and tear and fall apart.

So that was, you know, one when we went to Omaha and by the way, in my profession, when you steal somebody else's ideas, their success is it's a bright in Omaha.

We went there to learn about they have one of the best young emerge programs in the U.S. it's America.

We copy the right and it has been overwhelming sensation, especially the timing of it because our communities got through a huge growth spurt and we have a lot of new faces.

Light that are leading our community in key roles.

And so we are also then involved with helping to develop their skills from folks to go through our young professional program.

>> So from Salt Lake City, what what can we expect to see?

>> The hardest thing I think we do are one of the hardest things that we do every year is trying to figure the next to head but 2 things take place now.

One is what you would expect is we try to take everything learn and figure out how can we build it into the things that we already do?

Life technology companies, we have our own set of tech companies.

And so we will try to incorporate a lot of things that we in that situation.

They can stir Cancer Institute, a comprehensive cancer The Huntsman Cancer Center.

Well, guess what we have.

That's right.

UK UK has that idea is a big deal.

actually, Doctor Evers and the Apollo.

Yes, it was a out and meet and connect with a sense University of Utah.

Tom Harris was there's we have the connection and we also had a lot of sites.

So we went out to out in the We talk regionalism with them.

And so get when we come back home, we take all those new ideas, all those thoughts and then a whole bunch of of our individuals or whether it's a nonprofit that was there.

They try to implement and therein so number one is we try to implement as much as we can and learn from it.

Sometimes it takes 2 to 3 years worth of things that have to occur before the light bulb comes on us we can do it if we do it this way.

But sometimes it just creativity.

And thanks.

Typically work.

Yeah.

The second thing that we're doing already litter basket.

He is.

And Angela it.

Carlos, our staff are amazing at this there noon the Linda could be out on the speaking circuit Mitt nationwide because people still can't get over that we've done a trip saying take this many people and all that.

But she's already.

The has already started researching for next year because we don't want to lose momentum, right?

We also know that there's some communities out there that have some things that we didn't select him this So that's going to say one can do that.

We're looking at but right, right.

Because they don't know that they're being examined.

>> We'll have.

We'll get down to the be 3 or 4 different companies bring to communities that we look at.

Yeah.

And then it will all start to come together.

But will we want to have a place to name by November that?

>> One of the questions when we talk about economic development, we do that a lot here and on our programs.

A question that always comes up is about light rail.

>> Yeah, yes, right?

Yes, that that, you know, wouldn't it be nice?

>> To be able to go from Lexington to Louisville, you know, to where the work or play or whatever it is, Frankfort, very at Bowling.

Are there any discussions about that type of a public transit or even just improving public transportation?

Never, never say never.

>> It's something I know when I'm Jim Gray was that's he looked into it pretty extensively.

We looked into it as well.

>> And Jerry Abramson, who was mayor of Louisville the time I thought there were some conversations going on that and we're all like what happened.

>> It typically gets back to a cost.

Yes issue.

Yes.

And that's why said never say That's one of the things I've learned in all these trips is what may not work today or you may not have a solution for today over a period of time.

I I think it would.

You know, the with the economy, with the environment with so many different factors in play and in a different way than we have in the there's no there's where where there's a way there's where there's a will.

There's a way we have 23 and we've had 10 family members move here.

Oh, wow, I'm just telling you we didn't go out and say you need to move here.

Yeah, I mean it.

This place just grew on those individuals.

Yeah.

And so we're very proud of our community and we just we want to be more proud.

We want to have more the amenities that will help future generations to to be able to have a good solid life and raise a family, make this their home.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> It can be challenging to find a suitable home for feral cats.

But the working kept it has found a solution.

>> KET, Kentucky life shows how they're connecting cats with property owners who have rodent problems.

>> She checks around the barn checks around the stalls, some good work sunrise to sunset unless it's super cold in Chicago at 5 for sure.

And goes in was on her place play, get her little snugly bed in the theater in springs about the weather.

>> We bought the farm in late 2019 and when we take it over, there is however acts and notice that we didn't want and the rats were literally eating through the sheet rock to get to.

Our brain says big issue.

We tried traps, which is really not very fun for anybody.

We don't want to put chemicals down so we found out about the working cap on jet and we got our first 2 working cats.

No problem and the day no more at and catering and they took him a while to eradicate the rest of the rats in the barn because we didn't have a lot that they were amazing hunters from day one.

>> Working capital, check places.

Cats of suitable for indoor livings, long bar and homes here in Central Today we have placed 491 cats and over 200 farms for rural areas that don't have the tnr program which stands for trap neuter return like Lexington for Louisville.

Those cats end up being euthanized.

So that's where we stepped in and found the solution to help them find a permanent home and preventing them from being euthanized.

We're essentially a liaison between shelters and farms.

We're contacted by the rule shelters and we coordinate to the farm policeman the same day that we received the cat.

>> We have adopted 6 cats from the working capital injection, really like that idea to give a home to that.

otherwise, the cats of really contributed to the farm by keeping down than my spratt and bird population.

Horses are extremely picky eaters sometimes.

And so it has helped a lot because before we got our cats, the mice were in the grain and making messes and a lot of times sources refused the grain.

That's and that's when they don't like the smell of road in similar terrain with tickets.

And when so many cats have taken him in.

And aside from that, they they're kind of our farm Scott's that everybody knows the capsule looks to see.

And when they come to visit.

>> A lot of people, you know, think that a feral cats just going to be, you know, mean, he's been scratched.

Well, the good stuff.

But, you know, are You know, when they first came in, they were a little wary of us.

But we have 3 that are very friendly.

But to be petted loved interact now and then we have 3.

They're kind of standoff fish, but they're not aggressive or mean they just, you know, where to look at you from afar.

So they get a bad rap.

But they do agree that so sad to think that they just a couple after a couple of days in the shelter site know that we can't be domesticated because we can put all of them.

We could pick most of them up.

They rub on your legs.

They are friendly with our borders.

So there they're not.

Super Carolina has seen in more time with patients.

When Carolina.

Now we're discussing this very disturbing rat situation return to Cairo and said.

>> Well, clearly the answer is more cats and now that are running jumping or there's an issue on the part of what clearly the answers Marquette's ♪ >> Cats not rats.

Well, you can see more great stories like that on Kentucky life.

You can watch online on demand at KET DOT Org and check out the show each Saturday at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

Summer.

Learning loss can be more than a minor setback for students who struggled throughout the school year.

>> Kids are here to have fun and learn at the same time.

So our students are here because they want to be here.

>> The program that's giving thousands of Jefferson County students the chance to catch up on learning while still enjoying their summer.

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>> Thanks so much for watching.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Have a great night.

Not see you right back here again tomorrow night.

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