November 21, 2025 • 26 mins
What a preliminary report by the NTSB says about the deadly UPS plane crash at the Louisville airport, GE awards $40 million to suppliers in Kentucky, how state lawmakers plan to attract more tourists to historical sites in Eastern Kentucky, and why a Kentucky food bank says the need is even greater this year.
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>> Pictures just released show
the engine separation and fire
just before the deadly UPS
plane crash in Louisville.
>> She appliance is Kentucky.
>> General Electric's ties to
Kentucky are now 40 million
dollar stronger.
>> Kentucky has had a problem
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with cancer for a long time.
And why one expert says those
most at risk for lung cancer
are the least likely to get
screened for it.
>> Production of Kentucky
Edition is made possible in
part by the KET Millennium
Fund.
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>> Good Evening and welcome
to Kentucky EDITION for this
Thursday, November. The 20th,
I'm Renee Shaw and we thank you
for spending some of your
Thursday evening with us.
New pictures from the National
Transportation Safety Board
show the engine separating from
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a UPS Airlines plane.
>> Just before the plane
crashed on November. 4th in
Louisville, it's part of the
NTSB's preliminary report on
the crash released today.
Take a look at the 6 pictures
that show the engine
separation. The pictures show
the left wing engine and pylon
separating from the wing.
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The left engine also caught
fire. Let's look closer at
picture. Number 4, you can see
the engine on fire above the
plane. Despite all this, the
plane still cleared the airport
fence, but the plane never rose
more than 30 feet above the
ground. The plane then crashed
into a storage yard and 2
buildings, 3 crew members and
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11 people on the ground were
killed. The report says
investigators found 14 cracks
in the area where the engine
was mounted to the wings.
Pylons. Governor Andy Beshear
comment on that today.
>> I've only gotten too.
>> very fairly quickly. The
preliminary report that came
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out, certainly what jumps out
is the fatigue or stress cracks
want to learn a little bit more
about what that means. I do
know that the plane had
undergone at least from what
I read the regular suggested
maintenance and reviews.
But but certainly this is
something we have to learn more
about them. In the end, this
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was a UPS plane that was
involved. So UPS needs to be a
part of the healing and to help
the families. They've set up a
significant fund that right
now is providing a lot of help.
So we're watching the
situation, but I am I am at
least plays that UPS is is
directly communicating with
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families with those impacted
and will continue to hope and
encourage them to do their part
to rebuild.
>> The NTSB says it could take
a year or more to release a
full report on the crash.
In other news, the governor
also talked about General
Electric appliances and its
decision to award 40 million
dollars to 4 plastic suppliers
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in Kentucky. The suppliers are
based in Lebanon. Williamsburg,
Greenville, and Frankfort.
They will supply GE's new
laundry plant in Louisville.
This is part of GE's plan to
invest 3 billion dollars and
U.S. operations. Today the
governor talked about GE's
long-term commitment to
Kentucky.
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>> Over a 5 year period alone,
GE appliances has been very
good to Kentucky, announcing
over 1 billion dollars in new
investment in creating over
2600 new Kentucky jobs as one
of our most prominent employers
in manufacturing leaders.
GE appliances is helped
establish Kentucky as Americans
destination for advanced
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manufacturing and job creation.
In return, our workforce in our
ability to deliver results and
slanted us the honor of being
GE appliances, flagship
location.
The appliance is Kentucky.
When I look at GE appliances,
this used to be one of the
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largest, if not the largest
employer in Kentucky. That's
that's that's UPS right now.
They've gotten down to just a
couple 1000 jobs in the lull in
the last administration.
They started growing from
there. They really started
growing when they were able
to break away from the bigger
GE, become their own companies
with their own margins. That
didn't contribute to that
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overall. GE stock price.
And just to see the growth now
up to 80,000, strong
is incredible.
>> We have incentivize these
investments, but all are
incentives bar burned here in
Kentucky. We don't just give
cash payments so you don't
create the jobs. You don't get
the full incentive.
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>> Also today the governor
announced Toyota is investing
more than 204 million dollars
in its Georgetown plan to boost
production of hybrid vehicles.
The expansion will mean 82 new
jobs.
Stories about the famous
Hatfield and McCoy. Family feud
attracts thousands of visitors
to Eastern Kentucky every year,
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but tourism officials say the
historical sites tourists are
seeking can be hard to find.
Our McKenzie spent tells us
how Pike County Tourism hopes
the Kentucky General Assembly
can help add fuel to the
growing tourism industry in
eastern Kentucky.
>> People around the world have
heard of the Hatfield McCoy
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feud, but officials say out of
towners coming to Pike County
can easily get lost on their
way to the historical sites.
>> Pardon me that you got a
better chance of seeing God.
Then you do make a cell phone
call or your GPS to work.
The cell signal just does not
get down in there. The people
are lost. They spend most of
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their time running around
looking for the sites.
>> The stream of visitors to
Pike County is only increasing,
according to the marketing
director of Pikeville Pike
County Tourism, tourist
spending in the county has
increased by more than
30 million dollars from 2017 to
2023.
>> Our Web site along for the
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Tor which focuses on our
region, has had
160,000 views so far this year
112,000 Sessions, almost
100,000 users. That's a lot
of people. So people want to
know about the Hatfields and
McCoys and other things will be
offering a region.
>> Officials say the tourism
draw of the Hatfield McCoys has
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a significant impact on the
locally owned business is of
eastern Kentucky.
>> Motorcoach group for 3 knots
and 4 days would drop $36,000
in my community. We don't shop
Walmart. We don't eat at.
Bob Evans are going corral.
We that mom and pops and we
shop mom and pops all of my
lodging is a locally owned.
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There's not one piece of my
lodging property that is owned
and operated out of state or
out of my territory.
When we speak of mom and pops,
lifting them up. The past 4
years of COVID, what it has
done to them. The bulk
industry. The families and
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SUVs. They are the people that
KET that mom and pop alive.
>> The Pikeville Pike County
Tourism Board is asking for
increased signage in the U.S.
one. 19 K Y 3.19, nky 10.
56 corridors. The signs will
direct tourist towards sites
like the Randolph McCoy, house
and other areas where the
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family fighting broke out.
Co-chair of the committee and
Pikeville native Senator
Phillip Wheeler says he'll
support this request during
session.
>> Our committee made it a
Senator Boswell, who's watching
from the sunny state of says
with no pay.
>> He said, you know, a
business with that signs is no
Very good advice from a very
good business
>> The extent we can help out
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will definitely try to do that.
This upcoming sessions.
>> The Pike County Tourism
Representatives also mentioned
that with the increase of
tourism in the area. The need
for lodging is also growing.
Duke for Kentucky edition.
I'm McKenzie Spank Direct.
>> Thank you. McKenzie in
Kentucky as a whole travelers
spent over 10 billion dollars
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in the state last year and
almost 4% increase from 2023.
We will take a deep dive into
how tourism I can bolster the
eastern Kentucky economy on the
upcoming episode of Kentucky
tonight. We'll take you on a
Technicolor field trip to Pike
Bell and Boyd counties that are
trying to make the most of the
mountains trails and
re-imagining old surface mines.
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I'll be joined by a panel of
tourism and economic
development experts and we'll,
of course, take your questions
and comments. That's Monday
night at 8 Eastern 7 central
right here on K T.
And independent federal agency
is dismissing a complaint that
Kentucky power customers are
unfairly subsidizing projects
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and other states. The Kentucky
Lantern reports the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
said the complaint by the
Kentucky Public Service
Commission and Kentucky
Attorney General Russel Coleman
failed to show Kentucky Powers
Arrangement was, quote,
unreasonable or unduly
discriminatory. Kentucky power
serves more than 150,000
customers in eastern Kentucky.
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The PSC and General Coleman
had argued customers subsidize
more than 60 million dollars
and projects that critics argue
lack necessary guardrails.
Both groups plan to appeal the
decision. Last night. President
Donald Trump signed the bill
ordering the release of the
Jeffrey Epstein files. That's
after its passage by the U.S.
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House and U.S. Senate on
Tuesday. One of the leaders
of the release, the files
movement as it was called
Congressman Thomas Massie of
Kentucky. He reflected on the
bill success and he talked
about what's next. Colleagues
are.
>> Watch what we what we
accomplished was we got the
people's house to work even
though the speaker of the House
didn't want to do the people's
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will. We use something called a
discharge petition and it even
surprised me when we got to the
finish line, how quickly things
happened once it passed in the
House.
This the speaker of the House
urged the Senate to modify the
bill. He didn't like it, but he
had lost control of the house
here. Then we got the bill past
exactly as Roe Conn and and
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I wrote ID, but a win before it
even went to the Senate, they
agreed by unanimous consent to
pass the bill before they even
received it. I've never seen
the Senate move this fast.
They didn't change a word of a
Greenie punctuated and we put
some some very tight guardrails
on the things that they could
read act. There's concern than
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the president's going to open a
bunch of investigations to KET
the disclosures from happening.
Here's the reality. There are
1000 victims of Epstein
sex-trafficking ring there.
Dozens of perpetrators. There's
no way you can open enough
investigations to KET us from
getting the files that will
implicate most of these men.
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So I think we're going to see
justice. I'm excited the you
know, if there's any whoa.
We you've seen here today and
yesterday here in the House of
Representatives that we can
actually get a bill passed.
If the people want it bad
enough.
>> Since the bill now has
President Trump's signature,
the Department of Justice has
30 days to release the files.
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3 lawyers are suing the 3 m
company and the 3 m company is
suing them. Plus, an honor for
award war. 2 photographer with
Kentucky ties our Toby Gibbs
explains in tonight's look at
headlines around Kentucky.
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>> The News Express reports
3 lawyers including one from
Pikeville are suing the 3 m
company claiming the company
made a faulty dust mask use by
coal miners. But 3 M is
Countersuing. The lawyers
saying many of the 850 cases
are false and that the lawyers
are trying to force 3 m
expensive litigation to use
as a bargaining chip to
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encourage expensive
settlements. The landmark in
Hammond to Pikeville is one of
the 3 lawyers. They deny 3 M's
claims.
About 75 people protested
outside the Greenup County
Board of Education Office.
According to the Daily
Independent. They're not happy
with how the school system is
handling a criminal
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investigation into for teachers
accused of abusing 5 special
needs children. The protesters
want an overhaul of school
board members and the
superintendent on November 12,
the board voted to demote the
superintendent, but she's still
has a job with the school
district. One protester called
that a slap in the face.
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U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell
says Somerset will get a
million and a half dollars in
federal funding for a new Army
National Guard Readiness Center
and vehicle maintenance shop.
According to the Commonwealth
Journal, Kentucky military
facilities will be getting
147 million dollars in military
construction funds this year.
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A Kentucky photographer killed
during World War. 2 is being
honored and France, Val Popov
Franklin served in the Army
pictorial service. Amazon, the
combat photographers who filmed
the Allied invasion of France
on D-Day in June of 1944, he
was killed in combat in France
in August. Now the Bowling
Green Daily News report.
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His name will be among those on
a new memorial in a nearby town
honoring U.S. soldiers killed
nearby.
With headlines around Kentucky.
I'm Toby gives.
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>> Move over.
>> That's the message from the
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Cabinet wants to remind
Kentuckians about the slow down
move over law.
>> During this crash Responder
Safety Week, no matter what
time of year it is pulling over
can save lives.
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>> We're raising awareness of
the risks. First responders
face when working near roadways
and making sure drivers know
that the law is not optional.
So in Kentucky over the past
3 years crashes involving
emergency vehicles responding
to an accident.
>> Resulted in more than 1000
collisions. There's about 360
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injuries and 6 deaths. So just
what those numbers alone, I
think that gives us a real good
group. Good sense that this is
very important that our
motoring public knows that when
they see those lights out
there, that is very important
for them to either slow down
and or move over.
>> The slow down move over law
requires drivers approaching
a vehicle with flashing lights
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or a warning signal to move
over a lane if it's safe for
slow down significantly, if
they cannot, the law was
expanded in 2024 to cover all
vehicles, including disabled
vehicles. Don't want to come to
a stop because we need that
steady flow of traffic, but at
least slow down so that if
somebody was to Dort out from
a card,
>> then they are likely to be
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able to react to that
particular situation. It's
important that they use
caution, reduce speed and watch
out for people avoid
distractions, stay focused on
the road and be prepared for
certain movements. So under
Kentucky law, any person who
violate the slow down move
over law?
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>> It may be fined
between $6500 or face up to
30 days in county jail for
both. The goal is not about
tickets. It's about saving.
Loves a lot of times. We think
maybe this may not happen
before it happened someplace
else. That doesn't happen in
Kentucky. You know, you see it
on the news, but it's always
another state. Those types of
incidents actually happened
here in Kentuckyian
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>> we want to make sure that
all our motoring public is
safe. And although we do want
to make sure that they're safe,
but we want to make sure that
those folks that are responding
to these accidents are safe
and they can make sure that
they're
safe by paying attention,
slowing down and just simply
moving over to another land
that would create space for our
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first responders.
>> The state law was expanded
last year to also protect any
stationary vehicles on the side
of the road that have on
flashing lights or warning
signals. This includes
emergency vehicles and tow
trucks.
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Lung cancer is the leading
cause of cancer deaths among
men and women and Kentucky
ranks the worst in the country
when it comes to new lung
cancer cases. That according to
the American Lung Association.
In today's Medical News, we
hear from one expert at the
University of Louisville's
Brown Cancer Center about the
challenges Kentucky faces when
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it comes to getting people
screened for lung cancer.
>> And Kentucky has had a
problem cancer for a long time.
And this year year and the
bottom of the list among the
worst of all states in terms
of deaths from lung cancer,
especially in men.
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And why this is in Kentucky has
a right to use and smoking is a
big part to back. It was a big
part of Kentucky. Many people
smoke still, we're leading the
nation in the West, Virginia on
the number of adult smoking.
That's close to 20% of the
dough people smoke in Kentucky.
It's much more. 50 1% more men.
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The U.S. average. So smoking is
a big problem causing on
consent. The other problem in
Kentucky is that radon is
welcome to
come in in Kentucky because
of the limestone, the ground,
the reactive gas that comes
from you know, parts
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of it.
>> With Tripoli zoo, the
limestone and gets into the
houses and the people and he
reacted gas. Be also why lung
cancer is a big problem in
Kentucky.
>> It has to do with access
to health care, especially into
parts of Kentuckyian these 2
parts of Kentucky. What people
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don't have as much access when
cancer is diagnosed So the sum
of the parts of Kentucky, some
rural areas where the deaths
from lung cancer is exceedingly
high, much, much higher
than that. It's that cancer has
2 features that makes it very
dangerous. So you can have it
and you don't feel that it
doesn't cause any symptoms.
Initially, you would not have a
new call for a chance been a
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breathing problem. But you may
already have in your lawn and
to find it early, you have to
get screened.
So the guidance are a few
between 50 80 and you smoked a
pack a day for these 20 years
who are at a high enough risk
that you should have a
screening CT every year begin
between
50 to 80 and that's where you
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find it in the state routes may
be smaller and dying and you
can be removed and you're
cured.
This doesn't happen. Then that
he had a tricky feature among
cancers it spread, so to be
fast. So if you don't find into
the weekend, he's really sure
and it spread to other parts of
the body. It becomes for the
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most
part incurable. I'm only a
minority between 9 and 20
person who would be eligible
for a sweeping get the
screening CT. And why is this?
And this have reasons.
There are small groups they
may be in the now. They've
heard stories that you can so
you can go to the anyway.
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So this is fatality, too.
And the ruling about finding
something that cannot be cured.
So we have to educate everybody
but finding good to be with us.
We need can be sure that's the
best way to cure it. So part of
it is education. The reasons
why maybe cancer screening is
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this used in mammograms
or colonoscopies. It is also
that it requires a doctor's
order and you can adjust
property. Didn't get that s
duct. Asked to
see you as to our goal with
this decision with to associate
decision-making lung cancer
150 years ago was a very weird
to see some very rare disease.
the next 100 years. Plus
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smoking, it became the most
common cancer cure and dream of
the future of the modern
medicine that we make it go
>> And its state of lung cancer
report, the American Lung
Association says only 21% of
Kentuckians at high risk for
lung cancer were screened,
which was not significantly
different than the national
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rate of 18%.
It could be a photo finish in
this year's Big Blue Crush.
Tennessee still leads
Kentuckyian donations by
Kentucky made up some ground
yesterday. Tennessee is ahead
12, 70 to 12, 60. Okay. Come
on, guys. This annual blood
drive is in its 38th year.
Kentucky leads 22 to 14 with
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one tie and Kentucky has won
the last 3 years. Given get
a long sleeved white T-shirt
while supplies last and you can
give at any Kentucky blood
Center. You're asked to make an
appointment first, but the
centers will accept walk-in
business as space allows go.
Cats.
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>> Thanksgiving for many means
gathering with family and food,
but also marks the beginning
of dare to care food Bank.
>> The Louisville based
nonprofit organization was
created after a 9 year-old boy
died of hunger on Thanksgiving
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Eve. Back in 1969, today, they
say the need is even greater.
>> It's very much a problem
up today. Yeah. As much as it
was, then it is even more so
today, just the past 2 years
we've seen a 48% increase in
demand for the services that we
provide in terms of having
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access to food, which is, you
know, just incredible. When you
think about last year we had
distributed 27 million pounds
of food. That's about
22 million meals. Starting from
in 1969, was a truck and food
where they collected and then
started sharing it with
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neighbors. And so we've grown
tremendously. We've grown with
the demand and the need.
And one of the things that
we're really working h*** o*
too is how can we not only just
supply the food, but how can we
help families to stabilize?
And instead of just surviving,
how can they thrive? And that's
the a newer model that we're
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looking at in working with then
today's time in terms of
equitable food access, no
matter where you live, you have
access to food. And so we're
building that infrastructure
out. Now. But it is reflective
of what we started within 1916.
I yeah.
>> And those numbers at 48%
increase in the last 2 years is
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yes, it is just it deeply
concerning. Why is that?
I mean, I'm any of us know the
price of food is a great thing
for disaster that has sent
something to do with it.
Absolutely. I think it's it's
been the perfect storm, if you
will, you know, you have the
the Post pandemic benefits.
They cease to exist. You have
inflation. You
also have inflation and gas
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prices, inflation and food.
You go to the grocery store,
the average working family
experiences this every day.
And if you already struggling
and then on top of all the
things that you're experiencing
now, it was almost a perfect
storm. So you had less
resources coming into the
community higher need that was
now manifesting as a result
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of inflation in gas prices and
food. And that that really
catapulted into what we're
seeing the day of this increase
in demand. We haven't families
for the very first time
visiting some of our partners.
We with 300 pardon 400 partners
out 13 counties that we serve
in. We're seeing families
coming for the very first time.
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>> And I know some of the
federal funding cuts are
impacting you all. That's part
of the puzzle. Absolutely.
We've seen at 36% decrease in a
federal commodities that as a
part of what we distribute to
dare to care just this year
lawn. And so we don't know
where that's going to land and
that the same time we're seeing
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a decrease and federal support,
we are seeing an increased need
in our neighbors, needing food,
access to food.
You can learn more about the
story of Bobby Ellis, the 9
year-old whose death spurred
the creation of Daraa to care
on this week's inside
Louisville with Kelsey Starks.
>> That's Sunday at 12 noon
Eastern. 11:00AM central right
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joining us tonight and we will
see you right back here again
tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern
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>> Pictures just released show
the engine separation and fire
just before the deadly UPS
plane crash in Louisville.
>> She appliance is Kentucky.
>> General Electric's ties to
Kentucky are now 40 million
dollar stronger.
>> Kentucky has had a problem
(00:29):
with cancer for a long time.
And why one expert says those
most at risk for lung cancer
are the least likely to get
screened for it.
>> Production of Kentucky
Edition is made possible in
part by the KET Millennium
Fund.
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>> Good Evening and welcome
to Kentucky EDITION for this
Thursday, November. The 20th,
I'm Renee Shaw and we thank you
for spending some of your
Thursday evening with us.
New pictures from the National
Transportation Safety Board
show the engine separating from
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a UPS Airlines plane.
>> Just before the plane
crashed on November. 4th in
Louisville, it's part of the
NTSB's preliminary report on
the crash released today.
Take a look at the 6 pictures
that show the engine
separation. The pictures show
the left wing engine and pylon
separating from the wing.
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The left engine also caught
fire. Let's look closer at
picture. Number 4, you can see
the engine on fire above the
plane. Despite all this, the
plane still cleared the airport
fence, but the plane never rose
more than 30 feet above the
ground. The plane then crashed
into a storage yard and 2
buildings, 3 crew members and
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11 people on the ground were
killed. The report says
investigators found 14 cracks
in the area where the engine
was mounted to the wings.
Pylons. Governor Andy Beshear
comment on that today.
>> I've only gotten too.
>> very fairly quickly. The
preliminary report that came
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out, certainly what jumps out
is the fatigue or stress cracks
want to learn a little bit more
about what that means. I do
know that the plane had
undergone at least from what
I read the regular suggested
maintenance and reviews.
But but certainly this is
something we have to learn more
about them. In the end, this
(02:40):
was a UPS plane that was
involved. So UPS needs to be a
part of the healing and to help
the families. They've set up a
significant fund that right
now is providing a lot of help.
So we're watching the
situation, but I am I am at
least plays that UPS is is
directly communicating with
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families with those impacted
and will continue to hope and
encourage them to do their part
to rebuild.
>> The NTSB says it could take
a year or more to release a
full report on the crash.
In other news, the governor
also talked about General
Electric appliances and its
decision to award 40 million
dollars to 4 plastic suppliers
(03:23):
in Kentucky. The suppliers are
based in Lebanon. Williamsburg,
Greenville, and Frankfort.
They will supply GE's new
laundry plant in Louisville.
This is part of GE's plan to
invest 3 billion dollars and
U.S. operations. Today the
governor talked about GE's
long-term commitment to
Kentucky.
(03:44):
>> Over a 5 year period alone,
GE appliances has been very
good to Kentucky, announcing
over 1 billion dollars in new
investment in creating over
2600 new Kentucky jobs as one
of our most prominent employers
in manufacturing leaders.
GE appliances is helped
establish Kentucky as Americans
destination for advanced
(04:05):
manufacturing and job creation.
In return, our workforce in our
ability to deliver results and
slanted us the honor of being
GE appliances, flagship
location.
The appliance is Kentucky.
When I look at GE appliances,
this used to be one of the
(04:26):
largest, if not the largest
employer in Kentucky. That's
that's that's UPS right now.
They've gotten down to just a
couple 1000 jobs in the lull in
the last administration.
They started growing from
there. They really started
growing when they were able
to break away from the bigger
GE, become their own companies
with their own margins. That
didn't contribute to that
(04:48):
overall. GE stock price.
And just to see the growth now
up to 80,000, strong
is incredible.
>> We have incentivize these
investments, but all are
incentives bar burned here in
Kentucky. We don't just give
cash payments so you don't
create the jobs. You don't get
the full incentive.
(05:08):
>> Also today the governor
announced Toyota is investing
more than 204 million dollars
in its Georgetown plan to boost
production of hybrid vehicles.
The expansion will mean 82 new
jobs.
Stories about the famous
Hatfield and McCoy. Family feud
attracts thousands of visitors
to Eastern Kentucky every year,
(05:28):
but tourism officials say the
historical sites tourists are
seeking can be hard to find.
Our McKenzie spent tells us
how Pike County Tourism hopes
the Kentucky General Assembly
can help add fuel to the
growing tourism industry in
eastern Kentucky.
>> People around the world have
heard of the Hatfield McCoy
(05:48):
feud, but officials say out of
towners coming to Pike County
can easily get lost on their
way to the historical sites.
>> Pardon me that you got a
better chance of seeing God.
Then you do make a cell phone
call or your GPS to work.
The cell signal just does not
get down in there. The people
are lost. They spend most of
(06:10):
their time running around
looking for the sites.
>> The stream of visitors to
Pike County is only increasing,
according to the marketing
director of Pikeville Pike
County Tourism, tourist
spending in the county has
increased by more than
30 million dollars from 2017 to
2023.
>> Our Web site along for the
(06:30):
Tor which focuses on our
region, has had
160,000 views so far this year
112,000 Sessions, almost
100,000 users. That's a lot
of people. So people want to
know about the Hatfields and
McCoys and other things will be
offering a region.
>> Officials say the tourism
draw of the Hatfield McCoys has
(06:50):
a significant impact on the
locally owned business is of
eastern Kentucky.
>> Motorcoach group for 3 knots
and 4 days would drop $36,000
in my community. We don't shop
Walmart. We don't eat at.
Bob Evans are going corral.
We that mom and pops and we
shop mom and pops all of my
lodging is a locally owned.
(07:12):
There's not one piece of my
lodging property that is owned
and operated out of state or
out of my territory.
When we speak of mom and pops,
lifting them up. The past 4
years of COVID, what it has
done to them. The bulk
industry. The families and
(07:32):
SUVs. They are the people that
KET that mom and pop alive.
>> The Pikeville Pike County
Tourism Board is asking for
increased signage in the U.S.
one. 19 K Y 3.19, nky 10.
56 corridors. The signs will
direct tourist towards sites
like the Randolph McCoy, house
and other areas where the
(07:54):
family fighting broke out.
Co-chair of the committee and
Pikeville native Senator
Phillip Wheeler says he'll
support this request during
session.
>> Our committee made it a
Senator Boswell, who's watching
from the sunny state of says
with no pay.
>> He said, you know, a
business with that signs is no
Very good advice from a very
good business
>> The extent we can help out
(08:14):
will definitely try to do that.
This upcoming sessions.
>> The Pike County Tourism
Representatives also mentioned
that with the increase of
tourism in the area. The need
for lodging is also growing.
Duke for Kentucky edition.
I'm McKenzie Spank Direct.
>> Thank you. McKenzie in
Kentucky as a whole travelers
spent over 10 billion dollars
(08:36):
in the state last year and
almost 4% increase from 2023.
We will take a deep dive into
how tourism I can bolster the
eastern Kentucky economy on the
upcoming episode of Kentucky
tonight. We'll take you on a
Technicolor field trip to Pike
Bell and Boyd counties that are
trying to make the most of the
mountains trails and
re-imagining old surface mines.
(08:57):
I'll be joined by a panel of
tourism and economic
development experts and we'll,
of course, take your questions
and comments. That's Monday
night at 8 Eastern 7 central
right here on K T.
And independent federal agency
is dismissing a complaint that
Kentucky power customers are
unfairly subsidizing projects
(09:18):
and other states. The Kentucky
Lantern reports the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
said the complaint by the
Kentucky Public Service
Commission and Kentucky
Attorney General Russel Coleman
failed to show Kentucky Powers
Arrangement was, quote,
unreasonable or unduly
discriminatory. Kentucky power
serves more than 150,000
customers in eastern Kentucky.
(09:38):
The PSC and General Coleman
had argued customers subsidize
more than 60 million dollars
and projects that critics argue
lack necessary guardrails.
Both groups plan to appeal the
decision. Last night. President
Donald Trump signed the bill
ordering the release of the
Jeffrey Epstein files. That's
after its passage by the U.S.
(10:00):
House and U.S. Senate on
Tuesday. One of the leaders
of the release, the files
movement as it was called
Congressman Thomas Massie of
Kentucky. He reflected on the
bill success and he talked
about what's next. Colleagues
are.
>> Watch what we what we
accomplished was we got the
people's house to work even
though the speaker of the House
didn't want to do the people's
(10:21):
will. We use something called a
discharge petition and it even
surprised me when we got to the
finish line, how quickly things
happened once it passed in the
House.
This the speaker of the House
urged the Senate to modify the
bill. He didn't like it, but he
had lost control of the house
here. Then we got the bill past
exactly as Roe Conn and and
(10:43):
I wrote ID, but a win before it
even went to the Senate, they
agreed by unanimous consent to
pass the bill before they even
received it. I've never seen
the Senate move this fast.
They didn't change a word of a
Greenie punctuated and we put
some some very tight guardrails
on the things that they could
read act. There's concern than
(11:06):
the president's going to open a
bunch of investigations to KET
the disclosures from happening.
Here's the reality. There are
1000 victims of Epstein
sex-trafficking ring there.
Dozens of perpetrators. There's
no way you can open enough
investigations to KET us from
getting the files that will
implicate most of these men.
(11:28):
So I think we're going to see
justice. I'm excited the you
know, if there's any whoa.
We you've seen here today and
yesterday here in the House of
Representatives that we can
actually get a bill passed.
If the people want it bad
enough.
>> Since the bill now has
President Trump's signature,
the Department of Justice has
30 days to release the files.
(11:52):
3 lawyers are suing the 3 m
company and the 3 m company is
suing them. Plus, an honor for
award war. 2 photographer with
Kentucky ties our Toby Gibbs
explains in tonight's look at
headlines around Kentucky.
♪
(12:13):
>> The News Express reports
3 lawyers including one from
Pikeville are suing the 3 m
company claiming the company
made a faulty dust mask use by
coal miners. But 3 M is
Countersuing. The lawyers
saying many of the 850 cases
are false and that the lawyers
are trying to force 3 m
expensive litigation to use
as a bargaining chip to
(12:35):
encourage expensive
settlements. The landmark in
Hammond to Pikeville is one of
the 3 lawyers. They deny 3 M's
claims.
About 75 people protested
outside the Greenup County
Board of Education Office.
According to the Daily
Independent. They're not happy
with how the school system is
handling a criminal
(12:55):
investigation into for teachers
accused of abusing 5 special
needs children. The protesters
want an overhaul of school
board members and the
superintendent on November 12,
the board voted to demote the
superintendent, but she's still
has a job with the school
district. One protester called
that a slap in the face.
(13:16):
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell
says Somerset will get a
million and a half dollars in
federal funding for a new Army
National Guard Readiness Center
and vehicle maintenance shop.
According to the Commonwealth
Journal, Kentucky military
facilities will be getting
147 million dollars in military
construction funds this year.
(13:37):
A Kentucky photographer killed
during World War. 2 is being
honored and France, Val Popov
Franklin served in the Army
pictorial service. Amazon, the
combat photographers who filmed
the Allied invasion of France
on D-Day in June of 1944, he
was killed in combat in France
in August. Now the Bowling
Green Daily News report.
(13:58):
His name will be among those on
a new memorial in a nearby town
honoring U.S. soldiers killed
nearby.
With headlines around Kentucky.
I'm Toby gives.
♪
♪
(14:19):
♪
>> Move over.
>> That's the message from the
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Cabinet wants to remind
Kentuckians about the slow down
move over law.
>> During this crash Responder
Safety Week, no matter what
time of year it is pulling over
can save lives.
(14:40):
>> We're raising awareness of
the risks. First responders
face when working near roadways
and making sure drivers know
that the law is not optional.
So in Kentucky over the past
3 years crashes involving
emergency vehicles responding
to an accident.
>> Resulted in more than 1000
collisions. There's about 360
(15:03):
injuries and 6 deaths. So just
what those numbers alone, I
think that gives us a real good
group. Good sense that this is
very important that our
motoring public knows that when
they see those lights out
there, that is very important
for them to either slow down
and or move over.
>> The slow down move over law
requires drivers approaching
a vehicle with flashing lights
(15:26):
or a warning signal to move
over a lane if it's safe for
slow down significantly, if
they cannot, the law was
expanded in 2024 to cover all
vehicles, including disabled
vehicles. Don't want to come to
a stop because we need that
steady flow of traffic, but at
least slow down so that if
somebody was to Dort out from
a card,
>> then they are likely to be
(15:48):
able to react to that
particular situation. It's
important that they use
caution, reduce speed and watch
out for people avoid
distractions, stay focused on
the road and be prepared for
certain movements. So under
Kentucky law, any person who
violate the slow down move
over law?
(16:09):
>> It may be fined
between $6500 or face up to
30 days in county jail for
both. The goal is not about
tickets. It's about saving.
Loves a lot of times. We think
maybe this may not happen
before it happened someplace
else. That doesn't happen in
Kentucky. You know, you see it
on the news, but it's always
another state. Those types of
incidents actually happened
here in Kentuckyian
(16:29):
>> we want to make sure that
all our motoring public is
safe. And although we do want
to make sure that they're safe,
but we want to make sure that
those folks that are responding
to these accidents are safe
and they can make sure that
they're
safe by paying attention,
slowing down and just simply
moving over to another land
that would create space for our
(16:50):
first responders.
>> The state law was expanded
last year to also protect any
stationary vehicles on the side
of the road that have on
flashing lights or warning
signals. This includes
emergency vehicles and tow
trucks.
♪
♪
(17:16):
Lung cancer is the leading
cause of cancer deaths among
men and women and Kentucky
ranks the worst in the country
when it comes to new lung
cancer cases. That according to
the American Lung Association.
In today's Medical News, we
hear from one expert at the
University of Louisville's
Brown Cancer Center about the
challenges Kentucky faces when
(17:38):
it comes to getting people
screened for lung cancer.
>> And Kentucky has had a
problem cancer for a long time.
And this year year and the
bottom of the list among the
worst of all states in terms
of deaths from lung cancer,
especially in men.
(17:59):
And why this is in Kentucky has
a right to use and smoking is a
big part to back. It was a big
part of Kentucky. Many people
smoke still, we're leading the
nation in the West, Virginia on
the number of adult smoking.
That's close to 20% of the
dough people smoke in Kentucky.
It's much more. 50 1% more men.
(18:19):
The U.S. average. So smoking is
a big problem causing on
consent. The other problem in
Kentucky is that radon is
welcome to
come in in Kentucky because
of the limestone, the ground,
the reactive gas that comes
from you know, parts
(18:40):
of it.
>> With Tripoli zoo, the
limestone and gets into the
houses and the people and he
reacted gas. Be also why lung
cancer is a big problem in
Kentucky.
>> It has to do with access
to health care, especially into
parts of Kentuckyian these 2
parts of Kentucky. What people
(19:01):
don't have as much access when
cancer is diagnosed So the sum
of the parts of Kentucky, some
rural areas where the deaths
from lung cancer is exceedingly
high, much, much higher
than that. It's that cancer has
2 features that makes it very
dangerous. So you can have it
and you don't feel that it
doesn't cause any symptoms.
Initially, you would not have a
new call for a chance been a
(19:23):
breathing problem. But you may
already have in your lawn and
to find it early, you have to
get screened.
So the guidance are a few
between 50 80 and you smoked a
pack a day for these 20 years
who are at a high enough risk
that you should have a
screening CT every year begin
between
50 to 80 and that's where you
(19:43):
find it in the state routes may
be smaller and dying and you
can be removed and you're
cured.
This doesn't happen. Then that
he had a tricky feature among
cancers it spread, so to be
fast. So if you don't find into
the weekend, he's really sure
and it spread to other parts of
the body. It becomes for the
(20:05):
most
part incurable. I'm only a
minority between 9 and 20
person who would be eligible
for a sweeping get the
screening CT. And why is this?
And this have reasons.
There are small groups they
may be in the now. They've
heard stories that you can so
you can go to the anyway.
(20:29):
So this is fatality, too.
And the ruling about finding
something that cannot be cured.
So we have to educate everybody
but finding good to be with us.
We need can be sure that's the
best way to cure it. So part of
it is education. The reasons
why maybe cancer screening is
(20:53):
this used in mammograms
or colonoscopies. It is also
that it requires a doctor's
order and you can adjust
property. Didn't get that s
duct. Asked to
see you as to our goal with
this decision with to associate
decision-making lung cancer
150 years ago was a very weird
to see some very rare disease.
the next 100 years. Plus
(21:14):
smoking, it became the most
common cancer cure and dream of
the future of the modern
medicine that we make it go
>> And its state of lung cancer
report, the American Lung
Association says only 21% of
Kentuckians at high risk for
lung cancer were screened,
which was not significantly
different than the national
(21:36):
rate of 18%.
It could be a photo finish in
this year's Big Blue Crush.
Tennessee still leads
Kentuckyian donations by
Kentucky made up some ground
yesterday. Tennessee is ahead
12, 70 to 12, 60. Okay. Come
on, guys. This annual blood
drive is in its 38th year.
Kentucky leads 22 to 14 with
(21:56):
one tie and Kentucky has won
the last 3 years. Given get
a long sleeved white T-shirt
while supplies last and you can
give at any Kentucky blood
Center. You're asked to make an
appointment first, but the
centers will accept walk-in
business as space allows go.
Cats.
♪
(22:17):
♪
>> Thanksgiving for many means
gathering with family and food,
but also marks the beginning
of dare to care food Bank.
>> The Louisville based
nonprofit organization was
created after a 9 year-old boy
died of hunger on Thanksgiving
(22:41):
Eve. Back in 1969, today, they
say the need is even greater.
>> It's very much a problem
up today. Yeah. As much as it
was, then it is even more so
today, just the past 2 years
we've seen a 48% increase in
demand for the services that we
provide in terms of having
(23:02):
access to food, which is, you
know, just incredible. When you
think about last year we had
distributed 27 million pounds
of food. That's about
22 million meals. Starting from
in 1969, was a truck and food
where they collected and then
started sharing it with
(23:23):
neighbors. And so we've grown
tremendously. We've grown with
the demand and the need.
And one of the things that
we're really working h*** o*
too is how can we not only just
supply the food, but how can we
help families to stabilize?
And instead of just surviving,
how can they thrive? And that's
the a newer model that we're
(23:45):
looking at in working with then
today's time in terms of
equitable food access, no
matter where you live, you have
access to food. And so we're
building that infrastructure
out. Now. But it is reflective
of what we started within 1916.
I yeah.
>> And those numbers at 48%
increase in the last 2 years is
(24:07):
yes, it is just it deeply
concerning. Why is that?
I mean, I'm any of us know the
price of food is a great thing
for disaster that has sent
something to do with it.
Absolutely. I think it's it's
been the perfect storm, if you
will, you know, you have the
the Post pandemic benefits.
They cease to exist. You have
inflation. You
also have inflation and gas
(24:28):
prices, inflation and food.
You go to the grocery store,
the average working family
experiences this every day.
And if you already struggling
and then on top of all the
things that you're experiencing
now, it was almost a perfect
storm. So you had less
resources coming into the
community higher need that was
now manifesting as a result
(24:50):
of inflation in gas prices and
food. And that that really
catapulted into what we're
seeing the day of this increase
in demand. We haven't families
for the very first time
visiting some of our partners.
We with 300 pardon 400 partners
out 13 counties that we serve
in. We're seeing families
coming for the very first time.
(25:12):
>> And I know some of the
federal funding cuts are
impacting you all. That's part
of the puzzle. Absolutely.
We've seen at 36% decrease in a
federal commodities that as a
part of what we distribute to
dare to care just this year
lawn. And so we don't know
where that's going to land and
that the same time we're seeing
(25:34):
a decrease and federal support,
we are seeing an increased need
in our neighbors, needing food,
access to food.
You can learn more about the
story of Bobby Ellis, the 9
year-old whose death spurred
the creation of Daraa to care
on this week's inside
Louisville with Kelsey Starks.
>> That's Sunday at 12 noon
Eastern. 11:00AM central right
(25:55):
here on KET. We thank you for
joining us tonight and we will
see you right back here again
tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern
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