WLKY NEWS RIGHT NOW AT SIX. THE POLLS HAVE JUST OPENED FOR KENTUCKY’S PRIMARY ELECTION. WHAT’S DIFFERENT FOR VOTERS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY? WE’RE LIVE WITH. THE RACE IS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF BOTH THE STATE AND THE NATION. OUR SAM CARTER IS LIVE AT JAYTON HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE VOTERS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE DAY. PROBABLY ROLLING IN RIGHT NOW. YEAH, A VERY POPULAR POLLING PLACE TO SEE THE DOORS OPEN BEHIND YOU, SAM. SO THEY’RE ROLLING IN. HEY, LET’S CHECK IN WITH MATT. TRACKING AN ELECTION DAY WITH SOME IMPACT WEATHER, BUT THAT’S COMING LATER, RIGHT? YEAH. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE AWARE OF THAT AS WE GET LATER INTO THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING AHEAD FOR SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. WE ARE QUIET RIGHT NOW. I WOULD SAY IT’S REALLY SOME OF THE BEST WEATHER OF THE DAY AHEAD. UPPER 60S AND DRY IN AND AROUND THE METRO. WE DO PICK UP SOME 70S TO THE SOUTH, SO IT’S UNSEASONABLY WARM TO START THE MORNING, ESPECIALLY IN LITCHFIELD AND CAMPBELLSVILLE IN THOSE LOW 70S, SOME COOLER MIDDLE 60S IN MADISON. AS YOU DRY OUT FROM SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LATE YESTERDAY AND OVERNIGHT, THAT’S FADED AWAY. WE’RE QUIET. SKIES ARE PARTLY CLOUDY RIGHT NOW. WE WATCH OUT TO THE WEST FOR MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL HEAD OUR WAY DURING PRIMARILY THE SECOND HALF OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING AHEAD. THAT’S THE REASON FOR OUR IMPACT WEATHER. A FEW OF THOSE STORMS COULD BE ON THE STRONG SIDE. HIGH WIND GUSTS, MAYBE SOME HAILSTONES, AND SOME HEAVY DOWNPOURS. WHEN WE’RE DRY, WE’RE HOT AND BREEZY WITH TEMPERATURES UP NEAR 90 DEGREES. SO A VERY SUMMER-LIKE DAY FUELING SOME OF THOSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WE KEEP THE IMPACT WEATHER TOMORROW WITH MORE RAIN AND DOWNPOURS. FEW THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL, BUT A FRONT IS MOVING THROUGH, SO WE’RE TURNING COOLER AT 76 DEGREES. WEDNESDAY, JUST 70 ON THURSDAY. AND WHILE WE LINGER A FEW SHOWERS EARLY IN THE DAY, WE SHOULD BE TRENDING DRIER BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. BUT THAT DRIER TREND DOESN’T LAST LONG. I HAVE MORE RAIN AND STORMS, INCLUDING FOR THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. THAT’S IN YOUR SEVEN DAY FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. BUT RIGHT NOW, AS WE CLICK OVER TO 602, LET’S HEAD BACK TO CARAY AND ALEX WITH ALL OF OUR ELECTION DAY HIGHLIGHTS. AND RIGHT NOW, VOTERS ARE DECIDING ON BIG RACES, ON THE BALLOT IN THE RACE FOR COUNTY CLERK DAVID YATES IS RUNNING FOR REELECTION AGAINST ROSALYNDE WELCH. AND IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S RACE, THREE CANDIDATES ARE ON THE BALLOT. CHIEF DEPUTY STEVE HEALEY, MIKE BREEN AND STEVEN YANCEY. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, BOTH THE MAYORAL RACE AND METRO COUNCIL RACES ARE NONPARTISAN. SO THAT MEANS IN THE FALL, IN THE GENERAL ELECTION, WE’RE GOING TO SEE PEOPLE GO HEAD TO HEAD WHO COULD BE THE SAME PARTY. ELECTION OFFICIALS HOPING FOR A BIG TURNOUT AT THE POLLS TODAY. OUR SAM CARTER JOINS US NOW LIVE AT GEORGETOWN HIGH SCHOOL WITH MORE ON WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT. SAM. LADY, THE FIRST LADIES, THE FIRST VOTERS OF THE DAY HAVE ALREADY WALKED THROUGH THE DOORS. THEY ARE SIGNING IN BEHIND ME. OUR FIRST BALLOT OF THE DAY WILL BE VERY SOON CAST. AND ONE OF THE PEOPLE CHARGED WITH PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTION, COUNTING THE VOTES, THAT KIND OF THING. THIS IS KAREN SABIN. SHE IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CLERK. I’M GOING TO KEEP ON HITTING IT. I DON’T CARE IF PEOPLE GET BORED WITH IT. PARTIZAN ELECTIONS. EXPLAIN IT TO ME AND EXPLAIN WHAT WE’VE GOT GOING ON TODAY. OKAY? NONPARTIZAN ELECTIONS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE’VE HAD THAT FOR THE MAYOR’S RACE AND THE METRO COUNCIL RACE. 11 CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR THIS YEAR, AND THE TOP TWO VOTE GETTERS DOESN’T MATTER IF THEY’RE DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS. ALL INDEPENDENTS, 75,000 INDEPENDENTS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY CAN VOTE IN THIS ELECTION. SO YOU’VE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO BEFORE. SO YOU’RE CHOOSING THE MAYOR CANDIDATES THAT WILL FACE OFF IN NOVEMBER, AND YOU’RE ALSO CHOOSING YOUR METRO COUNCIL RACES. SO GET TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE, BECAUSE YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO JUST DO THAT BY PARTY. NO. 100%. AND WE’RE SEEING A LITTLE BIT OF A CHANGE IN SCENERY. THESE YELLOW PIECES OF PAPER, THESE ARE CANDIDATES WHO HAVE EITHER HAVE TAKEN THEMSELVES OFF THE BALLOT. AND I OFTEN WONDER WHAT HAPPENS TO EARLY VOTERS OR ABSENTEE VOTERS. THEIR VOTE FOR THOSE CANDIDATES. WELL, THAT IS A NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL. THERE ARE EIGHT CANDIDATES THAT ARE ON THE NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL. AND IF IT’S AFFECTED IN YOUR PRECINCT, IT WILL BE POSTED TO WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHO THEY ARE. WE HAD ONE WITHDRAWAL AS OF YESTERDAY. THOSE VOTES WON’T BE COUNTED. OKAY, SO IN THOSE EIGHT RACES. SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU’RE PAYING ATTENTION TO THOSE THOSE SHEETS, IF THEY’VE ALREADY BEEN, IF YOU’VE ALREADY VOTED FOR THEM, THEN THOSE VOTES WON’T COUNT, BUT ALL THE OTHER VOTES WILL COUNT. AND WE HAVE OUR SECURE ELECTIONS THAT WE’RE MAINTAINING THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THIS WHOLE PROCESS. YEAH. AND PLEASE MAKE SURE IF YOU ARE COMING TO VOTE, WE HOPE YOU DO THAT. YOU BRING YOUR STATE OR FEDERAL ISSUED ID WITH YOU, WITH YOUR PHOTO AND YOUR PROPER ADDRESS ON IT. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE OTHERWISE. SO PLEASE DO THAT. IT’S AN EXCITING DAY. VOTING IS UNDERWAY IN THE COMMONWEALTH. THANK YOU SAM. AND HERE IS A LOOK AT SOME OF THE OTHER KEY RACES WE’RE FOLLOWING TODAY OUTSIDE OF LOUISVILLE IN OLDHAM COUNTY, THE RACE FOR JUDGE EXECUTIVE IN THE ROBERT HAWKINS, CHRIS HAYNES, LAURA TAPP, TOM SCHAEFFER AND JOHN BLACK IN THE BULLITT COUNTY CLERK’S RACE. ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, IT IS BETWEEN CHERI WEBBER, MARK WILLIAMS, DEBORAH JOHNSON, ALLEN MIRACLE, CODY WATERS AND RITA PARSONS AND THE JUDGE EXECUTIVE RACE IN THE BULLITT COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. THAT IS, BETWEEN GERALD SUMMERS, SHEILA METCALF AND TONY THOMPSON. VOTES CAST TODAY FOR MAX MORLEY WILL NOT BE COUNTED. THE FORMER CANDIDATE FILED PAPERWORK TO WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE ON MONDAY. MORLEY SUSPENDED HIS CAMPAIGN AFTER HE WAS CAUGHT ON VIDEO TAKING AN OPPOSING CANDIDATES FLIER FROM A MAILBOX HE’D BEEN RUNNING TO REPLACE DANIEL GROSSBERG AS THE KENTUCKY STATE REPRESENTATIVE IN DISTRICT 30. WHILE MORLEY’S NAME WILL STILL APPEAR ON THE BALLOT, VOTERS WILL SEE WITHDRAWAL NOTICES SAM JUST SHOWED US. POSTED AT 12 POLLING LOCATIONS ACROSS THE DISTRICT. POWERFUL ENDORSEMENTS ARE SHIFTING THE DYNAMICS IN KENTUCKY’S FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT RACE, INCUMBENT THOMAS MASSIE AND CHALLENGER ED GOWRAN CAMPAIGNED IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY YESTERDAY. PAUL RYAN, JOINED BY U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH, A SHELBY COUNTY NATIVE, IS ALSO BACKED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP. MEANWHILE, MASSIE APPEARED UNFAZED BY HIS OPPONENT’S HIGH PROFILE SUPPORT, CAMPAIGNING ON TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY AS HE WORKS TO HOLD ON TO HIS HOUSE SEAT. YOU’RE GOING TO FIND OUT THAT THE RACE IS MY SEAT AND THE PRICE THAT YOU HAVE SAID ON IT IS MORE THAN THEY CAN AFFORD. EVEN THE BILLIONAIRES CANNOT BUY THIS SEAT. THINK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE IN HISTORY RIGHT NOW, AND YOU’RE HERE, A LITTLE OLD KENTUCKY, TO SEE YOU TODAY. IS THAT SOMETHING? AND ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, JESSIE BREWER AND MELISSA STRANGE ARE FACING OFF IN THE RACE FOR CONGRESS, ANOTHER RACE DRAWING NATIONAL ATTENTION IS THE CONTEST TO REPLACE SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. MORE THAN A DOZEN CANDIDATES ARE IN THE MIX. IT’S ALSO SHAPING UP AS A TEST OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S INFLUENCE AFTER HE THREW HIS SUPPORT BEHIND CONGRESSMAN ANDY BARR, TRUMP REITERATED THAT ENDORSEMENT DURING A TELEPHONE RALLY LAST NIGHT. ANDY BARR IS RUNNING TO BE THE NEXT U.S. SENATOR FROM KENTUCKY. HE’S A PROVEN WINNER AND PATRIOT, AND I’VE KNOWN HIM FOR A LONG TIME, AND I ENDORSED ANDY YEARS AGO. I ENDORSED HIM IN HIS RUN FOR CONGRESS, AND WE HAD A GREAT SUCCESS. BARR HAS BEEN FACING OFF AGAINST DANIEL CAMERON IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. CAMERON SPENT LAST NIGHT CAMPAIGNING IN HARDIN COUNTY. ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, SEVEN CANDIDATES ARE FIGHTING FOR THE SAME SEAT AND ARE COMPLETE VOTER GUIDE IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW ON OUR HOME PAGE. IT INCLUDES ALL THE RACES. HOW TO FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE, PLUS A SAMPLE OF WHAT YOUR