Ian Hardwitt

5 days ago | whas11.com | Ian Hardwitt

BULLITT COUNTY, Ky. — While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working in Hardin County to help families recover from April's flooding, but surrounding counties aren't seeing much federal help right now. Counties like Jefferson, Nelson and Bullitt have not been declared major disasters. That declaration would open individual assistance to the hundreds of households affected by recent severe weather.

1 week ago | whas11.com | Ian Hardwitt

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At airports nationwide, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has extra steps in place for air travelers without REAL ID, passports and other federally-required documents. At Muhammad Ali International Airport, the added security went off without a hitch. Joseph Hunter said it went the same for his connecting flights. "Everybody's moving," he said. "Savannah this morning was great. Atlanta was great.

1 week ago | whas11.com | Ian Hardwitt

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bill Talley secured his REAL ID one day before the federal enforcement deadline of May 7. He waited three-and-a-half hours in the walk-in line at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) driver licensing office in Hurstbourne. "The people in here, I don't know how they maintain their patience and their kindness," he said. Talley is one of the 36.6 percent of Kentuckians who have their REAL ID. Neighboring state Indiana is over 80 percent compliant.

1 week ago | whas11.com | Ian Hardwitt

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Roses rest at the Kroger parking lot at 28th and Broadway where a man and woman were fatally shot on Derby Day. A third person was shot too, but they survived. Cell phone video, taken after the shooting at 2 a.m., shows a crowded parking lot of a "few hundred," Leonardo Boyd estimates. Boyd took the video, originally witnessing the shooting from across the street. "Chaos happened," he said. Boyd grew up in the Shawnee neighborhood.

1 week ago | whas11.com | Ian Hardwitt

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Louisville Division announced its interruption of a guns-for-drugs trafficking scheme stretching from Louisville to the Mexican state of Jalisco. Nearly 60 guns—shotguns, submachine guns, handguns and assault rifles—were seized from an organized group that called the city its homebase. "There's a war going on in Mexico," Special Agent in Charge John Nokes said.