>> Kentuckians lower their flags to honor the officers shot to death in Floyd County.

>> The benefits of vaccination and lots and lots of people been infected.

I have given us some degree of population protection.

>> COVID cases are going up.

But Kentucky's top doctor says the news isn't all bad.

Plus troops from Kentucky's Fort Campbell are headed somewhere.

They haven't been at almost 80 years.

They're not dollhouses.

>> The way they are built it there architecturally correct.

>> And check out some minature homes that look just like the real thing.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the Kaye E T and famine for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the Kaye E Team Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Tuesday, July 5th.

I'm Renee Shaw.

>> Thank you for spending some of your evening with OSS.

We begin tonight with an update on Thursday's shootings in Floyd County.

Police accuse a man of killing a deputy, a police captain, a police officer and a police dog.

Their funeral was today for Deputy William Petri captain Ralph Frazier's.

Funeral is set for tomorrow at 01:00PM at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg.

The funeral for Officer Jacob Chait sons is Thursday at 1 o'clock.

Also at the Mountain Arts Center today during Deputy Peach Trees.

Funeral Sheriff John Hunt said he had known Petri for 30 years.

Back to a time when Petri served in the state.

Police Hunt says for Petri law enforcement was a calling.

>> When we retired from the state plays into that a couple months where you was out of law enforcement.

He went into a different sector.

When you run into William during that time, William, what expressing his last?

He he missed law enforcement.

You missed it.

He knew what his calling was.

And you miss that.

We would express at times, man, if you had a place that come to you in a minute.

And I expressed to him that minutes.

One, the greatest hires I would ever make in my life.

The fact that you come to work for me.

Loved law enforcement.

He loved the job.

He loved the people.

He loved the people we serve.

We love the people.

You work with.

and listen.

Even.

He was a have work for you.

The mayor is calling he was good that he would mandate for the 3 ul's he wouldn't in it for the authority that power.

Many went to work every day because we love being around people helping somebody.

Having that opportunity.

That chance to just help someone in the end of the day.

>> The Floyd County sheriff says deputies and police officers responded to a domestic situation Thursday night when shots rang out.

Lance Storz is accused of murder, attempted murder and those police killings.

He's being held in the Pike County Jail on a 10 million dollar bond.

Governor Andy Beshear has ordered flags at state buildings lowered to half-staff in honor of the officers killed in Floyd County.

Flags will remain lowered until sunset on Thursday, July.

The 7th.

The governor also says he will order Kentucky flags to remain lowered after Thursday.

There remain at half-staff through sunset on Saturday and remembrance of those killed during the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.

6 people were initially killed.

Police now say a 7th person has died in that mass shooting.

The Floyd County shooting is not the only shooting involving Kentucky police in the last few days.

Martin County Sheriff John Kirk tells W S Azian Huntington, West Virginia.

The man started firing at 2 state troopers and a Martin County deputy last night in the developed community.

The sheriff says one of the officers fired back and killed the suspect.

The officers weren't hit the investigation into this continues.

Abortion is still allowed in Kentucky for now over the weekend, a Kentucky appeals court turned down Attorney General Daniel Cameron's request to allow a state abortion ban to go into effect.

A trigger law went into effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the Roe v Wade decision on June 24th protests.

Ben began and different Kentucky cities and towns.

The ACLU Planned Parenthood and the Emw Women's Surgical Center sued to block the law saying it violated the right to privacy in the Kentucky Constitution.

A Jefferson County judge put the law on hold temporarily.

Cameron is pursuing an appeal asking the Kentucky Supreme Court to take on his case.

Supporters of abortion rally rights rallied in Christian County.

That's just one of the many regional stories we're following.

The Hop town Chronicle says about 100 people rallied at the Christian County Justice Center Monday morning to show their opposition to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

The Mountain Advocate reports that Kimberly Brown of Manchester is accused of violating graves.

The newspaper says a witness flagged down a police officer and told the officer that Brown had a statue from a grave.

The Bowling Green Daily News says there's criticism of a solar project in Logan County work on the 1000 Acre Project is set to begin in September about 50 people showed up at a public hearing in June to say the county will be losing land that had been used to produce grain.

Soldiers from Kentucky's Fort Campbell have started arriving in Europe for the first time in 80 years.

A ceremony today is marking that deployment.

This video is from the beginning of the deployment on June.

25th troops from 100st airborne are in Europe to support NATO as the Russian war continues in Ukraine.

The deployment involves about 47,000 troops, 4200 of those will replace troops from the 82nd Airborne Division and Poland.

Members of the energy and environment Cabinet updated lawmakers today on the use of reformulated gasoline in the state, reformulated gas has made headlines recently after federal regulators denied Governor Andy Beshear's request to temporarily waive a reformulated gas requirement for Louisville and old woman bullet counties.

The waiver would have allowed motorists and those areas to use cheaper forms of gas instead of reformulated gas, which can cost up to $0.30 more per gallon during a meeting of the interim Joint Committee on Transportation.

Some lawmakers question why Reformatted gas was still a requirement.

And if the state is close to meeting air quality standards so the requirement could be listed.

Primary goal this summer is to bring the area into attainment.

>> And once we reach that attainment, then we can.

Have an opportunity to evaluate removing our F G at that time.

>> And that will take something that happens when 2026 did you say vehicle emission testing program would be in place by For bumped up to moderate.

>> Re-designated to obtain Mundt.

That's off the table.

So for us in Louisville, the primary goal, this summer's to see the area re-designated to tame and that puts us back.

Clear status quo.

Playing ground.

And at that point.

Removing our FT would be something we could evaluate.

>> According to Hamilton, California and most of the states in the Southwest are also required to use reformulated gas.

Andrew Cooper rider is running for state treasurer as a Republican.

He tweeted about his plans over the weekend.

Cooper rider is the Lexington Coffee shop owner who fought state imposed COVID restrictions.

He ran for the Kentucky state Senate against Sen Donald Douglas in the May primary.

Douglas won by double digits in his tweet, Cooper writer said, quote, Given my long record of standing up for constitutional rights fighting government overreach and forwarding conservative fiscal policies, I believe I'm the right person for the job.

The current state treasurer Allison Ball has served 2 terms and cannot run again.

We told you Friday that a Kentucky and would be taking part in the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest on Coney Island for the first time ever.

This is video of Bartley Weaver of Bowling Green practicing Weaver ended up tying for 7th place in yesterday's competition.

He ate 29 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

No winner again was Joey Chestnut, a Fulton County native who now lives in Indiana who ate 63 hot dogs.

It was a great weekend for Abby Steiner.

The former UK track star starter won the 200 meter women's.

Final at the U.S. a outdoor track and field championships.

She posted a time of 21.0.

77 seconds.

A personal best and the fastest time by any woman in the world this year.

And she signed a 2 million dollar deal with Puma.

The biggest contract signed by a woman in track just out of college.

♪ At the end of last week, we told you there were 43 counties in the red with high levels of COVID, Kentucky's public Health Commissioner Doctor Steven Stack dropped by our studio this afternoon to update us on what these numbers mean.

The prevalence of reinfection and its lingering effects and who should get a second booster.

And when.

Doctor Steven Stack, thank you for being with us.

Good to see you.

Thanks.

France could be here.

>> So the last week when we saw the map of COVID and we saw that there are 43 counties in the red, which means Is that concerning to you?

Are you saying a trend?

Is that what kind of pay?

So we keeping with that and counties that had been in orange going to to read Cetera.

What we know about the pace of this.

>> Right.

So it is a concern because the disease is spreading more again.

There are about 43 counties up, but they're now is the last time I looked that are in the red, but it's not the same implications as was earlier the benefits of vaccination and lots and lots of people been infected have given us some degree of population protection.

And so the hospitalization rates are not increasing anywhere near like what they did in the first couple years in the pandemic.

So is it a concern?

Absolutely.

There are concerns about people getting infected multiple times and what those consequences will be for those individuals.

Should we take extra precautions, particularly if we're high risk are vulnerable?

Absolutely.

But it's not a time to panic and think people should stay up to date on their vaccines.

Exercise some extra car care caution when the levels are real high, but otherwise we can still go about our regular bus.

>> Right.

So this won't be the destruction that it wasn't the advent of onset of COVID.

Well, we certainly hope not.

Yeah.

Also, let's talk about so where we are when it comes to COVID overall as we were talking before the taping that COVID now ranks as the 3rd leading cause of death, which is has been since the onset.

Is that concerning at all that that's not budging?

>> it's a real concern and there's a lag in the mortality data.

Of I think the data we talked about were from March 20 through the next 12 month period.

It is a concern for 2 years in a row.

So for 2020 to 2021 2021 to 2022, COVID will be the 3rd leading cause of death.

United States.

That's a cause of death.

And if you look pre-covid didn't exist on the mortality tables and now it's a brand-new Roan.

It went all the way to number 3.

So it is a concern.

And it's a reason that the reason why we took all these procurement caution for the first 2 years in a reason why we should still be very respectful of this disease and take the steps we can to protect ourselves again, particularly if you're vulnerable.

She had major medical problems or you're later in life.

You have to take extra precautions.

>> There was a story that ran the Wall Street Journal today.

That is a study of patients in the VA system and talks about COVID re infections.

And it said that it can bring new risks of serious medical problems.

Hospitalization.

>> And Particularly heart problems is the most acute in the first 30 days after an infection.

What do we know about the lingering impact and consequences of re infection from COVID?

How many re infections can one indoor?

We don't know enough.

>> And apparently we can get reinfected multiple times and there are people probably been infected.

3 are eager for even more times over the span of the pandemic at this point.

But we know the disease takes a toll on all sorts.

Organ systems in the body.

People have brain fog sometimes after people have heart problems.

They show that in young college athlete early in the journey where there are a cardiac MRI zur echocardiogram show that their heart function had declined in the media.

After fact, the aftermath of the infection.

We certainly know that can impact your lungs and it can also cause chronic fatigue.

So there's a lot of things we do not know.

We certainly have a lot to learn yet.

It's a grease and why people, again, really need to to go and get vaccinated.

If they haven't to make sure you stay current on your boosters because those seem to lower your risk for long-term harm from but it's a real problem.

>> A couple weeks ago on Kentucky and I had a panel of doctors on talking about the impacts of COVID and one of the infectious disease doctor said that he believes the numbers are underestimated by 10, maybe even 20 times because people are doing at-home tests and maybe only doing one test and it comes back negative.

And I think that I'm good.

But if they were to repeat that test, the antigen home test a couple times, they may find a different result.

What what's your take on the numbers that we're saying?

Is that really a real reflection, accurate reflection of the disease state?

>> There's definitely more disease out there than we're able to report.

And that's been the case.

The entire pandemic at the very start.

We didn't have enough testing to go and find everyone who needed a test at the peek.

At the worst surges, testing became scarce because the demand was so high in the now there's plenty of testing its abundant, but people have moved on and have largely decided either not to test or are using antigen tests like we've asked them to their they're less expensive.

You can do in the privacy of your own home.

But there are a little less reliable.

So you have to check more often to make sure you don't miss the window where they'll show up positive.

So we are under counting.

But again, we're trying to make sure we avoid the worst terms of this disease and hospitals in the health care system is doing okay from the COVID perspective now and hopefully we'll learn enough to try to figure out how we can prevent some of the harms from the long COVID stuff we've already discussed.

>> So for those who are fully vaccinated, but they've also had an infection or infection of COVID.

When should or should they even get another shot?

>> So first of all, every person should have at least 3 doses of an M M RNA vaccine.

So you should get your coat, your Pfizer or moderna.

2 doses.

And then a 3rd dose of that.

You are boosted when you look to the second booster, if you're under 50, if you're healthy, you probably should wait for right now until the fall in get it before you go into the fall, there may be new vaccines in August, September, October.

The time frames certainly at but where the vaccine is modified to have 2 strains in there, including the new Omicron strain in the original strain.

That was more to be a 4 BA 5.

The Ba One is the one that they're currently talking about, because it's the one that's most different from the earlier strains.

And therefore it would give your immune system the broadest stimulation to to maybe be responsive to the widest array of COVID.

And so hopefully that will happen.

And that's when I would go get vaccinated for my second booster would be in this fall when they had a bivalent vaccine that would cover the new strain in the old straight night.

But if you're over 70, perhaps and you fall in that category where you may have co-morbidities mobility, tsar, other existing conditions that go ahead and get that.

>> Right.

So if you're if you're older and I guess in this case, I would say if you're in your 60's or 70's and beyond or if you have major medical issues are in a compromised immune system, you should definitely have your second booster and stay current on all the available boosters because you're probably going to need to to keep on top of this more than everyone else.

>> Later this week, Doctor Stack will talk to us about vaccinations for kids under the age of 5.

And we'll meet a Louisville pediatrician who's administering those shots to kids.

♪ It was a lesson in giving back that started in the classroom and moved into a community, a pay.

What you can cafe opened up in Woodford County almost 3 years ago.

And as you'll see, it's helping transform that community.

>> The idea that she and her son can come in.

When they're hungry.

You know, that's that's what we're here on Earth for is to care for our fellow man.

We just maybe we need more places likes part.

>> Spark Community Cafe came out of a high school classroom that with the county high school that I started Co community activism.

One of the former students contacted me and said, why don't we do this for real with a brick and mortar, we fell in love with the concept of pay it forward, pay what you can.

People come in and say I can't I have $5.

We take that and would salute will take whatever or if you can't pay depending on your age in your ability to work, we may give you the mail or we may ask you to come back at the end of the service and help us clean up which most of our regulars do.

We have believe it or a sizable homeless population for sales and most of it, those men come every day.

Some a few women, Andy, and help us clean up.

The community was slow to support us at first they couldn't grasp the concept that we would all under one roof together and no one knew who was Payton, who was not.

We had a very successful first year and then COVID can.

>> Of course, like every other restaurant was shut down.

>> We're standing here today because of the community.

>> I started in February and I would work once a week fallen tear and they already feel like my family.

What really drew me to this cafe their mission.

I love the that they don't turn away anyone.

Anybody who comes to the door hungry, they get food.

>> We have served 22,000 meals to the food insecure, mostly Woodford County, but also some Fayette County in a small town in a more rural area.

It's harder to get the food insecure here.

That's why we deliver, which makes us the the pay it forward cafes in the country.

>> Getting to know some of the food insecure in our community were.

That's our basic number one mission.

It's more than just these meal deliveries, which are incredibly important.

But it's also just establishing relationships with these families and being able to help them out in other other matters as well.

The feeling that you get from it, it just can't be matched.

The impact of spark is not just helping the food insecure.

>> The kitchen staff as well pay.

So we have we have created jobs but the farm to table element is one of the most important part.

People coming to this great farm to table restaurant to get a fantastic meal.

>> We try to partner with local figure out what they have and we try to get as much as possible as we can get from >> Most of what is put on the table from the spring through the fall comes from local farms.

Much of that Woodford County.

that's a lot of mostly young farmers who have a way of making a living.

>> We decided to push the catering aspect pretty hard.

And with those proceeds were able to do, we're able to take.

The percentage of that money.

We're able to put it toward the food insecure after covering the cost of food.

Our staff, all of the other expenses that go along with it.

>> To see it grow and how the people coming in and see what they're doing and take the ad the at home and start things in their community.

>> The future of spark a whole we are able to expand.

I would love to see us provide a great living wage to locals around here in the community.

I love the sea food trucks as traveling to events festivals of these things.

So sky's the limit for us.

>> Hi, I'm Doug Flynn.

And here's a story from this season of Kentucky.

Life.

>> They're not dollhouses the way they are built it there architecturally correct.

And you know, one could walk in and around the corner and go up a set of stairs or open the closet door or, you know, they're built the same way that a real house would be built.

We just had a a group come through this morning.

And you know, when they come in, they said we've never ever seen anything like this.

When they look at these things, they're amazed at the detail.

>> This collection is the gold standard for growing group of folks who have discovered the joy of crafting miniatures creating little world real or fantasy.

It is an art form that goes back in history.

>> The art has been around since the time said the Egyptians, the Kings would take into their into their tans what they wanted to take with them.

But they couldn't take it in full size so they would have it made in the manager.

>> The Louisville Minute.

Your club is one of the oldest clubs in America.

We were founded almost immediately after the national organization was founded in 1972, we were found in 1974.

You create a world and the world is exactly what you want.

It can be perfect.

It can be old and messed up.

And it's to figure out how to do things or how to make something.

Look the way you want it to look.

>> Much of the challenge of this art form is the exact miss.

It demands to achieve the realism of these recreate sons.

>> The standard dollhouse Gayle is one inch to the flight.

And that's universal across the globe and the importance of making a rule barring and closure or the yet that looks real is to keep everything again, the proper scale.

>> Bob Haven of Lexington is one of Kentucky's leading miniature us.

Having just won the blue ribbon at the Kentucky State.

Fair.

But rather than full houses, he chooses another form of miniatures.

>> I like to do is the real box idea rather than a full full scale house.

I don't have space for huge dollhouse, but I have space for 25 room boxes that can fit on book cases on end tables.

>> Havens collection truly showcases his talents, creating lilliputian size world in Antigua like cages are even in old jewelry boxes.

He shares his experience with club members on design and how to build furniture.

>> Yeah, going on.

Last seen and I think the nice clean edge.

>> Every year the local club holds it annual sale for members and non-members bringing in vendors from around the country.

This plane pre built furnishings and then tie sing additions for collectors.

But for those who previously have enjoyed other crafts like sewing or woodworking, they find these talents are an advantage when making their own furnishings, even in this small world.

>> If you're a needlepoint are in full size in large scale, you can be a needlepoint or in miniature and you can do tiny little rugs and pillows.

So anything you can do full size you can do in minute or and then you make a wonderful little world.

That's all yours.

>> Haven teaches these enthusiast to look at everyday objects as having the potential in the miniature world.

>> Someone starting in the in the hobby.

Well, the obsession of a dollhouse miniatures.

You don't need a lot.

You need some >> A lot of what I build now is made out of recycled materials.

You just have to look at things Coffee creamer that you get at a restaurant makes perfectly usable large flower pot or a tree or a bush or shrub or something like that.

They're perfectly scaled for that.

>> And for all in a trust, there is a pride to be found in their own masterpieces.

They have created.

>> You will have satisfaction and joy, like you never believe when you can make something.

When you look back and think, wow, I did that.

I envisioned it.

I picture high wanted it to turn out and it did just how I wanted it to be.

That is a feeling of satisfaction and joy that that just can't be duplicated.

>> Good things come in small packages.

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7 Central right here on KATC.

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