>> It's been really intense and extreme a sense.

We had and active here.

>> One Kentucky group is helping women get access to abortion outside the state.

>> Well, and good if I want to retire.

And so.

And nothing to do.

We need to be doing something.

>> For many seniors that something is going back to work.

>> When people come here to Louisville was always a natural inclination to want to have a >> Well, of course there is.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Tuesday.

September 6th.

Hope you enjoy the long Labor Day holiday weekend.

I'm Renee Shaw.

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

Students are getting back to class or getting ready to go back after floods delay the beginning of school and many eastern Kentucky counties.

2 schools in Perry County reopened today.

Buckhorn and Robinson.

That's after others started last week.

Leslie County students are also back in school today and Letcher County says it will reopen classes on September.

21st last week, not County Superintendent Brent Hoover said he's aiming for September.

The 19th.

Perry County is getting a new water treatment plant to serve hazard and Buckhorn Governor Andy Beshear and Congressman Hal Rogers gave the 2 cities a check for almost 9 million dollars to build a plant that will process 2 million gallons of water per day.

That will mean water service to more than 1000 households.

It will also reduce stress on the existing water treatment plant and hazard.

The progressive leaning think tank.

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy has released a new what's called state of working report on the kinds of jobs and workers who are rebounding from the COVID pandemic and the resulting economic downturn.

I talked with Dustin to go of KSAT who authored the report to learn what they found.

>> Looking back over the last few years, you know, since the pandemic and the ensuing recovery, what we're seeing is really a a historically strong jobs recovery.

We're set to recover all of the jobs we lost during the pandemic and about half the amount of time it took us to recover from the Great Recession.

And that's really good news that becomes because of 4 rounds of significant, a significant amount of federal aid through the Cares.

Act 2 other types of a federal legislation.

And that's really a incredible.

We've never seen recovery like this.

But the recovery is not across all populations are parts of the state.

What we're seeing is that while men have fully recovered to the prepandemic public employment women have it.

When we look at race, we we see that black in tech aims are being laid off at a disproportionately higher rate than make up a little under 10% of the workforce.

At about 17% of the unemployment insurance claims.

What we're seeing is that, well, the private sector has actually recovered to prepandemic levels in Kentucky.

The public sector hasn't been that partially due to 100 last month in state and local government over the last 15 years.

And when you work a county's rural as as has been the case for a long time, still hasn't recovered problem before the Great Recession where it is urban counties have.

And that has to do with trans much longer than the pandemic.

But certainly that has been exacerbated by the pandemic and recent natural disasters in Western and eastern Kentucky.

So while jobs are moving in the right we're still seeing certain groups of folks throughout the commonwealth that are lagging behind what is not lining behind or wages.

So because of a really tight labor market, wages are up, especially for lower and middle income.

Kentucky ends.

And that again is really fantastic.

News.

And even though inflation has been eating away at some of those even after adjusting for inflation, sort of lower middle income folks are seeing significant increases.

So let me ask you, let's dive a little deeper in a couple of these different categories.

Let's talk about how recovery has hit differently, depending on which sector of the economy or industry.

You're in.

>> Who is rebounded and who is still alive in behind.

>> Sure.

So like trade, transportation and utilities, which warehousing.

So think Amazon workers there are far ahead of where they were before the pandemic that they're doing exceptionally well, professional services like lawyers and accountants.

They're also doing really well compared to prior to the pandemic.

They they've recovered all of their jobs.

I mean, I think trade, transportation, warehousing and something like 20,000 jobs above where they were unaware of 2020.

So those sectors are doing really well.

Even T-shirt, hospitality.

You know, which is hotels and restaurants, they're doing well and recovered yet, but they've gained back tens of thousands of jobs at a loss.

So they they really made up a lot of room compared to where they work before.

So all those help wanted signs are really being built in those in those types of positions.

>> The KSAT report finds that government work is lagging behind the private sector and they cite staffing shortages and less generous benefits than in the past.

As reasons for that you know, we move from education to career and then eventually we kick up our feet in retirement or not.

While labor force participation rates among most age groups in Kentucky continues to drop the number of people.

55 and older in the state who are either in the workforce are actively looking for work, has gone up.

The American Association of Retired Persons or AARP says that is a bright spot for him.

Lawyers who are struggling to fill positions.

>> It is a great experience to have an older worker.

They stay on the job longer.

They're going to make fewer mistakes because, you know, when they take on the job, they're very careful about what they're doing and they've got to solve skills that got to be looking for their input, that they're concerned.

They're they have an emotional intelligence that employers are going to be looking for and they can help to inspire some of the younger workers who are around.

>> Well, that's what 3 bowling Green man in their 70's say they're not ready to stop working there now employed as greeters at a Bowling Green Medical Clinic.

The count staying active, social engagement, additional and calm and sheer boredom as the reasons they re-enter the workforce.

After retirement.

>> We heard in General Motors and Anderson, Indiana was 18 years old.

Only 55 when I retired.

So.

Had nothing to do.

I need to be doing something.

>> I retired from she felt when I came here.

>> Stay at home with So and I thought, well, my who find another job, we KET moving.

>> At the college, I was a school teacher for 5 years and 5th grade elementary.

And then I became a school principal of an elementary school for 3 years.

And then I switched my careers wind in the sails.

I work for record label in Nashville for many years.

Yes, sir.

I'm up there in age, I guess.

but it gives me some things I can share with others and been down the road and and I have some good experiences.

I think just for those 3 months after I retired from my >> career, General Motors just sitting around just that.

Mundane kind of boring.

Didn't have any outside activities and actually my daughter from Massachusetts was here and she saw an article about needing a breeder and she's the one that has spurred me on.

>> I just go.

Oh, well, my health is, you know, it's not good.

But it's enough that I KET moving.

>> I'm always be high energy I think the key for me mentally strong may be physically just the active, not just sitting on the couch watching TV all day lower.

>> I like people I get along with people.

There's nothing mean about me.

>> One family has always been a service-oriented family I just it just keeps me going all the time.

And my wife the to do list says a lot longer than here.

We have a good time.

>> We do it.

As mayhem.

>> It supplements.

So what we like to travel and we can give more to it.

The family was there.

And what are kids and grandkids?

Knoller during his during the teen years and found out that it's more costly as they get older.

But when joy that uses pleasure and first meeting to urge urge you to the community when we can.

>> You know, if you do, you work, you've got to live.

And I've done a lot of stuff around here and nobody else wanted I just got too much energy to sit back and sit on the couch.

So.

>> So here I am.

And and I enjoyed every minute of it.

>> I think they found the fountain of youth and medical news.

President Biden's top medical advisor, Doctor Anthony Fauci says expect to get a COVID shot every year.

Just like you do.

A flu shot.

Kentucky's top doctor Steven Stack, the commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health.

Talk with us today about the frequency of COVID shot, the reformulated booster.

And what are these updated COVID shots offer greater protection against the new strains of the virus.

>> Influenza circulates year-round.

It changes from the hemisphere's depending on the in the summers.

COVID is not going to go away.

It looks like it's going to be much the same.

And so there's good reason to believe that each fall we may just have to normalize getting both the flu shot and a COVID booster.

>> Can they be done?

We have 2 arms.

I heard someone say network news show today we have a one arm for each happes.

>> They can be both on the same day, perfectly safe teen are safely in people tolerate a pretty fine.

>> Right.

So there's you don't lose any potency by having one in one arm.

One of the other arm.

There's nothing to be no doubt about it.

When children go in for routine immunizations, even adults, we often get composite vaccines.

So when you get a tetanus diphtheria, pertussis booster, when you go to the emergency department.

>> You also get you often get a teen deputies trap to catch yourself and you're boosted for 3 things at the same time.

So we do this regularly in people tolerate it.

Just fine.

>> So let's talk about the reformulated boosters at the CDC last week had approved and recommended that target both the original coronavirus strain and these omicron subvariants of Ba 4 and Ba 5.

So do we know that they provide an adequate level of protection?

>> So we've shown repeatedly that when you give a booster people's immune systems wrap up, the antibody levels circulating in your bloodstream.

Go up and we have every reason to believe that provides improved effectiveness.

In fact, I think what we've seen previous waves, the Delta wave, the omicron weight.

People who are freshly boosted had better protection than people who had a long period of time.

The new booster is a combination like you said of the original Wuhan strain.

Plus the Ba 4 and Ba 5.

That's similar to how we update the flu shot each year each year.

You try to speculate which trains are going to be in circulation.

You pick those strange to put it in the vaccine.

You try to protect people against the most common versions of the flu that will be around right now.

89 90% or more of everything we're finding in the United States is either be a 4 or BA 5.

So right now, that's the best likelihood.

And we to protect people.

But we also know that the original vaccines still provide very good protection against death and severe illness.

And so they've kept in that original strain, probably because it provides such good base protection.

>> So for whom is this not recommended?

>> But if his long as the vaccine is approved for you, it recommended once you are 2 months after your most recent shot.

So but I would say is anyone who has had a shot more than 2 months ago, who is over 50 so or has major medical problems.

You should go out and get this in the months of September.

October soon as you can get it.

If you're under 50, maybe you don't have to rush right in.

But I would say definitely still encourage you to go out in September and October and get both the flu shot and a COVID booster.

There's reason to be concerned that it could be a bad flu season.

We've had a number of mild years because of all the mask use and other measures.

But as people have relax back to normal, there's every reason to be concerned that this winter could be a big year, both for flu and COVID.

So getting protected against both to be a really good thing.

>> So is it accurate doctored stock to say that we have with the vaccines finally caught up with the virus?

>> I think it's a combination of vaccines and just 2 and a half years of people getting infected, too.

So a natural infection does provide immunity.

And in the combination of a lot of people who are vaccinated, a lot of people been infected in.

Actually, a lot of people have been both vaccinated and infected.

I think has given humanity a certain level of herd protection or group protection.

Towards COVID.

And so I think it's the combination of both at this point.

>> Doctor Stack says to find out where to get a COVID vaccine or booster log on to vaccines DOT Gov.

Enter your ZIP code and then choose a vaccine manufactured to see your options about where and when to go.

Get that shot.

Kentucky football fans are mourning the passing of Guy Morse, the Wildcats coach in 2001 2002 Morris was an offensive lineman who played at Texas Christian.

Then with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots.

He began coaching in 1987 Morris took over the UK program after recruiting scandal that forced the resignation of coach.

How Mommy, Kentucky sports broadcaster D*** Gabriel says Morris was the right man at the right time.

>> I think guys legacy is a person who took over the program when it was it.

One of its darkest periods you and say was on campus.

Stay one, only 2 games for a couple years running and then all of a sudden they won 7 games and might have won more and sent this fan base into a frenzy that can go to a ballgame.

But they started going to games we've got a shot of winning this thing.

>> Morris died at the age of 71 in Texas after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.

♪ ♪ >> The Kentucky Health Justice Network or K H J and works toward what they call reproductive justice.

It provides information on contraception and abortion and provide support for people seeking abortions out of state.

Our Casey Parker Bell spoke with the network's executive director Aaron Smith about how Kentucky's trigger law banning abortions has changed what the organization does.

>> It's been really intense and extreme a sense you had the sugar law and active here.

I think we only have 2 clinics where they say they're broke and all.

And so it is already.

Difficult to try to get people from eastern central western Kentucky, sue safely and making sure that they're not just get to pay for a play.

That's what we also find practical support to that includes things like transportation assistance gas cards as needed, making sure that your groceries for your home, making sure that you could pay for child care so that you can have a peaceful.

A recovery could use an increase of people looking for your for sure.

We actually been seeing an increase of colors, a sense.

>> March because there was House Bill 3 that went through first.

And so we know that you're without having to 20 $25 B this year, really 40 45?

Sometimes 50 callers will be.

>> What type of stress does this put on the Kentucky Health Justice Network and the people we're looking to get help from you?

>> I mean, you know where to start are, you know, care that we provide is very direct starts right?

So where did it?

You go from very little access to no access.

Stress immediately goes up.

He's like I said before, we've completely had to change how we are able to operate to make sure that we're still able to provide it.

Certain says right now we're hearing from people across the say where, you know, I thought I could handle this later or not at that time or, you know, things happen happens as things happen in life right and it's just It's been very intense.

But we're feeling something that other organizations and other states are also feeling other local about abortion funds and other Saints are going through the exact same things allow it is stressful.

It is struggle.

We're also that we're not alone.

>> Where you're directing people to get abortion care and do expect that to change in the coming months.

>> Well, right now to Illinois were leaning very heavy into Get a lot of support from critics with an Ellen away.

So understand that because of their geographically as well as you know, their status, a policy that they are that they're now in a safe haven for Kentuckians.

But other neighboring states out in the Midwest and South.

>> Smith says the network is also advocating for people to vote against the constitutional amendment that would ensure abortion rights aren't protected in the Kentucky Constitution.

That amendment known as constitutional amendment.

2 will appear on ballots for Kentucky voters.

This November.

♪ >> The clouds, coffee is much more than your typical coffee shop.

In addition to serving up drinks and sandwiches, it's among the few businesses dedicated to inclusive work environments by employing people with mental and physical disabilities or as owner Brewster McCloud refers to them, the IP ease.

>> I've always known I hang around.

Special needs may be a better person.

And that's kind of what happened.

So about 5 years I was still South one Christian church and just teaching class.

And I just said something.

Crazy.

Like when I retired to open up a store.

Or a coffee shop, we all work not for me, but with me.

>> So I'm known for owner for.

30 years.

And so when it came time for him to retire, we started looking for places to open a coffee shop in.

>> We came here and I've been here for much since we opened, we opened November 4th, 2019.

I know for.

The circle of people here, especially.

A lot of us.

Don't feel like you are.

Part of the community.

You know, just like everyday life.

And so this gives here gives us a place to be part of the community.

Yeah, you know, my most favorite word would inclusion.

My most favorite word hate.

It is the word exclusion.

No one wants to be excluded or >> to be left out.

We have people to learn number, but that's just if we have people who are in wheelchairs, we have people who have trouble palsy.

And so we just told our workers here be api's via these.

So.

Part of that is to include them to come to a safe place to come to a place.

Where has the red carpet and they're welcome as well as those ladies who just walked out or the man whos got ready, come in.

They're welcome to come in.

These men and women.

They are hard workers.

But they can do things.

Maybe a different pace, but you're not going to be waiting for your coffee, your church, your your cappuccino, you're going to be wait much longer as you would at Starbucks or coffee times or any other place.

Just giving dignity.

For these men and women.

Who deserved it and given them a place safe place to work.

Because they deserve a safe place.

>> I love the people.

I'm a people person at Just love.

I love my co-workers.

My co-workers and family.

I'm atmosphere.

I love the people.

I love.

everything about this.

Listen, Nicholas puts my happy place.

♪ ♪ >> The brewing on to others in the cloud and crew.

This week we acknowledge the Kentucky leader who tried to prevent the Civil War and a legendary broadcaster whose voice is synonymous with the University of Kentucky Sports.

>> Toby Gibbs has more in this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Congressman governor senator and U.S. Attorney General John Jay Crittendon was born September 10th 17 87 near Versailles voters elected him to the Kentucky House when he was 24 Governor Isaac Shelby tried to appoint him to the U.S. Senate, but it 27 years Old.

Crittendon didn't meet the constitutional age requirement.

He later served 4 separate terms in the Senate with his Crittendon compromise.

He tried to broker a deal to preserve the union and avoid a civil war.

>> Crittendon died in 18.

63.

September 9th.

1972 the day Mammoth Cave, grew so to speak.

That was the day explorers discovered a link between the mammoth Cave and Flint Ridge Cave Systems making Mammoth cave, even larger than previously thought.

And more than 144 miles, it's the largest cave system in the world.

He was a legendary sports broadcaster.

His reputation went way beyond Kentucky.

It would lead for died 9/5/2100 was play by play radio announcer for University of Kentucky, Football and basketball games for 39 years.

Ending with the UK do game in 1992.

He also broadcast Kentucky derbies and in CA Final Fours for CBS Radio.

On the subject of sports, boxing legend that Louisville native Muhammad Ali won an Olympic gold medal on September 5th, 1960.

He was still known as cash is clay at the time, Clave beat Tony Madigan of Australia at the Olympic Games in Rome.

In the light heavyweight finals.

And those are some of the big events.

>> This week in Kentucky history.

>> Thank youto be for almost 100 years.

People have been enjoying a signature Kentucky dish born at a Louisville hotel and 1926.

See the making a hot brown and tonight's Kentucky Life.

>> When people come here to Louisville is always a natural inclination to want to have a high ground.

It's not unusual to Saturday and the restaurant got a call from someone who's on their way up.

I-65 and they will ask.

Is this a place that invented the hype around and when can I get a reservation?

So we're delighted to have them come in with Ali part in bringing into the restaurant and get them enough that they caught Brown.

>> Well, basically gradients off-ramp.

We start with a really great piece of tech aggressively up in the race to take the rest.

We some really great stuff because they can be like Christmas baking with the ground.

Some Macy tomatoes.

We going to cut those up here a little bit into quarters.

Everything was set to watch for it.

What we've gone, the route of the Texas Texas Toast Aldridge looks to cut a little bit sweeter in flight that we use.

so based, you know, turning to a more 90's, levy Creighton that morning.

A source says Shop Hickory nuts is Knauss 6 losses.

We want to trim off cross of that ice.

First to make it a little bit in Austin presentation.

That's a moderate is so we just cut off the edges to square off the tomatoes and get an awesome.

Pace.

You cut into quarters and lost a couple quarters of tomatoes that let's go ahead and do one.

Start with the costs are I grabbed this guy with the ground so that most every dish they're going to stop with well squared off base, help reassure and they would not.

Last couple bits of the next.

We put out some otters that you pour it up.

I mean, an awesome finish off without trying to be so.

Reassure.

So what we do wants to build up the whole ground before this in the oven, the 10 to 12 minutes get really wants.

Forget that we saw some have branded crispy.

We want to get out tomatoes Roisin 3 said I get little bit of sweetness and we can just last through that with the 4 can get a second Aussie want for my show you now this is the sort of that because we're going for me a specific onto the brand itself and then it's going to collapse.

Once you guys in the oven and coach could go as ingredients for us.

What more we like to do it with a little of the paprika.

This Pepper Aiken is spiking.

Patrick, a and what I'm thinking here, I'm stopping also, Chris, Trust the bacon.

I got a nice healthy beaches, Packer in a chase.

And some not screen time, but also just to give a bit more color and freshness on that for you.

That is locals original Brown.

>> Yum, Yum.

Now we know what's for dinner.

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