>> She was the queen who love the sport of Kings.

Queen Elizabeth's Kentucky connection ahead.

>> Of course, these are small farm wineries just mom and pop organizations.

What we'd like to see him grow.

And this is a way to help them grow.

>> Small wineries want to skip the middleman is about a good idea.

>> 400,000 kids a year are diagnosed with cancer and a good chunk of those are going to need blood transfusions.

>> And the Kentucky Blood Center says you can help fill that need.

Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Thursday, September, the 8th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your Thursday night with us.

>> People all over the world are mourning the death of Elizabeth.

The second queen of England for more than 70 years.

The queen died today at the age of 96 Elizabeth became queen in 1952.

After the death of her father King George, the 6th and the queen was no stranger to Kentucky.

The Queen visited the Bluegrass State several times starting in the 1980's.

She attended the 2007 Kentucky Derby during her visit.

She stayed with will Ferris ambassador to Great Britain under President George W Bush at Parishes, Lane's End Farm in Versailles.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell's office released this picture of Senator McConnell with the queen and the president and Missus, Bush and 20.

0, 7, and Senator McConnell spoke about the queen on the Senate floor.

>> They all Americans stand with our great friends.

Across the Atlantic.

Morning opposing the promoter.

See you.

Willis was a second.

Our deepest sympathies are with the royal family.

The many millions of people across the United Kingdom and the and our the drawn reassurance been an inspiration.

From her and started running.

Sterling and Sean and use them.

Reese's 70 long from the aftermath of World War.

2.

Well into the 21st century.

Across 15 different prime ministers.

Through right drives the great challenge.

The Queen City leadership to safeguard the land.

She loved >> More on the Queen's pass.

And coming up on the PBS news hour.

In other news, Governor Andy Beshear today talked about the recovery efforts in eastern Kentucky after the late July floods as well as the rebuilding after December's Western Kentucky, tornadoes.

Among other things, the governor discussed the number of bridges damaged in eastern Kentucky and the repair cost.

>> We estimate the total cost to fix them.

And 54 million dollars.

A 9 million of that is probably to the bridges.

165 bridges.

Have issues caused by flooding.

93 require replacement.

6 require super replacement.

I'm going to finish an what super replacement is and a lot of work already going on on Friday, we did announce that the transportation have begun the work on repairing these bridges the priority is the 170 public owned crossings that have already been identified.

And we're working with unprecedented speed to get them thanks.

>> The governor says the death toll remains at 39 with 2 women still missing 345 people are staying at state parks.

People in 13 counties are eligible for FEMA aid after FEMA added Lee County to the list last Friday.

Governor Beshear also discuss the progress being made in Western Kentucky after the deadly tornadoes last December.

And to make the point he showed a few before and after photos.

>> Let's start with doesn't springs.

This is.

As one of my favorite photos it's time for actually running.

A copy of this.

This was the first day of school.

The Dawson Independent School District where they were going to get those kids back to normalcy, even when 70% of all the housing have been wipe down.

Let's show you a little bit of the of the progress.

So that is the same stretch.

Go back.

But this is this is the bus coming up this street.

And that said today.

Let's go to the next one.

♪ Again, you see.

The difference has been made and how much work has gone into it.

♪ ♪ These are all do some.

>> Pictures of progress, indeed for a while.

Kentucky's problem was not enough rain.

Now a section of McCracken County and some surrounding areas are the only areas left in the moderate drought category, the yellow area around it is abnormally dry.

This map is largely unchanged from last week.

Weeks ago.

Most of the state was dry.

♪ A recent statewide survey of thousands of Kentucky students showed some concerning trends when it comes to mental health.

KET is continuing our years long commitment to discussing social and emotional wellness with a special broadcast that airs next Tuesday on that hour-long program, experts and advocates break down the increasing numbers of kids facing mental health challenges.

The reasons why and the tools, resources and programs available to help them.

>> Some of the data are out for 2020 for 2021.

Is is concerning in that one.

In 5 students reported that they experience significant psychological distress during 2021. and one in 7 reported that they actually seriously contemplated suicide.

And one in 14 reported that they'd attempted suicide.

So those numbers are disturbing and staggering.

And when we asked students about their mental health and how they experience said one in 3 say that more than not, they have poor mental health And so we are concerned about what what is happening in what the data is showing us.

There's about 650,000 students who go to schools and public schools in Kentucky.

>> 20% of that is 130,000.

So if you filled up Kroger field way, UK football plays every weekend, a lot of twice that time.

Many students in Kentucky have a mental health challenge on the pandemic.

That creates even more challenges.

And then also what bounce does is we work with child and family and community facing organizations that deal with trauma.

And so and adverse childhood experiences.

I think one of the important things as we try to bring in more resources to add kids are typically that's in school as we also have that one of things we really want to focus on is not only getting the resources, but also make that reconnection getting the child.

The children reconnected to schools right, and give them that sense of belonging because so often with many of our students, their 2 anchors in their life, one is their family, right?

And then the second is their school, right?

And especially with what happened in Western Kentucky when the tornado and what happened currently in eastern Kentucky getting that recreating that anchor for them, that sense of belonging and connection to school.

It's critical in addition to providing clinical services to that small group of students who may need additional support.

>> We invite you to learn more about use mental health and suicide prevention Tuesday night at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

Kentucky now has 34 cases of monkeypox, according to the CDC, the national number is more than 21,000.

98% of those involved men.

But the White House says it's optimistic that the cases will start to decline 460,000 people have now received vaccinations.

Kentucky is facing a blood shortage and officials are urging people to donate the Kentucky Blood Center reports.

Various blood types are in low supply or critically low supply.

Eric Lindsay with the Kentucky Blood Center says that blood donations are used to treat a variety of medical needs, including premature births, anemia and cancer.

>> He's now a lot of energy.

Believe it or not.

And I would think that looking at now, but he's really sweet.

Goofy Hughes S to be comfortable around you first.

He was diagnosed in February 8 days after he turned to he has acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

He was in pretty bad shape when he was actually diagnosed.

So he like visibly pale and had no energy at all.

He slept a lot.

They did.

The CDC and his blood counts for like dangerously low.

So he immediately was in the first few days.

New life before I thing transfusions total.

So far he's have like 14.

>> Chemotherapy, you know, it's it's it's helping a lot of ways.

It's helping get rid of the cancer, but it's for all intensive purposes poison to the body and and it kills those blood cells.

So when you get chemotherapy, there's a good chance you're going to need platelets are whole blood transfusions.

25% of the blood supply goes first cancer treatments.

He has o positive.

So it it's almost constantly.

>> Whoa, sometimes critically low.

You know, as far as the supply those for healthy blood supply, we like to have a three-day supply and quite frankly, for the last a couple years, we really love her.

But I've been operating with the day supply, sometimes even less.

It makes me a little nervous.

He's done really well right now.

But they anticipate him meaning a lot more but products because it's going to knock all of this.

You know, all this.

But countdown Cameron is going to need blood transfusions really for the next 2 years during office and all of his treatment.

He needs blood consistently to to to get his numbers back up and >> that blood has to be on the shelf for him.

But the amount of transfusions he needs, we need consistent donors to come in and make sure that supplies not only there for Cam, but for for for little boys and girls across the state across the country that are consistently going to be this 400,000 kids a year are diagnosed with cancer and a good chunk of those are going to need blood transfusions.

You can, you know, make Bledsoe.

>> You know, people have to donate or he wouldn't have that.

And it that would be scary.

He heavily are.

Well, you know, relies on the hit him.

Another cancer patients, especially.

>> For us to have a healthy blood supply.

You know, we need about 400 donors daily and to be frank, we are have been nowhere near that for the past couple years across the board, we've been tiptoeing between urgent and critical.

Critical need.

>> With just, you know, a few minutes of your time, you're helping save kids like him because 7 is literally life.

Start.

>> I think it to, you know, critical condition without it.

>> Inherently most people want to give and help others.

The way we split the blind, you're going to say up to 3 lives.

So if you're looking to do something to help in your community, what better way to do it and given bond?

>> You're here.

September is childhood Cancer Awareness Month, more than 200 children are diagnosed with cancer every year in Kentucky.

That's according to the Kentucky Cancer Registry.

And politics.

Now, another U.S. congressional delegation visited Taiwan today with the Kentuckyian in that group, 6 District Congressman Andy Barr joined 7 other members of Congress from both parties.

They met with Taiwan's president who said the visit shows rock solid support for Taiwan and Congress.

This comes at a time of increased tensions between Taiwan and China.

2 months before the November 8 general election.

U.S.

Senator Rand Paul is out with a new TV commercial.

Here's part of it.

>> Nothing is more important than having as good people in office.

That's why go above and beyond the law.

>> All calls this ad good government.

He says he's never taken a taxpayer supported trip overseas and he says he's returned 5 million dollars in office funding to the government.

Paul faces Democrat Charles Booker in November.

He served Kentucky for 33 years and at different times was warden of 6 different Kentucky prisons.

Larry Chandler is retiring from the Kentucky Department of Corrections.

Governor Andy Beshear praises him as an exemplary public servant whose dedication and knowledge have meant safer communities throughout Kentucky.

♪ A shortage of teachers and bus drivers continues to be a challenge across the country.

Kentucky's largest school district is struggling to KET up.

Doctor Marty Pollio with superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools.

He says the district is working to revamp its transportation system and that means eliminating some routes.

>> We are still about 200 vacancies, I in that area of what we need to be fully staffed right now.

So having to cover them with full-time subs resource teachers from the district level and a variety of other ways.

So we continue.

It's a challenge that continues.

200 sounds like an enormous number.

When you look at the percentage of our 6800 teachers, it is a small percentage.

But I do know is a high school principal.

Anytime you have vacancies.

It impacts the culture of the school.

The second enormous problem.

No bus driver shortage.

It's an impact on us every single day.

Once again, I don't think that something that's improving or getting better.

We are paying now many of our bus drivers, upwards of $35 an hour to transport students.

And we are still 200 bus drivers short of what we were 2 years ago.

We have one of the most complicated transportation systems in the United States.

We're going to have to make it much more efficient when we were we reduce the amount of routes that we have.

>> Now on to other school related news.

Nearly 200,000 children in Kentucky struggle with food, insecurity for many children, breakfast and lunch at school.

Maybe their only meals of the day.

But what about the weekends?

When school is out?

One program is filling the gap and that's a school-based backpack, food program in Fayette County, the Family resource and youth service centers commonly called for skis, have backpack programs to get food says students who need it.

We visited Garrett Morgan Elementary to see how the program works.

>> The backpack program started many years ago in partnership, primarily God's pantry.

And church partners who helped fund the food purchasing all of that comes through God's pantry and then are distributed to our school site and it will go home with the students on Fridays the beginning of every school year.

I provide each and every student that tomorrow that the school with needs-based forms, which includes the food letter.

>> And that will give me permission to provide the student with a backpack of food on Fridays.

The first families were hesitant.

What is this?

I don't kid to be stigmatized, but we really strategic about when those bags are distributed by deliver them when they're either at specials either at recess or they're at lunch.

So that provides extra sense of security for the students so that none of the students are look that in any different way.

Giving that we're not a decent school.

We do have a significant amount of students who are benefiting from the backpack program.

You heard Miss was referred to C E P with that refers to community eligibility provision.

It's a Department of Agriculture program.

>> That helps low-income schools serve breakfast and lunch to all students free of charge.

♪ The state legislature passed a bill last year that lets microbreweries take some of their craft beer straight to a retailer as opposed to going through a distributor.

Now, Kentucky small farm wineries are asking for the same treatment we hear from a winery and Warren counties, Rockville community and the state senators sponsoring the legislation that would make it happen.

>> We plan at 100 vines made 7 or 8 batches of wine.

Grew into a passion for wine making for grape growing and the industry as a whole.

Small farm must.

Find a way to get on the shelves to compete with the larger one reason.

That's why you don't see a lot of Kentucky ones, although the really great quality, you're not seeing them on the shelves of your local retailers.

You not see Noman and restaurants.

So we do have a 3 tier system.

You have the you have the wholesalers and then you have.

>> Also the retailers.

And since prohibition, that's been the law.

>> We're a small farm wineries.

We're very rural.

We're not close to.

You know, most majority of us are not close to big cities.

>> We're not close to wholesalers.

>> Folks that we're trying to help out.

>> They just don't have the ability to sign on with a wholesaler because they're mostly out in rural areas.

And as he may be aware, I said, you know, that's just not fair needs to be something done about that.

Help out.

>> What small farm wineries are asking for is the ability to move a small percentage of what we're allowed to produce.

Ourselves in order to get your products on the shelves.

We need to sell our product to a wholesaler and generally that's about 50% of our retail immediately.

We're getting cut off at the knees.

And there's there's no profit to be made there.

Self distribution would put.

Funds back into the pockets of small farm wineries who so desperately needed after COVID.

>> After everything that's happened and inflation and things that are happening in our economy right now.

It would be a huge boon to small farm wineries and it and we need that.

We should have that.

We have great quality wines being made in our state.

>> And they need to be shown on the shelf.

>> At this point, it it's not profitable for wholesaler to come way out here and take that little bit of product.

And at this point in time because we're only talking about a 6% of their capacity to produce.

We've the past on that they can produce up to 500,000 gallons and only 6% of that is 30,000.

>> We're going introduce this bill at the beginning of the next session, which will be early January.

so far we have had lots of support, a small farm wineries supporters.

>> Out in the rural areas of our western and eastern parts of the state.

We're seeing a more and more need for businesses and for jobs and of course, these are small farm wineries, just mom and pop organizations.

But we'd like to see him grow.

And this is a way to help them grow.

We want our products.

The showcase locally and appreciated locally.

>> And this south distribution road map to to make that happen.

>> And Mike Wilson is the majority whip.

We did reach out to a group that opposes the bill in its current form wine and spirits.

Wholesalers of Kentucky executive director Charles George says the draft wording is, quote, too broad.

He met this morning with Derek Hough of the Kentucky Wineries Association.

Both men tell us the conversation was productive.

>> The proposed bill lays out the ability self distribute 30,000 gallons one, which is a significant that that would be a.

Public top 2025.

1 supplier in Kentucky.

If they were able to sell that volume of one.

So I think what we in our conversations with small farm you know, this morning and again, it was very productive, thanked police and the way those discussions went, I you know, we want to there may be some opportunities there to help them for some small quantities.

I'm getting some of that product to retail.

Some of the local liquor store, a local restaurant but, you know, let's make sure we do it in a narrow fashion that truly helps the small farm on earth.

>> As many drivers know the real cost of owning a car is much more than just a monthly payment and those costs of increased quite a bit due to inflation and supply chain problems in June of 2022, the average cost of a used car was about 28,000 and new cars average more than 48 grand.

While these prices are enough to make any consumer cringe.

KET, he's Brandon Roberts reports on the true cost of car ownership during a time of decades.

High inflation.

>> It seems everything is more expensive these days and owning and maintaining a vehicle is no exception.

The American Automobile Association, AAA.

Estimates car ownership costs an average of nearly $15,000 per year or $1250 per month.

These estimates include loans, interest insurance maintenance fees.

And of course, >> we have seen, you know, gas prices start to go.

Love was kind of go down.

They've been going down a few pennies penny or 2 every day.

More or we peaked in June and then we saw some large decreases once it started going down.

And now it's just some small decreases.

So it's a little bit moderate.

But those gas prices, there's still a higher than we saw a, you know, a year ago.

>> The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 7.9% increase in routine maintenance calls for a car from June 2021. to June of 2022.

For a total of more than $0.10 for every mile driven.

>> Lots more people are what they have just.

It's more expensive.

The repairs.

Nobody would like to say that a whole lot cheaper than buying a new car.

Drivers were part have gone up just because, you know, they're trying to fit in the fast and the 3rd 4 times more through the roof from you.

50, $60 or 2, not 220 people don't understand that.

But, you know, we're gonna ask over and over.

>> Triple a bases.

Its cost of car ownership estimate by comparing top-selling mid pressed models across the 5 year ownership period with the vehicle being driven 15,000 miles annually.

Many people paying for repairs and maintenance are outside that sample group.

>> The water more engine repairs.

You know why?

From are you working from that $1000 in the Carter spent putting 3,3500 and the car just the scheme.

But road.

>> The AAA study shows people spend the monthly average of $270 on gas $132 on insurance $121 on maintenance and $56 in fees.

In addition to an average payment of $667 a month for new cars and $515 a month for used cars.

>> We looked at things like insurance financing, maintenance, repair, those kind of cars along with things like licensing.

A ridge just straight statement.

Taxes and of course you'll need.

That's been the big it one.

Of course, we've seen other components of car ownership all of those things that I just mentioned.

But certainly fuel has played into the costs of a vehicle.

>> Triple a determined half-ton pickups in the highest overall driving cost more than $0.86 per mile while electric vehicles are the least expensive in around $0.60 per mile.

>> Parts are probably want to up to 15 to 20% across the board.

Want to say all really quite doubled in its price.

Waiver.

We want to know just because the cost of living is higher.

We did get paid more to.

>> Financial experts suggest spending no more than 20% of one's take-home pay on vehicle cost and to reduce spending, consider shopping for lower car insurance rate or refinancing the loan.

>> We've seen the cost of the property tax and vehicles go up this well, that's a consideration in that place into the reasoning is that the value of the vehicles have gone >> For Kentucky Edition, I'm Brandon Roberts.

>> Thank you.

Brandon.

This year, AAA launched an online drive-in cost calculator to provide a more personalized interactive and detailed breakdown for car shoppers.

Before we go tonight, we want to bring you this story all week long.

We want to leave you with an update on Fritz, the baby hippo.

A few weeks ago.

We told you about France's birth at the Cincinnati Zoo.

According to the zoo.

He rarely leaves his mom's side.

France is now more than one month old and he weighs 170 pounds, which is twice as birth weight.

He gained 2 to 4 pounds a day.

That's a hungry, hungry, hippo.

stay high and cardiovascular disease.

It's important to know how to perform CPR.

And there's a different way of doing it now.

It's been around for a while, but it's just now starting to get some attention.

We'll tell you about Hands-only CPR.

That's tomorrow night on Kentucky edition.

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