Toby Gibbs.
#### ####  CNN reports U.S.
Senator Mitch McConnell has reached a deal with Senate Democrats, allowing a simple majority of senators to approve a bill raising the debt ceiling - instead of requiring 60 senators to end a filibuster.
Congress has to raise the debt ceiling by December 15th, or the government will default.
#### Kentucky's COVID positivity rate is nine-point-17 percent.
Hospitals are handling more than 11-hundred COVID patients.
#### Flags at state buildings are at half staff today, in