Casey Parker-Bell.
#### Governor Andy Beshear says 21 Kentucky hospitals face critical staffing shortages due to the COVID Delta variant.
He says Kentucky will be out of hospital space very soon.
Kentucky has more than 48-hundred new COVID cases, and a positivity rate of almost 13 percent.
#### The governor says he is asking President Biden to issue a major disaster declaration for Nicholas County, after flooding there on July 29th and 30th.
#### Kentucky's preliminary July unemployment rate is four-point-four percent, unchanged from June.
It's down one-point-two percent from the jobless rate in July of 2020.
#### Kentucky State University faces 15 million dollars in debts due to unpaid bills, a growing payroll, and a period of several years when expenses outpaced revenue.