 Monday, September 19th, Governor Andy Beshear presented Knot and Letcher County's $531,000 each to relieve strained fiscal liquidity caused by the July 26 flooding. Knot and Letcher are the first to receive financial assistance from the Eastern Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies. It's also money to run new infrastructure if necessary, looking at the long-term housing. So what today is about is about those big bills that are coming due, that without some help, the counties couldn't afford. So what you saw are, I mean, big amounts, generally $500,000 and $760,000 are large amounts of money, but this is out of $213 million. So each of these counties will come back as more bills come due, the school systems will as well, and we can help them along the way. My name is Aaron Crump, Chief Medical Officer at Pikeville Medical Center. The Hardin Vascular Institute, it's really an incredible program, made incredible because of the providers, because of the technology, and because of the staff. We've truly become the leading provider of Hardin Vascular Services in Eastern Kentucky, and in fact, what we do compares to anywhere in the nation. Pikeville Medical Center, when it comes to your heart, place your care in our hands. The state has allocated over $217 million to the Eastern Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies. This funding is available to cities, counties, public and non-profit utilities, and school districts. The state has also began to disperse Team Eastern Kentucky flood relief funds. So our Team Eastern Kentucky flood relief fund is now raised a little under $10 million. We've paid first for every funeral of everyone we lost. The first thing we've got to be able to do is grief together, and I don't want those families having to seek reimbursement at such a difficult moment. The second thing we've done is it's about for all 6,500, 7,000 people that have been approved for any amount of individual assistance from FEMA, we're sending a $500 check from that fund that we created. That's hopefully going to help people get through the next week, the next month. It's similar to a process we used in Western Kentucky, and no one has to apply. The checks are going out the door right now. For more information on all flood relief resources and current projects, visit governor.ky.gov backslash flood-resources. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.