Ford donates masks

Of c1 3 the latest and largest corporate donations of personal protective equipment.

The governor along with the first lady, lieutenant governor and public health commissioner dr. steven stack toured the warehouse in frankfort where the ppe is stored before it's distributed statewide.

Governor beshear says the stockpile here can withstand a second surge..

As it's a 120-day supply.

Since the pandemic began, he says the warehouse has been emptied out twice.

The state has spent just under 50- million-dollars on p-p-e.

Gov andy beshear: "this is another kentucky success story.

This ppe and our current testing ability, we had to go out there and get it done on our own.

And by our own i mean with our citizens with our corporate citizens and we got it done."

Today's donation comes as part ford's program...project apollo...which has some of the automaker's engineers working together with members of the united auto workers to produce 100 million masks