Surging coronavirus cases, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters Share Updated: 1:01 PM EST Dec 27, 2020 By GILLIAN FLACCUS and MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Surging coronavirus cases, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters Share Updated: 1:01 PM EST Dec 27, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript We're here in Portland, right by downtown by the river. Uh, Camp three, CPO. It's called, uh, account for a coronavirus around this time right now for homeless. It's pretty pretty amazing. They're bringing in little tiny houses for everybody. Tiny houses or everybody's busy running around, uh, moving all their stuff, uh, getting everything ready. We have a really robust winter shelter system, a severe weather system, and in any other year we have, ah, theory that we don't want anyone who needs to come inside to be out in the cold. It makes it so much more difficult when you can't have big spaces with a lot of people in them ready with winter impending, we're seeing another rise in demand is cities and counties rush to provide a safe and dignified shelter solution for the residents facing homelessness. He always tells me, Don't lose stage and you know it's always Yesterday I was so done. I was so over it. You know, I'm not a religious man, but God works out