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The omicron surge is pushing hospitals to capacity as they struggle to keep up with the highest number of COVID-19 patients on record.“We’re certainly at our highest water mark to date,” St. Elizabeth Dr. Jim Horn said.St. Elizabeth surpassed their highest number of COVID-19 patients set last year at 219. The new number set this week is 232.“It just means that everyone is extremely busy, and everyone is stretched to the max,” Horn said.Every facet of hospital operations is affected from pharmacy to supply chain to the thin ranks of the staff.“They’re tired, they’re demoralized, they’re emotionally stretched,” Horn said.There are so many health care workers out sick, even those who are not normally on the front lines are called into action to help.“Every, every hospital from our rural hospitals to our urban core hospitals are hit by this,” the Health Collaborative’s Tiffany Mattingly said.Mattingly said almost every hospital in the region is hitting historic high number of COVID-19 patients.“Definitely as bad as we’ve seen since the start of the pandemic. They’re operating at a whole new level of surge right now,” Mattingly said.

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The omicron surge is pushing hospitals to capacity as they struggle to keep up with the highest number of COVID-19 patients on record.

“We’re certainly at our highest water mark to date,” St. Elizabeth Dr. Jim Horn said.

St. Elizabeth surpassed their highest number of COVID-19 patients set last year at 219. The new number set this week is 232.

“It just means that everyone is extremely busy, and everyone is stretched to the max,” Horn said.

Every facet of hospital operations is affected from pharmacy to supply chain to the thin ranks of the staff.

“They’re tired, they’re demoralized, they’re emotionally stretched,” Horn said.

There are so many health care workers out sick, even those who are not normally on the front lines are called into action to help.

“Every, every hospital from our rural hospitals to our urban core hospitals are hit by this,” the Health Collaborative’s Tiffany Mattingly said.

Mattingly said almost every hospital in the region is hitting historic high number of COVID-19 patients.

“Definitely as bad as we’ve seen since the start of the pandemic. They’re operating at a whole new level of surge right now,” Mattingly said.


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THESE STORMS DEVELOP THROU TGHHE EVENING. MIKE: LET’S BRING IN KEVIN ROBINSON. THIS IS SO UNSETTLING TO SEE. KEN: IT HAS BEEN AN ASTONISHING TWO WEEKS FROM THE RARE A UNPRECEDENTED DECEMBER OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES LATE LAST WEEK TWO, A HANDFUL OF DAYS LATER, ANOTHER HISTORIC WEATHER EVENT ACROSS THE MIDWEST. 90 MILES AN HOUR WAS A RECORDED WIND GUST IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. THERE ARE THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER GIVEN THEY HAD WIDESPREAD 60 TO 80 MILE AN HOUR WINDS. IT IS INCREDIBLE THE WEATHER WE HAVE SEEN. MESO EVENTS JUST UNPRECEDENTED ALTOGETHER. IN MINNESOTA, THEY HAVE NEVER RECORD AED TORNADO DURING THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. LET’S GET TO THE WEATHER HEADLINES CLOSER TO HOME. WE WILL FEEL THE EFFECTS OF THAT VERY SAME STORM SYSTEM TOMORROW BUT IN A MHUC WEAKENED FASHN.IO IT TURNS BREEZY OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. WINDS ARE STARTING GRADUALLY TO CRANK OUT. THE MESA FRONT ROWS ON THE BRAKES IN KENTUCKY, GIVES US A NICE SOAKING FOR THE AREA. HERE IS A TIMELINE ON THE TWE WEATHER. DRY TOMORROW MORNING. BY LUNCHTIME, THERE COULD BE A FEW SHOWERS AS EARLY AS 10:00. STEADY RAINS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. RAIN STARTS BACK UP EARLY AFTERNOON FRIDAY. THAT’S WHEN WE GET A PROLONGED SOAKER INTO THE MORNING ON SATURDAY BEFORE THE RAINNDS. E HERE IS A LOOK AT THE WEATHER MAP TONIGHT, STILL SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS IN EFFECT. I SHOWED YOU THIS AS THE TOP OF THE SHOW. EACH OF THESE DOTS REPRESENTS A SEVERE WIND GUST OR REPORTED WIND DAMAGE. TH GISOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE ROCKIES ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST. YOU SEE HOW THE DOTS P UOPP IN ITS PATH. YOU REMOVE THE WIND DAMAGE, YOU GET THE TORNADO REPORTS. THIS WILL MOVE ACROSS MINNESOTA INTO WISCONSIN. THE BULK OF THE STORM HEADS UP INTO CANADA. ETH RAIN MOVES IN TOMORROW. IT LOOKS WET FOR THE EVENING COMMUTE. WE GET A BREAK OVERNIGHT THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY, THEN A STORM SYSTEM BRINGS RAIN INTO THE TRI-STETA FOR THE DAY ON FRIDAY. WE ARE THINKING ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL BY THE TIME THIS WRAPS UP ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. RIGHT NOW IT IS A MILD NIGHT, 57 IN MID-DECEMBER. TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MID-50’S. WE M GAY DOWN ANOTHER DEGREE OR TWO, BUT THIS IS WHEREE W HANGUT O TONIGHT, THE MID-50’S, WARMER THAN OUR NORMAL HI. TOMORROW THE DAY STARTS DRIVE, BUT IT IS A WEATHER IMPACT DAY. RAIN MOV INES AND TEMPERATURES GRADLLUAY COOLED OFF DURING THE EVENING. THE NEXT THREE DAYS AREEA WTHER IMPACT DAYS WITH WEATHER ON FRIDAY ANDAR E ON SATURDAY. JULIE SUNSHINE RETURNS ON SUAYND BUT NOT A BAD START TO THE WEEK BEREFO CHRISTMAS NEXT WEEK. STILL NO SIGNS OF ANY

A cold front will bring a round of rain and gusty winds Thursday.

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A cold front will bring a round of rain and gusty winds Thursday.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer is the bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod, overseeing nearly 200 evangelical Lutheran congregations from Central California and Nevada up to Oregon.

The bishop is making history.

“It made the history books because I'm the first openly transgender bishop in the Lutheran Church and maybe in all of the mainline churches across the world,” Rohrer said.

Rohrer says becoming bishop as a transgender person was not something they anticipated so soon.

“It was a shock," Rohrer said. "It was just a very unexpected thing for me when I was elected, but a very gratifying process to have so many people believe in my leadership skills and be ready for this.”

Rohrer’s pronouns are “they” and “them” instead of “he” or “she” because they don't want to be put in a box.

“The ideas and the expectations about what it means to be male or what it means to be female are not fully something that I identify with.”

Rohrer says there have been challenges on their faith journey when people debate their worth as a transgender person. However, Rohrer says they’ll continue to live the life God called them to live by being a faithful person consistently.

“God and I are good," Rohrer said. "And so when someone wants to send me a Bible verse to tell me where I'm wrong, I want to send them some of my favorite Bible verses not to like, have a debate with them because, you know, God never once said, 'Let's take a vote before deciding who God loves.' But because like, that's exactly why I think the Bible is such an important book. Like because the people that are going to preach the opposite of me for the rest of my life are just as loved by God as I am. And the book that I think is sacred fills their heart just as much as it fills my heart.”

Rohrer says their relationship with God has been strong ever since they were a child, and they don’t doubt God loves them.

“When I was about six, my parents were getting divorced and it was a very violent divorce, and there was this period where like, everything in the house got destroyed and we were going back to the house to see if there were any toys or anything like we could take with us. And I just had this deep knowing that like, God loved me and was with me. And if all this stuff in our house was broken like as a 6-year-old to lose all your toys, it's a big deal, right? But I just had this deep knowing like like that Jesus was on my side and that I didn't need toys because like Jesus was there.”

Rohrer says their role as bishop is a big step in the church, opening the doors for other LGBTQ leaders and spreading the message that God loves everyone. Rohrer hopes that in the future, gender identity isn’t as big of a deal. And that others realize God can work through all the diversity of creation.

“Folk who use scripture just to belittle or to be racist or to exclude, I think, are being spiritually abusive, and I hope to be the kind of bishop who can care for people who have heard those messages to work for healing," Rohrer said. "Living faithfully consistently changes the church more than debating.”

Rohrer says if what Jesus says is true, then love is the greatest commandment and Rohrer plans to honor that.




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