**Since this story aired, Jamie Coleman and her children have found temporary housing with the Salvation Army, thanks to help from the community. Read that story here.**With the temperatures dropping, it creates dangerous conditions for people who are homeless.Jamie Coleman is a proud mother of four CPS students ages 5-17.Hesitant to have been living in a van, Coleman was desperate to find a warm place to live as winter sets in.Coleman says she was living in a home for eight years until she was assaulted by her ex.She was a recipient of a one-year rapid re-housing program. But the term ended in August.Coleman is a medical assistant who picks up 12 hours shift where she can, but between that and raising her kids, she says it's difficult to navigate the hurdles of finding Section 8 housing.Colman said she's trying to make things as routine as possible for her kids."I make sure they wash they face and brush they teeth even if we have to go to our gas station in a bathroom," said Jamie Coleman.She says the children are trying to understand, especially the 5-year-old." can we go home? Can we go home? and it's hard because I don't have a home to go to," said Coleman.Coleman says the hotline for these situations is only available once a week and many times she gets put on a waitlist or doesn't get a call back.She said it's been dead end after dead end."You never know what you're willing to do until you get in a situation where you have nobody at all and your back against the wall and you have nothing, so for people to feel like they would never be homeless or can never happen to them, I'm a firm believer that it can happen to anybody and you never know what will happen until it's you," said Coleman.There are an estimated 3,600 Cincinnati Public School students considered homeless. The population of folks who experience homelessness in the city went up nearly 30% since COVID-19 began.Coleman stresses that she's not looking for sympathy or handouts, she's just looking for resources.Homelessness assistance organization Maslow's Army was able to put Coleman and her family in a hotel Tuesday night. If you would like to help or donate, you can Venmo her at @Jamie-Coleman-113 or CashApp $lightskinreddreadIf you would like to provide resources or contact the family, to you can email mamitchell@hearst.com

Ohio's virus situation is so concerning right now, the governor activated the National Guard Friday to help ease the strain on beleaguered hospital staffs around the state.At a statewide media briefing this morning, Gov. Mike DeWine cut straight to the chase."This morning, I ordered 1,050 members of our Ohio National Guard into our hospitals," he said.It was a turnaround from earlier in the week when he expressed a reluctance to do so.There are a number of Guard reserves who work in the medical field already and DeWine was concerned about robbing Peter to pay Paul as the phrase goes.But he has spent time with Guard command to make sure that won't happen.More people are hospitalized with COVID-19 right now in the state than at any other point this year.And the number is said to be rapidly approaching an all-time high.DeWine described the current pressure and stress on hospital staff as "unprecedented.""Early in the pandemic, our concern in our hospitals was about beds, was about space. Today it is about personnel," DeWine said.The shortage of staff in the southwest Ohio region coincides with hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions that are rivaling a year ago.This part of the state will get non-medical National Guard personnel. Tiffany Mattingly, vice president of clinical strategies for the Health Collaborative, explained how they can make a difference."The amount of time it takes to turn over a room once a patient is discharged, to get that room cleaned, to get it sanitized and ready for the next patient and fully-stocked, those are some of the things the National Guard can do to help move people through the ED into an in-patient room quicker," she said.She called the governor's decision to call out the Guard an immediate positive in this sense."No. 1, just a recognition that the staff are in this situation is really helpful. To them, they see support coming. I think that in and of itself can help their mental health and well-being," Mattingly said.National Guard personnel will start fanning out Monday.DeWine is also trying to finalize an agreement with an Ohio-based health care company to bring in out-of-state nurses from other parts of the country where the caseload is not as severe.So, that would be someplace other than Pennsylvania, Michigan or Indiana.The dire situation has been building to this point in recent weeks and there's a deepening winter worry.In an average year, flu typically hospitalizes 1,500 patients in Ohio.There are about 250 hospitalized cases in the state so far.DeWine pointed to some positive indicators.So far this month, 101,000 Ohioans have had their first shot and 514,000 have had their booster."We know that booster shots are huge in keeping people out of the hospital," he stressed.That's the game as the medical community sees it in a nutshell.The governor also asked that schools insist on masks at least for the next four weeks as doctors pay attention to the transmission of omicron."I'm hoping that this will gain some attention from the public as well and that they will help support by getting vaccinated, wearing the mask, thinking critically about their holiday plans," Mattingly said.

Concerts are coming back. And they're coming back even bigger in the Queen City.The Icon Music Center will open in July and the folks who put it together say the fan experience was top of mind."The acoustics and the visuals inside are great all the concession stands are within the entertainment space so you never really have to miss a moment of the show," said Rosemarie Moehring, the director of marketing at MEMI.The music center features two performance areas: An outdoor one that seats up to 8,000 people, and an indoor venue of 4,400 where the farthest seat in the house is only 125 feet from the stage. "As cliché as it sounds, there's not a bad seat in the house," Moehring said.The Icon has been years in the making and sometimes controversial in its location at The Banks and funding.Despite the speed bumps, organizers plan to open at full capacity in July and tickets are already on sale for many artists.While acts from around the world will be stopping at this new venue the marketing director says it's still intimately connected to an artist from right here in Cincinnati."The Andrew J Brady ICON Music Center was named after a Western Hills music teacher, who made a great impact on one of his students," Moehring said.The location of this space was super intentional as well. You're just feet from the Banks where you can go to bars and restaurants -- not to mention -- with DORA in place of a designated outdoor drinking area because of the pandemic. You can grab a drink and head on over to see your favorite show.There will be a big announcement on June 1 of who the first artist performing in the space will be. For a full list of upcoming shows and additional information, click here.