How to help: Louisville Metro website lists supplies needed for homeless shelters Share Updated: 8:55 AM EST Feb 19, 2021 WLKY Digital Team Share Updated: 8:55 AM EST Feb 19, 2021
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Show Transcript TEMPERATURES. REPORTER: YOU’VE HEARD THE SAYING, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. IT USUALLY REFERS TO CRIME. BUT NOW POLICE ARE ASKING YOU TO SPEAK UP, IF YOU SEE A NEIGHBOR IN NEED, OR SOMEONE COLD OUT ON THE STREETS. OUTREACH WORKERS IN LOUISVILLE FIELD HEARTBREAKING CALLS ABOUT THE HOMELESS EVERY DAY. LITERALLY THEY GOT A CALL THAT THERE WAS A BAG ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, AND THERE WAS A LADY IN IT AND SHE WAS WET AND IT WAS COLD, SO THEY GOT HER WARMED UP AND GOT HER TO A SHELTER. REPORTER: OFFICER ROBERT YOSHIOKA IS ON LMPD’S HOMLESS OUTREACH MOBILE RESPONSE UNIT, WHICH CHECKS ON THESE TYPES OF SITUATIONS SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK. WE HAVE ALREADY HAD INSTANCES OF FROSTBITE IN THE CITY. A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, AND