Sacramento Chill Sends Many To Warming Centers, Though Some Still Choose Streets

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Bone-chilling weather has gone hand-in-hand with the start of the holiday season, sending homeless people in search of a place to warm up and get out of the cold.
People can be found on the streets of Sacramento every night, including outside warming centers like one at the Union Gospel Mission.
“It is like a lighthouse in the cold and sometimes dark city and it is a place of refuge,” said Byran Pierce.
He lives in the shelter as part of the shelter’s