Inside Children’s Dallas pediatric ICU, thousands without power after North Texas storms: Your weekend roundup

Also, Adrian Beltre and Chuck Morgan inducted into the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  [Morning roundup]( [NEWS]( | [BUSINESS]( | [SPORTS]( | [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS]( | [ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT]( | [FOOD]( |[STATE OF THE CITY]( | [THINGS TO DO]( | [OPINION]( | [GAMES AND PUZZLES]( 08/15/2021 By Chelsea Watkins and Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines of the weekend so far. 🌥️ Weather: Mostly cloudy with a 50% chance of scattered thunderstorms. High of 89. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( Francisco Rosales, 9, is being treated for COVID-19 in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children's Medical Center Dallas on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Rosales has been hospitalized since Aug. 8 when his blood oxygen level was at 62%, according to his mother, Yessica Gonzalez. (Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) CORONAVIRUS ‘Choose courage’: Inside Children’s Dallas PICU, where kids with COVID and RSV are filling beds The new delta variant — combined with a spike in cases of other, common respiratory viruses like respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — [is stretching staff and bed space in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Medical Center to its limit](. On Saturday, Children’s had 33 patients admitted for COVID-19 and 37 patients admitted for RSV. In May, only 1% of patients at Children’s tested positive for COVID-19. Now that’s up to 10%. "We’re tired. We’re worried. We’re stressed," said Dr. Cindy Darnell Bowens, medical director of the Children’s Dallas PICU who is also a UT Southwestern associate professor. "This is what we do. We take care of the sickest children in the hospital every day."  Protecting kids: Children’s Health System of Texas provides the following tips to [keep children healthy at school in the pandemic](. ‘People will just laugh at you’: Most suburban Dallas restaurants are not requiring masks [without a mandate from the government](.  And: An anti-mask plaintiff in the Fort Worth ISD mask mandate case: "[Personally, I’m really tired of the mask part of COVID](  ADVERTISEMENT CRIME & COURTS [4 things to know about northwest Dallas’ notorious Han Gil hotel]( Jonathan Pitts, the 36-year-old murder suspect granted personal-recognizance bond this week because Dallas officials may have lost evidence in his case, is accused of fatally shooting Shun Handy at the Han Gil Hotel Town in northwest Dallas in 2019. Pitts’ case is the first one known to possibly be affected by the data loss. The slaying of Handy is hardly the only transgression that occurred at the Han Gil, a place a federal judge once called a "hotel of horrors." The building — which opened in 1965 as nursing home and sat only 1,000 feet or so from an elementary school — was long known as a hot spot for drug dealers, and authorities say it was the site of overdoses, sexual abuse, beatings and torture. [Here’s what you need to know.](  Also: A Frisco police officer was arrested [on suspicion of having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student](.   And: A man was sentenced to life in prison [for the 1997 Dallas slaying of his brother’s wife](.  (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) ADVERTISEMENT PHOTO OF THE WEEKEND [Adrian Beltre and Chuck Morgan made their special Rangers HOF night about others, not themselves]( Former Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre and Rangers vice president and public address announcer Chuck Morgan [embraced and congratulated one another on being inducted into the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame]( at Globe Life Field in Arlington. Rangers beat writer Evan Grant writes: Morgan, who was introduced by CFO Kellie Fischer whom he’s worked alongside since 1999, had been nervous about the speech because, well, he saw his enshrinement in the hall as recognizing the fans’ voice. He has been their advocate since arriving for the 1983 season. He’s called 3,059 consecutive home games, spending one season in 2002 with Kansas City. During the speech, he called out the names of former Rangers Steve Buechele, Nelson Cruz and Shin-Soo Choo. As he’d explained earlier in the week, those have been especially enjoyable over the years because the fans often joined him in drawing out the long "oooh." "The way they responded to me is probably the highest compliment a guy like me could receive," Morgan had said. "Better than payday." On Saturday, he said: "I wanted to thank everybody and not leave anybody out. But I worry most about the fan experience. I wanted them to like what I did." Beltre’s speech was shorter. A taped video interview with former teammate Elvis Andrus, who had to leave before Saturday’s game to be present for the birth of his third child, may have lasted longer than Beltre’s five-minute speech. Which also was appropriate. Beltre has never been one to talk much about himself. AROUND THE SITE - Healthy living: A SMU sociologist’s research shows [how pets have become part of the American family](. - Weather: Saturday storms dumped heavy rain on North Texas, [leaving thousands without power](. - Politics: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert says birds are bursting in air [as he blasted the infrastructure bill’s renewable energy projects](. FINALLY... [Tesla may have a new ally in wresting control of car sales from Texas dealerships]( Texas is eager to build electric vehicles, but will it work with emerging manufacturers that don’t want to sell through the state’s storied dealership industry? Electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive was pushing lawmakers to let it be its own dealership before it was known that the manufacturer was considering building a $5 billion plant in Dallas-Fort Worth. In the first six months of this year, Rivian spent up to $300,000 to employ four lobbyists for this year’s legislative session, according to lobbyist registration information filed with the Texas Ethics Commission. [In May, the company backed a bill proposed by 37-year-old Republican Rep. Cody Harris](. ADVERTISEMENT  👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [the newsroom.]( [Free Newsletters]( | [Account Login]( | [Help Center]( | [Terms of Service]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States © Copyright 2021