Child of the Storm: Homeless Baby, Family Shelter at Walmart

Child of the Storm: Homeless Baby, Family Shelter at Walmart
Wilmer Capps takes the temperature of his two-day-old son Luke while preparing with his wife Lorrainda Smith to spend the first night out of the hospital in a parking lot in Panama City, Fla. on Oct. 15, 2018. AP Photo/David Goldman
The Associated Press
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PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Their home full of soggy furniture and mosquitoes, Wilmer Capps was desperate to find shelter for his wife and their son Luke, born just three days after Hurricane Michael ravaged the Florida Panhandle.

So Capps, his wife Lorrainda Smith and little Luke settled in for the longest of nights in the best spot they could find: The parking lot of a Walmart store shut down by the storm.