headquarters elsewhere in spain worrying that disruption and changing catalonia could upset their business that s cost the region billions of euros in lost opportunities many firms are coming up with backup plans in case of independence. the outlook here in barcelona is usually sunny but the economic clowns for those spain in catalonia won t go away as long as the independence question goes unanswered. time now for a quick market check up so let s bring in our wall street correspondent standing by . investors where i m fresh sales numbers from the car industry give us the latest . yes of kember has been a very good month for the u.s. car manufacturers thirst specially general motors and ford increased sales so much more than expected chrysler there was the increase but now. as steep as a deer too well we have the huge americans here in the united states still some car
seven hours waiting to fill up her car again. they re trying but the lack of resources is certainly real and something that the president did address today. morgan radford there in naple, thank you. as morgan just mentioned, this nursing home tragedy, new questions today about the florida nursing home where eight people died. more than 100 were evacuated. a down transformer cut air conditioning to that facility. but what backup plans were in place? why did it take so long to get help to those residents? the state of florida has shut down that facility. police say there is a criminal investigation under way. and maya rodriguez is there. she joins us now from hollywood, florida, with the very latest on the investigation. how is the nursing home responding to all of this? you know, they did put out a statement and we ll get to that in a moment. the police and the city had a news conference a short time ago. in it, police say they were granted a search warrant. they have not executed t
earlier today who decided not to evacte, decided to ride it out. they thought they had been through other storms and they could do it. they said why go from my home to some or type of building, some other type of shelter. they thought that they would be just as safe as home. those are the people i m most concerned about tonight, ari, those people who are in one-story homes in areas that flood even in the rain with this storm surge that could potentially come ashore. it s concerning. what s their backup plan if they re that low to the ground? reporter: that s a good question. i actually was shocked by the backup plans. one woman said she had blow-up mattresses that she could float
are more than 32,000 people currently in shelters in the state. importantly, we have approximately 30,000 beds that are available for sheltering as needed, and we continue to work on additional backup plans in the event that more than that is needed. some updated information from fema. that just came out. that shows how important it is for everybody impacted by this storm to register. there have been 210,000 registrations for individual assistance. and fema has already approved more than $37 million in individual assistance. and for those who have not yet applied, again, i give you the
available that will be transporting evacuees from the southeast texas region and taking those evacuees to locations around the state. many of those will be transported from the southeast texas region and taken to the talent demand dallas region but not necessarily all of them. the information we ve compiled statewide is that there are more than 32,000 people currently in shelters in the state, importantly we have approximately 30,000 beds that are available for sheltering as needed and we continue to work on additional backup plans in the event that more than that is needed. some updated information from fema. it shows how important it is for