to a warehouse. brian todd with the details on this. brian? reporter: wheelchairs and hospital curtains scatter the site of this remote warehouse where five nursing homes residents died. this was a nightmare. a nightmare. reporter: local leaders now looking for answers for what went wrong. that nursing home owner should be held accountable. as far as the investigation, we understand there is one. reporter: the warehouse in independence, louisiana, served as a temporary evacuation facility for more than 800 patients from seven area nursing homes. the conditions inside were appalling. crowding, mattresses on floors instead of beds, port-o-potties instead of bathrooms and probably not enough of them. it was just things that none of us would want our family members to have to go through. reporter: according to one patient who was inside, insects were crawling all over the mattresses. the independence police chief says the facility was prepared for a certain number of resident
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u.s. immigration will be there keeping an eye. so this place just keeps growing, right? right. everything we re seeing now, the line just keeps moving this way. it started over there and now the tents have just been spreading more and more this way. and even with this new shelter, that is the news that there is a new shelter 45 minutes away and met with skepticism because is it better or is it farther away and that is why you re still seeing the tents. obviously people believe it was a better deal they would go. the sanitation here is regular. they are coming and they re emptying the port-o-potties, but it is this isn t just water. this is sanitation waste. these people are living in it. what is next? this can t stay this way. they won t make it. right. so what are the possibilities? well, i keep asking people that. officials and the migrants themselves and nobody seems to have an answer. they don t know. so they are taking it day by