than the entire year last year on certain items. reporter: modern plumbing has fielded 5,000 inquiries, 800 jobs and 500 on the books. their 14 crews working 24/7. we have a strong network of plumbers and they re proud people and they re working hard and a lot of people are going through and pulling the same strings that we are trying to get things done for folks and i m proud to be a part of that. reporter: and it s not just plumbers and plumbing supplies running short. the need for water and food growing. there has been so many families that will come through, they don t have water, some families may not have lights. it s been a great, great need since this winter storm. reporter: the houston food bank on some days serving up more than a million pounds of food and water. with the pandemic, with the storm, how tough has it been? rough. very rough. reporter: why? what are you out of? what are you missing? the thing is water.
to people getting the vaccine. so, this mass vaccination centre at the iconic yankee stadium is an attempt to increase vaccination rates among communities of colour. you have to make an appointment online to be vaccinated here, you can tjust show up. 80 year old anthony doesn t have a computer and he s been turned away eight times. now i have to go all the way back home and explain to whoever. that i couldn t get an appointment, and that i got to try again. because so many seniors are having difficulty with online appointments, there s a mobile vaccination unit in the bronx that takes the doses directly to elderly people in public housing. but this week, there was a new problem. why are you not vaccinating today? we don t have the supply. and that s a problem across the entire state and country. there s lack of supply. if we had the supply, we would be
feel like it s getting easier at this point. a lot of the boil advisories in the city of austin were lifted yesterday evening but there are a lot of people having to boil water, or they don t have water because they had a pipe burst in their home. that s why distribution sites like this one are so critically important. the city of austin has at least ten different water distribution sites. cars have been lining up for days just to get a case of water. if you look over here, this distribution site is not even open yet. it doesn t open for another hour and already cars are here lined up waiting each family can only get one case of water but it is worth the wait for so many people here because this is the only option they have right now. one woman we spoke to told us she drove around for hours, at least an hour and a half one day going to some five, six different stores trying to find a bottle or a gallon of water because she doesn t have any of it at home. listen here. apparently we re
some in masks, others not worrying. 30,000 tickets on sale for a day featuring naomi osaka and serena williams. really excited. we think melbourne makes this event. reporter: none would be possible without tough measures put in place to get on top of the virus, including one of the world s longest lockdowns last year, but now nobody is in hospital in melbourne with covid-19 so these tough rules have been pushed onto the players, too. all having to quarantine for 14 days making for a disjointed leadup to the competition. i would be very surprised if we don t see a few injuries, fallouts, various things like that. we knew it was going to happen. we re happy to give it a shot. reporter: organizers hoping fans will give it a shot with 400,000 tickets on sale, just