436,000 have requested assistance. let's go to houston where maya rodriguez is outside of a houston food bank right now. how are folks there helping out? >> reporter: yeah, phillip, we moved inside the food bank. right now we're in the carousel room. these are carousels going around this entire warehouse basically being used for sorting items that have been donated. we're talking about nonperishable food, toiletries, all kinds of items. hundreds of volunteers have been out here today and they've been sorting these items so far since wednesday alone they've gotten about 2.4 million pounds of items donated here at the food bank. about 1.2 million have been distributed at this point, but another million is expected to go out every single day. a lot of the people here tell us they did not actually lose their homes in the flooding, however, they felt the need to come out and help out. take a listen to what one of