distributed because of the weather. and just moments ago, president biden signed a major disaster declaration for texas, which will free up federal money for that state. cnn s natasha chen is in houston for us. just how dire is the situation there? reporter: yeah, as you said, the power situation has improved greatly, but that now means that the attention is turning to the water crisis. there are so many places that still don t have running water, a lot of places under a boil water notice like here in houston, and, you know, in many spots in town we re still seeing folks not able to reopen businesses because of lack of running water or faucets will be taped off and people can t use drinking fountains. this is becoming an issue as that s why there are bottled water distributions happening throughout the weekend here at the houston food bank. we just saw three congresswoman go in to volunteer that includes alexandria ocasio-cortez, who has helped raise more than $3 million fo