los angeles county we have a population of ten million people but one in every ten people are at risk of hunger in los angeles county roughly just over a million people nancy angeles county at some time during the year are at risk of hunger not knowing where their next meal's going to come from so the los angeles regional food bank through a network of about nine hundred travel agency sites we reach about six hundred seventy four thousand of those people so they're still you know over a third of those people were not reaching so that's that's how big a problem is here even if we bank our size hundred thousand square foot facility distributing thirty four thirty five million pounds a year still not reaching the demand here and i like i it's a big problem here in america where you do have all that kind of food and resources available that you still have people falling through the cracks and that should happen in this country we export billions of pounds of food to other countries too on top of what we g.p. are and we're still not making food available to everybody here in america which is . it's a sad state of affairs is that. these vast entires of food be p