at the san antonio food bank, it's also remembered as a day from hell, as temperatures soared. >> by oon shift, volunteers were dropping. literally, ambulances were coming because of people having heat exhaustion. >> reporter: food bank president, eric cooper. >> i saw the line, backed up on the freeway. and i drove for mile and mile and mile and the line was just -- i wasn't hitting the end of it. and so, i panicked. >> reporter: more than 10,000 ca cars went through. this was the richest nation on earth and it was shocking. >> we're a hard-working, poor economy. multijob, uninsured, just hard working, right on the edge. but making it. i mean, just surviving and making it, without help. covid-19 pushed those families that were on the edge, over that edge. >> reporter: to try to stay ahead of demand, the san antonio food bank has its own small farms. all summer, volunteers were out in the fields planting. soon, these crops will feed another line of families. >> god bless them and their families. >> reporter: but the need here is actually greater than ever. on our visit, with the tempe

and the entities that are doing the incredible work from the san antonio food bank whose story we just the paisleys free grocery in nashville, to-foot food banks all over the country. they're simply being overwhel d overwhelmed. >> you used the term "food inscout." we talk about hunger in the u.s. hunger is a feeling. we do not measure hunger. food inscout is the capacity of a person to have a healthy active life through their diet without having to beg, borrow or steal. just to clarify that term. with regard to the paisleys' grocery store, that's a good idea but how reputable do you think that is? that's brad paisley. is that the kind of thing you think more parts of the country can replicate? >> i hate to talk in bumper sticker and greeting card language, but for 40 years i've seen, you know, greeting cards and bumper stickers with admonitions that if we just held one less bake sale and build a few less fighter jets we'd be able to solve hunger in america. the cost of feeding america pales in comparison to a lot of the big moneys that we've been spending in bailing out corporations t

we saw the pictures from the san antonio food bank. rking lots of distributors in florida and we talked about the plight of workers and the fact there are several, at least two or three identifiable food americas at play here and eating well is a class privilege in this country. and that the coronavirus pandemic had revealed this crisis and started to amplify it. and that was something that was on the front pages of every newspaper. and now it is worse. you have more people who are unemployed. you have more people who are receiving smaller checks. you saw in the velshi said that things are tight. we visited the san antonio food bank and joy visited with karen washington and we talked to a range of different people for the special. only are things worse but food banks are predicting a tripling of need between now and december. here in minnesota, where i live, our big food bank, second harvest heartland, they're saying they're going to see a 70% increase between now and december. restaurants are doing worse. there is no restaurants act pa