consumer correspondent susan koeppen is here with more. good morning.estigating this piece. >> i feel very itchy and i highly recommend if you're eating breakfast right now, you put that on hold for a few minutes. pest control companies used to get one or two calls for bed bugs a year. now the industry is seeing one or two calls a week. and as we found out, no one is immune to getting these little bugs with a big bite. >> reporter: if you thought cockroaches were bad, meet the bed bug. a hearty little creature that likes to suck blood. >> i woke up and found i had a couple bite on me. >> reporter: at first amber and ryan dpint think much of their bite until those bites started to multiply. >> that's what i was like, i'm pretty sure this is leading to bed bugs. >> reporter: they live in new york city where even some retailers have had to shut down their doors to clean out bed bug. but there's a critter crisis all across the country. in seattle, exterminators report a 70% increase in bed bug related calls. 20 0 people in ft. worth, texas, were forced to m