$found_posts

Dear, my first topic. Sorry but I looked a lot in the forum and have not found the answer … and i believe it is a beginner question (sry)

I’m needing to show the total amount of post resulting from a query, I see always in the forum is structured as follows: “$wp_query->found_posts”
However, the theme I’m using uses the structure to make the queries as follows:

$args=array(
			'showposts' => 10,
			'paged' => $paged,
			'year' => $today["year"],
			'monthnum' => $today["mon"],
			'day' => $today["mday"],
			'meta_key' => $meta_key,
			'orderby'=> 'meta_value_num',
			'order' => 'DESC'
		);
		query_posts($args);
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

How do I get the value of $found_posts query with this structure?