lester holt (voiceover): when people hear the words fortunes and california in the same sentence, when people hear the words fortune and california in the same sentence their minds generally go to some internet sensation like google or apple. but just 50 miles from the silicon valley is the san joaquin valley where fortunes were made long before the arrival of micro chips and semiconductors. the farm roberto ayala ran, worth tens of millions of dollars, all going to just one extended family, the moores. they were very, very private.
cornucopia whose bounty daily fills the bellies of millions. great farms employ legions of workers and enriched with their profits, families pass the land down father to son, generation after generation. they live modestly here in california s central valley. multi-millionaires in crop dusters and battered pickup trucks, deeply conservative, self-reliant, tough enough to thrive in a dangerous business that takes guts and brains, too often lives. here among the churning, thrashing machinery the power that helps grow the food of life, death can take a man unawares, even on a sleepy summer day. we just looked up and there he was. like today. a little boy burst from the field of sun flowers next to brandy s place. he was beet red, sweaty, he was just covered in mud head to toe.
o donnell: there is a remarkable effort underway to airlift vital supplies to hospitals, and you might be surprised by who s in the cockpit. cbs kris van cleave has the story. reporter: it s an airborne mission of mercy by a 16-year- old high school sophomore. t.j. kim is using his weekly flying lesson to deliver much- needed personal protective equipment to rural hospitals across virginia. what was it about the rural hospitals that jumped out at you? you? kind of just how forgotten they are, the rural hospitals that are really in need and not the hospitals everyone wants to help. reporter: with sports canceled and classes now online, kim wanted to fill the downtime by doing something to help. so during the week, he and his father gathered the supplies, and every weekend, loaded down with boxes of life-saving gear, t.j. takes off. his operation, s.o.s., supplies over skies, desti
want to annihilate us live 9 miles away from us looking down upon us. pete: the wartime mentality that started in the late 60s protect the high ground, is shifted slightly. now, instead of protecting it with artillery they are protecting it with construction trucks and cement mixers. pete: welcome to [inaudible], construction has been ongoing for 36 years but in 1983 the first settlers arrived here. today there are 16000 in a bustling city. forget what forget what you thought you do about settlements. people like to make a political statement about the fact that we live here. it just means we have our feet on the ground and we are settling the land and as far as i m concerned that
ed: a 16-year-old marilyn high school student is taking to the skies to help small rural hospitals that desperately need surprised. march 27th 2 at 25 bed hospital in new by virginia. his goal is to make deliveries to seven rural hospitals.