this is "nightline." tonight a hidden america. working hard but barely getting by. >> people are sleeping all over here. >> diane sawyer in a year long journey across the country. >> $8 an hour. that's 11 years of service. listening to stories of struggles to hold on to american dreams. plus, twins reunited. sisters separate at birth, documented from china by american families with no knowledge of their family history until one day a shocking discovery. >> i told my husband, there are two of them. >> now meeting for the first time, they're beginning to a lifetime of sisterhood.

>> it felt like there was something missing. now it's complete. and a sneak peek for the first super bowl commercial of the year. featuring tom brady. how the star quarterback is putting a new spin on advertising. but first, the "nightline" five. >> your baby's chubby little hand latches on to your finger so hazard, it is like she's saying i love you.

good evening. thank you for joining us. we're about to introduce you to americans desperate for you to know they exist. people all across the country working in jobs once considered middle class but now living far below a middle class lifestyle. how did this dramatic income inequality happen on such a wide scale? and what can be done about it? here's diane sawyer. ♪ songs that made the hit parade ♪ >> return with us to the sights and sounds of archie bunker's neighborhood. 30 years ago, the television symbol of living in the american working class. >> call rudy in california. >> on the phone? >> no, edith. open up the window and yell. >> here's the house today. the blue one on the right. kathy moved into archie's neighborhood 40 years ago.

her husband was a truck driver. she showed houston is buying these houses now. >> as he banker, he's a ceo. kids today that are professionals with advanced degrees can't even afford to live here. >> she said in 1978 her house cost almost $60,000. today it's valued at $800,000. those homes were built for middle class americans. they were built for teachers, for firefighters, they were built for nurses. and those types of people can't afford those homes anymore. >> the soaring house prices aren't just in new york. it is happening in job markets across the country. >> i love this town. i love this community. >> i'm sorry i didn't expect to get emotional. you are looking at the new face of displacement. >> she is one of the people caught in the vicious choice between affording where you live and affording your life. >> i think i grew up middle

class. my parents have four children. they own their home. >> i didn't imagine i would still be without any idea of how i would get into a house at this point. >> her husband is a micro biologist at a lab. they rent a small two bedroom apartment in california. college savings for the girls? >> nothing. >> add to it the 25% like in rent in her town of burlingame, california. her neighborhood being squeezed. across the city we meet terrance wise who believes you build a life on hard work. he leaves home at 5:30 and returns 16 hours later. he records the beginning of his day. >> just like everybody in america. heading to work. trying to take care of my family. >> good morning. >> when we meet him he has two

jobs. a fast food franchises. one at burger king. a second at mcdonald's. it takes him eight buses to commute to and from his work. >> just three more buses to go. >> there is a big change in the fast food worker. in 1980 the majority of fast food workers were teenagers. today, 75% of these workers are in their 20s or older. a third of them with children. >> the american people, some may say it is something you didn't do right. they think you should have stayed in school. or you should have did this. look. i'm working. i have a family. that's where we're at in this high of right now. >> this wasn't the life that terrance had planned. he said he was a smart kid in high school, dreaming of the university of south carolina. he had to help with family bills. >> i've been at burger king 11 years now. $8 an hour after 11 years of service. >> after all those buses, all

those hours no, vacation time no, benefits. >> you go into mcdonald's or any restaurant and you notice smiling faces. when he goes home, he goes home to little food of his own no, lights, no water. it is hard to see that through smiling face. >> he points out his hours can be reduced so his income isn't guaranteed. one of the hardest things, watching the leftover food at the end of the shift. >> what do they do with it? >> where i work the food is thrown away. >> two years ago a worker at another store posted this. >> this is the food that we have to though away. >> when we meet terrance, he has already become a passionate advocate at the center of the national movement called fight for 15. arguing for an i crease in the federal minimum wage from $7.25. >> i know what $15 an hour, if it started tomorrow, i would only have to work one job. then i would have an opportunity to go to work and then to go school. >> the top companies in the fast

food industry made a combined profits of $6.6 billion in 2015. one study shows 52% of all their employees getting some form of public assistance. is this a way taxpayers are subsidizing the industry? >> nobody wants to do that. i want to go in and pull out my cash and buy my food and have insurance through my job. >> again he says, a little more makes so much difference. >> i haven't been to the movies since the matrix. i don't know if you know how old that movie is. this is our stop. >> there hassal been income inequality in america. as we said, today it is more extreme. take silicon valley, the high-tech companies with the golden names. where employees get free food. any kind as much as they want. free dry cleaning, gyms on site. and right there all around them,

thousands of other people also working very hard in the shadows. there amid all the wealth we heard about the drivers of employee shuttle buses. when we began our report we found drivers sleeping in the parking lot. >> 35 to 40 bus drivers are here. people are sleeping here in their cars. it is just awful when you park inside and you have drivers covering their cars with blankets and towels. >> these drivers are called contract employees. working for companies who provide them to the high-tech industry. when we met them, they had few benefits, little vacation, no paid holidays. >> just turn the ignition switch on. >> at that time one of the drivers ferrying apple employees to their campus was scott peebles. he was trying to save money for a rental apartment nearby but at the time he was living in his car using an inflatable mattress. >> if people would know this,

the corporations they work for, they would be aghast that their employees living in a car or van. >> i just close this door and say good night. >> we saw the parallel lives. near luxury houses, trailers parked in the streets. service employees living so differently from the people they serve. and all over the country there are business leaders saying there are times on bring new ideas to american workers and their wages. and this is a man named mark bertolini. he is the son of an auto worker, successful ceo of a goliath company, etna health care. he says it has to begin with corporate leaders who want to learn the lives of their workers. >> where do they live? what are their lives like? it took six months to get the data. when i did, i was embarrassed.

>> he said he was surprised to discover that some of his full time employees were paid so little they had to go on public stance. >> how can we let this happen? here we are a major fortune company. >> so they raised salaries to at least $16 an hour. they're helping workers pay down college debts and he vowed not to pass any of the costs on to the etna consumer. >> 18% believes corporations are good. 18%. how much lower do we need to go before we figure out this doesn't work? so instead of waiting for it to go away, why don't we step forward with some courage and convictions to make it better. >> a new capitalism. >> yeah. why shouldn't we be the ones who say there's a new way. >> and he says if there are ceos in america who don't know where to stargts just give him a call. >> a lot has changed since diane

reported from that parking lot in silicon valley. the bus drivers voted to unionize and there was publicity around the low wages. she said all contract employees should have higher sal prison and 15 days of paid time off. apple and google followed her lead and the drivers we met in the parking lot say it made a huge difference. and you remember scott peebles, the man living in his car? he is now renting an apartment. up next, long separated identical twins meeting for the first time on live tv. the story behind their tearful reactions. making us north amers fastest growing auto brand in 2016. take on 2017 and get the safety you'd expect... the fuel efficiency you need and america's best truck warranty. get to nissan's take on 2017 event

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it reads like a fairytale. two identical twin sisters adopted from china to two american families who somehow manage to track each other down. after months of anticipation, their first face to face meeting unfolding on live television. how did they find each other? here's abc's gloria riviera. >> two little girls separated soon after their birth in china. they are about to reunite on live tv after nearly a decade apart. audrey doering, adopted to a family in wisconsin and gracie rainsberry from washington. they might have never found each

if jennifer had not gone searching, a posting in a local newspaper circulated. >> i wanted that piece of history for her. i reached out to research china.org and he gave us the finding ad. >> and an option to buy photos of audrey they had. >> i purchased the photos. we opened it and the e-mail and i said oh, my gosh. there are two of them! >> what was your emotional reaction in that moment? >> it was unbelievable of this is the stuff you read about. >> a shocking discovery to the doerings and 10-year-old audrey who was orphaned as a baby, suffering from a severe heart condition, listed as special needs. >> you were the mother of three boys and you were thinking, maybe someone isn't here yet. >> we felt like it wasn't complete. we decided to go through adoption. i remember going upstairs and looking at the picture of audrey

and saying, this is our one. this is our little girl. >> when they arrived in china, audrey was far weaker than they had been told. >> we knew she was small and frail. they told us at 15 months she didn't walk yet. she was very weak. for a week she wouldn't smile. >> there is the first smile. >> there it is. >> her family sees her through two touch and go heart surgeries. four states away, a similar story was playing out in washington. nicole and walt rainsberry found their perfect fit. audrey's biological sister. >> what we were reading through their likes and dislikes and characteristics, she just fit. >> she had to fight for her life. >> she set up a cardiology appointment. i was at work. i remember you walked through doors and you broke down crying. i was like, oh, no. >> it was really a miracle to be

alive. >> but nowhere along the way was either family told their daughter was a twin. both families say it would have been too much to take on two special needs kids and believed the girls' separation saved their lives. but once jennifer found that picture, she knew she had to find her daughter's sister. the adoption agency had no record of the other baby. but jennifer took to facebook where she found the rainsberry family. >> to be honest with you, one of the first things i thought was we're not telling her. we can't tell her this. but that didn't last very long. >> they broke the news to gracie by showing her a photograph of audrey. >> she kept looking at it and saying wait, that's not me. >> the first time these sisters spoke was through tears. even now as their relationship grows -- through computer screen conversations and dance parties, talking about the other twin brings up a swell of emotion. >> when you looked at her, what

was it like? >> like she's me. >> like she's you. >> when you talk to her, what is it like? >> the same thing. >> the same thing. >> father, son, holy spirit. >> now the families are preparing to take that next step. meeting face to face for the first time on "good morning america." >> what is it like as a mother to have this other family for your daughter. >> it feels like as far as the families, we got married. for good or bad, that's who we have. >> this is my suitcase. i'm going to fill it up to go to new york. >> the big morning of the show is finally here. >> let me show you your room first. >> mom! >> stop! >> excitement bubbles backstage. >> it is really happening. >> it's here. >> you look at that smile. that's a big smile. >> a moment nine years in the making moments away. >> we're going to welcome audrey

doering, here with her parents jennifer and tom. please welcome them. >> do you want to do this? >> come over here and stand right here. okay? >> all right, gracie, come on out and meet your sister. the twins finally together overwhelmed with emotion. >> how does it feel to hug your sister? >> it felt like there was somebody missing. now it's complete. >> what did it feel like to be standing there about to meet each other? >> it was breath taking. and i saw myself right there. i just started to cry. >> you started to cry. i'm having some tears too. i think we have to break for a

hug. a sister hug. >> these girls have so many opportunities ahead of them. they're so fortunate on meet at this age. they have their whole lives ahead of them. >> the road she had a uncharted and both families will have to navigate their new relationship. >> there is not a real book for how to do this. >> we're taking it one step at a time. they've kind of led the way for us. it feels like she's known her her whole life. >> for now being together is enough. tears fade into laughs. and the twins explore new york city. for "nightline," gloria riviera in new york. up next, what is tom brady selling in this upcoming super bowl commercial? it's not toothpaste.

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