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the coronavirus pandemic has led to shortages of everything from surgical masks to jigsaw puzzles to baking essentials like dplour and even vanilla. seth doane found this sweet story on the other side of the world. >> you want to help me cook? >> yeah. >> ok. >> all of this quarantine cooking and baking has been boon for at least one business you probably have not considered. vanilla. >> where's the vanilla. >> you see the vanilla inside? >> it's a key ingredient in those cakes and cookies, not to mention ice cream and even coca-cola. in recent months worldwide

vanilla sales have doubled, which gives new rel advance to a story we were working on even before all of this. one that took us on a journey thousands of miles away to the rain forrests of madagascar. we come to this remote african island nation to find a pale white orchid with the best story. >> when you see the pods, what do you think? >> oh, it makes my heart flutter. >> she's not only an admirer and our guide but she runs cook flavoring company, the family business, in california, which has been making vanilla extract for more than a hundred years. this spring they saw an astounding 500% up crease in sales. they import literally tons of the raw material. it's incredibly labor intensive. >> it is, very labor intensive.

each of those blossoms must be pollinatedly hand the day it blooms. >> this remains constant attention but mile madagascar provides 80% of the world's vanilla, it's not native. >> mexico was the only place that has a pollinator. >> a specific bee that pollinates vanilla. >> the only bee that will pol nalt a vanilla market. >> so when french colorado niss brought this find to the regn t vanilla for centuries. then in the 1850s the story goes that an enslaved man named el bun albus, this farmer showed

us. >> the male part is separated by the female part by a membrane. now the flower the pollinated. you have to wait nine months, like baby. [ speaking foreign language ] time consuming, he said. it's not really difficult but it needs some skill. now manage there are around 40 million vanilla orchids in madagascar so pound for pound vanilla is one of the most labor intensive crops i world and by weight can cost more that silver. >> what's the value of the vanilla value? >> $1.5 u.s. >> here? >> that's in here. >> wow. >> madagascar spice company is the biggest supplier.

>> this is for you. >> his warehouse is surrounded by barbed wire. to be able to track vanillan. then once it's harvested there's still more work. the vanilla beans are dipped into hot water to stop photo synthesis. in the process of drying and curing can go on for months. expert hands seem to dance over the vanilla as it's sorted and massaged releasing oils and aroma. these are about 200 times before. >> madagascar is the world eats vanilla producer. >> why do you say by default? >> because the wages are lower that any wages in any vanilla

producing region in the world. >> about half a billion worth, madagascar is one of the poorest countries on earth. most people here live on around $50 a month. how much do these workers make? >> they get about a hundred dollar a month. >> is that a good salary here? >> it's good, it's good. >> how do you make sure that the money being made trickles down to the workers? >> we share the profits wit the account that was created. >> this madagascar native heads 4,000 vanilla farmers to establish savings accounts and as vital as health centers and schools to help the workers get ahead. >> poverty is the most

challenging things for conservation. >> conservation? >> for the environment. people are going to look for land and they're going to destroy the forest. >> we flew over vanilla territory where farmers burmd to expand fields in a desire to escape the grinding poverty and cash in on this crop. half of madagascar has been deforested through 1950, threatening habitats of the lemur which only lives in the wild on this island. the high price of vanilla in recent years have exposed other unsayry sides to this spice. >> through the entire vanilla process, there is cheating, stealing. >> when his valuable crop matures, the farmer will stay in his field all night long keeping watch. last year he told us half his

vanilla was stolen. i risked my life guarding these beans, he told us. people might be coming to kill me. incredibly, more than half of the people detamed in this prison are accused of stealing vanilla, including more than 100 children. no the capital, we took hidden cameras into a tourist market to see how vanilla was marketed at high prices, at least 10% of vanilla ends up on the black market. >> how much? >> i'll think about it. thank you. you might imagine that's why josephine travels thousands of miles each year to gauge the crop. meet producers and exam the product. >> this is beautiful vanilla. take one othe gouet

abandons, has a more subtle flavor. >> this is strong. >> powerful. >> powerful. >> some of her suppliers are able to buy unimaginable things with the crops. >> is this your car? >> yeah. >> that's a nice car. now consider this. at least 95% of products sold as vanilla do not require a farmer at all. nor do they contain real vanilla. the synthetic stuff can be produced in a lab for a 20th of the cost, but joseph te josephine -- >> we wouldn't have to go through all this laborious tedi. you can't treat it like a bag of sugar. there's so much that goes into

it. >> reporter: we'd like to think this much is certain now at our

a trip to the covid ward can be a life altering event and most of the time, not in a good way. but for one woman from nebraska, it ushered in a reyup that was more than 50 years in the making. when doris broke her arm in may -- >> 24 hours before i was found and i thought i was going to die. >> the diagnosis was more devastated. she had covid-19, a risky proposition for a 73-year-old. >> i want ever get it again. >> the bitter pill became easier to swallow when she met her medication aid bev at this rehab center outside omaha. when you first saw her, what

went through your heart and your mind? >> i cooperate believe she was actually here. like oh, my god. i think this is my sister. >> reporter: she doesn't hear very well so borrow picked up a white board. >> i showed it to her. >> reporter: and it says is your father -- >> uh-huh. >> reporter: and what was your reaction when you saw that? >> my mind's racing. i'm thinking why is she asking me this question? i don't know her. but that's -- she did look kind of familiar. >> familiar it turns out from 53 >> i find her is when i rocked her in my arms that. >> her father as a trucker. >> my mother would go on the road with him and left us with a 10 and 11-year-old to take care of. six months to five years old. so the neighbor called the state. >> just six months old at the time was sent to foster hair.

griffin tried to locate her. >> i've been searching for the sisters for 50 years. >> now they're finding new family through each other. >> i'm bottomeding. >> do you see each other a lot now? >> yes. it's hard on residents and patients when you can't have a visitor and with her, i see her three or four times a day. >> would it be fair to say there have been a lot of tears when you got reunited? >> oh, yes. >> and now a new chapter in this sister act. >> i can't wait till i can get out and go spend some time with her and meet her husband and meet her children. >> oh, it's going to be amazing. >> this was god's man that this happened. if i didn't have the covid, i would never found my sister. >> both sisters have big families of their own with lots of grandchildren and they're already planning a family reunion to take place as soon as

it's safe. and that's the overnight news for this friday. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs death toll hits a new high. 1,500 deaths reported from coronavirus in just 24 hours, the most since may. tonight, the nation's top infectious disease doctor says he's not pleased. why dr. fauci believes the virus hasn't stopped spreading. plus the sober warning from the c.d.c.: the fall will only be worse. nationwide mask mandate: joe biden and kamala harris make their first policy push, calling on governors to require masks for the next three months. the new moves the democratic ticket is making tonight to show voters it has a plan to beat the virus. wildfire threat: hundred of homes in the path of a dangerous fire burning out of control north of l.a.