as mark strassmann tells us, the family opted for a private party, but that didn't stop americans fromrter: they're celebrating a birthday in tiny plains, georgia. jimmy carter's birthplace, 99 years ago. >> i think we're just going to get down and hang out as a family. just be a really small, private event. he can't party like he used to for his 99th birthday. >> reporter: none of us can. >> none of us can. that's right. >>>> i love yoyou, jimmy c cart. happy bibirthday. >> repororter: ameriricans celee with him.. ththe famous -- >> happy b birthday, p presiden cartrter. >> reporter: -- and the everyday. >> happy 99. >> reporter: a jimmy carter peanut gallery of well wishers. the white house had 39 candles for the 39th president. it's some salute considering most americans alive today were born after jimmy carter left the white house in 1981 and moved back here to plains. >> grab a cupcake -- >> he's like the father of the town. he's the heart of the town. and we just celebrate him every day. >> reporter: but this sunday in particular. >> this sunday in particular. >> reporter: yeah.

here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> reporter: they're celebrating a birthday in tiny plains, georgia.immy carter's birth place, 99 years ago today. >> i think we're just going to get down there and hang out as a family, you know, just be a really strong private event. he can't party like he used to for hihis 99thth birththday so >> repororter: nonee of us can. >> n none off us can. that's's exaxactly riright. >>>> jimmymy carter,, happy bir. >>>> reporter:r: amemericans cee with him. the famous. >> happy birthday, president carter. and the every day. a jimmy carter peanut gallery of well-wishers, the white house wooden cake, 39 candles for the 39th president. it's some salute considering most americans alive today were born after jimmy carter left the white house in 1981 and were back here to plains. >> having a great day. >> the father of the town, he's the heart of the town. and we just celebrate him every day. >> but this sunday in particular. >> this sunday in particular. >> reporter: when carter entered hospice back in february. his family thought he had days left. instead, he li

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mark strassmann has the details. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> reporter: they're celebrating a birthdayny plains, georgia. >> grab a cupcake. >> reporter: jimmy carter's birth place, 99 years ago today. >> get down there and hang out as a family. just be a really small, private even evntnt. hehe can't pararty like h he us >> nonee of us s cacan. >> that'ss exactctly righght. >> i love you, jimmy carter. happy birthday. . >> r reporter: a americans c cee with him. the famomous. >> hapappy birthdayy p presiden cacarter. >>>> reporter:r: and the everyd. a jimmy carter peanut gallery of wishers. a wooden cake for the president. it's some salute considering most americans alive today were born after jimmy carter left the white house in 1981 and moved back here to plains. >> he's like the father of the town. he's the heart of the town. and we just celebrate him every day. >> reporter: when carter entered hospice back in february his family thought he had days to live. seven months later he's earned all this birthday fuss. >> he's modest, and -- but, you know, he's mild. he likes the attention

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mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: china has all the markings of a rising space power., an orbiting space station, and rovers on the moon and mars. >> so you got to give them credit. they're good. >> reporter: nasa administrator bill nelson. >> are we in a new space race? >> we're in a space race for us to go back to the moon, for them to get to the moon. > reporter: this space race's prize, the moon's south pole, where there's ice. that means water, air, and rocket fuel, critical to use the moon as a springboard to mars. the u.s. plans to build a base there as part of its artemis program. but china does too. >> what, to you, is worrisome about all this? >> they are not transparent, and you better watch your stuff. >> reporter: nelson points to china's sweeping territorial claims across the south china sea. >> that's my concern about them getting to the south pole before us, is they get there, and they say, this is our territory. you stay out. >> reporter: kevin pole peter has studied china's space moves for more than two decades. >> and then we would get into a situati

mark strassmann reports. >> you're in a new place, new environment. reporter: mike told us he's 60, but he looks much older. homelessness ages anyone. he has spent the last 20 years living outdoors, a gentle troubled loner hiding in plain sight until now. his first day at this l.a. care facility. >> what do you think? >> oh, not bad. >> when is the last time you had a bed? >> uh, i can't remember. >> that long? >> a long time ago. maybe 15 years or something. >> 15 years? wow. >> reporter: mike's lifeline, a program with l.a. county's department of mental health, called the home team. it flips the established treatment route on its head. >> you guys ready to huddle? >> yeah, let's do it. you got the meds? >> yeah. >> reporter: rather than wait for homeless patients to drift in, psychiatrists like dr. cheyenne raab hit the streets looking for people in need of help. >> mike was introduced to me by the home team outreach and they noticed him kind of out in the distance, almost looking like he really needed some help. >> almost like he was waiting for yo

mark strassmann has the story from rural louisiana. >> reporter: van hanser ling grows peanuts and cottonis harvesting a disaster. >> it probably took two-thirds of the cotton crop and probably half of the peanut crop. i've been farming for over 40 years, and i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: his losses alone, about $1.2 million. too much heat, too little rain. >> this one's got a piece of a bean in it. >> reporter: this summer's same one-two punch that knocked down jack dorsey' soybean harvest in neighboring louisiana. he calls soybeans poverty peas. >> everything hurts on a farm it you're not getting everything, all the potential out of your crop. >> reporter: over the summer here in franklin parish, 27 days of triple-digit heat baked crops. making matters worse, between mid-july and the end of august, no rain for nearly six weeks, not one drop. another issue for these soybean fields, it never really cooled down at night during the scorcher of a summer. that further stressed these beans, which further stressed these farmers. summer extremes hit farms from california to mi