we talked to associated press reporter martha mendoza, who brought this story to our attention. >> martha mendoza: i've been a journalist in this area for 25 years, and during that time it has gone from having a pretty robust middleclass to being an area where you see this great divide of wealthy and poor, and nowhere do you see that more than in the silicon valley, where 25 years ago this was a place of orchards and farms and ranching and small businesses, and it has completely changed now so that you have incredibly wealthy people and incredibly poor people and a growing gap. homelessness has increased dramatically. in the shadow of google, in the shadow of oracle, in the shadow of apple computer, you have people who are hungry. >> cindy chavez: people had this believe that somehow silicon valley was paved with gold-and i would even say my parents, coming from new mexico, all those years ago when i was very small, i mean they came here looking for opportunity. they wanted to be in a place that it didn't matter what their ethnicity or culture was, it didn't matter what their class was, t