their story, as told by steinbach, now read by millions of students.the major works of american literature. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the new my grass also come with their california dream. one generations before them have pursued. in a story that will continue. melissa chan, al jazerra, kearn county, california. ♪ ♪ >> meteorologist: i am meet rolls dave warren, the weather story out west is the drought that continues. rain here plus the clouds over nevada. but not much in the way of steffi rainfall that would alleviate the dry conditions there. that's about all the rain that we could squeeze out. farther north still a problem with fire weather now because now there are a few piers fires popping up and very little rain from the west coast. temperatures continuing to climb, close to 100 degrees in california. above average temperatures, very dry weather and the wind is starting to pick up is lead to go this, these fire weather watches issued and the red flag warnings for the dry conditions along with the fires developing. this is smoke in oregon right around bi

john stipe back's -- steinbach's novel "the grapes of wrath", the promise land and the bitter realityfarm work upped the sun. melis melissa chan went to the camp where the novel was modelled on, california. >>> midway through the novel "the grapes of wrath", there's a moment where the family saw the valley for the first type. the sun came um, and they saw a -- came up, and they saw the valley below - the vip yards, orchards -- vip yards, arch -- vip yards, orchards, and the green. california, the promise land. it seemed that way to this migrant too. >> we were in oklahoma, where we came from, we were starving to death. we were hungry, not starving. >> they showed up, poor and desperate, and lived in camps established by the government. and it was here in arbo, in that steinbach placed the jobe family, the camp preserved and placed on the register of historic places. wc stamps lived here for 16 years. >> so this is my brother and my dad and oldest brother. >> reporter: a well digger, his father was driven out of business by the dust storms. he joint the migration west and found work in