the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half japanese but raised in the chinese culture. when it was time to write the second book and i knew i wanted to explore my japanese side it was going to be difficult in the way that i didn't know the culture. right away i had to learn a lot. it was something that was not engrained in me besides the story. i sat down and thought about the story my mother told me about her brother being ill. he at one point went from hong kong to japan to recuperate. he was the one that wanted to be an artist and wanted to paint. i thought about that because it must have been hard growing up in hong kong to be far away from everything and have a dream and get sick at this point. i thought u is there a story here? that's the way it begins for writers. people think things jump out and we have it in our head. it's the opposite we have nothing in our head. we turn on the machine and praying for something to

. >> i have a mandate from the governor to change the culter of the unit, the organization. >> reporter: he is the man involved in charged of the california national guard. how does major baldwin responsible to allegations from members of his guard exposing a culture of sexual harassment, racism and retaliation? we don't know because for three weeks, general baldwin has deflected, delayed, and on tuesday, finally declined our request for an interview. >> they like to keep this a dirty little secret. they like to keep it in the encloses wet the other skeletons. people are getting fed up. and it is time for change. >> reporter: late today the california national guard said it can't comment on the report co-authored by chief petty because it has not yet received that report. although for now, major general baldwin has declined our interview request, it is important to know we do intend to ask the tough questions to general baldwin in a public place in the weeks ahead. members of his guard clearly want answers and perhaps most important, resolution. coming up tomorrow, why this helicopter f