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

. >> we found an area where the fence had been breached, using bolt culters. we found a sledgehammer used to try to force entry into the wall. >> reporter: on the other side of that wall, a cell holding max wade. wade is an waeugd trial on multiple charges, including auto theft. he's accused of stealing guy fieri's lamb again any. >> the buildings are -- are all con ed in code that fits with prisons and jails and juvenile halls, reenforced windows, concrete, they are not easily accessible. >> reporter: it was today or bust. the sheriff's department says wade turned 18 today, and was scheduled for transfer to the adult facility that. transfer has gone through. it was around 4:30 this morning when employees reported hearing a banging on an outside wall. they immediately moved the young inmates to safety and call the sheriff's department. officers searched more than two hours, they did not find whoever tried to break in but did find bolt cutters, sledgehammer and backpack full of clothing. >> suspects left on foot due to the remote location probably got into a ca

so you have rush limbaugh and ann culter -- they are calling for blood.her flip from our favorite flip flop. because she did it twice? [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> twice? >> stephanie: she turned heads by glowingly siting the massachusetts health care blah blah, blah. they don't know if this is part of a new strategy. because a lot of people said that was a mistake. but she did it twice. didn't you notice that? >> uh-huh. >> stephanie: so it wasn't an offhand comment. >> she did it even after people started criticizing her for it. >> and she told the truth. that's it. all of these romney gaffes are when people on his staff tell the truth. >> stephanie: the difference is the romney press conference he started mentioning his health care law in his speech. >> oh, no. >> stephanie: trying to finesse that that this is different. >> i thought he was going to simply repeal obamacare but now he's going to fix it? >> he is so desperate that he has to fall back on the things we has done. >> stephanie: it looked like he was trying to finesse, we all know ther

we have a hole in a chain link fence bolt culters.w is they are searching for someone. >> number two, chevron will open an office in richmond's nevin community center where people claims related to monday's refinery fire. >> number three, starting 10:00 this morning, nearly 2500 free school backpacks will be disputed to families who signed up in advance. >> number four, expect lots of traffic around golden gate park, 65,000 are expected for today's opening of the outside lands music festival. parking is limited, maybe nonexistent. muni providing extra bus service. >> number five, long lines are expected this morning at target's job fair in san francisco. it continues at the metreon complex today and tomorrow. target is looking to hire 300 people. >>> final look at the forecast starts with three words, spare the air. >>> absolutely. breathe easy if you can in the east bay and santa clara valley where we'll have the poorest air quality today, dry this morning, going to be comfortable at the coast, clouds and sun, mid to upper 60s bay up

. >> ann culter said she would be fired immediately for saying the truth like that. >> stephanie: exactly romney: when i was serving as governor, my legislature passed a bill that would have taken out some of the work requirements and i vetoed it. >> stephanie: the obama administration simply giving the states the ability to experiment with new work programs along the line. >> republicans like states rights. hum. >> stephanie: bill clinton came out and called romney's charges against obama untrue and disappointing. >> romney: it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependency. we must restore, and i will restore work! ♪ you are a lying sack of crap ♪ >> stephanie: ron haskings helped write the original welfare to work legislation. he said if people would think and sit down and reason together, they would come up with a plan similar to what is being proposed. and they tried to counterpunch with newt gingrich on a conference call. gingrich had high praise for romney while -- he has clinton speaking for him. >> are you okay over there? >> stephan