sumi and all of her friends are. she has a brother and a sister who are still alive, but ingrid lived in honolulu. i spent the same amount of time with ingrid that i did with sumi, and these two girls essentially formed the basic structure or the main characters of the book. there were so many fascinating characters that i couldn't leave them out. there are a lot of other characters in the book as you go along. >> what were the circumstances that were different between ingrid and sumi? >> according to the geneva convention, we were not supposed to have an internment camp that had multiple nationalities. but it happened in crystal city anyway. the germans arrived first into camp in 1942, and once those families had been reunited in crystal city, they couldn't exactly throw them out. the japanese and the germans and the small number of italians had to live together. in the camp, they didn't have much to do with each other. they self-segregated. in terms of the arrests of their fathers, their time in the camp, and their

. >> how did you find sumi? >> the first thing is, it was a long journey to sumi. i first learned about this camp many years ago, 42 years ago when i was a student at the university of texas. i met a remarkable man, alan tan iguchi, who was the dean of architecture. this might sound funny, but i was very young and from a small town in east texas, and i had never seen an asian person before. i was 19 years old. i met this guy at a faculty senate meeting. i was a young reporter for "the daily texan." after the meeting, i went up to him and said, i've never met an asian person before. where are you from? he said, brentwood, california. by said, -- i said, well professor, how did you get to texas? he said, my family was in camp tth -- there. my dad was a baptist minister, so when he said, i was in camp i said, church camp? he said, not exactly. he told me his family was interned in crystal city. over the years, i stayed in touch with alan. always the subject of this mysterious camp came up. in 2010, i stopped by his office in austin just to talk to him. i had read the

that was a real problem for sumi. she did not want to go back but she had no where else where was she going to go? did i answer your question? >> yes, thank you. >> i don't know for a much about this issue and i haven't read your book yet but i was surprised that you said that this was the only family camp and i thought all those had families speak yes, they did. the whole terminology in world war ii internment is quite, you know custodial detention arrest. to be clear crystal city was the only family camp specifically designed for families. in other words they weren't just fathers of there. all families. like in the others they didn't have family sound eating. they went to mess halls and things like that. and then, of course, it would be only multiple nationality family camp. the internees in crystal city got interviewed including those who were previously been in other places, that that's what they call. this was the only true family camp. the language is kind of, you know. >> i understand crystal city was not close

sumi das shows what this means. >> reporter: new rules expected to be approved by the fcc could affectspect how we use the internet. they want to use it like a public utility. a concept known as net neutrality. >> that means that your body brand provider can't block or slow down your access to any websites or applications on the website and it also means that the broadband provider can't charge companies like netflix an added fee to access to a fast lane that gets you content even faster. >> reporter: even after these rules pass users won't notice the changes because it remains open. they want to make sure it it doesn't turn into cable tv. >> that's a closed channel. >> reporter: president obama and major tech companies like google, amazon and facebook support netbook neutrality but the republicans want to strip the fcc tl authority and impose it as a utility. >> you could have extra taxes added to your broadband bill the government could regulate rates and force the broadband providers to open up their network to competitors. >> reporter: broad bapd proviersd and other opponents are e

sumi das shows us what the action on the net neutrality means. >> reporter: new rules expected to bed by the fcc could affect every aspect how we use the internet. the fcc wants greater authority to treat internet service like a public utility, saying its plan will protect the open internet, a concept known as net neutrality. >> that means that your broadband provider can't block or slow down your access to any websites or applications on the website, and it also means that the broadband provider can't charge companies like netflix an added fee to access to a fast lane that gets you content even faster. >> reporter: even after these rules pass, users won't notice the changes because it remains open. they want to make sure it it doesn't become like cable tv. >> that's a closed system where you have cable companies controlling the channel you get to see, the content you're able to view and how easily you're able to find it. >> reporter: president obama and major tech companies like google, amazon, and facebook support net neutrality, but the republicans want to strip the fcc authority

in san francisco, i'm sumi das, cnet.com for cbs news. >> they can put people on edge.bout race and racial injustice are just a start. but coming up, find out how a bay area woman is getting people talking and building some bridges. >> the wettest part of our wet season here in the bay area ends saturday. rainfall totals begin to trail off once we hit march and they fall off a cliff once we hit april so we need some february rainfall. it will rain before the end of the month in san francisco. looking glorious >>> race and racism can be difficult topics of conversation. about more people are addressing -- but more people are addressing them now thanks ton an oakland woman. sharon chin spent time with this week's jefferson award winner. >> what's happening to the child who is seeing her mother without any power? >> that's internalized racism. >> reporter: she leads a discussion about racial injustice. >> what face are you going to wear? >> there's so much that's bottled up inside. >> am i okay? am i going to be perceived as an angry black person? >> reporter: taking about

>> sumi is the japanese-american main character of my book who was born in los angeles, and her fatheras a photographer. the most successful japanese photographer in los angeles. he was arrested as an enemy alien because he was a photographer. during world war ii, photography was like the internet. anybody who had access to it could take photos of military bases and things like that. the 32,000 enemy aliens' fathers who were arrested were not arrested based on anything they had done as human beings but on their occupation, which could have been harmful according to the government to our war effort. sumi was this remarkable, plucky tomboy who was going to central junior high school in los angeles when pearl harbor was bombed, and her life changed in an instant. >> is she still alive? >> she is still alive. she is in her 80's, and she lives in oakland, california. she kind of is the mother of all the japanese-americans in crystal city who are still alive. she operates a newsletter called "a crystal city chapter" that keeps people up to date on deaths, children's issues. she was critical