on edge. reporter: there was another brutal attack on a staff member by a patient. at 2:15 p.m. a patient with a i ve talked to staff earlier, they said she was okay. reporter: this is just another report of violence. we re constantly watching over our shoulders now every day. reporter: most workers leaving the property today told me they were very concerned about their safety. the fact that we re getting younger and younger, more sometimes more gangster like mentalities coming into the hospital. as we told you in a special report last month, since 1989, the hospital population has gone from 20% criminal element to 88%. and 16% are accused killers. we re talking about people who probably don t need to be there. reporter: this just seven months after donna gross was killed allegedly by a patient. two weeks ago state mental health officials announced police officers. but not soon enough to protect the people hurt today. john sasaki. investigators tonight
here illegally. reporter: i.c.e. statistics show that 241 people have been deforted. 111 of those people had no prior criminal conviction. david stevenson, ktvu news. san francisco major ed lee spoke today about the sheriff s refusal to comply with security. if it s up to the federal authority to tell us that it s up to us. if they are saying on the one hand that it s not that you can t opt out and there s no choice on your part then we don t have a choice to not comply. reporter: mayor lee said the sheriff s decision will not be implemented until june. the opposition is also spreading outside the bay area. a similar bill is pending in illinois. colorado has negotiated a modified agreement with the government. and washington recently became the first state to refuse to join the federal program. the congressional hispanic caucus has added its voice. the caucus sent a letter to president obama yesterday asking him to halt the program. san jose business owners are ho
today the community is rallying for a transgender leader. amber lee is live where the woman says the two people attacked her. reporter: she asked us to conceal her identity and to call her mia. it was 10:00 on a busy friday night. mia told us she was walking by when she was verbally harassed by two men. then one grabbed her smart phone. daryl: did they attack from the front or from the back. they were like right here. next to you? yeah. i saw the moment she was getting punched in the face very violently. reporter: he says she heard one of the men comment on mia s sexual organization skw-z oh i hate men dressed up as a woman or something like that. he said something to that effect. reporter: mia was taken to the hospital. police credit witnesses for following the two suspects and helps officers. through the course of the investigation the police department confirmed with the police department. reporter: mia says she doesn t want anyone to feel story for her
is monitoring the air for radiation levels in the area. reporter: the department is monitoring changes in the atmosphere. if the radiation does arrive, scientists here will be among the first to know. it s expected to hit our coast as early as tomorrow. so diluted. radiation will be more minuscule than measurable. we understand everybody s concern, radiation is scary stuff. reporter: officials cannot say it enough, they see no health hazards. i m not sure that the vision or the model of a plume this far away is no one can predict what is going to happen at the plant tomorrow. reporter: that uncertainty is why so much technology at so many locations is aimed at sniffing out radiation swiftly then compares it to normal background levels which vary from place to place and also pose some mysteries. no one has ever been able to determine differences in cancers from one location to another based just on backgrounds. i m trying to not think about it because it seem
we re watching the advisory for american to get a little farther away from that plant than was originally recommended. now, the japanese government did double the number of workers they re sending in, trying to find out what s happening within the plant. they are working by flashlight. they are pumping sea water in to cool those fuel rods. from the outside, they will use water cannons instead of water dropping helicopters. they were grounded with radiation levels. unsafe level for the pilots. workers are working to hook up a new power line to the plant and that could provide a stable power source to cool the spent fuel rods. some say that may not do much good because the cooling systems were badly damaged by explosions at the plant. meantime, anger and alarm among the japanese are growing over how the government is handling the nuclear crisis. the governor of foukushima s tempers are flaring. and what meant to comfort people did the opposite when he said that he hopes the sit