California authorities and healthcare workers met to discuss first-in-the-nation safety rules aimed at preventing hospital violence. This comes two weeks after an LA nurse was shot on duty at a hospital. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 5 and 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (Published Thursday, Feb 5, 2015)
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