A driver was arrested Thursday, accused of killing a pedestrian in San Marcos, according to San Diego Police.

A 38-year-old woman was crossing Navajo Road and Golfcrest Drive just before 6:30 p.m. San Diego Police say the pedestrian had the right of way at the time she was struck.

A Chevy Silverado truck was traveling eastbound and failed to stop at a red light, traffic investigators said.

The woman was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The driver, identified only as 38 years old, was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.
 

An electrical fire damaged a Little Italy auto repair shop overnight.

San Diego Fire-Rescue crews were called to Honest’s Auto Repair on Kalmia Street near Kettner just after 4 a.m. Friday.

Several people called 911 reporting smoke in the neighborhood. One person said they saw smoke and fire from the front door of the auto repair shop.

Once firefighters cut through the business’s security bars, they were able to attack the fire and keep it from spreading to adjoining businesses.

Investigators told NBC 7 it appears the fire was contained to the office area and a loft area above the office.

Two cars being stored in the garage were not damaged. No one was injured.
 

For the first NFL preseason game of the year there are two important things to look for:

1) Did the starters get out unscathed?
2) Who's the new guy that made us take notice?

For the Chargers exhibition opener against the Cowboys at Qualcomm Stadium, the answers are:

1) Yes.
2) Kyle Emanuel.

San Diego's first-stringers did not play long in their 17-7 win. Most of the guys with more than a couple of years of experience only lasted one series. But good things happened on that series.

On the first drive of the game, the Cowboys were marching under the guidance of backup quarterback Brandon Weeden (Tony Romo never saw the field). They converted a 3rd and 11 and a 4th and 1 to get to the Chargers 32 yard line. Then a bad shotgun snap led to a fumble that was recovered by Chargers defensive back Patrick Robinson all the way back on the Dallas 33 yard line.

That put Philip Rivers on the field and the Chargers QB did what he does. Rivers only threw two passes, completing them both (to Antonio Gates and Keenan Allen). It helped set up an 8-yard touchdown run by Danny Woodhead, who saw his first game action since suffering a broken leg in Week 3 against Buffalo last year.

After that rookie running back Melvin Gordon and the offensive line only played one more series but everybody else got to sit. The first round pick finished with 11 yards on six carries. When he left the man who took last year's preseason by storm made his presence felt again.

Running back Branden Oliver made a scintillating 10-yard touchdown run to end the second quarter. It was in the first exhibition game a year ago (also against Dallas) that Oliver introduced himself to Chargers fans. He was the night's leading rusher once again.

The draft pick that made the flashiest plays was outside linebacker Kyle Emanuel, a 5th-rounder out of North Dakota State. He had a sack on a speed rush and forced a fumble on a punt return.

Rookie 2nd round pick Denzel Perryman, another linebacker, also had a hand in several tackles. Overall it was a nice preseason opener for the Bolts. Even the crowd, more than 58,000 strong, was solid (even though it was about half Cowboys fans).
 

Rescuers working in the aftermath of massive explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin on Friday found a person alive more than 31 hours after the disaster, a city official told reporters.

State media agency Xinhua said the survivor is a 19-year-old firefighter named Zhou Ti. China's state broadcaster CCTV said he was treated for burns, smoke inhalation and an injured leg.

At least 56 people, including 21 firefighters, died after a pair of massive explosions erupted from a warehouse containing "dangerous goods" on Wednesday.

A total of 701 people remained hospitalized, and 70 are still in critical condition, a Tianjin official said.

Eighteen firefighters remained missing Thursday, Xinhua reported.

A vintage plane landed upside down near homes and businesses in Eastlake early Friday.

Chula Vista Police and California Highway Patrol officers were called to the corner of Eastlake Parkway and Hunte Parkway just before 7 a.m.

The Stinson biplane flipped upside down and the pilot survived the landing.

The pilot was on his way back to Brown Field when the plane began to have engine failure, according to Chula Vista Fire officials.

He initially attempted to land on State Route 125 and even touched down briefly on the toll road. However, when the engine fired up again, he took off.

As he was flying south, the pilot told officials that he caught the top of hill and flipped over.

He suffered cuts to his hand.

The FAA and NTSB are investigating the cause of the emergency landing.

Approximately 15 minutes before the plane was located, the CHP received several reports saying a small plane had landed on SR-125  just south of E H Street.

Emergency crews were sent to the toll road as a precaution but no plane was found.

A person drove through the glass door of a Kearny Mesa laundromat Friday while people were inside doing their laundry.

The Honda Insight drove into The Laundrette at the corner of Balboa Avenue and Genesee just before 9 a.m.

Witnesses described the scene as “chaotic” with two people pinned by the car.

Kimberly Partin does her wash at the laundromat regularly. She told NBC 7 she had just walked across the room when the driver plowed through the door.

She recalled hearing a loud sound of glass shattering. When she saw the victims pinned beneath the car she ran to them. They were conscious, but badly hurt, she said.

Those victims were taken to a nearby hospital with what officials describe as major injuries. A third person suffered minor injuries, police said.

Five seconds earlier and she too would have been in the car's path, Partin said.

The driver was described as an elderly woman by San Diego Police who were investigating the cause of the crash.

She was shaken up and evaluated for minor injuries.

British Airways pilots of a Boeing 777 got sick at the controls because their cockpit was starved of air while flying across the Atlantic, an official report said Thursday. 

The jet carrying 235 passengers and crew to Seattle on March 6 returned to London's Heathrow Airport for an emergency landing after all three crew members on the flight reported feeling unwell. 

The pilots wore oxygen masks and opened the door between the cockpit and passenger cabin— in contravention of security rules brought in after 9/11—according to the report by Britain's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB). 

The report concluded that the air supply was blocked by debris including wire, bubble wrap, and insulation material trapped in a ventilation duct. 

A Pennsylvania woman working as an EMT died while trying to save another woman’s life.

EMS1.com, an online resource for the EMS community, reported 22-year-old Samantha Agins, of Tobyhanna, was working at the New Jersey Jaycee Camp Saturday when a woman at the camp went into cardiac arrest.

The New Jersey Jaycee Camp is a summer camp for children and adults with developmental disabilities.

Despite Agins’ best efforts, the woman died.

Over the course of several hours after she assisted the woman, Agins suffered a series of strokes, including a major one. Agins’ mother took her to Pocono Medical Center.

A doctor told Agins' mother that an artery was dissected when she performed the CPR, EMS1.com reported.  As a result, she suffered a stroke on her brain stem, which in turn killed all the nerves to part of her body.

Agins was transported to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia where she was placed on life support. She passed away Tuesday evening.

Her mother Paula Agins told the Pocono Record the 4.0 student at East Stroudsburg University wanted to eventually become a physician's assistant.

A New Jersey EMT group will play bagpipes at her funeral, the Pocono Record reported.

“It’s been very overwhelming,” Paula Agins told the newspaper of the support the family has received. “It speaks to the testimonial of just what kind of kid she was.”

A memorial scholarship for students at Pocono Mountain East High School, where Agins attended, is being set up. To donate, you can send checks to:

ESSA Bank
200 Palmer Street
Stroudsburg, Pa. 18360
c/o Samantha C. Agins Memorial Scholarship

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump posted a video on his Instagram account Thursday showing a masked ISIS executioner, accusing Democrats of "having fun" as foreign policy crises erupt around the globe.

The footage of "Jihadi John" — who featured in ISIS propaganda videos featuring the beheadings of Western hostages — and a scene from the deadly September 2012 attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was interspersed with a photo showing a smiling President Obama in a golf cart and video of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton dancing amid confetti with her husband.

The words "politicians are having fun on our dime while the world is burning" conclude the video before Trump's campaign slogan is displayed. 

A small brush fire sparked off eastbound State Route 52 and Mast Boulevard Friday near Mission Trails Regional Park, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) confirmed.

The blaze was reported around 11:45 a.m. in a drainage area near gate 7 at Mission Trails Regional Park, officials said. Smoke was visible from a distance.

By 12 p.m., a fire department helicopter had made a water drop over the blaze as smoke billowed into the sky. Firefighters appeared to have a handle on the small fire, which was not threatening homes.

By 12:35 p.m., officials were starting to clear the scene, as the fire had been knocked out.

The temperature in Santee at the time of the fire was 99 degrees amid the heat wave sweeping inland parts of San Diego and local deserts.
 

A limb from an oak tree fell on a popular part of Yosemite Valley early Friday, killing two young campers who were sleeping in a tent, according to Yosemite National Park officials.

Park rangers responded to the Upper Pines Campground about 5 a.m., but it was too late, the park service said in a statement.

The names, ages, and places of residence of the victims are not being released. The campers were only described as "minors." The Stanislaus County Corner had not yet received the bodies and couldn't offer any more information as of 12:30 p.m.

"Our thoughts are with the families as they grieve this tragedy," said park Superintendent Don Neubacher.

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The area around the oak tree along with the broken branches has been cordoned off with yellow caution tape. "We just suggest people be aware of their surroundings, but in this particular situation, they were in a designated campsite," a park ranger told reporters at the site of the accident.

"What makes me sad is that it was totallly out of the control," a camper at Upper Pines Campground said.

Park officials are currently investigating what caused the limb to break off.

Falling trees are common in forests, especially during California's drought. "It's probably more common than you think," said Pete Angwin, a pathologist for the U.S. Forest Service Pacific SW region. Angwin wouldn't comment on the Upper Pines Campground case, but confirmed that the Forest Service has seen an uptick in the number of dead and decaying trees. "Some trees just die from a simple lack of water, they also die because they are not able to fight off various insects," he said.

The Forest Service is currently running aerial surveys to keep an eye on tree mortality rates. "Trees that are dead are the most likely to fall," Angwin said.

Angwin added that decay in oak trees is fairly common.

On Sunday, a wildland firefighter was killed near Lake Tahoe, battling the Sierra Fire, after a tree fell on him.  A second firefighter, who was also injured during the same incident, was treated for injuries during the same incident.

In July 2013, a 21-year-old camp counselor at Camp Tawonga near Yosemite died after a tree fell on her. Three others were injured. In May 2015, legal documents obtained by NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit showed camp leaders had been warned about the tree for years. Read and watch Vicky Nguyen's investigations below:

• WE INVESTIGATE: Camp May Have Ignored Warnings Before Deadly Accident (May 2015)
• WE INVESTIGATE: Family Protests Death of Camp Tawonga Counselor (May 2015)

In January of 2012, a Yosemite parks concession employee was killed by a branch from a tree fell and struck his tent cabin.

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— Yosemite National Pk (@YosemiteNPS) August 14, 2015

San Diego County credit unions had $10 billion loaned out to members by June 30, nearly 17 percent more than the year before, the California Credit Union League said Thursday.

Auto loans saw the most significant growth. New car loans rose 40 percent in the quarter ending June 30, compared to the same period last year, while used car loans were up 21 percent.

Membership in the second quarter rose about 5 percent among the county’s 21 credit unions, up to 916,000. Deposits rose roughly the same amount with a 5.5 percent increase to $13.3 billion.

The Union League’s data was compiled from publicly filed balance sheet information among its members.
 

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A Northern California sheriff's deputy died Thursday while saving a friend in Lake Tahoe who had jumped into the water to save a friend, authorities said.

Deputy Sheriff Carlos Francies, 30, of Sacramento died Thursday after he jumped into deep lake water about 3 p.m. on a day with strong gusty winds. He was not wearing a life jacket, South Lake Tahoe police said. And a high wind warning for Lake Tahoe had been issued, with forecasts of winds gusting to 40mph. 

The friend he went to help survived.

The agency is "devastated by the death," Contra Costa County Sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said at a Friday news conference. He added that the department sends its "deepest condolences" to Francies' friends, family and colleagues. "We've lost one of our family members."

As South Lake Tahoe Police Lt. Brian Williams explained it, Francies was visiting South Lake Tahoe with family and friends, spending the afternoon on El Dorado Beach near the intersection of US Highway 50 and Lakeview Avenue.

Francies and his girlfriend, his sister and another male friend had rented paddles and kayaks near the beach.  Francies and his girlfriend were on the paddle boards, while his sister and the other man were on kayaks, Williams said. 

All four were in the lake, more than a hundred yards off shore, in water that was about 15 feet deep.  Francies’ sister was the only one of the four who had donned a life jacket, Williams said.

Francies saw his sister fall off of her kayak. His friend jumped off his own kayak to help her.

While doing so, the deputy's own kayak drifted off, Williams said. And he tried to retrieve it by swimming while clutching a paddle.

After helping Francies' sister back aboard her kayak, the man began swimming to retrieve his own kayak, Williams said.  Because he swam while still holding his paddle, Williams said it appeared to Francies from a distance that his friend needed help.

Francies jumped into the water and began swimming toward his friend.  Almost immediately, Francies began to falter and get into trouble himself, Williams said.

Williams said that the off-duty deputy and former Sacramento State University football player was struggling to stay on the surface and called to his girlfriend, who is a registered nurse, to toss him the life jacket from her paddle board.

She tried.

But she had to throw the jacket against strong wind, Williams said.  The life jacket fell far short her boyfriend.  She then jumped into the water to get the life jacket and bring it toward Francies.  It was then that she saw her boyfriend start to sink. 

Meanwhile Francies’ sister had fallen once again into the lake while the rescue attempts were being concentrated on her brother, Williams said.

She was able to get onto her kayak but was struggling to get back to shore against the strong wind.  Someone on a motorized boat was able to assist her safely back to shore.

Lee said that Francies was hired in December 2011 and had last been working at the Martinez detention facility. He had also worked in custody services and court security. He was "well liked" and "hard working," Lee said.

Francies' colleague stressed the actions that the deputy took to help his pal.

Sgt. Shawn Welch, president of deputies sheriff's association, called what Francies did a "heroic" act saying Francies was an "outstanding person and professional."

Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker who died while being held captive by ISIS, was repeatedly raped by the terror group's leader in Syria, her family confirmed Friday, according to NBC News.

U.S. officials told the family in June of the assaults by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a representative of Mueller's family told NBC News.

The assaults took place at a home where Mueller was being held along with girls from an Iraqi religious minority group who were also sexually abused, The Associated Press reported.

One of those girls, 14, escaped in October 2014 and after returning to Iraq told U.S. officials that the al-Baghdadi frequently visited the house and took Mueller as his "wife."

Mueller, a 26-year-old from Prescott, Arizona, was taken hostage with her boyfriend in August 2013 after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria.

The parents' account was first reported by the Independent newspaper of London.

Days after police announced they are looking for a fugitive tied to a Rolando hookah lounge shooting, San Diego police say they have arrested another suspect in the case.

Carl Antuan Martin, 33, was arrested during a traffic stop Thursday afternoon in the 9700 block of Carroll Canyon Road, and he has since been booked into jail on a count of murder.

Investigators say he is one of three suspects in the death of San Diego resident Rodney Harmon, 29.

Harmon was fatally shot at the Crown Hookah Lounge on El Cajon Boulevard in the early hours of Nov. 16, 2014. The owner told NBC 7 last fall that the business had already closed for the night, but a loud banging was heard at the door just after 4 a.m.

When Harmon opened the door, he was shot several times in the chest. He died in the alley a short time later.

After a months-long investigation, the San Diego County Grand Jury issued murder indictments for Neil Edward Downey, 26, and Pierre Verenee Readus, 28, on Aug. 6.

Readus was taken into custody in April for Harmon’s killing.

On Tuesday, the SDPD asked for the public’s help in finding Downey, who has a $2 million warrant out for his arrest.

If you know anything about his whereabouts, you’re asked to call the SDPD homicide unit or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was back in New Hampshire on Friday after a recent poll showed his numbers in the state are slipping.

Trump hosted a packed rally at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton Friday night. He also held an unexpected question and answer session before the event.

While at the rally, Trump didn't cover much in terms of specific policies, but his audience loved it.

"It's the summer of Trump," he said.

Trump described elected officials in Washington as "stupid leadership," then added that foreign leaders are "smarter, and sharper, and more cunning than our leaders."

Trump also turned on the Republican opposition.

"Nobody ever attacked me like Sen. Lindsey Graham. I mean, what he said. And he went from 1 percent to nothing," he said.

In classic Trump fashion, he attacked everyone, including Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.

"He's a clown, Marty Walsh. I don't even know who he is," he said. "This guy Marty Walsh, he spends all of this time and effort and money on an Olympic bid and then he goes out and, and he's talking about Ice Bucket Challenges. Get a real mayor."

He currently leads the GOP field in New Hampshire and nationally.

This is his first visit to the Granite State since last week's GOP debate and his controversial remarks about Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly.

A crash involving a tractor trailer blocked traffic in both directions along State Route 94 in Dulzura for much of Friday, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The CHP says just before 10:30 a.m., a 22-year-old man was driving a tractor trailer west on SR-94.

According to officers, the driver took a curve in the road at an unsafe speed, causing the load on the trailer to shift near Community Building Road.

The truck overturned directly into the path of a 2010 Chevy Silverado heading the opposite direction.

The trailer partially crushed the pickup truck's roof, and several people inside the Chevy were taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital with major injuries.

The driver of the tractor trailer was not injured.

A Sig Alert was issued for SR-94 at Marron Valley Road while officials shut down the road so they could remove the trailer. 

No other vehicles were involved, and neither drugs nor alcohol were a factor, the CHP says.

A former employee at a San Diego County specialty food company said his supervisor ordered him to dump chemicals in public drain.

Marcos Estes, an ex-janitor at Fresh Creative Foods in Vista, told NBC 7 Investigates he shot video of the July 15 incident on his cellphone.

His boss allegedly ordered him and his co-workers to dump the partial contents of 75 chemical containers in a drain at the company’s warehouse on Birch Street. Estes said he had no training in chemicals or waste disposal.

“At the time, I didn't realize how dangerous the chemicals were," Estes told NBC 7 Investigates.

He said those chemicals burned his skin, damaged his lungs and harmed a co-worker who helped him get rid of the substances. Estes started recording the dumping when he realized the chemicals could injure people and were a danger to the environment.

"This stuff got inside the gloves, inside my boots, and burned my hands, burned my feet and my knee, my back and my shoulder,” he said.

Dr. Fred Garces, a chemistry professor at San Diego Miramar College, told NBC 7 that two of the chemicals Estes said he helped dump can create a dangerous chlorine gas when mixed and diluted with water.

"In bulk, you generate a lot of that gas. It can easily overcome somebody and render them really helpless," Garces said.

According to the professor, the chemicals listed on the labels stuck to the barrels in Estes’ video — including Boost 32, Quorum Yellow 2 and alkaline cleaners and acids — are not dangerous when used properly to clean food-making equipment.

But Garces said mixing them together and flushing them down a public drain can harm humans, as well as kill fish and other wildlife.

"Oh yes, I would be very concerned,” he said. “That's why they have these companies that can take it and treat it properly and dispose of it properly."

Estes told NBC 7 investigates that besides the burns, he also developed joint pain and lung damage.

“I felt like my lungs had been stretched out, like I’d been running a thousand miles,” he said.

Medical experts confirmed those injuries at a workers’ compensation medical clinic, according to Estes. A month after his exposure to the chemicals, Estes’ hands are still swollen.

NBC 7 Investigates has confirmed that the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health and the District Attorney's office are investigating the alleged dumping.

On Thursday, Aug. 13, local attorney Dan Gilleon filed a lawsuit on Estes’ behalf against the parent company of Fresh Creative Foods, the staffing company that hired Estes and sent him to work at the company, and the supervisor who allegedly directed Estes to dump to the chemicals.

The lawsuit alleges that the defendants’ actions harmed Estes.

“He wasn't given any training,” said Gilleon. “He wasn't given any protective gear. It wasn't even his job."

The lawsuit also alleges Estes was fired without cause when he reported back to work after getting medical treatment. According to Gilleon, the company fired him because they feared he would become a whistleblower.

A spokeswoman for Fresh Creative Foods said, "While I am unable comment on this ongoing investigation, I can tell you that employee safety is paramount at Fresh Creative Foods."

The owner of the staffing company that hired Estes, Express Services in Carlsbad, said he's investigating the allegations but doesn’t have sufficient information to comment on Estes’ allegations or the lawsuit.

The death toll in a series of powerful explosions that rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin has risen to 85, state media reported Saturday, citing local authorities.

Officials said Saturday that 21 firefighters are among the dead, according to NBC News. Forty-four people have been rescued after the powerful explosions erupted at a warehouse containing dangerous chemicals at around 11:30 p.m. local time Wednesday, state media reported. More than 720 people have been injured.

Tianjin Fire Department head Zhou Tian said the fire has mostly been extinguished at the site of the explosions, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Friday morning, rescuers found a 19-year-old firefighter alive, more than 31 hours after the explosions.