Fire officials are working to determine how a fire that sent smoke billowing out of an Escondido roof started.
The blaze started around 11 p.m. Saturday night on the 1300 block of Simpson Way in Escondido.
Fire officials said smoke was billowing out of the roof when they arrived; the fire was put out in approximately 20 minutes.
Two large dogs inside a suite next door to the business were taken to the Humane Society until their owner is found.
Total damage to the commercial building is $100,000.
Jill Biden fully supports her husband running for president for the next year's election, despite reports of the contrary, sources told NBC News.
The vice president has been meeting with Democratic leaders during his travels around the nation over the past week to tell them he wants to do it and thinks there's room for him to make a credible bid if he does, sources tell NBC's Chuck Todd.
The bigger question: does Biden have the emotional energy he needs after the passing of his son, Beau Biden, earlier this year?
As Pope Francis begins his tour of North America religious leaders in San Diego met Sunday to discuss his message.
Bishop Robert McElroy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego and Imperial Counties, newly appointed by Pope Francis, spoke along with bishops from the Episcopal church and Church of God in Christ about the Pope’s missive on immigration and his call for the church to work for justice.
They spoke to around 1500 members of the San Diego organizing project, an inter-faith community organization representing 31 congregations around the county, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in San Ysidro.
During the meeting people held wooden crosses of dead and deported family and loved ones.
Bishop McElroy also consecrated a newly constructed memorial wall overlooking Tijuana to remember the deported.
PADRES:
They begin their last home stand of the season this week. The Friars are off Monday but host the San Francisco Giants Tuesday-Thursday and Arizona Diamondbacks Friday-Sunday.
PROMOTIONS THIS WEEK: Taco Tuesday, Thursday-College Night, Friday-Fiesta in the Park, Saturday-Star Wars Day and Sunday-Compadres Kids ], Sunday Signings with their Salute to the Military Family.
CHARGERS:
The Bolts are back on the road. They’re at the Minnesota Vikings Sunday at 10 a.m. local time. NBC 7’s Derek Togerson will be there. Watch Football Night in San Diego after the Sunday Night game on NBC 7 for all the highlights and postgame reactions.
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO TOREROS:
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Thursday at Santa Clara, Saturday at San Francisco.
MEN’S GOLF: Friday and Saturday William H Tucker Intercollegiate Tournament at UNM Championship Golf Course at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Friday host Cal State Northridge, Sunday at Cal State
Fullerton.
MEN’S SOCCER: Friday host Cal State Northridge, Sunday at UC Santa
Barbara.
FOOTBALL: Saturday at Valparaiso.
UC SAN DIEGO TRITONS:
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Tuesday host Cal State San Bernardino (Reis Cup), Friday host Cal State L.A., Saturday host Cal State Dominguez Hills.
MEN’S WATER POLO: Wednesday host Loyola Marymount.
MEN’S SOCCER: Friday host Cal State East Bay, Sunday host Stanislaus State.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Friday host Cal State East Bay, Sunday host Stanislaus State.
CROSS COUNTRY: Saturday at Coyote Invitational in San Bernardino.
POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY SEA LIONS:
WOMEN’S GOLF: Monday-Tuesday at Western New Mexico Invitational in Avodale, Arizona.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Thursday at Concordia, Saturday at California Baptist.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Saturday at Dixie State.
MEN’S SOCCER: Saturday at Dixie State.
SAN DIEGO STATE AZTECS:
WOMEN’S GOLF: Monday-Wednesday Golfweek Conference Challenge at Red Sky Golf Course in Wolcott, Colorado.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Thursday at New Mexico, Saturday at Air Force.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Friday at Boise State, Sunday at Utah State.
MEN’S GOLF: Friday and Saturday William H Tucker Intercollegiate Tournament at UNM Championship Golf Course at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
FOOTBALL: Saturday at Penn State.
MEN’S SOCCER: Sunday at Pacific.
A 12-year-old Philadelphia girl who suffers from seizures and memory loss has been missing since Saturday afternoon, and police on Sunday asked for the public's help in locating the endangered child.
Police said Stanaya Blackwell was last seen Saturday about 2:30 p.m. at Jubilee Commandment Keepers Church, on 15th Street between York and Cumberland streets in North Philadelphia. She was at the service with her family when they realized she had wandered away, police said.
Sunday night police released surveillance photos of the girl at 30th Street Station. Investigators say she boarded a SEPTA train at 30th Street headed towards Warminster, Pennsylvania around 1 p.m. Sunday. She then boarded a SEPTA train at 3:41 p.m. heading back towards Philadelphia.
SEPTA is currently checking surveillance video to determine which location she exited the train in Philadelphia.
Stanaya suffers from seizures and short- and long-term memory loss after recently having a brain tumor removed, officials said. She lives on Bouvier Street near Dauphin.
Stanaya is 5 feet 3, 119 pounds, with a medium build, brown eyes and a medium complexion, police said. She has short black hair and was last seen wearing a gray and black dress with black lace-up boots and sunglasses. Police said she is known to frequent public transit and train stations and was located in Bucks County when she went missing once before.
Anyone with information on Stanaya's whereabouts is urged to contact Central Detective Division at 215-686-3093 / 3094 or call 9-1-1.
Police say about 27,000 migrants and refugees have entered into Croatia since the surge started.
Authorities are setting up tents for migrants to find shelter from the rain and cold as they expect more to arrive from Serbia in the coming days.
Hundreds of people surged toward a train at the Croatian border hoping it would take them to Austria. Police had no luck holding back the crowd as they were overwhelmed by migrants trying to climb through the windows of the packed carriages.
Hungary, which closed its border with Serbia on Sept. 15, erected another steel barrier at the Beremend border crossing from Croatia to try to slow the flow of migrants. But they kept coming.
Syria's piano man—who stuck to music while many people around him died and starved—has finally decided to flee the country for a better life.
Aeham Ahmad, 27, played his piano to convince those who had fled to return to the rubble of Yarmouk: their home.
"Oh displaced people, return," he once sang. "Yarmouk, we are a part of you that will never change."
In April, ISIS stormed Yarmouk and Ahmad decided he need to take his instruments, wife, and two children out of the dangerous area. As they tried to exist the camp, they were stopped by militants.
"They asked me what those were. I told them they were musical instruments. They asked me if I didn't know that music was a sin," he told NBC News from the Syrian border with Turkey. "They then poured gasoline over all the instruments and burned them."
While his wife and children stay in Damacus, the capital of Syria, Ahmad has made it to Europe, traveling through Serbia, hoping to make it to Germany.
Universities are prime targets for hackers—not just college kids trying to change their grades, but potentially "nation-state actors" much like the hackers who targeted large corporations, said Michael Oppenheim, intelligence operations manager at Internet security firm FireEye.
"For a university that's understaffed and under-resourced, it can be a difficult situation for them," Oppenheim said.
Hackers use "spear phishing" emails with malicious links or attachments that can be used to establish a "beachhead inside the network" and try to gain more access, Oppenheim said. Other times they enter malicious code into websites that students and faculty regularly log into.
Universities should be looking to outside help to strengthen computer networks considering most third-party companies that provide software to education institutions do not focus on security, said Michael Borohovski, founder and CTO of Tinfoil Security.
Everyday people can now get a taste of what a Navy SEAL does in training.
Strategic Operations Skills Training (SOST) hosts strategic training courses taught by former Navy SEALs in Kearny Mesa. The courses are offered most weekends at the Strategic Operations site on Ruffin Road where the DEA, National Guard, and military do exercises.
Students get specialized training from former SEALs while learning important life skills through self-defense strategies.
Instructors also teach tactical practice through roleplaying scenarios in which participants are armed with simunitions rounds such as walking through a terrorist village, fending off attackers, and saving hostages.
“Most people in the world are kind of oblivious to what’s going on around them,” says Ret. Master Chief Navy SEAL Steve Bailey, president and founder of the program. “You don’t just react to a situation arbitrarily. You recognize what’s going on, you assess the situation, and you react – but that recognition and analyzation period is split seconds going through your mind.”
He says proper weapons training is important since so many people in California own guns.
“You just don’t want a whole bunch of people out there owning weapons who don’t know how to use them or what they have in their hands,” Bailey told NBC7.
Besides marksmanship skills instructors also conduct roleplaying scenarios such as walking to your car while someone follows you and a home invasion.
Bailey says everyone in his family learns safety awareness training from him.
“You don’t need a weapon to do these skills. Just having this awareness training itself teaches you to avoid a situation before you get there.”
A generous grant from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs will help researchers at UCSD investigate the potential of using microbial cells as DNA evidence at crime scenes.
The DOJ awarded more than $637,942 in grants for a two-year, five-phase research project that would help scientists answer crucial questions about the feasibility of microbe evidence.
Humans have billions of microbial cells made up of fungi and bacteria that leave a 'microbial fingerprint' behind on objects they touch. In fact, humans have far more microbial cells than human cells.
Some of the questions researchers hope to discover during the project are how long a person’s microbial signature remains on an object, whether the type of surface matters, how much contact with the surface is required to leave a print, what might obscure the print, what happens when people’s microbial cells are mixed and how death might alter a person’s microbes.
UCSD scientists will collaborate on the project with experts from the University of Colorado, Argonne National Laboratory, Chaminade University of Honolulu, and the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Medical Examiner.
San Diego continues to experience frenetic weather.
Certain areas of the county reached record high temperatures on Sunday followed by a flash flood watch for expected rains Monday and Tuesday.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for San Diego county for those who live in the mountains and deserts in effect from Monday morning until Tuesday afternoon.
More than an inch of rain is expected in the deserts and more than two inches is expected in the mountains Monday and Tuesday.
Areas where wildfires have recently been are especially susceptible to flash floods and debris flows.
This weekend the county also experienced record high temperatures.
The thermometer hit 96 degrees at Montgomery Field where the previous record was 87.
Among the world's fastest boats racing at the Bayfair in Mission Bay this weekend, one in particular has drawn a huge crowd.
It’s not because of its speed, but because of whose name is written on it—Jeffrey “JJ” Johnson.
Jeff Johnson is one of two people who tragically died in a plane crash in Santee over two weeks ago. The day before he died, friends say he was organizing a gathering for the Bayfair races this weekend.
“We planned on his 100 closest friends being here today, we ended up with more than 500 people. It was just an outpouring of people from all over the nation coming in for him,” said Kevin Aylesworth Johnson’s best friend for the last 25 years and business partner for 18 years.
Together they ran the business ‘All Access’ and raced boats around the world, eventually winning a world championship in Canada. Johnson was the owner, while Aylesworth was the driver.
“The boat that we raced today was the last boat that we built in San Diego under Jeff's leadership. And we named it number 21 because of Jeff, That was his favortie number,” Aylesworth said. “Jeff just loved life. I mean he only lived until 50, but he lived every day to the fullest.”
All the way up until about two weeks ago, when the husband and father of five tragically died in a plane crash in Santee.
Aylesworth remembered, “Everyday was full of fun and excitement and...I'll miss him...hard...hard to not have him here.”
It wasn’t too difficult to spot those who were at the races for Johnson. Hundreds of them wore black t-shirts with ‘Jeff’ written on the back next to a cross. Other shirts had the question ‘What would Jeff do?’ written on the back, followed by a list of dozens of Johnson’s accomplishments and then the words ‘Live an incredible and unforgettable life.’
That line is the legacy that Jeff left behind for all who knew him.
“If I could have Jeff here today I'd give up everything cause...Jeff made this world. I raised boats before I met him but I didn't raise boats like he wanted us to. He took everything to the highest level of life and if he was here today he'd be proud.”
The boat has had two successful days of racing at Mission Bay. It will be back out on the water on Monday to finish up the races.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders decried Dr. Ben Carson's suggestion on "Meet The Press" on Sunday that a Muslim should not be president of the United States.
"This is the year 2015," Sanders told NBC News on Sunday while talking with reporters after celebrating a campaign field office opening in Portsmouth.
Carson told NBC’s Chuck Todd he does not advocate putting “a Muslim in charge of this nation” on Sunday. The retired neurosurgeon also said that the religion of Islam is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution.
Sanders said he was disappointed in Carson’s statement and that he disagrees with him.
The Sheriff’s Department deployed a helicopter and police dogs in Lakeside Sunday to find a man who stole a car then ran.
A deputy noticed Kevin Caminero, 36, driving the stolen car just before 9 am near Winter Gardens Boulevard and Pepper Drive.
The deputy put out a radio broadcast and followed Caminero to an apartment where he parked the car and ran.
Dogs eventually found Caminero in a crawl space under a duplex on Pepper Drive.
Officers took Caminero, who had several warrants out for his arrest already, into custody.
Administration Considering Abstaining From UN Vote Condemning Cuba trade embargo.
Dr. Ben Carson plans to reach out to memebers of the Muslim community after his comments on Islam in America sparked a national call for Republican presidential candidate to drop from the race.
"He did not say that a Muslim should be prevented from running, or barred from running in any way," Carson campaign spokesman Doug Watts said. "He [Carson] just doesn't believe the American people are ready for that."
Respondong to a question on MSNBC's "Meet the Press," Carson said: "I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement Sunday that Carson should withdraw from the race. "Mr. Carson clearly does not understand or care about the Constitution, which states that 'no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office,'" the group's national executive director, Nihad Awad, said.
The retired neurosurgeon also said that Islam, as a religion, is incompatible with the Constitution.
Firefighters are responding to a fully involved two-story condominium fire, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials said.
The fire began at 3:30 p.m. on the 6300 block of Caminito Basilio in Mission Valley.
A helicopter is responding to the incident.
No further information was immediately available.
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More than 50,000 people were without power from Mission Valley up to San Clemente for several hours during scorching summer temperatures Sunday.
The SDG&E outage map reported 50,176 customers, spanning from Clairemont to Mission Valley to Escondido, without electricity in their detailed outage map at around 2:30 p.m. As of 3 p.m., SDG&E reported all outages had been restored, according to their detailed outage map.
The outage was the result of the California Independent Systems Operator ordering SDG&E to drop 150 megawatts of load in their service territory around 1:15 p.m, SDG&E said.
They reduced power to 115,000 customers due to an unexpected loss of generation, said SDG&E spokeswoman Cathleen Romero said. That resulted in short outages scattered throughout the county.
California Assemblymember Toni Atkins, however, said there was a problem at the Otay Power Plant.
In May, SDG&E said it would have enough resources to meet the summer power demand.
NBC 7 Facebook fans reported seeing malls closed as the power went out and reported seeing stoplights out as well.
The outages come amid record-breaking heat across San Diego County. Montgomery Field's previous record of 87 was broken earlier Sunday when temperatures were recorded as high as 96.
NBC 7 is working on getting more information. Refresh this page for updates on this breaking news story.
