Pope Francis will be making an extra stop to meet with St. Joseph’s University students at the Philadelphia campus before his Parkway parade and Mass Sunday.

The pontiff’s press office made the announcement of the extra stop on the pope’s itinerary for a statute blessing and visit to sick priests.

The Pope was joined by Rabbi Abraham Skorka -- an old friend -- for a ceremony at Joshua Koffman's "Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time" -- a statue recently dedicated outside the university's chapel that commemorates the relationship between Catholics and Jewish people and 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate decree.

• Full Coverage: Pope Francis' Historic U.S. Visit

Today was a remarkable day to be a Hawk. Pope Francis visited campus and met SJU leaders, inc. Dr. Reed. pic.twitter.com/IHwblRezI7

— Saint Joseph's (@saintjosephs) September 27, 2015

After the visit, excited students snapped photos as the papal motorcade left campus.

"To have him actually set foot on our campus was unforgettable," said Saint Joseph’s president Dr. Mark C. Reed. "This is a truly historic day for Saint Joseph’s University, Jesuit education across the country and the importance of interfaith relations."

The pontiff earlier visited sick Jesuits priests:

Breaking: Pope Francis visited the sick, elderly and infirm Jesuit priests and brothers at the Jesuit infirmary at St. Joseph's University.

— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) September 27, 2015

St. Joe’s sits on City Avenue, a short distance from the pontiff’s temporary residence at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnefield. The university is Jesuit and Catholic.

Students at the university already got a huge thrill on Saturday when the pope’s motorcade was detoured through the college.

Not every day @Pontifex passes a #Jesuit school not once, but TWICE! @saintjosephs #JesuitEducated #PopeInPhilly pic.twitter.com/ryJTK9xGuT

— AJCU (@jesuitcolleges) September 26, 2015

House Speaker John Boehner slammed hard-line conservatives as "false prophets" who are merely "spreading noise" rather than trying to achieve anything tangible.

Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," the retiring Speaker said that conservative groups and lawmakers have purposely misled voters, charging that they've "whipped people into a frenzy believing they can accomplish things that they know -- they know -- are never going to happen."

"The Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are people out there, you know, spreading noise about how much can get done. I mean this whole notion that we're going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 -- this plan never had a chance," Boehner said. 

The 14-year-old soprano singer credited by Mark Wahlberg as having "the voice of an angel" after nailing his performance at the Festival of Families with Pope Francis was given just a five-minute head's-up before he walked out on stage, according to his choir director.

Bobby Hill, a soprano from Philadelphia, performed “Pie Jesu" by Andrew Lloyd Webber a cappella, which is unusual.

The stirring work is usually accompanied on piano, according to Keystone State Boychoir director Steven M. Fisher.

"It's a very difficult piece to sing," he said.

The Keystone State Boychoir and Pennsylvania Girlchoir were booked for the festival Saturday to sing with Juanes for the final performance of the night on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

During rehearsals, the aspiring opera singer got a chance to sing "Pie Jesu" for famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, another performer at the star-studded event.

"He was in good form and feeling very confident," Fisher said of Hill.

About a couple hours before the choir was set to go on, producers told Fisher they needed to fill a transition. Fisher waited to tell the young singer he'd tapped him for the unscheduled solo because he didn't want to make Hill nervous or get his hopes up if the opportunity fell through.

But Hill didn't miss a beat when he found out about his responsibility.

"I said to Bobby, 'we need you to go out and do this.' He said 'great,'" Fisher recalled.

Hill's response to finding out he had to do the song a cappella: "Cool."

"That's how kids are. They just don't panic," Fisher said.

After the performance, Hill was seen on camera walking up to Pope Francis and giving him a present. That moment was also unscripted.

Hill gave Francis a rock from Antartica, Fisher said. The Keystone State Boychoir in 2009 became the first choir to sing on the continent.

Hill brought the rock on stage for good luck and had been told that if the pope approached him he could give it to him.

"As kids often do, he walked right up to him," Fisher said.

Still, Fisher found it significant that while the Festival of Families — part of the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families gathering — featured people from six families representing the continents, the seventh continent hadn't been represented.

"Our choir family was the seventh family," he said.

Hill can be seen onstage again at the American premiere of "Aza'io" with the International Opera Theater in Philadelphia next month.

On a recent sweltering September afternoon in Southern California, Melissa Sargent stood by her father's bedside. The back bedroom in Alex Morgan's Lakeside home resembled a hospital room and was filled with the low hum of several fans keeping him cool.

As dad and daughter chatted, his hand rested on the mane of a gentle mini horse named Tori. The gray animal stood motionless, wearing a red and white polka dot bow on her head, and custom-made pink floral booties and a saddle blanket.

"Should have brought her a biscuit," Morgan joked. Morgan was having a good day, considering the stage-four cancer spread throughout his body.

Tori has often been by his side as he fights the disease. The 17-month-old mini horse is a part of the family. She is also in training with Sargent to become a certified therapy animal for hospice patients, children with disabilities and others.

Sargent, a certified animal handler, founded the non-profit organization Heart and Hooves Therapy less than a year ago. She also has a 14-year-old mini horse named Chips.

They visit preschools, senior citizen homes and hospice centers. They also spend time at Casa de Amparo, which serves abused and neglected children, and the Ronald McDonald House, a temporary home for families with children in the hospital with serious illnesses.

"I'll never forget the first time Tori walked up our front steps with Melissa's coaching," Ronald McDonald Volunteer Coordinator Jaime Groth told NBC7. "There was a crowd at the top of the stairs eager to meet her before she'd ever even entered the front doors."  

She said the families light up when they see the mini horse.

"What's cuter than a child hugging a horse their size who's dressed in an adorable outfit and does tricks?" said Groth.

Sargent teaches all of those she visits about basic horse safety and care, with the goal of helping them feel confident and capable. She knows all too well how the companionship of animals can help in tough times.

"I went through a crazy childhood," she said. Her birth mother was a drug addict and she was placed in the foster system.

Eventually, Alex and Linda Morgan adopted her. Under their guidance, horses became a huge part of her life. As a freshman in high school, Sargent got a job at East County Feed in Santee so she could buy a horse. Her dad helped her set up the $100 a month payment plan.

"I got into horses to help cope with many different feelings I was having. They were my go-to every day and taught me so much," said Sargent, "It was my outlet."

Sargent was the first of six girls the Morgans adopted out of the foster system. One of them, Christina, was severely handicapped. Sargent says Christina's birth parents broke every bone in her body and doctors didn't think she'd make it to her first birthday. She survived much longer than that, but would never talk or walk. Sargent and her mom were Christina's caregivers.

"My mom taught me a lot about care and compassion," Sargent said.

Christina passed away this June at 26, but not before she got to meet Chips. Sargent said her sister loved to pet the mini horse, and the experience reaffirmed her commitment to helping others like her sister.

"They have no life, they don't make friends they don't get experiences that children should get," Sargent said, "It's sad."

She said she is also inspired by another one of her adopted sisters, Rebecca, who was born with spina bifida and is in a wheelchair, but helps care for Chips and Tori.

"Kids that are like her, they get the impression that they can't do it because they're different," she said, "For me, it's extra fulfilling to be able to see them succeed and feel that confidence of, 'hey I can do this! Wow, this is really cool!'"

It's not just the humans associated with Heart and Hooves Therapy who've overcome great challenges. Chips came with a tragic story of his own. His owner got a divorce, left the state, and abandoned him.

"He was so scared and clearly abused in some shape or form, he just wasn't what he is today," Sargent said.

She rescued Chips and worked with him until he was able to take the test to be a therapy pet. He got the highest rating offered from the organization Pet Partners, which tests such animals. Tori will be tested in January.

Companies have been sponsoring the cost of the off-site visits in the community with a $150 donation. Heart and Hooves Therapy also offers pony play dates at its home in Ramona. The 30 to 45-minute sessions with one of the mini horses cost $25.

In the short term, Sargent is focused on raising money to help her father fulfill his final wish of visiting Idaho with all of his children before he dies. In the long term, she hopes to continue to grow the non-profit that has made her father so proud.

"This has always been something I've wanted to do, to incorporate animals and the kids and giving back," said Sargent, as she continued to stand with Tori by her father's side, "So it just came full circle."

 Fire officials put out a small spot fire along N River Road in Bonsall, just southeast of Camp Pendleton.

California Highway Patrol officials (CHP) and Camp Pendleton fire officials said the fire happened on the 30000 block of N River Road.  

NBC 7 viewers calling into the newsroom said heavy black smoke could be seen from the roadway.

It was put out at 3 p.m. 

No further information was immediately available. 

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered in the heart of Philadelphia to watch as Pope Francis culminates his historic visit to the United States by celebrating Mass and talking once again about the importance of the family — the theme of the World Meeting of Families event that brought him to the country for the first time.

Francis used the Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in downtown Philadelphia to stress tolerance, patience and the acceptance of others.

"To raise doubts about the working of the Spirit, to give the impression that it cannot take place in those who are not 'part of our group,' who are not 'like us,' is a dangerous temptation," he said in a homily. "Not only does it block conversion to the faith; it is a perversion of faith."

According to an "unofficial estimate" by people working the event, a crowd of 860,000 started making its way to security lines early in the day for a chance to get to see His Holiness up close. Even more watched on about 40 large TV screens that were set up in the city. Most of those screens were located about 25 blocks away from the Mass location.

Francis told the pilgrims that "our common house can no longer tolerate sterile divisions."

On family, he said love is shown by small daily signs which make people feel at home, and that faith grows when it is lived and shaped by love.

"That is why our families, our homes, are true domestic churches," he said. "They are the right place for faith to become life, and life to become faith."

He added: "Anyone who wants to bring into this world a family which teaches children to be excited by every gesture aimed at overcoming evil -- a family which shows that the Spirit is alive and at work -- will encounter our gratitude and our appreciation. Whatever the family, people, region, or religion to which they belong."

Toward the end of his homily, he asked the audience a simple question.

"In my own home, do we shout? Or do we speak to each other in love and tenderness? That is a good way of measuring our love."

At the end of the Mass, Francis had one final message to those in attendance.

"Thank you very much for your participation and your love for the family," he said in English. "And I ask you to pray for me. Don't forget."

The Mass ends Francis' whirlwind six-day U.S. trip in which he has visited the White House, addressed a joint session of Congress, participated in a multi-religious service at Ground Zero, addressed world leaders at the United Nation's General Assembly and met privately with victims of clergy sex abuse at a seminary just outside of Philadelphia. The pontiff, who is known as the people's pope for his outward display of humility, also met with the homeless at a shelter and inmates at a jail.

The City of Brotherly Love opened its doors this weekend not only for Francis (Archbishop Charles Chaput even joked about renaming the city "Francisville"), but to the thousands of people who arrived in the city to catch a glimpse of him at one of his many city-wide events.

Among those in attendance at the final Mass was 61-year-old Junior Isaac, who arrived in Philadelphia without tickets.

"I wanted to be part of history," said Isaac, who was wearing a U.S. Army hat. "I came all the way from Rhode Island without tickets. Within two hours I had four. I think God is a miracle and a feast.”

Latonya Williams, a childcare provider from Philadelphia, attended the event with her three children.

“I think he’s the best," Williams said of Francis. "I love his humble spirit. I wasn’t that interested in the other popes, and I’m not Catholic."

A Grand Arrival

The "Popemobile," a white Jeep Wrangler, began carrying Francis toward the alter at about 3:15 p.m. to the roars of scores of people lining the streets of Philly. His motorcade stopped briefly to view the "Knotted Grotto," a public art installation at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The Grotto is a place anyone can go, write their intentions down, and tie them onto one side of the courtyard fence to be "undone" by another person. People leaving intentions tie their own and then untie someone else's to move it to the other side in homage to Francis' favorite image of the Blessed Mother as Mary Undoer of Knots.

Some 500 students from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, boarded buses Saturday night for their pilgrimage to the World Meeting of Families event.

The students, part of the university's campus ministry group, arrived in Philadelphia around 7 a.m.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Nicole Steiner, 19, a sophomore originally from Massachusetts. "It's cool we're able to see him in our own country. He's an inspiring figure."

The students will board buses back to Notre Dame Sunday night.

Courtney Morin, 19, also a sophomore, said she's excited to be part of something so big.

"He's such a huge figure in the world," said Morin, who is from Indiana. "For me, it's being part of a moment when so many things can happen."

The two young woman and several other students from Notre Dame stopped to pose for a photo at Philly's iconic LOVE sculpture before heading to the Parkway to find a spot to watch the Mass. They have tickets to get into the closer areas, they said.

Students from Notre Dame have been following the pope's movement throughout his historic visit to the United States.

"We had papal pancakes Thursday to watch his address to Congress," Morin said.

A flock of Father Thien Nguyen's pilgrims donned bright yellow shirts and waited eagerly in front of a Jumbotron outside Philadelphia's City Hall on Sunday morning.

Nguyen said the group of about 150 people from the Vietnamese Catholic community in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Canada traveled to Philly for Francis' public Mass. Nguyen heard confession from a woman as many of his older pilgrims hunked down by the bigscreen to watch the Mass.

"This group decided to stay here near the screen, food and bathrooms because they're older," Nguyen explained. "One group had tickets and went all the way up (the Parkway)."

Nguyen said the Vietnamese faithful love the pope because of his care for the poor and the way he "represents Christ in the world."

The group celebrated a Vietnamese Mass Sunday morning before the papal service later, he said.

"We pray the pope will continue to be a great leader," Nguyen said. "We love the pope."

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After the Mass the Pope will travel back to Rome. His exit also means the World Meeting of Families ends. It was announced at the Mass that the next chapter in the religious event will take place in Dublin, Ireland, in 2018.

 A man who fled from the scene of a report fight in the Fallbrook area later tried to twist a K-9's neck in an effort to escape arrest, San Diego Sheriff's Lieutenant Dave Schaller said. 

The incident began early Sunday when deputies from Fallbrook responded to reports of a possible fight that may have been related to road rage. The caller told deputies a gun may have been fired and people were fighting. 

When Deputy Jeremy Banks arrived at the scene, he saw a silver Mitsubishi Galant driving away with its lights off. 

When he tried to stop the car, it took off and a short pursuit occured. 

The car, however, eventually stopped approximately a mile later and the suspect, identified as 22-year-old Felipe Cortez, fled on foot. 

When deputies found him on the 500 block of Elder Street, they demanded he surrender and warned him he would send a K-9 after him twice. 

Cortez ignored the orders and deputies sent their K-9 after him. 

When the K-9 bit him, Cortez grabbed the dog by its collar, struck him and twisted his head. The K-9 was uninjured, but Cortez suffered puncture wounds to his lower left leg. 

Cortez was arrested for evading a peace officer, delaying or resisting a peace officer, assaulting a police K-9, obstructing a police canine. He was taken to Temecula Valley Hospital for treatment and will be booked into Vista jail once he recovers.

Cheers, signs and hugs greeted sailors as they stepped off the USNS Mercy Sunday following a four-month-long deployment. 

The hospital ship departed on May 17 in support of the Pacific Partnership 2015 for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness. The ship visited Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

It was an emotional reunion for families waiting back at the dock for their loved ones. 

Chief Naval Officer Larry Hopkins deployed just three weeks after his son was born.

When he saw his son again at the homecoming Sunday, he said seeing how much he had grown put his deployment into perspective. 

"No words, no words really," he said. "Really, really, happy to be at home. It's been a quick four months but it seems pretty long being away."

During their deployment, sailors provided health care and surgical procedures and hosted engagement events and community relations events with host nations. 

The medical team performed nearly 700 surgeries aboard the ship, the dental team helped more than 3,800 patients and engineers completed 10 renovation and new construction projects. 

The Pacific Partnership started as a military-led humanitarian effort after the devastating 2004 tsunami swept through parts of Southeast Asia. In the years after the initial trip, the effort grew in size and scope. 

Tight security, protests and Bollywood beats greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters Sunday, where hundreds of members from the Indian community showed up to catch a glimpse of the leader of the wold's largest democracy.

It was obvious Modi was the star of the show — an hour-long Q&A with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — where he answered questions pre-selected from thousands posted by people on the social networking site.

"We received more than 40,000 comments for this town hall, that's pretty incredible," Zuckerberg, sporting a suit and blue tie instead of his trademark hoodie, said to applause from the crowd.

He told Modi how a trip to India had inspired him, "It was a temple Steve Jobs told me about," he said.

"I hope that the inspiration you got in India will help you be the voice of millions of people ... Your experience shows that those who come to India with certain hopes and aspirations, are able to meet those hopes and aspirations," Modi said.

Modi's followers and members of the Indian press — some of whom had flown in from India — described him as a "global brand" whose reach has far surpassed the Indian subcontinent.

But his visit is not without controversy. Outside, Sikh groups held a protest, contending that Modi's tenure has resulted in deteriorating religious freedom for Indians. According to a memo handed to attendees — along with samosas and steaming cups of hot chai — the group believes that Modi is trying to turn the world's largest democracy into a Hindu nation through forced conversion of Muslims and Christians. They urged Zuckerberg to ask Modi about it.

About 100 Modi followers stood on the opposite side of the street, chanting" "East or west, Modi is the best." Police officers kept both groups on the sidewalk, preventing any kind of direct confrontation.

Modi, who received a rockstar welcome from the Indian community when he arrived in San Jose this weekend, is in California to meet with tech leaders to talk about his vision for a digital India. On Saturday, Modi toured the Tesla factory with CEO Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook. He also met with Google's new CEO, Sundar Pichai, as well as Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, both Indians.

Modi spoke at Google after the Facebook event Sunday, where Pichai announced plans to bring high-speed Wi-Fi in 400 railway stations across India. Modi will also be speaking to a sold-out crowd of mostly 18,000 Indo-Americans at an event at the SAP Center in San Jose Sunday evening.

When asked about women's equality in India, Modi said that women have to walk shoulder-to-shoulder with men. He talked about his own humble beginnings, about how he had risen from a simple tea seller to become the prime minister of the world's second-most populous country. He also spoke about his mother, and was moved to tears remembering the time she had to take up a job as a house maid.

"This shouldn't happened to anyone," he said, to applause from the crowd.

Modi was asked about the "Make in India" program, that's designed to transform India into a global manufacturing hub.

Modi said he aims to take India from an eight trillion dollar economy to a twenty trillion dollar economy by focusing on the agriculture, tourism and service sectors. "I want to connect villages with optical fibre and build highways," he said.

Modi praised social media's role in diplomacy, and how it had brought him closer to leaders of other countries, including China. "With social media you have daily bonding," Modi said. "Government can use this real-time information to speed up their work ... Social media has played a very big role as far as government is concerned."

“We used to have elections every five years. Now we have them every five minutes,” he said to a crowd cheering at his clever repartees. 

As the event drew to a close, Modi's supporters surrounded him, chanting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" or "Hail Mother India," as Secret Service officers tried to keep the crowd from mobbing him.

In the end, some even managed to get a selfie.

Mark Zuckerberg welcomes Indian PM Narendra Modi to #Facebook pic.twitter.com/RaXWj7rqdx #ModiInUSA pic.twitter.com/qCfkJT4swH

— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) September 27, 2015

#Sikh group protest Indian PM Narendra Modi’s visit at #Facebook’s HQ http://t.co/JGw6vdNCDP pic.twitter.com/zGbmgLx7KT

— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) September 27, 2015

Hundreds try to shake hands w/ Indian PM @narendramodi @facebook event.#ModiInUSA pic.twitter.com/ODqQ0RlP3W

— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) September 27, 2015

Announced plan to bring high-speed wifi to 10 million Indians a day with @narendramodi today → http://t.co/e8qs59N87m pic.twitter.com/4tvh9uJo2P

— Google (@google) September 27, 2015

 A fifth person died Sunday from injuries sustained in the fiery crash of a bus and a tourist "duck boat" in Seattle last week, a Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman said.

The 20-year-old woman, who was not identified, was an international student attending North Seattle College, the spokeswoman, Susan Gregg, said in a release.

Four other students from the same college were also killed. Earlier Sunday, hospital officials said that five people were still in intensive care at Harborview; four were in critical condition and one was listed as serious.

'A Salute to Veterans and Their Families' is the theme for the annual MCAS Miramar Air Show, which ‘takes off’ next Friday as part of Fleet Week.

The show, which is the largest air show in the country and annually brings in around 700,000 fans, includes the famous formation flying and acrobatic maneuvers of the Blue Angels and the Patriots Jet Team.

The Army’s Golden Knights and the Navy Leap Frogs parachute teams will also show off their expert skills in the sky.

The Breitling Jet Team, the largest civilian aerobatic demonstration team in Europe, will also fly in as part of their first US tour.

Military airplanes will be on the ground for fans to look at and climb in, the Air Show Expo will feature a multitude of venders, there will be plenty of memorabilia to take home, and each night ends in fireworks.

MCAS Miramar has a long air history going back to the Mexican-American war in the mid-19th century.

Charles Lindbergh used the abandoned Camp Kearny to practice takeoffs and landings in the plane he flew across the Atlantic in 1927.

In 1969 the Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program, more popularly known as the Top Gun School, was established there as a place to teach pilots dog-fighting and fleet air defense during the Vietnam War.

The show runs through Sunday (October 2-4) and admission is free.
 

 PADRES- The Friars wrap up their 2015 season this week. Tuesday-Thursday they
host the Milwaukee Brewers for the final home series of the year. They
wrap up play Friday-Sunday at the Dodgers.

CHARGERS- After two straight road loses the Bolts are back in town. Sunday they
host the Cleveland Browns 1:10 p.m. at Qualcomm.

UCSD TRITONS:
MEN’S WATER POLO- Thursday at UC Irvine 7 p.m.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL-Thursday at Humboldt State 7 p.m., Saturday at
Sonoma State 7 p.m.
MEN’S SOCCER-Friday at Cal State Dominguez Hills 4:30 p.m., Sunday at Cal
State L.A. 11 a.m.
WOMEN’S SOCCER-Friday at Cal State Dominguez Hills 7 p.m., Sunday at Cal
State L.A. 2 p.m.

POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY SEA LIONS:
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL-Wednesday vs. Azusa Pacific 7 p.m., Saturday at
Fresno Pacific 3 p.m.
WOMEN’S SOCCER-Thursday vs. Azusa Pacific 5 p.m., Saturday vs. California
Baptist 11:30 a.m.
MEN’S SOCCER-Thursday vs. Azusa Pacific 7:30 p.m., Saturday vs. California
Baptist 2 p.m.
CROSS COUNTRY-Saturday at Willamette Invitational in Salem, Oregon
9:30 a.m.

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO TOREROS:
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL-Tuesday vs. Pepperdine 6 p.m., Friday vs. BYU
7:30 p.m.
WOMEN’S SOCCER-Thursday at Portland 7 p.m., Saturday at Gonzaga 1 p.m.
WOMEN’S TENNIS-Friday-Sunday at SDSU Invitational all day.
MEN’S TENNIS-Saturday at ITA All American Championships all day in Tulsa.
FOOTBALL-Saturday vs. Marist 1 p.m.
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY-Saturday at Sacramento XC
Jamboree all day.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY AZTECS:
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL-Thursday vs. Wyoming 6 p.m., Saturday vs. Colorado State 2 p.m.
MEN’S SOCCER-Friday at Washington 6 p.m., Sunday at Oregon State 1:30 p.m.
WOMEN’S SOCCER-Friday at UNLV 7 p.m., Sunday vs. Nevada 12 p.m.
WOMEN’S TENNIS-Friday-Sunday SDSU Fall Classic I at the Aztec Tennis Center All Day
FOOTBALL-Saturday vs. Fresno State 7:30 p.m.
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY- Saturday at UNLV Invitational 5K 8:15 a.m.

A man who police say went on a random shooting spree in Riverside, killing two and injuring others, was identified by police Sunday as James Paul Diaz.

Diaz, 34, was charged by police with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of shooting at a vehicle, and one count of attempted murder.

Beginning at 11:36 a.m. on Saturday, Diaz allegedly went on a shooting spree in the city of Banning, shooting from his car while driving down the street.

The first shooting attack occurred on John Street at 11:36 a.m.

The driver of the car, who hasn't yet been identified by police, was killed and the passenger was injured. The passenger was released from the hospital by Sunday, police said.

Another call came in reporting a shooting from one car to another near Nicolet Middle School.

The victim in the shooting suffered minor injuries to the face when broken glass shattered from shots fired. 

The violence continued at an AM-PM store on the intersection of 22nd and Ramsey Streets.

The suspect allegedly started repeatedly punching the next victim as he was sitting in his car. The suspect then grabbed a blunt instrument and continued the attack, police said.

At 12:15 p.m., police were called to East Lincoln Drive.

A car crashed, and police found the driver dead in the vehicle. 

The suspected shooter then began knocking on residents' doors of American Street. 

He also broke a car's window while people were sitting inside of it. 

Shortly after, Beaumont Police took Diaz into custody. 

The police said there was no clear motive as the shooter had no relation to the victims.

Deputies arrested a man in San Marcos after the car he stole rolled at Craven Road and S. Twin Oaks Valley Road.

Undeterred by the wreck, Kevin Meza, 20, fled the scene before police arrived.

Once at the crash scene near Cal State San Marcos, officers discovered the car had been reported stolen.

After speaking to a witness, and with the help of campus police, deputies finally detained Meza after identifying him as the driver who crashed the car.

Officers found drugs in the car and in Meza’s backpack as well as stolen property.

They transported him to Palomar Medical Center for a head wound.

Meza already has previous offenses.
 

246 years after founding the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, Catholics are celebrating Juniperro Serra as Catholicism’s newest saint.

“We are very excited that [the Pope] did choose to canonize him for all of the great work he did to start Catholicism not just in California, but also to extend it throughout the United States,” Rene Travino of the Knights of Columbus said.

Clergy presented a relic containing a bone fragment of Saint Junipero Serra and made a procession with it from Saint Francis Chapel to Misison de Alcala Sunday.

“A saint – you can't get closer to that,” Nina Kassab, a churchgoer told NBC7 after seeing the relic. “It’s indescribable. You have to be here."

Still, the Pope’s choice is controversial. Local tribes say they suffered a long history of abuse and enslavement under Serra.

“In response to that the California Conference of Catholic Bishops, the CCCB, has appointed a committee so that we might have an even more enlightened understanding of the truth,” a priest at the Mission said during the service Sunday.

The day Pope Francis canonized Serra a group of protesters rallied outside the mission, and Saturday night vandals defaced a statue of Serra at the Mission Carmel Basilica in Northern California where his remains are buried. They covered the statue in paint and toppled it over. Photos posted on the Mission’s Facebook page show someone wrote ‘Saint of Genocide’ on a nearby stone.

Despite the controversy, Catholics continue to celebrate Serra’s canonization. “It’s a healing for, and it extends to healing not only for me, but my family and my extended friends,” Kassab said of the relic.

Founded by Serra in 1769, Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala is California’s first mission.

The invisibility cloak is not just a J.K. Rowling thing anymore – sort of. Scientists have been studying and perfecting the concept for years.

Now, electrical engineers at UC San Diego say they have developed a slimmer design for a cloaking device.

“Previous cloaking studies needed many layers of materials to hide an object, the cloak ended up being much thicker than the size of the object being covered,” said Li-Yi Hsu, electrical engineering Ph.D. student at UC San Diego and the first author of the study. “In this study, we show that we can use a thin single-layer sheet for cloaking.”

The theory behind invisibility is that it can be achieved using man-made materials that bend electromagnetic waves, like visible light, around objects to create the illusion of a flat surface.

“Invisibility may seem like magic at first, but its underlying concepts are familiar to everyone. All it requires is a clever manipulation of our perception,” said Boubacar Kanté, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the senior author of the study. “Full invisibility still seems beyond reach today, but it might become a reality in the near future thanks to recent progress in cloaking devices.”

According to UCSD existing cloaking devices reflect light at a lower intensity than what hits its surface, something their design sidesteps by not using metal particles, which absorb light. Their design uses a proprietary ceramic and Teflon.

“Imagine if you saw a sharp drop in brightness around the hidden object, it would be an obvious telltale,” said Kanté. “[This cloak] won’t lose any intensity of the light that it reflects.”

Researchers used design software with electromagnetic simulation to design the cloak, and modeled it as a thin matrix of Teflon, with different heights depending on its position in the cloak.

“By changing the height of each dielectric particle, we were able to control the reflection of light at each point on the cloak,” explained Hsu. “Our computer simulations show how our cloaking device would behave in reality. We were able to demonstrate that a thin cloak designed with cylinder-shaped dielectric particles can help us significantly reduce the object’s shadow.”

Kante says with this new technology scientists could change the way light waves are being reflected which could help solar power. They also expect it to have implications for optics, interior design and art.

Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, left the United States with a parting message in the same spirit of acceptance that the country showed him.

The church appreciates anyone trying to raise a good family, "whatever the family, people, region, or religion to which they belong," Francis told a massive audience in Philadelphia after a trip full of adoring crowds and official ceremonies.

It capped a week where Francis called for nations to embrace immigrants, declared that man has no right to abuse the environment and sought the abolition of the death penalty.

"I think there were a lot of expectations for the pope to come and kind of let people have it," Dan Misleh, executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant.

But Francis was instead compassionate, Misleh said, "urging us to get involved, to become better angels, to become the people who God intends us to be."

Francis' six-day visit packed in enough events to make it seem like he was making up for lost time – it had been seven years since a pope visited the U.S. – ranging from intimate blessings to a speech at the United Nations directed at the whole world. Then there were the huge religious ceremonies that showed the church's continued connection with this country, including the first canonization of a saint in North America.

The children Francis embraced captured national attention, perhaps none more so than wheelchair-bound Michael Keating, 10, who has cerebral palsy. The image of Francis bending over to cradle and bless Michael's head on Saturday seemed to capture the tender humanity that brought nearly a million people to Philadelphia for his Sunday Mass, closing the first World Meeting of Families conference in the U.S.

From his arrival in Washington, D.C., to his departure from Philadelphia, the visit's constants were Francis' daily nap and cheery disposition, an outlook that reflects his religious philosophy.

"Love is a concept that he comes back to over and over again," said Tiziana Dearing, an associate professor at Boston College's School of Social Work.

He thinks love manifests it in family, service and preference for the excluded, she said.

The papal visit comes before an important period for the church, which is about to revisit how the church understands the family, possibly updating its position on divorce and gay marriage. Francis has declared a "Year of Mercy" beginning December 8, 2015, which Pecknold thinks may be a way to influence the bishops' deliberations. Francis has given all priests the power to absolve the "sin of abortion" during the Year of Mercy.

The World Meeting of Families was an important prelude to those discussions, and Francis' comments about the family in his Sunday evening homily may set the discussion for the church's upcoming decisions about the family.

Pecknold noted that this visit was much grander than Benedict XVI's U.S. visit in 2008. He also gave Benedict credit for "getting the ball rolling" on addressing sexual abuse at the hands of clergy.

Francis' meeting with victims of abuse, including clerical sexual abuse, and his impassioned comments vowing to hold abusive priests accountable were some of the most shocking of his trip, as the press was given no notice that he would speak so directly about the matter, which has rocked the church in America since the early 2000s. 

“I have in my heart these stories of suffering of those youth that were sexually abused,” he said. “God weeps.”

But for all the moments of gravitas, there were light-hearted ones as well. Francis learned how to use a touchscreen from a student in New York, and met an old friend – a rabbi he used to work with in Argentina – to dedicate a statue about Judaism and Catholicism in Philadelphia.

“I’m having a hard time imagining a more well-choreographed visit. Every stop seemed to be filled with meaning and things to ponder,” Misleh said. 

The political moments of Francis' trip occasionally made the news as much for what happened around them than what he said.

His speech to Congress – a first for a pope – came the day before Speaker of the House John Boehner, a very religious Catholic, announced he will soon resign. Many in the Washington press speculated on whether the pope's appearance had anything to do with Boehner's announcement, essentially injecting him into a national political story he had nothing to do with.

"The pope comes with none of these intentions in mind but our political system plays out in the context of what he's saying, no matter what," said Dearing, the Boston College professor.

One national issue in which Francis did intervene was Cuba. The visit came several months after talks he'd brokered yielded a historic agreement between the U.S. and Cuba, and he toured both countries on this trip.

Days after meeting with President Obama, he delivered to U.S. bishops in Philadelphia a statuette of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus sent from Cuban bishops, who wanted it to be delivered to a Cuban community in America.

"Now I'm not gonna get in this difficult situation, you will decide which Cuban community needs this the most," Francis joked.

Yet it's in politics where Misleh, the Catholic Climate Covenant director, hopes to see the lasting effects of Francis' trip to the U.S.

"I would hope that there would be some indication in our political discourse that people have been listening to the pope, that we can have conversations without the vitriol, that we can sit and have dialogue with one another to understand each other’s different points of view," he said. "Right now, at least before the pope’s visit, it certainly didn’t feel that way."

Noreen O'Donnell contributed to this report. 

Immigration patterns in the U.S. will begin to see a shift within the next 50 years. A new immigration study shows the number of Asian immigrants will exceed those from Latin America by 2055, NBC News reported.

Asians will be the largest immigration population by 2065, according to a report on the immigration change by Pew Research Center. The report looks at changing trends and patterns of immigration within the U.S. since 1965.

Latinos are the largest minority group in the country right now, and make up 18 percent of the population.

The report comes 50 years after former President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, a landmark civil rights law that drastically diversified the origin of immigrants to the U.S.
 

World leaders facing global crises and conflicts will be at the forefront of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, according to NBC News.

Some of the issues that could be addressed during the 70th anniversary of the U.N.’s founding could include the strained relationship between the U.S. and Russia, the rise of ISIS in the Middle East and the impact of climate change.

President Obama will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. Ties with Russia have become tense since Putin annexed portions of Ukraine as well as a growing Russian military presence in Syria.

The meeting provides an opportunity for the president to ask Putin directly about Russian military forces in Syria.