A young salon manager was found dead inside a cryochamber where she is thought to have suffocated, according to police and local media reports. 

Employees at Rejuvenice in Henderson, Nevada found the body of Chelsea Ake, 24, inside one of the ice machines earlier this week NBC station KSNV reported. 

Ake, the manager of the business, is thought to have gone into one of the cryochambers on her own, it said.

Whole-body cryotherapy is offered as an alternative to cold-water immersion or ice packs, but machines are never used for more than three minutes because temperatures can fall as low as minus 240 degrees Fahrenheit.

Five people were killed in a head-on collision on a highway leading to California's Yosemite Park Saturday evening, NBC News reported.

Two others were flown to regional trauma centers after the crash at around 6:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. ET) on State Route 120 near Smith Station Road, the California Highway Patrol Officer Nick Norton said.

The highway is an entrance to Yosemite, a national park covering nearly 1,200 square miles in the Sierra Nevada mountians in central California. Both vehicles, a 2012 Mercedes and a 2012 Nissan, reportedly caught on fire after the collision.

The Vatican kicked him out and his diocese fired him, but Krzysztof Charamsa says his faith is not shaken. If anything, he says he's a better priest for coming out — and it's time for the Church to wake up, NBC News reported. 

With Catholic bishops set to release a report on issues of family, Charamsa spoke to NBC News about how he lost his.

The life he'd built evaporated when Charamsa stood before television cameras on Oct. 3 alongside his boyfriend and announced he was gay. The Vatican called the declaration "very serious and irresponsible," dismissing Charamsa from his work there and from his teaching roles.

To Charamsa, that meant losing everything while gaining something new: total freedom.

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said he would "love" to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, making abortion illegal nationwide, with almost no exemptions.

"I'm a reasonable person and if people can come up with a reasonable explanation of why they would like to kill a baby, I'll listen," Carson said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

While the Republican candidate said he opposes abortions for unwanted pregnancies and in cases of rape and incest, the retired neurosurgeon told moderator Chuck Todd he might be open to allowing abortions to preserve the life and health of the mother. 

Two fishermen who rescued an 18-month-old Syrian migrant baby visited the child and his mother on Saturday, days after they found him floating on the Aegean Sea, according to a Turkish news agency.

Fishermen Recep Evran and Cenap Gumran met with little Muhammed Hasan and his mother, Lorin Halef, in the western province of Izmir, according to news agency DHA. The boy's father is still in Syria.

Muhammed was rescued on Wednesday, when the fishermen spotted him floating in a life jacket, after the boat carrying him and around a dozen others to a nearby Greek island sank, according to DHA.

"We thought he was dead. Then, when we were pulling Muhammed to the boat, we heard his voice ... And at that moment, we were ecstatic. I said 'He's alive, he's alive!"

The dramatic footage shows Muhammad being plucked from the water as the fishermen scrambled to save his life.
 

The grassroots movement to convince the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) not to change the flight path over Point Loma is gaining momentum and getting support from people in high places.

If Saturday's "No Fly Day Protest" is anything like the FAA's last meeting with Point Loma residents, it promises to be crowded and noisy.

Changing the current flight path from Lindbergh Field is an issue close to the hearts and homes of those who will attend.

50,000 flights each year pass over Point Loma. The FAA's plan to redirect eastbound cargo and passenger carriers from over the ocean to over the peninsula could double that traffic.

While the FAA's Environmental assessment says 'minimal impact', those who oppose the plan say it would double the noise, double the jet exhaust that coats windows and decks and double the pollution in the water.

“You work for us,” one Point Loma Resident said.

Some 800 people that showed up at a workshop October 6th to confront the FAA made their point.

“It certainly served a purpose. It got the attention of the FAA,” Organizer Casey Schnoor said.

Congressman Scott Peters and Councilwoman Lori Zapf are championing the cause.

Schnoor found out Friday morning Mayor Kevin Faulconer has personally voiced his opposition to the plan to FAA policy advisor Elizabeth Ray

“I am extremely encouraged by his efforts," Schnoor said. "I was excited about that conversation with the mayor. I am excited to see him being in a leading position going directly to the FAA.”

The momentum has been building other places where the FAA has changed flight paths or has plans to do so. Saturday morning San Diego joined six other cities in a No Fly Day show of solidarity.

“Our hope is just to communicate to the community. It's not just about the people that live in this small area of Point Loma,” Schnoor said.

NBC7 asked the FAA Friday for a response to the opposition and an update on the process of changing the flight plan, but no one was available to answer questions.

In the past the FAA has said flight path changes would reduce fuel consumption and keep flights on time.

An adorable Bengal-Siberian tiger cub discovered roaming on Southern California streets now has a new name. The cub greeted visitors at its new home in San Diego County for the first time Saturday. 

The tiger, named Himmel after San Diego personality Larry Himmel who died last year, is safely living at the Alpine nonprofit Lions, Tigers & Bears (LBT), which rescues exotic animals and brings them to live on a 94-acre property.

During an open house Saturday, the four-and-a-half month old cub comfortably explored his new environment to the excitment of visitors. 

But why the cub with a cute face came to the facility is anything but charming. He was found abandoned on Sept. 3 in Hemet, northeast of Temecula. A woman turned him into the humane society in San Jacinto County, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials decided to send him to Alpine.

"He has a hard time supporting his hips,” said Bobbi Brink, the founder and director of LBT. “He's really weak in the back. His tail is really limp. He gets tired easily."

The 25-pound cub had been declawed, a procedure that could cause him complications like joint stiffness, chronic pain and arthritis later in life, the rescue said. He will also need surgery to remove a hernia from his abdomen.

His caretakers have been regularily feeding him bottles, a meat-rich diet and a lot of room to run. He has been brought back to health and could grow to be 500 pounds and live 20 years. 

Brink told NBC 7 that the tiger is just the latest to come her way. Another named Maverick showed up two years ago after being confiscated by the government from an illegal owner.

“These cubs are bred only for profit,” Brink said. “They’re yanked from their mother. They're used for the photo op.”

She explained that several states allow people to use tiger cubs for photos until the animal reaches 12 weeks old, though that’s not allowed in California.

According to Brinks, when cubs reach that age, they become disposable. For that reason, LBT asks people not to take pictures with baby lions or tigers.

"It just keeps happening over and over,” she said. ”And we can't take all the animals. It has to stop. This unnecessary breeding, it has to stop."

Taking in a tiger costs about $10,000 year for food and basic medical costs at LBT. Caretakers then have to tack on more expenses for its habitat and more serious medical needs, Brinks said.

The rescue now takes care of 69 animals — 17 different species.
 

 The San Diego Sheriff’s Department collected nearly 400 firearms at a ‘Guns for Gift Cards’ event in North County Saturday.

The event let people trade in unwanted guns with no questions asked. In return, they received a Walmart gift card ranging from $50 to $200.

Captain Mike McClain said Saturday’s event will make our streets safer.

"The whole emphasis behind an event like this is for folks who are not really comfortable with firearms in their house, people who are not trained with firearms, don't routinely operate them, they don't feel safe, they don't secure them in safes, maybe they have kids,” said McClain. “We would rather they come to us and we'll destroy it in an appropriate, legal manner.”

At events like these, McClain said people who don't feel comfortable with firearms in the house generally turn in the weapons. 

At the event, Sheriff's officials said they received several unique weapons, including zip guns, modified weapons made from tubing, assault rifles and more. 

Before the guns are destroyed, Sheriff’s Deputies run the guns through the Automatic Firearm System (AFS) to make sure they have not been stolen or linked to a previous crime.

One person is dead after two cars crashed head-on on just north of Rainbow Glen.

A 45-year-old man driving a Nissan south on Old Highway 395 around 4:55 pm Saturday drifted over the double yellow line and crashed into a Volvo coming the other way.

A 68-year-old female passenger in the Volvo was pronounced dead at the scene.

Both drivers were taken to Palomar Hospital. The driver of the Nissan suffered major injuries and had to be airlifted while the driver of the Volvo had minor to moderate injuries.

Oceanside CHP are investigating, but suspect alcohol was a factor in the crash.

Check back for updates on this breaking story.

An Ocean Beach bride who had very little time to plan her wedding wanted her day to start with a bang.

Marine Sgt. Corie Draughn just returned from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan Monday. 

With the help of dozens of friends and her fiancé, Joshua Parsons, she became the show-stopping finale to a flash mob on the O.B. pier Saturday evening at approximately 6 p.m.

The bride, dressed in a flowing white gown, walked through a parted sea of dancers to meet her groom at the end of the pier. The couple's friends participated in the dancing crowd as well. The spirited flash mob danced around her as she grinned, walking to meet her fiancee. 

The couple met at the end of the pier and exchanged their vows, promising each other a lifetime of love. 

Draughn was a member of the Marine command for the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The group returned home to Camp Pendleton from the Middle East. 

Draughn’s family is in Ohio, but the couple wanted to get married in San Diego.
 

 A man was taken to the hospital with major injuries after his car went up in flames near San Diego's City Heights neighborhood. 

The incident happened around 3 a.m. Sunday when the driver of the Toyota Camry was driving southbound on Interstate 15. He veered off the freeway, crashing into a freeway sign pole near the southbound I-805 onramp. 

His car went up in flames and he was trapped inside. 

Fire crews had to extinguish the fire before rescuing the man. 

He was taken to UC San Diego Medical Center. 

California Highway Patrol (CHP) officials are investigating the crash. 

No further information was immediately available. 

Protesters shouted “No plane noise!” over and over at a rally Saturday near the San Diego Airport. They are fighting against a new flight path that would bring even more air traffic over already noisy Point Loma neighborhoods.

“And now every single moment every day every plane is coming over their heads,” said protester Julie Connolly.

This new flight path is part of a Federal Aviation Administration Program called ‘Next Gen.’ The program would change flight paths across the country.

As part of ‘Next Gen’ planes would be rerouted from over the ocean to directly across the Point Loma peninsula.

“We are being subjected to the increased plane noise. We’re being subjected to the increased pollution and the danger of airplanes flying over populated areas as opposed to flying over the ocean,” another protester Tammy Taylor explained.

Taylor lives and teaches in Point Loma. She said the plane noise already affects her classroom.

“I’ve actually had to go close the door because it’s too loud and the children are interrupted, I’m interrupted. It’s just a lot louder than what it used to be,” she told NBC7.

The FAA says the new route is safer, more efficient and better for the environment.

“This effort includes new satellite-based arrival and departure procedures that reduce fuel consumption, aircraft emissions and noise over many neighborhoods,” Lynn Lunsford of the FAA said in a statement.

The protesters disagree with the FAA’s findings, saying the administration hasn’t done enough research to find out what the real effects on the neighborhoods will be.

The FAA said it is expanding its outreach efforts and it will provide opportunities for the community to comment and will consider their input.

  The Villa Montezuma house in Sherman Heights is now open for tours every quarter.

The City of San Diego has been working to restore the home to its original beauty for the last several years.

The house, now a museum, was built in 1887 and is located at the corner of 20th and K streets.

"It was built as a showcase to explain San Diego's burgeoning cultural sophistication," says City of San Diego spokesperson Bill Harris.

When you look at the Villa Montezuma from the outside, one of the first things you notice is the color, and its many Victorian features.

Once you're inside, the home's originality is apparent everywhere you look.

The detailed woodwork on the walls, the ceilings, and the fireplaces were all carefully constructed by hand.

The city began quarterly tours of the house over the summer.

"The tours we began have allowed people to see the house almost in its original form," says Harris.

The city purchased Villa Montezuma since 1971. It's now on the National Register of Historic Places.

"It's also to let people see what a commitment to historic preservation can do for a community like this," says Harris.

In 1887, it cost about $19,000 dollars to build the home. The stained glass added another $7,000.

"It really is the stained glass that distinguishes this home. It captures its intent. It's the showplace for art. There are artists in the stained glass. There are musicians in the stained glass. The owner, Jesse Shepherd is captured in one of the stained glass," says Harris.

On the third floor is a tower where you can get pretty good view of the city.

"If you look at the top of the building, it's a cupola, a type of dome. It now stands as one corner of a triangle of domes in San Diego," says Harris.

The other two corners of the triangle are the California tower in Balboa Park, which reopened this year after 80 years, and the new central library in downtown, which opened in 2013.

"It really captures almost the entire modern history of San Diego by being able to see these three domes all at once," says Harris.

The city has spent nearly two million dollars over the last several years for the renovations. Most of the money came from grants.

The outside of the house will be repainted, once funding for that comes through. The color may change, but the palette will be in the same earthy dark tones that are on the house today.

The next tour of Villa Montezuma is scheduled for January 2016.

Directly following Hillary Clinton's marathon testimony before the Benghazi Select Committee hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy, the committee chairman, needed more time when asked what new information he learned from the former secretary of state.

Appearing on NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday, Gowdy was armed with an answer.

"When she's asked whether she takes responsibility, she says, 'Yes.' But when you ask, 'Responsibility for what?' I can't tell you what she's taking responsibility for."

When pressed about criticism, even from fellow Republicans, about disproportionately focusing his line of questioning on emails from Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal, Gowdy responded, "How do you not ask: how does this person, who has no formal role in government and no expertise in Libya or Benghazi — how does he have unfettered access to you? But the ambassador — there is not a single email to or from him." 

The Maker Lab at San Diego Central Library, filled with public 3D printers for the public to use, will soon expand due to its overwhelming popularity.

"It's amazing, it's rad!” said Donny Monsell, a San Diego college student who spent a recent afternoon printing plastic embryo heart tubes. He has been using the printers to make six 3D models for his Embryology class. “I was here for three hours yesterday and it was awesome.”

The printers, located on the eighth floor, are so popular with patrons like Monsell that the library plans to move the lab in November to the third floor. There, visitors will have four times as much space to work. In addition to the move, the lab will welcome three more 3D printers as well as a sewing machine, a vinyl cutter, a milling machine to create circuit boards and a laser cutter.

"I'm in shock, I would say, from the reactions people have coming here," said Uyen Tran, the Emerging Technologies Librarian who runs the lab, "It's been an amazing journey."

Tran said the lab started when the library opened two years ago as part of the Idea Lab, funded by a California State Library grant. Since then, several companies have donated additional printers and it has continued to grow.

Tran believes 3D printers are exactly the kind of shared community resource that should be made available in a modern library. Just like books were long ago, 3D printers are something that most people cannot afford to own themselves. The library's most expensive donated 3D printer costs about four thousands dollars.

The Maker Lab is staffed entirely by volunteers, under Tran's guidance. There are about forty volunteers, including Ruggero Scorcioni.

"I thought it would be a great idea for me to learn more and give back to the community," said Scorcioni, a former La Jolla neuroscientist who first visited the lab after he won an invention contest and used his winnings to start his own company called BrainYno.

Scorcioni has used the 3D printers in the Maker Lab to create the heating and cooling elements for his invention: a mattress pad called PolarSleep, to help people who wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat.

Library patrons can use the printers for two hours a day, and print up to one item for free each day. The machines are available on a first come, first serve basis or by appointment. The Maker Lab also offers free classes in 3D scanning and printing.

"It takes your ideas into something you can hold in your hands," said Clayton McIntyre, who teaches 3D printing classes at the library, "It forced me to have my imagination come through the computer."

McIntyre not only brings to the lab his experience doing 3D printing for a San Diego start-up called Cognionics. He also draws on the 3D printing knowledge he uses to create things for his five-year-old daughter, like customized pink dinosaurs.

Patrons have also used to printers at the library to make all sorts of things out of the corn-based PLA plastic filament. Small projects having included replacement parts for an aquarium and a dishwasher.

There have also been what Tran calls "life changing" projects. A sailing instructor made a 3D map of San Diego Bay for a student learning to sail in that area. A woman made a custom handlebar for a paraplegic man's specialized bicycle.

Patrick Henry High junior Ryan Beck uses the printers to create specialized parts for skateboards he builds, designed to go downhill as fast as 80 miles per hour.

"So many cool things have sprouted for me because of the 3D printing at the library," Beck said, who hopes to start his own custom skateboarding company. He already builds the custom boards for his friends, thanks to the help he found at the Maker Lab.

Entrepreneurs have found the Maker Lab, too. Larry Bischmann is launching a third generation golf company called Bloodline Golf in January. He said using the library's 3D printers to perfect his putter head designs was a much cheaper and faster process than if he would have build more traditional metal prototypes.

"3D printing is like Play-Doh was when we were kids," Bischmann said, "You make whatever you can dream up and come print it on the computer."

Police say a man is now in custody after an eight-hour standoff in North Park where the man, armed with a hatchet, threatened to burn a house down.

After eight hours with a negotiator officers say eventually a hamburger and some water brought the man out of the house and into custody.

Police responded to a 911 call Saturday around 11 a.m. say a man with a hatchet was lighting something on fire.

"He was armed with a hatchet at one point. He used it to break out some windows. And he was not armed with it when he was taken into custody," Lt. Carole Beason of SDPD told NBC7.

The man stood at a second-story window of his home at the 3300 block of 30th Street yelling at police.

A highly skilled negotiator kept talking to the man trying to get him to come out. Officials say the man did not make any requests and they don't know why he was barricaded. Firefighters were on scene just in case.

The man lives in the home with family members who were evacuated earlier leaving the man  alone in the house for hours.

Neighbors said they'd heard arguments in the house for years and they're glad he's finally getting help.

"Unfortunately the person sounded like he would get upset easily, and all I just heard was talk, never any physical confrontation," neighbor Timothy Capretta said.

Police say the man came out without a fight and ate his food. He will now be evaluated for any mental health issues and also be tested for drugs.

Twelve years ago Sunday, California's largest wildfire sparked in Julian after a hunter signaled for help by starting a signal fire

In just 12 hours, the Cedar Fire spread to San Diego, taking lives, homes and 286,000 acres along with it.

After a year of design,  survivors of the devastating 2003 Cedar Fire in Lakeside brought together pieces of the past to teach the future.

A quick countdown lead to the cutting of the red tape on the Cedar Fire Historical Monument, built in part with residents' donated artifacts for the monument, built to honor the victims. The community project includes a garden and art installations inspired by the fire.

The monument stands next to the Lakeside Fire Administration Office on Lakeside Avenue and pays tribute to those who died in the deadly blaze that destroyed thousands of homes and left more than 100 people injured in San Diego.

Fire Chief Andy Parr, who had the honor of using the scissors, emphasizes this is a monument, not a memorial, for the 12 people who died in his zip code.

“This little space, pocket park if you will, allows people to come here and talk about their experiences and memories,” Parr said.

Rhonda Turvey and her two grandsons are first inside the pocket park. In 2003, Turvery watched the Cedar Fire scorch eleven neighbors’ homes. The Turvey’s methods of fire protection—cutting and watering the grass—worked to save their home.

“You know that’s the first time I’ve even been through a fire like that… having to evacuate, get our dogs, get my mother and father in law,” Rhonda said.

The monument also aims to be used as a community gathering space and an educational tool on wildfires for residents and students. The main walkway to the monument contains a chronology of fires that have impacted the Lakeside area, as well as information on fire preparedness.

Landscape Architect Joe Dodd called on survivors and the fire chief to re-tale history.

Dodd showed NBC 7 a map sandblasted into the concrete. “The black lines represent the roads and over here you can see where the fire was first reported and spread all the way into San Diego.”

Dodd kept everything in mind from drought adaptable plants, to artwork of melted souvenirs, and the red flag which is a constant reminder of fire danger.

All of this brings back old memories for Rhonda, as she captures new ones with her grandsons. The family came here to see the granite they donated from their quarry.

“My husband and son are at the pit working together today. They weren’t able to come, so I had to come record and take pictures,” Turvey said.

The Cedar Fire Monument is free and can be viewed at any time. 

A retired Oklahoma State University professor and his wife were among the four people killed when a driver plowed through a crowd of spectators at OSU's homecoming parade, according to police.

Marvin Stone, Ph.D., and his wife, Bonnie Jean Stone, were "wonderful individuals," Dan Thomas, the head of the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering department at OSU, told NBC News Sunday. "They mentored many others, and were very giving spirits."

University of Central Oklahoma was mourning the death of 23-year-old master’s student Nakita Prabhakar, who was also killed in the tragedy. A two-year-old boy, who has not been identified, died in the hospital from injuries sustained in the crash.

Adacia Chambers, 25, was arrested at the scene and charged with driving under the influence. Police said they were investigating the incident as a homicide and additional charges would be presented to the Payne County District Court.