A faulty rudder control system and the pilots’ response led to the crash of an AirAsia plane last year, NBC News reported.

The main flight control computer on the Airbus A320 had a cracked joint that caused it to malfunction repeatedly, according to Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee.

The pilots struggled to handle the influx of warning messages while the plane rolled, then climbed too high before crashing into the Java Sea.

According to the report, the midair emergency took place over two-and-a-half minutes. The plane plummeted at a rate of 20,000 feet per minute.

All 162 people on board the flight died when the flight went down last year.
 

There’s been little relief since Puerto Rico’s governor declared the U.S. territory’s $72 billion debt unable to be paid, according to NBC News.

Backers of proposals to allow Puerto Rico to restructure its debt through a bankruptcy process often used by U.S. cities were to begin gathering in Washington, D.C.

A Senate committee was to hold another hearing on the crisis. Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla will be a witness at a 10 a.m. hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As of Monday, Puerto Rico was undecided on whether to let the deadline pass without payment, thereby defaulting and possibly setting off a court battle. That decision would be made on Tuesday, NBC News reported.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Tuesday that admitting in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees "does not solve the problem" and "exposes us to danger."

Carson visited Jordan to tour Syrian refugee camps last week. He called the camps "really quite nice" and told "Today's" Matt Lauer on Tuesday that people are not giving enough money to support Jordan's efforts. He suggested the camps should serve as a long-term solution.

The retired neurosurgeon's standing in the polls has taken a hit recently, and he finds himself in third place in numerous polls, behind Donald Trump and either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.

"Poll numbers will go up and down. It's a marathon, not a sprint," Carson said.

By all accounts, 27-year-old Eric Kohler loves what he does, producing visual effects for blockbusters like “The Avengers,” “San Andreas,” and “X-Men.”

But last Tuesday, he walked out of work in Gardena without his wallet, his laptop or his bag — and never came back.

Now his family is doing everything they can to find out what happened.

Night after night, Kohler’s desperate mother and father are posting fliers, hoping for any help in finding their missing son.

Kohler is an up-and-coming movie producer and his family said he is a workaholic and a responsible man who would never just disappear.

"I know my son would never do this," Sheryi Kohler said.

He was last seen leaving work, in the 1700 block of El Segundo Boulevard, last Tuesday in his new Range Rover. Phone records and surveillance video show he went to a Food 4 Less parking lot, but then soon after his phone appeared to have been turned off.

"And he literally disappeared,” said his father, Tony Kohler. “It's heartbreaking. It's damn heartbreaking."

Kohler is originally from Oakley, in Northern California, and relocated to Los Angeles after high school. Kohler moved to Los Angeles to work in the movie industry. Kohler responded to an ad for a receptionist job and worked his way to become a visual effects producer at HYDRAULX.

Since his disappearance, friends and family said they have been in agony. The Thanksgiving holiday came and went without any sign. So did a huge project deadline at work — the kind Eric's parents say he would never miss.

"He had big ambition to work hard and that's what he's been doing and something bad happened," said his mother.

Tony Kohler said they are praying Eric just needed to get away but said there are too many red flags. Eric left his wallet, bags and computer behind. There has also been no activity in his accounts for days.

Kohler was last seen wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt, blue skinny jeans, brown suede shoes and a brown leather, chrome-plated watch.

Anyone with information on Kohler’s disappearance is asked to call the LAPD Missing Person Unit at 213-996-1800. After hours, please call LAPD’s RACR Division at 213-484-6700.

See LAPD's missing person flier here.

More than 2,000 raids have been carried out in France following the deadly terror attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, Prime Minister Manuel Valls told told radio station Europe 1 on Tuesday.

Police confiscated 300 weapons and taken 210 people into custody, Valls said, adding that the number of arrests indicated that the searches conducted after France declared a state of emergency "are not due to chance" and "allow support for objective suspicions."

As he was speaking, police in Italy and Kosovo arrested four Kosovars suspected of being part of a jihadi cell that spread propaganda and made threats against Pope Francis, judicial officials told Reuters.

According to Italian police, the four, three of whom were arrested in Italy and one in Kosovo, are suspected of "condoning terrorism" and "inciting racial hatred." 

A class of high school students visited the scene of a deadly house fire in Mount Hope and left notes of condolences for the family of a 7th grader who died in the flames.

The boy was one of three children who were trapped when flames engulfed a single-story home on J Street just after midnight Monday. The child, identified as 12 years old, was found dead inside the burned out back bedroom, officials said.

His two siblings were rushed to UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest where they were listed in critical condition.

When teacher Andrew Bye saw the reports of a fire in the community, he immediately thought about bringing his class to the neighborhood.

“A lot of my students have experienced really horrific losses in their lives and it’s something they can relate to very, very quickly,” Bye said.

Just after noon, a line of teenagers walked up to the home and quietly tucked folded letters into the chain link fence in front of the scorched building.

The students shared their thoughts in class and wrote some of them down on paper.

“A lot of them were expressing their shared emotional loss,” he said. They also tried to instill a message of hope. “Letting the family know things will be better,” Bye said.

The children were in the care of a babysitter when fire broke out. A neighbor was told by the babysitter that a portable space heater may have been placed too close to a mattress. Fire officials have labeled the fire as accidental but have not confirmed a space heater as the cause.

Bye teaches high school at the Youth Day Center on Market Street.

Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck a 2-year-old child Sunday afternoon in Mira Mesa.

The toddler was with his parents preparing to leave Mesa Viking Neighborhood Park near the 11100 block of Westonhill Drivepark around 1:22 p.m.

The child rode his scooter away from his parents toward the street where the driver hit the toddler and fled the scene, police said.

Monday night NBC7 received dash-cam video from a witness who says she believes she got the suspect’s car on video just after the crash.

Acording to the person who took the video it shows the suspect's car come toward and pass her car then on the far right it appears the mother is on the sidewalk helping her son.

“It’s rare, but it can happen,” David Perez who regularly comes to the park with his family said about cars speeding through the area. “I’ve seen it before, but it’s generally late at night not when anybody is out.”

According to Perez the area is clearly marked with signs.

“To happen in the middle of the day someone really wasn’t paying attention,” Perez added.

The 2-year-old was taken to Rady Children's Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and was determined to have a fractured skull and pelvis.

Jason Pertie who was at the park Monday playing football with his sons said kids are always at the park.

"All the time skateboarding, roller blading everything, on their scooters, bikes,” he told NBC7.

 The suspect’s car is described as a teal Honda Accord, possibly an older model.

 The Traffic Division is investigating.
 

The holiday shopping season is underway so expect package predators and shipping slowdowns.

Postal inspectors make nearly 10,000 arrests each year, many for mail theft, according to the U.S. Postal Service website. The Postal Service also responds to more than 27,000 consumer fraud complaints, including reports of identity theft. About 800 police officers with the service respond to such complaints.

But there are steps you can take to make sure your purchase arrives where intended and in one piece. 

FedEx suggests requesting a signature for your package or shipping to an alternate destination where you know someone will be available to pick it up. Or, have the parcel kept on hold for up to five days at a FedEx office location.

UPS recommends wapping up fragile packages, whether toys, electronics, or appliances. The service also promotes a package timing calculator to ensure packages get to their destinations before Santa does.

Another tip: Place an extra address label with the delivery and return address inside the package. This could help return the package should its outside label become damaged or fall off.

USPS has similar suggestions for keeping your packages secure in transit, including making sure to wrap each item separately when packing multiple items and shaking a package to ensure items are snug. 

The U.S. Postal Service alone plans to deliver 19 billion cards, letters and packages by Christmas. Here are timetables that USPS, FedEx and UPS recommend for when packages should be sent out to make it under the tree by the holiday. And post offices nationwide will be open Christmas Eve but many will be closed by noon. Regular hours will be restored on New Year's Eve. Mailing delivery will be unaffected throughout the season. 

but many will shorten retail lobby hours and close at noon. Post Offices will be open regular hours on New Year's Eve. Mail delivery will be unaffected.

If you live in New York City, Chicago or San Francisco, there's an app, Doorman, that is designed to prevent unattended packages from being stolen. It gives users the address of a warehouse to use as the shipping address during online checkout. Once the package arrives at the warehouse, customers are notified and can arrange for a delivery driver to drop it off when convenient.

If all these tips prove to be unsuccessful and your package is stolen or destroyed, you can file a claim online with USPS, FedEx and UPS.

A young neighbor who ran to a burning home to help save a family he grew up with says he wishes he could have done more to save the victims of the fire.

Jose Hernandez, 21, has been next door neighbors with the family since he was a young boy and is good friends with one of the older siblings, who was not home at the time of the fire.

He said when he saw the house on fire, he stood there in shock for 30 seconds; he didn’t know whether to get his shoes or run over there.

"I thought I was dreaming. I couldn't believe it,” said Jose Hernandez, one of the Good Samaritans who ran into the burning home.

A young boy was one of three children who were trapped when flames engulfed a single-story home on J Street just after midnight Monday. The child, identified as 12 years old, was found dead inside the burned out back bedroom, officials said.

His two siblings were rushed to UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest where they were listed in critical condition.

Joey said when they rushed to the building, his friend knocked down a door to get into the home. The action caused the flames to get even more intense, and when Hernandez tried to enter, he couldn’t. 

"That room where (one child) sleeps was barely catching on fire and I guess it (breaking doors and windows) just added more oxygen and...It was like a match and gas," he said. 

The children were in the care of a babysitter when fire broke out. A neighbor was told by the babysitter that a portable space heater may have been placed too close to a mattress. Fire officials have labeled the fire as accidental but have not confirmed a space heater as the cause.

Hernandez said he yelled for people to get hoses to try and put some of the flames out. In his head, that was the final hope.

"My dad was jumping inside but I told him no, you're going to get burned,” Jose said. “So I pulled him back out. My brother in law tried too, but he also got -- it was too hot. It was already burning."

When they tried to throw the hose in, it broke.

“We couldn’t do much more,” he said. “We basically panicked.”

Jose said he doesn’t feel like a hero.

"I feel like we could have done more, but we just panicked,” he said. “When you see those flames and you hear the kids yelling, it's like, what do I do? It's hard to explain."

A team of special prosecutors has nearly completed its investigation of the arrest and subsequent death of a black woman in a Texas jail, and it plans to finish presenting its evidence to a grand jury by the end of December, one of the prosecutors said Monday.

Houston attorney Darrell Jordan was among five prosecutors tapped by the Waller County district attorney to review evidence after Sandra Bland was found dead in her Waller County jail cell on July 13. The Chicago-area woman was arrested three days earlier after a routine traffic stop turned contentious and ended with the white state trooper holding Bland on the ground.

The grand jury had its first meeting on Nov. 12, but prosecutors discovered they needed more information, Jordan said. Among the information sought -- but so far not found -- is the identity of the person who took a second video of the arrest that was posted online. The arrest also was record on the state trooper's dashcam.

"It would be helpful if we had the person who shot that video, if there were things that happened before the video recorded and after," Jordan said.

Sen. Royce West, a Dallas Democrat who has been a vocal leader in the case, released a statement earlier Monday saying investigations were wrapping up and it would soon "be up to a grand jury to decide whether the evidence presented warrants a criminal trial."

The 28-year-old woman's death came after nearly a year of heightened national scrutiny of police and their dealings with black suspects, especially those who have been killed by officers or die in police custody.

Shortly after Bland's death, West -- one of two black members of the Texas Senate -- met at Prairie View A&M University with the lieutenant governor, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other state and Waller County officials. They watched the dashcam video of the arrest. Bland had been pulled over for an improper lane change in Prairie View, where she went to interview and accept a job at the school.

West noted that several other investigations have been completed: The Texas Commission on Jail Standards concluded that Bland wasn't properly monitored while in the jail; the Texas Department of Public Safety has said the trooper who arrested Bland, Brian Encinia, didn't properly follow guidelines when he pulled her over.

The Texas Rangers have been handling the Department of Public Safety probe, the Waller County sheriff has said the results of an internal investigation could result in discipline against jail employees, and the FBI also has been asked to review the case.

Bland was unable to post about $500 bond after being arrested on an assault charge. A medical examiner ruled her death a suicide.

West's spokesman, Kelvin Bass, noted that some people initially questioned whether Bland had been killed by someone else, but said West accepted the medical examiner's findings.

Bland's mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the trooper who arrested Bland, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Waller County, the sheriff's department and two county jailers. Her attorneys didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment Monday.
 

An Oklahoma college president stands firm by a statement he made last week that he believes college students expect too much coddling and noted that, "This is Not a Day Care. It's a University."

Dr. Everett Piper, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, posted the statement to a school blog. He said he wrote it after becoming frustrated when a student complained about being "offended" by a sermon given at the Christian liberal arts college, NBC News reported. The sermon included a Bible passage about love. 

"It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love," Piper wrote in his post. "I'm not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic."

His post gained national attention following recent student protests against racial discrimination and other issues on campuses across the country.

The Lakeside woman hit and killed while walking along the road Sunday has been identified.

Kimberly Lynn Eakin, 34, was walking near the intersection of Woodside Avenue and Riverside Avenue near Lakeside Middle School just before 5 p.m.

The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Officer said a car traveling westbound struck Eakin after the driver fell asleep at the wheel.

California Highway Patrol officers arrested Joel L. Silva, 33, of Julian and charged him with driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter.

Silva told CHP officers that he fell asleep at the wheel and woke up after the crash. He said he was trying to get back to State Route 67.

Authorities say they found at least five bottles of prescription drugs in the car. Silva was arrested after officials administered field sobriety tests.

Junior Maui was just down the street from where it happened last night. He remembers seeing the driver heading westbound on Woodside avenue when he veered off the road and into the corner of the intersection.

“I feel really bad...if they take medicine they should not drive. They should take the license away from people like that,” Maui said.

Silva was scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday.
 

A two-day pizza fundraiser across Southern California will give residents the chance to give back to the family of a fallen Downey police officer.

On Tuesday, Dec. 1 and Wednesday, Dec. 2, all Southern California locations of the California Pizza Kitchen will host a two fundraiser to support fallen Downey Police Officer Ricky Galvez. The fundraiser is in partnership with Badge 2 Badge.

On Nov. 18, Galvez was gunned down during an apparent botched robbery while sitting in his parked outside the Downey police station. Galvez had just returned from a training program and was not wearing his uniform when he was shot, according to Downey police. Police Chief Carl Charles described Galvez as a compassionate and humble man with a "smile that would light up a room."

To participate, diners must bring in a copy of the flyer to their server, which you can find and print by clicking here.

CPK will donate 20 percent of the sales from each guest’s bill to support the fallen officer’s family.

The mobile kitchen will additionally be serving food outside the LAPD Police Headquarters to support the effort on Monday. On Wednesday, the mobile kitchen will be parked at Rampart Community Police Station.

Find a location close to you by clicking here.

 As world leaders gather in Paris for climate change talks, the issue came into sharp focus in San Diego today.

A bold environmental strategy for reducing greenhouse gases and boosting mass transit is gaining momentum at City Hall.

But skeptics say it doesn't pass reality checks, and figures to affect household budgets while requiring adjustments to lifestyles and business operations.

Backers who crowded a City Council Environment Committee hearing Monday said San Diego needs to keep up with efforts in other communities that already have adopted similar strategies.

"The question isn't whether we are being too ambitious,” said Nicole Capretz, executive director of the Climate Action Campaign. “The question is whether we are being ambitious enough, and how soon can we implement this vision."

That vision calls for 100 percent reliance on clean energy and a 50 percent shift to mass transit within 20 years – goals that have raised a lot of eyebrows.

Meantime, given scientific projections of how climate change has altered weather patterns and nature itself, some wonder whether climate action plans may be too little, too late – and should have been rolled out in the 1990s.

"It's like a diet. You can't just say we have this magic diet, we just to these things and there'll be no pain,” City Heights community activist John Stump told NBC 7. “Climate action requires climate change. And we need to make change now -- all the action the council has proposed, and some really meaningful ones that are going to have some pain."

With the full City Council now poised to review the plan, a big issue waiting in the wings is "community choice" -- and whether the city might "opt out" of San Diego Gas & Electric in favor of alternative energy sources.

SDG&E hasn't taken a position on the plan, but it's known to be preparing a strong case for its program when the time comes.

The ex-wife of an ISIS leader was among 13 Islamists released in swap with al Qaeda's Syrian wing in exchange for Lebanese captives on Tuesday, NBC News reported. 

Saja al-Dulaimi, ex-wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was seen being taken to eastern Lebanon in a convoy in footage aired by the Al-Jazeera television channel. She was detained in Lebanon last year when she tried to cross the border illegally with her current husband, using forged identity cards.

She and 12 other prisoners were handed over to Syria’s al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in exchange for 16 Lebanese security personnel who were held hostage since 2014, according to Lebanese security officials.

The Nusra Front and ISIS kidnapped 29 Lebanese policemen and soldiers last year. Four have been killed and nine will remain in captivity after Tuesday’s swap.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced two major status updates Tuesday: He and his wife have a newborn daughter and they plan to donate most of their Facebook wealth.

"Priscilla and I are so happy to welcome our daughter Max into this world!" Zuckerberg wrote in a Facbeook post Tuesday afternoon.

He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, also posted a long letter to his daughter, expressing how she gives them hope for the future: "Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully."

But they also wrote how the world could better allocate resources to fight some of its most intractable problems, like disease and inequality. And in the letter, they commited to giving nearly all of their shares in Facebook, valued at $45 billion, to the mission of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

"We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others," they wrote in the letter.

Facebook's Vice President Colin Stretch filed paperwork for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with the Security and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.  

"On December 1, 2015, our Founder, Chairman and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that, during his lifetime, he will gift or otherwise direct substantially all of his shares of Facebook stock or the net after-tax proceeds from sales of such shares" Stretch wrote in the filing, "to further the mission of advancing human potential and promoting equality by means of philanthropic, public advocacy, and other activities for the public good."

The filing outlines Zuckerberg's plans for creating the charity. He plans to sell or gift no more than $1 billion of Facebook stock each year for the next three years.

And while most of Zuckerberg's shares will be gifted, he will continue to retain his majority hold in the company along with his voting power, according to the filing. The filing ends by noting that Zuckerberg owns approximately 4 million shares of Class A common stock and approximately 419 million shares of Class B common stock. Chan wasn't mentioned.

Ines Bebea contributed to this report.

One person died Tuesday in a rollover crash at an on-ramp to State Route 52 in Santee.

California Highway Patrol officers say the GMC pickup was traveling west on SR-52 near State Route 125 when the truck drifted to the left and into the center median. The driver lost control and the vehicle veered across all lanes onto the Mission Gorge on-ramp.

There were three people inside the car. One person, a passenger, died. CHP officers say it’s possible the victim, described as a 31-year-old El Cajon man, was not wearing a seatbelt.

The male driver and another passenger were taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital with what were described by CHP as moderate injuries.

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A new report reveals that at least 300 Americans are acting as ISIS ambassadors on social media — spreading propaganda and searching for potential recruits to join the terror group, NBC News reported. 

Researchers at George Washington University's Program on Extremism said Twitter is the platform of choice for U.S. based sympathizers, many of them women.

Even though Twitter takes their accounts down, new ones are created within hours and are retweeted by others to regain followers. 

The report identified American ISIS supporters who acted as online "spotters" for ISIS, and the researchers who monitored those accounts for six months were able to watch recruitment of recently converted Americans unfold in real time. 

The report also looked at how U.S. jihadists meet and recruit in person, uncovering small groups of apparent ISIS sympathizers in a number of cities.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was fired Tuesday, exactly one week after dash-cam video showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was released.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he has asked McCarthy to step down from his position, saying the "trust and the leadership of the department has been shaken and eroded."

"Now is the time for fresh eyes and new leadership to confront the challenges the department and our community and our city are facing as we go forward," Emanuel said.

John Escalante has been named acting commissioner "until the police board has conducted a thorough search." 

"I have a lot of loyalty to what [McCarthy has] done and him, but I have a bigger loyalty to the city of Chicago's future and the strength of that future and no one person trumps my commitment and my responsibility to the city of Chicago and its future," Emanuel said.

The announcement came during an 11 a.m. press conference announcing Emanuel’s new task force on police accountability. Emanuel has said the task force was created in an effort to “strengthen the fabric of trust between the Chicago Police Department and the communities it protects.”

Emanuel and McCarthy have faced mounting criticism over the handling of the Laquan McDonald case, with many citing the 13 months it took to charge the officer involved and others questioning McCarthy’s leadership and credibility.

McCarthy has also been criticized for the handling of another police-involved shooting that killed Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old unarmed woman. He revealed last week that he agreed to move to terminate the officer involved in that shooting "after a comprehensive review of the investigation,” but the move comes nearly three years after the incident.

In the days following the release of video showing McDonald’s fatal shooting, McCarthy maintained that Emanuel supported him and said "I've never quit anything in my life."

"I'm 56 years old," McCarthy said. "I don't expect that to change. What I will tell you is the mayor has made it very clear. He has my back."

McCarthy appeared on NBC Chicago Tuesday morning where he admitted that the initial press release on McDonald’s shooting was “mistaken” but added that there was little he could do once a federal investigation was launched.

“I didn’t have the authority to do what people thought I should do in this case, by law,” he said.

Most recently, the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board said McCarthy “should resign” and “If he does not, Mayor Rahm Emanuel should fire him.”

U.S. Senate candidate Andrea Zopp, who is the former president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League issued a statement Monday demanding McCarthy resign and asking for a special prosecutor in the case of Jason Van Dyke, the officer charged with shooting McDonald 16 times.

Last week, the City Council's Black Caucus convened for a press conference to publicly demand McCarthy's resignation for the second time in just a few months.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle also voiced her opinion that McCarthy should resign, saying she called Emanuel Friday morning to tell him she was joining members of the City Council who want McCarthy out.

Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez have also received heat from other politicians and activists for their roles in holding off on releasing the dash-cam video to the public and filing charges against Van Dyke.

Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the October 2014 shooting last week.

Dash-cam video of the shooting shows an officer shooting the teen several times as he appeared to walk away from police. The footage has sparked protests throughout the city and prompted an increase in calls for McCarthy to step down.

Prosecutors said in court last week that the shooting happened within 15 seconds, but for 13 of those seconds McDonald was on the ground. They added the video "clearly does not show McDonald advancing toward [Van Dyke]." 

Some have said that McCarthy's firing isn't enough.

"It does very little if you change the head and you don't change the heart and infrastructure," said Rev. Jesse Jackson. "That's not enough."

Emanuel also addressed that concern during the Tuesday press conference.

"This is not the end of the problem, but it is the beginning of a solution to the problem," he said.

San Diego Police are searching for a man who robbed Ballast Point Brewing Company's Miramar location Monday.

The incident happened just before 11:30 p.m. when a man wearing all black clothing and a black ski mask entered the Carroll Way location through a back door.

The man pulled out a handgun and demanded cash then left through the backdoor, police said. Investigators did not reveal how much money was stolen.

They say the man appeared to be in his 30s and was also carrying a black backpack. Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

The popular San Diego brewery, whose brands include Sculpin IPA, was sold for approximately $1 billion recently to Constellation Brands Inc. 

Ballast Point has grown to become one of San Diego’s most recognizable brands. It employs 415 people and distributes their products in 26 states, and even to countries like Japan and Australia.

They have four facilities, including two near MCAS Miramar, two restaurants and two tasting rooms.