More than 1,000 ailing sea lion pups have washed ashore in Southern California over the past three months, and a national fisheries expert says a lack of food source is likely the cause, not radiation as reported by some media outlets.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has assembled a team of experts to research the cause of the beached sea lion pup problem.

NOAA has been granted an official declaration of what’s called an Unusual Mortality Event (UME). The status allows for the establishment of a panel of experts to convene to look for answers and will also provide for extra funding.

On Thursday, NOAA held a conference to discuss that research. Experts said the leading hypothesis their panel is looking at focuses on a lack of food source, starvation and dehydration. Other potential causes being studied include possible infectious diseases or pollutants in the ocean.

Experts believe pups are being affected in greater numbers than adult sea lions because they are limited in how far they can travel and unfamiliar with the environment.

Over the weekend, some news outlets reported that radiation from Japan’s March 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster is also being looked at as a possible cause for the UME concerning sea lion pups.

On Sunday, NBC 7 San Diego spoke with Jim Milbury of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service who said experts “haven’t ruled out” the possibility of radiation affecting the sea lion pups. However, Milbury said it is highly unlikely that radiation is to blame.

“Radiation is being looked at, just like everything else. We haven’t ruled it out, but we really don’t suspect this at all,” Milbury told NBC 7. “We don’t suspect radiation because this would also mean other animals in the ocean would be affected, especially in the oceans of Hawaii, closer to Japan, and we haven't seen any of that.”

Milbury says the more plausible cause is simply starvation.

“For some unknown reason that we’re still researching, their food prey has moved to another location in the ocean and the sea lion pups can’t get to it,” he explained.

So far in 2013 in San Diego, there have been seven times the number of sea lions that have beached themselves compared to the same time period last year. From Jan. 1 to Mar. 31, NOAA experts say 214 sea lions have washed ashore locally. Last year during this time period, 32 sea lions were found on San Diego’s shoreline.

SeaWorld animal care specialists tell NBC 7 they have rescued six sea lions from local beaches just in this past Friday and Saturday alone.

The number of ailing sea lions has risen across all of Southern California, in coastal counties stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego, according to NOAA Fisheries.

Milbury confirms there have been 1,100 beached sea lions across these coastal counties from Jan. 1 to Mar. 31. The historical average for this time period is 131, he said.

Milbury says NOAA’s research conducted by this new panel of experts will take several weeks.

Until then, he says a big concern is making sure people don’t touch or contact beached sea lions since they are wild animals. Instead, he says local beachgoers should report stranded sea lions to authorities such as SeaWorld’s animal rescue team in San Diego.
 

Beyonce and Jay-Z’s trip to Cuba for their fifth wedding anniversary has a pair of GOP lawmakers asking questions.

While American citizens can legally travel to Cuba if they obtain a “cultural exchange” license, all other travel is banned due to a 51-year-old trade embargo between the two countries. After photos of the power couple surfaced in Havana, showing them posing with locals and one with Jay-Z holding a cigar, two Florida congressmen aren’t so sure the couple was educating themselves.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, who both represent large Cuban-American populations within their Florida districts, sent a letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Friday, requesting information on the license the couple received to make the trip and who approved it, Reuters reported.

A permit, issued by the Treasury Department, is required for Americans to travel to Cuba, a state department official said on Monday, but he was "not aware" of any consultation on the pair's recent trip.

“Cuba’s tourism industry is wholly state-controlled; therefore, U.S. dollars spent on Cuban tourism directly fund the machinery of oppression that brutally represses the Cuban people,” Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart said in the letter.

“Despite the clear prohibition against tourism in Cuba, numerous press reports described the couple’s trip as tourism, and the Castro regime touted it as such in its propaganda.”

If the couple did not have a license to take the trip, they could face a fine. A spokeswoman at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana told the UK Independent that she did not know if one had been obtained.
 

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church said Monday they plan to protest film critic Roger Ebert's funeral in Chicago.

The Kansas-based group released a statement published by the Hollywood Reporter saying they will picket "in lawful proximity" to the funeral at Holy Name Cathedral. Ebert passed away last week at the age of 70 after a decade-long battle with cancer.

Why the protest? 

The church said in the statement Ebert used his Twitter account "to mock the faithful servants of God at Westboro Baptist Church," according to the Hollywood Reporter. The group also called Ebert a "f-g enabler" and "entertainment industry publicity leech."

Newser points out Ebert called the group “odious" in a past tweet and at one point tweeted a link to a Salon story featuring an excerpt from the book "Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America" in which the author spent a day at Westboro.

Ebert's funeral begins at 10 a.m. Hundreds are expected to mourn the influential critic whose work won him a Pulitzer Prize.

 

California becomes the 43rd state to join the Powerball lottery when tickets go on sale Monday, giving participants a shot at a jackpot that starts at $40 million.

Heralded on the California lottery web site as "a day when everything changes," California enters the Powerball drawing after the state's lottery commission voted to join the game in November. Wednesday will be the first drawing that includes California ticket-buyers.

Tickets for the multi-state Powerball game cost $2. Drawings occur every Wednesday and Saturday at 7:59 p.m. PT for the jackpots, which start at $40 million.

The jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is estimated at $60 million. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 175 million.

"It's a good thing," said Powerball hopeful Alma Parks. "It gives people something else to look forward to."

Powerball began in 1988, then known as LottoAmerica. The Powerball name was adopted in 1992 and in 2012 the game set a United State record for the largest lottery prize for one winning ticket --$337 million.

Two winners shared the game's largest jackpot of $587 million in November 2012.

Money from sales of tickets for Powerball, SuperLOTTO Plus and MEGA Millions supplement public education budgets in California.
 

Tuesday, April 9 is Opening Day for the Padres.

You know who’s on the 25-man Padres’ roster, you know they faced the Mets in the Big Apple last week, and you know it was Edinson Volquez taking the mound for the third straight Opening Day.

But did you know these Opening Day fun facts?

1910: William Howard Taft was the first president to ever throw out a ceremonial pitch. Since that day every president except Jimmy Carter has thrown at least one ceremonial pitch for either Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series. President Barack Obama has thrown out several ceremonial pitches including at the 2009 All-Star Game.

1912: A game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and rival New York Giants turned into a riot scene. The Dodgers were down and fans stormed the field, delaying the game. Once all that hullabaloo died down, the game had to be called in the sixth inning on account of darkness.

1940: Cleveland pitcher Bob Feller is the only pitcher to throw a no-hitter on Opening Day. The 21-year-old threw it against the Chicago White Sox.

1947: Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play for a Major League team. He debuted playing first base with the Brooklyn Dodgers at 28 years old.

1974: Hank Aaron hit his 714th home run to tie Babe Ruth on the all-time list.

Ken Griffey Jr. shares the record for most career home runs on Opening Day with Hall of Famer Frank Robinson. Each has sent eight balls on a one-way ticket out of the stadium.

Hall of Famer Tom Seaver has started the most Opening Day games in history. He made 11 OD starts for the Mets, three for the Reds and two for the White Sox. 

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's death Monday at the age of 87 triggered a wave of remembrances, from Hollywood to Capitol Hill, that paid homage to the powerful political figure.

Social media buzzed with the sort of polarizing sentiment she evoked during her more than decade-long tenure marked by sweeping, and sometimes painful economic changes. But she was also remembered as a pioneering figure that helped paved the way for other female leaders across the world.

Actress Meryl Streep, who won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her portrayal of Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," called her "a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit" and marveled at her ability to withstand, what she called, unprecedented and "special hatred and ridicule."

Nancy Reagan called her late husband and Thatcher "political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end communism."

Spice Girl Geri Halliwell tweeted that the former Prime Minister taught her that "any thing is possible," while politicians she worked with and those who succeeded her shared their impressions about the strong-willed woman from humble beginnings.

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert was remembered in a Chicago funeral service Monday that included several touching speeches from his friends and family.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said during the service that, "Roger was able to bring the spirit of American film alive."

Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and television personality who made famous the thumbs-up, thumbs-down reviewing style, died last week at 70 after a years-long battle with cancer.

The service began at 10 a.m. at Holy Name Cathedral and was open to friends and fans.

Ebert's wife, Chaz Hammelsmith, said she almost didn't speak but knew Ebert would want to thank everyone for coming "He had a heart big enough to accept and love all," she said.

His granddaughter, Ravin; and Jonathon Jackson were also among the speakers.

In lieu of flowers, mourners who wish to show support were asked to send donations to The Ebert Foundation, a nonprofit that supports arts and education programs.

Members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church were reportedly planning to picket the funeral over Ebert having mocked the group, which is infamous for protesting at soldiers' funerals.

A memorial tribute is also planned for Thursday, but details were not immediately available.

Ebert's death came two days after he marked his 46th anniversary of becoming the Chicago Sun-Times' movie reviewer with a note on his website in which he vowed to keep working through a recurrence of cancer.

Millions of fans devoured his newspaper reviews, watched his groundbreaking television show and followed his blog. To many of those fans, he'll be the guy who shared their love of movies, and helped them understand how they could enrich their lives.

• PHOTOS Favorite Ebert Memories

For years, millions watched Ebert walk into the Chicago Theatre every week, thumb ready for his latest review. 

"He had a great generosity of spirit. He was generous in size, generous in style, and he had a generous heart," said Thea Flaum, the producer who first paired Ebert and Gene Siskel. "He was kind and thoughtful, he was always eager to look at the work of young new filmmakers and support what they were doing."

Siskel and Ebert's show became the highest-rated show in public television, and as they say in the movies, a star was born. Ebert quickly became a household name and many were rooting for him as he battled cancer.

When Michigan's basketball team advanced to the title game by beating Syracuse in Atlanta on Saturday night, there wasn't much doubt that we'd be hearing about the Fab Five during the run up to the game. 

We should do one better: We should see them. With a new group of young Michigan basketball players vying for a national title, now is the time for the Fab Five to reunie.

The last time Michigan played in the final college basketball game of the year they were led by the five brash, young sophomores, making their second straight appearance in the title game: Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson and Jimmy King. A year earlier, the all-freshmen lineup earned the nickname Fab Five.

The Fab Five lost in the finals to Duke in 1992 and then lost again to North Carolina in 1993. But those losses couldn't change the fact that the Fab Five had a monumental impact on college basketball. 

Baggy uniforms and groups of freshmen playing outsize roles on title contenders were rare before the Fab Five, but they've become such an ingrained part of the game that it is hard to remember a time before they were taken for granted.

With time to kill before the game against Louisville starts on Monday night, it seemed like the perfect moment for the CBS cameras to find the erstwhile Fab Five as they root on the freshman stars that have helped propel this year's team. 

Alas, things aren't always so rosy. Webber, the most Fab of the Five, has had nothing to do with Michigan for a decade as a result of sanctions handed down after Webber was found to have lied about receiving improper benefits while he was in Ann Arbor. 

The Final Four banners came down at Crisler Arena, and Webber's records were stricken from the books, leaving Webber hurt and wanting nothing to do with the school. With the basketball team finally back in the spotlight, there's a push on to change that. 

Rose did a podcast with his ESPN counterpart Bill Simmons on Grantland.com on Sunday, calling for Webber to join his teammates in Atlanta (Webber's current residence) for the game on Monday night. The plea's been picked up on Twitter as fans of Michigan and basketball in general plead for a chance to see one of the game's most memorable teams together again after such a long time apart. 

Webber's offered no indication that he'll be at the game, but hasn't said anything about missing it either, so the watch will remain on until there's some kind of confirmation either way.

Here's hoping that he finds a way to get there for the game,

The first thing mentioned about the Fab Five now is the ugly way it wound up playing out - sanctions, forfeited wins, removed banners. That's part of the story -- as is the fateful timeout Webber called in the final seconds of the loss to Carolina when Michigan didn't have any left --  but it isn't the whole story. Not by a long shot. 

The real story was the way the five freshmen burst onto the scene like a supernova, unwilling to be patient and wait their turn to succeed like just about every other freshman in the history of basketball before them. It was their bravado and the way they backed it up with a free-flowing, highly entertaining brand of basketball that belied their limited years. 

We watch basketball to see players and teams like that. We remember them because they come around so rarely that they should be savored. A reunion while watching another generation of Wolverines trying to take that final step on the ladder -- the step that eluded the Fab Five 20 years ago -- would make it about the basketball again, and it would give the Fab Five one more moment to bask in the adulation they deserve. 

Josh Alper is also a writer for Pro Football Talk. You can follow him on Twitter.

A small airplane carrying four people made a hard landing in Big Bear Lake Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.

FAA officials say the Beech A36 plane lost engine power and was forced to make a hard landing in some shallow water in Big Bear Lake at around 10:40 a.m.

The plane landed upside down and was severely damaged. All four occupants made it out of the aircraft safely, sustaining minor injuries, authorities said. Their names were not released.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating the incident.

According to FAA registry records, the aircraft is registered to Diehl Group Architects, Inc., out of Encinitas.

Police are investigating a series of pedestrian robberies that happened Sunday night.

The first incident happened around 10:45 p.m. at the 3600-block of El Cajon Boulevard. Police received a second call at 11 p.m. at the intersection of 37th Street and Pole Ave. Shortly after 11:30 p.m., they got another call in the 1000-block of University Avenue.

Officers say one victim was punched in the face, and a gun was also used to threaten the victims.

No suspect description has been released.

Police cannot confirm if the crimes are related and they are investigating.

A fire burned in Logan Heights Monday morning.

Aerial views of 733 S Gregory St. showed smoke and flames emitting from a residential building around 6:30 a.m.

Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze shortly after arriving on scene.

A woman died Sunday night after being struck by a car in Encinitas, according to officials.

The incident happened around 8 p.m. on Sunday night on the 2600-block of South Coast Highway 101.

Witnesses said two women had just left a bar and were waiting on the side of the road for their ride when one of the women ran into traffic and was hit by a car.

A man who was a waiter at a nearby restaurant rushed to the streets to help the woman, in addition to a nurse driving by the scene. The pair performed CPR until paramedics arrived, according to officials.

The 43-year-old victim later died at the hospital. She was later identified by the Medical Examiner's office as Tara Jean Murphy of Vista. Her companion did not need to be treated.

Investigators said it's possible the women were under the influence of alcohol.

More than 1,000 ailing sea lion pups have been washed ashore in Southern California over the past three months, and a national fisheries expert says a lack of food source is likely the cause, not radiation as reported by some media outlets.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has assembled a team of experts to research the cause of the beached sea lion pup problem.

NOAA has been granted an official declaration of what’s called an Unusual Mortality Event (UME). The status allows for the establishment of a panel of experts to convene to look for answers and will also provide for extra funding.

On Thursday, NOAA held a conference to discuss that research. Experts said the leading hypothesis their panel is looking at focuses on a lack of food source, starvation and dehydration. Other potential causes being studied include possible infectious diseases or pollutants in the ocean.

Experts believe pups are being affected in greater numbers than adult sea lions because they are limited in how far they can travel and unfamiliar with the environment.

Over the weekend, some news outlets reported that radiation from Japan’s March 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster is also being looked at as a possible cause for the UME concerning sea lion pups.

On Sunday, NBC 7 spoke with Jim Milbury of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service who said experts “haven’t ruled out” the possibility of radiation affecting the sea lion pups. However, Milbury said it is highly unlikely that radiation is to blame.

“Radiation is being looked at, just like everything else. We haven’t ruled it out, but we really don’t suspect this at all,” Milbury told NBC 7. “We don’t suspect radiation because this would also mean other animals in the ocean would be affected, especially in the oceans of Hawaii, closer to Japan, and we haven't seen any of that.”

Milbury says the more plausible cause is simply starvation.

“For some unknown reason that we’re still researching, their food prey has moved to another location in the ocean and the sea lion pups can’t get to it,” he explained.

So far in 2013 in San Diego, there have been seven times the number of sea lions that have beached themselves compared to the same time period last year. From Jan. 1 to Mar. 31, NOAA experts say 214 sea lions have washed ashore locally. Last year during this time period, 32 sea lions were found on San Diego’s shoreline.

SeaWorld animal care specialists tell NBC 7 they have rescued six sea lions from local beaches just in this past Friday and Saturday alone.

The number of ailing sea lions has risen across all of Southern California, in coastal counties stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego, according to NOAA Fisheries.

Milbury confirms there have been 1,100 beached sea lions across these coastal counties from Jan. 1 to Mar. 31. The historical average for this time period is 131, he said.

Milbury says NOAA’s research conducted by this new panel of experts will take several weeks.

Until then, he says a big concern is making sure people don’t touch or contact beached sea lions since they are wild animals. Instead, he says local beachgoers should report stranded sea lions to authorities such as SeaWorld’s animal rescue team in San Diego.

Anyone who comes across a stranded sea lion can call SeaWorld rescuers at 1-800-541-SEAL.
 

A winter shelter that was scheduled to close Monday morning remained open because of action from San Diego's mayor.

When a local veterans groups recently learned that  the downtown general population homeless shelter would be receiving funds to extend services for three more months, they asked for extended funding as well.

Mayor Bob Filner extended the shelter's operating period over the weekend. The shelter is usually open from December to April 8, but starting Monday it will remain open for an unknown amount of time.

The veterans were initially worried about where they would go after Sunday.

"I'm just 61 years old, I'm not ready to die," said veteran John Pearson, who has level four emphysema.

Pearson and about 90 homeless veterans were running out of hope for the Veteran's Winter Shelter in the Midway District. But local homeless advocates helped secure extra time for the temporary residents.

The shelter has nearly 150 beds, food, medical care, and other services and costs the city about $100,000 a month to operate.

It's unclear how long the veterans winter shelter will stay open or how the city will fund it.

Several roads reopened Monday morning after a crew works to clean up a fuel spill in Mission Valley.

A fuel tanker overturned and spilled flammable liquid at a Qualcomm Stadium lot on Sunday night, according to officials.

The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. when a truck driver was traveling east on Mission Village Drive and tried to turn left. The truck then flipped over on its side at the end of a ramp leading into the stadium. 

There were two breaks in the tank that caused the leaking, according to San Diego Fire spokesperson Maurice Luque. The truck is carrying around 8,000 gallons of flammable fluid.

Roughly 6,000 gallons of flammable liquid leaked from the truck, according to officials. Crews have pumped about 2,500 gallons of spilled fuel from the ground and nearby storm drains. Once the truck was pushed upright, about 2,000 gallons remained inside.

About 3,300 gallons of fuel are unaccounted for, meaning they might have seeped into the pavement or surrounding areas.

The driver of the truck suffered moderate injuries from the accident and has been taken to a nearby hospital. He was driving to a tank farm near I-15 when the incident happened.

Officials said sand bags were requested to keep fuel from leaking into the stadium and to keep fluid spreading into other areas. Transients in the nearby riverbed were also warned of the spill since they tend to make small bonfires in the area, according to officials. 

This is not the first time a fuel tanker truck has overturned in that same general area. In December 2005, a driver was pulling two fuel tankers, when one of the tankers tipped over and burst into flames and about 4,000 gallons of fuel burned for two hours.

Then in August 2007, another tanker truck carrying 8,300 of gasoline overturned closing Friars Road and the ramps to I-15. A relatively small amount of fuel spilled into a storm drain, but the rest was actually siphoned from the truck.

More than a dozen Newtown parents directly and tragically linked to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, candidly recalled the December day that changed their lives in an emotional "60 Minutes" segment that aired Sunday night.

They spoke of frantic phone calls and fraying nerves as the day wore on and parents gathered at the local firehouse had still not located their children.

"There were people everywhere ...  and you really had to push to get through," said Nicole Hockley, the mother of one of the first-graders in Victoria Soto's class, killed in the attack. "We were all just jostling because we were trying to find our kids."

The interview aired on the eve of a big lobbying day for gun control supporters, which brought President Barack Obama to the University of Hartford and will send 11 relatives of Sandy Hook victims, including Hockley, to Washington where they will push for federal gun control legislation. In the "60 Minutes" segment, parents and relatives made an emotional plea for more stringent background checks and limits to the size of ammunition magazines.

"You can have a million bullets but if you have to put them in one at a time, the ability to do any kind of real damage is significantly reduced," said Bill Sherlock, the husband of Sandy Hook school psychologist Mary Sherlock, who died confronting shooter Adam Lanza. "It's simple arithmetic. If you have to change magazines 15 times instead of five times you have three more instances where something could jam," something could go wrong and potential victims can escape as 11 students did during a lull in Lanza's shooting rampage, he added.

While the gun control debate was certainly the backdrop of the interview and what called the victims' relatives to the studio, the focus, more than anything, remained fixed on the memory of their children and loved ones, and their experiences on and since Dec. 14.

Hockley remembered the relief of finding her son Jake, suddenly shattered by the uncomfortable reminder that her other son Dylan, who had not yet been found, may not have survived.

"A woman asked me, 'what classroom was your other child in?' And I said, Miss Soto's. And she said, 'I heard she got shot.' And I got really angry at her and I remember very clearly saying, 'don't you dare say that to me if you don't know it's true.'" Hockley said. Teacher Victoria Soto did in fact die in the attack.

"I just pushed by her but I couldn't find Dylan's classroom or anyone from his class anywhere," said Hockley.

It was Gov. Dannel Malloy who finally, hours after the last shots were fired, broke the news to parents gathered in a back room at the firehouse.

"[He] had the duty to stand in front of the room and tell us that if we were in that room then our child or adult wasn't coming back to us," Hockley recalled.

Jimmy Greene, the father of Ana Marquez-Greene, who also died in the shooting, spoke about finding his other child, who also attended Sandy Hook, safe and terrified.

"I saw my son's teacher in a living room area ... Isaiah popped up and I just went and grabbed him and held him and he was crying, 'Daddy, you know, there were so many gunshots. I saw this and I saw that,'" Greene recalled. "So I just took my son in my arms—he's a big kid, but I took him like he was two years old again and held him on my shoulder and was just running and running from room to room trying to locate Ana's class."

His wife, Nelba Marquez-Greene, who is also among the group flying to Washington Monday evening, was driving to Sandy Hook when she learned that their son was okay.

"I was texting [Jimmy] every ten or fifteen seconds," she said. "Ana, question mark. And then Ana, exclamation point. Because we had Isaiah. I didn't understand why we didn't have Ana."

When she arrived at the school and later the firehouse and was eventually told to head into a back room, she didn't want to go.

"I knew what the back room meant. In my heart, as a mother, I knew what the back room meant."

Some of the most touching testimony regarded how the parents are coping with the absence of the quirky kids who were at the center of their lives.

Francine Wheeler said she dreams of her son Benjamin all the time. "And we talk," she said. "And he and I talk when I take my walks. And I just feel him. If I ask him to be present he is. And I know he'll always be there."

Jackie Barden said she feels distance growing between her and her son Daniel, who died in the shooting. "Sometimes it's too painful to think about him. And then I feel guilty because I need to think about him and keep him alive, but it's so hard because we miss him so much."

Nicole Hockley said that she keeps Dylan's cremated remains next to his photo in her bedroom. "Every morning I kiss him good morning and say hi. And he's the last thing I kiss before I go to bed at night. And every night I beg for him to come to me in my dreams so I can see him again. And during the day, I just focus on what I can do to honor him and make change."

Hockley and 10 other members of the Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit pushing for federal gun control legislation, will fly aboard Air Force 1 with the president to Washington Monday night, where they will spend the week lobbying Congress for change. They represent nine victims killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.

A man was arrested early Monday morning after crashing his car into a highway divider.

It happened around 12:30 a.m. on Interstate 805 southbound at State Route 54 in National City.

A witness said he saw the car weaving through traffic before hitting the divider. The driver did major damage to the car, but did not appear to be injured.

Officers gave him a sobriety test then took him into custody.