A woman was detained Tuesday morning after police said she tried to steal a research vessel filled with people.

Around 2 a.m. a woman untying boat lines at the Scripps Institute facility in Point Loma prompted a security guard to call police.

The woman had made had made her way over the facility's fence and was trying to untie dock lines to research ship called "New Horizon" full of scientists sleeping on board. The security guard detained the woman and Harbor Police officers took her into custody.

Police said the vessel is considered federal property and that the woman had been missing for a few days from South Carolina. Officials said she told them she wanted to sail away back home.

No charges have been filed as police believe the woman may be mentally unstable.

After a perfect wedding, Brendon and Anna Kimber were ready for a perfect honeymoon. But fate had other plans.

The Kimbers were married in a ceremony Saturday in San Diego. After a dinner with family, the couple planned to go to the airport and fly to Jamaica Sunday night.

However, when they left, they discovered someone had broken into their car. Most of their personal belongings were gone, including wallets, driver’s licenses and passports.

They said they don’t know how someone got into the car because all the doors were locked.

It’s still up in the air whether they’ll be able to take a trip. Brendon starts graduate school in a few weeks in Chicago.

"We have to go back to square one and just figure out if we have time to do that stuff because we have our life in Chicago to start,” he said.

Anna said they’re relying on faith to get through this.

"I know that the lord works all things for the good, and I know that there's a reason this happened, “ she said tearfully.

The couple is hopeful some of the missing items will be recovered. An iMac computer was also stolen, and they’ve gotten a few pings on the GPS finder.

Traffic engineers will investigate the speed limit near High Tech High School in Chula Vista following concerns from parents that the speed limit is too high.

The 50 mph road Hunte Parkway runs along school property without the usual reduced speed zone that are seen at most neighborhood schools.

Parents told NBC 7 a slower speed limit certainly wouldn't hurt, and some people would like it reduced to 25 mph.

“With kids around, it's always better to go slow,” said Latanya Lockett. “Even in here it's like hold on a second.  People are in such a hurry.”

According to this safety commission report, the Chula Vista City Council established the 50 mph speed limit in 2011, four years after the K-12 school was built. The city says it based its decision on the engineering report, which took the school into account.

But amid concerns, the city released this statement saying:
 "…we will have our traffic engineers investigate the signage and traffic conditions around the school. We will follow up in a week or two to let you know what has been determined and any actions we will take."
 
A slower speed limit would be a welcome change for some parents at the school, who say the street is probably more dangerous now that there's so much development nearby.

“Everything is so new here and it used to be nothing and now all of a sudden… you wouldn't know that tucked over here is a little school,” said Lockett.

The Navy has officially canceled its Blue Angels performances for the rest of the year.

For San Diego, this means the annual Miramar Air Show will not have the popular flying force in this year's performance.

"Recognizing budget realities, current Defense policy states that outreach events can only be supported with local assets at no cost to the government," read a statement released by the Naval Air Force on Tuesday morning. "This is one of many steps the Navy is taking to ensure resources are in place to support forces operating forward now and those training to relieve them."

MCAS officials said the annual air show will continue despite the Blue Angels loss.

"We've certainly enjoyed having the Blue Angels in the past, I know they've been a fan favorite but I think it's important to note they're not what drives the Miramar Air Show, they're not what makes it," said MCSD Lt. Tyler Balzer.

Officials have cut air shows to save an estimated $28 million in budget cuts -- which also includes flyovers at games and special events.

The Navy said the squadron will continue to train in Florida to "main maintain flying proficiency until further notice."

For the first time in 86 years, contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee will be asked a question their predecessors have never faced: What does it mean?

Bee organizers announced Tuesday the addition of a vocabulary evaluation, which will count for 50 percent of a speller's overall score and impact who will advance to the semifinal and championship rounds next month.

"This is a significant change in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but also a natural one," the director of the Bee, Paige Kimble, said. "It represents a deepening of the Bee's commitment to its purpose: to help students improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn concepts and develop correct English usage that will help them all their lives."

The vocabulary portion will be computer-based and multiple-choice. Sample questions include: What does it mean to appertain? (To belong either as something appropriate or as an attribute.) And, what does it mean to winnow? (To take out undesired parts.)

Local championships wrapped up at the end of last month, so all contestants vying for the national title have the same window of time to brush up on their vocabulary. More than 280 spellers will compete in Washington D.C. May 28 to May 30 in the Bee, which will be broadcast on ESPN.

Last year, 14-year-old Snigdha Nandipati won -- her prize included $30,000 in cash, a trophy, a $2,500 savings bond, a $5,000 scholarship and other perks -- for correctly spelling "guetapens," a French-derived noun meaning ambush, snare or trap. She was not required to define it.

This year's contestants who make it to the final round will not be asked to define words either—the vocabulary portion will be wrapped up by May 29.

News of the rule change reverberated on Twitter where commenters shared their outrage, amusement and occasional gratitutude for the rule change. Here's a sampling:

The San Diego Sheriff's Department announced Tuesday they they are transferring the case of the missing McStay family to the FBI.

Joseph McStay, a Fallbrook businessman; his wife, Summer; and their two children, Gianni 4, Joseph Jr. 3 were last seen in February 2010. A group of people resembling the McStays was spotted on surveillance video crossing into Mexico at the San Ysidro border crossing on Feb. 8.

"Over the last three years, the Sheriff's Department has conducted an exhaustive missing person investigation in an attempt to locate the family," read the statement from the sheriff's department. "Hundreds of tips have been investigated without success."

The sheriff's department said they reached a consensus that the family went to Mexico of their own free will. The case will now be handled by the FBI, with the sheriff's department playing a supporting role.

Since their disappearance, the McStays haven't used their bank accounts, credit cards or cell phones and have made no communication to the U.S. that investigators are aware of.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the McStay family is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

The daughter of the school principal killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre called out U.S. senators who are threatening a filibuster on gun control for failing to take her phone calls, and Gov. Dannel Malloy lent his voice this afternoon to help her get calls back.

Erica Lafferty tweeted on Tuesday that she was going through the list of U.S. senators threatening to filibuster and calling them one by one. On Tuesday morning, she tweeted a photo of her sister’s wedding where the bride is kissing her mother’s check.

"I don’t get one of these at my wedding in June," she tweeted.

One senator, Ted Cruz of Texas, agreed to call her back. So she called others out for not calling her back.

"I'll never see my mom again because she was gunned down in Sandy Hook. I don't deserve to be heard?" she tweeted to members of Congress.    

A newsletter posted on the website for Sen. Cruz says he "has pledged to use any procedural means necessary to ensure Congress does not pass any laws infringing on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens."

Sen. Cruz spoke with Lafferty by phone for 15 to 20 minutes Tuesday afternoon, according to a source.

Through Twitter, Lafferty told the lawmakers that she is not going away.

Lafferty tweeted at Cruz, along with Sens. Marco Rubio, Jim Inhofe, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Jerry Moran, Richard Burr, Ron Johnson, Mike Enzi, Jim Risch, Mike Crapo, Dan Coats and Pat Roberts.

Then Gov. Malloy got involved, tweeting each of the lawmakers.

"Please call @E_Laffs2 back. The families deserve to be heard, and they deserve a vote," Malloy tweeted.

Andrew Doba, director of communications for Malloy, said the governor’s office wanted to lend its voice to the effort.

Several families who lost loved ones in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December traveled to Washington on Monday with President Barack Obama to assist with lobbying efforts on federal gun control legislation. 

A father and son are at the center of a payroll scheme involving a former College Area restaurant.

David Dadon, 61, and Barry Dadon, 27, owned the State Street Grill. On Tuesday, David was arraigned and pleaded not guilty; he is being held on $500,000 bail. Barry pleaded not guilty last week and is currently free on bail.

The pair faces 21 felony counts, including workers’ compensation premium fraud and sales tax evasion.

According to the District Attorney’s Office, the owners found their employees on Craigslist. They asked applicants to do a “training period,” seven days without pay. If they took the job, the DA said they were paid fewer than $5 an hour.

The case involves more than 20 former servers and cooks, many of them students. The District Attorney’s Office estimates the loss at more than $350,000. There could be as many as 50 additional victims.

The State Street Grill closed last December.

A 6-year-old New Jersey boy has died after being shot in the head with a rifle by his 4-year-old neighbor, a law enforcement source says. 

Brandon Holt died at Jersey Shore Medical Center, where he was taken with a bullet lodged in his brain Monday evening, police said. He had been playing in the younger boy's yard when he was shot. 

"They said he was OK, but you knew he wasn't going to be. And it's not going to be," said neighbor Diane Mlenak. "It's going to change the innocence of all the children around here." 

It's not clear if the 4-year-old pulled the trigger or if the rifle accidentally discharged. 

Authorities said the two boys were outside the 4-year-old's home in Toms River when the gun, a .22-caliber rifle, went off at about 7 p.m. The parents were nearby and heard the shot; the boy's mother called 911.

The victim's aunt, Danella Magiera, told NBC 4 New York the bullet went through the back of his head and became lodged in his brain. 

Toms River Police Chief Michael Mastronardy said the boy was shot from 15 yards away. 

Police are investigating how the younger child obtained the rifle from his family's home on McCormick Drive. Authorities said it wasn't known if the rifle was registered to anyone who lives there. It apparently was not the only firearm in the house, according to neighbors, who said they saw investigators remove almost a dozen guns from the home Monday night. Investigators would not detail to NBC 4 New York what was taken. 

"I think it's a tragedy that could have been prevented," said another neighbor, Stacey Suppa. "I feel the parents need to be accountable, totally need to be accountable." 

Multiple law enforcement sources said the 4-year-old boy and his two siblings have names associated with hunting terms.

The case is being turned over to the Atlantic County prosecutor's office because of a conflict of interest in the Ocean County prosecutor's office, law enforcement sources said. 

The shooting has brought a new reality check for parents whose children go to play at neighbors' homes. 

"My sister said she would actually ask, 'Do you have guns, are they locked up?' Because you never know today. You never know," said neighbor Debi Coto. 

"I feel bad for the 4-year-old, because he's going to have to live with it," said Suppa. "He probably doesn't even understand it." 

Climate change could dampen spirits. Literally.

That's according to a new worldwide analysis of global warming on wine production, which appeared this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers found the area suitable for wine production will shrink by as much as 73 percent by 2050 in certain parts of the globe — about 70 percent in California — with high potential for stress on rivers and other freshwater ecosystems, as vineyards use water to cool grapes or irrigate to compensate for rising temperatures and declining rainfall. 

Scientists, including those at Stanford University, have long known that land suitable for winegrowing was in deep trouble because of the heating of the Earth.

But the new study suggests wine production will shift to new areas — such as the Rocky Mountains near the Canadian-U.S. border and New Zealand — as climate change makes the existing ones less hospitable.

The move, the scientists say, puts other species, such as the grizzly bear, gray wolf and pronghorn, at risk.

"Climate change is going to move potential wine-producing regions all over the map," Lee Hannah, the study's lead author and senior scientist for climate change biology at Conservation International's new Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics, said in a statement.

"These global changes put the squeeze on wildlife and nature's capacity o sustain human life in some surprising places," Hannah said. "Consumer awareness, industry and conservation actions are all needed to help keep high quality wine flowing without unintended consequences for nature and the flows of goods and services it provides people. This is just the tip of the iceberg — the same will be true for many other crops."

The researchers looked at nine major wine producing areas: California, Western North America, Chile, Mediterranean Europe, Northern Europe, Cape Floristic region of South Africa, parts of Australia with Mediterranean climate, parts of Australia with non-Mediterranean climate and New Zealand.

Most American wine comes from the West Coast — Napa and Santa Barbara Counties in California, Yamhill County in Oregon's Willamette Valley and Walla Walla County in Washington's Columbia Valley.

California alone, according to Stanford, produces on average more than 5 million gallons per year, accounting for about 90 percent of the nation's total wine production, according to the Wine Institute, a trade organization representing California winemakers. The institute estimated the retail value of the state's wine industry in 2010 at $18.5 billion.

A rollover accident backed up traffic during the evening commute Tuesday in La Mesa.

The crash happened at 5:30 p.m. on State Route 125 southbound at Interstate 8.

The California Highway Patrol said the people inside the car made it out safely. Only minor injuries were reported.

Officers said the accident blocked three lanes. Traffic was slow moving as crews worked to clear the scene.

Robin Kelly will head to Washington, D.C. this week to become the next congresswoman from Illinois.

With 92 percent of precincts reporting as of 9 p.m.., Kelly had earned 72 percent of the vote, trumping ballots cast for her closest challenger, Republican Paul McKinley.

The 56-year-old congresswoman-elect, who replaces convicted former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., said she'll head to Congress with a priority list that includes gun control and immigration reform.

"Make no mistake, the road ahead will be bumpy. Making our families safe from gun violence is going to be a challenge," she told supporters at a Holiday Inn in Matteson. "Putting people back to work is a tough task. But, to those who say that we won't be able to make Congress do anything on gun control, who think this Tea Party Congress can't be beaten, I've got two words: Watch us."

She was joined on stage by the parents of Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago teen who was slain as she took shelter from the rain in a south side part just days after attending President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremonies.

"I am awed and inspired by the strength of families like the Pendletons and, unfortunately, far too many others, who are working to turn tragedy into triumph," said Kelly.

Kelly will have big shoes to fill: Jackson was a 17-year incumbent who served on the powerful House Appropriations Committee and brought home nearly $1 billion to the district. He also had strong relationships with mayors, activists and voters across the district that includes city neighborhoods, suburbs and some rural areas.

Jackson resigned in November. He pleaded guilty in February in federal court to lavishly misspending $750,000 in campaign funds.

Kelly received big name endorsements including from President Barack Obama and received a huge boost from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's super PAC, which supported her gun control stance. Also, the district is solidly Democratic and has been for about six decades. McKinley is an ex-con-turned-community activist who barely won his primary.
Gun Rights Group Calls Kelly an "Ignorant Witch"
Early estimates showed low voter turnout in parts of the district, especially the city. Tuesday's special election coincided with municipal contests in other parts of the state; Chicago held its municipal contests in 2011.

Only 8 percent of city voters showed up at the polls, according to early estimates, with an expected turnout of roughly 12 percent by day's end. In the suburbs, the number was higher.

Independents Elizabeth Pahlke, Marcus Lewis and Curtis Bay, as well as Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones, were also on Tuesday's ballot.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A bill that would increase penalties in "swatting" cases — placing false emergency calls in an effort to prompt a police response, often to a celebrity home — passed a California Senate committee Tuesday as the Los Angeles City Council also considered the issue following a series of high-profile cases.

Bill Text: Senate Bill 333

Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz introduced a motion Tuesday, asking the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would require offenders to pay restitution for "swatting" cases. The motion asks the attorney to report back in 30 days.

The cases usually involve celebrity homes, such as Friday's false reports involving the homes of entertainers Selena Gomez and Justin Timberlake.

"These 'swatting' incidents pose a threat to public safety, not only because they tie up much needed LAPD resources, but also because officers responding to these fake incidents have been injured," Koretz's motion stated. "Sources inside the LAPD feel it's only a matter of time before an officer gets killed as a result of a 'swatting' incident."

In Sacramento Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Public Safety approved SB333. The bill proposes penalties — including jail time — for anyone convicted of placing the false report.

The bill advanced to the Senate Appropriations Committee, where it will be subject to a fiscal review within a month.

"We've been told by law enforcement agencies that each swatting incident costs between several thousand dollars to, potentially, $10,000 or more," said Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance).

Police responded to Gomez's home in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday after a caller reported that someone had been killed at the residence. About two hours earlier, police responded to Timberlake's Hollywood Hills home after a false "shots fired" call.

On Thursday, police received several false reports of a shooting and armed robbery at Rihanna's home in the city's Pacific Palisades area. Police descended on Sean "Diddy" Combs' Toluca Lake home on Wednesday after receiving a phony call that there was a shooting in the area.

"They must be brought to justice," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. "And, they must go to jail, which is by we're working with the state legislature to make this a felony."

Lieu's bill calls for a minimum of four months in jail for anyone convicted of filing the false report. The offender also would be liable for police costs related to the response.

SB333 would make the crime a felony if someone is injured during the response. In such cases, the offender could face up to three years in jail.

The current penalty for a false 911 report — a misdemeanor — is up to one year in jail.

The term "swatting" is derived from the acronym for the Special Weapons and Tactics unit. Members are highly trained in military-style weapons and tactics used during barricade-hostage situations and other high-risk operations.

Past "swatting" calls have prompted significant responses, but that was not the case last week.

"During one of the recent cases, rather than sending a bunch of cars up there, we sent one individual who checked with the owner — it was nothing," said LAPD Commander Andrew Smith.

Whitmore and Smith said authorities have improved techniques to detect a call's origin.

"They use a lot of sophisticated computer work to mask where they are," Smith said. "They call from other parts of the country or parts of the state. But we have some pretty sharp folks working in our computer crimes division."

The Florida couple accused of kidnapping their own children and fleeing to Cuba on a boat were booked into a Tampa jail early Wednesday morning after they were handed over to U.S. authorities.

Sharyn Patricia Hakken, 34, and husband Joshua Michael Hakken, 35, are facing several charges including kidnapping, child neglect, burglary and interference with custody, according to Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office jail records.

Both were being held without bond and it was unknown whether they have attorneys.

Authorities say Joshua Michael Hakken kidnapped his sons, 4-year-old Cole and 2-year-old Chase, from his mother-in-law's house north of Tampa. The boys' maternal grandparents had been granted permanent custody of the boys last week.

The children are safe and are expected to be returned to their maternal grandparents later Wednesday.

The boys' grandfather, Bob Hauser, thanked family and friends for their prayers and authorities for their help in finding his grandchildren.

"We are very appreciative of that, and it was very, very comforting to my wife and I to know that that was going on," Hauser said.
 
On Tuesday, Foreign Ministry official Johana Tablada said in a statement that Cuba had informed U.S. authorities of the country's decision to turn over the couple and their children.
 
The Hakkens had been spotted alongside their boat, Salty, docked at Havana's Hemingway Marina. A Cuban official said that the ministry alerted the U.S. authorities that the boat arrived in the Marina on April 7 at 3:20 p.m. during poor weather conditions.

Tablada said Cuba tipped the State Department off to the Hakkens' presence on Sunday and that from that moment "diplomatic contact has been exchanged and a professional and constant communication has been maintained."

The U.S. and Cuba share no extradition agreement and the island nation is also not a signatory of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty for governmental cooperation on such cases.

Hakken lost custody of his sons last year after a drug possession arrest in Louisiana and later tried to take the children from a foster home at gunpoint, authorities said.

According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Hakken entered his mother-in-law's Florida house last Wednesday, tied her up and fled with his sons. Federal, state and local authorities searched by air and sea for a boat Hakken had recently bought. The truck Hakken, his wife and the boys had been traveling in was found Thursday, abandoned in Madeira Beach, Fla.

Southern California's recent windstorm downed trees, knocked out power lines and fanned the flames of a wildfire, but it also set an energy record by spinning those towering white turbines in the desert.

A new high was recorded Sunday in the amount of electric power produced by wind turbines in the state, according to the independent nonprofit that runs about four-fifths of the state's power grid.

Wind gusts of more than 70 mph powered through the region beginning Saturday and lasting through Monday, with thousands losing power and drivers encountering poor visibility. Gusts were expected to continue in some areas late Tuesday into Wednesday.

The new record was set at 6:44 p.m. Sunday, when turbines spinning of the California Independent System Operator grid reported 4,196 megawatts of power produced.

That amount of power is enough to provide power to more than 3.1 million homes on average at once, according to data in a Cal ISO explainer.

On Friday, April 5, wind turbines had produced 4,095 megawatts of power, surpassing California's record of 3,944 megawatts, which had been set on March 3.

“With these impressive wind production levels, California is well positioned to meet the 33 percent by 2020 green power goal,” said ISO President and CEO Steve Berberich, referring to a sustainable energy target set by California law.

Wind plants in California have a capacity of 5,899 megawatts on the Cal ISO grid, the organization said in a press release Monday, but not all of that capacity was available during the windstorm because of routine outages.

In the United States, California comes in second in wind power to Texas, where the state's peak production is more than twice that seen the Golden State's Sunday record.
 

The Ramona Unified School District is recruiting emergency substitute teachers in preparation for a possible strike.

The school board has asked teachers to take furlough days or reduced pay in order for the district to be financially solvent.

Teachers are scheduled to meet Thursday with union representatives. They’ll discuss a fact-finding report from the district.

“We hope the teachers return to the bargaining table in the very near future and agree to a negotiated settlement,” said Superintendent Robert Graeff.

In the meantime, a classified ad has been published seeking "emergency substitute teachers" that would pay $275 per day.

Normally, substitute teachers get $95 a day, but in this case, the district is providing extra incentive for workers to cross the picket line, should there by a strike.

“There's a light at the end of the tunnel, whether it's good or bad we really don't know yet,” said Civics/Economics teacher Greg Fernandez.

He’d like a settlement, even if it means taking concessions.

“I don’t want to strike, no,” Fernandez said. “We don’t want to strike.”

The teachers association didn't return calls to NBC 7 San Diego Tuesday.
 

In an emotional speech, First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday issued a call to arms to community and business leaders in her hometown of Chicago, asking them to guide the city's youth to a better future.

''I'm here today because Chicago is my home,'' Obama said. ''My story would not be possible without this city.''

In her speech, Obama talked at length about the hard lessons learned from Hadiya Pendleton's death and address the violence that has plagued the city in recent months. Pendleton was killed in January in what is believed to be a gang-related shooting; Obama attended her funeral.

Obama was joined by Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel as well as some of the city's most prominent business leaders at a luncheon hosted by the City of Chicago and community leaders whose aim is to help at-risk youths. 

"I urge you to join me and Hadiya's classmates and young people across this city who are against all odds fighting so hard to succeed," Obama said. "We need to show them with not just words but with action that they not alone in this struggle."

Obama's visit comes at a time when parents are grappling with the shuttering of 54 public schools, an issue that has the community worried will put their children in harms way.

Her speech was also aligned with a impending vote on a gun legislation intended to curb violence with stricter background checks.

"Right now my husband is fighting as a hard as he can and engaging with as many people as he can to protect to our children from gun violence," she said. "These reforms deserve a vote in Congress."

After the luncheon, the First Lady is scheduled to meet with a small group of students and counselors at Harper High School to hear about their experiences.

The White House notes Harper High School has been "profoundly affected by violence" with 29 current or former students shot and eight of them killed in the past year. The Englewood school was featured on a two-part "This American Life" series focusing on Chicago violence.

Emanuel's office said the visit with help raise awareness about successful programs that already help at-risk youth.

“The greatest thing we can do as a city is give our children the support they need to build a successful life," Emanuel said. “We are honored to have the First Lady’s support in this effort. I will work tirelessly to provide safe alternatives that reduce the risk of our kids getting involved with drugs, gangs, and violence.”

The forecast team from Colorado State University is predicting an above-average 2013 Atlantic hurricane season with 18 named storms and nine hurricanes.

Of those nine hurricanes, four are expected to be major, according to the predictions released Wednesday by Colorado State's Phil Klotzbach and William Gray.

National Weather Service Looks at Hurricane Warnings

They're also anticipating an above-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the U.S. coastline and in the Caribbean, mainly due to factors including warm sea surface temperatures and the unlikelihood of an El Nino phenomenon developing this season.

The Atlantic Basin annual average is 12 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes.

Last year saw an above-average season with 19 named storms, 10 hurricanes and two major hurricanes, highlighted by the massive and destructive Hurricane Sandy.

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Hurricane season begins June 1 and runs through November. Klotzbach and Gray will issue an update to their predictions on June 3 and again on Aug. 2.

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A man was arrested and charged with making felony threats after an investigation into a suspicious vehicle near the White House Wednesday morning.

Krzyztof Wasik is being held by police. The scene of the investigation was cleared before 7 a.m. Wednesday.

The Secret Service, assisted by D.C. and National Park Police, investigated the vehicle after someone indicated there was a device inside it, reported NBC Washington reported.

The investigation, began shortly before 5 a.m and led to the closure of several District streets as a precaution, which complicated the early morning commute.