A water leak blocked access to the Cabrillo National Monument from Cabrillo Memorial Drive for several hours Saturday morning.

The road has been reopened and the park is open to the public.

There may be traffic delays as repairs are being made.

The southbound bike lane into the park is closed near the water leak area.
 

An above ground transformer has blown in the 700 block of Kettner in Downtown.

The power went out around 10:30 p.m. Saturday evening.

Several surrounding blocks appear to have had at least temporary outages. 

Fire crews and SDG&E are on scene.

3,700 customers are out of power according to SDG&E.

There is no estimated restoration time at this point.

No further information was immediately available.

Refresh this page for updates on this breaking news story.

The breakfast landscape is changing -- with fewer people eating cereal -- and millennials may be at the root of it all.

"I call our generation the hustle generation," said Patrick Eulmi, "We just like to get what we need and get out. No dishes, no prep time."

Eulmi works at his family's breakfast restaurant, Perry's Cafe in Old Town San Diego.

He says while younger people still come to the restaurant to eat, they often want their orders to go.  

"They don't have time for everything else, they just have to get their food and get out of here," he explained.

And that need-it-quickly attitude is changing the menu for many consumers, particularly those looking for modern breakfast options.

Instead of eating at home, many find themselves stopping by fast food restaurants.

McDonald's is now offering all-day breakfast and Taco Bell just introduced a $1 breakfast menu.

Even cereal, a morning time staple, is taking a hit.

A recent study by Mintel says 40 percent of millennials said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice.

"It's not just pouring out some cereal," said San Diego State marketing professor Erlinde Cornelis, "It's also going to the grocery store, doing the dishes and all these things together makes it too much of a burden for them"

Giammarie Pieri was eating breakfast at Perry's Cafe. She's a college professor and isn't surprised that fewer young people are eating breakfast at home.

But she's critical of the reason.

"I think they're just  lazy and their parents aren't there to make it for them," Pieri told NBC 7.

Cornelis says many millennials grew up with working families where fewer meals were eaten at home.
So the move to eat out rather than prepare their own meals is not surprising.

He says younger consumers are "usually eating items that come in disposable wrappers like breakfast sandwiches, breakfast burritos and breakfast muffins."

San Diego police are investigating the suspicious death of a young man who they believe was involved in a violent confrontation in downtown's Gaslamp District.

They believe the altercation happened in the early morning hours of March 5 at a business on 400 E Street. On March 9, police received a call from a local hospital reporting a patient who had suffered from possible blunt force trauma and was in serious condition.

On Thursday, March 10 -- the day of the man's 21st birthday, according to his family -- he died.

On social media, loved ones identified the young man as Conner Kepple, and expressed their grief.

His mother wrote a public post that read, in part, “Conner Kepple was enjoying time with his friends downtown when he became a victim of violence. After three ER visits and four surgeries; our sweet Conner lost his brave battle. He went to heaven on his 21st birthday. There is nothing his friends could have done to prevent this tragic and heart wrenching outcome.”

Police are now creating a timeline to figure out how the young man died, and if anyone had a hand in it. Investigators say he visited several businesses in downtown San Diego on March 5, and they’re questioning multiple employees across those establishments, but say it's too early in the investigation to release the names of those businesses.

According to the victm's relatives, one of the businesses he visited was Bassmnt Club on E Street.

“Super tragic what happened, it’s our position that based on our contact and all of the footage obtained, he came to Bassmnt healthy and left Bassmnt healthy,” said general manager John Choi.

Choi said Kepple was coherent and appeared uninjured when their security officers had contact with him around midnight and again at 3:30 a.m.

Police confirm there was some type of "scuffle" at the business, but say it was a "non-issue."

Police are concentrating their efforts on a possible fight involving Kepple on E Street, which is a different location.

Kepple’s former employers at MaxCare ambulance confirm he worked for the company as an EMT. Kepple was also a son and brother.

A woman was killed and two others were seriously injured when an SUV traveling the wrong way plowed into the center divide on State Route 52 in Kearny Mesa overnight, authorities confirmed.

The deadly, violent crash happened at around 3 a.m. on eastbound SR-52, west of Convoy Street near Interstate 805. The SUV, which was traveling at about 70 mph westbound in eastbound lanes, ended up on top of the center divide, facing the wrong way on the freeway.

Officers with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and San Diego Police Department (SDPD) rushed to the scene, along with crews from the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD).

Investigators said three people were in the black SUV – a 32-year-old driver, a 32-year-old male passenger and a 33-year-old female passenger. They were all trapped inside.

Firefighters surrounded the wreckage and began prying open the doors. Crews used the Jaws of Life to get the victims out.

A white truck was parked beside the SUV, but it didn’t appear that vehicle was involved in the collision.

The people inside the SUV were all transported to local hospitals. CHP officials later confirmed one of the victims had died from injuries suffered in the collision.

The San Diego County Medical Examiner's (ME) office has now identified that victim as the driver, San Diego resident Sandra Howard.

The ME said, for unknown reasons, Howard was driving the wrong way on the freeway when she struck the median. A passerby who came upon the accident called 911.

Officers shut down traffic on the freeway for more than an hour as they worked to collect evidence and clear the crash. No other injuries were reported.

The crash is under investigation. It is unknown, at this point, if alcohol or drugs contributed to the collision.

As of 2:30 p.m. Saturday, the conditions of the two surviving victims were unknown. Their names were not released.

Donald Trump leads the Republican presidential field in the March 15 primary states of Florida and Illinois, while John Kasich holds the edge in his home state of Ohio, according to three new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

On the Democratic side, meanwhile, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders in all three states, although she's just narrowly ahead in Illinois.

In Florida, Trump holds a 2-to-1 advantage among likely GOP voters over Marco Rubio, the state's U.S. senator, 43 percent to 22 percent. They're followed by Ted Cruz at 21 percent and John Kasich at 9 percent. 

In the Democratic race, Clinton is ahead of Sanders among likely primary voters by 27 points in Florida, 61 percent to 34 percent; by 20 points in Ohio, 58 percent to 38 percent; but by just six points in Illinois, 51 percent to 45 percent.

In the Scottish town of Dunblane, the Snowdrop carpet of white petals marks not just a new season but also the anniversary of a school shooting that led to an immediate change in gun law, NBC News reported.

Twenty years ago this Sunday, a local gun owner walked into the town's elementary school and fatally shot 16 first-graders and their teacher before killing himself.

Pictures of anguished parents running through the streets for news of their children deepened public outrage, and a crusade to tighten controls won widespread support.

The "Snowdrop Campaign," which took its name from the only spring flower in bloom at the time of the massacre, resulted in a ban on all private hand-guns.

That response contrasts with the inertia surrounding efforts to tighten gun controls in the United States, where public opinion remains much more divided on whether such changes are necessary.

It puzzles some of the Dunblane families, for whom shootings such as the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut bring back painful memories.

Six people carried out attacks near three hotels in Ivory Coast on Sunday, killing at least 16 people, according to the government, NBC News reported. 

Two soldiers and four Europeans are among those who were killed. There was no evidence that any Americans were targeted or hurt, the U.S. Embassy said.

The attackers split into two groups and continued the attack for more than three hours, President Alassane Ouattara said. The attackers were killed. 

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the assaults, according to global security firm and NBC News partner Flashpoint Intelligence.

French air accident investigators recommended Sunday that world aviation bodies draw up new rules requiring medical workers to warn authorities when a pilot's mental health could threaten public safety, after 150 people died when a Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed a jet into the French Alps last year.

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been treated for depression in the past, and the investigation found that he had consulted dozens of doctors in the weeks before the crash on March 24, 2015.

But the many doctors didn't inform authorities of concerns about his mental health, France's BEA investigation agency said. One doctor referred Lubitz to a psychiatric clinic just two weeks before the crash, it said in its report on the disaster.

"Experts found that the symptoms (he was presenting at that time) could be compatible with a psychotic episode," said Arnaud Desjardin, leader of the BEA investigation. This information "was not delivered to Germanwings."

Because Lubitz didn't inform anyone of his doctors' warnings, the BEA said, "no action could have been taken by the authorities or his employer to prevent him from flying."

Germanwings and parent company Lufthansa have strongly denied any wrongdoing in the crash, insisting that the 27-year-old was certified fit to fly.

But relatives of those killed have pointed to a string of people they say could have raised the alarm and stopped Lubitz, going back to the days when he began training as a pilot in 2008.

The BEA investigation is separate from a manslaughter investigation by French prosecutors seeking to determine eventual criminal responsibility for the crash of Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. The focus of its report was recommendations to avoid such accidents in the future, notably about pilot mental health issues and better screening before a pilot gets certified.

The agency found that the certification process failed to identify the risks presented by Lubitz. It said one factor leading to the crash might have been a "lack of clear guidelines in German regulations on when a threat to public safety outweighs" patient privacy.

Germany's confidentiality laws prevent sensitive personal information from being widely shared, though doctors are allowed to suspend patient privacy if they believe there is a concrete danger to the person's safety or that of others.

Desjardin described Germany's privacy rules as being especially strict, and said that doctors fear losing their jobs if they unnecessarily report a problem to authorities.

"That's why I think clearer rules are needed to preserve public security," he told reporters at a press conference in the French city of Le Bourget.

The BEA recommendations also include peer support groups and other measures to remove the stigma and fear of losing a job that many pilots face for mental health issues.

"The reluctance of pilots to declare their problems and seek medical assistance ... needs to be addressed," the BEA said.

Half an hour into the Germanwings flight, Capt. Patrick Sondenheimer handed the controls to Lubitz and went to the restroom. When he returned, Sondenheimer found the cockpit locked from the inside. Lubitz, it seems, had disabled the safety code that would have allowed the pilot to open the door.

Shortly afterward, the Airbus A320 hit the ground near the French village of Le Vernet.

Lubitz had previously been treated for depression and suicidal tendencies, and documents seized by prosecutors show he partly hid his medical history from employers.

Lubitz interrupted his Lufthansa training for several months due to psychological problems. He was allowed to return in 2009, having received the "all clear" from his doctors — though his aviation record now contained the note "SIC" meaning "specific regular examination."

Lufthansa said after the crash that it was aware of Lubitz's depressive episode, but Germanwings, which he joined in 2013, said it had no knowledge of his illness.

Here’s a look ahead at what is going on in San Diego sports for the week of March 14th-20th.

PADRES: It’s a busy week at Spring Training for the Padres. They face the Chicago Cubs Monday and Tuesday, the San Francisco Giants Thursday and Friday, Colorado Rockies Saturday and the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday.

GULLS: There’s a double does of hockey at the Valley View Casino Center this week. Wednesday San Antonio comes to town at 7:05 p.m. and Friday the Gulls host Bakersfield at 7:05 p.m. before heading to Ontario Saturday at 6:00 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO TRITONS:
-MEN’S GOLF: Monday and Tuesday all day at the San Diego Country Club.
-MEN’S BASKETBALL: Monday at Western Oregon for the third round of the NCAA Division 2 Tournament at 7:00 p.m. opponent TBA.
-WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Monday at Alaska Anchorage for the NCAA Division 2 Tournament third round vs. Azusa Pacific at 7:00 p.m.
-BASEBALL: Saturday at Cal Poly Pomona 6:00 p.m., Sunday vs. Cal Poly Pomona at 2:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at UCSD.
-WOMEN’S WATER POLO: Sunday vs. Stanford 12:00 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO TOREROS:
-MEN’S GOLF: Monday and Tuesday all day at the San Diego Country Club.
-BASEBALL: Tuesday vs. Columbia 6:00 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Friday vs. Saint Mary’s 6:00 p.m., Saturday at 6:00 p.m., and Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
-SOFTBALL: Wednesday vs. Yale 1:30 p.m., Friday vs. Weber State 2:00 p.m. and Seattle University 7:00 p.m., Saturday vs. Harvard 2:00 p.m. and Sunday vs. Fresno State 11:30 a.m. and Cal Poly 2:00 p.m.
-MEN’S TENNIS: Thursday-Saturday at the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Spring Classic all day.
-WOMEN’S SWIMMING: Thursday-Saturday at the NCAA Championships in Atlanta all day.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY AZTECS:
-WOMEN’S TENNIS: Monday vs. Minnesota 2:00 p.m. and Saturday vs. Dartmouth 12:00 p.m. both at the Aztec Tennis Center.
-MEN’S GOLF: Monday-Tuesday all day at the San Diego Country Club.
-BASEBALL: Tuesday at Cal State Fullerton 6:00 p.m., Friday at Air Force 2:00 p.m., Saturday 12:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:00 p.m.
-SOFTBALL: Wednesday vs. Ohio State 6:00 p.m., Thursday vs. Harvard 6:00 p.m., Friday vs. Brigham Young 7:00 p.m., Saturday vs. Princeton 4:30 p.m. and Cal Poly 7:00 p.m. and Sunday vs. UC Santa Barbara 2:00 p.m.
-WOMEN’S LACROSSE: Wednesday vs. Stony Brook 1:00 p.m., Friday at St. Mary’s 4:00 p.m. and Sunday at California 12:00 p.m.
-WOMEN’S SWIMMING: Wednesday-Saturday at the NCAA Championships in Atlanta.
-WOMEN’S TRACK: Friday-Saturday at the Trojan Invitational. Saturday at Ross & Sharon Irwin Collegiate Scoring Meet 9:00 a.m. in Point Loma.
-MEN’S TENNIS: Friday-Saturday at the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley Spring Classic all day.
-WOMEN’S WATER POLO: Saturday at California 1:00 p.m.
-WOMEN’S ROWING: Sunday at TBD in Lake Natoma.

POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY SEA LIONS:
-WOMEN’S GOLF: Monday-Tuesday at the Chico State Tournament.
-MEN’S TENNIS: Tuesday vs. BYU Hawaii 11:00 a.m., Wednesday vs. UCONN 2:00 p.m. and Saturday vs. Hawaii Hilo 1:30 p.m.
-WOMEN’S TENNIS: Tuesday vs. Sonoma State 2:00 p.m. and Saturday vs. Hawaii Hilo 11:00 p.m.
-MEN’S SOCCER: Wednesday vs. SDSU 7:00 p.m.
-VOLLEYBALL: Friday vs. Grossmont College 3:30 p.m. and Saturday vs. Pepperdine 10:00 a.m.
-TRACK: Saturday at the Ross & Sharon Irwin Collegiate Scoring Meet.

Donald Trump says he's "instructed my people" to explore the possibility of helping pay the legal bills for a 78-year-old man charged with assault at a Trump rally.

John Franklin McGraw was charged after he was caught on video hitting a man deputies were escorting out of a Trump campaign event last Wednesday in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

"He went absolutely wild punching, and frankly, when they punch, it's okay. When my people punch back because they have to out of self-defense, everybody says, 'Oh, isn't that terrible?'" Trump told Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.

There is no indication the man who was attacked threw any punches.

While acknowledging that he does "not condone violence in any shape," Trump said he doesn't accept responsibility for the violence at his campaign events.

"They're not angry about something I'm saying. I'm just a messenger," he said.

Two Northwestern University students have been charged in connection with graffiti found at a university chapel on Saturday.

Anthony Morales, 19, and Matthew Kafker, 18, were arrested Saturday and charged with institutional vandalism, hate crime to a place of worship and criminal damage to property, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The graffiti was found Thursday night inside the Alice Millar Chapel, located at 1870 Sheridan Rd. in Evanston. Police reviewed surveillance video of the incident, according to an email statement sent to students from university president Morton Schapiro. 

“On behalf of the entire Northwestern community, I express our shock and dismay at the abhorrent act of vandalism committed last night,” Schapiro said.

The church walls and organ were covered in racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and other offensive graffiti, the email said. The two allegedly spray-painted a swastika and lines over the photos of Muslim students.

But that wasn't all. Spray-painted penises were found around the church, along with the word “Trump” in a stairwell, the Tribune reported.

Northwestern University spokesman Bob Rowley said both students have been placed on interim suspension, which prevents them from being on campus, according to The Daily Northwestern.

“This disgusting act of hatred violates the deepest values and core commitments of our University and is an affront to us all,” Shapiro said in his statement.

Both men are being held in lieu of $50,000 bail, and according to the Cook County Sheriff's office, both have bonded out.

It was unclear whether Morales and Kafker have attorneys.

Major river flooding is expected to continue for many days, after heavy rain pounded the South, NBC News reported.

The five days of rain, which was continued into Sunday, already set records in March with as much as 2 feet in some parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm is expected to aggravate flooding in major rivers, especially along the Louisiana-Texas border.

Authorities started to release large amounts of water from the Toledo Bend Reservoir, pouring more water into the Sabine River than it could handle.

Several areas are under evacuation orders, with rising waters threatening to reach heights of 35 feet in areas like Deweyville, Texas.  

Donald Trump walked back his comments about John McCain, eight months after he said the senator was not a war hero because he was a prisoner of war, NBC News reported.

Trump was asked for clarification on his comments by a veteran whose son was captured and killed in Iraq.

"You know exactly what I was doing," Trump responded. "They are heroes, just so you understand. And real heroes, okay? You know that."

Trump was speaking at an event in West Chester, Ohio, Sunday, and spent an hour talking to and taking questions from the audience.  

Poland's defense minister appeared to suggest the death of president Lech Kaczynski in a 2010 plane crash in western Russia was the result of foul play, Reuters reported.

Antoni Macierewicz did not say who he suspected, but the comments were made in a speech referring to a number of events blamed on Russia, including the violence in shared neighbor Ukraine.

They also come at a politically sensitive time, months before Poland is due to host a NATO summit where it will push for the alliance to station more troops on its eastern flank to counter the newly assertive Russia.

An inquiry into Kaczynski's death blamed pilot error. But Poland's new government has said an onboard explosion could have caused the crash.  

The family of a teenager killed last August celebrated his 18th birthday Sunday.

A jogger found Anthony Hofer along Heritage Road in Chula Vista August 27 in a possible hit-and-run.

Stacy Hofer, Anthony’s mom, said that investigators told her recently there are no new leads on the case and no one has been arrested.

“Somebody out there knows something and we just want justice for Anthony. We just want somebody to come forward. I need closure. I need to know what happened,” she told NBC 7. "The last six months have been hell. It's hard waking up every morning knowing this is still a reality.”

She said she believes if the person who took Anthony’s life ‘has a heart’ it should be difficult to not accept responsibility for what happened.

Stacy explained she wanted to have the celebration Sunday because Anthony has asked for a big party on his 17th birthday and she told him “no let’s wait until your 18th birthday and we’ll have a big something. And that’s why I wanted to do something to honor his birthday and honor him today since he couldn’t be here.”

The family planned to pass out flyers afterwards in hopes that someone will know something about Anthony's death.

The family is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

People with information are encouraged to call the Chula Vista Police Department’s non-emergency line at (619) 691-5151 or the Help Solve a Crime Tip Line at (619) 422-TIPS.

A powerful storm that swept across Washington state on Sunday left tens of thousands without power and another person dead, NBC News reported.

A large tree fell on a vehicle in a Seattle park, crushing it and killing a man inside, according to officials.

Wind gusts in the western part of the state hit 20 to 60 mph, according to NBC station KING.

Rain was also being reported across much of the Pacific Northwest on Sunday, with flood warnings and watches in effect from southern Oregon to San Francisco.  

Mitt Romney will campaign with John Kasich Monday in Ohio, NBC News has learned from a source familiar with the plans.

Romney is not expected to endorse the Ohio governor, the source said, but it will be the first time Romney has campaigned for a Republican candidate this cycle.

It's a significant move for the former Republican nominee, who previously recorded campaign telephone "robocalls" for Kasich as well as Marco Rubio.

Earlier this month, Romney criticized frontrunner Donald Trump as a "fraud" and warned of the dangers to the party if the front-runner were to become the nominee.
 

USS John C. Stennis, which once called San Diego home, arrived in South Korea this weekend for joint military exercises conducted by Washington and Seoul.

The aircraft carrier is the flagship of the 7,000 sailor strike group now home ported in Bremerton, Washington.

North Korea has condemned the exercises as preparations for an invasion, but according to the US and South Korea they are defensive and routine.

“It is not in response to any recent North Korean provocations,” CDR Bill Bryne told sailors indirectly referencing the nuclear test and long-range rocket launch by North Korea. “This visit and these exercises have been scheduled for months, again just another commitment, another visible sign of the commitment to US.”

This year’s exercises have been described as the biggest ever. The Stennis moved from San Diego to Bremerton in 2005.

A man was arrested on stalking charges in Carlsbad Friday according to police.

The victims found a surveillance camera inside their bedroom hidden within a carbon monoxide detector they hadn’t installed. The camera could transmit video through a Wi-Fi signal.

After obtaining a search warrant police began to examine 41-year-old Andre Dimitri Hurst’s home. He was seen driving past his home while the search was happening and was arrested shortly after without incident in the 800 block of Neptune Avenue in Encinitas.

Hurst was booked into the Vista Jail on charges of stalking, residential burglary and use of a concealed camera with the intent to invade privacy.

Hurst and the victims knew each other through their church.