Authorities in Orange County said some 50 shots were fired outside a mall in Newport Beach, Calif., during the busy Christmas shopping season Saturday, a day after a mass shooting in Connecticut had the nation in mourning and again debating gun control. 

A 42-year-old man was in custody after the sound of gunshots at Fashion Island caused near-pandemonium, according to shoppers. No one was injured, authorities said.

Newport Beach police said the gunman fired some 50 rounds into the air and at the ground in a parking lot outside the Macy's at the upscale mall at about 4:30 p.m. The shopping center was placed on lockdown.

As mall patrons scrambled into hiding places and shop employees rushed to close doors, officers on bike patrol arrested 42-year-old Marcos Sarinana Gurrola of Garden Grove without incident.

"According to witness statements, we had a male who was shooting a weapon into the air and also at the ground, standing by a vehicle,'' police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe said. "This was an isolated incident. At no time was he observed pointing the weapon at anyone."

Gurrola was being held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

The incident came a day after a horrific mass shooting Friday at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killed 26, including 20 children. Earlier in the week, a gunman opened fired at a mall outside Portland, Ore., killing two people and seriously wounding a third before killing himself.

Shoppers in Newport Beach said they were on edge.

"Hearing about the shooting with the kids on the East Coast and all this other stuff ... I'm just like, this stuff has got to stop happening," Chance Espinoza said.

Orange County Sheriff's Department deputies in flak jackets patrolled the the mall in the aftermath of the shooting as Newport Beach police focused on a white Honda Civic they said was associated with Gurrola.

Aerial video showed a portion of the mall parking lot taped off with yellow police tape, and evidence markers were placed throughout the area.

Several people at the Nordstrom and other stores told NBC4 that they had been on lockdown. Several said they heard the gunshots.

A YouTube user posted video from the parking lot in which repeated shots can be heard. Patrick Wyrick of Lake Forest told NBC4 he shot the video.

"I couldn't see who was shooting, but I started to take video in the direction the shots came from while standing behind the car you see in the foreground," Wyrick's caption said. "My video catches the last two clips he shot and I could finally see him when he shot off the last clip."

Shopper Joe Rubbinaccio told NBC4 he was on the lowest floor of Macy's when he heard shouting.

"I heard somebody yelling. It sounds like an employee. He was saying, 'Lock the store down!' And he was yelling, 'Don't panic. There's been a shooting,'" Rubbinaccio said. "At that point, you kind of freeze. Your heart skips a beat. ... You just panic, you don't know what to do."

Rubbinaccio said he saw many people running, and others said they had heard 10 to 20 shots. Rubbinaccio got away from the scene safely, and had heard one person had been injured in the rush to escape.

Police stopped releasing details after answering initial inquiries.

There were many accounts on Twitter about a man with a gun at the mall.

"My mom, son, and I are shopping at Fashion Island and we heard gun shots we're hiding in the restroom," tweeted @Jennicake.

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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) announced Sunday she would introduce legislation to address gun control in the wake of Friday’s massacre in Newtown, Conn.

The California leader and top Democrat spoke on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning about the need to re-evaluate gun rights as soon as possible, NBC News reported.

The announcement comes two days after the gruesome massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and seven adults were killed, including the gunman.

The shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, is also believed to have shot and killed his own mother in their Newtown, Conn., home before heading to the school.

Conn. State officials said Lanza used an assault-style rifle during most of the shooting. He also carried a Glock 10mm and Sig Sauer 9mm, both of which also had multiple magazines.

Feinstein, a proponent of gun control, said the bill would seek to limit the sale, transfer and possession of assault weapons, along with the capacity of high-capacity magazines.

"It can be done," she said on Meet the Press.

In 1994, former President Bill Clinton signed a federal ban on assault weapons, but the ban expired in 2004. President Barack Obama has said he favors the ban’s reinstatement.

"We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics," Obama said Friday.

Feinstein said she would introduce the bill on the first day of the new Congress next year.

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Schools around the country are reviewing security plans, adding extra law enforcement patrols and readying counselors for the first day of classes since a shooting massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut.

Districts from Alabama to Arizona and Florida to New England were asking local law enforcement to increase patrols on Monday. School officials in some areas sent messages to parents addressing security or stressing that they have safety plans that are regularly tested. While some officials refuse to discuss plans in detail, it was clear that vigilance will be high this week at schools around the country.

Additional police patrols are planned this week in northern Virginia around the Fairfax County Public Schools, which is the largest school system in the Washington area with 181,000 students. Counselors will also be available at all schools.

"This is not in response to any specific threat but rather a police initiative to enhance safety and security around the schools and to help alleviate the understandably high levels of anxiety," Superintendent Jack Dale said Sunday.

Those sentiments were echoed to the South in Florida's Hillsborough Co., where Sheriff's office spokesman Larry McKinnon said unmarked and marked cars will patrol the schools along with deputies in plain clothes. He wouldn't say how many extra officers will be involved.

The additional patrols will supplement deputies already assigned to every high school and junior high school in the area to ease the fears of parents "who may feel uneasy about sending their children to school." The county's public school system in the Tampa area includes around 195,000 students.

The precautions come after a gunman shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday and killed 26 people before shooting himself. The dead include 20 children ages 6 and 7.

Aside from their students' physical safety, administrators were also concerned about the psychological toll of the shootings. In Maryland's suburbs outside Washington, Montgomery County Public Schools will have counselors available at each school Monday to support the system's 149,000 students. Chief of Staff Brian Edwards said officials posted advice online from the National Association of School Psychologists on Friday to help parents talk about acts of violence.

"Obviously, this is a very difficult situation that all school communities are dealing with and the entire nation is dealing with," Edwards said, adding that the system doesn't discuss security procedures. "You can't change what occurred, but you try to do the best you can to help families cope."

In Tucson, Ariz., where a January 2011 mass shooting killed six and wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others, the largest school district increased security after Friday's shooting. Tucson Unified School District spokeswoman Cara Rene said Sunday that the district was participating in a memorial being held at one of its schools on Sunday evening, with Gifford's replacement, Rep. Ron Barber, a featured speaker along with Superintendent John Pedicone. Barber was with Giffords at the constituent meet-and-greet and was among the wounded.

Rene said planning was under way to help teachers and students with grief and fear issues when school resumes Monday, and the district was working with Tucson police on security issues.

At Deer Valley Unified School District in suburban Phoenix, one of the state's largest, a spokeswoman said teachers were given direction on how to answer students' questions and a message to parents was posted on the district's website emphasizing the district's security policies. Spokeswoman Heidi Vega said no extra security or counseling was planned.

Officials in South Carolina's largest school district sent a note to parents Friday ensuring they have safety plans that are regularly tested for a number of possible events.

Officials refused to details their plans, saying that would threaten the safety of its more than 70,000 students. Just last week, before the school shooting in Connecticut, Greenville County schools Superintendent W. Burke Royster said the school system met with members from every law enforcement agency in the county to review what to do in an emergency, and make sure they can all communicate. The meetings take place frequently, and the next round will likely involve any lessons that can be taken from the latest school shooting.

"While all of us work diligently to prevent this type of tragedy and to prepare an effective response to all manner of possible events, we do so in the hope that our plans will never have to be utilized," Royster wrote in his note.

Milton Kuykendall, the superintendent of the Desoto County School District, the biggest in Mississippi with 32,769 students, said he called for an evaluation of his schools' security policies and procedures immediately after the shootings in Connecticut.

Kuykendall said the district already evaluates the schools' security every year, but he decided to start that process now rather than waiting until later in the school year.

He also plans on Monday to remind principals throughout the district to be "on high alert." Students begin Christmas break on Wednesday.

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep our students safe," Kuykendall said.

The elementary school shooting massacre that shook a Connecticut community Friday could have been much worse, police said Sunday.

More details kept emerging on the gunman who took 20 children's and seven adults' lives, just hours before President Barack Obama was set to attend a vigil in Newtown, Conn., in an effort to console the inconsolable.

"There was a lot of ammo, a lot of clips," Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance said. "Certainly a lot of lives were potentially saved."

Gunman Adam Lanza fatally shot himself as first responders closed in Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

He left behind multiple unspent 30-round magazines of high-powered bullets — and hundreds more children whose lives he might have taken with his hundreds of unused bullets.

Lanza committed his rampage at the school with a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle, police said Sunday, using multiple clips before shooting himself in the head.

Besides the high-power Bushmaster, Lanza was also carrying a Glock 10mm and a Sig Sauer 9mm. It was one of those handguns with which he took his own life, and another shotgun was found in his vehicle outside of the school.

The rifle and handguns Adam Lanza carried in the attacks were reportedly owned by his mother, a firearms enthusiast. They appeared to have been purchased legally.

Police have given few clues to Lanza's motive, but investigators have said that they uncovered "very good evidence" that might help explain why the 20-year-old killed his mother at their shared home and then opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Investigators spent hours questioning Lanza's 24-year-old brother Ryan, who told them that Adam had a history of mental health issues and that they had not spoken in two years, NBC News reported.

Former classmates described Adam Lanza as being intelligent and introverted and said he was an adept computer user. Some have suggested he may have suffered from a personality disorder.

He had no obvious recent ties to Sandy Hook Elementary, although he attended it as a child, and those who knew him as an awkward teenager could think of nothing that would have predicted the horrendous crime he would eventually commit.

"We’ve been doing everything we need to do to peel back the onion, layer by layer, and get more information," Vance said.

Vance said Sunday that police had executed a number of search warrants and seized "a great deal of evidence," in the hopes of establishing a motive for the heinous shootings.

"All that evidence, every stitch of it, needs to be analyzed, and it will be," he promised.

Meanwhile, an official at Western Connecticut State University said Sunday that Lanza took classes there in 2008 and 2009 with moderate success. They also said that a faculty member's daughter was killed in the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Interim Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement Paul Steinmetz said Lanza started taking classes at WCSU in Summer 2008 when he was 16. He took website production (received a grade of A-) and Visual BASIC (A).

That fall he took data modeling, a computer science class in which he took a withdraw, and Philosophy 101, introduction to ethical theory (C).

The next spring he took American history since 1877 (A-) and introduction to German speaking, which he dropped early in the semester, so it didn't count against his GPA. In the summer of 2009 he took principles of macroeconomics (B).

Steinmetz said Lanza's overall GPA for the six classes he completed was 3.26. He said he did not have access to disciplinary records but had no indication that Lanza was ever in trouble at the school. He did not offer a reason Lanza stopped taking classes there.

While the university is looking into Lanza's time there, WCSU is also grieving for one of their own.

University President James Schmotter said Saturday that music professor and saxophonist Jimmy Greene's daughter Ana Marquez-Greene was among the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

"Unfortunately I must convey the news that our university community has been touched directly by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School," Schmotter said in a statement about Ana's death. "We will be at [Greene's] side to do all we can to help him and his family through this unfathomable tragedy."

A man and his girlfriend were shot at while driving in Chula Vista Sunday morning, Chula Vista Police said.

At about 9:15 a.m., police went to the hospital where a man was being treated for gunshot wounds. His girlfriend was outside the trauma center in his SUV, which had multiple bullet holes.

She told police she was driving near the 400 block of Orsett Street and stopped when a man approached the car and fired at her boyfriend in the passenger’s seat.

She was able to drive away as the suspect continued firing shots at the car. The victim’s girlfriend was not injured, but the man sustained non-life threatening wounds.

The suspect is a man in his 30’s armed with a small caliber hand gun.

The department’s Crimes of Violence unit is investigating the incident.

Police in Chula Vista have arrested four suspects believed to be responsible for an early morning armed robbery.

At about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, a man was exiting his garage in the 1000 block of Dorado Way when two suspects confronted him, pointed a gun at him, and forced him to lie down at gunpoint, according to a statement from the Chula Vista Police Department. 

While the two suspects ransacked the man's garage, one suspect fired one round into the ceiling. The round penetrated into the home's master bedroom where the man's wife was sleeping. She was not injured. 

The suspects left with some of the victim's property, including his cell phone. 

Officers were called to the scene and tracked the victim's cell phone to a vehicle with a man and a woman in it, as well as some of the victim's possessions. The two people were arrested.

The phone led officers to an address where two additional suspects were arrested. 

All four suspects face charges of robbery, conspiracy, and several firearms charges. They were booked into County Jail. 

The stadium is quiet, the morning fog hasn’t even rolled out yet and the parking lot is empty. Except for one van full of marines.

They wanted to be ready when the fans started getting there.

Marines stationed themselves outside every single gate and around the parking lot prior to the Chargers game against the Panthers on Sunday. This time, they weren’t there as protectors, but as benefactors.

They were collecting toys for the Toys For Tots drive.

Sgt. Jeffrey Burke was one of the marines who had been at the stadium all day collecting donations. He got back from his most recent tour in Australia in September of 2011.

He said the support was overwhelming.

“Wives were getting mad at their husbands for forgetting their gift,” Burke said. “Everyone’s just really glad to see us.”

As an active marine, it’s not very often Burke gets to come face-to-face with the ones he is protecting.

Today was a rare exception.

“To be honest, you never get tired of ‘thank-yous,’” Burke said. “It’s really great to see everyone that cares about us. Everyone’s just real supportive and it feels great.”

They are collecting toys through December 18th.
 

It is finished. With the Chargers 31-7 loss to the Carolina Panthers they can officially, without a shadow of a doubt, not make the postseason.

The way they played, one would think they’d lost the chance before the game started.

Carolina scored 21 points on their first three drives.

Opening drive they marched down the field with a few quick passes to the sidelines that cornerback Antoine Cason could do nothing against.

On fourth and one from the two-yard line Panthers quarterback Cam Newton kept the ball for a QB keep long enough for the first down.

One first and goal, a ex-Charger got the ball. Running back Mike Tolbert punched the ball in from the one and did his signature endzone dance. When he was in San Diego, the fans loved it.

Today, it was an instrument of torture.

Tolbert scored another touchdown for Carolina on the ensuing drive.

The Panther’s next drive ended in what should have been a botched play for Carolina but running back DeAngelo Williams turned it into a 45-yard touchdown run.

To add insult to injury, kicker Graham Gano kicked a field goal to end the half.

On the Chargers side of the ball, they did nothing.

The halftime score was 24-0 Panthers.

The Chargers received the ball to kick off the second half, but again, did nothing. After three and out it was Newton and his team that scored again.

This time it was a short pass to wide receiver Steve Smith. With the extra point it was 31-0.

The only consolation for the few Chargers’ fans at Qualcomm on Sunday was the two pieces of team history made.

Chargers linebacker Shaun Phillips recorded his 68th sack. He passed Gary ‘Big Hand’s Johnson. He leads the team in sacks with eight on the season.

The other piece of history, tight end Antonio Gates caught the Chargers lone touchdown on the day.

In the fourth quarter, quarterback Philip Rivers found Gates in the back of the end zone. It was his 81st career touchdown and he beat Lance Alworth for the most touchdowns caught by a Charger.

A man in his early 20s was pronounced dead inside a jeep found in an El Cajon drainage deep Sunday. 

The Medical Examiner has not yet released the identity of the victim, found in the 2000 block of La Cresta in El Cajon Sunday morning.

A passing motorist saw the crashed jeep and called authorities. When they responded, they found the man in the driver's seat and pronounced his death. 

A passenger was also found in the jeep. The passenger was transported to the hospital. The passenger's condition is not known at this time.

President Barack Obama had strong, stern words for the country Sunday evening at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and their families.

Obama said that the nation isn't doing enough to protect children and that "we will have to change."

"Caring for our children; it's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right," Obama said in front of about 1,000 people in the Newtown High School auditorium. "That is how, as a society, we will be judged. And by that measure, can we truly say as a nation that we're meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we're doing enough to keep our children, all of them, safe from harm? ... The answer is no, we're not doing enough. And we'll have to change."

Besides those mourners who packed the auditorium, an overflow crowd of about 1,500 gathered in the school gymnasium. Some waited for hours in a cold drizzle for a chance to grieve with their fellow community members.

Inside the auditorium were a large number of elementary school-age children with their parents. Some of the children were seen squeezing stuffed animals given out by the American Red Cross. Faculty, staff and some students from Sandy Hook Elementary wore green and white ribbons -- the school's colors -- with a small angel in the middle.

"Now more than ever we need each other, because we are all in this together," said Matthew Crebbin, senior minister of the Newtown Congregational Church. "We are in this together."

The president met privately before the vigil with families of the victims and with emergency personnel who responded to the shootings. The White House declined to release details of those meetings.

Upon introducing Obama to the crowd at the vigil, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said the president told him Friday was "the most difficult day of his presidency."

During his speech -- the fourth such speech of his presidency -- Obama mentioned the full names of the school employees who were killed, as well as the first names of all of the children. Sobs and crying could be heard from the audience as he mentioned certain names.

Obama didn't just comfort those in the audience with assurances that the rest of the nation is grieving with them, but he provided a context of what he may do in Washington as lawmakers bring up the issues of mental health and violence in society.

"We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true," Obama said. "No single law, no set of laws, can eliminate evil or prevent every act, but that can't be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this.

"In the coming weeks I'll use whatever power this office holds to engage in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedy like this," he continued. "What choice do we have? We can't accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say we're powerless in the face of such carnage? That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say such violence visited on our children year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?"

As the president and mourners gathered Sunday night, investigators continued to track down the answer to one elusive question: Why? Why would 20-year-old Adam Lanza go on a rampage, one that started at the home he shared with his mother and continued at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

But one thing became clear Sunday -- the tragedy could have been much deadlier. When Lanza shot himself in the head on Friday afternoon, after killing 20 children, six staff members and his own mother, he left behind hundreds of unused bullets, police said.

Earlier Sunday, a spokesman for the chief medical examiner announced the final two autopsy results for the shooting, confirming that the killer's mother Nancy Lanza, 52, had been killed by multiple shots to her head and that the gunman had killed himself with a gunshot wound to his head.

Those were just a few more of the grim details released in a case investigators said was among the hardest they had ever handled.

Police warned earlier Sunday that it could be weeks before they have a sense of Adam Lanza's motive, as they continue their grueling investigation of his Friday rampage, and cautioned that a glut of misinformation was being spread on social media websites.

The tragedy has shaken the bedroom community of Newtown -- and much of the nation -- to its core. But at the vigil Sunday night, many hoped that good will overcome.

"I know that Newtown will prevail," said First Selectwoman Patricia Llorda. "We will not fall to acts of violence. It is a defining moment, but it will not define us. We are defined by acts of courage, acts of love."

Obama shared a story about one of those acts of courage from a child at the school on Friday.

"One child trying to encourage a teacher by saying, 'I know karate, so I'll lead the way out'," Obama said.

"As a community you've inspired us," he continued. "In the face of indescribable violence, unconscionable evil, you looked out for each other, cared for one another, loved one another. This is how Newtown will be remembered."

A White House official said Obama was the primary author of his speech and edited his remarks on the flight to Connecticut with presidential speechwriter Cody Keenan.

Keenan helped Obama write his speech last year following the shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabby Giffords.
 

After a season of frustration and ineptitude, the Raiders found a cure for their ills: the Kansas City Chiefs.

Oakland snapped a six-game losing streak by beating the Chiefs 15-0 Sunday at O.co Coliseum to improve to 4-10. Kansas City drops to an NFL-worst 2-12, tied with the Jaguars in the race for the No. 1 overall draft pick in April.

It was the Raiders’ first victory since late October, when they beat the Chiefs in Kansas City. Against the rest of the league, Oakland is 2-10.

Despite not scoring a touchdown, the Raiders dominated the game, scoring on five Sebastian Janikowski field goals of 20, 50, 57, 30 and 41 yards.

The Raiders – who were last in the league in scoring defense going into the game – posted their first shutout since 2002, sacking Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn four times and holding K.C.’s strong running game to just 10 yards. Jamaal Charles, who was the NFL’s fifth-ranked running running back, could managed just 10 yards in nine carries.

Offensively, the Raiders did what they had hoped to do all year, pounding the ball on the ground with running backs Darren McFadden and Mike Goodson. McFadden rushed for 110 yards on 30 carries, while Goodson added 89 on 13. Quarterback Carson Palmer, who’d been forced to throw early and often in recent games with Oakland in deep holes, was 18-of-29 for 182 yards and no interceptions, with five of those completions going to rookie Rod Streater for 62 yards.

For Raiders fans looking to the future, one interesting aspect of the game was the insertion of No. 3 quarterback Terrelle Pryor.

Pryor, the former Ohio State standout drafted in the 2011 supplemental draft, had played just one snap in two seasons. In the second quarter Sunday, he played a full series, handing off twice and then throwing an incomplete pass in relief of Palmer – who came back into the game on the next series.

Oakland has just two games remaining, against the Panthers in Carolina next Sunday, and the the season finale in San Diego against the Chargers on Dec. 30.

When the 49ers drafted LaMichael James in the second round in April, NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock predicted San Francisco had just picked up a very important piece to its future.

“This guy gives them the rare ability to hit a homerun anywhere in the park,” said Mayock.

And on a cold, rainy night in New England Sunday, the explosive rookie from Oregon proved to be the difference in a wild, epic 41-34 49ers victory over the Patriots in a duel between two of the NFL’s best teams.

After the Patriots had fought back from a 31-3 second-half deficit to tie the game 31-31 with a little more than three minutes left, James returned the ensuing kickoff 62 yards to the Patriots’ 38 yard line, setting up a go-ahead touchdown pass on the very next play from Colin Kaepernick to Michael Crabtree.

The touchdown and extra point put the 49ers up 38-31 and gave them a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. After holding the Pats on downs deep in New England territory, the 49ers added a field goal to extend their lead to 41-31, then weathered a Patriots field goal to cut the lead back to seven before securing the ball on an onside kick attempt to lock up the win.

The victory improves the 49ers to 10-3-1 and drops the Patriots – who had been a 5- to 5 ½-point favorite by oddsmakers -- to 10-4. The win also clinches a playoff berth for the 49ers for the second straight season and gives the Patriots their first home loss in December in 21 games.

Sunday night’s game actually was two games in one. The 49ers dominated early, going up 31-3 by the third quarter on three of Kaepernick’s four touchdown passes and a defense that had completely stymied the highest-scoring offense in the league.

Then, suddenly, the 49ers offense went cold and “Brady magic” took hold.

As the Niners went three-and-out on five straight drives, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady led four long scoring drives – of 92, 66, 86 and 73 yards -- cutting apart the No. 2 defense in the NFL in the process.

Only when James returned his kickoff did the 49ers suddenly spring back to life, with Kaepernick immediately connecting with Crabtree for the game-winner.

Kaepernick finished with 216 yards passing on 14-of-25 passing, for the four TDs and one interception as the Niners put up 383 yards of total offense (including 180 on the ground).

The Patriots dwarfed that number, putting up 520 yards – but lost the game.

Now, the 49ers will go to Seattle next Sunday for another nationally televised game, this one against NFC West contender Seattle (10-5), a 50-17 winner over Buffalo this weekend.

One concern for the 49ers will the health of All-Pro defensive end Justin Smith; he had to leave the game and his status is uncertain for this week.

A water main break flooded streets in a section of Bay Park early Monday.

The flooding began when the water main collapsed around 5:35 a.m. at Knoxville Street and Morena Boulevard according to San Diego police.

Police say there's also flooding near a brewery’s loading dock, but, fortunately the water hasn't gone above or over the dock.

There's also a transformer box in the area that police are keeping an eye on.

San Diego Fire and Rescue crews say area businesses are not flooded, signaling some good news for employees heading to work.

Still, because of the outdoor flooding, employees such as Shawn DeWitt, who's with Coronado Brewing Company, is being told by San Diego Police, not to go into their establishment.

The daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary Principal Dawn Hochsprung tweeted a photo of President Obama holding her child — and said her mother would have been proud.

“My mom would be SO proud to see President Obama holding her granddaughter. But not as proud as I am of her,” Cristina Hassinger tweeted on Sunday. The photo had been shared over 2,700 times by late Monday morning.

Hochsprung died on Friday morning when authorities said heavily armed Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children and six adults in a shooting rampage before killing himself as police closed in.

Upon hearing gunfire at the school during Friday morning’s shooting, Hochsprung, 47, along with the school’s psychologist, Mary Sherlach, reportedly ran toward the barrage of bullets to protect students.

"She's a hero today," Gerald Stomski, First Selectman of Woodbury, Conn., who knew Hochsprung, said over the weekend "Today."

Speaking at an interfaith vigil on Sunday at Newtown High School, President Obama vowed to use "whatever power this office holds" to protect the nation's children.

"Caring for our children, it's our first job," Obama said. "If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right."

More coverage on the Newtown school shooting:

Remembering the Sandy Hook Victims

Obama on Violence: "We Will Have To Change"

Grieving Newtown Plans First Burials

President Obama's Remarks at Newtown Prayer Vigil

About a week shy of Christmas, San Francisco firefighters were called to rescue a man who got stuck in his chimney just before midnight Monday in his Pacific Heights neighborhood.

Fire crews were called to the man's apartment on Clay Street about 11:30 p.m., where they found the man inside the chimney. It took about an hour to pull him out.

It's unclear exactly why he went inside the chimney - even though this is typically the season for that sort of thing. NBC Bay Area spoke to a dispatcher who said that police may have been trying to contact the man, and that he may have tried to hide in the chimney.

Firefighters said that crews had to break out their special equipment and bust out some chimney bricks to get the man out.

The man was taken to the hospital where his vital signs were good.

A recall was announced Monday for several types of children’s toys that expand when placed in water.

The little toys, which start out small but grow larger when infused with liquid, can be particularly dangerous for children, officials with the Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

The recall includes toys marketed under the names of Water Balz, Skulls, Orbs and Flower Toys, made by the Cleveland, Ohio, company Dunecraft. Among them is a toy named after the film “Despicable Me.”

The toys start out about the size of a marble, the agency said, posing a choking hazard. But beyond that, they expand once they come in contact with liquids in the body, exposing children to additional risk.

“When the marble-sized toy is ingested, it expands inside the body and causes a blockage in the small intestine,” the agency said. The toy grows to 400 times its original size, causing vomiting, severe discomfort, and dehydration. The blockage can be life-threatening.

“The toys do not show up on an x-ray, and require surgery to be removed from the body,” the agency said.

An eight-month-old girl from Humble, Texas, swallowed one of the Water Balz models, and required an operation, the consumer regulatory agency said.

About 94,700 of the toys were sold in the United States and 600 in Canada, officials said. They were sold in packages of six in green, yellow, red, blue and black colors, the agency said. They were sold at numerous retailers, including Bed Bath & Beyond, Lakeshore Learning Materials and Amazon.com.

The “Despicable Me” toys were sold exclusively at Universal Studios during June of 2012. Universal Studios, like NBC4, is owned by Comcast.

For more details, including the model numbers of the packages being recalled and a full list of retailers where they were sold, click here for the Consumer Product Safety Commission press release.

We've thrown a lot of SoundDiego LIVE parties in the past couple of years (26 to be exact), and we've had them at lots of great venues. But few venues in San Diego have the prestiege and recognition of the site of our January event.

The next SoundDiego LIVE, on Jan. 24, will be held at a little place called the Casbah. The venue needs little introuduction around these parts. Its stage has seen countless amazing bands perform over the years, and the venue enjoys unanimous respect by music fans. In fact, it's a return trip for SoundDiego LIVE -- in September 2011, Dead Feather Moon and the Get Down Automatic played one of our best shows.

January's event will be hosted by FM 94/9's Tim Pyles, which is convenient because the guy's there all the time anyway. And since a special venue demands some special bands, the party will feature sets by Shakes Before Us and SocialClub.

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Kicking off the Jan. 24 show will be the winner of our monthly Garage 2 Glory contest, an online battle of the bands. Keep an eye out for an announcement of which bands will be competing.

You may have heard of rocking the vote, but with SoundDiego LIVE events, the vote rocks you back. People who sign up for the guest list are automatically be entered to win a free guitar. There's only one hitch -- you have to be at SoundDiego LIVE to win the instrument.

With three bands scheduled to play, you won't go hungry for music, but you still might get thirsty. Don't worry, we've got you covered: Get to the Casbah early and you can enjoy a VIP happy hour presented by Jack Daniel's, with free food and a cocktail from 7-8 p.m.

On the off-chance you enjoy all that delicious whiskey a little too much, we've got you covered there, too. The folks from BeMyDD will be on hand to provide three teams for two hours, with drivers waiting on site to drive home as many people and their cars as possible during the two hours at the end of SoundDiego LIVE. Anyone who uses BeMyDD at SoundDiego LIVE will get an annual membership for free (typically, folks get a 30-day trial with a $25 annual membership). Plus, one lucky partygoer will win a free ride to and from November's SoundDiego LIVE, courtesy of BeMyDD.

So get on the guest list now. This is going to be one Thursday night party you don’t want to miss!

SoundDiego associate editor Chris Maroulakos is also the managing editor of the San Diego music blog Owl and Bear.

Mike McLeod is with Southwest Boulder & Stone in Fallbrook. His company will be removing the giant boulder that came crashing into the garage of a Poway home during last Thursday's rainstorm -- for free.

"Its a routine job for us," said McLeod.

The six foot-wide boulder landed in JeNielle Rose-Gendelman's garage Thursday morning. Rose-Gendelman grew up in the 54-year-old home that her father built, and was concerned her insurance would not cover the boulder's removal. 

McLeod's team will remove the boulder Tuesday morning using a specialized crane truck that will swoop down with a giant "hand-like device" and simply pick it up.

The job will take about 20 minutes, he says.

He heard about the boulder on the news and when he learned that Rose-Gendelman's insurance might not cover removal, he figured he'd lend a helping hand.

He'll be doing the job for free, but it would normally cost several thousands of dollars. McLeod says the boulder is granite and estimates its weight at about 6 tons.

So what will he do with the massive rock?

"Whatever [Rose-Gendelman] wants," said McLeod. "If she wants to keep it for a souvenir, we'll just put it wherever she wants."