A majority of Republican voters, some 62 percent, believe if no GOP presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates before the GOP convention in July, the hopeful with the most votes should be the party's nominee, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Republican voters also overwhelmingly reject the idea of GOP convention delegates choosing a presidential nominee who hasn’t run in the 2016 primaries.

The latest poll illustrates the dilemma the RNC faces as the possibility remains high that Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump won't secure a majority of delegates once primary voting concludes on June 7, despite having won more votes, states and delegates than his Republican rivals.

Asked about the poll result on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, RNC head Reince Priebus noted that Trump has won a plurality - not a majority - of votes.

Nine Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the government of Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon announced Saturday, NBC News reported. 

A “comprehensive review” was conducted, examining “a number of factors, including security issues,” according to a Pentagon news release.

“The United States coordinated with government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures,” the release said. 

Tariq Ali Abdullah Ba Odah was one of the nine transferred. He was approved for transfer in 2009 and has been on a hunger strike since 2007. He was regularly force-fed as of July 2015. 

The move takes the total number of detainees at the prison down to 80, with 26 approved to be moved out of the facility. All nine of the detainees are from Yemen, Department of Defense officials told NBC News.

The Otay Water District will soon choose a winner of its 2016 landscape contest, which seeks out yards that prioritize water conservation and eco-friendly features.

The winners, chosen over the next week or so, are selected based primarily on the yard’s environmentally-conscious features and how much water the homeowner saves.

In 2015, Chula Vista homeowner Nancy Montalvo’s landscape took top honors.

The water district chose Montalvo's yard, in part, because the renovations to her yard increased the property's value.

In 2012, she removed the grass from her front yard and replaced it with drought-friendly succulents, rocks and mulch.

Two years later, Montalvo renovated her backyard with the help of a landscape designer. This added a seating area, stone walkways, artificial grass and native plants.

“The plants I use to have before both renovations – there were many, many plants, many different colors – lasted only a month or two months,” Montalvo explained. “Then they'd die and you'd have to replant and you'd have to go to the store, and all of those things. I don't have to do that anymore. I don't have that kind of worry anymore.”

The new design created a sustainable backyard that, like Montalvo’s front yard, adapts to the character of the neighborhood.

It also serves as a peaceful outdoor living space for Montalvo and her family and friends.

“It's nice to come out here and make the decision, ‘Where am I going to read?’ or ‘Where am I going to play with my little doggie?’” she said.

Montalvo also uses the artificial grass as a play area for her 8.5-year-old Pekingese.

“Preciosa still has an area to relax, to play, so that's nice,” she said.

Thanks to the changes to her landscape, Montalvo has saved about $60 to $90 a month on her water bill over the past two years. More importantly, she has reduced her water usage by more than 50 percent.

“Because the water bill here in Chula Vista has gone up, I think I would have had to pay $175 [a month] on my water bill,” she said.

Water cost in San Diego County has increased dramatically in recent years. In the Otay Water District’s service area, the cost of water has increased 15.7 percent since 2014 and 30.6 percent since 2012.

According to Armando Buelna, Communications Officer with the Otay Water District, the reason is almost entirely due to higher costs for water from wholesale suppliers, as well as the higher cost of energy from SDG&E.

“Otay buys all of its water from wholesale suppliers," said Buelna. "So when their rates go up, as a not-for-profit retail supplier, we're forced to pass those increases to customers."

Recently, Montalvo went further with her water conservation and added a rain sensor for the irrigation controller.

“It automatically knows not to water when you have a recent rain basically, then it turns back on automatically,” said Matt Springer, who builds landscape designs for Western Outdoor Design. “It's something the homeowner doesn't have to worry about.”

For Montalvo, the best part of the renovations is the freedom of not worrying about her yard.

“The peace and tranquility is more than just financial. It is enjoying your environment. I'm really happy having all these native plants. It's not that I spend less time here. I spend more time. But the time I spend is more quality time, simply because I'm not worried about having to do this and that,” she added.

Montalvo also saves a lot of money on maintenance. Before the renovations, a gardener had to work on her yard once a week for a few hours.

Now the gardener only tends to her yard once every six weeks.

Buelna explained the ripple effect of conserving water, and how plants benefit the environment:

“Improved air and water quality; provides shade; helps to keep homes and businesses cooler; reduces/eliminates storm water runoff; reduces soil erosion; provides habitat for wildlife; and adds monetary and intrinsic value to a home and to neighborhoods.”

If you're interested in making your yard more sustainable, the San Diego County Water Authority offers free landscape classes and workshops to help you makeover your yard and save water.

You can sign up, or find ideas and resources for your home, on the Water Authority’s website.

The North County Battalion is in its inaugural National Premier Soccer League season but they have already gotten national attention.

Forward Eric Lopez was named Mitre National Player of the Week for the 2016 NPSL season after recording his first two goals of the season against FC Hasental last week. Lopez told NCBattalion.com, “I know there are a lot of great players out there that could have easily earned this award and I am very grateful I was able to be among them.”

Lopez is a San Diego native and 2010 Scripps Ranch High School graduate. He went on to play at Cal State San Marcos where he became the all-time leading goal scorer and was captain of the team for two years.

For more information on Eric Lopez and the North County Battalion you can go to their website at www.ncbattalion.com.

IRS and Treasury officials have taken part in two global meetings on the Panama Papers to plan how to use the huge trove of leaked documents to catch criminals, U.S. officials revealed to NBC News.

In a statement to NBC News, the IRS acknowledged participating in a "special project meeting" of JITSIC, the Joint International Tax Shelter Information and Collaboration network, with their counterparts from around the world in Paris last week.

The IRS also encouraged any U.S. citizens and companies that may have money in offshore accounts to contact the agency now before any possible illegal activity on their part is identified.

According to media reports, the data about more than 214,000 offshore companies listed by Panamanian law firm contain information on potentially thousands of U.S. citizens and firms that have at least an indirect connection to offshore accounts affiliated with Mossack Fonseca.

The air in parts of Maryland, Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia is about to get very noisy this spring as a 17-year cycle comes to a close for cicadas.

Billions of cicadas are expected to emerge from the ground as part of Brood V, seeking a mate before they die. The current cycle began in 1999 as those bugs burrowed into the ground, according to Cicada Mania.

Cicadas aren’t like locusts. They can’t chew so they don’t destroy plants or trees. However, the males do sing – constantly – in an effort to find a mate.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the insects live above ground for about a month when the ground temperature reaches at least 64 degrees and are only interested in one thing – sex. It is the only time they can mate and lay eggs.

The eggs will hatch in about six weeks and the nymphs will burrow into the ground, feeding on plant roots for another 17 years. At that time, they emerge to start the cycle all over again.

Data on Cicada Mania’s page shows the area where the cicadas will emerge is very limited and patchy. Far western Maryland, northwest Virginia and the northern two-thirds of West Virginia will see Brood V emerge. The eastern half of Ohio and a very specific area of New York are also included.

Brood V is not expected to emerge in Washington. The last time the Metro area was saturated with the noisy insects was in 2013 with Brood II, which is not expected to emerge again until 2030.

Brood X, which is scheduled to emerge in 2021, is the next big cycle for the area.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said there are 15 different brood cycles, which work on 13 or 17 year cycles. Scientists have wondered why these cycles exist but have no real answers.

Gladys Ruth Gallivan, who left her manufacturing job in 1943 to become one of the first female Marines during World War II, celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday.

Family, friends and fellow Marine veterans held a tea party for the centenarian at the Veteran's Village of San Diego. 

"I cannot believe it," she told NBC 7 Saturday. "It's amazing to think someone would do this just for me." 

Gallivan said she had no fond memories of boot camp, but the her wartime service was something she'd remember for the rest of her life. 

She worked at Nordberg Manufacturing as a young woman and said there was little hope for advancement in her job. To change her life she decided to enlist. 

“At that time they were advertising for women to join the Marine Corps, so I didn’t see why I couldn’t,” Gallivan said. “Why I did it was to get away. Something different. I was just tired of my job...Every place you went they were advertising for women to volunteer to ‘free a man to go fight,’” she said. “Other than that it was just my idea.”

Gallivan joined during the 'Free a Man to Fight' campaign when she was just 26. She served at Cherry Point in North Carolina before being transferred to Miramar.

“We used to hitchhike up to LA on the weekends,” she said. “And today you couldn’t do it, but then you could get out on the road and hitchhike up to LA and spend the weekend in LA.”

She was honorably discharged in 1946 along with the rest of the women who had enlisted. Starting as a private, by the time she was discharged she was a technical sergeant.

After the war her position was converted to civil service. She got married and had two boys but eventually returned to her job after her children had grown.

During the war female Marines served in motor transport, repair and as telephone operators among other jobs. “We couldn’t go overseas,” Gallivan explained. “Wherever they could put us they put us. Going into the Marine Corps today is entirely different.”

Gallivan retired in 1985 after a lifetime in government service.

The Women Marines Association created a Facebook event asking people to send her birthday cards recently, and she got some from as far away as Japan.

Gallivan said her secret to a long life is to “forget about getting older.”

She now lives in Mission Village where she helps the community paper and appears at local schools on Veteran's Day. 

A Texas man who struck a 15-year-old girl after firing a real gun at a weekend water gun fight was in custody Sunday, according to authorities, NBC News reported.

The incident happened Saturday in Spring, a small suburb north of Houston. A neighbor said he believed the man shot the girl accidentally. 

Harris County Constable Lt. Charles Hoover said the girl, who was struck in the shoulder near her neck, suffered non-life threatening injuries. 

The man, who was in his 40s, was not related to the victim. He was charged with deadly conduct, Hoover said. Police did not identify him.

Neighbors in Otay Ranch are concerned after three dogs have died in the last month, allegedly after being poisoned.

The owners say the dogs ate cut up hot dogs that had plant pesticides in them that someone threw into their backyards.

In Kayre Frank’s home dogs are family.

“She started to get violently ill,” Frank said of his dog Stella who died on April 13. “She was kind of shaking and it was weird that she would lay down like that… she wasn't responding to me and so I got down and looked at her. She didn't look good, she foaming and she was shaking.

Frank took Stella to the vet where they did tests. By this time she wasn’t even able to breathe on her own.

“He said it looked like sausage,” Frank told NBC 7. “I don't have anything like that in the house so I knew that something was up…Someone had clearly put poison in a hot dog.”

Eventually they made the decision to put her down.

“Somebody took the time to obtain this chemical, to put it in a hot dog, to throw it over the fence. Obviously knowing we had a dog. Two dogs,” Frank said. “You're sad, your devastated and then you're angry because you know that somebody did this on purpose.

Stella would have been five years old next month.

Both of Adrianna Martinez’s dogs died on April 8.

“He ran up into my bed and was crying, crying and I never heard him cry that way,” she said of Nala her golden retriever. Nala then collapsed. “He didn't have control of his body anymore…He threw up a wiener with black inside of it.”

She said her mother’s dog Henny began having seizures and could barely breathe.

After her mother rushed home to take them to the vet Martinez said Nala died in her arms “like it was too late for her…Within an hour…they were gone,” she said.

Nala was turning three and Henny was turning one.

“It's like I lost my little brother and sister,” Martinez told NBC 7.

Once again the vet said it was pesticide.

“Whoever did this has a personal problem with dogs....It’s evil. You know, you just don't do that to an animal,” she added.

Fliers are now posted throughout the neighborhood warning other dog owners of the danger to their pets.

The Frank family is offering a $500 reward to anyone with information leading to an arrest.

Chula Vista police are investigating. 

Residents in La Jolla are upset about graffiti left on benches and fences along the Coast Walk Trail. 

Vandals have turned the trail into an eyesore that will be costly to clean up.

“It's ugly; It distracts from the natural beauty of the area. We get a lot of tourists coming through here, a lot of locals,” Rachelle Agosti who works at the nearby Cave store told NBC 7. “They just want to look at ocean views. They don't want to see graffiti all over the place.”

The cave store’s fence has also has been victimized by graffiti.

“I think it’s horrible especially for tourism,” El Cajon resident Gloria Torres said. I am playing tourist. They pay a lot of money to come to our city and to see that is an eyesore.”

Tourist and locals get to enjoy the trail, but it's actually maintained through a non-profit set up by homeowners who may end up footing the bill for the vandalism.

“This belongs to the street department,” Brenda Fake, President of Friends of Coast Walk Trail explained.

“If you have to weigh the difference between a lovely walk and a pot hole, I'll tell you where the balance goes and understandably.”

For now, the Friends of Coast Walk Trail will raise money and work with the city in the hope that soon the vandalism is gone for good.

A man shot while driving on the freeway managed to keep driving miles away to a gas station, where he called for help, California Highway Patrol (CHP) officials said. 

The incident happened shortly after midnight when the unidentified 23-year-old man was driving along State Route 125 near Jamacha, CHP officers said. 

A dark colored sedan, possibly a Mercedes, drove up next to the car and someone inside the car fired through the driver side window, officers said. 

A bullet grazed the 23-year-old's head and another bullet struck him in the shoulder. 

The man kept driving, ending up at a Shell gas station in San Diego's Bay Terraces neighborhood, officers said. CHP officials do not know if the shooting was targeted. 

The 21-year-old female passenger in the car did not recognize the car where shots were fired from, she told authorities. 

The victim is expected to recover, officers say. Police are searching for the suspect. 

No other information was immediately available.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory continued Sunday to defend a key provision of the state's controversial HB2 law — which some consider discriminatory toward members of the LGBT community — that restricts transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender they identify as.

"I do believe in our high schools, in our middle schools, in our universities, we should continue to have the tradition that we've been having in this country for years. And we have a women's facility and a men's facility," McCrory said on "Meet the Press," noting that "it's worked out pretty well."

The governor has tried to undo some of the damage caused by the new law by signing an executive order that expands equal opportunity protection for LGBT employees of the state.

But when moderator Chuck Todd asked why he didn't expand that same executive order to protect LGBT North Carolinians in the private sector, he responded, "Because I'm not the private sector's H.R. director."

San Diego police are looking for a man who doused another male in gasoline, lighting him on fire. 

The incident happened on the 1700 block of Pentecost Way in San Diego's Oak Park neighborhood near a Riteaid, just north of State Route 94, San Diego Police (SDPD) confirmed to NBC 7 San Diego. 

The victim suffered burns all over his body, police said, and was taken to UC San Diego's Burn Center. 

The suspect is still at large. Police do not have a clear description for him, but said he was last seen driving a two-door pickup truck. 

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

The 12-year-old cousin of a Tennessee high school football star shot dead in December was killed Saturday, NBC News reported. 

Jajuan Hubert Latham was shot in the head in Knoxville just hours after an event that honored his slain cousin, Zaevion Dobson, NBC station WBIR reported. 

Police believe the young boy was killed Saturday night while sitting in the back seat of his father’s SUV, which was at Knoxville park. Gunfire erupted between two vehicles that drove by the park. Jajuan’s father rushed him to the hospital, where he later died.

The incident took place hours after an event that honored his slain cousin.

President Obama used Dobson’s death to call for tighter gun control. Dobson, 15, died while shielding three friends from gunfire.

A new crime drama from the executive producer of Showtime’s Shameless will be shooting in Oceanside Tuesday.

Animal Kingdom, which stars Ellen Barkin, Scott Speedman (Felicity, Underworld) and Shawn Hatosy (Southland, Fear the Walking Dead), will film exterior and interior scenes of an upcoming episode of the show set in a ‘Southern California beach town.’

Shooting will take place at 507 North Coast Highway from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.

TNT picked up the show last year with a 10-episode order in December. Animal Kingdom is set to air in June.

Prep for the shoot will start at 7 a.m. Tuesday and crew members will be striking the set as late as 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Parking may be difficult Tuesday and the crew will do intermittent traffic and pedestrian control while filming on the street and sidewalk.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Sunday, NBC News reported.

More than 28,300 people attended a rally, according to the campaign and a production company that helped plan the event.

"In case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of people here this afternoon!" Sanders bellowed to cheers as he took the stage after actor Danny DeVito glowingly introduced him. 

Sanders has drawn big crowds during his campaign, with 28,000 people at his Portland, Oregon, rally in August and 18,000 people in South Bronx in March. 

Another large crowd is expected in Long Island City on Monday, the night before the all-important New York primary.

Police are searching for two suspects who fatally stabbed a man in National City.

Jose Estrada, 33, was stabbed to death early Sunday morning.

Neighbor Edward Black was in the shower Sunday morning when he heard screaming from the vacant lot beside his home.

Black's cousin and girlfriend yelled "call 911" as they held Jose Estrada up until paramedics arrived.

When officers got to the scene they found Estrada being cared for in a vacant lot at the 2500 block of East 24th Street.

Known to everyone as Junior, Estrada had been stabbed multiple times in the chest.

“All he did was tell me to be the strongest man I can be. He was like my own brother; I just can't believe he's gone,” neighbor Michael Spencer told NBC 7.

As for Black, who's lived next door to Estrada since he was a little boy, he said he's praying for the 33-year-old's young daughter.

"It makes me feel terrible," Black told NBC 7. 

Estrada died at the hospital after undergoing surgery for his stabs wounds.

There is no good description of the suspects at this time.

The men were last seen fleeing on foot.

The investigation is ongoing.

In preparation for what is expected to be a bad wildfire season, San Diego Humane Society volunteers trained to rescue livestock during fires and other natural disasters Sunday.

The approximately 60 volunteers are with the Humane Society's Animal Rescue Reserve.

The volunteers practiced being called to an emergency location, setting up to load animals and unloading them in a safe place.

Animal owners still have to do their part though.

"A lot of the times we're evacuating for people that have been at work or out shopping and can't get back but neighbors are there,” Cpt. Melyssa Jones of the San Diego Humane Society said. “Have a game plan in place ahead of time. Keep a list, a file list of what you have and where you have it."

Cpt. Jones said this is especially the case for people who have multiple types of livestock.

A California senator is fighting gender inequality with the 'Equal Gender Pricing Bill.' 

State Senator Ben Hueso of San Diego has proposed legislation that would end discriminatory pricing practices that make women pay more for similar products than men.

The bill would eliminate price discrepancies on like products for men and women and would require retailers and grocers to notify customers of their right not to be charged differently for comparable merchandise.

“It is unfair that female products are priced higher than men’s,” Senator Hueso said. “Why are retailers pulling extra money from women when data already shows that they earn about 84 cents for every dollar men earn? This needs to change. It’s about time we stand up to the retailers and fight for equal product pricing for all.”

Women’s products cost an average of 42% more 18% of the time according to a 2015 study by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs.

The study looked across multiple industries, including toys and accessories, children and adult clothing, and personal and home health care products for seniors.

“All consumers, regardless of their gender, should pay the same price for the same product. Pink packaging or gender-based marketing is no justification for charging more,” said Richard Holober, Executive Director of the Consumer Federation of California. “Anything less than an equal price is discrimination and blatantly unfair.”

California has protected consumers against gender price discrimination in the service industry since 1996. The bill would provide the same protections to both genders on the pricing of consumer goods.

The 'Equal Gender Pricing Bill' is co-authored by Assembly member Lorena Gonzales and sponsored by the Consumer Federation of California.

Only two White House hopefuls are enjoying a net positive rating among registered voters, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who trails the other two Republican candidates, has the highest net positive rating at 31 percent, while Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders enjoys a 45 percent positive rating.

GOP front-runner Donald Trump remains very unpopular with Americans as a whole, with almost two-thirds of voters giving him a thumbs down. Trump scored with a net 41 percent negative rating. 

Rival Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton are also rating negatively when it comes to their overall favorability — with a negative score of 49 and 56 percent respectively.