About 35,000 protestors have turned out in the German city of Hannover to protest a planned U.S.-Europe free trade agreement, a day ahead of President Barack Obama's visit, NBC News reported.

The protest was organized by the so called "anti-free-trade alliance," made up of numerous associations including trade unions, environmental activists and church group, who fear the proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could threaten Germany's environmental and legal standards.

The president will use the annual CEBIT international trade fair in Hannover to promote the deal, which would create the world's largest free trade area with approximately 800 million people.

Officials in Washington and Europe are trying to clinch key parts of the TTIP deal before the end of the year.

The boat carrying two missing teenagers, who disappeared off the Florida coast last year, was discovered near Bermuda nearly eight months after they vanished, authorities said Saturday.

Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, set out on a fishing trip off the Jupiter Ponce de Leon Inlet aboard the single-engine boat on July 24, 2015 and never returned.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission said a Norwegian supply boat spotted the boys' Seacraft 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda on March 18 while on route to Norway. 

The commission notified the boys' families once they confirmed the boat belonged to Stephanos, NBC affiliate WPTV reported. According to NBC News, a spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Commission said the families were told they could come forward with the information "in their own time."

An iPhone belonging to Stephanos and a tackle box were found on the teens' recovered boat, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The boat is expected to return to the U.S. in mid-May, Fish and Wildlife Commission Spokesman Rob Klepper told NBC News.

Lengthy searches by the Coast Guard and private pilots turned up no clues.

The Coast Guard initially located the boat off New Smyrna Beach, two days after it went missing, but the company hired by the Coast Guard to bring the boat back couldn't find it.

An Oregon man is accused of tipping a prostitute with an exotic primate stolen from his own pet store along with stolen Girl Scout cookie money and a laptop computer, NBC News reported.

The prostitute identified the client as Nathan McClain, who owned Zany Zoo, where a missing Galago primate, money and laptop were missing from, the Eugene Police department said in a statement. 

The mammal and money were reported missing in early March, but police would not say who made the report. Officers were led to a prostitute at a hotel, where she was in possession of the animal. She told authorities they were a tip from a client. 

McClain was arrested by Oregon State Police in one of their office building parking lots for driving under the influence, according to Eugene police. They determined he was the client after he was interviewed.

Many people who would benefit from the legalization of medical marijuana are beginning to rise up to protest the new laws, NBC News reports. 

They say “CBD-only” laws allow residents with specified conditions to legally use products derived from marijuana that contain cannabidiol (CBD), with low traces of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which produces marijuana's "high." 

The law allows patients to orally ingest an oil derived from marijuana or hemp. But for patients who require whole-plant medical marijuana say they’re being forced to commit criminal acts to get relief for themselves or their loved ones. 

Seventeen Midwestern and Southern states started passing the laws two years ago. But some say they only help a small group of patients, and that the laws force residents to commit criminal acts to get relief for themselves or their loved ones.

"We're not lawbreakers and this shouldn't even be an issue," said Jennifer Conforti of Fayetteville, Georgia, who gives her 5-year-old autistic daughter, Abby, marijuana-derived oil with higher-than-allowed levels of THC to control dangerous biting episodes. "It should be a medicine that doctors go to when they need it."

San Diego police are investigating three reported overdoses of the anti-anxiety medication Xanax.

In a news release on Friday afternoon, police said that three juveniles were taken to hospitals for treatment in the Carmel Valley area.

The overdoses occurred on Thursday, police said.

"I've never seen it at school being used, but I have seen it at parties. Yeah, people use it," local student Sam Xaviar told NBC 7. 

He watched emergency crews swarm into the front parking lot of Torrey Pines High School Thursday morning to rescue someone who overdosed on Xanax.

Though he said none of the people involved attend his school-- Xanax is a concern.

For more information on the misuse of Xanax, residents are encouraged to contact their doctor or call 911.

Those who wish to report a Xanax overdose are asked to call the police department’s northwestern division at (858) 523-7000 or, if you wish to remain anonymous, you can call San Diego Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

Police have not said where the drugs are coming from or if any arrests have been made.

Further details on the overdoses and the juveniles’ conditions were not released.

Two men were shot in San Diego’s Skyline community Friday night, one victim hit in the head by a bullet, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said.

Investigators said two Skyline residents, a 56-year-old man and 58-year-old man, were sitting in a garage in the 7900 block of Gribble Street and Meadowbrook Drive watching TV when gunfire rang out just after 9 p.m.

Police said the shots came from the sidewalk area in what may have been a drive-by shooting.

One victim was shot in the leg, while the other in the head. They both survived, police said.

The shooting suspects fled the scene in a dark colored vehicle. No further description of the suspects or the car was released by the police department.

NBC 7 spoke to neighbors who said they heard at least four gunshots. One resident was tinkering in his garage when he heard the shots and immediately called 911.

The incident is under investigation. There was no exchange of words or interaction between the suspects and victims before the shooting, so police said the motive for the crime is unclear.

President Barack Obama criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, saying activists should discuss their concerns with leaders rather than yelling at them, NBC News reported.

Obama lauded the movement for bringing attention to police violence across the country, but called the harsh tone of activists troubling. 

"You can't just keep on yelling at them and you can't refuse to meet because that might compromise the purity of your position," Obama said. 

Obama made the remarks at a youth town hall in London on Saturday, after BLM activists protested at presidential candidates’ rallies, including Hillary Clinton.

Worldwide vinyl sales may increasing at an exponential rate, but that won’t stop San Diego wax institution Off the Record from closing its doors at the end of April.

“You gotta be a hardcore music person to appreciate the fact that vinyl sounds better,” the store’s manager Paul Russe told SoundDiego. “Most people don’t care. They’re not concerned about that stuff. Music for a lot of people is background. For people who care about vinyl, music isn’t background — it’s foreground.”

Even though recent reports have vinyl sales up nearly 30 percent in 2015 over 2014’s numbers — the 10th consecutive year that vinyl sales have grown — it’s just not enough.

“Sure, vinyl sales are up,” Russe continued. “But they’ve come back from zero. It’s kind of a ‘isn’t that cute’ kind of thing. It’s a curio. ‘Oh, isn’t that an anachronistic way to listen to music.’”

And for Off the Record (currently located at 2192 University Avenue), that particularly enlightened demographic just isn’t enough to keep the store afloat. Russe explained the reasoning behind the closure.

“It’s not any one reason,” Russe said, sighing. “It’s a number of reasons: finances; gentrification of the neighborhood; the raising of rent; the fact that this neighborhood has transitioned from a place to shop to a place to drink — no one comes to record stores when they’re out drinking.”

It’s a sad, disappointing fate for the San Diego staple. Off the Record, which began its life in 1978 on El Cajon Boulevard in College Grove and then later on 5th Avenue in Hillcrest (where it moved in 1989), made a name for itself by being a one-stop shop for everything music: vinyl (new, rare and used), CDs (new and used), music-related posters, ‘zines, stickers, patches, and various other types of music merchandise.

It housed sweaty, jam-packed in-store shows by everyone from Nirvana to Slayer, Motorhead, Husker Du and the Misfits. Then in 2005, due to rising rent, low foot traffic and Hillcrest’s expensive metered parking, the shop relocated again to North Park, which was in the midst of a huge commercial revitalization that hinged mostly on the influx of countless pubs and craft beer breweries. According to Russe, the in-vogue neighborhood — which bustles nightly with local (and out-of-town) drinkers — also sealed the store's fate.

“It’s not a place where people come to shop anymore,” he explained. “It’s an area where people in their 20s come down to go to the 20-30 bars here. There’s hardly any retail stores open. Even Claire’s [Coffee Shop, which had been located next door] closed and they’ve been here for 21 years. They had to close for the same reasons. We used to have a lot of night business, but now that it’s a bar scene at night, you don’t go to a record store when you’re out drinking.”

While it’s a considerable shock to those of us that have spent countless hours flipping through their treasured bins, Russe and the rest of the staff are still reeling as well.

“I haven’t had time to digest it,” he said. “I just haven’t had time to think about anything because we’re trying to get everything priced and out on the floor. But, it blows. It’s a bit of a shock.”

For the opportunists out there (or maybe those that would like to come in one last time and pay respects), Off the Record is having a going-out-of-business sale until they shut their doors on April 30. New vinyl and CDs are 20 percent off, while used CDs and vinyl are 50 percent off. And for those that might be wondering — according to Russe, the shop has no plans to reopen somewhere else.

So whatever you do, be sure to head in for one last vinyl hunt before Off the Record stops spinning for good.

Dustin Lothspeich plays in Diamond Lakes and Boy King, and runs Gear and Loathing in San Diego. Follow his updates on Twitter or contact him directly.

Angela Simon walked out of the Sport Chalet on Midway Drive in San Diego with a new canopy and barbecue.  She says she has been shopping here for years but today Angela admits she was attracted to the store because of its "Going out of Business" signs on the window.

"Somebody is going to buy this stuff," said Simon. "Might as well take advantage of a good deal."

Sport Chalet is closing all of its stores.  Sears and Kmart announced they are closing nearly 128 stores across the country.  They join stores as diverse as Macy's, Office Depot, Walmart and J.C. Penney who have announced they are cutting back.

"It's been almost revolutionary," said San Diego State University (SDSU) marketing professor Miro Copic.

He says since the recession of 2008 and the steady growth of online sales, traditional stores have been struggling to survive.

"It is a shift in what consumers are expecting of their retail experience,"  he explained. "And retailers that don't meet up to that standard are going to go by the wayside."

Sport Chalet shopper Dan Skalko agrees.

"I think it is convenience, the ability to sit at home any time of the day or night," Skalko told NBC 7.

By one account, more than 2,500 store closures are expected around the country in the near future.

Who will decide which stores survive?

"The final voter is the consumer," said Copic.

And he says there is more change to come.

"You're going to see more fundamental changes in retailing in the next 12 to 24 months and then you are going to see a kind of new era of retailing," he added.

Copic said this will last for a few years until the next round of changes.

A pilot crashed his small, two-seat plane at Ramona Airport in San Diego County Saturday but survived, authorities confirmed. 

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSO) said a 56-year-old pilot walked with only minor cuts after crashing his small aircraft near the CAL FIRE helicopter landing pad at the airport around 10 a.m.

The pilot was treated at the scene by CAL FIRE firefighters. No one else was aboard the aircraft and no one on the ground was injured in the crash, deputies said.

The SDSO said Ramona Airport officials have reported the incident to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Safety Transportation Board (NTSB). NBC 7 reached out to the FAA for further details on the plane crash, but have no yet heard back from the organization.

Ramona Airport is located at 2926 Montecito Rd., about two miles west of the central business district of Ramona, which is about 40 minutes from downtown San Diego. The airport is owned by the County of San Diego.

The site was first developed in 1943, when the U.S. Navy built a small airstrip. In 1956, the facility was conveyed to San Diego County and the airport has grown over the past six decades into an aviation center for inland and mountain communities.

According to the County of San Diego website, the Ramona Airport is the third busiest facility in the County’s system with just over 155,000 operations each year.

CAL FIRE operates a base at the airport, which responds to about 450 calls per year, per the County website.

NBC 7’s Derek Togerson takes a look at the Chargers signature gathering rally in this commentary

A parking lot at 13th and K in Downtown San Diego is not typically the spot you’re going to find a man who oversees one of the most powerful sports leagues on the planet and makes about $40 million a year doing it.

But among the estimated 4,000 people who attended a rally to start the signature gathering process on the San Diego Chargers’ citizens’ initiative for a new stadium/convention center hybrid in the East Village was NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

The appearance of Goodell, who does not venture into America’s Finest City very often, is a story unto itself.

“To me that was so important, to have Roger Goodell here,” said former Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson, now an employee of NFL Network. “I think that says that this is important to the National Football League. And now that the fans see that Roger came out, and they know it’s important to the NFL, I think they will care more about making this happen.”

So why did Goodell decide to take a weekend break from his New York office and spend the weekend imploring San Diegans to lend their John Hancocks to the new convadium effort? A couple of reasons, actually.

“Dean [Spanos] called me several weeks ago and said we’d like to begin the initiative drive for signatures,” said Goodell. “I said I’d be happy to support it. I’ve been talking to Dean and [San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer] over the last several months about getting more engaged. If I can play a constructive role I want to be here.”

During a tumultuous 2015 when Goodell consistently said Qualcomm Stadium is no longer a viable NFL stadium option, calling it “inadequate” and more or less threatening to let the team move to Los Angeles if a new facility was not constructed here, fans in San Diego saw the Commish as a villain of the highest order. Goodell was singing a very different tune on Saturday morning.

“I said it and I mean it, I think the Chargers belong in San Diego,” said Goodell, a kind of “My Bad” olive branch extension to the fan base. “This is a great day. You see the passion of the fans. You see how important it is to them. It’s our job to go and find a solution for this community and for the team.”

Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco was struck by Goodell’s presence and the impact the man can have.

“There’s a huge commitment here,” said Telesco. “He came out, we’re thankful for that. He did a great job. He’s always been behind us. This is an NFL city, he knows that and we know it. We love it here and the response is just great.”

Hearing all this praise and excitement one might think Goodell walked on water to get to the rally. He’s not making decisions on an island, though, so his support means there is even more support from a whole lot of powerful men.

“Well it shows the support, obviously, of the NFL ownership and he’s committed to do anything he can to help us get this initiative approved,” said Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos, who was out shaking hands and posing for selfies, being more accessible than he’s really ever been with the fan base.

However there is a dark cloud still hanging over all the proceedings; the specter of Los Angeles still looms. If this citizens’ initiative fails the Chargers still have the option to join the Rams at a new facility that’s being built in Inglewood and although Spanos repeated his desire to stay in San Diego, don’t think for one second he won’t head up the freeway if things don’t work out here.

So perhaps Goodell showing up in San Diego is less a commitment to the Chargers staying in San Diego and more a commitment that the National Football League wants to be in San Diego. As Goodell stated during his podium session speaking to the congregation:

“We’ve gotta start by getting our signatures, then we’ve gotta get a vote in November, and then we’ve gotta build this stadium right here, and then we’ll have a new home for the Chargers, and (pause for dramatic effect) a perfect place for the Super Bowl!”

That is one heck of a carrot to dangle in front of a voting public. It’s no secret the league would love to have San Diego (and L.A.) as a future Super Bowl site.

“I’m really encouraged by the fact that he’s going to help support the possibility of a Super Bowl here,” said Spanos. “I’m confident that the owners will support us for a Super Bowl here. From the past three (Super Bowl XXII, Super Bowl XXXII, Super Bowl XXXVII) they’ve had a great experience.”

Of course, Dean was also confident his fellow owners would support his Carson stadium proposal, which was shot down in a 30-2 vote, so take that for what it’s worth.

It would be easy to argue that, for the NFL, having a Super Bowl-caliber facility in San Diego is the bigger motivation than keeping one specific team here. They would have another money-making monster in one of the largest cities in America.

Remember, the NFL is about the NFL making money. That’s the real driving force here. The league sees San Diego, like Telesco said, as a good football market and they want to be here for that reason. If the payoff for all of us is getting to enjoy some really good football and having something to root for and call our own, well that’s fine by me.

How about you?

The Florida zookeeper who was fatally mauled by a tiger last week broke protocol by entering the animal’s enclosure, NBC News reported.

In a statement Friday, Palm Beach Zoo president Andrew Aiken said tiger expert Stacey Konwiser went against zoo policy and entered a portion of the tiger’s enclosure on April 15. He said “it was clearly designated as accessible by a tiger.” 

“Under Palm Beach Zoo policy, zoo employees are never allowed to enter a tiger enclosure to which the animal has access," Aiken said. 

Konwiser was left with fatal injuries to her neck after the animal attacked her. She was attending to the tigers alone, which is permitted by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, according to the zoo.

The pilot of a solar-powered airplane on an around-the-world journey said Saturday that stopping in California's Silicon Valley will help link the daring project to the pioneering spirit of the area.

Pilot Bertrand Piccard, who left Hawaii three days ago, said he hopes to fly over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge before landing in Mountain View on Saturday night.

"Can you imagine crossing the Golden Gate Bridge on a solar-powered plane just like ships did in past centuries? But the plane doesn't make noise and doesn't pollute,'' Piccard said a live video feed on the website documenting the journey.

It's a priority to link the project we have with the pioneering spirit in Silicon Valley,'' he added.

The project's website says the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft is 2 days and 4 hours into a three-day flight over the Pacific.

The aircraft started its around-the-world journey in March 2015 from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and made stops in Oman, Myanmar, China and Japan. It's on the ninth leg of its circumnavigation. 

On Friday, Piccard exchanged pleasantries with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who hailed Piccard's pioneering spirit as "inspirational,'' telling him he was making history.

Piccard responded that Ban, too, was making history by having just presided over the signing of a climate agreement supported by representatives of 175 nations.

"What you are doing today in New York, signing the Paris agreement, is more than protecting the environment, it is the launch of the clean technology revolution,'' Piccard said.

The trans-Pacific leg of his journey is the riskiest part of the solar plane's global travels because of the lack of emergency landing sites.

After uncertainty about winds, the plane took off from Hawaii on Thursday morning. The crew that helped it take off was clearing out of its Hawaiian hangar and headed for the mainland for the weekend arrival.

At one point passengers on a Hawaiian Air jet caught a glimpse of the Solar Impulse 2 before the airliner sped past the slow-moving aircraft.

The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Hawaii in July and was forced to stay in the islands after the plane's battery system sustained heat damage on its trip from Japan 

Piccard's co-pilot Andre Borschberg flew the leg from Japan to Hawaii 

The team was delayed in Asia, as well. When first attempting to fly from Nanjing, China, to Hawaii, the crew had to divert to Japan because of unfavorable weather and a damaged wing.

A month later, when weather conditions were right, the plane departed from Nagoya in central Japan for Hawaii.

The plane's ideal flight speed is about 45 kph, or 28 mph, though that can double during the day when the sun's rays are strongest. The carbon-fiber aircraft weighs more than 5,000 pounds, or about as much as a midsize truck.

 The wings of Solar Impulse 2, which stretch wider than those of a Boeing 747, are equipped with 17,000 solar cells that power propellers and charge batteries. The plane runs on stored energy at night.

A 19-year-old firefighter who was shot four times last week while responding to a call for help in Temple Hills, Maryland, has been released from the hospital Saturday evening, News4's Darcy Spencer reports.

Kevin Swain, a volunteer firefighter in Prince George's County, was recovering at Shock Trauma in Baltimore since he was shot Friday, April 15.

"Thank you for all the support. The support has been phenomenal," Swain said with a smile as he left the hospital. "I couldn't ask for anything else. I'm ready to go home."

Another firefighter, John Ulmschneider, was fatally shot.

Swain and Ulmschneider were responding to a welfare check at a Temple Hills home that night.

The man inside the home opened fire on the two firefighters and his brother when they entered, police said. Police said he believed someone was breaking into his home. He has not been charged.

"It's gotta be the brightest point at the end of a very trying week for us as a fire department," said Battalion Chief Eric Reith, with Prince George's County Fire and Rescue.

Swain was surrounded by his fellow firefighters as he made his way to a fire engine for the ride home.

"For public safety, a line of duty death is a dark moment and trying moment for any organization. The sweet point is today, there's a little bit of a ray of light getting to see someone that was injured critically get to go home and complete their recovery," Reith said.

Firefighters held a moment of radio silence Friday night, exactly one week after the shooting.

Swain's family has set up a donation site where people can give to a charity fund set up in his name.

An online fund has also been established to support Ulmschneider's family. He left behind a wife and a 2-year-old daughter.

Nearby apartments were evacuated after a fire started at an Ocean Beach apartment building San Diego police confirmed. 

The fire began around 8:50 p.m. Saturday in the 4000 block of Greene Street and was out just after 9 p.m. 

The extent of the damage is unclear. 

It's unknown if there are any injuries. 

No other information was immediately available. 

Here’s a look ahead at what is going on in San Diego sports during the week of April 25th to May first.

GULLS: Playoff hockey is coming to San Diego this week! The Gulls host the Texas Stars in the Calder Cup playoffs Thursday at the Valley View Casino Center and Friday if necessary at 7:05 p.m. both days.

PADRES: The Friars hit the road for NL West play all this week. Monday-Wednesday they’re in San Francisco Thursday is an off day before they start a weekend series in Los Angeles against the Dodgers Friday-Sunday.

ALBION PROS: The Albion Pros hit the road this weekend. Saturday they’re at FC Hasental.

NC BATTALION: We do have National Premier Soccer League action in San Diego Sunday. The North County Battalion hosts Temecula FC at 1 p.m. at Del Norte High School.

CHARGERS: We have Chargers news that has nothing to do with the stadium saga! The NFL Draft kicks off Thursday and goes through Saturday. As of Sunday April 24th the Chargers hold pick 3 in the first round, 35 in the second round, 66 in round three, 102 in the fourth round, 175 in round five, 179 & 198 in the sixth round and pick 224 in round seven.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO:
-SOFTBALL: Friday-Sunday at the CCAA Tournament in Stockton.
-MENS ROWING: Saturday and Sunday at WIRA Championships at Rancho Cordova.
-WOMENS ROWING: Saturday and Sunday at WIRA Championships at Rancho Cordova.
-WOMENS WATER POLO: Saturday and Sunday at Mercyhurst/Cal State Monterey Bay WWPA Championships at Hayward.
-BASEBALL: Saturday vs. Cal State East Bay 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sunday vs. Cal State East Bay 11 a.m.
-MENS TENNIS: Saturday vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 2:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO TOREROS:
-BASEBALL: Tuesday at UC Riverside 6 p.m. Friday at Portalnd 12 p.m. and TBA. and Saturday at Portland 11 a.m.
-WOMENS TENNIS: Thursday-Saturday at the WCC Championships all day in Claremont at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center.
-MENS TENNIS: Thursday-Saturday at the WCC Championships all day in Claremont at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center.
-WOMENS SWIMMING: Thursday-Sunday at the MVMeet of Champs all day in Mission Viejo.
-WOMENS ROWING: Saturday at the ARCO Time Trial in Chula Vista all day and Saturday and Sunday at the WIRA Championship all day in Gold River, CA.
-WOMENS TRACK: Saturday at the Steve Scott Invite all day in Irvine.
-SOFTBALL: Saturday at Santa Clara 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday at Santa Clara 12 p.m.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY AZTECS:
-BASEBALL: Tuesday at Long Beach State 6 p.m., Friday vs. Nevada 6 p.m., Saturday vs. Nevada 2 p.m. and Sunday vs. Nevada 1 p.m.
-MENS TENNIS: Wednesday vs. New Mexico in Las Vegas 11 a.m., Friday-Sunday vs. TBA in Las Vegas.
-WOMENS TENNIS: Thursday-Sunday at the MW Championships in Fort Collins, Colo.
-SOFTBALL: Friday and Saturday vs. Utah State at 6 p.m. and Sunday vs. Utah State 12 p.m.
-WOMENS TRACK: Saturday at the Payton Jordon Invitational in Stanford, Calif. 11 a.m.
-WOMENS WATER POLO: Saturday-Sunday vs. TBD at the Aztecs Aquaplex.
-WOMENS ROWING: Saturday and Sunday at the WIRA Championships at Lake Natoma.

POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY SEA LIONS:
-TRACK: Thursday and Friday at PacWest Championships TBD.
-BASEBALL: Friday and Saturday vs. Holy Names 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. both days.

Connecticut State Police arrested a man who threatened to bomb a Donald Trump event in Waterbury Saturday.

Police say the U.S. Secret Service contacted the CSP Office of Counter Terrorism around 12:46 p.m. about a post on Twitter that threatened a campaign rally for the Republican front-runner.

According to police, the initial tweet asked if "someone [is] going to bomb the Trump rally or am I going to have to?"

A second post warned the suspect’s friend to have family members to leave the rally so they wouldn’t be harmed. The posts, which were open to public view, came from the area of Ardsley Road in Waterbury.

Police tracked down the user of the account and located the suspect, identified as Sean Taylor Morkys, at his residence. Officials interviewed Morkys and determined he was not an imminent threat to the public or to Trump.

The 20-year-old Waterbury resident was arrested and charged with first-degree threatening, inciting injury to a person or property and second-degree breach of peace.

He was processed at Troop A-Southbury and released on a $25,000 bond. He is expected in Waterbury Superior Court on May 4.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is attributing his recent primary losses in states with the highest level of income inequality to the "fact" that "poor people don't vote," NBC News reported.

In a taped interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," moderator Chuck Todd told Sanders Saturday that "17 of the 25 states with the highest levels of income inequality have held primaries. Sixteen of those 17 states have been won by Hillary Clinton, not by you. Why?"

"Well, because poor people don't vote. I mean, that's just a fact," Sanders responded.

The Vermont senator, who has made addressing income inequality a cornerstone of his White House campaign, added that in the last 2014 midterm elections, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."

Healthy elderly people have a higher than normal presence of genetic variants offering protection from cognitive decline, initial findings from an eight-year-long study from the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) found.

The Scripps “Wellderly” (well elderly) Study analyzed the entire genome of 600 elderly people throughout the nearly decade-long study, and the first results were published in the journal Cell Thursday.

More than 1,400 people from across the county between 80 and 105, who have not developed any chronic medical conditions or diseases including cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes or heart attack, are enrolled in the ongoing study.

The findings suggest a possible link between long-term cognitive health and protection from chronic diseases.

Cancer, heart disease and diabetes account for 90% of all deaths in the United States.

“The Wellderly, as we’ve defined, are exceptional individuals who live into their ninth decade and beyond without developing a significant chronic medical condition,” said STSI Director Eric Topol, MD, who is one of the study’s senior authors. “Our findings indicate that protection from cognitive decline is associated, not necessarily cause and effect, with healthspan. Since healthspan is woefully understudied, much more work in large numbers of individuals across all ancestries is desperately needed. For this reason, we have made all the genomic data available to the research community and public to help spawn further research.”

John Rawlings, 90, of San Diego was inducted into the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame in 2009 – after he started to play the game in his 70s.

“When I turned 90, they said, ‘Let’s have a big party,’” Rawlings said. “I told them, ‘You’d better wait until I turn 100.”

Rawlings is a World War II veteran and one of the study’s participants.

“This study is exciting because it is the first large one using genetic sequencing to focus on health,” said Stanford University Department of Genetics Chairman Michael Snyder, PhD, who was not involved with the research. “Most of the world’s scientists are studying disease, but what we really want to understand is what keeps us healthy. That is what the Wellderly Study is all about.”

Wellderly adults have a significantly lower genetic risk for Alzheimer’s and coronary artery disease, researchers found. However, no difference was in the genetic risk for cancer, stroke or type 2 diabetes, suggesting protective behaviors or other genetic characteristics might be at play among the Wellderly.

“We didn’t find a silver bullet for healthy longevity,” said Ali Torkamani, PhD, director of genome informatics at STSI and one of the study’s co-authors. “Instead, we found weaker signals among common as well as rare variant sites, which collectively suggest that protection against cognitive decline contributes to healthy aging.”

Interestingly, a group of ultra-rare coding variants found among 10 Wellderly patients was not found in any patients in a separate study of non-Wellderly people.

“Those gene variants might offer a pathway for the development of new treatments for Alzheimer’s,” Torkamani said.

“For many decades, we have searched for the genetic causes of disease in sick individuals,” noted founding director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai Eric Schadt, Ph.D., who was not involved with the STSI research. “The Wellderly Study presents an attractive alternative by studying those who are well in order to uncover the solutions nature has provided to protect us against disease. The initial discoveries around protective factors for Alzheimer’s disease and coronary artery disease demonstrate the keys the Wellderly may hold in unlocking ways in which we all may live healthier lives.”

Co-authors of the Cell report included Galina A. Erikson, STSI; Dale Bodian, PhD, ITMI; Manuel Rueda, PhD, STSI; Bhuvan Molparia, TSRI; Erick Scott, MD, STSI; Ashley Scott-Van Zeeland, PhD, STSI; Sarah Topol, RN, STSI; Nathan Wineinger, PhD, STSI; John Niederhuber, MD, ITMI; Dr. Topol; and Torkamani.