A French ship has picked up signals in the Mediterranean Sea believed to be from black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing 66 on board, the Egyptian committee investigating the crash said Wednesday, NBC News reported. 

The committee said French naval vessel "La Place" had received signals from the search area which are assumed to be from the plane's data recorders.

The development was confirmed by the French investigation agency, BEA, which said the signals were detected from the seabed in the wreckage search area. Spokesman Sebastien Barthe told NBC News the signal had been detected on the vessel by a private contractor, Alseamar. 

There have been a series of conflicting reports in recent days regarding whether new signals have been received.

EgyptAir Flight MS804 crashed on May 19 while en route from Paris to Cairo.

A person may have been behind the wheel of a truck found submerged in the water in a Carlsbad jetty.

Officers found the pickup in the water on the east side of Carlsbad Boulevard south of Tamarak.

Lifeguards did a sweep inside the truck just after midnight. One of the windows was rolled down but no one was inside, police said.

At 10:26 a.m., the truck was towed out of the water.

After an investigation, police said it was a citizen on the side of the road who flagged down a police patrol car to report the truck in the water.

The truck is believed to have entered the lagoon at Garfield Street, police said.

According to Carlsbad Police, the registered owner lives in Oceanside and was contacted by Oceanside PD Wednesday morning.

He told police he left his keys inside the truck and that it was stolen Tuesday night.

No other information was immediately available.

The San Diego Sheriff's Department Dive Team will go back to the area at low tide to search for any possible victims.

A woman was rushed to the hospital Wednesday when her vehicle crashed into a guardrail on a San Diego-area highway.

The vehicle crashed at 3:20 a.m. where northbound Interstate 805 transitions to westbound State Route 54.

National City Fire Department crews responded and found the woman conscious.

The guardrail skewered the front of the vehicle up to the steering wheel and could have pierced the driver if it hadn’t stopped just short of the driver’s seat, officials said.

She was transported to a nearby hospital with multiple leg fractures, police said.

Scientists in California are making great advances in how they track sharks off the coast, using technology to tag the creatures to record their movements in the ocean.

On Tuesday morning, scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego were doing just that, tagging sharks ahead of the summer season.

"This is the time of year they're starting to show up in La Jolla," said Dr. Andy Nosal, a marine biologist with Scripps, whose team tagged a sevengill and soupfin shark on Tuesday.

The tags allow scientists to track a shark’s movement even in deeper water.

Nosal said the tools and tracking devices being used by scientists to do this type of work are better than ever.

“The technology is improving – especially, the battery life is improving,” he said. “Sharks are important predators,” Nosal added. “They play an important role in the ecosystem and we need to know where they are, what they’re doing and when they’re doing it.”

At California State University Long Beach (CSULB), Dr. Chris Lowe is part of a team tracking great white sharks off Southern California.

GPS trackers are just the start.

He said newer technology is changing the game on how they track sharks and what information they can gather. Lowe’s team is now using underwater robots to track and record video of great whites, as well as a device that can attach onto a shark to record where they move, how they move, and record video from a shark’s point of view.

The team also recently began using drones. Drone video taken by lifeguards off Seal Beach recently captured clear video of two juvenile great white sharks.

“We’re developing programmable drones with software that will allow us to estimate the size of the shark and maybe even identify the species based on its pattern or outline,” Lowe told NBC 7.

For scientists following sharks, sights like great whites in action are becoming more common.

“The last three years, because of El Nino, we didn’t have a winter and one of the things we noticed is that none of the sharks we tagged in the summer ever migrated,” he explained. “They never left. They stayed.”

Over Memorial Day Weekend, a swimmer was attacked by a shark in Newport Beach, California.

The victim, Maria Korcsmaros, 52, was training for a half-Iron Man competition off Corona Del Mar State Beach when she was attacked. The shark bite, doctors said, extended from her shoulder to her pelvic area. She is expected to survive.

Following this shark attack, Lowe cautions those who believe tracking tools may be used to make beaches safer for swimmers and surfers.

“What happens is people think it’s only dangerous to go in the water when a shark has been detected, but we can’t tag every shark out there,” said Lowe. “So I think we have to be careful. These things are science tools right now that are helping us unlock the mysteries about behavior of sharks, but I don’t think we’re at the point yet where we can use it to actually keep the public safe.”

Nosal said he’s used to fielding a lot of questions about the mysterious sea creatures.

“Part of people’s fascination with sharks is it’s a fascination with the unknown,” he said.

But thanks to technology, the unknown is getting much more familiar.

“We should be excited to see lots of sharks because they wouldn't be there if the ecosystem wasn't healthy," Nosal added.

A student at UC Los Angeles (UCLA) who was on campus during a school shooting Wednesday said the room where he hunkered down with fellow students was quiet and dark as they waited for updates from law enforcement officials.

“Everybody is trying to keep it quiet. The lights are off,” UCLA sophomore Alex Darouie told NBC 7 in a phone interview around 11:05 a.m. “Everybody is trying to not freak out right now.”

About an hour earlier, gunfire erupted at Boelter Hall on the Westwood campus, according to a statement released by UCLA.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) soon confirmed two people were dead, though details regarding the victims or an arrest were not immediately available. Just after 12 p.m., LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said the shooting was a murder-suicide and was completely contained.

The shooting happened in an engineering lab. The campus-wide alert system, Bruin Alert, issued a notification to students via text message to shelter-in-place.

Darouie told NBC 7 he was walking from a parking structure on the east side of the campus when he received the emergency Bruin Alert about the shooting.

He quickly made his way to the music building on campus, located a few hundred feet away from the engineering building. From there, he said all students were told to move into a band room and to be quiet.

He followed orders and said he saw other students outside running away from the engineering building.

On lockdown with about 20 others, Darouie described the moments in the band room as extremely tense. At the time of his conversation with NBC 7, the sophomore had already been locked in the room for about an hour.

“We’re told to keep the lights off and the doors locked in the building until further notice,” Darouie explained.

The student said he heard very little sound coming from outside the door of the band room.

“We hear like occasional shuffling of people running to classes,” he explained. “There’s not much sound beside the police units and the helicopters.”

He said there were no law enforcement officers inside the room with him, but he could hear them surrounding the building.

A few minutes later, Darouie said he had to wrap up the phone call.

“I was just told that I have to put my stuff away because they don’t know where the shooters are right now,” he whispered.

Just after 12 p.m., LAPD officials said they expected to lift the lockdown at the campus soon. For updates on the UCLA shooting, click here.

Two people are dead in a murder-suicide shooting Wednesday that led to a lockdown and campus-wide search involving hundreds of officers at UCLA, Los Angeles police said. 

The shooting occurred in a small office inside Boelter Hall on the Westwood campus. Details regarding the victims, identified by police only as two males found together in the office, were not immediately available.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said a gun and note were found near the bodies, Beck said.

"There is a note," Beck said. "I don't know if it's a suicide note. I don't know if it's a confession. I don't know what it is."

The department earlier received a report of a possible active shooter on the campus, setting off the SWAT search and lockdown on the campus of 43,000 undergraduate students. SWAT officers continued the search into early Wednesday afternoon, when robbery-homicide division detectives took over the investigation and the campus was cleared.

Campus police said they received a report of two shots fired, and there were no additional reports of gunfire as of midday. The response included hundreds of officers from UCLA, the Los Angeles Police Department and Santa Monica College, said UCLA Police Chief James Herren.

No other injuries were reported, Herren said. The lockdown was lifted at about 12:30 p.m., but classes were canceled for the remainder of the day.

The emergency response to the engineering lab included a campus-wide alert system notification that asked students to go to a secure location. Students, many of whom are preparing for final exams, described a large police response with officers shouting for people to find shelter.

"At first we weren't really sure it was real," said student Landen Baldwin from his apartment a few blocks from campus. "It was s very quick turnaround time between the alert about police activity and the confirmation that there was a shooting. This one was very definitive within a couple minutes that the situation was as drastic as it was."

The LAPD was on city-wide tactical alert, meaning all personnel were to remain on duty until the situation is resolved.

Aerial video showed several ambulances on the campus, located in Los Angeles' Westwood area. A nurse at nearby Ronald Reagan Medical Center told NBC News the hospital also was locked down.

The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said agents responded, and White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Obama was briefed aboard Air Force One about the shooting.

The campus, located on 19 acres at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, has an enrollment of 43,200 undergraduate students. The majority of undergraduates are from California, but the campus population includes students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries.

NBC4's Whitney Irick contributed to this report.

Bryan Whitman, the Pentagon's top public affairs official, has entered an agreement with prosecutors to keep him out of jail after he was charged with stealing license plates from a neighborhood car, according to court documents.

Whitman, 58 — who as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs is one of the highest-ranking civilians in the Pentagon — remains on the job, deputy Pentagon press secretary Gordon Trowbridge told NBC News on Wednesday.

Records filed Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court show that Whitman and Washington, D.C., prosecutors have agreed to defer his prosecution on three counts of first- and second-degree theft, which were filed May 5.

The charges will be dismissed next year if Whitman pays restitution, completes about a week of community service and doesn't run afoul of the law in any other way, according to the agreement.

Decades after his little brother Juan's death, Mamerto Sablan's face is beaming with pride as the Gold Star Lapel is pinned to his chest in his brother's honor.

“This is a great honor to receive this kind of medal,” said Mamerto. "I’m so happy and excited. I pray my brother up there is so happy and learned I received this for him."

On April 15, 1942, U.S. Army Private Juan Sablan was killed in action during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II.

Seventy-four years after that fateful day, Private Sablan's family receiving eight medals he earned, but never received.

Among them, the American Defense Service Medal with a Foreign Service Clasp, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one Bronze Service Star and the Presidential Unit Citation with two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters.

“Not having those medals for so many years broke my heart, " said Juan’s younger brother Simon.

The Sablans finally received the long overdue medals thanks in part to a letter they wrote to Congressman Scott Peters back in March.

They read about Congressman Peters helping another veteran, Private First Class Donald Breitenberg, get the Bronze Star he deserved.

“I urge anyone in this situation to give us a call. It’s very rewarding to help a family like these folks,” Peters said, speaking about the Sablans. 

“It’s important to have these medals to inspire those young men and women to look up and serve their country,” said Simon Sablan, referencing to his three-year-old grandson he taught to march in efforts he too will serve his country.

At this time it’s not known why it took so long for the Sablans to receive the medals.

A new study finds that Americans are more accepting than ever before of same-sex canoodling. And not only do they think it's okay — they're trying it for themselves.

Nearly half — 49 percent — said "sexual relations between two adults of the same sex" was "not wrong at all" in 2014, a team of researchers from Florida Atlantic University, San Diego State University and Widener University found.

The team looked at the results of the General Social Survey, a large ongoing survey of around 30,000 U.S. adults conducted by the University of Chicago since 1972.

In 1973, just 11 percent of Americans said they thought homosexual sex was "not wrong." By 1990 that percentage had risen just slightly, to 13 percent, the team wrote in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

One day after losing 16-4 against the Mariners in Seattle, the Padres bounced back with a much-needed 14-6 victory against the same opponent.

Perhaps the Padres were aided by a change of venue with the Vedder Cup moving back to Petco Park for the final two games of the series. 

Or maybe it was a kick in the pants by team Executive Chairman Ron Fowler, who voiced his displeasure with the Padres performance on local sports talk radio Wednesday morning.

But seriously, it was great to see San Diego jump out to a big lead and then not only maintain it - but add to it as the  game progressed.

The first inning started off shaky with Robinson Cano sending a line-drive home run to give the Mariners an immediate 3-0 lead. 

Christian Friedrich managed to work his way out of a bases-loaded one out jam or it could have been much worse.

And that was important because San Diego jumped on the recently promoted James Paxton in the first frame as well.

Wil Myers helped the Friars get on the board with a solo shot. 

Then the floodgates opened and the Padres batted around. By the time all 9 batters had stepped into the batter’s box, San Diego had built a 6-3 lead and Adam Rosales had lofted his 3^rd long ball of the year.

Shortstop Alexei Ramirez later cranked a pair of two-run homers to help push the Padres to an emphatic 14-6 victory.

San Diego had lost 7 of its last 8 during its recent road trip and 12 of its last 15 overall.

Seattle scratched star pitcher Felix Hernandez from his scheduled start earlier in the day and put the ace on the 15-day disabled list with a calf strain. 

Seattle’s loss wound up being San Diego’s gain. As Hernandez’s replacement, Paxton allowed 8 runs on 10 hits and didn’t make it out of the 4^th inning.

The Padres will try to make it two in a row when right-hander Colin Rea opposes Wade Miley at 6:10 p.m.

Cell phone video obtained by NBC 7 shows a fight involving the San Ysidro Middle School student who brought an unloaded gun to campus March 9th.

According to the boy in the video, the fight happened about two weeks before the gun incident.

The 13-year-old, who has since been expelled, told NBC 7 the video shows the violence he faced and resulted in him bringing the weapon. He said he “feared for his life.”

“After I saw the people surrounding [my son] and what he had to deal with. I just could imagine,” Kevin Washington said, the boy’s father.

Washington said he and his son had reported the bullying to San Ysidro Middle School and school district officials numerous times before the gun incident.

“I notified the school here three times and I notified the elementary school nearby where my youngest son was going to,” said Washington. “It’s heartbreaking and to know that faculty and the Superintendent knows this goes on and denies it. They should not be in the position to monitor kids.” 

Superintendent Julio Fonseca told NBC 7 the middle school and the school district never receive any reports of bullying involving Washington’s son until after the March gun incident. He said if they had received reports, they would have taken action. 

“Since I’ve been on board and my staff on board, we have not received any reports that I know of. Ultimately, our decision was to keep all of our kids safe,” Dr. Fonseca said.

Fonseca said the school district is hiring a district-level security officer who they will give a vehicle to patrol before and after school. This is in addition to seven security officers they’ve hired in 2016 already.

Jane Goodall wrote a letter to the director of the Cincinnati Zoo where a 17-year-old gorilla was killed after a 3-year-old boy got into its enclosure over the weekend.

The Jane Goodall Institute shared an email Goodall, one of the world’s most well-known primatologists, sent to Thane Maynard following the fatal shooting of the endangered 17-year-old lowland gorilla named Harambe. 

In the note, Goodall writes that she feels “so sorry for you, having to try to defend something which you may well disapprove of.”

Zoo staffers shot and killed the 400-pound Harambe Saturday after determining the boy's life was in danger. Maynard has defended the zoo’s actions, saying using tranquilizers on the gorilla would not have knocked the animal out right away, leaving the boy in danger. He added that Harambe was agitated by the commotion from the crowd and was extremely powerful, capable of crushing a coconut in one hand.

Goodall briefly attempts to evaluate the situation based on video taken by witnesses at the zoo. 

“I tried to see exactly what was happening – it looked as though the gorilla was putting an arm round the child – like the female who rescued and returned the child from the Chicago exhibit,” she wrote in the email.

The reference appears to be to a 1996 incident, where a small boy climbed a railing and fell 18 feet into the gorilla den at the Brookfield Zoo.

In that incident, an 8-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua made national headlines when she picked up the unconscious boy and protected him from the other primates. The act of kindness came as a surprise to many of the guests who said they feared Binti Jua would maul the 3-year-old.

Maynard said Tuesday the zoo had received an outpouring of support from colleagues and the Cincinnati Zoo remains safe for its 1.6 million annual visitors. He noted, however, that a review is underway to determine whether any improvements can be made.

Police also said Tuesday they are investigating the parents of the boy.

The incident has triggered a furor online, with some saying the boy's mother should be charged with child endangering, while others want the zoo held responsible for the animal's death.

Goodall noted that the death is “a devastating loss to the zoo, and to the gorillas.”

She ends the note with, “feeling for you [Thane].”

The Jane Goodall Institute has declined to comment further on the incident.

An Alabama middle school teacher was placed on administrative leave over a questionable math test she distributed Friday, NBC News reported.

The quiz that was given to students at Cranford Burns Middle School in Mobile referenced gang-related activities like drive-by shootings, cocaine and prostitution. One of the questions read: "Dwayne pimps 3 ho's. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne's $800 per day crack habit?"

A parent Erica Hall told NBC affiliate WPMI she was outraged to find her son’s Language Arts teacher JoAnne Bolser, who was set to retire this month, handed out inappropriate content to the eighth grade class. 

Hall went to the school with her concerns, and Bolser was put immediately on leave. The school says it regrets what happened.

A North Carolina woman who bought a freezer for $30 at a neighbor's yard sale discovered an elderly woman's body inside the appliance, police and local media said Wednesday, NBC News reported.  

The Goldsboro Police Department said the remains were confirmed to be those of a local woman who died of natural causes. It did not identify the woman.

"I was just in shock," the woman who found the body and and asked to remain anonymous told NBC station WRAL. "I opened it up for a second time and my heart went into my throat. I ran out of the house and called 911."

The body was "intact and not dismembered in any way," the police department said in a statement. Officers were investigating the class-one felony of failing to notify of the death of a person.

German prosecutors said Thursday three Syrian suspected ISIS members allegedly planning a terror attack in the city of Duesseldorf have been arrested, NBC News reported.  

The men were ordered to launch an attack using suicide vests, explosives and rifles — but that there was no concrete evidence they had begun to implement their plans, the prosecutors' office said in a statement. Officials learned of the plot when an alleged accomplice in French custody informed authorities there of the plans in February, according to the prosecutor's office.

The men were identified as 27-year old Hamza C., 25-year old Mahood B. and 31 year-old Abd Arahman A.K.

A teenage driver accused in a lawsuit of causing a collision in Georgia while using the Snapchat app's "speed filter" is now facing criminal charges. 

NBC's "Today" show and other news outlets reported a Clayton County judge signed arrest warrants Wednesday for 19-year-old Christal McGee, charging her with felony serious injury by vehicle, among other charges, following the conclusion of a police investigation. 

Clayton County Solicitor Tasha Mosley said McGee was speeding on a rainy road in September, when she crashed into driver Wentworth Maynard, who spent weeks in a coma and suffered brain damage. 

Maynard and his wife filed a lawsuit in April against McGee and Snapchat, saying the app's filter tempted McGee to speed. 

Citing court records, WSB-TV reports McGee admitted going 90 mph, but denied using Snapchat at the time of the crash.

A 6-year-old Massachusetts boy nearly got his father in trouble with the law when he called 911 to say his dad had driven through a red light.

"My daddy went past a red light. He has a black truck. He was in the brand new car, my mommy's car," Robbie Richardson told the 911 dispatcher in Quincy.

"He had to go to the car wash and then he went past the red light," Robbie continued.

"He did?" the dispatcher responded.

"Mmhmm," Robbie said.

The boy, who was home at the time of the call, then handed the phone to his father. Mike Richardson laughed and apologized to the dispatcher, who let him go.

"I just couldn't do anything else but laugh," Richardson said in an interview with necn.

He called the incident a misunderstanding and said he didn't break any traffic laws when he turned right on red at the intersection of Copeland Street and Furnace Brook Parkway.

"The light was red so I stopped, looked and I turned," he explained.

But Robbie insisted his dad should be held accountable.

"I told the police — I told them to give him a ticket," Robbie said.

Police posted an audio recording of the 911 call on the department's Facebook page Thursday.

"It can be very stressful at the 911 dispatch center so this was kind of something to smile about," said Quincy police Det. Karyn Barkas.

Less than five years after Congress repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," a policy that banned openly gay service members from serving in the U.S. military, the head of the military's largest branch is an openly gay man.

U.S. Army Secretary Eric Fanning, in an exclusive interview with "Today's" Matt Lauer talks about what a remarkable honor it is to serve his country openly and the unbelievable amount of support" he has received.

Fanning inherits an Army facing increasing demands on the force, ongoing budget restraints and overall fatigue from more than a decade of wars and conflicts.

"It's the strain that we're putting on our soldiers as we continually deploy them and their families," he said. "It's still a very strong, very lethal Army but we're running it hard."

The victim of a fatal Palm City motel shooting was identified Wednesday, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) confirmed.

Juan Miguel Diaz, 22, of San Diego, was found at the EZ-8 Motel Friday, May 27 on Outer Road just after 9 p.m. with several life-threatening gunshot wounds to his upper body.

Diaz was taken to the hospital where he died shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday.

The suspect, 23-year-old Luis Avila of San Diego, was arrested and booked into the San Diego County Jail on one count of murder.

The investigation is ongoing. According to homicide detectives, several people were in the motel room at the time of the shooting.

Detectives believe some sort of argument took place between Avila and Diaz and Avila pulled out a gun and shot him. The men were acquaintances, police said.

Hillary Clinton has a narrow two-point lead over rival Bernie Sanders in California ahead of the state’s June 7 primary, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. 

Clinton gets the support of 49 percent of like Democratic primary voters, while Sanders gets 47 percent. 

Among a wider electorate of all potential Democratic voters in California, Sanders is ahead by one point, 48 percent to 47 percent. 

Clinton and Sanders running even in California wouldn't affect the overall delegate math in the Democratic race, where Clinton leads Sanders by some 270 pledged delegates and 770 overall delegates.

But a Sanders victory in California could give him justification to stay in the race, even though he trails in the delegate math.