A 20-year-old woman from San Diego who attended a popular electronic music and arts festival in Las Vegas last weekend has died, her father confirmed to KSNV, the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas.

Kenani Kaimuloa began convulsing at a bus stop early Monday after leaving the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), her father, U.S. military veteran Dane Kaimuloa told KSNV.

According to an online fundraising page created by family a friend, Kenani was taken to a Las Vegas hospital and remained in coma for two days before she died.

Her father, who lives in San Diego's North County, told KSNV his daughter's sudden death, attributed to heatstroke, is the most difficult obstacle he's ever endured.

"I’ve been to Iraq and this is way harder than Iraq," said Dane, holding back tears. "Iraq is a cake walk compared to this."

Dane said his daughter, affectionately known to loved ones as "Nani," had attended the three-day music event amid scorching hot Las Vegas temperatures.

He received a phone call on Monday from one of his daughter's friends who told him Nani had been hospitalized after convulsing and collapsing at a bus stop near the event.

Dane said heavy traffic surrounding the festival made it difficult for emergency responders to quickly get to his daughter. By the time they got to Nani, her body temperature was 109 degrees, her father told KSNV.

As a father, Dane said he feels deep guilt over his young daughter's untimely death. He's the person who gave Nani the money to attend the festival.

“She really wanted to go. She goes, ‘Dad this will probably be my last year, but I want to go.’ She had all her costumes and stuff,” he said.

Dane said Nani had attended EDC in the past with no problems.

“Who could ever think this could happen?” he cried.

Dane said the last time he heard from his daughter was Sunday night, when she sent him a text message wishing him a Happy Father's Day.

His wife then told him Nani had left a surprise gift for him at home for Father's Day. When he opened the gift, he found a ceramic mold of Nani's hand that read, "I love you. You're the best dad."

“I gave her $600 to go to this thing and I’m the best dad?" Dane said, weeping. "I just want my daughter back. I just wish I could see her just one more time and just tell her how much I love her; hold her.”

Dane said he's not angry at the organizers of EDC, but wonders why anyone would hold an outdoor event in such extreme heat.

He said he experienced temperatures in the triple-digits as he drove from his home in Southern California to the hospital in Las Vegas to be by Nani's side.

NBC 7 reached out to Insomniac, the company that produces EDC, on Friday regarding Nani's death.

Insomniac released the following statement:

"We were shocked and saddened to learn that a young woman who had attended the festival passed away on June 23, 2016. Our sincerest thoughts and condolences go out to the family and friends of the woman. While the cause of this tragedy has not yet been determined, we ask everyone to keep her loved ones in their prayers during their time of grieving.”

Meanwhile, the GoFundMe page for Nani's family had raised more than $10,500 as of 2:45 p.m. Friday. The page was created by a friend of the Kaimuloa family, U.S. Marine Chief Foreign Officer Jerod Murphy.

An update posted to page said Nani was an organ donor, and her parents planned to give her organs to others in need.

NBC 7 spoke with Murphy who said he's doing everything he can to help Dane and his family during this difficult time. He described Nani as a "peaceful" and "beautiful" person.

"[She] went up to have some fun and a huge tragedy struck," Murphy said.

Nani was an alumna of Vista High School in Vista. The school posted a message regarding her passing on the Vista Wrestling team's Facebook page Thursday.

Vista Wrestling Coach Chris Davis told NBC 7 Nani was a student assistant to the Vista High School boys' wrestling team and also played softball for the school.

"You couldn't go to Vista High and not know Nani. She was positive, happy," Davis said. "Every teacher and student adored Nani. She was always willing to help and give an encouraging word."

"She was such a joy to everybody," her father added. "Kenani was always smiling, always giving, always laughing. She was the clown of the class."

In 2014, another California resident – 24-year-old Montgomery Tsang – died after attending EDC in Las Vegas after suffering a medical episode in the parking lot.

The three-day carnival, held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, is billed as the “largest multi-day concert in North America.”

Nani's body will be transported back to north San Diego County for a memorial at a later time. Authorities will also perform a toxicology exam on the young woman.

Police are searching for a man suspected of stealing a donation box from a La Jolla store on Friday.

Employees at My Sister's Closet in University Town Center told NBC 7 they are wondering why anyone would steal money that was meant for shelter animals.

They say the man walked into the store around 3:45 p.m. and had been acting strangely.

“He was a little jittery,” Randy Patterson, a sales associate said. “He even said to me ‘I’m not homeless, don’t worry about it.’”

Randy says the man said he was waiting for his wife.

But the moment they left him alone, he took off with the donation box. Surveillance cameras caught the man stuffing the box into a backpack.

“He literally walked up to the register, grabbed the box of money,” Patterson said.

The donation box had been filled to the top with cash.

Employees say there were only $100 inside but it was meant for the Rancho Coastal Humane Society.

“You’re stealing from people who really need this money, animals that need this money. They need every cent they can possibly get,” Patterson said.

Patterson told NBC 7 his manager chased the man but he got away on his bicycle. The suspect did leave behind a bag of his belongings.

The San Diego Police Department is investigating.

Even as Donald Trump drew parallels on Friday between the British vote to leave the European Union and the American presidential election, migration experts cautioned against too close a comparison of anti-immigrant sentiment in the two countries.

There are lessons to be taken from the Brexit decision, but more important are the very different heritages of U.S. and the United Kingdom, they said. 

Together with Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking President Barack Obama's immigration reforms, the vote did put some wind back in Trump’s sails, said Kevin Appleby, the director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York. And it showed that an anti-establishment movement is not unique to the United States.

But the presidential election is months off. American voters are more diverse and the country’s history is one of immigrants building the country, he said.

"It doesn't mean that we'll have the same result on this side of the pond as Britain did, because I think our nation is different in a lot of ways," he said.

Tapping a 'Well of Anxiety' on Immigration
The EU is the world's largest zone of free movement, letting anyone with its passport settle in any of its member nations, and the Brexit victory was as much a referendum on open borders and immigration policies as on British sovereignty. An Ipsos MORI poll found last week that immigration was the most important issue to voters in the UK.

"Free movement is basically the defining achievement of the European Union," said Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, assistant director of the Migration Policy Institute's International Program.

But although economists agree that globalization brings benefits, the effects can be jarring locally. When the EU opened up to 10 new member states in 2004, the result was an influx of Eastern European workers to the UK. 

"It's harder to point your finger at this amorphous, global event, and it's much easier to point your finger at a foreign worker who's still employed," Banulescu-Bogdan said. 

The decision to leave reflected a populist, anti-elite sentiment and prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to announce he would step down in October. 

In Scotland on Friday for the re-opening of his historic golf course in Turnberry, Trump praised the results and said that the British had reasserted control over their politics, their borders and economy. In November, Americans also will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put Americans first, he said.

"They took their country back, just like we will take America back," the presumptive Republican nominee tweeted.

Since he entered the race last June, Trump has promised to build a wall to stop undocumented immigrants from Mexico whom he has called rapists and criminals, and wants a temporary ban on Muslims coming into the country as a way to combat terrorism.

"Both are tapping into this well of anxiety about the fast pace of change that has brought about unfavorable conditions for a lot of people, and they've really tapped into this sense that people are being left behind," Banulescu-Bogdan said. 

But the British experience of immigration largely began after its colonies became independent and, more recently, after the formation of the European Union, according to Muzaffar Chishti, the director of the Migration Policy Institute’s office at New York University School of Law.

The U.S., by contrast, is a country that has long thought of itself as a destination for people hoping to improve their lives, and throughout American history, impulses to close borders or restrict immigration have largely failed, he said. Phenomena such as the Know-Nothing Party, the anti-immigrant party of the mid-1800s and the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1880s, prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers, are looked back at with disapproval. Even Trump focuses on "illegal" immigration, he said.

"In our history there have been many moments of anti-immigrant sentiment and we have gone beyond them," Chishti said.

Today, in the U.S., only one third of people say immigrants are a burden to the country by taking jobs, housing and health care, while about 60 percent say their hard work and talent strengthen the country, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March. 

Referendum vs. General Election
Plus, Chishti said, the U.S. elections are not determined by popular vote. If the British parliament had taken that vote instead of opening it up into a referendum, the outcome would have been very different, he said.

Henry Fernandez of the Center for American Progress Action Fund faulted Cameron for allowing the far right and its anti-immigrant message to play an outsized role in the Conservative Party's policy and campaign messages.

Republicans leaders in the United States have allowed a similar anti-immigrant feeling to flourish, he said. That Trump is the party's presumptive nominee should come as no surprise, he said. 

"David Cameron rolled the dice on a very bad gamble in order to try to appease that extreme right wing of his party," he said. "That's very similar to what Republican leadership has done in the United States. They rolled the dice, and the dice came up Trump."

But he also predicted that the Americans would reject targeting immigrants.

"Allowing the card of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment to be played again and again will have toxic results," he said. "But what I think it will do in the United States is create very severe electoral problems for the Republican Party."

Activists say they are prepared to fight Trump's portrayal of immigrants as dangerous and a drain on the economy.

"We're worried but we're also ready to fight back against Trump's scare tactics and lies," said Pili Tobar, the director of communications at the Latino Victory Project. 

NBC's Asher Klein contributed to this report.

A girl missing for about two hours Saturday in Pacific Beach has been found safe, San Diego police confirmed.

The girl, who vanished around 12:30 p.m. near the 700 block of Grand Avenue, was found around 2:20 p.m. quite a distance away at the Mission Jetty, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) confirmed.

The young girl wandered off in search of seashells, her father told police.

San Diego police, firefighters and lifeguards launched a search for the girl after she was reported missing near the water's edge. 

Authorities launched the search near the pier and worked their way south. Police said the girl was wearing hot pink clothing.

High surf and strong rip currents pounded San Diego’s beaches Saturday, and the conditions were expected to linger through Sunday.

At first, authorities feared the girl may have gotten pulled into a current.

At 2:05 p.m., the SDPD told NBC 7 lifeguards had found a girl on south Mission Beach that matched the description of the missing 4-year-old. 

Further details were not released.

A 6-year-old boy was killed Saturday in a horrifying accident in San Diego’s South Bay community after a refrigerator fell and crushed him, police confirmed.

The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said residents of a home in the 700 block of Beyer Way in Otay Mesa were in the process of moving a heavy refrigerator from a pickup truck into the home when the kitchen appliance slipped and toppled onto the young child.

Neighbors said the boy's parents were screaming for help as they held their child. 

“She was very emotional and even when police got here she was basically saying ‘I need to be with my son. I need to be with my son,’” neighbor John Quesnel said. “They said ‘you need to let the paramedics in so they can take of him.'”

The SDPD said the child was rushed to a local hospital but soon died.

Neighbor Rafael Lopez said he would ride bicycles with the 6-year-old boy and can't believe his friend is gone.

"[It's] difficult cause he was a good friend of ours. It must be devastating for his parents I mean he was just six," Lopez said.

Per standard operating procedure, the SDPD said Child Abuse detectives remained at the home for several hours investigating the deadly incident.

At this point, police have found nothing suspicious and believe this was a tragic accident.

No further details were released. The boy's name has not been released yet. 

A woman in her 30s and a man in his 40s were killed after the woman sped a stolen motorcycle into a wall on the eastbound SR-54 connector from Interstate 5.

They were thrown from the motorcycle onto southbound I-5 below, California Highway Patrol (CHP) confirmed. 

Several lanes were closed on I-5 as well as the eastbound 54 connector, but all lanes have now reopened, Caltrans confirmed. 

The CHP said they were driving up to 100 miles an hour on the ramp. 

After four months of renovations and a major overhaul, the City of Carlsbad reopened the City Library on Dove Lane Saturday, revealing a modern, chic, new space to cozy up with a book.

City leaders held a free community celebration at the Carlsbad City Library located at 1775 Dove Lane. The event included a reopening ceremony, tours of the library, live music, demonstrations of the library’s new digital technology tools, history recordings and activities for kids.

Improvements to the library include enhancements to community gathering spaces, including a living room-style area on the first floor. There are also improved spaces to work individually or with others, a new area for teens and an expanded bookstore.

The library now boasts enhanced Wi-Fi connectivity, a new tech land and an area called the “Exploration HUB” where patrons can explore the worlds of A/V post production, 3D printing, circuitry and more.

The library’s Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium was also remodeled as part of the project, according to the City of Carlsbad.

A man was arrested and hundreds of game fowl are being euthanized after a large cockfighting ring was discovered in Miami, authorities said.

Sandor Nieves, 38, was arrested Thursday on charges of owning or possessing an animal used for fighting and possession of marijuana with intent to sell, according to a Miami-Dade Police arrest report.

Nieves' bond was set at $10,000 but he was being held on a warrant case Friday, jail records showed. It was unknown if he's hired an attorney.

According to the arrest report, officers executed a search warrant at a home at 6700 Southwest 120th Avenue, where they found Nieves. They also found a number of game fowl and a wire-enclosed cockfighting ring that had a dead rooster hanging from the cage. Baiting paraphernalia including plastic spurs and fighting muffs were also found, along with 462 grams of marijuana in a refrigerator, the report said.

Officials with Miami-Dade Animal Services said more than 240 game fowl had been euthanized and another 250-300 remained on the property. The game fowl require individual housing to prevent them from fighting to the death so the most humane thing to do is euthanize them on site, officials said.

Horses, dogs, cats and a turkey were also found but will not be euthanized, officials said. Animal Services officials said in a statement that it "is troubling and very sad that these innocent animals have had to endure horrific abuse."

Officers searched Nieves' vehicle and found $8,700 in cash and gambling ledgers, the police report said. He acknowledged ownership of the birds and control of the area of the property where he was found, the report said.

A beloved vice principal at Point Loma High School lost his battle with cancer Friday afternoon. 

Last October Kevin Gormly, 51, was diagnosed with glioblastoma and gliosarcoma, an aggressive and rare type of brain cancer.

Although he underwent several surgeries, including a craniotomy, doctors were unable to remove the entire tumor.

He took a turn for the worse in the last several weeks and was at home on Hospice. 

His family left a message on their GoFundMe page. It reads:

"It is with great sadness and a very heavy, heartbroken heart, that we share with you all that God has taken our beloved Kevin home. He fought like a champ to stay here with his family these past 8 weeks, but God mercifully ended his suffering yesterday afternoon, and he is now resting peacefully, reunited again in heaven with his sister, Anne, and those loved ones that went before. Thank you all for your prayers, kind words and generosity that have allowed us to keep him so very comfortable during his last days. You have a new angel smiling down upon you. May God bless you all."

Gormly graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in political science before becoming a teacher. 

He taught at Gompers Secondary school for five years, and worked at Point Loma High School for 15 years.

He earned a Master's Degree in Education Administration in 2003. 

Gormly was a husband and had a daughter and a son. 

A group at Hilltop Elementary School started walking around a track Saturday morning and will finish on Sunday.

Part of the Relay for Life, the event raises money for cancer research and helps those suffering from the disease.

For 24 hours walkers circle the track, napping briefly in shifts in nearby tents. 

“We're walking because I'm a survivor,” Anissa Acfalle told NBC 7. “We’re walking for everyone we love who's left us, who's still fighting the battle and who will fight.”

The group included cancer survivors as well as family, friends and caretakers. 

The Relay for Life movement started in 1985 in Tacoma, Washington, and is now done all over the world.

Organizers estimate it has raised about $5 billion to fight cancer over the past 30 years.

A vast and voracious wildfire in Kern County, California, has scorched 57 square miles, destroyed more than 100 homes and killed an elderly couple as they tried to flee, authorities said.

Late Saturday afternoon, the Kern County Sheriff's Department confirmed possible burned human remains were found in a second location inside fire zone in the 4100 block of Fiddleneck Street in South Lake.

The massive blaze, dubbed the Erskine Fire, tore through several rural communities in central California, northeast of Bakersfield, authorities said. Entire blocks were reduced to rubble, and at least 2,500 homes remained threatened.

As of Saturday afternoon, 150 homes had been destroyed and another 75 were damaged. The damage may rise as firefighters went through neighborhoods to count houses and mobile homes incinerated by the blaze. 

Weather conditions that drove the fire through small southern Sierra Nevada communities with terrifying speed remained a worry, with low humidity and 30-mph steady winds forecast.

"That's something we have to keep an eye on. It could spark another disaster," Kern County Fire Engineer Anthony Romero said.

About 1,100 firefighters battled the flames.

Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency, freeing up money and resources to fight the fire and to clean up in the aftermath. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also authorized the use of funds for firefighting efforts.

The wildfire erupted near Lake Isabella late Thursday afternoon amid heat in the 90s and single-digit humidity, climbing over at least three ridges into hillside neighborhoods, Kern County fire Capt. Tyler Townsend said.

Since it began, the fire has swept through 35,711 acres — nearly 56 square miles — of parched brush and timber. It moved so quickly that some residents barely had time to escape — and two didn't.

An elderly couple apparently were overcome by smoke as they tried to flee, county Sheriff Donny Youngblood said. Their bodies were found Friday but their names haven't been released.

Everett Evans, 45, fled Thursday as the fire came down a mountain with a roar toward his South Lake mobile home.

"When you hear a freight train, it's time to leave. You could hear it, you could see it, you could smell it," he said.

Evans said he knocked on doors to get neighbors to leave. Evans and his father, son and his son's girlfriend were in the convoy. But he has nothing left to come back to. Virtually no homes survived in his neighborhood.

A reporter visiting on Saturday found only a burned flag blowing in the wind on a flagpole above the rubble of Evans' home.

Evans hadn't been allowed back to the home but said he lost mementos and photos from his former marriage and years in the Marine Corps.

"That's all memories. You get to keep your life but you lose your memories," he said.

Shiela McFarland, 67, from Mountain Mesa, left her home three days ago, taking her computer, cellphone, papers and her miniature poodle, Snuggles.

At an evacuation center, she slept on a cot outdoors next to his kennel.

McFarland said she didn't know whether her home survived, but she was philosophical.

"It doesn't matter if I've lost everything," she said Saturday. "I've got my little dog, my kids and my grandkids. I've seen other people in worse shape."

The fire tore through small communities of houses and mobile homes that surround the lake -- actually a reservoir — and the Kern River, a popular spot for fishing and whitewater rafting. The communities are nestled in foothills of the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range that runs hundreds of miles north and south through eastern California.

Scorching heat and tinder-dry conditions across the West have contributed to massive wildfires in the past week that have destroyed properties and sent residents to seek shelter and hope for the best.

Laura Rogers was one of those who thought she'd never see her home or her brother's home again. Instead, she was lucky to find both standing in a neighborhood of mobile homes that was devastated.

"I was sure this place was gone last night," Rogers said through tears Friday as she gestured at the destruction around her. "I mean look at this, I can't believe it. It's like a scary movie."

The downspout of her brother's home was melted on the ground, but the structure was intact.

Dozens of other homes were gone, left in piles of charred sheet metal and cinderblock foundations. Scorched tricycles, air conditioners and TV dishes littered the landscape. Burned-out cars sat on tireless rims and leafless trees poked from barren, blackened dirt.

Evacuations were in place for residents in the ares of Hwy 178 to Kelso Valley to Paiute, Bella Vista, South Fork, Weldon, Onyx, Lakeland Estates, Mountain Mesa, South Lake and Squirrel Valley.

Shelters were set up by the American Red Cross of Kern County at St. Jude's Catholic Church and Kernville Elementary School. Highway 178 remained closed at Highway 155 and at Sierra Way, fire officials said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Before the Padres and Reds kicked off a Saturday matinee match up, Cincinnati honored Pete Rose by enshrining him in the Reds Hall of Fame. Of course on the day the all-time hits king is honored it’s a pitcher that shines.

Padres starter Drew Pomeranz had the day pitchers dream of.

On the mound the southpaw was solid going seven shut-out innings giving up just three hits, striking out six with only one walk. Pomeranz got the win and improved to 7-7 on the season.

In the batter’s box he was just as solid. Matt Kemp gave the Padres a 1-0 lead in the first with an RBI ground out to third that scored Travis Jankowski but after that it was all Pomeranz. In the top of the fifth he sent a Brandon Finnegan offering into the right field stands for his second career home run doubling the Friars lead to 2-0.

But he wasn’t done.

Top of the seventh, Derek Norris on second with two outs Pomeranz sent a single into center scoring Norris making it 3-0 Padres. He finished 2-3 with two-RBI on the day.

Padres won 3-0 improving to 12-3 against Cincinnati over the last three years. San Diego goes for the sweep Sunday with Luis Perdomo (2-2, 9.00 ERA) facing off against Anthony DeSclafani (1-0, 2.30 ERA).

Onlookers watched as confetti cannons and noisemakers went off welcoming the one millionth guest to the San Diego County Fair Saturday afternoon.

Eric Gilliland, 34, of Rancho Bernardo received a Lifetime Fair Admission Pass, free fair concert tickets, four Clubhouse admission tickets to the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, four tickets to the Scream Zone, $100 in fair food vouchers, four Passport to Savings Coupon Booklets, The Best Pass Ever for his family good for this year and next, four ride wristbands and gifts from various fair vendors.

Gilliland and his wife Stephanie have two little girls.

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Last year's attendance was 1,503,538, one of the highest in Del Mar’s history.

The highest attendance was reached in 2012, with 1,517,508 million people.

The fair has brought in over one million people every year since 1989.

Closing day will be on July 4 with Independence Day fireworks.

This year’s theme is “Mad About the Fair”, a take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

The police officer shot in a small Delaware County, Pennsylvania, borough Friday morning was sitting up and waiting for visitors Saturday morning, according to family and friends, a seemingly miraculous turn after an alleged gunman shot him seven times. 

Officer Chris Dorman, 25, was joking with people as they arrived at Penn Presbyterian Hospital, according to Folcroft Police Chief Robert Ruskowski.

Dorman's cousin tweeted about the officer's recovery Saturday morning, with a photo of the two in the officer's hospital room: "My cousin Chris Dorman is up talking and is expected to make a full recovery thanks to everyone for the prayers."

Dorman was shot in the neck, face and shoulder around 9:45 a.m. behind an apartment building on Elmwood Avenue near Folcroft Train Station on Friday, according to Delaware County officials. 

One of the officers who rushed him to the hospital said Dorman managed to keep talking the whole ride to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. He was later transferred to Penn Presbyterian. 

"I was scared the whole time," police Sgt. William Bair said.

He was, "Up and talking, awake and talking, so that's great," Folcroft Fire Chief Tom Weber said late Friday evening. 

Dorman also serves as a volunteer firefighter, something he's been doing since he was 16 years old.

Dorman's bulletproof vest stopped four bullets, which officials say saved his life. 

The suspect has been identified as Donte Brooks Island. Island was arraigned Friday on attempted murder and other charges, and was held on $1 million bail. 

Federal court records show that Island was on parole for an illegal gun possession conviction. He served 110 months in jail and was nearing the end of three years' supervised release when he allegedly shot Dorman Friday.

Island's parole was scheduled to end the day after the shooting, according to court records, which further indicate that Island stopped reporting to his parole officer last July. Numerous attempts to reach Island failed, the records show, and he missed five scheduled drug tests during the nearly 12 months he failed to report as ordered by federal court. 

It remains unknown if Island has an attorney. 

Ruskowski said Friday Dorman, a part-time police officer, was working toward becoming a SEPTA police officer.

"You don't want him to leave. He's that type of guy," Ruskowski said. "Great sense of humor."

In his initial exchange with a police dispatcher Friday, Dorman can be heard shouting: "I'm shot in the face! I'm shot in the face!"

Fifteen seconds later, he told the dispatcher: "I'm shot! I'm shot! I'm shot!"

The shooting scene was Folcroft Station Apartments on Elmwood Avenue, a short distance from the Folcroft police station and SEPTA's Folcroft train station near Philadelphia International Airport.

According to a resident of the Folcroft Station Apartments, the suspect was smoking marijuana outside the building in the 1500 block of Elmwood Avenue prior to the shooting.

The building, on Elmwood Avenue, is near the Folcroft police station and SEPTA's Folcroft train station near Philadelphia International Airport. 

Ruskowski confirmed that Dorman responded to a report of people smoking drugs in the rear of the apartment building.

SWAT teams surrounded the building just before 12 p.m. and various Delaware County municipal police forces searched nearby train tracks used by SEPTA and Amtrak for the suspect. Officers asked residents to stay in their homes during the investigation.

"I heard the shots. I looked out my windows and see police with sniper rifles running around," said Lawrence Ladd, who lives next to the apartment building.

Elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, sent their support to the officer.

Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck a pedestrian who had pulled onto the shoulder of northbound Interstate 5 Friday night to help a friend whose car broke down, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) confirmed.

A pickup truck driver drove onto the shoulder around 9:40 p.m., hitting the 48-year-old man standing near his car. The suspect then exited the freeway at Palomar Airport Road.

The man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Despite exhaustive searches by CHP officers and the Carlsbad Police Department, the driver wasn’t located.

The suspect’s truck is a newer white Toyota Tacoma.

It sustained right-front, and possibly right-side damage, and may have also suffered a flat right-front or right-rear tire.

Anyone with information or tips about the possible identity of the pickup truck and/or its driver is asked to call the CHP 24-hours a day at 858-637-3800.

Some residents in Point Loma took to the streets Saturday in hopes of stopping construction of a new building.

Neighbors say a loophole was used to make this building about 10 feet taller than code allows, and they are calling on the mayor to stop the project.

A developer building two duplexes in the Roseville neighborhood said they are following all the rules and the project has been approved by the city, but Proposition D sets a 30-foot height limit on coastal communities.

"It was kind of a shock and awe, all of the sudden 'boom, here it goes'. Development starts. It's moving 100 miles per hour,” Robert Jackson, Chairman of the Board of the Point Loma Association said.

Residents say the development is ruining their quality of life, view and character of the neighborhood.

“The mayor, as the executive of the City of San Diego, can put a stop work order in as soon as possible,” Jon Linney Chair of the Penninsula Community Planning Board said.

If that doesn’t work, opponents of the project say they plan to take legal action.

NBC 7 reached out to the construction company Pacific Enterprise, but the person who answered asked who we were, and then said we had the wrong number before hanging up.

Residents plan to have a meeting this Monday at 6:30 p.m.

A 7,609-acre wildfire burning for the past week in a rugged border community in southeast San Diego County is now 80 percent contained, Cal Fire officials said Sunday.

The blaze, dubbed the Border Fire, sparked on June 19 around 11 a.m. near the border city of Potrero, which is located approximately 42 miles southeast of downtown San Diego.

Fueled by relentless heat and dry conditions, the fire prompted evacuations of 700 residents and closed many roads in the area for several days.

In its path, five homes in Potrero were destroyed and a sixth sustained fire damage. Cal Fire said 11 other structures in the area, classified as outbuildings, were also destroyed.

For days, evacuees were left to wonder if their homes had been spared. Los Coches Creek Middle School on Dunbar Lane in unincorporated El Cajon became the gathering ground for Potrero residents, serving as an emergency shelter amid evacuations. 

By 6 p.m. Thursday, Cal Fire officials said all evacuation orders had been lifted and residents were allowed to slowly and cautiously begin returning to their homes. As Potrero was repopulated, San Diego Gas & Electric continued to make repairs to many downed power lines and poles in the community.

As of 8 a.m. Sunday, Cal Fire said 1,452 fire personnel and 97 engines continued to battle the blaze. Crews on the frontline were still using 3 helicopters, 21 water tenders and one bulldozer in the fire fight.

Cal Fire said fire activity had decreased while the containment line continued to hold and increase.

The Border Fire has proven especially challenging due to the steep, rugged terrain which is difficult to access, and extremely dry vegetation in the area created by years of drought in California. Cal Fire described the conditions as fueling “erratic fire behavior.”

Cal Fire said firefighters had been able to construct additional control lines along the perimeter of the Border Fire, which helped keep the acreage increase at a minimum.

By Sunday, as tireless crews had gained the upper-hand, Cal Fire reported there were no structures threatened by the Border Fire. At its peak, the blaze had threatened approximately 200 structures in the community.

Though evacuation orders are no longer in effect, Cal Fire said residents are asked to listen and follow the direction of the all emergency personnel. Potrero residents can call 211 for updates on the fire.

Cal Fire said a few traffic control points were still in effect Saturday, restricting access to the fire burn area.

One spot will is located approximately 1.5 miles north of Highway 94 on Harris Ranch Road, allowing access to all residential locations on Harris Ranch Road.

Another closure was established at Martin Road approximately a quarter-mile west of Highway 94 at the Y intersection. This closure will allow access to residents located on Martin Road.

For now, the Pacific Crest Trail remains closed due to the fire.

With gun policy taking center stage on Capitol Hill in the aftermath of the June 12 mass shooting at an Orlando gay bar, Americans still remain lukewarm to sweeping gun control measures compared to the mid-1990s, when public opinion swept a 10-year assault weapons ban into law.

Fifty percent of voters say that they are concerned that the government will go too far in restricting the rights of citizens to own guns, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, while 47 percent said they were more concerned that authorities would not do enough to regulate access to firearms.

The margin is relatively unchanged since December 2015, after the terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif. At that time, 52 percent of respondents worried about government overreach on gun reform, compared to 44 percent who expressed concern that gun policy would be too lax.

Meanwhile, a ban on the sale of the semi-automatic firearms, referred to as assault weapons, remains relatively popular, with 51 percent of voters supporting such a ban while 31 percent oppose it.

The mayor of a Florida city was carjacked at gunpoint early Saturday outside his house, police said.

At around 2:15 a.m. Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett was approached by three men, one of whom was armed with a gun and stole his Mercedes and wallet, police told NBC affiliate WESH in Winter Park.

Two people, an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old, were later arrested but a third suspect remains loose, WESH reported. During the robbery, one of the three men pointed a gun at Triplett before stealing his keys.

The small Florida community of Sanford, about 20 miles north of Orlando, was propelled into the spotlight in 2012 when George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed teenage Trayvon Martin in a gated community in the town.

The Dalai Lama and Lady Gaga will addressed the U.S. Conference of Mayors 84th Annual Meeting in Indianapolis on Sunday.

The Tibetan spiritual leader delivered the keynote remarks, focusing on the global significance of "building compassionate cities through action at the local level." Lady Gaga joined him on stage after the address for a question-and-answer session moderated by NBC News' Ann Curry.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will also speak to the group of city leaders from around the country Sunday as well.