The 8-year-old Maryland boy who had been hospitalized after nearly drowning on a Caribbean-bound cruise ship after it left New Jersey last month has died, officials said Monday. 

Royal Caribbean confirmed Prince Adepoju died on July 2, two days after he had what the company described as an accident in one of the boat's pools. 

"We are heartbroken to learn the news," the cruise ship company said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this terribly sad time." 

The little boy's family could not immediately be reached for comment on his death. The medical examiner ruled drowning as the cause of death, and said a seizure disorder was a contributing factor. His death was ruled an accident. 

Adepoju left from Bayonne June 30 on the Anthem of the Seas cruise ship around 4:30 p.m. The ship returned five hours later after the boy was found unresponsive in the water; Coast Guard officials had said the boy was likely in the pool for eight to 10 minutes before he was pulled out. 

The child had been in the intensive care unit at Staten Island University Hospital since the accident, according to The Staten Island Advance.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is leaving 10 Downing Street Wednesday, but one member of his team is staying put: Larry the cat.

The brown and white tabby is deemed to be a government worker and will continue to live at the famous address with the country's new leader, Theresa May, NBC News reported. 

Cameron, who quit hours after the Brexit vote, will depart sometime Wednesday with his wife, Samantha. 

Larry is the latest in a line of felines tasked with keeping Downing Street free of rodents. He arrived in 2011 from the London's Battersea Dogs and Cats Home for rescued animals.

Officials are asking "Pokemon Go" players to be respectful of the memorials as they hunt Charmanders and Jigglypuffs on the National Mall.

National Mall and Memorial Parks officials posted on Facebook Monday, asking players of the wildly popular new game to be mindful of just where they're hunting Pokemon.

"Yes, it might be tempting to go after that Snorlax near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, or the Venusaur hanging out in the chamber of the Jefferson Memorial, but remember that there are places of solemn reflection here at the National Mall where playing Pokemon just isn't appropriate," the National Mall and Memorial Parks wrote.

In the "augmented reality" game played on smartphones, Pokemon characters move and disappear, so hunters can wait for them to dash away from a memorial to a more appropriate location before resuming the chase.

Memorials are not the only inappropriate places where people may be trying to "catch them all." The United State Holocaust Memorial Museum appears as a "PokeStop" in the game where players can find free stuff, The Washington Post reported. 

National Mall and Memorial Parks officials said visitors are more than welcome to try and "catch them all" in other places, like the Constitution Gardens, where "a visitor had a close call with a renegade Zubat," according to the Facebook post.

And the officials said players should look out for upcoming Pokemon hunts led by park rangers to learn about the Mall while chasing Pidgeys.

Here are Bernie Sanders' prepared remarks from the July 12, 2016, event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire where he endorsed rival Hillary Clinton. 

Let me begin by thanking the 13 million Americans who voted for me during the Democratic primaries. Let me also thank the people here in New Hampshire who gave us our first big win and a special thanks to the people of Vermont whose support for so many years has sustained me.

Let me also thank the hundreds of thousands of volunteers in every state in our country who worked so hard on our campaign and the millions of our contributors who showed the world that we could run a successful national campaign based on small individual contributions – 2 1/2 million of them.

Together, we have begun a political revolution to transform America and that revolution continues. Together, we continue the fight to create a government which represents all of us, and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.

I am proud of the campaign we ran here in New Hampshire and across the country. Our campaign won the primaries and caucuses in 22 states, and when the roll call at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia is announced it will show that we won almost 1,900 delegates. That is a lot of delegates, far more than almost anyone thought we could win. But it is not enough to win the nomination. Secretary Clinton goes into the convention with 389 more pledged delegates than we have and a lot more super delegates.

Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that. She will be the Democratic nominee for president and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.

I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8 in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world. I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president.

During the last year I had the extraordinary opportunity to speak to more than 1.4 million Americans at rallies in almost every state in this country. I was also able to meet with many thousands of other people at smaller gatherings. And the profound lesson that I have learned from all of that is that this campaign is not really about Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, or any other candidate who sought the presidency. This campaign is about the needs of the American people and addressing the very serious crises that we face. And there is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that. 

It is easy to forget where we were seven and a half years ago when President Obama came into office. As a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Some 800,000 people a month were losing their jobs, we were running up a record-breaking deficit of $1.4 trillion dollars and the world’s financial system was on the verge of collapse. We have come a long way in the last seven and a half years and I thank President Obama and Vice President Biden for their leadership in pulling us out of that terrible recession. But, I think we can all agree, much, much more needs to be done. 

Too many people in America are still being left out, left behind and ignored. In the richest country in the history of the world there is too much poverty, and too much despair.

This election is about the single mom I saw in Nevada who, with tears in her eyes, told me that she was scared to death about the future because she and her young daughter were not making it on the $10.45 cents an hour she was earning. This election is about that woman, and the millions of other workers in this country who are falling further and further behind as they try to survive on totally inadequate wages. 

Hillary Clinton understands that we must fix an economy in America that is rigged and that sends almost all new wealth and income to the top one percent. Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She believes that we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And she wants to create millions of new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. – our roads, bridges, water systems and wastewater plants. 

But her opponent – Donald Trump – well, he has a very different view. He believes that states should have the right to lower the minimum wage or even abolish the concept of the minimum wage altogether. If Donald Trump is elected, we will see no increase in the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour – a starvation wage.

This election is about which candidate will nominate Supreme Court justices who are prepared to overturn the disastrous Citizens United decision which allows billionaires to buy elections and undermine our democracy; about who will appoint new justices on the Supreme Court who will defend a woman’s right to choose, the rights of the LGBT community, workers’ rights, the needs of minorities and immigrants, and the government’s ability to protect the environment. 

If you don’t believe this election is important, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump will nominate, and what that means to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country. 

This campaign is about moving the United States toward universal health care and reducing the number of people who are uninsured or under-insured. Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange, which will lower the cost of health care. She also believes that anyone 55 years or older should be able to opt in to Medicare and she wants to see millions more Americans gain access to primary health care, dental care, mental health counseling and low-cost prescription drugs through a major expansion of community health centers throughout this country. Hillary is committed to seeing thousands of young doctors, nurses, psychologists, dentists and other medical professionals practice in underserved areas as we follow through on President Obama’s idea of tripling funding for the National Health Service Corps. 

In New Hampshire, in Vermont and across the country we have a major epidemic of opiate and heroin addiction. People are dying every day from overdoses. Hillary Clinton understands that if we are serious about addressing this crisis we need major changes in the way we deliver mental health treatment. That’s what expanding community health centers will do and that is what getting medical personnel into the areas we need them most will do. 

And What is Donald Trump’s position on health care? No surprise there. Same old, same old Republican contempt for working families. He wants to abolish the Affordable Care Act, throw 20 million people off of the health insurance they currently have and cut Medicaid for lower-income Americans. The last thing we need today in America is a president who doesn’t care about whether millions will lose access to the health care coverage that they desperately need. We need more people with access to quality health care, not fewer. 

Hillary Clinton also understands that millions of seniors, disabled vets and others are struggling with the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs. She and I are in agreement that Medicare must negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry and that we must expand the use of generic medicine. Drug companies should not be making billions in profits while one in five Americans are unable to afford the medicine they need. The greed of the drug companies must end. 

This election is about the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that currently exists, the worst it has been since 1928. Hillary Clinton knows that something is very wrong when the very rich become richer while many others are working longer hours for lower wages. She knows that it is absurd that middle-class Americans are paying an effective tax rate higher than hedge fund millionaires, and that there are corporations in this country making billions in profit while they pay no federal income taxes in a given year because of loopholes their lobbyists created. While Hillary Clinton supports making our tax code fairer, Donald Trump wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the very wealthiest people in this country. His reckless economic policies will not only exacerbate income and wealth inequality, they would increase our national debt by trillions of dollars. 

This election is about the thousands of young people I have met who have left college deeply in debt, the many others who cannot afford to go to college and the need for this country to have the best educated workforce in the world if we are to compete effectively in a highly competitive global economy. Hillary Clinton believes that we must substantially lower student debt, and that we must make public colleges and universities tuition free for the middle class and working families of this country. This is a major initiative that will revolutionize higher education in this country and improve the lives of millions. Think of what it will mean when every child in this country, regardless of the income of their family, knows that if they study hard and do well in school – yes, they will be able to get a college education and leave school without debt. 

This election is about climate change, the greatest environmental crisis facing our planet, and the need to leave this world in a way that is healthy and habitable for our kids and future generations. Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that if we do not act boldly in the very near future there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels. She understands that we must work with countries around the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy – and that when we do that we can create a whole lot of good paying jobs. Donald Trump: Well, like most Republicans, he chooses to reject science – something no presidential candidate should do. He believes that climate change is a hoax. In fact, he wants to expand the use of fossil fuel. That would be a disaster for our country and our planet. 

This election is about the leadership we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform and repair a broken criminal justice system. It’s about making sure that young people in this country are in good schools or at good jobs, not in jail cells. Secretary Clinton understands that we don’t need to have more people in jail than any other country on earth, at an expense of $80 billion a year. 

In these stressful times for our country, this election must be about bringing our people together, not dividing us up. While Donald Trump is busy insulting Mexicans, Muslims, women, African Americans and veterans, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian American, Native American – all of us – stand together. Yes. We become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native born and immigrant fight to rid this country of all forms of bigotry. 

It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues. That’s what this campaign has been about. That’s what democracy is about. But I am happy to tell you that at the Democratic Platform Committee which ended Sunday night in Orlando, there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party. Our job now is to see that platform implemented by a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House and a Hillary Clinton president – and I am going to do everything I can to make that happen. 

I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care. I served with her in the United States Senate and know her as a fierce advocate for the rights of children. 

Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here today.

A Maryland family called 911 over and over again as 40-year-old Marlon Somarriba had trouble breathing. They got a busy signal, his brother said.

Somarriba, of Rockville, Maryland, died after the Montgomery County 911 system failed for two hours late Sunday and early Monday. 

Somarriba was undergoing kidney dialysis and had been doing well, his brother, Luis Somarriba said. But late Sunday night, he began having trouble breathing.

"He said a couple times, 'Help me,'" Luis Somarriba told News4's Jackie Bensen his father told him. He fought tears as he spoke Monday night alongside his parents. 

The family dialed 911 over and over again from their cellphones and the landline in their home, but they got a busy signal, Luis Somarriba said. They called for more than an hour, he said. 

Finally, Luis Somarriba called the Rockville City Police Department directly. They dispatched an ambulance, which arrived at the same time Luis Somarriba finished his frantic drive to the home where his brother lived with their parents. 

"The medic said to me, 'I'm sorry, but your brother is gone,'" he said. 

The 911 system failed between about 11:10 p.m. Sunday and 1:10 a.m. Monday, Montgomery County officials said in a statement issued Monday afternoon.

Investigators believe the 911 system shut down to prevent overheating when air conditioning equipment failed, officials said. That 911 system was a backup for the primary system, which was being upgraded.

A 91-year-old woman from Olney, Maryland, also died during the 911 outage. Information on the circumstances of her death was not available immediately. 

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett said an investigation is underway. 

"We will have answers as to a) whether or not there's a correlation between the deaths, b) what we have done wrong, if anything, and c) how we can prevent this in the future," he said. 

For now, the Somarribas are in mourning. 

"I never in my life knew that a 911 phone was not working at all," Luis Somarriba said. 

San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration has named Elaine Worzala as the new director of the Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate.

An SDSU statement said Worzala will join the college’s finance department as a fully tenured professor, with her new position effective Aug. 16. The McMillin Center is currently led by Mehdi Salehizadeh, who has served as interim director since the 2014 departure of the previous full-time director, Dawn Eisenberg.

Salehizadeh, who chairs the business college’s finance department, said Worzala was selected following a nationwide search and is a “highly regarded leader in the field of real estate academics, who was also a proven success as a center director.”

Worzala previously served as executive director of the Carter Real Estate Center and professor of real estate at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; and as director of the Richard H. Pennell Center for Real Estate and professor of real estate at Clemson University. She also previously served as a professor and director of the accelerated masters of science in real estate program at the Edward St. John Department of Real Estate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Worzala earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a specialization in real estate and urban land economics.

San Diego State’s real estate education center was established in 1958 and is named for the late local developer Macey L. “Corky” McMillin, who founded the family-run San Diego firm now known as The Corky McMillin Cos.

The body of a U.S. airman who went missing in northern Italy was recovered Tuesday, Italian police confirmed in a statement, NBC News reported. 

Staff Sgt. Halex Hale's body was found about half a mile away from where he was last seen in Sacile, according to Italian police.

Hale, from Middletown, Indiana, went missing on July 2 after leaving a friend's off-base cookout. Authorities believed he was drunk and fell into a nearby canal, which was swollen due to recent rains.

Halex’s father, Lance Hale, told NBC News Sunday he doesn’t accept Italian authorities' theory, saying a fellow airman told him his son left the party without his wallet, keys and cell phone. 

Hale, who was assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base north of Venice, had been in the Air Force for six years.

The close friend of a young, recently homeless man killed after a brutal attack remembered him as "so sweet and so nice," tearing up as she remembered the circumstances leading up to his death. 

"I just feel like ... something," said Chelsea Lacy of her friend Dionicio Derek Vahidy, 23, of San Diego. "At least we could have done something to get him off of the streets to make things better for him."

Police found Vahidy with extensive damage to his upper body Wednesday, and police later determined Vahidy had been physically attacked and set on fire. He was taken to a hospital in grave condition and pronounced dead several days later, on Sunday. 

Lacy said Vahidy was staying with his aunt and sister right before the attack. His sister was trying to get him to stay with them that night. 

She said his sister has told her she misses her brother and wants justice.

"She just loves him and misses her brother more than anything in the world," Lacy said. "Her brother got taken away from her at a really young age. I know she did mention ... She just can't believe it. Nobody can believe it. Nobody can."

Lacy said she may never know why Vahidy decided to go back to sleeping on the streets that night.

"I don't understand what was going on, or how any of that had happened, or why he was out there," she said.

She said Vahidy was a University High graduate with the class of 2012 and went to Mesa College. They were close friends, but late last month, he had stopped answering her calls and texts, so she decided to let it be. 

"It's sad to me because I saw on the news his last words were 'God Bless You and may God be with you, and that's just crazy," Lacy said, breaking down.

Vahidy's death brings the death toll to three. Investigators said they believe the death was related to a series of attacks on homeless men that occurred between July 3 and July 4. Two others have died and a third is in grave condition. Read more about the attacks here.

Thursday, Anthony Padgett was arrested as a suspect in the series of attacks. On Monday, homicide investigators said they have evidence to exclude Padgett as a suspect.

Capt. David Nisleit said they made the right decision arresting Padgett on Thursday based on his similarity to the suspect seen in store surveillance video and his past conviction of lighting someone on fire.

Lacy said Vahidy was one of those people who she could talk to about anything. 

"He was so sweet and so nice. Even to other people when he was homeless," Lacy said.

Lacy said she's still struggling with the news because they always did everything together. 

"He had so many close friends," Lacy said. "That's why it hurts so much because we ALL could have helped him out in any way. He could have stayed with me. At any time. I would have been more than willing to take him in."

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information related to this incident is encouraged to call the San Diego Police Department’s Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

No other information was immediately available.

Audio recordings obtained by a Minnesota television station appear to capture the traffic stop in which Philando Castile was shot to death by a police officer.

In the tapes the officer can be heard saying he would pull over Castile's car because he thought he had been involved in a robbery and looked "like one of our suspect, just 'cause of the wide-set nose," according to copies of radio transmissions obtained by KARE-11, an NBC affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Castile's death led to nationwide protests and has been cited as a spark for a gunman's ambush of police officers in Dallas.

Castile's family told the station that the officer's description sounded like racial profiling. The officers involved are white, and Castile was black.

The officer's lawyer told KARE that Castile was not a suspect in any robbery, but said the officers "had a reasonable suspicion he may match the description of the suspect in the earlier robbery."

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush predicts that Donald Trump's supporters will "feel betrayed" when his promises go unfulfilled.

In a conversation with MSNBC, Bush said that Trump, "to his credit was very smart at exploiting these kind of opportunities. He's a master at understanding how the media works - more than anybody I've ever seen in politics. Kudos to him, for kind of creating the environment and then manipulating the environment to his effect."

But, the former primary foe of Trump added that the "tragedy" of his presumptive nomination is that "there isn't going to be a wall built. And Mexico's not going to pay for it. And there's not going to be a ban on Muslims. ... This is all like a alternative universe that he created. The reality is, that's not going to happen. And people are going to be deeply frustrated and the divides will grow in our country. And this extraordinary country, still the greatest country on the face of the earth, will continue to stagger instead of soar."

A man arrested last week in connection to a series of gruesome attacks on homeless San Diegans has been released from custody, a major development in a case police say remains their top priority.

In a news conference on Monday afternoon, San Diego Police Capt. Dave Nisleit said investigators came across new evidence that lessened their confidence that Anthony A. Padgett should be held in jail as the suspect in the case.

Nisleit said new evidence contradicted investigators' theory that Anthony Padgett was the suspect who killed three homeless people and seriously injured a fourth.

"I don't have any evidence to keep him behind bars right now," Nisleit said.

Padgett, who was arrested last Thursday in the highly publicized case, was released on Monday just before he was set to be arraigned; he was never formally charged.

In a previous interview, Padgett maintained his innocence.

Explaining why Padgett was released, Nisliet said investigators initially had probable cause to arrest him — he closely resembled a surveillance image of the killer and also had a previous 2010 conviction of lighting someone on fire.

However, after investigating further, detective learned new evidence that appeared to point away from Padgett. Nisliet declined to elaborate on that evidence.

“I could not risk not taking him into custody and leaving him out in the community," Nisleit said. “I believe it was the right decision then and I still believe it was the right decision now.”

Nisliet said investigators are renewing their search for the serial killer.

"I want to ensure everybody that this investigation remains the No. 1 priority for the San Diego Police Department," Nisleit said.

Anyone with information on the attacks is asked to call the department's homicide unit at 619-531-2293 or, if you wish to remain anonymous, you can call Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

A pregame parade of the stars of the All Star Game will roll through the streets of downtown San Diego on Tuesday.

Starting at noon at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, a line of convertibles carrying all the members of the National League and American League All-Star teams will be making its way through the streets to Petco Park.

At the head of the parade will be the Grand Marshals, Padres legends Dave Winfield and Trevor Hoffman.

The parade will run across West Harbor Drive and on to Market Street before turning right on to Union Street. From there the cars will turn left on Island Avenue and drive for six blocks before hanging a right on 5th Avenue.

If you’re looking for a good viewing area, the stretch on Island is the best place to set up.

The caravan will head down 5th for a couple of blocks, turn left on K Street and go to the 7th Avenue entrance to Petco Park.

Parking for the event is going to be extremely limited so the Padres and MLB are encouraging fans coming to the parade and the ensuing All-Star Game to use public transportation.

Free park-and-ride lots will be located along Trolley and Coaster lines, including 5,000 spaces at Qualcomm Stadium.

Here's a breakdown of road closures, thanks to the San Diego Police Department.

Palm trees and other brush burned in multiple fires along the riverbed in Bonita Tuesday.

Chula Vista Fire Department crews responded to the report of multiple fires near the Chula Vista Golf Course at Willow Street and Bonita Road. To the west of that location, spot fires were reported on Valley Vista Road.

An NBC 7 news crew captured flames destroying several palm trees and other fuel.

Homes are close to the riverbed but are not threatened by the slow-moving fire, according to Chula Vista Fire Department spokesperson Deputy Chief Harry Muns.

Access is a problem for crews, Muns said.

No other information was immediately available.

Harness in tow, an officer with San Diego County’s Department of Animal Services recently rappelled 100 feet down a ravine to rescue a stray puppy that had tumbled in rough terrain in Pauma Valley.

According to Animal Services, Officer Denise Gove was called to the area about 65 miles northeast of downtown San Diego to help safely pull a small, 10-week-old German shepherd up from the rocky ravine. Gove is a member of the San Diego County Animal Response Team (SDCART), made up of trained volunteers and Animal Control officers. 

When Animal Services received the emergency call about the puppy stranded down the ravine, Gove told colleagues she had been trained in rappelling and wanted to help with the rescue.

When Gove arrived at the ravine, she could hear the puppy’s whimpers coming from below. The bottom of the ravine was about 200 feet down.

Animal Services said the puppy had dropped about 100 feet down, where a large bush broke the animal’s fall. She was clinging to the bush.

According to Animal Services, if that bush hadn't been there, the puppy likely would not have survived the drop all the way to the bottom of the ravine.

Little by little, Gove rappelled toward the pup. Animal Services said the rescue was difficult due to the steep incline of the rocky ravine.

“[The puppy] clung onto that bush until Officer Gove dropped from the sky to rescue,” explained Lt. Loren Bunnell, who took the original emergency call from dispatch for the rescue.

Bunnell said the photos of the tense moments of the rappelling rescue depict the “enormity of the situation” and how Gove ultimately got the job done.

Today, Animal Services said the puppy is doing just fine. The dog is considered a stray and is currently staying at the County’s Northern Region shelter in Carlsbad, located at 2481 Palomar Airport Rd.

The puppy will become available for adoption on Friday. Anyone interested in adopting this pup can call the shelter with their inquiries at (619) 767-2675 and reference her animal ID, #1728061.

A University of California, Berkeley student is missing in Nice, France, following Thursday's terror attack that killed at least 84 people and injured scores of others, according to university officials.

Twenty-year-old Nicolas Leslie was among 85 Berkeley students attending a study abroad program nearby, officials said Friday. Three other Berkeley students in the group were injured in the attack, in which a gunman drove a truck through crowds leaving a Bastille Day fireworks celebration in the seaside tourist destination.

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Leslie is a junior at Berkeley, majoring in the College of Natural Resources.

Berkeley spokesperson Robert Sanders said that staff with campus study abroad, risk services and student affairs offices were working with Leslie's family, students in France, the program director on the ground, local officials and U.S. consular officials to find him.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Leslie's uncle, Fabeo Bottini, has been going from hospital to hospital in Nice trying to get information about his missing nephew.

The Daily Beast reported that a friend of Leslie’s saw the 20-year old running through the streets of Old Nice. But Leslie's aunt, Bottini’s wife, said the student never returned to his student housing Thursday night.

Leslie's friend, Anoop Baliga, has been reaching out to Leslie via social media along with many others hoping to hear from him soon. Baliga says Leslie's last Snapchat story post was from a restaurant about 10 minutes away from the attack's location. He says there has been movement on his Facebook page, but he thinks it's because people are using his laptop to try and find him.

Chandrabh Akireddy, who knows Leslie from the Net Impact Berkeley Undergrad program at Berkeley, said a couple of his friends who were in the square with Leslie, who friends call Nick, checked in after the attack.

"Some people saw him escape ... One of the students said he ran off with Nick during the attack but they got separated," Akireddy said. "The guess seems to be that he is OK."

Akireddy's friends saw Leslie active on Facebook messenger after the attack.

"We're taking that as a good sign and hoping that his phone died or something, and that he's still hiding somewhere," he said. "He's a great guy, we're optimistic."

Akireddy said that Leslie spent his childhood between San Diego and Italy. He added he met Leslie after joining Net Impact last year.

Leslie's Facebook page shows that he studies at Berkeley, lives in Del Mar, California, and is from Milan, Italy. He attended Torrey Pines High School in San Diego.

Mustapha Khokhar, a friend of Leslie’s at Berkeley, said he received a Snapchat from Leslie at 1:20 p.m. PT Thursday, but that he hasn’t heard from him since. That radio silence is odd for someone who has been snapchatting — or “streaking,” as its often called — relentlessly over the course of his vacation.

“We had a 20+ day streak going,” Khokhar said. “He’s been essentially documenting his whole trip to me over snap. And that streak ended yesterday.”

Khokhar said it’s possible, but out of character, for Leslie to have accidently let his phone die.

“Nick isn’t the type to go AWOL and pass out with his phone dead,” he said. “The dude is attached to his phone … but I would hope that’s what happened.”

Khokhar, who has known Leslie for more than two years, described his friend as someone with a “heart of gold.”

“He’s one of the most genuine and sincere people I know,” he said. “If you need help with work he will be there. If you call him at 3 a.m. asking to be picked up ‘cause you’re drunk, he will be there.”

According to Sanders, two of the students — identified as Diane Huang, 20, and Daryus Medora, 21 — sustained broken legs and were receiving treatment at a hospital in Nice.

A third, 23-year-old Vladyslav Kostiuk, suffered a broken foot.

Kostiuk posted a photo of his injury on his Facebook page, with the caption: "I would say only one thing: I was lucky, I'm alive, unlike other people that were walking with me. Just got out from a surgery. Picture: in a casino where I was taken first."

Paige Basconcillo, a Berkeley student from Bakersfield, California, who is also in the Study Abroad group, has been tweeting about Leslie as well, asking people in Côte d'Azur (the French Riviera) to search for him.

All of the students in the study abroad program were attending a 15-day program on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe, part of the international European Innovation Academy, which was suspended to observe the three days of national mourning in France.

The program will go on through its planned end date of July 24, university officials said, but the campus has offered to bring home any students who wish to leave. So far, three students have opted to return home to the U.S.

UC Berkeley officials said in a statement late Friday that a representative of the study abroad program is heading to Nice to support the students, who experienced Thursday's horror.

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University Vice Provost Cathy Koshland and Dean of Students Joseph Defraine Greenwell joined the Bay Area community to express sympathy to to all the students, families and the French community who have been affected by this “tragic event” and “senseless violence.”

A message posted by Berkeley student Abhinav Kukreja on Facebook talks about Leslie missing since Thursday's attack.

"We know he successfully avoided colliding with the truck, but we lost him during the stampede and chaos that follow. Please share this so Nick an get back to his friends and family," Kukreja wrote.

Recent terrorist attacks have impacted other Berkeley students. Berkeley sophomore, Tarishi Jain, was among 20 hostages killed by Islamist militants in Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 1.

Gillian Edavane and Ryann Vargas contributed to this report.

Hundreds of "Black Lives Matter" protestors marched through the streets of City Heights Friday night, shutting down southbound Interstate 15 at University Avenue.

The protest follows a series of marches across the country and in San Diego after two black men were shot and killed by police in Minnesota and Louisiana. 

Alton Sterling, 37, was killed in Baton Rouge after being shot by two police officers. Authorities said he was armed. In Minnesota, Philando Castile, 32, was shot and killed by an officer during a traffic stop on July 6.

Friday night's march shut down local businesses and part of I-15.

When asked about inconveniencing others for their cause, protester Katrina Anderson said: “Many people are inconvenienced by the cause we’re fighting for. Being harassed by police and unnecessary violence, a few more minutes of their inconvenience is worth everyone’s life.”

The marchers also staged a sit-in on Fairmount Street in front of the City Heights Precinct police station.

The group was calling for San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Chief Shelley Zimmerman to hear their concerns and to highlight the shooting deaths of people of color killed by police in America.

In addition to Castile and Sterling, the group also marched for Hispanic teenager Pedro Erick Villanueva, shot and killed by police near Los Angeles. 

Marchers said the culture of how police treat people of color needs to change. 

“I want everyone to be treated fairly across the board,” explained Sammie Scales. I don’t want my heart rate to change when the police pull up behind me. I don’t want to get nervous.”

“Current police brutality and people being murdered by police recently is not a matter of individual decisions by police acting rationally and according to procedure,” said Jordan Mills, a member of the Party for Socialism and l Liberation and a college professor.

“We think it's built into the system. That, in fact, there is structural racism in the United States,” Mills added.

Despite some tense moments with obscenities directed toward police, officers said there didn’t appear to be any arrests made. 

It was a peaceful demonstration that made a big impact.

A deaf New Jersey woman, who primarily communicates with sign language, is suing Taco Bell, saying the company and its restaurants failed to accommodate her at drive-thru windows.

Gina Cirrincione says she wrote her order and handed it to an employee at the drive-thru pickup window at a Taco Bell in Pleasantville in January. A video shows an employee saying he would take the order "one time," but she would have to come inside in the future.

She also claims a drive-thru employee at a Taco Bell in Atlantic City returned a note for food without filling the order.

Cirrincione wants Taco Bell to develop a policy to consider the needs of deaf customers. She's also seeking damages.

In a statement, a Taco Bell spokeswoman declined comment saying they had yet to be served with the lawsuit.

"However, Taco Bell has a fundamental policy to respect all of our customers and employees, and we are committed to maintaining an environment free of discrimination or harassment. We do not tolerate discrimination in any form, and we have a strong policy to provide accessible service to all of our customers and fans," the statement read.

There are two new additions to the greater flamingo flock at the San Diego Safari Zoo Park.

The chicks hatched on July 12 at the park. Both were weighed and had a blood sample taken to determine their sex. They also received a microchip to help the zoo keepers identify them.

During this breeding season, 17 chicks have hatched in the zoo's breeding program, bringing the total to 192 hatches.

Greater flamingos are not an endangered species but they are dependent on wetlands.

“Greater flamingos serve as ambassador species for wetlands conservation,” said Jenny Tibbott, senior bird keeper at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. “Flamingos are one of the more well-known bird species; they are loud, tall, bright and beautiful."

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park has the largest colony of Greater flamingos in North America.