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Car Crashes Head-On With Bus in Alpine

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Two people suffered major injuries after a car crashed head-on with a bus full of people Monday morning. 

The crash happened at approximately 10 a.m. Monday on Interstate 8 at Willows Road, California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers said. 

CHP officers said the crash happened when a Ford Escort driving westbound on Willows Road, just east of Brows Road, pulled to the shoulder and began to U-turn. 

At the time, a Van Hool Charter Bus was driving westbound. Officers said the Ford tried to swerve and avoid the crash, but was unable to avoid the bus. 

The front end of the bus hit the side of the Ford, officers said. 

A third car driving estbound on Willows Road then struck the bus as well. 

Rescue workers had to pry the car open to free the driver and a passenger trapped inside. The passenger and driver suffered major injuries and were taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital. 

Two passengers in the bus suffered minor injuries. One of those passengers was taken to the hospital for treatment. 

Rex Butler, who witnessed the crash from his car, said he rushed to help the driver, only to discover he was trapped. 

"I was afraid to do anything because I was afraid I would hurt him," he said.

A Sig alert was issued for E Willows and all lanes were closed in both directions. 

The crash is under investigation. Alcohol and drugs are not believed to be a factor. 

No other information was immediately available.



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More Than 400K Attended MLB All-Star Events

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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game events attracted plenty of support from fans and players in San Diego, with over 400,000 people attending the events in July, according to a media report.

A total of 124,564 people registered for the three days of ballpark events at Petco Park,a MLB official said.

There was no shortage of audience participation at the games with over 216,000 people involved in the FanFest Experience program, a fan engagement platform at the MLB All-Star FanFest. According to MLB, this marks a 400 percent increase from last year’s MLB All-Star events.

The All-Star FanFest had the most positive reception with 117,144 attendees, according to the MLB.

An all-time sales record was set for online shoppers of FanFest merchandise on MLB.com. The sales exceeded the top two All-Star sales years in San Francisco and New York, with sales 36 percent higher than last year’s event in Cincinnati.

Sales of Majestic jerseys and apparel went up by 39 percent, according to the MLB. This was mostly due to the Padres-inspired gold and brown Home Run Derby jerseys. The New Era headwear was the most popular item of the various MLB consumer products.

At the first ever Play Ball Park, which provided activities for youth baseball and softball players, there were about 4,000 young people involved.

In short, the MLB All-Star events were as popular as ever this year, with lots of festival-goers, baseball players and online shoppers.



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Teen Attacks Passengers on Train in Germany

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An Afghan teen attacked passengers on a train in Germany Monday using bladed weapons, severely injuring at least three people, and was later shot dead by a SWAT-style team, authorities said.

The incident happened on a train in Heidingsfeld, near Würzburg, police said. The weapons were described as an ax and a knife, NBC News reported.

Officers shot and killed the attacker, police said.

The attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan man, Bavaria's interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said in an interview on German public television ARD. Herrmann said the police team shot the attacker after he exited the train and charged them.

Police said it is too early to determine a motive or whether the incident might be terrorism related.

The attack on the train comes days after a driver rammed a truck into a crowd in Nice, France, at the end of a Bastille Day fireworks show, killing 84 people. Authorities in France have called that attack an act of terrorism.



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Highlights From the 2016 Republican National Convention

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The Republican National Convention kicked off on Monday evening, July 18, 2016, when a call for a state-by-state roll call vote was denied. Protesters and Trump-fans gathered outside the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, where convention speakers will include Melania Trump and Trump's children, Ben Carson, Rudy Giuliani, and more.

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Ex-Board Member Suing Civic San Diego, Calling it 'Zombie Entity'

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It’s called Civic San Diego, a nonprofit with a big say about how San Diego will look in the future.

A critic of the agency is telling NBC 7 that it’s become a “municipal mess." Murtzaz Basamusa, who served on the board for two years, believes that the agency acts like a “zombie entity” doing what it wants, when it wants, with no accountability.

Basamusa says he filed a lawsuit to bring attention to the agencies failings.

Civic San Diego was created by current Chamber of Commerce President and former Mayor Jerry Sanders in 2011 to replace the city’s redevelopment agency.

Its sole client is the City of San Diego and the agency puts in play millions of dollars in redevelopment funds. It’s announced goals were to streamline the development process, attract developers to underserved communities like Encanto and City Heights and approve downtown redevelopment projects.

The “streamlined” efficiency comes with a high price. according to the lawsuit, which alleges a loss of “public discourse and due process.”

It’s not working, according to Basamusa and his attorney Steven Coopersmith, because the city is both the sole client and sole member of Civic San Diego.

Coopersmith says “it’s a very very odd conjunction of public and private” interests. The lawsuit lays out an explanation of the conflict, “board members are also permitted to serve on the board of “for-profit” subsidiaries” which means, Coppersmith says “significant conflicts of interest exist or could arise."

What troubled Baxamusa were requests made for additional information or documents on Civic San Diego practices, including questions about a series of closed door sessions by the administration.

He felt he had a fiduciary duty to provide oversight of agency practices but his inquiries went nowhere.

Instead he got a request for him to sign a letter of confidentiality

Two months earlier, NBC 7 was tipped off by a former San Diego city official to look closer at the workings of the nonprofit, specifically the repeated closed door sessions involving the agencies top management team.

The allegation was the agency was hiding something and they didn’t want the public to be aware of it.

To find out more, NBC 7 filed California Public Records Act requests with Civic San Diego. Here are those requests and the responses. You will see that most of the information supplied were the agendas of the board meetings. These agendas don’t require a public records request and are easily accessible. Note in the agendas the numerous times there were closed sessions to evaluate the top two administrators in the agency.

In our experience of reporting on local government, we had never seen an example like this, numerous closed door sessions used to evaluate the performance of the same two employees.

Click here to read the CPRA’s sent by NBC 7 and the responses received.

As to Basamusa having to sign a confidentiality statement: “This took me by surprise,” he told us. Baxamusa sits on a number of nonprofit boards and is director of planning and development for the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council Family Housing Corporation.

He told us: “I’ve never come across a situation where I’ve been told I needed to sign a confidentially agreement."

Murtzaz Basamusa refused to sign, and on June 22, received a notice from the mayor’s office that he was not being reappointed to the board.

NBC 7 reporter Wendy Fry contacted 14officials and board members at the federal, state and local level. She asked whether they had heard of making trustees of a public agency board sign a confidentiality agreement on board documents for a closed-session item.

Every response received was along the lines of the response we got from State Senator Marty Block who in his career as a public servant had served on a number of government boards.

Said the Senator in a text message to Fry: “Never heard of it. Never asked to do it.” She added that it was outside of his personal experience, so he didn’t “know how unusual it might be."

Attorney Terry Francke has expertise with open government issues. He is general counsel for Calaware and an acknowledged expert on California’s Brown Act.

When asked about the confidentiality document that Basamusa was told to sign, he said: “Such confidentiality agreements requested of directors are not that unusual in the for-profit corporate world, especially if triggered by and concerning specific corporate records.”

He added: “Civic San Diego, however, is an entity subject to the California Public Records Act, and therefore it’s my belief that information cannot be protected by a nondisclosure agreement unless it is exempt from disclosure under the CPRA.”

The lawsuit asks for an injunction to stop Civic San Diego from “the illegal expenditure of public funds.” The argument says Basamusa is simply “for a development corporation that has such an enormous power over permitting large projects I feel there should be greater oversight by the city And our elected officials."



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Officials Hold Conference After Baton Rouge Shoooting

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Law enforcement officials from across San Diego County held a conference Monday, asking members of the public for support in wake of the Dallas and Baton Rouge attacks. 

The Law Enforcement Chiefs and Sheriff, County Supervisors, city council members, community members and the mayor met at The Fountain in Balboa Park Monday at 12 p.m. The spot is located at 1875 El Prado, near the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.

"We are saddened and horrified to see that another three of our fellow officers have been murdered by a senseless killer,” President Brian R. Marvel said, the President of the San Diego Police Officers Association, in a statement.

The San Diego County Chief’s and Sheriff Association implored residents of San Diego to maintain solidarity with law enforcement in light of the latest events.

"This is about coming together as one county. More violence, of course, will not heal these wounds. These wounds can only be healed through love and understanding," San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said.

Violence aimed against police in Dallas and Baton Rouge killed eight law-enforcement officials in the past two weeks.

“Yesterday morning's shooting in Baton Rouge is a grave reminder of the dangers that peace officers face every day and we stand with our law enforcement brothers and sisters not just in Baton Rouge, but nationwide,” Marvel said.

Civil unrest and protests against police have spread across the nation, since white officers shot and killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge on July 5 and Philando Castile in Minnesota on July 6. A 12-year-old boy was also arrested last Friday in connection with a suspected plot to kill Louisiana police officers.

“Once again we see our fellow law enforcement officers shot and killed, first Dallas and now Baton Rouge. At the same time we have innocent people killed in Orlando, Turkey and Nice by uninformed, hate-filled mentally unstable individuals who have a warped view of the world,” Chief of Police in National City Manuel Rodriguez said in a statement.

The afternoon’s conference explained how local law enforcement is responding to the deaths of more officers and why it’s important for the community to show understanding and compassion.

San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Chief Shelley Zimmerman said she wanted to set the national model for police and community relations. She told NBC 7 that SDPD is taking precautions when it comes to protecting officers.

"We've been talking with our officers to make sure they're very vigilant, to make surt that they're very aware, and we have teamed up our officers, so they have a partner. And we realize what's going on across the country and we want to make sure everyone is safe," Zimmerman said.

“With so much tragedy it’s easy to forget the majority of our communities support us and count on us to protect them from these senseless acts of violence,” Rodriguez said.

But not everyone was on board with the unity conference.

"I'm not condoning any violence at all. What I'm saying is violence is invevitable. If you don't really sit down at the table, if you don't really sit down at the table with people, it's gonna get worse," Lincoln Park resident Dwayne Harvey said.

Harvey walked through the crowd, holding a sign that read "It's a Slave Revolt." He told NBC 7 that law enforcement is not understanding the concerns of the community.



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Chargers Linebacker Jerry Attaochu Heads Home to Organize Blood Drive

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The San Diego Chargers are less than two weeks away from reporting for training camp.

Many of the players take the time leading up to training camp to relax or head home to spend to with their families. Chargers linebacker Jerry Attaochu made a very special trip home to Washington, D.C.

Attaochu organized a blood drive in his hometown of D.C. on Tuesday to help children and adults with sickle cell disease. His sister Glory suffers from sickle cell disease and is currently hospitalized undergoing a transfusion.

“She would have been here but she had a crisis,” says Attaochu. “So, with as many blood transfusions she had, I feel like it’s my duty, using my platform, to get people out.”

Attaochu started the Glory’s Hope Sickle Cell Foundation to help raise awareness. Sickle cell disease affects approximately one out of 365 Blacks or African Americans across the United States.

Attaochu is expected to return to San Diego ahead of Chargers training camp.

In 2015 season he finished sixth in total tackles for the Bolts, and was ranked second in quarterback hits, sacks, and tackles for loss. The San Diego Chargers are set to report for training camp on July 29th.

Dozens of Wrestlers Sue WWE Over Injuries

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World Wrestling Entertainment Inc was sued on Monday by Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and dozens of other retired male and female wrestlers seeking to hold it responsible for neurological injuries they claimed to suffer by participating in its bouts, NBC News reported.

The complaint was filed on behalf of more than 50 plaintiffs who have performed with WWE or its predecessors since the 1970s, including Joseph "Road Warrior Animal" Laurinaitis and Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff.

It accused Stamford, Connecticut-based WWE and Chairman Vince McMahon of intentionally classifying wrestlers as "independent contractors" rather than employees, as a means to avoid liability under applicable worker protection laws.

The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, as well as improved medical monitoring.

A spokesman for WWE had no immediate comment, and said the company's legal counsel would review the complaint.



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Vigil for UC Berkeley Student Killed in Nice, France

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About 300 members of the UC Berkeley community and beyond gathered on the East Bay campus Monday afternoon to honor Nicolas Leslie, a student killed in last week's truck attack in Nice, France.

The memorial vigil was held at Sproul Plaza and many of Leslie's friends spoke, remembering him as a great guy who lit up the room and lived life to the fullest every day.

"Nick you were the best senior associate, and more importantly, the best friend I could have had," friend Ahni Surrumpudi said at the vigil. "You were a friend I could count on to be there. I'll never forget the way you could light up a room within seconds."

Leslie, 20, was confirmed dead Sunday by FBI officials, which were notified by counterparts in France early Sunday, university officials said.

"It's pretty devastating," said Alesandra Silveria, a UC Berkeley student. "It brings it so much closer to home."

Leslie, an environmental sciences major, had been planning to begin studies at the Haas School of Business in the fall. He was also prolific on social media, his friends said, which is why they were so worried about him since his phone went quiet after the July 14 attack.

"This is tragic, devastating news," UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said in a statement. "All of us in the UC Berkeley family — both here on campus, and around the world — are heartbroken to learn that another promising young student has been lost to senseless violence. I join Nick’s parents, friends and the entire campus community in condemning this horrific attack, and in mourning the loss of one of our own."

Leslie, a native of Del Mar, in San Diego County, was one of 85 Berkeley students attending a summer study abroad program in the French seaside city of Nice when the attacker, identified as 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, drove a truck through crowds departing a fireworks celebration.

Friends told NBC Bay Area that Leslie avoided being hit by the truck but was separated from his group during the stampede and chaos that followed.

On Saturday, Leslie's father, Conrad, left his Southern California home and traveled to Nice in search of his son, NBC News reported. Leslie's uncle, Fabeo Bottini, had been scouring hospitals in the Nice area since the attack looking for Nicolas, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Three other Berkeley students were injured in the Nice attack. Vladyslav Kostiuk, 23, and Diane Huang, 20, have been released from the hospital. Daryus Medora, 21, remains hospitalized, according to the university.

Monday's vigil comes just two weeks after the UC Berkeley campus mourned the loss of Tarishi Jain, a sophomore killed in the Dhaka, Bangladesh terrorist attack.

Menat Elattma, an incoming Egyptian-borne Cal freshman, did not know Leslie but took to Twitter using the hashtag #ForeverABear to send her condolences about him. She's not deterred from one day traveling as a university student, if the occasion should arise.

"With the recent attacks around the world impacting Berkeley, my perception of being a student there has not changed," she said. "It could have been a student from any other university. The perpetrators were not targeting UC Berkeley students specifically, or college students in general. The perpetrators utilized whatever power they have fashioned to oppress and cause violence. Coming from Egypt and a constant state of instability and lack of security, I tend not to allow the issue of safety become in conflict with my endeavors."

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Read Melania Trump's GOP Convention Speech

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Melania Trump was the keynote speaker at the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Here is her speech, as prepared.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

You have all been very kind to Donald and me, to our young son Barron, and to our whole family.

It's a very nice welcome and we're excited to be with you at this historic convention.

I am so proud of your choice for President of the United States, my husband, Donald J. Trump.

And I can assure you, he is moved by this great honor.

The 2016 Republican primaries were fierce and started with many candidates, 17 to be exact, and I know that Donald agrees with me when I mention how talented all of them are.

They deserve respect and gratitude from all of us.

However, when it comes to my husband, I will say that I am definitely biased, and for good reason.

I have been with Donald for 18 years and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met.

He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism, because, like me, he loves this country so much.

I was born in Slovenia, a small, beautiful and then communist country in Central Europe.

My sister Ines, who is an incredible woman and a friend, and I were raised by my wonderful parents.

My elegant and hard-working mother Amalia introduced me to fashion and beauty.

My father Viktor instilled in me a passion for business and travel.

Their integrity, compassion and intelligence reflect to this day on me and for my love of family and America.

From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life: that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise; that you treat people with respect.

They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life.

That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son, and we need to pass those lessons on to the many generation to follow.

Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

I am fortunate for my heritage, but also for where it has brought me today.

I travelled the world while working hard in the incredible arena of fashion.

After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City twenty years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life.

On July 28th, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States -- the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted.

But these freedoms have come with a price so many times.

The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this.

I would like to take this moment to recognize an amazing veteran, the great Senator Bob Dole.

And let us thank all of our veterans in the arena today, and those across our great country.

We are all truly blessed to be here.

That will never change.

I can tell you with certainty that my husband has been concerned about our country for as long as I have known him.

With all of my heart, I know that he will make a great and lasting difference.

Donald has a deep and unbounding determination and a never-give-up attitude.

I have seen him fight for years to get a project done — or even started — and he does not give up!

If you want someone to fight for you and your country, I can assure you, he is the 'guy'.

He will never, ever, give up.

And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down.

Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader.

Now, he will go to work for you.

His achievements speak for themselves, and his performance throughout the primary campaign proved that he knows how to win.

He also knows how to remain focused on improving our country — on keeping it safe and secure.

He is tough when he has to be but he is also kind and fair and caring.

This kindness is not always noted, but it is there for all to see.

That is one reason I fell in love with him to begin with.

Donald is intensely loyal.

To family, friends, employees, country.

He has the utmost respect for his parents, Mary and Fred, to his sisters Maryanne and Elizabeth, to his brother Robert and to the memory of his late brother Fred.

His children have been cared for and mentored to the extent that even his adversaries admit they are an amazing testament to who he is as a man and a father.

There is a great deal of love in the Trump family.

That is our bond, and that is our strength.

Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States.

No room for small thinking.

No room for small results.

Donald gets things done.

Our country is underperforming and needs new leadership.

Leadership is also what the world needs.

Donald wants our country to move forward in the most positive of ways.

Everyone wants change.

Donald is the only one that can deliver it.

We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

Donald wants prosperity for all Americans.

We need new programs to help the poor and opportunities to challenge the young.

There has to be a plan for growth — only then will fairness result.

My husband's experience exemplifies growth and the successful passage of opportunity to the next generation.

His success indicates inclusion rather than division.

My husband offers a new direction, welcoming change, prosperity and greater cooperation among peoples and nations.

Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people.

That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims, it includes Hispanics and African-Americans and Asians, and the poor and the middle class.

Throughout his career, Donald has successfully worked with people of many faiths and with many nations.

Like no one else, I have seen the talent, the energy, the tenacity, the resourceful mind and the simple goodness of heart that God gave Donald Trump.

Now is the time to use those gifts as never before, for purposes far greater than ever before.

And he will do this better than anyone else can... and it won't even be close.

Everything depends on it, for our cause and for our country.

People are counting on him — all the millions of you who have touched us so much with your kindness and your confidence.

You have turned this unlikely campaign into a movement that is still gaining in strength and number.

The primary season, and its toughness, is behind us.

Let's all come together in a national campaign like no other!

The race will be hard-fought, all the way to November.

There will be good times and hard times and unexpected turns — it would not be a Trump contest without excitement and drama.

But through it all, my husband will remain focused on only one thing: this beautiful country, that he loves so much.

If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most.

One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women.

You judge a society by how it treats its citizens.

We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.

As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love and compassion for each other that will bring us together — and keep us together.

These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.

My husband is ready to lead this great nation.

He is ready to fight, every day, to give our children the better future they deserve.

Ladies and gentlemen, Donald J. Trump is ready to serve and lead this country as the next opresident of the United States.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.



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GOP Convention: Congressman Defends 'Old, White People'

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Defending his party's reputation of consisting mainly of "old, white people," Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa on Monday questioned where "any other subgroup of people" contributed more to society than in Western civilization, according to NBC News.

"This 'old, white people' business does get a little tired," King said on MSNBC Monday, hours before the first speaker would take the stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. "I'd ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you're talking about — where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?"

"Than white people?" asked MSNBC's Chris Hayes, slightly stunned.

"Than Western civilization itself," King replied.



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Trump Ghostwriter Calls Him a Sociopath

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The ghostwriter behind Donald Trump's best-selling 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal," now says he regrets the way he presented the real estate mogul after spending many months with him as they wrote the book, according to a new interview in The New Yorker.

The book helped propel Trump to national prominence and cement his image as a brilliant businessman. But Tony Schwartz, the former journalist with unparalleled access to Trump nearly 30 years ago, says he is terrified by the possibility of a Trump presidency.

"I put lipstick on a pig," he said in the New Yorker interview, published online Sunday. "I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is."

"I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization."

Trump, who became the improbable front-runner in the Republican primaries, flew to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention Monday, to be his coronation as the party's presidential nominee. 

Throughout his campaign, Trump has touted "The Art of the Deal" as proof of his toughness and negotiating finesse, the evidence behind his oft-repeated argument that he can make the best deals for the country.

Schwartz told The New Yorker he wrote most of the book and romanticized both Trump's personality and business savvy, making him appear to be driven by a love of deal making, rather than financial gain.

In the interview, Schwartz said if he were to write "The Art of the Deal" today, he would title it, "The Sociopath."

Trump also spoke to The New Yorker for the story, saying Schwartz was probably speaking out "for the publicity" and calling him disloyal.

"He owes a lot to me. I helped him when he didn't have two cents in his pocket. It's great disloyalty. I guess he thinks it's good for him-but he'll find out it's not good for him," Trump said in the article.



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Cardinals Crush Padres 10-2

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The Padres bullpen had a case of the Mondays. 

So did Wil Myers, Derek Norris and Ryan Schimpf thanks to San Diego native Mike Leake.

It all added up to a 10-2 loss in Saint Louis as San Diego opened its 10-game road trip in disappointing fashion.

The player of the game was Leake. The Fallbrook high school alum racked up 11 strikeouts for the Redbirds and only allowed one run over six innings of work.

Myers, Norris and Schimpf struggled mightily against the right-hander with the Padres first baseman striking out four times for a golden sombrero. Schimpf and Norris were each punched out three times.

Matt Kemp helped the Friars set a franchise-record when he blasted his 19th home run of the season in the fourth inning. It’s the 16th consecutive game that at least one Padre has hit a homer.

San Diego took that 1-0 lead into the fifth but Cardinals slugger Matt Holiday gave the home team the lead with a two-run single. 

Saint Louis then put four more on the board against Padres starter Christian Friedrich in the sixth, highlighted by a two-run double by Matt Adams.

After Friedrich was bounced from the game, it got worse.

Basically, every pitcher that took the mound with a “SD” on his jersey gave up at least one run. 

Carlos Villanueva was tagged for two runs in the dicey sixth frame. 

Jose Dominguez gave up a pair of home runs in the seventh, and Matt Thornton allowed a solo shot by Steven Piscotty to close out an ugly box score for the San Diego pitching staff.

Former Padres infielder Jedd Gyorko added three hits, including a solo homer in the seventh inning. Gyorko is batting .252 with Saint Louis after popping his eighth long ball of the year.

Friars third baseman Yangervis Solarte collected a double, a single and a stolen base, raising his batting average to .295 in the process.

Colin Rea opposes Carlos Martinez on Tuesday. Martinez has the second lowest earned run average (1.49) in MLB since May 30th. First pitch is slated for 5:15 p.m.



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Omarosa Named Trump's Director of African-American Outreach

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Donald Trump has reached out to a former contestant on his NBC show "The Apprentice" to help his campaign make inroads in the African-American community, where the GOP candidate suffers overwhelmingly negatively poll numbers.

Omarosa Manigault, who was dubbed by Jet magazine the "woman America loved to hate" on the show's first season in 2004 and has since become a campaign surrogate for Trump, announced Monday on MSNBC that she was appointed the director of African-American outreach for the Trump campaign.

A July Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows Trump has zero percent support from the African American communities in Pennsylvania and Ohio, Manigult's home state. The poll shows Hillary Clinton as having 88 percent support among African American voters in Ohio and 91 percent in Pennsylvania.

Still, Manigult said her reality is that she is surrounded by African-Americans who support Trump's vision.

"I just spent an amazing weekend with African-Americans for Trump, about 300 of them," she said. "I'm just wondering who they called, because those numbers would be flawed according to the people who have come out to support at an amazing faith based service yesterday, with African Americans who support Donald Trump."

Speaking as the Republican National Convention began, the former reality TV star said Trump will help improve the economic conditions of the country's African-American communities.

Manigault spotlighted her hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, where she said the local African-American community is experiencing its highest rate of unemployment after seven years of a Democratic White House.

Asked why she thinks Trump has the temperament to lead the country, especially as the nation struggles to heal racial divisiveness, Manigault said she knows he can be an effective leader as president after knowing him for 13 years.

"I know his heart, I know the person that he is," she said. "I know what he can do in this roll to lead this country to a better better place."

Manigault was fired after the ninth week of "The Apprentice." She later appeared on other reality shows including "Fear Factor" on NBC and "Girls Behaving Badly" on Oxygen. She also returned to compete in "Celebrity Apprentice" and "Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars."



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Guerrero's Purchase Was Normal: Store Clerk

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A store clerk who spoke face to face with the suspect in the series of homeless murders 15 minutes before the first killing told his story exclusively to NBC 7.

The clerk unwittingly sold a gas can, gas and the lighter that police said was used in the first of five attacks on sleeping homeless men.

Jon David Guerrero, 39, arrested Friday morning will face three counts of first degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of arson. 

Angelo de Nardo, 53, was brutally murdered and set on fire just two blocks from the Shell station on Clairemont Drive where Elliott works.

Helping catch a suspected serial killer is not exactly in the store clerk handbook, but it’s a responsibility Elliot said he did not shy away from.

“Unless he has an evil twin out there, then they got the right guy,” Elliott told NBC 7.

"Elliott", still wanting to keep his real name a secret, thought back on the few minutes he saw the suspected serial killer.

“People run out of gas. Their gauges don't work, they buy gas can, gas and walk up to their cars . It was just a normal transaction,” Elliott said.

Fifteen minutes before the burning body of Angelo DeNardo was discovered, police said Guerrero had been inside the convenience store buying supplies to light a fire.

This surveillance video shows the suspect tapping his right hand nervously.

Elliott told NBC 7 Guerrero was talking very fast and he even made a joke about it.

“Normal people would just laugh at it but he was serious. So I'm thinking forget about this guy and just get him out of the store as soon as possible."

Elliott didn't realize how serious the incident was until two more homeless men were attacked and police came looking for the security video.

“Somebody out there is crazy killing homeless people, homeless people. They lost their homes, probably they have nowhere to go now they don't deserve to live? It's not right,” Elliott said.

Anthony Padgett was arrested in the case before his release. He had similar features as the suspect in the surveillance video. Padgett had served four years in prison for setting his homeless friend on fire.

“I was excited and I looked and I said 'oh my God that is not the guy I sold the gas can to,'" Elliott said.

The fuzzy surveillance video was not enough. Homicide investigators returned to Elliott for a description of the suspect to draw up a composite sketch. After three hours with a police sketch artist, the results even made Elliott question his memory.

“This is ridiculous and when I looked at it, I said it looked like the guy that I saw," Elliott said.

The sketch proved affective. In less than 48 hours of its release, a San Diego police officer spotted suspect Jon David Guerrero on a bicycle and made the arrest.

“I just did whatever anybody else would do . Again I'm not taking any credit but at the same time I was happy,” Elliott said.

Elliott giving all the credit to San Diego Police. praising investigators for working around the clock and as he puts it, doing an amazing job.


Strangers Save Driver

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When Bryan Ellul captured dramatic footage of a Metra train slamming into a truck in a Chicago suburb, he knew he could have been filming a tragic moment. But Ellul is instead being hailed a hero because just moments before he hit record, he helped pull the driver to safety.

"I had no other reaction but to go and help," Ellul said. "No other thought crossed my mind."

Around 7:30 p.m. Friday, Ellul and other witnesses rushed to the scene where a truck was stalled, unmoving as the train approached the intersection in suburban New Lenox, close to the town’s Metra station.

"I don’t know what kind of condition he was in, we didn’t know," he said. "We all approached knowing that there was a vehicle on the railroad tracks and something needed to happen."

Ellul and other good Samaritans ran to the truck and pulled the driver out, the sound of the approaching train echoing in the distance.

"We pulled the gentleman from the vehicle and gave him to medic and we could see the train coming at that point," he recalled.

Metra said the train that hit the vehicle was an equipment train and had no passengers on board. It remains unclear why or how the driver became stuck on the tracks, but Ellul said he’s just happy witnesses were able to save his life.

"Some complete strangers saw somebody that needed help and we all stopped to help somebody we didn’t know," he said.

The driver's identity and his condition were not immediately known Monday. 



Photo Credit: Bryan Ellul/NBC Chicago

Hillary Clinton Meets Family of Philando Castile

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Hillary Clinton said Monday she had met with the family of Philando Castile, the 32-year-old cafeteria worker who was shot and killed by a cop during a traffic stop in a St. Paul, Minnesota, suburb.

She described them as courageous, NBC News reported, and told the American Federation of Teachers convention in Minneapolis that the country had been "confronted with tragedy too many times recently."

"We cannot let this madness continue," she said. "This violence cannot stand."

She also praised the work of police officers in keeping communities safe, turning to the ambush killings of cops in Dallas, Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.



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Clinton, Trump Tied Ahead of GOP Convention: Poll

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are virtually tied in the polls as the Republican National Convention kicks off, according to a new NBC NewsSurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.

Clinton has 46 percent support and Trump 45 percent, according to the survey of 9,436 adults who say they are registered to vote.

In a four-way general election scenario, Clinton has the backing of 39 percent, Trump 40 percent, Libertarian Gary Johnson 10 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein 5 percent.

Half of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters think the GOP is divided now, but will unite by November. But nearly four in 10 think the party will still be divided in November.

The poll was conducted online from July 11 to July 17 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.4 percentage points.



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SWAT Standoff in Downtown San Diego Causes Traffic Delays

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A woman was taken into custody after keeping SWAT officers at bay in a standoff in the Gaslamp District on Monday morning.

The standoff in downtown San Diego caused traffic delays and trolley service to stop on Monday morning starting at 5:30 a.m., but congestion appeared to be cleared by mid-morning.

At about 5:30 a.m., police received a report of a woman possibly armed inside the Plaza Hotel the 1000 block of Fourth Avenue. The woman would not surrender to officers who responded, triggering a SWAT standoff, police said.

A Sig Alert was issued for the area between B Street and Broadway on Fourth Avenue in the Gaslamp District.

MTS trolley service was also stopped on C Street.

The woman's boyfriend was in the hotel room with her and managed to wrestle the gun away from her, police said.

No one was hurt.



Photo Credit: Angelos Papazis

San Diego Newborn Dies of Whooping Cough

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A 5-week-old baby has died from whooping cough, San Diego County health officials said Monday.

The newborn, who was otherwise healthy, died July 15 from the disease, which is also referred to as pertussis. It’s the first infant death from whooping cough in San Diego since 2010 and the second this year in the state, officials said.

Further details on the baby's death weren't revealed.

Health officials said it’s critical that pregnant women and people who come into close contact with infants get vaccinated to protect against whooping cough.

Newborns are extremely susceptible to whooping cough because they are too young to be fully vaccinated.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all young children receive five doses of DTaP by kindergarten and all students entering seventh grade need proof of a whooping cough booster immunization.

In addition, a Tdap booster is recommended for pregnant women during their third trimester.

For more information on whooping cough and vaccinations, call the San Diego Health and Human Services Agency's immunization branch at 866-358-2966.

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