The original draft of Melania Trump's Republican National Convention speech did not include the section that appears to have been lifted from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech, according to documents obtained exclusively by NBC News.

The Trump campaign has shifted its story about the speech a few times, keeping the matter alive well into the second night of convention festivities.

But the documents, including the original draft and corroborating emails, obtained by NBC News, suggest the passage in question originated within the Trump campaign, and raises new questions for the GOP nominee's top aides, who spent much of Tuesday deflecting blame and insisting there was nothing wrong with Melania Trump's speech.

The campaign repeatedly refused to identify who, if anyone, helped her craft the speech, though multiple sources identified one Manafort aide who apparently signed off on the final text.

An Oakland, California, company dedicated to rooting out plagiarism was hopping on Tuesday, hours after Melania Trump's speech to the Republican National Convention raised questions about what it took from Michelle Obama's speech in 2008.

Turnitin spokesman Chris Harrick popped both speeches into his company's anti-plagiarism algorithm at NBC Bay Area's request and found that six percent of Trump's speech to the convention on Monday in Cleveland, matched the first lady's eight years ago. Trump used 23 of the same words that Obama did in sequence, the text analysis company found.

"I won't answer what percentage counts as plagiarism or not," Harrick said, "but our mission is to show that writing with integrity matters."

Comparisons of the two speeches flooded the news and social media near midnight, as the convention drew to a close, on Monday. On Tuesday, members of the Trump team defended Trump or, like campaign manager Paul Manafort, denied there was any plagiarism at all.

Trying to tamp down the controversy, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on NBC's "Today" show that "93 percent of the speech is completely different" from the speech Obama delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He did not explain how he arrived at the 93 percent figure, though it was remarkably similar to the Turnitin analysis.

To put Monday's incident in context, Harrick gave this example: Say a student were asked to turn in a 1,000-word poem and wrote every word herself, except for the first line of "To be or not to be, that is the question?" Isn't that cheating? Harrick asked rhetorically.

That said, scientists often use the exact same words to explain something because those are the only words that can be used to describe a phenomenon like genome sequencing, Harrick said. His company has even come up with a plagiarism spectrum, from "cloning" exact words and phrases to "find and replacing" words, which Trump did, to retweeting without sourcing.

Journalists weren't the only ones wanting to see the similarities between the two speeches. Harrick said he estimates "hundreds" of his company's clients, mostly professors and universities, were using the algorithm to see the same thing on Tuesday.

Turnitin's computer program found that Trump copied about two dozen words word-for-word from Obama's speech eight years ago.

Trump said on Monday: ..and we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations 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."

Obama said in 2008: "...and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children – and all children in this nation – to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

There were other incidents in which Trump's speech kept some of the same wording as Obama's.

Harrick said this is the biggest question of plagiarism Turnitin has ever been asked to decipher since the company was founded in 1998. And Harrick said the company is hoping take this 15 minutes of a teachable moment to impress what copying can do to prevent people from doing it in the future.

"Think for yourself," he said. "Or you'll run into problems down the road."

A part of Donald Trump Jr.'s speech during the Republican National Convention was a near-exact repetition of a small part of an American Conservative article written by F.H. Buckley, titled "Trump vs. the New Class," NBC News reported.

"Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class. Now they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-Era Department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers," Trump's son said in his speech Tuesday night.

The line in Buckley's article reads, "Our schools and universities are like the old Soviet department stores whose mission was to serve the interests of the sales clerks and not the customers."

Buckley, who helped write Trump Jr.'s speech, quickly sought to stop any claims of plagiarism, tweeting, "Except it wasn't stealing..."

This latest distraction comes after Melania Trump delivered a speech on Monday, which appeared to be plagiarized from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic convention speech.

Some Balboa Park visitors are upset because they say Pokemon Go players are leaving behind litter and damaging the park’s Inez Grant Memorial Rose Garden.

The wildly popular cellphone game has drawn an uptick of visitors to San Diego’s iconic park. But not everyone is happy about that, saying the players are trampling through the award-winning roses.

One visitor emailed NBC 7, saying he’s seen empty beer cans, cigarette butts and damaged roses after late-night Pokemon play.

“Pokemon Go players literally stay till 3 or even 4 a.m. to play this game,” Paul Punla said in an email.

Players flock to Balboa Park because it’s a popular spot and has numerous “Pokestops,” or stops where you can catch the game’s monsters.

So is it a good or bad thing for the park? Officials appear to enjoy the sudden increase in people, even after hours. In posts on Twitter and Facebook, the park has said it has broadened its diversity of visitors.

“Love it or not, it’s bringing new ways to visit the park to a wide spectrum of users,” a post to Balboa Park’s Facebook page read on July 12.

A spokeswoman for the City of San Diego said Tuesday that park maintenance crews hadn't noticed an increase in littering specifically tied to Pokemon play.

She said the summers months normally seen an influx in park littering because of the larger crowds.

Volunteers, however, spotted park guests loitering around the rose bushes.

Guests are being encouraged to obey park signs, stay on the sidewalk and avoid walking through the gardens.

Later, in a tweet on Tuesday afternoon, Balboa Park asked followers to be respecful of "the people and land around you."

In comments on NBC 7's Facebook page, several park visitors said they hadn't seen any damage to rose bushes and that Pokemon players were acting respectful of park property.

FactCheck.org is a non-partisan non-profit organization that will hold candidates and key figures accountable during the 2016 presidential campaign. FactCheck.org will check facts of of speeches, advertisements and more for NBC.

CLEVELAND — The theme of the second night of the Republican convention was “Make America Work Again,” but the false and misleading claims we flagged touched on topics beyond the economy and jobs:

• Donald Trump Jr. distorted Clinton’s gun control proposal, claiming, as his father did, that she wants to “take away Americans’ guns.” Clinton’s gun control proposal doesn’t call for taking away guns.
• Two speakers claimed that Clinton paid women less than men in her Senate office. That’s true if one includes only workers who worked for Clinton full-time for a full year, but it’s not accurate if including workers who worked part of the year or took unpaid leaves of absences.
• Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey both mentioned Clinton’s “what difference does it make” quote on Benghazi, but left out the context of that remark. Clinton didn’t say that the loss of life in Benghazi didn’t make a difference.
• Sens. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia took Clinton’s words on coal-mining jobs out of context. Capito said Clinton “promised to devastate communities and families across coal country.” But Clinton said she wants to bring renewable energy jobs to coal country to replace lost coal jobs.
• Capito used a one-sided report and back-of-the-envelope calculation to claim that “the burden of government regulations in this country amounts to $15,000 a household.” And she exaggerated the number of coal mining jobs that have been lost since 2011, putting the figure at 60,000, when it’s 36,700.
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrongly said that Clinton was for the Keystone XL pipeline before she was against it. She did not take a position until she opposed the pipeline in 2015.
• Capito also said the Obama “economic agenda” has led to “the lowest workforce participation in decades,” but the rate began its decline in the late 1990s and is due mainly to baby boomers retiring and other demographic factors. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, is below the historical norm.
• Sen. Jeff Sessions claimed that “respect for America has fallen,” but the U.S. is viewed more favorably in many countries now than it was before President Obama took office.
• Donald Trump Jr. also wrongly said that his father “funded his entire primary run out of his own pocket.” Trump provided about 73 percent of the funding, but not all of it.

Note to Readers

• Trump Named GOP Nominee, Completing Stunning Climb

Our managing editor, Lori Robertson, is on the scene in Cleveland. This story was written with the help of the entire staff, based in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Next week, we will dispatch our staffers in Philadelphia for the Democratic convention. We intend to vet the major speeches at both conventions for factual accuracy, applying the same standards to both.

Analysis

Distorting Clinton’s Gun Stance

Donald Trump Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps in distorting the facts on Clinton’s gun control proposals. He claimed that Clinton would “take away Americans’ guns,” but she doesn’t propose a ban on all guns or taking away guns.

Trump Jr.: She says she’ll issue executive orders to take away Americans’ guns. She wants to appoint judges that will abolish the Second Amendment.

Trump’s language was similar to that of his father, who has claimed that “Clinton wants to take your guns away and she wants to abolish the Second Amendment.” As we’ve written before, her gun control proposal calls for restrictions, such as a ban on semi-automatic “assault weapons” and expanded background checks, but she doesn’t propose taking away guns.

Her gun violence prevention proposal, which is on her campaign website, calls for expanding background checks to some private sales online and at gun shows, changing the federal law that allows gun buyers to purchase a gun if a background check remains incomplete after three days, and reinstating a ban on certain semi-automatic “assault weapons” that expired in 2004. That law didn’t ban any guns in circulation before it took effect.

As for “abolish[ing] the Second Amendment,” that claim is likely based on Clinton’s comment in a 2015 speech that “the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment, and I am going to make that case every chance I get.” But that comment was about a specific case, the 2008 Supreme Court ruling that found the handgun ban in Washington, D.C., unconstitutional. The conservative Washington Free Beacon wrote that Clinton “appeared to be criticizing” that ruling, and her campaign confirmed to us that she was referring to that case.

Campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin said Clinton “believes Heller was wrongly decided in that cities and states should have the power to craft common sense laws to keep their residents safe.”

In her own words, in April, Clinton talked about protecting the gun rights of lawful gun owners: “There is a Second Amendment, there are constitutional rights. We aren’t interested in taking away guns of lawful, responsible gun owners.”

Gender Pay in Clinton’s Senate Office

Two featured speakers at the convention claimed that Clinton paid women less than men in her Senate office. That’s true if one includes only workers who worked for Clinton full-time for a full year, but it’s not accurate if one also includes workers who only worked part of the year, or who took brief unpaid leaves of absences.

Annual salary data provided to us by the Clinton campaign show median salaries for men and women in Clinton’s office were virtually identical if one included employees who only worked part of the year.

The issue of pay disparity in Clinton’s Senate office was first raised at the convention by Sharon Day, co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

Day: She [Clinton] repeatedly plays the gender card. In fact, she boasts, “Deal me in.” Well Mrs. Clinton, consider yourself dealt in. Because as a senator you paid women less than the men in your office.

Later in the night, Kimberlin Brown, an actress best known for her roles on two soap operas, said that in “then Senator Clinton’s office … men have been paid better than women.”

We took an in-depth look at this issue back in April 2015 when RNC Chairman Reince Priebus made a similar claim. Those attacking Clinton base their claims of gender pay disparity on a report by the Washington Free Beacon of publicly available expense reports submitted biannually to the secretary of the Senate. Looking at median salaries among full-time, year-round employees, the Free Beacon concluded that women working in Clinton’s Senate office were paid 72 cents for each dollar paid to men.

The Clinton campaign provided FactCheck.org a list of the names, titles and annual salaries of every full-time person employed in Clinton’s Senate office between 2002 and 2008. Those data show the median salary for men and women to be the same at $40,000. The data also show Clinton hired roughly twice as many women as men.

The Clinton list of salaries included full-time workers who may have worked only part of the year, or who took brief unpaid leaves of absence. Experts told us that Clinton’s methodology was reasonable, because Senate staffers often toggle between Senate and campaign work. But experts also told us the Free Beacon methodology was legitimate, too.

“There are many different ways to measure these things and you will get slightly different answers,” Eileen Patten, a research analyst at the Pew Research Center, told us last year. “It’s not that either data set is flawed. They just show different things.”

Context Makes a Difference

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson led his speech with an oft-used quote from Hillary Clinton on the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks, but he left out the full context.

Johnson: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” I am the guy that got under her skin and provoked that infamous response from Hillary Clinton by asking a pretty simple question: “Why didn’t you just pick up the phone and call the survivors?”

Former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey was more egregious in misrepresenting Clinton’s quote, saying: “So I guess about her emails we’re soon gonna hear the same infamous question that we heard about the death of four Americans in Benghazi, what difference at this point does it make?” Clinton didn’t say that the deaths didn’t make a difference.

Johnson’s initial question in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Jan. 23, 2013, was about ascertaining whether the attack on the diplomatic facilities in Benghazi started “spontaneously” in response to an anti-Muslim video on the internet, as the Obama administration initially said, or whether it was a terrorist attack, which the administration later acknowledged. (See our latest “Benghazi Timeline” story for more on that.)

Johnson asked: “But, Madame Secretary, do you disagree with me that a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened wouldn’t have ascertained immediately that there was no protest? That was a piece of information that could have been easily, easily obtained?”

Clinton said she didn’t want to “interfere” with the FBI or State Department investigations. After some back-and-forth, she made the “what difference does it make” comment, saying, “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.”

Republicans, like Mukasey, have portrayed the remarks as being uncaring toward the lives lost that night. Johnson himself went on to describe in his speech several victims of terrorists attacks, saying “it made a difference” to them. But Clinton’s full remarks indicate she was concerned about the lives lost.

Here’s the fuller exchange between Johnson and Clinton:

Johnson: But, Madame Secretary, do you disagree with me that a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened wouldn’t have ascertained immediately that there was no protest? I mean, that was a piece of information that could have been easily, easily obtained?

Clinton: But, Senator, again—

Johnson: Within hours, if not days?

Clinton: Senator, you know, when you’re in these positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process going on, number one—

Johnson: I realize that’s a good excuse.

Clinton: Well, no, it’s the fact. Number two, I would recommend highly you read both what the ARB said about it and the classified ARB because, even today, there are questions being raised. Now, we have no doubt they were terrorists, they were militants, they attacked us, they killed our people. But what was going on and why they were doing what they were doing is still unknown —

Johnson: No, again, we were misled that there were supposedly protests and that something sprang out of that — an assault sprang out of that — and that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact, and the American people could have known that within days and they didn’t know that.

Clinton: With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. Now, honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get to the best information. The IC has a process, I understand, going with the other committees to explain how these talking points came out. But you know, to be clear, it is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we’ll figure out what was going on in the meantime.

Targeting Coal Miners?

Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia took Clinton’s words on coal-mining jobs out of context. Sullivan claimed that Clinton “promised” to “target” coal miners and oil drillers for “extinction.” Capito said Clinton “promised to devastate communities and families across coal country.”

Clinton has said she wants to “move away from coal,” but added, “we don’t want to forget those people.” She promised to bring renewable energy jobs to coal country to replace lost coal jobs.

Sullivan: We will put coal miners and oil drillers back to work, not target them for extinction as Hillary has promised.

Capito: Hillary Clinton has already promised to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. She wants to put thousands more Americans out of work. She has promised to devastate communities and families across coal country.

Sullivan and Capito were referring to Clinton’s much-criticized comments at a CNN town hall forum in March. Journalist Roland Martin asked Clinton to make her case for why “poor whites who live in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama” should vote for her and support her economic policies.

Her critics focused on a part of her response in which she said, “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” But she said more than that. Sullivan and Capito ignore her promise to create new jobs for communities hurt by the shift away from coal.

Clinton, March 13: Look, we have serious economic problems in many parts of our country. And Roland is absolutely right. Instead of dividing people the way Donald Trump does, let’s reunite around policies that will bring jobs and opportunities to all these underserved poor communities.

So for example, I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right, Tim?

And we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.

Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.

Clinton later apologized for her remark about putting coal miners out of work, explaining “what I said was totally out of context from what I meant.” As we wrote, former President Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife in Kentucky and elaborated on her point that renewable energy can create jobs in fossil fuel states (although he exaggerated the amount of electricity that Texas gets from wind energy).

Regulation Exaggeration

Capito used a one-sided report to claim that “the burden of government regulations in this country amounts to $15,000 a household.” The figure, oft-cited in conservative circles, is based on a conservative group’s admitted “back-of-the-envelope” calculation of estimated regulatory costs that does not include any potential savings.

Capito: Right now, the burden of government regulations in this country amounts to $15,000 a household. So let me ask you … a couple of questions — are you ready? Alright. Is burdening every household in America with a cost of $15,000 — worth more applause lines at campaign rallies? Is burdening every household in America with a cost of $15,000 — worth more campaign cash? Is burdening every household in America with a cost of $15,000 — worth a few more one-liners?

As we wrote in February 2015, the figure cited by Capito comes from an admitted “back-of-the-envelope” calculation from a report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a staunch opponent of government over-regulation. In the report, “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State,” author Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. calculates the 2013 cost of federal regulatory compliance at nearly $1.9 trillion. To arrive at the cost-per-family figure, that $1.9 trillion was simply divided by the number of American households. By that math, Crews argues, “each U.S. household ‘pays’ $14,974 annually in a hidden regulatory tax.”

The $1.9 trillion figure is based on the Office of Management and Budget’s annual reports to Congress on the benefits and costs of federal regulation. The problem is that the Competitive Enterprise report focused on the “costs” and ignored the “benefits” listed in those reports. The OMB typically makes the case that benefits exceed costs. For example, the White House argued in 2012 that regulations that have short-term costs often result in long-term savings. “In areas that include food and workplace safety, clean air, fuel economy, energy efficiency, and investor protection, well-designed regulations are preventing tens of thousands of premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses and accidents — and saving billions of dollars,” the report states.

While one can take issue with the OMB’s cost-benefit analyses, to highlight the costs while ignoring benefits tells only half the story.

Capito also exaggerated when she claimed that Obama’s “recklessness” had deprived more than 60,000 coal workers of their jobs since 2011.

Capito: His recklessness has cost more than 60,000 — 60,000 — coal workers their jobs since 2011.

To be sure, there has been a 41 percent decline in coal mining jobs since the end of 2011, and the administration’s policies favoring cleaner sources of energy and discouraging the burning of coal have played a role. But so have competing energy sources, such as natural gas, and technology, and according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total number of coal mining jobs lost during that period is under 36,700 — well below the figure Capito cited.

Clinton’s Position on Keystone

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Hillary Clinton backed the Keystone XL pipeline before she came out against it. She said in 2010 that the administration was “inclined” to support the project, but that it was still under review. Clinton never took an official position until 2015, when she opposed it.

McConnell: Hillary has changed her position on so many times, it’s impossible to tell where the conviction ends and the ambition begins. … Once a backer of the Keystone pipeline, last year she opposed it.

The claim that Clinton backed the Keystone XL pipeline is based on an answer she gave during a community forum at the Commonwealth Club in 2010.

Clinton was asked about the Alberta Clipper, a different pipeline project. But the answer she gave was about the Keystone XL pipeline, which would be built by TransCanada Corp. and would run 1,179 miles from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

At the time, Clinton said that the administration was “inclined” to approve the Keystone proposal, but she stopped short of fully embracing it, saying that “a final decision” had not been made because the administration had not completed its analysis.

Question, Oct. 15, 2010: Another international issue that you signed in on last year was the Alberta Clipper, a pipeline from Alberta that brings tar sands, oil sands directly into Wisconsin to the U.S. Midwest. This is some of the dirtiest fuel in the world. And how can the U.S. be saying climate change is a priority when we’re mainlining some of the dirtiest fuel that exists. (Applause.)

Clinton: Well, there hasn’t been a final decision made. It is —

Question: Are you willing to reconsider it?

Clinton: Probably not. (Laughter.) And we — but we haven’t finish all of the analysis. So as I say, we’ve not yet signed off on it. But we are inclined to do so and we are for several reasons — going back to one of your original questions — we’re either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. And until we can get our act together as a country and figure out that clean, renewable energy is in both our economic interests and the interests of our planet — (applause) — I mean, I don’t think it will come as a surprise to anyone how deeply disappointed the president and I are about our inability to get the kind of legislation through the Senate that the United States was seeking.

For years after those comments, Clinton declined to publicly take a position on the Keystone pipeline until September 2015, during a campaign event in Iowa, when she opposed it.

Clinton, Sept. 22, 2015: As I said, you know, I was in a unique position having been secretary of state, having started this process and not wanting to, you know, interfere with the ongoing decision making that both the president and Secretary [John] Kerry have to do in order to make whatever the final decision might be. So, I thought this would be decided by now and therefore I could tell you whether I agreed or I disagreed. But it hasn’t been decided, and I feel now I’ve got a responsibility to you and other voters who ask me about this. And I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is — a distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change. And, unfortunately, from my perspective, one that interferes with our ability to move forward to deal with all the other issues. Therefore, I oppose it. And I oppose it because I don’t think, I don’t think it’s in the best interest of what we need to do to combat climate change.

As Clinton said during the first Democratic presidential debate in October 2015: “I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone.”

Labor Participation

Capito also said Clinton would “double down on an [Obama] economic agenda — that’s led to the lowest workforce participation in decades.”

But Obama’s “economic agenda” hasn’t caused the decline in the labor force participation rate, which actually started going down in the late 1990s, a full decade before he took office. Furthermore, the decline is due mainly to millions of baby boomers reaching retirement age and other demographic factors.

Capito didn’t mention that the rate of joblessness among those who want work and are looking for it is now 4.9 percent — well below the historical norm. Meanwhile the number of job openings has more than doubled under Obama, to the highest number in the more than 15 years the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been tracking it.

No Respect?

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said that “respect for America has fallen. Crime is rising.” Neither statement is true.

As we’ve written before, the U.S. is viewed more favorably now than it was before Obama took office in 2009. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project’s June 2016 update, the percentage of those with favorable views of the U.S. increased in countries such as Japan, Italy, France, Britain, Germany and China. Among the few countries in which the U.S. favorable rating has slipped is Russia, where U.S. favorability plunged to 15 percent in 2015, down 31 percentage points from 2008.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a similar claim about crime rates in a July 11 speech in Virginia Beach. As we wrote then, the violent crime rate is lower now than it has been since 1970. The rate has been on a steady decline since it peaked at 758.2 in 1991. It was less than half that, 365.5 in 2014. (The FBI describes its data as “estimated,” and as we mentioned it comes from voluntary reports from local law enforcement agencies. The “rate” is the number of offenses per 100,000 people.)

The murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate nationwide was 4.5 in 2014, the lowest point since at least the early 1960s, when the rate dipped as low as 4.6. (Note the numbers do not include lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.)

Trump’s Self-funding

Donald Trump Jr. said that his father “funded his entire primary run out of his own pocket.” Trump provided most of the funding for his primary campaign, but not all of it.

Trump Jr.: A president not beholden to special interests, foreign and domestic, and one who funded his entire primary run out of his own pocket just to prove it.

On May 26, CNN reported that Trump had reached the required number of delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. And as of May 31, Trump’s campaign had raised nearly $65 million, according to funding records from the Federal Election Commission.

Trump contributed $395,508 directly to his campaign and loaned it another $45.7 million. But the Trump campaign spent more than $63.2 million through the end of May, according to FEC records.

The rest of the money the campaign spent came from individual donations from campaign contributors. And as of the end of May, the campaign had received a total of nearly $17.1 million from donors other than Trump.

So, Trump funded roughly 73 percent of his primary campaign through contributions and loans.

— Lori Robertson, with Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Robert Farley and D’Angelo Gore

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On the second night of the Republican National Convention, GOP leaders used their disdain for Hillary Clinton as their case for a Donald Trump presidency, NBC News reported. 

The presumptive Democratic nominee on Tuesday night, perhaps even more than Trump, was again the star of the convention even as the night was tentatively themed "Make America Work Again" and was meant to focus on the economy.

Few speakers addressed the topic of jobs, using their time on the podium to litigate a host of other issues against Clinton. The former secretary of state provided a desperately needed change of subject for a party bitterly divided over its own nominee's competence, ethics, and policy acumen.

In the best-received speech of the evening, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn't discuss the economy at all. He devoted his remarks to "prosecuting" Clinton's foreign policy record point by point for the audience, who shouted "guilty!" at the individual charges.

An 11-year-old girl home alone when a robber broke into her house in Escondido Tuesday hid quietly in a closet and sent text messages to her mother reporting there was a stranger lurking inside, police confirmed.

The Escondido Police Department (EPD) said the young girl was at her home in the 2300 block of Live Oak Road just after 10:30 a.m. when an unknown man allegedly entered the residence.

Police said the girl saw the suspect but he did not see her. She quickly made her way into a closet and texted her mother to say someone was in their house. She stayed in there until the suspect was gone.

The girl’s mother alerted police. When officers arrived, they searched the home but could not immediately locate a suspect or suspects.

The EPD said the girl was unharmed.

The suspect was described as a 6-foot-tall man with a buzz-style haircut who was wearing baggy jeans. He left the home in a newer model extra cab truck that had a chrome diamond-plated tool box on it, police said.

The incident is under investigation.

Police said a couple of the rooms inside the family's home were ransacked, although it is unclear, at this point, what was taken from the home.

Investigators said the suspect forced entry into the house through the garage door.

Police said there was a report of a possible weapon involved in the robbery, but investigators could not confirm if the suspect who entered the home was armed with a weapon or if a firearm was taken from the residence in the robbery.

Authorities released the terrifying 911 call the mother had to make. NBC 7 San Diego typically does not play 911 calls, but this one provides a lot of information about what was going on at the time. 

"Someone is robbing the house, I said, 'can you hear somone in the house?'", the mother told dispatchers.

On the call, the mother relayed what her daughter told her. 

"And then I said can you get out? And she said, 'so scared, no (inaudible),' I said, 'where are you, hide.' 'I'm in the closet, help,'" the mother told dispatchers. 

Officers remained at the scene for several hours collecting fingerprints and swabbing for DNA evidence, per standard procedure, the EPD said.

A law enforcement helicopter scoured the neighborhood in search of the suspect to no avail. Police officers also checked neighboring homes to see if there had been any other similar break-ins and searched the area for witnesses.

A man accused in a series of attacks on homeless men while they slept could face the death penalty, according to San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey. 

Jon David Guerrero, 39, of San Diego is charged with three counts of first degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of arson.

The allegations include a weapon was used in all crimes. There is also a special circumstance in that more than one murder occurred in a series, so he could face the death penalty.

He was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday for his arraignment, but Guerrero's public defender asked for a two week continuance because he was not prepared to proceed to trial. The judge granted the request. 

Guerrero is represented by public defender Danesh Tandon, who said after court that San Diego deserves to know the whole story.  

"This story started well before July 3 when the first lost of life happened," he said. 

A friend of the accused serial killer said Guerrero had a "short fuse" and that he was becoming increasingly concerned about the number of homeless coming to San Diego from out-of-state because of the nice summer weather. 

"He was kind of laid back, but it seemed like he had a little bit of a short fuse," said Dameon Ditto. "Not to say that I would think he would ever do anything like what he's been accused (of)."

Guerrero is accused in five attacks that began July 3, San Diego Police said, and authorities believe he acted alone. Guerrero was taken into custody near the most recent attack at 18th and C Street just after 4:30 a.m. Friday. He was booked into the San Diego Central Jail in downtown on Friday.

Police say physical evidence found at the scenes and in Guerrero's apartment links all attacks.

Three of the men attacked died from their injuries. 

Two victims initially who were initially taken to the hospital in critical condition are expected to survive, Harvey revealed Tuesday. San Diego Police had initially said one of the victims would survive and is expected to testify. 

At the hearing, the Judge ordered news outlets to blur the defendant's face. NBC7 and another news organization requested to be heard by the court to oppose that decision, but were not granted the request to argue against the order.

Harvey said if convicted, Guerrero faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. He also faces maximum exposure. He could face the death penalty. 

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s lots and lots of public transportation for Comic-Con. 

With San Diego Comic-Con International 2016 taking over downtown San Diego this week, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) will increase service on all trolley lines and some bus routes Wednesday through Sunday so attendees can get in and out of the pop culture convention at superhero speed.

In anticipation of large crowds, MTS says the Green, Orange and UC San Diego Blue trolley lines will depart all stations every 15 minutes. During peak travel times, train frequency will increase to 7.5 minutes on the Green and UC San Diego Blue lines. Each day during Comic-Con, the last trolley will depart downtown San Diego just after midnight.

If you’re riding the trolley to Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center, MTS says the Green Line’s Convention Center and Gaslamp Quarter Trolley Stations provide the most direct access to the heart of the Comic-Con action.

Meanwhile, trolley stations with ample free parking spots include:

• Qualcomm Stadium (Green Line): 5,000 free parking spots
• Palm Avenue Station (UC San Diego Blue Line): 499 free parking spots
• El Cajon Transit Center (Green/Orange lines): 469 free parking spots
• Old Town Transit Center (Green Line): 412 free parking spots
• Bayfront/E Street Station (UC San Diego Blue Line): 267 free parking spots
• Massachusetts Avenue Station (Orange Line): 241 free parking spots

Full details on MTS’ expanded service during Comic-Con can be seen here. 

MTS says the Rapid 215 and 235 bus routes are also good options for getting to the San Diego Convention Center. Rapid 215 operates daily, every 10 to 15 minutes, from San Diego State University to downtown San Diego. Rapid 235 operates daily, every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 30 minutes on weekends, from Escondido to downtown San Diego.

In addition to expanded service, MTS also plans to offer mobile ticketing on all trolley lines and Rapid 215 and 235 so passengers can buy and save transit passes on their smartphones. This “mTicket” option can also save Comic-Con attendees time during the busy weekend, according to MTS.

Mobile tickets for one, two, three, four or five days are available for $5.50, $10, $13, $16 and $20, respectively. Click here for more info on mTickets.

Finally, fanboys and fangirls who enjoy a good keepsake may find this fun: MTS says it has printed a limited quantity of commemorative Comic-Con day passes for those using two-day to five-day trolley or bus passes.

These passes can be purchased at select ticket booths or at the MTS Transit Store at the 12th & Imperial Transit Center.

The parents of a Nebraska toddler killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World last month say they will not pursue a lawsuit against the company as they focus their attention on healing. 

In a statement Wednesday, Matt Graves said he and his wife are "broken" and that the pain gets worse each day. 

"We will forever struggle to comprehend why this happened to our sweet baby, Lane," the Graves said. "We know that we can never have Lane back, and therefore, we intend to keep his spirit alive through the Lane Thomas Foundation. It is our hope that through the foundation we will be able to share with others the unimaginable love Lane etched in our hearts." 

In announcing their intent not to sue Disney, the Graves said they wanted to focus on the future health of their family. They asked for continued privacy. 

An animal described as being as long as 7 feet snatched the little boy as he waded in shallow water around nightfall June 14. The beach, located at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa across a lake from the Magic Kingdom, had "no swimming" signs but no warning about alligators. 

The company said it would add gator warnings after the tragedy. 

A statement by Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Wahler said the company also was conducting a "swift and thorough review of all of our processes and protocols." 

The company had no immediate comment on the Graves' statement Wednesday.

The City of San Diego may face a $4.5 million fine for allegedly failing to make sure construction sites within city boundaries did not pollute local streams and lagoons, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWCB) announced.

The RWCB proposed the penalty Tuesday, saying the city had lax erosion control from 2010 to 2015, allegedly affecting bodies of water from Los Penasquitos Lagoon north of San Diego all the way down to the Tijuana River Estuary, south of San Diego. 

“The San Diego Water Board put a lot of resources into collaborative, outcome-focused efforts to protect and restore areas like Los Peñasquitos Lagoon and Tijuana River Estuary,” said James Smith, San Diego Water Board assistant executive officer and prosecution team lead, in a statement. “Enforcement like this is the result of a major deviation from the expectations we had for those partnerships.”

The City of San Diego has an ordinance in place that requires erosion control at construction sites; it also specifies enforcement actions for violations. State regulations have been in place for more than 20 years.

“The Water Board expects the city’s commitment to water quality ordinances to be embraced more broadly by all city staff -- not just the planners who wrote them,” Smith said.

The alleged violations came to light when the Water Board was working with community partners and other officials to address a sediment problem affecting a salt marsh habitat. 

An investigation found certain city departments were allowing construction sites near the Los Penasquitos Lagoon to skirt erosion control requirements. 

Construction site erosion brings sediment downstream to local creeks and lagoons. The sediment can ruin habitat, create excessive tubidity, transport toxic pollutants and clog natural draining systems. 

A hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 12, 2016. The City can chose to pay the penalty, propose a settlement or supplemental environmental project or to contest the penalty. 

Bar-S Foods Company is recalling nearly 400,000 pounds of hot dogs and corn dogs due to possible listeria contamination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Oklahoma-based company issued the recall Tuesday for chicken and pork hot dogs and corn dogs produced July 10 through 13 and sold nationwide, the USDA said.

Recalled products include:

• 16-ounce packages of Bun Length Franks with a "use by" date of Oct. 11, 2016, and case code 209.
• 12-ounce packages of Classic Franks with package code 6338, "use by"date of Oct. 10, 2016, and case code 6405.
• 24-ounce cartons of Signature Pick 5 Corn Dogs with a "use by" date of April 6, 2017, and case code 6071.
• 42.72-ounce cartons of Classic Corn Dogs with "use by"dates of April 7-8, 2017, and case code 6396.
• 48-ounce cartons of Classic Corn Dogs with package code 14054, "use by" dates of April 6 and 9, 2017, and case code 14038.

Bar-S informed the Dallas office of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service of the precautionary recall Tuesday. The company is awaiting test results but cited "recurring Listeria species issues at the firm," according to the USDA. No illnesses have been reported.

Consumption of food contaminated with listeria monocytogenes can lead to listeriosis. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms.

The company is urging anyone who purchased these products to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.

More information is available by calling the Bar-S Foods Consumer Hotline at 1-888-965-6134.

A Good Samaritan risked his own life to save an unconscious woman in the water off Ocean Beach, according to lifeguards.

Lifeguards say a man who live nearby, identified only as Sean, jumped in to save the 51-year old woman after she was dragged off shore by a strong current.

Rescuers began pulling the woman out at approximately 8:20 p.m. Tuesday in the waters off Del Monte Avenue and Ocean Front Street. They strapped her safely to a back board and then slowly pulled her up the steep embankment.

According to lifeguards, the woman suffered life threatening injuries.

"His prime focus was just keeping here floating in the water," said Lt. John Sandmeyer, speaking of the Good Samaritan. "He wasn't going to, without fins, without a buoy or some flotations, he was not going to get her out on his own but he was doing a great job keeping her floating on the surface."

The woman was unconsciousness when she was pulled out of the water.She was taken to a hospial after regaining consciousness.

According to lifeguards, the woman was with a friend but she suffered a head injury and was unable to help her.

Investigators say it's unknown if the woman got into the water on her own or fell in.

No other information was immediately available.

A Spring Valley Recycling company has been ordered to pay more than $90,000 for not properly following procedures when buying used car parts from sellers.

A settlement was reached Tuesday in the case brought on by the San Diego County District Attorney’s Consumer Protection Unit.

Under the Business and Professions Code, recycling companies must collect vehicle identification numbers from sellers or gather information from the sellers on how exactly they got a hold of the parts. Companies must also wait three business days before paying sellers so that police have time to verify information given by the seller.

But according to the DA's Office, Legends Smelting and Recycling, Inc., did not comply with the procedures when it bought used catalytic converters from sellers. The recycling company also paid with post-dated checks in multiple purchases of dating back to 2012.

Catalytic converters remove pollutant gases from a car's exhaust system and turn them into less harmful ones.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Department launched an investigation of Legends after authorities nationwide started seeing an increase in catalytic converter thefts.

“Holding recyclers accountable to collect data mandated by law provides law enforcement with a necessary tool in catching thieves who steal catalytic converters,” District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said. “The law requires recyclers to collect vehicle identification numbers so police can match up theft reports to stolen property.”

Under the terms of the settlement, Legends will pay a $75,000 penalty for its infractions, as well as $9,857 and $5,600 to the Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office, respectively.

Donald J. Trump officially became the presidential nominee of the Republican Party on the second day of its convention in Cleveland on Tuesday -- as his children and the Republican leadership took the stage. Here are some of the night's top moments that you might have missed.

Trump Clinches the Nomination
Donald Trump locked up the Republican Party's presidential nomination on Tuesday just after 7 p.m. when his son, Donald Trump Jr., announced from the floor that the majority of New York's delegates were casting their vote for him.

"It is my honor to be able to throw Donald Trump over the top in the delegate count tonight with 89 delegates and another six for John Kasich," he said. "Congratulations Dad, we love you."

The younger Trump pledged that the campaign would put the solidly Democratic New York into play in the November election with support from areas that are not particularly conservative.

"It's not a campaign anymore," the younger Trump said. "It’s a movement. Speaking to real Americans, giving them a voice again."

The Stop Trump movement was stopped but not without embarrassment. Kasich has not endorsed Trump and the Ohio governor has refused to attend the convention in his home state.

Washington, D.C.'s delegation tried to award 10 votes to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and nine to Kasich in accordance with its primary results, but was turned back by convention officials. All of its votes went to Trump. On MSNBC, one of the Kasich delegates called the rule interpretation an outrage.

Alaska's delegation objected to the same rule by demanding a roll call vote. The request was denied -- and all of its delegates also went to Trump -- but the convention's speakers were delayed.

A Hello from New York
Donald Trump left Cleveland for New York City but returned to the convention remotely. He was proud to be the Republican nominee, he said.

"By the way, we are going to win the state of Ohio and also of course we are going to win the presidency," he said.

He promised to restore law and order and a strong border, to eliminate the Islamic State and to put the American people first.

Trump will be in Cleveland again on Wednesday with his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

Auditioning for Attorney General?
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor, told the audience that because the U.S. Justice Department had refused to prosecute Hillary Clinton, he would present the facts and let them sit as a jury of her peers.

"She fights for the wrong people," he said. "She never fights for us."

He called her the architect of the disastrous overthrow of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, an apologist for Nigeria's Boko Haram, which later abducted still-missing school girls, an awful judge of Syria President Bashar al-Assad and the inept negotiator of a nuclear arms deal with Iran, the worst in U.S. history.

Guilty or not guilty, he asked in what became a refrain. 

"Lock her up," the crowd chanted.

Clinton fired back on Twitter with a reference to the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal. 

"If you think Chris Christie can lecture anyone on ethics, we have a bridge to sell you," she wrote.

Family Trump

In addition to Donald Trump Jr.'s role in his father's nomination, he gave what some commentators called the best speech of the convention. He described his father as his mentor and his best friend, a man who never gives up, who changed the skyline of New York City.

"For my father, impossible is just the starting point," he said. "That's how he approaches business projects. That's how he approaches life."

He said his father had spent his career with regular Americans, pouring concrete and hanging sheetrock on construction sites, valuing their opinions as much or more than the graduates of Harvard University or Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

"We didn't learn from MBAs," the son said. "We learned from people who had doctorates in common sense."

Donald Trump's daughter, Tiffany Trump, called her father "a natural born encourager" whose "desire for excellence is contagious."

"He always helped me be the best version of myself by encouragement and by example," she said.

They spoke as fallout continued over Melania Trump's speech Monday night — a portion of which was nearly identical to one Michelle Obama gave in 2008. NBC News reported that the original draft of the speech did not include the disputed section.

The campaign denied there had been any plagiarism in the speech by Donald Trump's wife, and deflected questions about whether anyone should be fired. Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, accused Hillary Clinton of bringing attention to the accusations. But Donald Trump Jr. seemed to blame unidentified speechwriters and the former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who was pushed out in favor of Manafort, said Manafort should take responsibility.

Emilie Plesset contributed information to this article.

A resolution to raise money to build new fire stations failed to get enough votes at City Hall Tuesday. 

The bond would have included a $205 million tax increase that supporters say is needed to build new fire stations. The need for fire stations in San Diego has existed for years, but the City Council is at odds on how to fix the problem.

Councilwoman Marti Emerald was behind the resolution for a firehouse bond that would raise taxes to help build the stations.

"To make public safety a political football I think is unconscionable," Emerald said. "We have an ethical obligation as government, to provide for the safety and well being of the public."

Emerald says the City has known for too long about the need to cut down response times and build more fire stations, and she says now is the time to fix that.

But she isn't expecting the city council to all jump on board.

"I don't understand the opposition to it here on this council," Emerald said. "And I don't believe the council should be the one making the decision on whether or not we go forward with this plan. It's the public that's at risk and the public should be included in making this important decision."

The resolution came one vote short of the needed six votes. Only five councilmembers voted yes, meaning the measure will not go to the November ballot. Councilman Chris Cate was one of four nay votes, arguing the measure lacks details including firehouse locations and how they would pay for staffing.

"I can't go to these voters and tell them in detail what you're going to get for voting yes on this measure," said Councilmember Chris Cate. "And that's what concerns me."

In November, a fire station opened in Mission Valley. It was San Diego's first new fire station since 2008. In March, officials broke ground on Downtown San Diego's first new fire station in 40 years. 

People like Emerald argue Councilmembers and the Mayor have let politics get in the way of public safety and have turned the measure into a bargaining chip. 

"I believe the intentions are good, we want to make sure our citizens are safe, but in order for me to look a taxpayer in the eye and say I support something, I need to have all of the details behind it first before saying yes please, vote to increase your taxes," Cate said.

The Mayor's office says Emerald's accusations of turning the bond into a bargaining chip are not true.

The City will be breaking ground on two new fire stations in City Heights and Point Loma later this year.

Heavy law enforcement activity flooded San Diego’s Logan Heights community Wednesday as a man in a stolen car led officers on a foot chase after the stolen vehicle crashed into a police car.

The ordeal began around 4:30 a.m. in the 3200 block of Logan Avenue after the suspect drove through a stop sign at 33rd Street and National Avenue, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said.

As an officer tried to pull the driver over, the man stopped the car, jumped out, hopped over a fence and ran away from the officer. He left the car running, police said, and the vehicle – which was found to be stolen – rolled back into the officer’s patrol car.

More officers arrived at the scene, setting up a perimeter in the area as they launched a search for the suspect.

For two hours, officers scoured surrounding streets on foot, searching yards and alleys for the suspect.

At one point, a family that lives in the area reported hearing something in their backyard at 32nd Street and National Avenue, and police descended on the neighborhood.

They did not immediately locate the suspect. By 6:20 a.m., police had called off the search.

The investigation is ongoing. No injuries were reported in the pursuit and crash.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

Rep. Mark Takai, a first-term Democrat from Hawaii, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer.

Takai, 49, died at home surrounded by his family. He announced in May that he would not seek re-election.

Born on Oahu, Takai served in the state House of Representatives for 20 years before he was elected to Congress, first winning his statehouse seat at age 27. He served as a longtime lieutenant colonel in the Hawaii Army National Guard for more than a decade. In Congress, he sat on the Armed Services and Natural Resources committees.

Takai was first diagnosed with cancer in October and initially expressed optimism that he would recover. But in May he announced the cancer had spread.

"The Takai family thanks the people of Hawaii for their support during this difficult time," said a release by his office. His family requested privacy.

Takai is survived by his wife, Sami, and two young children.

Two water fight events in London, prompted on social media in the midst of a 90-degree heatwave in the U.K., ended in chaos with five people being stabbed, NBC News reported.

London's Metropolitan Police said "our officers came under attack" from bottles and other objects in the capital's Hyde Park after they attempted to negotiate with a group attempting to set up stereo equipment.

The chaos lasted almost four hours — from 8:40 p.m. to 2:20 a.m. local time (3:40 p.m. to 9:20 p.m. ET) — with police using riot shields and horses to push the more than 2,000 people out of the park.

Two 16-year-old boys were also stabbed at another water fight in the city's Burgess Park, police said, where 500 people gathered. Neither suffered life-threatening injuries.

Meanwhile, a British solider died while on a training exercise in the sweltering temperatures.

A 51-year-old San Diego man has died of complications from chickenpox, San Diego County health officials reported on Wednesday.

The man died July 15. He had underlying medical conditions and became sick after being exposed to a person with shingles, which health officials say is caused by the same virus that can lead to chickenpox.

Shingles is a painful rash that can emerge in people who have had chickenpox.

The last reported death of chickenpox in San Diego came in 2012, when an out-of-town child died in a hospital of the disease, health officials said.

Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego's county public health officer, recommends that all children get two doses of the chickenpox vaccine and adults over 60 get the shingles vaccine.

For information on chickenpox, shingles and immunizations, you can call the San Diego Health and Human Services Agency at 866-358-2966 or go here.