Firefighters have put out a small, one-acre brush fire, burning in Jamul near the site of a recent fire. 

The fire broke out around 12:42 p.m. Thursday near Lyons Creek Lane and Lyons Creek Road. The location, near the 3000 block of Lyons Creek Lane, is near last week's brush fire in Jamul.

Crews quickly knocked down the fire, which was moving at a slow rate of spread. 

Cal Fire crews will be on scene for several hours working to clean up. 

There is no word on cause. No injuries were reported. 

No other information was immediately available.

San Diego State University (SDSU) has just added another eatery to the lineup in its new mixed-use complex set to debut early next year – this time, a popular breakfast spot.

The Broken Yolk Café will open a new location at SDSU’s South Campus Plaza development, the university announced Thursday.

This marks the Southern California chain’s first campus-close location – and the 11th in San Diego County. The SDSU eatery will be a modified version of Broken Yolk’s fast-casual format, with both hearty traditional dishes and grab-and-go style options for students.

“We’re adding a stable of hand-held, easy-to-eat-while-running-to-class items,” explained Valerie McCartney, Broken Yolk Café’s Vice President of Franchise Development, in a press release.

Instead of a wait staff, this location will offer counter ordering so students can be served quickly, McCartney said.

Typically, Broken Yolk locations are open only for breakfast and lunch. However, the SDSU location will be open later, giving the university's approximately 35,000 students a chance to grab breakfast for dinner – if they so wish.

“We'll be serving some additional dinner snacks and entrees not found at other Broken Yolk restaurants so it'll make the SDSU location something special,” McCartney added.

Broken Yolk Café was founded in 1979 in Pacific Beach and the chain currently operates 19 locations throughout California, Arizona, Illinois and Florida. San Diego County locations include Pacific Beach, of course, the Gaslamp Quarter, Mission Valley and Del Mar, to name a few.

According to SDSU, South Campus Plaza – formerly known as Plaza Linda Verde – is a new, $143 million, mixed-use student housing and retail project on the college campus slated to be completed soon. Construction officially broke ground in November 2014.

The development is located south of the SDSU Transit Center, between Hardy Avenue and Montezuma Road.

SDSU says South Campus Plaza will include housing for more than 600 students who are expected to move into its residence halls during the university’s spring 2017 semester.

The retail space also on site is designed to serve both the campus and surrounding neighborhoods, the university says, “creating a pedestrian-friendly destination for shopping, dining and living.”

Broken Yolk Café joins two other previously announced tenants also opening up shop in South Campus Plaza: a Trader Joe’s grocery store and Eureka!, a restaurant known for its burgers and American comfort food.

The development will also include other retailers and restaurants, which have yet to be announced. Negotiations with additional tenants are ongoing, SDSU said.

The university says the retail portion of South Campus Plaza will encompass more than 34,000 gross square feet. Customers will be able to park in a structure on site that will include 300 parking spots, according to the university. For more details about South Campus Plaza, click here.

San Diegans who survived Hurricane Newton’s damage in Cabo San Lucas returned to the U.S. Wednesday.

The category-2 hurricane knocked out power and grounded flights in and out of the resort town on Baja California Monday. Mexican government officials estimated 14,000 tourists were in the Cabo San Lucas Monday night. They were advised to stay in their hotels.

“Our room was only a little bit leaking, our friends whole room started to flood," said Brian Jong and Shannon Shih.

They’re just a few of the San Diegans returning from vacation in Cabo San Lucas sharing stories of survival.

They rode out the storm as the hurricane winds tossed patio furniture into pools, downed trees and wreaked havoc while knocking out power.

“They told us stay away from doors and windows," said Gabby Hadjis of her resort.

“We were helping each other, holding each other we were scared,” said cousins Arman and Hayk Nalbandyan

Two years ago the area was hit by the much more powerful Hurricane Odile. Though Newton was weaker, Keri Wilson was painfully aware of the realities after surviving both.

“It’s still scary no matter what because you don't know what's going to happen. You don't know what nature is going to do,” she said.

At least two people were killed in a capsized boat.

Mexican soldiers took to boats checking flooded neighborhoods. Some residents were forced to seek safety in temporary shelters.

Gabby Hadjis and friends gave locals food after the destruction they saw. She shared pictures of boarded-up buildings.

“We didn’t feel in danger,” Hadjis said about the storm. “But we went to town later and that’s when you see a lot of homes, shacks were down. Lots of palm trees down. Mud everywhere."

“It’s scary because of the noises and sound and power is still out at our house. It’s been shut down and boarded. No lights and water. I can’t stay there,” said Keri Wilson.

Three Alaska Airlines flights flew in from Los Cabos after the airport reopened. The airline says more than 300 San Diego-bound travelers were affected by the cancellations. They say they’ve made more seats available on the flights Wednesday and Thursday to help bring people home.

A burning van was discovered Thursday at the bottom of a ravine in Scripps Ranch with no sign of a driver, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials said.

The utility van was discovered at 4:43 a.m. at Scripps Lake Drive and Scripps Ranch Boulevard, near to the high school and library. The van’s engine block was on fire when firefighters arrived. The fire spread to nearby brush.

SDFD officials are trying to figure out if the van caught fire after crashing down the hill or if it was intentionally set on fire.

No one was in the van when crews reached it. Investigators requested a helicopter to use an infrared cam to help search for any sign of the driver in the dark.

SDPD officers traced the vehicle back to a Grantville business. The owner said the vehicle was stolen.

The brush fire was extinguished with minimal damage.

The San Francisco District Attorney charged former San Francisco 49ers tight end Bruce Miller with seven felonies on Thursday stemming from an attack on a 70-year-old hotel guest, including assault with a deadly weapon - the weapon being a cane.

The remaining charges, according to District Attorney spokesman Max Szabo, include: one count of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, one count of inflicting injury on an elder, one count of battery with serious bodily injury, two counts of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, and one count of battery. The last count is a misdemeanor. The others are felonies. 

Several of the charges carry elder abuse enhancements, Szabo said. The older man suffered a black eye and possible facial bone fractures, according to San Francisco General Hospital. He was discharged earlier this week.

Miller is expected to be arraigned in San Francisco Superior Court on Friday at 1:30 p.m.

Miller declined to comment to reporters after he posted bail on Monday, hours after police arrested him for allegedly punching a 70-year-old hotel guest, and his 29-year-old son at the Fisherman's Wharf Marriott earlier that day. He was found vomiting and bleeding across the street from the Marriott at the Travelodge, where a manager there called 911 and provided some surveillance video of the arrest.

His Atlanta-based agent, John Reale, told NBC Bay Area earlier this week, though, that Miller was a "great guy" and he was flabbergasted to hear about the alleged attack. His attorney, Josh Bentley, did not immediately return a call Thursday seeking comment.

The 49ers released Miller from the team on Monday.

NBC Bay Area's Gonzalo Rojas and Mark Matthews contributed to this report.

Crews are working to put out a house fire at a two-story residential structure in National City. 

The fire broke out on the 2600 block of E 3rd Street just after 4 p.m. Thursday. 

Firefighters reported seeing heavy smoke and fire when they pulled up to the building. 

There is no word on injuries or a potential cause. 

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

A man who pleaded guilty to letting his six-month-old ride unrestrained in his car during a high-speed chase was sentenced to one year behind bars.

Jesus Mendoza Figueroa, arrested on May 2, was ordered to 365 days in custody and five years of formal probation in court Thursday, according to the San Diego County District Attorney (DA)'s office.

Acording to the DA, Mendoza had his child in the back seat when he initiated the high-speed chase on northbound Interstate 15.  

He was driving at speeds of 100 miles per hour, according to a CHP officer. When the officer tried to pull him over, Figueroa did not stop but continued driving and exited on University Avenue.

Figueroa then crashed into another car at an estimated 60 miles per hour. The impact caused the other driver’s car to flip over.

The driver, a 30-year old woman, and her two dogs were not harmed, officials said.

CHP officers arrested Figueroa after they discovered the baby in the backseat of his car. They also found open containers and marijuana in the car.

The judge granted all victims in the crash a full protective order. 

More than 1,100 people are eligible for unclaimed money from San Diego County totaling $352,000.

San Diegans have until Sept. 12 to claim the money from the San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector that’s been overpaid on property taxes or county fees.

The refund amounts up for grabs range from $10.01 to $13,416.44, according to a news release from the Treasurer-Tax Collector’s Office. The average refund amount is $320.

Any county money left unclaimed for three years and property tax refunds unclaimed for four years will be handed over to the county’s general fund.

To see if you’re eligible for unclaimed money, visit this site or to see a full list of the countywide unclaimed monies, you can go here.

A woman fell 15 feet down the cliffs above Black's Beach Thursday, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials said.

A helicopter lifted the woman to safety just before 10 a.m.

Officials used a gurney to transport the woman to a nearby hospital with what was described as a back injury.

Black's Beach is a two-mile long beach at the foot of the Torrey Pines Glider Port.

No other information was immediately available.

Credit card skimming schemes have picked up in San Diego County, and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is teaming up with other local and federal agencies to investigate the surge.

“Skimmers” are electronic devices installed surreptitiously on gas station pumps, ATMs and point-of-sale card readers that allow thieves to copy card numbers and personal information. Thieves can then make duplicate cards or shop online with little or no hassle.

In some cases, tiny cameras that record you while entering your pin accompany a skimming device.

Multiple skimming incidents have been reported at a 7-eleven gas station on Jamacha Road and Chase Avenue dating back to December of last year, as well as a nearby 7-Eleven on Avocado Boulevard.

While those incidents continue to be investigated by authorities independently (7-eleven says that it has resolved the issue), local and federal law enforcement are involved in a county-wide investigation of the popular scheme.

Similar incidents at a Mobile Gas Station on Paseo Montablan in Rancho Pensaquitos have also been reported recently.

The Sheriff’s Department provided tips to help gas station customers avoid being victimized.

• Use the gas pump closest to the building. Most skimmers are installed at pumps furthest away from the view of the clerk.
• Every gas pump has a seal on its panels to reassure customers that it has not been tampered with. Always double check to see if the seal is broken or looks like it has been altered.
• Don’t use a card reader or keypad that is loose or raised above the surface of the gas pump panel.
• Use cash or pay inside the store.
• Use a credit card at the pump when possible because they offer better fraud protection.

Gas stations aren't the only place where card users are at risk of fraud. Skimmer technology is constantly evolving and adapting to point-of-sale devices and ATM machines.

Most point-of-sale skimming devices are low-profile overlays attached to card readers with double-sided tape. First it reads your card information and then records your pin as you type it in.

“Deep insert” skimmers, devices that are installed inside the panels of ATMs and gas pumps, can’t be seen or detected from the outside.

The Federal Trade Commission recommends keeping an eye on your card at all times during a transaction so that dishonest card handlers don’t take a picture or run it through a skimmer of their own.

The FCC also says that carrying your cards separately from your wallet can minimize the risk of fraud if your wallet is ever lost or stolen.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday strongly urged travelers not to turn on or charge Samsung Galaxy Note 7 cell phones while on planes, after a series of incidents involving exploding batteries.

In a statement, the FAA also advised travelers not to stow the devices in any checked baggage.

Samsung Electronics issued a recall on Sept. 2 for the roughly 2.5 million devices after reports that batteries exploded during charging.

Three Australian airlines have already barred passengers from using or charging the smartphones during flights.

The recall resulted in a nearly $7 billion loss for Samsung's share value this week.

Leopard sharks filled the water off San Diego Thursday, swimming alongside divers and people wading into the ocean.

It's not an unusual sight to see off the La Jolla coast in the fall and winter months, according to experts at the Birch Aquarium with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The shallow waters provide the sharks with a calm environment packed with food.

They are not considered dangerous and will ignore swimmers and divers in the water unless provoked.  They eat clams, worms, crabs, shrimp, squid, fishes, and fish eggs found on or near the ocean bottom.

Their markings appear to be similar to a leopard's spots and can be used to identify them, like fingerprints.

Adults can measure up to 6 feet.

A bill introduced by a local Congresswoman would move to honor fallen San Diego Police Officer Jonathan "J.D." De Guzman. 

De Guzman, 43, was killed in the line of duty on July 28 when he was shot multiple times point-blank during a traffic stop by a man now charged in his death. 

De Guzman's partner Officer Wade Irwin was injured in the attack.

The bill, authored by Congresswoman Susan Davis and co-sponsored by the entire San Diego congressional delegation, would designate the postal facility on Kuhn Drive in Chula Vista as the "Jonathan 'J.D.' De Guzman Post Office Building." The post office is near where De Guzman lived. 

"Officer De Guzman is no longer with us but we can ensure that his name lives on," said Davis in a statement. "He made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting our community.

Davis recently met with the fallen officer's family to offer her condolences. Her district includes central San Diego, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Spring Valley and parts of El Cajon and Chula Vista.

"This bill will mean that future generations will know and understand the commitment Officer De Guzman and all our law enforcement officers make on behalf of San Diegans," Davis said in a statement. 

Authorities have arrested an escaped handcuffed man, originally in police custody, after an extensive air and ground search. 

The incident happened at 1:50 p.m. Thursday when San Diego Community College police took a person wanted on a probation violation into custody. 

The man, once in handcuffs, managed to escape, authorities said. 

He was last seen near Kearny Mesa Park in handcuffs. 

San Diego Police set up a perimeter in the area and began searching the area, but after searching the nearby canyon area by foot and air, they did not find anyone.

Shortly after they broke down the perimeter, they found the man and arrested him in an alleyway on the 7300 block of Mesa College Drive. 

No injuries have been reported, and no lockdowns are in place. 

No other information was immediately available.

Officials have released the identities of both men found dead Saturday in the ocean off Imperial Beach, north of the U.S.-Mexico barrier.

The men have been identified as Jose Angel Bobadilla, 49, and Oscar Javier Andrade Aguirre, 34, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents spotted the bodies of the men while on patrol along the shore near Border Field State Park.

No cause of death has been determined.

Agents say they noticed one of the men in the water approximately 300 yards north of the border.

Agent Eduardo Olmos, of U.S. Border Patrol San Diego Sector said the agents searched the water for other potential victims but found none.

No further information was available.

The cell phone of a San Diego man accused of killing his co-worker and stuffing her body into a suitcase contained disturbing videos of him allegedly sexually assaulting the victim and other unconscious women, a detective testified.

Joshua Palmer, 32, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the spring slaying of Shauna Haynes, 21. Haynes’ lifeless body was discovered inside a suitcase on April 6. The luggage had been left near trash bins outside The Chadwick, a residential hotel on A Street in downtown San Diego, where Palmer lived.

Palmer’s preliminary hearing began Wednesday with a long lineup of witnesses on the stand who shared details of the disturbing case.

This included testimony from San Diego Police Department Det. David Spitzer, who said graphic videos were discovered on Palmer’s phone during the investigation, leading officials to believe he may have preyed on other women prior to the grisly killing of Haynes.

“Based on the things we saw in the video we suspected there could be further victims that could have occurred prior to this date,” Spitzer said on the stand. “There was the recovery of additional videos where someone filmed unconscious females and was touching them in an inappropriate sexual manner.”

NBC 7 spoke with an SDPD Homicide lieutenant and the San Diego County District Attorney’s (DA) office about these findings.

The lieutenant said none of the women in those videos discovered on Palmer’s phone have been identified and, at this point, it is unknown if there are other victims out there.

Spitzer also testified Wednesday that a video was discovered on the suspect’s phone that allegedly showed Palmer sexually assaulting Haynes after her death.

The DA’s office confirmed that Palmer’s murder charge also includes three special circumstances: murder in the course of rape, sodomy and penetration by foreign instrument.

Spitzer said other evidence found on Palmer’s phone by investigators included text messages to Haynes that showed Palmer developed a deep romantic interest in Haynes, but his feelings toward her were rebuffed.

Spitzer said one message from Palmer to Haynes read: “I’ve never wanted anything more in my life than the way I want you. You don’t want me, I get it. It hurts because I’m so much better than the people in your life. It’s total rejection.”

Another text message on Palmer’s phone showed he became jealous after Haynes allegedly had a sexual encounter with someone else.

Spitzer also read that message on the stand: “I’m sorry, I love you. I accepted my place as a friend but I can’t watch you make love to someone else. I know it’s selfish but I can’t take it. I’m not good enough but two total strangers are. It just destroyed me.”

Palmer was arrested in connection with Haynes’ killing two days after her body in the suitcase was discovered by other residents of The Chadwick.

Palmer has pleaded not guilty. His attorney said Palmer was Haynes’ friend, not her killer.

Palmer and Haynes worked together at the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant in downtown San Diego and were platonic friends. According to prosecutors, Palmer and Haynes went out one night in early April and the pair wound up at Palmer’s apartment.

There, prosecutors said Palmer beat and strangled her, then stuffed her body into a suitcase. He allegedly wiped down his apartment to conceal the crime and sent text messages from the victim’s cell phone to family members to make it appear as if she was still alive.

If convicted, Palmer faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Due to the special circumstances added to the first-degree murder charge, Palmer could face the death penalty.

Palmer's preliminary hearing resumed Thursday morning with more graphic testimony from witnesses in the case, including one of the last people to see Haynes alive, Chelsea Shea.

Shea testified that she had engaged in a sexual encounter with Palmer and Haynes one night in April. While Shea and Palmer had sex, Haynes entered Palmer's room with another man. At that point, Palmer abruptly told Shea, Haynes and the other man to leave, Shea said.

Palmer's attorney, Katie Belisle, said Shea and the other man asked Haynes if she wanted to leave with them that night, but Belisle said Haynes chose not to leave, saying she wanted to stay with Palmer.

"When he asked them all to leave, Ms. Haynes wanted to stay there," Belisle said.

The suspect's defense attorney said Thursday that there is not enough evidence to prove the special circumstances of rape, sodomy and penetration by foreign instrument added to Palmer's first-degree murder charge were not consensual acts.

However, by 10:15 a.m., a judge decided there was enough evidence for Palmer to stand trial for Haynes' murder.

Palmer will remain in jail without bail until further legal proceedings. His next appearance in court is slated for Sept. 22.

NASA laucnhed a space probe Thursday with a seven year mission to land on an asteroid, collect samples and possibly discover more about the creation of life, NBC News reported.

The 19-story rocket, built and flown for NASA by United Launch Alliance, lifted off at 7:05 p.m. (2305 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, hurling the satellite explorer Osiris-Rex on its voyage to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

It will take Osiris-Rex two years to reach its destination, a dark, rocky mass roughly a third of a mile wide and shaped like a giant acorn orbiting the sun at roughly the same distance as Earth.

Bennu is thought to be covered with organic compounds dating back to the earliest days of the solar system.

The Padres turned in one of their best outings of the entire season Thursday evening against the Rockies.

San Diego starting pitcher Clayton Richard blanked the visitors across seven shutout innings and struck out eight batters in the process.

The Friars put up a seven spot in the 3rd inning. Ryan Schimpf had the big blast with a 3-run bomb which was his 18th jack of the season.

Derek Norris later added a homer as well and the Padres cruised 14-1.

San Diego hosts Colorado again on Friday night at 7:40 p.m.

Luis Perdomo gets the nod for the home team while the Rockies will counter with Tyler Chatwood on the mound.

For siblings Emad, 12, Oday, 10, Ehdaa, 5, and Soundous Tysaan, 4, their father said he never thought he’d see the day all four of them would have access to education and have their first day of school be in San Diego.

The siblings enrolled in school in City Heights Wednesday after a more than three-year journey with their parents around the world. They first escaped their war-torn country Syria to Jordan. In Jordan, the family of six survived in a refugee camp. It took more than a year of interviews and background checks to move to the United States.

The two older boys have developmental disabilities. Their father, Abdalaa Tysaan, was shocked to hear they too can enroll in school and have an opportunity to receive an education.

“In Syria, they don’t have these services for special needs children,” he said through a translator. “They don’t treat special need kids the way they do in the U.S. Then when we moved to Jordan [to a refugee camp] we didn’t have any services for them.”

In fact, at 10 and 12 years old, the boys have never been seen by a medical professional and have never been diagnosed, Tysaan said.

San Diego, the nation's eighth-largest city, has received 626 Syrian refugees since Oct. 1, more than any other in the United States.

Tysaan decided they had to leave Syria when he feared their home would be bombed. The girls were still very small at the time, and he knew if a bomb hit he could not carry everyone to safety.

“This was the reason we wanted to come to the U.S.,” Tysaan said. “To have a better life here.”

Resettlement organizations like Jewish Family Service San Diego and Alliance for African Assistance help refugee families back on their feet when they make it to San Diego, many to City Heights. They help with basic housing, belongings and a small amount of money. Volunteers, especially translators, help the families adjust to their new communities.

Etleva Bejko, the Director for Refugee and Immigration Services for JFS said local data indicates there are about 600 Syrian refugees in San Diego and that number may grow the next fiscal year. She said that number will likely be influenced by the upcoming presidential election.

Tysaan said his highest hope in San Diego is for his sons to receive proper medical attention and for his daughters to reach their goals of being a teacher and a doctor.

For information on how to help local refugee families, you can contact the resettlement organizations through the websites Jewish Family Service of San Diego  and Alliance for African Assistance.

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for Uber, a federal appeals court said Wednesday drivers for the most part have to resolve claims against the company individually and not through a class action lawsuit.

The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came in a lawsuit by Uber drivers over the company's background checks, but it also affects drivers in a separate suit who accuse the ride-hailing service of exploiting them by treating them as independent contractors instead of employees. The arbitration clause the ruling upheld also applies to the vast majority of the roughly 380,000 drivers in that lawsuit.

Those drivers will now have less leverage against Uber as they pursue claims individually through arbitration instead of as a group through a class action suit.

"Today's decision is not good for the class," said Shannon Liss-Riordan, an attorney for drivers in the lawsuit over Uber's classification of drivers as independent contractors.

Liss-Riordan said only about 6,000 drivers that the lawsuit represents are not covered by the arbitration clause the 9th Circuit upheld.

Ted Boutrous, Uber's attorney, applauded the 9th Circuit ruling, saying "arbitration is a fair, speedy and less costly alternative to class-action litigation."

San Francisco-based Uber has fought efforts to classify its drivers as employees. The change would give the drivers more rights and benefits but raise Uber's operating expenses significantly and go against its business model and identity, potentially undercutting its plans to eventually sell its stock in an initial public offering.

Uber and the drivers in the independent contractor suit reached a $100 million settlement, but that deal was rejected last month by a federal judge who said it wasn't fair.

The agreement would have required Uber to pay at least $84 million to drivers in California and Massachusetts who had been picking up riders who requested them through the company's service dating back to August 2009. Uber would have paid another $16 million to the drivers if the company's market value increased by 1.5 times within the first year of its IPO.

But U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen was troubled that the settlement also would have prevented the drivers from pursuing claims on a variety of other employment issues that could have generated another $1 billion in a trial verdict in their favor. With those potential liabilities, the proposed settlement would be paying the drivers less than 5 percent of what they could win in a trial - a sum that Chen concluded was "not fair, adequate or reasonable."