Community safety under the Coronado Bridge continues to be a concern for city leaders and transportation officials after a suspected DUI driver flew 60 feet off the ledge, killing four in a crowded park below. 

At a press conference, the Caltrans District Director for the area promised residents and park goers that a full investigation will be completed. District Director Laurie Berman promised to keep the community updated on the progress. 

Meanwhile, community members continued to express concern over safety for those who frequent the area. Some say the bridge barrier is not enough. 

The Caltrans investigation will determine what changes, if any, need to be made to the bridge going forward, Berman said. The 34-inch cement barrier on the bridge is standard, she added. 

"That's what the standard is and that's another we're going to look at," Berman said.

In the meantime, she said, the bridge, and those below it, are safe. 

"If we felt it wasn't safe, we will close it," Berman said. The bridge was inspected prior to reopening late Saturday evening and deemed structurally sound.

But others say that is not enough to stop future tragedies. 

Chicano Park has been established for decades, and the Chicano Park Steering Committee says it has been asking for a better barrier to block debris and cars from falling below for years.

"This is ridiculous," said Tommie Camarillo with the Chicano Park Steering Committee. "It could have been prevented if they would have done this long ago. I mean, it's 46 years. Come on now, it's not like it's a new park."

Camarillo said the committee is demanding the state fix the bridge to ensure another tragedy like Saturday's never happens again. 

"This is a park. It's for the people. We have people here all the time," he said, addressing the urgent need to make the bridge safer.

Senator Ben Hueso, who also attended the press conference, said he is already taking steps to get changes made to the bridge. 

"This tragic incident will result in improved safety for not only the people of this community but everyone who uses that bridge," Hueso said.

The investigation is expected to take three to four weeks. Caltrans promises further action if any safety issues on the bridge are found.

Donald Trump isn’t letting up on his claims that a rigged system threatens his victory on Election Day, although repeated investigations have found no evidence of widespread fraud at the polls.

As he and Hillary Clinton prepare for their last debate of the presidential race, he continues to tweet about fraud at polling places and about "a dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary." At a rally on Tuesday in Colorado, he again urged his supporters to watch the polls closely.

"They even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths, where so many cities are corrupt, and voter fraud is all too common," Trump said. "And then they say, oh there's no voter fraud in our country, there's no voter fraud, no, no, there's no voter fraud. Take a look at St. Louis, take a look at Philadelphia, take a look at Chicago."

The Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law — the publisher of Justin Levitt’s widely quoted study, "The Truth About Voter Fraud" — calls fraud at the polls "vanishingly rare," so unusual that it does not come close to what would be needed to rig an election.

Levitt wrote in The Washington Post two years ago that he had found 31 allegations since 2000 of someone pretending to be someone else at the polls. More than 1 billion ballots were cast in that period in general and primary elections.

The Carnegie-Knight News21 program -- made up of journalism students and graduates -- analyzed 2,068 alleged cases in 50 states in the decade before 2012 and could document only 10 instances of in-person voter impersonation. There were 491 cases of absentee ballot fraud and 400 cases of registration fraud —out of 146 million registered voters.

Another investigator, Lorraine Minnite, the author of the book "The Myth of Voter Fraud" and a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, says the claim that voter fraud threatens American elections is "itself a fraud." 

"It’s a rare occurrence," said Minnite, who has been studying voter fraud for 15 years. "I'm talking specifically about the kind of fraud that voters might commit, which really is mostly limited to misrepresenting their identity or misrepresenting their eligibility."

President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Trump's attempt to discredit the election irresponsible. No serious person would suggest it was possible to rig U.S. presidential elections because they involve too many votes and are so decentralized, he said.

"So I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go make his case to get votes," Obama said.

Although Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, said on Tuesday that voter fraud was real in pockets of the country, other Republicans are refuting claims of a rigged election. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a former Trump rival, said that there was no evidence for Trump's statements.

"We have 67 counties in this state, each of which conduct their own elections," he said. "I promise you there is not a 67-county conspiracy to rig this election."

Another Trump rival for the GOP nomination, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, strongly disagreed with Trump's claims.

"To say that elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen, that's like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly, that's how silly it is," Kasich told CBS Wednesday. "No, I just, I don't think that's good for our country, for our democracy, and I don't believe that we have any massive fraud."

Even Trump surrogate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pushed back, telling NBC News, "I'm convinced that the election will be a fair one and that the process will be one that will accepted by the American people."

Here's a closer look at some allegations of voter fraud:

Dead Man Voting
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, another Trump surrogate, said on CNN over the weekend that, "Dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans."

In New York in 2002 and 2004, 2,600 dead voters were alleged to have cast ballots, based on a match of voter rolls to death records. No cases of fraud were substantiated, the Brennan Center says. Seven were found to be a result of a database mismatch or an accounting error. Even if all of the 2,593 remaining cases involved fraud, the rate would be 0.02 percent, the Brennan Center said.

In New Jersey, Republican officials compared voter registration lists, Social Security death records and other public information to allege that 4,755 dead people had voted. "No follow-up investigation appears to document any substantiated cases, and no allegedly deceased voter voted in 2005," the Brennan Center says.

And in Michigan, allegations of votes cast by 132 dead people in Detroit were challenged by the state's Republican secretary of state in 2006. The office said that 132 absentee ballots were mailed to voters who died in the weeks before Election Day, Minnite wrote in a 2007 study, "The Politics of Voter Fraud." Ninety-seven were never returned, 27 were returned before the voters' deaths — a correction ignored by activists, Minnite said.

Double Voting
Allegations of double voting in New York can be found from elections in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and possibly others, according to the Brennan Center. In 2004, between 400 and 1,000 voters were alleged to have voted both in New York and Florida, according to matches between New York and Florida voting rolls. The Brennan Center said it as aware of only two cases being substantiated.

However, a 2013 New York City investigation of the city's Board of Election found systemic problems with accountability, transparency and dysfunction, including defects in the voters rolls, improper instructions that voters should "vote down the line" and a persistent failure to address ballot design issues.

In New Jersey, 4,397 people were alleged to have voted twice and 6,572 who were registered in New Jersey and five other states: New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and South Carolina. The Brennan Center found that only eight cases were actually documented through signatures on poll books with at least five signatures appeared to match. If all eight cases were proved, the double voting rate would be 0.0002 percent, according to the Brennan Center.

Other cases were alleged in New Hampshire in 2004 — of voters listed multiple times on city rolls or of people voting from improper addresses. The Brennan Center says that of the 676,227 ballots cast in 2004 general election in New Hampshire, two invalid cases were substantiated and two others were still under investigation. Even of all four were substantiated, the rate would be 0.0006 percent.

Voting by Non-citizens
The Brennan Center says it found no documented cases in which non citizens intentionally registered to vote or voted knowing they were ineligible. In Washington state in 2004, documentation appears to show that two votes were cast by non citizens in King County, the center says. The rate: 0.0002 percent.

Another example: In Hawaii in 2000, 553 apparent non citizens were alleged to have registered. Of those 144 documented that they had become citizens and at least 61 asked to cancel their registration. Others were stopped at the polls.

The students participating in the Carnegie-Knight News21 program found 56 cases of non-citizens voting.

Voter Impersonation
The Carnegie-Knight News21 program, as part of an investigation into the need for photo IDs, found 10 cases of voter impersonations -- in Alabama, California, Colorado, Kansas, New Hampshire and Texas. There were 146 million registered voters in the United States at the time.

"All were isolated and showed no coordinated efforts to change election results," the students wrote in 2012.

Dogs at the polls
The Brennan Center found two cases of ballots submitted in the name of a dog -- one from "Duncan MacDonald" in 2006 and 2007, although it notes that the ballot was labeled VOID and signed with a paw print; and one from "Raku Bowman" in 2003. The second was counted by volunteers in local elections in Venice, California.

A new Nordstrom Rack location opens Friday in La Jolla Village and the grand opening party will include a raffle to win gift cards to the store.

The retail store opens at 9 a.m. at The Shops at La Jolla Village at 8875 Villa La Jolla Dr. Customers will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of 30 gift cards to Nordstrom Rack worth $100 each. One lucky winner – through a sweepstakes dubbed “Rule the Rack” – will win a $1,000 shopping spree to the store.

This La Jolla Village location is one of a handful of Nordstrom Rack stores in San Diego County. Other locations include Mission Valley, National City, Carmel Mountain and San Marcos.

This store takes over a site that formerly housed a closed-down movie theater and is part of a major revitalization project at The Shops at La Jolla Village that includes the opening of the Nordstrom Rack and other new retail and dining options. The shopping center is located in the heart of University City, between Nobel and La Jolla Village drives near UC San Diego and Interstate 5.

Nordstrom Rack, the off-price division of Nordstrom, Inc., sells brand-name shoes, clothing and accessories at a considerable savings of 30 to 70 percent off. The company, which first opened in 1973 as a clearance center in the lower-level of a downtown Seattle Nordstrom store, currently operates 210 stores across 40 states.

Julian Assange can’t access his internet after the service was cut off by the Ecuadorian embassy, so a Canadian comedian is bringing it to him. Bobby Mair has begun to stand outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Assange is, shouting the days news to the WikiLeaks founder, NBC News reported.

Mair uses a bullhorn and holds up a sign, reading "Julian Assange’s Personal Internet Service." "In your hometown right now of Townsville, it's like 32 degrees [Celsius, 90 Fahrenheit]. Maybe some of your childhood friends are having a nice day." Mair shouted. "Maybe you could write them a letter."

NBC News said it’s unclear whether Assange was listening or appreciative of the comedian's efforts.

Sprouts Farmers Market plans to host a hiring fair Thursday to fill a total of 65 jobs across three coastal stores in San Diego’s North County. 

The company is looking to hire employees for its locations in Solana Beach (659 Lomas Santa Fe Dr.), Encinitas (1327 Encinitas Blvd.) and Carlsbad (2618 El Camino Real) for various positions including the bakery, meat, deli, grocery, produce, vitamin and cashier departments.

Sprouts will host walk-in interviews Thursday at the Holiday Inn in Carlsbad, located at 2725 Palomar Airport Rd. Interviews will take place during two sessions: 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Applicants should bring a copy of their resume. The hiring event will be put on in partnership with the hourly job-finding website, Snagajob.

If you’re a homeowner who wants to convert your lawn into a landscape that will use less water, you may be eligible for a rebate through the San Diego County Water Authority.

The agency is accepting applications for rebates using $1.1 million in grants from the Department of Water Resources.

Homeowners can apply to receive up to $1.75 per square foot toward projects that would change grass or other turf areas for more water-efficient landscaping. Eligible projects can be as large as 500 to 3,000 square feet but must currently have turf and irrigation systems.

To qualify, homeowners must be ratepayers within the service areas of the San Diego County Water Authority or the California American Water Co.

The incentive program is a partnership of the Water Authority, Association of Compost Producers, the California-American Water Co., the city of San Diego, the county of San Diego and the Surfrider Foundation.

For more information on qualifications and the application process, go to the San Diego County Water Authority.

North Carolina is offering a reward of $5,000 for information that can help authorities find and arrest whoever is responsible for firebombing a local Republican Party headquarters last weekend, NBC News reported.

Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, called it an “assault on democracy.” Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence visited the site Tuesday, calling the attack an “act of terrorism.”

Authorities said a bottle containing a flammable substance was thrown through the front window at the offices. Swastikas were also painted on a nearby wall, threatening “Nazi Republicans” to leave town “or else.”

Both Republicans and Democrats condemned the attack, with Democrats creating a GoFundMe page to help raise money to reopen the office. The group said it has raised about $13,000 so far.

There are plenty of places in San Diego to watch the third presidential debate Wednesday night as candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off for the final time before Election Day.

Regal Cinemas, for instance, will host free, live screenings of the debate across 206 movie theaters nationwide, including two locations in San Diego County: Regal Oceanside Stadium 16 (401 Mission Ave.) and UA Horton Plaza 8 at Westfield Horton Plaza (475 Horton Plaza).

The debate watch party at the theaters begins at 6 p.m. PT when Clinton and Trump take the podiums from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Attendees who purchase popcorn during the screening session get a free small soft drink, Regal Cinemas says. The company hosted similar screenings of the last presidential debate at movie theaters across the nation. For a full list of participating Regal Cinemas airing Wednesday night’s debate, click here.

Some local Edwards theaters will also screen the debate, including Edwards Mira Mesa Stadium 18 (10733 Westview Parkway) and Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18 (1180 W. San Marcos Blvd.).

Meanwhile, the Angelika Film Center in Carmel Mountain, located at 11620 Carmel Mountain Rd., will also screen the debate with a watch party from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the upstairs lounge and outdoor patio.

Both the University of San Diego (USD) and San Diego Mesa College are also hosting debate watch events, urging students to closely study the “civility of the candidates” as Trump and Clinton go head-to-head, said Carl Luna, Ph.D, a professor of politican science at San Diego Mesa College.

Immigrant and refugee groups will also gather for a 6 p.m. debate viewing party organized by Alliance San Diego at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD) located at 7050 Eckstrom Ave.

This event includes members of the ICSD, the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC), the San Diego office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and MAS-PACE (Muslim American Society). After the debate, the group will host an informal discussion with community members centered on the topics of immigration and refugees, expected to be addressed during the debate between Trump and Clinton.

A California media coordinator for the Donald Trump campaign says several restaurants will hold debate viewing parties hosting Trump supporters Wednesday night including Hooley’s Irish Pub in La Mesa (5500 Grossmont Center Dr.), Round Table Pizza in Oceanside (3440 Marron Rd.) and the San Diego Country Club in Chula Vista (88 L. St.). The local chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans will also hold a viewing party for the debate at Uptown Tavern (1236 University Ave.).

As you get ready for tonight's debate, here's a viewer's guide to the showdown.

San Diego County Sheriff's homicide detectives said Wednesday that they are close to completing an investigation into the death of a man shot 18 times in a confrontation with deputies two months ago.

SDSO said they have received official autopsy results on the cause of death for Sergio Weick, 33. Detectives plan to hand the investigation over to the San Diego County District Attorney’s office for review by mid-November.

The autopsy report released Friday stated Weick's body showed “27 separate wounds, consistent with 18 multiple penetrating and perforating gunshot wounds to the head, torso and extremities.”

Deputies say Weick was a known gang member and had a warrant out for his arrest when they spotted him outside of a home in Vista on August 11.

The sighting soon led to a short car chase through Vista and then a car crash.

According to the newly released medical examiner report, one deputy followed Weick on foot while another detained a passenger who was in his car.

The foot chase ended when deputies Peter Myers and Christopher Villanueva caught up to Weick standing near some bushes.

Deputies shot Weick on the left side of his body when they say he reached for his waist and “appeared to reach for a weapon." Weick collapsed and deputies handcuffed him.

Family members argue the shooting was not justified and have called for justice.

Investigators say Weick had shotgun shells and knives on him. They later found a sawed-off shotgun, knives and drug paraphernalia in his car.

A most unlikely pitching performance helped put a most unexpected team into the World Series.

Rookie Ryan Merritt coolly delivered a lead to the Andrew Miller-led bullpen and the Cleveland Indians won their first pennant since 1997, blanking Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 Wednesday in Game 5 of the AL Championship Series.

Cleveland, which has never hosted a World Series opener, will play Game 1 at Progressive Field on Tuesday night against either the Chicago Cubs or Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Indians will try to boost what's already been a magical year in Cleveland after LeBron James and the Cavaliers earned the city's first sports championship since 1964. The Indians' title drought dates to 1948.

The Dodgers led the Cubs 2-1 going into Game 4 of the NLCS on Wednesday night. Cleveland didn't play either team this season.

With all of 11 major league innings under his belt, Merritt took the mound and looked just like a seasoned vet. The 24-year-old lefty retired the first 10 batters and allowed only two hits before being pulled after 4 1/3 innings.

Then it was up to Cleveland's tireless relievers to hold a three-run lead.

Miller again did most of the heavy lifting, pitching 2 2/3 innings, and Cody Allen pitched the ninth for the save. Winner Bryan Shaw worked an inning before Miller came in.

Carlos Santana and Coco Crisp homered for the Indians.

The City of San Diego is facing a new sexual harrasment lawsuit—this time against an assistant city attorney.

The lawsuit, filed on Friday, claims that Assistant City Attorney Daniel Bamberg sent inappropriate text messages to San Diego Deputy City Attorney Molly Hoot, touched and asked her for sex three years ago. Hoot says the behavior continued for three years.

The Office of the City Attorney is same office charged with defending former Mayor Bob Filner against multiple sexual harassment complaints in 2013.

“There is some emails, text messages, and there will be my client's testimony which will be very compelling,” Hoot’s attorney, Josh Gruenberg told NBC 7.

The claim states that for three years, Bamberg sexually harassed Hoot and advised her not to complain about Filner putting her in the now infamous headlock and asking her out for drinks.

Hoot and Bamberg worked side by side in the City Attorney's office.

Gruenberg says his client complained about the unwanted advances from Bamberg two years earlier to equal employment investigators.

“Nothing was done, no one interceded on her behalf there was no investigation, disciplinary action, no counseling,” Gruenberg said.

City Attorney spokesperson Gerry Braun emailed the following response to the claim:

"At management's request, an investigative panel drawn from outside the office was convened to determine the facts. Mr. Bamberg was placed on administrative leave pending the investigation. These steps are required by law and do not reflect any prejudgment as to the facts."

Gruenberg told NBC 7 that Hoot was reluctant to file the suit but did so only after she was allegedly passed over for a promotion for rejecting Bamberg.

“Her job was the most important thing to her in her life and she was friendly with this supervisor. He was a father figure to her so she had a lot of issues to balance,” Gruenberg said.

Gruenberg represented a Filner accuser and was awarded the largest settlement among those complaints against the former Mayor—$667,000.

Hoot is currently continuing to work at the city attorney's office.

Deputies released a sketch Wednesday of a man who allegedly followed an 18-year-old woman at a park in Santee and tried to grab her – a case being investigated as an attempted kidnapping.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSO) said the incident happened at around 12 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Mast Park, located at 9125 Carlton Hills Blvd. Investigators released details of the alleged crime for the first time Wednesday.

According to the SDSO, the woman told deputies that two men in a silver car followed her as she walked in the parking. The passenger made catcalls at her, she said.

The young woman kept walking but the men continued to follow her, so she ran to her car. Then, the man in the passenger seat allegedly grabbed the woman’s arm, according to the SDSO. The woman broke free, ran to her car and locked herself in her vehicle until the men drove away.

The woman was not hurt, deputies said.

The woman was able to give a description of the passenger to the SDSO, but was not able to remember what the driver looked like. She said the man who grabbed her was between 20 and 30 years old and wore black sunglasses and a black baseball cap. With that, officials were able to put together a sketch of the suspect.

The attempted kidnapping remains under investigation. Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

Despite a protest by parents of students at an elementary school, the Encinitas Unified School Board (EUSB) unanimously voted to approve the transfer of Principal Jodi Greenberger.

A group of more than a hundred parents gathered at the board meeting on Tuesday to voice their anger and concerns over Greenberger's sudden transfer to a different school in the school district in the middle of the school year.

Greenberger is the current principal of Palm Dale Lane Elementary School. 

The parents told NBC 7 that the district has not been transparent and did not discuss the issue with them. 

"We are tired of being the school that's pushed to the bottom of the bunch out of the 9 schools in the district," said parent Nina Seibert.

Seibert, like other parents, argued that they believe the district sees Park Dale Lane as a training ground for principals. Greenberger will be replaced by a teacher who does not have administrative experience, according to a parent who contacted NBC 7.

EUSB Superintendent Timothy Baird said Greenberger's transfer was not forced.

"This was a unique opportunity for Jodi" Baird said. "She loves Park Dale Lane but there are reasons, both personal and professional where this is appealing to her."

Baird added that the district did not involve parents in the decision to transfer Greenberger because their would have been opposition to the idea.

"No one wants to see their principal leave," Baird said.

But the decision isn't just making parents unhappy—students are also voicing their frustration.

"We think it's very disruptive in the middle of year to make her go to another school," a student told NBC 7. "It feels it was sprung on us. We feel it's a drastic move."

At the end of Tuesday night's meeting, parents and some board members agreed that the District needs to improve communication with the community.

Meanwhile, some parents are still demanding answers on the sudden transfer that involved the replacement of principals at two other schools within the district in the middle of the school year.

Greenberger will transfer to Camino Creek Elementary School in January.

The third presidential debate was to focus on debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hotspots and fitness to be president — serious and somber topics. 

But that did not factor in the unpredictability of this long and often nasty campaign. In the week and a half since the second debate, Donald Trump was accused of sexual misconduct by nine women, allegations he denies; repeatedly warned of a rigged election without evidence and turned his ire on his party's most senior official, House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, faced questions raised by leaked information supposedly from John Podesta’s emails — made public by WikiLeaks and allegedly stolen by Russian hackers from the Clinton campaign chairman's personal account.

Here are some of the top moments from the final debate before Election Day.

Accepting the Results?
Trump, who has warned of a rigged election that will deny him a victory, refused to say whether he would accept the results of the presidential election.

"I will look at it at the time," he told debate moderator Chris Wallace, provoking a gasp from some in the audience.

Explaining his stance, he repeated a frequent accusation that the media was corrupt.

"I will tell you at the time," he said. "I'll keep you in suspense."

Clinton called the statement "horrifiying."

'Such a Nasty Woman'
As Clinton discussed how she would continue to finance Medicare and Social Security, she said she would not cut benefits but would raise taxes on the wealthy. Her Social Security payroll contribution would rise, she said.

"As will Donald’s, assuming he can't figure out how to get out of it," she said, in a dig at Trump, who reportedly used a $916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income tax for years.

"Such a nasty woman," Trump retorted.

Earlier in the debate, Trump said, "no one respects women more than I do," a claim he often makes.

Sexual Misconduct Returns
Trump denied at the debate that he engaged in any sexual misconduct, after nine women have accused him of doing so in the last 10 days.

"I didn't even apologize to my wife who is sitting right here because I didn't do anything," he said.

He said he believed that Clinton's campaign had gotten the women to step forward together at a politically opportune time. 

Clinton said his response to the allegations was to mock the appearance of his accusers, saying they were not attractive enough or not his first choice.

"Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger," she said.

Trump pivoted to a charge that Clinton had illegally destroyed emails on her private server.

Clinton, for her part, avoided a question about whether what her husband had done was worse.

'We Need a Wall'
Trump promoted one of his biggest selling points: building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, which he has said Mexico would pay for. Drugs are flowing across the border, he argued, and he said he would stop it by sending drug dealers back.

"We have some bad hombres here," Trump said.

Clinton responded that when Trump met with the Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, he failed to raise the issue at all.

"He choked," she said.

Wallace asked Clinton about a speech that she had made to a Brazilian bank in which she dreamed of open borders — to which Clinton responded that she was talking about energy and an electric grid.

In a tit for tat, Trump taunted Clinton with wanting a wall but failing to get one built because, he said, she never got anything done.

Clinton argued that she voted for a border security plan that called for wall in some places and then accused Trump of using undocumented labor to build Trump Tower. Anyone who complained was threatened with deportation, she said.

Who's Putin's Puppet?
When the hacking of Clinton's emails came up at the debate, the conversation quickly pivoted to the leader of Russia, and Trump and Clinton debated who Vladimir Putin really wants as president.

Trump repeated a frequent refrain from his stump speeches: "Wouldn't it be nice if we got along with Russia?" Then he said that Putin "has no respect for [Clinton], he has no respect for our president."

Clinton countered that Russia and the U.S. would get along with Trump as president "because he'd rather have a puppet as president."

"You're the puppet," Trump parried.

The candidates talked over one another, before Wallace interjected to ask if Trump would condemn Russia if they did hack a Clinton campaign email, as the Obama administration has said.

"Of course I condemn. I don't know Putin," Trump replied, then continued, "Putin has outsmarted her or Obama at every single step of the way."

No Handshakes
The debate began on a less than cordial note. As they did at the second debate, the candidates stepped behind their lecterns without a handshake.

It ended the same way. Clinton stepped forward to shake Wallace's hand, then straight into the crowd. Meanwhile, Trump waited behind his lectern.

New Contentious Guests
Trump again invited some uncomfortable guests for the Clinton side, among them Leslie Millwee, a former Arkansas television reporter who has come forward to accuse Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her while he was the state’s governor in 1980. An interview with Millwee was published on the right-wing website Breitbart on Wednesday. At Sunday's debate, Trump showcased three other women who have accused Clinton of sexual misconduct: Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick.

Other guests invited by Trump to attend the Wednesday debate in Las Vegas: former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Patricia Smith, the mother of an American killed in Benghazi, Libya, during the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound. Smith, who spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, has said she holds Clinton accountable for "murdering" her son Sean.

The potential embarrassment for the Clintons reportedly prompted organizers to change the way the families would enter the debate hall so as to avoid any awkward handshakes.

Multiple cars were believed to be involved in a crash on the southbound Interstate 5 near Camp Pendleton on Wednesday evening, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) confirmed.

The incident occured at approximately 4:02 p.m. near Aliso Creek Rest Area.

According to CHP, there was a substantial amount of blood on the road but it's unknown where it was coming from. At least one vehicle was turned over on its side while other cars may had flipped over. It is unclear how many vehicles are involved in the crash.

CHP says traffic was stopped in all lanes on the southbound side of the freeway. A Sig Alert was issued at approximately 4:34 p.m.

One person was transported to the Naval Medical Center San Diego. The extent of injuries is unknown.

Around 5 p.m., the scene was cleared by officers. 

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

Donald Trump is no longer saying he will accept the result of the presidential election in November, which would be a break from one of the oldest and most fundamental American political traditions.

One of Trump's main talking points at rallies in recent days has been his allegation that the election is being rigged — he has offered no evidence — and debate moderator Chris Wallace asked at Wednesday's debate if he would accept the result on Nov. 8.

"I will look at it at the time," Trump said, suggesting that the media's reporting on the current state of the election is distorted and that Clinton should be disqaulified for office. 

Wallace explained the political tradition that the losers of elections in the United States concede to the winner, keeping the peace, then asked again if Trump would accept the result. Trump said, "I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense."

Hillary Clinton quickly replied to Trump's remark, saying "that's horrifying."

Clinton said that not accepting losses is common for Trump, saying he was even bothered by losing an Emmy — Trump interjected, "Should have gotten it."

"This is how Donald thinks," Clinton said, as some in the audience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas laughed. "It's funny but it's also really troubling."

Both Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence said earlier Wednesday they believed Trump would accept the result. 

"We'll certainly accept the outcome of this election," Pence said on CNN before the debate.

"I believe he'll accept the outcome either way," Ivanka Trump said at a summit on women in Southern California.

Trump has also said he'll accept the result of the election, but his new response — the culmination of days of complaints about the election being rigged — marked a major and possibly unprecedented change in American politics.

Immediately after the debate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told NBC's Hallie Jackson that Trump will accept the results of the election. He later released a statement that did not mention the controversy, but called Trump "the only candidate ready to shake up Washington and give a voice back to the American people."

Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway reacted to the remark on MSNBC by saying Trump would accept the results because he will win. When Chris Matthews pressed her on what would happen if he lost, she pointed to Al Gore challenging the 2000 election results in Florida — though Gore sought a recount only when the vote totals showed a margin of less than 2,000 votes, and he never called the result into question beforehand.

The reaction online was swift, with many people, even Trump supporters, repudiating the comment. 

"Based on that answer alone, I hope Mr Trump loses all 50 states. He deserves to. He is attacking democracy itself," tweeted a scholar at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.

Already not a fan of Trump, Jerry Springer, the former talk show host and mayor of Cincinnati, tweeted that he is "an outrage" for not saying he would accept the election. "Is he planning a coup?"

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor recalled working with her late colleague Antonin Scalia, including how she sometimes had the urge to hit him with a baseball bat, NBC News reported.

“I've told people there are things he said on the bench when if I had a baseball bat, I might have used it," Sotomayor said a the University of Minnesota on Monday. "But when you work so intimately with people, you get to know the really personal good side of them." 

Sotomayor also spoke to how the court has been handicapped by Congress’ refusal to confirm Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland to replace Scalia.

"It's much more difficult for us to do our job if we are not what we are intended to be, a court of nine,” she said.

A New York yoga instructor came forward Thursday as Donald Trump's 10th accuser of sexual misconduct and said the Republican presidential nominee groped her in 1998, leaving her feeling "intimidated" and "powerless."

Karena Virginia said Trump touched her breast while she was waiting for a car after attending the US Open tennis tournament in Queens in 1998.

Nine women have previously come forward to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct. Trump has denied those allegations.

A Trump campaign representative also rejected Virginia's account as "fictional" and alleged a "coordinated" attack between her lawyer and the Clinton campaign.

"Discredited political operative Gloria Allred, in another coordinated, publicity seeking attack with the Clinton campaign, will stop at nothing to smear Mr. Trump," said Jessica Ditto, the campaign's deputy communications director. "Give me a break. Voters are tired of these circus-like antics and reject these fictional stories and the clear efforts to benefit Hillary Clinton." 

Allred, who is supporting Hillary Clinton for president, said earlier Thursday that she had not been in touch with Clinton's campaign about Virginia.

Virginia said she never met Trump before the incident occurred. She said she was waiting for her car when she saw Trump talking to other men and overheard Trump tell the men: “'Hey look at this one. We haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs.' As though I was an object, rather than a person.”

She said Trump approached her, grabbed her by the arm and touched her right breast. 

"I was in shock, I flinched," Virginia said. "'Don’t you know who I am?' That's what he said to me."

Virginia said she told her husband and others about the incident, which she said made her feel "intimidated" and "powerless."

She said Trump's actions made her ashamed that she wore a short dress and high heels and that for years afterward she struggled with what to wear so as not to attract unwanted attention from men. 

Virginia said she saw Trump about five years ago in a business setting with other people present and that he "looked her up and down" several times at that event. 

"I had come to the realization that I was the victim," she said. He had violated me when he groped me years earlier."

Trump has said that he's never met some of his accusers and claimed that Hillary Clinton campaign was involved in fabricating allegations against him. 

Virginia said no one has asked her to come forward and that many people advised her not to speak publicly fearing Trump would attack her for speaking out. 

"Perhaps you do not remember me or what you did to me so many years ago but I can assure you I remember you and what you did to me as though it was yesterday," Virginia said. "Your random moment of sexual pleasure came at my expense and affected me greatly."

Allred, Virginia's lawyer, said she was not considering a lawsuit against Trump. Allred said the celebrity businessman's statement at the debate Wednesday night that "nobody has more respect for women than I do" is "ludicrous."

Allred held a press conference with another one of Trump's accusers last week, who said he forcibly kissed her and thrusted his genitals at her. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice" reality show, alleged Trump made the inappropriate sexual contact at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007.

"Today’s victim is also noteworthy in that her allegations demonstrate how Mr. Trump selects his victims at random,” Allred said Thursday.

The relationship between an umpire and a baseball player is usually seen as an adversarial one, but on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo and home plate umpire Angel Hernandez gave us one of the more heartwarming moments of the postseason.

In the fifth inning of the Cubs’ 10-2 win over the Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLCS, Rizzo thought he had drawn a walk on a pitch close to the strike zone and began to trot down to first base. Instead, Hernandez called the pitch a strike, and Rizzo had to trot back to home plate to continue his at-bat.

In Rizzo’s next plate appearance, he made it a point to apologize to the umpire, saying that he didn’t mean any disrespect by his actions.

“My fault on that,” Rizzo said to Hernandez as his conversation was picked up by on-field microphones.

“No worries. You’re competing. I understand,” Hernandez said in response. “You know what’s best there? You came back and you told me that. That’s how good of a guy you are.”

It was pretty clear that Rizzo didn’t let the incident affect his performance on the field. He ended up drilling a solo home run in the fifth inning at-bat where he began to trot down to first, and he hit a two-RBI single in the sixth inning to help the Cubs out to a big lead in the game.