Two military jets based out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar collided Wednesday over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California.

One pilot was found in the ocean while the other landed safely at Naval Air Station North Island.

The F/A-18 Hornets were participating in a training mission just before noon when the mid-air collision occurred, military officials told NBC 7. One pilot ejected over the water at the time of the collision.

A distress call was received at 12:11 p.m. and the pilot was recovered by at 12:41 p.m. by crew members of USS Carl Vinson.

Both pilots are being treated and were described as in stable condition by military officials.

The single-seat jets are part of Third Marine Aircraft Wing.

The cause of the crash is currently under investigation, military officials said.

No other information was immediately available.

NBC 7 Newschopper launched and headed to MCAS Miramar north of San Diego, where the jets were based.

SolidOpinion Inc., a technology startup with split headquarters in San Diego and New York, has raised $3.7 million in equity funding, according to a regulatory filing.

According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the financing included four investors and the paperwork was filed on Nov. 4.

The company has developed a commenting system for websites that rewards good commenting behavior. In short, users are awarded points when another user "likes" their comments, or for visiting and commenting on the site often. They can get docked points for constantly having comments flagged or deleted for violating our commenting rules.

The startup is headed by MP3.com founder and San Diego entrepreneur Michael Robertson, with offices in San Diego and New York City.

It appears more Americans chose Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8, but got Donald Trump.

Votes are still being counted, but it looks almost certain that despite losing the presidency, Hillary Clinton will win the popular vote, NBC News reported. 

And likely by a million or more votes — a much larger margin than Al Gore enjoyed in 2000, when he too was denied by the Electoral College even though he had more votes.

If the candidate who got fewer votes wins the White House for the second time in five elections, it could put a new spotlight on the peculiar way that America picks its presidents — one not shared by any other democracy.

President-elect Donald Trump controls more than 500 companies across many industries and will face many issues that will affect his private interests when conducting economic business in the Oval Office, NBC News reported. 

"The sheer scale and private nature of his business suggest it would be an unprecedented and potentially thorny situation for a president," said Ari Melber, MSNBC's chief legal correspondent.

Trump has said that he will hand his brand over to his children while he runs the country. He’s also promised to follow sanctions imposed on private businesses by the government.

Click through for analysis on how President Trump will handle his massive holdings.

A San Diego State University student, robbed in a campus parking structure, was targeted because she was wearing a hijab, according to police investigating the crime.

The young woman was in a stairwell in the Parking Lot #12 structure at 2:28 p.m. Wednesday when two men confronted her.

She told investigators the men, described as in their early 20s, made comments about President-elect Donald Trump and the Muslim community and then took her purse and backpack.

Investigators say the men took the woman’s car keys and ran off. She made it out of the area safely and contacted the police.

Her vehicle was missing from the parking garage.

“Comments made to the student indicate she was targeted because of her Muslim faith, including her wearing of a traditional garment and hijab,” SDSU police said in a written statement.

The first suspect was described as white, 5-feet, 9-inches to 5-feet, 10-inches tall, blond or brown hair and light colored eyes. He was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans. The second suspect was describe as Hispanic, 6-feet, 2-inches tall with a skinny build and dark hair, wearing a gray hoodie and dark pants.

Trump proposed a "blanket ban" of Muslims entering the U.S. while campaigning for president in December. In June, Trump told NBC News his Muslim ban would apply "in particular [to] the terrorist states."

As of three days ago, Trump would not say whether or not he intends to ban people of Muslim faith from the U.S., according to NBC News. The president-elect said "extreme vetting" would apply to people from certain countries.

On Wednesday, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), pledged to work with Trump and his administration as a way to strengthen the nation.

The California State Attorney General's Office reports "an uptick" in threats of hate crimes and other violent extremism. Attorney General Kamala Harris issued a bulletin reminding agencies of the resources available to help them identify and prosecutor hate crimes in their communities.

President Elliot Hirshman, Vice President Student Affairs Eric Rivera and Interim Chief of Police Josh Mays released a joint statement condemning the incident.

"Hate crimes are destructive to the spirit of our campus and we urge all members of our community to stand together in rejecting hate," the statement reads.

The San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemned the incident.

"We call on all San Diegans, Californians, and Americans to reject all forms of anti-Muslim bigotry, and to challenge speech and actions that single others out based solely on their religion or heritage," the organization said in a written release.

Anyone with information on the robbery in the parking garage can contact the SDSU Police Department at 619-594-1991. They have issued a bulletin warning students of the incident.

All San Diego City administrative Offices, recreation center and libraries will be closed Friday for Veterans Day.

However, other public services will remain open on the holiday.

This includes:

• The City’s Miramar Landfill
• All City pools
• Chollas Lake
• San Vicente Reservoir
• Golf courses and starter booths
• Balboa Park museums and outdoor gardens
• Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center
• The Robb Field Skate Park, Rancho Peñasquitos Skate Park, Carmel Valley Skate Park, Bill and Maxine Wilson Skate Park, and the Charles L. Lewis III Memorial Skate Park

Parking meters, time restrictions for parking on streets and yellow zones within the City of San Diego will not be enforced.

There will be no delay in trash, yard waste and curbside recyclables collection for customers served by the Environmental Services Department.

Check local websites for specific hours of operation and closures within the city.

San Diego police, San Diego Fire emergency crews and Station 38 citywide emergency dispatch center will not be impacted by Veterans Day and will be on duty.

All county offices include animal shelters will close Friday.  All County parks and campgrounds will be open except:

• The Lakeside Community Center and its Teen Center/REC Club
• The Fallbrook Community Center
• The Spring Valley Community Center, its Teen Center/REC Club and the gym
• The 4S Ranch Sports Park office will be closed, but the park will be open for regularly scheduled practices and games.

All essential services, including law enforcement and emergency animal control response, will continue through the holiday.

Veterans Day is on Friday and, in a military city like San Diego, many businesses will offer deals and freebies to U.S. veterans and active-duty service members.

Here’s a list of some offers valid on Nov. 11 in San Diego – a gesture aimed at thanking our veterans and active duty military for their service and sacrifices. Don't forget to bring your military ID.

Barons Market
The small grocery store chain – which has six locations in Southern California, including Point Loma, Alpine and Rancho Bernardo – will offer 10 percent off groceries at all locations to veterans and active duty military with ID/proof of service.

Red Robin
With locations in San Diego at Plaza Bonita, University Town Centre and Escondido, Red Robin will offer all a free Red Tavern Double Burger with Bottomless Steak Fries to all veterans and active duty military members on Nov. 11. The nationwide chain will also donate $10,000 to the United Service Organizations (USO) to provide assistance to military service members and their families worldwide.

Wienerschnitzel
Nationwide, Wienerschnitzel will offer a free meal to veterans and active duty service members on Nov. 11, which includes a chili dog, small fries and a 20-ounce drink. This freebie is valid with military ID or if a service member wears their military uniform to a Wienerschnitzel. In San Diego, there are more than 10 locations. 

BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse
Nationwide, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse will also offer a free meal to veterans and active duty military on Veterans Day 2016. The freebie is good for an entrée of $12.95 or under; military ID or proof of service is required. The restaurant will also offer $5 craft beers for all patrons who are 21 and up to raise a glass to our military. There are several BJ’s locations in San Diego: La Jolla, La Mesa, Chula Vista and Mission Valley.

Black Angus Steakhouse
Nationwide, Black Angus Steakhouse will cover a top sirloin steak dinner for veterans. The free meal includes mashed potatoes, broccoli and sweet molasses bread. In San Diego County, there are Black Angus locations in Mission Valley, El Cajon, Escondido and Chula Vista.

Hooters
Veterans and active duty military also eat for free at Hooters on Nov. 11, and are invited to choose a meal from the chain’s Veterans Day Menu. This includes 10-piece traditional wings, 10-piece boneless wings, a Hooters burger, a buffalo chicken salad or a buffalo chicken sandwich, available with military ID or proof of service. There are Hooters locations in downtown San Diego and Mission Valley.

IHOP
Between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Veterans Day, IHOP locations will offer a free stack of Red, White and Blue Pancakes to veterans and active duty military with ID. The dish includes three buttermilk pancakes topped with glazed strawberries, blueberry compote and whipped topping. Select IHOP locations will also offer a combo of two eggs, hash browns and choice of two bacon strips or pork sausage links as part of the Veterans Day promotion. There are many IHOP locations in San Diego, including downtown, Mission Valley, National City, Pacific Beach and Chula Vista, to name a few.

Mimi’s Café
With locations in Mission Valley, Santee and Mira Mesa, Mimi’s Café will offer veterans and active duty military a free entrée from a special menu on Nov. 11 with the purchase of any non-alcoholic beverage. The Veterans Day menu includes Grilled Chicken & Frites, Chicken Chop salad, Brioche Cheeseburger, or Farmhouse Tacos. The deals continue through the weekend, too. On Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, vets and active duty military can purchase their choice of breakfast, lunch or dinner entrées on the Veterans Day menu for a special price of $5.99 with the purchase of a non-alcoholic drink.

Yard House
Yard House, with a restaurant in Mission Valley, plans to turn the tables and serve veterans and active duty military on Nov. 11 with a free appetizer of their choice. The app menu is extensive, too, and includes items like Blue Crab Cakes, Queso Dip, Chicken Nachos and Coconut Shrimp, to name a few choices.

Applebee’s
Applebee’s restaurants nationwide will offer a free meal to veterans and active duty military on Veterans Day, also from a special menu. Entrées include The American Burger and the Chicken Fingers Platter. Applebee’s locations in San Diego include Chula Vista, El Cajon, Escondido, San Marcos, Oceanside and more.

California Pizza Kitchen
With several locations in San Diego County – Carmel Mountain, Solana Beach, Fashion Valley, Chula Vista and La Jolla – California Pizza Kitchen will offer vets and active duty military a free meal from a Veterans Day menu. The menu includes a variety of pizzas, full-size salads and pasta dishes.

Olive Garden
The Olive Garden will offer a free meal to veterans and active duty military on Nov. 11 from a special menu. All entrées include garlic breadsticks and a choice of soup or salad. There are multiple Olive Garden locations in San Diego including Carlsbad, Carmel Mountain, La Mesa and Santee.

Starbucks
Starbucks will offer a free tall brewed coffee to veterans and military on Veterans Day.

Outside of restaurants, other businesses will also partake in the freebie frenzy on Veterans Day.

This includes Great Clips, which has several salons in San Diego. The company plans to offer a free haircut to veterans on Nov. 11. Sport Clips will do the same at its six San Diego salons including La Mesa, Point Loma and Kearny Mesa.

Retailers like Lowe’s Home Improvement, Home Depot, JC Penney and Sleep Number will also offer discounts to veterans.

Meanwhile, SeaWorld San Diego will continue to offer free admission to veterans through its Waves of Honor Veterans Salute program, good through Dec. 31. Valid for qualified U.S. military vets with proof of service and through a qualification process in advance of a visit to the amusement park, the program offers veterans free one-day admission to SeaWorld San Diego, plus free tickets for up to three additional guests.

A Donald Trump presidency will soon be reality for America. Supporters have hailed it as the chance for much needed government reform, and protesters in cities across the U.S. have already taken to the streets about their worries and fears.

What was once a joke response among some Hillary Clinton supporters to a disappointing election, moving to Canada or somewhere else, is being taken more seriously. The election results have sparked a debate among liberals on whether to leave the country or remain and fight for progressive causes. 

In the early hours of Wednesday, searches for "move to Canada" peaked, relative to the last seven days, according to Google Trends. "Easiest countries to immigrate to" was a related search.

As the election returns were being counted, 200,000 people visited Canada's immigration website, with half being from U.S. IP addresses, a representative for the Canadian department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship told NBC in an email. And those figures don't account for users trying to access the site after it crashed. 

"The volume for this time period is significantly higher than the same time the previous week, when the website saw just over 17,000 users," the representative said.

Searching for immigration information doesn't take very long, but actually moving to Canada would take a lot longer. The wait time to achieve permanent residency in the country could be months or years, according to immigration attorney David Clarke. He said Trump may not even be president by the time current U.S. citizens finally become Canadian citizens.

Celebrities took to Twitter on election night to sound off on the idea of an exodus.

"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston spoke on the topic in an October episode of "The Bestseller Experiment" podcast. "Absolutely, I would definitely move," he said.

However, others are arguing against fleeing, saying it is not what will keep America together.

"The social solution is to stay and put up a fight," wrote the writer and activist Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a non-profit organization that helps spread "progressive perspectives" on social issues.

Solomon added that America needs a "united front ... to understand clearly and organize effectively against the Trump regime. Failure to put up a fight should be unthinkable."

Michael Krikorian, the author of the novel “Southside,” wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times titled "Don’t move to Canada. Stay and fight."

Filmmaker Michael Moore also urged people to stay and face the election results. In a Facebook post Wednesday that has since been shared more than 180,000 times, the prominent liberal wrote a "Morning After To-Do List" for the American people. First on the list: "Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people."

"Any Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct," Moore added, "must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin."

On Thursday, Moore posted a second to-do list, since shared more than 20,000 times. It included forming an opposition movement, as well as impeaching Trump. Moore and other protesters on the left are calling for action that is difficult and time-consuming, but it's clear that they are not backing down. The list concluded, "More to-do tomorrow."

Trump has pledged to serve as president for all Americans in a speech that President Barack Obama said left him feeling "heartened."

A woman was arrested and charged with arson, after she admitted to starting a fire in a residential area of Julian, according to Cal Fire officials.

Flames burned approximately a quarter of an acre at Lakeview Drive and Chapin Drive at 11:30 a.m. under moderate Santa Ana conditions. Officials said there were no injuries and no damage to structures.

Two people told NBC 7 a neighbor was put in handcuffs after threatening to burn down homes while holding a lighter.

"She was pulled down from my road locked in the sheriff's arm and she turned around and looked at me," neighbor Delina Robair said. "And the sheriff heard her and said, with her cigarette and her lighter, and said 'I'm going to burn down every one of there [expletive] houses down."

The woman, known to residents as a tenant, was accused of taking a Cal Fire hat from one of the responding engines.

"The officer had walked up there and came down with a lady. I thought he was holding onto her arm to help her down, as if she'd been injured. She was covered in soot and soaking wet. Then I realized, he was holding onto her for bad reasons," said neighbor Kat Bowles.

The fire burned in a neighborhood between State Route 79 and State Route 78.

Temperatures in the area were around 70 degrees with a relative humidity of 23 percent, according to NBC 7's Whitney Southwick.

The winds were recorded at 10 to 20 mph off and on – gusting as high as 25 mph. Southwick said winds should continue to die down.

Firefighters were able to knock down the fire in about 30 minutes. They were aided by women inmates, who reinforced the containment line, using chainsaws to cut down dead branches.

The woman was booked into the Los Colinas Detention & Reentry Facility.

No other information was immediately available.

Hate crimes and other racially tinged incidents, ranging from vandalism to threats to beatings, are being reported across the country in the aftermath of the presidential election.

Some of the incidents were reported by police, though many more appeared on social media as anecdotes and not all have been verified.

Most of the recent cases appear to involve graffiti or violence directed at racial or ethnic minorities and in some reports the perpetrators indicated support for Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, detectives in Chicago are investigating one video that appears to show a man being beaten for voting for Trump. 

Trump's candidacy was marked in part by promises to deport undocumented immigrants and monitor and ban Muslims, and one of Hillary Clinton's arguments for voting against Trump was to denounce race-baiting rhetoric by voting for tolerance. Trump pledged in his acceptance speech early Wednesday "to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans." And President Barack Obama, with whom Trump met Thursday, said he was "heartened" by Trump's speech.

Still, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate crimes, is "seeing a rash of hate crimes, of hate rhetoric, racist graffiti in campuses around the country," said Mark Potok, an SPLC senior fellow, who called the uptick extraordinary.

"We have seen [Ku Klux] Klan literature drops, we have seen that suicide hotlines are ringing off the hook, and we are hearing of very extensive bullying in and around schools," he added.

NBC has reached out to the Trump campaign and presidential transition team for comment.

Among the reports of events occurring in the aftermath of the election:

• A San Diego State University student walking to her vehicle had her purse, backpack and car keys taken by two men making comments about the president-elect and the Muslim community, university police said. She walked away to report the incident, and then returned to discover her vehicle was missing. Police are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
• A short video posted Wednesday and viewed at least 250,000 times on Facebook showed students at a school carrying a Trump sign while someone can be heard saying "white power." Two students at York County School of Technology in Pennsylvania walked with a sign into the lobby and chanted "white power" twice before the director "squelched it," said communication outreach coordinator Renie Mezzanotte, who added that "the administration has been absorbed by" the incident for two days, the outcry has become disruptive to instruction, and that instruction and student and staff safety are always the school's priorities. An officer at the York Area Regional Police Department confirmed that they investigated the incident. 
• Police were investigating the appearance of a swastika, the word "Trump" with a swastika replacing the T and the words "Seig Heil 2016," on a store front in South Philadelphia hours after the election was called. The Anti-Defamation League said it was disgusted to learn of the graffiti.
• A representative of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering confirmed that someone had wrote the word "Trump!" in graffiti on a door at the school's Muslim prayer room. It has since been removed and Dean K. R. Sreenivasan said in an email to students that any violation of civility and mutual respect in the community "is an offense against us all."
• In Chicago, video posted to Twitter and shared thousands of times appears to show a man being beaten by a group of people who say he voted for Trump. The victim appears to be white, the assailants black. The attack happened just before 1 p.m. Wednesday on Chicago's West Side, police said. Chicago detectives have the video but a representative did not elaborate about political affiliations of those involved.
• And the Times-Dispatch of Richmond, Virginia, reported that the words, "Your vote was a hate crime" were spray-painted on several monuments to figures from the U.S. Confederacy.

An 18-year-old woman of Middle Eastern descent in Louisiana said she made up a story that she was beaten by two white men who were yelling racial obscenities, according to the Acadania Advocate. She had told city police, according to a statement, that she was repeatedly struck in the back near the University of Louisiana Lafayette by the males, who she said also took her hijab and wallet and fled. Lafayette police confirmed the woman retracted her story to NBC.

There were 5,479 hate crime incidents reported in 2014, according to that year's FBI hate crime statistics report, the most recent one available. The 2015 report is due out Monday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's president released a statement Wednesday saying the group has begun holding Trump to his promise to serve as president for all Americans.

"Today, we're facing a new reality – a president-elect who has denigrated people because of their race, their religion, their ethnicity, their gender, and more," SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote.

Potok, the SPLC senior fellow, said the last time he saw such a similar rash of attacks was after Obama was elected, but "they tended to be more hidden."

"This time around we are seeing people more emboldened," he said.

Potok said that there hasn't been an uptick on black-on-white crime.

The attacks on minorities are drawing comparisons, including from Potok, to the days after Brexit, when Britain voted to leave the European Union. Those attacks died down in a few weeks, Potok said.

But he added that American white nationalist groups are declaring victory online after Trump's election.

"One would hope that well-meaning citizens would stand up and defend their fellow Americans against this kind of hatred, and I think that's starting to happen, especially in schools," he said.

The SPLC has created an online forum where people can report hate incidents: splcenter.org/reporthate.

Some people are finding creative ways to voice their displeasure at the prospect of a President-elect Trump. Now some are setting their sneakers on fire.

More specifically some are setting their New Balance sneakers on fire a controversy sparked by a tweet from a Wall Street Journal reporter. The Boston-based company spokesman expressed excitement about the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency after the Obama administration had "turned a deaf ear to us."

The website Sole Collector shared the news and it apparently didn't go over well with several of the company's consumers. Some turned to social media showing them throwing their sneakers in the trash and in some extreme cases, setting them on fire.

The company said in a statement Thursday it was the only major company that still makes athletic shoes in the U.S., and that it "publicly supported the trade positions of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump prior to election day that focused on American manufacturing job creation and we continue to support them today.”

Without addressing the social media outcry directly, New Balance also tweeted late Thursday that as a company they "believe in community and believe in humanity."

Ed. Note: This article was originally published by Kaiser Health News

After six controversial years, the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, may be on the way out, thanks to the GOP sweep of the presidency and both houses of Congress Tuesday.

“There’s no question Obamacare is dead,” said insurance industry consultant Robert Laszewski. “The only question is whether it will be cremated or buried.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) confirmed Wednesday that repealing the law is something that’s “pretty high on our agenda.”

But promising to make the law go away, as President-elect Donald Trump did repeatedly, and actually figuring out how to do it, are two very different things.

“Washington is much more complicated once you’re here than it appears to be from the outside,” said William Pierce, a consultant who served in both the George W. Bush Department of Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill for Republicans.

For example, a full repeal of the health law would require 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. Given the small GOP majority in the Senate, “they would have to convince six or eight Democrats to come with them to repeal. That seems highly unlikely,” Pierce said.

Republicans could — and likely would — be able to use a budget procedure to repeal broad swaths of the law. The “budget reconciliation” process would let Republicans pass a bill with only a majority vote and not allow opponents to use a filibuster to stop movement on the bill.

But that budget process has its own set of byzantine rules, including one that requires that any changes made under reconciliation directly affect the federal budget: in other words, the measure must either cost or save money. That means “they can only repeal parts” of the law, said Pierce.

Republicans have a ready-made plan if they want to use it. The budget bill they passed late last year would have repealed the expansions of Medicaid and subsidies that help low- and middle-income families purchase health insurance on the law’s marketplaces, among other things. President Barack Obama vetoed the measure early this year.

That bill also included, as Vice President-Elect Mike Pence promised in a speech last week in Pennsylvania, “a transition period for those receiving subsidies to ensure that Americans don’t face disruption or hardship in their coverage.” The bill passed by the GOP Congress at the end of 2015 set that date at Dec. 31, 2017.

Delaying the repeal date could work in Republicans’ favor, said Laszewski. “Then they’ll turn to the Democrats and say, ‘Work with us to replace it or be responsible for the explosion,’” he said.

But Tim Westmoreland, a former House Democratic staffer who teaches at Georgetown Law School, said that strategy won’t work. “I don’t think people will see the Democrats as responsible if it all blows up,” he said.

Meanwhile, Republicans have only the broadest outlines of what could replace the law. Trump’s campaign website has bullet-point proposals to allow health insurance sales across state lines and to expand health savings accounts — which allow consumers to save money, tax-free, that can be used only for health care expenses. House Republicans last summer offered up a slightly more detailed outline that includes creating “high-risk pools” for people with preexisting health conditions and turning the Medicaid program back to state control through a block-grant program.

Yet even Democrats are convinced that Obama’s signature accomplishment is on the chopping block. “A lot of people say, ‘Oh, they can’t really mean it. They wouldn’t really take health insurance away from 20 million people’” who have gained it under the law, John McDonough, a former Democratic Senate staffer, said at a Harvard School of Public Health Symposium last week. “How many times do [Republicans] have to say it before we take them seriously?”

One possibility, according to William Hoagland, a former GOP Senate budget expert now at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based think tank, is that Republicans could use the budget process to combine tax reform with health policy changes. “And a reconciliation bill that includes reforms in Obamacare and tax reform starts to become a negotiable package” that could attract both Republicans and potentially some Democrats, who are also interested in remaking tax policy.

But if Congress does pass the GOP’s “repeal” before the “replace,” it needs to make sure that insurers will continue to offer coverage during the transition.

“Are [Republicans] going to invite insurers in and listen?” said Rodney Whitlock, a former House and Senate Republican health staffer. If there is no acceptable transition plan, “insurers can say the same thing to the Republicans that they’ve been saying to Democrats,” said Whitlock, which is that they are leaving the market.

That’s something that concerns insurance consultant Laszewski, who says that already there are more sick than healthy people signing up for individual coverage under the law. With probable repeal on the horizon, he said, that’s likely to get even worse. “A lot of [healthy] people will say, ‘Why sign up now? I’m going to wait until they fix it.’”

And if that happens, he said, there might not be any insurers offering coverage for the transition.

A fire broke out Thursday at a single-story family home in Clairemont, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials (SDFD) said. 

The blaze happened at 1:20 p.m. on the 3500 block of Cowley Way, firefighters said.

When crews arrived on scene, they could see smoke coming from behind the home. 

It was contained to that area and has since been put out. 

No one was injured.

There is no word yet on cause. 

No other information was immediately available.

Construction workers cutting rebar sparked a small, half-acre brush fire in Otay Mesa, south of San Diego, Thursday afternoon, amid record-breaking heat across the County. 

The brush fire broke out at approximately 1:37 p.m. Thursday near Otay Mesa Road and Hawken Road, according to fire officials. 

There is no threat to structures in the area and the flames are speading slowly, officials say. 

No one has been injured.

One copter is on scene assisting with putting out the flames. 

No other information was immediately available.

After a meeting with the top Republicans on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss the agenda ahead, President-elect Donald Trump laid out his top three priorities: immigration, health care and jobs.

"We're gonna look very strongly at immigration; we're gonna look at the border. We're gonna look very strongly at health care, and we're looking at jobs — big league jobs," Trump told a throng of reporters after a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, NBC News reported.

While Trump mentioned the border being a top priority within the realm of immigration, he did not specifically mention the construction of a physical wall, something that he campaigned heavily on. Such a wall, however, is estimated to cost tens of billions of dollars.

Trump was asked if he would ask Congress to ban Muslims from entering the country, a proposal Trump floated on the campaign trail. But Trump ignored the question, said "thank you, everybody" and walked away.

Two eagles that became trapped in a storm drain in central Florida have been rescued.

The eagles were reported trapped in a drain in Orange County near Goldenrod Road and Curry Ford Road, WESH reported. One of them was reported injured.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded to the scene and the eagles were eventually freed.

The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new all-time intraday of 18,873.6, and closed more than 200 points higher Thursday, as Wall Street fears related to Donald Trump's election win gave way to hopes that the president-elect's policies could boost the economy, CNBC reported.

The S&P 500 gyrated between gains and losses, holding about 0.4 percent higher, with financials rising 4 percent to lead advancers.

The dollar index, which measures the U.S. currency's performance against a basket of currencies, rose 0.29 percent Thursday, with the euro near $1.089 percent. The safe-haven yen fell more than 1 percent versus the greenback, trading around 106.80.

It marked the second day of what investors have dubbed the "Trump Bounce."

A former San Diego school administrator convicted of having sex with a student was sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars Thursday.

Kettrell Berry, ex-assistant principal at the San Diego Center for Children in Kearny Mesa, was convicted in July on 11 counts of molestation and sex crimes involving a 15-year-old victim.

Berry was fired from the school for troubled teens in April 2012 after accusations surfaced about an inappropriate relationship, and an investigation led to his arrest that May.

The victim in the case testified that some of the sexual encounters took place on school property.

On Thursday, Berry was sentenced to nine years, eight months in prison.