On the year anniversary of the Paris terrorist attacks that left 130 dead, Cal State Long Beach Sunday will honor Nohemi Gonzalez, the only American killed in the attacks.

Gonzalez, a 23-year-old El Monte resident studying abroad in Paris, was killed while eating with friends at a popular bistro in Paris called La Belle Equipe.

She was one of 17 students studying at Strate College of Design in Paris.

The terror attacks killed 130 people at Paris restaurants, a music hall and a stadium outside the city. 

Since the attacks, Gonzalez has been awarded a posthumous degree, and a $100,000 design scholarship has been created in her honor.

The tree-planting ceremony honoring Gonzalez will take place at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Department of Design on the Cal State Long Beach campus.

One firefighter was injured battling a 28-acre brush fire burning just off Interstate 15 near Gopher Canyon Road, now 50 percent contained, Cal Fire officials said. The fire shut down all northbound and southbound lanes for a period of time, creating miles of backup on the freeway. 

Crews plan to keep eight engines and two water tenders on the fire overnight, according to Cal Fire. They will return Monday morning with ten engines, four crews, and two more water tenders. 

The brush fire, dubbed the Gopher Fire, broke out at approximately 11 a.m. Sunday off I-15 south when authorities first responded to reports of a brush fire, Cal Fire spokesman Isaac Sanchez.

Witnesses reported seeing thick tunnels of smoke from miles away as they drove southbound on the freeway. 

Both directions of I-15 and Old Highway 395 were closed for a portion of the afternoon as crews fought the fire; Cal Fire officials say they closed the freeway because of damage to power poles that support lines crossing the freeway.

Three southbound lanes and all northbound lanes have since reopened after the power lines were inspected, Cal Fire officials said. One southbound lane will remain closed until late at night as firefighters work. 

For a period of time, eight homes were threatened by the spreading flames, but Cal Fire crews have since mitigated the threat. No residents were evacuated, though fire engines were at their homes in case the situation worsened, Sanchez said.

One firefighter was taken to the hospital with a shoulder injury, but is expected to be okay.  

Sunday marked another hot day for San Diego County following a week of Santa Ana weather. Near the fire, it's in the mid-80s. 

“It’s kind of the new normal that we’re experiencing around here in this county, fire season never ends," said Sanchez. "It's November and we’re sitting right around 90 degrees, and the brush hasn’t had a chance to recover like it normally would have with seasonal rains."

Sanchez said the cause of the fire is under investigation. 

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

Americans may not have agreed on much in this election, but they were united around one issue: marijuana legalization.

Eight states legalized marijuana in some form on Election Day. California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada showed up to support recreational marijuana, while Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota passed ballot initiatives legalizing medical marijuana. Only in Arizona did voters reject cannabis in 2016.

Marijuana is now legal for medical or adult use in 28 states, accounting for more than 60 percent of the U.S. population, according to the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), an advocacy group that lobbies for federal marijuana reform.

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"Tuesday night’s results send a simple message – the tipping point has come," said NCIA executive director Aaron Smith.

But jubilation over marijuana's victory was tempered by the election of Republican Donald Trump and GOP majorities in both the Senate and House.

“The prospect of Donald Trump as our next president concerns me deeply,” Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, said in a statement. “His most likely appointees to senior law enforcement positions — Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie — are no friends of marijuana reform, nor is his vice president.”

Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Under President Barack Obama, federal authorities largely took a hands-off approach to state-level legalization efforts. But an incoming administration more skeptical of drug reform could easily reverse that approach.

Still, analysts and advocates alike say, the industry may be too big and valuable for a Trump administration to stop, especially after voters in California — home to the world's 6th largest economy — legalized the recreational use of marijuana.

"It's obviously a different ball game than what we anticipated under a [Hillary] Clinton administration," says Taylor West, NCIA deputy director. "But regardless of who the president is and who is controlling the Senate, this is still an issue that Congress is going to have to wrestle with."

The industry continues to face some unique challenges. Shut out of banks, businesses can't get loans and shops are stockpiling cash, creating a significant security threat.

CASH CROP
In August, the Drug Enforcement Administration reaffirmed marijuana's classification as a Schedule 1 drug, the same category as heroin, with no recognized medical use or value — and without access to financial institutions. Subsequently, financial institutions have been prohibited from doing business with dispensaries, growers, distributors and other marijuana-related businesses that are operating legally under state laws, forcing them to run cash-only businesses.

The amount of money changing hands is substantial. By the end of 2016 the legal pot market is expected to reach $2.6 billion in sales, according to The ArcView Group, a cannabis-focused investment firm that gathers market research. 

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, of Colorado, who has pushed for reforming federal banking laws, calls it “an issue of public safety.”

“As a result of being denied access to the banking system, there are millions of dollars in cash moving around the streets of Colorado,” Perlmutter said. “These businesses are forced to operate as cash-only enterprises, inviting crime such as robbery and tax evasion and adding to the burden of setting up a legitimate small business.” 

The owner of one Denver-based marijuana business, who asked not to be named for fear of being targeted, said because she is forced to operate in all cash, she has to factor the threat of robbery into every business decision.

"We only operate in daylight hours, we rotate pay schedules, and we have a buddy system where we walk employees to their cars to make sure they get there safely," she said, adding that her vendors, utility bills and landlord are all paid in cash. "I never travel alone."

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In 2013, the Obama administration said it wouldn’t prosecute financial service companies that choose to serve state-sanctioned marijuana businesses, as long as they can assure that their clients are in compliance with the guidelines set forth by the Justice and Treasury departments. The administration stopped short of offering blanket protection against enforcement.

National banks have remained wary of being implicated for money laundering and have avoided the industry for fear that if an account turns out to be a front for the illegal drug trade — no matter how diligent the vetting process is — it could put the institution at risk of losing its FDIC insurance, or its employees may face imprisonment.

Still, those guidelines have been enough to encourage a small number of community banks and credit unions to start offering basic services in states with thorough "seed-to-sale" enforcement programs, which track pot from cultivation to purchase.

Carmella Houston, vice president of business services at Salal Credit Union in Washington state, said they monitor accounts closely to makes sure clients are complying with the DOJ's Cole Memo priorities, which require states to prevent legally grown marijuana from crossing its borders, sales to minors and the use of legal sales as a cover for illegal activity.

"With seed-to-sale traceability, we can ensure federal compliance," Houston said. 

Salal began serving state-licensed businesses in Washington in 2014. It is one of a handful of credit unions openly serving the industry, though, according to Houston, several others are doing it "not openly." Applicants go through a thorough review process to obtain an account with Salal. 

"We not only review the business, but also the owners, develop an understanding of the types of products being sold, and where the initial start up funds came from to launch their companies," Houston said.  

The enormous regulatory and compliance burdens don't come cheap. Salal charges clients fees based on the number and amount of transactions.

Between March 2014 and March 2016, the number of banks and credit unions across the country willing to handle pot money under Treasury Department guidelines jumped from 51 to 301, The Associated Press reported, citing federal data.

Merchants, however, say there are not nearly enough banks willing to take their cash. In the meantime, "potrepreneurs" are developing creative, non-cash payment options.

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'POTREPRENEURS'
PayQwick has been dubbed the PayPal for pot.

Much like the online payment system, PayQwick allows customers to use its platform to pay for cannabis and marijuana-related services via loadable cards, a smartphone app and, soon, debit and credit cards.

Dispensary owners can use the online payment platform to pay vendors, landlords and employees. Customers can use the preloaded PayQwick card to make purchases and collect rewards. 

The Calabasas-based company operates in Washington and Oregon, where state regulations enable PayQwick to comply with the Cole Memo guidelines, according to CEO Kenneth Berke. Berke hopes to expand to other states once a strict tracking system is in place. 

“The key to our platform is seed-to-sale traceability. Colorado is still a little bit of the wild, wild west because it doesn’t have the traceability system,” Berke said. “We assure every dollar deposited into a PayQwick account comes from the legal sale of marijuana. Every dollar going through the PayQwick system can be tracked back to legitimate marijuana sales."

Applicants undergo a rigorous screening process and the company conducts its own compliance checks four times a year, Berke said. Clients who aren’t following the rules or refuse inspections are dropped from the system. 

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GUARDIANS OF GREEN
Even with some relief from cash stockpiles, security concerns still plague canna-businesses. Many continue to operate unbanked and their product is lucrative in the black market and across state lines, leaving them vulnerable to robberies.

The concern for safeguarding cannabis businesses has led to a boom in the security industry in states like Colorado and Oregon.

Derek Porter, a former special operations Marine who worked on an anti-terrorism security team before he founded Security Grade Protective Services in 2012, says there is a need for well-trained security teams that are used to handling important cargo.  And many former veterans are finding employment on patrol at dispensaries and marijuana growers.

"Veterans are a much better fit because they have a great work ethic and are still in a heavy security mindset," said Porter who noted about 70 percent of his employees are vets. "For a lot of these guys, they're doing work they see as familiar to the patrols assigned to them in Iraq and Afghanistan."

In July 2016, Travis Mason, a former Marine, was shot and killed during a botched robbery at an Aurora, Colorado, dispensary where he worked as a security guard. Mason's killing alarmed the industry and security firms like Porter's saw an increase in requests for armed guards.

Transport is another complication. The cannabis has to move from the cultivators to the stores, and cash needs to move between businesses and to state authorities for tax payments.

"Cash is a pain, time consuming and costly for everyone," Porter said. "We need to pay guards to go pick up the cash. It’s a risk for them to have a large amount of cash on hand. We count the money twice on our end, and then we have to take it to the bank and they have to count it."

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TAXING FOR THE TAXMAN
Security isn't just a concern for those directly involved in the cannabis industry. The government is also reckoning with the risks and impracticality of bundles of cash.

In states where marijuana is legal for recreational and medicinal uses, businesses are subject to state sales taxes. 

Oregon, for instance, has collected $6.84 million from the pot tax’s first two months of 2016 — exceeding expectations for the entire year — and more than half of the state’s pot dealers paid that in cash, the AP reported. Of the $15 million-plus Washington collected from marijuana sales in February, nearly $4 million was cash carried through the lobby of the liquor board’s headquarters in Olympia.

In California, 100 percent of the taxes collected on $662,956,249 of taxable medical cannabis sales, roughly $59 million, was paid in cash, according to the state Board of Equalization (BOE). And without any access to banks or credit unions, marijuana businesses in the state have also incurred a 10 percent penalty when taxes over $10,000 were paid in cash. The penalty will be waived starting Jan. 1, 2017.

"Security is a concern," NCIA's West said. "Aside from the financial problems, the safety is one of the biggest. Employees are at risk since people know where and when there will be large amounts of cash."

To curb the risk of robberies, the California BOE says it changes its marijuana tax day collection, also known as "cash day," monthly, avoiding routine habits that could place taxpayers and employees at risk. 

Meanwhile, tax collection offices are doing what they can to manage the heaps of pungent cash pouring into their buildings. Offices in Oregon and Colorado have bolstered security, hiring more guards and investing in safety glass and security cameras.

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HAZY FUTURE
The marijuana industry remains eager for a federal solution to their banking problem.

Now, they’re awaiting signals of how a Trump Justice Department will approach cannabis. Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, didn’t respond to a request seeking comment.

"I’ve been urging my colleagues in both the House and Senate to quickly address this issue in the next Congress," congressman Perlmutter said. "We must allow legitimate marijuana businesses access to banking services and in order to keep our communities safe.”

California's "Yes" vote could tip the scale federal reform given the size of the state's economy and the economic impact of the marijuana industry there. Arcview estimates that legal annual California pot revenues could exceed $7 billion by 2020.

"This is the beginning of the end of the war on marijuana in the United States," said said California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who helped craft the state's ballot measure.

A recent Gallup poll found that a record 60 percent of Americans support making cannabis legal. West said that bills to amend marijuana laws have gotten bipartisan support, but they haven't moved out of committee because committee chairs don't want to talk about it.

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"They aren't feeling the pressure to take on the issue," West argues. "But when you have 101 members of the House and 18 senators representing millions of constituents in legal adult-use states, Congress won't be able to keep looking the other way and pretending it isn't happening." 

Veterans who return home after serving can have a long and difficult road to recovery, but one nonprofit is helping veterans find emotional and physical therapy just off the coast of Southern California. 

Dive Warriors is a nonprofit organization founded by Brad Mirman. The organization teaches veterans how to scuba dive and takes them out to the ocean once a month.

"If you’re a disabled veteran in the Southern California area, we will teach you how to dive, we will get you certified, and you come on the boat and Dive Warriors pays for it all," Mirman said.

Mirman is not a veteran, but he gave up his career as a screenwriter to grow Dive Warriors after what he saw in veterans who came to the organization.

"A lot of them when they come … there's a darkness in their eyes, there's a broken spirit to them," Mirman said. "As they immerse in this group … bonds form, and that light comes back in their eyes."

Jared Lemon is one of the veterans who says that diving makes him feel free. The 35-year-old from Temecula lost his arm while deployed in the army, but once he is underwater, he can no longer feel the phantom pain.

"It helps release them demons, all them negative thoughts and the things that stay with you after war," Lemon said.

Being part of Dive Warriors has even brought some veterans back from the brink.

Kelly McCumisky is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from PTSD. The first time she took a dive, she had planned never to come back up.

"My whole experience was to commit suicide and that nobody would figure out that that's what I had done," McCumisky said.

Now, like Lemon, McCumisky feels free when she is underwater.

"That’s the time I'm free, out of this chair and feel like everybody else," she said.

These veterans also find comfort in each other and being around people who can understand them.

"I needed a group that could understand me and I could understand and feel safe in," McCumisky said. "These guys do that for me."

Kyle Schneider, a Navy veteran, said that being part of Dive Warriors "brings us into becoming an overall family."

For more information about Dive Warriors, visit their website.

Earthquakes are rippling through Oklahoma more quickly than ever, and strong too: forty-six since the beginning of the month, as powerful as magnitude 5.0, NBC News reported.

Scientists say that wastewater from fracking is very likely triggering the tremors at unprecedented rates, but the rise in the oil-tapping process has been a boon for the state's economy — roughly one quarter of jobs are tied to the energy industry.

Now stakeholders in the industry are in the midst of a reckoning over how to keep the ground from shaking, while many policymakers are careful to not implicate the energy industry directly.

"The oil and gas industry basically owns the state," said Oklahoma state Rep. Cory Williams (D-Stillwater). "Policymakers don't want to do anything that appears to harm the jobs created by the oil and gas sector."

President-elect Donald Trump said during the campaign that he would scrap or renegotiate the Iranian nuclear deal, but leaders there said they expected the U.S. to stick to its agreement, NBC News reported.

"The results of the U.S. election have no effect on the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said one day after the election, according to the state news agency IRNA. Rouhani added that improved economic ties are "irreversible."

Iranian leaders emphasized that the nuclear deal was not a bilateral agreement, but was also reached with China, Russia, France, Germany and the U.K.

"Every U.S. president has to understand the realities of today's world," said Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, one of the architects of the deal. "The most important thing is that the future U.S. president sticks to agreements."

Education was another casualty of war for 1,000 children, most of whom are only now starting classes after two years without school, at an Iraqi camp for displaced people, NBC News reported.

Their school is a tent, supplies donated hand-outs and their teachers are classmates' parents who have never taught a day in their lives. But after years under ISIS rule where boys' education was ideological indoctrination and basic martial training and girls couldn't learn at all, there's enthusiasm and hope for the future.

"I want to help people and being a doctor is nice," said one girl, named Malak, at the Debaga camp, near Mosul in northern Iraq.

Now it's up to relief agencies to make up for lost time for instruction and help abate the trauma the children suffered amid war.

President Obama made aggressive use of the CIA and Special Operations Forces to hunt and kill al Qaeda, ISIS and other terror groups.

But he also imposed a set of rules designed to regulate the conduct of U.S operatives — banning torture, for example, and minimizing the risk of civilian casualties in drone strikes.

President-elect Trump, who campaigned against those rules, would be able to undo most of those rules in his first hour in office, NBC News reported.

If he chooses to do so, Trump can quickly reshape large swaths of American national security policy, much of which is governed by executive orders and presidential policy guidance that can be overridden by the president's signature. That includes U.S. sanctions on Russia, and its recent rapprochement with Cuba.

More and more teens say they've had serious depression, researchers reported Monday. But more are not being treated for it. 

The troubling trend suggests doctors are afraid to ask about and treat depression, which is a major cause of suicide, the researchers said.

And they say it's important to find out why rates are up, NBC News reported. 

"The 12-month prevalence of major depressive episodes increased from 8.7 percent in 2005 to 11.3 percent in 2014 in adolescents and from 8.8 percent to 9.6 percent in young adults," Dr. Ramin Mojtabai of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues wrote in their report published in the journal Pediatrics. 

It's another tough loss for the San Diego Chargers, and I’m not just talking about the game against the Miami Dolphins.

On Monday afternoon, the team announced defensive captain Brandon Mebane will miss the rest of the 2016 season due to a torn bicep. Mebane, a nose tackle, suffered the injury during Sunday’s game against the Dolphins. The Bolts lost 31-24.

This was Mebane’s first season with the Chargers. The powerhouse nose tackle joined San Diego in March after spending nine seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. Mebane started in 134 games and totaled 15.5 sacks and 386 tackles for Seattle.

In 10 games with the Chargers, Mebane notched 35 tackles, 15 pressures, six quarterback hits and one sack. The Bolts players have said repeatedly how much they value Mebane’s leadership on the field and in the locker room. With rookies and less experienced players filling in for injured guys, a strong leader like Mebane was an absolute necessity.

The 6’1”, 311 pound NFL vet joins a lengthy (and growing) list of key players who are out for the year. The Chargers also lost wide receiver Keenan Allen, running back Danny Woodhead, inside linebacker Manti Te’o, cornerback Jason Verrett, inside linebacker Nick Dzubnar, defensive end Caraun Reid and running back Dexter McCluster to season ending injuries.

The Bolts are now heading into their bye week where they hope to get other injured players healthy before they face the Texans on Nov 27 in Houston. They’ll certainly need every healthy body they can get.

This month, park rangers and maintenance crews with the County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) will start preparing hiking trails for the rainy season.

Some local volunteers are getting a head start with that effort, at Sweetwater Summit Regional Park.

The county's most popular campground is spread out over 500 acres in Bonita.

It's a lot to maintain, but county workers don't do it alone.

Ever since the park opened nearly 30 years ago, the county has worked with the Bonita Valley Horsemen.

Volunteers with the club do everything from clearing brush to cutting down trees and rebuilding trails.

The club recently held its fall fundraiser at Summit Park Campground.

It's a competition that includes a series of obstacles spread throughout the regional park, testing the riders' horsemanship skills.

In previous years, money raised at the competition was used to repair fences and bridges, and clear debris from the trails, which are shared with hikers, bikers and equestrians.

"People don't realize, even in the drought, a lot of things grow, mud comes, things come in their way, wash away," said Karen Schneider, a member of the Bonita Valley Horsemen.

Club volunteers routinely ride the trails on horseback year-round, checking to see if anything is out of place, or unsafe.

They report their findings to park staff, who can address those issues, or schedule improvement projects.

County workers also clean the trails on a regular basis by removing any accumulated debris and trash that could end up in waterways.

This helps to prevent flooding during heavy rain.

"In these situations we also assess the trails and close any that are unsafe, until water has receded and/or obstructions have been removed for safer travel," said Jessica Geiszler, with the County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation. "Safety is a top priority for county parks."

Over the years, the Bonita Valley Horsemen have also purchased amenities for the campground, such as hitching posts and round pens for horses, with money from their yearly fundraiser.

"If we didn't have the horse club, one of the things that would happen is a lot of these trails would disappear, because it takes a lot to maintain them," said Schneider.

The Bonita Valley Horsemen raised about $2,300 dollars from this year's fall fundraiser.

The money comes from entrance fees riders pay to take part in the competition, and a silent auction with items donated from community members.

Outback Steakhouse in National City also contributed to the fundraiser by donating a big lunch spread for the volunteers and participants.

The $2,300 will go towards buying stones and rocks to make the trails passable after the next storm.

"This is the only place where you can ride safely with horses and joggers and bicycles on the same trails," said Cathy Kitchell, who drives in from Jamul to ride the trails in Bonita.

A San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy opened fire in Encinitas, striking a man believed to have been involved in an armed robbery, officials said. 

Patrol cars and crime scene tape have a section of El Camino Court blocked off at the intersection with El Camino Real, approximately one mile north of the intersection with Manchester Avenue.

The suspect in an armed robbery at a taco shop on Birmingham at 5:30 a.m. was described as riding a blue motorcycle and wearing a black helmet.

Five minutes later, a deputy reported seeing a man matching that description near Birmingham and El Camino Real.

Department spokesperson Ryan Keim said the suspect fled on his motorcycle at a high speed before crashing near Pacific Pines Apartments. At that point, Keim said, the man ran on foot.

Three deputies chased the suspect. One deputy fired and struck the suspect, SDSO Lt. Kenn Nelson said.

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Robert Parkin, 53, of Encinitas was struck several times in the lower part of his body, officials said. His injuries were described by deputies as non-life threatening.

Nelson said deputies recovered money and a weapon on the ground described as a SW1911 pistol.

It's not known whether Parkin was pointing a weapon at deputies, Nelson said. Investigators have not been able to interview Parkin.

Nelson said there was no deputy-worn body camera footage of the incident.

No deputies were injured in the pursuit or shooting.

A San Diego-based cyber-security company CEO has been placed on administrative leave after social media posts threatening President-elect Donald Trump were reported to the U.S. Secret Service, the company statement confirmed Monday.

Twitter and Facebook accounts tied to Matthew Harrigan, the President & CEO of PacketSled, included comments threatening Trump Sunday afternoon, according to an NBC 7 source.

“I’m going to kill the president. Elect,” was one of the posts on Harrigan’s Twitter account. It was followed by the comment, “Bring it secret service.”

“…getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts,” reads a post to Harrigan’s Facebook account. “Find a bedroom in the whitehouse [sic] that suits you motherf---er. I’ll find you.”

In an official statement, PacketSled attributed the comments to Harrigan and said they are taking the situation seriously.

“Once we were made aware of these comments, we immediately reported this information to the secret service and will cooperate fully with any inquiries,” the company’s statement reads. “ These comments do not reflect the views or opinions of PacketSled, its employees, investors or partners. Our CEO has been placed on administrative leave.”

On Harrigan’s Twitter account, he posted three comments apologizing for the previous posts.

It is illegal to knowingly and willfully threaten to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon the president-elect, vice-president elect or their families. Anyone convicted of doing so faces five years in prison and fines.

NBC 7 has reached out to San Diego Police and the local FBI office to ask if Harrigan is facing any charges.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

A mathematics professor from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was presented with one of the most prestigious awards in the field.

Ruth Williams, Ph.D, was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Nashville, TN on Sunday night. She shares the award with researcher Martin Reiman from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University.

The John von Neumann Prize is named after a famed mathematician and was established in 1975. It is seen as the Nobel Prize in the math field.

The prize also consists of $5,000, a medallion and a citation.

Williams has been a faculty member at UCSD since 1983 and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, which is considered to be a rare honor for a mathematician.

A local law firm identified the most dangerous intersection in San Diego in a study based on data from the California Highway Patrol.

The study was released by Estey and Bomberger, a law firm with an office in San Diego, Los Angles, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Francisco.

Pala Mission Road at Pala Temecula Road, near State Route 76 ranked number 24 as one of the most dangerous intersections in California. It has a danger score of 100—calculated using a formula developed by Estey and Bomberger.

The study was derived from collision data from the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS), collected in 2015.

According to Estey and Bomberger, they analyzed more than 435,000 crash records in California with data visualization company 1point21 Interactive. 

Two of the most dangerous intersections that had the most crashes are located in Los Angeles. The city also had the highest number of dangerous intersections—221 of its 444 intersections.

San Diego had three.

To see the full list, click here.

President-elect Donald Trump's immigration plan is not unlike President Barack Obama's initial immigration plan, according to some experts. 

Trump has said he plans to deport up to three million people with criminal backgrounds, including rapists, drug traffickers and gang members.

Immigration attorney Ginger Jacobs says the idea is not unlike President Obama's from several years ago.

“These are the people Obama has gone after to be the number one priority for deportation,” said Jacobs.

Jacobs said in 2015, under Obama, 56 percent of the estimated 250,000 deported undocumented immigrants had some type of criminal record.

The maximum number that can be deported with existing resources is 400,000, experts say. However, everyone has the right to fight the immigration case in court, Jacobs says, which can take years.

“If you do the math, on 400,000 people per year, and even if you were going for two to three million, that still gets you to seven and a half years to get to those three million.”

Former U.S. attorney Pete Nunez says deportations can happen more quickly.

He says more money for judges, detention centers and federal agents is not the only answer. Nunez says Congress can make the system more efficient and effective.

“It is conceivable Congress could change the process to make it more efficient, more effective and work faster, so just that change could make the system better," he said. 

Even that isn’t necessary to speed up the process, Nunez said.

“Just adding an Administration to do what the law says and turning loose DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and ICE to do their jobs, you might see an increase," Nunez said. "There's no longer a political animal in the White House telling them, don't do your job.”

Jacob says it’s unrealistic to think two to three million people could be removed.

“It's very possible that people who are fighting their immigration cases that their case might outlast any given administration their case may take longer than four years," Jacobs said. "So this idea that all of a sudden two to three million people, poof, are going to be gone is a fantasy.”

The millions of people represent non-citizens with criminal backgrounds, says Jacobs. According to records from 2012, 800,000 who are in this country illegally have criminal records. The others have green cards or visas or are refugees. 

From deportations to building an unbreakable border wall, immigration was at the core of President-elect Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Now that the election is over, the question is whether Trump will actually build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a televised interview aired Sunday evening, Trump said the barrier wouldn’t necessarily be a straight border wall, but rather a combination of a wall and a fence.

But some supporters began to question whether the President-elect is now softening his stance on immigration or perhaps even backpedaling.

“He's definitely not going to be able to do everything he's talked about in his campaign. No politician does," said San Diego resident Meghan McCoy.

Building a wall along the 2,000 mile border would cost an estimated $25 billion.

According to a recent Pew Research Poll, about one third of Americans support a sealed border.

But for some, the hefty price tag is not worth it.

Director of Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, Ev Meade disagrees with a a border wall.

He told NBC 7 that when it comes to immigration enforcement, the money would be better spent elsewhere. He argues that illegal immigration mostly stems from overstayed visas, not illegal crossings.

“Undocumented immigration is actually at a 40-year low and migration from Mexico is net zero for the last decade,” Meade said. “There's not a lot of people flooding across the border from Mexico. Most of the undocumented people who come to the United States recently, have entered legally and then overstayed their visas.”

Even some of Trump’s supporters acknowledged that building a border wall between Mexico won’t be easy. But they said they were happy the controversial issue of immigration was addressed directly, without politically correct slogans.

“If people want to come here lawfully, great,” says San Diego resident Kim Cheatum. “If they don't, then they should do whatever they have to do to comply with the law.”

“I sure as hell hope he does what he says. I just want the border to be secure," said Sally Buer.

President-elect Trump will also have to look the Boundary Treaty between the U.S. and Mexico. If he were to build the wall under his current proposal, that agreement would have to be re-negotiated.

A brush fire was burning in a quarter acre area Monday night, according to the Chula Vista Fire Department (CVFD).

The fire was reported around 8:52 p.m. on Main Street and 4th Avenue near a drainage canal, just a few blocks away from Broadway in Chula Vista.

CVFD said it was moving slowly at the time.

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story.