The former British intelligence agent at the center of the maelstrom over a 35-page dossier about Donald Trump and the Russians is named Christopher Steele, but an ex-colleague refers to him by a more familiar moniker, NBC News reported.

"He's James Bond," said Nigel West, the intelligence historian and spy-novel author. "I actually introduced him to my wife as James Bond."

Like the movie character, the 52-year-old Steele attended Cambridge University, where he was president of the Cambridge Union Debating Society. He was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service, Britain's counterpart to the CIA, better known as MI6, right out of university, West said.

For the first time in American history, Lady Liberty will be portrayed as a woman of color on United States currency, NBC News reported.

In celebration of the U.S. Mint and Treasury's 225th anniversary, the new $100 coin was unveiled on Thursday featuring Lady Liberty as a black woman.

Since the passage of the Coinage Act in 1792, all coins are required to feature an "impression emblematic of liberty," in either words or images. Until the new coin designed by Justin Kunz was unveiled, Lady Liberty had always been depicted as a white woman.

EDITOR'S NOTE: NBC Chicago will offer a live stream of the announcement live at 10 a.m. CT right here. 

The U.S. Justice Department will release its report on the Chicago Police Department Friday, just one week before President Barack Obama leaves office.

Early reports indicate the Justice Department will find that there have been systemic constitutional rights abuses by Chicago police, though further details surrounding the report remain unclear.

Investigators worked to complete the 13-month probe before Obama’s presidency ended, with little certain about how Donald Trump's administration might handle the recommendations in the report.

Federal investigators arrived in Chicago soon after the release of high-profile dashcam footage showing the shooting of a teenager by a police officer, which quickly prompted outrage around the world and distrust of police in Chicago, even as violence was starting to spike.

The video, released in December 2015, showed the fatal shooting of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald. He was shot 16 times by a police officer while appearing to walk away. What was captured in the dashcam contradicted many of the accounts of the shooting Chicago police officers gave to investigators.

In the months following the release of the footage, the city saw its top cop fired, the Cook County state's attorney replaced after a failed re-election bid, an officer charged with murder and several others still facing discipline.

While the Laquan McDonald shooting was not the only hot-button issue facing police as the Justice Department began its probe, the shocking video was the tipping point, setting the entire examination of the Chicago Police Department in motion.

The shooting nearly went unnoticed. The initial police report claimed McDonald lunged at Officer Jason Van Dyke with a knife before the officer opened fire in self-defense. It wasn’t until 13 months later, after protracted fights in court, that the dashcam video was released.

More high-profile shooting incidents took place even as the Justice Department probe was underway. And a judge ruled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had to testify in a case centering on an alleged "code of silence" within the police department; the city quickly settled that case for $2 million.

Over the last year, the city has announced a series of police reforms, along with plans to hire additional officers and provide new training and body cameras.

“I didn’t think when it came to training our officers, giving them technology like body cameras or Tasers, that we should wait,” Emanuel said Thursay. 

Emanuel said he hasn’t seen the Justice Department's report, but plans to embrace what it has to say and continue to building on reforms that have already been put in place.

“Our officers are being asked to do a very difficult job in very trying areas,” Emanuel said Thursday. “Change is very hard—we’re making changes—and the biggest thing we can do to help our officers is support them.”

A similar investigation to the one launched in Chicago was also made in Baltimore in 2015, where the Department of Justice found violations among its police force. On Thursday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch signed a consent decree in the city, requiring Baltimore police to make changes to its practices.

“The Department of Justice will stand with you to ensure the reforms of this consent decree are implemented and our shared vision of a greater, safer and stronger Baltimore are realized,” she said.

The Chicago and Baltimore probes are among several conducted by the Justice Department during the Obama administration, which has made civil rights a priority. Many of those investigations have resulted in consent decrees.

It remains unclear if Chicago will face a consent decree following the report’s release on Friday, and some civil rights advocates are concerned about whether the Trump administration will enforce similar policies.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions said at his confirmation hearing for attorney general this week that he believes officers should be held accountable for their actions, but expressed concern that an entire department could be defamed over the actions of only a few.

Emergency crews and a hazmat team responded to Mineta San Jose International Airport on Thursday night after three flight attendants fell ill aboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle, according to airport and airline officials.

One of the attendants was transported to a hospital, and the other two were treated and released at the scene, officials said. No passengers were affected.

Hazmat crews' initial evaluation indicates they believe de-icing material caused the illnesses, according to Ann Vaninovich, spokeswoman for Alaska Airlines. She said the material, which was determined to be residue left over from de-icing the outside of the plane, is nontoxic. 

The airline said during the flight a crew member seated in the front galley noticed a light white powder coming out of a ceiling vent. Two of the crew seated in the area reported not feeling well. Pilots radioed ahead for medics to stage at the San Jose airport.

Alaska Flight 322 arrived in San Jose at 6:45 p.m., and emergency crews including the San Jose fire and police departments responded to the tarmac at Gate 26, airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said.

Passengers said it made for a tense few moments.

"There was an announcement, and they were like 'Oh, don't panic, but there might be some anti-freeze in the air,' and they were going to bring on paramedics to check it out and make sure everything was OK," passenger Anna Stensland said.

All 181 passengers were held on the plane for about 45 minutes while emergency crews assessed the situation, Barnes said. There were no impacts to the airport's operation.

A Japanese tapeworm has infected salmon that was caught off the North Alaskan coast, a new study revealed. 

The tapeworm, known as Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense, has caused thousands of infections in the Asia Pacific since 2008, according to the Washington Post. But now, researchers determined people who eat raw salmon caught in North America may be at risk of contracting the tapeworm infections. 

An increased popularity of eating raw fish and "global importation" has caused the reemergence of the tapeworm, the study concluded. 

The study, published by the Center for Disease Control, concluded “salmon from the American and Asian Pacific coasts and elsewhere pose potential dangers for persons who eat these fish raw.”

Researchers studied 64 wild pacific salmons and found the tapeworm in a single pink salmon that was caught near Hope, Alaska.

The main intent of the study, researchers wrote, was "to alert parasitologists and medical doctors about the potential danger of human infection with this long tapeworm resulting from consumption of infected salmon imported (on ice) from the Pacific coast of North America and elsewhere."

A car struck and injured a woman in downtown San Diego early Friday.

San Diego Police were called to 6th and B streets just before 6:30 a.m. when someone reported a taxi striking a pedestrian.

Officers said a woman suffered a fractured ankle in the collision.

The driver stayed at the scene while emergency personnel transported the victim to a nearby hospital.

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

A teenager with Asperger's who was missing for four days has been found safe, San Diego Police reported Friday.

The 16-year-old Del Cerro teenager was last seen Monday in La Mesa and Santee.

He was considered at-risk because he has been diagnosed with high-functioning Asperger's, police said.

San Diego Police thanked the public for their support but did not release details on where the teenager was located.

San Diegans faced a rainy morning and slick roads on the commute into work early Friday the 13th.

Moisture-laden air will push into the region from the south and bring steady rain through 10 a.m. according to the NBC 7 forecast.

"You will need your umbrella at any point heading out today, at any point heading out tonight," said NBC 7 Meteorologist Jodi Kodesh.

There may be some snow at top elevations in the mountains but not much is expected.

Click here to view NBC 7's Interactive Radar.

San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers shared this thoughts on the team's move to Los Angeles on sports radio early Friday.

Fans heard from Rivers for the first time when he spoke on the "Hardwick and Richards" show.

On how he found out:

“Like most things these days, nowadays, they start to leak a little sooner than it’s actually official. I thought the report was probably accurate the night before we were all hearing and I spoke with John Spanos early yesterday morning right before the whole thing went down at 8 a.m. and there on. Found out that way. Gosh, guys, I think like I told you a few days before a little bit numb about it all even beforehand and now even more so. I think it hadn’t really settled in.”

On wearing "Los Angeles" on his jersey:

“It’s all real new. It’s almost a little bit… Yeah, I can’t really resonate with it – yet. Shoot, I want to be very uh, … the word’s not fair… I want to be clear that my love for San Diego the time here, the memories we’ve had, the games, practices – everything about it is special and awesome. That’ll never go away. But at the same time – and I hope that people will understand this: I have to get excited and fired up about going up to a new area and representing our team, our organization and going and trying to, shoot, win as many games as we can win and be the same guy that I’ve always been. That’s the only way I know. So, I’m kinda in the middle of that, leaving behind something that, shoot, you love and you’re thankful for and you want to make sure everybody knows that and then, at the same time, I don’t want people around here to go, ‘Golly he sure seems so fired up to go up there.’ I’m just fired up all the time for whatever the task is. That’s just the only way I know. I hope as the dust settles a little bit. I know there are a lot of emotions right now, I hope people can understand that.”

“I hope that when the dust does settle that people who have been fans here for a long time can still watch the game on Sunday and go ‘Hey, that’s our quarterback.’ You want them to still feel that. Because you always do it’s like your hometown.”

“I hope they can still claim that here not just for me but all the guys and players they pulled for and the team in general. And hopefully up there, shoot, it’s brand new. It doesn’t happen overnight. You got to go there and build relationships and meet people. Shoot, guys I’ll be talking to for radio and print and TV and all those things, it’s all brand new. Then we gotta go play and still fight like crazy to win football games with the same group of guys in a different area. It’s really weird for me. It’s uncharted territory.”

On whether the team will do well in LA:

“Well, we’re going to find out and as anyone would expect the quarterback of the company to say, heck yeah, I believe. I do, I really do. It’s uncharted for all of us. I don’t envy the position Dean and his family are in. I don’t know all the details. I try my hardest just to accept my role as a quarterback and what that entails of leading a group of guys and find a way to get first downs and being – not a spokesman – but being that figurehead of the team, all of those things that come along with being the role of the quarterback. But not knowing every ins and outs of what we should do here or should do there when it’s above me. So, I don’t envy the position they were in. I know it was hard and it was. When it’s new like this, like a playoff loss or a tough time on the field, time can make things better. I know it’s not going to ever just be great and San Diego is going to just say, ‘Oh, that’s not a big deal’ I know it’s a big deal. I know it’s a big deal to come to this. But, we’re going go and I’m going to do my part the only way I know how. The Philip Rivers that San Diego’s gotten over the last 13 years that’s what they’re going to get up there. And I’m going to embrace that. And go like crazy. I’m not going to be there 13 years but I’m going to give them all I got for the short time I got left.”

On playing at StubHub:

“The bottom line to me is this: I’m not naïve to where we’re going and the market that’s there and the sense of how many pro sports teams and all more than that goes on up there. It’s about you gotta win. You win, people will be excited to come. You don’t win, then ain’t nobody going to be there. That’s just the way it’s going to be.”

How his family will be affected:

"I've been here 13 years and obviously this community means a great deal to me and we love it here."

"We don't know yet. We're going to exhaust all the options. It's still all real new. We have a little bit of an idea of where that facility may be, an idea that if it does go that way it may be the StubHub for two years. We've had a little bit of an idea. But I think now you have the next four, five months to figure it all out." 

On that logo:

“I think in fairness and I don’t know, again, I don’t think it’s necessarily our logo for the future like that’s our new logo forever going forward. I don’t know exactly what it is. I did see the fun with it. It’s alright. You’d expect it. Regardless of what that logo was, they were going to find some way to shoot holes in it I’m sure at that point yesterday.

After the Chargers announced plans to relocate the team to Los Angeles, the team launched its new website detailing what's in store for the Los Angeles Chargers and a new campaign to "Fight for LA." If you're a Chargers fan, here's what you need to know about the team's plans moving forward.

"Fight for LA"

The Chargers played their first season in Los Angeles in 1960, but called San Diego home for 56 years. Now, with plans to return to the City of Angels, Owner and Chairman of the Chargers Dean Spanos acknowledged in a statement that the "organization has a tremendous amount of work to do."

"We must get back to winning. And we must make a meaningful contribution, not just on the field, but off the field as a leader and champion for the community," Spanos said in the statement. "The Chargers are determined to fight for LA and we are excited to get started."

Shortly after plans to move were confirmed Thursday morning with a letter from Spanos, the team launched a new website emphasizing a team campaign to "Fight for LA," which the team hopes will demonstrate the Chargers' and the Spanos family's commitment to "earn the respect and loyalty of Los Angeles football fans," read a Chargers statement.

"Our ultimate goal is to bring L.A. a Super Bowl championship," said John Spanos, president of football operations for the team, in a statement. "When we say we will fight for L.A., this is the essence of our pledge."

The team went five and 11 last season in the AFC West.

Logo

Shortly after the announcement, the Chargers changed the logo on its social media accounts.

The letters "LA" are shown in white on a navy background, and the end of the "L" turns into the Chargers' iconic lightning bolt.

In a radio interview Thursday, Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos was asked about the logo similarity. He said: "I don't know if this is going to be permanent or if it's going to be the introductory logo into the marketplace. My son is handling all that so I'd have to defer to him."

NBC4's affiliate NBC San Diego reached out to Bill Johnston, Director of Public Relations with the Chargers. He responded with the following statement:

"We are not changing our official marks/logos. Nothing about our uniforms, colors, helmets, etc. is changing. That image is strictly for marketing use."

The Chargers' New Home

The team will play at the StubHub Center in Carson until a new stadium, which will serve as the home for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chargers, is built at Hollywood Park in Inglewood.

StubHub Center is located on the California State University Dominguez Hills campus in Carson. "Capacity for Chargers games at StubHub Center will be 30,000 seats, with approximately 3,000 premium and field seats, 46 suites, 16 cabanas, and 10,000 on-site parking spaces," according to the Chargers.

The team's future home is being constructed on the former site of the Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood.

The stadium, with an estimated capacity of about 80,000, is expected to include 275 luxury suites, more than 16,000 premium seats and have nearly 3 million square feet of usable space. The overall project has a price tag estimated at about $2.6 billion.

Season Tickets

The team's website gave fans the option to place a refundable $100 deposit to "secure an opportunity" to purchase season tickets, the website reads.

"The fully-refundable $100 deposit allows fans to reserve up to four seats at StubHub Center, ensures priority status for 2017 Chargers season tickets, and grants priority status for seats at the new Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park, the future home of the Chargers," read a statement from the team Thursday.

The website noted a spot on the waitlist does not ensure the person placing the deposit will receive season tickets, because tickets will be sold to fans depending on when they joined the waitlist.

"Current Chargers Season Ticket Members will maintain their priority status and are not required to make a deposit," a statement from the team read.

More information about placing a deposit was listed on the Los Angeles Chargers website.

Country music star Toby Keith, actor Jon Voight and rock band 3 Doors Down will take part in President-elect Donald Trump's welcome celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, the day before the inauguration.

Trump's inauguration committee announced Friday morning which performers and other groups will participate at the two-part celebration.

The festivities will begin with "Voices of the People" performances and then segue into the "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration."

Trump is scheduled to speak at the event, then the "Voices of the People" groups will take the stage and then the welcome celebration will begin.

The concert is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Gates will open at 12:30 p.m. and close at 3:30 p.m.

Here's the full list of "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" participants announced Friday:

Toby Keith

Jon Voight

Jennifer Holliday

The Piano Guys

Lee Greenwood

RaviDrums

3 Doors Down

The Frontmen of Country

Here's the full list of "Voices of the People" participants announced Friday:

The DC Fire Department Emerald Society Pipes and Drums

King’s Academy Honor Choir

Republican Hindu Coalition

Montgomery Area High School Marching Band

Marlana Van Hoose

Maury NJROTC Color Guard

Pride of Madawaska

Webelos Troop 177

Northern Middle School Honors Choir

American Tap Company

South Park and District Pipe Band

Everett High School Viking Marching Band

TwirlTasTix Baton Twirling

Celtic United Pipes and Drums

Military bands also will participate. A fireworks show will follow.

The event will honor the American people, Presidential Inaugural Committee chairman Tom Barrack said.

"The 58th Inaugural will celebrate American history and heritage, while setting the course to a brighter and bolder future for all Americans,” he said in a statement. “Above all, it will serve as tribute to one of our greatest attributes, the peaceful transition of partisan power."

Free tickets can be requested by visiting 58PIC2017.org. A reporter who requested a ticket through the website received a response on the site that said "We've recieved (sic) your request and will get back with you soon."

The event will be available for broadcast by television networks.

The Chargers’ move from San Diego to Los Angeles leaves a big opportunity for the redevelopment of Qualcomm Stadium in Mission Valley, and one frontrunner is already emerging for the major task at hand.

The wheels are already turning in regards to the future of Qualcomm Stadium and the land around the centrally-located stadium in San Diego. The city’s loss of the Chargers could ultimately be a win for the Mission Valley community.

NBC 7 spoke with residents about this after the Bolts announced they were moving to Los Angeles Thursday, and many had their own ideas of what could become of the stadium site.

“[It could be’ sued for education by a university or college, by the city to be used for something that will help residents of San Diego,” one man suggested.

“Fix it up, make it look nice,” another San Diegan added.

There have been talks of “The Q” perhaps attracting a Major League Soccer team at some point.

“Oh, that’d be rad,” one local said of that possibility. “A soccer team would be pretty cool; I’d support that.”

Deciding what to do with the 166-acre plot isn't easy but CEO of JMI Realty, John Kratzner, thinks he has the answer.

“We’re talking about a transit-oriented development that's self-contained, that doesn't generate huge burdens in terms of traffic and environmental impact to Mission Valley,” Kratzner explained, laying out his game plan.

JMI Realty is best known for developing the downtown San Diego ballpark district around Petco Park. Now, the company is pushing to make the Qualcomm Stadium site into a satellite campus for San Diego State University (SDSU).

Kratzner said the conceptual rendering for the project includes housing, science and research labs, and a smaller, less expensive stadium for sporting events.

“These 30,000 to 40,000-person stadiums can be built for far, far less. I would suggest to you $200-$250 million,” he added.

SDSU President Elliot Hirshman is already working closely with San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer on ideas for the future of Qualcomm Stadium.

“We have an opportunity to create something very special as a community in San Diego – let’s move forward together,” Hirshman said.

The MTS trolley connection to nearby Montezuma Mesa makes the deal even more intriguing - reducing the reliance on vehicle traffic. Also, many residents NBC 7 spoke with like the idea of more recreational space along the San Diego River.

While some think the city should get top-dollar for the land, Kratzner believes the deal could have a much bigger long term benefit.

“I might argue that selling it to the university for $50 million is a better proposition than selling it to a developer for $150 million,” he told NBC 7. “This is a significant asset, whose future use will have tremendous impact on whatever happens in San Diego for generations to come.”

Of course, looking at the bigger picture, whatever happens at the Qualcomm Stadium site won't unfold just yet – or even within the next few years. In fact, city leaders say it could take decades but the important thing is having a good, solid master plan.

And now, that plan – whatever it may be – got a little simpler knowing once and for all that the Chargers won’t be a part of it.

The case of a baby abducted from a Jacksonville hospital nearly 18 years ago has been solved, police said Friday, with the newborn girl grown into a healthy young adult.

Kamiyah Mobley was found alive and well in South Carolina, Jacksonville sheriff’s deputies announced at a news conference.

According to NBC affiliate WTLV-TV, over 2,000 leads came out in the year following her abduction, but all ran dry and the case remained cold for nearly two decades. But officers found Mobley, who was living under a different name, and received a DNA sample which later proved she was the abducted infant.

A tip sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploted Children last year helped break the case, sheriff's officials said on the department's Twitter account. 

Police did not release the name Mobley has been living under, but did announce the arrest of 51-year-old Gloria Williams on charges that include kidnapping. It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney.

Mobley was taken from University Medical Center on July 10, 1998, just eight hours after she was born. According to reports at the time, a woman posing as a health care worker entered her room saying the child had a fever and needed to be checked before grabbing Mobley and leaving the hospital.

Surveillance video could not identify the person who took Mobley, with nurses at the time saying that person had been with the baby hours before the abduction. A camera inside the nursery was broken and there were no photos taken of Mobley before the abduction.

Mobley is now in good health, and "a normal 18-year-old woman," according to the sheriff's Twitter account. Her biological family is "elated" but the victim will determine how she'll make contact with them. 

The University of California, San Diego will receive $10.5 million from Switzerland’s Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation to research the mysteries of human breast milk.

Breast milk is known to be the best source of nutrition for babies, but the composition of human milk still puzzles researchers. The foundation is funding a new initiative to provide an evidence-based understanding of how genetic and environmental factors affect human milk. The initiative also will research how human milk affects the health of the recipient over their lifespan.

"UC San Diego has a strong track record for interdisciplinary collaborations and researchers who aren't afraid to challenge conventional wisdom," UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said in a statement. "As one of the world's top research universities, we are committed to advancing the wellbeing of our society.”

The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation's gift includes seed funding for a new center at UC San Diego (called Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence). The cash will also go towards an endowed faculty chair in collaborative human milk research, as well as a collaboration and fellow fund for collaborative studies either within UC San Diego or with external researchers.

The center will accept further gifts and endowments, which will allow it to grow over time, the university stated in a press release.

Lars Bode, associate professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine, has been named the center's director.

Based in Zug, Switzerland, the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation is an independent charitable group that supports research in human milk and lactation. The gift to UC San Diego follows the foundation's endowment of two professorships in this field at the University of Western Australia and the University of Zurich.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Two members of Tower of Power, a group that has been an R&B institution for nearly 50 years, were hit by a train Thursday night as they walked across tracks before a performance in their hometown of Oakland, but both survived, their publicist said.

Calling it an “unfortunate accident,” publicist Jeremy Westby said in a statement that drummer David Garibaldi and bass player Marc van Wageningen are “responsive and being treated at a local hospital.”

Garibaldi has been with the group since 1970. Van Wageningen is substituting as bass player.

Tower of Power, which performs in San Diego nearly every year, is scheduled to play the Belly Up in Solana Beach on Jan. 18. According to the venue's Show Promotions Manager, Meryl Klemow, the concert is still on and going forward as planned.

Without identifying them, the Oakland Fire Department said earlier that two pedestrians were hit by a passenger train at Jack London Square about 7:30 p.m. and taken to a hospital.

The accident was near Yoshi’s, a jazz and R&B club where the group had been scheduled to play two shows Thursday night. Both were canceled.

It wasn’t clear why the men were on the tracks, but pedestrians often need to cross them in the area with trains running across and in between streets, including right outside Yoshi’s.

Emilio Castillo, the leader of Tower of Power, wrote on the band's Facebook page Friday morning that Garibaldi suffered swelling to his face and head, "but he was lucid and expected to recover." Van Wageningen was taken into surgery and doctors were able to control his internal bleeding, Castillo penned. Doctors, who are waiting for van Wageningen to stablize before conducting additional tests, are "cautiously optimistic" about the bassist's status.

Witnesses said the scene was confusing because one train passed by and the crossing signals went up and lights stopped flashing. They added that the two men may have assumed it was safe to cross.

"We were maybe two feet from a train that was flying by," Hae-Sin Thomas said. "We could feel the rush of it, which is why we kind of leaned back and moved away from the train. The other two gentlemen were not so fortunate."

Amtrak train 547, on the Capitol Corridor line that travels between Sacramento and San Jose, had 26 passengers onboard with no reported injuries to passengers or crew, Amtrak officials said. They added that the two pedestrians struck by the train were trespassing on the tracks. Ambtrack did not address whether or not there was a malfunction with the crossing gate or lights.

The enduring band was founded in Oakland in 1968 and became known for its big, brassy sound blending funk and rock. Their highest-charting song is 1973's "So Very Hard to Go," but the band has continued to record and perform with a rotating line-up, and will turn 50 next year.

Garibaldi joined Tower of Power in 1970, according to the band's website. Van Wageningen, a member of the Pete Escovedo Orchestra, is a stand-in musician for the group, according to the East Bay Times.

Tributes and well wishes were quickly emerging on Twitter, including one from pop star and drummer Sheila E., who tweeted “Pleez pray for my frenz.”

(The Associated Press contributed to this article)

San Diego County Crimestoppers is offering $1,000 reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of three drivers who failed to stop after striking a woman and killing her in Linda Vista four months ago.

Family members identified the victim as Wynonna Mitchell, 48, a resident of Chollas View.

Mitchell died September 11 after she was hit by three vehicles traveling northbound on Linda Vista Road near Mesa College Drive.

After the first vehicle hit Mitchell and didn't stop, she was struck again by a pickup truck and then a third time by a sedan.

Mitchell's family told NBC 7 she was the mother of nine children and has two grandchildren, with two more on the way. Her death left an emptiness in their hearts.

“No one helped. They just left her for dead like she was just a nothing, a nobody,” Mitchell’s daughter Le’Toya Jackson said.

Investigators say evidence left at the scene identifies the first vehicle as a 1985-1986 Toyota Camry. The car sustained a broken front, left, driver side turn signal.

Anyone with information on a vehicle that may fit that description can call SDPD’s Traffic Division at (858) 495-7808 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477.

Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to an arrest in this case. Anonymous email and text messages can be sent via www.sdcrimestoppers.org.

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., does not believe Donald Trump was legitimately elected, telling NBC News in an exclusive interview Friday that he believes Russians "participated in helping this man get elected" and "helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton."

Lewis, a leader in the fight for civil rights, said so after being asked in an interview for "Meet the Press" whether he would try to forge a relationship with the president-elect.

Lewis said he believes in forgiveness and working with people, but added, "it's going to be very difficult. I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president."

Lewis also said that he doesn't plan on attending Trump's inauguration, the first time he'll miss one in his 30-year career in Congress.