A sinkhole appeared early Tuesday following a water main break in the Otay Ranch area of Chula Vista.

The first report occurred at approximately 3 a.m. at Magdalena Avenue and E. Palomar Street. The neighborhood is south of Olympic Parkway and west of the toll road section of State Route 125.

One neighbor said there was a car parked right where that sinkhole opened up.

“It's kind of concerning beccause it could be my car there. I've parked there before,” said Carlos Jasso.

Repair crews found the car’s owner and had them move the vehicle before the sinkhole opened up.

There was another water main break last Friday but it wasn't this big, residents said.

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

A violent fight in Scripps Ranch Tuesday appears to have been over a woman, San Diego Police said.

Officers were called to Cypress Canyon Park at 2 a.m. Sticks or baseball bats were used in an argument that was apparently over a woman, police said. Three people were taken to the hospital.

Two men and a woman were hanging out when two men showed up, police said.

The original calls to police reported someone fighting near the park.

Officers arrived to the area of Caminito Festivo and Cypress Canyon Road, just south of the park.

Police say what started as a fist fight escalated when one of those involved grabbed a bat or a baton.

The victims got into a car and tried to drive away but crashed into a parked car along Cypress Canyon Road, police said.

Two suspects were seen in a dark-colored Toyota Corolla.

The three victims – two men and one woman – were expected to recover from their injuries. One was hospitalized.

San Diego architect Walt Conwell, 74, who has had a career of more than 30 years as principal architect and owner of multiple design firms in San Diego, has brought on a new partner, Bryan Macias, 33, and renamed the firm. 

Walt Conwell Architects is now Macias Conwell Architects.

“Without a doubt, he is one of the most professional project managers I have ever worked with, and I’ve worked with over 200 in my 34 years,” Conwell said.

Conwell started his architectural career in San Diego in 1983 as a principal at Conwell Marshall Architects.

In 2006, he reopened his practice as Walt Conwell Architects.

Macias, who moved to San Diego in 2004, began working with Conwell about six months after Conwell reopened his practice.

The firm’s clients have included San Diego stalwarts Solar Turbines, Karl Strauss Brewing Co., La Jolla Country Day School, Hawthorne Machinery Co. and Jack in the Box.

Conwell and Macias worked with Strauss Brewing on five of the beer purveyor's restaurants, including its San Diego eateries in 4S Ranch and Sorrento Mesa.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the country's 45th president on Friday and thousands of his supporters from across the country will attend to witness the historic event. They hope his presidency will be the start of an American revival that will bring greater prosperity to the country.

The next day thousands of women, many dismayed by the president-elect's crude references to them and his embrace of policies they believe will hurt them and their families, will march in the capital. Many will wear pink hats with cat ears, in a reference to Trump's now famous statement that he could grab women "by the pussy."

Hear from some of those planning to attend.

Voices of men and women headed to D.C. for Trump's inauguration:

David J. Pelto Jr.

Pelto Jr., 35, will attend the inauguration with his two sons to witness history and what he called the return of "common sense" to the White House. For Pelto, who owns a truck and hauls oil, taxes are an enormous issue. At one point he owned several trucks until a drop in oil prices, and his business was further hurt by employment taxes he had to pay for drivers who worked for him, he said. "It costs on average 15 percent on top of an employee's wage," he said. "Depending on the state it can go much higher." Pelto, who lives in Arkansas, said that he hoped that entrepreneurs would benefit from the $1 trillion that President-elect Donald Trump has proposed spending on infrastructure. Pelto, who describes himself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal, also thinks the country should be less resistant to fracking. The increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma, which has been linked to wastewater disposal wells, do worry him, but he believes fracking is safe elsewhere. As far as green energy, "Why don't we allow what we have now to continue working for us while we grow slowly into green energy?"

John Hikel

Hikel, 58, a former New Hampshire legislator and the longtime owner of an auto-repair business in Manchester, said he had supported Donald Trump since meeting him three months before the president-elect decided to run. "He had never been elected to an elected office before and he wasn't an attorney and that was my minimum," Hikel said. He said he wanted to see fewer regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency and the IRS, among agencies, particularly those governing clean air, which he said he thought were too stringent. "When Mr. Trump talked to me about trimming all of these agencies, I couldn't agree more," he said. Hikel said he was looking forward to a manufacturing revival under Trump, whom he viewed as a strong-willed leader. "More and more (customers) are coming into my shop not being able to spend $100 or $200 or $300 even to fix their vehicles," he said. "People are living paycheck to paycheck. I know they have for a long time but that's a problem that our government has handed down to us."

Erin Sullivan

Sullivan, 20, a junior at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, voted for the first time in November and she picked President-elect Donald Trump. The country needs a revival, and Trump's tax and immigration policies and his ideas for creating more jobs in America will help rebuild the country, Sullivan said. An example: his urging automobile manufacturers to build cars in the United States and not in Mexico or elsewhere, she said. "Trump is really focusing on the American dream, and looking at the people who worked really hard and sometimes don't necessarily have a voice," she said. As a young woman, she found his lewd comment about grabbing women to be disgusting, but thought everyone at some point was bound to say something stupid. In his favor, Trump hired women for spots in his campaign, among them SMU alumna Hope Hicks as his director of strategic communications, she said. Sullivan, who is from Wilton, Connecticut, will attend the inauguration with other students from SMU and will volunteer at the Texas State Society Black Tie and Boots Ball.

Austin Yang

Yang, 14, a student at La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla, California, will attend the inauguration with a group of schoolmates. "It's such an important event in our American government," he said. Too young to vote, Yang nonetheless had a preferred candidate, Donald Trump. "We thought that Trump would be better toward the Chinese," said Yang, whose mother was born in China. Trump instead threatened a trade war with China over the value of its currency. "The exact opposite of what we thought would happen," Yang said. "I'm not very happy with it but I guess we can only deal with it now since he's our president." Yang, who expects to study medicine, remains hopeful that Trump will moderate his views once he meets with Chinese officials.

Joseph Locke

Locke, 21, works in construction, attends Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts full time and will soon start classes at the Massachusetts state reserve police academy with the goal of joining a town police force. He believes that Trump will ensure the military is better prepared to defend the country and cut back spending to tackle the country's debt. "Seeing it from a businessman's perspective where you can see where you can make cuts and not have detriment to the country," he said. Locke ran a Trump campaign office in his hometown Easton, Massachusetts, where he organized volunteers making phone calls and as part of the Bridgewater State University's College Republicans, he reached out to college students. "He didn't seem just like a regular politician," he said of Trump. "I like that he actually says what he feels and what he thinks."

The day after Trump's inauguration, thousands of women are expected on the Mall for the Women's March on Washington. 

Voices of women headed to D.C. for the women's march:

Kica Matos

Matos, 50, plans join the Women’s March on Washington the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration to show her 11-year-old son what is possible in a democracy. A former deputy mayor in New Haven, Connecticut, she wants to impress on him that he should be an engaged citizen, that he can participate in peaceful protests and fight for what he believes in. Matos, the director of immigration at The Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C.,  said she feared that Trump's election would undermine advances made in racial justice, immigrant rights and women's rights. His campaign, with attacks on immigrants, Muslims and people of color, brought out the worst in many Americans, she said. Of her son, she said, "I want him to believe that we are better as Americans and that we should always strive for a world that respects others, regardless of difference," she said. "And to me this march, the idea of women from all walks of life coming together in solidarity and in support of a better, more just world is incredibly appealing."

Laura Noe

Noe, 50, will participate in the Women's March on Washington, the first she has ever gone to, because she believes the country must re-think its values. Americans are becoming insulated and isolated, mean and judgmental and are losing the ability to empathize with others, she said. "It becomes an us and them, black and white, win lose," she said. After her divorce, she sold her home so that she and her son could travel and see first-hand how other people lived. "We're all about our stuff, buying and buying, consuming and gobbling up," she said. "I decided I wanted to spend my time and money on experiences." Noe, who owns a marketing and communications company in Branford, Connecticut, wrote about their trips to France, the Czech Republic, Morocco and Turkey in "Travels With My Son: Journeys of the Heart." She is now writing about her brother, Ed, who became homeless, was diagnosed with mental illness and after many years is getting treatment. They celebrated Thanksgiving together for the first time in 17 years.

Chloe Wagner, Morenike Fabiyi

Wagner and Fabiyi, both 16 and juniors at Francis W. Parker High School in Chicago, worked with the Illinois chapter of the Women's March on Washington and Chicago Women Take Action to put together a group of teenagers from their school to attend the march. They call their organization the Illinois Youth Chapter. Wagner is particularly concerned with LGBTQ rights and reproductive rights; Fabiyi is focused on immigration rights and education reform. Wagner said that after Trump's win, she at first felt powerless. "There wasn't anything happening for a few days and then all of a sudden we just came back full force and that's when we really starting getting passionate about bringing Illinois Youth to Washington," she said. Fabiyi said that she also felt lost but quickly realized that she needed to do something. "I can't just be mad and sad and complain about it all the time," she said. Wagner said one of the goals of the march was to tell the Trump administration that "we will not be walked over, and we will fight for all rights we are given under the Constitution." Said Fabiyi, "Just because I can't vote yet doesn't mean that my voice shouldn't be heard."

Alexandra Goutnova

Goutnova, 15 and a student at La Jolla Country Day School in California, will be attending both the inauguration and the Women's March on Washington though she does not support President-elect Donald Trump. "I'm very passionate about women's rights," she said. Goutnova, who moved to the United States from Russia three years ago and who plans to attend law school, is bothered by comments Trump has made about women and by his denial of climate change. "It is a proven scientific fact that this is happening and this is happening right now," she said. "So the fact that our president is not willing to deal with it I think is absurd." Americans compared to Russians are more accepting, about LGBTQ rights, for example, she said. She said she is terrified that the United States will change. "Coming from Russia, I've seen the difference of how it can be in a bad way," she said. "And I'm just scared to see that happen to the U.S."

Three winter storms will move into San Diego, beginning Wednesday evening, and lasting through Monday night. Heavy rainfall and possible thunderstorms will be enough to cause flooding.

The first storm will move in, late Wednesday, and bring rain Thursday. Another storm will move in Friday. There is a chance of showers on Saturday and Sunday. The final storm in this series is expected Monday.

“Monday should be the biggest storm,” said NBC 7 Meteorologist Jodi Kodesh. Check the NBC 7 forecast here.

Preliminary rainfall totals following the weekend are estimated to be 2 to 4 inches along the coast with 3 to 5 inches in the valleys.

In the mountains, we could receive 5 to 10 inches of rainfall with snow predicted above 5,000 feet. Snowfall could measure between an inch and five inches in some areas with the higher peaks receiving 7 inches to a foot of new snow.

Farther east, residents in the upper desert areas could see an inch to 3 inches of rain with slightly less (1 to 2 inches) in the lower deserts.

“My concern is, after the first and second storms move through, our ground will be saturated,” Kodesh said. “That means, when the final storm rolls in, the ground won’t be able to absorb much, and we run a really high risk of run-off and flash flooding.”

Wednesday: A sun and cloud mix, with a high of 61.

Wednesday evening: A chance of showers after 10 p.m., with rain becoming likely after 4 a.m. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 53. West wind, 10 to 15 mph.

Thursday: Rain before 10a.m., then showers likely for the remainder of the day. There is a chance of thunderstorms. High near 60. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday evening: Showers likely. Low around 53.

Friday: Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. High around 58.

Friday evening: Mostly cloudy, with showers. Low around 52.

Saturday: A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high around 58.

Saturday evening: A slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 50.

Sunday: A slight chance of rain. Partly cloudy, with a high around 61.

Sunday evening: Rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53.

Monday: Rain is likely. The rain could be heavy at times. High around 59.

Monday evening: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51.

Tuesday: A slight chance of a morning shower. Partly cloudy, with a high around 59.

Make sure to download NBC 7’s free news app. Weather alerts, like flood advisories warnings are issued through the app. There is also a local, interactive radar.

Authorities have identified the man found dead inside a bloody laundry room at an apartment complex in Vista ove the weekend -- but his cause of death remains a mystery.

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSO) confirmed Tuesday that the victim was Miguel Alejandro Ruiz, a 30-year-old Vista resident. While Ruiz's manner of death has been ruled a homicide, the SDSO said his autopsy has been sealed, so his cause of death is unknown.

SDSO Homicide Detail Lt. Kenn Nelson said there have been no arrests yet in the killing of Ruiz.

On Jan. 14, just before 4:40 a.m., deputies were called to an apartment complex located at 1515 South Melrose Dr. to investigate a report of a person hurt int he communal laundry room of the residential building.

In the laundry room, deputies discovered Ruiz suffering from some type of undisclosed trauma to his body. He died at the scene.

Nelson said that "based on the position" of Ruiz's body, it was difficult for deputies to immediately determine the type of injuries to the victim. 

"There is quite a large amount of blood there," the lieutenant said, speaking of the laundry room scene.

Vista resident Lundy Dawn lives at the apartment complex on South Melrose Drive and told NBC 7 she woke up to "chaos" on the morning of Jan. 14, including deputies' sirens blaring and dogs barking. Dawn said she also heard a lot of yelling at the complex, which sounded like it was coming from the laundry room.

"It was hard to understand and comprehend," she recounted. "I heard the sirens and then finally realized what was going on. Obviously, there was something major going on."

Dawn, like other residents, was shaken by the incident at their apartment complex. Some residents were told to stay inside their apartments for many hours that morning while investigators searched for evidence just steps from their front doors.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information on this case can reach out to the SDSO's Homicide Detail at (858) 974-2321 or call the after-hours line at (858) 565-5200.

About 18 million people would lose or drop their health insurance in the first year after Obamacare is repealed, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday.

The nonpartisan federal agency also found that health insurance premiums would spike another 20 to 25 percent, NBC News reported. Within 10 years, 32 million more people would be without health insurance, the CBO projects.

Without a replacement, health care costs overall would continue to rise every year, as would the number of people going without health insurance.

Premiums would continue to go up, as well.

A woman from San Diego’s North County can officially call herself a millionaire after winning nearly $1.1 million playing the California Lottery’s Powerball game.

Theresa Mitchell, who lives in Vista, bought a very lucky Powerball ticket at a 7-Eleven store located at 900 N. Santa Fe Ave.

In a drawing on Dec. 17, 2016, Mitchell’s ticket matched five of the six winning numbers – 1, 8, 16, 40 and 48 -- to win the $1,098,095 Powerball prize. She missed only the Powerball number, which was 10. Now, one month later, Mitchell has finally come forward to claim her prize, California Lottery officials said.

Less than a month before the Dec. 17 drawing, a 7-Eleven in San Diego’s Midway District sold another winning ticket worth $1.5 million. That winner has yet to come forward.

Two local restaurants – one specializing in tasty breakfast and lunch items and the other a throwback to a cute, little 1950s diner – have landed on Yelp’s list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in 2017.

The list, which includes a plethora of delicious dining destinations across the country, names these two local spots among the best in the U.S. – at least based on reviews from Yelp users: Sunny Side Kitchen in Escondido and Classics Malt Shop in San Diego.

Sunny Side Kitchen – located at 155 S. Orange St., between Grand and Second avenues in downtown Escondido – serves hot paninis, sandwiches, salads, soups, cookies, craft coffee and more during breakfast and lunch hours. The eatery nabbed the No. 51 spot on Yelp’s list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in 2017 in the U.S.

Meanwhile, Classics Malt Shop – located at 3615 Midway Dr., Suite B, in the Point Loma area – is a 1950s-themed diner that offers burgers, jumbo hot dogs, hand-scooped malts and shakes and old-fashioned favorites like root beer floats and Italian sodas. According to Yelp, Classics Malt Shop is No. 100 in the Top Places to Eat rankings.

Yelp says the list – now in its fourth year – was determined by the reviews received by businesses on Yelp in the restaurant and food truck categories. Both the rating and volume of reviews were taken into consideration. This year, the methodology for putting together the list also weighed heavily on more recent reviews of eateries, giving up-and-coming eateries a chance to shine, according to Yelp. Yelp says half of this year’s top 100 places to eat opened in the past two years.

Yelp also says nearly 75 percent of the eateries that made the cut are also affordable, fast-casual spots priced at under $10 per person.

Here’s a peek at the eateries across the country that nabbed the top 10 spots on the list; for the full 100 places, click here.

1) Tony’s Italian Delicatessen (Montgomery, Texas)
2) Afghan Bistro (Springfield, Virginia)
3) AJ’s Press (Tampa, Florida)
4) TKB Bakery & Deli (Indio, California)
5) Bell Street Farm (Los Alamos, California)
6) Sammy D’s Cafe (Lake George, New York)
7) Ciao! Pizza And Pasta (Chelsea, Massachusetts)
8) Fratellino (Coral Gables, Florida)
9) Fox Smokehouse Bbq (Boulder City, Nevada)
10) Little Miss BBQ (Phoenix, Arizona)

Last year, eight restaurants in San Diego County made Yelp’s Top 100 list, including Chula Vista’s beloved Tacos El Gordo. To see that list, click here.

President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified material.

Manning — then known as Bradley — was locked up in 2010 after swiping 700,000 military files and diplomatic cables and giving them to Wikileaks. She is one of 209 people Obama granted commutations to on Tuesday.

In the past, presidents have made a splash with clemency on their way out. Former President Bill Clinton ignited a major controversy with a last-minute pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich, the ex-husband of a major Democratic fundraiser. But Obama has viewed clemency as a tool to promote policy goals, not to "clean out the barn" on his way out, a White House official told The Associated Press.

Presidents have two clemency options: commutations, which reduce sentences being served but don't erase convictions, and pardons, which generally restore civil rights — like voting — often after a sentence has been served.

Earlier in his presidency, Obama was unsatisfied with the cases he was receiving, officials said, and so in a 2014 initiative the Justice Department created specific criteria focusing on nonviolent individuals like drug offenders who have served 10 years and, if convicted under today's more lenient sentencing guidelines, would have received shorter sentences.

All told, Obama has granted 1,385 commutations and 212 pardons — fewer pardons than some presidents, but more commutations than any other, the White House said.

Obama's goal in taking on the commutations project was to spur action in Congress on a criminal justice overhaul. That seemed initially promising, but the momentum petered out.

Authorities have arrested a man in connection with the shooting death of a mother on the Pala Indian Reservation, San Diego County Sheriff's deputies said. 

Carolyn Cagey, 43, was found dead on the 2900 block of W. Pala Mission Road on the reservation early Monday after deputies responded to a call for an assault with a deadly weapon, deputies said. 

The Native American woman suffered signs of trauma to her upper body; deputies later said she had been shot multiple times. Her dead was ruled a homicide. 

The victim had another son who died four years ago, and the family had also buried a relative recently.

On Tuesday morning, Sheriff's homicide investigators and the San Diego County regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Multon Trujillo in connection with Cagey's death. He was arrested on the 44200 block of Margarita Road in the City of Temecula. 

He was booked into the Vista Detention Facility and charged with a single count of murder. 

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Homicide Detail at (858) 974-2321 or after hours at (858) 565-5200. You can also remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477 and be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

No other information was immediately available.

Using a mix of “math, science and precision,” a spirited University of San Diego (USD) graduate is gearing up to open her own local distillery in an industry historically dominated by men.

Laura Johnson graduated from USD in 2014. For the past few years, she has been working on conceptualizing and launching You & Yours Distilling Co., an urban distillery and tasting room located at 1495 15th St. in downtown San Diego’s East Village, set to open soon.

The business will be among the country’s few female-led distilleries, and Johnson is completely comfortable with that. In fact, she welcomes the challenge.

“Historically, the distilling industry has been a Boys’ Club,” she told NBC 7 on Tuesday. “I’m excited to teach people about distilling and bring people into this world."

Growing up in North Texas, Johnson said she developed an appreciation for spirits early on – more specifically, the science of what makes a good drink. In college, she took a road trip and made a pit stop at a distillery. From that point on, she felt she had found her calling.

“I was fascinated by the care, art and process of distilling – enthralled by how spirits are made,” she recalled. “It is difficult – nitty-gritty – the math, science and precision of it all."

After college, Johnson took a few master distilling classes and tried to get a job at several distilleries across California. No one was hiring, so she set her sights higher and began to formulate plans to open her very own distillery.

Her vision came at a good time, just as the craft cocktail trend swept the restaurant and bar industry, including San Diego’s dining scene.

“I think craft spirits are the final frontier in the craft cocktails trend,” she explained.

When You & Yours Distilling Co. opens – hopefully late next month – Johnson said the 2,300-square-foot space will feature a production area in the back, where she will do the distilling, and a bar and tasting room area in the front, where patrons can order cocktails and taster flights of her concoctions.

To start, Johnson said her distillery will serve one type of craft vodka and one type of craft gin – and a variety of cocktails featuring the spirits.

She described the vodka as 100 percent grape-based – distilled from fermented grapes – featuring “fruity, floral and vanilla notes” with a smooth finish. The gin, which Johnson hopes will become You & Yours’ flagship spirit, is also 100 percent grape-based and “citrus-forward and fresh,” while also keeping in line with the traditional qualities of gin.

“It’s my baby – my passion project,” she explained. “I want [You & Yours] to be known for gins.”

Johnson said it took her just under a year to develop the recipe for each spirit. A batch of each – which makes about 4,000 bottles – takes about 10 days to make.

Her process includes starting with what those in the industry refer to as a “distiller’s beer” – fermented fruit wine or beer – and putting that into a still for “stripping runs,” which removes the organic material and heightens the alcohol content. The number of stripping runs depends on the type of spirit she’s distilling. After that, she adds water.

“It’s a very detail-oriented job,” Johnson added. “I love it.”

When the distillery opens, patrons will have a chance to quench their curiosity about the spirits-making process with tours of the back room. Johnson said she plans to offer tours on the weekends that, of course, end with a tasting. Patrons will also be able to buy bottles of spirits on site that they can take home and mix up however they so choose.

To learn more about You & Yours Distilling Co., click here. Johnson also runs the Distillerista, a blog about craft spirits, cocktails and entertaining.

A man with an outstanding warrant out of Mexico in connection to a homicide was arrested in El Centro, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed.

On Thursday around 6:15 p.m., Border Patrol agents stopped and arrested the man at the El Centro Station after he entered the U.S. illegally. 

Agents later learned the man had an outstanding warrant for homicide in Mexico. 

The man was turned over to Mexican Law Enforcement Authorities at the Calexico Port of Entry.

According to the CBP, the suspect is a 23-year old Mexican national.

The growing home-sharing industry in San Diego is benefiting the City in a big way. 

According to a new report released by Airbnb, the popular home-sharing website, the City of San Diego collected $7 million through a partnership with Airbnb's Transient Occupancy Tax program in 2016.  

The money goes straight into the City's general fund, a City spokeswoman said. 

"San Diego is proud to be a tourist destination. As a component of the City’s General Fund, Transient Occupancy Tax helps pay for critical services that make this a world class city including road repairs and public safety," said Katie Keach, the Director of the City's Communications Department.

The $7 million does not include any County or state-level taxes that may apply. 

The report goes on to say that by partnering with Airbnb, the 50 largest cities in the U.S. would have collected approximately $250 million in hotel, tourist and occupancy taxes last year. 

An animal rights activist was sentenced to prison Tuesday for her role in a “calculated, premeditated reign of terror…” against businesses and employees of the fur industry.

Nicole Kissane, 30, was sentenced to 21 month in prison and ordered to pay $423,477 in restitution in federal court after she pleaded guilty last December to Conspiracy to Violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

As part of her plea agreement, Kissane admitted that she and coconspirator Joseph Buddenberg, 32, caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages during 40,000 miles of cross-country trips over the summer and into the fall of 2013.

The indictment described one instance in July of 2013 where Kissane and Buddenberg traveled from Oregon to San Diego in their 2012 Honda Fit and used paint, stripper, a super glue-type substance, butyric acid, muriatic acid and glass etchant to vandalize San Diego furrier Furs by Graf. The two also vandalized the personal properties of current and former owners of the business in La Mesa and Spring Valley.

Other instances of terror include releasing mink from farms across the midwest, slashing tires of meat distribution trucks in San Francisco, smashing windows and gluing door locks at furrier businesses in Minnesota, and attempting to flood the Wisconsin home of an employee of North American Fur Auctions.

“Vandalizing homes and businesses with acid, glue and chemicals in the dark of night is a form of domestic terrorism,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Alana W. Robinson. “Whatever your feelings about the fur industry, these sentences are a pretty strong signal that this isn’t the right way to effect change.”

The indictment also detailed Kissane and Buddenberg’s attempt to publicize their crusade by posting “communiques” describing their acts to websites associated with animal rights extremism.

Kissane’s conduct was described as a “calculated, premeditated reign of terror over those in the fur industry,” by U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns during Tuesday's sentencing hearing.

She and Buddenberg were both arrested by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in their hometown of Oakland in July of 2013.

Buddenberg, who pleaded guilty to the same charge last February, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $398,272 in restitution.

Padres fan favorite Wil Myers has signed a six-year contract, the team announced on Tuesday.

The contract keeps the first baseman in San Diego through the 2022 season with a club option for the 2023 season, the Padres said in a news release.

Myers had the best offensive season for a right-handed hitting Padre in the Petco Park era, clubbing 28 home runs with 94 RBI, 28 doubles and stealing 28 bags. Myers was the cleanup hitter for the National League in the All-Star game and became a fan favorite.

It was unclear how much the contract cost the Padres, but talks were reportedly in the 6-year, $80 million range.

A woman suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car in Carlsbad Tuesday morning.

According to the Carlsbad Police Department, the crash occurred at 10:26 a.m. in the 6500 block of southbound Carlsbad Boulevard, south of Solamar Drive.

The driver of the vehicle is a 24-year old man from Carlsbad, police said. 

At this time, it is unknown where the victim was walking when the crash happened.

The 51-year old victim was transported to Scripps Medical Center in La Jolla. Her injuries are considered to be life-threatening.

Police said she was from New York.

During the investigation, Carlsbad Boulevard at Palomar Airport Road was closed for more than two hours.

A Vista woman and her mother called NBC 7 Responds after they said they paid half of a sliding door project’s cost upfront and then didn’t hear from the contractor for months. 

“It will not budge, it’s real heavy and rusted,” Denise Foster said while showing us the sliding door in her home. 

Denise’s mother, Rose Marie Bates, asked her daughter to find a company that would replace the sliding door for the best price possible. Denise said, while she was at the San Diego County Fair, she discovered The Window and Door Factory at a booth and asked for an estimate. 

“It was great, they were real nice,” she said. “They said they did all the windows in-house.” 

The company came out to Denise’s mother’s home and measured the area. Once provided with a cost estimate, Denise said they were asked to pay half of the cost of the project upfront. According to Denise, a project that was supposed to take six weeks dragged on for more than two months. She said, she decided to call the company’s owner Dan Jaoudi. 

“Please give me until tomorrow to go over this and I’ll get back to you,” Denise said she was told. “Of course, the next day nothing. Nothing on Monday and that’s when I contacted you,” Denise said. 

At this point, Denise and her mother said they no longer wanted The Window and Door Factory to replace the sliding glass door. 

“I’d rather get my money back at this point,” Rose Marie said. 

NBC 7 Responds spoke with Dan Jaoudi and he apologized for the delay, saying he had only taken over the company ten months earlier. Jaoudi told NBC 7 Responds the company was having supplier issues and couldn’t keep up with the demand. 

Jaoudi promised to refund the money and four days later, Denise and her mother received a check in the mail. 

In an email, Jaoudi sent NBC 7 Responds this statement, “We regret and sincerely apologize for the negative experience Denise Foster had. The Window and Door Factory is a small business, we are focusing on improving our communication and customer experience. I’ve only been in operational control of the company for the past 10 months...We have worked to be fair with customers including offering discounts and refunds when requested. Again, I apologize for any inconvenience Denise Foster may have experienced. The Window & Door Factory has tremendous potential, it has long history in San Diego. My goal is to continue to improve our processes and be responsive to customer issues.” 

According to the Contractor’s State Licensing Board, consumers are only required to pay 10% of the whole project cost or $1,000, whichever is less, to get a project started. The CSLB states consumers should never be required to put down half of the entire cost of the project before the work is completed.  

Since 1979, the Chargers Blood Drive has been saving lives in San Diego, but with the NFL team’s move to Los Angeles, could the San Diego Padres be stepping up to the plate to save it?

“We’d be very happy to attach our name to the blood drive,” said Ron Fowler, Executive Chairman of the San Diego Padres.

In an exclusive interview with NBC7, Fowler said he believes the blood drive is too important and saves too many lives to let it end, saying “This is all about community. It’s a great community effort the Chargers had; if they’re not here I want to make sure the blood drive doesn’t go away.”

San Diego Blood Bank Chief Executive Officer David Wellis tells NBC 7 that with the Chargers’ move to Los Angeles, the Chargers Blood Drive will not continue as constituted in San Diego. The event will move forward without the Chargers.

Wellis says that minutes after the Chargers announced their move to Los Angeles, he started receiving phone calls, text and emails from people “wanting to help.”

Wellis says, since its inception in 1979, the Chargers Blood Drive has collected over 73,000 pints of blood, “That translates to a couple of hundred thousand lives that we’ve saved.”

“The blood drive saves thousands of lives and that’s what it’s all about, to go away would be terrible for the community and we don’t want to see that happen. It’s important, it saves lives, what better thing to be involved with,” said Fowler.

Whether the Padres become the sole sponsor of the annual blood drive or become part of a larger partnership remains to be seen. According to officials with the Padres and the San Diego Blood Bank it’s a very fluid situation. However, both Wellis and Fowler said whatever happens, the blood drive needs to keep happening, keep growing and keep being an annual San Diego tradition.

In a Sunday phone call, Fowler pledged his support to Rolf Benirschke, the former Charger kicker whose need for donated blood was the inspiration behind the first Chargers Blood Drive.

“I called Rolf and said if there needs to be a home for the blood drive, we (the Padres) want to be involved and you tell us to what level and we’ll be happy to work with a broader San Diego community to do it, but we just want to make sure the blood drive continues and grows, we don’t want it to go away,” said Fowler.

“Maybe there’s a chance to grow it, in the sense that if we get more sports teams involved it could get even bigger,” Wellis says.

A woman accused of intentionally running over a Navy service member in a suspected road rage crash in 2015 has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, according to her defense attorney.

Chief Petty Officer Zach Buob, 39, died on May 28, 2015 when his motorcycle was struck by driver Darla Renee Jackson, 26, California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers said. Prosecutors have argued that Jackson ran over Buob intentionally.

On Tuesday, Jackson pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, according to her defense attorney, Stephen Cline. One count of murder was dropped. 

Court proceedings in the case have been going on for nearly two years. 

At a previous hearing, the CHP detective who investigated the case described the witness accounts of the crash where Jackson was seen accelerating into the motorcycle, which had slowed down prior to the impact. 

CHP Detective Brad Clinkscales testified that Jackson's story changed throughout their investigation. 

"She stated as soon as the motorcycle hit her and flipped her off, she said she wasn't going to let him do that and not, she wanted to get his information," Clinkscales testified. 

Black box results from the car show Jackson did "very little" to stop from the 95 miles per hour she was driving six seconds before the crash, investigators said. When she hit the motorcycle, she was driving 81 miles per hour. 

California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers said Jackson and Buob, who was driving a red Ducati motorcycle, got into some type of disagreement on the roadway. According to Clinkscales, Jackson said Buob slowed down, shook his head, and hit the right side of her car for no reason.

Cline has said the fatal crash was an accident and that Jackson has been diagnosed with severe Complex Trauma Disorder. 

"She had no criminal history prior to that date. The prosecution has gone to great lengths during the pendency of this case to paint the defendant as a crazed woman with an explosive temper prone to violent outbursts," Cline said.

Cline said that the defense's argument that Jackson accelerated toward Buob was based off one witness who had "a slew of impeachment/bias issues." 

"In fact, none of the other percipient witnesses, including the second witness in passenger seat of that same vehicle corroborate this witness’ claims. In fact, all of the other percipient witnesses’ statements conflict with this witness’ version of events," Cline said.

That day, Buob sped past her and kicked her car after getting back about something, Cline said.

Jackson ultimately hit the Ducati from behind and ran over the rider, CHP officers said.

Buob died a short time after the crash at the hospital. The service member served 20 years in the military, and his friends mourned the fact that, despite carrying out so many tours, he died in his home country.

Jackson faces a maximum of 11 years in prison. She will be sentenced on April 14 in the South Bay.