A power outage in Terminal 1 at Lindbergh Field is causing some flights to be delayed, according to San Diego Airport Authority. 

Officials said a high-voltage transformer was disrupted on the roof of the building. Gates 3-10 are without power and airplanes in Terminal 1 are not being allowed to take off or land.

TSA is hand-screening passengers.

So far there are eight flights delayed.

Airplanes that landed when the power went off had to use roll-away stairs and baggage is being handled manually.

Estimated time of restoration is 3 a.m. and San Diego Gas & Electric is at the scene.

Check back for updates on this story.

Sometimes all it takes for a pitcher to get on his game is one little thing to go his way. Sometimes, that one little thing doesn't even have to be on the mound.

Padres starter Andrew Casher was not all that sharp at the beginning of his start against the Diamondbacks in Arizona. Cash allowed four runs in the first three innings.

But in the top of the 4th, he lined a single to right field that scored Yonder Alonso and tied the game at four. Chris Denorfia and Everth Cabrera followed with RBI doubles, the Padres scored five times in the inning to take a 7-4 lead.

That seemed to jump-start Casher.

He got the D-Backs on a mere five pitches in the bottom of the 4th and didn't allow another hit until the 7th. Cashner ended up getting his fourth win of the year.

On offense, Cabrera went 3-for-5 and drove in a career high-tying four runs. He finished a triple shy of the cycle.

Add it all up, and you have a 10-4 Padres win.

On Sunday the Friars go for the series win behind Jason Marquis, who's looking for a win in his 6th straight start.

Firefighters are battling a blaze near State Route 78 and San Felipe Road, officials confirmed.

The fire began just after noon in the Banner Grade are, south of SR-78 and southeast of Julian on Sunday.

Multiple agencies are assisting in tackling the fire. As of right now, no structures are threatened. Cal Fire officials said the "General Fire" -- as they're calling it -- had scorched 850 acres as of 9 a.m. on Monday. It is about 20 percent contained.

Residents near the site of the fire reported seeing and smelling smoke going south on S2 around 2:10 p.m. Sunday.

The National Weather Service (NWS) in San Diego issued a wind advisory that went into effect at 3 p.m. Sunday across San Diego County deserts. The advisory remained in place through 3 a.m. Monday.

There are reports that officials from the Bureau of Land Management have detained two individuals near Banner Grade, and are questioning them about the fire.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

With Memorial Day celebrations underway, Chicago’s violence has spiked as six people were killed and at least 17 others were injured in shootings across the city.

The most recent fatal shooting occurred Sunday when a 42-year-old man was shot in the head and a 44-year-old female was shot in the back on Goose Island on the Near North Side.

The shooting occurred at 2:50 a.m. in the 1000 block of North North Branch Street.

The pair was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where the man, identified as Charles Jones by the Cook County Medical Examiner, was pronounced dead, according to Chicago Police news affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Jones was the manager of the Factory Chicago, a gentlemen's club on the Far South Side.

A tweet from the Factory Chicago read: "God called his soldier home, R.I.P. Charles Jones."

A cousin of the female victim, Andrew Holmes, said the pair was sideswiped while driving in Jones' 2007 Maserati and was shot while approaching the driver of the other vehicle.

No other details were immediately available on the shooting.

At 2:10 a.m., a 27-year-old man was shot in the armpit in the 12100 block of South Indiana Avenue. He was later pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center, police said.

Earlier in the evening, an 18-year-old man was shot to death in an alley. The shooting occurred at 9:20 p.m. Saturday in an alley between Dorchester and Dante Avenues near 74th Street.

A light-colored sedan reportedly drove past the alley where the boy and several others were standing and began shooting. The man was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said the man is believed to have gang ties.

Two other shootings occurred Saturday night including one that hospitalized a 17-year-old man with multiple wounds in both of his legs after he was shot in the 6000 block of North Kenmore Avenue. 

Another teen was shot in the 700 block of West 50th Place in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. The 19-year-old man was taken to St. Bernard Hospital in stable condition, authorities said.

Early Saturday, a man was shot and killed in the Hyde Park community, blocks from President Barack Obama’s Kenwood home.

A man buzzed two suspects into his apartment building and left his door open for them enter, according to Chicago Police news affairs Officer Estrada.

The suspects then entered and shot the 29-year-old man in the chest and back at 1:50 a.m. in the 1400 block of East 52nd Street, police said.

Around 11:45 p.m. Friday a 22-year-old man was found fatally shot outside his home in the 1100 block of North Lawndale Avenue. The man was discovered on the sidewalk outside his home with a gunshot wound in the back of his head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital.

The weekend’s first fatality involved a 17-year-old man who was shot in the head two times around 11 p.m. Friday in the West Side Austin neighborhood. The man was found in 400 block of North Central Avenue where he was pronounced dead.

An 18-year-old man was also found wounded in the same shooting and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest, authorities said.

At least 17 people were reported injured in shootings throughout the weekend.

At 2:55 a.m. Saturday in the 2300 block of North Ridgeway Avenue when a 24-year-old man was shot in the face. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in stable condition.

Around 1:45 a.m. Saturday three people were injured in a possible drive-by shooting in the 400 block of north Sacramento Avenue, police said.

An 18-year-old man and a 21-year-old man were both shot in the buttocks. The 21-year-old man was also shot in the thigh. Both men were taken to Stroger Hospital in stable condition.

A 21-year-old was also grazed in the arm but refused medical treatment, police said.

Around 7:35 p.m. Friday a 27-year-old man was shot in the arm in the 1100 block of North Spaulding Avenue on the city’s West Side. He was taken to Norwegian-American Hospital where he was listed in good condition.

Less than an hour later a 17-year-old woman was shot in the hip in the 600 block of East 75th Street after male suspects approached the group she was walking in and shot. She was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in “stable” condition, according to police.

An overnight shooting in San Diego’s Skyline area left a 23-year-old victim dead on a sidewalk and a second man critically wounded, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.

Homicide detectives say fatal shots were fired in the 7800 block of Bloomfield Road at around 3 a.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they found a 23-year-old man lying on the sidewalk, suffering from a gunshot wound.

The man was taken to a local hospital, but died a short time later, officials confirmed.

As officers secured the scene at Skyline, they learned a second victim – a 21-year-old man – had been dropped off at another hospital with critical gunshot wounds. That victim remains hospitalized and in critical condition.

Investigators say there was a large gathering held at a home in the 7700 block of Bloomfield Road when a verbal argument broke out among several people at the gathering.

During the altercation, a suspect pulled out a gun and shot both victims.

The names of the victims have not yet been released. Police have not released a shooting suspect description.
 

Memorial Day is more than just a day to fire up the BBQ. It's a day to remember the men and women who served our country.

Here are some photographs and comments from people around the country - including the president and First Lady - on how they are marking this day.

President Barack Obama spent Monday morning at Arlington National Cemetery during a Memorial Day tribute to fallen soldiers. Before that, he issued a few tweets.

Former Navy SEALs killed while working as CIA security detail in Benghazi are being honored on Memorial Day at Mt. Soledad.

Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods to be honored at Memorial Day Observance at Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial on Monday at 2 p.m. where black granite plaques have been donated in their honor.

The two former Navy SEALs both lived in San Diego and were killed in the terrorist attack in Benghazi last September when they were assigned to security detail at the U.S. Consulate.

During the ceremony, a keynote speech will be delivered by Capt. Jason Ehret, who serves as Deputy Assistant Chief for Naval Special Warfare Command in addition to a close friend of Doherty’s.

Woods served more than 20 years as a SEAL, including multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the past two years, he was protecting American diplomats in Central America and the Middle East.

Doherty joined the SEALs in 1995 and was the first to respond to the attack at the USS Cole. He was an experienced paramedic and sniper with tours in Iraq.

A flyover formation by the San Diego T-34 Performance Team will take place during the ceremony.

The two SEALs plaques will join over 3,400 plaques on the wall.

The ceremony begins at 2 p.m. Monday and both families will be present.

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A well-known burlesque performer who went by the stage name, "Sparkly Devil," was killed early Sunday morning in a suspected drunken-driving crash involving a party bus. And now, her husband faces charges in her death, according to the California Highway Patrol.

“She was wonderful in many ways," her mother Julie Thompson Klein told NBC Bay Area on Monday in a phone interview from the Detroit area about her daughter, Sarah Klein, 36, of San Mateo. "She was the classic model of a creative person who wasn’t afraid to cross boundaries. I always wanted to raise a strong woman I was amazed how strong she became."

Jim Sweeney, executive producer of the Hubba Hubba Revue in San Francisco, said no one in his world called Klein by her given name, but by her stage name. In addition to co-founding Hubba Hubba, Sparkly Devil also wrote about entertainment art form for magazine and alternative weekly newspapers, and served as the media spokesperson for the burlesque entertainment venue. Her mother told NBC Bay Area that her daughter began her career as a journalist for the Detroit Metro Times and eventually was drawn into the lively burlesque world.

"She was an incredible performer," Sweeney told NBC Bay Area on Monday in a phone interview. "And she was a great friend to the burlesque community. We feel her loss greatly."

Raul Padilla, her 43-year-old husband, who was driving and was taken to Stanford Medical Center in critical condition, is likely to be charged with drinking and driving, or possibly vehicular manslaughter, depending on the level of alcohol in his system, according to CHP Officer Art Montiel.

Padilla was driving the red Honda that appeared to have slammed into a center divider on U.S. 101 in Burlingame south of San Francisco about 2 a.m. before coming to rest facing oncoming traffic, which is when he and his wife were hit by the party bus, Montiel said. In addition to Padilla, ten others were injured.

The couple had ``consumed alcohol'' before the crash, but toxicology tests would have to be conducted to determine if Padilla had been OK to drive, Montiel said. Neither were wearing seat belts, he said. Courts were closed on Memorial Day, and it was unclear whether Padilla had any type of driving troubles in the past.

According to Sweeney, the couple was on their way home to the Peninsula from San Francisco. Sparkly had performed at the Hubba Hubba Revue the night before.

In addition to the couple, ten others suffered less serious injuries when a party bus carrying 18 passengers ran head-on into Padilla's car that was stopped on a highway south of San Francisco, authorities said.  A CHP collision report listed the party bus driver as Anderson Davis, 67, of Berkeley. Officers said he suffered moderate injuries but refused medical attention.

The injured were taken to either Stanford or San Francisco General hospitals, according to the CHP. They include: Jeckrie Unabia, 28, and Haydee Martinez, 27, of Santa Clara; Julienne Sagun, 22, and Joshua Tan, 28, of Mountain View; and May Ann Granale, 45, and Carlos Cambia Jr., 30, of San Jose, Tola Magee, 30, of San Rafael; Mariel Joy Garnace, 21, of San Jose; and Herland Martinez, 24, of Santa Clara. Another passenger got a ride with a family member to the hospital.

Sparkly's website calls her a mixture of "sass and class," and her resume includes six performances at the Miss Exotic World Burlesque Pageant in Las Vegas, four New York Burlesque Festivals, three Tease-o-Ramas and more. She was profiled in Comcast's "Something Weird" series and two episodes of TLC's reality series, "LA Ink." In the Bay Area, she also performed at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, along with the Hubba Hubba Revue.

Her mother told NBC Bay Area that after she left Detroit about six years ago, she made her way to Gilroy to work for a small paper, which folded. She worked at some Silicon Valley startups, her mother said, and did some web design.

But San Francisco appealed to Sparkly Devil, her mother said, and she met a "wonderful group of people who were involved in reviving the burlesque scene."

Burlesque comes from the Italian word, burlesco, which means to joke or mock. It's now known as a dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter through caricature. In the United States, burlesque is a staple at cabaret clubs and features bawdy comedy and strip teases. In some of Sparkly's videos on YouTube, she is seen coughing up fake blood in a Zombie piece and stripping down to a red bikini bottom and tassles in another.

As for her husband, Sweeney said he knew Padilla and called him a musician and a "nice guy." Sweeney said he did not know if Padilla was known to drink and drive before.

The crash on the southbound side of U.S. 101 in Burlingame about 25 miles south of San Francisco was just a few miles away from the San Mateo Bridge, where five women heading to a bridal party were killed in a limousine fire three weeks ago.

Sparkly was supposed to have performed on Thursday in Las Vegas at The Orleans Casino during the International Burlesque Hall of Fame. People from around the country were posting thoughts and memories about Sparkly on her Facebook site throughout the day.

To see Sparkly Devil perform at the Hubba Hubba Revue in 2010, click here:

 The Associated Press's John S. Marshall contributed to this report.

Cleanup from this month's tornadoes continues in Granbury.

Volunteers are spending Memorial Day cleaning up debris.  Habitat for Humanity built many of the damaged homes, and now the charity is asking for help picking up the pieces.

Recovery volunteers must be at least 16-years-old and should wear long pants and closed-toe shoes if they want to help.

Those wishing to lend a hand can get more information, and register, at the Trinity Habitat for Humanity of Texas website.

Ten undernourished horses were taken by Animal Services on Sunday after their owner allegedly abandoned them in Ramona.

The property these horses came from is registered to Lori Patton, the owner of at least 30 horses.

Ten of horses were found near the roadway along highway 78, when firefighters were called to the scene.

Officials said the ranch had no water or food available for the horses.

“There were some that appeared to be thinner than they should have been.  And it appeared that they hadn't been groomed in a while,” said Capt. Adam Pollock with the Intermountain Fire Department.

The owner also told investigators one horse had died recently.

The shelter in Bonita is nursing the horses back to health, while investigators are considering neglect charges against their owner.

A Chicago man charged in the shooting death of 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins was ordered held Tuesday without bond.

Koman Willis, 33, of the 7800 block of South Saint Lawrence Avenue was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm after he allegedly shot Jonylah and her father on March 11, according to police.

Police said Willis turned himself in with his attorney present around 4 p.m. Saturday and was charged at 2:45 a.m. Monday. 

Police said Willis, a documented gang member who had been arrested 38 times prior to the shooting, was aiming at the infant's father, Jonathan Watkins.

Supt. Garry McCarthy said Willis shot at the man over a stolen video game console. 

It is not clear why Willis suspected Jonathan Watkins in the burglary of the console, but McCarthy said it is not likely that Watkins will be charged in the theft due to "too many variables."

McCarthy called the investigation a "milestone" and said he believes pressure from police led Willis to turn himself him.

“There came a point where we believed that we could take him into custody rather than just interview him, and we went out looking for him,” he said.

Despite original reports suspecting the shooting was gang-related, McCarthy said the incident was based on the burglary and not the father's or Willis' gang ties.

"This was a real hard one for the team," said Lieutenant Kevin Duffin, who led the investigation. "It was a toll on everybody working on it."

Duffin said last week detectives spoke with witnesses that led to information involving Willis, which along with police evidence led to his arrest.

"They were going to solve this crime," McCarthy said. 

Jonylah Watkins died March 12 after she sustained gunshots a day earlier to the thigh, shoulder, lung, liver and bowels on the 6500 block of South Maryland Avenue in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. 

Jonylah was in the family van with her father when someone approached and opened fire, police said.

Friends and family gathered a week after Watkins' death to remember the 6-month-old girl, who was fatally shot while sitting on her father's lap.

"Jonylah, affectionately known as 'Smooch,' was loved and adored by many," her funeral program reads. "Jonylah was the apple of her parents' eyes. Jonylah had an infectious smile that continually warmed her mother's heart."

New Beginnings Pastor Corey Brooks said Jonylah is the youngest victim of gun violence he's ever buried.

"It's the youngest child I've ever had to be shot and killed, murdered," he said. "That is totally different than anything I've ever experienced before and something I never, ever want to experience again."

Brooks thanked Chicago Police Monday after the charges were announced and said the family is very "grateful and thankful."

"Hopefully they will be able to put this part behind them and go forward," he said.

The family of Angelina Jolie's late aunt Debbie Martin, who succumbed to breast cancer Sunday, is mourning her as "the glue that held the family together," less than two weeks after Jolie herself underwent a preventive double mastectomy.

The family of Debbie Martin spoke exclusively to NBC 7 San Diego and talked about the impact she had in her life — and likely the impact she will have in her death.

Debbie Martin had a long battle with cancer and was diagnosed in 2004. She died in Escondido, Calif. on Sunday morning  after nearly 10 years battling the deadly disease.

“She was my best friend,” said her son Chris Martin. “The most beautiful woman I knew. I would talk to her every day.”

Debbie Martin, 61, was the younger sister of Jolie’s mother, whose own death from ovarian cancer in 2007 inspired the surgery Jolie had — a double mastectomy that reduced her chances of getting breast cancer from 87 to 5 percent.

“She was the glue that held the family together,” said Debbie’s husband Ron.

Ron said Debbie had the same defective BRCA one gene that Jolie had, but she didn't know it until after her cancer diagnosis in 2004. He encourages people who may have the gene to get screened, as it could be lifesaving.

“Since Angelina came out with her news about her double mastectomy, Debbie and I reflected that has we known before she got breast cancer if we had the same information from the BRCA test, which we didn't have at that time,” he said. “We would have done exactly the same thing. It would have saved her life.”

A teenage girl is dead after her boyfriend stabbed the teen along a suburban Philadelphia hiking trail.

Pennsylvania State Police say Julianne Siller, 17, was killed Saturday night by her 16-year-old boyfriend Tristan Stahley during a break-up.

The teens left the Stahley's Skippack Township, Pa. home around 8:30 p.m. and headed for Palmer Park along Creamery Road in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pa. Skippack is about 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

Investigators say the couple was walking along a nearby trail when they got into an argument over Siller "going out too much." Siller then smashed Stahley's cell phone, according to state police. Then Stahley allegedly pulled out an orange-colored folding knife and stabbed his girlfriend in the throat and body.

Stahley told police he then dragged her body off the trail and into the woods to conceal the murder.

Police say the teen then went home. His mother, Heather Stahley, told investigators it appeared Tristan had been crying and that he had blood and dirt on his legs.

When Heather asked her son what was wrong, he wouldn't explain, saying he would tell her if the two went for a walk.

Police say the two then left the house for a nearby trail and during the walk Tristan confessed to the crime. Heather asked her son if he was joking and after he replied "no" he began hysterically crying, according to the criminal complaint.

The teen explained the couple was breaking up when he stabbed Siller. Tristan told his mother he was going to kill himself because he couldn't go to jail.

The mother and son then returned home at 9 p.m. where Heather alerted the authorities.

In the meantime, Tristan waited outside.

His father, Brian Stahley, told police when he went outside, Tristan had another knife to his neck and told him to stay back.

The father and son then got into a struggle as Brian tried to wrestle the knife away. He was eventually able to get the knife, but was scratched in the face and bitten on the hand, according to police.

Minutes later, police arrived and arrested the teen.

Troopers discovered Siller’s dead body in the woods a short time later. Investigators say a trail of blood led them to the body. They also found the knife, containing blood and hair, a few feet from her body.

"This whole incident is just a tragic case," said Montgomery County First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele. "You have a young woman whose life was taken from her and a 16-year-old who faces potential life in prison for his actions."

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Investigators say the two dated for about nine months. Friends told NBC10's Daralene Jones that the couple had various issues but Siller wanted to stick it out because she believed she could "fix" Stahley, who was a recovering drug addict and on medications for depression.

Stahley is being held without bail. He is charged with first degree murder, third degree murder and possession of a weapon.

Friends say Siller, a high school senior, was set to graduate from Spring Ford High School in Royersford, Pa. on June 12.

"She was really cool, outgoing, funny and everyone really liked her, so it's kind of sad," said Carlo Deluca.

A small memorial of flowers and a teddy bear has been set up on the hiking trail, near where Siller was killed.

"She was a girl full of life," said Susan Wesolowski, a family friend who says Siller comforted her and her husband after their son was killed in a car accident three years ago. "Bubbly, happy and just a happy go lucky girl who would do anything for her friends."

Spring-Ford Area School District Superintendent Dr. David Goodin released a statement expressing "great sadness" about Siller's death while laying out the school's plan to give support to students:

"Because the reactions to the death of a student, peer, or friend can vary, plans are currently being made to address the grieving process for our students and staff. It is important to know that the grieving process is normal and can range from withdrawal, crying, and anger. For that reason, the High School Administration and staff are working with several counseling services to ensure we are fully prepared for all students."

Grief counselors were at the school Tuesday and would remain in place as long as needed, Goodin said.

Strong rip currents are expected to affect San Diego beaches on Memorial Day, according to National Weather Service.

Starting Monday, currents are expected to be unusually strong along the San Diego shores. NWS said the rip currents will be strongest today and tonight.

Swimmers are advised to be careful when going into the water.

Two people were taken to the hospital after a vehicle-pedestrian accident in Fairmount Park Monday.

The crash happened around 4:45 p.m. on southbound Interstate 805 at Home Avenue. Fire-rescue officials said one of the patients had major injuries.

Several vehicles were involved in the accident. The California Highway Patrol had to temporarily halt traffic on all southbound lanes. 

Check back for updates on this developing story.

The margin for error is exceedingly small for a sailor sitting three stories above the San Francisco Bay on the side of a high-tech catamaran as it leans toward the water literally flying along the surface like a giant stingray at 40 mph.
 
It doesn't take much for these top-heavy craft to topple _ it's already happened twice in these waters since October.
 
That's why these America's Cup sailors are suited in padded body armor and crash helmets. It's the reason they carry emergency oxygen tanks.
 
 The days of tanned sailors in Sperry Top-Siders boat shoes, baseball caps and shorts furiously changing sails amid a spaghetti mess of ropes are long gone. They've been replaced by billionaire Larry Ellison's made-for-television vision of fixed-sail yachts equipped with cutting-edge technology controlled by professional athletes who rely more on computers than ropes.
 
Following a sailor's death two weeks ago after a capsize during an America's Cup training run on San Francisco Bay, even more safety gear is being mandated and gladly donned by sailors, some of whom privately predict more capsizes and crashes before a winner is crowned in September.
 
New safety regulations proposed last week addressed capsizes at length and eased competitive rules in favor of assisting an overturned yacht. The number of races in the first round of sailing among the challengers has been reduced from seven races a series to five.
 
On Friday, three of the four America's Cup entries took to the water for the second day of practice runs since Andrew ``Bart'' Simpson's death on May 9. Each of the 72-foot catamarans on the water was followed closely by an armada of chase boats carrying scuba divers, doctors and other support personnel in case one of the space-age vessels capsized. Simpson died when he was trapped under the wreckage of Artemis Racing's capsized boat.

No one was hurt when Oracle Racing's yacht capsized in October, but it required millions of dollars in repairs after its sail was destroyed.
 
Since Ellison's boat won the last America's Cup in 2010, the Oracle Corp. founder designed the race course and boats that would compete this summer. When he unveiled the plan to race some of the world's fastest sail boats on a tight course between San Francisco's iconic Alcatraz Island and Fisherman's Wharf, he had hoped as many as 12 challengers would sign up to face him. Only three materialized. Those that passed said they were put off by the cost and the complicated specifications of the catamarans powered by airplane-like wings instead of traditional, flapping sails.
 
Each boat costs upward of $10 million and three of the four teams built two yachts apiece. Each team employs about 100 full-time workers at water-front bases equipped with giant cranes and other heavy equipment to move the boats from their storage berths to the water and back again for every training run.
 
 ``It's too expensive,'' Team New Zealand leader Grant Dalton grumbled before heading out for the team's first sustained practice on the bay in light winds Friday morning. ``It's too complex.''
 
Dalton promised to simplify the next America's Cup if his teams' derisively dubbed ``sailing billboard'' for all of its NASCAR-like advertising beats Ellison's boat in September.
 
 ``We don't have a billionaire backer,'' said Team New Zealand spokesman Hamish Hooper. The team is the only America's Cup entry to receive government backing with lawmakers in sailing-crazed New Zealand chipping in about $32 million, about the third of the cost of supporting a team.
 
 The other three teams are backed almost entirely by a single wealthy funder: Ellison pays for Oracle Racing, Swedish oil magnate Torbjörn Törnqvist backs Artemis Racing and Prada owner Patrizio Bertelli funds the Luna Rossa Challenge.
 
 One of Artemis' two boats capsized and broke into pieces, trapping Simpson under wreckage under water for more than 10 minutes. Artemis chief executive Paul Cayard said his team still plans to compete for the cup, but only if conditions are deemed safe. Artemis has not sailed since the accident while the other three teams returned to practice this week after observing a brief moratorium on sailing after Simpson's death.
 
 On Friday morning, the winds were light and stubbornly refusing to pick up, fluttering between 8 and 12 knots. The recreational sail boats out on the bay not using their motors were bobbing with the current in the sunshine. The America's Cup catamarans, on the other hand, were each reaching speeds of 30 knots as they whizzed up and down San Francisco's waterfront with the flotilla of motor boats opening their throttles wide to keep up. 
 
Though this was only New Zealand's second run on San Francisco Bay, they've completed more than four dozen practice runs at home. They've mastered ``foiling,'' the technique of lifting the 7-ton boat's hulls out of the water so it can skim along the waves on four small fins known as ``foils.''  Foiling reduces the drag on the boat and increasing speed dramatically.
 
On Friday, New Zealand's black-clad rigger was being hoisted in the air to affix the catamaran's front sail when Ellison's 2003 America's Cup entry came into sight.
 
 Called USA 76, the single-hulled boat with the mainsail and jib setup of a traditional sloop now serves as tour boat and the grinning guests aboard eagerly waived and yelled their hellos to the kiwis.
 
Someone asked Team New Zealand's David Thomson the difference between the 2003 boats and the entries of today.
 
 ``That's a dog,'' said Thomson, gesturing toward the USA 76. He then turned and pointed at New Zealand's sleek catamaran with the rigger back on deck, the jib sail in place and the boat picking up as it glided toward the Golden Gate Bridge. ``And that's a cat.''
 
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       AP sportswriter Bernie Wilson contributed to this report from San Diego.

Five teens died in a fiery crash in Newport Beach on Monday afternoon — four at the scene and one at a hospital, authorities said.

The crash happened at about 5:20 p.m. on Jamboree Road just north of Island Lagoon Drive, near the Newport Beach Country Club, according to Kathy Lowe, spokeswoman for the Newport Beach Police Department.

"It does appear speed was a factor," Lowe said Tuesday morning.

She said the teens were all residents of Irvine.

The victims were identified early Tuesday as two boys and three girls, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. The victims' names were not available Tuesday morning.

The crash happened when an Infiniti traveling southbound on Jamboree veered off of the road and struck a tree on the center divider. The car split in half after striking the tree. One half caught fire, according to Lowe.

Four victims were ejected and died immediately. A fifth was partially ejected and died at a nearby hospital.

Drivers told NBC4 that cars tend to speed on that stretch of road, which has a 55 mph speed limit.

Lowe said speed and other factors, including whether alcohol was involved, were under investigation.

Long before 8-year-old Gabriel died, his relatives, teachers and even other mothers at school saw signs he was being brutally beaten at his Southern California home, where he lived with his mother and her boyfriend.

Protesters on Monday demanded justice for Gabriel - and measures to protect other children from a similar fate. They said the boy's case exposes critical failures in a system meant to protect children.

Gabriel was living with his grandparents until October, when his mother, Pearl Fernandez, 29, won legal custody of him. Now, Fernandez is accused of allowing her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, 32, to torture her youngest child to death. They were both in custody and Aguirre was expected to be charged with murder Tuesday.

Protesters, who plan to attend Aguirre'sTuesday arraignment, are accusing the Department of Child and Family Services of failing to respond to months of complaints that Gabriel was being abused.

"There was also a time when he told me about a BB gun (shot) to the face," said his teacher, Jennifer Garcia. "And he had perfectly circled bruises all over his face."

The teacher said she had frequently contacted the Department of Child and Family Services, but the agency's social workers did nothing.

On Wednesday, deputies found the first-grader's broken body at his home in Palmdale, about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Gabriel was barely breathing. His bones were broken. He had burn marks all over his body and he bore wounds that indicated he had been tied up and tortured.

He died Friday at a hospital.

"We loved him. And we miss him," said Robert Fernandez, Gabriel's grandfather. "We're gonna try probably in the near future to have the law changed, where these people that are doing these things have no rights to their victims."

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