A pedestrian was hit by a car at N. Marshal and Interstate 8, according to El Cajon police.
The incident happened around 8:25 p.m. Sunday.
The driver stayed at the scene and appears to be cooperating with police.
It isn’t clear how serious the victim’s injuries are.
No other information was immediately available.
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Even when they trailed by four scores, even when so many things all needed to go right for the Patriots, it seemed plausible to think Tom Brady would bring them back one more time in a Super Bowl.
And so he did, leading New England to the tying score just inside the final minute to force overtime and erase the big lead the Falcons got out to with a scorching first half.
That the Patriots scored on their first possession in overtime only felt like a last bit of paperwork before someone handed Brady a Lombardi Trophy for the fifth time in his career.
No other quarterback in NFL history has more than four.
Now Brady truly has no peer.
From his first Super Bowl win following the 2001 season, which he capped with a field goal drive, to the one that tied him with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw that required a memorable defensive stop to ratify the go ahead touchdown pass he threw with two minutes left, Brady has always seemed to deliver late when the pressure was highest.
As if there had been any doubt, Brady was even handed the trophy from Bradshaw, who happily declared the quarterback drafted in the sixth round from Michigan to be the greatest.
“We all brought each other back, Brady said. "I think this team resembled a lot of teams from the past."
One new twist this year was that Brady was suspended for four games to begin the season. It was for his role in a scheme to deflate game balls below the legal pressure in an AFC title game. But with a chip on his shoulder (and some added rest), the 39-year-old Brady only seemed to thrive.
The scandal was called Deflategate, and it never seemed to leave the headlines. The whole affair turned New England fans against NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. But if Brady had any animosity toward the commissioner, though, he didn’t show it. Cameras showed the two shaking hands before the trophy was presented.
Patriots fans booed and jeered over Goodell’s short presentation speech. And owner Robert Kraft acknowledged the fans' ire, saying this win was the sweetest.
Brady didn’t want to get into it, saying only: “This is all positive man, it’s unbelievable.”
Perhaps especially hard to comprehend for the Falcons, who seemed on their way when they scored early in the third quarter to make it 28-3. They never scored again.
In overtime, they never even touched the ball.
James White wound up scoring the touchdowns that broke Atlanta’s heart.
The running back punched it in with 57 seconds left in regulation, then just barely got the ball over the line to win it.
"We knew we had a shot the whole game," White said. "It was an amazing comeback by our team. It's surreal right now. You couldn't write this script."
The Patriots turned the game around after Ryan fumbled on a blindside sack by Dont’a Hightower. Brady led the Patriots down the field for a score and they converted the 2-point conversion with six minutes to go to make it 28-20.
The Falcons nearly kicked a field goal to ice it, but a sack and a penalty pushed them back out of field goal range and they had to punt.
"There's nothing you can really say," Ryan said. "That's a tough loss, obviously very disappointing, very close to getting done what we wanted to get done."
After the Falcons got out to a 21-0 lead on Alford’s stunning 82-yard interception return for a touchdown, the Patriots got on the board with a late field goal before halftime. Then the Falcons took a 25-point lead on Ryan’s second TD pass of the game and a rout suddenly looked possible.
To everyone but the Patriots, maybe.
“Down 28-3 they never looked back. They just keep competing,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. “We’ve got great players and they just keep competing for 60 minutes — or longer.”
President Donald Trump spoke with the secretary general of NATO on Sunday and agreed to join a meeting of NATO leaders in Europe later this year, after having repeatedly criticized the alliance and having called it "obsolete" as late as last month, NBC News reported.
Trump spoke with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday evening regarding the United States' "strong support for NATO," according to the White House press office.
The two leaders discussed "how to encourage all NATO allies to meet their defense spending commitments" and the potential for a peaceful resolution of the conflict along the Ukrainian border, according to the White House.
The president then agreed to join at the summit of NATO leaders in Brussels, the alliance's headquarters, in late May.
Twitter and other major technology companies planned to file a friend-of-the-court brief Sunday night with a federal appeals court hearing challenges to President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, NBC News reported.
A spokesperson for Twitter told NBC News that the final language of the filing, known in legalese as an amicus curiae brief, was being finished with plans to file it later in the evening in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
The appeals court earlier Sunday rejected the Trump administration's request to reinstate the president's order restricting entry into the United States by travelers from seven majority Muslim countries. A federal district judge in Seattle halted implementation of the order on Friday.
Some tech giants, including Amazon.com Inc. and Expedia Inc., filed briefs in connection with that case early last week, arguing that Trump's order negatively affects their businesses.
Princess Elizabeth was never meant to become queen, let alone the longest-serving monarch in the storied history of British royalty.
Her father, in fact, was never meant to become king.
But on Monday, after nearly a lifetime of service to country and crown, Elizabeth II will commemorate her 65th anniversary as queen. She will become the only British monarch ever to celebrate her Sapphire Jubilee, NBC News reported.
It is a role that most Britons — whether royalist or republican — would agree that she has fulfilled with caution, dignity and an unending sense of duty.
Ten former senior U.S. diplomats and security officials planned to file an affidavit in a federal appeals court arguing that President Donald Trump's executive order curtailing immigration would actually make America less safe, NBC News reported.
In a brief scheduled to be filed at 3 a.m. ET on Monday the officials slammed Trump's order as "ill-conceived, poorly implemented and ill-explained."
The brief obtained by NBC News was written jointly by two former heads of the CIA, two former Secretaries of State, a former Secretary of Defense, a former Secretary of Homeland Security, and senior officials of the National Security Council.
"This order cannot be justified on national security or foreign policy grounds. It does not perform its declared task of 'protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.'" the co-authors — Madeleine Albright, John Kerry, Janet Napolitano, Susan Rice, Leon Panetta, John McLaughlin, Avril Haines, Michael Hayden, Lisa Monaco, Michael Morell — wrote in the filing. The list was largely made up of prominent Democrats.
Commuters were stuck in delays along northbound Interstate 805 due to two crashes, California Highway Patrol officers said.
Two separate crashes occurred at approximately 6:30 a.m. along NB I-805 south of Mesa College Boulevard.
Three cars were involved in one collision while two cars were involved in another, separate collision.
One person was taken to the hospital with what the CHP described as minor injuries.
All lanes were cleared of debris by 7:22 a.m.
Delays were expected throughout the morning.
Gas prices, protests and a proposed border wall are likely topics as the mayors of San Diego and Tijuana meet Monday.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum will meet with business leaders from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Over the weekend, traffic was blocked at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. The disruption in travel has happened each week for five weeks since Mexico's gas prices jumped 15 to 20 percent.
The government is moving forward with deregulating the oil industry, including removing some oil subsidies.
On the U.S. side of the border crossing, the California Highway Patrol declared Sig Alerts on Interstates 5 and 805.
Super Bowl ads usually offer brief opportunities for escapism – from both reality and the big game.
This year’s commercial crop did an OK job of entertaining between plays. But some of the most memorable spots touched on current events in both serious (84 Lumber’s Mexican mother-and-daughter immigration story) and comedic ways (Melissa McCarthy’s painful world-saving adventures). Other standout ads focused on football (injured Patriots tight end Ron Gronkowski and quarterback Tom Brady earned chuckles, before they went home thrilled).
No matter what the type of commercial, the test is, to paraphrase the refs, whether the spots warrant further review after the final whistle. The stakes are high: Advertisers reportedly gave Fox $5 million per 30 seconds to broadcast productions that, in many cases, hit the Internet days before kickoff.
Here are some Super Bowl LI commercials worthy of a replay:
Melissa McCarthy Saves Comedy
Forget Super Bowl mania: The weekend belonged to Melissa McCarthy. Her surprise performance on “Saturday Night Live” as presidential spokesman Sean Spicer proved an instant classic. She also stole the show on Super Sunday with her slapstick Kia commercial, which shows her trying to save the world – and suffering grievous bodily harm in the process.
Immigration Stories
The 84 Lumber tale of a mother and her young daughter leaving Mexico (go here to see how their story ends) represented a pure heart-tugger – and a potential political button-pusher. Ditto for Budweiser’s movie trailer-like rendering of German-born co-founder Adolphus Busch’s 19th century American odyssey.
Gronkowski Floods the Field
The injured Patriot didn’t stalk the gridiron, but he put on a small-screen performance for T-Mobile (sharing camera time with Justin Bieber and Terrell Owens) and Tide, even if he ceded the starring role to Terry Bradshaw.
Bathroom Humor
Gronkowski’s teammate Brady didn’t do much scrambling in Intel’s 360-video spot, which captured his mundane morning routine – until he drew the line at the bathroom door. Febreze didn’t display near as much modesty in its Super Bowl-themed toilet extravaganza.
Sprint for Customers
A dad fakes his death – complete with pushing his car off a cliff – to get out of his Verizon contract. The mercilessly funny execution scored for Sprint.
Something the Air
All Airbnb sold was harmony in its stark and effective “We all belong” ad, which featured a multicultural collection of faces and a hashtag: #weaccept. The commercial’s biggest asset – and jumping-off point for controversy – was its timeliness, coming in the wake of President Trump’s travel ban order.
Women March On
Controversy also seems likely to trail Audi’s ad, showing a grade-school-aged girl competing in a downhill cart race as her dad wonders, in a voiceover, how he’ll explain gender inequality to her.
High School Heroes
Yearbook photos of stars-to-be – among them Tina Fey, Missy Elliot, Robert Redford and Stan Lee – come to life, courtesy of Honda, offering a sweet mix of humor and inspiration.
Cam-eo Newton
Carolina Panthers quarterback turns up – along with model Miranda Kerr – in this Buick commercial where a kiddie football game suddenly gets very adult (but in a wholesome way). Other notable celebrity pitch-teams included Justin Timberlake and Christopher Walken – and old pals Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart.
When You Say Spuds
The ghost of beer spokesdog Spuds McKenzie casts a comic specter in this Bud Light laugher that evokes Dickens – and made veteran big-game ad fans nostalgic for Super Sunday commercials that better lived up to the billing.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.
San Diego police and Escondido police are working on two early morning robberies that may be connected.
The first robbery was at a Circle K gas station convenience store on Rancho Bernardo Road at 2:20 a.m.
Investigators say one man had a sawed off shotgun, and the other man had a handgun. They were wearing dark clothes, but no masks.
Police say the gunmen told the clerk to give them money. After the clerk handed over the money, the gunmen left. The clerk was the only person inside the store at the time.
Police are not sure how they got away because the vehicle they left in was not seen on the surveillance video.
Then 20 minutes later, at 2:40 a.m., Escondido police say two men wearing all black clothing robbed an AM/PM gas station convenience store on Valley Parkway and La Terrazo.
Investigators say the robbers possibly stole $300 to $400, and about 40 cartons of cigarettes.
One man had a shotgun and the other man had a pistol.
The two men left in a black sedan.
No one was injured.
Detectives from the San Diego Police Department and the Escondido Police Department are working together to solve the robberies.
No other information was immediately available.
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Emails between San Diego County Association of Governments employees contain comments like “Omg” and “WTF” in regards to the agency’s predicted revenue from the failed transportation tax Measure A.
“Newly uncovered emails show that SANDAG staffers knew the $18 billion was unrealistic a year ago,” Voice of San Diego reports Monday. See the full report here.
On November 8, voters rejected the proposed half-cent tax for a period of 40 years. A portion of the funds raised by the measure would’ve gone to specific San Diego County transit projects.
Several times, officials told voters Measure A was expected to generate about $18B over 40 years. It was included in a commercial that urged voters to approve Measure A.
“Collecting 23 cents a day from each person in the region could make a big difference. These pennies add up to $18 billion over 40 years. That is local money, that leveraged with federal and state dollars, could fund hundreds of projects to keep San Diego Moving forward,” the commercial touted as reported in NBC 7’s Fact Check three months ago.
However, Voice of San Diego began questioning the estimated revenue based on the funds earned by the 2004 TransNet Half-Cent Sales Tax. That tax was estimated to create $14 billion over 40 years. According to Voice of San Diego, the tax was on track to generate just $9 billion.
The recent recession and residents simply choosing to shop online were among the reasons.
Voice of San Diego's Andrew Keatts has been following the issue and in December, SANDAG’s chief economist addressed the questions raised over the forecasting model.
“In light of recent news reports that raised concerns that our revenue forecasts were possibly too optimistic, we took a closer look at the forecast methodology that was being used in the plan of finance. And what we found is that there were some aspects of SANDAG’s demographic and economic forecasting model that were overestimating taxable retail sales,” Ray Major said at a SANDAG board meeting.
Asked when the error became apparent, SANDAG Board Chair Ron Roberts told Voice of San Diego it wasn't before the election.
“Before the election, technical staff had not discovered how, or if, the model’s over-estimates could have affected the Measure A revenue forecast,” Roberts said according to an NBC 7 Fact Check in January.
However, Keatts reported the emails suggest SANDAG "continued to rely on numbers they'd been told were faulty." Read the full report here.
Making higher education more affordable and eliminating student debt could cost $3.3 billion annually, according to a report released last week by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO).
State lawmakers asked the LAO to look at what was needed to build a new state financial aid program that would keep students from taking on college debt.
A “Debt Free College” program for resident full-time college students would require additional funding to the California Community Colleges (CCC), University of California and California State University systems to pay for both tuition and living expenses. The study focused on public schools since they enroll 85 percent of the state’s undergrads.
It would be a pathway to debt-free students, not a “full ride.”
The concept centers on “shared responsibility.” Think of it as total college costs covered by the state after you’ve deducted parent contribution, student contribution and federal gift aid.
“The state then provides “last dollar” gift aid to meet any remaining unmet financial need,” the proposed program suggests.
Under the program, $2.2 billion would be allotted to CCC students, $800 million to CSU students and $300 million to University of California students, according to the LOA’s report. This would be in addition to existing financial aid gifted to students.
How much families contribute to their child’s college education would be calculated the same way as federal financial aid programs. Additionally, financial aid experts working on the program estimate if a student works 15 hours a week during the academic year, and 40 hours during the summer, it would allow them to contribute $7,300, after deducting living expenses.
Maddie Padilla is an English major at San Diego State University, graduating this spring with the help of financial aid. She likes the job portion of the program.
“People use financial aid for different things besides rent and stuff, and I think being required to have a job while you’re in school is a good idea. It kind of helps you balance your life and school together,” she said. “I kind of don’t understand the kids who go to college and don’t work."
The same can't be said for fellow SDSU English major Lily Staples who uses her part-time job income to help support her family.
“In the past year I’ve had to cut down on job hours so I can balance my school, job and family,” Staples said. “My money that I earn for my job goes to paying for my grandpa’s housing, and I’m not able to save it for school."
The actual program costs to the state could turn out higher or lower than estimated, but if the program were to add eligibility requirements, such as requiring a certain grade point average or 12 unit minimum, it would significantly reduce those costs, according to the LAO report.
For 2015 – 2016, average tuition for a UC school was $13,451 for a resident student taking 30 units. CSU students paid on average $6,815 in tuition while community college students paid on average $1,380, according to the study.
For living expenses, the study looked at a UC student’s expenses for the 2015-2016 year. Living on campus cost an estimated $18,716 while living off campus cost $14,691, according to the study. Those students who could live with family spent an estimated $10,209 (the study estimated $4,700 spent in rent and food).
Principal Fiscal & Policy Analyst Paul Steenhausen, who prepared the report, said the program would reduce student loan debt but would not totally eliminate it.
“There could be significant behavioral changes regarding students attending colleges and which colleges they go to, so that could affect the cost,” Steenhausen said.
He also said the state could not require students to work.
“There may be some students who choose to work fewer hours, or not work at all,” he said “For those students they may choose to take out student loans.”
The LAO also suggested taking all of the state financial aid programs available for students and families and creating just one program to help alleviate the confusion for new students and their parents.
Oregon and Minnesota currently have similar programs in place according to the study. Click here to learn more.
We always knew this day would come, but that doesn't make it any easier.
The National Zoo revealed Monday that Bao Bao, its 3-year-old giant panda, will move to China Feb. 21.
The zoo announced farewell celebrations for Bao Bao back in January, but this is the first time it's announced her official travel date.
Commence crying... now.
Bao Bao is moving to China to enter the the country's panda breeding program, the National Zoo has said. All panda cubs born at the zoo must move to China before they turn 4.
Bao Bao won't turn 4 until August, but the zoo has said it's better for pandas to travel in the winter months when it's cool. A team will travel with Bao Bao to ensure she's comfortable throughout the trip.
Bao Bao's older brother, Tai Shan, moved to a Chinese breeding center in February 2010 -- with the aid of none other than FedEx. Tai Shan was carefully placed on the back of a FedEx truck and driven to Dulles International Airport, where he was shipped via a FedEx 777.
Bao Bao and Tai Shan's late grandfather, Pan Pan, was the Chinese breeding program's superstar. He fathered at least 32 cubs, and can count among his descendants about one-quarter of the world's population of captive-born pandas.
The zoo will bid farewell to Bao Bao with a series of online and on-site events next month. Bao Bao is sure to be the belle of the ball, receiving twice-daily treats, her own 24/7 panda cam and an ice cake party between Feb. 16 and Feb. 20.
Bao Bao is the second of three surviving cubs born to Mei Xiang during her time at the zoo. She and a stillborn female twin were born Aug. 23, 2013. Her birth was especially exciting because it had been years -- eight, in fact -- since the National Zoo had a surviving cub.
Bao Bao now weighs 180 pounds and is classified as a "sub-adult."
Pandas can begin breeding between the ages of 4 and 6.
President Donald Trump said he would cut off federal funding to California — a threat he also made about the University of California, Berkeley last week after a wild protest — if legislators vote to become a sanctuary state, he said Sunday in a Fox News interview just before the Super Bowl.
"If we have to, we'll defund," Trump told O'Reilly Factor talk show host, Bill O'Reilly. "We give tremendous amounts of money to California."
The president told Fox he is very much opposed to sanctuary cities, which he called "ridiculous."
"They breed crime, there's a lot of problems," he said.
Trump was talking about what California Democrats in the Senate did last week: They advanced legislation that would provide statewide sanctuary for immigrants and keep local law enforcement from cooperating with federal authorities. The bill was introduced by state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon that and would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from using officers or jails to uphold federal immigration laws, effectively a statewide version of so-called sanctuary cities.
But in terms of the "tremendous amounts of money" Trump was referring to, a 2016 analysis by WalletHub proved California is low on the list. The study of least federally dependent states showed that the Golden State came in at number 46 on the list, according to CNBC.
However, the University of California receives at least $9 billion in an assortment of grants, financial aid and research—all of which could be imperiled if Trump made good on a threat he made last week. He tweeted that he would possibly cut of federal funds to Cal after wild protests over Bretibart editor Milo Yiannopoulous that ended in a canceled speech and $100,000 in damage wreaked upon the campus.
California is "out of control" in many ways, and voters agree "otherwise they wouldn't have voted for me," Trump said during the interview.
Trump lost California, which leans left politically, by a wide margin to former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"I don't want to defund the state or city, I don't want to defund anybody, I want to give them the money they need to properly operate a city or a state," Trump said.
That said, "if they're going to have sanctuary cities we may have to do that - certainly that would be a weapon."
Three children were riding in a car with more than $680,000 in cocaine hidden inside, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents said Monday.
The car, driven by a 21-year-old U.S. citizen, was stopped Friday a checkpoint along Highway 86 near Salton City, officials said.
Agents say the driver’s three step children were in the Toyota Camry. Their ages are 10, 7 and 6.
After a drug-sniffing dog alerted to the car from the outside, officials moved the Toyota over to secondary inspection.
That’s where they allegedly found 24 plastic wrapped packages holding cocaine hidden in secret compartments inside the car.
The drugs weighed more than 56 pounds and were estimated to be worth $678,480, according to the El Centro Sector Border Station.
The man was arrested, the vehicle seized and the children turned over to Imperial County Child Protective Services.
Jurors have a verdict in the trial of a Fallbrook woman accused of killing her son-in-law by shooting him 15 times and stopping twice to reload.
After her arrest on a charge of first-degree murder, Cynthia Cdebaca told investigators if her son-in-law were alive she would kill him again.
The verdict in the case will be read at 1:30 p.m.
Cdebaca’s son-in-law, Geoward Flores Eustaquio, 53, was shot and killed inside his home on Braemer Terrace in the gated community of Peppertree Park on February 11, 2014.
Eustaquio made a comment about his mother-in-law's clothing just before the shooting, Deputy District Attorney Tracy Prior said.
After the remark, Cdebaca walked upstairs, grabbed a gun and fired 10 rounds at Eustaquio from outside the house and five rounds at him from inside, the prosecutor said.
Eustaquio tried to lock a door and get help, Prior said at a pre-trial hearing.
"She was able to get inside the residence and as he bled on the floor, she stood over him and shot four more shots,” Prior said.
The defendant tossed the gun into a drainage ditch, prosecutors said. She then went to Denny's for breakfast, gambled at Pechanga Resort & Casino, purchased cigarettes at a liquor store and visited her favorite coffee shop in Fallbrook.
The victim's two adult sons, Jordan and Keanu, told NBC 7 they thought their father's personality and opinions on raising children may have led to the violence.
Eustaquio was a military reservist, a real estate agent and a rugby coach for local kids including students at Potter Middle School.
Cdebaca, who lived in a granny flat above the home's garage, was arrested on the day of the shooting which was also her 63rd birthday.
Prosecutors said Cdebaca had purchased the .38-caliber gun two weeks prior to the deadly shooting.
A program dubbed "SD United" launched in San Diego Monday to create one of the region's first technology support platforms for military service members, veterans and their families.
The telephone resource center, 2-1-1 San Diego, launched the program at 10 a.m. in the Connections Center, with the Vets Care Coordination Committee, according to 2-1-1 San Diego. That's located on the 3800 block of Calle Fortunada near Kearny Mesa.
The San Diego Veterans Coalition and the region's Peer to Peer hub at Courage to Call will work together to form a care coordination network, according to 2-1-1 San Diego. The program will aim to improve access for the military and veteran families to all of their resources. Through enhanced community collaboration, they hope to ensure that nobody who served the country gets left behind.
At the conference, there was a demonstration of the SD United technology system. On the website sandiegounited.org, veterans can enter their name and information, and then the information is forwarded to someone working at the center. Then the center contacts the military member and shares their information with other service providers, so they will be prepared to efficiently handle their case.
"This is specifically set up to make sure the onus on getting the veteran or family member the service is on us as a service provider, so taking that burden off those in need and making sure we're helping them all the way through their connection to get their needs met," said Gabriel Kendall, Associate Director of programs at the center.
SD United will be built across 13 key areas of community service that affect our military and veteran community, according to the center. The goal is to build a trusted Care Coordination system that provides long-lasting support for San Diego's military, veterans and their families.
If someone is interested is using the services, visit their website or just call 2-1-1 on the phone.
A man who fell four stories to his death from his apartment in the Rolando neighborhood early Saturday under suspicious circumstances has been identified Monday, said police.
Untyuan Smith, age 25, was a resident of San Diego, according to San Diego police (SDPD). The SDPD's Homicide Unit is handling the case due to the suspicious nature of the man's death.
Two people were arrested at the complex who appeared to be connected to the victim. Police have identified the suspects as Smith's 23-year-old roommate Ahmed Parr and 24-year-old Brady Cronin.
Police arrested Parr for a felony probation warrant not related to Smith's fall, that involved vandalism worth over 400 dollars in damage. Cronin was also arrested and booked into San Diego County jail on several misdemeanor charges including petty theft and drug possession.
Neither of these arrests were on charges connected with Smith's death, confirmed police.
At about 2:50 a.m. Saturday, police received reports that a man had fallen from a four-story apartment at the 4600 block of 63rd street. When police arrived at the complex they found the victim bleeding from a severe head injury.
Smith was rushed to a local hospital and died shortly thereafter. The investigation surrounding his death is ongoing.
