A vehicle has reportedly slammed into a house at 9th Avenue and La Terraza Blvd, according to Escondido police.
One person has major injuries. The crash happened around 9:15 p.m.
No other information was available.
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One month into President Donald Trump’s presidency, NBC 7 sat down at D.Z. Akins in La Mesa and Waypoint Public in North Park for a sandwich, a beer and a little political conversation.
“I’m feeling great!” D.Z. Akins diner Mike Stafford said enthusiastically when asked what he thinks about the new administration.
While finishing his grilled cheese, Stafford explained, in his view that Trump is doing everything he said he would do. “The thing that strikes me immediately is he's preformed as he said he was going to perform,” he said.
At the booth around the corner Joyce Camiel and her dinner date Bryce Westphall had differing opinions.
“It’s a disaster,” she answered after a little prodding. Westphall, who joked about getting kicked by Camiel under the table, said Trump has the will to grow a strong, successful country. “If he's able to accomplish 40 percent of [what he said he would do] without getting us in a war, he's done okay.”
At the bar Waypoint Public the craft beer was flowing as was the political conversation.
Ninth grade teacher Leslie Diaz-Burns says she didn’t vote for Trump, but she was hoping for the best.
“I'm feeling a little disappointed with how things are going because I feel that the president has missed opportunities to bring people together,” she said. She’s less hopeful now. “I guess he's going to institute another executive order even though the other has been struck down by the court. So I don't know. I guess the answer is I don't feel like he's really accomplished anything.”
It’s still early in the president’s first term and only time will tell if Trump’s presidency is successful or not. But one thing is certain - pastrami on rye, a pint and political opinions will continue to mix until the next election.
A dossier profiling the mind of President Donald Trump is being prepared for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former senior Kremlin adviser tells NBC News.
Among the report's preliminary conclusions is that Trump takes risks but can be naive, the adviser said.
"Very serious preparatory work is going on in the Kremlin, including a paper — seven pages — describing a psychological portrait of Trump, especially based on this last two to three months, and the last weeks," said former Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Fedorov, who says he has known Trump since 2000.
It's part of Putin's planning for his first meeting with Trump, the date for which has yet to be decided.
Many local agencies across San Diego County are closed on Monday in observance of Presidents day.
All of the administrative offices for the City of San Diego are closed, along with most of the city's recreation centers and its pools and libraries, according to the city website.
The County of San Diego's offices, library branches and animal shelters are also closed, said county officials.
Plenty of parks remain open for the holiday including San Diego County parks, campgrounds and neighborhood day-use parks. The Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center is open, according to the city.
Skate parks remain open in the following locations: Robb Field, Rancho Penasquitos, Carmel Valley, Bill and Maxine Wilson, and the Charles L. Lewis III Memorial.
As for parking, the meters, street time restrictions and yellow zones are not enforced within the City of San Diego, except for red, white and blue zones which continue to be enforced still.
Some community centers and gymnasiums are closed.
That includes the Fallbrook, Lakeside and Spring Valley Community Center, as well as the Lakeside Teen Center, and the Spring Valley Gymnasium and Teen Center, according to County officials. The 4S Ranch Sports Park recreation office and the Tecolote Nature Center is also closed. Open Space and Maintenance Assessment District offices are closed.
Emergency services continue operating throughout the holiday, including law enforcement and emergency animal control response, according to San Diego County and City officials. San Diego Police and San Diego Fire-Rescue crews are not impacted by the holiday. Station 38, the Citywide emergency dispatch center is on duty.
Anyone in need of help for domestic violence can call 9-1-1 and/or the Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-888-385-4657.
The Testing, Employment Information Center and Background/Fingerprinting offices within the Personnel Department are closed, and the Family Justice Center is closed.
Trash collection is not affected by the holiday for residents in the City of San Diego. The Miramar Landfill is operating on its normal schedule from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Chollas Lake is open from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and the San Vicente Reservoir is open until sunset, according to city officials. Golf courses and start booths are open.
Normal business hours for all County and City offices will resume on Tuesday, after the holiday.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a 74-year-old woman who was headed to Mexico on a cruise ship, about 86 miles southwest of San Diego Monday.
At about 5:15 p.m. Sunday, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector San Diego received a call about a woman having severe abdominal pain on the cruise ship called Star Princess, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
A duty flight surgeon with the U.S. Coast Guard asked for the patient to be medically evacuated and taken to a hospital for emergency care, said a U.S. Coast Guard official. When they got the report, the ship was located more than 400 miles southwest of San Diego en route to Ensenada, Mexico.
It was so far away that the ship was asked to return slightly closer to San Diego, at a carefully selected position, said U.S. Coast Guard officials.
A Jayhawk helicopter crew from the Coast Guard Sector San Diego was launched at 6 a.m. Monday and safely hoisted the woman from the ship at about 7:20 a.m.
"While most people are enjoying a long President's Day Weekend, we can't forget illness and injury don't take holidays," said Lt. Tim Nicolet, aircraft commander and pilot of the Jayhawk, in a statement.
"Fortunately for this patient, neither do we. Protecting lives at sea is paramount to what we do and I'm proud to have been a part of this exceptional crew and this rescue effort," said Lt. Nicolet.
The patient was returned to Sector San Diego at 8 a.m. and taken to the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. There were no further details available yet on her condition.
A security breach at JFK airport this morning resulted in 11 people getting through security without being checked, three of whom set off metal detectors, officials told NBC News.
An airport official and a senior law enforcement official said at 6.05 a.m. Monday at Terminal 5 the TSA left a security lane open but unattended by screeners.
One senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the incident said 11 people went through the lane unscreened, and a review of the surveillance video shows that three people set off metal detectors.
The law enforcement sources said the TSA did not notify police for two hours, at 8:05 a.m.
The sources said that the TSA and the Port Authority Police Department then canvassed the JetBlue terminal using photos and video screen grabs but could not locate any of the 11 passengers.
An airport official said the security canvass was completed at 9:05 a.m. and both officials said the passengers are assumed to have boarded flights.
A SWAT standoff is underway with an armed man in a Santee home Monday morning, who is believed to have violated a restraining order, confirmed sheriff's deputies.
The man, who appears to be in his early 20s, is reportedly by himself, inside the house located on the 8500 block of Massery Lane, said a San Diego County Sheriff's department (SDSO) official.
He is reportedly carrying a gun, according to the SDSO. The Sheriff's Crisis Negotiation Team is at the scene trying to negotiate with him.
No other information was immediately available.
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President Donald Trump announces Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his pick for national security adviser at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 20, 2017.
A Whittier police officer was killed and another officer and a gunman were wounded in a gun battle Monday morning, officials said.
"Officers respond to a call, and it seems like a simple traffic accident, and the next thing they know they’re in a gunfight," said Lt. John Corina of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
About 8 a.m., two male officers responded to a crash in the area of Colima Road and Mar Vista in Whittier, Southern California, where allegedly a driver of a stolen car had struck two other cars at a stop light, Corina said.
When the officers arrived, they were told by the victims that the driver who had struck them was around the corner.
The officers, who had not yet been identified, approached the suspected gunman's car completely unaware that it was stolen.
"When they get him out of the car, they go to pat him down for weapons, they can see he’s got tattoos all over his face and all over his neck," Corina said at a news conference.
In the midst of a pat down, Corina said the man pulled out a gun and started shooting. The officers returned fire and wounded him.
Both officers were wearing bullet-proof vests, Corina said.
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All three were rushed to the hospital, where one of the officers was pronounced dead. The other officer and the gunman were in stable condition.
The identity of the shooter had not been released, but deputies said he was a known gang member. He was described by Corina only as a 26-year-old man who had been paroled approximately 10 days before the shootout.
He was in the intensive care unit of the hospital, Corina said.
Aerial images showed the shattered driver side window of a Whittier police vehicle and a rifle on the trunk of another car.
Heather Navarro contributed to this report.
U.S. Representative Scott Peters (D-52) will hold a town hall at the Islamic Center of San Diego Monday.
The town hall will take place at 5 p.m. at the center, located at 7050 Eckstrom Avenue in San Diego.
According to Peters' staff, the event is at capacity. If you did not make the deadline to RSVP to the eventby would like to attend, you will be seated on a first-come, first-serve basis as seats become available.
The new administration and the direction of the administration is expected to be among one of the conversation topics this evening.
"This town hall is a WIN for Indivisible! Peters decided to host the event because of repeated inquiries from groups like ours. We have filled the venue with our members and then some. We will continue to work with elected officials to make positive change in our community," read a post on the event's Facebook page.
Peters plans to host another town hall in March at a larger venue.
Presidents Day means a day off for many across the United States, and hundreds of people in cities from New York to Los Angeles were using it to send a message to the current occupant of the White House.
"Not My Presidents Day" rallies were being held in at least a dozen cities Monday, continuing a weekend of demonstrations aimed at speaking out against President Donald Trump's policies and actions.
The rallies in Chicago and New York were held near the Trump International Hotel in both cities, each drawing hundreds of people.
Two people at the Los Angeles rally outside city hall interviewed on MSNBC said they came because they find Trump purposely divisive and untruthful.
A march and rally in Atlanta was called "ImPEACH NOW," a reference to the state fruit, and NBC affiliate WXIA reported that the march stretched five miles.
Hundreds or thousands of people were expected at each rally. There were no reports of arrests at any rally as of 3:30 p.m. ET.
Earlier in the long weekend, demonstrators nationwide had rallied against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids, while New York City held a rally in support of Muslim Americans and scientists rallied in Boston urging Trump to recognize climate change and tackle environmental issues.
With five straight days of rallies and demonstrations, and more planned for future weeks, some activists are warning of potential "resistance fatigue." As NBC News reports, the "trendiness" of talk about "resistance fatigue" can be traced to a Medium essay published in January by Google engineer Yonatan Zunger, who wondered if tiring out Americans was the motivation behind Trump's nearly nonstop battery of executive orders.
"It wouldn't surprise me if the goal is to create 'resistance fatigue,' to get Americans to the point where they're more likely to say, 'Oh, another protest? Don't you guys ever stop?' relatively quickly," wrote Zunger.
That fatigue doesn't appear to have set in yet; still, some movement leaders are preemptively urging demonstrators to manage their energy and get enough sleep, among other things.
"This work is exhausting," Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York and one of four national organizers of the January 21 Women's March, told NBC News, and "under this administration it's proving difficult to take care of our physical and emotional well being."
"But we must," Sarsour added, "Because this is not a sprint, it's a marathon."
Sarsour has used Twitter to remind her 173,000 followers to take care of themselves and "EAT, DRINK WATER."
Trump was at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Monday, from where he announced that he'd tapped Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to fill the role of National Security Adviser, which the resignation of Michael Flynn left vacant.
He didn't address the rallies, but did tweet "HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" along with another tweet reiterating his claim that Sweden is being hurt by immigration. It is based on a Fox News report and refuted by many in the nation.
Trees were toppled, power lines felled and debris spread in last weekend's wet, windy storm, leaving messes to clean up across San Diego County.
Although the most recent storm was not as bad as the ones that swept across the region in January, it still brought even more damage.
On Feb. 3, Mayor Kevin Faulconer declared a state of emergency for the city of San Diego after a series of storms. Governor Jerry Brown had previously declared one for the state of California to help secure disaster assistance.
Now the City of Chula Vista has calculated $1.2 million in damage in an initial estimate from Friday's storm, according to city officials. That includes overtime costs for police, fire crews and city staff.
Crews are working on tree and debris clean up, as well as repairing damaged parks, equipment and facilities, said a Chula Vista city official.
After the storm knocked over a eucalyptus tree that was about 120 feet tall in Scripps Ranch, the families are dealing with the big hole it left in their houses.
No one was hurt, but the tree went through one woman's study, balcony and also destroyed a wall in her living room downstairs. Crews worked to remove the tree out of the home by chopping it up into mulch on the roof. An engineer is planning to inspect the home and see if it is safe to fix.
A woman, Sarah Schneewind, remained in good spirits about trees despite the significant amount of damage one did to her Scripps Ranch home. She said she knew the tree would fall at some point, so she wasn't too surprised when it did.
"I love it...I know it's going to fall...just a question of when because that's what these trees do," said Schneewind.
She told NBC 7 the Home Owners Association is generally responsible about clearing out dangerous trees that pose a risk of falling in the neighborhood.
Schneewind stressed that the trees are an important part of the community and part of the reason she chose to live there.
An 80-year-old woman who went missing in La Mesa Monday morning has been found, the La Mesa Police Department confirmed.
Patricia Bradford, who has dementia, was last seen at her assisted living home in the 7900 block of Culowee Street in La Mesa around 11 a.m.
Police actively searcched the surrounding areas with the help of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department’s helicopter, ASTREA.
She was found just after 3 p.m., according to La Mesa Police.
The investment group that wants to redevelop the Mission Valley land where Qualcomm Stadium sits has big plans.
"We're starting with the largest parking lot west of the Mississippi and if we follow this plan within three years you will start to see construction on that," said FS Investors partner Nick Stone as he pointed at a new artist's rendering of the grand plan.
Stone was joined by former Qualcomm executive Steve Altman in a series of press briefings on Monday in La Jolla. The group outlined what it wants to do to the 166-acre plot of land where Qualcomm Stadium sits.
"We're trying to do something that makes sense for the community, a much more valuable asset for the City," said Stone.
In addition to a brand new stadium to house an MLS expansion team and the San Diego State football program and a 55-acre River Park, here is what their big picture development plan looks like:
- 3,520 market rate residential units
- 800 units of student-focused housing
- 480 residential units designed as affordable housing
- 2.4 million square feet of office space
- 740,000 square feet of commercial space
- 2 hotels with potential for 450 rooms
Stone says the park plan is something that meets almost all the criteria for the River Park Foundation and construction on it MUST be in at the same time they start to build the stadium. He also reiterated this entire proposal, which would cost an estimated $2.5 billion when it's all said and done, would be privately financed.
"We are not seeking a single dollar if tax payer subsidy," said Stone.
Part of that $2.5 billion dollar price tag includes $50 million to go towards traffic mitigation which Stone says is not just for what they want to build but also easing traffic flow in the area in general. It also will take care of destruction of Qualcomm Stadium.
The FS Investors-led group also touts the site’s public transit as a major positive. The current stadium site has a trolley stop and is scheduled to be part of the new Purple line that would connect Mission Valley to the South Bay.
“We are THE transit hub in Mission Valley corridor,” said Stone.
This is a unique opportunity for any land developer. Parcels of land like this, 166 acres with very little already on it, are hard to come by in major cities in today’s real estate world. There will very likely be other developers interested in the land that put of a fight for it. This investment group is prepared for the opposition.
“I think we're a rising tide that's going to lift a lot boats here. There will be people who view us as competition,” said Stone.
One of the main challenges from other developers could come in the way the land is acquired by the FS Investors group. On Monday they re-iterated they plan on leasing the full site on a land-use basis and buying less than 80 acres, in effect acting as a master developer for the entire plot of land.
The proposal was presented to City Hall and City Councilmembers on Monday.
"This concept offers exciting opportunities for major league soccer, more parkland and Aztecs football without public subsidy,” said Mayor Kevin Faulconer in a statement to NBC 7. “Now it's time to examine the plan in detail to make sure it makes sense for taxpayers. I look forward to reviewing the proposal presented to the public today, as well as the public discussion to come."
The proposal will be formed as a citizens’ initiative. Later this week they plan to launch a new website, www.goalsd.com, that will outline all of the technical data. Then 22 days after that, they plan to start gathering signatures (the same process the Chargers went through with Measure C).
If the group is able to collect enough signatures and have those signatures verified they will ask the City Council to make a decision on direct-adopting the proposal in June, hoping to avoid the delay of a public vote on the plan which would come in November, likely after Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber makes an announcement on which cities will receive expansion teams.
A citizens’ initiative does not require environmental impact information to be included but Stone says the group will include “thousands of pages” of documents similar to what would be found in an Environmental Impact Report will be included anyway. Since the land is older and mostly a parking lot the group does not foresee many environmental obstacles.
"There is very little that we could do so make the environmental situation worse,” said Stone.
As for the National Football League, Stone says their group has not received any calls from groups interested in building a new facility for an NFL team on the site but they are still earmarking 16 acres to be left alone for five years in case professional American football decides to return to America’s Finest City.
“We hope that at some point somebody will pick up the phone and call us but it hasn’t happened,” said Stone.
A possible sticking point here is the size of the stadium. SDSU needs a new home and would like something expandable to 40,000 seats. The current stadium proposal, according to Stone, would be expandable to 32,000 seats. After seeing the latest round of plans SDSU issued the following statement:
"We have reviewed the renderings and descriptions presented by FS Investors and we wish to clarify two critical issues: First, given the proposed density of development in the stadium area, there is no prospect for future expansion to 40,000 seats. Second, while the proposed gift of stadium ownership may convey tax advantages to FS Investors, it conveys no revenue or rights of ownership normally associated with a gift. We look forward to working with the Mayor, the City Council and the San Diego community to construct a mixed-use stadium that will serve the needs of SDSU's top 25-football program."
The MLS investment group has spoken about “gifting” their portion of the stadium to the University and the school is looking for clarification on what exactly they mean by that. The Aztecs are being asked to kick in $100 million to the construction cost and would be hesitant to do so if they are not happy with the capacity.
A woman suffering from an ankle injury was rescued from the side of Cowles Mountain Monday afternoon.
San Diego Fire-Rescue officials (SDFD) first received the call for a hiker in distress one mile up the Barker Way Trail at approximately 2:25 p.m.
SDFD officials flew in with their helicopter and helped hoist the hiker out, where she will be taken to the Mast Boulevard parking lot for ground transport.
No other information was available.
School districts across the County are requesting water testing after dangerous levels of lead were discovered at a San Ysidro elementary school.
Health experts say the schools most likely to have unsafe levels of lead in drinking water are those built before 1986.
NBC 7 mapped out where schools in the county built before 1986 are located, and found they are spread out throughout the region.
Clusters of schools built before 1986 are located not just in the South Bay, but also in San Diego neighborhoods like Clairemont, Scripps Ranch and Tierrasanta, the map shows.
Dina MacDonald has a family member that goes to Tierrasanta Elementary.
It's one of the approximately 447 schools across the county built before 1986.
"I think the more years that go by and we see these facilities that were built more than fifty years ago, a lot of them," MacDonald said. "I'm sure there's a lot of other things going on in those schools that probably need to be addressed but like everything you kinda put it off and don't think about it until there becomes a problem."
The Los Angeles Chargers former football home, Qualcomm Stadium, is still displaying hundreds of Chargers signs, including many that say “San Diego Chargers.”
These “San Diego Chargers” signs are still up, even though the Chargers organization announced it was moving to Los Angeles on January 25th, over 5 weeks ago.
Who is responsible for taking down these Chargers signs? Who will pay for their removal? When will the signs come down?
The City of San Diego says it’s up to the Chargers organization.
In a statement to NBC 7, City of San Diego Public Information Officer Scott Robinson said, “The Chargers are supposed to remove their own signage at their expense. We don’t currently have a timeline.”
In front of the Los Angeles Chargers team headquarters on Murphy Canyon Road there remains a sign that says “San Diego Chargers.”
NBC 7 reached out to the Chargers to see if they had any plans on removing the signs from their facility or Qualcomm Stadium.
Chargers Media Relations Director Bill Johnston responded in an email saying, “We will be operating out of Chargers Park until June. We will be using our offices at the stadium likely through April.”
So it appears the stadium sign situation will be similar to the Chargers stadium quest in San Diego, a long, drawn out process that only leaves pigskin pain for Chargers fans each time they see those remaining “San Diego Chargers” signs.
Costco wants you inside their warehouse store, and not necessarily shopping online.
"If consumers go into the store they tend to buy a lot more," said San Diego State marketing professor Miro Copic. He says while traditional retailers like Target and Walmart are making big investments in the e-commerce side of their business, Costco may be falling behind.
"You know they have been very slow at their online presence and really promoting online purchasing as well as mobile purchasing," said Copic.
Copic says the growth rate in traditional brick and mortar stores is a fraction of the rate of growth for online stores. But Costco has taken its time in creating a competitive online store.
At the same time Amazon is looking at increasing its grocery delivery service and offering bulk items, both could take a bite out of Costco.
"They are going to butt heads much more in the next couple of years," said Copic.
Costco may be hesitant to expand its online presence because the store benefits when shoppers go into their warehouse locations. According to Copic, if consumers go into the store they tend to buy a lot more. Costco's business plan is to keep rotating their inventory and to offer extras for shoppers like free samples. That's something they can't do online.
"If you've been in a Costco store and you see they have different things on display or different things you can taste, it's like I'm going to buy this, I'm going to take it home, "said Copic, "and that's where Costco really wins.
The San Diego Humane Society will be offering free spay and neuter surgeries for qualifying pets in celebration of World Spay Day.
Three San Diego County campuses will participate in the event on Feb. 28.
According to the San Diego Humane Society, anyone with a qualifying income can sign up their pet Chihuahuas, cats, and pit bulls for free spay or neuter surgeries.
“Preventing unwanted and unplanned litters is one of the best approaches we can take to end pet homelessness in San Diego, which is why in addition to our World Spay Day promotion, we have affordable and accessible community spay neuter services, available all year long," said Dr. Gary Weitzman, president and CEO of San Diego Humane Society.
The organization will offer 80 free spay/neuter surgeries and give away 75 free spay and neuter appointments at three separate locations:
