Francisco Sousa said he wants his life back.

Two and a half years ago, the former San Diego State University (SDSU) student was wrongfully accused of sexually abusing a female student and was arrested.

The charges were eventually dropped, but the damage was already done.

SDSU officials sent a mass campus wide e-mail, warning other students about Sousa. The e-mail listed the alleged behavior and called Sousa out as a sexual predator.

He said the news traveled all the way to his native Portugal.

“I was in the media everywhere, not just in America, but also back home,” Sousa told NBC 7. “One day I'm going to be looking for a job, my kids are going to google their dad's name, what are they going to see?"

On Thursday, Sousa reached a settlement with the university.

“Obviously, I'm satisfied that we were able to reach an agreement with San Diego State,” Sousa said. “I can never go back and erase what happened but I'm glad we were able to reach a settlement.”

When Sousa first heard about the allegations, he said he didn’t take them seriously.

“I thought it was going to be over by dinner time. I knew I was innocent, but I had no idea that this was going to be blown out of proportion the way,” he said.

The incident happened back in December 2014, when in just one semester, 13 sexual assaults were reported on or around SDSU campus.

Sousa thinks the university felt pressured to crack down on these crimes. He believes he was used as an example, despite the unfounded claims.

Part of his settlement requires that SDSU give more training to its personnel.

“They agreed to pay $10,000, and to do the extra training for the police department and the title nine people,” said Sousa’s attorney, Mike Marrinan.

Sousa transferred to another university in California where he will graduate this semester with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Economics.

He told NBC 7, he’s ready to move forward and put this painful chapter behind him.

Since the incident, he said he hasn’t talked to the woman who wrongfully accused him.

“She could have stopped this at any moment when this was happening,” said Sousa. “It didn't only hurt me a lot, it also hurts other real victims out there, actual sexual assault victims who may not want to report it because of cases like this.”

A dog is getting a second chance thanks to a team of Good Samaritans who brought her back to life.

Her former owners Benjamin Garcia, 53, and Antonia Torres, 33, pleaded guilty to felony animal charges.

Solei, a terrier mix, is full of energy. 

“We call her the alpha-dog of the house. She needs attention 24/7,” said her new owner, Damon Blankenbaker.

Solei enjoys nonstop playing with Zoey and Baxter, two other rescue dogs in her new home, and fetch with her new dad in the backyard.

Her life, however, was completely different a few months ago. 

Solei was hit by a car and badly injured but her former owners never got her any medical care.

“Her leg was broken and she was taking care of it on her own by licking it,” explained Blankenbaker.

After a few weeks, a Good Samaritan reported her to County of San Diego Department of Animal Services and she was taken to get emergency care. Her leg, was severely damaged and infected so it had to be amputated.

“She somehow survived and didn’t have any issues other than dealing with the exposed bone,” said Blankenbaker.

Now, she has a new beginning, free from abuse and neglect.

“She loves everyone.  She’s a good girl,” Blankenbaker said with a smile on his face.

Solei now lives with her new adopted family in Ramona. 

In Dateline's investigative lens on Friday was one of San Diego's most notorious spree killers, Andrew Cunanan.

Cunanan is thought to be responsible for five murders--most notably, fashion icon Gianni Versace.

Just days before Cunanan's killing spree began, he had a farewell dinner with friends at a restaurant on University Avenue.

His final words to his friends, were perhaps a foreshadowing of the terror about to take place.

"Cunanan leaned back in his chair and looked over at his friends and said 'All of you think you know the real Andrew but none of you really knows the truth,'" freelance journalist Roman Jimenez told NBC 7.

Jimenez was a key interview in Friday night's Dateline show.

"The motives for each of these killings were different. Some of them we know, most of them we don't," Jimenez said.

He is the former editor a weekly paper, called "Update" at the time. 

"We uncovered a guy who was pathological but had this great aspiration to have wealth and privilege without ever having acquired any of it on his own," Jimenez said.

Cunanan beat one victim with a claw hammer, stabbed another with an ice pick, and gunned down others.

The impact of that bloody killing spree was devastating to San Diego's gay community.

It came at a time when acceptance and sensitivity toward same sex couples was gaining ground.

“Every news outlet in the country was showing the absolute worst of who we were and it was like, you had taken two steps forward and 10 steps back," Jimenez said.

He told NBC 7, Hillcrest residents and visitors were terrified and that the community felt like it was a target.

"You could guarantee there was a population of gay and lesbian people in one spot. That if you wanted to do harm you could probably easily do it,” Jimenez said.

For all the sensational details, mystery and intrigue, Jimenez said, fortunately, Cunanan is merely a footnote in the history of the local gay community.

"It's ironic that this person who craved attention, craved the limelight and craved fame is really nothing more than a cheap drink conversation," Jimenez said.

John Payne died 44 years ago, and that’s why he’s so happy today.

To understand this now 64-year-old, colorful cowboy, you have to go back to his youth in Oklahoma where he grew up on a cattle ranch, and later died.

“See, I got killed when I was 20.  So, I started over,” Payne said.

The story goes like this; Payne was doing some work involving electrical wires that he did not realize were live.  He says the wires sent 7200 volts of electricity through his body, burning his arm, his leg. The electricity then exited his body through his stomach. 

He also fell more than 20 feet after the shock and lay dead on the ground for five minutes.

CPR from a friend brought John Payne back to life that day and he’s never been the same.

“If you don’t enjoy life, just get killed once.  When you come back, you’ll enjoy life from then on. I promise you,” he said.

Payne lost his arm from the accident and initially his direction in life. 

He tells the story that he ended up $100,000 in debt, and living with his grandmother while he built his own trailer from scratch. 

With that trailer and his horse, Payne convinced someone to let him perform in a rodeo. 

That was 30 years and about 5,000 shows ago for a man now known as "The One Arm Bandit."

“I don’t have to act.  I’m just playing myself,” Payne said.

We caught up with him outside a horse stall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds getting ready for the Del Mar National Horse Show and tending to his horse, his burrow, and his two African Watusi Longhorn Steers.  He calls the animals his best friends.

“I spend all my money on my animals. So, yes I love my animals and I take very good care of them because we go down the road making a living together,” said Payne.

Payne’s act consists of him riding into the arena alongside his trailer, and joined by his animals which he somehow convinces to walk up a ramp and join him on top of the trailer, and the crowds love it.

“What they can expect to see is the very best rodeo entertainment in the world,” he said.

Payne has won the professional rodeo’s Specialty Act of the Year award 15 times in the past 30 years, more than anyone else.  And now it’s become a family business.  His son, Lynn, and daughter Amanda also perform at events around the country.

Payne says he’d love to see his grandkids take over the show someday.  Until then, this cowboy, who has had 20 broken bones and still breaks all his own horses, said he has no plans for retirement anytime soon.

Not bad, for someone who died 44 years ago.

Thieves stole four MacBooks and at least 10 iPhones from demo tables at the Apple Store in Fashion Valley, according to employees.  

The UTC Apple Store in La Jolla was also robbed 30 minutes before the one in Fashion Valley, police confirm. 

Officers responded to the Fashion Valley theft around 10:30 a.m. Friday, San Diego police confirm. 

Several suspects came into the store and grabbed the display items, setting off the alarm. 

There are no reported injuries. San Diego Police Detectives are investigating.

It is unclear if the robberies are related. 

No other information was available.

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County officials released the name of the man who died last week in a fall from a cliff near UC San Diego.

Haoran Li, 23, died from injuries he suffered when he fell hundreds of feet down a cliff at Torrey Pines Glider Point on April 19. 

Firefighters responded to Torrey Pines Scenic Drive near N Torrey Pines Road  Wednesday just before midnight.

The area near the Salk Institute is just west of the UC San Diego campus.

A woman who was walking with Li called for help, but her cell phone battery died shortly after the call, complicating the response. 

Firefighters used the GPS in the woman's phone to find her about 75 feet below the edge of the cliff.

They repelled down the hill to help the injured woman back up.

Crews found Li with a head injury about 125 feet below where they found his friend.

By the time crews arrived, he had already died.

The medical examiner determined the cause of Li's death to be an accident.

The family of an Escondido woman mistakenly identified by Carlsbad police as the suspect in a child molestation case says it wants to move forward.

They said the want to put the focus back on the original intent of the news release--to find out if there are other potential victims.

In July, 2016, 22-year-old Brittany Lyon was arrested and accused of lewd acts on children while babysitting.

Police said Lyon took the children to her boyfriend's house in Carlsbad where he allegedly molested the children, while she took video of the acts.

Trying to find out if there are more potential victims, detectives put out a news release asking if other families hired Lyon as a babysitter.

According to police, families may not have even realized they hired Lyon because she posted ads on babysitting websites using the alias Lauren Allen.

But the problem with the news release arose when police realized Lauren Allen is an actual person from Escondido who used to babysit. The photo used in the news release was a picture of the real Lauren Allen, who happens to look a lot like Lyon.

“The releasing of the photo of Lauren Allen was a mistake by our department…I can’t express it, other than (it was) a lack of vetting on our part, which ultimately rests with me," said Carlsbad Police Captain Mickey Williams. "I should have caught this. I didn’t and we should not have released Lauren Allen’s name, period, or her photograph.”

Police said they did meet with Allen and her family Friday morning and had apologized.

“[Lyon] may have impersonated other people while committing her offenses and possibly, she may have used Lauren Allen’s name, but Lauren Allen is in no way suspected of wrongdoing," Williams said.

A new way of doing business may soon be imposed on this region's transportation planners.

It's a reform measure aimed at the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), which was cast in a bad light after the November election.

SANDAG is run by elected officials from the county and its 18 cities.

And those officials, comprising the agency’s board of directors, were left in the dark about revenue projections that were several billion dollars too high during the campaign for "Measure A".

The measure called for a half-cent sales tax to boost transportation spending over 40 years, and got a 58 percent majority vote -- but needed two-thirds to pass.

SANDAG staffers didn't correct the revenue error until later, and now an outside law firm is investigating the agency's handling of the situation.

The County Taxpayers Association weighed in this week with recommended improvements.

And state Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher is pushing AB 805 through the Legislature to overhaul SANDAG's governing structure and procedures.

SANDAG officials are against the bill, saying it's unfair to the county's smaller cities.

But in Friday's recording session for Sunday's edition of NBC 7’s "Politically Speaking", Gonzalez Fletcher said agency staffers were aware of the questionable revenue numbers long before the election -- and still went ahead with them.

“Either somebody knew about it that was an elected official, that hasn’t copped to it,” speculated Gonzalez Fletcher. “Or, they didn’t honestly know about it, but haven’t held anybody accountable within SANDAG.”

“The fact that there's no accountability, there's no transparency just begs the question 'What do we do to change this?'” Gonzalez Fletcher added. “And one of the things my legislation does is, it sets up an auditor and an independent committee so that we can insure that the numbers that come out of SANDAG, the spending that we're being told is happening, is actually happening."

AB 805 is making its way through Assembly committees on strong majority votes.

Gonzalez Fletcher says she's still working suggested amendments into it, to gather more support.

There have been seven episodes of “Saturday Night Live” during the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, and the program’s been handed plenty of material by the administration, from the president’s tweeting and press secretary Sean Spicer’s gaffes to Stephen Bannon’s perceived influence behind-the-scenes and Jared Kushner’s sunglasses-and-blazer fashion statement in Iraq.

The most consistent "SNL" target is the president himself, played by Alec Baldwin on five of the seven episodes.

When Trump's travel ban got stymied in the courts, "SNL's" Trump took his case to "The People's Court." On another episode, Baldwin's Trump spoke to supporters worried about their jobs by comparing his followers to people who "find a finger in their chili" but eat it anyway. After Trump wore a flight jacket while speaking to members of the Navy, "SNL" parodied the commander in chief by having Baldwin give a less-than-inspirational speech during an alien invasion. 

Baldwin also branched out, playing both Trump and ousted Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on a split screen in a "No Spin Zone" segment.

The response to Baldwin’s version of Trump has been, on average, favorable. Trump, who hosted NBC's "SNL" during the campaign, has been quiet about the impression since he took office. But before his inauguration, Trump argued that Baldwin's send-up “stinks.”

"He's gone from funny to mean and that's unfortunate," Spicer told "Extra" back in February. "'Saturday Night Live' used to be really funny and I think there's a streak of meanness now that they've kind of crossed over into." 

Of course, audiences became familiar with Baldwin’s Trump long before the inauguration — he’d been making "SNL" appearances since before the election, facing off as a presidential candidate in debates with Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton.

Baldwin's parody had become a mainstay by the time the real Trump took office.

Melissa McCarthy, not Baldwin, became the surprising breakout star of the first 100 days of "SNL’s" Trump administration in playing Spicer.

McCarthy first showed up, unannounced, on the Feb. 4 episode to riff on Spicer’s first press conference, during which the public face of the White House took an adversarial stance toward the press corps. 

Spicer had scolded the media for “deliberately false reporting.” One instance referred to an incorrect tweet from a pool reporter that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. It hadn't, and the reporter had apologized. Spicer also criticized reports on Trump's inauguration crowd size.

On "SNL," McCarthy played up Spicer’s defensive stance. 

“Now I’d like to begin today by apologizing — on behalf of you, to me, for how you have treated me these last two weeks. And that apology is not accepted. Because I’m not here to be your buddy. I’m here to swallow gum, and I’m here to take names,” she said, the gum being a reference to Spicer’s reported fondness for downing pieces of Orbit. 

She ended the press conference by shooting a reporter with a water gun for asking about the White House’s statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that didn’t mention Jews.

Real-life Spicer responded to the portrayal in an interview later with "Extra." He said it was funny, but over-exaggerated — presumably what "SNL" was going for. He offered some seemingly good-natured advice for McCarthy, suggesting she tone it down on the gum.

McCarthy returned for her second of three appearances the following week. “I have been told that I am going to cut back on the gum chewing, so I’ve cut back to one slice a day,” she said, just before pulling out a giant stick of gum. This time she used a leaf-blower on a reporter in response to a question about the president’s statements on Chicago’s murder rate. “That was me blowing away their dishonesty,” she said.

Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, said it’s unusual that the press secretary would become the central person in the comic pantheon of an administration. But in Spicer's case it was “inevitable,” he said. That's because Spicer appears on television every weekday, then his performance is aired and re-aired and repackaged by networks, cable news and late-night shows. 

McCarthy’s third Spicer spoof came the Saturday after the real Spicer made an inaccurate, off-base remark on Passover in which he suggested Hitler never used chemical weapons on his own people. He’d been trying to highlight Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s inhumanity.

Spicer tried to clarify his intentions throughout the day but kept flubbing it, referring to concentration camps as “Holocaust centers.” By the evening he admitted to his mistake and asked for forgiveness.

McCarthy appeared that week as Spicer in an Easter Bunny costume. Not only was it the night before Easter Sunday, but Spicer had previously played the role of Easter Bunny at the White House Easter Egg Roll during the George W. Bush administration. 

"SNL's" Easter Bunny begrudgingly admitted that she’d done wrong.

“You all got your wish this week,” she snarled. “Spicey finally made a mistake.” She clarified that she of course meant to say “concentration clubs,” not Holocaust centers then climbed into a car shaped like an Easter egg shell and crashed it into her podium.

There have been other standout Trump administration characters since Jan. 21.

The makeup department transformed Kate McKinnon into Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was portrayed as Forrest Gump, offering chocolates to passengers waiting at a bus stop and occasionally making unsolicited confessions about his meetings with Russians. This came after the revelation that the newly appointed attorney general had neglected to let lawmakers know during his confirmation hearing that he had met with Russia's top diplomat during the Trump campaign when he was a prominent adviser.

Early into the first 100 days, McKinnon played Kellyanne Conway “Fatal Attraction”-style in an attempt to get CNN's Jake Tapper to give her airtime. The "SNL" sketch came after CNN reconsidered its booking of Conway over credibility issues. “You don’t get it, Kellyanne. You made up a massacre. We can’t have you on,” Beck Bennett said as Tapper.

Other characters, whose roles in the administration’s first 100 days have been more behind-the-scenes, made recurring appearances on "SNL."

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president and possible election-meddler, was played week-after-week by a greased-up, shirtless Bennett. 

Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon was portrayed as a grim reaper/puppet-master figure at the helm of the Resolute desk. Baldwin's Trump, by contrast, was relegated to a kiddie desk.

But with Bannon's perceived influenced waning by April amid reports of a West Wing power struggle, "SNL" had Baldwin's Trump choose son-in-law Jared Kushner in a reality show-style showdown over who would occupy the Resolute desk.   

Jimmy Fallon, who played Kushner while hosting "SNL" on April 15, stayed mum and wore a stylish outfit underneath a flak jacket, in a mocking reference to the real Kushner's visit with ground troops in Iraq.

Then, there was the pre-taped commercial parody for a fictional Ivanka Trump (played by host Scarlett Johansson) fragrance called “Complicit.” CBS' Gayle King referenced the sketch while asking the real Ivanka Trump whether she felt “complicit” with what happened in the White House. Ivanka Trump replied that, "If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit." 

If Ivanka Trump's reaction to "SNL's" ribbing was lukewarm, Spicer has seemed to take McCarthy’s jabs in stride. He was seen wearing an Easter bunny necktie during the press briefing the Monday after the Easter bunny episode aired.

President Trump hasn't shown the same penchant to laugh at himself. 

That contrasts with former President Gerald Ford, who wrote the book on humor and the presidency. 

Ford was repeatedly lampooned as an oafish klutz by Chevy Chase on "SNL" in the 1970s, in the program’s earliest days. Ford responded by making a cameo on "SNL". 

Ford reflected in his book “Humor and the Presidency” that, “It wouldn’t surprise me if there was a measurable correlation between humor in an administration and the popularity of that administration’s policies.” 

Of course, quantifying humor isn’t a science, and the jury is out on how effective Trump has been in his first 100 days. Trump's approval with 82 percent of Republicans is strong, though nearly two-thirds of Americans overall give him fair or poor ratings, according to NBC News.   

"SNL," for its part, is having its most-watched season in 23 years.

A new report details the disturbing trend of "stealthing", when men remove condoms during sex without their partner's consent, NBC News reported. 

Alexandra Brodsky defined the act in the report for the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.

In the report, Brodsky interviews victims and delves into their fears of sexually transmitted infections or unwanted pregnancies. The report also looks at possible legal repercussions for those who carry out the practice.

It's unclear where this act got its start, but websites listed in the report — many of which are now disabled — give instructions to men seeking to perform the act. 

"Online writers who practice or promote nonconsensual condom removal root their actions in misogyny and investment in male sexual supremacy. While one can imagine a range of motivations for 'stealthers'—increased physical pleasure, a thrill from degradation — online discussions suggest offenders and their defenders justify their actions as a natural male instinct — and natural male right," Brodsky writes.

Get moving, San Diego kids! The YMCA of San Diego County is holding free community events in honor of Healthy Kids Day at its 13 locations on Saturday.

The fitness-inspired events are meant to encourage kids to keep their minds and bodies active. Healthy Kids Day is the Y’s national initiative to improve the health and well-being for kids and families.

The events are open to the community and will feature games, healthy cooking demonstrations, physical activities opportunities, as well as arts and crafts.

San Diego County locations and hours of Healthy Kids Day are:

McGrath Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 9 AM - Noon

12006 Campo Road
Spring Valley, CA 91978
(619) 462-9622

La Jolla YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 1 PM
8355 Cliffridge Avenue
La Jolla, CA 92037
(858) 453-3483

Joe and Mary Mottino Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 1 PM
4701 Mesa Drive
Oceanside, CA 92056
(760) 758-0808

Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 1 PM
200 Saxony Road
Encinitas, CA 92024
(760) 942-9622

Palomar Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 1 PM
1050 North Broadway
Escondido, CA 92026
(760) 745-7490

Copley-Price Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 2 PM
4300 El Cajon Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92105
(619) 280-9622

YMCA Childcare Resource Service
YMCA Youth and Family Services

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 2 PM
Lemon Grove Academy Athletic Field and Recreation Center
3131 School Lane
Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619) 280-9622

Rancho Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 11 AM - 1 PM
9410 Fairgrove Lane
San Diego, CA 92129
(858) 484-8788

Border View Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 12 PM
3601 Arey Drive
San Diego, CA 92154
(619) 428-9622

South Bay Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 12 PM
1201 Paseo Magda
Chula Vista, CA 91910
(619) 428-9622

Eastlake YMCA

Healthy Kids Day: 10 AM - 12 PM
2311 Boswell Road
Suite 7
San Diego, CA 91914
(619) 869-7582

When an 11 year old from Alpine found out he’d be facing the toughest at bat of his life, the Little League community in East County put its rally cap on.

Riley Ransdall was recently diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, an extremely rare form of cancer, and will soon begin a 52-week treatment regimen that includes chemotherapy, surgery to remove a tumor and radiation, according to Alpine Community Network.

After hearing about the news, organizers from eight different Little League factions, mostly from District 41, put together the “Rally for Riley” to help support Ransdall and his family.

“This is the beauty about Little League,” Jamul Little League President Mark Tamborski said. “We can all come together, support each other and help when someone needs help. We put this together really fast after we found out what happened and everybody came together.”

Tamborski said the event which featured 19 games, a home run derby, a radar gun-equipped pitching station, “Rally for Riley” wristbands, and a 50/50 raffle, was put together in less than a month, and all of the proceeds are going straight to Ransdall’s family.

“That’s the community and that’s little league, right there,” Tamborski said.

More fundraising events are scheduled to help support Ransdall and his family, and auction and monetary donations are still needed.

There is also a “Rally for Riley” GoFundMe page set up where donations can be made.

Hundreds participated in the San Diego People’s Climate March at Waterfront Park on Saturday. The local march took place in solidarity with The People’s Climate March that happened in Washington D.C.

The goal of the local People’s Climate March was to call on local leaders to use clean energy sources and oppose federal attempts to roll back climate change policies put in place by former President Barack Obama.

The march, just ahead of President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, also aimed at urging the Trump Administration to face the reality of climate change.

The San Diego People's Climate March started off with live music and speeches at Waterfront Park.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-80th District) gave a speech at the rally, telling a crowd of marchers that California is a state that will continue to fight for progressive polices, especially when it comes to climate change.

“We are not going backwards on all the gains we have made for the environment over the last few years. We are going to continue to push and make sure our air is clean, ” Gonzalez Fletch told a crowd of cheering supporters.

For longtime local Jorge Gonzalez, addressing climate change effects in San Diego’s communities is an important discussion to have.

“I’m aware of the environmental injustices that are happening in our city. I think this is an important subject that our communities south of the [Interstate 8] — San Yisdro, National City, Barrio Logan — are highly impacted by the environmental injustices happening for decades.”

Amy Knight, a former teacher who taught in a low income area in Miami, was at the march showing her enthusiasm for raising awareness not only about climate change, but climate justice.

Knight explains that with the increasing effects of climate change, such as increased heat waves or urban heat islands, the people who will be impacted the most by these effects are not financially equipped to do so.

Knight volunteers with the organization San Diego 350, which focuses on climate justice on the community level.

“The [political] atmosphere is pretty charged, mostly because of what people understand to be true and are passionate about, like I am, are being directly threatened,” Knight told NBC 7.

“Right now people are finding an opportunity to get involved to say something, which is I think is important,” she added.

Viena Bone also attended the march with her children, who she said will hopefully see how important it is to care for the planet, and to fight for the causes they care for.

"Awareness is really important. A lot of people don’t know about recycling, or composting or how affordable solar panels are. If more San Diegans were aware, that would be great.”

“I’m very proud of my city and the fact that we are on track to be a waste free county,” Bone said.

Just days after SeaWorld San Diego debuted an hours-old California sea lion pup, the park announced Saturday that the pup has passed away on Friday.

The pup, named Little Gem, was born prematurely on Tuesday after her sick mother was rescued from an Oceanside Beach, according to SeaWorld. Little Gem appeared to be in good health in her first few days of life, but SeaWorld staff knew her long-term health would be “tenuous at best,” according to Communications Director David Koontz.

SeaWorld staff had been bottle feeding Little Gem because her mother was too ill to nurse her. Little Gem’s mother showed symptoms of demonic acid toxicity upon her rescue, according to a SeaWorld spokesperson.

The park was planning on nursing both sea lions back to health so that they could be reunited.

SeaWorld says a necropsy will be conducted and a cause of death may be determined.

Little Gem’s mother is still recovering.

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump's administration has been associated with one foreign country in particular, Russia. U.S. intelligence officials say President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, to denigrate Hillary Clinton and then to help Trump's chances. Trump denies any wrongdoing, while the FBI and Congress investigate his administration's contacts with Russia.

Meanwhile Trump has flirted with upending U.S. foreign policy, threatening to declare China a currency manipulator and to pull out of NAFTA, for example, questioning the one-China policy under which the United States recognizes China and not Taiwan and backing off a U.S. commitment to the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In the end, though, Trump has often reverted to traditional policies. His supporters say he is scrutinizing foreign agreements with the goal of benefitting Americans, but critics say the uncertainty is unsettling to allies and unproductive.

Here are some of the more significant interactions between the Trump administration and world leaders over international issues.

A vehicle went up in flames after crashing on an Interstate 805 overpass, causing a piece of the structure to fall onto Interstate 15 lanes below, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) confirmed.

A Sig Alert was issued for southbound I-805 lanes, and lanes are expected to reopen at around 1:15 p.m., according to a CHP.

It is unknown if anyone was injured in the crash, or if falling debris caused any further injury or traffic delay.

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A bicycle rider was found dead in Oceanside Saturday morning, Oceanside Police Department (OPD) confirmed.

OPD first received reports of a bicyclist found unresponsive at approximately 9:40 a.m. Upon arrival at the scene, a male was found off the bike path, down an embankment west of North Santa Fe Avenue and State Route 76 next to a tree and a bike.

Officers attempted to resuscitate the man but were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene, OPD said.

OPD’s Major Accident Investigation Team is conducting an investigation. The cause of death is still unknown. 

No other information was available.

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San Diego Fire-Rescue and lifeguard crews are responded to a car that drove into the water in Mission Bay and hit a child playing on the beach Sunday afternoon.

Witness Josh Duncan said the crash first got his attention when he heard the car hit the curb. 

"We instantly saw the little girl playing by the water," he told NBC 7. "She was playing like on the water’s edge." 

According to the San Diego Police Department (SDPD), the van entered the water on the 2100 block of East Mission Bay Drive at approximately 1:52 p.m. Saturday.

The little girl was hit by the van and dragged for some time, according to Lt. Adam Sharki with the San Diego Police Department.

"There was a lot of people at the beach, we had dozens of witnesses,"Sharki said. 

"she was crying, screaming," Duncan said. "[You] don’t expect that to ever happen."

The driver of the van stayed at the scene, SDPD said. The girl has been taken to the Children's Hospital. 

"Thank God that little girl is okay," Duncan added.

Officials believe the crash was an accident but are investigating. 

A suspect wearing a “scream” mask robbed a Pizza Hut in Egger Highlands late Friday night.

The suspect walked through the backdoor of the restaurant in the 1800 block of Coronado Avenue around 11:12 p.m., ordering the five employees to get down and demanding money from the register.

He took an unknown amount of money and some personal property of some of the employees.

He is described as a 25 to 30-year-old white man with blue eyes, 5-foot 11 inches tall, with a thin build, weighing around 175 pounds. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, white “scream” mask and skeleton gloves. He left the scene in an unknown direction.

San Diego Police Robbery Detectives are investigating.