For one senior at Torrey Pines high school and his father, the police shooting of a 15-year-old student brings back memories of a similar tragedy.

The Hussains family lost their 15-year-old son when he committed suicide years ago during a messy divorce and custody battle.

Iqbal Hussain and his son Nabil, a senior at Torrey Pines high school, know all too well what the mourning family is going through. Hussain says his son was under distress at the time.

"After he took his own life, other children at Lake Forest high school took their lives, in the same way of jumping in front of a train," the grieving father Hussain told NBC 7. "So I suppose I am asking the community to be aware."

A moment of silence at the student's memorial served as a poignant reminder to the Hussains family of their own grief. 

"I am really sad and I have gone through a loss. My brother was the same age as that boy so it's really a shock to the community," Nabil Hussain said.

On Monday morning, students gathered at the memorial to pay their respects. Flowers, stuffed animals and notes describing the student as a "sweet soul" were left in his memory.

Nabil told NBC 7 he did not know the freshman who died, but says he was well liked by many.

Individuals at the Naval Base Point Loma may have been exposed to tuberculosis in recent months, County of San Diego Health and Human Services officials said. 

People who were at the Naval Base Point Loma Old Town Complex in building OT3 from Oct. 1, 2016 to Jan. 31, 2017 may have been exposed, Navy officials and County health officials said. 

Health officials say that people who were at the Naval Base Point Loma Topside building #40 between Feb. 1 and April 7 may have also been exposed. 

Symptoms of tuberculosis include fever, weight loss, night sweats and a persistent cough.

“Most people who are exposed to TB do not develop the disease," Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer, said in a statement.

The U.S. Navy will provide no-cost testing to everyone who believes they were exposed on May 9, 15 and 16 at the Naval Base Point Loma Old Town Complex. The testing will take place in the auditorium on Topside A-33. 

“Those confirmed to be exposed and infected can be treated and cured with medication to minimize chances of developing active TB disease; that’s why it’s important to identify those who have been exposed," Wooten said.

TB is not uncommon in San Diego. Last year, health officials reported 258 cases of TB. 

To date, 68 cases have been reported in 2017. 

About 250 refugees from Central America arrived in Tijuana seeking asylum, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed.

CBP said 78 of the refugees arrived at the at the San Ysidro port of entry around 6 p.m. Sunday night, including children.

"We want the U.S. Mexico and Central America to recognize there is a refugee crisis," said Roberto Corona, with the Refugee Caravan.

Corona told NBC 7, many people are facing death threats or dying in Central America countries--including Honduras, El Salvador.

According to the CBP, the individuals were allowed entry to the U.S. They will be screened and processed on a case-by-case basis.

After they are screened, the refugees will be turned over the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while their cases are reviewed by asylum officers.

The remaining refugees are still at local shelters in Tijuana.

A heated rally called for an end to outsourcing Animal Services to the San Diego County Humane Society in front of the Central Shelter on Monday.

Animal Services employees gathered with community activists to ask the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to stop the outsourcing of the Animal Services department, according to the group. The event was held at noon on the 5000 block of Gaines Street. 

The crowd cheered and clapped amid rally cries of:

"What do we want?"

"Animal safety."

"When do we want it?"

"Now!"

At the rally, the group argued that Animal Services offers expertise, experience and accountability that is not possible to match using an outside agency.

"You're going to be losing a lot of officers with trained experience to be able to handle all kinds of things from animal cruelty, dog bites, dog attacks, dogs being mauled by other dogs," said Tiffany Mushet, Animal Control officer with the County of San Diego.

"We also handle wildlife as well as rattlesnakes. The biggest issue is once the county does this it dismantles our department -- there's no going back," said Mushet.

The group says they excel at training field officers and finding rehabilitation treatments for animals that other organizations are not willing to help.

"The animal safety and human safety will go down drastically," warned Bobby Keith, who has worked as an Animal Care attendant for all three shelters. "The service levels will drop drastically and prices and euthanasia will rise drastically."

Animal Services officials say they deal with a breadth of safety threats such as dog fights, rattlesnakes, quarantines, animal hoarding and abuse. Outsourcing could lower the training for officers, causing issues that would threaten public safety, according to the group.

"I've dedicated my life to animals," Keith told NBC 7, while choking back emotion. "I've worked hands on with animals at the shelter for eighteen years."

"We didn't get into this for the money. We are one of the lowest-paid agencies in the state," said Keith.

The result would be a loss of transparency and accountability, a reduction in service hours and jobs, as well as cost increases, said the group.

"We're going to go back decades in the level of service, relationship with rescues, relationship with the public and dealing with the dog fighting and the hoarding cases," said Keith.

“I wash out my recyclables, I try not to buy one-time plastics and I definitely don’t eat at restaurants that use one-time use plastics and no water bottles for me,” Jason Havel said. 

Recycling is important to Jason and when it’s time to dump his recycling, he uses the split dumpster in his Mira Mesa condo complex. 

“We have a bin over there that’s separated into two compartments, one compartment is for trash and the other compartment is for recycling,” Jason said. 

Each compartment has a lid and Jason said those compartment lids are important, especially when the trash trucks arrive. Jason explained the trash truck drivers are responsible for locking the lids on either side to ensure only trash or recycles are dumped each time. 

Jason said based on what he’s witnessed, that’s not happening and a few months ago he grabbed his cell phone to prove it. 

“Look at it, all of the recycling we do just goes into the trash, it’s unacceptable,” Jason narrated while recording a truck dumping recycles in with the trash. 

Jason said of the 12 times he recorded a Waste Management truck emptying the dumpster, the driver didn’t lock down the lids ten of those times, meaning both sides were going into the same truck. Jason added of the two times he watched the drivers do it right, one of those times was after the driver saw Jason recording him. 

“One day, I ran out and asked them, 'How come you’re dumping my recyclables into the trash?' and they responded 'We’re late, we got to go,'" Jason said. 

When things didn’t change, Jason reached out to NBC 7 Responds for help. 

“Where’s our recycling really ending up, is it truly being recycled or is it filling a landfill?” Jason said. 

NBC 7 Responds reached out to Waste Management and sent a company representative Jason’s cell phone videos. After reviewing the videos, a company representative said the company found them to be “troubling” and that they intended to re-educate their team on how to handle these split-containers. 

“If I’m doing my part and they’re not doing their part, we’re not completing the circle,” Jason said. 

Eloisa Orozco, Southern CA Communications Manager for Waste Management, told NBC 7 Responds, “We appreciate you bringing this matter to our attention. In looking at the footage, clearly, the right process was not followed and those materials should not have been handled that way. We're looking into how and why this happened and taking the immediate action of re-educating our team on how to handle these split containers. Waste Management is committed to recycling and what we saw in the video was not at all what we wanted to see, nor does it reflect our standard recycling practices.”

Five more victims have come forward, accusing a San Marcos chiropractor of inappropriately touching them, NBC 7 learned Monday. 

John Michals was arrested on April 25, facing one count of sexual battery, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSO).

Michals is a licensed contractor at two separate locations in the City of San Marcos--one at the North County Health Services and the second on East San Marcos Boulevard.

In March, a woman in her mid-30s told deputies she was touched inappropriately during an appointment with Dr. Michals.

During the initial investigation, SDSO said additional victims of sexual battery had come forward.

The incidents took place at the North County Health Services location, according to an SDSO official.

Detectives said they will interview the victims later this week.

NBC 7 reached out to Michals for comment Monday night but did not hear back.

Investigators anyone with information on this case, or additional cases of sexual battery, can contact Det. Tingley at the San Marcos Sheriff's Station at 760-510-5200.

One week after Jimmy Kimmel's emotional monologue about his newborn son, the late night host tackled health care again on Monday night and spoke to a Republican senator who believes Americans should "have insurance that passes the Jimmy Kimmel test."

Kimmel talked to Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana in a video interview on his late night show. Cassidy, who is also a physician, had said on CCN last week that any health care bill should be measured by what he called the "Jimmy Kimmel test."

"Would the child born with a congenital heart disease (like Kimmel's) be able to get everything she or he would need in that first year of life... even if they go over a certain amount?" Cassidy told CNN's John Berman. "So simple answer: I want to make sure folks get the care they need."

Cassidy expanded on that idea with Kimmel, explaining that it's up to the senators now to address the GOP's American Health Care Act and make it work for people, especially the middle class. The House passed the bill on May 4.

"We have to have lower premiums so that if another child is born, that child can get the care she needs not only on the first year but every year thereafter," Cassidy said.

During the interview, Kimmel echoed an opinion he expressed last week when talking about the new, and expensive, health care needs of his family and others in similar situations. 

He said the "Jimmy Kimmel test" should be that "no family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise, because they can't afford it."

However, the senator stressed that figuring out how to pay for that kind of coverage will be a challenge.

"I am all about people having the insurance they need but... we have to be able to afford it both in our taxes and in our personal expenses," Cassidy said.

Kimmel offered a pointed solution.

"I can think of a way to pay for it: Don't give a huge tax cut to millionaires like me and instead leave it how it is," Kimmel said. "That would be one way."

Cassidy made clear that the hope for affordable health care for all now lies in the Senate, where Americans need to take their concerns in order to see change.

"We will get there if the American people call their senators," he said, explaining that people should tell Democrat senators to engage in conversations about the bill and Republicans to help in lowering premiums.

"If we do that, we get an American plan," Cassidy said. "Not Democrat, not Republican. An American plan, and that's where we need to be.

An El Cajon couple is hoping the kindness of others will help them recover their stolen wedding pictures.

It was a picture perfect day that was seven years in the making for the Wickers--29-year-old newlyweds.

“It was incredible,” Tim said about his wedding while sitting next to his wife on their sofa.  “We're biased, but I keep saying it was best wedding I've ever been to.”

The couple said they returned from their honeymoon in Costa Rica and learned last week that their wedding pictures were stolen.

“I was heartbroken,” said Jessica Wicker. “I couldn’t even talk when they told us. The second we left, I cried a bunch."

The few pictures they have of their special day are snapshots from the video taken by their videographer.

The actual still pictures of the wedding, along with computers and cameras were reported stolen to authorities from their photographer's Riverside County studio.

The burglary happened on Easter, the day after the Wicker's wedding in Temecula.

“It’s horrific. It gets worse every day,” said Tim.

“We have the memories. No one can take that and it was amazing. It would just be nice to have something to look back on to show our kids,” Jessica added.

The Wickers have taken to social media and websites to spread the news, hoping for someone to help them.

Unfortunately, the couple told NBC 7, some are trying to cash in on their loss and heartache.

“People are trying to have us send them money saying 'We have your pictures.' That was even more heartbreaking,” Jessica said.

“For the love of God, all we want is the pictures. It would be great to have everything back," Tim added.

The Wickers told NBC 7, their photographer has offered them a refund and is willing to do another shoot.

“We want our pictures, our day back. We want those lifetime memories,” Jessica said.

A civil court judge ordered the San Diego County District Attorney office to return more than $100,000 seized in conjunction with a raid on a Kearny Mesa Medical Marijuana Dispensary.

James Slatic has been fighting for his life savings and that of his other family members for 15 months.

In a third judgment, the DA's office was ordered to return the money from the Slatic's personal accounts.

In January 2016, law enforcement in tactical gear broke through the front door of Slatic's medical marijuana business, seizing products, cash, and equipment.

Two employees were also arrested but released without charges.

"A nightmare. It's been so stressful," Slatic said. "Of course my business was put out of business."

The total seizure was almost half a million dollars. More than $100,000 of that was from the personal bank accounts of Slatic, his wife Annette and their two children.

"'Why did they take my money? I never worked there. I never had anything to do with your business?'" Slatic told NBC 7, speaking of his daughter's reaction.

A Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the District Attorney could not hold the funds since it had not pursued any criminal charges for more than 12 months.

In part of a statement sent to NBC 7 by email, DA Communications Director Steve Walker wrote:

"This latest ruling in civil court will not impact our ongoing review of criminal charges or the separate petition to forfeit the more than $324,000 in cash found at the hash oil laboratory."

Slatic's wife Annette said she's waiting for the other shoe to drop.

“It’s bitter sweet because we don't have a check in our hands yet," Annette said.

The Slatic's told NBC 7, there would be no check if it were not for the help of the Institute for Justice--a nonprofit law firm that fights civil forfeiture abuse nationwide.

“The average person doesn't have  that money so you will never have justice,” Annette said.

The Slatic's said they consider it a win but the possibility of criminal charges still hangs over their heads.

The money must be returned to the Slatic's in five days.

There is another court hearing Wednesday to finalize that transaction where the DA's office will also have a chance to argue against it.

Perhaps a day off is just what the Padres needed.

After a rained out Sunday matinee, the Friars came back fresh Monday night and won the first game against the Texas Rangers in an interleague series, 5-1.

Before playing the Rangers, the Padres acquired Matt Szczur from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for right-handed pitcher Justin Hancock.

Oceanside's Trevor Cahill was on the bump for San Diego and set the tone in the first inning when struck out the side.

In 5.1 innings, the former Vista High School star allowed just one hit and finished with seven punch outs.

The offense was in a groove as well. The Friars got on the board in the second inning off an RBI infield single by catcher Austin Hedges which scored infielder Ryan Schimpf.

The Padres closed out the inning with a 2-0 lead after Manny Margot singled to right field and brought in Hedges.

Schimpf has been an absolutely rock star this season. In the third inning the infielder belted his ninth home run of the season.

Schimpf’s hit six homers in his last 11 games.

Hedges decided to double the fun by sending his own home run to center field in the fourth inning which gave San Diego a healthy 4-0 lead.

The Rangers got on the board in the seventh inning when outfielder Shin-Soo Choo hit a home run to left center field.

Padres infielder Cory Spangenberg quickly responded with his own solo shot, his first of the season, at the bottom of the inning to give San Diego the 5-1 lead.

The Padres face off against the Rangers Tuesday afternoon at 12:40 p.m. at Petco Park before heading to Texas for the final two games of the inter-league set.

Grossmont high school alum AJ Griffin is scheduled to start for the Rangers against his hometown club.

A recent sales pitch by White House adviser Jared Kushner's sister to potential Chinese investors that centered on a controversial visa program came "very, very close to solicitation of a bribe," a former presidential ethics adviser told NBC News.

Addressing crowds in Beijing and Shanghai Sunday, Kushner Companies invited wealthy foreigners to invest in a New Jersey real estate project through a so-called "golden visa" program that fast-tracks green card applications for those who invest at least $500,000 in U.S. development. The event was hosted by a Chinese immigration firm and featured Nicole Meyer, who name checked Kushner, her brother.

"This is corruption, pure and simple," said University of Minnesota law professor Richard Painter, an attorney for President George W. Bush.

On Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Kushner has divested from his family firm and had "nothing to do" with the investor recruitment, and Meyer said through a representative that she was sorry if anyone misinterpreted her mention of her brother.

Sheriff's deputies responded to the Spirit Airlines terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after skirmishes involving irate passengers broke out following the cancellation of multiple flights. 

Thousands of passengers were stranded at the airport because of a dispute between the airline and its pilots, who say they are working without a contract.

Cellphone video posted to online shows passengers crowding the carrier's check-in counters and Broward County Sheriff's deputies trying to break up fights and tackling unruly passengers. 

Sheriff's deputies arrested three people and charged them with disorderly conduct. 

In a statement, airline officials say they're "shocked and saddened" to see videos of the airport incident. The Miramar-based company said it filed a lawsuit Monday against the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) and the ALPA Master Executive Council of Spirit pilots over the disruption, which has lead to to hundreds of canceled flights and impacted thousands of travelers.

“We are disappointed that ALPA has decided to engage in this unlawful slowdown,” Spirit spokesman Paul Berry said. “This has led to canceled flights and prevented our customers from taking their planned travel, all for the sole purpose of influencing current labor negotiations. So we reluctantly filed this suit to protect our customers’ and our operations.”

Spirit also suggested the effort was an attempt by the union to affect contract negotiations.

The union's chairman, Capt Stuart Morrison, denied the allegations, saying Spirit's pilot's would not accept "substandard pay and retirement based on the unenforceable hypothesis that the company may grow more quickly," adding that their peers throughout the industry "have uniformly and properly rejected agreements based on that theory."

Brionka Halbert, 18, was trying to return to New York Monday night after a weekend at the Rolling Loud Festival in Miami when Spirit announced her flight was canceled.

“Before we took off, the flight attendants told us we have 28 minutes to board the flight or else the flight will be canceled,” Halbert said. “Everyone was stressed. They asked us to take out our boarding passes and be ready. Then about 20 minutes after that, they told us the flight was canceled. They sent us to the front desk, so that we could either change our tickets or have our tickets refunded.”

Halbert said passengers were "angry and stressed" over the abrupt cancellation. She said it took two to three hours in line to get tickets refunded. "It got rowdy."

According to an arrest report, three people detained by deputies were yelling at employees and threatening them. Officers also alleged they pushed deputies while they were trying to place them under arrest.

"I cried. I'm not going to lie, I cried," Spirit passenger Latreece Smith told NBC 6, recalling the chaotic scene. "I was getting mad. I was getting ready to punch on people, I was so serious."

Spirit says its service in at least four major airports, including Fort Lauderdale, has taken a hit due to the contract dispute. At least one flight was canceled and two others were delayed early Tuesday morning.

The Associated Press reported nine flights were cancelled out of the Fort Lauderdale airport. According to Spirit, more than 150 flights have been canceled in the last two days.

Officials from the company told NBC 6 that a Federal Court judge had issued a temporary restraining order that could keep pilots from being able to slow down service.

Americans' life expectancy varies by nearly a generation across counties in the United States, according to a new study, from a high of 87 years in Colorado's ski country to a low of 66 years in southwest South Dakota, with other parts of the Dakotas, Appalachia and the Mississippi river basin close behind.

NBC News reported that obesity and diabetes could explain a big chunk of that 20-year difference, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Internal Medicine Monday.

Many studies have shown that where Americans live has a big effect on how long they live. But Dr. Christopher Murray's team at the University of Washington found that the disparity has increased by five years since 1980, when they looked at life expectancy and risk of death for each county across the U.S. from then until 2014.

"The magnitude of these disparities demands action, all the more urgently because inequalities will only increase further if recent trends are allowed to continue uncontested," the team wrote.

The same storm system that brought record-breaking rain and snowfall to San Diego over the weekend is circling back through our region Tuesday.

It'll be mostly cloudy and cool in San Diego County Tuesday with a slight chance of rain. Coast and inland valley regions will be cloudy, with a chance of patchy drizzle.

Some communities may experience showers with a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms.

“The mountains and deserts have a 30 percent chance today of shower or pop-up thunderstorm,” NBC 7 Meteorologist Jodi Kodesh said.

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The chance of rain returns Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

“Today’s weather is actually the same storm that moved through the region last weekend,” Kodesh explained. “Monday, it dove down into Mexico, and today, it has moved back up into the states.”

San Diego County experienced a good round of rain showers over the last 72 hours.

The rain totals shattered records.

• San Diego 0.79” (Old record 0.32” in 1971)
• Alpine 0.98” (Old record 0.31” in 2013)
• El Cajon 0.90” (Old record 0.23” in 2013)
• Vista 0.84” (Old record 0.40” in 2013)
• Chula Vista 0.84” (Old Record 0.34” in 2013)
• Escondido 0.83” (Old record 0.78” in 1912)
• Palomar Mountain 0.63” (Old record 0.62” in 1964)
• Campo 0.63” (Old record 0.22” in 1956)

All three days of rainfall combined, most areas in the county received over an inch of rain, while a few spots received over 2 inches.

More than 2 inches of rain fell in Mt. Woodson, Descanso, Alpine, Pine Hills and Fallbrook.

Mountain areas received 2 to 10 inches of new snow. Palomar Mountain received 10 inches of snow, breaking a previous snowfall record of 2.50” set in 1964.

While it is not uncommon for spring storms to roll through in May, Kodesh said the amount of rain and snow we received is rare.

“Normally, for the entire month of May, San Diego gets about 0.20” of rain. Lindbergh Field is already at 0.89” of rain, in just the first 9 days.”

There is a chance of showers in the forecast tonight, and Wednesday morning.

San Diego-based Bumble Bee Foods LLC, which sells packaged seafood, has agreed to plead guilty to fixing the prices of shelf-stable tuna, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

The charge was filed as part of an ongoing federal antitrust investigation into the packaged seafood industry.

The DOJ said Bumble Bee had also agreed to pay a $25 million criminal fine. Were the company sold, that fine could increase to a maximum of $81.5 million, according to prosecutors. The San Diego company has also agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation.

Prosecutors have filed two previous charges related to the investigation, both against employees of the San Diego-based company. In December, Bumble Bee Foods executives Walter Scott Cameron and Kenneth Worsham agreed to plead guilty to fixing prices on packaged seafood from 2011 to 2013.

The debate over sanctuary cities has occupied front page news and garnered national attention. But the small city of Sanctuary in North Texas, rarely makes headlines.

"It's a great city," said Sanctuary Mayor Cliff Scallan. "We seem to have gotten some notoriety here by our name."

Sanctuary is a small community with a population of less than 400 people, located northwest of Fort Worth in Parker County. It has nothing to do with so-called "sanctuary cities."

"I wish they'd chose some different words," Scallan chuckled. "We don't harbor anything. We don't hide from anything. We don't try to hide anything. We're just here, you know."

The city's shopping center, the Azle Antique Mall, is stocked with collectibles, trinkets, old wooden wall phones and switchboards that transport customers back in time.  

"Sanctuary, to me, just means safe," said Linda Dorsey, who's worked at the Antique Mall in Sanctuary for three decades. "I'm all for people to come here from other countries and I want them to feel safe. I don't want them to come here as undocumented."

Scallan said his city is not a "highly" political place, noting Sanctuary recently canceled its city council election because no one wanted to run against the incumbents.

"I hope everybody doesn't associate our name with the legislature and the political movements that went on out there," Scallan said.

A San Diego-based guided-missile cruiser collided with a fishing vessel in international waters Tuesday.

USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) was conducting routine operations when the collision occurred at 11:50 a.m. local time, according to officials with Carrier Strike Group 1.

The fishing vessel from South Korea, described as 60 to 70 feet long, collided with the cruiser's port side.

No one was injured and both ships were able to navigate under their own power.

The incident is under investigation by both U.S. Navy and South Korea Coast Guard.

Lake Champlain is part of the Carl Vinson Strike Group which is currently on a Western-Pacific Deployment.

USS Carl Vinson Strike Group deployed in January to take part in an operational construct that hasn't been carried out by the U.S. Navy since World War II.

In April, USS Carl Vinson moved immediately to the Korean Peninsula in an interview last week following increased tensions with North Korea.

The Trump administration is weighing whether to send as many as 5,000 more troops to fight in Afghanistan, a military official told NBC News.

President Donald Trump is still deciding on a variety of options U.S. military leaders are providing him with, according to senior administration officials.

The U.S. currently has about 8,400 troops in Afghanistan, part of America's longest war. The Washington Post first reported that the administration was considering adding at least 3,000 troops, with the U.S. asking other NATO nations to match.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday on the "Today" show that Trump must explain the strategy behind increasing troop levels: "It doesn't make sense to increase troop strength to keep doing the same thing."

Powegians gathered Tuesday to honor 'Mr. Padre' Tony Gwynn on what would have been the sports icon's 57th birthday.

The town unveiled a memorial statue at Lake Poway Park.

The piece overlooks the baseball field in the North County community that allowed the MLB superstar to be "one of the neighbors," according to Gwynn's wife, Alicia.

She also said the park was a place where the former San Diego Padres player would go fishing.

The 11-foot bronze statue, created by artist Seth Vandable, shows Gwynn in uniform, waving his ballcap with his daughter, Anisha, on his hip.

“Tony didn’t like a lot of ceremony and didn’t like a lot of praise. He was a very humble person,” Longtime friend and agent John Boggs said at Tuesday's ceremony. “He would be very touched today and appreciative of this statue ceremony.”

Boggs said Gwynn loved Poway and the community.

"San Diego was always in his heart," he said recalling a conversation he had with #19.

"'Boggs, who we kidding. I don't want to play anywhere but here in San Diego,'" Gwynn's former agent said. "That was vintage Tony."

Sports commentator Dick Enberg said Gwynn’s athletic greatness matched his personal "goodness."

He said he remembered talking with the former Padre about the attention he received in public. “'My goal,’” Enberg quoted Gwynn, “'is that everyone in San Diego County that wants my autograph will get one.’”

“Now that was Tony,” Enberg said.

 "That we're here on Tony's birthday is bittersweet but what better day to remember and honor a life well-lived but far, too far, short," said Poway Mayor Steve Vaus.

"While false heroes were falling," NBC 7 SportsWrap reporter Derek Togerson writes, "Tony Gwynn was the reminder that there are still good guys out there who do things the right way."

President Donald Trump has approved a plan to arm a Syrian ally, the Syrian Kurdish militia, in the fight against ISIS, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

The move reinforces American support for the groups, some of which are considered terrorists by nearby Turkey, another important U.S. ally in the region. A U.S. defense official told NBC News that the move indicates the U.S. believes the Syrian Democratic Force is the fighting force that will eventually go into the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.

The order allows the U.S. to begin providing the Syrian Kurds with arms and equipment like bulldozers, rifles and radios fairly quickly since some equipment is pre-positioned, officials said.