A former competitive surfer who designed surfboards in Southern California for decades, died after being struck by an alleged drunken driver as he rode a bicycle near his home.

The California Highway Patrol says Burke was struck and killed May 23 in Fallbrook. The CHP says a 19-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter.

A Long Beach native, Paul Burke, 59, grew up surfing with his five brothers and went on to compete in Hawaii and Australia. In 1979 he founded Burke Surfboards.

The Orange County Register reported Sunday that pro surfer, Brad Gerlach, a regular customer, is among those who favored Burke's innovative four-fin design.

Burke is survived by his wife Laura and three children.

If you’re attending a graduation party or ceremony this week, here’s a statistic to keep in your back pocket when it’s time to chat up the guest of honor.

In Forbes’ annual list of America’s best cities for young professionals, San Diego ranks in the top 20.

How can that be, you ask?

The website looks at the largest metropolitan areas of the U.S. and ranks them by the following factors: salaries for recent graduates, rent, employment options, networking potential and social outlook.

Here’s why America’s Finest City falls at #18:

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area

- Recent grad median salary: $53,200 (Determined using PayScale data showing the median salary for recent college graduates with up to five-years of work experience, according to Forbes.)

- Median rent as share of median salary: 13% (Determined based on half the median cost of renting a two-bedroom apartment.

- Unemployment rate: 3.6% (Per Bureau of Labor Statistics)

- Projected annual job growth: 1.69% (Per Bureau of Labor Statistics)

- Adults with bachelor’s degrees or higher: 38%

-Population aged 20 to 29: 13%

The final two elements were determined through Census figures.

The top three cities for young professionals were determined to be Salt Lake City, UT, Boise, ID, and Redwood City, California.

At least 20 gallons of diesel fuel overflowed at a medical center in Hillcrest Monday.

The San Diego Fire-Rescue Hazardous Materials team was called to Vibra Hospital, a long-term acute care center at Washington Street and Fifth Avenue just before noon.

The medical center received a diesel fuel delivery this morning for a generator.

At least 20 gallons overflowed, according to Battalion Chief Grace Yamane.

The fuel spilled into a storm drain and some lower levels of the building.

Yamane said the spill was quickly contained and did not require officials to evacuate the building.

After three years of renovation work that cost the City of San Diego $18 million, downtown's Horton Plaza Park still appears to be a magnet for the homeless.

Now, a year after the park re-opened, outraged citizens have lit up social media with complaints about the homeless. Downtown has the county's largest homeless population, and the "new" version of a park that's been there since the 1890s is right in their midst.

A tourist interviewed there on Monday wishes more people would think with their hearts.

"We're all humans, and we should be taking care of each other in whatever way we can,” Portland resident Alena Almquist-Heater told NBC 7. “And if this space makes them feel safe, that they have a community together, then why not?"

The park's expansion and urban renewal project is a definite upgrade from the rundown condition it had fallen into.

Unfortunately, the continuous eyesore of street people napping, shuffling along and talking to themselves is offensive to business and tourism interests.

It's a public park, however, and unless there's a law enforcement issue, the homeless have a constitutional right to be there.

While the place wasn't overrun with homeless people on Memorial Day, it's obvious why locals are frustrated with this glaring example of the nation's fourth largest "unsheltered" population.

The city’s public, private and nonprofit sectors face a lot of challenges in efforts to manage the down-and-out.

"So I see all these people,” said downtown resident Randy Snow, as he sipped coffee on the park’s lower plaza. “They don't have the discipline, they don't have the will power. Maybe somebody has to do something creative here and help them out."

In recent months, there's been a greater coordination among local government and homeless providers to invest emergency and long-term funding in the homeless, that’s now more available than ever.

But the problem shows no sign of disappearing, and the new Horton Plaza Park seems to be sad, living proof of this.

If it seems like lately your pet can't catch a break with fleas, you are not alone. Experts said Monday there's been an increase in the pesky insects recently in San Diego.

“We are quite hopeless about the flea business," said San Diego resident, Wanda Zack, whose dog, Dixie, has been having problems lately. "She's scratching all the time. We don't know where to go or who to ask."

Now that California is out of the drought, it could explain why there's be an uptick in fleas, according to local experts.

“With all the rain California has been getting, there’s more vegetation out. It’s not as dry. Fleas don’t like dry," said Dr. Grafton Houston, a veterinarian in TierraSanta.  “They hide in the soil, or the carpets, or the grass, so the more humid it is, the happier they are.”

Dr. Houston added that because the weather is so desirable in San Diego, fleas are more likely to be a problem for pets. He recommends a once-a-month oral treatment for dogs and cats year-round as a preventative measure.

Other experts recommend a flea collar for a less expensive alternative. They can be purchased over-the-counter in convenience stores.

For anyone with fleas in the home, they can bite humans and cause bumps that can sometimes lead to infections. Dr. Houston said these fleas are usually in the carpets and will not be a problem if the pet of the house is treated properly.

The Navy SEAL and Leap Frogs team member killed by a parachute malfunction Sunday in New Jersey has been identified as Remington Peters.

Peters' family released a statement via the U.S. Navy on Monday.

"His accomplishments far outweigh his years. Anyone that has ever had the pleasure of knowing Remi could attest to his fierce loyalty to his friends, family, and his country. He was an angel on earth and role model to all. We couldn’t have been more proud of him. He lived life to the fullest and taught us to do the same," the statement read.

Peters was making a jump with the Leap Frogs team, based in San Diego, during an aerial demonstration over Liberty State Park on Sunday when his parachute failed to deploy and he landed in the Hudson River.

According to the Navy, Peters landed in the river at approximately 12:10 p.m. EST and was immediately retrieved by rescue crews standing by. He was taken to Jersey City Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 1:10 p.m.

"Although our time with him was cut short, we are so grateful that we were blessed with such a positive and principled loving man. He is painfully missed. No words could do justice, but we are so grateful for all that he taught us, and all the love he gave us in his 27 wonderful years. Today, we honor our selfless, humble, and quiet professional," the statement continued. 

Theresa Saleeby Awad, who lives in New Jersey, was watching the show with her husband and two young children.

“We were all standing there watching the jumpers,” she said. “Everyone realized what was going on. We immediately turned towards the parachuter. We saw the parachute and something else going into the water and the parachute going off into the building.”

Awad said the parachute looked like the sail of a boat that lost it winds.

“The entire crowd was just stunned. Period,” she continued. “No other word for it. You saw everybody, all of the emergency services react very quickly. Eerily quiet after it happened. Somebody told the DJ to start playing again to divert attention from the crowd. My husband wanted to leave but we stayed for our children. It was sad to see, truly it was. This was a day we wanted to celebrate men and women of the armed forces.”

A Facebook post on the Leap Frogs official page stated that the demonstration started at 12 p.m.

The aerial demonstration was a coordinated jump featuring the Leap Frogs during a Fleet Week New York event.

"Our hearts and prayers go out to his family, and I ask for all of your prayers for the Navy SEAL community who lost a true patriot today," said Rear Adm. Jack Scorby, Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic following the incident on Sunday.

A vehicle struck a concrete barrier and a generator-powered light fixture near the San Ysidro Port of Entry, blocking southbound traffic into Mexico.

About 25 to 30 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled from the light fixture across all the lanes of Interstate 5, according to the California Highway Patrol.

This prompted a SigAlert at 6:18 p.m. No other information was immediately available.

As of 6:19 p.m., most of the lanes had reopened. For immediate traffic updates, check NBC 7's traffic page.

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A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with another vehicle in Fallbrook Monday night, the California Highway Patrol confirmed.

The crash happened at around 8:56 p.m. at 2656 Olive Hill Road, west of South Mission Road.

No other information was available.

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A San Diego family stuck on a malfunctioning Disneyland roller coaster didn’t let their bad luck stop them from having fun.

In fact, for Gibbart family, getting “walked off” of a ride is a cause for celebration.

“We go all the time,” Jason Gibbart said. “We kind of get excited if we’re going to get walked off because it’s a special thing.”

When Disneyland employees came to tell them they would be assisted off of the ride, the news was met with cheers.

“Because we go so often, it’s fun if something goes wrong or a little out of the ordinary,” Sarah Gibbart added. “It kind of makes it more fun and more exciting.”

The Gibbarts were riding Thunder Mountain with friends when they began to notice something a little different. The ride was going a little faster than it had during countless previous rides, and something was especially strange with the way the coaster was being cranked up an incline.

“We didn’t feel [unsafe],” Sarah said. “We just knew something was a little bit different.”

Once the ride was completely stopped, Jason did what most people in 2017 would do. He pulled out his phone and started recording a video.

The group can be seen smiling, laughing and having a good time. The stop in motion allowed them to notice some of the ride’s intricacies, like its mechanics and special effects.

“That’s the whole thing about Disneyland—It’s so detailed,” Jason said. “There’s so much detail that you could ride [Thunder Mountain] again and again, but when you get the chance to stop and be like ‘Woah, the bats!’ It’s really neat.”

The detail, the artistry and the history. Three things these Disney buffs adore, and gained a greater appreciation for all because of a broken-down ride.

A Thursday sewage spill in Tijuana sent 335,000 gallons of sewage into the Tijuana River continues to cause problems.

Business owners in the area tell NBC 7 it's now hurting their bottom line.

"It's like dead fish that's all I can tell you," business owner Shirley Yap said. Yap and her husband have owned French pastry shop Par Amour, just steps away from the water, for the last 10 years.

They said that lately the smell of sewage has taken over the aroma of fresh pastries.

"We lost a lot of business, actually," Yap said. "A lot of people don't come here all the time now and they can’t go swimming, they can’t go hang around close by the water."

Longtime residents agree.

"It's disgusting, you know what, and I'm scared to go in the water," Richard Cabral said. "Me and my girls were walking up on the pier the other day and it was night time and all you could see was just trash inside the water."

Cabral said a solution is needed, and now. He hopes the problem will soon be a thing of the past, and is asking for Mexico and the U.S. to work together.

Residents will get a chance to ask questions at Thursday's citizens forum hosted by the International Boundary and Water Commission in Imperial Beach.

The next USIBWC Citizens Forum will be June 1, 2017,  from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the meeting room at the Tijuana Estuary at 301 Caspian Way in Imperial Beach.

Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator whose brutal six-year reign was ended by a U.S. invasion, has died at 83, a hospital in Panama confirmed to NBC News.

Noriega early on caught the attention of the CIA and became a paid informant for the U.S. agency. He then rose to power through the military and served as de facto leader of Panama from 1983 to 1989.

However, Noriega was a brutal, repressive leader and established himself as a drug lord, with some of the biggest banks being used to launder drug money. President George H.W. Bush ordered troops to Panama in 1989 and by Jan. 31, 1990, Noriega was in custody.

Noriega was convicted of drug smuggling and racketeering, becoming the first foreign leader to be convicted of crimes in a U.S. court. He was released from prison in 2007 after serving 17 years of his 40-year sentence.

At least three people were injured in a multiple-vehicle crash involving an overturned bus on southbound Interstate 5, according to California Highway Patrol (CHP).

CHP and San Diego Fire-Rescue (SDFD) responded to the crash at around 10:30 p.m. when a Volkswagen collided with a cargo truck.

One passenger of the bus was injured, and two others in another vehicle involved were also injured, CHP said.

Multiple southbound lanes were closed as a result of the crash.

The severity of the passengers’ injuries are unknown at this time.

No other information was available.

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President Donald Trump is four months into his term, so NBC News took a look at the progress he's made on his signature promise: building a wall on the 1,900-mile-long United States' southern border.

Construction doesn't seem to have begun, despite Trump issuing an order on his fifth day in office for Customs and Border Patrol to do so with cash on hand.

The estimated cost of building a concrete wall ranges from $1 million to $21.6 million per mile, but ProPublica reported that CBP only had $20 million on hand. CBP did not respond to inquiries about new construction, but there are no signs of any activity.

Trump also promised Mexico would fund the construction, and now says the money will come eventually, as Mexico denies it will pay for it. And the wall may end up looking more like a very tall fence, according to a statement from the director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Mike Dubke, the director of communications in Donald Trump's White House, is set to leave, NBC News confirmed. 

A senior official told NBC News that the Republican media strategist submitted a letter of resignation. 

Dubke's departure comes less than three months after he joined the White House. It was first reported by Axios, which said he submitted the resignation May 18 and offered to stay on through Trump's first trip overseas.

There was a brand new statue down on Wall Street, but this one didn't last long.

A New York City sculptor, Alex Gardega, claims he put a statue of a dog right next to the "Fearless Girl" that was placed across from the iconic "Charging Bull" earlier in the year. 

The statue, named "Sketchy Dog," was standing next to the wildly popular statue of a young girl staring down Wall Street's famous "Charging Bull" with its leg up as if to urinate. Gardega said that he removed the statue around 12 p.m. Monday, about three hours after he put it there.

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"I took it away personally," he said. "I didn't want to leave it to be taken and certainly had no rights to bolt it to the ground. Most people were amused or perplexed by it."

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Gardega said the "Fearless Girl" wasn't made by some individual artist making a statement, but made by a billion-dollar financial firm trying to promote an index fund.

"I have a lot of empathy for the creator of the bull, Arturo," Gardega told NBC 4 New York early Tuesday. "I'm a pretty happy person, not seething or angry and certainly not anti-feminist. My piece is not without a sense of humor. There is plenty of room for Fearless Girl it just interferes with another artists work/vision."

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The "Fearless Girl" was put in front of the "Charging Bull" for a short-term stay in March for International Women’s Day.

Mayor Bill de Blasio had said later on that the statue could stay a bit  longer.

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A Dallas police officer was hospitalized Monday after a collision that sent the officer's patrol car airborne, landing about 30 feet below in an Oak Cliff creek.

He was rescued in part by a group of bystanders that rushed into the creek to help right the cruiser and help the officer, who was left with critical injuries. Police hailed the quick response from the "brave and caring citizens" as inspiring.

The officer, responding to a burglary call, was driving southbound on the 3100 block of South Westmoreland Drive near West Keist Boulevard at about 2:15 p.m. when a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck failed to yield and T-boned the squad car, sending the officer's car into Fivemile Creek, police said.

Dallas Police Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a department spokesman, said officers continue to search for the driver of the truck, who fled the scene after the crash. He also said there may have been more than one person in the truck at the time.

DPD said the officer, whose name has not been released, was transported to Methodist Dallas Medical Center with critical injuries. His condition is stable, police said. 

Several fellow officers were seen entering the hospital Monday evening.

"All of a sudden we heard this loud crash," said witness Lenora Jefferson. "The officer was minding his own business, and then all of sudden we just saw those two collide, and the officer's car became airborne and went into the creek, the ravine."

"I immediately got on the phone to call 911 and told them they needed to get some officers here because one of their comrades had been involved in a crash, and he's in that creek there — and I think it's awful — and they needed to get here as soon as they can, quickly. And they were here quickly," Jefferson said.

Police don't yet know whether the driver intentionally struck the officer's vehicle, and the investigation is ongoing.

A bystander recorded video of at least a dozen people who ran into the creek to try and push the patrol car back onto its tires and help rescue the officer.

Benji Rogers works nearby and was one of the good Samaritans who rushed down to help. He used to work in law enforcement, he said, and his instincts immediately kicked in.

"I knew nobody. Nobody knew me. And everybody was on the same page," Rogers said. "Even in today's society with everything that is going wrong, that's the right thing to do, absolutely. And I wouldn't have thought twice. Everybody just helped out like they're supposed to."

In response to an NBC 5 tweet showing the bystanders' video, Dallas police said Monday evening: "Thank you to these brave and caring citizens who ran to the aid of one of our officers today. The love from our community is truly inspiring."

Legendary pro golfer Tiger Woods was asleep at the wheel of his car and confused but cooperative when he was arrested early Monday morning in Palm Beach County, Florida, on suspicion of DUI, according to a police report released Tuesday.

A Jupiter police officer saw a black Mercedes stopped in the right lane near the intersection of Military Trail and Indian Creek Parkway just after 2 a.m., according to the probable cause affidavit. The officer approached the car and had to wake up Woods, who was in the driver's seat with his seat belt on and the car running.

Woods' speech was "extremely slow and slurred" and he was "extremely sleepy," according to the report. He initially told the officer he was coming from Los Angeles for a golf trip before changing his story and saying he didn’t know where he was – asking the officer how far he was from his Hobe Sound home.

Woods failed several field sobriety tests and was taken into custody. The arrest report did not list a specific drug as the reason for his DUI, which the 14-time major champion said was the case in a statement Monday night, in which he said alcohol was not involved and that he had an "unexpected reaction" to a prescription medication he was taking. The officer wrote that Woods said he takes several prescription medications. 

He passed his breath test and was given a mandatory court date for July 5 in a Palm Beach Gardens courtroom.

"I understand the severity of what I did and I take full responsibility for my actions," Woods said in a statement to NBC News after his arrest. "I want the public to know that alcohol was not involved. What happened was an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications. I didn't realize the mix of medications had affected me so strongly." 

Woods apologized to his family, friends and fans and said, "I expect more from myself, too." 

"I will do everything in my power to ensure this never happens again," he said. 

Developers of the mixed-use Makers Quarter in East Village have scheduled a May 30 ground-breaking for “Block D,” billed as the first multitenant downtown office building to be constructed in nearly a decade.

Tenants have not been announced for the six-story, 63,584-square-foot office building, to be constructed at 845 15th St. It is slated to open in spring 2018, according to a statement from the development partnership known as L2HP.

The development cost was not immediately disclosed for the project, which will also include ground-floor retail space. The building is designed by architecture firm BNIM and will include sustainable elements related to energy efficiency and indoor air quality.

The building is among several residential and commercial elements in various stages of development within the five-block Makers Quarter. The mixed-use community is in the northeastern quadrant of East Village, where local planners have organized an “IDEA District” geared to innovation, design, education and the arts.

Makers Quarter is being developed on underutilized land owned for several years by the Navarra family, which operates San Diego-based Jerome’s Furniture. At full build-out, it is expected to include 2.5 million square feet of development, including 1 million square feet of creative office space, 800 residential units, and 175,000 square feet of restaurants, retail and entertainment.

The development team includes Lankford & Associates, Hensel Phelps and HP Investors. Makers Quarter is also expected to include 60,000 square feet of public parks and open space, connecting to a planned four-acre city park known as East Village Green.

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San Diego police are investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred Monday in North Park.

Officers were called to the area of University and Utah around 9:30 p.m.

They found the victim on the ground with injuries to his upper body area.

The man was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Homicide detectives were called in to start an investigation.

We know the victim was homeless, he was also 38 years old.

Police tell us they know the man's name but understandably aren't releasing that information until family is notified.

No other information was available.

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