A man was killed when his car hit an SUV that was stopped on Interstate 15 near the I-8 junction early Saturday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).

Gregory Lawrence Scott, 40 of Spring Valley, collided with the stopped SUV while going the speed limit just before 3 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

CHP is investigating.

Surveillance video captured the moment when a Sarasota, Florida, homeowner fought off would-be robbers, one of which can be seen carrying a shot-gun, with a machete Thursday morning.

Police responded to a call at 4:45 a.m. about a man with a shotgun showing up at a home. The homeowner had disarmed the suspect and was holding him by the time police arrived.

The homeowner told police two other robbers escaped. The two suspects and two others were eventually found at a nearby gas station.

Suspect Alen Beltran-Vasquez is charged with two counts of armed robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Ronier Jauregi-Lorente and Angel Cabrera-Basulto are charged with two counts each of armed robbery. Jorge Valido-Leyva and Roberto Selcedo-Balanza are each charged with two counts of principal armed robbery.

All five men are being held at the Sarasota County Jail without bond and the investigation is ongoing.

It's crunch time for health care in the Senate, where GOP leaders could present a bill that aims to repeal and replace Obamacare, NBC News reported.

The House passed the American Health Care Act in early May in a dramatic and sudden vote after abandoning a similar effort in March. Now it’s in the hands of the Senate, which has been hammering out its own legislation with a small and secretive working group of Republicans.

Since the process is taking place behind closed doors, it's harder to keep track of new developments or what to expect in the Senate's bill.

Here's what you need to know about where things stand, which lawmakers could make or break a deal, and which policies might end up in a final bill.

San Diego Fire-Rescue (SDFD) crews worked to rescue a woman trapped in her crashed SUV Sunday morning off Interstate 805. 

The crash happened Sunday morning on southbound I-805, just south of Mesa College Drive. 

Witnesses told authorities that the SUV was driving about 70 miles per hour in the number 2 lane on the highway when it drifted to the right, hitting a side barrier and rolling into the canyon. 

California Highway Patrol (CHP) officials say a woman is trapped inside, alive. She has lacerations, but it appears she will survive. 

No further information is available. 

Temperatures will soar into the triple digits in some parts of the County this Father's Day as a five-day heat wave continues to bake San Diego. 

"It's going to be a hot Father's Day, with above average highs across the County," said NBC 7's Liberty Zabala. "Temperatures can reach so high it can be potentially dangerous."

The heat wave has arrived a bit earlier than usual in the soon-to-be summer season.

“This is a weather pattern that would typically occur in late June or early July,” NBC 7 meteorologist Jodi Kodesh explained. “This year, it’s early. Temperatures over the next several days will be 10 to 20 degrees above average.”

To that end, the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a heat advisory for San Diego County, in effect from 11 a.m. Saturday to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The NWS said temperatures could reach a high of 98 to 106 degrees on Sunday and increase to 100 to 110 degrees Monday through Wednesday.

The multi-day heat wave will bring with it the potential for heat-related illnesses.

“That’s why people, especially in the mountains and deserts, need to be extra cautious of the time they are outside, over the next several days,” said Kodesh. “Mountains will climb into the mid and upper 90s, and deserts will soar to as high as 118 degrees.”

“A major cause of heat exhaustion and heat stroke is that sometimes, people refuse to run the air conditioner, or don’t take precautions to be somewhere cool. They think that a fan will be enough to cool them. But, when temperatures top 90 degrees, a fan cannot adequately cool your core, and overheating becomes very easy,” Kodesh added. “People can go from feeling hot to heat stroke, without much time passing at all. It is imperative to keep an eye on those that are susceptible, like children, elderly, or people that are sick.”

For times of extreme heat like this, San Diego's designated "cool zones," often established at local libraries or recreation centers, provide respite. Here's a current list of cool zones operating across the county.

The NWS said the heat wave might continue beyond Wednesday – maybe even through the end of next week. The NWS said there would also be an excessive heat warning for San Diego’s deserts, including areas like Borrego Springs and Banning, in effect from 11 a.m. Friday until 9 p.m. Wednesday.

"Temperatures will peak Tuesday and Wednesday, then we may see a slight dip in temperatures in the latter part of next week," said Zabala.

These conditions also increase the risk of wildfire danger across the county.

The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) said Friday that the department would increase the number of on-duty firefighting crews, staff and fire apparatus in San Diego due to the hot weather forecast.

“Several years of drought coupled with heavy rains this past winter created significant fuel in the form of underbrush and grass,” the SDFD said. “This fuel, combined with hot temperatures and low humidity, create conditions which are conducive to easily ignited fast-burning wildfires.”

The SDFD said five brush engines carrying four personnel and one water tender would be staffed on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. These engines carry between 600 and 1,500 gallons of water. SDFD water tenders carry 3,000 gallons of water and provide water supply to engines at vegetation fires, officials said.

Also, the Metro Zone Emergency Command & Data Center (ECDC) and Air Operations Section staffing will also be increased over the course of the heat wave.

SDFD Fire Chief Brian Fennessy said officials believe this will be a “very busy summer of fires,” and increased staffing is an important part of the fire department’s plan to combat fire season. This guide offers tips on keeping your family and home safe from fires.

At least two people are dead after gunmen stormed a Western-friendly Mali resort located just outside the nation’s capital Bamako on Sunday evening, authorities said.

One was identified as French-Gabonese, and the other's nationality had not been confirmed, NBC News reported.

Gunfire could be heard and smoke could be seen rising from Le Campement Kangaba in Dougourakoro, a luxury resort popular with Western tourists on the weekends, according to Diakate Benson, a spokesman for the Malian President of the National Assembly.

"Security forces are in place. Campement Kangaba is blocked off and an operation is under way," Security Ministry spokesman Baba Cisse told Reuters. "The situation is under control."

Scott Schoettes, Counsel and HIV Project Director at Lambda Legal, explained in a Newsweek op-ed Friday that he and five colleagues decided to leave their posts on the council in protest of the Trump administration, which they allege "has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic."

Schoettes, who is openly HIV positive, added that the White House is also pushing legislation that would harm people with HIV and “reverse gains made in the fight against the disease.”

Lucy Bradley-Springer, Gina Brown, Ulysses W. Burley III, Michelle Ogle and Grissel Granados are the five other members who resigned.

The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment.

Two of the seven missing sailors whose bodies were found inside flooded berth compartments of the USS Fitzgerald after a collision with a merchant vessel were from San Diego, the Navy confirmed Sunday.

Yeoman 3rd Class Shingo Alexander Douglass, 25, was from San Diego and Fire Controlman 2nd Class Carlosvictor Ganzon Sibayan, 23, was from Chula Vista.

The collision happened early Saturday morning off the coast of Japan while most of the destroyer’s crew of about 300 was sleeping.

It is reported that following the collision many in the crew kept diving into flooded parts of the ship attempting to rescue fellow sailors, worked to keep the destroyer afloat or manned the guns thinking the collision may have been an attack.

The identities of the other five men killed are:

- Gunner’s Mate Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby, 19, from Palmyra, Virginia

- Sonar Technician 3rd Class Ngoc T Truong Huynh, 25, from Oakville, Connecticut

- Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Noe Hernandez, 26, from Weslaco, Texas

- Personnel Specialist 1st Class Xavier Alec Martin, 24, from Halethorpe, Maryland

- Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr., 37, from Elyria, Ohio

The Navy is investigating the cause of the collision.

British police officers are on the scene in Seven Sisters Road in London after receiving reports of a vehicle in collision with pedestrians early Monday around 12:20 am.

There are a number of causalities, according to Metropolitan police, and one person has been arrested.

"We have sent a number of resources to an incident in Seven Sisters Road." London Ambulance Service said on Twitter.

Witnesses say a van drove into a crowd on their way home from a prayer at a mosque near Finsbury Park. The mosque is almost three quarters of a mile away from Seven Sisters Road. The Muslim Welfare House on Seven Sisters Road said on Twitter that the incident happened five minutes away.

No other information is immediately available. Police have not confirmed witness reports.

Earlier this month, a van veered into pedestrians on London Bridge, setting off vehicle and knife attacks that killed eight people and wounded many others on the bridge and in the nearby Borough Market area. Three Muslim extremists who carried out the attack were killed by police.

This is a developing story, please check back for updates.

A new municipal code recycling ordinance requiring food waste to only be collected by the City’s licensed haulers is threatening to shut down some food recycling businesses in San Diego.

"They were saying no small guys could haul food waste any longer,” says Briana Young, co-owner of Closing the Loop, a food recycling business. “I would've been out of business July 1."

Young has been hauling food waste from 80 local restaurants for the last five years to keep it from going into landfills.

"You're taking food and it’s going into the ground. You're mixing it with some brown material, leaves or dirt and that becomes soil again,” she tells NBC 7.

Trish Watlington, the owner of Red Door Restaurant in Mission Hills, gives her scraps to Closing the Loop.

"A lot of times we have pieces of the fresh food that we're not going to use like carrot tops or beat tops or fenil tops,” Watlington explains.

Young decided to team up with other businesses and environmental groups to fight to re-write the ordinance – and the city is listening.

The city's Environmental Committee Consultant, Kevin C. Smith, released a statement saying in part:

"It is my understanding that the Environmental Services Department is actively meeting with affected stakeholders to resolve the issue."

Now, environmentalists will have a year to work with the city to develop policies to keep businesses like hers that work to bring waste to an end.

Carlos Sibayan was less than a month from coming home when the Navy destroyer he was serving on collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan early Saturday morning.

“If you never met my son, you missed a whole lot,” Carmen Sibayan, Carlos’ mother told NBC 7. “In every sense of the word he is my hero.”

The 23-year-old had been in the Navy for four years, spending three of those years in Japan.

“The way Carlos is, when you need help, he'll help you with his whole being,” she said.

Sibayan was one of seven men whose bodies were recovered from flooded berths inside the USS Fitzgerald Saturday after initially being reported missing.

Carlos, Carmen's eldest son, chose to follow in his father's footsteps. “My husband just retired in the military for 21 years this last April, and I thought, you know, I survived,” she said.

Carmen said she reached out to other families after the collision. “I didn't know that my son was the one that was going to leave us.” She explained when her husband was away Carlos became the "dad" of the family.

“One thing that my son told me that no matter what he has my back,” she said. “Every time, he never failed. He always had my back in anything.”

Carols' 18-year-old brother, Vince Sibayan, says even though Carlos is gone, he will follow in his brother's footsteps and keep the family legacy alive. Monday is Carlos’ other younger brother Luke’s birthday. He will be 12 years old.

“I just wish that I could hold him again,” Carmen cried with her family around her. “But we have to accept it. We just borrowed this time from God so now he has to go back." 

Family, neighbors, Sheriff’s deputies and rescue crews continued to search for an 85-year-old man with Alzheimer’s for a third day Sunday.

Tai Heng Sun, who speaks Chinese and very little English, walked away from his Scripps Ranch home Sunday evening and hasn’t been seen since.

The Search and Rescue mobile command center was shut down Sunday, but searches will continue if needed. The public is still asked to keep an eye out for the missing man.

Sun was last seen wearing a dark-colored baseball cap, a white fleece windbreaker, and dark-colored pants. Police said he does not drive and has no means of transportation.

Rescuers are especially concerned for Sun's health because of rising temperatures. 

Montgomery County, Ohio, has become America's overdose capital, NBC News reported.

"We're on a pace to have 800 people died this year due to overdose in our county, Sheriff Phil Plummer said. "Per capita, we're no. 1 in the nation in overdose deaths."

According to data from the Mongomery County coroner, 365 people have died of drug overdoses from January through May of this year. In all of the last year, 371 people died of such cases in the county.

Overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50. They now claim more lives that car crashes, gun deaths and AIDS did at their peaks.

The city council is expected to decide Monday if the Soccer City proposal will be put to a public vote in a special election.

Last week San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and the City council were split down party lines over whether or not to support the redevelopment plan.

The City Council vote on a hotel tax for convention center expansion last Tuesday, which is likely to be a strong barometer for the Soccer City vote, was a ‘no’. Even so, supporters say they’re going to persevere.

“We're going to come and present all the merits of the Soccer City project to the city council,” project manager of Soccer City, Nick Stone, tells NBC 7.

Soccer City investors concede it's a long shot to win council approval, but they hope a strong showing will be what's needed to get the green light this November.

“Soccer City needs 50 plus percent of the vote and we still poll 60/40 in a special election and 70/30 in a broad general election because people love this,” Stone says.

“When north of 60 percent of voters say they wish that they want to see big decisions-- our most important decisions made in November generals, you've got to listen to that and you've got to respect that,” Laura Fink of Public Land Public Vote says.

But Soccer city supporters say that time is money. Their plan calls for housing, hotels, a river park and a soccer stadium. They say ideas from other developers could take years, while the city incurs millions of dollars in debt on the current stadium.

“What we continue to be concerned about and what we continue to show up for is to protect measure L and protect the will of the voters and make sure we're making decisions during November general elections, not special elections,” Andrea Guerrero of Alliance San Diego states.

Opponents also claim Soccer City's citizen initiative helped avoid environmental reviews, but Stone says Soccer City went above and beyond.

“I'm very hopeful on Monday. The voice of the people matters, the voice of our supporters matter, and the economic, overwhelming economic logic here matters.”

Watergate prosecutors had evidence that operatives for then-President Richard Nixon planned an assault on anti-war demonstrators in 1972, including potentially physically attacking Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, according to a never-before-published memo obtained by NBC News.

The document, an 18-page 1973 investigative memorandum from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, sheds new light on how prosecutors were investigating attempts at domestic political violence by Nixon aides, an extremely serious charge.

NBC News is publishing the memo, and an accompanying memo about an interview prosecutors conducted with GOP operative Roger Stone, as part of special coverage for the 45th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.

A plot to physically attack Ellsberg is notable because the former Pentagon official has long alleged that Nixon operatives did more than steal his medical files, the most well-known effort to discredit him. Nixon officials denied his account, however, and there were never any indictments related to the accusation.

Police say the death of a teenage girl who was assaulted as she walked with friends to her mosque in Fairfax County, Virginia, will not be investigated as a hate crime.  

Police believe a body found Sunday afternoon in a pond in the 21500 block of Ridgetop Circle in Sterling, Virginia, is a 17-year-old girl from Reston who was reported missing in the area after the group of friends scattered during the 3 a.m. assault as they were headed to an all-night prayer session after getting food.

Police spokeswoman Tawny Wright said the girl had been walking back to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center with friends when she got into a dispute with a man in a car early Sunday. The man assaulted her, and she became separated from her friends. 

The girl's name has not been released, but a close family friend told News4 the victim's name is Nabra. 

At some point, residents in the area came across the group of friends and directed them to the mosque, where Nabra was reported missing, the mosque said in a statement Sunday night.

"Immediately thereafter, the ADAMS' personnel notified both Loudon County and Fairfax County authorities who immediately began an extensive search to locate the missing girl," the statement said.

Officers started searching for the girl about 4 a.m. Sunday in the area of Dranesville Road and Woodson Drive in Herndon, Fairfax County Officer Tawny Wright said in a news conference Sunday evening. 

Police searched a wooded area near Dranesville Road and Woodson Drive area in Herndon, Virginia, for several hours. Loudoun County authorities also helped in the investigation because the area borders the county.

During the search, an officer saw a car driving suspiciously in the area and pulled the driver over before taking him into custody.

Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, of Sterling has been arrested and charged with murder, police said.

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Police discovered a female body in the pond about 3 p.m. The pond is 2 to 3 miles away from the original altercation happened, Wright said.

Police said a baseball bat was recovered. The exact location where it was found is not known at this time.

"We call on law enforcement to investigate and determine the motive of this crime and prosecute to the full extent of the law," the ADAMS Center statement said.

Authorities say they are not investigating the murder as a hate crime. 

"At this point, there doesn't seem to be indication this was a bias incident. It looks like they got into a dispute over something," Wright said.

The medical examiner's office will confirm the identity of the remains found.

"I just can't think of a worse instance to occur with the loss of a 17-year-old on Father's Day. As a father of a 17-year-old myself, I can't think of anything worse than confronting that on this particular day," Loudoun County Sheriff Michael Chapman said at the news conference.

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring released the following statement Saturday night:

"The ADAMS Center has always welcomed me and so many in Northern Virginia like family. This unspeakable attack feels like an assault on our entire community. Words fail at a time like this, so we'll all have to do the best we can to surround them with the love and support they've always shown each of us."

Rep. Barbara Comstock tweeted: "We stand with the @ADAMSCenter_ community in mourning the vile murder of a beautiful 17-year-old girl."

Stay with News4 and NBCWashington.com for the latest.

An Uber driver in South Florida was given a hefty ticket for violating a county ordinance that speaks less to how she handles her vehicle than other skills.

Cell phone footage obtained exclusively by our sister station Telemundo 51 captured Carmen Echevarria, getting a $250 ticket from a Miami-Dade Police officer outside Miami International Airport. Her violation? Not being able to speak English correctly.

“I felt discriminated against,” Echevarria told the station. “I asked the (passenger sitting in her car) ‘Can you please help translate what she is saying?’ Then she asked why, if I was an Uber driver, I didn’t speak English.“

In May 2016, Miami-Dade County issued a memorandum with rules for transportation network drivers – with one of the requirements being "able to communicate in the English language."

“I told her ‘so sorry, a little English’ then she called the inspector who also confronted me and told me in order to be an Uber driver I need it to speak English”.

Uber issued a statement saying that a statewide ordinance going into effect on July 1 "does not include the language referencing the need to speak English" and they will continue to look into the incident.

The language requirement for drivers in Miami is not listed on the Uber website for the area.

The Dow Jones industrial average continued its march upward Monday, opening at a record high that tops last week's milestone of 21,391.97, CNBC reported.

The S&P 500 opened up 0.4 percent, leaving it just below a record of its own. And the Nasdaq composite rose as well, nearly 1 percent.

"I don't know where the optimism is coming from. That's not to say we should be negative. I just don't see any reason for excessive optimism or pessimism right now," said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.

Technology stocks were bouncing back from a rough week, with Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet all up about 1 percent in early trading.

A special congressional election in Georgia is currently billing at an estimated $40 million and counting between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel, reported NBC News. 

The 6th congressional district has been held by Newt Gingrich, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, who left the seat open when he joined Trump’s Cabinet. 

So when the contest heated up, people paid attention — partly because it is seen as a referendum on Trump and possibly an early indicator of how the midterm elections could go next year.