A man was shot multiple times while sitting in his driveway in Lincoln Park Thursday, confirmed San Diego police.

The suspect drove up to the driveway, got out and walked over to the victim. That's when he took out a gun and opened fire, shooting the victim in the legs, according to police.

Once the suspect got back in his car, he drove away, heading eastbound on Reynold Street. Police described the suspect as a man in his early 20's, who appeared about six feet tall. He was wearing a dark hoodie and had a large afro.

The vehicle was a blue sedan, possibly a Honda or Toyota, said police. Paramedics transported the victim to a nearby hospital.

His injuries were not considered life-threatening. Police say Southeast Detectives are handling the investigation.

Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

Sporting swimsuits and sunscreen, dozens of children in Chula Vista took part in a global event Thursday known as the “World’s Largest Swimming Lesson” (WLSL).

Organized by the World Waterpark Association, the event provided free swimming instruction at pools around the world Thursday, including waterparks, rec centers and other aquatic facilities – like Chula Vista’s Loma Verde Aquatic Center. The event aims to raise awareness on the importance of teaching children to swim to help prevent drowning.

Karina Craig, an aquatics supervisor with the City of Chula Vista, said this marks the ninth year that Chula Vista has participated in the WLSL.

“This is important because swimming lessons save lives,” Craig told NBC 7.

She said drowning, tragically, continues to be the second leading cause of accidental deaths for children ages 1 to 14.

“Research shows that if children take formal swimming lessons between the ages of 1 and 4, it reduces the risk of drowning by 88 percent,” Craig added.

Thursday’s group lesson included teaching children the basics of water safety and basic swimming instruction. Craig said it was a good reminder to parents to sign their little ones up for lessons this summer.

The City of Chula Vista, for instance, offers swimming lessons to the community on a regular basis, 10 months out of the year. Two-week lessons cost $35 for Chula Vista residents.

Between the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump has managed to maintain a historically low but stable approval rating, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

NBC News reports that 55 percent of those surveyed disapproved of the president, while 40 percent approved. While the approval rating is low for a new president, the numbers have remained steady since polls from May and April.

Support from Republicans has kept the president afloat, with 82 percent of the party approving of the president. Of those Republicans, 80 percent believe that Trump’s failings can be attributed to "the establishment in D.C." that opposes the president.

A blood drive and a rally will be held in support of the veteran police officer who was targeted and struck by a driver while on duty in Oceanside, according to the Oceanside Police Officers' Association.

"As a community, we need to join together and condemn these acts of violence against law enforcement and, in particular, our fellow officer who lies in the hospital struggling to recover from serious injuries he sustained when a suspect drove his car directly into him," said Martin Morabe, President of the Oceanside Police Officer Association and fellow motorcycle officer, in a statement.

"We condemn this apparent act of violence toward one of our officers and urge the community to support him and his family," said Morabe.

Brad Hunter, a 29-year veteran of the department, was intentionally run over by a driver while he was conducting a traffic stop on another vehicle. He was seriously injured and flown to Scripps Memorial Hospital by an air ambulance.

The suspect was arrested shortly after, and faces charges of attempted murder.

At the hospital, Hunter was placed in a medically-induced coma. He is beginning to show signs of improvement and should be released from the hospital soon, according to prosecutors.

"Fortunately, Officer Hunter is now conscious and is doing well and is expected to be able to be discharged from the hospital at some point in the near future," said Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe.

The association is still working out the event details for the blood drive and rally. They will release more information soon.

"We need to send a strong message to all who wish to cause harm to those who protect us that we will not tolerate such egregious acts here in Oceanside or anywhere else in this great Country," said Morabe.

A suspect in connection to a series of indecent exposures in Oceanside was arrested in late May--police are now searching for other potential victims. 

According to the Oceanside Police Department, two separate incidents occurred in the downtown area of Oceanside in May.

A man, described to be in his early 20s, approached a woman as she was jogging and asked her directions to a local cafe. He then exposed himself to the victim and committed a lewd act, police said.

The suspect had been driving a brown Toyota pickup truck.

Police said he was arrested on May 26.

At this time, police are asking for any other potential victims to come forward. 

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Bradon Baird at (760)435-4690.

Chief Pilot Jim Payne of San Diego will soar through the stratosphere next month in a glider, meaning, no engine.

"At least I don't have to worry about the engines going out," Payne joked at a press conference in Washington D.C. Thursday.

Payne will fly in the Perlan 2 as part of the Perlan Project to gather data about climate change from the levels of the atmosphere closest to space.

The glider will be lifted by a tow plane 10,000 feet up and then, hopefully, catch a mountain wave, or a current that will lift the craft and make it fly.

“We’re not 1,000 percent sure the mountain wave will go that high, but we’re going to find out," said Payne.

The Payne Project said some of the biggest weather waves are actually above the stratosphere, making research from there invaluable.

“I’m in so much pain, I need help, do any of you have a car?” said Jinyoung Choi. 

Jinyoung, a Chemical Engineer from La Jolla, said it was five in the morning when she called out to her roommates. After 911 was called, she was taken to the hospital by a Rural/Metro ambulance. 

“I think a couple weeks after that I got like $2,500 worth of emergency room fees,” said Jinyoung. 

Jinyoung made payments for the service and thought her painful experience was behind her. She said she never got a separate bill for the Rural/Metro ambulance ride and assumed it was included in the other bills. 

Three years later, she was contacted by a collections agency and told she owed the ambulance company more than $1,800. 

“They’re going to basically hurt my credit if I don’t call today and pay this off,” Jinyoung said. 

Jinyoung said after she received a collection notice, her credit score dropped 33 points. She couldn’t submit the claim to her insurance company to have them pay the bill because insurance companies require you file a claim for service within a year after the incident date. 

After talking to a coworker, who had seen past NBC 7 Responds stories about Rural/Metro collection notices, Jinyoung reached out to NBC 7 Responds. 

NBC 7 Responds reached out to Rural/Metro. The company dropped the charge and contacted the credit bureaus asking them to restore Jinyoung’s credit score and they did. 

In the past, representatives for Rural/Metro have attributed the error to a processing change that was made when the company came out of bankruptcy. The company said it is handling incidents like this on a case-by-case basis. 

If you feel you’ve received a collection notice in error, reach out to NBC 7 Responds by phone at 619-732-NBC7 or by submitting this completed form to our unit.

A week after an 85-year-old man with Alzheimer's went missing in San Diego and was recently spotted on surveillance video, an active search is still underway.

Hundreds of volunteers have been looking for Taiheng Sun throughout the week, after he went missing in Scripps Ranch.

Citizen search efforts will continue Thursday evening at 6 p.m., according to police. One search team has gathered at the sheriff's command post in the West Sycamore entrance to Mission Trails.

The Scripps Ranch Civic Association will also search at the corner of Legacy Road and Legacy Canyon Place.

"He had his ID in his pocket," said Chris Sen, the son of the missing man. "We even made a necklace with all his information. If anyone finds an older gentleman that's disabled, please search his pockets."

Police are looking for any new clues that may help solve his disappearance.

Sun was spotted on surveillance video at the 11000 block of Legacy Canyon Place, about six miles away from the place he was walking when he first vanished. Officers are renewing their search for Sun after this new possible sighting.

The video, dated from Saturday afternoon, shows a man fitting Sun's description getting out of a car that appears to be a silver or beige Ford Taurus. The man in the video looks disoriented. He crosses the street, comes back and after 30 minutes begins walking north on Legacy Canyon Place.

"Online there's certainly been a lot of speculation, a lot of calls for volunteers, a lot of people hoping that there's still going to be a positive resolution to this really unfortunate situation," said Amanda Murphy, a neighbor who lives in the area.

Sun left his home in Rancho Encantada and headed east on Stonebridge Parkway and Via Santa Pradera. His family says Sun speaks very little English and has been taking medication for depression. 

The Scripps Ranch Civic Association (SRCA) formed a Community Search Committee to help find the missing man. Volunteers headed to the SRCA Community Center last weekend.

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.

Water rates across San Diego County will soon go up after the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) adopted a $1.58 billion budget and a 3.7 percent rate hike during a public hearing Thursday.

On May 18, the Water Authority announced it would push for the rate hike for 2018 to its 24 member agencies for both treated and untreated water.

The budget for the fiscal years 2018 and 2019 was presented to the Water Authority's board on May 22, along with the proposal for a rate hike.

According to the Water Authority, the hike is partly to offset higher rates and charges from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).

A Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the Water Authority Wednesday in a key rate case against MWD. The court ruled MWD collected millions of dollars’ in illegal charges from ratepayers in San Diego. The Water Authority is also entitled to tens of thousands of acre-feet more water from the district than it had calculated, according to the ruling.

Currently, the Water Authority still has two lawsuits pending against the MWD.

MWD supplies more than 40 percent of the water in San Diego County.

The new rates will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2018. 

According to the SDCWA, the actual increase in rates will depend on its member agencies. The proposed rate hike is the smallest since 2014.

It's one of the hottest days of the year and a whale was spotted enjoying the cool waters of the San Francisco Bay.

NBC Bay Area's SkyRanger on Thursday noticed the whale breaching the waters near Ocean Beach and then diving beneath the surface.

The massive marine mammal was seen just three days after a pod of whales delighted people on the Golden Gate Bridge. 

We wish we could join them!

A Bronx home health aide was arrested at Kennedy Airport Wednesday night as he prepared to board a flight to Turkey in an apparent attempt to join ISIS, federal prosecutors say.

Saddam "Adam" Mohamed Raishani, 30, was allegedly planning to leave his family and life in New York City to support the deadly terrorist organization in Syria, Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim alleges. He was planning to get into the country through Turkey. 

Raishani has been charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and was set to face a judge in federal court later Thursday. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney. 

The FBI and NYPD began investigating Raishani in January when he contacted a confidential source working with law enforcement to tell him he wanted to join ISIS, authorities said. He told the source he'd already helped another person get from New York to the Middle East to join ISIS and regretted not having gone with him.

Raishani told the source he he wanted to wage jihad and that he believed that the Quran could be read to justify the violence, including beheadings, used by ISIS.

That source introduced Raishani to an undercover officer who pretended he also wanted to travel abroad to fight for ISIS.

Whenever the three of them met, Raishani would talk about being in touch with other ISIS supporters and show videos that appeared to depict ISIS terrorists killing civilians in Yemen, prosecutors alleged. 

Also during those meetings, Raishani advised the other two to avoid detection by law enforcement by covering their computer's cameras and turning off the microphones when watching pro-ISIS videos online, according to prosecutors. He told them he even put on gloves while watching such videos. 

He also said if the two went abroad, he could pose as a nurse and the undercover officer could pose as a refugee aid worker in order to cross international borders without being stopped and questioned by authorities, the criminal complaint stated. 

By April, Raishani was actively planning to travel abroad to join ISIS, and he contacted a second undercover officer, an FBI employee, to figure out how to travel overseas to join ISIS before the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that runs from about May 26 through June 24 this year.

He told the undercover FBI officer he'd contact him about travel arrangements, and said didn't care if he was arrested, "because Allah would know that he tried," according to prosecutors.

Then in June, Raishani told the initial confidential source he was getting ready to leave, including paying off his remaining debts; the two men bought clothing they intended to wear for their training in ISIS, the criminal complaint alleges. Raishani then told the undercover FBI officer he was planning to meet an ISIS member in Turkey in the next few days, who would then help him join ISIS in Syria.

Raishani bought a plane ticket for a flight scheduled to leave JFK Airport on June 21 for Istanbul, via Lisbon, Portugal, according to federal authorities. He was arrested by the FBI after he tried to board that flight to Lisbon.

Raishani faces up to 20 years in prison if he's convicted. 

A caught-on-camera road rage incident between a motorcyclist and a driver on a Southern California freeway led to a chain-reaction crash, sending an innocent person to the hospital Wednesday, authorities said.

The crash occurred before 6 a.m. on the southbound 14 Freeway near Newhall in Santa Clarita. The passenger who shot the video said he started recording when a gray sedan inadvertently cut off a passing motorcyclist.

"Words went back and forth," he told NBC4.

The motorcyclist zooms up to the driver's side of the sedan and kicks the side of the vehicle. The sedan veered left, pinching the biker to the center divider before it swerved and crashed into the wall, hitting and flipping a Chevy pickup truck over on its roof. The motorcyclist zooms past the collision.

The man in the truck was sent to the hospital and is expected to recover, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Officials were looking for the biker and said they were investigating the crash as a road rage incident and a possible hit-and run.

"Obviously it was a road rage incident. He was kicking the vehicle. We have to get a statement, see what's going on," said CHP officer Josh Greengard.

The person who recorded the video immediately turned in the footage to the CHP.

"The old man who had nothing to do with it was the one that got hurt," he said. "Hopefully by doing this, it can help him out."

The southbound lanes of the 14 Freeway were reopened by 6:33 a.m.

A U.S. Border Patrol Agent pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in federal court Thursday, admitting to smuggling drugs in exchange for cash while on duty.

Noe Lopez, 37, of Chula Vista, said he accepted cash bribes to transport methamphetamine and cocaine. He pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted distribution of drugs before U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw, according to the U.S Attorney's office.

"While there are a relatively small number of them, corrupt Border Patrol agents are a national security threat, and for that reason they are a very high prosecutorial priority," said Acting U.S. Attorney Alana W. Robinson, in a statement.

Lopez said he agreed to transport backpacks containing six pounds of methamphetamine while on duty and deliver them to a source in exchange for thousands of dollars on Dec. 6, 2016. 

He told the source where to place the backpack containing the drugs on the north side of the U.S.-Mexico border, confirmed the U.S. Attorney's office.

Undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) placed a backpack with fake drugs near the planned location. Once Lopez picked up the backpack, he returned to the Border Patrol station and placed it in his personal car.

After he finished his shift, Lopez went to a parking lot in Chula Vista and gave the source the backpack containing what he believed to be six pounds of methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

The source paid Lopez $3,000 for retrieving and delivering the fake drugs.

This situation was repeated on Dec. 8 with another backpack containing seven pounds of fake cocaine placed by the undercover DEA agents. On Dec. 9, Lopez was paid $7,000 for retrieving and delivering the bag of fake cocaine.

"We do not tolerate corruption within our ranks, and are grateful to the hard work of the Border Corruption Task Force and other agencies that rooted out Mr. Lopez’ atrocious behavior," said Chief Patrol Agent Richard A. Barlow of San Diego Sector Border Patrol in a statement.

“The U.S. Border Patrol stresses honor and integrity in every aspect of our mission; Honor First is our Motto,” added Barlow.

FBI Special Agent in Charge, Eric S. Birnbaum, said the FBI is doing everything they can to stop corrupt Border Agents in San Diego from besmirching the work of public servants.

"This type of corruption at our San Diego borders strikes at the heart of government and erodes public confidence, therefore, the investigation of public corruption is one of [the] FBI’s top criminal priorities," said Birnbaum, in a statement.

Lopez faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $10 million fine.

A Facebook page for active and retired military servicemen around Camp Pendleton has raised red flags over its lewd and inappropriate comments.

The page dubbed "Mendleton" has more than 37,000 followers. There are numerous disturbing comments that includes mocking a disabled woman and making sexually explicit comments about a 14-year-old girl.

Under new guidelines, a marine who posts defamatory, discriminatory or threatening content can be punished by military court.

One woman, Nikita Mitchell, told NBC 7 that her father served in the military for 20 years. She came across the page a couple of days ago when a friend shared it online.

"I was angry, I was disgusted," said Mitchell. "It was very hard to read and it makes me want to cry just thinking about it again."

There are comments about a minor with sexually suggestive remarks like, "I can't wait until she starts doing porn."

"If you're going to make comments like that about children, it says a lot about where your moral compass is," said Mitchell.

In light of the "Marines United" Facebook page that shook the U.S. Marine Corps and caused a huge scandal, this new Facebook page directed at Camp Pendleton is getting a lot of attention.

"They feel like, it's okay if people know that they said these disgusting, heinous things because they are not going to get in trouble for them," said Mitchell.

Back in March, an investigation was launched into a Facebook group that Marines were using to share nude photographs of their female colleagues. Since then, the Marine Corps has updated its social media guidelines in an effort to crackdown down on service members guilty of online misconduct.

Some social media users have spoken out about the lewd comments on "Mendleton," but Mitchell says it's clearly not enough.

"That needs to be addressed. It needs to be talked about and worked on and fixed," said Mitchell.

NBC 7 reached out to Camp Pendleton for comment but has not yet heard back. When the "United Marines" social media scandal become a national controversy, the highest levels of the Marine Corps publicly condemned the behavior.

A man turned himself in at the Vista Detention Facility Thursday in connection with a homicide investigation in Pauma Valley.

Omar Placencia, 20, was accompanied by his attorney when he turned himself, San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSO) said.

He was arrested and booked into jail on a single count of murder.

Raymond Esparza, 31, was shot and killed in front of some small businesses on the 17000 block of State Route 76 just after 9:30 p.m. Friday in Pauma Valley. 

Deputies arrived at the scene and discovered Esparza suffering from gunshot wounds, lying in the parking lot in front of a mini-mart and restaurant. 

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Homicide Detail at (858)974-2321/after hours at (858)565-5200. You can also remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at (888)580-8477.

A 54-year-old woman was killed after being struck by a truck while crossing a road in Oceanside Thursday night.

According to the Oceanside Police Department, the incident occurred at 8:37 p.m. on Mission Avenue and Airport Road.

The woman was walking in a crosswalk on Misson Avenue when she was struck by a tow truck hauling a car.

The truck had been driving westbound on Mission Avenue and had a green light at the intersection when the collision happened, police said.

Despite life-saving measures, the woman was declared dead at the scene.

Police said the driver cooperated with officers. At this time, alcohol or speed do not appear to be a factor in the crash.

An advisory was sent out to drivers to avoid westbound Mission Avenue to Airport Road during the investigation.

No other information was available.

Please refresh this page for updates on this story. Details may change as more information becomes available.

John Podesta will answer questions next week in a closed session from the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating the Russian meddling in last year's election, NBC News reported.

Podesta was Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign manager. The committee will likely focus on the emails from his Gmail account published by WikiLeaks during the closing months of the campaign. 

That time period is a key part of the hacking attack that U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was carried out by Russians.

A college student from Ireland is fighting for his life after he was severely beaten and found unconscious in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego, San Diego police (SDPD) confirmed.

Evan White, University College Cork student, was found in an alley between Law and Chalcedony streets early morning last Friday.

White had been out in Pacific Beach, celebrating his 21st birthday with friends prior to the incident, SDPD said.

Bryan Goldfinger told NBC 7, White was found in the alley in front of his apartment. Goldfinger said only his girlfriend was home at the time police said the incident happened.

"She said she went to bed at 2:30 in the morning after work and was up at seven. She didn't hear anything," Goldfinger said.

Police said at this point, investigators have little to no information or any witnesses.

“The only thing I could think of is, if something had happened elsewhere and then the person was walking this way and either fell or collapsed here,” Goldfinger said.

White is in a critical condition and remains in a medically-induced coma at a local hospital, police said.

The incident is making headlines in Ireland, where many of the reports are describing him as a quiet and shy person.

"It’s scary obviously. We don't like to hear something like that happening in our neighborhood," Goldfinger said.

SDPD is asking anyone who may have information about the incident to contact them.

County and school officials confirmed Thursday the water at Clover Flat Elementary in Boulevard is contaminated with E. coli, in response to questions posed by NBC 7 Investigates.

Parents were very concerned.

Father Jacari Cousins feared the worst, asking his doctor to test if his young son's recent stomach illness may have been related to the contamination in the water.

"For the last five days, he just has not eaten. He has not been able to keep down water. The doctor gave him two popsicles yesterday. He didn't want them," Cousins said.

Five-year-old Jeremiah began violent stomach-flu like symptoms on Friday night. He was hospitalized twice with high fevers, and today doctors discovered blood in his urine.

His parents have been alarmed.

"We were notified by the school Tuesday that the water was contaminated with E. coli," Cousins said.

The family is awaiting test results on whether the school's tainted water caused their son's illness.

The Assistant Superintendent for the Mountain Empire School District said officials are not aware of any illnesses caused by the E. coli, but the district is very concerned. Tests were conducted on June 16--the day school let out for the summer break.

A county spokeswoman said a Boil Water order is in effect in Boulevard. 

The district and county officials said they were working together to fix the problem.

The contaminated water in Boulevard highlights a larger issue facing water officials and residents across the state.

Families living in the most rural parts of the county have been more heavily impacted by the drought--not just by water shortages, but also by increased exposure to carcinogenic water contamination. Often, they are also in communities too isolated for officials to help with current water infrastructure.

"The impacts of the drought were more widespread than people realize," said Laura Feinstein of the Pacific Institute, an Oakland-based think tank focused on advancing solutions to water challenges. "We found that the majority of those drought impacted public water systems were serving disadvantaged communities."

Five years ago, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation making California the first state in the nation to declare access to clean safe drinking water a fundamental human right.

But NBC 7 Investigates' months-long investigation has found that is a broken promise to more than 18,000 school children, and 3,000 San Diegans living in poorer, rural communities like Boulevard, Potrero and Borrego Springs.

NBC 7 Investigates has been at the forefront of examining the water quality in public. We have uncovered arsenic, toxic levels of lead, bacteria, and copper all coming from school drinking fountains.

Most of the coverage can be found on our "Safe to Drink" page.

NBC 4 New York senior correspondent Gabe Pressman, a New York icon and pioneering reporter whose local broadcast career spanned more than six decades, has died at the age of 93. 

Credited with being the first television reporter in New York, Pressman has called NBC 4 New York home for more than half a century. He is survived by his wife, four children and eight grandchildren.

"This is an incredibly sad day for the WNBC family. Gabe Pressman was a television icon who served our viewers for more than 50 years," Eric Lerner, WNBC president and general manager, said in a statement. "He was truly one of a kind and represented the very best in television news reporting. Gabe was still coming to work and thinking about the next story. He was a treasured colleague and friend to all of us and he will be missed. We extend our deepest condolences to the Pressman family during this difficult time."

New Yorkers embraced Pressman over his 60-plus years on television, and the public outpouring of memories and condolences was immediate and heartfelt. Mayor de Blasio tweeted condolences, calling Pressman "a New York City treasure" who mentored "countless reporters." 

During his time with NBC 4 New York, Pressman compiled a peerless record of investigative reporting in politics and social issues. Having invented the craft of street reporting, Pressman is recognized by the viewing audience, political and community leaders, and his NBC colleagues, as one of New York's most respected journalists. Pressman's reports, interviews, commentaries and hard news stories are featured during various newscasts on the station. 

In 1947, upon graduating from the Columbia School of Journalism, Pressman worked briefly as a reporter for the Newark Evening News. He was then awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship from Columbia, which enabled him to travel throughout Europe for 15 months and to freelance feature stories for the Overseas News Agency. 

While in Hungary, he covered the famous trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty for The New York Times and for Edward R. Murrow's radio news program. The trial marked the first time that a Primate of the Roman Catholic Church had been tried for treason in modern times.

In 1949, Pressman joined the staff of the New York World Telegram and Sun as a City Hall reporter. During his years at the paper, he covered the administrations of William O'Dwyer, Vincent Impellitteri, and Robert Wagner. 

He covered major stories including the sinking of the Andrea Doria and the Weinberger kidnapping on Long Island. During that year, Pressman also anchored WRCA-TV's "The Shell Oil News," a five-minute local evening newscast in which he provided the metropolitan area's first major television news reporting. 

The program subsequently expanded to a 10-minute format when Bill Ryan and Ray Owen were added as reporters. As a reaction to the great newspaper strike of 1963, the station expanded to a full half-hour evening newscast titled "The Pressman-Ryan Report." 

Amid the tumult of the late 60s, Pressman covered major stories like the New York City blackout, the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968, civil strife in Newark and New York, the mayoral campaigns for Abraham Beame, William F. Buckley, John Lindsay, and the entrance of Robert F. Kennedy into New York politics.

In July 1972, Pressman moved to WNEW-TV (now WNYW-TV) as a general assignment reporter. During his eight years there he wrote and hosted many specials and series, including "The War On Cancer" (an investigation of the activities of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society focusing on the politics of cancer), and "The Mood of America" (a report on the 1976 presidential election). 

Since rejoining NBC 4 New York in 1980, Pressman has been responsible for numerous award-winning programs and multi-part series including: The Homeless: Shame Of A City; The Hungry; Asylum In The Streets; To Bear Witness (a half-hour special on the gathering of holocaust survivors in Jerusalem in the summer of 1981); A Crisis Of Conscience (chronicled the 1982 turmoil within Israel over the massacre in the Lebanese refugee camps); the 1985 Democratic Presidential Primary Debate; Ask The Governors (an open forum with Cuomo, Kean and O'Neill telecast live in July 1983); the New Jersey and Long Island Town Meetings; multiple overseas reports from Israel; and timely coverage of key political issues on "News Forum." 

Pressman was a combat naval officer in WWII and served as a communications officer on the submarine chaser "PC 470" in the South Pacific, which participated in two invasions of the Philippines. After the war, he was a public relations officer under Admiral John Towers, Commander-In-Chief of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

Pressman has won many major awards throughout his career including: 11 Emmy Awards; the 1989 Edward R. Murrow Award; the New York Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 1986 Governors' Award; a 1985 Olive Award for Excellence in Broadcasting; a Peabody Award in 1984 for “Asylum In The Streets”; a Unity award from Lincoln University in 1981 for "Blacks And The Mayor: How Far Apart?"; the New York Press Club's Feature Award for "The Homeless" in 1982; the UPI New York State Broadcasters' Award for Best Feature News Story "The Homeless" in 1982; the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for Excellence in Individual Reporting in 1982; the New York Chapter Of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi's Deadline Club Award for "The Hungry" in 1983; and two New York area Emmy Awards in 1983 for "The Homeless." 

Born in the Bronx, Pressman attended Morris High School, worked as a cub reporter for the Peekskill Evening Star during summer vacations, and graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Government.