Facebook's Instagram announced a new 15-second video capability with editing features called "Cinema."

At a news conference at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park on Thursday, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom unveiled the new feature, promising it would still adhere to his company's three goals of  "speed, simplicity and beauty."

The videos will be 15-seconds, and appear to be very similar to Twitter's Vine app, just a little more than twice as long.

Instagram has 100 million users, up from 20 million when Facebook bought the company more than a year ago. Vine, which launched in January, has 13 million users.

RAW VIDEO: Introducing Instagram Video Sharing

The big draws? There's a "delete" button to allow for editing, a function that Vine doesn't have, and there is a way to stabilize the video with the iPhone to prevent shaky camera syndrome. There are also 13 custom filters, so that users can add contrast or different hues and a cover frame.

For now, it's available only for Apple's iOS.

"Our mission is to capture and share the world's moments," Systrom said, adding that 16 billion photos have been shared in the last 2 1/2 years.

At first, Systrom said his company didn't focus on video because Instagram wanted to keep true to its core of  "speed, simplicity and beauty." But now, he said, the company has achieved all that with video, he said.

Facebook bought Instagram last year for $1 billion.

"We're really just getting started here, with this product, " said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who kicked off the event.

The "Cinema" announcement comes after another recent Facebook rollout, when the company unveiled a  new hashtag feature on June 12.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 See example of Instagram video by @trevortraynor

David Beckham may be retired, but the soccer star still makes quite an impact on his Chinese fans.

Seven people were injured during Beckham's visit to Tongji University in northeastern Shanghai on Thursday, Business Insider reported.

According to the Xinmin Evening News, 1,000 fans and spectators stampeded past gates, police and guards in order to see Beckham.

Three police officers, two university security guards and two students, including a Japanese exchange student, were injured with cuts and bruises, according to reports.

Beckham had visited the Chinese university as an ambassador to the Chinese Super League, an organization for professional football in China. He was expected to visit the university's soccer team, but canceled the event after the stampede, Business Insider said.

"I had an incredible response from everyone at Shanghai Tongji University today. Sorry I couldn't get out on the pitch to see the teams. It was impossible to get through the massive crowds," Beckham said on his account on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter. 
 

Firefighters extinguished a small brush fire in El Cajon on Thursday, according to officials.

The incident happened after 11 a.m. near westbound Interstate 8 and Main Street.

No structures were threatened.

A man was shot in the face near a National City gas station Wednesday night, police confirmed.

Officials say shots were fired just after 9 p.m. in the 1600 block of East Plaza Boulevard. A 22-year-old victim sustained non-life threatening facial wounds in the shooting and stumbled to a nearby gas station.

Medics were called to the scene to treat the victim, who was then taken to a local trauma center.

Police say a shooting suspect was last seen leaving the gas station on foot. Officers on the ground searched the area for the suspect while a San Diego Police Department helicopter assisted in an aerial search.

The motive for the shooting is unknown and police are still looking for him.

Law enforcement agencies are seeking a group of suspects wanted for violently fighting in Imperial Beach last month.

The incident happened May 27 around 2 a.m. an 18-year-old man and his two friends were challenged to a fight by a group of people near Imperial Beach Pier after the group spent time socializing and drinking beer. One of the men was violently kicked and punched until he lost consciousness. Suspects also took his cell phone and wallet before leaving the scene.

The victim was found unconscious and was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for his injuries. Officials said he will need to have several surgeries.

The suspect’s identities are still unknown, though they are described as a group of men in their early 20s. Officials are calling this a felony battery incident.

Anyone with information on the identity or location of the suspects should call San Diego County Sheriff’s Department’s Imperial Beach station at 619-498-2400 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at 888-580-8477.

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepts a panga boat loaded with marijuana on Tuesday morning, according to officials.

The Coast Guard starting tracking it more than 100 miles southwest of San Diego and when it found the boat, they discovered three suspected smugglers throwing fuel barrels overboard.

Roughly 250 bales of pot, weight 10-40 pounds apiece, were also discovered on the panga boat.

Officials said the suspects claimed to be Mexican nationals. The suspects, drugs and the boat were turned over to Mexican navy.

Police are searching for an unknown suspect who allegedly carjacked and stabbed a 48-year-old victim in front of a Logan Heights library on Jun. 7, the San Diego Police Department said.

Police say the victim was sitting inside his parked car in front of a Logan Heights library in the 500 block of South 28th Street just before 2:30 p.m. when a man armed with a knife walked up and told the victim to get out of the car.

The victim exited his car over the passenger’s seat and the suspect stabbed the victim in the leg, police said. The victim was then able to get away and call police. He was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.

The suspect started the victim’s car and an unknown woman got into the vehicle with him. The pair drove away on Ocean View Drive, police said.

According to authorities, the suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his late 20s to early 30s, 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds. He was wearing a black tank top and light blue faded jeans.

On Thursday, nearly two weeks after the incident, police released a photo of the carjacking and stabbing suspect caught on surveillance video near the library.

Police say the suspect and the victim’s car are still outstanding. The stolen car is a black, four-door, 1994 Honda Accord with the California license plate 3GEC280.

Anyone with information on the identity or whereabouts of the suspect is asked to contact the SDPD Robbery Unit at (619) 531-2299 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477. Tipsters can remain anonymous and could receive up to a $1,000 reward for information that leads to arrest in this case.

A vaccine against a sexually spread cervical cancer virus cut infections in teen girls by half, according to the first study to measure the shot's impact since it came on the market seven years ago.

For girls ages 14 to 19, the study found a 56 per cent reduction in the types of HPV virus targeted by the shots. Vaccination campaigns focus on girls ages 11 and 12.

The research released Wednesday echoes studies done before the HPV vaccine became available in 2006. But the new study is the first evidence of just how well it works now that it is in general use.

About half of teen girls in the U.S. have received at least one dose of the expensive vaccine. A third of teen girls have had all three shots, according to the latest government figures.

Link: More Information About HPV From CDC

“These are striking results and I think they should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cervical cancer is caused by certain types of the common sexually transmitted virus called HPV, for human papillomavirus. The vaccine protects against a few of those strains, including two blamed for 70 percent of cervical cancers.

The vaccine costs about $130 per dose and requires three shots over 6 months. The shots work best if given before someone is sexually active so the emphasis has been on giving the shots to 11- and 12-year olds.

The CDC study compared infection rates in girls ages 14 to 19 before and after the vaccine became available. The proportion infected with the targeted HPV strains dropped 56 percent, from about 12 percent before the vaccine was sold to 5 percent. That result was for all teens after it was on the market, whether or not they were vaccinated.

Among girls who had received the vaccine, the drop in HPV infections was higher – 88 percent.

An estimated 75 to 80 percent of men and women are infected with HPV during their lifetime. Most don't develop symptoms and clear it on their own. But some infections lead to genital warts, cervical cancer and other cancers.

The study didn't look at cervical cancer rates. It can take many years for such cancers to develop, and not enough time has passed to know the vaccine's impact on cancer rates, CDC officials said.

There are two vaccines against HPV, but the study mainly reflects the impact of Gardasil, the Merck & Co. vaccine that came on the market in 2006. A second vaccine approved in 2009 – GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix – probably had relatively little bearing on the results, said the CDC's Dr. Lauri Markowitz, the study's lead author.

Both vaccines are approved for use in males and females – in ages 9 to 26 for females, and 9 to 21 in males. The vaccine was only recommended for boys in late 2011, and the CDC has not yet reported data on how many boys have received the shot since then.

The study involved interviews and physical examinations of nearly 1,400 teen girls in 2003 through 2006 and of 740 girls in 2007 through 2010.

The vaccine's impact was seen even though only 34 percent of the teens in the second group had received any vaccine. That could be due to “herd immunity” – when a population is protected from an infection because a large or important smaller group is immune.

Only about 20 percent of those vaccinated received all three doses, a finding that likely will feed an ongoing discussion about whether all three doses are necessary, Markowitz said.

Overall, the study found no significant change over time in the proportion of teens who'd ever had sex and in those who had multiple sex partners. However, it did find that a higher percentage of vaccinated teens said they'd had three or more sex partners.

That could have driven down infection rates, Markowitz noted, if the vaccinated teens were the ones at highest risk of getting an infection and spreading it.

The research was released online Wednesday by the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Someone’s about to be rich: A San Diego Powerball ticket worth nearly $1 million was purchased in La Mesa this week.

The lucky lottery player bought the Powerball ticket at Excalibur Liquor on 5575 Baltimore Dr. Five of the six Powerball numbers were matched, making the ticket worth $943,604.

The ticket sold had numbers 7-46-47-52-57, but failed to get Mega number 17 for the jackpot.

Since no one got the complete winning combination, this month’s jackpot is estimated to grow up to $127 million for Saturday night.

The winner has 180 days from the date of the draw to claim prizes. For more information, visit the California Lottery website.
 

Five people were rescued Thursday from a small boat that began taking on water in the San Diego Bay just south of the Coronado Bay Bridge, officials said.

U.S. Coast Guard officials received a call from the vessel in distress around 3:30 p.m. and sent crews to the scene.

Officials say all five people aboard the boat were rescued safely, and no one was injured. It is unclear what caused the boat to take on water.

Coast Guard crews stayed at the scene while a tow was arranged for the vessel.
 

Three former Marines found guilty by a jury of torturing and killing a fellow Marine and his wife in a 2008 execution-style slaying in Southern California were sentenced Thursday.

Former Lance Cpl. Emrys John, 23, and former Lance Cpl. Tyron Miller, 25, were each sentenced to the death penalty. Former private Kevin Cox, 25, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Their sentences were read at the Hall of Justice in Riverside, Calif.

The sentences are linked to the murders of newlyweds Marine Sgt. Jan Pietrzak and his wife Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak. The couple was found gagged, tied and shot in the head in their Riverside County home in October 2008.

Sgt. Pietrzak, a helicopter airframe mechanic at MCAS Miramar near San Diego, was found bloody and beaten. His wife's body was discovered naked. Officials say she had been sexually assaulted.

On June 5, two separate juries convicted Cox, John and Miller of murder. John was convicted of pulling the trigger. Miller was found guilty of murder and sexually-assaulting Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak.

A fourth suspect, former Lance Cpl. Kesaun Sykes of Fallbrook, had his case severed and is awaiting trial. Sykes was known as "Psycho" by fellow Marines. He's set to be tried sometime later this summer.

Earlier this month, prosecutors said robbery was the motive for the crime. Jewelry, including the couple's wedding rings, and Pietrzak's dress uniform were found at the suspects' homes, authorities said.

Racial slurs were spray-painted in the house, and fires had been set in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence.

All three men worked with Sgt. Pietrzak at one time while stationed at Camp Pendleton.

"He was not the actual killer, he was not in my opinion a major participant obviously the jury disagreed with that assessment," Cox's attorney Ryan Markson said on June 5.

At that time, Markson hoped jurors would consider Cox's rank at the time of the murders when deliberating his punishment.

"Because it was three armed Marines, two of whom outranked him and telling him we need to knock on these people's door," he said.

Pietrzak, 24, who was born in Poland and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., joined the Marines in 2003 and served in Iraq from July 2005 to February 2006.

Relatives of the victims said Quiana, 26, was from San Bernardino and a 2005 graduate of San Diego State University.

The couple met in San Diego through a mutual friend who also attended SDSU. Jenkins-Pietrzak was studying to become a doctor. Pietrzak served in Iraq and returned to San Diego in 2006.

Attorneys for all three defendants have already asked for a new trial.

At a time when California's courts are becoming swamped with criminal and civil cases, the legal system's ability to handle the overload seems to be slipping away.

"This isn't just a lawyer issue,” says attorney Jon R. Williams, president-elect of the San Diego County Bar Assn. “This is an issue that affects public safety. It affects businesses, and it affects families. It's an issue that everybody should be concerned with."

Williams was the lead author of a just-released SDCBA study titled “State of the Judiciary in San Diego County” that reaffirms the notion that “justice delayed is justice denied”.

Some takeaways from the report?

The legal system is in deep distress.

When people talk about getting “their day in court”, they probably should reduce their expectations, if not sense of entitlement -- especially on the civil side of the ledger.

On the criminal side, the legal deadlines are harder and faster.

But even that's slowing down.

Over the past five years, California's judicial system has endured $1.2 billion in state budget cuts – representing a 30 percent reduction in former levels of personnel and resources.

Courthouse and courtroom closings and layoffs have tripled the volume of caseloads handled by the remaining judges and staff.

Docket timelines are being extended by several months, often many more.

So anyone involved in a criminal case, or civil cases ranging from so-called 'torts' to foreclosures, divorces, and estate disputes is likely to see fewer judges and clerks, and wait out growing delays in trials, verdicts, rulings and appeals up ‘the judicial ladder'.

"The last thing that we want is for the public to be affected,” says Robert J. Trentacosta, presiding judge of San Diego’s Superior Court.

But Trentacosta, in an interview Thursday, said that’s just what’s happening – and it’s bad for the economy.

"If business in California cannot rely on the courts to enforce agreements,” Trentacosta warns, “businesses are going to go elsewhere."

Williams is concerned about a wave of social dysfunction, as cases involving divorce, child custody and support, and foreclosures keep festering.

"If there isn't a mechanism of addressing these issues in the Family Law setting in particular,” Williams said in an interview Thursday, “you're going to see an increase in domestic violence. So these folks are going to be in court on the criminal side. And it just puts a further burden on the system."

Without significant new funding, Trentacosta sees the caseload crisis getting worse before it gets better.

"Despite the best efforts of our judges, the best efforts of our clerks, there simply aren't enough people to do the work that comes through the door,” he said. "We serve everyone, whether they're rich or poor or everybody in between … as difficult as it is on our staff, it is even worse for the public. And that is just sad."

Now, for a change, the courts are in line for budget boost -- $60 million – in legislation now on Gov. Brown’s desk that would take effect for the fiscal year starting July 1st.

But Trentacosta and Williams point out that’s not much, in the larger scheme of things.

Less than $2 million is earmarked for San Diego County.

Expectations are, it will take many years to right the judicial ship.

At the risk of ‘talking inside baseball’, the legal community offers this added perspective:

All the people served by the courts don't recognize themselves as a constituency, and thus don't rise up to lobby or protest like other 'special interests'.

And, the judicial branch of government doesn't have fundraising powers.

“We have been cut disproportionately”, says Trentacosta, noting that the courts account for only 2 percent of the state’s budget.

“The judiciary has been cut – and the natural consequence is that society suffers.”

Three transients were charged Thursday in the murder of a woman who prosecutors say was stabbed to death near a busy Hollywood intersection because she refused to give them $1 after taking their picture.

Prosecutors charged Dustin James Kinnear, 26, with one count of murder with personal use of a knife, while 33-year-old Jason Wolstone and 34-year-old Brian Joseph Widdows each received charges of accessory after the fact.

The victim, identified Wednesday as 23-year-old Lynwood, Calif., resident Christine Calderon, was attacked about 8 p.m. Tuesday after she and a friend took pictures of the three panhandlers holding signs near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Calderon, pictured below, was stabbed in the torso after she and the men began to argue because she refused to give them money, police said. She died later that night during surgery at a hospital.

However, the victim’s mother, Yolanda Tassin, said she believes Calderon was targeted because of her appearance and sexual orientation.

“I believe Christine lost her life because of that, because she was gay,” Tassin said.

The LAPD said it is not investigating the incident as a hate crime.

“There is no evidence outside of the murder that it was motivated by any hate,” LAPD Sgt. Rudy Lopez said.

Tassin said Calderon had recently enrolled in college and hoped to one day become an engineer and a mother. She was getting her life back on track after a rough couple of years.

“As a matter of fact, Christine told me at one time, at her lowest, she was panhandling,” Tassin said.

The men were set to be arraigned Friday morning.

One person has died after a car collided into a fire truck in Poway Thursday morning, according to officials.

The incident happened shortly after 5 a.m. on Poway Road and Midland Road. The driver, 44-year-old Robbie Gillespie, struck the fire truck with his Honda Accord as officials were responding to a call on Garden Road.

A female passenger, now identified by the county medical examiner's office as 19-year-old Poway resident Evelyn Jean Courtney, was found dead inside the car at the scene.

Gillespie was temporarily trapped then later freed by crews at the scene. He has since been taken to a nearby trauma center.

The sheriff's department said a broken alcohol bottle was found inside the car. Officials are investigating the possibility of drugs or alcohol involved.

Three Poway paramedics and firefighters were inside the truck when the car collided with them. None of them were injured. Firefighters said their overhead emergency lights were activated at the time of the crash.

The intersection of Poway Road and Midland Road was closed during the morning while officials cleared the area.

The City of Poway released the following statement Thursday:

"The City of Poway would like to express its prayers and deepest sympathy to those involved in this accident and to their families. The Poway Fire Department is cooperating with law enforcement professionals while they conduct a comprehensive investigation of this accident."

A 15-month-old boy fell out of a window at an apartment in Linda Vista Thursday, officials confirmed.

The incident happened around 12:20 p.m. at 6675 Linda Vista Rd.

San Diego Police Department Sgt. Nick Borrelli said the infant had fallen from an apartment window onto some concrete stairs outside, but was responsive, breathing and crying when emergency crews arrived.

Sgt. Borrelli said the the window did not have a screen on it and was wide open. Investigators believe the child wandered behind or on top of a sofa positioned near the window. Once the child got closer to the window, he tumbled out of it and onto the concrete stairs below.

The boy's father called police to report the incident. The baby sustained a bloody mouth and was transported to Rady Children's Hospital for an evaluation. Sgt. Borrelli said the baby lost a tooth in the fall, but appeared to be okay.

Details surrounding the fall were not immediately available. Check back for updates on this developing story.

John Byrne is district administrator for the Valley Center Fire Protection district. On Thursday night, his wardrobe probably won’t endear himself to frustrated residents. He’ll be wearing a shirt that says “Happiness is Positive Cash Flow.”

Byrne has championed a controversial plan he says will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it will also reduce the role of Cal Fire in one of the county’s most fire prone areas. The plan, which is expected to be approved Thursday night, will mean big changes at Fire Station 73 in Valley Center.

The station is currently manned by Cal Fire. But under the proposal, the station will be taken over by the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians Fire Department.

Residents have expressed concern that fire protection services will be compromised. They also feel they’ve been provided little information. They voiced strong opposition when the issue was put up for vote in May.

“I’m very sadly disappointed in the board that we elected that they have kept this information from us. We put our trust in the people we elect, our officials and I think they’ve really let us down,” said Lori Roach, who lost a daughter in the 2003 Paradise Fire.

The vote was postponed until June 20, but Byrne says nothing has changed and the board plans to move forward with the change. But the union representative for Cal Fire insists it’s a bad decision.

“You’re looking at one paid guy and three reserves that are basically rookies on the engine. Every day,” said Randy Scales, who admits he’s also looking to protect the 11 Cal Fire jobs that would be eliminated.

And while Byrne says his agency will save up to $1.4 million with the change, Scales says the money figures are misleading.

“Mr. Byrne is being very deceitful on what information is actually being portrayed out there and what the dollar figures are,” said Scales.

Byrnes insists his numbers are a “100 percent objectively determinable fact.”

“If he wants to label it as deceit, he’s welcome to call it whatever he wants,” said Byrnes.

Some residents have voiced concerns that their homeowner’s insurance plans could change or be cancelled. Byrnes was blunt when asked about that possibility.

“It’s a bogus issue. It’s a non-issue because fire station locations haven’t changed, topography hasn’t changed, water delivery capability hasn’t changed. Nothing’s changed,” he added.

One resident showed up to Thursday's meeting with a petition in hand asking the Valley Center Fire Protection District for a one year extension of the current contract with Cal Fire.

The resident told NBC 7 he anticipates that the petition will be rejected. If so, the resident said he will start a new petition to recall all of the board members, who are elected officials.
 

A judge has set bail at $1 million for a parolee who sparked a statewide Amber Alert on Tuesday after driving away from Valley Center with his 5-month-old son.

Kenneth Welch, 42, is accused of allegedly trying to run over his girlfriend and the mother of his son with his black Toyota pickup truck and then taking off with the infant.

Authorities issued an Amber Alert immediately after Welch took the baby, and he was captured and detained a short time later near Mar Vista Drive in Vista. Deputies found his truck parked in the area first, and then located Welch about a block away from the vehicle.

Deputies said the baby was also found safely, but officials did not release details about where, exactly, they located the child. The baby's mother sustained several injuries, but is expected to recover.

Deputies said Welch is a high-risk parolee who has served time in prison. Officials believed he was armed, dangerous and under the influence of methamphetamine when he took off with the infant on Tuesday.

On Thursday, Welch appeared in court for his arraignment. He faces multiple charges including violation of parole, attempted murder, child cruelty and evading police.

According to Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe, Welch and his girlfriend got into an argument that escalated into a physical fight in the car on Tuesday.

Watanabe said Welch began grabbing the victim’s hair, pushed her head down into the center console and then struck the victim in the face and head with a weighted sap -- a small, weighted device sometimes used by law enforcement.

The deputy DA said Welch allegedly threatened to kill the victim numerous times during the attack.

Eventually, the victim got out of the car and walked down the road. Watanabe said that’s when Welch drove his truck towards the victim, and she jumped out of the way. Welch then fled the scene.

Watanabe said the baby boy was later found safely by deputies at Welch’s sister’s house. Further details about how the infant got there were not released, as the investigation is pending.

The deputy DA said Welch had allegedly attacked his girlfriend on numerous occasions, but she had never reported the abuse to authorities before Tuesday.

Watanabe said Welch has three prior strikes on his criminal record dating back a number of years including robbery, intimidating a witness and assault with a deadly weapon.

Due to his criminal history, Watanabe said the parolee faces at least 25 years to life if convicted of these recent charges.

Welch entered a not guilty plea Thursday. He’s due back in court on Jun. 28 for a readiness hearing and then again on Jul. 2 for a preliminary hearing.

An off-duty San Diego police detective who lost part of his leg after an accident in Alpine was released from the hospital on Thursday, police confirmed.

On Sunday, Detective James "Chappie" Hunter's motorcycle collided with a white sedan in the 2100 block of Alpine Boulevard.

The detective was hospitalized. Besides having his left leg amputated below the knee, he was also treated for a broken arm and internal injuries, according to officials.

The car made a right turn and clipped the detective’s motorcycle, according to witness Ryan Parker.

“We were just coming back from dinner and we rolled up and we saw the guy lying on the ground,” Parker said.

Parker said he could tell immediately the rider’s leg was seriously injured.

“His leg was completely in a wrong, you know, different spot than he was. It didn’t look very good at all."

Mercy Air flew Hunter to Sharp Memorial Hospital.

Hunter is a 19-year veteran of the San Diego Police Department who works on the Human Trafficking Task Force, according to officials.

The detective was “alert and thinking positive about the future,” said SDPD Sex Crimes Unit Lt. Chuck Kaye, who works closely with Hunter.

Kaye described Hunter as "a big Cross Fit guy" who is in excellent shape. He added that will help Hunter in his recovery.

San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne and three police captains visited Hunter in the hospital Monday. Lansdowne said he was in good spirits.

Despite some media reports that identified the driver as an unlicensed 15-year-old girl, CHP officers said the driver was 17 and has a valid permit. The driver was with her mother at the time of the crash.

California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Pearlstein said the collision is under investigation. After the investigation, officers will determine if charges will be filed, he said. 

Meanwhile, the San Diego Police Officers Association (SDPOA) has set up a fund to help Hunter, his wife and young son. Checks should be made payable to SDPOA with “Detective Chappie Hunter” in the memo line. They can be sent to:

San Diego Police Officers Association
Widows and Orphans Fund
8388 Vickers Street
San Diego, CA 92111

You can also contact the SDPOA office at 858-573-1199.

The owners and employees of a local diving school and charter boat company are being accused of negligence and wrongful death in a December 2012 diving accident that killed a woman off the San Diego coast.

Staci Jackson, 26, was a Camp Pendleton Marine who loved diving in her spare time. But a deep sea adventure near Mission Beach took her life on December 1, 2012.

On that day, Jackson and four other divers were exploring the HMCS Yukon shipwreck, the site of a sunken military ship, two miles west of Mission Beach.

The ocean wreckage is a wonderland of nooks and crannies for experienced divers. However, it’s also a dangerous deep-sea playground.

Jackson went missing during the dive and failed to surface. Hours later, lifeguard officials found her body in the water, in a crevice of the Yukon shipwreck diving site.

Now, more than six months after Jackson’s death, her mother has filed a lawsuit against the diving company. She says the organizers of the dive trip share the blame for her daughter’s death.

The Jackson family’s attorney, Jim Frantz, says an ocean surge pushed Jackson into her dive partner, or into the hull of the Yukon, and knocked her unconscious. Frantz says the surf was high that day, and conditions for the dive were dangerous.

“That dive never should have taken place," says attorney Jim Frantz.

Frantz says the dive boat operator and diving instructors should have called off the dive because the surf and swells were much too big for a safe dive.

“Seven to 12 foot surf,” Frantz told NBC 7. “Extremely heavy surge. Extremely hazardous. Two other boating companies refused to go out, it was too dangerous. And this was a novice diver that they took down to the bottom."

Veteran diver Neal Matthews agrees that diving around the Yukon can be very dangerous.

The Navy-trained underwater expert helped establish the Yukon shipwreck as a destination point for diving adventures 13 years ago.

But Matthews himself told NBC 7, “I dove it twice and after the second dive, I said ‘never again’."

He's not surprised that at least three other divers never returned alive from the Yukon, and says even veteran divers can underestimate the dangers inside that rusted hull, especially in rough ocean waters.

"The surge rushes into those holes and causes all kinds of swirling and strange currents,” Matthews says. “On a bad day, you can really get slammed up against a bulk head."

A representative from Oceanside SCUBA and Swim Center, which, according to the lawsuit, organized Jackson’s diving trip, declined to comment about Frantz’s allegations and the negligence lawsuit.

Meanwhile, Ryan Wilbarger – the Captain of the dive boat “Humboldt” involved in this fatal diving accident -- insists that he and his company did absolutely nothing wrong that day.

Wilbarger says he warned Jackson and the other divers to surface immediately if the waters were unsafe.

Wilbarger says December 1, 2012, was “not a bad day” for diving, and says Jackson’s fellow Marines personally thanked him for his efforts to recover Jackson’s body.

He says the allegations in the negligence lawsuit are “absolutely asinine” and, in his words, “a complete fabrication.”

Wilbarger says the lawsuit is nothing more than a financial “shakedown” that will damage San Diego’s diving industry.
 

This is not your typical summer camp.

San Diego-based Internet security company ESET is hosting “Cyber Boot Camp” this week. It’s an intensive course about computer network security for high school students.

In January, 33 teams started competing in the annual San Diego Mayor’s Cup, a competition for students interested in cyber security. Westview High School was named the winner in March, and the eight team members from the school earned spots in the camp.

Now, they’re spending a week of their summer vacation learning how to defend computer systems.

“One of the things that we can teach is how to think like a hacker, like an attacker,” said Stephen Cobb with ESET. “We actually have systems where they can pretend to be the bad guy and break into a computer system.”

Despite their new skills, Cobb said he doesn’t worry about the kids becoming hackers themselves.

Earlier in the week, a United States magistrate talked to the students about the consequences of hacking.

Another reason to wear a “white hat” instead of a “black hat,” in hackers’ terms, is the high demand for jobs in both the government and the private sector.

“Right now, there’s a shortage of people with these kinds of skills to go to work protecting, whether it’s in the military or whether it’s in the intelligence community or things like the utility systems and the banking systems,” Cobb said.