Vice President Mike Pence blasted the claim that he, along with top aides, will run a 2020 shadow presidential campaign, NBC News reported.

He called it "disgraceful and offensive" and "laughable and absurd."

The New York Times reported Sunday that key Pence aides have told major Republican donors that Pence would be prepared to run for president in 2020 if President Donald Trump does not.

"Today’s article in the New York Times is disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team," Pence wrote in a sharply-worded denial on Sunday. "The allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this Administration."

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Sunday that the City of Chicago will file a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over efforts to cut funding to sanctuary cities.

"Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values, and we are and will remain a welcoming city," Emanuel said in a release.

"The federal government should be working with cities to provide necessary resources to improve public safety, not concocting new schemes to reduce our crime fighting resources," he continued. "The City of Chicago will continue to stand up to President Trump and his Justice Department to ensure that their misguided policies do not threaten the safety of our residents."

The mayor announced the lawsuit during a news conference at City Hall alongside legal advisor and head of the City’s Law Department Ed Siskel, as well as Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who highlighted the importance of federal resources in combatting the city's violence. 

The Justice Department released its application for the 2017 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) on Thursday, a program Emanuel said Chicago has used in the past for various public safety initiatives, including the purchase of SWAT equipment, police vehicles, radios and tasers. Last year, the City received $2.3 million in Byrne JAG funding, according to the mayor.

However, this year’s application includes provisions requiring local governments to allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security access to any detention facility to meet with and inquire about the citizenship of anyone believed to be undocumented, and to give federal authorities 48 hours advance notice before releasing someone who is wanted on immigration violations, as conditions to receive funding – both changes in the program’s requirements from years past.

The City's lawsuit will argue that the Justice Department cannot make grants contingent on these requirements because they would "effectively federalize local detention facilities" and violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in requiring detainees to be held beyond the timeframe in which they would otherwise be eligible for release.

The DOJ's shift in requirements is part of President Donald Trump’s administration’s efforts to crack down on sanctuary cities, the term used for jurisdictions that do not comply with federal requests to detain undocumented immigrants who have been arrested on charges unrelated to their immigration status and turn them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation.

Trump signed an executive order in January to block federal grants to sanctuary cities, an action that a judge blocked in April, ruling that the president could not set new conditions on spending approved by Congress - an argument included in the City of Chicago's lawsuit. 

However, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has moved to intensify the crackdown on a number of occasions, most recently sending letters to four cities informing them they would be ineligible to receive resources under a new crime-fighting program unless their police departments show proof of compliance with the DOJ’s new rules.

In March, Sessions said sanctuary cities' policies are "designed to frustrate the enforcement of our immigration laws" – a claim that Emanuel has refuted, repeatedly defending Chicago’s "Welcoming City" ordinance.

"Chicago’s Welcoming City ordinance promotes public safety by ensuring that no city resident, regardless of their status, is afraid to cooperate with law enforcement, report criminal activity to the police, serve as a witness in court, or seek help as a victim of crime," a spokesman for Emanuel said in a statement.

 "I've always seen Chicago as a welcoming city," Emanuel said in response to Sessions' comments in March.

"It welcomed my grandfather 100 years ago, we continue to welcome entrepreneurs, immigrants, and I would just say think of it this way: Half the new businesses in Chicago and the state of Illinois come from immigrants, nearly half," he added. "Half the patents at the University of Illinois come from immigrants, and so we want to continue to welcome people, welcome their ideas, welcome their families to the city of Chicago, who want to build the American dream for their children and their grandchildren."

"Chicago was built on the back of immigrants and our future is hitched to the wagon of immigrants who come to the city," Emanuel continued. "I would say that the approach of penalizing cities, cities that are driving the economy, driving the energy of the United States – and they do it because we bring people of all different backgrounds to work together – that's just the wrong approach."

Chicago is not alone in its immigration policies, as more than 200 jurisdictions nationwide have declared sanctuary status, including New York City, Los Angeles and more, with some expected to follow Chicago in filing suit. 

One person died after their car went over an embankment on San Pasqual Valley Road, San Diego police said. 

The crash happened at approximately 12:30 p.m. Sunday when police first responded to the reported crash on the 18100 block of San Pasqual Valley Road. The location is northwest of Ramona and east of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. 

Authorities did not have details on what led up to the crash. 

The cause of the crash is unknown at this time. 

San Diego police and Fire-Rescue officials are at the scene. 

No other information was available.

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Former Chargers great LaDainian Tomlinson talked about football during his Hall of Fame induction speech, but it's what he said later that was truly impressive.

NBC 7's Derek Togerson recaps the heartfelt words and talks to LT's former teammate Drew Brees about watching the running back become a legend.

Here’s a preview of what is coming up in San Diego sports for the week of August seventh-to-thirteenth.

PADRES: The Friars continue their road trip this week. Monday to Thursday they’re in Cincinnati to face the Reds. After that they head back to the West Coast to play the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

The Marston House reopened Sunday after shutting down for four months for roof repairs.

The historic Arts and Crafts mansion hidden behind Balboa Park was constructed in 1905 for George Marston and his wife Anna Gunn Marston.

Marston was a department store owner and civic leader in San Diego known for helping create Balboa Park, Anzo Borrego Desert State Park and Presidio Park.

“Marston was very concerned about preserving the natural beauty of the city and that’s one of his greatest contributions,” Bobbie Bagel with the Save Our Heritage Foundation (SOHO) said.

Bagel is a docent at the Marston House, which was designed by William Sterling Hebbard and Irving Gill.

“Irving Gill was one of the leading modernist architects of America,” Bagel explained, “the house was very modern when it was built. Fully electrified with central heating.”

The Marston family lived in the house continuously from 1905 until 1987. It is now maintained by SOHO.

The house is located at 3525 Seventh Avenue in Balboa Park. Tours run Friday through Monday, start every half hour and are 40-45 minutes in length.

More info can be found at SOHO's website. 

After 12 innings and manager Andy Green’s ejection, the Padres dropped the series finale 5-4 against the Pittsburgh Pirates Sunday afternoon from PNC Park. There was a lot of drama in this contest but it was a slow build.

The Friars got on the board early thanks to Cory Spangenberg’s RBI single which scored Manny Margot in the first inning. After a little heads-up base running, Spangenberg scored on a wild pitch by Pirates righty Jameson Taillon and gave San Diego a 2-0 lead. Pittsburgh responded and added four runs in the third inning and took a 4-2 lead over the Friars.

The Padres caught up in the ninth inning when Manuel Margot delivered a two run RBI single to left field. Hunter Renfroe and Matt Szczur scored and the game was tied at four runs apiece. This one went into extra innings and that’s when things got dicey.

In the top of the 10th inning with two outs for the Padres, Wil Myers stepped into a batted ball and was called out by the home plate umpire. Andy Green came out of the dug out to ask the official to discuss the call with the first plate umpire. Trip Gibson, the home plate umpire refused to ask for help from the first plate umpire and Green got pretty fired up. Ultimately, the Friar’s skipper returned to the dugout but was visibly annoyed by the inning ending call.

Padres reliever Brad Hand took the mound in the bottom of the 10th. The Friars All-Star had us a little concerned when he intentionally walked Andrew McCutchen and David Freese, while Starling Marte was already on third base. There was only one out for the Pirates when Jose Osuna went up to bat. Then we remembered why Hand was named an All-Star. Osuna grounded out to the third base line where short stop Dusty Coleman was waiting. Coleman fired it over to Carlos Asuaje at second who shot it over to Myers at first and with that the Padres infield turned a double play that ended the threat and the inning.

The double play may have been smooth, but something rattled Green. The Padres manager was back out at home plate arguing with the umpire and was quickly ejected; but not before making sure his voice was heard.

After the game Green was asked about the argument to which he replied, “My perspective on that play, it’s a game ending double play or a game ending fielder’s choice, so my perspective was my players don’t need to stay on the field to wait for a replay. I simply said they don’t need to stay out there. He said he was doing his job and I said they can come off the field. We had a disagreement there. That was literally the extent of that one…obviously precipitated on the conversation on the Wil Myers foul ball, so he felt I was telling him how to do his job.”

In the top of the 12th inning Sean Rodriguez, on his first day back with the Pirates, crushed a walk-off home run off of Friars lefty Buddy Baumann and secured the 5-4 victory and the series for Pittsburgh.

The Padres continue their road trip with the first of four games against the Cincinnati Reds on Monday August 7 at 4:10 p.m. PST from Great American Ball Park.

A man died of his injuries after rolling his car in the 15000 block of the Skyline Truck Trail Sunday evening.

The crash happened around

6:30 p.m. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, according to officials.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

Check back on this story for updates.

A nine-year-old girl was hit by a jet ski while swimming in in Mission Bay Sunday afternoon, officials confirmed.

The collision happened around 4:40 p.m. near Ski Beach.

Paramedics responded and the girl was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that the best way for North Korea to show its willingness to talk with the U.S. is to stop launching missiles, NBC News reported.

"We've not had an extended period of time where they have not taken some type of provocative action by launching ballistic missiles," Tillerson told reporters while in Manila, Philippines.

Addressing the sanctions against North Korea that the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved Saturday, Tillerson said: "I think perhaps the more important element of that is just the message that this sends to North Korea of how unacceptable the entire international community finds what they're doing to be."

North Korea's latest intercontinental ballistic missile test came on Friday, and the county has conducted five nuclear tests since 2006.

An off-duty San Diego sheriff's deputy was shot during a scuffle with an armed man in East Village early Monday morning, police said.

A civilian was also shot during the incident in the 500 block of Island Avenue, and both victims had non-life-threatening injuries. The man wielding the gun was not taken into custody.

The incident began when a group of off-duty deputies were confronted by the suspect, police said. The victim was shot after wrestling with the suspect when he saw him pull the gun.

Three shots were fired, hitting the civilian — it is unclear if the man was a bystander — in the arm and the deputy in the upper torso. The officer was taken to a hospital while the civilian was able to drive himself, while the suspect fled on 5th Avenue, according to police.

Police described the suspect as a black man in his 30s with shoulder-length dreadlocks.

The Northwestern University professor arrested last week during a cross-country manhunt following a "gruesome" stabbing in Chicago will appear in court in California Monday, authorities said.

Wyndham Lathem, 42, was arrested in the state on Friday, as was University of Oxford employee Andrew Warren, 56. Both were in police custody in Oakland, California following a days-long, multi-state manhunt, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, citing the U.S. Marshals Service.

Lathem is scheduled to appear in court Monday morning, but it was not clear when a hearing would be held for Warren. Police expect both men will ultimately be returned to Chicago "where they will be interrogated by CPD homicide detectives." 

The two were wanted in connection with the killing of 26-year-old Trenton H. James Cornell-Duranleau, who was found dead on July 27 inside an apartment building in Chicago's River North neighborhood. 

Officials said Cornell-Duranleau was discovered stabbed to death around 8:30 p.m. on the tenth floor of the Grand Plaza Apartments on State Street, where police said Lathem lives. 

Lathem's attorney, Adam Sheppard, told the Chicago Tribune the professor was "hopeful" before his Monday hearing, adding that they "hope his role in the matter, ultimately, will lead to innocence." 

Lathem is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University's medical school, where he has worked for 10 years. He was placed on administrative leave and banned from entering Northwestern campuses, university spokesman Alan Cubbage said Wednesday after warrants were issued for his and Warren's arrest.

Warren is a senior treasury assistant at the University of Oxford in Great Britain, according to the university’s website.

Both men disappeared after Cornell-Duranleau, a hairstylist and Michigan native, was found dead, authorities said. Guglielmi said the crime scene was "gruesome and the victim was savagely murdered."

The Chicago Tribune reported that blood was found on a bedroom door in the apartment where Cornell-Duranleau was found dead from stab wounds. The report, citing law enforcement sources, also said a knife with a broken blade was found in the trash in the kitchen, and another knife was located near the sink.

The pair of suspects was spotted on surveillance video leaving the property after the incident, authorities said. Police said the men later drove to Lake Geneva and donated $1,000 to the Lake Geneva Public Library in the victim's name. 

Lathem also sent a video message to family members and friends after the killing, according to police, allegedly apologizing for his involvement in the crime.

Police did not release the video footage, saying it was "integral to any future interrogation efforts," adding that the people who received the video had been interviewed by U.S. Marshals. 

Ed Ferrell, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals office, said Warren was arrested in San Francisco, while Lathem surrendered at the federal courthouse in Oakland after communicating with authorities. 

"Both individuals will be held accountable for their actions and we hope [Friday's] arrest brings some comfort for the victim's family," Guglielmi said in a statement last week. "We are also thankful that this did not end in further tragedy."

Lathem was booked in the Alameda County Jail in Oakland, California, and Warren was booked into the San Francisco County Jail, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

A Google engineer ignited a firestorm of controversy this weekend after writing and releasing an internal memo criticizing the tech company's diversity programs.

The memo argued that men are biologically better fit to work in the tech industry and be leaders in the workplace and characterized Google's gender equality efforts as misguided.

The memo went public after it was sent out Friday to Google to more than 40,000 employees. Then, when employees started tweeting about it Saturday, it started to attract a lot of attention.

In May, Google said publicly it had to improve the company's diversity programs and close pay gaps between men and women. Seventy percent of the company's tech-sector employees are men.

One Google employee responded to the memo with a tweet: "That garbage fire of a document is trash, and you are wonderful coworkers who I am extremely lucky to work with."

Another employee wrote: "Imagine working at Google, getting paid all that money, just to spend your time writing a disgusting manifesto and sending it to your peers."

Danielle Brown, Google's new vice president of diversity and inclusion, responded, saying, "We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company. ... We’ve continued to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul."

The man who wrote the memo also sounded off this weekend, saying there is sexism at work, but he added that some ideas are "too sacred to be honestly discussed" at Google.

He said the company needs to be more open to conservative ideals.

Kym McNicholas, community director of Extreme Tech Challenge, sent her thoughts to NBC Bay Area via email Sunday.

"I wouldn't give this engineer anything more than a reality check," she said. "It shows he feels threatened, and that's his own insecurity coming out." 

President Donald Trump's leadership style could be affecting workplace behavior on a large scale, NBC News reports.

HR and leadership experts say a "Trump effect" has permeated through corporate America, with reports of cursing in the office, lying about resume details and spreading rumors about co-workers on the rise.

Unethical behavior can hurt productivity and affect workplace morale, the experts say. A survey by the Workplace Bullying Institute in April found that 46 percent of workers said their relationships with colleagues have deteriorated since the 2016 election.

"Trump is serving as a negative kind of role model," said Seth Spain, an assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. "They see his behavior, they see that it worked, it was effective, and use that as a model."

A Cornell University-bound teen from the Bronx, whose acceptance video to the Ivy League school went viral, drowned while swimming in the Ithaca Falls gorge, officials said.

Winston Samuel Perez-Ventura's body was found in the gorge by a New York State dive team Saturday evening, Ithaca police said. 

Perez-Ventura was in Ithaca for an on-campus pre-freshman summer program at Cornell, said Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life. 

He drowned while swimming in Fall Creek, Lombardi said. 

"He was an exceptional person who would have contributed greatly to our university community," Lombardi said. 

Perez-Ventura planned to study at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Lombardi said.

In December, Ventura's high school, Democracy Prep Public Schools in Harlem, posted a video on Facebook of the senior, clad in a Cornell sweatshirt, reacting to his early acceptance. Cornell shared the video on its official Facebook page and it quickly went viral. Perez-Ventura would have been the first person in his family to attend college. 

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A woman and her daughter were injured Saturday after a large oak tree branch snapped and fell on top of a crowd of people gathered for a picnic at Menlo College in Atherton, according to fire officials.

Several people were hit by the falling branch, fire officials said. The woman and her 2-year-old girl had to be transported to the hospital.

The branch, which is roughly three feet wide and 50 feet long, crashed shortly before 2:30 p.m. while hundreds of people were enjoying a company picnic with Riverbed Technologies, fire officials said.

Footage from the scene captured several chairs, a children's play table and a stroller buried under thick pieces of wood and smaller branches.

Jason Del Rosario said that his sister, Jasmine Garcia, suffered a broken toe and bruising on her shoulder. Del Rosario added that his niece suffered a fracture in her skull and lacerations on her eyelids.

As of Sunday evening, Del Rosario said that Garcia and his niece were at Stanford Hospital, awake and "in their usual spirits."

Minutes before the branch toppled, about two dozen adults and children were seated where the tree limb fell, but they had moved to participate in an activity, according to fire officials.

"I know the fire crews that responded to this incident were extremely relieved that it wasn't much worse than it could have been given the size of the group and proximity of the seating area under the tree," Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said in a statement.

Fire officials plan to follow up with the college regarding tree inspections this week.

The body of a 29-year-old firefighter who died in western Montana last week will be transported Monday back to his family in California.

Hotshot Brent Witham of Mentone died on Aug. 2 when he was struck by a falling tree while fighting the Lolo Peak fire in the Lolo National Forest.

Witham's remains will be escorted by law enforcement and honor guard, according to the Forest Service.

Memorial services will be held Thursday at the National Orange Show in San Bernardino. The service is open to the public. Updated details on the memorial can be found here.

His was the second firefighter death in Montana in less than two weeks. Trenton Johnson of Missoula died on July 19 when a dead tree fell and hit him near Seeley Lake. He was 19.

An off-duty San Diego County sheriff’s deputy was shot in the shoulder and rushed to a nearby hospital Monday in downtown San Diego.

San Diego police were called to reports of shots fired near Island and Sixth avenues at 1:17 a.m.

Officers responded to the scene and found an off-duty deputy who was on his back conscious and breathing, SDPD Lt. Ernesto Servin told NBC 7. The deputy was transported to UC San Diego Medical Center.

A second person who was walking in the street was shot in the arm, police said.

Servin said the second victim was a bystander who happened to be struck. 

He was taken first to Sharp Coronado Hospital but then transferred to UC San Diego Medical Center, police said.

Both victims were described as having non-life threatening injuries. 

Authorities say the shooting appeared to happen as a group of off-duty law enforcement officers was walking east along Island Avenue. 

“There was some sort of confrontation. Exactly what was said, I don’t know,” Servin said.

A man pulled a gun on the group, officials said. The off-duty deputy started wrestling the suspect for the gun when three shots were fired, officers said.

The suspect in the shooting was last seen running towards K Street, Servin said.

Servin said surveillance video from nearby businesses suggests there may be a second suspect involved. 

"We think there may have been two suspects based on the video," Servin said. "Right now we’re focusing on the individual with the gun." 

Officers have blocked traffic along Seventh from Island to Market and Sixth from Island to Market. Island is also closed from Sixth to Fifth. 

The shooting location is approximately two blocks north of Petco Park and approximately two blocks west of Park at the Park.

The area was expected to be blocked off until approximately 9 a.m.

Servin said two off-duty Escondido police officers were with the deputy at the time of the shooting. Those officers were uninjured.

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A former headmaster at the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, convicted of molesting a cadet, will be sentenced Monday.

In June, jurors convicted Jeffrey Barton, 59, on six counts of forced sex acts with a minor.

Barton repeatedly molested the 9th-grade cadet between 1999 and 2001. 

Barton was first arrested on Oct. 17, 2013. At that time, investigators said at least six former students of the Army and Navy Academy had accused him of sexual molestation. 

Prosecutors alleged Barton had given his victims drug-laced brownies to incapacitate them prior to the sexual molestations. Barton’s baked goods became known around campus, according to prosecutors.

Barton was a longtime administrator of the Army and Navy Academy, working at the boarding school from 1995 to 2013. 

Besides the school in Carlsbad, Barton has also worked at schools in Tennessee and South Carolina.

The son of a leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel has been indicted on U.S. drug smuggling charges.

An attorney entered a plea of not guilty Monday in federal court in San Diego on behalf of Damaso Lopez Serrano.

The younger Lopez, known as the "mini-licenciado" is infamous for his violent, flashy and undisciplined reputation. Mexican Security analyst Alejandro Hope previously said Serrano would likely seek revenge for his father's arrest.

He’s the son of Damaso Lopez Nunez, who has launched a struggle for control of the cartel following the arrest of its leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The elder Lopez was arrested by Mexican authorities in Mexico City in May.

Guzman was extradited to the United States earlier this year to face drug charges.

The elder Lopez, known by the nickname “El Licenciado” — a title for college graduates — was long considered Guzman’s right-hand man and helped him escape from a Mexican prison in 2001.

He is believed to be locked in a dispute with Guzman's sons for control of the cartel's territories and was blamed for an alleged attack on Zambada.