The waters off La Jolla in San Diego were filled with anchovies Tuesday as a massive school of the fish migrated, leading to a spectacular sight caught on tape by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

According to Scripps, the giant school of northern anchovy formed a dark band off La Jolla, near the Scripps Pier, swimming quickly through the area.

San Diego-based Scripps scientists said they haven’t seen such an aggregation in more than 30 years, and said it’s unclear why the large school moved into shallow waters off the coast.

They’re still studying the phenomenon, and members of the Scripps Marine Vertebrate Collection have gathered samples for the study.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), northern anchovy is the species found and commercially harvested off the West Coast. Today, it is used as valuable bait fishery. Its European counterpart, Engraulis encrasicolus, is the anchovy best known in the culinary world.
 

Home ownership is a mystery for some people.  It's part of the "American Dream," but it may not fit with their plans. 

So how do you decide when to own and when to rent?  Certified Financial Planner Mary Beth Storjohann says there are five questions you need to ask yourself.

1) Look out 3-5 years. Where do you see yourself?

Do you see yourself staying in the same community? Do you see a job change in your future? Do expect any major financial changes ahead, from buying a new car to having children?   Storjohann says if you are facing major changes like that in the next  three years, consider renting until the dust settles.

2)  Can you afford to both purchase and maintain a home and the property?

"You have to furnish it.  You probably have to buy a refrigerator, washer and dryer, there are utilities, painting," said Storjohann.  She says also take into consideration paying insurance, property taxes and possible HOA fees.

3) How is our credit?

Your credit score plays a big roll in how much of a loan you can be approved for and your interest rate.  The time to investigate and improve your credit report is at least three years before house hunting.

4)  What does the market look like where you want to live?

Does the location work for you?  What about added commute times and cost-of-living expenses? Are prices on the rise in the community, or are they dropping?

5) Is you lifestyle conducive to home ownership?

"It sounds great to say that I own a home.  It looks great to my friends, you look great to your peers.  You can talk about the community but the thing is, ultimately if it's not conducive to your lifestyle, it's going to be a lot more stressful on the other end," said Storjohann.

A Waterford man is facing charges after officers found two young kids, ages 6 and 9, in the backseat of his car parked in New London, sweating and red-faced from the heat, according to police.

John Morgan, 60, of Waterford, told officers he had stepped into his office for a few minutes, but police said they were on scene for at least 10 minutes before Morgan returned.

Officers had initially noticed the car because one of the children had been opening and closing a rear door, police said. All four windows were rolled up and the doors were unlocked.

Police said the temperature outside was 83 degrees at the time, but a thermometer placed inside the car showed the interior temperature to be 100 degrees with 58 percent humidity.

Morgan was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor. He was held on $150,000 bond and is due in court tomorrow.

It's the third time police have reported children left in hot cars today and the sixth incident in two weeks.

This morning, police released information about a 15-month-old boy who died in a hot car in Ridgefield on Monday.

Later, a mom from East Haven was arrested after reportedly leaving her kids in the car at a Target parking lot.

A new study suggests millennials are saving money earlier than their parents.

The Transamerica Insurance study indicates 70 percent of those in their 20s and 20s are already saving for retirement – well ahead of when their baby boomer parents started saving. Baby boomers started saving around the age of 35, according to the study. Today, 22-year-olds are starting retirement accounts.

Still, it’s not easy. Jacob Rodriguez, a 23-year-old in the financial planning business, said there are always places to spend your money: food, going out on the weekends or going camping.

“But the sooner you start, the sooner you can finish,” he said.

Rodriguez said super savers are the people who know that putting away even small amounts of money grows slowly but surely.

Still, he believes, for those who aren’t saving, they are drowning in debt, from car payments to college loans.

“The ones who are dogged by debt are doing more of the impulse spending, trying to keep up with the Jones-type thing,” he said. “’This is what I deserve; I want this. I’m going to buy it.’ There’s not so much clarity and education around what they’re trying to accomplish with their money.”

Rodriguez’s words ring true. According to Wells Fargo, many millennials are living paycheck to paycheck, drowning in student loans and consumer debt.

Donald Sterling testified Tuesday after skipping the opening day of testimony in a trial to determine whether his wife acted within her rights when she negotiated a sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Sterling had been ordered to appear Tuesday afternoon after he failed to show up in court Monday, as his lawyers tried to get the case moved to federal court. That request was denied.

While Shelly Sterling entered the courthouse through a public entrance on Tuesday, Donald Sterling was allowed to use a private underground entrance.

• Images: Key Figures in the Sterling Case

Once on the stand, the 80-year-old oscillated between angry and sarcastic outbursts and a soft-spoken demeanor, even choking up when talking about how much he loves his wife.

"I trusted my wife, I love her," Sterling said about the document he signed authorizing Shelly to negotiate the sale.

Sterling's animated testimony prompted the judge to admonish him to answer questions instead of "entertaining us." In response, Sterling said he was sure "questions will get better."

Under cross-examination, a neurologist and a psychiatrist both testified that they had found Sterling mentally incapacitated, but also admitted they did not tell him their exams could be used to remove him as a trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, which controls the Clippers and provides the framework under which the team can be sold.

That led Sterling to call them "hired guns," claim one was drunk and say that neither should practice medicine.

Sterling had choice words for Shelly's attorney, and often went off on tangents when answering his questions.

"For God's sake, be a man! Stand up and be a man," Sterling said. "What do you want to accuse me of?"

• Sterling Firestorm: Case Timeline

During one heated outburst, Sterling said fighting the sale of the team wasn't about his ego, but about economics, claiming he could get $3 billion to $5 billion in TV and radio rights, adding that while his wife may be beautiful, she's not qualified to negotiate such matters.

Both sides are claiming Sterling's performance on the stand helps their case.

"I think the claim (Sterling) lacks competency is a sham, it's absurd and I think that should become more obvious to all of you today," Sterling's attorney Bobbi Samini said.

"Just as you saw the real Donald Sterling, and we saw the real Donald Sterling, the judge sees the real Donald Sterling now," Shelly's attorney Bert Field said. "He sees the guy just makes stuff up."

His attorneys said Sterling did not attend Monday's proceedings because most of the day would be consumed with the motion to move the case.

The first testimony Monday afternoon came from a neurologist who concluded that Sterling had Alzheimer's disease. Testimony about Sterling's health will be key to the trial because two doctors who examined Donald Sterling at Shelly Sterling's request declared him mentally incapacitated and unable to act as an administrator of The Sterling Family Trust.

Shelly Sterling negotiated the potential-record $2 billion deal with Ballmer after the NBA moved to oust the league's longest-tenured owner because of racist remarks made during a recorded conversation with a friend. She did so under terms of the trust that indicate incapacitation can be determined by two licensed doctors without ties to the family who are specialists in their field, according to her attorneys.

A trustee must cooperate with such exams. Attorneys on both sides agreed last week that proceedings will focus on whether Donald Sterling was induced into undergoing mental examinations by two doctors without being told the reason.

Donald Sterling was "blindsided" by the exams, to which he submitted under false pretense, according to his attorneys. He would have participated at more convenient times instead of being pulled out of legal meetings, the attorneys said.

"He would have also eaten properly and have been well rested for the examinations and focused on taking the exam with the full and complete understanding what it was for and the serious nature of the exam," they wrote in filings.

A doctor hired by Sterling's wife testified Monday about a two-hour interview at the Sterling home.

"After it was over, I told him and Mrs. Sterling that he probably has Alzheimer's," Dr. Meril Sue Platzer testified Monday.

"What was his reaction?" asked Pierce O'Donnell, an attorney for Sterling's wife.

"I'm hungry. I want to eat," Platzer said.

The trial also will address the question of what happens to a deal that hasn't been closed once a trust is revoked. Donald Sterling revoked the trust on June 9, weeks after Shelly Sterling negotiated the deal with Ballmer. In order for the deal to proceed, a judge must find that Shelly Sterling acted in accordance with the trust and that the deal is part of a "winding down" or the trust's affairs, as her attorneys claim.

NBA owners must approve the deal and are scheduled to meet July 15 to vote. Ballmer's offer is set to expire on the same day. If the sale isn't completed by Sept. 15, the league said it could seize the team and put it up for auction.

Entrepreneurs in San Diego's restaurant industry are still digesting last week's dollar-an-hour hike in the state's minimum wage, crossing their fingers that they won't eventually take a financial hit that’s too hard to absorb.

In 18 months, California's new $9-an-hour requirement will go to ten bucks an hour.

But here in San Diego, there could be a citywide minimum of $9.75 by next year, $10.50 by 2016, and $11.50 in 2017.

Those phased-in levels got preliminary approval from the City Council last month, and are expected to come back for review at a special evening meeting on July 14.

Minimum wage hikes are a sore subject for restaurateurs.

While lobbying in opposition within the political arena, they take pains not to alienate their employees in the media.

But many insist there's a risk to workers' hours -- and their jobs altogether -- if there's a need for higher prices that diners won't swallow.

And some will venture to go on the record in trying to make that case.

"Going out to eat is an entertainment. It's not a need, it's a want -- people can control their wants,” says Moe Sadighian, managing partner in an ownership group that operates three restaurants in downtown San Diego and another National City’s Bay Marina Drive.

"You're not going to go out to eat three times a week,” Sadighian told NBC 7 in an interview Tuesday at Goodie’s Bar & Grill, the National City establishment. “You're going to cut it down to one -- or none. So that's going to affect, more than anything, minimum-wage employees in restaurants and hotels."

Sadighian said his restaurant group – which also includes The Reef, El Pulpo and Funky Garcia in the Gaslamp Quarter – has a total workforce of120 employees who earn an average of $19 a hour that includes shared tips.

With smart planning ahead of last week's wage hike, the owners avoided layoffs by shortening some work shifts, and menu prices were kept 'status quo'.

But the momentum for more wage increases -- which add 35 to 40 cents per dollar in “behind-the-scenes” taxes and workers' comp costs -- is a real concern facing the group's downtown establishments.

Holding the 'price points' without having to shed jobs figures to be a challenge.

As Sadighian sees it: “Everything's going to go up. Gas is going to go up, groceries are going to go up. It's dominoes. So tell me, how is this going to get us out of poverty if everybody raises our prices?"

The partnership has three more restaurants in the planning stages, two in San Diego.

Sadighian says one of the latter has been put on a back burner until the local industry's economics get a lot clearer.

If the increases contemplated at San Diego City Hall go through, either by ordinance or at the ballot box, Sadighian fears a worst-case scenario.

"There are going to be layoffs, I can guarantee it,” he predicts. “The service in the industry is not going to be as good -- as in any industry -- because they're going to have less people working to do twice-as-hard jobs. And it's unfeasible.

“You're going to have to raise the prices. So with that and the Health Care Act and everything, it's bottlenecking."
 

Arlington firefighters honored a young girl Tuesday whose 911 call saved her grandmother's life.

Six-year-old Claire Sullivan was given a hero award at the fire station. She said she was just acting on instinct when she called 911 to get help for her grandmother.

“The first thing I did, I didn't know what to do, so I just thought about picking up the phone,” Claire said Tuesday.

Claire's grandmother had been babysitting her on June 11 when she began slipping in and out of consciousness. But when she called 911, Claire didn’t know the address.

“My Mimi, it's like she's dead, but I think it's her blood pressure,” Claire said in the 911 call. “Now she's like on the couch, but it sounds like sleeping, and it's like she's knocked out!”

The 911 operator in Arlington kept Claire calm for about 15 minutes as first responders tracked the call.

“When the people come to take care of my Mimi, can one of them stay with me, so I won't be alone?” Claire asked the 911 operator.

“Yes, ma’am, they're gonna stay with you, honey. They're not gonna leave you alone,” the operator responded.

Her grandmother is expected to be okay. Claire now has her address memorized.

The San Diego Symphony will host four free concerts beginning Wednesday featuring residents of underserved neighborhoods who helped create and will perform in the program.

The concerts – part of the “Your Song, Your Story” initiative funded by the James Irvine Foundation – kick off with a 6 p.m. performance Wednesday at the Jacob Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall.

Additional concerts are set for July 15 at 11:30 a.m. at The Joan B. Kroc Theatre, July 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Embarcadero Marina Park South and July 17 at 6 p.m. at Lincoln High School.

The shows include original composition by Oscar and Emmy-winning composer Bill Conti, of “Rocky” fame, and performances by local residents, including dance companies, choirs and musicians.

According to San Diego Symphony’s Artistic Projects Manager Leonor Perez, Ph.D., these free concerts are a culmination of a two-year program that asked San Diego residents to contribute their poems, stories, songs and dance routines to the Your Song, Your Story website to be used in an original multi-media piece commissioned by the Symphony.

More than 320 entries were submitted and, ultimately, 18 were selected to be used in Conti’s original orchestral piece. The Symphony will perform that composition alongside with live and recorded multicultural performers at the four concerts this month.

The Symphony said the concerts will include free food, family-friendly activities and block parties open to all.

To read more about the contributors chosen for the concerts, visit this website. Tickets are free and attendees can RSVP here.

Only one of the families flown to San Diego from the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas has indicated plans to stay in the area, officials told NBC Tuesday.

NBC 7 has obtained new information from the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) San Diego Sector on the processing of hundreds of undocumented immigrants from Central America.

Beginning July 1, three planes carrying undocumented women and children have landed in San Diego as part of the federal government’s plan to alleviate an increase in the number of unaccompanied minors in the border region.

In exclusive interviews with NBC 7, several of those women said they left Honduras, Guatemala and other countries because of the poverty and violence.

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An estimated 400 undocumented immigrants are currently being processed at facilities in San Diego County.

Federal officials say once the undocumented immigrants arrive to San Diego, they are interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted. They also undergo a background check, officials said.

They are then transferred into ICE custody where each individual will be assigned a “next step.”

Officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) decide if the immigrant will be released with a pending date in front of an immigration judge.

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According to CBP officials, the undocumented immigrants in San Diego are “instructed to report to an ICE office closes to their final destination within 15 days” of release.

NBC 7 has found families waiting outside the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego. CBP officials tell NBC 7 that the undocumented immigrants who choose to travel by car are released directly from the ICE office.

“The migrants are responsible for any transportation expenses to their onward destinations. The federal government does not assume any of those costs,” the statement continues.

Officials say the process is not unlike how other undocumented immigrants from other countries are managed.

The ERO team has added staffing to help manage the large number of transfers.

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As for the fears from anti-immigration protesters that the undocumented women and children will be simply released to the public, officials said most of those being transferred to California don’t intend to stay in the area.

“They will depart for their onward destinations as soon as they’re released from ICE custody,” officials said.
 

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A motorcyclist who plowed into an electrical box in Miramar Tuesday and died from his injuries may have been racing with a co-worker at the time of the crash, investigators said.

The fatal collision happened just after 12:30 p.m. near the 8600 block of Miralani Drive and Camino Ruiz. San Diego Police Department Sgt. Ron Glass said the motorcyclist lost control and slammed into an electrical box at a high rate of speed.

He suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later.

Glass said the motorcyclist's co-worker was driving a car at the time of the crash and the pair may have been street racing, but police are still working to verify that.

Police said no other vehicles were involved in the crash. Officers provided traffic control in the area amid the investigation and San Diego Gas & Electric was called to the scene to inspect and depower the electrical box.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation. The victim's name was not immediately released, pending notification of his family.

A woman accused of killing her son-in-law -- and saying she'd do it again -- was expected to appear in court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing.

Instead, the judge ordered Cynthia Cdebaca, 63, to undergo a mental competency evaluation.

Deputies responded to Braemer Terrace in Fallbrook's gated Peppertree Park community on the morning of Feb. 11. Geoward Flores Eustaquio, 53, was found shot to death at the home he shared with his wife, children and mother-in-law.

Cdebaca told the authorities that her son-in-law made a comment about her outfit before the shooting. She fired at Eustaquio at least 15 times, stopping twice to reload, according to prosecutors.

She then went to Denny's for breakfast, gambled at Pechanga Resort & Casino, purchased cigarettes at a liquor store and visited a Fallbrook coffee shop, where she was ultimately arrested.

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Eustaquio was a military reservist, a real estate agent and a rugby coach for local kids.

The victim’s sons told NBC 7 that their father and grandmother often clashed over his “tough love” parenting style.

Cdebaca’s hearing has been rescheduled for Aug. 6.

A San Diego-based educator has joined the fight against child trafficking and a practice called “re-homing,” which involves the online advertising of adopted children without the oversight of child welfare agencies.

On Tuesday, Grossmont Unified High School District (GUHSD) assistant principal Jenee’ Littrell attended a subcommittee hearing on child trafficking and re-homing held by U.S. Senator Kay Hagan in Washington, D.C.

The hearing – titled “Falling Through the Cracks: The Challenges of Prevention and Identification in Child Trafficking and Private Re-homing” – examined how child victims of trafficking and re-homing may go unidentified, misidentified or unreported due to gaps in training and education of health care providers, school personnel and social workers.

It was the first-ever hearing held in the Senate on the issue of re-homing of adopted children. The practice first came to light last September after Reuters published the findings of a five-year investigation into the online advertising of adopted children.

Reuters investigative reporter Megan Twohey’s article and investigation uncovered this practice happening in a Yahoo chat forum, where parents were offloading adopted children they no longer wanted via online ads, often with no questions asked.

“Desperate parents use online bulletin boards to offer adoptees to strangers, often illegally and with no government oversight,” she reported.

Twohey reported how this happened to one adopted teenage girl from Haiti who was passed among four families over the course of two years through private re-homing. In her research, she found 5,000 Yahoo messages related to re-homing posted in on chat forum.

Locally, Littrell said the GUHSD is aware of this re-homing practice and devoted to preventing it from happening to students in San Diego.

Littrell said she’s made it her mission to fight child trafficking and helped create a program within her school district to help identify vulnerable students.

The program, she said, increases staff awareness at schools, educates students on dangers and creates a protocol when they identify a victim.

Littrell said part of why the program works is because of open communication between school personnel and law enforcement, probation and child welfare officials.

“Because we care so much about our students, we want to be on the forefront of keeping any of those issues from coming into our schools. However, if they do impact our students we want to have the partnerships there to protect those students and get those students served,” said Littrell.

In the end, she believes prevention is the key to curbing child trafficking.

“It’s time to really get to the parents and families and help young people understand what it looks like when someone is trying to get you to do something that you’re not comfortable with, whether it’s trafficking or doing something else,” Littrell explained. “We can do a lot to reinforce and educate our young people, which I think ultimately will make a huge impact on this issue.”

The subcommittee found that 300,000 children are being trafficked in the U.S. Those children are typically between 11 and 14 years old, with girls being especially vulnerable targets.

Many of these children are still attending school, so the challenge right now is to raise awareness and education among health care providers, social workers and educators so these children don’t go unidentified.

Twohey called Tuesday’s hearing the first step to determining whether the federal government can step in to help protect children from re-homing and trafficking.

“There’s been a lot of outrage and concern at the state, local and international levels,” she said.

Her investigation brought the issue of re-homing into the spotlight. Though Twohey said re-homing doesn’t seem to violate any federal laws, Congress is looking into it.
 

Family members of a missing Marine wife are praying someone will see the teenager’s image and give authorities the information to help bring her home.

Erin Corwin, 19, was last seen around 7 a.m. on Saturday, June 28 near the U.S. Marine Corps base at Twentynine Palms, California.

Her husband, USMC Corp. Jon Corwin, reported her missing the following day, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Corwin had just found out she was pregnant and was preparing for a visit from her mother in the days before she was last seen, according to interviews with her sister-in-law.

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An aspiring photographer, Corwin was headed to Joshua Tree National Park to scope out places to take photographs with her mom, CNN reports.

She was also planning to take her mother to SeaWorld San Diego and the San Diego Zoo, according to a Facebook page sharing update on the search.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department officials have been searching from dawn to dusk since Corwin was reported missing. Search efforts continued Tuesday.

She is described as 5-foot, 2-inches tall and 120 pounds with light brown hair and blue eyes. She is three months pregnant.

Her blue 2013 Toyota Corolla was found in Twentynine Palms two days after her disappearance.

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A GoFundMe account has been set up to help family members pay for fliers and other search expenses.

Tipsters wishing to remain anonymous may also call the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (782-7463) or leave information on the website.

Officials investigating how a college student was left for days in a windowless Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell found safety measures and procedures were either non-existent or ignored by federal agents.

Daniel Chong was discovered incoherent and suffering from kidney failure after spending five days handcuffed in a holding cell without food or water in April 2012.

Under a legal settlement the U.S. government paid $4.1 million to Chong who would later tell NBC 7 that he was forced to drink his own urine hoping it would help him stay alive.

“I had to do what I had to do to survive,” Chong said after the incident. “It’s so inconceivable. You keep doubting they would forget you."

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Eventually Chong was discovered and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) launched an investigation into how a detainee could be "forgotten about" by agents.

The OIG found that four agents reported seeing or hearing Chong while he was in custody for several days. They not only failed to act but told investigators they didn't think anything unusual about his presence there. 

"They assumed that whoever had placed Chong in the cell would return shortly to process him," the report states.

"Someone Would Be Right Back"

Chong, then a student at UC San Diego, was at a friend’s house in University City celebrating 4/20. It's a day many marijuana users set aside to smoke.

After agents came inside and raided the residence, Chong was taken to the DEA office in Kearny Mesa.

He was questioned and it was decided he would be released.

San Diego Police Department officer Darin Reis, who was working as part of a DEA task force of local and federal law enforcement officers, told Chong that someone would be right back to get him.

Five days later, Chong was eventually found and rushed to the hospital where he spent three days in the ICU.

He has since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and consults with a doctor who normally treats veterans who have returned from battle.

Investigators with the OIG say they found evidence that Chong discovered methamphetamine in the holding cell while he was detained and ingested it.

He also used the broken glass from his eyeglasses to injure himself, officials said.

As part of the report, OIG officials state that DEA management in the field and at headquarters violated policy by trying to investigate the incident on their own. Under protocol, OIG should have been notified immediately, officials said.

In addition, two of the employees responsible for the incident were involved in the initial investigation.

No Official Policy or Training

Any system for tracking detainees in the holding cells used by the San Diego Field Division was non-existent, according to the summarized report.

There were no video cameras inside the individual cells nor was there a system for agents to log in and out when entering and exiting.

The one camera covering the holding cell area was monitored by an employee with "many other responsibilities" according to investigators.

Investigators also found the door's locking mechanism was not working properly so there were no electronic records showing time in/time out for the days Chong was held.

Also, agents using the holding cells were not required to check at the end of the day to make sure all detainees had either been processed or released.

Investigators said they found "no official DEA policy or training regarding the operation of the holding cell area."

While the report states a DEA supervisor, two task force officers and a DEA employee are responsible for leaving Chong in custody for days, investigators agreed with the District Attorney's decision not to press criminal charges against the officers.

“All case evaluations and charging decisions in the United States Attorney’s Office are based on a thorough review of the evidence. In this instance that review led to our decision that no further action was warranted and the criminal investigation was closed. The OIG report issued today affirms our decision not to prosecute,” U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy said Tuesday.

As a result of its investigation, the OIG has offered recommendations to the DEA on procedures that investigators feel should be put in place to avoid another incident in the future.

A DEA spokesperson confirmed to NBC 7 that immediately following Chong's case, the agency initiated new procedures including routinely inspecting holding cells, assigning someome to monitor the holding area and maintaining an occupancy ledger for detainees. 

Still, Chong’s attorney, Gene Iredale and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) believe the summarized report released Tuesday is simply not enough, saying the public deserves to know more about how agents could possibly leave Chong in that cell for five days.

“What were the roles of each of the three case agents who were responsible for what happened? Who were the four DEA employees that actually heard Daniel in the cell during this time but didn’t think anything was unusual?” Iredale told NBC 7. “Why wasn’t the entire report released?”

“Did somebody lose a couple weeks pay? Did someone get at least a week on the beach?” he added.

Iredale said his client couldn't go on camera because he's in the middle of midterms and is busy studying. Chong is still finishing his degree at UC San Diego.

Google CEO Larry Page has solved unemployment.

The solution: working less.

Cutting the work week from 40 hours is the way to solve "joblessness and the threat of a robot economy," according to the International Business Times.

Page dished the advice during a lengthy interview with co-founder Sergey Brin and conducted by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, the newspaper reported.

"Most people like working," Page said. "But they'd also like to have more time with their family or to pursue their own interests."

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Page, it should be noted, is running a company that's working on adding robots to a host of tasks, such as driver-less cars.

Washington now joins Colorado in legalizing marijuana after stores on Tuesday began selling pot for recreational use.

The news is a sore spot for activists trying to get the same law enacted in California. Pot supporters in California are surprised the process has taken so long, especially after a field poll in December found 55 percent of state residents supported the legalization of recreational marijuana.

"California was the first, the leading edge of legalizing medical cannabis," said Dave Hodges of the All American Cannabis Club. "And with the number of activists here, you would think we would've been able to get it done by now."

In 2010, California voters rejected a statewide ballot measure legalizing the sale and taxation of weed.

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That same year, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger downgraded possession of up to an ounce of marijuana from a misdemeanor to an infraction.

Supporters tried again this year to get it on this November's ballot, but the groups couldn't agree on what the law should say and ended up with four versions, which killed the momentum and effort.

"The problem with four is it divides the money," Hodges said. "It makes it really hard to get support and get everybody behind one movement."

A 24-year-old MMA fighter with Down Syndrome is taking his fight to court after the Florida Boxing Commission said he can't compete in a sanctioned fight.

While the boxing commission says Garrett Holeve can train and take part in exhibitions, where there is no score kept, it will not allow the Cooper City fighter to take part in an actual competition.

"He didn't understand why he's not allowed to compete," said his father, Mitchell Holeve. "He understands he has Down syndrome, but he doesn't feel like it's stopped him from competing, and yeah, he was very depressed."

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He said when his son got the news in August, he was so upset that it took him weeks to get back to the gym.

"I was disappointed," Garrett Holeve said. "I was crying."

Mitchell Holeve said his son has lived his entire life without letting Down Syndrome get in the way, training like any other MMA fighter.

"People see his work ethic and they see how much he wants it and that kind of attracts them to him," he said. "They respect the effort that he puts in."

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The fighter has even found an equally-matched opponent to go up against -- Special Olympian David Stephen from Nebraska who has monoplegic cerebral palsy.

Now, the Holeves said they are prepared to take the fight to court, by suing the Florida Boxing Commission to court for discrimination.

"He's trained like any other MMA fighter is trained," attorney Amanda Heystek said. "Garrett is trained to compete."

Calls from NBC 6 to the Florida Boxing Commission were not returned.

A Chicago father stood before reporters on Wednesday morning and tried to make sense of losing his second child to gun violence within a year.

"Now I've got to bury another child. ... I buried my last-born last year and now I've got to bury my firstborn this year," Pierre Curry told the throng of reporters gathered along the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Nearby, the body of his daughter, 25-year-old Jasmine Curry, remained slumped over the wheel of her blue 2005 Dodge Caravan. She and two passengers were southbound on Interstate 90/94 at about 4 a.m. when shots were fired, Illinois State Police Capt. Luis Gutierrez said.

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Curry, a pregnant mother to two girls and three boys, was shot in the head. A female passenger was not injured. That unharmed passenger told authorities there was another person in the minivan -- a man -- who jumped out and ran away before police could respond to the call of shots fired, Illinois State Police spokesman Monique Bond said.

"My heart, my gut, [tells me] it was some crap, gang-banging crap. I just know it," an emotional Pierre Curry said. "She's got five kids. I just found out from my daughter today that she was pregnant."

Curry described his daughter -- "Sade" as she was known -- as a sweet family woman and a hard worker. Wednesday was to be her first day on a new job, he said.

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He believes the shooting is somehow related to the killing of his 17-year-old son, Pierce Curry, who was shot in the head while riding in the rear passenger seat of a vehicle last August. Curry said no arrests have yet been made in that case.

"They got to get these fools," he said.

Curry's mother, LaTonia Mardis, said the children were with her when their mother was killed.

"She'd just left me, dropped all her kids off," said Mardis. "I guess the Lord said it was her time and he was ready for her. He didn't want her to suffer no longer so He came and got her."

Authorities couldn't immediately say whether the shots were fired at the van or from inside, but Bond early Wednesday afternoon said another vehicle -- a silver Dodge Intrepid -- may have been involved. She did not have Information about the model year or license plate.

Gutierrez said crime scene investigators were scouring the area for clues and that video footage from Chicago Police Department cameras was being reviewed. There were no arrests in the case as of 2 p.m.

Anyone with information on the case should contact the Illinois State Police at 847-294-4440.

In addition, community activist Andrew Holmes said a $1,000 reward was being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the shooter. Tips can be made by calling 800-883-5583, he said. 

Wasting water outdoors amid the state's drought will begin hitting Californians in the wallet under get-tough restrictions being proposed by state regulators, with fines of up to $500 a day for overwatering front lawns or washing a car without a nozzle on the hose.

The State Water Resources Control Board next week is scheduled to consider draft emergency regulations made public Tuesday. They are intended to put teeth into conservation efforts that so far have produced disappointing results.

Most of the regulations to be considered by the board are aimed at reducing outdoor water use in cities and towns, which the board said accounts in some areas for more than half of residents' daily water use.

The regulations would prohibit overwatering of lawns and landscaping that causes runoff onto sidewalks or streets, washing sidewalks, driveways and other hard surfaces, using a hose to wash a vehicle unless the hose has a shut-off nozzle and using drinking water in a fountain or decorative water feature unless the water is recirculated.

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Violations would be infractions punishable by fines of up to $500 a day, and tickets could be written by any public employee empowered to enforce laws. While $500 is the daily maximum, most cities are likely to have a sliding scale that starts with a warning and builds for repeat violations.

"We are in a drought of historic proportions," board Chairwoman Felicia Marcus said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "Many urban water users don't realize how bad this drought is. They're not seeing the communities that are actually running out of water. ... They don't see the streams and creeks running dry."

If the board adopts the regulations after hearing comments during a July 15 public meeting in Sacramento, the rules would take effect immediately and remain in effect for nine months.

They do not target indoor water use, such as doing the laundry or dishes, although some individual cities and water districts have asked or required their users to reduce overall water consumption.

Marcus said the restrictions to be considered next week represent what the water board considers the minimal level of conservation.

"We're not doing standards here that say you have to kill your lawn," Marcus said. "It doesn't mean you can't take a shower. ... It just means, think about it."

She said the board might consider additional steps as the drought continues.

Under the proposed rules, urban water agencies would have to implement their water-shortage contingency plans to require mandatory restrictions on outdoor water use, if they have not done so already.

Water agencies without such a plan would have to act within 30 days to require their residents to restrict outdoor irrigation to no more than two days each week or take other mandatory steps to conserve the same amount of water.

Water agencies that do not comply could face fines up to $10,000 each day.

The generally obscure State Water Resources Control Board is assuming a more high-profile role during California's drought, which has left some communities scrambling for drinking water and led to thousands of farm acres being fallowed.

The board usually regulates such things as wastewater and irrigation discharges to rivers and the ocean, as well as any activity that changes a waterway or harms water quality.

But the board's five members, who are appointed by the governor, are acting under Gov. Jerry Brown's emergency drought proclamation in January and a related executive order in April, as well as drought legislation he signed in March. Last week, for example, the board adopted a different set of emergency regulations that will accelerate enforcement of orders prohibiting some junior water rights holders from diverting water from rivers and streams.

The additional restrictions the board will consider next week were proposed after a recent survey of water suppliers serving 25 million Californians showed that current voluntary and mandatory conservation efforts had resulted in just a 5 percent decline in use through May. Brown is seeking a 20 percent reduction.

The survey found 30 percent of water suppliers had imposed mandatory restrictions that include limits on outdoor irrigation, washing vehicles and filling ornamental fountains and swimming pools.

Water use already was down the last three years because of dry conditions and poor economic conditions, and the survey found a significant reduction this May compared with the previous three years.

Nearly all those who responded said they had increased their conservation outreach, while 40 percent had increased their enforcement and monitoring. Two-thirds of the suppliers are requesting 20 percent water conservation, and 7 percent changed their water rates in response to the drought.

Summoning a driver at a push of a smartphone button is a lot easier than trying to hail a cab during rush hour, so it’s no wonder that Uber, a ride-sharing app that connects passengers and car services within minutes, has become so popular.

The San Francisco-based startup, which launched in 2010, is the biggest of the car-hailing apps (others include Lyft, Sidecar and Wingz), operating in 120 cities, across 37 countries. Uber relies on a surge-pricing model, which means the fares increase during high-demand periods. The company has come under fire from traditional taxi drivers who say the service is not fair and might even be illegal. This battle between upstart and establishment is likely to continue, and may benefit riders from a cost perspective.

Meantime, here’s what you need to know about Uber:

• How Does Uber Work?

A customer requests a car using a smartphone app and Uber sends its closest driver to their location, using the phone’s GPS. The fare is charged directly to your credit card. Uber provides five types of services: UberX, the cheapest option which allows for the hiring of livery car drivers with a smartphone; Uber Taxi, which lets you e-hail a yellow cab; Uber Black, a private hire car; Uber SUV, the car seats up to six people and Uber Lux, which features the priciest cars.

• Who Drives Uber Cars?

UberX drivers are not licensed chauffeurs and they use their own cars. They also use their personal auto insurance policy while driving for Uber and they are not required to get commercial liability insurance. According to the compnay website, all ride-sharing and livery drivers are thorougly screened and the compnay conducuts ongoing reviews of drivers’ motor vehicle records throughout their time with Uber.

The review process may be flawed.  A three-month investigation by NBC4 I-Team found that convicted felons passed Uber background checks across the country. And in an undercover investigation, NBC Chicago hired several UberX drivers and ran their own background checks on them and found numerous tickets for speeding, illegal stops and running lights.

• Is Uber Safe?

States are warning riders who hail an Uber or another ride-sharing cab that they may not be covered by insurance if the driver gets in an accident. But Uber and other ride-sharing companies say that is not the case.

"There's no insurance gap at all on any trip on the Uber system," Uber spokeswoman Nairi Hourdajian told NBC News. She said the company's $1 million policy, provides suffiicent coverage in case a driver's personal insurance fails to do that.

• How Much Is Uber Worth?

Uber was valued in June at $18.2 billion, less than a year after being valued at $3.5 billion. The valuation was the highest-ever for a venture-backed start-up and experts say Uber is positioned to become one of the most powerful companies in the world.

• Uber Capping Fares in Emergencies

Uber announced Monday that it will cap fares during emergencies and disasters in all U.S. cities. The company said prices may still rise higher than usual during an emergency, but the increase will be limited. The price will always stay below that of the three highest-priced, non-emergency days of the preceding 2 months, according to Uber's website.

The company was accused of price gouging when it applied surge pricing after Hurricane Sandy, in some cases doubling the normal fares.

• Uber Slashing Fares in Some Cities

Uber also said Monday that it was temporarily cutting UberX rates by 20 percent in New York City, making its service cheaper than taking a yellow taxi.

An UberX ride from New York’s City’s Grand Central Terminal to the Financial District will now cost about $22, down from about $28. The same ride in a city cab will cost about $24, according to Uber’s blog.

Uber has reduced fares in Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago.

• Uber Banned in Some Cities

While taxi operators often shell out more than $1 million for a medallion to operate in some cities, Uber drivers don’t. At least six cities (Omaha, Neb., Lincoln, Neb., Ann Arbor, Mich., San Antonio, Austin, Texas, and Miami) as well as the state of Virginia have banned ride-sharing companies. Another seven cities and three states (California, Connecticut and Pennsylvania) are trying to regulate them.