Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will hold a town hall with U.S. Marines and sailors in Miramar Tuesday, the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar said.

Hagel will visit and conduct a town hall at 2:50 p.m. with Marines and sailors abroad the Marine Corps Air Station where he will make remarks, answer questions, pass out coins and take photos.

The visit is part of Hagel’s last official domestic trip to thank service members of the nation’s armed forces and their families.

Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said Hagel and his wife, Lilibet, will visit personnel who are parts of some of the nation’s most critical missions during their tour.

MCAS Miramar is home to the first Marine Expeditionary Force.
 

An 80-year-old retired school principal is the sole winner of the Nov. 4 $326 million Mega Millions jackpot, the biggest prize in New York Lottery history.

Harold Diamond of the Sullivan County town of Wurtsboro says he bought the ticket at a highway service center where he had stopped at his wife Carol's insistence to wait out a storm on Election Day.

Diamond said that he bought 10 tickets for $10, then put them in his wallet. He didn't even check to see if he won until after hearing the winning ticket had been purchased at the service center the next day while playing a round of golf.

“I put the ticket in my wallet and forgot about it,” he said matter-of-factly. “I went to play golf the next day and the guys in the clubhouse were talking about the jackpot-winning ticket someone bought at a Valero on Route 302 and I thought, 'Wait a minute, I bought a ticket there last night.'”

The New York Lottery's Yolanda Vega presented a giant ceremonial check to Diamond on Monday. He has chosen to take the cash value of the annuitized prize, which comes to about $130 million after taxes.

Diamond, who was an elementary school principal for 35 years,  says he plans to use the money to help family and give back to the local community.

Diamond was the principal at Emmac C. Chase Elementary School in Wurtsburo and George L. Cooke Elementary School in Monticello. He has also been a member of the Wurtsboro Volunteer Fire Department for 50 years.

Thirteen bald eagles were spotted during an organized count at sites across Southern California last weekend.

The U.S. Forest Service says bald eagles commonly migrate south to spend their winter vacations around the region's lakes, feasting on fish and ducks.

More than 100 eagle-eyed volunteers and agency staff participated in the count at six lakes on Jan. 10.

Two adult and two juvenile eagles were seen at Lake Silverwood; two adults and one juvenile were observed at Big Bear Lake; and two adults were spotted at both Lake Hemet and Lake Arrowhead. Lake Perris and Lake Gregory had one adult apiece.

The Forest Service is seeking volunteers for the next bald eagle counts Feb. 14 and March 14.

There are still no new leads in the case of a missing San Diego woman, and police are asking for the public's help in continuing the search.

Elizabeth Michelle Sullivan, 31, was last seen at her home near Liberty Station on Oct. 13, 2014.

The only other confirmed sighting of Sullivan was on Sunday, Oct. 19 when someone reported seeing her at the soccer fields in Liberty Station. She was described as wearing a gray sweatshirt with black leggings or "black stretch style cloth pants," police said.

Investigators say they have no new sightings since then.

Sullivan's husband Matthew, 29, told PEOPLE Magazine in November he just wants his daughters, ages four and two, to see their mother again.

"I know when they see her, they are going to be so happy," he said.

Matthew, who is in the Navy, told PEOPLE the two were having marital problems and he was allowing his wife to "have her space." He said she had been going out more often, but had never been gone longer than overnight. She was reported missing by a friend when she failed to show up for an outing.

"The girls need their mom. She's never been gone this long, nowhere near this long," he told the magazine. "She's been with them their whole lives, while I was at work or on deployment., she was always here."

Elizabeth's father Edward Ricks traveled from Virgina to San Diego in November to pass on the same message.

"It's still pretty much a mystery,” Ricks told NBC 7. "I feel like she's in trouble, and I've come out here from Virginia to look for her and to let her know we're here."

Ricks, who used to get near-daily phone calls from his daughter before her disappearance, said he just wants to know she's OK.

"If in any way she hears this and can get to a telephone or in some way reach out to me, we will come and get her, and that's what I want her to know,” Ricks said.

Sullivan is described as an African American woman who stands 5-foot-3 and weighs 130 pounds. She has dark hair and dark eyes.

A text message sent on Oct. 13 was the last contact she's had with friends or family. Her phone has since been turned off. Her vehicle was found at home.

“It can happen to you. When it does, it gets very personal, and it takes on a whole new light when it happens to you," said Elizabeth's father to the public. "You get a strength like you never had before because that's my daughter and I'm bringing her home.”

If you know anything about Sullivan's whereabouts, you are asked to call the SDPD Missing Persons Section at 619-531-2277 or Det. James Hunter at 619-531-2327.

A motorcycle police officer was injured after being sideswiped by another motorist.

The accident happened in Escondido just after 10:30 a.m. Monday, according to police. The Escondido Police officer was in the process of making a routine traffic stop using his lights and horn when a green Honda sedan changed lanes, crashing into the officer's motorcycle, witnesses said.

The officer, 15-year veteran Mike Nelson, sustained minor injuries to his chest, legs and feet and was transported to nearby Palomar Medical Center. Sean Whitaker, 29, was the driver of the Honda and was uninjured.

Whitaker was cited for not having insurance at an accident, police said. Alcohol was not suspected to be a factor in the crash.

Anyone with additional information about the collision is asked to contact the Traffic Division at (760) 839-4482 or call the Anonymous Tip Line at (760) 743-TIPS(8477).

With jury selection underway and the start of the Boston Marathon bombing trial looming, the U.S. Attorney's Office confirms a friend of accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is planning to change his plea to guilty.

Khairullozhon Matanov, a cab driver from Quincy, Massachusetts, who had dinner with the Tsarnaev brothers the night of the bombings, is charged with obstructing the investigation by destroying evidence and lying to investigators.

NECN legal analyst and Massachusetts School of Law Associate Dean Michael Coyne says it’s unlikely Matanov has just had a sudden change of heart.

"I think it's more likely that they have worked out some form of arrangement where his testimony will in fact be offered by the government and in return he may receive less of a sentence than he would otherwise because of his cooperation," said Coyne.

Meanwhile, the government and Tsarnaev's defense team have agreed to excuse 124 prospective jurors "for cause" out of the first two jury pools of roughly 450 people.

"I thought we would actually have more disqualified at this point," said Coyne. "I think it bodes well for eventually being able to impanel a jury that will be able to hear this case somewhat impartially."

But Coyne says that doesn't mean the next phase, where jurors are questioned individually, will be any easier.

"The likelihood is there's a bunch of people in this next group who are probably likely going to be disqualified but the attorneys are now trying to save their actual challenges for the ones that they really need further down the road," said Coyne.

Attorneys will exclude more jurors on Tuesday and Wednesday, then begin voir dire – or the individual questions – on Thursday.
Each side gets 20 peremptory challenges where they can excuse jurors without having to give a reason.

Cadbury Creme Egg fans received some rotten news this week.

Cadbury, owned by Illinois-based Kraft, has changed its recipe for the Creme Eggs and will no longer use its signature Dairy Milk chocolate for the treats' shells.

The gooey chocolate treats, long considered an Easter candy staple, will now be made with “a standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate,” a spokeswoman for Kraft's Mondelez International said in a statement.

“The fundamentals of the Cadbury Creme Egg remain exactly the same – delicious milk chocolate and the unique crème centre that consumers love,” the statement read. “We have always used a range of milk chocolate blends for different products, depending on their shape or consistency.”

The change, which only applies to Cadbury eggs in the United Kingdom, sparked outrage from fans of the iconic candy.

“The product that Americans know and love and can find this time of year has not changed,” said Anna LIngeris, a spokeswoman for The Hershey Company, which manufacturers and distributes Cadbury products in the United States.

According to Cadbury’s website, the company makes about 500 million creme eggs a year, nearly two-thirds of which are consumed in the UK.

The recipe change is not the first upset for lovers of the “yolk-filled” chocolate candy, as it comes shortly after news that packages would now come with only five eggs instead of six.

A Navy SEAL from New Hampshire was killed Saturday in a skydiving exercise during military parachute training in DeLand, Florida.

Petty Officer William Marston, 31, of Concord, was found on the ground unconscious with a broken leg, taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead, police said.

The deadly accident is under investigation, naval officials said.

"He was very competitive. He expected a lot of himself," his father Bill said.

"I was always proud of his determination and his effort," his mother Nancy added. "How could I not be proud of him?"

Marston was part of an East Coast-based Navy SEAL team. He had graduated from the Derryfield School in Manchester in 2001 and had been a second baseman on the Stonehill College baseball team in Easton, Massachusetts.

"The entire Naval Special Warfare community extends our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of our teammate, Blake. He will be missed by all who knew him," said Navy Special Warfare Command spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Mark Walton.

Elected officials also praised Marston's service and offered their condolences.

"Blake Marston represented the very best of New Hampshire's long tradition of service, dedicating himself to protect his fellow citizens and defending the enduring concept of freedom that is our very core," Gov. Maggie Hassan said.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen praised his "incredible commitment to his fellow servicemembers, the state of New Hampshire and our country," while Sen. Kelly Ayotte called him "a patriot who served our nation with honor and courage" and Rep. Annie Kuster called his service "an inspiration."

Marston's memorial service will take place in Bedford, Massachusetts on Saturday, and he will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.  

One woman is dead, dozens of other people were hospitalized, and three remain in critical condition after the upper level of the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station in southeast D.C. filled with smoke Monday afternoon.

A Virginia-bound Yellow Line train was in the tunnel just south of the station around 3:20 p.m. when it stopped for unknown reasons.

Dozens of people were trapped inside the train's cars as the tunnel filled with thick, black smoke.

"People could barely breathe," passenger Denzel Hatch said. "They had to evacuate us through the tunnel and walk back through the front. No electricity, no visibility, nothing. Couldn’t see anything at first."

"You're hearing other people crying, you're seeing people passing out... it was a horrific thing to witness," passenger Adjoa Adofo said.

Firefighters gained access to the tunnel at one of the evacuation points at Ninth Street and Maine Avenue SE. One injured firefighter was transported from that location by ambulance.

According to D.C. Fire and EMS, 84 patients were taken to hospitals. Three are in critical but stable condition, two of them at George Washington University Hospital. More than 200 people were evaluated. 

"There was a woman who was in distress on that train, and I'm sorry to say she's passed away," Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sarles said.

The woman's cause of death and identity remain unknown. 

"We are all saddened by today's fatality aboard the Metrorail, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the passenger who passed away," a statement from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser read.

Though an exact cause of the smoke and fire is unknown, NTSB investigators said there was an electrical arcing involving the third rail and the power supply cables to that rail prior to the fire. There was water along the tracks near the accident scene, which would have helped facilitate smoke along the third rail, investigators said.

"It was just very smoky in there," said passenger Fitz Carter from aboard a Metro bus waiting to be taken to a hospital. "We couldn’t see anything. The visibility was poor. Right now, there’s a lot of burning in my throat and my chest. Everybody got as low as they possibly could to the ground, because that’s where the best possibility for oxygen was."

The FBI is assisting Metro Transit Police in determining a cause, which is standard procedure for incidents in the capital region.

The Green and Yellow lines will be affected through Tuesday morning, Metro said.

Metro GM Sarles retires Friday.

Kaiser hospitals and patients in California are bracing for a week-long strike, as more than 2,000 mental health workers are expected to strike Monday.

The National Union of Healthcare Workers is expected to set up picket lines at nearly three dozen Kaiser locations including sites in San Diego County.

The union is demanding more of a say in the hiring of mental health workers, from psychologists to social workers.

Kaiser said it has enough staff workers to take care of its patients.

"Kaiser has been complaining that there are not enough qualified therapists to hire, but that's simply not true," Kaiser clinical social worker Paul Shaw said. "And if that is the case, then they should be doing their best to retain the ones that are there."

"We've hired hundreds of therapists over the last three years," Kaiser Permanente Vice President of Government Relations John Nelson said. "To make sure we have adequate staffing, we're continuing to hire more. There is a national shortage of mental health care providers, but we're still able to hire folks and make sure we have people here to meet our patients needs."

A spokesman for Kaiser said its campuses will be able to meet their patients' needs and all medical offices will be open during the strike.

Hundreds gathered in Oceanside Sunday to show their support for a firefighter’s wife who is battling cancer after just giving birth.

Marin Mejia gave birth to baby Owen on November 25.

Halfway through the pregnancy, she and her husband learned the worst. Marin was diagnosed with anal cancer.

“I was terrified,” Marin admits.

“I went through all possible emotions at least 3 times.”

After countless check-ups, doctors delivered the baby two months early and after five weeks in the hospital ICU, Owen finally grew strong enough to come home. He is now happy and healthy.

But for Marin, it was just the beginning.

That's what brought hundreds of people out in the rain to the Bagby Beer Company in Oceanside for "The Pint Project." The organization helps raise money to benefit families in need who are are a part of the fire, EMS, or military family.

Those who attended know it could be another six months before treatment is over and Marin can get back to work. With a new child in the family, the added cost is a challenge for Marin and her husband Mike, a National City firefighter.

It was a gesture that nearly overwhelmed the new mom and dad.

"Thank you doesn't even begin to touch it," Marin said. "It doesn't feel like it's enough to say thank you."

For more information about "The Pint Project" and how you can help the family, click here.

An early morning Carmel Valley fire left one displaced and resulted in more than $150,000 in damages, officials said.

The fire started shortly after 5 a.m. Monday at a house on Del Vino Court in the garage of a second-story apartment complex, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said. Occupants living upstairs heard a noise and discovered the fire.

The SDFD contained and knocked down the single alarm fire in approximately 15 minutes, the SDFD said, and no injuries were reported.

The estimated losses amounted to more than $150,000 in damage, the SDFD said.

SDFD Spokesman Joseph Amador said the cause of the fire was due to an electrical issue and was accidental.

There is smoke damage on the second floor of the two-story garage and the homeowner has been displaced.

San Diego police are investigating how several suspicious packages were attached to a man's SUV Monday.

San Diego Police said the man called 911 around 9 a.m. from a Chevron gas station on Murphy Canyon Road at Aero Drive just west of Interstate 15.

Apparently the man pulled up to Pump 5 to get gas when he noticed something suspicious on the undercarriage of his SUV.

He took the package off the vehicle and placed it in his passenger seat before calling police, officials said.

“It’s pretty rare. It’s the first time I’ve been on scene where something like this has happened where they called in and they were the ones that found it,” said Lt. Paul Phillips with San Diego Police.

The bomb squad cleared everyone from the gas station and car wash as they moved in to investigate.

"Out of nowhere, I see a bunch of cars coming in cop cars. Next thing I know, everyone is telling us to evacuate, so it's pretty crazy, little surreal," said Roger Vu.

The squad found five or six packages attached to the SUV either by tape or by some type of magnet. There were no explosives present, officials said.

Police described the packages as shoe-sized, cylindrical, metallic and electrical devices, which are being tested for chemicals.

San Diego police detectives were taking over the investigation.

Phillips said he would not be surprised if the packages contained drugs.

Phillips said the driver was being extremely cooperative. The man was able to take his car from the scene, officials said.

“I probably would not have taken it off myself,” Phillips said warning other motorists who find themselves in a similar situation not to do the same.

Scripps Hospitals have put in place several visitor restrictions at their hospitals around San Diego in an effort to protect staff and patients from the flu.

The temporary measures put in place Monday aim to prevent flu infections following news from the County’s Health and Human Services that two people in San Diego died from the flu.

All visitors will be screened starting Monday, Scripps spokesman Leonel Sanchez said, and those visitors displaying flu-like symptoms will be asked to leave.

Children 14 years old and under will not be allowed inside – including lobbies and common areas -- unless they are patients or have appointments, Sanchez said. Patients will also be limited to a maximum of four visitors a day.

"And it only takes a minute," said hospital visitor Seth Doughty. "If you're healthy coming in the hospital, they can tell just by looking at you. If you come in carrying some sort of disease, you'll be showing some kind of symptoms."

Exceptions to the temporary measures will be permitted by officials for special circumstances.

Scripps physicians said it is not too late to receive a flu shot. Getting vaccinated is the best way to prevent getting the flu, doctors suggest.

Still, health officials said influenza this winter is spreading and sickening San Diegans at a faster rate than last year’s flu season: there have been 263 confirmed cases to date, more than double last year’s number.

Nationwide, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has described this flu season as an “epidemic.”

The restrictions started 8 a.m. Monday and include Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas and Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla.

The county had 70 flu deaths last year.

The former Miami Dolphins player who survived a nine-mile swim to shore after falling off his boat in the waters off Palm Beach County last week said he endured a "boater's nightmare."

"I shouldn't be here," Rob Konrad told reporters at a news conference in Plantation Monday.

Konrad, 38, was aboard his 36-foot boat Thursday when he tripped and fell overboard as the boat was on autopilot at 5 mph, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report.

Konrad said he'd hooked a fish when a bog wave hit his boat, knocking him off as the boat motored away.

"I quickly realized I was in a real bad situation and made the decision that I was going to start swimming toward shore," Konrad said.

A fishing boat passed within 50 yards of him as he swam, but he wasn't able to flag them down, he said. A Coast Guard helicopter also flew over him but didn't see him. He also said he was bitten by jellyfish and had a shark swim circles around him.

"I prayed to God to send a boat or the Coast Guard to come get me," Konrad said. "After some time I just said, 'Look, I'm not dying tonight. I'm going to make it to shore.'"

He swam the nine miles to shore and approached an officer wearing only his underwear, the report said. The report said he told the officer he had been swimming for 10 hours, but Konrad said he was in the water for about 16 hours.

Konrad was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for symptoms of hypothermia and dehydration. He was released after several days.

The Dolphins drafted Konrad in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft. The fullback played parts of six seasons in Miami, recording seven touchdowns.

State officials want to adopt a policy started in San Diego emergency rooms aimed at preventing drug abuse by restricting painkiller use.

Emergency departments in San Diego County have limited the painkillers they dispense: Doctors there don’t prescribe painkillers if the patient is already receiving prescriptions from another provider.

Among other restrictions, ER doctors also don’t refill stolen or lost prescriptions nor do they prescribe long-acting pain medications, such as Oxycontin or Methadone.

The California Department of Public Health is working with other state agencies to adopt these guidelines statewide, calling San Diego’s model “a model for other counties in the state.”

“The county has been and continues to aggressively fight the prescription drug problem in the region to prevent abuse and deaths,” Vice Chairman Dave Roberts said in a news release.

Deaths from prescription drug abuse in San Diego County are on the decline: there were 259 deaths in 2013 (the most recent statistics available), down from 268 the previous year.

Residents are encouraged to report drug activity to police and also can call the prescription drug hotline at 888-662-6384.

As the San Onofre nuclear power plant awaits full dismantling and the on-site burial of 3.6 million pounds of spent fuel rods, an uproar over "transparency" is engulfing the new president of the California Public Utilities Commission.

Among the questions being raised by San Diego attorneys advocating for ratepayers is this: Why has newly installed CPUC President Michael Picker been deleting all of his emails older than 90 days? And would they reveal a pattern and practice that drove his predecessor out of the job?

Michael Picker has vast public-sector and private political experience in Sacramento, starting with Gov. Jerry Brown's first term in the 1970s.

He's become CPUC president since Michael Peevey was accused of influence-peddling in the probe of PG&E 's deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion in 2010.

Peevey's indiscretions were exposed in a chain of emails.

Now, Picker has been deleting his own emails older than 90 days.

It's a practice denounced by San Diego critics who call CPUC financial settlements in the San Onofre plant shutdown "a sellout" from the standpoint of ratepayers.

They wonder about Picker's impartiality.

"You know, he says he represents ratepayers,” attorney Maria Severson told reporters at a Monday news conference downtown, “but the reality is, if you truly represent ratepayers, why aren't you transparent in your business dealings?"

CPUC critics say malfunctions that shut down the San Onofre plant, and efforts to settle the liabilities among the plant’s owners -- Southern California Edison and SDG&E -- and the utilities’ customers, were subjects of a private meeting between Picker and Peevey.

Critics also say the commission has ignored public records requests for documents relating to that meeting and what came out it.

They think the agency has been so cozy with the utilities – essentially giving them an uneven playing field against ratepayers -- that they should undergo wholesale ethics reforms.

"The reason that this is so important is that the people of Southern California are going to be paying close to $5 billion for a San Onofre disaster, the failure of the nuclear plant, for the next decade," said former city attorney Mike Aguirre, Seversons’ law partner.

"No more secret settlements,” Aguirre added. “Settlements should be open and openly arrived at."

A CPUC spokesman told NBC 7 that Picker has a 90-day default to avoid email buildups that would shut down his mailbox, and that CPUC's IT team can access the commission's email going back five years.

So will Picker's deletions be released public, and if so, when?

There was no immediate CPUC response to that.
 

In 2014, San Diego police documented 16,238 incidents in which an officer used force, like drawing his weapon or firing a taser.

Officers self-assess whether a particular "use of force" incident was effective or not, and SDPD says force has been effective 90 percent of the time.

NBC7 requested SDPD data related to force incidents on Nov. 16.

We received this two-page .pdf document on Dec. 16 detailing how many times different force options were used between Jan. 1, 2014 and Dec. 1, 2014, nearly a year.

SDPD says information, such as where these incidents occured, injuries and surrounding circumstances, are not legally required to be disclosed because of the "investigations" exemption in the California Public Records Act.

San Diego police receive nearly a million calls for service a year and dispatch officers to at least half of those calls.

"Even before they arrive on scene, the officers are looking at the dispatches and they're thinking about things. They're wondering where the situation is taking place. They're wondering if they have adequate resources," said SDPD Sgt. Jeffrey Jordon, who is the vice-president of the San Diego Police Officers Association.

With the halls of his police association lined with photos of officers lost, Jordon said somewhere in this city, an officer is going to face violence every single day.

"It's the only job I know of that going into it, when you take this job, you know you're going to get punched in the face at some point," Jordon said.

NBC 7 found officers documented using their own physical strength the most often with 7,409 incidents. They used the foam batton least with only six documented incidents.

Jordon warned that the figures may be compounded with different officers involved in a single incident or officers having to escalate force until compliance is achieved.

"In each and every one of those cases, no matter what they're doing from pointing a handgun, deploying a canine, potentially firing a taser, or using less lethal force, and maybe firing bean bag rounds, every single one of those is documented, even though it's one incident, there could be ten uses of force on that one incident," he said.

Officers pointed their firearms 1,658 times in 2014, and used a carotid restraint, otherwise known as a chokehold, 246 times, the data shows.

Police document the effectiveness of the force used by whether compliance is achieved "to mitigate the risk of this person we may be using force against from getting out and injuring a large number of citizens. And that constantly plays into the officer's mind as they deploy force," said Jordon.

SDPD officers rated themselves with a nearly 90 percent effective rate on force options used. The most effective was the "take down," and the least was the foam batton that is rarely used.

In general, the data shows more effective force options are used more often and those rated least effective were used less often.

However, when an officer marks that a force option had "unknown effectiveness," it is lumped into the effective percentage.

"The unknown category cannot be ruled out as being effective," Lt. Kevin Mayer said.

Attorney Gene Iredale represents clients in wrongful death and law enforcement use of force cases.

He believes more oversight is needed.

"Most of the time, that force is probably reasonable and justified, but sometimes, and unfortantely many times, people are killed who need not be killed, people are beaten who need not be beaten or brutalized," Iredale said.

NBC 7 also found that SDPD has nearly twice as many officer-involved shootings than any other city, out of more than 40 mid-size cities surveyed. The 25 officer-involved shootings in San Diego for 2012, 2013 and most of 2014 involved at least 12 fatalities.

The police departments with the next highest figures for officer-involved shootings were Dallas Police Department, which had 12 total, and Fort Worth Police Department with 14 in the same years.

SDPD had no response to questions about those figures.

Executive Producer Lynn Walsh contributed to this report.

San Ysdiro’s Interim Superintendent Dr. George Cameron has resigned from his position, according to Antonio Martinez, the school district’s board president.

Cameron cited personal reasons for leaving as he submitted his resignation at a special board meeting Saturday, and the news was announced to staff Monday.

The school board plans to fill the position with another interim superintendent as soon as possible. In February, the board will conduct a formal search for the district’s next leader, Martinez told NBC 7.

They hope to have a new, permanent superintendent hired and in place by the next school year, which starts in July 2015.

The position of the San Ysidro School District superintendent has been in flux since the district became embroiled in a pay-to-play scandal involving contractors and school construction projects.

The last permanent superintendent, Manuel Paul, resigned in April 2013 after he admitted to accepting $2,500 in parking lot case from a contractor wanting to work with the district. He pleaded guilty in August 2014 to a misdemeanor charge of deprivation of benefits for political contributions.

Following Paul’s tenure, Gloria Madera was installed as interim superintendent. She abruptly tendered her resignation in March 2014 when the district received a negative certificate, meaning it was not able to meet its financial obligations.

Cameron took the position soon after that. He led the district through contentious contract negotiations with the teacher’s union in October. San Ysidro teachers went on strike for three days during that period of time.

As the U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) deals with hacks to its Twitter and YouTube accounts, a San Diego computer security expert said he expects to see more cyber-attacks just like it.

CENTCOM confirmed its sites were “comprised” for about 30 minutes Monday when pro-ISIS messages were posted by unknown hackers, NBC News reports. Two ISIS videos appeared on the CENTCOM YouTube page, and the agency’s Twitter banner and profile images were replaced with messages that read "CyberCaliphate" and “I love you isis.”

“We’re going to see more of these attacks partly because when the bad guys see something like this, it emboldens them,” said Stephen Cobb, Senior Security Researcher at ESET. “There will be copycat attacks and so on, and we still don’t have the protection in place that we should have had some years ago.”

Cobb said the hack is embarrassing for both the government and military, and he also wonders about the amount of security being used on government social media accounts.

“That’s where organizations, both public and private, fall down. They don’t realize how much ability there is out there to attack and whether or not it’s appropriate to be using some of the technology we’re using if it is not fully secure,” said Cobb.

The hackers posted spreadsheets to Twitter that contained contact information and addresses of retired U.S. Army generals. Defense officials said none of the information was classified and some of it was taken from presentations on other Internet sites, according to NBC News.

Cobb told NBC 7 there will continue to be a cyber “arms race” between the good guys and the bad guys, and he expects the problem to get worse before it gets better.

“Long term, the solution is to tighten up security that we put in place, but to also address the issues that result in the criminal attacks,” said Cobb. “And so that’s something that has to happen on a national and international level where this kind of activity is deterred very seriously by governments rather than the people using the technology.”

CENTCOM said the social media sites operated on commercial, non-Defense Department servers. They have been taken offline while officials investigate the incident.