A car ran into the glass store front of a Cty Heights building, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said.
The incident happened at approximately 11:25 a.m. Saturday on the 4100 block of El Cajon Boulevard.
The patient is not trapped in the car, fire officials said, and appears to have minor injuries.
The extent of the damages to the store was not immediately clear.
One woman received a special honor Friday after she was denied the chance to join the troop in the 1960s.
"This was total surprise to become now an inductee of the Girl Scouts at 62 years of age,” said San Diego resident Daphyne Watson.
Watson said she was denied the chance to join the organization in elementary school in New York because she was black.
Her granddaughter’s troop, Girl Scout Troop 4044, held an Investiture ceremony to make Watson an inductee girl scout. The ceremony invited her into the troop.
In 1960, Watson was in second grade in Smithtown, Long Island, New York when her teacher announced that each girl wanting to join the Brownies troop needed to stay after school.
When it was time for Watson’s meeting, her teacher told her black girls couldn’t join the girl scouts. At the time, Girl Scouts had a non-discrimination policy, but not all troops followed the policy.
Watson admitted she was skeptical of the Girl Scouts at first, but as she became an adult, she realized what they were doing for the community and fully supported the organization.
Police are looking for a man that stabbed a woman in the leg with a steak knife and attempted to steal her purse.
The incident happened at approximately 3:14 p.m. Saturday on the 4400 block of Santa Monica Avenue, San Diego Police said.
A 55-year-old female was in her car when a male noticed her purse in the passenger seat and stabbed her in the left thigh with a steak knife. The man attempted to steal his purse, but she fought him and the man eventually left without taking anything.
SDPD described the suspect as a 200 pound six foot man with curly black hair. At the time, he was wearing a red shirt with a circle design on it with sleeves past the elbows, dark shorts and black globes with the fingers cut off.
The suspect was pushing a stroller or golf bag cart. Police said the man is likely homeless.
Police are searching for the suspect. The San Diego Police Department helicopter ABLE flew over Santa Barbara Street and Santa Monice Avenue in Point Loma Heights, making announcements.
Police said the woman suffered a deep wound on her leg and was taken to the hospital but did not have life-threatening injuries.
Summer may be months away, but San Diegans can get a taste of adventure locally over Valentine’s Day weekend.
The San Diego Travel and Adventure Show is returning to the San Diego Convention Center on Feb. 14 and 15.
The 2nd annual show features hundreds of travel experts and dozens of travel seminars as well as cultural performances, cooking demonstrations and interactive activities. The show will help people plan, book and prepare for their next trip.
The event opened at 10 a.m. on Saturday and will close at 5 p.m. On Sunday, the show will open at 11 a.m. and go until 4 p.m.
Tickets and more information on the show can be found by clicking here.
2015 marks 30 years since the San Diego Police Department created the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) unit's Special Response Team.
Since then, SWAT has become one of the largest units in the country. The team was created in 1968, after a deadly shooting at Hub Loan Company in Downtown San Diego. The suspect and police officers fired 1,000 rounds between them. There was no organized response to that 1965 shooting.
"We now have one of the largest SWAT units in the country, because we never want to see an officer or anyone else bleeding out. We want to be able to get them out of harm's way, and out of the hot zone, so medics can help them right away," says SWAT Commanding Officer Mark Saunders.
In 1985, San Diego police created its Special Response Team (SRT), the department's full time SWAT unit. SRT came about after the mass shooting at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro in 1984.
The Special Response Team trains constantly, so they can maintain a level of operational readiness.
Drills are often conducted in sound stages at "Strategic Operations," Stu Segall's productions studio in Kearny Mesa. Segall previously used the studio to film television shows, so the sets are ideal for police and military training scenarios.
The walls inside the sound stages are movable, so the Special Response Team can alter the layout for each exercise, which include movement drills, dynamic entries and covert clearings.
Those exercises are all viewed and critiqued from a catwalk, by fellow SRT members.
"We've gone through a lot of stressful situations together. In training, we try to mirror that stress. Comradery is very important. Our cohesiveness is very important," says SWAT Officer Michael DeWitt.
SRT members take turns as the lead instructor. After each drill, and actual SWAT call-outs, they debrief.
"The main reason for watching movement during tactical training is to fine tune, find the little mistakes, and improve. We're always looking for areas to improve. Because what we do is very dangerous, and we want to make it safe," says Officer DeWitt.
SRT also trains the Primary Response Team (PRT), a slew of patrol officers assigned to various divisions throughout the city. That means the department can quickly respond to SWAT call-outs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
All SWAT officers have worked in patrol for at least 3 years. Once they pass the 4-week SWAT academy, officers must pass physical tests and firearms qualifications twice a year to remain on the team.
SWAT also has a team of snipers, who respond to every incident. While snipers must be expert shooters, their primary mission is gathering intelligence.
"I know a lot of people think we're real militaristic, but we're not. Most of the stuff we use the Bearcat (armored vehicle) for is protection purposes only. There are no guns mounted to it. We just use it as a piece of cover to rescue a citizen or other downed officer and have somewhere to be where a bullet won't hit us," says Officer DeWitt.
SWAT's main objective is always saving lives. That's why negotiations can sometimes take hours.
"We try and exercise as much patience as possible. 99% of what we go out on is going to end peacefully. But there are a small percentage of those who want to challenge the police. And that's why we have a SWAT unit," says SWAT Sergeant Mark Willhelm.
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department plays in important role in SWAT. Two medics/firefighters from Special Trauma And Rescue (STAR) respond to all call-outs and warrant service operations with an ambulance. STAR members attend the SWAT academy, and train with the Primary Response Team every month.
STAR and PRT were created in 1981, after two officers with the San Diego Police Department were killed responding to a dispute between two neighbors over a rose bush.
SWAT also uses a second, smaller training house at Naval Training Center (NTC) when the facility at Strategic Operations is being used for something else.
Right now, SWAT is working on a blueprint for a bigger training house at NTC.
"It will give us flexibility on our floor plans and our training scenarios. The space is a lot bigger. We would also able to add a second story to it. That second story would allow us to work stairwells and use different tactics," says Lieutenant Saunders.
The bigger training house is not part of the department's budget, so Lieutenant Saunders is reaching out to donors for the cost of the wood and labor. He hopes to have it built by the end of the year.
SWAT is also looking for ways to pay for new night vision goggles.
"Seeing better in the dark would change how we train. We wouldn't have to rely on flashlights, and would be able to make stealth approaches when appropriate," says Lieutenant Saunders.
Looking for a new way -- aside from chocolates and flowers -- to share Valentine’s Day this year with your partner in crime?
The Headquarters, the revitalized former San Diego Police headquarters in downtown San Diego, is hosting such a unique Valentine’s Day bash it’s criminal. It will include an outdoor showing of the classic movie, “Bonnie & Clyde,” along with picture-taking in the 1939 jail cells.
Come early for cocktails and chocolates and bring a chair or blanket for the screening. The movie starts at 6 p.m. Friday and the best part is that it’s free.
If you and your special someone aren’t the lawless bunch, there are plenty other unique ways to share your love on Valentine’s Day.
Here are a few other ideas:
Vowentine’s Day at The Del: Were you married at the Hotel Del Coronado? If so, you can renew your vows in a special ceremony in the hotel’s Crown Room on Valentine’s Day. The event costs $400 per couple and includes a bouquet and boutineer, a three-course dinner and cake, dancing and a photo. More details here.
Paper-cutting workshop: Craft the perfect Valentine for your Valentine by taking this art of paper cutting workshop at the San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego artist Bhavna Mehta will show off his unique style for designing and creating paper cards. The workshop costs $45 for members and $55 for nonmembers.
Five-course fondue: Head to The Melting Pot in the Gaslamp Quarter on Friday between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. for five courses of fondue! This event features a prix-fixe menu.
Couples Acro Yoga: Don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day by eating chocolate. Burn those calories with a Couple Connection Acro Yoga Class at 2 p.m. Feb. 14 at Grotto Climbing, 4460 Alvarado Canyon (just east of Qualcomm Stadium). For more information, call 619-283-2105.
Life-sized Cards: Take a family photo behind a life-size, heart-shaped cutout Valentine's Day card created by Legoland. You can get your picture taken at the Palm Plaza at Westfield UTC on Thursday and Friday between noon and 3 p.m.
Nearly 200 couples will be tying the knot in San Diego this Valentine’s Day.
County employees will be working from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday as couples wed outside at County Administration Office.
The County Clerk said 187 couples will say “I do” at the park.
Those weddings will take place at the Waterfront Park throughout the day.
Flower shops in the city are also feeling the heat this Valentine's Day.
Flowers by Coley in Kearny Mesa said the average price for a dozen roses is usually about $65, but goes up to $95 around Valentines day.
"We're paying twice, sometimes more as a flower shop depending on how well prepared you get as a flower shop. You know last minute orders, sometimes those prices goe even higher. So, we could be paying two to two and a half times as much for our rose prices," said Alex Colmenero of Flowers by Coley.
Americans will spend $2.1 billion on flowers this Valentine's Day, according to the National Retail Federation.
In all, Americans will spend $18.9 billion this Valentine's Day. That's the most since they started tracking the numbers.
One man was arrested after an extensive air and ground search in Lemon Grove, police said.
At 8:38 Friday, Lemon Grove Deputies looking for Julius Weatherspoon responded to the Main Street Trolley Station area to check for him. Weatherspoon was wanted for assault with a deadly weapon, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said.
Just before 9 p.m., Weatherspoon was seen in a barber shop on the 7900 block of Broadway, officials said. As they worked to establish a perimeter, Weatherspoon slipped out a back door.
Deputies, ASTREA and a Sheriff’s Canine all helped in the search for Weatherspoon, the SDSO said. Search crews tracked him to a small shed in front of an apartment building on the 7600 block of Pacific Avenue. They took him into custody and arrested him.
A four-year-old lost Logan Heights dog is getting a second chance at life after a lucky night involving crossing paths with a San Diego police officer three times.
"I'm not the biggest person in fate, but as I was driving over there I thought, 'If it's the same dog, if it's the same dog...I'll put a hold on it [at the shelter], and everything like that," said Officer Sam Cote who regularly patrols San Diego's central division.
New Year's Eve 2014, Officer Cote responded to a business in Logan Heights. The alarm had gone off alerting police to check on the property. Cote arrived to see a dog sitting on some stairs.
As he checked the perimeter of the business, the apparent abandoned dog followed him during the entire search.
"It was like having a K9 unit," he remembered.
Turns out, it was a false alarm. Officer Cote left, leaving the dog and the business. However, about an hour later, he said, "She was at 19th and Imperial by the northbound 5 on-ramp just running around the middle of the road. It actually scared the heck out of me."
The dog ended up making it to the other side of the road, and Officer Cote, once again, continued on with this night.
Then, two hours later, his sergeant called saying someone in the area had captured a lost dog. Officer Cote said he couldn't ignore that sign.
Turns out, that dog was indeed the one he had crossed paths with numerous times that evening.
He brought her to a nearby shelter and told them if no one claimed her after a week, he would adopt her.
That's what ended up happening. He and his wife have named her Sadie. They say she gets along very well with their first dog, Lux.
Officer Cote told NBC 7 he wanted to share his story to show to the public, underneath the uniform, police officers are regular people too.
Roy Moskop didn't buy roses for his wife or take her out to a fancy dinner on Valentine's Day, he's just doing everything he can to help her hold on to the memories of the life they've shared for the last 70 years.
"70 years. It went by awful fast. It didn't seem like 70 years. I remember meeting older couples when we were younger and they had 70th anniversaries and I thought at least I don't have to worry about that because I won't live that long. And it's a big surprise that we did," he said.
When 93-year-old Roy Moskop looks in his wife's face, he still sees the woman he married in 1945.
"She looks now so perfectly normal to me. Like it's the way she's always looked. And of course I know -- I see pictures, I look in the mirror -- we both look so much different. But you're with one person that long and they become part of you. And you become part of them," he said.
Roy and Helen are both 93-years-old. They started dating shortly before he shipped out to Italy to fight in World War II. Roy describes their early courtship as a "sister swap," and he never looked back.
"I was dating her sister at first. But it didn't take long before I met Helen and I realized I chose the wrong sister, he said. "It was a situation where we kind of all agreed I was better suited for Helen."
They wrote letters to each other every day during the war, and were engaged within weeks of his return to the states. and married shortly thereafter.
Helen suffers from Alzheimer’s now, and Roy has watched her inevitable decline, powerless to stop it.
"I just want to be sure that she's happy. I remember a lot of things that we had together, the places we traveled, and I greatly appreciate that we had a life that she made possible. And I owe her a lot," he said.
For the last two years they've lived in the Windsor Senior Center in North Dallas. Roy is sharp and active, as energetic as any 93-year-old could be.
But Roy chooses to live with Helen inside the Windsor's dedicated Memory Unit wing, designed for caring for those residents with Alzheimer's Disease. He says he wanted to be with his wife around the clock.
"It's like the minister says, together for better or worse. Sickness and health. And right, now she needs me more than I’ve ever needed her in the past. This is my chance to pay it back," he said.
"He has made the choice to live with her and live in her surroundings. Care for her, eat with her," said Carol Cottle, one of Helen's caretakers. "He could have lived on a different part of the community, on a floor with more active seniors, and not have to be around the residents who require that extra care. But he chose to be with her 24-7."
Roy enjoys reading to his wife and reviewing their old photo albums together -- hundreds and hundreds of photographs.
"She likes it when I'm around. We hold hands a lot, that seems to comfort her," he said.
They've traveled around the world together over the decades, to every continent except Antarctica. They raised three children, and have five grandchildren. And the Moskop family is growing still.
Roy's undying love for his wife inspires the entire staff.
"I'm sitting here and listening to this and thinking every day is their valentine's Day. He is her sweetheart every day. As she is his," Carol Cottle said.
"I've been married 45 years, and for them to continue to mentor me, speaks volumes on how to live your life. And the power of that covenant of marriage," Cottle said.
Cottle says it's gentle but powerful reminder about what Valentine's Day is really about, and how the grandest romantic gesture can also be the simplest.
"She may not be able to say all the things that he might want to hear, but she touches him. She looks at him. She calls his name. That's love," she said.
Helen Moskop turns 94 on Sunday.
Roy shared his advice for young couples and newlyweds during the NBC5 interview, and even what he thinks about Valentine's Day. Watch his extended interview with NBC5 below:
Seven people were hurt after a pileup involving 107 cars in Erie County, Pennsylvania Saturday.
The pileup occurred in the westbound lanes of I-90 at mile-marker 41 near the I-86 intersection.
Seven people suffered “bumps and bruises” in the pileup though no one was killed or seriously injured, according to officials.
I-90 was closed for several hours due to the accident.
Officials said road conditions were “icy” at the time of the accident with one to two inches of snow on the ground as well as blowing snow in the air.
A Pennsylvania man says a typo led to a $33,000 overcharge on his electric bill with the Philadelphia-based company, PECO. Now he’s speaking out, claiming PECO took too long to respond to him and refund him for an obvious mistake.
Steve Onufrey, 71, of Warminster, Pennsylvania, told NBC10 the ordeal began when his wife made a typo while sending an electronic bill payment to PECO in January.
“My wife did not enter in a decimal point on a bill for $339.38 and the payment went through as $33,938,” Onufrey said.
Fortunately for Onufrey, he just happened to have enough money in his account for the huge payment to go through.
“That money happened to be in the account due to the settlement on my father’s house in Northeast Philadelphia after he died last year,” he said. “The money was waiting to get taxes calculated on it prior to putting the rest in an interest bearing account.”
Onufrey reached out to PECO as well as his bank Wells Fargo. Onufrey claims reporting the overchage to PECO was a long and frustrating process.
“I was on the phone literally every day this week with agents, supervisors and managers,” he said. “All who said they would call me back that same day – no one ever did call me back.”
Onufrey says he was finally told Friday by a PECO manager that a refund check would be mailed to him on Feb. 19, which would meet the company’s 30 day standard wait time for refunds.
“Nothing was done to get this to me any earlier,” Onufrey said. “$33,000 and it is treated like a $33 overpayment.”
Onufrey admits he’s fortunate to have actually had the money in his account but wanted to speak out for other customers in a similar situation who weren’t so lucky.
“If this happened to me, I am sure this type of mistake has happened to others and will happen again,” Onufrey said. “I feel for others who are less fortunate than me financially and need a refund due to a simple mistake and a request for a legitimate refund is denied which may have a financial snowball effect that will be of harm to them.”
NBC10 reached out to a PECO spokesperson for comment Friday. The spokesperson said they weren’t able to access Onufrey’s account until Monday to verify his story. The spokesperson also said however that the normal wait time for a refund is 30 days.
Although Valentine’s Day is a happy day for many people, it is sad and lonely for some who feel broken-hearted.
Well, as it turns out, a severe loss can cause a real "broken heart."
The medical term is takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
It happens when a sudden surge of stress hormones attack the heart and cause its muscle to fail.
Dr. Elaine Kamil suffered from the condition a few years ago after a tragic loss
"We lost our 31-year-old son at the time, Adam," she said. "It was a horrible experience."
The emotional toll eventually took a physical toll, when Kamil awoke in the middle of the night with chest pain.
"So I thought this couldn't be a heart attack, but then it was really bad pain and it didn't get better, so I woke up my husband and made him take me to the emergency department," she said.
Dr. Puja Mehta of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute explained what was happening.
"The heart basically stops working properly, so it balloons out and there’s dysfunction of the actual muscle and people go into heart failure," she said.
The condition affects post-menopausal women most often, but it can affect anyone.
The good news is that when Broken Heart Syndrome is treated quickly it may actually be reversed. The longer the patient waits, the more likely it is that the damage can be permanent.
So, if you get chest pain or any other unusual symptoms after stress don’t ignore them. In many cases doctors can fix a broken heart if you get to them soon enough.
A Southern California high school basketball player was recovering Saturday from a gunshot wound he suffered on a public bus after winning a championship game.
Reginald Thimes, a straight-A student at Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood, says he was on a Metro bus heading home to celebrate winning the league title against Roybal High School on Friday when a stray bullet hit him on his side.
The 17-year-old senior said he had a strange feeling something could go wrong that night.
"I thought we were just going to lose the game but like, it turned out to be me getting shot," Thimes said.
About 10:15 p.m. Friday, three men approached a woman in a car at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Western Avenue in South LA, police said. The men opened fire as she began to drive off.
Thimes was riding in the back of the bus, which had taken a detour. He was struck above his left rib by the stray bullet.
"I heard a pop, like the shattered glass, and then I'd seen the shattered glass from my peripheral, and then I dropped to the floor," Thimes said.
The teen was hit, but managed to walk off the bus and was placed in the back of the ambulance by firefighters.
"They really saved my life," Thimes said. "Once I was getting loaded onto the ambulance I seen my mom finally pull up and as soon as she looked at me she was already tearing (up) and I said, 'Don't cry, don't cry. I'll be all right.'"
Thimes was treated at California Hospital and released to recuperate at home.
His uncle was helping him recover from the wound. The bullet remained lodged in the teen's body.
"It could've hit me in my spine, head," Thimes said.
Thimes was scheduled to return to the hospital next week, about the same time his high school playoff game begins.
The woman who was shot at was treated for cuts from shattered glass, officials said.
Police were searching for the men who opened fire.
Melissa Etezadi and Oleevia Woo contributed to this story.
An Alaska Airlines flight out of Los Angeles International Airport was delayed Saturday night after a passenger said they were stung by a scorpion on the plane, airline officials said.
Flight 567, which was carrying two college basketball teams, was preparing to depart at 7:50 p.m. for Portland, Ore., when the sting was reported, Alaska Airlines spokesman Cole Cosgrove said.
The female passenger was checked out by medics at the gate and released, but didn’t continue on the flight, Cosgrove said.
The scorpion was found and killed by the crew, who checked overhead compartments for any additional unwanted arachnids, Cosgrove said.
It was unclear how the scorpion got on the plane. The flight originated from Los Cabos, Mexico, Cosgrove said.
Both Oregon State University Men's and The University of Portland's Women's Basketball teams were aboard the flight to go home after weekend games in Los Angeles, according to Oregon State University radio play-by-play announcer Mike Parker.
The flight was delayed by 40 minutes.
Olivia Woo and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Hospital employees battled white-out conditions to get into work Sunday morning in snow-ravaged Boston.
Some, however, were grateful to accept a generous offer from the head of the city's police department.
Necn spotted Commissioner William Evans as he drove some hospital workers to Massachusetts General Hospital.
"I think the city's doing a good job, but obviously, we hope everybody hangs in their house and lets the city do their job," said Evans. "All in all, I think we're doing the best we can do."
There is no travel ban in effect, but city and state officials have asked people to stay off the roads if they don't need to be anywhere.
A jump in the number of stranded sea lions has been keeping authorities busy this year, so much so that one La Jolla family had a pup on their back patio for more than a day.
SeaWorld has rescued more than 185 sea lion pups so far in 2015. That number is nearly as many as SeaWorld rescued in all of 2014.
One of those pups landed in a family's La Jolla backyard. Homeowner Chris Acks said the sea lion that wandered into the family's backyard looked malnourished.
It stayed for a day before it wandered back into the ocean, but it was long enough for five-year-old granddaughter Mary to decide the pup was a boy and to give it a name.
"He's very cute and very nice," Mary said.
The rescued pups this year have not been in good health condition, said SeaWorld’s Dave Koontz. Some pups have weighed in around 20 pounds at the time of their rescue, just over their birth weight. Normally, sea lion pups are 50 to 60 pounds.
When SeaWorld takes the sea lions in, they stabilize them and in some cases tube feed them back to health, Koontz said. They make sure the pups can compete for food in a pool before bringing them back out to sea to an area they know has food.
Koontz said there is a clear shortage of food in the water, though he could not comment on why that was the case.
The Acks family said goodbye to their temporary visitor after it wandered back into the ocean before SeaWorld could come rescue it.
If you find a stranded sea lion, don’t approach the pup or try to feed it. Instead, call SeaWorld’s rescue line at 800- 541-7325. SeaWorld has been flooded with calls about the stranded pups. At time, they will wait to come and rescue the pups because sometimes the animals will go back into the water on their own.
A two vehicle crash near Del Mar Heights Road on Interstate 5 has left one dead, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said.
The crash happened around 7 a.m. Sunday on the northbound Interstate 5, the California Highway Patrol said.
Traffic was back to normal around 10:15 a.m. Sunday.
A man was stabbed after getting in an argument with two males in Downtown San Diego, police said.
The incident happened around 9:25 p.m. Saturday on the 500 block of B Street, San Diego Police said.
A male in his 20s got into an argument with two other males, police said, when during the argument the victim was stabbed in his right side. He was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The suspects were last seen heading westbound on 500 B Street. The first suspect is described as a male wearing a shirt, shorts and a backpack, police said, and the second suspect is described at wearing a shirt, pants and a backpack.
San Diego Police Central Detectives are investigating.
