Comedian Will Ferrell played all 9 positions and coached for 10 teams in five Arizona ballparks Thursday in a spring-training blitz chronicled for an HBO special.
In one video clip posted by the San Diego Padres, Ferrell joked with manager Bud Black about his chances to make the team.
The U.S. Marines are making some big software upgrades to their controversial F-35B stealth fighter jets, hoping to allow one of the military’s most advanced and expensive aircraft to reach new heights by this summer.
At Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, engineers are installing new software called Block 2B to the planes.
"Well now when we go to 2B, we'll be able to go to 550 knots, we'll be able to go above the speed of sound, we'll be able to pull more Gs,” said Lt. Col. Steve Gillette, commanding officers of the Marine Fighters Attack Squadron 121.
The squadron, known as the Green Knights, is closer to having the jet ready for combat in just over three months. But getting the F-35B prepared has not been without its hitches.
CNBC and The Fiscal Times reported the F-35 Lightning II is the most expensive – and possibly the most bug-filled – project in the U.S. military’s history.
The Department of Defense is expected to spend $1.5 trillion over the program’s 55 years, and Winslow Wheeler with the Project of Government Oversight, a critic of the program, puts the cost of one Marine Corps F-35B at about $250 million.
The Lockheed Martin plane has been hampered with years of delays and cost overruns. Most recently, the Air Force reported concerns that the jet may not be able to tolerate fuel that is heated past a certain temperature, according to a CNBC report.
Gillette said his team has not had any problems with the F-35B in Yuma. They have been working with the aircraft for nearly two years, progressively adding software, having pilots test it and solving any issues.
"It's a very technical airplane, but [service members] have adapted extremely well to taking care of this airplane, and we continue to make huge progress,” he said.
If it performs as advertised, the F-35 will help pilots dominate the skies by evading enemy radar. The Marine version of the plane is capable of short take-offs and vertical landings – important for being close to troops on a mission.
"At the end of the day, all we really care about is can we better serve the Marines that are on the ground, as we support them as the aviation combat element, and I think the F-35 will do that very well,” said Gillette.
The Green Knights have a July deadline to meet the initial operational capability – a big step toward deployment.
As the mayor’s advisory group announced recommendations for a new Mission Valley stadium Thursday, Chargers officials were in Carson, helping gather signatures to put a proposed Chargers-Raiders stadium on the ballot there.
Both teams are paying for a campaign that seeks to get 8,041 valid signatures to qualify a stadium initiative for the ballot, according to Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani. Both paid and volunteer signature gatherers are joining in the effort.
If the initiative qualifies, the Carson City Council can adopt it as written or put on a special election to let the voters decide.
If the proposal is approved, the teams will have a green light to start construction on their $1.7 billion stadium, financed by Goldman Sachs.
Thursday morning, San Diego’s Citizens Stadium Advisory Group made its first public recommendation for a proposed stadium, saying Mission Valley made the most sense for a multi-use stadium already zoned for that purpose.
But the Chargers have made it no secret that they prefer a hybrid stadium-convention center in downtown San Diego – if they stay in this city at all.
The sister of a teen girl accused of starting the Cocos Fire was tight-lipped and tentative as she took the stand on Thursday.
She confirmed that her sister laughed as she told her there was a fire in the family’s backyard – which ultimately set off the larger May fire.
The 15-year-old sister’s testimony came on the third day of trial. The suspect is charged with four felonies and was just 13 when she was accused of setting the tree in her backyard on fire. The blaze left an ember behind that floated away and caused last May’s devastating fire that burned dozens of homes.
The suspect’s sister was tentative as she took the stand, answering most questions with one-word answers.
The prosecutor pressed her for answers. Often, there were long pauses and the judge tried to intercede to help get answers. Eventually, the line of questioning turned to the sister's state of mind.
The prosecutor asked: Are you sad?
“Yes,” she said.
Are you nervous?
“Yes,” she said.
Asked if she was worried about her sister, the girl broke down in tears.
The 15-year-old did confirm that she told authorities that her sister came into her room, told her about the fire in the backyard and was laughing.
However, after the girl left the stand, the judge noted many inconsistencies in her testimony, raising issues of hearsay and impeachment.
This means her credibility could be challenged later by other evidence brought to trial.
A sharp knife designed to fit inside your wallet is the latest gadget causing concern at security checkpoints countywide.
Sheriff's deputies who run security screenings at county courthouses are now specifically trained to look for the knives after they started popping up on x-rays with increased frequency.
“The more items around the credit card knife, the harder it is to detect," said San Diego Sheriff’s Lt. Fran Passalacqua. The blades are difficult to spot when they're inside a purse, backpack or bag.
You can find the knives on the internet, and they’re a popular giveaway item at conventions and conferences.
The knives are also being confiscated daily by airport security screeners with the Transportation Security Administration.
"Most of the time, it's people forget things are in their wallet, people forget what business cards they have, they forget they do have them," said Lt. Passalacqua. "They can be purchased, they are not illegal to carry on the street, they do follow california penal code guidelines."
If found at a county courthouse, the knife is returned to the owner - who is asked to leave it outside. If pressed for time, they can opt to have it confiscated on site.
The 16-year-old girl arrested in connection with a vicious brawl involving a group of girls inside a Brooklyn McDonald's earlier this week has been arrested half a dozen times since September on various offenses, including for allegedly attacking her own grandmother, records show.
Aniah Ferguson was arraigned Friday in Brooklyn on robbery and gang assault charges in connection with Monday's brawl, which was recorded on cellphone and posted on Facebook, prompting outcry from parents and community advocates. Ferguson is charged as an adult.
Law enforcement records indicate Ferguson has a history of violence. She was arrested last month on assault, weapons and other charges after allegedly stabbing her brother with a knife during an argument. Ferguson was arrested twice in October for allegedly attacking her grandmother. In one of the cases, she allegedly scratched the woman's face and punched her twice. Eight days later, Ferguson allegedly harassed her grandmother and resisted officers trying to get her into custody.
In December, Ferguson was arrested in yet another altercation involving her grandmother. Earlier arrests in September stem from fighting with police in an emergency room after allegedly punching a stranger and stealing watches from her niece.
It wasn't immediately clear if those cases were all still open.
In court Thursday, Ferguson's public defender said the teen has been attending counseling once a week for the past year in an effort to "better her life." Prosecutors allege she was the ringleader in the McDonald's beatdown and stole the victim's bag, makeup and phone after the attack.
They also allege she is part of the Young Savages gang, a violent group known to be involved in patterns of violence and credit card scams.
Ferguson, who lives with her mother and grandmother she has been accused of attacking, was ordered held on $500,000 bail. She also has a 1-year-old daughter. None of the three attended her arraignment Friday.
Video of the McDonald's attack, which was posted on Facebook, shows four girls, all believed to be Erasmus Hall High School students, repeatedly punching and kicking another teen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt while throngs of bystanders shout in the background.
The larger group continues to attack the teen in the blue sweatshirt, even pulling out her hair extensions, until the girl huddles underneath a table with her hands over her head. At one point, one of the girls in the group stomps on the victim's head. The victim suffered a concussion, bruises and contusions, according to a criminal complaint.
At several points during the fight, bystanders can be heard saying, "She’s dead," and, "You murdered her."
The video ends with several students picking the girl up off the ground and putting her on a bench.
Police initially said the investigation had been hampered by a lack of cooperating witnesses, including the girl in the blue sweatshirt in her mother, but NBC 4 New York learned Friday that the victim had come forward to file a police report.
The Department of Education, meanwhile, called the actions seen in the video "abhorrent."
Firefighters jumped on several fires that sparked in different locations within City Heights overnight. Now, arson investigators are looking into whether the fires are related.
The first report came in just after 2:30 a.m. Friday at 5150 Wightman Street. San Diego Fire-Rescue crews arrived to find a pickup truck on fire. Crews say there was plants and other debris in the bed of the truck.
Less than an hour later, at 3:14 a.m. firefighters were called to 3679 Knoxie Street for a small vegetation fire on the side of a home. Officials say there was damage done to the stucco exterior of the home’s garage.
Just before 4 a.m., people living at a home at 3760 Shiloh Road were awakened by firefighters knocking on their door telling them about a fire on the outside of the home. Officials say the window screen was damaged.
At approximately 4:40 a.m., San Diego Fire-Rescue crews were called to a trash can fire on Wightman Street and Shiloh Road. The fire was extinguished without serious damage to any structures.
No one was injured in the fires.
Check back for updates on this developing story.
San Diego Police are looking for the men inside a car that intentionally ran over a man twice during an argument in the Stockton neighborhood Thursday night.
The fight broke out near 32nd Street and Imperial Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. When a four-door sedan stopped, three to four men got out and beat a man standing in the street, police said.
At one point the victim fought back, according to San Diego Police Lt. Paul Rorrison.
“Our victim who was still conscious and alert got up and started hitting the vehicle with a Razor scooter that he had in his possession,” Rorrison said.
That's when the group beat the victim more severely, police said. Before leaving the scene the car ran over the victim in the street twice.
The victim, identified only as a Hispanic man in his 20s, was taken to UCSD Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses told police they saw other men running from the scene. Patrols searched the neighborhood for any sign of the suspects.
Hours later, several pieces of clothing and evidence markers were still in the middle of the street as homicide investigators looked for evidence. Four blocks of 32nd Street were expected to be closed to traffic until 10 a.m.
Just after midnight, police found the suspect’s car torched in a secluded area at 33rd and F Street. Investigators were looking into the car’s registration.
“It’s way too early to determine who was actually in the car,” said Rorrison.
The victim's identity is being withheld pending notification of family, police said.
Check back for updates on this developing story.
A judge ruled Friday that the City of Escondido cannot zone the former Escondido Country Club property as "open space."
The property at 1800 W. Country Club Lane served as a golf course for nearly five decades when it closed down in 2013.
A legal battle began when Michael Schlesinger and his company Stuck in the Rough LLC purchased the property out of bankruptcy in 2012 and planned to build 600 residential homes on the property.
Homeowners who wanted to maintain their “golf course views” decided to fight the development.
In 2013, residents qualified for the Citizens Property Rights initiative to protect 100 acres of established open space in the Escondido Country Club area, and the Escondido City Council voted unanimously to uphold that designation.
But the developer sued the city, and on Friday, Judge Earl H. Maas ruled the city violated the law by designating the area as "open space."
Mike Slater with the Escondido Country Club & Community Homeowners Organization (ECCHO) said his organization was going to meet Friday afternoon to dissect the judge's ruling, but at first glance, he said it appeared to contradict earlier rulings in the case that supported the voter initiative.
"I'm hoping the city will appeal," Slater said. "I think it should be defending its citizens' rights for the initiative. We voted for it, we gathered all the signatures and they should defend the registered voters of the city."
Schlesinger released the following statement Friday:
"The court’s decision to restore the residential designation for the former Escondido Country Club site paves the way for the City, neighborhood homeowners, and ourselves as the property owner to resolve the future use of the site. To do so will require all parties to join us in what we’ve already done on more than one occasion -- to look beyond our original expectations to find a compromise that meets all of our needs.
"Thus far, the only true 'winners' in this case have been the lawyers on both sides who have collectively billed more than $2 million in legal fees. Since the city is now financially responsible for those fees, it is my hope the city will forego the additional costs of an appeal and instead work with us and the community to finalize a plan that substantially reduces the number of homes from earlier proposals. By working together, we can achieve a plan that is compatible with the surrounding neighborhoods while respecting the property owner’s right to develop the property within the allowable residential designation and zoning."
A spokesman for the company said Stuck in the Rough is now proposing 270 homes on 9,500 square-foot lots, leaving 26 percent of the land open space.
NBC 7 has reached out to attorneys for the City of Escondido to find out next steps.
An Indian bride walked out of her wedding ceremony after the groom failed to solve a simple math problem, police said Friday.
The bride tested the groom on his math skills and when he got the sum wrong, she walked out.
The question she asked: How much is 15 plus six?
His reply: 17.
The incident took place late Wednesday in Rasoolabad village near the industrial town of Kanpur in northern Uttar Pradesh state, local police officer Rakesh Kumar said Friday.
The groom's family tried persuading the bride to return, but she refused. She said the groom had misled them about his education.
"The groom's family kept us in the dark about his poor education," said Mohar Singh, the bride's father. "Even a first grader can answer this."
Local police mediated between the families and both sides returned all the gifts and jewelry that had been exchanged before the wedding, Kumar said.
Last month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a wedding guest after the original groom had a seizure and collapsed at the wedding venue.
The groom's family had not revealed that the groom was epileptic. While the groom was rushed to a hospital in Rampur town, the bride asked one of the wedding guests to step in and married him.
Most marriages in India are arranged by the families of the bride and groom. Except for brief meetings, the couple rarely gets to know each other before the nuptials.
A teenager is in custody, accused of making a false bomb threat against a school in Oceanside through the “BurnBook” application.
A parent showed the alleged threat against El Camino High School to a school safety officer on March 11.
The company behind the controversial new app provided Oceanside Police with the IP address used to post the threat. From there, police went to AT&T to learn the name and address of the owner of the phone.
Investigators say a 14-year-old male student living at the address had suspended the same day. The teenager had been accused of bringing a knife to campus, police said.
Investigators say the teen admitted to posting the threat before his arrest. Because of his age he is being held at Juvenile Hall.
A middle school student was taken into custody Wednesday for using the "BurnBook" app on March 11 to post a threat against El Cajon Valley High School.
On Tuesday, a Mission Hills High School student reported an alleged threat on the app. San Diego County Sheriff's Deputies say that threat was unsubstantiated.
BurnBook is a social media website where users can anonymously post short messages about seemingly anything.
On Friday, the company's Twitter site reminded followers that illegal activity would not be kept anonymous.
The term “Burn Book” was popularized by the 2004 teen comedy “Mean Girls.” In the film, a “Burn Book” is a journal created by a clique of mean girls to spread rumors and lies about their high school peers.
Authorities are looking for two suspects they say attacked a random couple in Queens, slashing the man's throat in what police are investigating as a racially motivated act of violence.
Police say the 24-year-old victim was walking with his girlfriend near Seneca and Gates avenues in Ridgewood early Thursday when a man and woman ran across the street into their path.
The male suspect walked up to the victim and said in Spanish, "I'm going to kill you, white boy," then slashed his throat with an unknown object while the female suspect acted as a lookout, police say.
The duo ran off after the attack. The victim needed multiple stitches to close up the wound to his throat, police said.
Police released surveillance video of the suspects approaching the couple.
Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
If you’re looking for something for the kids this weekend, head to Balboa Park for educational fun with the Science, Art and Technology Family Day.
The event, which brings together two dozen cultural organizations for activities such as crafts, demonstrations and special exhibits, starts at 11 a.m. on Sunday. It runs until 3 p.m. and is free with a paid museum admission.
As part of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) Family Day, kids can check out an 11-foot electric giraffe at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.
Other activities include butterfly crafts, face painting and storytelling at the Zoro Garden, butterfly finger puppets at the Japanese Friendship Garden and live music at the House of Pacific Relations International Cottages.
Families can also learn about aerial photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts or learn how to make paper airplanes at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
A number of organizations, including Girl Scouts, the San Diego Public Library and MTS, will have educational booths outside the Balboa Park visitors Center.
Certain museums are also offering free admission to children 12 and younger accompanied by an adult. Families with Balboa Park explorer passes can get in free, as well.
Families concerned about parking options can take advantage of MTS Family Weekends, which offers a free ride for two children under 12 accompanied by a paying adult.
You can check out a full schedule of events here.
A jet skier reported missing has been found by lifeguards who scoured the Mission Bay Channel Friday.
A mother and her teenage son, both wearing life vests, were riding a jet ski around the bay, with the woman at the helm, according to San Diego Fire spokesman Lee Swanson.
The mother thought her son fell off as they entered the channel at about 4:20 p.m. and couldn't find him as she circled back around.
Swanson said the woman started having a panic attack as she called lifeguards for help.
They began their search for the teen in the channel, but it turned up nothing.
Over an hour later, lifeguards found the boy at the Paradise Point Hotel, where he and his mother were staying.
Officials believe the teenager did fall off the jet ski, just not where his mother thought, Swanson said.
The boy is a good swimmer who made his way back to the hotel dock.
A San Diego native is returning to play for his home team, the Chargers.
Defensive back and free agent Jimmy Wilson, a Point Loma High School alum, signed a two-year contract Friday to play for the team.
Drafted in 2011in the seventh round (235th overall) out of Montana, Wilson has spent the last four seasons with the Miami Dolphins.
He started 21 of the 60 games he has played in the NFL, putting 153 tackles, 16 passes defensed, four interceptions and two sacks under his belt as he played safety and nickel cornerback, the Chargers say.
Last season, the 5-foot-11-inch, 205-pound player started 13 of 14 games and set a career high of 58 tackles.
The Chargers have picked up seven players now during the early free agency period. Other acquisitions include guard Orlando Franklin from Denver and return specialist Jacoby Jones from Baltimore.
The team has also retained left tackle King Dunlap, cornerback Brandon Flower, center Trevor Robinson and defensive end Ricardo Mathews.
The FDA issued a consumer advisory about some Texas-made Blue Bell ice cream products Friday, after three patients who had eaten the ice cream in a Kansas hospital died of a foodborne illness.
The illnesses prompted the Brenham, Texas-based creamery to issue the first recall in its 108-year history. Blue Bell has stopped production and distribution of ice cream products from that line and has removed them from stores and any other retail outlets.
The problem was discovered about a month ago, Blue Bell CEO Paul Kruse told NBC 5. He said the company picked up the affected products approximately three weeks ago from hospitals and stores.
The contaminated products were traced back to one machine, which has been shut down, Kruse said.
This is the first time in 108 years the company has experienced this type of problem, he added.
The affected products include the following novelty items made on the line:
Consumers should not eat these items and should discard any of these products they may have in their freezers.
The advisory does not include Blue Bell cups, pints or half gallons.
Recent laboratory tests of three ice cream products from the Brenham production line — Country Cookie, Great Divide and Scoops — indicated the presence of Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause severe illness.
The company is calling back additional ice cream items because they were made on the same production line.
No Texas cases have been reported in connection to any Blue Bell products.
Five people in all developed listeriosis and three of them died at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita after eating products from the one production line at the Brenham creamery between December 2013 and January 2015, hospital officials say.
The patients who fell ill with listeriosis during their hospital stays had all initially been hospitalized for unrelated causes, hospital spokeswoman Maria Loving said.
The hospital was unaware that some items produced on one of the 25 production lines at Blue Bell's Central Texas creamery had been contaminated with listeria bacteria, Loving said.
She said all Blue Bell Creameries products were immediately removed from all Via Christi Health facilities in Kansas and Oklahoma once the risk was discovered.
"If you're worried about some sort of potential source of infection, and two weeks have gone by and nothing's happened to you, you're going to be fine," said Dr. Cedric Spak with Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
Spak said symptoms include vomiting, nausea and muscle ache, and they can appear suddenly.
He said those that are most at risk are those with compromised immune systems.
NBC 5's Holley Ford and Ray Villeda contributed to this report.
Deputies on Friday shot and wounded a kidnap suspect in a gunbattle after a pursuit in South Los Angeles.
The gunbattle began at 5:25 p.m. in the 900 block of 43rd Street, authorities said.
The suspect got out of a white SUV at the end of a pursuit, fired a gun at deputies who returned fire, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida. He was hit at least once.
No deputies were hit.
"(He was) waving his arms back and forth, then I don't know what happened 'cause I just run back, 'cause I thought he was gonna, like, shoot," witness Jorge Gonzales said. "These patrol cars just came from the corner and told us to back away, then … gunshots just happened."
After he was hit, the man refused to surrender, holding deputies at bay for nearly 90 minutes.
With a red blood stain visible on the back of his white T-shirt, the man then staggered to the front porch of the home, where he remained, at times sitting up, until about 6:45 p.m., when he surrendered and was taken into custody.
A helicopter dropped a sheriff's team of SWAT medics from the Special Enforcement Bureau off nearby as the standoff unfolded and residents were evacuated from nearby homes.
The team was then seen moving into place near the house, where other deputies and firefighters were standing by.
He was wanted in connection with kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon against his wife in Paramount on Sunday, sheriff's officials said.
Deputies spotted the vehicle Friday, ran the license plate and discovered the vehicle was wanted for an armed kidnapping.
The SUV sped off, giving way to a pursuit.
Rosa Ordaz contributed to this report.
NBC 7's Gene Cubbison offers this analysis on the latest developments in the search for a new Chargers stadium.
The future of big-time football and conventions in San Diego is now becoming a high-stakes numbers game.
Whose math is the most reliable — and pencils out for the highest return on investments?
The standoff over the Mission Valley site recommended by Mayor Faulconer’s stadium advisers comprises a complex set of parlays.
One key player — former Padres owner John Moores’ JMI Realty firm — is eying the Qualcomm property for purposes that align with the Chargers' downtown plans — which in turn don't mesh with the hotel industry's.
Is there a referee in the house?
"If everyone unites, there is no reason for the Chargers to leave,” declared Adam Day, the stadium advisory group’s chairman, during a Thursday news conference at Qualcomm Stadium. “And there will be much for us all to celebrate.”
But the Chargers aren’t quite ready to give up the ghost of a hybrid stadium-convention facility in downtown’s East Village, where JMI Realty got Petco Park built and is the area’ leading landlord.
Not only is JMI welcoming the prospect of the Chargers' project as an addition to the fast-gentrifying neighborhood — the firm fancies the Qualcomm site for a medium-sized stadium that would serve the Aztecs football team, and include space for an off-campus expansion of SDSU facilities and a Scripps Oceanography lab along the San Diego River.
Such a development also could dissuade the Chargers from following through on overtures in the NFL’s Los Angeles-A market, where JMI thinks the team has a good case with the league to block a potential Rams franchise move there from St. Louis.
Downtown hoteliers, meantime, are concerned that room tax money they need to expand the convention center will be siphoned off by an East Village stadium, and their business on NFL season game days undercut.
The numbers behind the dollar signs for all this run into several columns — and appraisals of how far they'll really go at the two sites seem to be all over the map, with the Chargers insisting that the East Village undertaking’s bottom line is a superior choice.
However, as Day argued following the anointment of the Qualcomm site: "Our research suggests the exact opposite. Downtown is more expensive, it will take more time, and it's far more complicated."
In a recording session for Sunday's edition of "Politically Speaking" NBC 7 learned that JMI consultants believe the city's expansion costs have been lowballed.
"Unfortunately their independent work demonstrated that the cost of the coastal (bay front) expansion is $680 million, not $520 million,” said former state lawmaker and finance chief Steve Peace, now JMI’s senior adviser. “By comparison, the stand-alone convention center expansion on what is known as Tailgate (Park) -- which is where we always expected the expansion to be years ago — is $475 million."
Peace also predicted that issues of cost-containment, liability for construction budget overruns and development potential will be paramount in endgame negotiations between the team and city.
Is the Chargers’ Goldman Sachs-backed joint venture with the Oakland Raiders in the city of Carson a bluff?
"Well, I don't think it's a bluff, but I think it's a distant second choice,” Peace said. “I think the Chargers clearly would prefer to stay in town; the NFL would clearly prefer the Chargers to stay in San Diego. But it's going to come down to, in Mission Valley — as (Chargers special counsel) Mark Fabiani was saying on the radio … the question is really can you close the gap on financing? Because it's a much bigger gap on the public-sector side than downtown was in a joint facility."
But if the Chargers' "distant second choice" in Carson becomes more of an option, how would a move to a former dumpsite play out among NFL owners, with the Rams concurrently scheming in Inglewood?
"They're positioning themselves to make an aggressive argument that that is encroaching on their territory,” Peace explained. “And they're in the best position of any team to make that claim because nobody else is marketing in that market right now."
In any case, there seems to be no shortage of urgency to “do something” before outside developments overtake San Diego’s timeline — and whatever common ground can be assembled among the competing interests — to keep the Chargers in town.
"Politically Speaking" is scheduled to air at 5 p.m. Sunday on NBC 7.
A motorcyclist flew into a parked vehicle in Carmel Valley, ending a high-speed chase Friday evening.
Just after 5 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers tried to pull over a motorcyclist who was speeding on Interstate 5, according to San Diego police.
But when the man refused to pull over, a pursuit started near Carmel Valley Road.
The motorcycle veered off the freeway, weaving through city streets as he tried to escape the CHP.
However, on High Bluff Drive, he lost control and hit a curb, colliding with a parked car with people inside.
The suspect suffered two compound leg fractures and serious internal injuries, which are not considered life-threatening, according to the SDPD.
The driver inside the car suffered minor injuries.
SDPD's Traffic Division will investigate the pursuit.
Philadelphia Police lined JFK Boulevard before sunrise Saturday, preparing for the caisson procession that brought the casket carrying fallen Officer Robert Wilson III to the Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania.
Only the drumming of the Philadelphia Police Honor Guard and the somber footsteps of hundreds of officers could be heard as the horse drawn carriage weaved through the wet West Philly streets.
The grieving began long before the public viewing began at 7 a.m. Saturday at the Palestra on South 33rd Street in University City.
"It affects everyone around the United States, especially our brothers here, our brothers and sisters in the police department," said Kevin Sexworth, a member of the Philadelphia Police Honor Guard.
Thirty-year-old Wilson, a father of two, was shot during a robbery at a GameStop at Hope Plaza Shopping Center on Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia last Thursday. He died from his injuries at Temple University Hospital a few hours later.
Family photos of the 8-year police veteran flashed on a video screen as mourners gathered inside the historic Ivy League gym.
The 22nd District officer's badge name and number was displayed on the Palestra's scoreboard.
Officers from across the region lined the sidewalk outside the UPenn facility, waiting for the 10 a.m. funeral services to begin.
Philadelphia Police officers and Pennsylvania State Troopers line up to enter the Palestra @NBCPhiladelphia pic.twitter.com/elV17L1BOK
— Dave Palmer (@dpalmer1010) March 14, 2015
Rain fell as officers stood alongside their patrol vehicles, lights flashing, on 33rd Street between Spruce and Market streets blocking traffic.
Caisson outside the @Penn Policetra in Univ. City pic.twitter.com/xNBDSPGk8V
— Jesse Gary (@JesseNBC10) March 14, 2015
The procession began on JFK Boulevard near 30th Street Station, continued west on Market Street to 34th Street, and then headed south to Spruce Street before turning east to 33rd Street.
Police said drivers should expect congestion surrounding the Palestra, which is located at the corner of 33rd and Spruce/South streets, until at least 1 p.m.
Burial at Fernwood Cemetery in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania will immediately follow the funeral. The funeral procession will start its route to the cemetery around noon -- requiring the following road closures:
Wilson was in full uniform when brothers Carlton Hipps, 30, and Ramone Williams, 26, entered the GameStop store and announced the robbery, subsequently sparking a "fierce and violent" gun battle that ended with the officer being shot in the head and killed, said Homicide Capt. Darrell Clark.
Wilson is being hailed a hero and is credited with saving the lives of customers and store employees, according to Ramsey. Williams and Hipps are charged with his murder.
Fellow officers setup a trust fund for Wilson's family. Checks can be mailed and made payable to:
The Robert Wilson III Family Memorial Trust Fund
Police and Fire Federal Credit Union
901 Arch St.
Philadelphia, Pa. 19107
A GoFundMe page was also created so donations can be made online.
