A teleconference with the NFL's point man for Los Angeles will give Mayor Kevin Faulconer's stadium advisory group the chance to express how serious it is about solving the long-running, contentious issue of building the Chargers a new stadium, chairman Adam Day said Monday.

Day also said the entire community — the Chargers included — need to support the group's effort or it will strengthen the chance the team will bolt to Los Angeles.

The nine-member advisory group is scheduled to hold a conference call with NFL executive Eric Grubman on Tuesday. Grubman will then meet in San Diego with a handful of group members the following Tuesday.

"They've been very open and candid with us, wanting to kick the tires and find out what we're like as a committee," Day said Monday. "We're a serious group committed to solving this problem and we're working hard to develop a fair and workable financing plan."

Day said the conference call will allow Grubman to explain the NFL's perspective and expectations, and what it needs to hear from the advisory group.

Day said he's read Grubman's comments that the NFL wants the Chargers and other teams considering moving to Los Angeles to try to find a solution in their home markets first.

"Our emphasis aligns closely with that sentiment. We want to find a way to make it work," Day said. "We hope the NFL will be an honest broker in making sure that the city and team can negotiate a good deal."

The Chargers and the Oakland Raiders are threating to bolt to a $1.7 billion stadium in Carson if they don't get new stadiums in their current hometowns.

Day said he and other advisory group members have heard suggestions that Mark Fabiani, the Chargers' stadium point man, will reject whatever financing plan the panel recommends to Faulconer.

"I sincerely hope that that's not the case," Day said. "We're doing our due diligence, working very hard to come up with a plan that will present a very strong framework for the mayor and Chargers to negotiate for the construction of a new, multi-use stadium. We're focusing on that like a laser. We think it's doable."

The group's recommendation is due by May 20. Last month, the group recommended that a new stadium be built at the site of the current stadium in Mission Valley rather than downtown.

"We've got to absolutely be unified as a region on site selection and financing," Day said. "If there's any dissention in the community and the NFL catches wind of that, it gives strength to the efforts for L.A."

Fabiani, who represents Chargers chairman Dean Spanos, criticized Faulconer for forming the advisory group. Fabiani then warned the panel not to come up with any "half-baked" stadium schemes and said the team has "no intention of quietly participating in any effort to provide political cover for elected officials."

While telling the advisory group that the team would support a stadium either downtown or at the current site, Fabiani has suggested that Mission Valley is a "complicated site."

Fabiani said in an email that neither he nor Spanos have been telling people the Chargers will oppose the advisory group's financing plan.

"We are eager to review whatever information the task force makes public," Fabiani said.
Day said he wanted to stress two points about the financing plan.

"There's nothing new under the sun that's going to be in our financing plan," he said. "The magic of our recommendation will not be what the actual components are, but rather the balance among and between the different components. Second, it requires good-faith negotiations by both parties. If one party is not interested in negotiating in good faith, nothing is going to happen."

Day said he doesn't expect the group's financing plan "to be adopted without any modifications. I expect it become the framework for the ultimate negotiations. If we've done our job right, we've narrowed the issues and potential disagreements on key aspects. ... Anything that is ultimately adopted will be above and beyond what we present."

Day said there's been more progress in the last two months than ever before on the stadium issue. Chargers owner Alex Spanos said in 2000 that the team needed a new stadium. That pronouncement came just three years after the stadium was expanded.

A 2-year-old Delaware boy is back home safe after he was found wandering alone in the streets as his family slept, according to police.

Brittney Jones, who works for a roofing company, told NBC10 she spotted the boy walking in the middle of Colony Drive Monday morning in Dover.

“I said, ‘buddy, where you going?’” Jones said. “I leaned down to him and pointed to both directions. He was holding our hands. He was talking to us. He walked right into the house without crying or hesitation.”

Jones and her co-worker knocked on neighbors’ doors to figure out where the child came from but no one knew. They then called Dover Police.

Police officers then posted a photo of the child on the Department's Facebook page asking anyone who knew who he was to come forward. The boy’s parents then contacted police an hour after the Facebook post went up.

Investigators learned the child woke up as his family slept, got dressed, unlocked the door and then wandered the streets by himself. Fortunately the child was not hurt, thanks in large part to Jones and her co-worker.

“He could’ve been hit, somebody could’ve taken him,” Jones said. “I wanted to help. I’m out here and nobody else was.”

Police say they don’t plan on filing any charges.
 

A Lake County, Illinois, teen shot over the weekend by a Zion police officer was shot in the back – twice – according to autopsy results released Monday afternoon.

Justus Howell, 17, of Waukegan was shot around 2 p.m. Saturday after police responded to a call about an argument or fight. Police said he ran away when officers arrived, leading officers on a chase.

Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd on Monday afternoon said Howell was shot twice in the back. One bullet pierced his liver, spleen and heart. A second bullet hit him in the right shoulder, Thomas Rudd said.

Officers attempted to administer medical aid, and Howell was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police said a handgun was recovered at the scene of the shooting, but at least one witness disputed that.

“It says at the scene they found a gun, but they don't say anything about him holding a gun so why did they shoot him?” Zion resident Lisa Foster told NBC Chicago. “Why couldn't they just chase him and try to catch him?”

Howell’s girlfriend, Jennifer Butler, echoes that sentiment and is among those who are demanding answers.

“If he was running away, he wasn't a threat to them,” Butler said. “They should have just tased him or did something else.”

The identity of the officer involved wasn't released as of Monday afternoon. The Zion Police Department said they launched an investigation into the shooting.

Butler told NBC Chicago that Howell was two months away from graduating high school and planned to go to college to study medicine.

Police have not released a comment on the results of the autopsy.

Do you love or hate your supermarket? A lot of it may depend on how fresh it seems, according to a Consumer Reports survey.

The survey found that some supermarkets deliver much fresher food than others. Consumer Reports rated 68 supermarkets across the country on the quality of their fresh food, based on a survey of almost 63,000 of its readers.

They were asked about the quality of fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, store-prepared foods and baked goods, as well as things like cleanliness, staff courtesy and prices.

Only about 60 percent of shoppers say they’re highly satisfied with the quality of their store’s poultry and meat. And only half are happy with their store’s prepared food and bakery options.

Walmart Supercenter, the biggest grocery chain in the country, scored near the bottom of the ratings. People gave Walmart low marks in all freshness categories. It also didn’t do so well for its courteous staff and store cleanliness.

It did score better than many chains for its prices, but it wasn’t the best for price. Consumer Reports contacted Walmart for a comment and was given a statement from the CEO, Doug McMillon, which he delivered to an investors meeting and said in part: “Every store I go in has room to improve … And if we nail those, one store at a time, our short-term performance gets better.”

Consumer Reports’ top-scoring supermarkets included several regional stores like Sprouts Farmers Market as well as Trader Joe’s and Costco, which both got better ratings than Walmart for prices.

Other top ranking San Diego stores include Stater Brothers, Whole Foods Market and Food 4 Less. The survey questions included price, store cleanliness, store-prepared foods, courteous staff and checkout speed.

The cliché “a picture is worth a thousand words” rings true with a precious new photograph showing a Marine kissing his baby born while he was in Afghanistan.

The moment was captured by a military photographer, Sgt. Valerie Eppler, on Saturday at Camp Pendleton.

The photographer was covering the homecoming of more than 130 Marines from 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion and nine from Umanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1.

She snapped the shot of Cpl. Jordan Claspell meeting his 2-month-old son, Elijah, for the first time following a seven-month deployment with the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force.

For a look at other homecoming photos from Saturday at Camp Pendleton, click here.

Four Fresh & Easy stores in San Diego County have closed as the grocery chain revamps its business model.

The four local stores are among 50 nationwide that are shuttering, so that the company can invest in a different approach to fresh convenience stores.

The locations include the store at Third and J street in Chula Vista; College Boulevard and Oceanside Boulevard in Oceanside; Campo and Kenwood in Casa De Oro; and Winter Gardens and Woodside in Lakeside.

The closures follow news two weeks ago that dozens of Los Angeles stores were closing their doors.

Southern California-based The Yucaipa Cos. bought the chain out of bankruptcy in 2013 from British retailer Tesco. Since that time, the company gradually changed the stores' look and introduced a new "click and collect" service in Las Vegas that allows shoppers to buy online and pick up the purchased items at the store.

“The company is now in a better position to rationalize its store base and divest locations that do not meet the criteria of Fresh & Easy’s model of modern convenience,” a statement from the company read. “This move allows the company to redeploy capital into development and growth, including a 3,000 to 5,000 square foot store to provide a higher level of convenience and greater density.”

Things were going to smoothly. Until they weren’t.

The Padres lost to the Dodgers 6-3 on Monday afternoon at Dodger Stadium, and they did it in a way that was quite unexpected. San Diego roughed up 2-time reining Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw (yes, three runs allowed in 6.0 innings counts as getting roughed up for a guy who was the 2014 N.L. MVP, the first National League pitcher to win the award since 1968), then saw their normally reliable bullpen let the lead get away.

The Padres threw their own new ace, James Shields, on the mound, and he was just a tick better than Kershaw. The final pitching lines for both players:

Kershaw = 6.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 Hits, 2 BB, 8 K
Shields = 6.0 IP, 2 ER, 6 Hits, 2 BB, 8 K

Kind of creepy, huh?

All three of the Padres runs were driven in by Matt Kemp, who played his first game in a Padres uniform against the team he 567 games for. Before his first at-bat, an RBI single in the first inning to score Wil Myers, Kemp was given a standing ovation from the Dodger Stadium crowd. He stepped back and tipped his fat to the crowd, and his former mate Kershaw gave him the time to soak it all in.

“Kershaw is a very respectful person,” said Kemp. “I’ve got a lot of respect for him and I feel like he has a lot of respect for me. I think he saw the crowd’s reaction and kind of stepped back and let it play out, then got in and we went at it.”

Kemp and Shields, the two biggest off-season additions by general manager A.J. Preller, both had big games. After Nick Vincent allowed a run to score on back-to-back doubles by Adrian Gonzalez and Howie Kendrick, and lefty Frank Garces walked Scott Van Slyke on four pitches, tt was Shawn Kelley who needed just one pitch to retire Juan Uribe on a grounder to end the 7th. The relief pitcher who came over in a trade with the Yankees went back out for the 8th inning, and that’s where the troubles came.

Kelley walked Joc Pederson to lead off the 8th inning, and things simply unraveled after that. After a popped up bunt, Kelley got Andre Ethier to hit a ground ball to first base. Yonder Alonso could not field it cleanly to get a double play, and when he flipped to Kelley covering first base Shawn’s feet could not find the bag.

That put two runners on for Jimmy Rollins, who fell behind 0-2, but then being the veteran hitter that he is, fouled off several pitches and ran the count to 3-2. That’s when Kelley and catcher Derek Norris had a chat. On the next pitch, Rollins crushed a 3-run home run that proved to be the game-winner.

“He gets very scrappy,” said Kelley of the 2007 N.L. MVP, a man who can be quite difficult to strike out. “I tried to stick with the slider in the dirt and get him to chase and, being a veteran guy, he didn’t take it. I tried to get a little sneaky with a heater in because he’d seen a bunch of sliders and he was ready for it.”

It does beg the question, in the 8th inning of a tied game when the guy on the mound obviously does not have his best stuff, why did Padres manager Bud Black decide to leave him in the game instead of going to 8th inning specialist Joaquin Benoit? Black’s explanation makes a lot of sense.

“(Dale) Thayer was down today,” said Black. “Stomach flu, he wasn’t going to pitch. If Benoit gets out of it, you’re asking him to go one-plus (innings) which we’re trying to stay away from. If we don’t score, he goes back out, if we don’t score again, we probably have to go somewhere else. It’s a tough situation to go to your bullpen five or six times and use five guys the opening game of the season. That’s sort of a bad precedent moving forward.”

The Padres don’t get an easy task in game two of the series, either. They have to face former Cy Young winner Zack Greinke on Tuesday night. But, they throw All-Star Tyson Ross against him. So, odds are game two of the season-opening series will be a dogfight, just like the opener.
 

Seven children and one adult have been killed in Princess Anne, Maryland, in what may be an incident of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Police in Princess Anne confirmed the deaths and that seven of the victims are juveniles, ranging in age from 6 to 16 years old. They were all related, and foul play is not suspected, police said.

The website Delmarva Now reported that carbon monoxide is suspected to be the cause of the deaths. Police did not immediately confirm that report.

The deaths were discovered when police heard from a concerned citizen that a co-worker seemed to be missing. When police came to the home, they found it secure and undisturbed, according to a police press release.

Princess Anne is a town in Somerset County, near Salisbury.

Check back for more on this developing story.

A person has died after a car crashed into a tree, police said. 

The incident happened shortly before 3 p.m. near Avenida Venusto and Bernardo Heights Parkway in Rancho Bernardo. 

One vehicle was involved in the crash, police said, and one person died on scene.

Police could not confirm whether the fatality was the driver, a passenger or another person that might have been on scene. 

Bernardo Heights Parkway will be shut down for the next four hours as police investigate. 

NBC 7 has obtained a court document that suggests the man arrested in the attempted kidnapping of a student at a Solana Beach elementary school may have tried something similar in the past.

Jack Henry Doshay, 22, is in custody, accused of kidnapping of a child under 14, false imprisonment with violence and felony child abuse.

According to a declaration in support of an arrest warrant obtained Monday, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department was contacted by someone who claimed to have a lead in the March 23 attempted kidnapping at Skyline Elementary School.

A 7-year-old girl was grabbed by a man as she was walking from class to after-school care. The man put packing tape around the girl's head and said, "if you want to see your mother again, you have to do this," according to the document.

Two days after the incident, a local psychotherapist, identified as Dr. Altbello in the document, received a call from the father of one of his patients. The man said he believed his son was responsible for the attempted abduction, had tried something similar in the past and searched for how to duct tape people on a computer.

According to the legal document, the sheriff’s detective was told the patient's name was Jack Doshay.

Jack Doshay was arrested April 1 while in treatment for depression in Laguna Niguel, according to his defense attorney Paul Pfingst.

Under California law, psychologists are “mandated reporters” meaning they must report any known or suspected instances of child abuse or neglect to local law enforcement.

Doshay is the son of Glenn and Karen Doshay of Fairbanks Ranch. Glenn Doshay owns a minority stake in the San Diego Padres. He and his wife are known as philanthropists in San Diego County and have donated money to several charities aimed at helping children.

Also, detectives described the vehicle used by Jack Doshay as similar to the one reported at the scene of the school kidnapping.

Jack Doshay was expected to appear in court April 9 for a bail review.

A Mexican tourist who stopped for gas in Riverside ended up foiling a robbery attempt when he locked the hooded suspect in a chokehold and pinned him to the floor until police arrived.

Surveillance video taken inside the AM-PM mini-mart Sunday shows a man in a black hooded sweatshirt lunging over the counter to grab cash from an open register.

Seconds later, a customer leaps into action and grabs the man from behind. The customer and cashier start throwing punches, and as the suspect backs down, the customer puts him in a chokehold.

"I took him by his neck," said the customer, Alfonso Miramontes.

NBC4 spoke to Miramontes from his home in Juarez, Mexico.

Miramontes said he and his family had stopped at the gas station after a weekend of sightseeing in Southern California.

When Miramontes saw the robbery in progress, his instinct was to immediately help, in part because he's a former police officer, he said.

"It was the right thing to do," Miramontes said.

The robber allegedly threatened to kill Miramontes as they both went to the ground.

For about eight minutes, Miramontes and another good Samaritan held the suspect down until Riverside police arrived.

"I was so grateful that another customer, he's helping us to grab the guy and put him on the floor," said Mohammad Hossain, a manager at the AM-PM.

Police arrested 25-year-old Yakini Gaines for attempted robbery.

Miramontes said he was glad to bring him to justice.

"I hope more people do these things," he said.

However, police said anyone witnessing a crime should call 911 instead.

An El Cajon couple helped to rescue a woman and a child injured in a rollover accident Easter Sunday.

Carlos Salazar and girlfriend Liz Gonzalez know nothing about the victims, not even their names, but their first meeting here at eastbound on-ramp to State Route 54 was unforgettable.

“I was really nervous. I was really scared and just wanted to make sure the mother and that child were ok,” Gonzalez said.

The victim had flipped her car right in front of the couple.

After calling 911 Gonzalez shot video of the crash scene with her phone.

Salazar says he and some other holiday travelers helped pull the woman from the upside down car then he said he went back to see if there was anyone else in the vehicle.

He found her frantic 5-year-old son still strapped in a child seat.

Salazar crawled in the back and with a little elbow grease was able to wrestle the belt loose, freeing the boy.

The driver suffered cuts to her arm and hand. Her son had what looked to be minor injuries.

The couple and others waited with them until rescue crews arrived.

Salazar said his actions were instinctual.

“My parents always taught me to help others in need, to give the shirt off your back. We should be there for one another and hopefully someone would do the same for me,” Salazar said.

Salazar comes by his first responder skills honestly. He credits the Chula Vista Explorer Program, in which he was once enrolled, for teaching him how to stay calm and think through emergency situations .
 

A driver plowed into a fire hydrant near Hillsdale Middle School in Rancho San Diego Tuesday morning, sending water gushing into the streets.

The accident happened just after 7:15 a.m. at Brabham Street and Via Rancho San Diego.

CHP officials said a car knocked off a fire hydrant. Fire crews were unable to shut off the water right away. Officials blocked off eastbound and westbound traffic in the area while crews worked to clear the scene.
 

An incredibly sweet 8-year-old pit bull mix named Chester who has spent the last five years in shelters was adopted after a Long Island animal group posted a picture of him holding a sign that read, "Why doesn't anyone want me?"

The heart-rending photo shows Chester looking down at the sign with his big brown eyes, one white-tipped paw resting over the cardboard.

"Everyone at the shelter tells me what a good boy I am. So why has no one adopted me?" the sign reads. "I promise to be good and love my new family. Please maybe you are my new family. I sit and wait for you to come."

Hundreds of calls from around the world came in from people inquiring about adopting Chester. Last week, a family from Ronkonkoma came to take him home. According to the North Fork Animal Welfare League/Riverhead Animal Shelter Facebook page, Chester went home with his new family Friday. They bought him a new bed and said he loved it.

Virtual Facebook hearts swelled over Chester's adoption. Between "likes" and likes of those likes, some users posted that they were moved to tears by his story.

Chester was plucked off the streets of New York -- a stray -- five years ago and sent to the Riverhead Animal Shelter. He lived there for quite some time before moving to the North Fork Animal Welfare League's Southold location, where he spent the last few months, reports the website Southold Local.

The manager of the North Fork organization, Gabby Stroup, launched a Facebook page dedicated to finding Chester a home Wednesday -- with that heart-wrenching photo -- and calls and emails came in from as far away as Australia and Nova Scotia, the website said. Stroup got a call from a woman named Dana Dor, who said a friend of hers in Michigan had shared Chester's photo on her Facebook page, and Dor, her husband and two sons went to visit the pup at the shelter the next day.

Chester met the family with kisses and went home with them that day, according to Southold Local.

The Dor family lost two Yorkies five years ago -- the same length of time Chester has been in shelters.

"We think he was waiting for us," Dor told Southold Local. She said her husband, Adi Dor, had tears in his eyes the first time he met the pup.

"We saw him and we felt connected," Adi Dor told Southold Local. "It was meant to be."

A former 49ers and Raiders lineman tried to bite the hand of a San Francisco police officer who was trying to handcuff him, police say.

San Francisco police said they found Kwame Harris unconscious behind the wheel of his car with the engine running on Sunday night.

The incident was reported at 7:31 p.m. when officers were flagged down by a citizen at 14th Street and South Van Ness Avenue about a driver who might be in need of assistance.

When police tried to handcuff Harris, he tried to bite an officer's hand.

"The suspect did try to bite the officer's hand," San Francisco Police Spokeswoman Grace Gatpandan said. "Thankfully the officer was not bitten."

Police said Harris was in an "altered mental state" and hit two parked cars prior to his arrest.

Police took Harris to a local hospital and later arrested him on suspicion of aggravated assault against a peace officer and hit-and-run. Police said he will also face a charge of resisting arrest.

Surveillance video from a nearby Audi dealership obtained by NBC Bay Area shows a man the business claims to be Harris making an illegal turn onto 14th Street. The video shows the driver staggering out of his car and running across the street toward the dealership.

The video shows the man back in his car when officers arrived on scene.

The suspected hit-and-run came earlier in the night when Harris is accused of crashing into a luxury car at Hyde and Broadway streets. The car Harris is suspected of hitting belonged to Par Hangi.

"My car was hit from the left rear side so he smashed it from the left rear end," Hangi said. "The car literally jumped onto the sidewalk."

Sunday's incident was not the first time Harris has had trouble with the law. In December 2013, Harris was sentenced to five days in jail for beating up his ex-boyfriend.

Harris was the 49ers first draft pick in 2003 and played five seasons for the team before signing with the Raiders. He left the NFL in 2008.

A three-year-old boy may have drowned after being left under the supervision of underage relatives Monday night, police said.

The child was found unresponsive in a residential swimming pool near the intersection of Grandview Drive and Woodfield Place at around 7:30 p.m., a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

The initial call that came in said the boy was supposed to have been watched by other family members, and that he may have been left unattended for about 30 minutes.

After being taken to the hospital the boy was declared dead.

A fire that grew from a motor home spread to a nearby commercial building in El Cajon Monday evening.

The flames started in an outside storage area at 1444 Pioneer Way at about 6:50 p.m.

But when Heartland Fire crews arrived on scene, they saw heavy fire coming from several vehicles under a metal carport and neighboring buildings.

"We upgraded this incident to a second alarm because we had difficulty accessing the actual fire because power lines were down and they had energized the fence that was surrounding the structure," said Heartland Battalion Chief Ted Kakuris.

They avoided the fence that blocked the north side of the property to prevent electrocution.

SDG&E helped cut the power in about 10 minutes, so firefighters were finally able to go into the building. They controlled the fire within 30 minutes. 

The motor home, several vehicles, machinery, gasoline and oils were among the items burned in the blaze.

The couple of people living in the home have not been located, Kakuris said. Officials don't believe they were on site during the fire.

The cause has not been determined.

Editor's note: A previous version of this story cited information from the city of El Cajon that a deli was on fire. Firefighters later corrected that information and said the deli was not affected. Also, the fire was not at Clancy's 24-Hour Towing Yard, but near it. No vehicles there were damaged by the fire.

Moments after a car crashed into a home in San Diego's Serra Mesa community, the driver began apologizing and kept trying to hug the homeowner and other people at the scene.

“I just heard this huge noise and the house just started shaking," said homeowner Ian Jones.

Jones was awake and approximately 25 feet from where the car jumped the curb and smashed into the side of the home on Greyling Drive around midnight on Monday.

"I just heard this screech, and obviously it was cars I could hear them going really fast, and then all of a sudden, just bang,” Jones said.

His two children, ages 4 and 6, slept through the crash.

Jones said he told the driver to get out of the car because he was worried about some gas lines near where the car hit.

Jones said the driver smelled like alcohol and kept apologizing, and trying to hug people at the scene.

When police arrived, they arrested the 20-year-old driver on suspicion of DUI.

The driver did give Jones some sort of an explanation as to what happened.

"All he kept saying was that his friend should have told him he was going to turn right,” Jones said. “Well, there's a stop sign there. So, you know you could have stopped and turned right."

No one was in the room where the car hit, and nobody was hurt.

A father is left just a memory of his 3-year-old daughter calling him “Papi” after she died in a crash over the weekend. Her mother is accused of felony charges stemming from the accident.

In an exclusive interview Monday, Carlos Ramirez told NBC 7 he is cherishing memories of his daughter Carly: her face, her final words and Oct. 17, 2011 -- the day she was born.

“I was happy,” said Ramirez in Spanish. “She's my only daughter. She was everything. She was everything to me.” Her name came from a combination of Carlos and her mother’s name, Brandy Teague.

But on Saturday, he found out he would never see her again after Teague drove her car off the road, over a curb and into a power pole in El Cajon.

Carly and her 10-year-old half-brother were taken to Rady Children’s Hospital, where the little girl died.

Ramirez’ tear-filled eyes began to overflow as he recalled Carly’s last words to him as she left his house with her mother.

“The last image I have of her is when she was yelling, ‘Papi !Papi! Papi!’” he said. “That’s the only thing I have in my head right now."

Ramirez is left fed up and frustrated with the mother of his child. Friends told NBC 7 that on Saturday, he did not want Brandy to take his little girl because he suspected she was high, but he did not have full custody of her.

El Cajon police say Teague, who was driving on a suspended license, was under the influence of drugs and may have fallen asleep at the wheel when she crashed. She now faces gross vehicular manslaughter in Carly’s death. The mother’s sons, ages 10 and 2, survived.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family pay for Carly’s funeral arrangements.

"She's not with us, but she's in the Lord's hands," said family friend Claire Tapete. "We'll meet her. We'll see her again." 

Mission Beach’s Belmont Park will soon see $18 million in improvements, according to the new lease approved by the San Diego City Council Monday.

The council voted 7-2 to allow Symphony Asset Pool XVI, LLC to amend its lease, which expires on June 30, 2038.

Among the upgrades is a $5.9 million plan to fix the Plunge pool. The indoor, city-owned pool at the Wavehouse Athletic Club has been closed for years — part of San Diego’s multibillion dollar deferred maintenance backlog, according to City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf.

Symphony will be in charge of all pool repairs and maintenance moving forward.

Under the amended lease, the company has an option to extend its lease to 40 years if it completes the $18 million in capital improvements within three years.

If that extension happens, Symphony’s lease on the 7.2-acre prime piece of beachfront property will jump to at least $1.1 million a year.

However, it will get rent credit from the city for the repairs made to the Plunge pool.

In a news release, Zapf said Symphony took over Belmont Park a few years ago after the previous company went bankrupt.

"Their investment has had a positive ripple effect on the entire Mission Beach neighborhood," the city councilwoman said. "There are more customers visiting nearby businesses, crime is down significantly, and with this new agreement, the historic Plunge pool will open far sooner than had been possible if the City was funding repairs." 

But attorney Cory Briggs claims the council's approval Monday violates the city's charter because residents were not notified about a public hearing on the matter. The charter states no contract or agreement for more than five years can be valid unless two-thirds of the council approves it after a public hearing.

Briggs also says Symphony should have gotten a California Coastal Act development permit before it planned beach concessions on the property. The lease also violates the California Environmental Quality Act, the attorney asserts.