A woman was rescued in dramatic fashion Tuesday morning from the base of Mount Hamilton, where she had spent 15 hours face down in a ravine after her Chevy careened 500 feet down an embankment.

The 28-year-old woman, identified as Melissa Vasquez by the California Highway Patrol, was in stable condition at Regional Medical Center, according to the hospital's Chief Operating Officer Sandy Yanko.

A tech-savvy police officer is being credited as a hero for figuring out Vasquez's home computer password so he could use her Find My iPhone app to lead crews straight to the flipped-over car.

"It's really remarkable," said Campbell Police Capt. Gary Berg, who said Officer David Cameron logged into her PC in an effort to zero in on her exact location. "I don't think she would be alive today, otherwise."

Vasquez landed face down in the ravine after she was ejected from her 2012 Chevrolet Cruze, according to a CHP report. San Jose Fire Capt. Brad McGibben said she was "awake and talking to us" when she was hoisted to a hospital about 9 a.m.

The situation began about 2 p.m. on Monday when police received an "OnStar" call from the woman's car navigation company. Berg said officers searched for two hours, but couldn't find her. The alert said the tires had "left the ground," and that originally, her Chevy was located near her home, by Camden Avenue and Highway 17.

Then, OnStar alerts gave out a few more locations, including a ping about 4 p.m. in downtown San Jose, Berg said. Still, officers couldn't find her. For its part, OnStar officials said the company was looking into the issue.

At 3 a.m. Tuesday, the young woman's stepmother, with whom she lives, called Campbell police to report that the young woman still wasn't home and it was very unlike her, Berg said.

Cameron, who has been an officer with the department since 1998 and has a mind for computers, tinkered on a computer at Vasquez's home, until he figured out her password.

"Unbelievably, Officer Cameron was able to guess the correct password and log into her account," Berg said.

It took Cameron three tries. "I just tried to make an educated guess," he said, descrbibing himself as a "tech geek."

Once Cameron logged into the Find My iPhone app, he had the location at the base of Mt. Hamilton, which propelled more than a half a dozen rescue agencies to the remote, rugged scene about 5 a.m., Berg said.

NBC Bay Area's chopper flew over the 4,000-foot mountain, which overlooks Silicon Valley, surveying the scene from above.

Just about 7:30 a.m., a rescue crew member from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was lowered down to the ground to an area thick with trees, to find a white Chevy flipped over on its roof. Within 15 minutes, crews carried a stretcher to the scene. The stretcher was then hoisted up into the awaiting emergency helicopter about 8:40 a.m. She was seen being wheeled into Regional Medical Center of San Jose by 9 a.m.

Down below, emergency crews from agencies including the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department and Cal Fire surrounded the flipped-over car. Firefighters cut away brush as the winds made it difficult for the helicopter to land.

#breaking CalFire clearing path down ravine in case it's too windy for @uscg chopper rescue https://t.co/I3hBZNwXmh

— Bob Redell (@BobNBC) October 14, 2014

Westbound Mt. Hamilton Road was shut down near the Mt. Hamilton Grandview Restaurant, and drivers were advised to take Quimby Road instead.

CHP Officer Ross Lee said investigators didn't know why Vasquez went off the road, but alcohol and drugs are not thought to be factors at this time.

NBC Bay Area's Tim Bollinger, Marianne Favro and Bay City News contributed to this report.

A driver pulled over for expired tags drove off, crashed and then fled the scene leaving a female passenger behind to answer questions, police said.

San Diego Police officers pulled over a green, Ford Mustang near 43rd Street and El Cajon Boulevard just before 1 a.m. Tuesday.

Officers got out and walked up to the driver’s side window to talk about expired registration stickers on the vehicle’s license plate when they say the Mustang sped off.

The driver headed westbound on El Cajon Boulevard and then turned northbound in the southbound lanes of 43rd.

About five minutes later, California Highway patrol officers reported an overturned vehicle on the eastbound off-ramp from Interstate 8 onto College Avenue.

SDPD officers identified the car from the earlier traffic stop but found only a female passenger inside the vehicle. The driver ran from the crash on foot.

The woman was detained but faces no charges.

Investigators say they are confident they will find the driver using paperwork found in the car and information received from the passenger.

The driver could face charges of delaying a police officer and felony evading.
 

What’s your passion? Whether it’s art, film or fitness, you can pursue it this weekend in San Diego. Here are some suggestions to inspire you.

Thursday, Oct. 16

Cocktails and Culture
6 p.m. – 10 p.m. at the San Diego Museum of Art
Feeling groovy? Then don your best “Mad Men”-inspired outfit and get to this month’s Cocktails and Culture at the San Diego Museum of Art. The museum’s new exhibit features pop artists from the 20th century, including the iconic Andy Warhol. You’ll enjoy go-go dancers and live interactive paintings while sipping the event’s signature drink, the Campbell’s Soup Bloody Mary.

Friday, Oct. 17

San Diego Italian Film Festival
7:30 p.m. in Balboa Park and Encinitas
Immerse yourself in the delicious Italian culture at this year’s San Diego Italian Film Festival. Friday night features screenings of two award-winning Italian films: “La Grande Bellezz” (“The Great Beauty”), which tells the story of a frustrated writer caught up in his social whirlwind lifestyle, and “Anni Felici” (“Those Happy Years”), where a 70s housewife rethinks her life after attending a feminist retreat. Both will leave you saying, “Bravo!” The film festival runs through Oct. 25.

Saturday, Oct. 18

7th Annual San Diego VisionWalk/Run
9 a.m. downtown
If you haven’t checked out downtown’s new Waterfront Park yet, this is the perfect opportunity. This 5K walk and fun run benefits Foundation Fighting Blindness, which is devoted to finding cures for macular degeneration and other diseases of the eye.

San Diego Comic Fest Masked Ball
8 p.m. – 11 p.m. at the Town & Country Hotel
Need a reason to wear your Halloween costume early? Dancers will get down in disguise at the San Diego Comic Fest Masked Ball. San Diego Comic Fest has everything for the comic book enthusiast (minus the extreme lines of another comic-themed event we have in town...)

Sunday, Oct. 19

30th Annual Fall Plant Sale
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the San Diego Botanic Garden
According to gardening experts, October is the best time to plant a fall garden in Southern California. What better place to start your fall garden than at the San Diego Botanic Garden’s annual fundraiser? Growers from across San Diego County will have hundreds of beautiful (and drought-resistant) plants for sale. The sale begins Saturday and ends Monday, when all remaining plants will be half-off.

Call him the reluctant superstar.

Chargers fans are calling rookie running back Branden Oliver a savior after he nearly single-handedly led Sunday’s comeback against the hated Oakland Raiders, scoring the winning touchdown with under two minutes left in a menacing road environment.

If he is the team’s next star in the making, we’re going to have to work on his interview skills.

“I mean yeah, kind of, sort of, I guess.”

That was Oliver’s first answer when he took the podium this week to talk about his newfound fame. Wait, what was the question?

Doesn’t matter. Oliver’s play on the field speaks for itself. That’s now two straight games with over 100 yards and a touchdown. On Sunday, his 101st and final yard was the most important. It came on a dive over the pile into the end zone, giving the Chargers a 31-28 that would hold up in the end.

Now the undrafted rookie from the University of Buffalo is getting praise from veterans and coaches alike.

“He’s a great player. He acts like a veteran,” 11th-year receiver Malcom Floyd said of Oliver. “He does a lot of extra stuff on and off the field to take care of his body.”

The praise isn’t lost on a guy who didn’t even know if he’d be on an NFL roster heading into training camp. He might not be here if it weren’t for a season-ending injury to Danny Woodhead and another that has kept Ryan Mathews out of the lineup for the past month.

“It feels great, honestly, to have the veterans talk like that,” Oliver said. “But I still have a lot of work to go.”

He put a full game’s worth of work into that last drive, which was a thing of beauty. The Chargers found themselves in a rare position this season: Trailing in the fourth quarter. In fact, the only other time they have been down in the final frame was the last two minutes of the season-opening loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Since then, it’s been smooth sailing … until Sunday.

That’s when Oliver took over, reeling off runs of 12, 10 and 7 yards before the final plunge put them up for good.

“Branden Oliver had an outstanding game running the football,” Chargers coach Mike McCoy said. “The last drive there, going in and punching a score, to score at the end was an outstanding way to finish the game. You always talk about running the ball in the end zone when you have an opportunity and we did a great job there.”

Now the job of lead back is his for the taking, at least until Mathews is healthy enough to get back on the field.

The big question everyone in the league has to be asking themselves is, why did nobody draft this guy? He set the school rushing record with 4,094 yards at Buffalo, leading them to a bowl game against San Diego State last year.

Oliver says he uses the slight it as motivation.

“Everybody wants to get drafted,” he said. “I’d be a liar to sit up here and tell you I didn’t want to get drafted. I wanted to be first pick. But it didn’t happen. But at the same time I woke up with a purpose every day. This was my desire since I was a kid.”

The diminutive star has found motivation his whole life. When you’re only 5-foot-6 ½ -- Oliver says he stopped growing somewhere around his junior year in high school – you gotta be quick and elusive.

“Since I was a little kid, I was chased around by my older brothers in the back yard,” he recalled. “They were older than me, and faster, so I had to learn how to duck underneath and cut different ways.”

Now the Bolts, who are tied for the best record in the league at 5-1, have Oliver to thank for a lot of their success.

“I ended up in the right place, and just continue to (be in) the right place and time,” he said.
 

A Hazardous Materials team was conducting a routine visit at a Clairemont high school Tuesday afternoon, not responding to an emergency.

Crews were inspecting old science equipment at Madison High School at 4833 Doliva Drive prior to disposal, the school's principal confirmed. No one was injured or in danger.

The fire department initially told NBC 7 there was a report of a possible radiation leak.

As U.S. health officials take a close look at protocols for treating Ebola after two health-care workers in a Dallas hospital contracted the disease, some medical experts are questioning whether advanced medical procedures might put such workers at greater risk.

Authorities have repeated that Ebola is spread only through direct contact with patients’ bodily fluids.

But two doctors with extensive experience with Ebola are urging caution, warning that the virus could possibly be transmitted through an aerosol spray as a result of complicated medical procedures such as dialysis and intubation. That could be a particular concern for doctors, nurses and other health-care workers in the immediate vicinity of a patient.

"I certainly would be worried about situations where modern medical measures were brought to bear on Ebola-infected patients, because we don’t have any experience with that," said Dr. C.J. Peters, a former U.S. Army colonel who was chief of the special pathogens branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Peters has worked to stem Ebola outbreaks, including one among monkeys at a research facility in Reston, Virginia. 

Dallas nurse Nina Pham and a second unidentified health-care worker became ill with Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the 42-year-old Liberian man who was hospitalized at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital after traveling from West Africa to Dallas. He died last week.

It's not clear how they became infected, and all studies indicate that Ebola does not transmit like the flu or the cold, through coughs and sneezes.

In West Africa — where the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has killed nearly 4,500 people — patients are not typically put on respirators or dialysis machines, Peters said.

But in Dallas, Duncan was on a ventilator and a kidney dialysis machine immediately before he died, his family said.

Both Peters and Dr. Philip K. Russell, a retired major general who oversaw Ebola research for the Army Medical Research and Development Command, said putting a patient on a respirator, intubating a patient and other procedures create an aerosol.

"So then the question is, 'Is this a mode of transmission?'" Russell said. "Basically we don’t know.”

Health-care workers at hospitals that have treated Ebola patients in the United States have all used what are called positive air pressure respirators, devices to protect them from aerosol exposure, Frieden said on Monday.

“That is clearly not how the individual in Texas became infected so I don’t think we have concerns about the potential route of transmission, but our guidelines already say that if there is any concern for aerosol-generating procedures such as intubation of a patient or suctioning, then absolutely we recommend respiratory protection," he said.

But late Tuesday, the country's largest nurses' union released a statement from nurses at the Dallas hospital saying staff had treated Duncan for days without the correct protective gear. The nurses at first wore only surgical masks with more sophisticated ones optional and they taped closed openings in gowns that did not cover their necks, the union said.

The union declined to identify the nurses who made the complaints. Its offiials said they were reading the statement so that the nurses, who are not represented by a union, could speak out anonymously without fear of losing their jobs.

"I don't think we have a systematic institutional problem," Dr. Daniel Varga, chief clinical officer of Texas Health Resources, said during a media briefing Wednesday.

Earlier, the hospital had said in a statement that there were numerous measures in place to provide a safe working environment, including mandatory annual training and mechanisms to allow for anonymous reporting.

Russell said there was some evidence from recent studies that the strain of virus being seen now might be producing higher levels of virus in the blood, which could make it more transmissible. The virus needs to be watched carefully to see if it is mutating in ways that make it more dangerous, he said.

“There’s a lot of unknowns in this epidemic and some of them have to do with the nature and the virulence of the virus,” he said. “The others have to do with the way it produces an illness and how it’s transmitted.”

Dr. Daniel G. Bausch of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, who has studied the risk of Ebola transmission from bodily fluids, said he saw no reason to change the medical assumptions about Ebola.

"I can't think of any example of natural mutations of a pathogen that has fundamentally changed its biology so that we have something that mutated that once was spread by contacts with blood and bodily fluids and now has changed its biology to be spread by airborne or aerosol," he said. "I suppose that rare things happen rarely."

Peters stressed that he thought the CDC was doing exactly what it should be doing to control Ebola.

“Aerosol transmission doesn’t mean that it’s going to be influenza,” he said. “It just means that sometimes it may happen that way.”

And Russell acknowledged the tremendous danger of infection through contact.

"But to assume that there isn't any virus in the air is also I think dangerous," he said. "But if everybody's wearing the positive pressure equipment to protect themselves against inhaled aerosol, that's great. That's what I think should be." 

A suspect is in custody after two park rangers were stabbed inside Boston Common, the nation's oldest park, late Tuesday afternoon, Boston Police confirmed.

One of the rangers, a 46-year-old sergeant with 20 years on the force, was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with life-threatening injuries for stab wounds to the abdomen, and the other ranger, a 23 year old who just joined the force, was taken to Tufts Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries and was in stable condition, according to police.

The sergeant got out of surgery at about 7:30 Tuesday night and is in serious, but stable condition.

The ranger who went to Tufts is expected to be released Wednesday.

Thirty-four-year-old Bodio Hutchinson, a homeless man with several warrants for his arrest, including drugs and assault on a police officer, is in custody for the stabbing, police said. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said Hutchinson lunged at the park rangers when they approached him, stabbing them multiple times.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said the park rangers, who do not carry firearms, have had issues with homelessness in the past. Walsh said two to four rangers patrol the Common and Public Garden at any given time.

"We'll go back and talk with the rangers and see what they need for more equipment and increase in park rangers so we make sure the park system is safe," Walsh said.

Commissioner Evans said both of the park rangers were talking when they were taken to their hospitals. Authorities say the knife used in the attack was found in the Public Garden Pond.

There were many witnesses to the late afternoon attack.

"I saw him run, a shadowy figure, booking it as fast as he could down to the Gardens," Jackson Marchant, who saw the stabbing victims, said.

"I was just watching the ducks, and this guy ran and he was being chased by two cops, I think. And then he stopped and said, like, 'Shoot me, shoot me,' and then they kind of tackled him to the ground," Nick Rusk, who saw the arrest, said.

Hutchinson faces several charges, including two counts of attempted murder.

Stay with NECN as this story develops. 

After a sick passenger on a United Airlines flight caused an Ebola scare at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday, flight attendants have expressed concern about the deadly disease, according to aviation officials.

LAX Association of Flight Attendants President Dante Harris told NBC4 that he has been getting calls and emails from flight attendants worried about Ebola, but added that flight attendants have been trained to deal with medical issues and are responsible for checking out every passenger for health and safety risks.

"You don’t know that we’re looking but we are," Harris said. "Our responsibility is to assess every single passenger and try to interact with every single passenger when they get on the flight."

Passengers on United Airlines Flight 703 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport were kept on board for two hours Sunday afternoon because one passenger exhibited flu-like symptoms and had recently traveled to Africa.

"It has turned out that there was some miscommunication - that this patient had been to the continent of Africa, but not near West Africa," Los Angeles Fire Capt. Jaime Moore said. "As a matter of fact, it was South Africa. The patient has been ill on flights before and got ill on this flight. There is no reason to believe this person (had) been exposed to an Ebola virus."

Passengers were escorted off the tarmac when officials learned the threat was a false alarm.
In addition to first aid and CPR training, Harris said flight attendants are also trained to use medical kits for infectious diseases that are onboard every plane.

"We have gloves and we have masks. We have face shields and we're trained on all those items," Harris said.

Harris said that when there is a medical concern, the pilot consults with a ground crew to determine whether or not to divert the plane.

"My first reaction is that the flight attendants did what they were supposed to do (Sunday) in identifying the issue and calling the appropriate authorities," Harris said.

The leader of a violent Mexican drug trafficking gang was sentenced Tuesday to nine life terms without the possibility of parole.

Juan Francisco Estrada Gonzalez, 35, who was part of the gang “Los Palillos, was convicted of six murders and kidnappings in San Diego County between 2004 and 2007.

He was found guilty of the charges along with “Los Palillos” boss Jorge Rojas Lopez after a 15-month trial.

Prior to the killings, Estrada Gonzalez was sentenced to 29 years in prison in Mexico in 2003, but escaped to the United States.

He and Rojas Lopez avoided the death penalty after jurors deadlocked during the penalty phase of their deliberations. The men then pleaded guilty to unresolved counts to avoid capital punishment.

Two other gang members have already been sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the crimes.

Southwest Airlines has launched its winter fare sale, offering discounted tickets ranging from $49 to $149, depending on where you want to fly.

The 72-hour sale started Tuesday morning and runs until 11:59 p.m. Thursday in your originating time zone. Tickets are being offered for the first few weeks of December and between Jan. 6 to Feb. 11, outside the high travel days of Christmas and the New Year’s holidays.

Discounted flights from San Diego include trips to Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco and (farther away) Atlanta and Baltimore, among other destinations.

Here are the flight deals from San Diego, according to Southwest’s website:

• To Albuquerque, NM starting at $99 one-way
• To Atlanta, GA starting at $149 one-way
• To Austin, TX starting at $129 one-way
• To Baltimore/Washington, MD starting at $149 one-way
• To Chicago (Midway), IL starting at $149 one-way
• To Denver, CO starting at $99 one-way
• To Houston (Hobby), TX starting at $149 one-way
• To Kansas City, MO starting at $129 one-way
• To Las Vegas, NV starting at $49 one-way
• To Nashville, TN starting at $149 one-way
• To New Orleans, LA starting at $149 one-way
• To Orlando, FL starting at $149 one-way
• To Phoenix, AZ starting at $49 one-way
• To Sacramento, CA starting at $49 one-way
• To San Antonio, TX starting at $129 one-way
• To San Francisco, CA starting at $49 one-way
• To San Jose, CA starting at $49 one-way
• To Seattle/Tacoma, WA starting at $99 one-way
• To Tucson, AZ starting at $49 one-way
• To Washington (Dulles), DC starting at $149 one-way

Ross Mills didn't know what to make of the phone call he got Sunday morning at his Oceanside home.

The person on the other end of the line said Mills was one of 17,000 Americans chosen to receive a $7,000 dollar grant.

So why did the government pick Ross Mills?

"Because I was a good citizen and hadn't filed bankruptcy recently," Mills said explaining the caller's reasoning.

He was surprised but said he could use the money to paint his house. So he listened to the caller, who said he needed to contact their finance officer.

"They repeated they knew where I lived, my name and had information on me," said Mills.

The caller I.D. showed the call originated from Washington, D.C. But when Ross Mills asked how he could receive the money, he was surprised. They told him he would have to give his credit card or bank account information. He didn't feel good about that, so they said he could use a Green Dot MoneyPak card, which works like a gift card.

"They said, we want you to put $265 on the Green Dot card so it gets activated and is read to go," he said.

But wouldn't do that.

"Once they have the card number, once they have the money on the card then they've got access to the money," said Sheryl Reichert, CEO with the San Diego Better Business Bureau.

Reichert says the offer is absolutely not a legitimate deal.

"What they're looking for in return is access to your money, access to your bank account, access to bank account numbers, access to a card where you can send them money," Reichert said.

She says people lose money from scams like this every day in San Diego. She says any time someone wants to give you money but requires money from you first, it is almost always a scam.

Ross Mills is glad he didn't fall for the scheme but worries about people who might go along with it.

As for the con artists behind the scam?

"People that don't care about people, that's sad," he said.

A Connecticut state trooper shot and killed the man who stabbed two passengers aboard a tour bus traveling from New York's Chinatown to a Connecticut casino on Interstate 95 northbound in Norwalk on Tuesday night, according to police.

Police said the assailant, armed with a "cutting instrument," was involved in a disturbance on a bus carrying about 24 people around 10 p.m. Tuesday and stabbed a man and a woman, as well as himself.

Several passengers called 911 for help, but before police could arrive, the bus pulled into a construction zone near exit 14 off I-95 North and flagged down a trooper who was working at the site, according to police.

As the trooper approached the bus, the assailant and a passenger with whom he was fighting fell from the bus, onto the pavement, police said. The trooper ordered the suspect to drop the knife, but he refused and advanced toward the trooper.

The trooper opened fire, shooting the suspected assailant and wounding the passenger involved in the fight. State police said it's not clear whether the second bullet struck the passenger directly or ricocheted off the pavement.

The suspect and three injured passengers received medical aid at the scene and were rushed to the hospital, where the suspect died, according to police.

Police said the trooper was not injured but was taken to the hospital for an evaluation.

The witnesses were driven from the scene in buses and will be interviewed by police. Authorities said a State Police Major Crime Squad is investigating.

The trooper will assume administrative duties throughout the investigation.

I-95 northbound was shut down throughout the night between exits 13 and 15 but reopened at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.

We often brag about living in the best city. But how about the best zip code?

The San Diego zip code 92121 – which encompasses the area from University of California San Diego north to Torrey Pines and east to Miramar -- was ranked the sixth best zip code in the United States, according to the real estate blog, Movoto. The ranking measured 28,061 zip codes.

So what makes 92121 one of the golden five digits? The ranking took into account median household income, unemployment rate, average commute time, median rent, median house worth, high school graduation rate and the number of families below the poverty line.

Edging out 92121 in the top five were Washington, D.C., (20004), Houston, Texas (77005), Medina, Washington (98039) and Sea Ranch (95497).

Chicago, Wichita, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri finished out the top 10 zip codes.

You can also see how your zip code stacked up against the rest, by clicking here.

The beaches around the La Jolla Children’s Pool were closed Tuesday after about 5,000 gallons of sewage leaked into the ocean.

At about 5 a.m., a sewer pipe became blocked up in the 1000 block of Prospect Street, causing sewage to flow southwest down Coast Boulevard and into a storm drain, according to county officials.

The spill was cut off around 8:45 a.m., but not before the odorous material flowed into the waters near the Children’s Pool.

Authorities have posted closure signs from 1,000 feet south of South Casa Beach to 1,000 feet north of the Children’s Pool to warn beachgoers of the contamination.

The signs will stay in place until sample testing shows the water is no longer impacted. The county's beach water quality website will provide updates on the situation.

The millennial generation has been shifting away from driving over the past decade and a new report indicates it’s not a temporary trend.

The average number of miles driven by 16- to 34-year-olds dropped 23 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to a report published Tuesday by U.S. Public Interest Research Groups.

Plus, driver’s licensing has continued to decline: the percentage of high school seniors with driver’s licenses fell from 85 percent to 73 percent over the past several years.

“There are many factors at play in the drop in driving among young Americans,” the report said. “Many of those factors – from high gas prices to tougher driver licensing laws – appear likely to last."

The report points to more of an affinity for urban “walkable” communities among young adults as well as the rise of technology-enabled transportation services, such as bikesharing and Uber and Lyft.

Tougher driver’s licensing requirements also could play a role, the report found. Also, the economic recession could have contributed because many young adults are living at home longer.

To see the full report, click here.

Heading into Sunday’s divisional showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs at Qualcomm Stadium, Chargers coach Mike McCoy doesn’t want to give any advantages to the visitors.

There are about 2,500 tickets available for the game, and McCoy hopes nobody wearing red will get their hands on them.

“We would love to have 2,500 go to all Chargers fans,” he said. “This is a team coming in from Kansas City that has one of the loudest, if not the loudest crowds week in and week out. So we need to have our loudest fan support, as many Chargers fans in their seats as possible.”

It’s a big game for the Bolts in more than one way. They’ll be wearing their powder blue alternate jerseys for the game – the first time this year fans will get to see them.

They will also induct all-time franchise sacks leader Leslie O’Neal into the team’s Hall of Fame at halftime, part of the team’s Alumni Day.

“It’s gonna be a great atmosphere,” McCoy said.

The Bolts go for their sixth straight win, sporting a 5-1 record that matches their best start since 2002. They lead the Denver Broncos by a half game in the AFC West and are tied for the best record in the league. The Chiefs are third in the division at 2-3.

The cheapest tickets for Sunday’s game on the Chargers website as well as secondary market ticket site StubHub.com are going for around $60.

“I say to the fans, look at the energy in the stadium,” McCoy said. “It’s not just the players. It’s big for us. It really helps our football team.”

A former Fairfax County School bus driver has been charged with assault after a bus attendant told authorities the driver appeared to be fondling a student who has special needs.

Johnnie Miller, 66, retired May 30, according to Fairfax County Public Schools.

The allegation against him came earlier that month. Search warrant documents reveal that the attendant on Miller's bus contacted authorities to report a possible sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl.

The attendant said the victim, who attended the Key Center School, needed to be strapped into a special seat. The attendant believed that on May 6, Miller touched the child inappropriately as he strapped her in.

Transportation supervisors tried to review the video from the bus camera on the date the attendant observed the incident, but that video had been recorded over.

The search warrant document says they checked the video from May 8, and were able to see Miller "rubbing his hand back and forth" while strapping the girl into her seat. The supervisors who viewed the video say the student was yelling, and that when the attendant went to confront Miller, he drew his hand away.

When confronted by supervisors, Miller said it was "just a little tickle game."

School officials placed Miller on administrative leave, contacted Child Protective Services and a police investigation soon began.

"We're always concerned about the safety and well-being of our students, and we are thankful that the attendant brought this alleged iniciden to our attention," schools spokesperson John Torre said.

Parents at Key Center School said they learned of the allegations through the media. They were not notified by the school when allegations surfaced last year.

School district officials say parents were not notified because a decision was made to handle it internally, but parents now will be informed about the alleged incident.

Miller, who lives in Fredericksburg, had been a driver for the county since 1991. He could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

He was charged Sept. 11 with simple assault and battery in connection with the incident. He is due in court Oct. 29.

Ex-Fairfax Co. School bus driver is charged w/ assault of special needs student after attendant reports him #News4@5 pic.twitter.com/ADDKsh9EPm

— Julie Carey (@JulieCareyNBC) October 14, 2014

California Highway Patrol says a driver took off after causing a three-car, rollover crash in the Midway District.

The collision happened in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 8 near the Sports Arena Boulevard exit Tuesday afternoon. 

One of the three vehicles involved flipped on its roof, while another was pulled over to the shoulder as officers arrived.

Witnesses say the driver responsible for the crash drove off soon after.

CHP says no one was injured.