Three years of ad-free enjoyment is probably the most you can hope for in a photo-sharing app, right?  And that's exactly the amount of time Snapchat has waited to unveil its first ad -- a short commercial for the horror film "Ouija". 

After millions of investment, the startup is going to monetize by creating ads that disappear after users read them, according to a company blog post.

We won’t put advertisements in your personal communication – things like Snaps or Chats. That would be totally rude. . . . Understandably, a lot of folks want to know why we’re introducing advertisements to our service. The answer is probably unsurprising – we need to make money. 

Monica Lewisnky joined Twitter on Monday, posting the hashtag: #HereWeGo under the Twitter handle @MonicaLewinsky.

Almost an hour later, the 41-year-old tweeted that she was “excited (and nervous)” to speak at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia on Monday.

Lewinsky's Twitter bio describes her as a social activist, public speaker, Vanity Fair contributor, and "knitter of things without sleeves."

Vanity Fair retweeted her and welcomed her to the social networking site.

This year, Lewinsky has been making a slow return to the public eye after a decade away from the spotlight. 

In May, Lewinsky penned an article for Vanity Fair reflecting on her affair as a White House intern with then President Bill Clinton, saying “it was time to "burn the beret and bury the blue dress."

Lewinsky also talked to "Today" in July about the day details about the affair were revealed by a report from prosecutor Kenneth Starr, saying, “I was the most humiliated woman in the world.”

A tearful father is asking for the public's help to find the driver who hit his 23-year-old daughter and then kept going.

Katie Conner was struck by a hit-and-run driver around 1:20 a.m. on Oct. 12 in Ocean Beach. She was riding her red bicycle home from work on West Point Loma Boulevard going toward Sunset Cliffs Boulevard.

Katie suffered a serious traumatic brain injury and remains in the Intensive Care Unit at the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest, her father Michael Conner told NBC 7. Part of her skull had to be removed because of brain swelling.

"We weren't really prepared for what we saw when we walked in there. I mean, I knew she was in an intensive care unit, and I knew she wasn't going to be sitting up in bed waiting for dad. But I wasn't prepared for what I saw when I walked in there. She looked horrific," he said.

Now, Michael Conner is on a mission to find the person who hit his daughter. He said it’s not about revenge.

"What happened was wrong,” Michael said. “It needs to be corrected, and I'm not the guy to do that.”

San Diego police are looking for a white pickup truck with a camper shell with yellow or brown on it. Michael is urging the public to come forward.

“I can't say it enough. If you know something, call the police and tell them. Even if you don't think it's really that important. I don't know, the smallest little detail could help the police in this matter," he said.

Katie moved to San Diego from the East Coast in July. Her father said she had just purchased a new bike and was planning to ride in an AIDS fundraiser from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a few months.

"She was a very athletic girl. She was very excited to get into cycling,” he said.

Pizza Port, the restaurant where Katie works, is planning a fundraiser for her. It will take place from 11 a.m. to close on Saturday, Nov. 1. Twenty percent of sales will go to Katie. Pizza Port is asking other businesses to donate gift certificates or other items that could be auctioned.
 

A man with severe blunt force trauma was found dead Sunday in the backyard of a Bay Ho home.

Officers were called to a house in the 4700 block of Monongahela Street around 10 a.m.

A 41-year-old man had suffered trauma to his torso and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Neighbor Aubrey Howard spoke with investigators and was told why the death was suspicious.

"Blood which is an indication of blunt force trauma," Howard said. "Cause they hadn't really moved the body out at that stage but there was blood, lot of blood that's all they said."

Police did release the victim’s name, the nature of his injuries or how he died to the media.

“At this juncture, it is unknown if the male’s death was accidental,” police said in a news release Sunday evening.

Detectives spent hours searching the home and several cars park in front of it.

They impounded at least one car.

An autopsy has been scheduled. Homicide detectives are investigating.

Check back for updates.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said four dozen people being cleared off the Ebola watch list Monday should be treated with "dignity and respect" and welcomed back into the community.

“There’s zero risk than any of those people on the list have Ebola,” Jenkins said. “We have to believe in science. It’s what separates us from other mammals."

At midnight, 43 people showing no sign of the Ebola virus fell off the list and another five are expected to fall off sometime Monday. All of them either had direct contact with index patient Thomas Eric Duncan, or the ambulance that carried him to the hospital. The additional 75 health care workers who cared for Duncan will clear their 21-day monitoring period on Oct. 29.

Jenkins singled out five children who are returning to school after missing about three weeks, and requested help from Dallas-area parents to ensure they are treated with respect. He said that Louise Troh was worried about how her middle-school aged son would be treated and he agreed with the concerns.

“Middle schoolers are some of the most ferocious and scariest animals on the planet,” he said.

Jenkins added that the way people handle the reintegration process could show the city as a “beacon for how others can deal” with such adversity when “the next Ebola case happens to America.”

"The world is watching Dallas,” he said.

43 Removed from Ebola Contact List

The 43 people who were on the watch list after coming in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8, before he was put in isolation have shown no signs of contracting the virus.

“Continuous vigilance in confronting this threat and the cooperation of those affected is what has brought us to this point, and we look forward to the day when the remaining individuals can also be removed from active monitoring,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said.

The fight is not over, though. Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, two Dallas nurses who contracted the virus while caring for Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, remain hospitalized. Investigators said they don't know how or when they contracted the virus.

“They are blameless in this situation,” said Jenkins. “They are victims of Ebola. They are not at fault for contracting this disease in any way.”

All the other health care workers who cared for Duncan while in isolation are being monitored for 21 days. More than 70 of them will be closely watched until Oct. 29 as long as they continue to show no signs of having the virus.

“We cannot be relieved,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said. “We are still in a situation where we are cautious. We're cautiously optimistic, but we're still very cautious.”

Jenkins said with each day that passes, the chances of another health care worker contracting the virus from Duncan decreases. If no new cases of Ebola appear before Nov. 6, North Texas will no longer be monitored for the virus.

A driver took off on foot after his car plowed into the side of an Oceanside church Monday.

Oceanside Police officer arrested the man just up the road from the Family Fellowship Church on El Camino Real near Douglas Drive, north of State Route 76.

Officers say the driver drove his black sedan off the road, up onto a sidewalk over grass and into the side of the church around 1 a.m.

The car missed the main part of the church and didn't make it inside but the impact of the crash knocked down a pillar outside the building.

After the crash, the driver took off running on foot. Oceanside Police officers said they found the man near the crash scene. He is in police custody.
 

An Oceanside Police officer shot and killed a dog Monday and now the dog’s owner may be cited for not controlling the animal.

Residents at a home on Morse Street near Alvarado called police at 2:30 a.m. when they found a strange man sitting in front of their home with his dog.

When officers were talking with the man, they say the dog tried to charge at them.

Officers say they asked the man to control his dog and put him on a leash.

Once again, the dog started to charge at them and an officer tried to use a taser on the dog but missed.

When the dog charged a third time, one officer shot the dog, killing the animal. Officials told NBC 7 the officer feared for his safety.

The dog’s owner was taken into custody not for the dog charging but for being under the influence of a controlled substance.

He may get an infraction for his dog, officials said.
 

Anonymous emails, sent to the former staffer who accused Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio of sexual harassment, are the subject of FBI agent interviews with potential witnesses, sources have confirmed to NBC7 Investigates.

DeMaio is locked in a nasty, raging battle against first-term incumbent Rep. Scott Peters for the 52nd Congressional District.

In a CNN interview, the former DeMaio staffer, Todd Bosnich, said he was subjected to unwelcome touching and repeated sexual harassment while working on the congressional campaign for the former San Diego city councilman and 2012 mayoral candidate.

DeMaio says those claims are "outrageous lies."

In a June interview with KFMB’s Mike Slater, Bosnich also said both he and his mother had received threatening and harassing anonymous emails

On Friday, Bosnich's attorney declined to release any emails.

But several sources close to the investigation told NBC7 that FBI agents and a lawyer from the U.S. Attorney's office asked questions focused on the accusation the Bosniches had received harassing emails, and an alleged hack of his Gmail account.

The investigators also inquired about Bosnich’s claim that he was offered $50,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

A source close to the investigation told NBC7 Investigates the emails threatened Bosnich's political career and put pressure on him to accept the $50,000, saying "you better keep your mouth shut and take the deal."

FBI spokesman Darrell Foxworth said his agency does not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.

DeMaio says Bosnich is "clearly troubled" and has "manufactured a story" to cover for a plagiarism incident. DeMaio addressed Bosnich's sexual harassment allegations Oct. 8 prior to the airing of the CNN report. DeMaio said that Bosnich had been involved in vandalism at a campaign headquarters just six days before the June primary. DeMaio said Bosnich fabricated the sexual allegations in order to divert attention away from what he says what his attack on the campaign office.

“It’s unfortunate, you know, that an individual who is the prime suspect to the break-in in our campaign office would manufacture such an outrageous lie — but again, all the evidence that was collected by the police department clearly indicated this individual was the prime suspect. And it’s unfortunate, but we will continue to allow the district attorney to proceed with her case, and weighing the case, to prosecute for the break-in of our office,” DeMaio said. 

Police have not named any suspects in the break-in case. 

The DeMaio campaign office in Miramar was  broken into on May 28. Computer screens were smashed, cords and cables were cut, gas cards were stolen and water was poured over laptops, printers and copiers.

DeMaio also announced on NBC 7’s Sunday show “Politically Speaking” that a book containing campaign strategy documents was stolen during the May 28 break-in, and that the Peters campaign somehow received the book after the break-in.

Peters said he turned the material over to police within 24 hours of receiving it. His campaign added that nothing was contained in the stolen material that wasn’t already broadcast on social media.

On Oct. 8, DeMaio told reporters that San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman assured him he was cleared in the sexual allegations investigation. Zimmerman would not confirm this to NBC7.

"Reports of any criminal activity received by the San Diego Police Department are taken seriously and investigated thoroughly," SDPD Lt. Kevin Mayer said. "Once an investigation is complete, it is turned over to the District Attorney's office for review at which point we do not provide further comment about the names of potential victims, witnesses or alleged suspects."

Top nurses at the Dallas hospital where two nurses fell ill treating the nation's first Ebola patient spoke out for the first time Monday, affirming their pride in their hospital amid scrutiny and vowing to reaffirm the public's trust.

"The reason we're here today is to make sure people know that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is still a great hospital, an excellent hospital," chief nursing officer Cole Edmonson said at a brief news conference in front of the hospital Monday afternoon, flanked by nurses he called part of a "proud family."

"We're proud to tell people that we work here," he added."We will reaffirm your trust in Presbyterian."

"We are experts in our field, and we don't want to be judged by this one incident," emergency department nurse Julie Boling said, overcome by emotion. "This could happen to any hospital."

The nurses gave their well-wishes to their two coworkers who remain hospitalized in isolation for Ebola, after they contracted the disease treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed in the U.S. He died Oct. 8.

Amber Vinson is being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the same hospital where Fort Worth's Dr. Kent Brantly and American aid worker Nancy Writebol were successfully treated, and her coworker Nina Pham is being treated at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.

On Monday, health officials' efforts to contain Ebola's spread cleared a key hurdle when four dozen people were being cleared from the watch list.

A San Diego State University student who contracted meningococcal meningitis has been taken off life support, university officials said Monday.

Her family had given SDSU officials permission to release a statement Friday morning saying they have told their daughter farewell. However, Sara Stelzer's body was kept on life support while the hospital looked for recipients of some of her vital organs.

School officials said 18-year-old Stelzer was taken off life support on Saturday.

Stelzer, who was studying pre-communications as a freshman, was hospitalized last Tuesday after starting to experience flu-like symptoms two days prior. She was then diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis.

While Stelzer had been vaccinated for meningitis, she contracted th Type B bacteria, which isn't covered by standard vaccination. Currently, Type B vaccination is only allowed in Europe.

Type B meningococcal disease is extremely rare. Between 2004 and 2014, 127 people contracted meningoccal disease, and only 23 of those involved Type B bacteria, said Dr. Dean Sidelinger, child medical officer for the county's health department.

Sidelinger said the mortality rate for meningococcal disease is "quite high."

Attention has turned to preventing another meningitis-related tragedy. Over the weekend, the university’s student health services saw nearly 1,000 students for evaluation, providing antibiotics to some.

Some of these students had possible symptoms, but all turned out to be OK, school officials said.

It was not just an emotional homecoming when USS Wayne E. Meyer arrived in San Diego Monday. For many newly married couples, it was the end of a first deployment.

Chalee Winslett and Yanda Edwards were waiting for their respective wives.

Edwards said it’s been a difficult deployment for her, the first since she married her wife Christine in May. Her voice quivered when she talked about how proud she was of her spouse.

Winslett, who is also in the Navy, said the seven-month deployment was a little rough.

“We’re new to this,” the newlywed said of the separation. She said the couple was looking forward to setting up their first home together in San Diego.

Near the fence, Ursula Bongiovanni was anxiously awaiting her daughter. It was the first tour for the first family member to enlist in the U.S. Navy.

“She made the decision a long time ago to serve in the military. I can’t tell you how proud we are of her. I’m just glad to have her back,” she said.

Amanda and Kyle Lore shared a kiss on the dock after Kyle disembarked from the ship.

“It’s been way too long, way too long,” Amanda said. The couple was able to stay connected through Facebook and via WiFi when it was available.

“It’s not the same obviously,” Kyle said as he hugged his wife.

There was another big hug waiting for the ship’s Senior Sailor of the Year, Shanelle Stribling.

She ran off the ship and threw her arms around her daughter.

What was the little girl’s response to seeing her mom back in San Diego? “Happy!” she said.

Health officials have released long-awaited new guidelines for how health workers should gear up to treat Ebola patients, calling for protective garb that covers their bodies entirely and for trained monitors to supervise them as they put on and remove it.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the long-anticipated updates Monday evening. Health workers have been pushing for new standards since two Dallas hospital nurses were diagnosed with the disease this month after treating an Ebola patient.

The guidelines call for face shields, hoods, boot covers and other garb that leave no part of the body exposed. They also call for a trained monitor to supervise the donning and doffing of protective wear. And they call for repeated training and practice.

The CDC guidance was expected as early as Saturday, but its release has been pushed back while it continues to go through review by experts and government officials.

Health workers had been pushing for the guidance since the nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were infected. They had treated an Ebola-infected patient named Thomas Eric Duncan — the first person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S.

Exactly how the two nurses were infected is not clear, said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden during a Monday night teleconference with reporters.

"We may never know exactly how that happened, but the bottom line is, the guidelines didn't work for that hospital," Frieden said.

The new guidelines include:

—Use of protective garments, hoods, face shields, double gloves, face masks or respirators and other protective equipment to cover every square inch of a health worker's body.

—A call for health workers who may be involved in an Ebola patient's care to practice repeatedly and demonstrate proficiency in donning and doffing gear before ever being allowed near a patient.

—Placement of a trained hospital employee to supervise all aspects of care in an Ebola patient's room and watch that all health workers put on and take off gear correctly.

Duncan's infection and subsequent death led to the monitoring of about 50 people who came in contact with him before he entered the hospital and dozens of health care workers who cared for him after his admission.

Some good news this week: The 50 in the initial contact group have passed a 21-day observation period and no longer are deemed at risk for coming down with the dreaded disease.

Youngor Jallah spent the past three weeks confined to her small apartment with her children and boyfriend, fearing they had contracted the deadly Ebola virus from her mother's fiance.

But with the household emerging symptom-free from the incubation period, Jallah's family members are now trying to resume their lives - replacing the personal belongings incinerated in a cleanup at her mother's home, and overcoming the stigma of the Ebola scare that has gripped Dallas.

On Monday, Jallah beamed as she sent her children back to school with clearance from the Dallas County health department tucked into their backpacks. Her mother emerged from her own confinement and started looking for a new place to live.

"We were sitting here traumatized," Jallah told The Associated Press on Monday. "We just thank God we never came down with the virus."

Jallah's mother's fiance, Thomas Eric Duncan, was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. He died Oct. 8.

Health officials said Monday about 50 people have passed the incubation period safely. Others who are still being monitored include health care workers who treated Duncan as well as those who cared for two nurses who had treated Duncan and also became infected.

There are now about 120 people in Texas being monitored for symptoms, with their wait period ending Nov. 7, said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. He said the number may fluctuate.

There are also about 140 people being monitored in Ohio because of contact or potential contact with nurse Amber Vinson, Ohio officials said. Vinson, who cared for Duncan in Texas, flew from Dallas to Cleveland on Oct. 10 and flew back Oct. 13.

An Ebola patient who was being treated in Atlanta since early September was released from Emory University Hospital on Sunday after he was determined to be free of the virus and no threat to the public. Hospital and health officials never released his name, in keeping with his family's wish for privacy.

Health officials said they were relieved as the monitoring period ended for many, and after a cruise ship scare ended with the boat returning to port in Texas and a lab worker on board testing negative for the virus.

After Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola, Troh, her 13-year-old son, Duncan's nephew and a family friend were ordered by a Dallas court to stay inside the apartment among Duncan's used linens. Five days later they were evacuated to a four-bedroom home in an isolated corner of a 13-acre gated property owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, southwest of downtown.

Except for a few plastic bins filled with personal documents, photographs, trophies and a Bible, the apartment was stripped down to the carpeting and the contents were incinerated.

The city of Dallas announced Monday it is coordinating with a local church and donors to provide Jallah's mother, Louise Troh, with funds to pay for six months of housing. Once she chooses a location, nonprofits will assist the family with furniture, linens and other household items, the city said.

"We want to restore what's lost but more than that, we want to give her a running start on her new life," said Troh's pastor, George Mason of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas.

While health workers cleared Jallah of having Ebola, the disease's stigma lingers — including among fellow Liberians, she said.

"If they see me at the store, they run away," she said.

Eighty-four people were arrested during riots at a New Hampshire community's annual pumpkin festival that spilled over to a nearby college over the weekend, and authorities are asking for the public's help in identifying more rioters.

The violent parties in Keene led to the destruction of private and public property, resulting in the injuries of more than 30 people on Saturday.

Local police say they planned ahead, based off previous years riots, but say this year things were different when the rioters moved out onto public streets and neighborhoods.

"I think, unfortunately, we were caught by surprise when things started earlier than expected," said Keene Police Chief Kenneth Meola. "We thought we had it well in hand, to be quite honest, but we fell a little short."

The incident happened around Keene State College during the city's Pumpkin Festival, which is when the community tries to set a world record for the most carved and lighted jack-o-lanterns in one place. Police responded to the violence with riot gear, tear gas and pepper spray in an attempt to control the crowds.

The area was cleaned up by college students on Sunday.

New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan said the Granite State's higher education institutions must "take swift action to hold students involved accountable."

Keene State College President Anne Huot was a witness to Saturday's riot.

"I'm gravely concerned" about the unruly behavior, she said.

According Mayor Kendall Lane, between 55,000-60,000 people were attending the festival and were safe during the violent parties, adding that the future of the festival is uncertain at this time.

According to Keene city officials, the riots seem to have begun in several places, including Wilcox Terrace and Winchester Court, around 1 p.m. Saturday with more than 1,000 people in each location, with some throwing rocks, bottles, cans, even billard balls, injuring some.

Keene Police Chief Kenneth Meoloa said his department communicated with Keene State College students before the festival, adding that it was "outside forces" that was part of the "riotous behavior."

As police tried to disperse the crowds, the crowds turned their attention to law enforcement, according to the city; police say they used pepper spray, tear gas and fired "sponge rounds" at some of the rioters. The crowd then moved through the neighborhood to Butler Court, where the riots continued, the city said; another crowd moved from Winchester Street to Blake Street, where a fire was set in the middle of the road.

Keene officials say the riots continued for the next eight hours as the crowd moved to Keene State College property. Crowds damaged college, city and private property, including an overturned car, officials said.

Chief Meola said there was also riotous behavior last year, adding that this year the rioters entered public domain, but last year was an "organized party."

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Utility crews are working to mop up a water main break that flooded a San Marcos street Monday.

According to a spokesman for the Vallecitos Water District, the water line that supplies an apartment complex's fire sprinklers ruptured at about 2:20 p.m. near Liberty and Henson Heights drives.

A sheriff's spokesperson initially told NBC 7 at least one home had flooded, but the utility's crews said they were able to shut off water before it could run into any homes.

San Diego Gas & Electric had to check the lines before the water district repair the water main and a valve to prevent future breaks, the spokesman said.

Water was restored to nearby residents just before 10 p.m. Monday.

There seems to be a consensus among NFL players and coaches when it comes to playing on Thursday night: Nobody likes it, but it’s a necessary evil.

After flirting with Thursday games in select weeks for years, the league has gone to a game every week this season.

The Chargers take their turn with a short week as they head to Denver to face the Broncos this week. Needless to say, nobody is pumped about having to play a division rival on short rest.

“It’s no secret that players aren’t super excited about Thursday night games,” said linebacker Jarret Johnson. “But the good news is it’s all equal. We’re all dealing with it. They’re sore too. So it’s just one of the many adversities of playing in the NFL.”

Of course, Johnson’s a seasoned veteran with a lot of games under his belt. Some of the younger players don’t seem too concerned about the physical aspect of the quick turnaround. Rookie running back Branden Oliver brushed off any questions of the effects of the short week.

“My body feels good. I’m ready to go,” he said.

Quarterback Philip Rivers is more concerned with getting over the injuries the team has been dealing with.

"It’d be nice to have about 2 1/2 weeks, with all we got going on," he said.

Coach Mike McCoy said the team’s system is in place, especially against a division rival they’ve seen plenty of times.

“Everyone in the league is doing it,” he said of the short week. “We have a good plan. I thought we had a great plan last year.”

The Chargers are wise to learn from the game plan from last year’s Thursday game – also on the road against the Broncos. They won that game, 27-20, the second of four straight victories to finish the regular season.

“It gives us some confidence,” Johnson said. “That was probably our best ball game last year. Now, that’s not going to help us on Thursday night. Just because you did it last year doesn’t mean you’ll do it again.”

An infamous motorcycle gang leader, who spent a decade on the U.S. Marshal’s 15 “Most Wanted” fugitives list, made his first court appearance Monday in San Diego.

The federal judge did not set bail for Randy Mark Yager, 58, after reading off charges laid out in a 51-page indictment.

Prosecutors called Yager a danger to the community and a flight risk.

The long-sought fugitive – a former president of the Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana area ‘Outlaws” motorcycle gang – was first indicted in 1997 by a Wisconsin federal jury for murder, arson, possession of explosives, trafficking in counterfeit U.S. currency, robbery, burglary, trafficking in stolen vehicles and narcotics.

He was the last defendant named in the indictment to elude arrest.

After placing Yager on their “Most Wanted” list for ten years, U.S. Marshals tracked the suspect to a possible location in Mexico.

They asked Mexican authorities to arrest a man who fit Yager’s description at a bar near Rosarito, Baja California.

The suspect first told law enforcement he was David and showed them several identification cards with the name “David Michael Dorian.”

But after further questioning, the man admitted to being Randy Yager, U.S. Marshals say.

Mexican officials took the suspect to a Tijuana facility, where they positively identified him.

On Thursday, Yager was turned over to the U.S. Marshals at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He is now being held at the Western Regional Detention Facility in San Diego, and he will make his next court appearance on Oct. 30 for identity and detention hearing.

Alan Long announced Monday that he will step down as mayor of Murrieta just days after his arrest on suspicion of DUI in a crash that injured four high school students.

Long made the announcement during a Monday afternoon news conference at which he expressed "concern" for the four teens injured in Thursday night's crash at Jefferson and Lily avenues in Murrieta in southwestern Riverside County. Long, 44, was booked on suspicion of DUI causing bodily injury, according to Riverside County jail records.

"I am well aware that being involved in such a high profile accident in my position as mayor and as a member of the City Council will be a distraction," Long said in a statement at the news conference.

The resignation is effective immediately, but Long said he plans to remain a candidate in the Nov. 4 election.

Long was arrested Thursday night after officers determined that a "full-size" truck had rear-ended a passenger vehicle carrying four Murrieta Valley High School students, ages 14 to 17. The students' injuries were described as "moderate to major," according to a police department statement.

"Officers contacted the driver of the truck who was the sole occupant of his vehicle," police said in a statement. "The driver had signs and symptoms consistent with alcohol impairment. The driver participated in some standardized field sobriety tests, and officers determined that the driver was in fact impaired."

Long's blood alcohol content was .07, just below the legal limit of .08, but investigators were also waiting for blood test results, police said.

The girls had just attended a pep rally ahead of Friday night's football game. Three of the four victims were released from a hospital Friday, but details regarding the fourth victim's condition were not immediately available.

Long was speeding and driving recklessly, according to an attorney for two of the victims, L Wallace Pate.

"I understand from the witnesses that I talked to that he ran a stop sign," Pate said

An attorney for Long, who is running for re-election on Nov. 4, said he helped the victims at the scene, talked to their parents and cooperated with police.

Long, also serves as a battalion chief for Anaheim Fire and Rescue, was booked into jail on $50,000 bail at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta.

A court date was scheduled for Dec. 11.

Supporters say they will still vote for Long in November's election, including some who have already voted for him by absentee ballot. 

"He showed respect for every individual," Murrieta resident Joan Padberg said. "That's the type of man he is."

Long was in the national spotlight earlier this year when a busload of undocumented immigrants, bound for the Murrieta Border Patrol Station for processing, was blocked by protesters.

Long criticized the federal government's handling of the immigrant transfer, part of a plan to alleviate what the Obama administration as a humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied minors in federal custody along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department Railroad Enforcement Unit is investigating a fatal train accident in Encinitas.

The Coaster train struck and killed a pedestrian around 11:20 a.m. Monday in the 1000 block of North Vulcan Avenue.

Witnesses told deputies the middle-aged man walked onto the tracks as the train was approaching. The train sounded its horn and bell but was unable to stop in time, deputies said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

It is unclear why the victim went onto the tracks. Officials have not released his identity.

The incident shut down traffic in the area and delayed some train schedules Monday afternoon.