San Diego, CA
San Diego officer released from hospital after fiery crash that killed other officer and suspect
A San Diego police officer who was critically injured in a fiery wreck that killed another officer has been released from a hospital, a week after the crash with a speeding driver who had been briefly pursued.
Officer Zach Martinez was released Tuesday. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said he has a long road to recovery but that Martinez and everyone in the department is grateful.
“Today is nothing short of a miracle,” Wahl said.
Killed in the crash was Officer Austin Machitar, who was driving the police vehicle that the two officers were in.
Also killed was the 16-year-old driver of the speeding car who had been briefly chased, which was the reason Machitar and Martinez were responding to the area, officials have said.
Martinez, a 27-year-old EMT and member of the Navy Reserves who has been with the police department for 1½ years, had been described as fighting for his life after the crash on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard.
“The first officer that responded to him was also an EMT, and in his words, he thought he was dead,” Wahl said. “He said he tested for his pulse and was surprised when he found one.”
The crash occurred on Aug. 26 at around 11:30 p.m. after a different officer saw the teen driver speeding and tried to conduct a traffic stop, police have said.
The driver sped away and was chased before a supervisor called off the pursuit due to the dangerous speeds, Wahl said last week.
Machitar and Martinez were responding to that call when the driver crashed into them from the side, Wahl said.
Martinez suffered burns, a broken neck and multiple facial injuries, said Dr. Diane Wintz, trauma medical director at Sharp Memorial Hospital. There was no paralysis with the neck injury, she said.
The circumstances of the crash and exactly what occurred are under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.
Wahl said that based on preliminary information, the time between the attempted traffic stop, brief pursuit and point of impact “is going to be very short. We’re talking 20, 30 seconds.”
Wahl said he spoke with Martinez before a news conference Tuesday announcing that he would be released, and that Martinez asked that the nurses and doctors be recognized for care that was “nothing short of amazing.”
“He’s very grateful, and he appreciates all of the prayers,” Wahl said.
San Diego, CA
No. 12 Oregon volleyball sweeps San Diego in 6th straight win
Oregon volleyball swept host San Diego to wrap up its weekend at the USD Invitational.
Mimi Colyer and Noemie Glover each each 12 kills to lead the No. 12 Ducks in a 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-23) win Saturday night.
Cristin Cline had 32 assists and 15 digs, Daley McClellan had 14 digs and Michelle Ohwobete had 10 digs and nine kills for Oregon (6-1).
The Ducks built a 5-2 lead in the first, but San Diego scored 10 of the next 15 to go ahead. Oregon scored three straight to go ahead 19-17 and never trailed again, though USD got within one multiple times before a kill by Ohwobete closed the frame.
UO built a 14-7 lead in the second and never looked back en route to a 2-0 advantage.
The Ducks led 11-6 in the third, then San Diego gained a 15-14 edge. UO scored five of the next six to regain control and USD, led by Kennedy Osunsanmi (14 kills) and Nemo Beach (14 digs, 12 kills) fended off three match points before an attack error sealed the sweep.
San Diego, CA
5,370 pets adopted during NBC 7 and Telemundo 20's Clear the Shelters campaign
The numbers are in for NBC 7 and Telemundo 20’s monthlong Clear the Shelters campaign that wrapped up this week.
During the pet adoption and donation campaign, which ran from Aug. 10 to Sept. 10, 5,370 animals were adopted from 19 participating shelters in the San Diego area.
San Diegans especially showed out on Sept. 7 for our annual Clear the Shelters event at the San Diego Humane Society’s campus on Gaines Street. More than 250 furry friends found their forever homes during the one-day-only event, which also offered waived adoption fees and free pet-related items for pet adopters. Team members from both stations came to support.
The heat didn’t stop San Diegans from showing out to NBC 7 and Telemundo 20’s annual Clear the Shelters event. NBC 7 and T20’s Ana Cristina Sánchez has the story.
Although this year’s campaign ended, it’s never too late to help clear the shelters.
“San Diego Humane Society had a very successful Clear the Shelters day,” Jasmin Belisario with San Diego Humane Society told NBC 7. “That being said, we still have more than 600 animals available for adoption.”
For a full list of available pets at the San Diego Humane Society, click here.
Clear the Shelters is a nationwide initiative that celebrated a decade this year. The campaign’s 10th anniversary comes after the campaign surpassed 1 million all-time adoptions in 2023.
Clear the Shelters is NBCUniversal Local’s pet adoption and donation initiative that has helped more than 1 million pets find homes.
San Diego, CA
ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with new Disney deal after 2-week blackout
DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S.
The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN’s slate of college football games on DirecTV. It also will ensure that ABC’s telecast of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night will be available in more major markets where viewers subscribe to DirecTV’s pay service.
ABC had been unavailable since Sept. 1 on DirecTV in several markets where the station is owned by Disney. Those were located in the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
DirecTV’s 11 million subscribers abruptly lost access to ESPN, the ABC-owned stations and other Disney-owned channels such as FX and National Geographic during the Labor Day weekend in a dispute over carriage fees and programming flexibility.
Some viewers were watching the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament when ESPN suddenly went dark and others were getting ready to watch a college football showdown between LSU and Southern California.
The impasse also kept the NFL’s opening game of Monday Night Football off of DirecTV’s service.
Financial details of Disney’s new deal with DirecTV weren’t disclosed as part of Saturday’s announcement. DirecTV’s payments to Disney will be based on “market-based” pricing, according to the announcement about the deal.
The agreement also will give DirecTV the ability to offer Disney’s video streaming services a la carte as well as in its own bundled packages. DirecTV won the right to include ESPN’s forthcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service at an additional cost to its subscribers once it becomes available.
The deal came a few days after the rising tensions led DirecTV to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith.
This is the second consecutive year Disney’s wrangling over the rights to its programming has resulted in its networks gong dark on a pay-TV service. Last year, Disney pulled its channels from Spectrum — the second largest cable-TV provider in the U.S. — for 12 days before settling the dispute just before ESPN was set to show that season’s Monday Night Football opener.
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