Wind helped a fire jump the freeway in the North County and forced bi-directional closure of Interstate 5 at peak commute time.

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming heard from drivers caught up in the traffic jam.

Dismantling of the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on the Southern California coast will begin next month. Southern California Edison this week mailed 30-day notices to 12,000 residents in communities within a 5-mile radius of the plant.

A heavy portion of rain with a side of gusty winds and snowfall for dessert is on the menu for San Diego County’s Thanksgiving.

A North County woman who punched a great white shark in the eye following a nearly-deadly attack spoke exclusively with NBC 7 about her road to recovery.

NBC 7 Investigates found the plant’s operators and regulators approved a plan to remove the closed-power plant’s enhanced cyber-security systems in place.

Operators are removing enhanced cyber security systems at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which could open the doors for potential hacks. NBC 7’s Mari Payton has more.

The utilities and a community group reached an agreement Monday that will move the nuclear waste from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station off-site and out of San Diego.

NBC 7’s Greg Bledsoe reports on the deal reached to dispose of nuclear waste from the closed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

For the first time, we’re hearing what Leeanne Ericson went through that April day off San Onofre State Beach.

A San Diego woman wounded in a shark attack nearly two months ago is improving by the day, growing stronger with each step as she works toward being discharged from the hospital, her trauma surgeon said Tuesday.

“She’s actually very amazing, for everything she’s been through,” Scripps La Jolla trauma surgeon Gail Tominaga, M.D., said of shark attack survivor Leeann Ericson, who continues to recover after her April 29 shark attack.

A San Diego woman wounded in a shark attack in late April says she’s focused on healing and reuniting with her children who want to be back with their “mommy.”

A San Diego woman wounded in a shark attack in late April is starting to walk as she continues her long road to recovery, her mother said in an online update.

On April 29, a shark attacked Leeanne Ericson at the beach in San Diego’s North County as she swam alongside her boyfriend who was surfing.

A surfer had a close call with an aggressive shark who lunged toward him in the waters at San Onofre State Beach. It happened in the same area where a woman was attacked by a shark recently. NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda reports.

Leeanne Ericson was still on a breathing tube but can respond to questions by nodding or shaking her head, the surgeon said.

A woman seriously injured in a shark attack is still in critical condition but is able to nod her head in response, a doctor said. NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda has more on the story.

The shark, reportedly approximately 10 feet long, took the entire back of the victim’s leg.

San Onofre State Beach — where a woman was attacked by a shark over the weekend — will reopen to the public on Wednesday. In the early morning, there were already cars lining up to park at the beach and surfers itching to get back into the water. NBC 7’s Gaby Rodriguez reports.