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Football is back, and cooler fall weekends aren’t far behind. Whether you’re watching from the couch, hosting friends in the backyard or heading to a tailgate, I found deals that make game day a little better — plus a few fall favorites you’ll use long after the fourth quarter. — Caitlyn Martyn, Commerce Editor
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"Early in the season when it’s still nice out in New York, we set up a TV outside and light our Solo Stove fire pit before grilling and watching the game." — Erik Weigel, Commerce General Manager
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Missouri Supreme Court threatens secretary of state with contempt amid intensifying redistricting battle
The Missouri Supreme Court signaled Tuesday that it was considering holding Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt amid an escalating battle over proposed congressional maps.
Hoskins, a Republican, said Tuesday that he would keep using the congressional districts redrawn last year, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision that left standing a state Supreme Court order requiring Missouri to use its old districts instead.
"I look forward to my day in court," Hoskins said in a post on X that cited the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Hoskins must appear in court Thursday to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt for instructing election officials to use the 2025 congressional map despite an injunction barring its use.
Last week, Missouri's high court ruled that the map backed by President Donald Trump cannot be used because thousands of voters signed a petition demanding a statewide referendum on it.
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh declined to grant an emergency stay requested by Hoskins, leaving in place the injunction ordered by the state Supreme Court.
However, shortly after Kavanaugh's announcement, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Missouri from using any map other than the new 2025 districts.
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Opponents of the new redistricting plan quickly filed a notice to appeal Clark's order to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"An individual federal judge cannot overrule the Missouri Supreme Court," said attorney Chuck Hatfield, who represents People Not Politicians, the group that sponsored the referendum petition.
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Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said she was prepared to comply with Clark's order, which she argued "binds the state to using" the new congressional districts.
"We maintain that changing the congressional map in between the primary and general elections is simply not feasible and profoundly unjust to Missouri voters," she wrote on X.
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The conflict is part of a broader, nationwide effort by Republicans to redraw congressional districts mid-decade to gain U.S. House seats.
Missouri currently has six Republicans and two Democrats in the U.S. House. The new redistricting plan would eliminate one Democratic seat, currently held by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.
Bear tries to steal one too many fish off of fisherman's line, gets charged at with pole in hand
You get to steal one fish off of this fisherman's line as a black bear hanging out watching him work. That's all. If you want anymore, you're going to have to jump in the river and catch it yourself.
It didn't have to be that way. The bear could have snagged the one fish and kept it moving. It didn’t. It decided to test its luck and go for a second one. The fisherman wasn't going to allow it. Correction, he couldn’t allow it.
He reeled in his fish, and when it got close to the shore, the bear tried to snag it. He did what needed to be done and that was charge at the bear with his pole in hand just in case the situation went sideways.
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Was it worth it? Was getting the bear to back off of his catch worth taking a chance on a violent encounter with a black bear? Absolutely, according to the fisherman.
There were several reasons why he chose to keep the bear from swiping another of his fish. Reasons he laid out in the comment section of his video. This was about more than one fish, as he explains.
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"The amount of people saying 'just give him the fish' is astounding, so let me educate you…Firstly, In this particular area there are so many fish that bear could dive into the water blind and come up with dinner everytime," he wrote.
"Secondly it’s a highly populated place with lots of people and tourists, if people start feeding those bears they will start to get more comfortable and no longer look at you as a threat and before look at you as food also."
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Still not convinced that this fisherman did the right thing and continued to fish there? That charging at the bear going for his fish was worth it? Well, he has a strong finisher lined up.
"Thirdly, I watched this bear eat 3 huge fish that morning, including one off my line," he continued. "And lastly if you don’t know that you shouldn’t feed wildlife, specially an animal that can be dangerous to humans then you need to do some research. Cheers."
Who said fishing was relaxing?
DAVID MARCUS: Ahead of GOP convention, Dallas Dems share worried optimism
There were a few hundred Democrats gathered at a venue called Lofty Spaces in Dallas on Monday, in a sweltering heat that could not hold back the annual Labor Day political rally. And while on the surface all was confidence, when you scratched a little deeper, you struck frayed nerves.
Ellen, a retired nurse who sometimes protests in a Statue of Liberty costume, was there, and agreed to an interview if I helped to take her gear to her car, which I would have done anyway, of course.
Ellen was optimistic about Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico in his race against Republican Ken Paxton.
"I feel very good about him, I’m very optimistic, I don’t think Texans are going to vote for a criminal, cheat, adulterer, Ken Paxton," she said.
When I pointed out that Paxton, the current state attorney general, had already won statewide elections twice, she smiled and said, "That’s the problem."
But not the only problem. Asked about Talarico’s Senate primary opponent, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a high-profile Black Texas Democrat who has thus far refused to back Talarico, Ellen said, "I voted for her, and after he won…and she decided she wasn’t going to support him, I was so glad that she lost.
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Joanna and Ruth, who are in Ellen's age demo and also very active in the Democratic Party in Dallas, thought Talarico is looking good.
,"I’m feeling more encouraged than I have in a really long time, that it is going to flip over," Joanna added, "I’m feeling really fabulous about it too," but again, concerns over Crockett and the Black vote lingered.
Joanna shared that, "I really hope she gets on board to help with the Black people, because we need them voting, but she has always been my rep and I love her."
Several Black Democrats I spoke with at the event felt confident that Crockett’s obstinance would not be decisive, and were not willing to attack her for it.
Perhaps the biggest headwind for Talarico that I discovered in Dallas, something that polling has a hard time catching up to, is a lack of enthusiasm over him. Determination to win is in the air, but far less so is excitement.
Later that day, downtown, I met Richard who is in his 30s and works in the service industry. He said there was more buzz in the lead-up to Beto O’Rourke’s narrow 2018 Senate loss,
"The energy for Beto was everywhere, it was palpable," he said. "I was sure that Ted Cruz was going to lose. I don’t feel that this time."
Jaime, a liberal elementary school principal, seemed a bit less worried about the energy gap, though he did acknowledge, "Beto had style and rizz, Talarico is kind of a square."
And let’s face it, back in 2018, we even had a term for O’Rourke’s appeal: ‘Beto-Mania.' There is no Talarico-Mania.
I wound up asking several people this question, and even those who shrugged it off only did so after a look in their eyes told me they knew it was at least a real thing, if not a dealbreaker.
Meanwhile, the massive on-hand money advantage that Talarico has enjoyed is starting to evaporate, as President Trump’s PAC this week committed $10 million to back Paxton. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s ads, focused on oil production and culture issues, also serve as de facto anti-Talarico spots.
On final bump in the road for Talarico is that in Texas, even among many Democrats, immigration is a tricky issue. Unlike in places like Michigan and Virginia, Democrats in Dallas were not saying they want to abolish ICE, but rather reform it. They do not want a return to Joe Biden’s policies on the southern border.
Well do they recall the 15,000 Haitians lined up at the border in Del Rio, under Grandpa Joe’s watch.
Curiously, a name that did not come up very often in my discussions with Democratic voters was Donald Trump, and after a decade of hearing little else from them, that was a bit jarring.
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Voters on the Left are realizing that they can’t simply run against Trump anymore, because The Donald is in the home stretch of his presidency. Time will succeed, where their party failed, in ending Trump’s tenure in the White House. The real question is, what comes next?
Will Texas be fool's gold for the Democrats again this year, as it has so often been, or will the new demography of blue state transplants finally get them over the top? For now, as Republicans are set to make their pitch in Dallas this week, the feeling is more one of worry than outright confidence.
Bipartisan duo launches congressional caucus to confront antisemitism at colleges
Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., are launching a congressional coalition to target antisemitism at institutions of higher education.
The Combating Antisemitism on College Campuses Caucus will provide a bipartisan avenue for lawmakers to "coordinate oversight of how" schools of higher learning react to antisemitism, according to press releases issued by the lawmakers' offices.
The caucus will "press institutions to protect Jewish students, faculty, and staff, and to enforce their own anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies," "advance and track federal legislation targeting campus antisemitism and BDS-driven discrimination," and "spotlight schools that are getting it right and share best practices across campuses nationwide," the releases note.
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While Gottheimer is a Jewish Democrat and Stefanik is a Catholic Republican, both lawmakers are concerned about the problem of antisemitism.
"Since October 7th, Jewish students on too many campuses have been harassed, intimidated, and made to feel like strangers in their own school," Gottheimer said, referring to the 2023 attack by Hamas terrorists in Israel.
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"That’s why Elise and I are teaming up to launch this caucus to hold universities accountable, back up the schools getting it right, like Vanderbilt, and make sure every Jewish kid can have a college experience without fear of discrimination or violence," he noted.
Stefanik, the author of the book "Poisoned Ivies," noted that she has "been proud to be the leader in Congress on combatting antisemitism and anti-Americanism at our colleges and universities."
Gottheimer "has been a leading partner and legislator with whom I have worked on this critical issue," Stefanik noted. "We are committed to saving American higher education for the next generation."
Fox News' Kelly Phares contributed to this report.
NYPD chief: 9/11 heroes’ legacy lives on in every generation of officers
The legacy of the NYPD officers who ran toward danger on Sept. 11, 2001, continues to shape the department a quarter-century later, Chief of Department Michael LiPetri said during a ceremony dedicating a memorial wall to members who died in the attacks and their aftermath.
"None of us gets here alone," LiPetri said. "Whatever rank we reach, whatever command we lead, we are standing on the foundations other people built."
"We inherit their lessons, their example, and eventually it becomes our responsibility to pass those things forward," he added.
The NYPD has lost more than 469 members to illnesses connected to their service after the attacks, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. More than 1,700 members have retired from the department with World Trade Center-related disabilities, LiPetri added.
"We are still losing members to illnesses caused by their service after the attacks," LiPetri said. "All these years later, we are still standing with families as they bury loved ones whose lives were forever changed by the work they did after Sept. 11."
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The memorial wall at One Police Plaza honors the 23 NYPD officers killed at the World Trade Center that morning, along with members who later died from illnesses linked to their rescue and recovery efforts.
"Sept. 11 did not end on Sept. 11," NYPD Chief Chaplain Rev. A.R. Bernard said during the invocation. "For many, the costs continued for years, illness endured, families impacted and lives ultimately lost."
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani recalled the story of Officer John William Perry, who was at One Police Plaza preparing to resign and begin a career as an attorney when the first plane struck the North Tower. Perry asked for his shield back and rushed to the World Trade Center.
"There he was confronted with unimaginable suffering, but he did not stop with the same immense bravery and courage that was commonplace among so many that day, the kind that has long defined this department," Mamdani said.
"Officer Perry ran into the fire. The last time he was seen he was helping a woman out of the South Tower before rushing back in to save as many others as he could. Officer Perry and 22 of his fellow officers, each with their own stories, were killed that morning. That includes 14 members of the emergency service unit, who were among the first to enter the towers."
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Mamdani noted that the sons of officers Ronnie Klopfer and Joseph Viviano "now carry on his legacy of bravery as valued members of this very department."
"Every officer present that day embodied the NYPD’s creed that the duty to protect is not a job that one clocks out of, but a calling," Mamdani said. "One answers until the very end.
"In the days and months that followed Sept. 11, thousands of NYPD officers and staff from across every precinct and every borough heeded that same call. They took on that same heavy and incalculable risk."
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Their sons play on the same lacrosse team Klopfer founded before the attacks.
"Their fathers are gone, but the team that Ron built is still here," LiPetri said. "Their sons are wearing an NYPD uniform, and a connection that began years before Sept. 11 continues inside the department."
Tisch said thousands of current NYPD officers were children on 9/11, while many others had not yet been born. She said preserving the memories of those who served is becoming increasingly important as the generation that responded to the attacks retires.
"The faces in this building will be different, but these names will still be here," Tisch said. "The example of the men and women behind them will continue to shape the department."
Reds superstar uncorks one of the fastest throws in MLB history to nail runner at home in epic relay
Every once in a while, a professional athlete will do something so absurd on the field that people will question if the athlete is from this world. Cincinnati Reds superstar Elly De La Cruz is now the center of that conversation.
During the Reds’ 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, De La Cruz uncorked one of the fastest throws in MLB history during an epic relay.
In the bottom of the third inning, Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández laced a line drive to center field off Reds starter Nick Lodolo. Reds center fielder Dane Myers came sprinting in to try to make a diving catch in front of him, but couldn’t get there in time and missed the ball completely.
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As the ball bounced all the way to the wall, Hernández turned on the jets as he steamed around the bases in hopes of hitting an inside-the-park home run. Reds left fielder JJ Bleday eventually picked up the ball as Hernández was rounding third base and fired to De La Cruz, who was positioned in shallow center field for the relay throw.
De La Cruz caught Bleday’s toss and fired a 105.3 mph strike to home plate. Reds catcher Jose Trevino fielded the throw and slid over to tag Hernández and record the out at home.
De La Cruz’s remarkable display of arm strength left his manager and teammates in awe.
"That was one of the better throws you'll ever see, I mean, ever," Reds manager Terry Francona said, according to MLB.com. "I know I turn on the old things and you see Dave Parker or somebody making throws or Clemente; they might be showing that one (now)."
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"Every time he throws a ball, it's an absolute rocket," starting pitcher Nick Lodolo said, according to MLB.com. "It was a great throw, and it was a great pick by (Trevino) to stay with that and make the tag. A lot of credit to both guys there."
De La Cruz’s throw was the second-fastest throw resulting in an outfield assist since Statcast began tracking throws in 2015. Only New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Hicks topped De La Cruz’s throw, reaching 105.5 mph on a throw in 2016.
The Reds superstar had no idea he threw it as hard as he did.
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"I thought it was like 98, 99 (mph)," De La Cruz said, according to MLB.com. "I didn't know; it was not hard."
In addition to taking a run off the board for the Dodgers, De La Cruz was responsible for the Reds’ only two runs of the game. He hammered Tarik Skubal’s 87 mph changeup 444 feet into the left-field seats for a two-run home run in the top of the third inning, tying the game 2-2.
It was the fourth straight game in which De La Cruz hit a home run. It was the two-time All-Star’s 25th home run of the season. In 126 games, he is hitting .283 with 25 stolen bases and 69 RBI, in addition to his 25 home runs.
WNBA legend Breanna Stewart opens up on representing America at FIBA Women's World Cup
New York Liberty star and WNBA legend Breanna Stewart is leading Team USA’s pursuit of a fifth consecutive FIBA World Cup title, and appears proud to represent the red, white and blue while doing it.
Stewart told OutKick what it means to represent her country in Berlin ahead of the Americans’ quarterfinal game against Hungary on Thursday.
"It feels great," Stewart said. "I think that any time I can represent Team USA I want to. I've had the incredible opportunity of being able to do it for a long time and since I was really young, and every time I get the call I want to show up."
Stewart’s history with USA Basketball stretches back to 2009, when she competed at the U16 level as a 14-year-old. She has since won three Olympic gold medals and three World Cup championships. She was also named MVP of the 2018 World Cup.
A championship in Berlin would give Stewart a fourth World Cup title and extend one of the most dominant runs in sports history.
The U.S. went undefeated in group play, although its 55-52 escape against Italy exposed some vulnerability. Stewart then led the Americans with 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists in a 105-64 victory over Czechia.
She is averaging 10.3 points, 8.3 rebounds and three assists through three games.
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Stewart’s enthusiastic answer about representing the country stood in contrast to comments from some American athletes during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.
Freestyle skier Hunter Hess said representing the U.S. brought "mixed emotions" because of the political climate and the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
"Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.," Hess said.
President Donald Trump publicly criticized Hess over the remarks. Hess later clarified that he loved America and believed the freedom to criticize its government was one of the country’s strengths.
Fellow freestyle skier Chris Lillis also expressed concern about conditions at home while competing for Team USA.
"I feel heartbroken about what’s happening in the United States," he said. "I’m pretty sure you’re referencing ICE and some of the protests and things like that. I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody’s rights and making sure that we’re treating our citizens as well as anybody, with love and respect."
Stewart has not avoided political activism herself. She held an "Abolish ICE" sign before an Unrivaled game in January and has long spoken publicly about social justice and LGBTQ rights.
But when asked about wearing a Team USA uniform, Stewart did not hesitate to show pride for her national team. Her focus was on answering the call and continuing a run that began when she was a teenager.
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The Americans will face a Hungary team that defeated Japan 84-63 to reach the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time in 40 years. Team USA is three victories away from another championship—and Stewart remains eager to carry the flag through all of them.
Nike forgot that Republicans buy sneakers, too, and now it's getting booted from the S&P 100
"Republicans buy sneakers, too."
Those famous words came from Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. He was also the athlete most responsible for transforming Nike from a shoe company into a global sports empire.
Jordan made the comment during the 1990 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, after his mother urged him to support Democratic candidate Harvey Gantt and record a public-service announcement. Jordan confirmed in ESPN’s "The Last Dance" that he made the remark jokingly on a team bus.
Maybe so. But the line endured because it captured a basic business lesson in four words. Republicans buy shoes. Democrats buy shoes. Most companies benefit when both groups want to buy theirs.
Nike stopped listening.
After spending much of the past decade injecting left-wing politics into its brand, Nike is now set to be removed from the S&P 100, ending a run of nearly 18 years in the blue-chip index. S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the move Friday, and Nike will come out before trading begins Sept. 21.
S&P isn’t kicking Nike out because the index committee hated the Kaepernick ad or saw Dylan Mulvaney in a sports bra. Nike is getting kicked out because its value collapsed.
The politics didn’t wipe out $200 billion by itself. But Nike volunteered to alienate customers while it was already losing ground everywhere else.
The sports apparel giant reached a market value of approximately $281 billion near its November 2021 peak. Nike shares closed Tuesday at $38.10, giving the company a market capitalization of roughly $56.5 billion. The stock was about 79% below its Nov. 5, 2021 intraday record of $179.10, and more than $220 billion in market value had disappeared.
Getting removed from the S&P 100 won’t put Nike out of business. It will still sell billions of dollars in shoes and sign some of the biggest athletes in the world.
But Nike used to look untouchable. Now it’s worth about one-fifth of what it was five years ago and no longer has a spot in one of America’s premier blue-chip indexes.
China is where this story gets really good.
Nike made Colin Kaepernick the face of its 30th-anniversary "Just Do It" campaign after he refused to stand for the national anthem, saying he wouldn’t show pride in a country that "oppresses Black people and people of color."
Nike apparently thought that was a message worth putting on billboards across America.
Contrast that with how the company publicly talked about China.
In 2021, Nike faced backlash from Chinese consumers after the company expressed concern about reports of forced labor involving Uyghurs in Xinjiang. During an earnings call a few months later, then-CEO John Donahoe made Nike’s priorities clear.
"We’re a brand of China and for China," Donahoe said.
Quite a difference, isn’t it? Nike had plenty to say about oppression when the target was the United States. But when the company’s business in an actual communist country came under pressure, its CEO reminded everyone that Nike had been investing there for more than 40 years, operated thousands of stores and remained committed to the Chinese market.
Nike was perfectly willing to embrace anti-American messaging at home while continuing to grow in China by assuring Chinese consumers that the company was "of China and for China."
It didn’t work.
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When Donahoe made that declaration in 2021, Nike generated $8.29 billion in Greater China. Five years later, that number is down to $5.85 billion. Nearly 30% of the business disappeared, including an 11% drop in the past year.
So much for being "of China and for China."
In 2019, Nike pulled a Fourth of July-themed Air Max sneaker featuring the Betsy Ross flag because it said the design could "unintentionally offend." A year later, the company launched its "For Once, Don’t Do It" racial-justice campaign and publicly embraced Black Lives Matter messaging.
Then Nike partnered with Dylan Mulvaney in 2023 for a paid promotion of women’s leggings and sports bras. Also, OutKick reported that researchers and a Boston Children’s Hospital publication had described Nike as supporting a proposed study involving transgender youth athletes. A Nike executive, speaking to OutKick on background, later said the study "was never initialized" and was "not moving forward," while researcher Joanna Harper subsequently said Nike had pulled out after critics learned of it.
Nike made left-wing politics part of its identity and repeatedly dared customers to object.
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Now Nike is leaving the S&P 100, its stock is down nearly 80% from its peak and its executives are trying to rebuild the product innovation and marketplace relationships that once made the company dominant.
Michael Jordan understood that Republicans buy sneakers, too.
He also understood something Nike forgot: They don’t have to buy yours.
Fiery San Diego plane crash kills 2
A deadly airplane crash in San Diego, California, on Monday killed the two people on board.
Video footage shows the fiery aftermath as a plume of thick, black smoke billowed out from the wrecked Cessna at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provided preliminary information to Fox News Digital which stated, "A Cessna 172 crashed while landing at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in California around 5:15 p.m. local time on Monday, Sept. 7. Two people were on board. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate. The NTSB will lead the investigation and will provide further updates."
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In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, the NTSB said preliminary information indicates the aircraft "impacted terrain on airport property" amid a go-around and a "post impact fire ensued."
The FAA explains on its website that a go-around "discontinues the landing approach and returns the aircraft to an altitude and configuration to safely make another approach."
"An NTSB investigator is en route to the scene and is expected to arrive this afternoon," the NTSB's statement first issued Tuesday noted. "Once on site, the investigator will begin the process of documenting the scene and examining the aircraft. The aircraft will then be recovered to a secure facility for further evaluation."
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An FAA preliminary notice regarding the incident suggests that the crash occurred after the plane's "LEFT WING DIPPED" and the aircraft then "APPEARED TO STALL AND SPUN INTO GROUND."
KNSD reports include footage of San Diego Fire-Rescue Department's Brian Raines noting that the aircraft had been "heavily damaged" and responders were unable to extract the victims, but needed to focus on quenching the flames.
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San Diego Fire-Rescue Department public information officer Candace Hadley told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that their hearts and thoughts go out to the crash victims’ families. She said that more than 30 department personnel had responded to the incident.
Fox News Digital reached out to the San Diego Police Department on Wednesday.