Kobe Bryant is set to have surgery on his torn rotator cuff, the Los Angeles Lakers said Monday.

Bryant's right shoulder was injured in last Wednesday's game against the New Orleans pelicans and neesds surgery to repair it, the team said in a statement.

Bryant was examined Monday morning by Dr. Neal ElAttrache, of the Kerlan Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, who confirmed that Bryant's rotator cuff was torn and advised him to have surgery to repair it, according to the team. He's scheduled to undergo the operation on Wednesday morning.

While Bryant was expected to miss the rest of the season with the injury, the team didn't confirm that in their statement.

The team said instead that it will provide an estimate for the shooting guard's return following the surgery.

Refresh this page for updates on this developing story.

The FBI arrested a man they say is a Russian spy Monday in a Bronx parking lot, law enforcement officials tell NBC New York.

Evgeny Buryakov is charged in a criminal complaint with being an unregistered agent of the Russian government.

The court papers describe Buryakov as being an agent of the SVR, the foreign intelligence agency for the Russian Federation. Buryakov entered and remained in the U.S. as a private citizen under “non-official cover” and posed as an employee in the Manhattan office of a Russian bank.

Buryakov’s mission on behalf of the SVR was to gather intelligence on potential U.S. sanctions against the Russian Federation and U.S. efforts to develop alternate sources of energy, the court papers say.

Also charged in the criminal complaint are Igor Sporyshev, who had served as a Trade Representative in New York for the Russian Federation, and Victor Podobnyy, a former attaché to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. Both Sporyshev and Podobnyy are believed to be in Russia.

Between 2012 and 2014, Buryakov and Sporyshev used coded language to signal they needed to meet and then met more than four dozen times at outdoor locations during which Buryakov passed bags, magazines and slips of paper to conceal the exchange of intelligence information.

Buryakov is expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan Monday afternoon. Attorney information for the man wasn't immediately available.

Santa Clara County health officials say an infected person infected with measles might have exposed hundreds of people as he or she visited big box stores and a restaurant during the contagious stage.

It can take up to four days before measles symptoms present themselves. County health officer Sara Cody said an infected person may have unwittingly exposed shoppers at Walmart and Costco in Gilroy and a Dave and Buster’s restaurant in Milpitas.

Authorities said the infected person went shopping at the Gilroy Costco and Walmart stores on Camino Arroyo between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 18. The patient visited the restaurant at the Great Mall in Milpitas between 6 and 9 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 19.

The patient entered the restaurant through an outside entrance and did not walk around the mall, authorities said.

The Santa Clara County Department of Health says hundreds of restaurant-goers and shoppers may have been exposed to measles. This is the second case of the illness for the county since the outbreak with links to Disneyland.

Flyers are alerting people. Some are alarmed. “I’m over here all the time, and my daughter, I’m afraid my daughter might get it,” said Walmart shopper Maria Estrella.

It appears that in this case, and the one prior, both adults who separately came down with measles did have their shots.

“The second case also most likely was vaccinated, so this is the rare instance in which someone is vaccinated and develops measles in spite of that,” Cody said.

It also appears both cases have no links to Disneyland, but as is illustrated in the Costco and Walmart cases, simply casual contact with someone who has measles can bring on the disease.

“So, for an hour after someone’s been there, others who enter that same air space could be exposed,” Cody said.

Nearly 80 people have already been sickened from this measles outbreak, which originated last month at Disneyland.

In the Bay Area, there are confirmed cases in Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Alameda counties.

On Friday, a Santa Monica High School baseball coach was diagnosed with measles, but school officials said all the students on the team have been vaccinated. Also in Southern California, CSU Channel Islands is urging everyone on campus to get vaccinated after a student there came down with the virus.

The risk of catching measles from brief encounters with people who have it is low, but as a precaution, people should check if they have been vaccinated against it if they have never had the disease, health officials said. People who have had measles are immune to it afterwards, but those who have not been infected before or never received a vaccination are at a higher risk after being exposed.

The department advises people who show symptoms to remain at home, call their health care provider immediately to inform them of the infection and have the provider report the case to the Public Health Department.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children be vaccinated for measles twice, once at age 12 to 15 months and then again at ages 4 to 6. The prevention of the spread of measles is especially important for infants under 12 months old who are too young to be vaccinated, public health officials said.

Bay City News contributed to this report.

One person was hurt in a shooting at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital and a shooter was detained, deputies said.

Deputies arrested a person who they said shot at someone in the mental ward of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, officials said. Details about the person were not immediately available.

One person, believed to be an employee, was injured in the 12:15 p.m. shooting at the hospital in the 12000 block of South Wilmington Avenue.

Messages left with the hospital were not immediately returned.

A 3-year-old boy returned home Monday morning from a hospital after he was treated for a gunshot wound suffered when a bullet fired from outside his home struck him in the lower back.

Dylan Hernandez wore a bandage on his lower back, where he was struck by a round that went through the wall of his Palmdale home as he slept in his crib. The boy suffered a large bruise and small burn.

The blanket in which he was wrapped likely prevented more serious injuries, according to investigators. Family members displayed the blanket Monday outside their home, showing what appeared to be a bullet hole in the fabric.

The boy's father, through an interpreter, said Monday that he is thankful his son is at home in good condition. The family, including three children, have lived at the home for about four years.

"It's something that's just mind-blowing," said friend Mario Morones. "They're humble. They're in church four days out of the week. They raise their kids very well. It's something they never expected to happen."

Another round was found in his parents' mattress, investigators said.

"The baby's doing great," Morones said. "He's home. He's laughing and giggling. He's back to being his normal self."

Three to five rounds were fired at about 10 p.m. Sunday in the 38000 block of 65th Street East. No arrests have been reported.

Investigators said they have not determined what led to the gunfire.

Officers were involved in a standoff Monday that began with an early morning report of an armed man making threats at a condominium complex in Pasadena.

About 10 hours later, the individual surrendered.

Nearby residences were evacuated and SWAT members responded to the location at 70 Harkness Avenue. A man was seen running out of the building, located just north of Colorado Boulevard, Monday morning before going back inside, police said.

The man surrendered after authorities contacted his mother, who arrived at the scene and spoke with her son by phone, according to City News Service.

No injuries were reported.

Operations at a nearby school were not affected by the police activity, according to authorities.

As a possibly historic snowstorm bears down on the East Coast, flights were being cancelled in Southern California Monday morning.

A blizzard warning was in effect today for coastal areas from New Jersey to Maine, where a "nor'easter" was expected to bring heavy snow and blizzard conditions, the National Weather Service reported. Flightaware said over 2,000 flights were cancelled on Monday as of 8 a.m., while nearly that many were cancelled for Tuesday.

Over 80 flights in and out of Los Angeles International Airport were cancelled because of the blizzard, according to a Twitter account that belongs to the airport.

Sixty departing flights and 27 arriving flights at LAX were cancelled, according to the LAX Twitter account, which advised passengers to contact airlines directly for flight statuses. 

Two Jet Blue flights departing from Long Beach Airport were cancelled, according to the airport's website, which didn't indicate why the flights to New York City and Seattle weren't leaving. A request for comment wasn't immediately answered.

In Orange County, John Wayne Airport reported five cancellations: 3 arrivals from Houston, Chicago and Newark; and two United departures to Newark.

A spokesman for Burbank Bob Hope Airport said the blizzard hadn't had an impact on flights there.

Refresh this page for updates on delays and cancellations throughout the day. City News Service contributed to this report.

A woman visiting North Hollywood to see her sick brother received another blow Saturday morning, when a wind storm knocked tree branches onto her car.

It took two days for the city to remove the debris, and Saturday's winds left other damage in the neighborhood -- two cars just a few blocks away that were trapped under fallen trees.

Debra McMurtry, an Apple Valley resident, told NBC4 she didn't hear back from the Los Angeles Police Department, Fire Department or street services when she called to report the tree that had fallen on her car. She called 311 seven times, on Saturday, she said.

“Waited, waited, waited. Nothing,” McMurtry said.

When a furstrated McMurtry told her what happened, NBC4 reporter Kate Larsen called Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian, who contacted other city officials and said the car would be city workers would make the car their first priority Monday.

Now that her car is free, the question facing McMurtry is who will pay for the damage? Her or the city?

"I’m praying to the dear Lord that they will,” she said.

The owner of another car stuck under a fallen tree said she'd complained about the drying roots for years.

A semitrailer truck driver was killed Monday morning after slamming into a sign in a fiery crash on the 10 Freeway in Fontana.

The 24-year-old driver died at the scene, according to San Bernardino County Fire. Details regarding events that led to the crash were not immediately available.

The collision occurred just after 3 a.m. at Citrus Avenue. Several other vehicles also went off the road near the site of the crash and fire, but no injuries were reported.

"At this point, we are still looking for witnesses and we don't have a reason for him swerving off the road like he did," said CHP Sgt. Josh Buffum.

The fire spread to nearby brush before it was extinguished.

All lanes on the westbound 10 Freeway were shut down at Sierra Avenue at 4 a.m., but the No. 1 and 2 lanes reopened at 5:20 a.m. 

The truck was transporting frozen chickens, whic spilled onto the side of the freeway.

Yariv Becher said he almost didn’t put on his running shoes Sunday morning, but his decision to run in the snow near Belmont Harbor for the first time in a few weeks helped save the life of a woman who fell through the ice into Lake Michigan.

“Because of the snow, I haven’t run there for a few weeks,” Becher said.

The father of three, originally from Israel, was jogging near the harbor around 10:30 a.m. when he said he heard noises.

“I was running with my earphones listening to music and I heard noises,” he said. “There wasn’t anyone there, so I looked around, and then I noticed [a woman] hanging onto the ropes.”

A woman in her 30s, who may have been out for a run as well, had slipped and fallen into the arctic water surrounded by ice, police said. She had managed to use a belt to strap herself to the dock to keep from going under.

“She pretty much just held on for life, and she sort of lodged her arm through the belt, the strap, and was able to yell out for help,” said Sgt. Ruben Ramirez with the Chicago Police Department.

Becher said he tried to lift her out, but her legs were stuck in the ice. He called 911 and kept her head above water until police and fire rescuers arrived.

“The only thing she said: ‘Don’t let me fall. Please help me,’” Becher said. “I asked for her name, she didn't tell me her name. I think she was too cold to talk.”

The woman spent about 20 minutes in the 35-degree water, according to authorities. Police credit the quick thinking of the woman and Becher with saving her life.

“We’re not the heroes,” said Ramirez. “Yesterday, the jogger, he’s a hero.”

The woman was treated for hypothermia and was released from the hospital Monday. Police warned residents to stay off the ice and call 911 if you spot someone who has fallen in.

A Connecticut driver faces charges after police say he towed a sled full of kids behind his pickup truck at high speeds in Monday evening's snowstorm.

Police said Michael Chauvin, 40, of Plainfield, was driving recklessly in the area of Community Avenue with several young children and another adult in the bed of his truck, towing others on a sled behind him.

Chauvin was arrested and charged with four counts of risk of injury to a minor, four counts of second-degree reckless endangerment and reckless driving.

He was released on a $10,000 bond and is due in court Feb. 9.

There was a day, a few decades ago, when haute cuisine -- picture Lobster Thermidor or those pheasant dishes served under silver domes -- was the only type of food to merit substantial mention among food reviewers.

But Jane and Michael Stern were instrumental in changing that. The duo began to highlight "Roadfood" in their Gourmet magazine columns, those humbler eats that were unhaute as all get-out and arrived at a lower price point. And one of their favorite places in all of America? Cassell's Burgers in Koreatown.

The patty joint's reputation grew and grew, and though it closed shop in 2012, fans of the oh-so-'40s diner kept their fingers crossed for a possible revival.

The revival arrived at the end of last year via a soft opening for the classic burger joint, which is no longer in its longtime 6th Street location but not too far away: It's now inside The Hotel Normandie at 605 S. Normandie Avenue.

And the burgers are still royalty, but they've been joined by a few fresh touches, like an American banchan service that pays tribute to the restaurant's Koreatown setting. (If you've done Korean barbecue, you know the beauty of ordering plentiful tasty sides.) The Cassell's banchan means you "get all sides when you order" -- potato salad, cole slaw, et cetera -- and you can get more of whatever you fancy.

The cross-fire broiler is still in place, lending the patties the flavor they've made famous since 1948, and breakfast choices are available for the non-hamburgians out there. Oh, and something you may have not enjoyed at Cassell's back in the day, too: tony, made-for-a-chic-hotel cocktails.

When's the grand opening? That's TBD, says a restaurant rep. But if you've had the taste for the burger made famous by Jane and Michael Stern and dozens of other writers who favor hamburgers over haute cuisine, or perhaps in addition to it -- it's a big food universe, after all -- you can visit Cassell's before the red ribbon is officially cut: It's open for business.

Where else would you expect to find a yeti but in the middle of a blizzard?

Just as a historic snowstorm was battering the city of Boston, a strange sight appeared in the city. A person dressed in a yeti costume was stalking the snow-covered streets.

Using the Twitter handle @BostonYeti2015, the abominable snowman tweeted out several pictures of itself walking on McGrath Highway in Somerville and several other locations.

The identity of the person inside the yeti suit remains a mystery, but the Twitter handle just showed up on Monday, so it appears to have been created specifically for this storm.

We'll be sure to let you know if we hear any more about this mythical creature.

The giant Ferris wheel proposed along the Embarcadero could be a hazard to flights in and out of San Diego, a new report by the Federal Aviation Administration has found.

In a memo to San Diego County Regional Airport Authority released Friday, the FAA shared its initial findings of the Discovery Point Ferris Wheel project.

As proposed, the 443-foot waterfront feature "would exceed obstruction standards and/or would have an adverse physical or electromagnetic interference effect upon navigable airspace or air navigation facilities," according to the report.

But a proposed structure that was 277 feet or under would be something the agency could approve, the FAA said. A higher structure may be possible but would need further study, the agency added.

There are several proposals being discussed that could lead to a giant Ferris wheel located in the parking lot just south of the Midway Museum.

One, pitched by real estate developers Charles Black and David Malmuth, would take riders 450 feet above the city to see panoramic views of San Diego. Next to the Ferris wheel would be a 30,000 square foot pavilion showcasing San Diego’s history.

Malmuth said the FAA report was expected and is just part of the process.

"You have to have a lot of persistence. You need to be flexible. But you also need to firmly believe in the worth of your project," he told NBC 7.

Another concept, developed by Bussink Design and Chance American Wheels, includes a ride standing 250 feet tall with the ability to hold more than 430 people on board.

A third developer, Allegis Development, currently represents the Orlando Eye scheduled to open in April 2015.

The Port of San Diego will meet with the three developers on Feb. 10.

Malmuth said his firm was going to hold off on any chances to their initial proposal until after they present to the board.

A stubborn mulch fire that broke out in Ontario over the weekend continued to smolder Monday, sending a thick blanket of smoke into the air that posed a health hazard for nearby residents, officials said.

"It is absolutely horrible," said resident Laura Quevedo, who lives near the smoking mulch yard. "I can't deal with it. It's been really bad. I just stepped outside right now and it's not too different from inside."

Two families have left their homes because of the smoke, and more said they were considering leaving.

"Hopefully we don't have to leave but at this point it's kind of looking like it's going to happen," Quevedo said.

Ontario fire officials advised residents to stay out of the smoke, especially people with pre-existing health conditions.

"Our recommendation would be at this point for citizens in the area to limit their outside activities and try to stay inside as much as possible keeping their windows and doors closed," said Ontario Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Pelletier.

Workers continued to douse hot spots with water, but officials said it could take two or three days to completely extinguish the flames, which broke out Saturday night in an agricultural area at Chino and Grove avenues.

Residents hoped a rain storm that hit the region Monday would help put out the fire for good.

"Three days of breathing this stuff. As you can imagine it's just headaches," said resident David Segura.

Pelletier said the fire department received calls about the smoke from people as far away as Orange County.

The green waste mulching facility where the fire began lost a small hay barn and two small sheds, Ontario Police Department officials said.

Gusting Santa Ana winds made it difficult for firefighters to get a handle on the blaze.

Police said the type of mulch being produced at the yard can spontaneously heat up and catch fire due to strong winds. The official cause of the fire remained under investigation.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's detective shot and killed a dog after the animal attacked him in Lawndale Monday night, according to officials.

The detective was working on an investigation about 9:30 p.m. in the 4600 block of 170th Street when the bullmastiff went after him, officials with the sheriff's department said.

The detective was not injured, officials said.

No further details were immediately available.
 

The light rain that fell across Los Angeles County on Monday increased the number of traffic collisions by 51 percent, according to California Highway Patrol statistics.

There were 45 collisions between 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. last Monday in areas of Los Angeles County patrolled by the CHP and 68 during the same period today.

In heavier rain, collisions normally jump by at least 100 percent, officials said.

The storm also knocked down trees and powerlines, causing a power outage in Hacienda Heights that affected more than 1,000 Southern California Edison customers.

The rain was expected to clear out early Tuesday.
 

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake shook Los Angeles County early Tuesday.

The temblor, which had a depth of 5.7 miles, hit 7 miles NNW of Elizabeth Lake and 18 miles WNW of Lancaster at 12:16 a.m, the USGS website said. The USGS also reported 69 people had felt the quake.

According to the Richter Scale, a 3.5 quake is often felt by people, but very rarely causes damage. Shaking of indoor objects can be noticeable.