An Orange County woman disappeared after allegedly getting into an argument with her Valentine’s Day date.

Erica Alonso has not been seen since driving off after the bust-up at the man's home near Culver Drive and Deerfield Avenue in the city of Irvine at around 4 a.m, Orange County Sheriff’s Department said. Detectives have checked her bank and cellphone activity, but have found nothing.

The 27-year-old and her date had befriended a couple at the Sutra Lounge in Costa Mesa. Alonso and her date left the bar at around 1:30 a.m after being offered a ride home in the couple’s red Toyota Scion FRS.

At around  3:45 a.m. it is thought the couple left the residence after Alonso and her date argued, and a few minutes later she drove off in her white 2014 Honda Civic EX, according to her date. She never made it back to her home in Laguna Hills 11 miles away.

The couple have come forward and are speaking to investigators, the OC Sheriff's Department said Friday.

The extra locks on Fred Stanger's door are not the only protection he's added in his home.

"My gun is in my garage in a spot I can take into the house every night now," he said.

The Manhattan Beach resident was the victim of a brazen Thanksgiving week robbery when four intruders robbed him and beat him with his own gun.

"I still got a chipped tooth from the gun they stuck in my mouth," he said. "And my ear's still swollen. They stuck the gun in my ear."

Stanger is not surprised that burglaries in the city jumped 16 percent in January in his normally quiet beach community.

The chief of police blames the spike on recently passed sentencing laws she claims has put more criminals on the street.

Manhattan Beach Police Chief Eve Irvine said officers arrested 55 people who had just been released early under a state plan to reduce prison overcrowding.

"Several of them, we saw multiple arrests in the city," he said.

Irvine blames the initiative on pushing up crime in the city.

Also a factor, she said, is Proposition 47, which knocks some felonies down to misdemeanors.

Her message to residents: "Lock and up and secure your property even when you're in your home."

Stanger had his own message: "When you leave your house at night, leave your lights on and leave your blinds open. Before you enter the house make sure the blinds are still open and the lights are still on."

An off-duty police officer shot at a man who broke into his home in Los Angeles late Thursday.

The shooting occurred at around 10 p.m. on Military Ave in Palms, Los Angeles Police Department said.

The officer, who works for an outside agency, was watching television when he saw a man walking around his living room.

He grabbed a gun, called out the man in the rear of the house and then fired several shots at him.

The suspect managed to flee out of the back of the house. It is unknown if he was armed, or if he was hit by any of the shots.The officer was not injured

A perimeter was set up for several hours by the LAPD and CHP, however the suspect was not found.

The mission for these Pasadena police officers started before dawn: to crack down on distracted drivers.

Moments later longtime Officer Craig Blumenthal said he spotted one typing on his phone:

"You get a lot of excuses ... 'I was just picking up the phone to tell them I couldn't talk,'" he said.

He and other officers say distracted drivers are as big a problem as ever.

The officers see the consequences:

"The minute you take your eyes off the road, something pops out in front of you and you don't have that time to react," Blumenthal said.

Added Officer Tony Karg: "Driving while texting causes collisions. People are killed."

During a police ride along Friday, police spotted a number of people with phones to their ears, including one driver who said she was on her way to work and "got distracted, I guess."

Another driver admitted he was texting.

While some admit it, police also see people who make excuses or try to quickly toss their phones. That doesn't work.

"People try to be sly," Karg said. "That causes us to focus in on someone even more."

Wrecks involving distracted drivers killed more than 3,000 people and injured close to a half a million as recently as 2012, officials said.

Pasadena police got a state grant to put more officers out on Friday to help break drivers' bad habits.

"We're not trying to penalize people," Karg said. "We're trying to change their behavior to stop what they've been doing out here."

While some got warnings, fines and court fees can run hundreds of dollars.

A Southern California police bomb squad detonated a suspicious device underneath a freeway in Sun Valley early Friday.

It is still unclear if the object, which was orignally described as a suspicious tube with a fuse attached to it, was in fact a bomb, California Highway Patrol said.

It was discovered underneath the freeway near the Sheldon Street offramp at around 12:30 a.m.

All lanes were closed on the northbound 5 freeway south of Lankershim and the southbound 5 freeway north of the 170 during the investigation.

The Los Angeles Police Department destroyed the device at around 3:30 a.m, and all lanes reopened at around 3:50 a.m.

A 4-year-old girl was found outside in 3-degree weather, unconscious and turning blue, after her mother left her and two other young children alone early Friday morning to smoke marijuana, police in Connecticut said.

Police started investigating when Rebecca Santiago-Reyes, 23, of New London, called 911 at 3:38 a.m. to report her 4-year-old daughter was missing, police said.

She was calm and unemotional as she told them she put her 4-year-old daughter and her two other children -- a 5-year-old girl, and a 2-year-old boy -- in bed between 12:30 a.m. and 1 a.m., police said.

She then went to watch TV and checked on the children at 2 a.m., but saw they were sleeping soundly, she said, according to the police report.

At 3 a.m., she again checked on the children and noticed her 4-year-old daughter was missing, so she searched the apartment, knowing the little girl likes to hide. When she couldn't find her daughter, Santiago-Reyes said she banged on the next-door neighbor's door.

Responding officers noted that the home was messy, with dirty laundry on the floor throughout, and it was mixed with toys and food. They also said there was a lingering smell of marijuana and rotting garbage.

The children were sleeping on mattresses placed on the floor with no sheets or blankets, just piles of what appeared to be dirty laundry, the police report says, so officers began moving piles to see if they could locate the girl. She was not there. 

They also searched under furniture and in closets as well as cabinets, but the girl was nowhere to be found in the home.  

The children's father is prison, police said, and no other adults were home, so police spoke with Santiago-Reyes' 5-year-old daughter, who had been the same bed as the 4-year-old.

She had gotten up to "look for mommy and could not find her," then added "mommy was not home."

Police then started searching the area.

When an officer who remained in the home again asked Santiago-Reyes if she'd been home the entire morning, she said she'd gone to the store at 2:30 a.m. to pick up some items, leaving the children unattended, but later admitted she lied.

Police found the little girl hunched between a storm door and the door of one of the apartments at 163 Huntington Street. She was unconscious, turning blue, and was wearing only a yellow T-shirt, jeans boots, police said.

The officer who found her rushed the girl to an ambulance, which brought her to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital.

The little girl's body temperature had dropped to 90 degrees, her fingers were red and swollen and she had what hospital staff called "frost nips" on her arms, back and legs, police said.

The written statement Santiago-Reyes provided police another account of what happened before the child disappeared and the police report notes she had lied about going to a store.

Santiago-Reyes told officers she left the apartment around 2:30 a.m. to "smoke some weed," then drove to Willetts Avenue to pick up someone else to smoke more marijuana, the police report says.

She returned home an hour later, went to check on her children, saw her 4-year-old was not in bed, then searched for her until she called police.

Santiago-Reyes has been charged with three counts risk of injury to a minor, first-degree reckless endangerment and false statement. She will remain in prison unless she pays $250,000 bond and is due back in court on March 13.

Santiago-Reyes' father took custody of the other two children and the children's grandmother went to the hospital and took custody of the 4-year-old girl, police said. 

The so-called "Siberian Express" has blasted the eastern United States with snow and low temperatures that have shattered records and turned landmarks like the Niagara Falls into an icy wonderland.

Here are dramatic visuals and even some odd stories like the "Loo-cy" toilet plow that we've come across amid the extreme cold.

One Massachusetts town, Somerville, hired a company to shoot video from drones high above the city. The footage will be used to help clear snow from roofs that could be in danger of collapsing. 

In Rockville, Maryland, a man attached a plow to a motorized toilet to help clear snow.

One of the most dramatic visuals from the storm has been a geyser at Letchworth State Park in upstate that has frozen over. It has become a five-story tall "ice volcano."

How long would you guess it takes to freeze a T-shirt in freezing temperatures? 

Here's a look at other dramatic images of extreme weather since the year began.

Raiders Nation were none too happy with the announcement that their beloved football team might move south and share a stadium with the San Diego Chargers if both NFL teams fail to  find new stadium solutions in their hometowns.

“If you’re a real Raiders fan and you’re from Oakland, you want the Raiders to stay in Oakland,” Samantha Bell said on Thursday.

She was referring to a joint statement by the two conference rivals in the AFC West,  the Oakland Raiders and the Chargers’ management said they are looking at a stadium site in Carson in Los Angeles  County while still looking at options in their respective current cities. The deal in Carson would be privately financed.
   
Oakland City Councilman Larry Reid said if the Raiders leave, “it would be a great blow to the city of Oakland. It would set us back.”

Reid added: “I certainly don’t blame the Raiders for exploring their options given the difficulties in our efforts in putting together a deal to keep the Raiders here. Saying it’s been tough to keep the Raiders in Oakland is an understatement. It’s no secret that the Raiders want a new all football stadium, but who will pay for it? And where will it be built has been a big problem."

And in San Diego, Mayor Kevin Faulconer was obviously frustrated and mad, too. Speaking Friday morning, he said he had no idea about the Chargers' plan to move until he heard about it Thursday night. “That’s not being upfront," he said, adding that this deal has been being hammered out over the last nine months. "That’s not how you do business.”

The National Football League has long wanted to have a football team in Los Angeles, a huge market for television viewers, where it now has none. And sports observers point out that both the Chargers and the Raiders are perfect teams to move, because both play in outdated stadiums in their hometowns. Meanwhile, the Oakland situation is even more complicated because there have been talks about the Raiders sharing a team with the Oakland A's baseball team at new stadiums on the same site.

"I don't like it at all," said Raiders fan, Dr. Death, a 27-year-old Sacramento State University student. "But I think this is (Raiders owner) Mark Davis' leverage. From a business aspect, Oakland needs to hurry up and stop dragging its feet."

Oakland Coliseum Authority Executive Director Scott McKibben told NBC Bay Area on Friday that Oakland better hurry up and come up with some sort of plan fast to keep the Raiders in town.

And even as the Raiders-Chargers proposal was rolled out, top Raiders officials said they'd prefer to stay in Oakland if some kind of deal could be worked out.

At the same time the joint announcement was revealed,  the head of an investor group trying to build a massive development at the current O.co Coliseum complex in Oakland on Thursday warned  that the Raiders could leave Oakland if officials in Alameda County don't get  involved in negotiations soon.

Floyd Kephart,  the lead executive of New City Development LLC, said city of Oakland  officials have been "very straightforward" in working on the Coliseum City  project but he said, "We don't have that same thing from Alameda County."

Kephart, the chairman of the board of Renaissance Companies, a San  Diego firm that advises hedge funds, private equity groups and financial  institutions, said a development plan for the Coliseum site "has to be done  in the next few months or the Raiders will leave."

Kephart told the business group that Davis called Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Scott Haggerty on  Wednesday and "asked him to push this along."

But Haggerty said he's already talking to Davis on a weekly basis  and county officials are committed to retaining all of Oakland's pro sports  teams, which are the Raiders, the A's baseball team and the Golden State  Warriors basketball team.

Alameda County's participation is a key component for the $2 billion-plus Coliseum City project because the county and the city own about  two-thirds of the 200 acres at the Coliseum site where the development is  proposed.

Plans call for at least one new sports stadium at the site plus housing, retail stores, hotels and housing.

Kephart said the Coliseum City project "could be the vibrant urban center that everyone envisions and include 5,700 residential units and  475,000 square feet of retail space.

But he said the development "is hung up on the city and county coming together on land."

About $106 million of outstanding debt remains on the current O.co  Coliseum, which is used by both the Raiders and the A's baseball team, but  any deal to pay off the debt would depend on the county's participation.

The Oakland City Council recently granted a 90-day extension to New City Development on its exclusive negotiating agreement with  the city to develop the project.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said she is proposing that the agreement be amended to also include the county so the two government  entities can work together.

"The county has got to be at the table with the city," Schaaf  said.

She said the project hasn't moved forward "as quickly as any of us  would have liked" but she understands that the county needs time to research  the development proposal before it participates in the process.
 

The city envisions up to three new sports venues at the site: a  new football stadium for the Raiders, a new baseball park for the A's and a  new arena for Warriors basketball games and other events.

But so far only the Raiders have expressed strong interest in  participating in the project, while the Warriors have already announced plans  to move across the Bay to San Francisco as early as 2018.

Kephart said if the A's commit by next year to build a new  baseball stadium at the Coliseum site it would be possible to build both a  new football stadium and a baseball stadium at the site in the next five  years.

"You could do two stadiums in five years," he said.

Kephart also said, "There is enormous support in the community"  for the Coliseum City project.

NBC Bay Area's Cheryl Hurd, NBC San Diego's R. Stickney and Bay City News' Jeff Shuttleworth contributed to this report.
   

News that rival professional football teams the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders are joining forces on a proposal that could have them share a Southern California stadium surprised many when it broke late Thursday.

By Friday, some players and officials had taken to Twitter to share their thoughts on the plan to build a $1.7 billion stadium in Carson, California, if the teams' efforts to construct their own new venues in their respective hometowns fall through.

Here's a look at some of the reaction seen so far:  

Shareece Wright, starting cornerback for the Chargers tweeted: 

Kevin Faulconer, mayor of San Diego had a four part message to share: 

Shawne Merriman, former Chargers linebacker said: 

Corey Liuget, the defensive end of the Chargers said: 

Masked men held a couple at gunpoint for over two hours in a home in a South Bay gated community early Friday morning.

Wearing gloves, masks and dark clothes, at least three home invaders followed the victims from a liquor store they owned to their home at midnight, which they ransacked, taking jewelry and $2,000 in cash, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies said.

Deputies are investigating the home invasion, reported at 2:50 a.m. home invasion, in the 1000 block of Park Circle Drive in unincorporated Torrance.

Two of the robbers took keys to the store owned by the victims, stealing from there as well, deputies said. One home invader kept watch over the couple, during the two-hour store robbery, facilitating a phone call to the victims to find out where they kept their safe at the store.

No one was injured in the burglary, deputies said. A fourth suspect may be involved, but deputies don't have a description of the supsects.

The victims owned Mel and Leo's Liquor Store in Hawthorne, deputies said. It has bulletproof glass and other safety measures, but they weren't used in this case.

"He's just a really nice, fun-loving kinda guy," said customer Joseph Osborn, describing the store's owner.

NBC4's Annette Arreola contributed to this report.

When a Mountain View family of four showed up at Disneyland last week, they were forced to shell out even more money to enter the gates of Happiest Place on Earth because they’d been scammed on Craigslist.

And 25-year-old David Kao of San Francisco was arrested on Wednesday on two counts of theft by false pretenses, along with and transportation of marijuana for sales and transport. He was booked into the San Jose Main Jail, according to Mountain View police Sgt. Saul Jaeger. He would not elaborate on what evidence links Kao to the scam, only saying that detectives used “good old-fashioned” police work to track him down.

Kao’s arrest follows a doubly expensive visit for the family to a place that already charges about $10 for a caramel apple.

The parents bought four Park Hopper tickets to Disneyland for $500 on Craigslist, thinking it was a good deal for them and their two children, Jaeger said. Disney tickets are about $100 per adult for one day, and an extra $39 to bounce between the main park and Disney California Adventure Park.

But when they showed up at the Anaheim theme park on Feb. 12, they presented their tickets at the counter, only to find out they were invalid, police said. The tickets were real, police said, but they hadn’t been activated by the store where they were bought. And “unfortunately,” police said in a statement, this family ended up having to pay for passes in addition to the ones they thought they already had.

Jaeger wasn’t sure how much the family spent in all, or whether the suspect would have to pay them back if he is convicted of the charges.

Police were involved in a shooting after a woman was stabbed Friday afternoon in Orange County, officers said.

One person was injured in the shooting, which took place as Santa Ana police searched for whoever may have been responsible for stabbing a woman, said Cpl. Anthony Bertagna of the Santa Ana Police Department.

The shooting took place at about 12:40 p.m. in the 1900 block of Susan Street, Bertagna said. Witnesses to the stabbing directed officers to the area where the shooting took place, but Bertagna was unable to say if the person hurt in the shooting was the one who stabbed the woman.

Both the woman and the person shot by police were taken to a local hospital, Bertagna said.

Refresh this page for updates on this developing story.

An argument over a woman ultimately led to the stabbing death of rap superstar Nicki Minaj’s tour manager Wednesday, according to sources close to the investigation.

De’Von Pickett was stabbed outside the Che Bar & Grill along Stenton Ave. in Philadelphia’s West Oak Lane neighborhood early Wednesday morning following an altercation with several other men, police said.

He was with Eric Parker, 27, and a few friends outside the bar around 2:35 a.m. making sure that one of the bartenders, a woman that Parker was dating, made it to her car safely when a group of men approached the woman, according to sources.

Parker apparently asked the woman if she was OK and that’s when the fight broke out, sources said.

• Finding the Forgotten

Someone stabbed both Pickett and Parker several times.

Pickett suffered stab wounds in the torso while Parker suffered stab wounds to his left arm and left side.

A private car rushed both men to Albert Einstein Medical Center. Pickett died from his injuries at 2:45 a.m.

Police later returned to the 6300 block of Stenton Ave where they found personal items, a cellphone and blood on the sidewalk outside the bar. A Philadelphia police crime camera and business surveillance cameras that captured at least part of the incident, said investigators.

Philadelphia police questioned and released a person of interest Friday in connection with the murder.

Despite the person's release, Police Captain James Clark says arrests in the stabbing death of Pickett are imminent.

"We believe we have identified all of the participants involved in this fight and ultimate murder," said Clark.

Sources tell NBC10 that the woman in the middle of the fight was dating Parker as well as one of the attackers.

Pickett was a tour manager and Parker, a tour employee, who were working on preparations for Minaj's "The Pinkprint Tour," which is set to begin next month in Sweden. Pickett was also the co-founder of BK Nerd & Co. and was well-known in the music industry for his work in branding and public relations.

Minaj tweeted that she knew the victims were in Philly to rehearse for her upcoming tour:

Two members of my team were stabbed last night in Philly. One was killed. They had only been there for two days rehearsing for the tour.

— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) Feb. 18, 2015

Pickett's cousin, who did not want to be identified, also confirmed with NBC10 that Pickett was in Philly to work on the tour with Philly rapper Meek Mill.

"They were all here for her," the cousin said. "I guess they were out celebrating and things went wrong."

During his career, Pickett worked with some of the biggest stars in the music industry, including Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Hip-Hop artist, Fabolous, who shared his condolences on his Instagram page.

Rihanna also posted photos of her and Pickett on her Instagram page as well.

Family and friends, including Questlove of the Roots, also shared their condolences on Twitter, using the hashtag #RIPDayDay.

Pickett's cousin told NBC10 he came all the way from New York to mourn.

"He was a great guy," he said. "He didn't deserve this. He set an example for a lot of guys in this industry and it's sad to see this happen."

The City of Philadelphia is offering a $20,000 reward for an arrest and conviction in Pickett's death.

Parker remained in fair condition late Friday.

Two horses have died and five others were rescued after a barn collapsed under heavy snow in Westford, Massachusetts, Friday morning, in just the latest in a spate of roof collapses across the snow-weary state.

Five of the animals were rescued from the barn at Bobby's Ranch at 6 Durkee Lane on Friday afternoon, but the two remaining horses had to be put down.

"This is an act of God - treason," said Heather Cooper. "This is horrible."

Workers at Bobby's Ranch are blaming strong winds and terrible weather for bringing down the building that housed the horses.

Efforts to extricate the animals went smoothly, according to officials at the scene. Crews were clearing snow off of the roof, which is believed to have collapsed from a combination of heavy snow and winds.

The owner of the barn told necn the barn may have collapsed around 4 or 5 a.m. Friday; the owner arrived around 6 a.m. and found it collapsed.

When workers arrived, they found the building bent and disfigured. They were able to rescue four horses. Westford firefighters saved another, but the mangled building made it hard to free the last two.

"We ended up having two horses that did not make it," said Lt. Donald Parsons. "A very valiant effort by everyone that was here on scene. They tried their best to do everything they could."

More than 100 roof collapses have been reported across Massachusetts in just the past week, officials said Thursday, as the Boston area closes in on a historic record for the snowiest winter.

The risk of roofs caving in has prompted cities to crack down on snow clearing, and even inspired Somerville to hire drones to fly above its roofs and inspect them for snow.

Among this week's roof collapses were one at a Tewksbury daycare that forced it to evacuate all 30 kids inside and another at the Sutton Square shopping center in Sutton. 

A large mirror toppled over at a well-known lower Manhattan restaurant Friday morning, injuring one person and startling several other diners.

The mirror fell at the Balthazar restaurant on Spring Street at about 10:15 a.m., according to the FDNY. 

Several diners tweeted photos of the scene showing the large mirror toppled over on top of a booth. 

The New York Post initially reported that pop star Taylor Swift was among the diners in the trendy eatery at the time the mirror fell, but later said that those reports proved incorrect.

It's not clear what caused the mirror, which had been hanging on a wall, to fall.

The manager of the restaurant told NBC 4 New York that the business was open for lunch.

City building inspectors are at the scene. 

-- Sheldon Dutes contributed to this report.

A North Texas 13-year-old has been arrested after police say he told friends on Snapchat "don't come to school tomorrow" and "I have something big planned," then sent one a photo of himself holding what looked like a machine gun.

The eighth-grader at Anna Middle School in Anna, a small town 11 miles north of McKinney, told police he was only joking, police say. He's accused of making a terroristic threat against his school.

Police say the boy sent messages to his friends saying "don't come to school tomorrow" and "I have something big planned," and when one of them asked if he were "for real," he replied with a picture of himself holding a gun.

Police said they later found an airsoft gun they think was the gun in the photo in the boy's home.

"The suspect advised that he was 'not crazy' and he would not 'shoot up the school,'" Anna police Lt. Jeff A. Caponera said in a news release. "He said the whole thing was meant as a joke."

Police arrested the boy at his home and took him to the Collin County Juvenile Detention Center, where he awaits a hearing. 

Classes continued as usual Friday at Anna Middle School, officials said.

Stay tuned to NBC 5 for the latest developments.

A World War II veteran says he’s truly in the battle for his life.

Bill Crawford is suing the insurance company he’s paid premiums to for 20 years after they have repeatedly denied claims for care his doctors and caregivers say he desperately needs.

The 92-year-old Newport Beach resident says he bought insurance to bring himself some piece of mind, but it’s brought him nothing but headaches in the last couple of years.

"Well, I think they have treated me very badly," Crawford says of the Continental Casualty Company, a firm also known as CNA.

Crawford broke his hip two years ago, limiting his mobility, and he is legally blind. He filed a long-term care claim with CNA, but it was denied.

Crawford pays $3700 dollars in annual premiums, and he’s continued to file claims each week since breaking his hip in 2012. His doctors have certified he meets the policy’s criteria for long term care and yet each claim has been turned down.

Meanwhile, life is catching up to the veteran. He’s outlived two wives, but he says his health is declining and his finances are dwindling.

"Health-wise, I have some problems," he says.

Volunteer caregiver, next-door neighbor and Vietnam veteran Bill Pavone says Crawford needs help with nearly all of his daily routine.

"What are his needs? Oh going to doctors, shopping, physical therapy exercises that we do and other, you know just daily living activities," he says.

Pavone says he’s upset that Crawford isn’t getting the care his doctors have signed off on.

"You expect the right things to happen and it’s just not happening here," he says.

Crawford feels the same way.

So, now he’s suing CNA, alleging the insurance company’s handling of his claims “was not an isolated incident but rather a corporate practice” of denying and delaying legitimate claims for senior citizens.

"You are really harming these people and that’s why we believe this company needs to be punished for what it does," says Sam Bruchey, Crawford’s attorney.

In court filings, CNA denies any improper denial of benefits to Crawford while admitting they’ve received his claim submissions and doctors letters.

Though CNA denied a request to be interviewed about the case, its spokesman released a statement saying "We do not comment on matters in litigation… We are committed to fair and proper claim handling for all our customers."

Lawsuits like Crawford’s have the attention of the state’s insurance commissioner, whose investigators are fielding similar complaints.

"We receive about 200 complaints a year (related to) long-term care issues," says Byron Tucker, deputy commissioner of the California Department of Insurance.

While the litigation wears on, Crawford says he’s never been more determined to live. He says he is determined to finish what others could not.

"I feel sorry for all the ones that die," he says. "Waiting for them to pay them."

Anyone who has questions regarding insurance regulations for long term care policies can call the Department of Insurance Consumer hotline at 800-927-4357.

For a complete list of  Long Term Care policies in California, visit the Department of Insurance Information website.

If you have a tip on this story — or anything else — the I-Team wants to hear from you. Give us a call at 818-520-TIPS or email nbc4iteam@nbcuni.com.

About 100,000 households in California are being asked to delay filing their taxes as they await new tax documents from the Covered California healthcare exchange.

Covered California spokesman James Scullary said anyone affected was told about a mix-up with their 1095-A forms by early February, and that corrected replacement forms are already on the way.

"What we told them to do is wait," Scullary said. "Forms should be in their hands by the end of this month or early March."

Of the 800,000 households that receive the forms, 100,000 contained the wrong information.

Scullary acknowledged the error, and said the linking of taxes and health care is a new process for everyone.

"It’s a learning curve," he said.

Nationally, 800,000 people who used the healthcare.gov site to purchse insurance in 2014 were affected.

Anyone with questions can call the Covered California help line at 800-300-1506.