North Korea is shunning talks with the United States after President Donald Trump's attacks on its leader, imperiling diplomatic efforts, multiple U.S. government and congressional officials told NBC News.

A top U.S. diplomat to North Korea, Joseph Yun, has been on Capitol Hill warning of the breakdown and enlisting help to persuade the Trump administration to prioritize diplomacy with Kim Jong Un over heated rhetoric that appears to be encouraging nuclear conflict, sources said.

Trump will make his first official trip to Asia next month, as tensions with North Korea are at an all-time high, and government officials worry that the risks of military action are high as well.

"It is not so much that North Korea is shutting down, it's that the message from the U.S. government is, 'surrender without a fight or surrender with a fight,'" a U.S. official said.

A block of Columbus Boulevard in downtown Hartford was closed Wednesday morning after an underground manhole explosion but it has reopened.

Columbus Boulevard was closed between State and Bob Steele streets, near the Connecticut Science Center.

Officials believe wires underground caught fire after a power outage and said the manhole that blew is lodged underground.

No injuries are reported and power is on to businesses in the area. 

Botelle Elementary School in Norfolk will be closed today after a minor heating oil spill.

The public information officer said the fire department is working with contractors to clean up the area and eliminate the odor.

Leon Wieseltier, a prominent literary editor who was poised to helm a new magazine set to launch next week, has apologized after a number of women have accused him of sexual harassment, The New York Times reported. 

In the wake of the allegations, the organization that was backing the new magazine, the Emerson Collective, which is headed by Steve Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs, has withdrawn from the project, according to the report.

"Upon receiving information related to past inappropriate workplace conduct, Emerson Collective ended its business relationship with Leon Wieseltier, including a journal planned for publication under his editorial direction," the Emerson Collective told The New York Times Tuesday.

The allegations came from a number of women who worked with Wieseltier at The New Republic, the magazine where he worked for more than three decades, according to the New York Times.

The Times reported the group of women have been recounting their various experiences being sexually harassed and assaulted by Wieseltier on an email chain.

In an email to the paper Tuesday, Wieseltier offered an apology.

"For my offenses against some of my colleagues in the past I offer a shaken apology and ask for their forgiveness," he wrote. "The women with whom I worked are smart and good people. I am ashamed to know that I made any of them feel demeaned and disrespected. I assure them I will not waste this reckoning."

To celebrate Samhain, a Wiccan festival that falls on the evening of Oct. 31, Washington, D.C. resident Elizabeth Stephens usually prepares a pot of jambalaya to honor her late grandmother and a plate of roast beef in memory of her parents. She marks the festival with witches and fellow Wiccans, who offer their own dishes as a part of the day’s feast. The table they set becomes patterned with platters that were the favorites of family members and friends.

As a part of the celebration, a black cloth is held above the heads of the attendees and cut with a knife through the center, representing an opening between the spirit and material worlds. After some time has passed, participants encourage the spirits to return to their realm and the cut in the cloth is sewn. 

Images of witches being veiled in darkness, casting spells over cauldrons endure, but a new generation of Wiccans and witches have established growing communities in D.C. and across the country. 

Like other Wiccans and witches, Stephens has come “out of the broom closet” -- a term that refers to publicly revealing one’s beliefs as a Wiccan or witch. They are fighting back against misinformation about Wiccans and witches.

Stephens said she loves Halloween. 

“It’s a celebration of the witch. You can have sexy witches, you can have scary witches, but it’s still a celebration of the witch. Even if the witch isn’t shown in a positive light,” said Stephens, a 37-year-old Wiccan who also practices witchcraft. 

Teighe Thorsen is a 29-year-old D.C. resident and witch who cofounded the group CityWitches in 2016.

Thorsen said she created the group, which includes Wiccans, Pagans and other occultists, as “a place where the alternate outcasts of magic can actually come together and talk.”

“We’re getting a lot of youth, a lot of people generally under 30, although not always, who are trying to find somewhere in their life that they actually have power,” she said. “They’re trying to find it in something that is non-dogmatic and something that is just their own -- mystical, different, badass and empowering.”

Since starting CityWitches, Thorsen said she has seen an increase in interest from those inspired by her magic, including the rituals she writes on her Instagram, and a rise in members on the group's Facebook page.

On her Instagram, Thorsen posts pictures of and describes in detail her magical practices. In one photo, she set up candles around a pentagram, with tarot cards, amethyst crystals and feathers surrounding the shrine. She occasionally posts photos of herself that show her colorful hair and amulets of jade and lapis lazuli.

Witches have repeatedly captured Americans' imaginations. “The Craft" and the “Harry Potter” series are all hits, along with television shows like “American Horror Story: Coven." But the visibility can create problems with perceptions. “This Halloween version of witchcraft” has made people assume about what Thorsen's practices are, she said.

“Those are fantastical interpretations of what a witch is, but there is a little bit of truth to it,” Thorsen said. “There are things that you can do to affect certain results around you that most people won’t pick up on but you know how to do it.”

All magic involves completing certain things, like spells, to create certain consequences that a witch wants, Thorsen said. 

“It [magic] is a tool for personal development and empowerment as well as for changing your environment, for helping the people around you, and fear is never welcome. Fear is the antithesis of forward momentum,” Thorsen said. "What I practice in magic is fearlessness.”

Whereas witchcraft includes magical practices that can change from witch to witch, Wicca is a religion with a set structure, according to Penny Verin-Shapiro, a professor in the anthropology department at California State University, Fresno. Verin-Shapiro spoke to Wiccans and witches, studying their separate systems of beliefs, for her 2014 book “Central Valley Pagans.”

Verin-Shapiro found in her interviews with Wiccans and witches that many of them didn’t seem to fit into the religions that they followed previously and stumbled on something that made them want to convert. She said that the influx of information on the internet has contributed to more individuals identifying themselves within modern-day witchcraft and Wicca.

“It’s [the internet] made it a lot easier to find out information that was hidden before and to find a group, if you want to a group to work with or to learn from,” Verin-Shapiro said. “There’s just a whole lot more information out there now that is easily accessed."

Along with the availability of information, a more accepting attitude toward other religions has allowed Wiccans and witches to be more vocal and visible with their beliefs, according to Verin-Shapiro.

“The general public has become more accepting that not everybody has to be Christian, that there are many ways to worship,” she said. “So it has become easier for some people to come out of the broom closet.”

Being “out of the broom closet” hasn’t always been an option.

For centuries, the word “witch” was associated with witch trials, including the famous Salem witch trials in the 17th century, which accused some of practicing and performing magic. 

Witchcraft didn’t begin and end with the witch trials. From Caribbean Santería to Italian Stregheria to various voodoo practices in West Africa and Louisiana, witches have discovered methods to magic and medicine within themselves in the past and present.

Modern-day witches have created their own collection of magic practices, inspired by centuries of witchcraft from across the world, according to Laura, a 58-year-old Wiccan high priestess who asked News4 to withhold her last name because she does not want her children to be harassed because of her beliefs. She said she has considered herself a witch for more than 30 years.

“Within every faith, you can find some sort or form of magic worker or belief in energy, in that you are able to work with the energy forces,” Laura said. “Not all of those people would have necessarily called themselves witches, of course. But they were working with the same constructs.”

Laura said she has been interested in magic since childhood. She found Wicca through a teacher, who said she could trace her teachers back to the founder of the modern-day Wiccan movement.

Gerald Gardner, a member of the Masons, combined elements from ceremonial magic and folk tradition into what he coined Wicca, which means "to bend," according to Laura. She studied different degrees of mastery in Wicca to become a high priestess.

“For me, it is literally seeing the giant web of life and how every touch upon it affects something else in ways that are often unexpected," Laura said. 

From honoring an earth goddess with a mindfulness about one’s effect on the environment to an awareness about the three-fold law, which says that any action put out into the world comes back to someone three times, the Wicca that Laura follows teaches her that “we fully responsible for our own words and that includes what goes beyond ourselves.”

Laura said that her teachings and traditions in Wicca aren’t all necessarily followed by other Wiccans or witches, who may observe a completely separate set of customs.

“If you talk to five witches, you are going to get 10 different answers,” she said.

Laura has heard others describe what they think her religion is about: dancing naked, worshiping the devil and sacrificing animals. Those ideas are far from the truth, she said. She said she knows a man who lost visitation rights to see his child because a judge misconstrued his beliefs with Satanism.

“I’ve had people not take me seriously. I’ve had people be very condescending to me. ‘Are you a good witch or a bad witch?’ kind of thing. I kind of looked at them and said ... 'Find out," Laura said.

Stephens too said she has seen how stereotypes have seeped into how people understand her beliefs. Once, when she was reading a Wiccan book of spells at a McDonald’s, a cashier asked her about the book. While Stephens explained her faith, the cashier told her that “Evil never makes sense.”

“It was the worst experience that I’ve had as a witch,” Stephens said.

Still, in the coven of three other witches that she’s a part of, Stephens has found a family that she sees almost every week in Virginia.

“A lot of people think that we’re evil, that we’re spawn of Satan, that we worship the devil. We don’t even believe in hell, much less Satan,” Stephens said. “We’re people. We have as much variety within ourselves as a group as any other group."

“We’re not all painted with one brush. There are witches that I would not associate with, but there are Christians that I would not associate with and Muslims and Jews and Hindus and Sikhs,” she added. “Every faith has its own share of bad apples. But just because there are a few bad apples does not mean that we are all bad apples.”

A 12-year-old Illinois girl battling brain cancer had her autographed photo of Anthony Rizzo taken from her hospital room, her family said.

Abby Schrage’s mother had brought the young girl’s favorite signed photo to her room at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in hopes of lifting her spirits as she faces her second round of brain cancer.

"I thought, well, 'Hey, we brought her Anthony Rizzo picture with us to her previous stays for her chemo,' we figured why not bring it again for good inspiration, good boost," Abby’s mother Jill Schrage told NBC 5. "She's starting to wake up, she can see, 'hey, there is life after cancer.'"

But on Friday, as Abby visited with her siblings for the first time in weeks, the family realized the photo had mysteriously disappeared from the window it had been taped to. 

"How anybody could take something like this from a sick child..." Schrage said. 

Abby, who is from Highland, Illinois, was diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 11 in 2016. Within six months, she had beaten her tumors and was on her way to recovery.

But in May, she relapsed and in September, she underwent a bone marrow transplant. She has been in the hospital ever since due to complications with the procedure.

Abby received her beloved photo of the Cubs’ first baseman, a cancer survivor, along with a letter in June of 2017.

“She is quite the fighter and Anthony is a huge inspiration of what one can do after cancer,” Schrage said. 

The family has searched the room for the missing image and are hoping that whoever took it might be willing to return it to them.

"Mostly, I would like to get her picture back... that's the main thing," Schrage said. 

The hospital said an investigation into the missing photo is underway.

“We know how much this stuff really does mean to our patients and their families,” Laura High, a spokesperson for the hospital said.

The Anthony Rizzo Foundation said the Cubs' first baseman was upset to hear what happened to Abby and has arranged for the young girl to get a brand new photo and an autographed jersey sent to her. 

Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89.

Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, coroner's office, said Domino died of natural causes at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.

In appearance, he was no Elvis Presley. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a haircut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold more than 110 million records, with hits including "Blueberry Hill," ''Ain't It a Shame" — in which he sang the lyrics as "ain't that a shame" — and other standards of rock 'n' roll.

In a tweet Wednesday, New Orleans-born singer and actor Harry Connick Jr. credited the musician for "paving the way for New Orleans piano players... see you on top on that blueberry hill in the sky," he wrote.

Actor Wendell Pierce also mourned the loss of his hero of social media, tweeting: "Words fail me in this moment of deep heartache and sadness. We have lost a legend. One of my heroes. New Orleans' Fats domino is dead."  

He was one of the first 10 honorees named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Rolling Stone Record Guide likened him to Benjamin Franklin, the beloved old man of a revolutionary movement.

His dynamic performance style and warm vocals drew crowds for five decades. One of his show-stopping stunts was playing the piano while standing, throwing his body against it with the beat of the music and bumping the grand piano across the stage.

Domino's 1956 version of "Blueberry Hill" was selected for the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry of historic sound recordings worthy of preservation. The preservation board noted that Domino insisted on performing the song despite his producer's doubts, adding that Domino's "New Orleans roots are evident in the Creole inflected cadences that add richness and depth to the performance."

Domino became a global star but stayed true to his hometown, where his fate was initially unknown after Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. It turned out that he and his family were rescued by boat from his home, where he lost three pianos and dozens of gold and platinum records, along with other memorabilia.

Many wondered if he would ever return to the stage. Scheduled to perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2006, he simply tipped his hat to thousands of cheering fans.

But in May 2007, he was back, performing at Tipitina's music club in New Orleans. Fans cheered — and some cried — as Domino played "I'm Walkin'," ''Ain't It a Shame," ''Shake, Rattle and Roll," ''Blueberry Hill" and a host of other hits.

That performance was a highlight during several rough years. After losing their home and almost all their belongings to the floods, his wife of more than 50 years, Rosemary, died in April 2008.

Domino moved to the New Orleans suburb of Harvey after the storm but would often visit his publishing house, an extension of his old home in the Lower 9th Ward, inspiring many with his determination to stay in the city he loved.

"Fats embodies everything good about New Orleans," his friend David Lind said in a 2008 interview. "He's warm, fun-loving, spiritual, creative and humble. You don't get more New Orleans than that."

The son of a violin player, Antoine Domino Jr. was born on Feb. 26, 1928, to a family that grew to include nine children. As a youth, he taught himself popular piano styles — ragtime, blues and boogie-woogie — after his cousin left an old upright in the house. Fats Waller and Albert Ammons were early influences.

He quit school at age 14, and worked days in a factory while playing and singing in local juke joints at night. In 1949, Domino was playing at the Hideaway Club for $3 a week when he was signed by Imperial record company.

He recorded his first song, "The Fat Man," in the back of a tiny French Quarter recording studio.

"They call me the Fat Man, because I weigh 200 pounds," he sang. "All the girls, they love me, 'cause I know my way around."

In 1955, he broke into the white pop charts with "Ain't it a Shame," covered blandly by Pat Boone as "Ain't That a Shame" and rocked out decades later by Cheap Trick. Domino enjoyed a parade of successes through the early 1960s, including "Be My Guest" and "I'm Ready." Another hit, "I'm Walkin,'" became the debut single for Ricky Nelson.

Domino appeared in the rock 'n' roll film "The Girl Can't Help It" and was among the first black performers to be featured in popular music shows, starring with Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers. He also helped bridge rock 'n' roll and other styles — even country/western, recording Hank Williams' "Jambalaya" and Bobby Charles' "Walkin' to New Orleans."

Like many of his peers, Domino's popularity tapered off in the 1960s as British and psychedelic rock held sway.

Domino told Ebony magazine that he stopped recording because companies wanted him to update his style.

"I refused to change," he said. "I had to stick to my own style that I've always used or it just wouldn't be me."

Antoine and Rosemary Domino raised eight children in the same ramshackle neighborhood where he grew up, but they did it in style — in a white mansion, trimmed in pink, yellow and lavender. The front double doors opened into an atrium with chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and ivory dominos set in a white marble floor.

In 1988, all of New Orleans seemed to be talking about him after he reportedly paid in cash for two Cadillacs and a $130,000 Rolls-Royce. When the salesman asked if he wanted to call his bank about financing, Domino smiled and said, "I am the bank."

In 1998, he became the first purely rock 'n' roll musician to be awarded the National Medal for the Arts. But he cited his age and didn't make the trip to the White House to get the medal from President Clinton.

That was typical. Aside from rare appearances in New Orleans, he dodged the spotlight in his later years, refusing to appear in public or even to give interviews.

Other celebrities also took to social media to mourn his death and pay tribute to Domino.

The brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock has been arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography, according to police.

Bruce Paddock, 59, was arrested early Wednesday at an assisted living center in North Hollywood. Aerial video showed investigators in a lot behind the building in the 5300 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

A criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles County lists 20 potential counts and indicates the alleged crimes, including possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child, occurred in 2014. Los Angeles police said the investigation began after authorities discovered evidence inside a business in Sun Valley. Bruce Paddock had been "squatting" inside the business on San Fernando Road following his eviction from a residence, police said.

Authorities were unable to locate Paddock during the initial investigation. It was not immediately clear what led investigators to the North Hollywood location.

It wasn't immediately known if he has an attorney. Bond was set at $60,000.

An attorney who represented Bruce Paddock in past criminal matters told NBC News that he is no longer representing him and declined comment. Court records show Bruce Paddock has previous convictions for vandalism, criminal threats and theft, according to NBC News.

Bruce Paddock spoke with NBC News following the shooting, describing his own misdeeds as "minor." He said he was questioned by FBI agents after the mass shooting, mostly about his brother's childhood, NBC News reported.

Another brother, Eric Paddock also spoke to NBC News following the Oct. 1 shooting where his 64-year-old brother fired on a crowded outdoor music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and wounding scores more. He said he was "dumbfounded" by his brother's actions and recalled him as "just a guy" who stayed at hotels, gambled and went to shows.

Nearly a month after the shooting, authorities are still attempting to determine the motive behind the shooting, the deadliest in modern U.S. history. 

This is a developing story. Refresh this page for updates. 

Police are investigating an armed robbery at Wine and Spirits in Bristol.

Police said two males robbed the Burlington Avenue liquor store at 7:51 p.m. and made off with cash.

No one was injured and the robbers ran off on Lewis Street, police said.

One was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, tan pants and red, white and black sneakers. The other was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants and black and white sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Bristol Police Department at 860-584-3011.

Erika Hurt was in jail recovering from a near-fatal heroin overdose that occurred while her infant son was in the back of car when she first saw the image of herself slumped unconscious in the driver's seat, NBC News reported.

The photo, taken by an officer just before medics revived her with a shot of Narcan, appeared on the evening news.

"They exposed me and my addiction to the whole world," Hurt, 26, recalled. "I thought it was terrible."

Hope Town Marshal Matt Tallent said he never meant to embarrass Hurt by releasing the photo. He wanted to draw attention to epidemic rocking Hope, Indiana.

Hurt has since changed her mind and on Sunday celebrated a year of sobriety by posting the photo on Facebook as a reminder of how far she has come.

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Wildlife Division has been investigating what killed several deer in the Portland and Middletown area after a hunter contacted them and they have linked the deaths to Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease.

Since September, the department has documented more than 50 white-tailed deer that exhibited symptoms associated with EHDV-6, and state officials said the cases are primarily in Middletown and Portland, but there have been a few in Chester, Haddam and Lyme.

Tiny biting flies, or midges, transmit EHDV-6 to deer.

The disease progresses rapidly with deer, but state officials said concerns about hemorrhagic disease should not limit hunters’ willingness to harvest deer during the hunting season.

They said the disease does not infect humans and people are not at risk by eating venison from or handling infected deer, or by being bitten by infected midges.

State officials said the disease rarely causes illness in domestic animals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, horses, dogs and cats.

Hunters, however, should use caution if they saw a deer behaving abnormally or appears sick and avoid shooting, handling, or consuming that animal. When field dressing deer, state officials urge hunters to wear latex or rubber gloves and disinfect any instruments that come in contact with the animal.

Before 2004, only two subtypes of Hemorrhagic Disease were documented in North America -- EHDV-1 and 2. EHDV-6 was first detected in 2006 in Indiana and Illinois, and has since been reported throughout the Midwest, and from Florida, North Carolina and Maryland.

Changes are coming to the screening process for carry-on luggage at Bradley International Airport and travelers are now being urged to arrive at the airport at least 90 minutes before the scheduled departure.

The Transportation Security Administration will be requiring travelers to remove all electronics larger than a cell phone from their carry-on bags and put them in bins for X-ray screening at the security checkpoint.

The administration says the electronics will have to be put in a bin with nothing on top or below it.

“TSA continues to evaluate and modify its procedures to keep travelers safe,” William Csontos, TSA Federal Security Director for Connecticut, said in a statement. “TSA will work with passengers departing Bradley International Airport to ensure they are familiar with the new procedures and guide them through the security screening process quickly and efficiently,”

TSA says there are no changes to what travelers can bring through the checkpoint. For instance, liquids in quantities less than 3.4 ounces, food, electronics and books continue to be allowed in carry-on bags.

Learn more about what you can bring on a plane here.

The new security measures will not apply to passengers enrolled as a Department of Homeland Security Trusted Traveler and are being screened in a dedicated TSA Pre Check lane.

The new procedures go into effect at airports nationwide in the coming weeks and months.

Get TSA's top travel tips on the TSA website.

Prospect Police are investigating after someone abandoned a puppy.

Police said the male puppy was dumped at the end of Cornwall Avenue this morning and has no collar, tags or ID chip.

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Anyone who knows anything about the dog should call the Prospect Animal Control Officer at (203)-509-5237.

Five-year-old Sophia Chiappalone looks like any other little girl, but she has a serious health problem.

"She was born with half of a heart the whole right side of her heart was missing," explained Kristy Chiappalone, Sophia’s mom.

She’s already had five times as many surgeries than she’s had birthday candles.

"Here she is," Chiappalone said. "She’s a walking miracle. There is no life expectancy at this time because there’s no reason for her to be alive."

Now she’s in lung failure and needs another procedure. Sophia and her family will travel to Boston Children’s Medical Center to have the risky, open heart surgery.

But before that, she had a special wish.

"That’s all she wanted in the world, was to marry the love of her life," Chiappalone said.

That man is Hunter, her best friend from preschool. When Hunter’s mom Tracy found out, she knew she had to do something.

"I contacted my best friend who’s a photographer about maybe doing a mock bridal shoot and she was game," said Tracy Laferriere.

Sassy Mouth Photography did the shoot. Bliss Bridal shop in Cheshire donated Sophia’s gowns. With their help, the moms pulled off a beautiful wedding photo shoot.

"That was a happiness that I have not seen from Sophia in so long," said Chiappalone.

Sophia’s heart may not be healthy, but it’s clear, her heart is full of love.

"I hope that Sophia is going to live a long life and marry Hunter when she’s 25, but my hope for the future is that Sophia stays happy and healthy as long as her body can handle," Chiappalone said.

Wednesday was cleanup day in the Naugatuck Valley, following Tuesday’s storm. Naugatuck saw 4.7 inches of rain, which led to flooding and toppled trees and power lines. The area also saw some significant thunder and lightning.

A home was hit by lightning on Culver street, blowing bricks from the chimney. They came crashing down on the family’s car, shattering the driver side window and cracking the windshield.

"That is insane I can’t believe that actually blew out like that," said neighbor Jessica Rodriquez.

Not far down the road, the Mobile station was drying out after some flooding during the worst of the rain.

"There was a literally a waterfall coming down over the wall behind it," said Michael Chobian of Naugatuck.

What came down, crews quickly worked to clean up. Oxford Public Works was out until midnight and back in at 7 a.m. Tuesday, clearing branches left in the roads and clogged storm drains.

"The storm came, the leaves came down [we saw] some localized flooding," said Kevin Miles of the Oxford Department of Public Works.

They also had approximately eight trees come down, some into power lines.

"Any time you have trees down live wires it’s a bad situation," said Wayne Wyatt of the Oxford DPW. "We had two buses nearly under a tree with live wires so that was a hairy situation."

No injuries were reported, and Oxford DPW says they made quick work of the mess. Over the next few days they will pick up any tree debris they pushed aside and wait for the next round of rough weather.

Rainfall from Tuesday night and Wednesday morning was enough to put a serious dent in the year to date deficit throughout the state.

Windsor Locks picked up 4.63" which was the biggest rainfall since Irene in 2011. The rainfall total replaced a 3.2" deficit with at 1.43" surplus from year to date. 

Bridgeport was in a 4.2" deficit however with the two day rainfall totaling 3.88" it brought that deficit to only 0.32".

The deficits will be replaced by a surplus statewide with another round of heavy rain forecasted this weekend.

For more on the weekend wind and rain threat click here.

Coventry police are investigating vandalism at Coventry High School.

Police said the damage was done sometime overnight Saturday. The suspect, or suspects, did donuts on the soccer fields, drove across the softball field, a parking lot island and left tire marks in front of the front entrance of the building.

Around 2:16 a.m. surveillance cameras captured footage of the suspect vehicle, which appears to be a newer dark-colored Ford F150. There was no license plate on the front of the truck and the brake light above the tailgate did not work.

Police said one male was inside the vehicle.

Anyone with information on this crime should contact the Coventry Police Department at 860-742-7331 or the anonymous tips line at 860-742-2400.

New London police are taking to the web to target cyber criminals and those who are trafficking fentanyl and other drugs on the dark web.

They’re one of 11 municipal police departments, along with seven federal agencies and state police to join the newly formed Connecticut Cyber Task Force.

It will go after criminals using computers to steal company’s finances and information, and target criminals on the dark web buying or selling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs.

"It’s happening in this city. You don’t see it often. It’s not prevalent because it’s not happening on the street corner. But it is taking place," said New London Acting Police Chief Peter Reichard.

One of his detectives is part of the task force – a way to keep up with the way crimes are evolving, he said. Over the last few years, the amount of heroin and fentanyl in the city has increased.

"We get reports all the time that people are changing their methods of selling narcotics to ads on Backpage and Craigslist," according to Reichard.

New London's involvement could help surrounding towns as well since detectives are in constant contact with other detectives in the area, Reichard added.

Two parents affected by addiction said New London’s involvement could good by keeping some of the drugs from getting into the community.

"You wonder if at the end of the day, you’re still going to have your child," said Lori Forbes of Montville.

Her son is four days sober as of Wednesday. She said fentanyl, among other drugs, are to blame for his 13 overdoses in a five-year addiction battle.

"Every day I start my day with a prayer and I ask God to keep my son with me," Forbes said. "And every night I thank him when he does."

It's not an uncommon story. Lisa Johns lost her 33-year-old son, Christopher, to an opioid overdose back in 2014. He struggled with the use of fentanyl. One time, she even saved his life.

"He did overdose. It happened to be in my home. I did do the CPR on him," said Johns, an Uncasville resident.

While she longs to stop the sale of fentanyl completely and knows that some of it is coming from other countries. But thinks this task force could do some good.

"If we can stop it from coming in the mail for our particular areas or the state of Connecticut, yes it’ll help. Absolutely," Johns said.

Reichard said New London Police are also working to create a safe transfer site for people meeting to exchange good bought online. There have been cases where people pick a spot to meet and one person robs the other.

For the first school year, Milford’s youngest students’ campuses have a life-saving tool on hand to help fight the opioid crisis

It’s a dose of reality Milford Battalion Chief of Emergency Medical Services Daniel Wassmer says some families may not be aware of.

"Everybody's got a potential exposure," Wassmer said.

Wassmer says even elementary school students are at risk of exposure to the opioid epidemic.

"Anybody from a parent or a visitor, a staff member or even a child experimenting or stealing something out of the medicine cabinet just to see what it does," Wassmer said.

"It went into effect at the start of the academic year," Deepa Joseph said.

Milford Public Schools is one of the first districts in the state to provide Narcan at all of its 14 schools including its elementary campuses.

"We felt that it was important for our school nurses to have a tool in the event that someday they came upon an emergency within their schools," Joseph said.

While Joseph, Director of Health at the Milford Health Department, says the district hasn’t seen any opioid overdose cases, its nurses are now prepared to administer the life-saving medication.

"That unit that the nurses have is a very simple unit," Wassmer said.

Wassmer says Milford EMS administers Narcan anywhere from several times a month to several times a week and having nurses equipped with its power could potentially save students’ lives when the call comes in after the bell rings

"By the time you recognize that somebody is in crisis and that somebody has a problem, then you call 911 the whole thing is processed it could be 10 to 12 minutes before help actually arrives," Wassmer said.

Wassmer says teachers will be trained next on how to administer Narcan.

High-powered Hollywood executives. A celebrity chef. A doctor working with young Olympic athletes. These are among the powerful men that have recently been accused of sexual misconduct as waves of women come forward to tell their stories.

Thousands of women have shared their stories of harassment and assault in blog posts, statements to journalists and as part of the viral #MeToo social media movement. Many said they didn’t speak up about their experiences sooner because they felt ashamed, afraid it would end their careers or afraid for their safety.

Here are some of the powerful men who have been accused of sexual harassment, abuse or both. The allegations have not been confirmed by NBC. 

Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood producer
More than 60 women have come forward to accuse Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of decades of sexual harassment and assault. Actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Mira Sorvino are among those who made their stories public in exposes published by The New York Times and The New Yorker. The women described years of Weinstein's unwanted sexual advances in detail, alleging acts that in some cases included groping or rape.

After the allegations were published, the movie mogul was fired from The Weinstein Company, which he co-founded, and removed from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The New York State Attorney General announced a civil rights investigation into The Weinstein Company to ascertain whether any civil rights and anti-discrimination laws were broken and police investigations were opened in Los Angeles, New York and London.

Weinstein's wife, fashion designer Georgina Chapman, announced she was leaving him on Oct. 10. 

“Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein," Weinstein's spokesperson said in a statement.

Weinstein also responded to the allegations by actress Lupita Nyong’o, which included claims that Weinstein wanted to take off his pants while she gave him a massage. He also said at a later meeting, "If I wanted to be an actress, then I had to be willing to" go up to a hotel room with him, hinting at a proposition of sex, she recalled.

"Weinstein has a different recollection of the events, but believes Lupita is a brilliant actress and a major force for the industry," his spokesperson said in a statement. "Last year, she sent a personal invitation to Mr. Weinstein to see her in her Broadway show 'Eclipsed.'"

James Toback, filmmaker
More than 200 women, including actress Julianne Moore, have accused filmmaker James Toback of acting inappropriately with them. At least 38 women claimed to have been sexually harassed by Toback in a report published by The Los Angeles Times on Sunday. Since then, 193 additional women have contacted the Times to talk about Toback, the reporter said on Twitter.

The women's allegations depict a pattern of behavior, with many of the women saying Toback approached them in New York or Los Angeles, offering them movie roles. He would then allegedly invite the woman to a private meeting, where he would ask her explicit questions about her sexual history and often to remove her clothes, the Times reported.

Many of the women interviewed said Toback dry-humped them or masturbated in front of them.

Toback, 72, has denied all of the allegations. He told the Times that he had never met any of the women, or if he had it "was for five minutes and (I) have no recollection."

Roy Price, Amazon Studios executive
Roy Price resigned from his position as the head of Amazon’s streaming service after sexual harassment claims, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.

Isa Dick Hackett, executive producer of the Amazon show “The Man in the High Castle," said that when she met Price for the first time in 2015, he repeatedly propositioned her as they shared a cab with another Amazon executive to an Amazon staff party, she told The Hollywood Reporter.

Hackett said that Price told her: “You will love my dick."

Price was initially suspended from Amazon and resigned days later. Hackett said the Weinstein scandal spurred her to share her story.

NBC reached out to Price for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

John Besh, celebrity chef
The New Orleans celebrity chef stepped down from the restaurant group bearing his name on Oct. 25 after 25 women, current and former employees, alleged sexual harassment by male co-workers and bosses, The Times-Picayune reported.

One of the nine women who agreed to be named, Madie Robison, said she endured uninvited touching from male coworkers at Besh Restaurant Group, as well as frequent requests by her boss, Besh, to discuss his sex life.

American Public Television has pulled both "Chef John Besh's New Orleans" and "Chef John Besh's Family Table" in light of the allegations against Besh and his company, the network said in a statement to NBC Tuesday.

"As of today, we have withdrawn distribution of these two series," spokesman Jamie Haines wrote.

In a written statement to NBC, Besh apologized to employees “who found my behavior as unacceptable as I do.”

Chris Savino, former Nickelodeon producer
Chris Savino, creator of the animated series "The Loud House," was fired from Nickelodeon after a dozen women claimed that he made unwanted sexual advances to co-workers, Cartoon Brew reported. He is also accused of threatening to blacklist women from the industry after the end of consensual relationships.

After the report came out, Anne Walker Farrell, a director on Netflix show "Bojack Horseman," released a series of tweets claiming that Savino had harassed her 15 years ago. Farrell wrote that Savino offered her a "'mentorship' that devolved into lewd messages, etc.'"

Savino responded to the allegations on Facebook on Monday.

“I am deeply sorry and ashamed,” he wrote. “Although it was never my intention, I now understand that the impact of my actions and communications created an unacceptable environment."

Larry Nassar, Olympic doctor
Two-time Olympic medalist McKayla Maroney, 21, alleged this month that the USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar molested her for years starting when she was in her early teens.

Nasser is currently in jail in Michigan awaiting sentencing on a charge of possessing child pornography, to which he pleaded guilty. He is also on trial for separate criminal sexual conduct charges and has been sued by more than 125 women who allege abuse. Nassar has pleaded not guilty to assault charges and is in mediation on civil suits.

Nassar's attorney responded to Moroney's allegations with no comment, citing a gag order over outstanding proceedings. His lawyers have called the earlier allegations against him "patently false and untrue" and said "his techniques were medically accepted and appropriate."

Robert Scoble, tech blogger
At least three women have accused the high-profile tech writer and evangelist of sexual and verbal harassment, starting with a blog post by journalist Quinn Norton, who wrote that he assaulted her at a hacker conference in the early 2010s. Another woman, Michelle Greer, who worked with Scoble in the past, told Buzzfeed that he groped her at a tech conference in 2010.

Sarah Kunst, creator of workout app ProDay, said on Twitter that Scoble acted inappropriately with her.

Scoble resigned from his virtual reality startup, Transformation Group, after the allegations. He apologized in a Facebook post on Friday.

"I’m deeply sorry to the people I’ve caused pain to," he wrote. "I know I have behaved in ways that were inappropriate."

But on Tuesday, he wrote on his blog that his accusers "used grains of truth to sell false narrative."

Lockhart Steele, former Vox Media editorial director
Vox Media’s editorial director Lockhart Steele, former CEO and founder of Curbed Network, was fired following sexual harassment allegations by a former employee.

“Lockhart Steele was terminated effective immediately,” CEO Jim Bankoff wrote in a memo to staff on Oct. 19, Variety reported. He “admitted engaging in conduct that is inconsistent with our core values and is not tolerated at Vox Media.”

The claim was reportedly made by former employee Eden Rohatensky in a blog post on Medium, according to The Awl. Rohatensky worked at Vox Media as a web developer from June 2014 to August 2015, according to LinkedIn.

NBC reached out to Steele for comment but received no immediate response. Vox Media told NBC they could not comment on the ongoing investigation. (NBC's parent company, NBCUniversal, is an investor in Vox.)

Terry Richardson, fashion photographer
For years, Terry Richardson has faced allegations of inappropriate behavior in his work as a fashion photographer, in which he's taken pictures of celebrities like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus.

These accusations are resurfacing after Condé Nast International, which publishes magazines such as Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair, announced Monday that it would no longer work with Richardson, The Telegraph reported.

In 2001, model Liskula Cohen said Richardson asked her to get completely naked during a Vogue photoshoot, while he was also naked, and pretend to perform a sex act on another man, according to Complex. Many other women alleged sexual abuse by Richardson to Jezebel under the condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs.

Richardson's agent did not immediately respond to NBC's request for comment but Richardson has previously addressed what he called the "rumors" of his behavior.

“I collaborated with consenting adult women who were fully aware of the nature of the work, and as is typical with any project, everyone signed releases," Richardson wrote in a 2014 essay on HuffPost.

Andy Signore, web series creator
After the Harvey Weinstein scandal exploded, at least five women posted on social media that they had experienced sexual harassment by Andy Signore, creator of fan site Screen Junkies and the “Honest Trailers” film-parody franchise.

One woman wrote on Twitter that Signore offered to masturbate in front of her. Another said he tried to sexually assault her several times and threatened to fire her boyfriend, who worked at Screen Junkies, if she told anyone, Variety reported.

After the accusations became public, Screen Junkies said in a statement on Twitter that it had fired Signore. 

"There is no justification for this egregious and intolerable behavior," read the statement.

NBC reached out to Signore for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

Bill O’Reilly, former Fox News host
In February, Fox News renewed the contract of host Bill O'Reilly one month after he paid $32 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, The New York Times reported.

The settlement paid to Lis Wiehl, a longtime Fox News legal analyst, who accused him of forcing her into a “nonconsensual relationship," was the latest in a succession of settlements made by O'Reilly. He was fired from Fox News in April.

O'Reilly was dropped by his talent agency, United Talent Agency, Monday night, a source told NBC News. A source familiar with the situation said “we’re parting ways” after his current contract expires at the end of 2017.

A statement from Fox News parent company 21st Century Fox said it knew that O'Reilly had settled the lawsuit with Wiehl, but didn't know the terms.

"His new contract... added protections for the company specifically aimed at harassment," the statement said.

21st Century Fox has said the network it has worked to change the culture at Fox News. The founder of Fox News, Roger Ailes, resigned from the network last year after several women, including Kelly, alleged sexual misconduct. He died in May at the age of 77.

O’Reilly has blamed the media for reports of his alleged sexual misconduct, writing on Twitter Monday that the Times report was an attack for political purposes.

"Once again, The New York Times has maliciously smeared Bill O'Reilly," O'Reilly's attorney said to NBC in a written statement. He pointed out that "in the more than 20 years Bill O'Reilly worked at Fox News, not one complaint was filed against him with the Human Resources Department or Legal Department by a coworker."

But on NBC’s “Megyn Kelly Today,” Kelly refuted that claim, saying she had complained about O’Reilly while they were both working at Fox News, and blasted the culture of silencing sexual harassment victims at the network and beyond.

George H.W. Bush, former president
In a Tuesday Instagram post that has since been deleted, actress Heather Lind recounted the story of when she met former president George H.W. Bush four years ago to promote one of her TV shows.

"He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side," Lind wrote. "He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me again."

The former president apologized on Wednesday.

“President Bush would never — under any circumstance — intentionally cause anyone distress, and he most sincerely apologizes if his attempt at humor offended Ms. Lind,” Jim McGrath, a Bush spokesman, said in a statement.

Leon Wieseltier, magazine editor
A number of women who worked with prominent literary editor Leon Wieseltier at The New Republic magazine have accused him of sexual harassment, The New York Times reported. Wieseltier worked at the magazine for more than three decades and was set to head a new magazine to launch next week.

After learning of the allegations, the organization that was backing the new magazine pulled out of the project.

"Upon receiving information related to past inappropriate workplace conduct, Emerson Collective ended its business relationship with Leon Wieseltier, including a journal planned for publication under his editorial direction," the Emerson Collective told The New York Times Tuesday. 

Wieseltier apologized in an email to the Times on Tuesday.

"For my offenses against some of my colleagues in the past I offer a shaken apology and ask for their forgiveness," he wrote. "The women with whom I worked are smart and good people. I am ashamed to know that I made any of them feel demeaned and disrespected. I assure them I will not waste this reckoning."