The NBC Connecticut First Alert weather team has issued a First Alert Sunday into Monday. 

Parts of the state experienced over 5 inches of rain Tuesday into Wednesday. 

We're tracking another system that will move into the state Sunday into Monday which will likely bring another round of heavy rain. This could lead to more flash flooding throughout the state.

In addition to flash flooding there is also a threat for strong winds which could lead to tree damage. 

Westport police have released graphic video of an assault on Post Road East Tuesday, and police are still trying to identify one of the people involved.

According to police, police responded to the area of 550 Post Road East around 9 a.m. for a report of a fight. When officers arrived they found two men fighting in the middle of the road. The men had been involved in a crash, police said.

Through investigation, police determined that the incident began in Derby. According to Derby police, a resident on Prospect Street reported that a man showed up at his home and assaulted him with a hammer. The resident followed his attacker into Westport, where they crashed their vehicles and the assault took place.

Police said this was not a random attack and that the victims were known to each other. Police did not know the motive for the attack. Charges are expected in that case.

The two men were arrested. Fernando Morales, 41, of Derby, faces charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and breach of peace. He was released on a $5,000 bond and is due in court on Nov. 6.

Rafael Valle, 34, of Bridgeport, faces a reckless endangerment charge. He was released on a $5,000 bond and is due in court on Nov. 6.

Police are still searching for a third man who was also involved. Video shows that man pull up in a third vehicle, kick one of the men, who was on the ground, then get back into his car and drive off.

That driver was wearing a dark t-shirt with white lettering on the back, jeans and a baseball cap at the time of the incident. The car was described as a red-bronze or rust-colored Ford Explorer, possibly with Maryland plates.

Anyone with information on this incident or who recognizes the driver or vehicle should contact Westport Police at 203-341-6080.

Originally scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, the special State Senate session to debate and vote on the bi-partisan budget has been pushed back until 9 p.m.

In the afternoon General Assembly Finance Committee meeting, a majority of lawmakers voted in favor of adopting the revenue side of the budget deal.

"We’re hopeful that it’s a strong signal to the governor that this is the direction the legislature wants to move in," State Rep. Christopher Davis (R) told NBC Connecticut.

Since the start of the month, legislative leaders from both parties held closed door negotiations without Governor Dannel Malloy (D) in the room.

"Difficult times, but the leadership of all four caucuses stepped up, everybody compromised," Democratic State Senator John Fonfara said.

At the Finance Committee meeting, Sen. Len Suzio was one of only two republican senators who voted against approving the revenue side of the budget.

"What they’re seeing is the destruction of their cities and towns by the governor’s executive order and they feel this is their only choice," he said, "I don’t think this is the only choice."

Suzio raised concerns with 17 tax and fee increases and told NBC Connecticut he preferred the GOP budget that passed with a few Democratic votes before the governor vetoed it.

"This is just more of the same medicine that is destroying our state," he said.

Legislative leaders left out some of the taxes proposed during the long budget impasse.

"A lot of those taxes that were included in the governor’s proposal earlier like a restaurant tax, increasing the hotel tax, second home tax, cell phone taxes those are not included in this and that’s important for the public to know," Rep. Davis said.

Saying he still needs time to review the budget documents, Gov. Malloy has not yet publically indicated whether he would sign or veto this version of the budget.

"Whether I sign this budget or not, I certainly will have had a lot of impact on it," Gov. Malloy said Wednesday morning. "Perhaps not as much as might have been optimal but find out where all that pension language Republicans were looking for."

Republican House Leader Themis Klarides said Tuesday she hopes this budget will have enough support to override a potential veto by the governor.

Members of the House are scheduled to meet for their budget debate and vote at 10 a.m.

Back-to-back break-ins at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5157 in Watertown are more than just crime scenes for Commander Norman Cote, they are personal blows.

"Violated really violated," Norman Cote said.

Cote says thieves not only broke into the post last Monday taking a ticket machine worth $15,000 but came back the following day taking a box with hundreds of dollars in record time.

"I never thought we would have this problem that we have to worry about people breaking in and stealing money from us," Cote said.

"It makes me feel terrible," Frank Trosky said.

Quartermaster Frank Trosky says the criminals were brazen.

"We had the door repaired and unfortunately after we have the door repaired somebody came back the second night and broke and the same exact way," Trosky said.

The stolen money was meant to go toward the post’s gas money to take homeless veterans to Thanksgiving dinner. Cote now on a mission to find whose responsible.

"Shame on you shame on you, thankfully I wasn't here when because I'd probably be on the news for different reason," Cote said.

While the repairs will be costly, post leaders say they are offering a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.

A 19-year-old man faces attempted murder charges after a shooting in Winsted in January.

Connecticut State Police said that on January 19, Rafael Santiago-Salazar shot 37-year-old Melvin Ashe in the chest. Ashe was airlifted to St. Francis Hospital and survived his injuries.

Police interviewed several witnesses and identified Santiago-Salazar as the shooter.

Santiago-Salazar was located in Maine and on Wednesday, returned to Connecticut. He is charged with criminal attempt to commit murder, first-degree assault, carrying a pistol without a permit, unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment, and threatening.

According to the arrest warrant, Santiago-Salazar was involved in drug trafficking between Waterbury and Maine, and the shooting was drug-related.

Hartford police are investigating after a woman was shot and a man stabbed on Garden Street in Hartford.

Hartford Police Deputy Chief Brian Foley confirmed two people - a man and a woman - were injured in an incident on Garden Street and dropped off at St. Francis Hospital. The woman suffered a graze wound to the back of her head, and the man was stabbed.

The injuries were not life-threatening, Foley said.

No other details were immediately available.

A humanoid artificial intelligence robot became the first robot to receive a citizenship Wednesday at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Saudi Arabia, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin reported.

Sophia, created by founder of Hanson Robotics Dr. David Hanson, spoke with Sorkin about the future of artificial intelligence.

She poked fun at Hollywood for portraying negative images of robots, such as in the film "Blade Runner." The AI also took a jab at Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, who is outspoken about his belief that AI could be "a danger to the public," after avoiding to answer Sorkin's questions about robots' self-awareness.

Sorkin announced to Sophia and the audience that Sophia is awarded with the first Saudi citizenship for a robot.

"I am very honored and proud for this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship," Sophia said.

Sophia is Hanson Robotics' most advanced robot. She was featured on the cover of Elle Brazil magazine, and she appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" in April.

Some Cheshire parents have growing concerns about a pilot program which gives students laptops and software to accomplish their school work. While some parents say the program is beneficial, others believe it poses a danger to privacy.

"On Summit, we have content and focus areas," said student Karla Carangelo.

Carangelo is in sixth grade and goes to Norton School in Cheshire.

She and other students are now using a learning program called Summit. Summit is online education tool installed on assigned Google Chromebooks.

"On our focus areas we have to pass our content assessment," said Carangelo.

The program has some parents concerned. Concerns which include the programs student privacy policy and laptops that be used inappropriately.

"I think there have been some issues on what the program is about and what's happening at school," said Nancy Carangelo.

Nancy is Carangelo's mom. She's aware of the issues some other parents have. She's also aware of the meetings the school has held to inform parents about the program, and an email sent out to parents explaining the concerns are what the superintendent calls "myths."

Myths he says include that Summit shares student data with advertisers, and the myth that "the Cheshire Schools are using Summit as a strategy to replace teachers."

"I've gone on it and haven't seen anything inappropriate, I check," said Nancy.

Despite the emails and the meetings the concerns remain.

So the school will be holding another meeting to field questions November 6th at the Humminston Building.

Puerto Rico's continued struggles after Hurricane Maria include the rise of waterborne illnesses, which health professionals fear may grow to become an epidemic, NBC News reported.

Two of the most recent deaths came from leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that's usually spread through contaminated water, a health official told The Associated Pres, and 74 suspected cases of infection are being investigated.

The rare disease, treated with antibiotics, is transmitted through the urine of infected animals, but humans are usually infected by coming in contact with infected water. One in four people on the island still didn't have access to running water by Wednesday.

"It's like a perfect storm for leptospirosis, people are going to get sick and suffer," said nurse Llamara Padro-Milano, who came back from a relief trip to the island last week. She said nurses were encountering cases of pink eye as well.

Mark Halperin, a senior political analyst and frequent contributor for NBC News and MSNBC, said Wednesday night that he had engaged in "inappropriate" behavior around women he worked with while he was at ABC News, NBC News reported.

Halperin said he would "take a step back from my day-to-day work" after the allegations surfaced in a CNN report, which quoted five anonymous women as saying Halperin sexually harassed them when he was a top political journalist at ABC News. Four of the women have since left the company. 

Halperin apologized in a statement to CNN for having pursued "relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me." He denied inappropriate touching. 

CNN said it hadn't learned of any incidents after Halperin left ABC News in 2007 after two decades.

In a statement to CNN, ABC News said: "Mark left ABC News over a decade ago, and no complaints were filed during his tenure."

“We find the story and the allegations very troubling," NBC News said in a statement Thursday morning. "Mark Halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood.”

Americans are split in a new poll on rules that would require professional athletes to kneel for the national anthem, a real shift in favor of their right to protest, NBC News reported.

Fifty-one percent of respondents to an HBO Real Sports/Marist poll said they opposed leagues requiring that players stand, while 47 percent supported such rules.

The four-point difference is within the Oct. 15-17 poll's margin of error, which makes it a statistical tie. But when the poll was conducted a year ago, a clear majority supported rules requiring players to stand, by a mark of 52 to 43.

Since then, President Donald Trump threw a spotlight on the athletes following the example of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling for the anthem in August 2016.

A man who arranged to meet someone to buy designer sneakers robbed the seller at gunpoint and stole the sneakers, police said, and they are asking for help to identify him. 

The robbery happened around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. 

Anyone with information can call West Haven police at 203-937-3905 or reach the department through Facebook, the department’s website or through Twitter. 

A Shelton woman has been arrested, accused of assaulting a child and neglecting a cat after finding a boy with cuts and bruises all over his body and an animal that was so badly neglected that it had to be euthanized, according to police.

Police started investigating after a state Department of Children and Families social worker who was at Faith Taylor’s Shelton home on Aug. 25 contacted them to report neglect. 

The social worker, who was at the home for an unrelated case, saw a special needs child with bruises and cuts all over his body and detectives discovered Taylor caused the boy’s injuries, according to police. No information has been released on Taylor's relationship to the child.

It was while they were in the house that detectives noticed a cat that appeared to be dead, but then they heard a faint sound from the animal, which was then transported to a local animal hospital. 

A veterinarian who examined the cat found it had been severally neglected and the cat was then euthanized, police said. 

Taylor was arrested Wednesday on two warrants and charged with assault of an intellectually disabled person, risk of injury to a child and cruelty to animals. 

She was released on a $500 bond and is due in Derby Superior Court today. 

It’s not clear if Taylor has an attorney.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for any information leading to the identification of the two suspects involved in the kidnapping of Sherri Papini in Northern California last year.

The two suspects are described by the FBI as a Hispanic female, between 20 and 30 years old, approximately 5'5", with a medium build, coarse, curly, dark brown hair, thin eyebrows, and pierced ears, and the second suspect is described as a Hispanic female, between 40 and 50 years old, approximately 5'7", with a large build, long, straight black hair with some gray in it, thick eyebrows, and pierced ears.

They were reported to be driving a dark-colored SUV.

On Nov. 2, 2016, Papini dropped her children off at daycare in the morning and disappeared later while jogging about a mile from her home in Shasta County, about 215 miles north of San Francisco.

Her husband found her phone and earphones near their home after she failed to pick up the children at daycare, and he later called police. He was initially a suspect, but the Shasta County sheriff said Wednesday that the husband passed a lie detector test and offered to take another.

Papini was found Thanksgiving Day when she flagged down a car along Interstate 5 in Yolo County, about 100 miles from her home. Her nose was broken and she was wearing a chain restraint around her waist. Her blonde hair had been cut to shoulder length and she had a “brand” burned into her right shoulder.

Investigators declined to discuss the “brand” in detail. Papini has said she was not sexually assaulted and has described her abductors as two women who took her at gunpoint.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Brian Jackson said the sketches drawn by FBI artists are being released 10 months after her disappearance because of Papini’s difficulty in recalling what her abductors looked like.

Authorities produced the sketches of the suspects based on Papini’s limited recollections.

The FBI said in a statement Wednesday that it is working "in cooperation with the Shasta County Sheriff's Office" and "is asking for the public's assistance regarding Papini’s disappearance."

East Haven High School has been evacuated because of a bomb threat, according to East Haven Police. 

Police said the threat was left through a voicemail overnight. Police are checking the school with help from a dog as a precaution and expect classes to resume soon. 

Police said there is no need for parents to go to the school.

Fire destroyed a home on Eleventh Section Road in Hampton early Thursday morning and officials said they have been told one person was home, but it will be awhile before they can confirm that.

Hampton Fire Chief Noel Waite said a resident of another road heard banging and popping noises, looked out his window, saw the fire and called the fire department. 

The home at 33 Eleventh Section Road is destroyed after the two-story home was engulfed.

Firefighters said it was a challenge to get water to the scene because it is a rural area, but most of the fire has been knocked down.

The fire marshal has been called in to help with the investigation.

Check back for updates.

Branford High School was evacuated after a bomb threat was left on a voicemail and the school closed early on Thursday.

The superintendent's office reached out to police just before 9 a.m. about a message on an office phone at the high school that said an explosive device might be placed within the school facility. 

Police said the students and staff were taken to Walsh Intermediate School and students were picked up from the Walsh school. 

As a precaution, Branford High School closed early.

Police investigated and determined the school is safe. They are investigating to find out who made the call. 

East Haven High School was also evacuated after a bomb threat was made through a voicemail, but classes have resumed. 

Police said they do not know if the two incidents are connected, but Branford police said they will be in contact with East Haven police.

A Trump administration policy change could make the renewal process for H-1B visas more time consuming and complicated.

Those seeking to renew their H-1B visa, which allows skilled workers from outside of the country to work in the United States for a certain period of time, will now face the same level of requirements for a renewal as they did for their initial application, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Visa holders seeking renewal will need to have a job with a sponsoring company, copy of their passport, proof of degree with transcripts, and a letter of current and previous employment.

There is no longer a fast-track renewal process for the visa program, which grants roughly 65,000 visas every year.

San Francisco Bay Area companies such as Google and Apple depend on the H-1B visa program to acquire highly-skilled workers from out of the country.

President Donald Trump in April signed an order that asked the government to propose new rules and changes that would stop what he called abuses in the visa program used by U.S. technology companies. 

"We are going to defend our workers, protect our jobs and finally put America first," Trump declared at the time.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Hamden police are trying to identify a man who inappropriately touched a 20-year-old college student while driving her from New Haven to Hamden Saturday night. 

Police met with the victim at 11:50 p.m. Saturday and she said she and two friends left a New Haven bar at 10:30 p.m. and got into a light-colored, older model Chrysler or Dodge. While the man drove the group from New Haven to Hamden, he continuously touched the victim inappropriately, police said. 

The man appears to be around 45 years old. He is bald, 6-feet-1 and around 250 pounds. He was wearing glasses, police said. 

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Joseph Liguori at (203) 230-4040.

A group that wanted to bring a 45-foot statue of a naked woman to the National Mall was denied a permit because it would detract from historic monuments and could damage the turf, National Park Service (NPS) officials said.

"The proposed nearly 48-foot height of the statue introduces a visual element that would diminish the property’s significant historic features by altering the setting and historic character of the National Mall landscape," NPS spokesman Mike Litterst said in an email.

Organizers of Catharsis on the Mall wanted the R-Evolution statue to stand near the Washington Monument, facing the White House, for 91 days between November and March.

The permit was denied Wednesday, Litterst said.

Catharsis organizers claimed in a statement that NPS issued them a permit and then revoked it. 

NPS did not immediately respond to an inquiry about whether that claim was accurate. 

Catharsis spokeswoman Natalie White accused NPS of denying the permit to silence women.

"They don't want us to take action, they don't want us to say enough is enough, they don't want this symbol to remind women to stand up to the injustice this administration has forced upon them," she said in a statement.

The park service also denied a permit for a memorial temple to stand on the National Mall for 119 days, Litterst said.

The statue and temple "would likely cause significant damage to and require replacement of the underlying turf and soil," Litterst said.

Catharsis on the Mall was granted a permit for an event Nov. 10-12 and will be allowed to assemble 30 other temporary structures, Litterst said.

The arts festival was granted permission to light a fire on the Mall, Litterst said. This year will be the third year Catharsis on the Mall holds the ceremonial burning, Litterst said.

A crowdfunding campaign was launched in October to bring the statue, and reached 73 percent of its $90,000 goal before NPS announced the permit was denied.

The R-Evolution statute is intended to represent women free from domestic violence, artist and creator Marco Cochrane said.