The remains of two victims have been recovered from a burned out senior living community in West Chester Tuesday, five days after a massive fire broke out, officials said.

Special agents with the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team, Pennsylvania State Police, and Chester County Fire Marshal’s office located the remains of the first victim inside the Barclay Friends Senior Center Tuesday morning. The second was found Tuesday afternoon.

With two found, two more people living at the senior community ravaged by a five-alarm inferno last week are still presumed dead. 

Family members of all four victims had been notified, but the identities of those who were found was not released, officials said.

“The thoughts and prayers of the men and women of ATF are with the families of the victims during this difficult time. Their losses only strengthen our resolve to provide answers to them as a result of our investigation of this tragedy” said Special Agent in Charge Donald Robinson. 

Robinson is spearheading a team of more than 60 investigators. 

Investigators continued to sift through the rubble of the Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in an attempt to recover the rest of the remains.

A large crane and other excavating equipment was brought to the fire location as investigators also search for a cause of the fire.

The fire erupted shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday while most of the 137 residents were sleeping. The blaze started in the back of one of the buildings, ripped through the center and all the way to the ceiling, creating a "raging inferno," Hogan said.

Flames tore through the senior living community's personal care wing with such speed that hundreds of first responders rushed into the building without securing their breathing equipment.

Several firefighters described their helmets melting and cracking from the intense heat.

Most of the residents were bedridden or in wheelchairs. Senior home staff and outside neighbors rushed from room to room in the facility, wrapping residents in blankets and sweeping them out in to the frigid night in wheelchairs and even in beds.

One of the elderly women rescued is the Robinson's aunt. She is safe with relatives, but Robinson said it's a reminder of how many community members were touched by the fire.

“We’ve all got a piece of this,” he said. “We’re depending on each other and we will be here as long it takes to get some answers for the families."

Paramedics took 27 residents to nearby hospitals for treatment. Some of the injuries were described by authorities as "serious." Six residents are still hospitalized as of Tuesday night, authorities said.

Of those that were rescued without injury, 102 have been placed in other facilities and 31 have been taken in by family members.

The cause of the fire remains unclear. ATF investigators made attempts through the weekend to enter the destroyed wing, but their efforts were hampered by unsafe conditions and high winds Sunday.

Parts of the complex burned for more than 24 hours and unstable walls teetered over the scene.

Last year, state health officials cited Barclay Friends and its owner Kendal with fire safety violations, including a failure to maintain corridor smoke doors. The violations were recorded in the facility's nursing home section, which was not touched by fire.

A provisional license status for the nursing home was lifted in February following a new inspection, but at least one fire safety violation remained, state records showed.

Budget cuts mean your chances of beating a traffic ticket in Connecticut are a lot better this year.

Nearly two-thirds of Connecticut traffic tickets were nolled in 2017, according to the Connecticut Judicial Branch. When a ticket is nolled, it means the state does not prosecute the offender.

The number of nolled tickets jumped to roughly 64-percent in 2017, up from about 50-percent in previous years.

Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane said budget cuts placed on his division in May 2016 are the reason.

Kane had to choose between cutting full-time prosecutors who handle major criminal cases or cutting a 12-person team that handled motor vehicle cases. That team included 10 entry level, per diem prosecutors who worked fewer than 40 hours per week, for $125 per day with no benefits.

The full-time prosecutors now carry the load of motor vehicle cases.

“Brian Preleski, the state's attorney in New Britain for instance, I remember calling him one morning he handled the infraction docket in the morning and then at two o’clock in the afternoon he handled a serial murder," Kane said.

Greg Goodstein was one of the per diem state prosecutors let go due to the budget cuts. He now defends drivers in motor vehicle cases at the same courthouse.

“There's maybe, I would if I were to guess, I'd say between 80 and 100 tickets being adjudicated on a Friday morning now as opposed to 400 or 500,” Goodstein said.

He said some police officers are discouraged by the changes and wonder why they even still write tickets.

“The officers that I know are very diligent and they take their job very seriously and they take public safety very seriously. So I don't know that they've actually stopped writing as many tickets as they did, but sure it's, you know, several of have made the comment 'why bother?”’

The group that represents local police chiefs did not want to comment on the ticket data, but the Connecticut State Police released a statement:

"The Connecticut State Police are committed to reducing the frequency and severity of traffic accidents through the use of proactive traffic enforcement targeting a range of traffic violations including impaired, reckless and distracted drivers. Each of the agencies in the justice system does their best. Troopers will remain steadfast in their efforts to ensure the safety of Connecticut’s highways and secondary roadways.”

Cities, towns and the State of Connecticut stand to lose money with the drop in prosecutions of motor vehicle violations.

Per diem prosecutors on motor vehicle cases cost the state roughly $350,000 per year. Without them, traffic ticket revenue dropped almost $3 million in fiscal 2017, according to Judicial Branch data.

State lawmakers told the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters they would be open to making some changes so that the state doesn't leave millions in traffic ticket money on the table.

“I’m positive that my colleagues would be willing to look at this and see what we could do to address this situation,” said Cathy Osten, Democratic co-chair of the state legislature's Appropriations Committee.

Republican President Pro-Tem, Sen. Len Fasano, had a similar response.

“If there’s an argument that could be made that for a small investment there’s a greater return for the state, certainly I’m willing to listen to that argument,” Fasano said.

The Chief State’s Attorney’s office recently found money to bring back five per diem prosecutors. The state has also started a pilot program to pre-screen traffic tickets that could help, but Kevin Kane said that alone won’t solve the problem.

A Dallas bar owner is trying to figure out what to do with Lee Harvey Oswald's original grave marker, 54 years after Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.

"It's in excellent condition," said David Card, owner of Poor David's Pub on Lamar Street.

Card, 77, showed off the marker, which was tucked in an electrical room in the back of his bar.

"What do I have here?" he asked. "I have here the headstone, the original headstone of the most famous assassin in the history of Western civilization."

It weighs 130 pounds and includes Oswald's name with the dates of his birth and death and a cross at the bottom surrounded by a flowery design. Oswald was killed on Nov. 24, 1963, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.

If grave stones could talk, this one would tell quite a story.

It sat for four years on top of Oswald's grave in a Fort Worth cemetery before it was stolen by two Oklahoma teenagers. Police later found it and returned it to Oswald's mother, who replaced the headstone with a much simpler marker.

She hid the original in the crawl space beneath her house on Byers Street in Fort Worth.

After she died in 1981, Card's mother bought the house.

A repairman later did some work under the home.

"And he came out and he says, 'There's a tombstone under here!'" Card remembered.

Years later, a relative sold it to a small Illinois museum.

Card said the relative didn't have permission to sell it, and he sued to get it back.

The lawsuit dragged on more than four years. Card won, but legal fees cost him more than $100,000, he said.

Card wants a museum to buy the marker so the public can see it.

"It should be permanently displayed somewhere forever," he said.

The catch? He wants to be reimbursed for the legal fees.

But for now, Card has no takers, and he says he's not sure what to do with the stone.

He said he prefers not to sell it to a collector.

"I mean, it's too meaningful," he said.

After his interview with NBC 5, Card moved the marker to a secret location so it wouldn't be stolen.

A man held captive in a North Korean prison in 2010 and freed with the help of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died in San Diego over the weekend after being found ablaze in a field.

Aijalon M. Gomes, 38, had recently relocated to San Diego from Boston. On Friday night, around 11:30 p.m., an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer was driving westbound on Pacific Highway near SeaWorld Drive when he spotted a man on fire in a field adjacent to the roadway.

That man has now been identified by investigators as Gomes.

The officer stopped to try to help Gomes while crews from the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) arrived. Gomes' injuries were too severe and firefighters pronounced him dead at the scene.

At first, investigators did not know how or why he had been on fire, so they deemed Gomes’ death suspicious and the San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team (MAST) looked into the case. SDPD’s Homicide Unit also aided in the preliminary investigation.

On Tuesday, police said the preliminary investigation indicates Gomes’ death was not a homicide but rather possibly an accidental death or suicide. His manner and cause of death will not be confirmed until the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office completes its investigation and files a report.

NBC 7 spoke with Gomes' mother, Jacqueline McCarthy, who said her son had just moved to San Diego. She also confirmed his ordeal in North Korea.

"My son was a very good human being," she said. "He loved people. He loved his family."

McCarthy is asking for privacy and said she plans to set up an online fundraising page to help cover the costs of her son's funeral.

According to NBC News, Gomes was imprisoned and sentenced to eight years of hard labor in North Korea on Jan. 25, 2010, after he crossed into North Korea from China for unknown reasons. Gomes had been teaching English in South Korea at the time of his arrest.

That year, Carter flew to the country to negotiate Gomes’ freedom. North Korea agreed to free him if Carter went to get him. He was ultimately released to Carter and able to return home to his family in Boston.

NBC News at the time reported that Gomes had grown up in the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan. He graduated high school in 1997 and went on to attend Bowdoin College in Maine before moving to South Korea to teach English several years after graduating.

The investigation into his death in San Diego is ongoing. Anyone with information on this case can reach out to the SDPD’s Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

A drunken driver hit two pedestrians and a parked car in Norwalk early this morning and both people who were struck have serious injuries, according to police.

The pedestrians were on West Avenue when the driver hit them at 1:07 p.m. and they were transported to Norwalk Hospital. Police have identified the suspected driver as 31-year-old Walter Veliz, of Norwalk, who does not have a driver’s license.

Police said his blood-alcohol level was .1852, which is more than twice the legal limit. He was not injured.

Veliz was charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a motor vehicle, driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, reckless driving and operating without a license. Bond was set at $75,000.

Anyone who witnessed the crash should call Officer Wasilewski at 203-854-3035.

Two men have died after the car they were traveling in crashed into a utility pole and a home in Waterbury early Wednesday. Police said they were in a dispute with other people just before the crash and one of the men had been shot.

Police said a car hit a pole, then a home in the 500 block of Wolcott Street around 12:15 a.m.

Officers found two Waterbury men, a 22-year-old Clarence Lewis and 20-year-old Antonio Santos, in the car and they were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said weapons were involved in the dispute before the crash and Lewis had been shot. 

One handgun was found inside the car, according to police.

The crash caused power outages and a gas leak in the area.

“Our investigation has revealed that just prior to this accident, there was a dispute in the general area, about the 900 block of Wolcott Street, between the two victims in that car and some unidentified parties at this time,” Waterbury Deputy Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo said. “We are still working those leads right now and hoping to have some more information later on. We have called in the Connecticut State Police Forensics Team to assist us with processing the scene.”

This is at least the second fatal crash at this intersection. In 2015, a 15-year-old girl was killed and a 13-year-old boy was injured in a crash at Wolcott Street and Dallas Avenue.

The cause of the crash this morning and the names of the victims have not yet been released.

The spotlight was already on a lack of accountability in how Congress handles sexual harassment claims when a newly reported accusation against Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., raised more questions Tuesday, NBC News reported.

The settlement reached between Conyers and a former staffer from his office came outside the scope of Capitol Hill's official reporting mechanism, using taxpayer dollars from the congressman's discretionary fund. It's now under a House Ethics Committee investigation.

Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has been pushing to reform the Office of Compliance's harassment reporting system and said Conyers' way of reporting provides even less oversight.

Speier and other members of Congress have introduced a bill, the Me Too Congress Act, which would give victims more rights through the process. But it wouldn't apply to cases like Conyers'.

More than 350 firearms have been lost or stolen from local and federal police agencies headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area since 2011, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team.

In many cases, the firearms have not yet been recovered.

A compilation of police records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveals a series stolen or lost firearms at large and small police agencies. At least 35 of them were taken or lost from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., since 2011. Twenty-eight others were lost or stolen from Prince George’s County Police. Ten were reported missing or stolen from Alexandria police, while eight were lost or stolen from Virginia State Police during the time period.

In a rising number of cases, the firearms were stolen from police vehicles. Six of the seven firearms taken from Fairfax County Police were listed as taken from cruisers or officers’ personal vehicles. A firearm stolen from the car of an off-duty Rockville police officer was later seized from a teenager on campus at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, according to police reports.

The teenager from whom the firearm was seized is facing federal criminal charges.

Firearms experts with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said thieves often steal firearms from vehicles from both private citizens and law enforcement.

“Individuals who are known to posses firearms legally become targets,” ATF investigator Kevin O’Keefe said.

Some high-profile thefts have yet to be solved. FBI agents told the I-Team they have not yet located a pair of agency firearms and other tactical gear stolen from the vehicle of a D.C. field office employee in summer 2016.

Calvert County Sheriff’s officials said they have not determined the rightful owner of a cache of stolen police weapons found in the possession of a man they arrested in March.

Rockville Police, from whom two guns were stolen in April, said they have recently stiffened their policies to prevent future thefts. Acting Police Chief Robert Rappoport said officers must now store firearms in a locked case when keeping those guns in a vehicle trunk. “It'll add another level of security to the weapons," he said. "If a vehicle's trunk is compromised, there's one extra level to ensure the weapon can't be removed from the trunk."

A review of reports from federal inspectors general shows federal agencies also lost guns by the dozens in recent years. An October 2017 report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General said federal homeland security agents lost at least 228 firearms since 2014.

“Personnel did not follow policy or used poor judgment when safeguarding these assets,” the report said.

In a formal response to the report, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it would offer additional training to staff to reduce the risk of future gun thefts or losses.

Reported by Scott MacFarlane, produced by Rick Yarborough, and shot and edited by Jeff Piper.

A man accused of committing a robbery and exchanging gunfire with an off-duty police officer outside EbLens in Bridgeport on Nov. 16 is also suspected in a robbery and shooting at BAR in Stratford a couple days earlier and a warrant has been issued for him, according to police. 

Jachin Brown, 27, was arrested after an off-duty Bridgeport police officer working a construction job on Nov. 16 noticed a masked man leaving EbLens at Pequonnock and Chestnut streets. Police said the officer followed the man and Brown fired a gun at the officer, police said. Bridgeport police shot back, but no one was hit.

Two employees were inside EbLens at the time of the robbery and police said Brown grabbed one of the women and dragged her by the hair while holding her at gunpoint, demanding money. He made off with $1,900 in cash, which police recovered.

At the time of the arrest, Stratford police said they were sending detectives to Bridgeport to speak with Brown about the shooting of a bartender at Bar Tuesday night, based on what Bridgeport police told them.

Stratford police have now issued a warrant for his arrest. Brown is in Bridgeport police custody. 

Police are urging people to stay away from the area of Sackett Point Road at Universal Drive North in North Haven. A railroad construction vehicle took down power lines and traffic lights have been affected. 

Police said people are trapped in the vehicle and a widespread power outage that is affecting the center of town and the Montowese section.

There are more than 1,700 power outages in North Haven, according to United Illuminating.

A 911 outage is affecting some towns in Connecticut, including New Britain, South Windsor and Vernon.

South Windsor police are reporting an area-wide outage of the 911 system.

South Windsor residents with a fire emergency can call 860-644-2441. Anyone who needs help from police or EMS should call 860-644-2551.

Vernon police said the routine line at 860-872-9126 is working.

New Britain police are urging anyone who needs to reach police to call 860-826-3000.

Rocky Hill was affected, but police said the lines are up and running.

No additional information was immediately available.

A family member of a Hartford police officer has been arrested and charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash in the city in September that killed a woman and police said an internal affairs investigation is underway as well. 

Nathen Negron is accused of driving the car that hit 58-year-old Cynthia James, of Hartford, around 2 a.m. on Saturday, September 16, and fleeing the scene, according to police. 

Police officers responded to Hudson and Park streets that morning and began treating James, who was later pronounced dead at Hartford Hospital at 2:54 a.m. The medical examiner determined that she died of blunt injury to the head and torso and ruled her death an accident, according to the court documents. 

As officers investigated, they learned that a dark-colored vehicle hit James and fled, going north on Hudson Street, police said. 

They obtained video footage from the city’s camera system, as well as private systems, which showed James cross Hudson Street in a crosswalk under a “Do Not Walk” sign and almost get hit by an SUV that was going south on Hudson Street as she crossed, police said. 

As James continued to cross the street a dark-colored car going north on Hudson Street hit her, throwing her nearly 50 feet, according to police. 

Police said vehicles traveling on Hudson Street had a green light at the time and video showed the suspect’s brake lights go on before fleeing from the scene. 

The Hartford State’s Attorney was notified about the crash at 5 a.m. 

Hours later, around 9:30 a.m., an off-duty Hartford police officer contacted the supervisor of the Hartford Police Department’s major crimes division and said Negron, his half-brother, was driving the car that was involved in the crash, police said. 

A little more than an hour later, police responded to Negron’s parents’ home in Hartford and detectives met with Negron there. The owner of the car also arrived at the house in the car, which was damaged and had blood in the shattered glass, according to police. 

Police said Negron's girlfriend owns the car and was the front seat passenger at the time of the crash. She and Negron both met with police. 

Negron told police he has been at Matty D’s bar Friday night for the grand opening but did not drink because he was tired and wanted to go home, according to an arrest warrant application. 

Part of the investigation also included obtaining additional video evidence from within the bar, which police said showed Negron drinking what appeared to be a mixed drink.

When police spoke with Negron's half-brother, the police officer, he told investigators he bought Negron a Tito's vodka and tonic and saw Negon drinking water after that. 

Detectives from the Crime Scene Division interviewed the Hartford police officer who contacted authorities about his half-brother’s involvement. Based on evidence and the officer’s details about his involvement in the aftermath of the fatal crash police launched an internal administrative investigation, which is ongoing, police said. 

In an interview with police, Negron admitted to hitting a woman and fleeing the scene and he told officers he was scared and did not know what to do, so he went home, according to the arrest warrant application. 

He has been charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, evading responsibility with death and false statement. Bond was set at $100,000 bond. 

He turned himself in to police at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Police said the investigation is ongoing and more charges are possible. 

Federal help is on the way for Connecticut residents whose home foundations have been damaged in the crumbling concrete foundation crisis. They will be able to deduct the cost of repairs from taxes, federal officials said.

U.S. Representatives Joe Courtney and John Larson made the announcement this morning about federal tax relief for Connecticut homeowners who face significant costs to repair or replace a home foundation. 

Under current federal tax law, taxpayers are allowed to deduct a casualty loss from their income if they have suffered a sudden loss, the Congress members said. 

The IRS has assistance for homeowners affected by corrosive Chinese drywall in 2010 and Courtney and Larson have been seeking guidance from the IRS to allow a casualty deduction connected to longer-term damage from crumbling home foundations. 

READ THE DETAILS HERE.

They said they met with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in September to discuss their proposal and have been working with officials from Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service on it since. 

After the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters spent years focusing on the crumbling concrete issue, the state passed a budget with tens of millions in grants for those affected.

The problem has been traced to a naturally occurring mineral in concrete poured in this area of Connecticut from 1983 through as recently as 2013.

In September, state officials said 570 homeowners have filed complaints and said they have this problem. 

Most insurance companies are not covering the issue.

A Meriden father of three who has sought sanctuary in a New Haven church to avoid deportation to Ecuador will be able to go home on Thanksgiving, according to his attorney and Sen. Richard Blumenthal. They said he has a temporary reprieve from deportation.

Marco Reyes, who has lived in the United States for 20 years, reported to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in July as scheduled and was told he would have to leave behind the life he built in Meriden and head back to Ecuador by Aug. 8.

Instead of leaving the country, Reyes defied a deportation order and sought sanctuary at the First and Summerfield United Methodist Church across from the New Haven Green.

Blumenthal went to the church on Wednesday morning to meet with advocates and deliver pies to Reyes, who had plans to spend Thanksgiving in sanctuary at the church.

On Wednesday afternoon, Reyes' attorney said he will be able to go home for a temporary, undefined amount of time.

Reyes has lived in Connecticut with his wife and children since 1997 and the problem arose in 2007 when the family was vacationing and accidentally crossed into Canada.

Federal immigration authorities apprehended Marco Reyes as they tried to return.

Supporters said Marco has been checking in with ICE since 2016.

ICE released a statement in October about Reyes’ case

“On Aug. 8, Marco Reyes-Alvarez, a citizen of Ecuador illegally present in the United States, was scheduled to meet ICE deportation officers with the agency’s Hartford, Connecticut office, to verify his compliance with a removal order issued by a federal immigration judge in 2009. Reyes failed to appear and has since taken refuge in a church in New Haven, indicating he does not intend to comply with the court’s order. Reyes is now considered an ICE fugitive and will be arrested and detained when encountered. At which time, ICE will remove him from the United States,” the statement says.

According to ICE, Reyes in 2010 filed petitions to reopen his case and requested a stay of removal from the Board of Immigration Appeals and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Both were ultimately denied.

He requested another stay of removal from ICE in 2016, which was granted while he pursued additional legal options in his case.

The statement goes on to say:

“After he exhausted those options, ICE notified him that the agency planned to carry out his removal order. In late 2017, he again petitioned the Board of Immigration Appeals to reopen his case and requested another stay of removal. The Board of Immigration Appeals denied the stay of removal, allowing ICE to proceed with the case.

“On May 5, 2017, ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan notified the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees that ICE will no longer automatically grant a stay of removal for an alien based on private immigration bills introduced by Members of Congress — unless the Chair of the full Committee or Subcommittee makes a written request to ICE to stay the alien’s removal. This policy became effective May 5, 2017. Those aliens for whom an investigative report had been requested prior to May 5, 2017, will be processed under the old policy and granted an automatic stay of removal until March 15, 2019. Formal correspondence documenting this update is forthcoming. ICE is currently working to fulfill all requests for investigative reports received in conjunction with private immigration relief legislation introduced in the 115th Congress. This “grandfathering” of the private immigration bill policy affects 30 aliens whose private bills were processed before May 5.

“A federal immigration judge’s orders cannot be ignored. ICE and the courts can delay acting on an order to ensure all applicable legal processes and possible benefits are followed and/or reviewed, which occurred in this case. However, after these legal options are exhausted, ICE must still carry out the judge’s order in the absence of any other mitigating factors.”

A mother of two who defied a deportation order on Monday has been granted a stay of deportation.

A Hartford judge granted the stay for Miriam Martinez-Lemus on Wednesday afternoon, according to Catalina Horak, an advocate working on Martinez-Lemus's behalf.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal also confirmed the stay was granted.

Martinez-Lemus was ordered to leave the U.S. for her native Guatemala by 3 p.m. on Monday. She was denied a stay of deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement but decided not to get on a plane and instead returned to her home in Stamford.

Martinez-Lemus has two daughters, ages 12 and 10. Her oldest daughter suffers from Type-1 diabetes and an attorney for Martinez-Lemus said care for the girl requires two parents.

Both of her children are American citizens.

A native of Guatemala, Martinez-Lemus left the country and sought asylum in the U.S. in 1992 after political unrest in the country in the 1970s and 1980s.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a statement about the case on Monday.

“Miriam Martinez-Lemus is (a)citizen of Guatemala. A federal immigration judge granted her voluntary departure in 2002, but she failed to leave the U.S. as instructed and that order automatically changed to a final order of removal.

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney unleashed an insult-laden tirade against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, denouncing the Trump administration's decision to end protections for Haitians and other immigrants living in the United States.

"There is no compassion whatsoever in the White House. I'm just beside myself with sadness because our president is a bully, our president is a punk, and he just doesn't get it."

"I don't know where he was raised, but his family didn't do a good job raising that guy," Kenney said. (You can watch a portion of Kenney's comments on Trump above or the full set below.)

Kenney made the remarks after calling on the Trump Administration to reverse recent decisions to end Temporary Protective Status for Haitians, Sudanese, and Nicaraguans. Hondurans are still awaiting a decision on their status.

Often abbreviated as TPS, the program was created in 1990 and currently allows for 435,000 people from nine countries affected by natural disasters or war to live and work in the United States.

On Monday, nearly 60,000 Haitians were notified they must leave the U.S. by July 2019. All moved to the U.S. to escape devastation left behind by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in 2010. Seven years later, the Carribean nation is still struggling to rebuild, but the Department of Homeland Security said conditions have improved enough to send people back.

"Could you imagine if they ended TPS for the Irish when we came here in the 1840s? Sent us all back to starve in our home country?" Kenney, an Irish-American, said while flanked by Haitians and immigration advocates.

Kenney said the decisions are "simply un-American." He said deporting these immigrants will be a detrement to the local economy. The mayor also questioned what would happen to TPS immigrant children, who were born in the U.S. and thus are citizens.

"This country used to be a country of compassion and empathy and it is now a country of anger and divisiveness and Donald Trump is the reason why we've gotten where we are," Kenney said adding that Trump should "get out" of the U.S.

NBC10 has reached out to the White House for comment.

You can watch Kenney's full comments below:

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U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas, 6th District) apologized a day before Thanksgiving for a sexually explicit photo of him being shared on social media.

Barton's acknowledgment of the photo was first reported by The Texas Tribune.

"You're as aware of what was posted as I am," Barton, 68, told the Tribune Tuesday night.

How the photo got online isn't clear. Representatives for Barton released the following statement regarding the anonymous tweet Wednesday afternoon: "While separated from my second wife, prior to the divorce, I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women. Each was consensual. Those relationships have ended. I am sorry I did not use better judgment during those days. I am sorry that I let my constituents down. - Joe Barton"

Barton, who was last elected in 2016 and is the longest-serving Congress member from Texas, had announced he was running for re-election in 2019 and hoped to secure his twelfth term in the House

He told the Texas Tribune Tuesday that he was considering his future in light of the leaked photo.

"I am talking to a number of people, all of whom I have faith in, and am deciding how to respond, quite frankly," Barton said.

American Airlines will soon offer jet service at Tweed-New Haven Airport starting next week. 

American Eagle will begin replacing its 37-seat Dash 8 turboprop service with 50-seat CRJ-200 regional jet aircraft on Nov. 29. 

"We are thrilled that American will be introducing jet service at Tweed-New Haven," Airport Executive Director Tim Larson said. "This upgraded service represents an improved and more seamless passenger experience for our customers and is a demonstration of American’s commitment to our growing market."

The airport said American Airline's jet service will connect New Haven passengers to more than 21 countries and 115 destinations with a one-stop connection in Philadelphia, the airlines global hub. 

"With the new jet service offering more people access to flights and an improved flying experience, Tweed has become a stronger asset and a more convenient option for New Haven and surrounding towns. This is a significant economic win for the region, which can only benefit from the increase in people coming and going," New Haven Mayor Toni N. Harp said.

American Airlines recently announced new summer seasonal service from Philadelphia to Prague, Czech Republic and Budapest, Hungary, as well as service to Zurich, Switzerland. New Haven passengers can also access four new domestic markets via Philadelphia including Des Moines, Iowa; Madison, Wisconsin; Omaha, Nebraska and San Antonio, Eexas.

A homeless man who returned a $10,000 check to a New Haven business owner got a life-changing surprise.

Elmer Alvarez doesn’t have much, but he said he never doubted returning the $10,000 check he found was the right thing to do.

"What I did, finding that check and returning it, I would do it all over again," he said.

Realtor Roberta Hoskie dropped it on the streets of New Haven.

After she got it back and learned Alvarez was homeless, she took to Facebook to thank him in a video that got thousands of views.

Hoskie said she was once homeless herself and she’s paying it forward. She’s giving Alvarez a scholarship to real estate school, career counseling and a job interview.

"In this packet, I have full ride services and training for you to learn English as a second language," Hoskie said.

Her last gift to Alvarez moved him to tears.

"This winter you don’t have to worry about being in cold," Hoskie said. "We have housing for you."

These two acts of kindness are changing lives.

"I want to say thank you and he makes everything possible you know," Alvarez said.

Hoskie said she’s doing this all under one condition. Once Alvarez gets on his feet she wants him to pay it forward and help others.