Several dogs rescued from a home in Bridgeport have now been vaccinated and are ready for adoption from the City of Bridgeport Animal Control shelter.

“This has actually been an ongoing case that we’ve been trying to get enough evidence to get a warrant and get into the house,” Chief Animal Control Officer Jennifer Wallace said.

When officers final made entry into the home on Kent Street last Tuesday, the found 28 adult dogs, two one week old puppies and one cat in “extremely poor condition.”

“They had a variety of medical conditions,” Wallace said.

Some had patches of hair loss and red skin. Others suffered from nutrition deficiency and flea infestation.

“All over Connecticut you never know when these hoarding cases are going to happen,” Wallace said.

Now under Wallace’s care, the adorable small mix breed dogs and the cat are expected to make full recoveries both medically and behaviorally.

Nine of the 30 dogs have been vaccinated.

When asked about the animals' progress, Wallace was optimistic.

“The progress is small little bits,” she said, “but it’s astronomical for these guys. So when I talk about this dog didn’t look down the hallway seeking out attention before that might seem like a small thing, but this is an indicator that they are actively seeking out human attention.”

Animal Rescue organizations that want to help house the animals and assist while they are recovering are encouraged to call animal control at 203-576- 7727.

Police said they arrested the animal’s owner on an unrelated charge. She has also been charged with 31 counts of animal cruelty.

The Bridgeport Animal Control shelter is open for adoptions from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it is not cutting off food and water supplies to Puerto Rico despite reports that it intended to do so.

FEMA spokesman William Booher tells The Associated Press that the agency had been evaluating whether enough stores and supermarkets had reopened by Jan. 31 to justify ending distribution of food and water to municipal governments on the island. He says that decision had not actually been taken but officials mistakenly made the date public this week.

Booher says FEMA is in the process of winding down food and water distribution as stories and markets come back online, but will continue to distribute aid to needy towns for the foreseeable future.

An airman from Enfield gave his family a special surprise when he returned home and showed up for what they thought was just another day at school.

Barbara Claudio is a teacher at Enfield Montessori School. Her two-year-old daughter, Arianna, and six-year-old son are students here.

Barbara’s husband, Gustavo, is an airman who’s been deployed in Kuwait for the past six months. Today he surprised his family at a school assembly. They had no idea he was coming home.

“This was our first deployment as a family,” Barbara said. “So you know we didn’t know what we are going to go through. We just went with it, so I’m just so happy that he’s home. I can’t even think them enough. I’m just so happy right now I can’t even believe he’s here.”

“It was great,” said Gustavo Claudio. “I was nervous at first, my heart was beating really fast I was excited I was trying to hold back my tears.”

“Barb is a fabulous teacher and we love having her here, and we’ve just been so proud of how strong she’s been throughout this whole process, and how well she’s taken care of her children and the children here, said Cliona Beaulieu, head of the School. “So we wanted to do something special for her.”

The Claudios say they plan to spend time together and maybe take a vacation. Gustavo is also a Hartford firefighter. He has about a month of leave before he returns to work.

A New Fairfield father who garnered support from across the state during his fight to stay in the country has boarded a plane to Guatemala to comply with the terms of his deportation order, his attorney confirmed Wednesday.

Joel Colindres had been fighting deportation back to Guatemala for months. In August, he was granted a temporary stay. Right before Christmas, he found out he was to be sent home Jan. 31.

His attorney said that Colindres boarded a plane back to his native country of Guatemala on Wednesday, Jan. 31 to comply with the deportation order.

Supporters, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal, have rallied at multiple events in support of Colindres.

According to his attorney, Colindres, who entered the country more than a decade ago, missed a court hearing and that triggered the deportation notice. It’s now being enforced by the current administration.

“I’ve been asking for forgiveness for 14 years and it seems like they don’t care,” Colindres told NBC Connecticut in a previous interview.

Colindres is a father of a 6-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter and married to a US citizen.

“I’m here fighting, like my wife is, for my kids,” he said. “I think it’s about me, but more my family. My two American kids. they were born here, and they deserve to have their father here in the United States.”

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson released the following statement on Colindres’ case earlier this month:

“Joel Colinders-Guerra, an illegally present citizen of Guatemala, was issued a final order of removal by a federal immigration judge in 2004. Since then he has sought relief from removal via several court actions and has been denied each. He remains subject to a final order of removal. For operational security reasons, the agency does not discuss specific removal arrangements prior to an individual’s successful repatriation,” ICE officials said in a statement.

Seymour High School has banned student cell phone use, and officials say after just over a month they’re seeing positive results.

“Students are reporting that they're talking more with each other and they ever have before,” Principal Jim Freund said.

While it's written on the walls of Seymour High School for classmates to communicate, Freund says he’s changing the way they talk for the better.

“Instantly we noticed a change in the students in the cafeteria,” Freund said.

A month and half into a cell phone ban Freund says students are improving on interpersonal communication and focus in and outside the classroom.

“I didn't realize how much of a distraction it was after the policy happened,” Sukhman Singh said.

Students like Singh are now limited to screen time at a teacher’s direction and if using a classroom app. While Singh admits some students weren’t on board with the changes at first, they’re starting to see the benefits.

“In class it's a lot easier for the teacher to teach and for me to learn,” Singh said.

Freund says research shows that taking away cell phones is the equivalent of adding five extra days to the school year.

“During school time I would just block it,” Christi Sobin said.

Parents like Sobin say the cell phone ban prevents parents from forcing their kids not to use their phones during school hours. Jennifer Rizos says it will help them be kids again.

“You lose touch with humans and then people are going to forget how to interact with each other except through a computer,” Rizos said.

NBC Connecticut Meteorologists are tracking a few chances for wintry weather in the Exclusive Ten Day Forecast.

The first chance is this evening as an area of light snow showers moves into northwest Connecticut. Light snow will likely develop after 10 p.m. with a coating to an inch or two possible in the Litchfield Hills.

There's another chance for wintry precipitation by tomorrow night. Rain showers will likely develop late tomorrow afternoon before transitioning to snow showers from northwest to southeast Connecticut. 

Snow showers will continue into the early morning hours on Friday morning. This could result in travel issues for the morning commute. The good news is that we're not forecasting much in the way of accumulations with this system however we can't rule out a coating to an inch throughout the state.

We're also watching a more significant system for Super Bowl Sunday. Some of our computer models cut the storm to our west which would result in a brief period of snow before transitioning over to rain statewide.

We're keeping a close eye on this system. If the storm trends east it would result in more of a wintry forecast. 

A 15-year-old boy is dead after a shooting in Guilford Wednesday, according to Guilford police.

Police said they were called to 104 Seaside Avenue around 3:30 p.m. for a reported gunshot victim. There they found the 15-year-old victim. He was taken to the hospital where he died of his injuries. 

Police did not have details on the circumstances of the shooting, but said there were two teenagers in the home at the time.

The victim has not been publicly identified, but police said he was a freshman at Guilford High School. The school is putting together a crisis response team and will have counselors available at school Thursday, police said.

No other details were immediately available. NBC Connecticut has a crew on scene and will provide updates as they come into the newsroom.

There have been so many leaks in the New London Police Department building that officers are concerned about mold, air quality and the possibility of getting sick, according to the New London Police Union.

Every Band-Aid the city puts on the aging building gives out, according to Sgt. Chuck Flynn. The officers’ headquarters is used 365 days a year.

“Our main concern is for the safety and well-being of our members,” said Flynn, the vice president of the New London Police Union.

Rain has ravaged the shift commander’s office, putting holes in the ceiling and popping up paint.

Flynn, on behalf of the union, wrote a letter to the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (CONN-OSHA) detailing the issues and alleged that the water weakened the sheetrock in the ceiling, causing to fall on employees’ heads.

The union is concerned about potential mold and air quality.

Police Chief Peter Reichard is also very aware of the building’s problems.

“The last heavy rain with the driving winds, water was coming down like it was a waterfall right here. And it caused the drywall to come down,” Reichard said, pointing out an extremely damaged piece of ceiling in the Shift Commander’s office.

Garbage bags were put up to protect files from getting wet, and the shift commander’s office has since been temporarily moved.

Hearing the union’s concerns, the chief and New London Risk Manager Paul Gills contacted CONN-OSHA, too.

Connecticut Department of Labor Spokesperson Nancy Steffens confirmed the city was in touch with CONN-OSHA just before the union was, and requested a health and safety consultation. Steffens couldn’t give much information about the case since it is still open, but if CONN-OSHA does find any issues, the city will be required to fix them.

Gills said representatives from CONN-OSHA were in the police department Friday and Monday. Everyone is working toward the same common goal.

“We’re concerned about the health of our officers. The lieutenants and the sergeants work out of this office every day. If we have an unhealthy building, it can lead to medical issues with the officers,” Reichard said.

The police headquarters is three decades old. Reichard said the roof has been repaired several times. Recently, roofing was put over some windows to try and stop water from getting into the building.

Budget problems in New London are an issue, though. Gills said the police department should be at the top of the list for repairs.

“We’re going to have to obviously make some adjustments to our facilities budget and certainly make this a priority,” Gills said.

The shift commander’s office was scheduled for a renovation in this fiscal year along with the office next door to it, according to Reichard. The current problems might speed up the process, he added.

The department has been plagued by problems over the years. Gills said CONN-OSHA tested for air quality a few years back and the city had to clean the HVAC system and ductwork and rid it of mold.

In 2005, CONN-OSHA found mold during a renovation of the dispatch center, Gills added.

A New York woman stands accused of working with three other people to steal over $21,000-worth of jewelry from a Wilton jewelry store in October 2017.

Wilton police said 56-year-old Yolanda Santa was one of four people involved in a theft at the Campus Jewelers store at 5 River Road on Oct. 18, 2017. According to police, three of the suspects distracted the salespeople on duty while the fourth suspect stole items from behind the counter. The suspects then bought an item with cash before fleeing the store.

Santa was arrested by the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department as a fugitive from justice charge on Jan. 19. On Jan. 31 she was turned over to Wilton police. She faces charges of first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny.

Glastonbury police have arrested two people accused of breaking into at least six homes, and say the suspects used social media to pick their targets.

Police said 29-year-old Melissa Hafey and 33-year-old Daniel Taylor, both from Hartford, face larceny, criminal mischief and burglary charges. They also face two counts of firearm theft, indicating they stole two guns.

Snooping on random people is as easy as going on popular social media websites and searching for things like, “People who live in Glastonbury, Connecticut.”

“I don’t friend anyone,” said Glastonbury resident Ghada Gabriel. “[I try] to keep my media thing limited to friends and family and then if I’m away I never say, like, ‘I’m away.’”

Glastonbury police advise everyone do the same.

Be aware of privacy settings, and know that they can be changed.

Other potentially dangerous habits include publicly posting locations and revealing details of vacations in real-time, indicating when the house is empty.

As for Hafey and Taylor, they were both already incarcerated when they were arrested for these charges. They are being held on a $750,000 bond. 

A Hartford man was arrested while trying to steal a police officer’s car right from the police department parking lot, according to authorities.

The officer, who was at the police department at 253 High St. in Hartford, was having car battery issues and had started his car for a short time. When he went back to his car around 2:40 a.m. Thursday, he noticed it was moving slowly, so he ran to his car, thinking he might have left it in drive, but saw a stranger behind the wheel, police said.

Police immediately detained the person behind the wheel, identified as 19-year-old Christian Rodriguez, of Hartford. He has been charged with third-degree trespass, third-degree larceny and interfering with a police officer.

A man who threw a brick through a window at the Hartford police station early Thursday morning told police he threw it because he wanted to be arrested, according to police.

A 38-year-old walked into the front lobby of the police station at 253 High St. at 1:05 a.m. and threw a brick through the front Teleserve window, cracking it, according to police.

When officers took the man into custody, he saw he said he wanted to be arrested, police said.

He was charged with first-degree criminal mischief.

A tense interview with “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff was cut short Thursday on “Morning Joe” after host Mika Brzezinski pressed Wolff on his role in fueling rumors that President Donald Trump and Nikki Haley had an affair.

Brzezinski and her co-hosts asked Wolff if he regretted “inferring anything” in his book about Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Haley has rejected the insinuation, calling such speculation "disgusting" rumors. 

“I didn’t infer anything about Nikki Haley,” Wolff replied, adding that he only suggested “people around the president” believe he is involved with “various” women whom he did not identify.

The idea of a Trump-Haley affair stems from Wolff’s Jan. 19 appearance on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” where Wolff hinted that a big part of his story went unwritten — only because he didn’t have the “ultimate proof.”

“I didn’t have the blue dress,” Wolff told Maher, referring to the infamous White House liaison between former President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky. Though he couldn’t include the detail in his book, Wolff insisted he was personally “absolutely sure” of Trump’s current affair.

“You just have to read between the lines” to determine the woman’s identity, Wolff said, pointing “toward the end of the book.”

Readers were quick to follow Wolff’s clues on social media, zeroing in on lines that described Haley as being a “particular focus” of the president and spending “a notable amount of private time” on Air Force One.

The “Morning Joe” crew challenged Wolff on those connections, calling him “irresponsible” for going after Haley “without any evidence.”

Wolff held that he never specifically accused Haley of having an affair with Trump — which he never did. But he also didn’t deny the unsubstantiated storyline.

After Haley rejected the rumors and called them “disgusting” and “offensive,” Wolff insisted in a separate interview that the ambassador had “embraced” the alleged relationship.

“I’m going to go as far as to say that you might be having a fun time playing a little game dancing around this, but you’re slurring a woman and it’s disgraceful,” Brzezinski told Wolff on “Morning Joe.”

“[Haley] has been accused of nothing,” Wolff asserted again. “She has decided to deny what she has not been accused of. … Certainly, I didn’t accuse her of this.”

After a heated back-and-forth, Brzezinski interjected to relieve Wolff of his appearance on the show where she said people “don’t B.S.”

“You don’t get it, and you don’t get what we’re talking about. I’m sorry, this is awkward. You’re on the set with us, but you’re done,” Brzezinski concluded before hurrying the crew to a commercial break.

Wolff later took to Twitter to defend himself.

"My bad, the President is right about Mika," he wrote.

He did not specify what he meant, but Trump publicly insulted Brzezinski on Twitter back in June by criticizing her appearance. 

"To be invited on a show with the purpose of being thrown off...is the new television. In other words, I had to say what Mika wanted me to say, or else...the hook!" Wolff said.

Wolff again insisted Haley has been accused of nothing.

Brzezinski responded to Thursday's episode by sharing a tweet from CBS News correspondent Bianna Golodyga, who wrote that "personally attacking fellow journalists is not ok." 

"Thank you," Brzezinski wrote.

A representative for "Morning Joe" declined to comment. 

Tamiflu is a prescription medication that can ease flu symptoms and stop them from getting worse, and it's seen shortages this year amid a fierce outbreak that's killed at least 37 children.

But "Today" reports that a family in Indiana fears that Tamiflu's effects may have led to the suicide of 16-year-old Charlie Harp. A legal guardian of Harp's told NBC affiliate WTHR that he was happy until he got the flu.

Tamiflu has some rare side effects, including seizures, hallucinations and self-injury in children who take it. Both its manufacturer and the FDA advise that patients sick with influenza being treated with Tamiflu should be monitored "for signs of abnormal behavior."

But Tamiflu is also considered key in treating the flu in some people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that it be given to a range of people at risk of complications from the flu, including people under 2 years of age or over 65.

SUICIDE PREVENTION HELP: The National Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-273-8255) is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Dozens of school districts across the state have experienced a high number of cancellations because of the weather, and they are already planning how they’re going to make up for that missed time. Schools in eastern Connecticut, primarily, were the most impacted, and the call to cancel school can take a toll on parents.

“If you don’t go to work, your boss is mad at you, even though you’ve got kids and have to stay home because of a snow day,” Pete Manoogian said while taking his children to Mary Fisher Elementary in Thompson. “It’s rough. We have it easy because their mom’s home all the time.”

So far this academic year, Thompson, Pomfret and Woodstock Academy have cancelled seven school days. Ashford, Killingly and Putnam have cancelled six.

School leaders in Thompson, Pomfret, Putnam and at Woodstock Academy are planning to take away a vacation day on Feb. 20, as well as staying in session during a professional development day on March 9 - except Putnam. Thompson and Pomfret are also making half-days, full.

Jenn Tetreault, who was also dropping off her daughter at Mary Fisher Elementary, doesn’t mind the changes.

“They were going to be half-days, so it’s OK. It’s just a few extra hours,” Tetreault said.

The changes aren’t enough to make up the difference. Each school district will also have to add days at the end of the year.

The problem of cancellations began earlier than the snow this winter. Severe weather and wind in October brought several trees down onto power lines, forcing the schools to close for several days.

Thompson’s superintendent of schools said the goal is to make up missed days without dipping into April break or the summer.

Mari-Beth Paquette, a parent, agrees.

“It think it’s totally fine. It’s better than them dragging it out into the summer,” she said.

Farmington Avenue and Whitney Street in Hartford are closed as emergency crews investigate a gas leak.

Police are urging people to avoid the area and said some access is limited, but the Noah Webster School is not affected.

The lawyer for disgraced Olympic doctor Larry Nassar said Thursday that "a huge part" of her does not believe everyone who testified against him was molested, NBC News reported.

Defense attorney Shannon Smith suggested in an interview with a Detroit radio station that some of the 150 women and girls who gave statements against Nassar actually received legitimate medical treatment and that she has "a very hard time believing" Nassar could have assault "that many people."

"While there may be some that were victimized ... there are others that have come to believe they were victimized because of the way the case, in a way, spun out of control," she said. "There were girls who had perfectly normal lives that never questioned the medical treatment done by Larry Nassar — and there is a legitimate medical treatment that involves touching sensitive areas and even penetrations."

John Manly, the victims' lawyer, told NBC News that Smith's spin was a belated attempt to minimize the damage done by Nassar after the public statements by his former patients — including Olympic gymnasts — captured the nation's attention.

Two 15-year-old students were hospitalized and a 12-year-old student was taken into custody after shots were fired inside a middle school classroom Thursday morning at a campus northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Police responded to the report of shots fired at the campus of Belmont High School and Sal Castro Middle School, located in Los Angeles' Westlake District. 

The victims, a boy and girl, are both 15 years old, police said. The boy was hospitalized in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head, fire officials said. His condition was later upgraded to serious, but stable.

The girl was in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the wrist, according to the fire department.

"It was a very traumatic experience for students inside that classroom," said Steve Zipperman, chief of LA School Police.

It was not immediately clear how many students were in the classroom at the time of the shooting. Some students ran from the classroom as the gunfire started, police said.

Aerial video showed officers escorting a female student in handcuffs from the campus, but authorities did not immediately confirm she was the 12-year-old individual detained as the shooting suspect. Authorities also recovered the weapon used in the shooting. 

"There is no more safety threat," said Zipperman, who said no motive had been determined early Thursday afternoon. "One of the main missions we will have is the issue of finding out how a young person had access to a weapon. I assure you, if it came from an adult in a home that the proper prosecutorial procedure will occur."

Three other individuals suffered non-gunshot injuries, such as minor scrapes.

Several students were taken out of classrooms and searched by police during the campus lockdown. Anxious parents waited on nearby street corners for updates. 

Gloria Echeverria was waiting outside a line of police tape preventing people from approaching the school, waiting for news about her 13-year-old son.

"I'm just hoping it has nothing to do with him," she said. "I'm just scared for all the kids -- school is supposed to be a safe place for them, and apparently it's not."

The father of a 12-year-old student said he came to the school after learning about the shooting.

"You can't process it," he said. "It's my son and everybody else's kids in that school."

Classes will continue for the rest of the school day, Los Angeles Unified School District officials said.

Sal Castro Middle School is on the Belmont High School campus, located in one of Los Angeles' most densely populated communities. About 365 students attend grades 6-8 on the campus.

School police asked parents to call an information hotline at 213-241-1000.

An employee of a Glastonbury daycare who was accused of hitting several 2-year-old children at the daycare will serve a year and eight months in prison.

Nicole Mayo, 24, of Wethersfield, was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison, suspended after 20 months.

Police started investigating in December when the state Department of Children and Families reached out to them about alleged child abuse at the Stork Club, at 583 New London Turnpike.

Mayo was is accused of hitting, restraining and roughly handling 2-year-olds at the daycare over the last year, police said.

She was charged with three counts of risk of injury to a minor and disorderly conduct. She entered and Alford plea.

In court Thursday, Mayo spoke briefly and cried.

The investigation also led to the arrest of Meegan Beach, the director at the Stork Club. Police said Beach failed to report Mayo's suspected abuse. By law, daycare providers must report cases of suspected child abuse to the proper authorities. 

After serving the sentence, Mayo will be on probation for five years, where she will have to do 50 hours of volunteering for every year of probation. 

She will not be allowed to work or volunteer with children under the age of 16 and she cannot work with the elderly.

All 30 Major League Baseball stadiums will have extended netting along the foul lines for Opening Day this season, the league announced Thursday.

“Providing baseball fans with a variety of seating options when they come to the ballpark, including seats behind protective netting, is important,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “Clubs are constantly evaluating the coverage and design of their ballpark netting and I am pleased that they are providing fans an increased inventory of protected seats.”

Extended netting will be in place to at least the far ends of all dugouts throughout the league, including Wrigley Field and Guaranteed Rate Field, after a series of high-profile injuries caused by flying bats and baseballs at big league stadiums.

The conversation picked up steam after a highly-publicized incident at Yankee Stadium last season, when a foul ball line drive off the bat of New York Yankees infielder Todd Frazier struck a young fan, leaving her seriously injured.

The decision to extend netting is similar to the reaction of the NHL after a young girl was struck and killed by a flying puck in 2002. The league mandated that teams place netting behind each goal after the incident, which occurred at a Columbus Blue Jackets game.