Human remains were found in a wooded area in Canton on Sunday.

Police were called to a wooded area near Red Fox Run trail just past 2 p.m.

Officers who arrived found the body of a person who had been dead for a significant time, according to police.

The State Police Western District Major Crime Squad was called in to assist.

The cause and manner of death will be determined by the state medical examiner, police said.

There is no threat to the public, according to police.

A downed tree has closed part of Route 44 in West Hartford on Monday morning.

Officials say the tree took down power lines and is across all four lanes of Albany Avenue, also known as Route 44, near Mountain Road. The road is closed in both directions.

The downed tree has also caused outages in West Hartford and Avon, according to Eversource. Crews estimate it will take three to four hours to restore power. 

In order to detour the area, motorists can use Route 4 and Route 185.

It is unclear how long the road will be closed for.

A large tree has fallen and is blocking all lanes on Albany Ave in the area of Ferncliff Drive in West Hartford.

 West Hartford police the tree, which fell naturally, took down some power lines and has caused more than 130 outages in West Hartford and Avon.

 Eversource is on scene making repairs and crews say it could take 3 to 4 hours to restore power.

 It's not clear how long the road will be closed.

 Please check back for updates.

Firefighters are trying to figure out what sparked a house fire in Granby early Monday morning.

Fire officials say they were called to a home on Hungary Road around 1:30 a.m. When they arrived, there was heavy smoke and fire to the basement of the house. Mutual aid from surrounding towns were called in to help fight the fire.

The husband and wife who live at the home were able to escape with their cat, uninjured.

The couple told investigators they were welding on Sunday night. Investigators are now factoring that into determining the cause of the fire. Experts say the damage is contained to the basement of the home.

According to firefighters, it was challenging dealing with the carbon monoxide.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

A British diver involved in the Thai cave rescue mission that saved 12 boys and their soccer coach is reportedly considering legal action against Tesla head Elon Musk for having called him a "pedo guy."

Spelunker Vernon Unsworth got on Musk's bad side after he dismissed a submarine made by Musk's team from a SpaceX rocket part as a "PR stunt," CNBC reported.

The submarine wasn't used in the resuce and Unsworth told CNN the idea "had no chance of working."

“He can stick his submarine where it hurts,” Unsworth said.

In response, Musk alleged in a now-deleted series of tweets that Unsworth was a "pedo guy."

When Unsworth was asked by The Guardian whether he would consider pursuing legal action against Musk over the baseless claim that appeared to label him a pedophile, Unsworth said, "Yes, it's not finished."

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, in her first one-on-one interview since taking office, said homeless advocacy groups that receive funding from the city need to better educate the homeless to "clean up after themselves."  

"I work hard to make sure your programs are funded for the purposes of trying to get these individuals help, and what I am asking you to do is work with your clients and ask them to at least have respect for the community — at least, clean up after themselves and show respect to one another and people in the neighborhood," Breed told the Investigative Unit, referencing her conversations with nonprofit groups aimed at serving the homeless.

When pressed about whether her plan calls for harsher penalties against those who litter or defecate on city streets, Breed said "I didn’t express anything about a penalty."  Instead, the mayor said she has encouraged nonprofits "to talk to their clients, who, unfortunately, were mostly responsible for the conditions of our streets."

Viral Investigation Exposed San Francisco's 'Diseased Streets'
A recent NBC Bay Area investigation went viral after exposing an alarming amount of trash, drug needles, and feces scattered across San Francisco.

The report centered around a 153-block survey of downtown San Francisco, which revealed trash on every block, 100 needles, and more than 300 piles of feces along the 20-mile stretch of streets and sidewalks.

On Friday, two days after Breed's inauguration, the new mayor during an afternoon stroll saw firsthand the reality and challenges of the city. Video recorded by NBC Bay Area shows a man prepping a needle as Breed walked by.

More Feces on Sidewalks
"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here," Breed said.  "That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs — we’re talking about from humans."

San Francisco is slated to spend nearly $280 million this year on housing and services for the homeless — a roughly 40 percent increase compared to just five years ago. Over that same span, however, the number of homeless in the city has largely remained the same at about 7,500 people, according to city counts.

"About 70 percent of the people estimated to be homeless in San Francisco were actually housed in San Francisco before they became homeless," Breed said. "We have to make sure people who live here, [and] sadly, people who are homeless here, that they are also held accountable for taking care of our streets. This is our home."

City’s Street Cleaning Budget Slated for 20 percent Boost
San Francisco spent $65 million on street cleaning last year and plans to add nearly $13 million in additional spending over the next two years.

"I don’t think that the city is poorly spending what it already has," Breed said.  "I spend a lot of time on Fillmore Street. I see the people who are part of a program, out there power washing. They’re out there doing what they can to keep the community clean, almost every day, and then right after they leave, maybe an hour or two later, the place is filled with trash again."

Lower Gwynedd Township Police Officer Beth Sanborn gives some tips on how you can protect your belongings during a trip to the beach or lake. Bottles with false bottoms are a quick and easy place to conceal important items.

Local cannabis businesses in the Bay Area sponsored a fundraiser Saturday for the 8-year-old girl at the center of the viral #PermitPatty video.

Companies and people in the community gathered at the Pergola at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, Saturday to raise money for Jordan Rodgers' education fund. Last month, Jordan was selling water outside her apartment near AT&T Park when neighbor Alison Ettel called police on the young black girl for "illegally selling water without a permit."

The incident was captured on cell phone video and sparked outrage nationwide. As a result of the backlash, Ettel was forced to resign from her position as CEO of Treatwell Health, a company which sells cannabis products for humans and pets.

In response, cannabis businesses The Apothecarium, Magnolia and Kind Culture organized a fundraiser for Jordan, donating bottled waters and food for her to sell at the event. Event organizers say Jordan will keep 100 percent of the proceeds, which will go toward her college fund. 

Eliot Dobris of Apothecarium told NBC Bay Area: "We're making a donation to her education fund and we're sending a message that the cannabis industry needs to be diverse, inclusive and kind."

Jordan's mother, Erin Austin, said she's thankful for all the support her daughter has received.

"We gotta stop the hate in the Bay Area, well in the world, but let's start at home," Austin told NBC Bay Area.

Former Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Ray Emery has died in a drowning accident in Canada, authorities confirmed Sunday.

Emery, who played in two seasons with the Blackhawks and won the 2013 Stanley Cup with the team, was just 35 years old.

"The Blackhawks organization was deeply saddened to hear of Ray Emery's passing," the team said in a statement. "We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. The Blackhawks will fondly remember Ray as a fierce competitor, a good teammate and a Stanley Cup champion." 

According to authorities in Hamilton, Canada, police recovered Emery’s body just before 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Emery was reported missing just after 6 a.m. in the harbor, and his body was recovered near where he was last seen, police said.

The cause of death is still under investigation. 

In 287 career NHL games, Emery registered a 145-86-28 record and a .906 save percentage. He was a member of the 2010 Philadelphia Flyers squad that fell to the Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Final, and was on the Hawks team that beat Boston in the 2013 Final. 

Two men were arrested at Bradley International Airport following a disturbance on Sunday.

Troopers assigned to Bradley International Airport say they were called to a reported active disturbance coming in on a Delta flight from Atlanta, Georgia, around 6:30 p.m.

Delta Airlines personnel reported two male passengers, later identified as 49-year-old Raymond Hryb and 41-year-old Jonathan Hryb, both of Northford, were causing alarm and annoyance by using vulgar language. The crew also reported that the two men were referencing the use of a gun when they were leaving the aircraft.

When the aircraft arrived to the gate, police investigated the incident and arrested both men.

"The customers were met by law enforcement upon arrival into Bradley International Airport following Delta flight 1383," Catherine Simmons of Delta said.

Both men are facing breach of peace charges. Raymond Hryb is also facing a charge for threatening. They were both released on bond and are scheduled to appear in court on July 31.

Three people sustained serious injuries in a crash on Route 84 in Haddam Sunday evening.

State police said one driver lost control around the “S” curve on Killingworth Road just before 5 p.m., skid and collided with another vehicle.

State police said Davi Marcel Dasilva, 23, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, was driving one of the cars involved and was taken to Hartford Hospital to be treated for serious injuries.

Kyle Montenegro was a passenger in the front seat of Dasilva’s vehicle and was transported to Saint Francis Hospital.

Marilyn Manaytay, 48, of Manchester, was sitting in the passenger seat of one car and LifeStar transported her to Hartford Hospital.

On Sunday, hundreds of motorcycle riders hit the road to ride, rock and make a difference in Connecticut. The bikers traveled from Ellington, Bristol and Massachusetts to Stafford Springs in support of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and its 4th annual MDA benefit ride and concert, presented by Trantolo and Trantolo.

“It's heartwarming, it's very heartwarming. This is a struggle, it is something we deal with every single day, but to see everybody here and having a great time it makes it a wonderful day,” said Melanie Ballestas.

Ballestas’ 8-year-old son, Louis, suffers from a form of muscular dystrophy. The benefit ride to the Sun Valley Resort in Stafford Springs helped raise money for life-saving research in the 43 neuromuscular diseases under the MDA umbrella and helps send children to the MDA Summer Camp.

“It's really amazing because in your everyday life you don't really see that people care, but when you are here and you see a swarm of motorcycles around it's really great because you actually know that people care about you and other people like you,” said Marley Robison, one of the MDA Ambassadors.

Sunday’s ride was Connecticut’s largest one-day charity motorcycle ride and was followed by a concert featuring “38 Special” and “Cold Train.”

“It's a great time for a good cause,” said Keith Trantolo, the owner, and operator of Trantolo and Trantolo.

Trantolo and Trantolo have spent the past few years helping put on the charity ride and concert. They said in three years it has raised more than half a million dollars for the 1,400 families served by MDA Connecticut. Organizers expected Sunday’s event to bring in even more money and make a big difference in many people’s lives, including the kids who will be able to attend MDA Summer Camp.

“It also puts these kids, gives them an opportunity to go to a camp, which is specialized for those who suffer from muscular dystrophy. It's awesome, they get to have a great time. They play with other kids that have muscular dystrophy and really if you talk to them, it's the only time of year they get to go outside without fear and kind of play with kids who are just like them, it's great,” said Keith Trantolo.

While the concert, food and raffle prizes were a big hit on Sunday, it was the MDA Ambassadors that stole the show.

“Thank you for riding your motorcycles today and supporting the MDA,” said 8-year-old Louis Ballestas.

The day of giving back truly gave so much in return.

Firefighters pulled a woman from a car that flipped over in Plainville Monday morning. 

The woman’s vehicle flipped over after hitting a tree on Meriline Avenue and medics responded to evaluate the driver. 

Police at the scene said they did not think the woman would be transported.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment against 12 Russian intelligence officials helps shed light on how the Trump campaign actively seized on outside interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to the NBC Political Unit.

Wittingly or unwittingly, associates of the campaign communicated with members of Russian intelligence, which posed as independent hackers when stealing and sharing documents stolen from Democrats, according to Mueller's indictment, previous reporting and the public record. 

Among those contacts is a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and a Kremlin-connected lawyer, after Trump Jr. was told the Russian government had dirt on Hillary Clinton.

While Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Friday that "there's no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime," the NBC Political Unit asks what to call the contacts, if not collusion, coordination or conspiracy. A coincidence? Ignorance?

Five people including two children were rescued after their sailboat capsized in Groton over the weekend.

Police say the boat capsized off Bluff Point Coastal Reserve around 2 p.m. on Sunday.

The Regional Police Boat that had an East Lyme police officer and a Waterford police officer patrolling during Sailfest responded to the incident. TowBoat US also assisted during the rescue.

According to officials, all five people were fine once they were pulled from the water.

New documents set to be released could reveal whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh misled Congress during his confirmation hearing for his job as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, something two Democratic senators accused him of in 2007, according to NBC News.

While under oath in 2006, Kavanaugh said he wasn’t involved in creating a terrorism detainee policy during his stint working under the Bush administration. However, a media report that later surfaced prompted two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to claim that Kavanaugh “misled me, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nation,” Sen. Dick Durbin wrote in a letter.

Kavanaugh’s involvement in the policy has been questioned again as soon-to-be released documents are expected to detail the nominee’s work in the Bush White House as it attempted to respond to terrorism threats after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

There will a be few isolated thundershowers today, but there is a greater threat for storms Tuesday and the NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert.

Thunderstorms will move through between 1 p.m. and 10 p.m. and some of these storms could be severe, according to NBC Connecticut First Alert meteorologist Bob Maxon.

A First Alert has been issued for all of Connecticut and storms could affect summer camps.

Keep an eye on the radar and download the NBC Connecticut app to keep an eye on the weather through the day.

Two migrant children who were brought to Connecticut after being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border will be reunited with their parents today, according to court documents.

The move comes just days after a federal judge in Connecticut ruled that the federal government’s separation of the children from their families is unconstitutional.

In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Victor Bolden declared the actions of the Trump Administration unconstitutional and ordered the government to take steps to correct the harm it has caused.

In a notice of compliance motion filed on Monday, the U.S. Attorney's office announced that the government had agreed to a request to expedite the reunifications of the families.

The two children in question, a 9-year-old boy from Honduras, known as J.S.R. in court documents,  and a 14-year-old girl from El Salvador, known as V.F.B., were each separated from their parents and placed in a group home run by a Groton non-profit. A legal team sued the federal government in hopes of having the families reunited.

At an emergency hearing Wednesday, a psychiatrist who has met with both children testified the kids suffer from PTSD, depression, anxiety, and loss of hope and recommended reunifying the children with their parents immediately.

In court documents, the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement insists the children are being well cared for.

The court felt that the plaintiffs offered enough evidence to prove that the government’s actions traumatized the children.

“The Court agrees that the Government violated J.S.R.’s and V.F.B.’s constitutional rights by forcibly removing them from their parents without due process of law. The Government failed to provide the children with notice or a hearing, instead taking their parents, while distracting the children,” Bolden wrote in the decision.

Judge Bolden’s decision is the first ruling in the country to find the practice violates the constitutional rights of the children and not just the parents.

The parents are being paroled from custody on Monday, according to the documents.

"Releasing these kids and their parents is the first step in addressing the trauma that the government's cruel 'zero tolerance policy' has caused on J.S.R. and V.F.B.," said Hannah Schoen, a law student intern at the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School.

Firefighters are responding to a fire on New London Turnpike in Norwich.

No additional information was immediately available.