A New Haven man is accused of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from a home health care agency where he worked.

Hamden police arrested 42-year-old Anthony Washington on a first-degree larceny charge Tuesday.

The investigation began in May when the owner of the Hamden-based company told police approximately $68,000 had been embezzled from the business.

According to police, Washington’s girlfriend worked for the company managing payroll and bookkeeping, and at one point deposited $19,000 in stolen funds into Washington’s account.

Washington was also employed by the company as a “companion.” Investigators found that when Washington was incarcerated in prison for 10 months in 2017, he was still receiving direct deposits into the account.

Washington was held on a $10,000 bond and is due to appear in court on Sept. 11.

North Haven police are searching for a suspect accused of crawling under a stall in a bathroom while someone was using it Thursday afternoon.

Police said the victim reported she using the restroom at the BJ’s Wholesale Club on Universal Drive around noon when a man crawled under her stall. The victim screamed, scaring the suspect off.

Investigators released a surveillance photo of the suspect. He is described as 6-foot-2, with short brown hair and was wearing light blue t-shirt and dark blue jeans. Anyone with information should contact the North Haven Police Department.

BJ's confirmed they are cooperating with authorities and declined to make further comment, citing the ongoing investigation. 

Part of Warnertown Road in Suffield is closed while police investigate a deadly motorcycle crash.

The investigation began when police were called to the area of 399 Warnertown Road around 1:30 p.m. for a report of a motorcycle found in a tobacco field. Responding officers found what appears to be the victim of a fatal motorcycle crash nearby.

The victim was presumed dead on scene. The victim has not been publicly identified.

Police said it appears the motorcycle went off the road while traveling south on Warnertown Road. The Regional North Central Municipal Police Accident Reconstruction Squad has been called in to investigate.

Warnertown Road is closed between Mountain Road and the Southwick, Mass. line for the investigation. The road will be closed for several hours.

Connecticut State Police arrested a Hartford woman in connection with fentanyl in the greater Hartford area.

Members of the Connecticut State Police Statewide Narcotics Task Force, the Hartford Police Vice and Narcotics Unit, the DEA Hartford Office and the Hartford Police Emergency Response Team served a search warrant at 54 Alden Street in Hartford Thursday as part of an investigation into the distribution of fentanyl in the area.

Investigators seized fentanyl packaged for sale, crack cocaine, marijuana, a 9mm handgun, and other items related to drug sales at the residence.

Police arrested 28-year-old Danielle Cusano during the incident. She was charged with sale of one ounce or more of heroin, possession of a controlled substance or cannabis, illegal possession of a large capacity magazine and risk of injury to a child. She was released on a $50,000 bond and is due in court on Sept. 13.

A second person, 27-year-old Leonardo Vazquez, was also in the home at the time. Vazquez was on parole and remanded back to the state Department of Correction custody. There are narcotics and firearms charges pending, according to police.

*An arbitrator is sending Colin Kaepernick's grievance with the NFL to trial, denying the league's request to throw out the quarterback's claims that owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests of social injustice.

Kaepernick's lawyer Mark Geragos tweeted a picture Thursday of a ruling by arbitrator Stephen B. Burbank.

The former 49ers quarterback argues that owners have colluded to keep him off any NFL roster since he hit free agency in 2017.

Kaepernick began a wave of protests by NFL players two seasons ago, kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality. The protests have grown into one of the most polarizing issues in sports, with President Donald Trump loudly urging the league to suspend or fire players who demonstrate during the anthem.

Kaepernick contends the owners violated their collective bargaining agreement with players by conspiring to keep him off of teams.

The case hinges on whether owners worked together rather than decided individually to not sign Kaepernick.

A similar grievance is still pending by unsigned safety Eric Reid, who played with Kaepernick in San Francisco and joined in the protests.

Meanwhile, the league and players union still haven't resolved whether players will be punished this season if they choose to kneel or demonstrate during the national anthem.

Owners approved a policy requiring players to stand if they are on the sideline during the national anthem, allowing them to stay off the field if they wish. But the league and union put that on hold after the Miami Dolphins faced backlash for classifying the protests as conduct potentially detrimental to the team — putting players at risk of fines or suspensions.

A woman has died after being pulled from the water in New Haven Thursday.

Director of Emergency Operations Rick Fontana confirmed a woman was found floating by the West River Bridge over Chapel Street. A bystander jumped in to help until emergency responders arrived.

The 37-year-old woman was treated on scene and taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital for further treatment, where she died. She has not been publicly identified.

Police said there are no signs of trauma or foul play.

A framework for what sports betting would look like was presented to lawmakers over a month ago based on Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration’s discussions with the state’s two casino-operating tribes, the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribal Nations.

The agreement included a new structure for sports wagering in the state which would include a combination of reservation based wagering and commercial sites in existing locations where wagers are already being placed on horse racing. There were also specific provisions being discussed on how to handle wagers on UConn and other Connecticut state universities’ sporting events.

No agreement was ever struck between Malloy’s staff and the tribal nations and no terms were ever decided. The negotiations reached a point where the Malloy administration felt input was needed from the leaders of the General Assembly’s four caucuses.

According to five sources with knowledge of the negotiations or close to the discussions, Republicans were the ones who walked away from even considering a final agreement, even after the framework’s details were presented.

The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes, and the Malloy administration would not comment on the details of their negotiations. House and Senate Democrats and Republicans would also not comment on the closed door negotiations.

The core of the framework was the creation of two tiers of sports betting. One tier would be exclusively for wagers placed on reservation land at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods, and the other for wagers placed in locations like Sporttech, Bobby V’s, and existing Off Track Betting locations.

Wagers made on Mohegan or Mashantucket land would be more wide-ranging than off the reservations. Players could bet on the various outcomes of sporting events, like winners and the combined score of a given event in both tiers of gaming.

The tier for tribal land would allow for “exotic” or “prop” bets. These kinds of wagers include those on events already in progress, long-term wagers on teams or individuals, and quirky bets like the length of the National Anthem sung before the Super Bowl.

Venues like Sporttech and Off Track Betting would be exclusively for outcome-based wagering.

There was also discussion of some kind of a mobile betting option, allowing for only outcome-based bets to be placed, but it was not clear what that structure would look like.

The issue of amateur sports was also discussed, and there was an informal agreement that UConn Husky and other state university sporting events would be off-limits for in-state wagering.

There were very early conversations on how to handle larger sporting events which have UConn as participants, like the Men and Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments, but no conclusion was reached.

One source said of the framework, “this was never any kind of final deal. This was more of what could be presented to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and what could be approved.”

Republicans informed the governor that their caucuses were not inclined to meet in the middle of the 2018 campaign season and preferred to wait until the next General Assembly and governor are seated in January when the issue can be addressed the most broadly.

“Sports gambling would pass in the purest possible way outside of a General Session when we have no idea what other issues this will get tacked on to,” one source close to the discussions said.

Timing was also a consideration.

If lawmakers met in a special session before the end of the year and approved some kind of a regulatory structure for sports wagering, the program would be active, possibly, during the first half of 2019.

By waiting, the issue could be on ice for the next year. Lawmakers meet in January and adjourn in June, and two sources said they would expect the sports gambling issue to be attached to a finance package for the state budget which would not see action until the end of the legislative session. Any decision from the BIA would not be expected for up to 90 days, meaning sports wagers could not be placed until the fall of 2019 at the earliest.

“The real concern is the length of time to get it passed,” one source said. “This is something we have to have sooner or later. It’s a matter of when.”

Conservative estimates show Connecticut could add about $20 million annually in new revenue to its state budget. Pennsylvania, New York, and Rhode Island all have legislation on sports gambling and could put them into effect by next year. New Jersey is currently the only state in the Northeast that offers sports gambling.

UConn Health is opening the first hospital-based breast milk depot in the state.

The organization is now partnering with Mothers Milk Northeast. Donor moms can drop off breast milk at the hospital, and the staff makes sure it gets to babies in need.

“It is incredibly important for these premature babies to receive mother’s own milk,” said Marisa Merlo, UConn Health lactation consultant. “If the mom is unable to produce enough milk, the best alternative diet for these babies is donor human milk.”

“We screen donor moms, we collect donor human milk, we pasteurize it and we distributed primarily to neonatal intensive care units,” said Cynthia Cohen of Mother’s Milk Bank Northeast.

Mom Stephanie Aheart has spent a lot of time in the neonatal intensive Carle unit at UConn Health, and she says she knows the importance of breast milk.

“We had premature twins at 21 weeks so they were born very early,” she said. “They did not survive. Then we went on to get pregnant with Jordan and he was born early at 29 weeks he was 3 pounds 5 ounces and was in the UConn NICU.”

She says every ounce of effort is worth it.

“He did receive donor milk in the NICU until I was able to feed him and pump enough to sustain him,” Aheart said. “And I do donate now. I’ve donated thousands of ounces.”

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Ned Lamont says municipalities sharing services will be critical to his plan to cut property tax rates across the state.

“That's one of the reasons the property tax is so high in so many places and I've got to draw that link,” said Lamont, making his second run for governor, and third overall bid for statewide office.

Lamont announced last week his plan to reinstate a property tax rebate to residents that was disbanded during recent budget negotiations.

He says coming up with a way to allow home and car owners to get up to $1,000 back in some cases is one of the ways to lure more people back to Connecticut. One of his ways to find the savings in order to pay for that rebate is based on more regional cooperation.

Read more about regionalism in NBC Connecticut Investigates At a Price! series.

“If I'm Coventry and I love my feisty independence and I don't want to share services, OK but if I can show you real tangible savings in your property tax deduction, it allows us to get a little more energy behind this,” Lamont said. “Does that mean we need 169 tax collectors?”

Regionalism is a topic that has been discussed for decades in Connecticut but it has never been seriously addressed at a policy level by the General Assembly.

Many municipalities and groups have argued that regionalism efforts would not save local or state taxpayers any money since those smaller cities and towns are more responsible with their money, not running deficits year after year the way the state has since 2014.

However, Lamont points out, many of those municipalities depend on the state for aid which helps them balance their budgets. Lamont says he wants to come up with an incentive structure to lure cities and towns toward cutting their budgets and sharing both basic and more complex functions.

“If four towns in the valley want to coordinate their school bus rather than have each and every one of them buy separately, I'll help you do that with some incentives for the first year or two, but at the end of the day, they've got to do it. That's how they're going to reduce cost in that area."

Lamont acknowledges that some of the state’s wealthier towns, many of which are in Fairfield County, have no interest in sharing services, especially not with larger cities like Norwalk or Bridgeport, and he says that’s fine, and that decision will be linked to their state aid.

"If you think you're getting a good deal and you're happy to keep paying the property tax as is, steady as she goes, but I can't as a governor subsidize inefficiency."

Six weeks after a judge ordered a pair of migrant children in Connecticut to be reunited with their parents, the government granted each child one year of legal immigration status in the United States.

The U.S. Attorney’s office confirmed the news with NBC Connecticut, without further comment.

The two children, a 9-year-old boy from Honduras and a 14-year-old girl from El Salvador, each were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border in connection with President Donald Trump’s former zero-tolerance immigration policy.

NBC Connecticut Investigates broke the story in June on how the two children were shipped from detention in Texas and were temporarily being cared for at Noank Community Support Services in Groton.

Connecticut Legal Services and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the children, demanding reunification with their families.

“The security and safety from being taken from their parents by government agents again is a critical first step in the healing process for our clients," said Aseem Mehta, a law student intern with the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. "After the harrowing trauma that government put our young clients through, this grant of legal immigration status to remain in the United States and seek treatment is important in bringing stability to their lives."

A federal judge in Connecticut ruled that the U.S. government’s separation of the children from their families was unconstitutional. It was the first ruling in the country to find the practice violates the constitutional rights of the children and not just the parents.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, one of a number of elected officials advocating on behalf of the children, said the legal status "is the very least our government owes them after the life-altering trauma they have been put through." But, DeLauro added, there are still hundreds of children yet to be reunited with their families.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who was also involved in the case and has been a strong critic of family separation, issued the following statement:

"This decision is a victory for sanity and reason— but it is merely an interim solution. Having worked with the children’s lawyers, I am relieved they have been given the time and temporary legal status they need and deserve to access care and pursue more permanent immigration relief. These families endured unnecessary trauma and suffering as a result of President Trump’s zero tolerance policy, and I hope this decision can serve as a model to provide relief for so many other children cruelly separated from their families by our government."

Police responded to the Bradley Airport cell phone lot when a dispute between ride-share drivers turned violent Thursday.

Connecticut State Police confirmed troopers were called to the area just before 6 p.m. A minor injury was reported, possibly from a stabbing.

More details were not immediately available.

Two weeks after more than a hundred K2 overdoses in New Haven, a community health group is hoping to put more people on the path to recovery from addiction. 

The Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center hosted its third National Overdose Awareness Day on the New Haven Green Thursday, where most of those patients overdosed on K2.

The outreach event started two years ago after an outbreak of overdoses in New Haven from cocaine laced with fentanyl. Three people died in June 2016. 

Organizers said this year there is an added emphasis on educating people about the dangers of K2, a synthetic cannabinoid.

As first responders rushed to help dozens of K2 overdose patients on Aug. 15, Wilfredo avoided the New Haven Green.

“I’m new in this process man and I try to stay away from that stuff as much as possible man,” he told NBC Connecticut.

Wilfredo said he never tried the man-made mind altering chemical.

“But I probably would have,” he said, during a battle with addiction that lasted more than 30 years.

“My life is an open book,” he added, “I got nothing to hide. I was using heroin, I was using alcohol, and I was using pills.”

Wilfredo finally called the 211 help line in April. He has since received treatment from the Cornell-Scott Hill Health Center.

“I have family, I have friends,” he said, “that kept pushing me for years. Let’s say and finally I said something’s got to give.”

At the health center’s overdose awareness day event, there was a tent with information on the dangers of K2, also known as Spice. A poster laid out the unpredictable side effects on the body when using the dangerous synthetic drug.

A message on the poster read “you never know what you’re going to get with synthetic cannabinoids.”

“The problem with the K2 is it has a lot more side effects,” said Clinical Director of Homeless Care Phil Costello. “A lot of people think K2 is just cheap marijuana, but it’s not.”

Organizers also shared information on the opioid epidemic. They passed out about 100 Narcan kits and wrote 116 prescriptions for the overdose reversal medication.

“I’ve been four years clean off of heroin,” Christina Granniss told NBC Connecticut.

She still stopped by the event.

“To see if I can get a Narcan script for my friends that are still using,” she said.

It has been two weeks since dozens of K2 users in New Haven had to be taken to the hospital. Some of the patients had to be transported more than once, police said.

“This was just on a larger magnitude than any of us could have imagined that people would be out and this affected,” Costello said.

The city is stepping up planning with the Health Center and community partners, Director of Emergency Operations Rick Fontana said.

The goal is to have a more cost-effective response in case there’s another drug overdose outbreak, Fontana said.

“If something triggers as it did we might even bring Cornell Scott down to the Green,” Fontana said, “coordinate with our medical directors, our fire department personnel.”

On the second day of the emergency that made national news, Costello said Cornell Scott set up a triage area on the Green with eight beds.

“That allowed us to monitor people that didn’t need to go to the hospital,” he said, “try to mitigate some of that transport and those hospital stays.”

Four months after calling for help, Wilfredo said his recovery from substance abuse is not over.

“I’m not saying I’m cured,” he said. “I’m not saying this is all done with, all I’m saying just for today I’m clean and I feel great, man.”

Hundreds of Connecticut families with children in Head Start are hoping for answers after the group that runs the program in two counties here dropped their contract to administer the federal childcare program.

Community Renewal Team had been the longtime administrator of Head Start in Hartford and Middlesex counties. Friday the nonprofit announced it was relinquishing its Head Start contract due to the conduct of former employees.

In a letter to impacted families, CRT said Community Development Institute Head Start, known as CDI, would take over and work with families until a new permanent grantee was named. In the time since, impacted parents, including Hartford grandmother Paula Beninato say they’ve been left in the dark with no explanation about a new childcare program, just days before school is set to resume.

“They said they’re doing the best that they can but they really just can't tell the parents anything because they don’t really know,” Beninato said.

CRT says when they voted to relinquish their control of the program, they were assured transition to CDI would be without issue, saying in a statement:

“It is our understanding that CDI would be ready to open Head Start classrooms on schedule next week – in fact, they assured us that the transition would be seamless, and unnoticeable for the families involved. Unfortunately, we cannot provide any additional information, because we have not been given a timeline or plans from CDI regarding their methodology for this transition of services.”

NBC Connecticut contacted CDI for a response to the Head Start situation. We were told we would receive a statement, but had not as of Thursday evening.

CRT says impacted families that do not find a resolution from CDI or other means contact them directly to see if any of their other programs may be a fit for their families.

CRT says impacted families should now call CDI at 720-747-5100 for further information.

Two drivers were taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a crash on Wolcott Street in Bristol Thursday.

Police said the crash happened between Peck Lane and Witches Rock Road. Both drivers suffered serious injuries and one was airlifted to the hospital.

The Bristol Police Serious Traffic Accident Reconstruction Team is investigating. Anyone with information should contact Officer Lance Podlesney at 860-584-3017 ex. 3181.

Three people were injured and transported from the scene after a crash involving a school bus and three cars in New London Friday morning.

No students were on the bus when the crash happened around 7:18 a.m. on Route 32 South, near Connecticut College, according to police.

Police say the elderly woman found injured and disoriented after falling in Queens Wednesday night has been identified and reunited with her family, nearly two days after police asked for the public's help. 

It was around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when the woman (pictured above) fell in the area of Kissena Boulevard and Holly Avenue in Flushing, police say.

Paramedics rushed the Jane Doe to an area hospital to be treated. She couldn't remember where she lived nor could she give contact information for any family or friends, police said.

Police released a photo of her from her hospital bed Thursday night, and on Friday afternoon, the NYPD tweeted that she's been reunited with her family. No further details were offered. 

Witnesses are urged to call authorities.

Environmentalists scored a major victory in Sacramento Thursday after California lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to phase out the use of a controversial type of fishing gear known as drift gillnets: mile-long nets blamed for unintentionally killing thousands of sea creatures, including endangered animals.

Over the past 28 years, drift gillnets have entangled and killed an estimated 4,000 dolphins, 456 whales and 136 sea turtles, according to government data obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization. The federal agency, which regulates the fishing gear, randomly places observers on about 20 percent of all fishing trips that utilize the gear in an effort to document the environmental impact.

"We're being villainized, unjustly"

California fishermen view the ban as extreme and unnecessary, and believe their livelihood is being unfairly targeted. Without the fishing gear, they fear they won’t be able to continue making a living.

“I don’t know what I’d do,” said Mike Flynn, who has depended on drift gillnets to catch swordfish for the past 40 years. “There’s very few of us left, and we don’t seem to have a chance...we're being villainized, unjustly."

Only about 20 fisherman actively use the gear off the California coast; that's down from 141 active permits at the peak back in 1990, according to NOAA.

Critics believe a phase out of the gear will ultimately cause even more damage to the environment by inviting more seafood imports from other countries.

"It’ll be supplied by foreign fleets that have little to no regulations," Flynn said. "If we ended up being put out of business, there will still be the demand, but the supply will be just coming from foreign countries that are not going to be abiding by the regulations that we abide by currently."

Environmentalists call them 'Death Nets'

The campaign to ban the nets gained momentum three years ago after four environmental groups joined together to lobby against the gear. Sea Legacy, Sharkwater, Mercy for Animals, and Turtle Island Restoration Network sent photographers underwater and undercover to capture images of the nets and the sea life they managed to entangle off the California coast.

“What do you mean in the waters of California," wondered marine biologist and National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen. "I'm like, I'm going to go see this firsthand for myself."

Nicklen, well known for his shocking images of a starving polar bear in the Arctic, was taken aback when he heard about the drift gillnets and decided to travel to California to see the fishing firsthand.

"I've never seen anything like it"

Nicklen and his team spent months preparing for their expedition. They loaded $100,000 worth of cameras onto high speed scooters and, under the cover of darkness, raced out to sea to find the drift gillnets.

"The sun had not come up yet," said Nicklen.  "You could just sort of barely see around as we're descending along this net, and by the time I got down to 120 feet deep, it was almost dark pitch black."

Nicklen said he was amazed by the size of the nets.

"I've never seen anything like it," he said. "The way the current was pushing it in these waves, it was like this undulating, moving death machine."

Nicklen wants the nets banned, even if that means putting fishermen out of business.

"For every fisherman out there, there's another 100 people out there that depend on a healthy ocean to make a living," he said. "Enough is enough. Let's let the world weigh in on it, and let's end this."

Marine Populations Growing

"We're not hurting the population," said David Haworth, a San Diego-based fisherman who has used drift gillnets off the California coast for roughly 40 years. "Since 1980, when the fishery started until now, the marine mammal population has exploded."

Since 2001, use of the nets has been prohibited along large portions of the California coast for six months of the year in order to avoid entangling migrating sea turtles, which haven't been snagged in six years. Since the late 1990s, fishermen have also been required to install high frequency noise making devices along their nets in hopes of scaring away dolphins and whales. Since then, far fewer marine animals have been caught, and their populations are growing.

Heidi Dewar is a Fisheries Research biologist from NOAA who studies the movement of fish and sharks. Based on her own research, and the work of other marine biologists, she’s convinced that improvements to the swordfish fishery are allowing the marine mammal populations to bounce back.

“It’s easy to get people emotionally charged when you’re talking about marine mammals,” she said. "For some people, one sea lion death is too much, but we’re looking at it from a practical, sustainable point of view. If you look at it that way, these populations are sustainable and will continue in perpetuity under the current rate of removal.”

California Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Vote to Ban Fishing Gear

On Thursday, California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1017, which requires drift gillnets be phased out by January 2023.  

Governor Jerry Brown has until Sept. 30 to decide whether to approve the ban.  While Brown wouldn't comment on his upcoming decision, it appears the legislature has enough votes to override him if he does opt to veto the bill. The Senate passed the measure 36 to 1, while the Assembly voted 78 to 0 to support the measure.

The new law, pending Brown's approval, will also pay fishermen up to $110,000 if they enter into an agreement by January 2020 to retire their nets.  

Fishermen argue the buyout option isn't nearly enough to purchase the kind of equipment and permits needed to transition to a different type of fishing.

“They're just telling us, ‘Hey, here's one hundred thousand dollars, good luck for the rest of your life,” said Mike Flynn.

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A Harwinton man is accused of stealing construction equipment from the Town of Wilton Public Works.

Officers learned that a 2008 Vibroscreen SCM-10, a machine used to screen material, was taken when they responded to the Town of Wilton Department of Public Works yard at Allen’s Field around 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 18 and found that someone had forced the way into the gated property.

Investigators obtained a description of a vehicle seen towing the equipment earlier that morning and identified 43-year-old Ronald Conroy, of Harwinton, as the owner of the vehicle.

When police went to Conroy’s home, they found the Vibroscreen at the back of his property, according to police. 

Conroy was taken into custody and charged with first-degree larceny.

Bond was set at $75,000.

A Cape Cod harbormaster has a dire warning as New Englanders prepare to head to the beach this Labor Day weekend.

"It is time for beachgoers to change their behavior or something terrible is going to happen," the Orleans harbormaster wrote on Facebook. "Please be safe."

"I think people have become complacent and are not heeding the regular warnings we are doing" Orleans Fire Chief Anthony Pike said Thursday. "We can't manage the wildlife, we just have to make sure, we just have to get out the appropriate safety messages."

The warning comes after several close encounters, and after a New York doctor was bitten by a shark in Truro.

"We are pretty chill about the sharks," Kathy Flanigan said. "We are OK, we don't let it ruin our vacation."

Flanigan, visiting from New Jersey, said her family tries not to worry about what's in the water.

"We have our one week up here every year," she said. "We try and make the best of it."

Others at the beach Thursday were more guarded.

"It's like being in a big city be aware of your surroundings," JoAnn Piscillo said. "If you don't want to get bit by a shark, be aware of your surroundings."

"We can't fight against nature when nature fights back," Lars Wigemark said.