A Silver Alert has been issued for an elderly man who is missing from East Haven on Sunday.

According to police, 94-year-old Allen Ziehler has been missing since Sunday and was last seen wearing a tan long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans and mesh sneakers.

Ziehler is described as a man who is 5'10" and weighs 168 pounds with white hair and hazel eyes. In a photo provided by police, Ziehler can be seen wearing glasses.

Police said he could be driving a 2014 silver Ford Escape with a Connecticut license plate of 545LAE.

If you have any information about Ziehler's whereabouts, you're asked to contact East Haven Police at (203) 468-4820.

A 14th suspect was arrested Sunday in the caught-on-camera machete killing of a 15-year-old boy outside a bodega in the Bronx in June.

Frederick Then, 20, turned himself in to police in the June 20 killing of Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, which captivated the nation for its brutality and the apparent mistaken identity of the victim.

Then was charged with murder, manslaughter, two counts of gang assault, conspiracy and criminal possession of a weapon. 

As Then was walked outside by police, he told reporters: "I'm innocent." 

Video shows the teen being dragged outside the bodega and attacked by a gang of five men who stabbed him with knives and hacked him with a machete as he struggled to defend himself.

The boy was slashed in the neck and died after running to a hospital three blocks away. Thirteen other suspects have been arrested in the teen's death; all are alleged gang members. 

Guzman-Feliz had been part of the NYPD's Explorers program, a group for youths interested in a law enforcement career. The New York City Police Foundation announced it planned to set up a scholarship in his name.

Authorities say they do not believe Guzman-Feliz was affiliated with any gang.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Then had an attorney. 

Workers at United Technologies in Cheshire are on strike after not reaching a contract agreement. 

The employees said they are striking over pay and health insurance costs. 

UTC Aerospace Systems released a statement Monday morning. 

“UTC Aerospace Systems and Local 62A of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), representing approximately 200 hourly employees at the company’s Cheshire, CT facility, have been unable to reach agreement on a new labor contract. In the negotiation the company presented a fair and equitable contract that is competitive within the region and the industry,” the statement says. 

The union president said 188 members will be picketing in four-hour shifts and they are willing to negotiate. 

The company said UTC Aerospace Systems will remain open and operate as normal. 

“We have robust contingency plans in place and do not expect the strike to affect our customers or suppliers,” UTC Aerospace Systems said in a statement.

The company added that negotiations are on-going and said “we are committed to reaching a successful outcome with the Union.”

While air travel is resuming from the southeastern United States, passengers are still dealing with major delays and canceled flights. 

But things are starting to return to normal and those who had been down south during the storm said they are relieved to be home. 

Joanna Duclos and her husband arrived at Bradley International Airport after staying in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina during the storm. 

“Rainy and windy a little bit, but nothing like we expected. We were riding the storm out. Fortunately, we lucked out,” said Duclos. 

The Ducloses jumped on the first non-stop flight from Myrtle Beach to Hartford as Spirit Airlines resumed operations on Sunday. 

That airline, along with others, had shut down in Myrtle Beach for three days due to Florence. 

“We were supposed to fly back (Saturday). Our flight got cancelled, so we rescheduled for (Sunday) and there were just a handful on our plane,” said Duclos. 

Also headed to Connecticut were a lot of weary travelers from Charlotte, North Carolina who dealt with long flight delays on Sunday. 

“Charlotte is just some power outages and a lot of rain, little bit of wind. Mostly rain and flooding,” said Mark Kury of Charlotte. 

Kury has family living in hard-hit Wilmington. 

“They actually can’t get back, so Wilmington is without power and flooding pretty bad. So my brother, my brother’s girlfriend and girlfriend’s mother are staying with me since Wednesday night right before the storm hit,” said Kury. 

Many are realizing that the effects of Florence won’t be over anytime soon. 

“It’s going to be a lot of flooding in low-lying areas. So it’s a lot of flash flood warnings,” said Kury.

Dozens of people gathered on the Enfield town green Sunday to remember Justin Brady, a junior at Enfield High School, who died last week. 

The 16-year-old’s classmates, community members and his older brother, Sean, attended the vigil. 

“My brother had a way of listening and actually caring when people talked to him. He gave you his all,” Sean Brady said.  

Enfield police said Justin Brady was stabbed to death after going to fight another teen on Hoover Lane. 

Police have arrested 18-year-old Shyhiem “Trey” Adams, who is charged with first-degree manslaughter.

On Sunday, Justin Brady’s loved ones laid flowers, prayed and wrote messages on balloons. 

“Forever in my heart. Rest Easy,” one message said. 

And then the crowd released balloons to the blue skies above in remembrance and also as a promise to be there for the teen’s family, which appreciates the support. 

“It meant a lot because it shows there’s a lot people that care about my brother and a lot of people are hurting because he was such a good, kind-hearted person,” Sean Brady said. 

Adams is being held on a $750,000 bond and he’s expected in court on Sept. 24. 

Southington police have arrested a man who is accused of leaving a child alone in a McDonald’s restaurant and they said he was found with heroin and cocaine and appeared to be under the influence of drugs.

Officers responded to the to McDonald’s on Queen Street Sunday after receiving a report that a man was there with a child who appeared to be around 6 years old and the adult appeared to be under the influence of drugs, according to police. 

Police said the man had left the child alone at a table and went and sat in his vehicle.

As police investigated, they found 29-year-old Wallace Hart, of Manchester, with heroin and cocaine, according to a news release from police.

He was charged with possession of a controlled substance and risk of injury to a minor.

Police have not identified the relationship between Hart and the child to protect the child’s identity.

A relative was called and responded to take the child. 

A seven-alarm inferno tore through a multi-level parking garage at Brooklyn's Kings Plaza Shopping Center Monday, enveloping the entire area in thick smoke, engulfing multiple vehicles and leaving more than a dozen people hurt.

A call about the fire in the parking garage at the mall on Avenue U and Flatbush Avenue came in shortly before 9 a.m. Monday. The blaze quickly escalated from a two-alarm to a four-alarm fire, then became a six-alarm inferno within an hour. By 11:15 a.m., it was a seven-alarm blaze. Seventeen people, 15 of them firefighters, suffered non life-threatening injuries.

Citizen app video showed smoke spewing from the garage as bystanders crowded near emergency vehicles, seeking shelter from the shroud of smoke.

It was not clear if criminality was suspected, nor was it known how many cars may have been involved. The garage holds about 4,000 spaces. More than a half-dozen MTA bus lines were running with delays in the area because of the FDNY activity. The department said more than 200 of its members responded.

A mall spokesperson said to avoid the area until further notice. The plaza was closed. 

Kings Plaza has more than 120 stores, including Macy's, Best Buy, Sears, H&M, Michael Kors, Express and Foot Locker. 

In 2013, it became the subject of a controversial order that temporarily banned people younger than 18 without the presence of an adult after hundreds of teens attacked patrons and vandalized the shopping center, forcing it to shut down. 

No one was ultimately charged in that fray, nor was anyone hurt. 

The DMV Express that opened at West Haven City Hall earlier this year will be open more days and for longer hours, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.  

Starting Tuesday, the licensing service center go from be open two days a week until 3:30 p.m. to be open four days a week and it will remain open later on Thursday evenings. 

The center will be open Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 

West Haven’s Chamber of Commerce operated the center, which is located in the lower level of City Hall at 355 Main St. in West Haven. 

The services the West Haven DMV Express provides include verified driver's license renewals, for U.S. citizens only; regular driver's license renewals, for U.S. citizens only; verified identification card renewals, for U.S. citizens only; regular identification card renewals, for U.S. citizens only; duplicate drivers' licenses, ID cards, and learner's permits; and name changes on driver licenses, ID cards and learner's permits. 

Non-U.S. citizens who were issued regular driver’s licenses before Oct. 4, 2011 may be processed at a DMV partner office.

Actor Paul Giamatti returned to his native New Haven over the weekend and enjoyed some New Haven style pizza. 

Giamatti, who was born in New Haven, stopped at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, ordered two pizzas -- Pepe’s White Clam Pizza and a pizza with sausage and mushrooms – and took time to pose for a photo while he was there. 

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Giamatti graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1985.  He graduated from Yale in 1989 and earned his MFA in 1994. 

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Giamatti’s extensive acting career launched in 1990 and his most recent role is as Chuck Roads in the Showtime show, “Billions.”

A mourning father in Brazil took to Facebook over the weekend to express his grief over the death of his 26-year-old son, who was killed in a shark attack off a Cape Cod beach Saturday.

"Son … you left me. I can’t feel the earth under my feet and have no will to live. Now, nothing has meaning to me anymore. God took away my reason for living and my tears are drying up," Itamar Medici wrote in the heartbreaking post. "Life isn’t worth living for nothing makes sense …. I love you for all eternity!"

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Arthur Medici was riding a boogie board, enjoying the last weekend of summer on Saturday when tragedy struck at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet. A shark bit his leg and pulled him under water, according to his friend and future brother-in-law, Issac Rocha, who was with him during the attack.

"I already heard him screaming and I saw a lot of blood in the water and I saw, like, the shark’s tail," 16-year-old Rocha said Monday in a phone interview with the "Today" show.

Rocha rushed to his friend's aid and towed Medici's body to the shore.

"I got him onto shore and he, he wasn’t moving anymore," Rocha said.

Joe Booth, a fisherman who was at the scene, said he was on shore when he saw Medici kick something behind him, then saw what looked like a tail in the water.

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"All of a sudden, somebody yelled 'shark, shark!' and we noticed a big crowd at the end of the beach," Tony Sherwell, a beachgoer said.

Medici was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, where he later died.

"We are in a trance-like state because we lost a golden child," Medici's stepfather, Marcio Araujo Passos, told Brazilian news outlet OGlobo. "It was a fatality. We are facing a rough road ahead."

Medici moved to the U.S. from Brazil four years ago to pursue a degree in engineering, OGlobo reported. He was a student at Bunker Hill Community College and worked as a pizza delivery driver for a local restaurant.

His stepfather said Medici, who lived with his aunt Marisa Medici in Revere, Massachusetts, when he first arrived in the U.S., had gotten his own place and was "very happy." 

"His mom was just there [in the U.S.] visiting him. She spend all of July with him. Our plan was to eventually move there,” Passos said.

"We're all taking it really hard, especially his parents," said Medici's cousin, Sarah Medici Coutinho. "He loved to surf. We knew it was dangerous, we knew that there were sharks around the area. We would ask him not to go — my mom would ask him especially not to go sometimes — but he loved to surf."

Passos said Medici was also recently engaged and planned on marrying in 2019, OGlobo reported.

"They were talking about marriage," Medici Coutinho said. "They were ready to spend the rest of their lives together and they were a really happy couple, so she's definitely going through a really tough time."

Medici grew up in the coastal beach town of Vila Velha in the state of Espirito Santo, about 300 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Passos said Medici loved aquatic sports and was an avid body surfer.

"Arthur was athletic and began surfing young," Passos said. "He always went to this beach to surf. We were informed that there had been a shark attack there, but the last one was in 1936, more than 80 years ago."

The victim's devastated family said they are in a state of disbelief. 

Medici's aunt, Marisa Medici, his father's sister, told the Boston Herald that she had begged her nephew to stay away from Cape Cod waters, but he laughed off her concerns.

"The sharks don't bite me. I'm Superman," she said he told her.

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His cousin Rosi Gava, who lives in Boston, posted a video on social media asking the online community for donations to help pay for the cost to transfer Medici’s body back to Brazil.

The state's medical examiner's office is expected to perform an autopsy on Monday. Medici’s body is slated to return to Brazil on Friday, but Passos said the family is in communication with the Brazilian Consulate in Boston to have it possibly released sooner. His wake and funeral are scheduled for Wednesday in Saugus.

All beaches in Wellfleet and neighboring Truro were closed following the fatal attack as officials work to identify the species of shark that attacked Medici. Coast Guard Beach in Eastham was also temporarily closed Sunday following a shark sighting.

Saturday's attack was the third fatal shark attack in the world this year, with the other two occurring in Brazil and Egypt, according to Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research and curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

There have been 39 confirmed unprovoked shark bites worldwide this year, including 22 in the U.S., most of them on the East Coast, Naylor said.

Arthur Medici's family is accepting online donations to cover his funeral expenses. If you would like to help, you may do so here. GoFundMe deducts 2.9 percent of any funds raised, plus 30 cents per donation for payment processing charges.

NBC's Danielle Abreu contributed to this report.

A number of trains between Manhattan and Queens were experiencing service disruptions and cancellations Monday afternoon due to "urgent track repairs" in the N, R and W tunnel connecting the boroughs, the MTA said.

The MTA announced the "urgent repairs" just after noon, suspending service of the N train between Queensboro Plaza and 57th Street-7th Avenue in both directions and also shutting down W service entirely.

Some northbound R and N trains were being diverted along the Q or F lines.

Service to all lines was restored within about two and a half hours, shortly before 3 p.m., but the MTA cautioned there were lingering delays. 

Get real-time transit updates from all your key commute sources below. 

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President Donald Trump said Monday that the vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court may take longer than expected following a woman's claim that the judge sexually assaulted her at a party when they were both in high school.

Fire crews are fighting a fire at a building on Whiting Street in New Britain on Monday afternoon.

The fire is at the New Britain Heat Treating Corporation. Since there's oil in the building, firefighters are fighting the flames with fire suppression foam and are using a defensive operation. Officials are also concerned that the roof of the building may collapse. 

According to fire officials, the fire started shortly before 4 p.m. It is unclear if the building was occupied when the fire began.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has been notified and is heading to the scene.

No injuries have been reported.

The cause of the fire is not yet known.

It has been a long journey for dozens of newly naturalized American citizens.

Fifty people from 32 different countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens at the Hartford Public Library on Monday.

Jean Medina is one of them. He’s originally from Colombia. He now lives in Middletown, and he is studying psychology at Southern Connecticut State University.

“I came here when I was ten,” said Medina. “Today I’m 20 years old. I’m mainly doing it for school—to be somebody. I’m very lucky and glad that after 10 years of being in the country to have the opportunity to be a citizen.”

The library, which has a large and active immigration services department, has hosted several naturalization ceremonies in the past.

A Silver Alert has been issued for a man who has Alzheimer's and is missing from Hartford on Monday afternoon, police said.

According to police, 62-year-old James Rivera was last seen on Monday at 9:30 a.m. at his residence in the Bristol Street area in Hartford. He was wearing a blue polo shirt and gray shorts.

Officers said Rivera suffers from early stage Alzheimer's and has been reported missing previously. He is not considered a danger to himself or others.

Rivera is described as a man who is 5'9" and weighs 180 pounds. He is bald and has brown eyes.

If you know the whereabouts of Rivera, you're asked to call Hartford Police at (860) 757-4000.

Police have canceled Silver Alerts for two boys who were missing from Waterbury on Monday.

Silver Alerts were issued for 6-year-old Isaiah Vazquez and 5-year-old Zaiden Vazquez after they were reported missing on Monday. The Silver Alerts were canceled Monday night after they were found. 

Officers did not release information about where the two boys were found. 

Isaiah was described as a boy who is 3'11" tall and weighs 58 pounds. Zaiden was described as being 3'6" tall and weighs 66 pounds. Both boys have black hair and brown eyes.

Construction of New Haven’s new boathouse has been visible to drivers on Interstate 95 by Long Wharf.

Local leaders and community members gathered Monday morning for a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the opening of the Canal Dock Boathouse.

“It is just such a joy to see a vision come true,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-New Haven), who helped secure federal funding for the project.

The boathouse is a two-story facility with storage bays and a new dock for boats to launch into the harbor, but there’s also an event space upstairs and exhibits throughout on the history of New Haven’s waterfront.

“We celebrate this innovated facility which pays tribute to New Haven’s rich maritime history,” Mayor Toni Harp said.

The $40 million facility was funded with state and federal money, officials said.

“Nearly $14 million to make a platform here that was solid and could withstand tidal surges and flooding,” said Karyn Gilvarg, New Haven’s former City Plan Director who worked on the project from its inception.

“It has a lot of interpretive displays like this photograph to help people understand the history of the harbor,” she added.

The Canal Dock Boathouse replaces the historic Adee Memorial Boathouse built by Yale in 1911. It had to be demolished a decade ago to make way for the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge.

Salvaged pieces of the old boathouse like the front entrance, a fire place and bulldog gargoyles have been incorporated into the new boathouse.

The City of New Haven owns the boathouse, but non-profit Canal Dock Boathouse, Inc. is in charge of the activities, such as rowing, sailing and dragon boat racing.

“We’ve been tasked with offering affordable access,” CDBI president John Pescatore said.

Now that the boathouse is open, Pescatore said the goal is to expand programs in New Haven Public Schools.

“If we’re lucky we’ll have 15 to 20 kids here on Thursday taking their first paddle in the dragon boat launching from this dock,” he said.

Gilvarg told NBC Connecticut she may sign up for a rowing lesson.

“I did do the dragon races,” she said. “They come around every year in June and I’d love to do more of that and maybe even learn how to row in a single shell.”

The University of New Haven plans to use space in the facility for its marine science program.

There will be an open house and community day with lots of family activities at the Canal Dock Boathouse on Saturday September 22.

Is there a mold problem at East Hartford High School? Some teachers and students are worried mold is making them sick.

It was teachers who contacted NBC Connecticut anonymously, afraid of punishment for speaking out. They told us students and staff have been ill and complaining to school officials of respiratory symptoms related to humidity and mold exposure.

The school district handed over a new air quality report, they say was done by an outside environmental agency clearing them of mold issues in any classroom. Monday, NBC Connecticut learned at least one classroom is closed right now because of this very issue.

Kevin Arzola is a senior at East Hartford High School. “That looks not good, in all my years here haven’t seen that!”

But other students and staff from inside East Hartford High School shared photos of moldy keyboards, ceiling tiles and pictures of more mold on equipment and in the hallways. They say the pictures were taken in the last three weeks. Arzola saw a handful of students taking precaution on Monday.

Arzola told NBC Connecticut, “people (students) have been wearing masks, like I’ve seen 4 people telling me there’s mold in the classroom and they’re not allowed to teach in there, so they have to teach in the library.”

That first floor classroom, room number 102, according to district officials, was closed Friday because of mold, and kept closed Monday as a precaution, even after the mold was disinfected and removed. Junior Makyia Bryant says she’s seen the fungus and is worried for her health.

“There’s mold that’s been growing in the classes and right now I’m sick and don’t know if it’s because of the mold, but teachers have been calling out sick because of the mold,” she said.

This memo from Principal Matthew Ryan to parents acknowledges surface mold and mildew growth because of the oppressive humidity in recent weeks, that custodial staff has worked hard he says to address, which this concerned dad is happy to hear.

"My daughter, she has sinus problems and her sinus problems might be worse due to mold,” said Thomas Blade.

In the same letter, Principal Ryan also references an air quality testing report of 10 classrooms, offices, the library and two loading docks outside that the district had done on September 10.

Ryan telling parents “we are pleased to see that none of the classrooms tested had counts higher than outdoor “control” samples and as such, there is no air quality issues for students or staff.

“If they don’t think it’s dangerous, actually not dangerous I feel like they’ve done a fine job, but if it’s actually harming people they should do better,” Junior Bryant added.

According to that same report by TRC Solutions in Windsor, their only issue was with House 11, the office for 11th grade students. It cited higher concentrations of aspergillus:penicillium fungal spores, ten times more than what was found by the loading docks tested outside that same day.

Bryant admits that's concerning, “I feel like school needs to do better with that.”

The superintendent's office notes there have been no complaints near that 11th grade office.

"House 11 is an office area which had an reading of one type of spores greater than the outside sample. Ironically, there were no complaints from this area, it was chosen for the test as a "control" area. TRC's advice to us was to just inspect the area to make sure there was not a source present. The space was thoroughly inspected and no source found. It is a ground level space which gets its fresh air from a vent right near a mulched landscape bed, and this may have led to a higher reading at that point in time. In aggregate, the spore count was well below action level, and again there were no complaints from that area," the superintendent's office said.

The superintendent of schools did not respond to NBC Connecticut's requests to interview on camera.

The principal and director of facilities met with staff on Monday.

There are no federal or state standards for acceptable or hazardous levels of spore counts. The most recent air quality report submitted to the state in 2016, marked all checkboxes off as “good.”

Members of the school board, including chairman Bryan Hall did not respond for comment, neither did the teacher's union representative Annie Irvine.

We know you are thinking about family, friends and strangers who have been impacted by Hurricane Florence.

NBC Connecticut and Telemundo Connecticut are proud to connect you with a way to help those devastated by Hurricane Florence.

On Thursday, September 20, NBC Connecticut, Telemundo Connecticut and the American Red Cross will be accepting your tax-deductible monetary donations at three Big Y Supermarket locations across Connecticut. Come meet the team from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

To direct your donation specifically to Hurricane Florence Relief, checks must be made out to American Red Cross, with “Hurricane Florence Relief” written in the memo line. Only cash and checks will be accepted.

Come to these Big Y Supermarkets between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.:

• WEST HARTFORD: Crossroads Plaza, 772 North Main Street

• MANCHESTER: 234 Tolland Turnpike

• NORTH HAVEN: 345 Washington Avenue

If you can’t get to one of these locations, you can still help by donating through the Red Cross website. You can also donate by text, mail, or phone.  Click here for the details. 

People along the southeastern shoreline were taking in every last ounce of summer Monday, whether soaking up the sun, going for a swim or getting their favorite shoreline treat.

Especially since heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Florence are expected Tuesday.

“We’re trying to hold onto it as long as we can,” said Stacy Mayo, of Pomfret.

Since her kids are home schooled, Mayo thought she’d give them a break from the books to enjoy the sand and the sun at Rocky Neck State Park.

That’s how Ryan Kempton is spending his day off, too.

“Trying to get some sun. Trying to get a little more tan before it all goes away,” Kempton said.

The South Windsor local collected rocks to bring home. He loves to skip them with his kids.

Mark Harlow and his daughter took full advantage of the water, especially after he saw next week’s forecast is cooler and more fall-like.

“I came in from Colorado two days ago so it’s nice to be on the water. There’s no ocean in Colorado,” Harlow said.

Over in Old Lyme, shoreline businesses like Black Hall Outfitters are still seeing many people rent paddleboards, kayaks and canoes.

“It’s post Labor Day, the kids are back in school, but we’ve had some really beautiful weather here,” said manager Sean McMahon.

On Sunday, his parking lot was packed.

“We’ll continue to send people out (on the water) as long as there are sunny days to be had. So the longer that happens, the longer we’re open for business,” McMahon said.

But all good things must come to an end. A.C. Petersen Drive-In down the road is closing for the season next Wednesday, Sept. 26. They too are seeing a lot of people come by, trying to get that last taste of summer.

“We get the calls, ‘You guys open?’ ‘Yeah, we’re open. Come get your ice cream!’ You know, that’s like the late-night treat for everyone,” manager Dante James said.