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Heavy Smoke Visible from Waterbury Fire

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Firefighters are responding to a fire in the area of West Grove Street in Waterbury and heavy smoke is visible from Waterbury sky cams.

An NBC Connecticut crew is on the way to the scene.

No additional information was immediately available.



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Amazing Video Shows Seal Slapping Kayaker With an Octopus

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Talk about a slap in the face.

A kayaker in New Zealand testing out a newly launched camera captured amazing video of a seal whacking a fellow kayaker in the face with an octopus.

Taiyo Masuda told NBC News the group was on a GoPro-funded kayaking trip off the coast of Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island to test the company's new Hero 7 Black camera on Sept. 22.

Masuda said around lunch time, the seals began to swim around them looking for food.

"One seal swims right next to us, having an octopus in his mouth, pops right up off the surface next to us, then tries to chew up the leg but ended up slapping our face," Masuda told NBC.

Video shows the seal springing out of the water with the octopus clutched in its mouth, and then clobbering kayaker Kyle Mulinder in the face with its lunch.

"That was mental," Masuda can be heard saying in the video.

Masuda told NBC the raw moment brought the group a lot of laughter all day long and the day is one they'll never forget. 

"I’ve never had such an amazing kayak everrrrr!!" Masuda wrote in an Instagram post of the video.



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Officer Delivers Baby for South Windsor Couple

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A South Windsor police officer came to the aid of an expectant mom who went into labor at her home and he helped deliver a baby girl. 

Police said dispatchers received a 911 call Wednesday from a husband and wife who were expecting their second baby when the mother went into labor. 

Officer Scott Madore arrived at the home within minutes and delivered a healthy baby girl, police said. Dispatcher Christine Meyerhan helped with the delivery, according to police. 

An ambulance transported the mom and baby to an area hospital and police said all are reported to be doing well.



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Three Injured in Danbury Crash

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Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Danbury early Thursday morning.

Emergency crews responded to Duchess Restaurant on Mill Plain Road at 12:20 a.m. after the crash Fire and EMS crews found three injured peoples, including one who needed to be extricated from a vehicle, according to the Danbury Fire Department.

All three people were transported.

Emergency crews remained at the scene until around 2 a.m.



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3 Shot in Hartford Wednesday Night

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Police are investigating after three people were shot in two separate incidents in Hartford Wednesday night. 

Police said shot spotter went off at 8:55 p.m. after a gunshot was fired on Wethersfield Avenue and officers found a 49-year-old man who had been shot in the leg. He was uncooperative with the investigation, police said. 

At 10:05 p.m., a shot spotter detected three rounds fired near Park and Zion streets and patrol officers find casings and damage to a vehicle. 

Minutes later, a 46-year-old victim arrived at Hartford Hospital with a gunshot to the knee and dispatchers were notified that a 26-year-old man had arrived at St. Francis Hospital with a superficial gunshot wound to the chest and arm, police said. 

Both victims of the second shooting said they didn’t see or know who shot them nor did they want to cooperate with investigators, according to police. 

Police said there is no evidence that the two shootings were connected.

Ohio Woman Says She Survived Car Explosion 'For a Reason'

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After an Ohio woman’s car exploded as she drove through a neighborhood parking lot, Loretta Gray is healing from her third-degree burns, certain she survived “for a reason.” 

“I’m here for a reason; I don’t know what it is. Somewhere, someone needs me in their life,” Gray told NBC affiliate WLWT.

Gray had attended a cooking class at the Evanston Recreation Center in Cincinnati on Monday when the blast happened. She left and got in her car, where she had a propane tank that she was planning to return to the store. The tank was in the vehicle about three hours. 

Gray said she remembers “driving perhaps 20 feet and boom.” 

Surveillance video shows the moment Gray’s car exploded. Flames rip through the walls of the car and pieces of the vehicle shoot into the air. Windows are blown out and debris covers the street.

Gray told WLWT the blast was “really powerful,” and she wasn’t even sure if she was still alive in the moment. 

Cincinnati fire officials said the propane tank led to the explosion and they are investigating what set off the tank. 

Cincinnati police officer Perry Locke said he was just a few feet away from the explosion and “felt the sheer force.” 

“It was almost like it reverberated through me,” he told the station. “From the force of the boom, it took me a second to collect myself.” 

Locke sprang into action to help Gray out of the wreckage. When he got to her, he said she couldn’t see or hear after the blast.

“I saw her crawling to the passenger’s window, trying to get out. There was so much damage, it wasn’t going to open. So we had to get her through the window,” Locke said. 

Gray was taken to the hospital with third-degree burns on her face and arms. Now recovering at home, she says her injuries are “just superficial.”

“This will heal,” she said. “My life will go on.”



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Boy Scouts Recalls Neckerchief Slides Due to High Levels of Lead

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The Boy Scouts of America is recalling 110,000 neckerchief slides over concerns they contain unsafe levels of lead.

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the colored enamel portion of the brass neckerchief slides have lead amounts that exceed federal standards. 

The recalled styles are red wolf, green bear, orange lion and blue Webelos. They contain the P.O. numbers of 200228276, 20023175, 200233281 or 200236630 on the white label attached to the back of the slide.

The brass slides were sold at Boy Scouts of America retail stores, distributors nationwide and online at www.scoutshop.org from February 2018 to August 2018 for about $6.

Parents are urged to stop using the recalled slides, take them away from their children and return them to any Boy Scouts of America retail store or distributor for a free replacement.

Lead can be poisonous when ingested by young children. Symptoms include abdominal pain, vomiting, loss of appetite, developmental delays, learning difficulties and seizures. 

The CPSC noted that no incidents have been reported.



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Police Investigate Bank Robbery in Berlin

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Police are investigating a robbery at People’s United Bank in Berlin and they are looking for the man who committed it.

Police said the robbery happened Tuesday at the People’s United Bank at Stop & Shop at 1135 Farmington Ave.

The robber, a tall, slender man in his 50s, was wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a dark green or blue hat that might have had a Seattle Seahawk logo on the front, according to police.

He was also wearing a brown hooded zip-up Carhartt style jacket, relaxed blue jeans and dark Adidas sneakers.

He did not show or imply a weapon, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lieutenant Jobes at (860) 828-7088 or Detective Scott Schreiner at (860) 828-7193.



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'This Is Hard': #MeToo Founder Attends Ford's Senate Hearing

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The founder of the #MeToo movement is behind Christine Blasey Ford Thursday, sitting in the hearing room as Ford testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee on her sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Tarana Burke tweeted from the Dirksen Senate Building and shared a photo of her view from the audience. Using the hashtags #WeBelieveDrFord and #WeBelieveSurvivors, she expressed support for Ford during her emotional opening statement

“Listening to this women’s voice shake as she pushes through this moment…my heart,” the New York-based activist wrote. 

“This is hard,” Burke wrote in a separate tweet as questioning began. 

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Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation is in jeopardy after Ford accused the judge of sexually assaulting her when they were teens in the 1980s. Burke is one of many public figures who has said she believes Ford’s claim. 

Burke launched the #MeToo movement about a decade ago to show solidarity with those affected by sexual assault and to help empower them. The hashtag and movement has gained monumental steam this year as men and women come forward with their own experiences of sexual misconduct. 

Burke specifically referenced committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who apologized to both Ford and Kavanaugh in his opening statement “for the way you’ve been treated.” Ford and Kavanaugh have both said they’ve faced attacks on their character, past and credibility after Ford’s claim was made public. Grassley also blamed Democrats for making Ford’s allegation public so late in the confirmation process. 

“I didn’t come here for civil disobedience but Grassley is wearing me thin…” Burke tweeted.

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Actress Alyssa Milano was also sitting behind Ford. She tweeted photos from the hearing room and wrote, "I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford."

Milano has has helped propel the #MeToo movement into the national spotlight this last year and has shared her own stories of sexual assault. After President Donald Trump questioned why Ford didn't report her assault at the time she said it happened, Milano offered herself an example of other women not reporting assaults. She tweeted details of an attack she said happened as a teen and said it took her 30 years to tell her parents. Many others also used the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport.

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Watch Christine Blasey Ford's Full Opening Statement

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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford gave her opening statement Thursday, recounting her allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during a high school party.

'You Can Do It!': Fans Cheer on Rat Trying to Jump Wrigley Field Wall

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The home crowd at Chicago’s Wrigley Field were left rooting for an unexpected underdog — or under-rat — at Wednesday night’s game.

Dubbed "Wrigley rat," the rodent with serious determination won over Cubs fans’ hearts as it tried several times to leap from fencing above the ivy onto a wall in the outfield.

Video of the scene posted to social media showed the rat trying to make the leap at least three times as onlookers cheered it on. 

"You can do it!" one person can be heard saying in the video.

Eventually, to the excitement of many fans, the rat narrowly made it over the ledge and onto the grass between stands. 

Go, Wrigley rat, go! 

The Cubs clinched a playoff spot Wednesday night and their 10th-inning win preserved their slim lead over the Milwaukee Brewers in the Central Division.



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Ford: '100 Percent' Certain Kavanaugh Assaulted Her in High School

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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked how certain Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was that Judge Brett Kavanaugh was the one who assaulted her in high school. Ford replied she was “100 percent” certain.

Crews Respond To Chemical Incident in Windsor Locks

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Crews were called to respond to a chemical spill at Liberty Power in Windsor Locks on Thursday.

Officials from Windsor Locks said some chemicals were accidentally mixed and it caused a vapor cloud over the building, which is south of Canal Bank on Elm Street. 

The building was evacuated and no one was injured.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story said the incident took place at Ahlstrom Mills based on information provided to us by fire officials.



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Here Are Notable Moments From the Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing

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Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, recounted the attack to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, telling senators that she remembered Kavanaugh and another boy laughing with each other while she feared that Kavanaugh was going to rape her at a gathering at a suburban Washington, D.C., home.

Ford, now a 51-year-old professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, testified for the first time about the events.

Kavanaugh, who is to appear later today, has been accused of sexual misconduct by three other women since Ford came forward. One accusation from 1998 is anonymous. Kavanaugh denies the allegations.

Democrats are questioning Ford themselves but Republicans on the committee, all men, have hired a lawyer to do the questioning for them: Rachel Mitchell, an experienced sex crimes prosecutor.

Here are some notable moments from the first part of the hearing, which has threatened to derail what previously seemed a smooth path to confirmation for Kavanaugh.

“Uproarious Laughter”
Ford, after describing the alleged attack in her opening statement, was asked for her strongest memory of what had happened at the gathering.

“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense,” she answered.

“They were laughing with each other,” Ford said of Kavanaugh and Mark Judge, the second man she said was in the bedroom when Kavanaugh pushed her onto a bed, began grinding his body against her, tried to undress her and covered her mouth to stifle her screams.

“And you were the object of the laughter?” Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democrat from Vermont, asked.

“I was underneath one of them while the two laughed — two friends having a really good time with one another,” Ford said.

Meeting Mark Judge Again
Ford testified that she encountered Mark Judge, now an author and journalist, after the attack while at the Potomac Village Safeway with her mother. Because she was a teenager, she wanted to enter through a different door than her mother, she said.

“I chose the wrong door,” she said, and she met Judge arranging the shopping carts.

She said hello and noted that he was very uncomfortable saying hello back.

“His face was white,” she said.

Ford, whose account has been criticized because of a lack of some details, said she thought she could better try to determine when the attack occurred if she knew when Judge had worked at the Safeway.

Democrats on the committee have demanded that the FBI investigate the allegations and that Judge testify before the committee but they have been so far rebuffed by the majority of Republican members.

“Mark Judge should be subpoenaed from his Bethany Beach hideaway,” Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democrat from Illinois, said.

A Washington Post reporter this week tracked down Judge to a friend’s house in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

“How’d you find me?” Judge asked the reporter.

Judge’s lawyer told the Post that Judge was a recovering alcoholic under unbelievable stress who for the sake of his health needed to get away and take care of himself.

Charges of a Cover-Up
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat, asked Ford about her assessment that she could better determine when the gathering took place if she knew when Judge worked at the Safeway grocery store.

“Would you like Mark Judge to be interviewed in connection with the background investigation and the serious credible allegations that you make?” he asked.

“That would be my preference,” she said. “I’m not sure it’s really up to me but I certainly would feel like I could be more helpful to everyone if I knew the date that he worked at the Safeway so I could give a more specific date of the assault.”

“Well it’s not up to you,” Blumenthal said. “It’s up to the president of the United States and his failure to ask for an FBI investigation in my view is tantamount to a cover-up.”

Taking a Lie Detector Test 
Ford took a polygraph as part of her allegations against Kavanaugh and the location for the test, the Baltimore Washington International Airport, became the subject of one line of questioning.

“Why was that location chosen for the polygraph?” Mitchell asked.

“I had left my grandmother's funeral at Fort Lincoln Cemetery that day and was on tight schedule to get a plane to Manchester, New Hampshire,” Ford answered. “So he was willing to come to me, which was appreciated.”

“So he administered a polygraph on the day you attended your grandmother's funeral?” Mitchell asked.

“Correct,” she answered. “Or it might have been the next day. I spent the night in the hotel so I don't remember the exact day.”

Her lawyers said that they had paid for the polygraph, as was routine, and were working pro bono, but Ford could not say whether costs would be eventually passed on to her. 

“I'm not sure yet,” Ford said. “I haven't taken a look at all of the costs involved in this. We've relocated now twice so I haven't kept track of all of that paperwork, but I'm sure I have a lot of work to do to catch up on all of that later.”

She said as part of another exchange with Mitchell that she was aware some GoFundMe accounts had been created but did not know how to access them.

“Several what?” Mitchell asked.

“GoFundMe sites that have raised money primarily for our security detail so I'm not even quite sure how to collect that money or how to distribute it yet,” Ford said. “I haven't been able to focus on that.”

“When we left off…”

The hearing’s format was less than conducive for smooth questioning by Mitchell. The Republican senators had all turned over their five minutes to Mitchell, but because Republicans and Democrats alternated, Mitchell had to repeatedly break off to allow a Democrat to go. Democrats, meanwhile, stressed repeatedly that the hearing was not a trial.

At the end, Mitchell asked Ford if she was aware of the best way to interview victims of trauma.

“Would you believe me if I told you that there’s no study that says this setting, in five-minute increments, is the best way to do that?” Mitchell asked to laughter.

Mitchell said that the recommended approach was one-on-one with a trained interviewer in a private setting, and asked whether anyone had advised such an interview. Ford said no one had.

“Instead, you were advised to get an attorney and take a polygraph, is that right?” Mitchell asked.

“Many people advised me to get an attorney,” Ford said. “Once I had an attorney, my attorney and I discussed using the polygraph.”

“And instead of submitting to an interview in California, we're having a hearing here today in five-minute increments, is that right?”

“I agree that's what was agreed upon by the collegial group here,” Ford said, and with that the questioning came to a conclusion.


Veteran Sex Crimes Prosecutor Questions Ford

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Rachel Mitchell, an experienced sex crimes prosecutor hired to ask questions of Christine Blasey Ford on behalf of Republican senators on the judiciary committee, began by expressing sympathy for Ford, who’d said she was “terrified” to testify. “I just wanted to let you know, I’m very sorry. That’s not right," Mitchell said. 

'Tantamount to a Cover Up': Sen. Blumenthal Makes Case for FBI Probe of Kavanaugh Allegations

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Sen. Richard Blumnethal, D-Conn., told Christine Blasey Ford, “I believe you,” in regards to her testimony that she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh during a high school party. He said that President Donald Trump's failure to ask for an FBI probe into Ford's claims is "tantamount to a cover up."

Ford Says She Took Her Polygraph After Grandmother’s Funeral

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Christine Blasey Ford said the person who administered her polygraph met her at a hotel instead of his office because she was on a tight schedule after having attended her grandmother’s funeral. While she said she was unsure of who paid for the test, her lawyer later said that Ford’s attorneys paid for it and were working pro bono.

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Naugatuck Police Seek Information on 'Suspicious' White Van

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Naugatuck police are investigating a report of a suspicious van seen in a local neighborhood Wednesday.

Police said they were called to the area of New Street and Hillside Avenue around 3:10 p.m. for a report of a suspicious vehicle. The initial report was that people in the man may have attempted to abduct two girls.

Officers spoke with the girls, who said they had gotten off their school bus and were walking home when they saw a white utility van stop near them and a man get out of the passenger side. The girls told officers that the van seemed suspicious and that they got scared when the man got out of the van, so they ran and found help.

Officers searched the area but did not find the van or anyone matching the description of the man. Police said at this time it is unclear if the girls were actually targeted for abduction.

The vehicle was described as a white utility van and the man was described as around 25 years old, dressed in all black with a beard and wearing a hat.

Investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the event to contact Naugatuck Police at 203-729-5221 or the NPD Confidential Tip Line at 203-720-1010.



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