Saturday’s early showers will lead to a gradual clearing trend Saturday afternoon and Saturday night.

The clear skies Saturday night, along with cool high pressure will allow for temperatures to drop into the 30s.

The National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for most of the state on Saturday as temperatures drop into the middle to upper 30s. The frost advisories for northern Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, Middlesex, northern New Haven, northern New London and Tolland counties are in effect overnight Saturday into Sunday morning.

Southern Connecticut, closer to the coast, will stay warmer with temps near 40 degrees, thanks to the warming influence of Long Island Sound.

After a chilly start on Sunday morning, sunshine mixing with clouds will allow temperatures to rebound into the middle and upper 50s for the afternoon.

Get updates on the forecast anytime online here.

Police are investigating an armed robbery at a food store in Watertown on Saturday.

Officers said a woman entered the Checkers Food Store at the intersection of Falls Avenue and Sunnyside Avenue around 10:20 a.m. and showed a large knife and threatened the clerk.

She then grabbed cash from the register and threatened a customer who tried to intervene before fleeing in a vehicle on Falls Avenue towards Sylvan Lake Road, according to police.

Prior to entering the store, police believe she drove up on Edgewood Road, next to the store. She was driving a dark gray Mazda 6 with tinted windows, a loud exhaust and no front plate. The vehicle has less common, five-spoke rims and the rear plate may contain the number 1579, officers said.

The woman was wearing grey sweatpants, a dark sweatshirt and had a white towel covering her head under a winter hat and large sunglasses.

Neighbors are asked to check their residential surveillance footage for any useful images.

Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to call the Watertown Police Department at (860) 945-5200 or Crimestoppers at (860) 945-9940 for an anonymous cash reward. Police said they are only asking for information and do not want anyone to contact the woman.

A body has been recovered after a small plane crashed in the waters off the coast of the Hamptons, officials said.

The twin-engine Piper PA-34 plane went down in the waters off of Quogue around 11 a.m. on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. 

Rescuers recovered a body from the water, New York State Police said Saturday afternoon.

Local police said they believe there were three people on board the aircraft, but state police said they hadn't confirmed how many people were on the plane. 

The site of the crash is three miles southeast of the Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, the FAA said.

Emergency personnel were responding to the site of the crash, which was one or two nautical miles south of the beach, Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier told NBC 4 New York.

Debris could be seen in the water from Suffolk County. 

It was a rainy morning as a weak weather disturbance moved through the area. It wasn't immediately clear whether rain was a factor in the crash. 

A white woman set off a firestorm in a Brooklyn community and on social media after she called 911 on a black boy at a bodega, claiming he grabbed her butt -- only for surveillance video to show that he never touched her.

The woman, identified by the New York Post as Teresa Klein, was buying cat litter inside Sahari Deli Market in Flatbush Wednesday when the boy, wearing a school uniform and backpack, walked past her with his mother and younger sister, witnesses say and video shows. His backpack appeared to brush against Klein's backside. 

Klein whips her head around and begins shouting in the direction of the exiting family, surveillance video shows. She makes crude gestures at them, and the mother is seen walking back and arguing with her. 

Joni Torian, a customer who witnessed the dispute, told the Post, "The mother was right behind him when she says he grabbed her very flat behind. Ain't no mama gonna let her child sexually assault a woman. [Klein] started yelling, 'Miss, you need to watch your son, he just grabbed my ass.' It was kind of funny at first, but then she was saying, 'I will call the cops.'" 

The fight is then taken outside the store, where witnesses began recording the confrontation. In one video posted to Facebook, Klein is seen getting on her phone and saying, "I'm going to call the cops right now" -- which sends the boy and his little sister into tears. 

"Mommy!" the little girl bursts out wailing as she clings to her mother's leg.

Klein is heard saying sarcastically into the phone, as incredulous bystanders watch, "White woman calling the cops on a black lady, I get it." 

"The son grabbed my a--, and she's decided to yell at me," she tells 911 on the phone. 

The man filming the encounter shouts at Klein, "Cornerstore Caroline!" -- a reference to the meme mocking white women who call 911 to report what they consider suspicious activity by black people ("Barbecue Becky," "Permit Patty").

"That's Cornerstore Caroline! We got a new one!" the man filming proclaims. 

Another passerby shouts at Klein, "Who would want to touch your flat a--? Nobody wants to touch your flat a--!"

Klein continues speaking into the phone, saying, "I've been sexually assaulted by a child." 

She tells the 911 operator that she'll be going home to meet officers to file a report -- she gives a Prospect Park address -- and after she hangs up, she waves at the man filming and tells him, "Now why don't you upload that to World Star?" 

Another woman confronts her and asks her if she "seriously called the police on a child."

"Go away," that other woman tells Klein. 

Klein, who tells the other woman she's a police officer, replies, "No, white lady, I will not."

She adds, sarcastically, "One white girl to another, yeah, make the point to the entire audience," gesturing at the bystanders, who happen to be black. 

The cellphone video posted to Facebook Wednesday had nearly 5 million views by Friday, and more than 24,000 comments from outraged viewers. 

"Calling 911 for 'her' emergency, glad she didn't die from him 'grabbing' her a--," wrote one person. 

Many were upset to see the boy and girl in distress: "My heart hurt for those kids, especially the boy," another wrote. 

Klein returned to the deli Friday night amid the backlash to watch the surveillance video alongside local media and outraged neighbors in the community. 

"The child accidentally brushed against me," she admitted after watching the video. 

"Young man, I don't know your name, but I'm sorry," she said. 

But the apology didn't appease angry customers gathered to watch her reaction: "It's always 'sorry,'" one man shouted. "'Sorry' don't f---ing change anything. What's 'sorry' gonna do for the kid?"

It seemed to touch off even more emotional backlash among other black men inside the store. 

"Apology don't solve people's problems, man," one man said. "If it was me, I would have been incarcerated by now." 

Homeowners with crumbling foundations are one step closer to getting state aid.

More than 700 homeowners have filed complaints with the state saying they have crumbling concrete basements. The state is responding by making millions of dollars available to help, but getting ahold of that aid money is going to be difficult.

It was an emotional morning on Saturday at Ellington High School. Hundreds of homeowners with crumbling concrete basements packed the auditorium to learn how they may qualify for an estimated $20 million in aid this coming fiscal year.

The man in charge of distributing the funds said there simply isn't enough money to tackle more than eight replacement projects in the first quarter. He asked the audience for suggestions.

A state investigation attributed the crumbling concrete crisis to a naturally occurring mineral contaminant in a local quarry. Many of the estimates to replace basements have exceeded $200 thousand.

"I just don't have that kind of cash on hand to be able to fix that, even if they gave me a portion of it, it would not be enough," said Hallie Westcott, of Manchester.

Westcott wants elected officials to place more pressure on FEMA and private insurance companies to step in.

"If I can't get the funds to fix it and the house is not going to be habitable, then I can't stay there and I'll have to walk away," she said.

The Captive Insurance Company is hoping to begin accepting applications for aid as early as November 15 and is anticipating more money to become available.

Route 189 in Bloomfield has reopened after a multi-car crash closed it for part of the morning on Sunday.

Police said the four-car crash closed both sides of Route 189 to Elm Street, at the Simsbury town line. 

The road has since reopened.

It is unclear if anyone was injured. 

Sen. Marco Rubio warned Sunday that America's "moral credibility" is at risk if it fails in its response to suspected Saudi involvement in the disappearance and possible killing of a Washington Post columnist in Turkey.

Appearing on "Meet the Press" Sunday, the Florida Republican, a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that if Saudi involvement is proven, the response must be strong and swift to ensure America's moral standing.

"Our ability to call Putin a murderer — because he is; our ability to call Assad a murderer — because he is; our ability to confront Maduro in Venezuela or any of these other human rights atrocities like what we see in China, all of that is undermined and compromised if we somehow decide that because an ally who was important did that, we are not going to call it out," Rubio said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

And John Brennan, the former CIA director who previously served as a CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia, said Sunday that it would be "inconceivable that such an operation would be run by the Saudis without the knowledge of the day-to-day decision-maker of Saudi Arabia, that's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."

Firefighters are trying to figure out how an oxygen tank combusted inside of a home in North Haven and set that home on fire early Sunday morning.

The fire began in the front living room on the first floor of a single family home on Standish Avenue shortly after 3:30 a.m. It then spread to the second floor, firefighters said.

All five people that were inside of the home were able to escape safely.

It took firefighters about an hour to get the fire under control, but fire officials said the house is now uninhabitable.

The oxygen tank that exploded is used by one of the residents for medical needs.

Investigators are going through the rubble to determine what went wrong.

"A lot of this is a matter of interviewing all of the occupants of the home, trying to determine what they saw, what they did on their way out, and so forth, how they were alerted to the fire," said North Haven Fire Chief Paul Januszewski. 

Fire officials said there is no threat to the community.

About 30 New London area firefighters battled a house fire on Squire Street on Sunday night. An emergency call came in at about 7:30 p.m. to report flames and smoke overtaking a two-family home.

"The flames were pretty big. It was an eye-opener for everyone," said Dylon Talaba, who ran out of his home to find his neighbor's house burning up fast. "It was starting to simmer down a little bit but then it picked back up again."

Firefighters said they arrived to find large flames on the front porch of 89 and 91 Squire St. quickly climbing up into the attic. The six people who live at the home - including at least two children kids - got out safely, according to fire officials.

 Fire crews attacked the flames from inside, but they could not stay long.

“We're met with heavy heat and fire conditions up there, so they had to back out for a while," said Chief Thomas Curcio, of the New London Fire Department.

The firefighters did eventually gain the upper hand and extinguished the flames by about 9 p.m.

 The Red Cross is assisting the two families that live in the home. The fire marshal and the fire inspector were also at the scene, but the cause of the fire was still unknown, according to Chief Curcio.

President Donald Trump defended his widely criticized mocking of Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, in an interview on "60 Minutes" Sunday, NBC News reported.

"If I had not made that speech, we would not have won," he said.

The Senate narrowly confirmed Kavanaugh to the court last week after an extraordinarily bitter battle. Ford testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were in high school during the 1980s, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that she thought she would "accidentally be killed." Kavanaugh strenuously denied the allegation.

"I was just saying she didn't seem to know anything," Trump said in the CBS interview, having described at a rally how she didn't remember key details of the decades-old allegation.

The interview, in which Trump discussed a slew of things from climate change to the economy, aired Sunday night on CBS' "60 Minutes."

A Hartford man is accusing of assaulting and choking his girlfriend as the woman's children hid in a bathroom and called for help. 

Police said officers responded to an undisclosed address at 5:36 p.m. Sunday after the victim’s daughter called them and told them that her mother’s boyfriend had a knife and was assaulting and choking the woman. 

Police identified the suspect as 36-year-old John Jenkins, of Hartford. 

They said he had entered the residence without permission, got into an argument with the woman, grabbed a large knife during the altercation and tried to rob her of money. 

During the assault, two juveniles hid in the bathroom and called for police, police said. 

Jenkins ran when officers arrived and they took him into custody after a brief struggle. 

He was charged with home invasion, strangulation in the second degree, assault in the third degree, two counts of risk of injury, second-degree threatening, interfering with police, disorderly conduct, possession of a dangerous weapon, and criminal attempt robbery in the first. 

Major crimes has been notified.

What looked like a blowout soon devolved into an epic disaster.

As always, when the New England Patriots are involved, wait for the final whistle to blow before jumping to conclusions.

Tom Brady and Co. overcame a resurgent Kansas City Chiefs offense -- as well as countless mistakes of their own -- to survive and pick up a crucial 43-40 win at Gillette Stadium on Sunday night.

"We had control and then we let them back in the game," Brady said, going on to reference a fumble he lost in the third quarter. "They were making plays on offense. We were making plays. We talked about competing for 60 minutes, and that's what it took. It took us right down to the last 3 seconds."

The Patriots had a 15-point lead at the half, which was gone early in the fourth quarter when Tremon Smith’s 97-yard kick return paved the way for a Tyreek Hill 1-yard touchdown catch from Patrick Mahomes II to help make it 33-30 with 8:38 left in regulation. It was Kansas City’s first lead since kicking a field goal on the opening possession of the game to go up 3-0.

Brady led the Patriots back downfield on their very next drive, picking up 42 yards on a deep ball to Chris Hogan and rumbling into the end zone himself from 4 yards out to put New England ahead 37-33.

"There were some other things going on in that play, and he stayed alive," Brady said in reference to Hogan's grab. "I've hit him on that a bunch over the last two-and-a-half years. He's got enough speed to separate down the field, and I threw it up high enough to try to give him a chance to run under it."

The game couldn’t have been further from over, of course. The Patriots finally forced the Chiefs to punt on the series that followed, the first time either team had to do so all game.

Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 50-yard field goal to put New England ahead 40-33, only to see Hill torch the Patriots once again with a 75-yard touchdown catch from Mahomes on the first place of Kansas City’s next drive.

Tied at 40-40, New England embarked on a seven-play, 65-yard drive that would be enough to survive and advance. The key play was a 39-yard hookup between Brady and Rob Gronkowski, that got the Patriots from the outskirts of field goal range to right in the sweet spot.

Gostkowski's kick sailed through the uprights with no time left on the clock, and New England is now 4-2 -- just one game back of Kansas City (5-1) in the AFC playoff picture.

Brady finished with 340 yards through the air, his second game in a row north of 300 after falling short in New England's first four games. He completed 24 of his 35 passes and threw for one touchdown, a 17-yard pass to Julian Edelman in the second quarter.

New England had a 24-9 lead at halftime, with two rushing touchdowns for Sony Michel and a Gostkowski field goal accounting for the scoring. Kansas City's five first half drives ended with three field goals and two interceptions -- one by Dont'a Hightower, one by Duron Harmon.

Michel finished the game with 106 yards on the ground in addition to his pair of scores, good enough for the second game of his brief career with more than 100 yards rushing.

Hill had seven catches for 142 yards and three touchdowns for the Chiefs. Kareem Hunt, whom the Patriots passed on twice in the 2017 draft for Derek Rivers and Antonio Garcia, respectively, also had a monster game with 185 yards from scrimmage (105 receiving, 80 rushing).

Josh Gordon had five catches for New England, the most he's had in a Patriots uniform. He was targeted nine times in all and racked up 42 yards.

Asked after the game to describe Brady in the huddle during a potentially game-winning drive, Gordon noted his poise as what stood out.

"I think it's overall, he just has a certain calmness to him in a high-pressure situation. Not everybody has that," Gordon said. "I think when he displays that, other guys feel better about what they're supposed to do knowing that we're in good hands."

The Patriots are on the road next week against the Chicago Bears. It's a two-game road swing in all, with a trip to western New York to play the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football the following week.

New England's next home game is on Sunday, Nov. 4 vs. the Green Bay Packers -- also on Sunday Night Football.

Housing Resource Corporation reopened Monday morning and handed out the remaining applications for housing vouchers days after chaos ensued outside the office Friday morning.

On Friday, four people, including a baby, were taken to the hospital after a woman sprayed pepper spray into the crowd of 150 people who were waiting in line to apply for housing vouchers for low-income families.

People had started lining up the night before and some started pushing their way forward and cutting the line when a man from the office started passing out the 75 available voucher applications Friday.

Police said a woman squirted pepper spray into the crowd, which hurt a baby, the baby’s mom and two other people who were transported to the hospital.

Police responded and dispersed the crowd.

People at the scene said 25 to 30 of the 75 vouchers had been passed out before the crowd was dispersed, leaving many of them wondering if and when the remaining vouchers will be given out.

The building closed down for the day. When it reopened Monday, Housing Resource Corporation did not have a comment.

Police said Friday that they will be looking at video from a security camera to get a photo of the woman with the pepper spray.

State police are investigating a fatal crash in Westbrook.

It happened around 7:30 p.m. on the exit 64 onramp to Interstate 95 South, according to state police.

They are asking anyone with information to call

Trooper Spielman at 860-399-2100, extension 1249.

The deaths of two young orcas in the Pacific Northwest have galvanized Washington state to do more to protect the whales' dwindling population, NBC News reported.

First, a mother orca known as J35 carried her stillborn calf for 17 days. Then a rambunctious young killer whale known for breaching went missing and was soon declared dead.

The orcas that spend their summers near Seattle have been listed as endangered as their population has fallen from near 200 to 74 due to falling salmon counts, pollution in the water and intrusions from whale watchers.

"This is not a time for compromise and for moving slowly," said state Sen. Kevin Ranker. "This is a time for bold actions."

A new poll shows that little more than a third of Americans would pass a basic multiple choice U.S. citizenship test, NBC News reported.

The survey, released this month by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, sampled 1,000 American adults and was modeled after the test taken by immigrants in the process of naturalization.

Respondents 65 and older scored the best (74 percent), while only 19 percent of test-takers 45 and younger passed. The survey asks about everything from important dates to historical figures and current events.

How would you do on a U.S. citizenship exam? You can take a practice test on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services website.

UConn will be offering a class in the spring on the science of growing marijuana.

Gerald Berkowitz, a professor of plant science, will teach “Horticulture of Cannabis: From Seed to Harvest,” which UConn Today reports is one of the first classes of its kind in the country. 

Berkowitz told UConn Today there are career opportunities in the cannabis industry and the course is in response to a “tremendous student demand” for academic training.

His course will be an introductory class with no required prerequisites.

UConn Today reports that Berkowitz is able to work with "low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) hemp cannabis plants" that don't have the same effect as full-potency plants if ingested.  

Medicinal marijuana is legal in Connecticut and there are 28,109 registered patients as of Oct. 14. 

The state has nine medical marijuana dispensary facilities the four producers.

The state also has released a database that includes all of the medical marijuana brands registered in the state of Connecticut. 

Berkowitz will be bringing experts into class to give guest lectures on a variety of topics on cultivating cannabis plants.

The class, SPSS 3995, will be held on Tuesday and Thursday, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Learn more about the course here. 

The bodies of a Waterbury pilot and two other people were recovered over the weekend after a small plane crashed off the Hamptons in New York, according to the Coast Guard, and family members said 41-year-old Munidat "Raj" Persaud's loves were his family and flying.

The twin-engine Piper PA-34 plane went down in the waters off of Quogue around 11 a.m. on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Rescuers recovered Persaud's body from the water on Saturday, New York State Police said. Persaud, the father of two daughters, was the owner of the plane.

“My dad was a very good, honest man. He loved flying. It was his passion,” Munidat Persaud’s daughter, Mary Persaud, said. “The only thing he loved more than flying was his family.”

Persaud was proud to be a pilot and owned a flight school in Danbury as well as Oxford Flight Training, according to the family.

“He knew the dangers. Whenever he heard about a plane crash it hurt him as an instructor. He knew it was a chance, but it never stopped him from teaching people how to fly,” Mary Persaud, said.

On Sunday, the bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from the wreckage of the plane 20 feet underwater off the Hamptons in New York around 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the New York State Police and the Coast Guard.

The plane left from Waterbury-Oxford Airport Saturday, then landed at Danbury Municipal Airport before departing again for Charleston Executive Airport in South Carolina, according to the FAA and the CT Airport Authority.

The site of the crash is three miles southeast of the Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, the FAA said.

The wreckage of the plane will be removed from the water on Tuesday.

A creative group of scuba divers submerged 30 feet beneath the surface in the Florida Keys to carve pumpkins.

The event took place at the annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving contest that took place Sunday near Key Largo.

Underwater artists of all ages used dive knives and carving tools to transform their orange gourds into sea creatures. Participants were also challenged to keep the hollow, naturally buoyant pumpkins from floating off while the artists worked their magic.

Sebastian Gimeno, 16, and his brother Gabriel, from Weston, impressed the judges with their dolphin and half-moon cutout to win a dive trip.

Other pump-kin entries included sharks, a sea horse, an eel, sea turtle and a skeleton fish.

The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to record territory after no ticket matched all six numbers in Friday's drawing. 

Tuesday's estimated $654 million jackpot would be the second-largest prize in Mega Millions history, lottery officials said. The record prize for Mega Millions was $656 million for the March 30, 2012, drawing.

"It’s so exciting for our players, and all of us, to see the Mega Millions jackpot getting so close to an all-time record level," said Gordon Medenica, Lead Director of the Mega Millions Consortium and Director of Maryland Lottery and Gaming. "With a little luck, we may still break that record by Tuesday."

The jackpot has been growing since July, when a group of California office workers won $543 million.

Three other Mega Millions jackpots have been won this year – $451 million on January 5 (Florida), $533 million on March 30 (New Jersey), and $142 million on May 4 (Ohio).

It costs $2 to play the game, but the odds of instant wealth aren't good. The chance of matching all six numbers and winning the jackpot is one in 302.5 million.

Mega Millions is played in 44 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was a $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot won in January 2016 by players in three states. That would make the estimated jackpot for Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing the fourth largest overall.