Crews quickly knocked down a fire on Buckeye Road in Groton Thursday night.

Fire officials said the Submarine Base Fire Department responded to a fire at 172 Buckeye Road, which is Navy housing.

It was quickly knocked down. Three residents went to the hospital for evaluation and have since been released.

The fire department remains on scene and the state fire marshal is investigating the cause.

Naugatuck police are investigating allegations of inappropriate contact between a teacher and students at Naugatuck High School.

Superintendent Sharon Locke confirmed the teacher was placed on leave after school officials received a report alleging inappropriate relationships with students.

School administrators notified the Department of Children and Families and police, Locke said.

"The safety of our students is our highest priority. We take these matters seriously and will take appropriate action as the investigation unfolds," Locke wrote in a statement to NBC Connecticut.

Police confirmed a criminal investigation is underway but did not provide additional details.

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Aviation workers at Bradley International Airport held an informational picket Thursday trying to educate the public about what they say are the safety issues associated with the government shutdown.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will miss a second paycheck this Friday

Workers at Bradley say this government shutdown is causing safety concerns, and handed out leaflets to travelers letting the public know what they do at the FAA and to highlight possible safety issues.

Some of those concerns include stopped improvement projects at other airports around the country, and training facilities being shut down when they're already short-staffed.

On top of that, safety inspectors who certify new pilots and work with airlines on certifications have been furloughed.

Some of the aviation safety workers say they’ve picked up second jobs, while others are taking out loans to make ends meet.

"We go a week without doing our jobs and things are going be put to a grinding halt. We're professionals, we do our jobs, we come in day in and day out and do our jobs but this is really getting old for a lot of us. We're working side jobs. We're getting overworked and fatigued and it's very frustrating," said Andy Romano, an airway transportation systems specialist.

They’re hoping the picket will pressure lawmakers to end the shutdown.

This is day 34 of the shutdown, making it the longest in the nation's history.

A New London restaurant wants to do something to help federal employees who are affected by the partial government shutdown and it will be offering a free meal this morning.

Mr. G’s Restaurant, at 452 Williams St. in New London, is hosting a free breakfast buffet until 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 25 for all Coast Guard service members, employees, contractors and their families who have been negatively affected by the government shutdown.

There are just over 300 active duty, 1,100 cadets and 100 civilians at the Coast Guard Academy working without pay and 160 civilians on furlough during the federal government shutdown, Petty Officer Second Class Lauren Loughlin, the spokesperson for the academy, recently said.

“The breakfast will serve as an opportunity for Mr. G’s, who is already offering a 10% discount to all Coast Guard folks affected by the shutdown, to give back to its neighbor of 52 years, and to all the brave men and women and their families who risk their lives every day and are currently not receiving paychecks,” a news release from Mr. G’s Restaurant says.

Flooding problems persist in parts of the state after heavy rain fell on Thursday.

Two cars were abandoned after becoming stuck in waist-deep icy floodwaters at the intersection of Love Lane and Vine Street in Hartford overnight.

The intersection is closed until the water recedes and the vehicles can be safely removed from the roadway, according to police.

Riverside Road in Simsbury is closed between Drake Hill Road and East Weatogue Street and Terry’s Plain Rd are closed due to flooding.

Route 25 in Monroe is closed between Pepper Street and Old Newtown Road because of flooding.

Flooding is also affecting all CTrail Hartford line trains between Hartford and Springfield and CTrail Amtrak trains between Windsor Locks and Springfield. Buses will replace those train routes until further notice, according to CTRail officials.

A 3-year-old boy missing since Tuesday night was found safe Thursday night in a wooded area about a quarter-mile from where he went missing, NBC News reported.

Casey Hathaway is in good health after he went missing while playing with two young relatives in the backyard of his grandmother's home, according to the sheriff's office in Craven County, North Carolina. Police never saw any indication he was abducted.

"He is good, he's up and talking — he's already asked to watch Netflix, so he's good," said Casey's mother, Brittany Hathaway, at a news conference where she hugged the search-and-rescue captain who found Casey.

The captain, Shane Grier of Chocowinity EMS, said Casey was cold but able to speak when he was found.

The Bethany Community School in Bethany has a two-hour delay Friday.

A posting on the school district’s website says it is because there is no heat at the school and the district will notify families if school is canceled. 

The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it will issue a partial paycheck to most employees as thousands of other federal workers are set to miss a second biweekly paycheck, marking nearly a month since they were last paid.

TSA Administrator David P. Pekoske said the agency scraped together limited funds from varying sources in order to pay a portion of their workforce.

Employees "at the I-band and below," who worked in an exempted status for any amount of time from Dec. 23 to Jan. 5 will receive 40 hours of pay "to alleviate some financial strain," the TSA said. Employees in pay bands J and above, which are senior level positions with higher pay rates, will not receive a partial payment Friday. 

"Challenging times require challenging decisions. While our aim is to pay everyone for their work, during this period of lapse in funding and because of legal and financial constraints, we needed to make decisions on how best to support the workforce using the limited funds we had," the agency said in statement to NBC News. "As such, it was determined that where we could, we would provide partial pay to employees and we focused on employees in the lower pay bands to help alleviate the financial strain they may be experiencing." 

However, the TSA said Federal Air Marshals (FAMs), of all pay bands, will not receive a partial payment. The agency the FAMs account didn't have sufficient funding available to provide "meaningful partial payment" for Air Marshals. Instead, the TSA will issue 2018 performance awards for all FAMs "at the I-band and below." 

Pekoske acknowledged in a tweet Friday morning that "anything short of full paychecks are a partial measure, and in no way compensates the #TSA workforce for the financial burden many are experiencing." But, he added, whenever funding is restored, "pay and travel reimbursement processing will be our highest priority."

The money for the TSA payments came from a combination of unlapsed FY2018 funds the agency had in "certain specific accounts" and the reallocation of some funds from other accounts, the agency said.

The shutdown began three days before Christmas when President Donald Trump and top Democratic leaders in Congress reached a stalemate over Trump's demand for a $5.7 billion wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Unions that represent air traffic controllers, flight attendants and pilots are growing concerned about safety and security of its members and passengers with the shutdown well into its fifth week. 

The presidents of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Air Line Pilots Association and Association of Flight Attendants cautioned in a join statement  that the airline industry "cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented." 

Federal workers say going without pay is grinding them down, and they're not sure how much longer they can take it.

"At work, the morale is really low," said Tyler Kennard, an air traffic controller in San Diego. "It's actually more stressful now with this government shutdown than it was when I was in a war zone in Iraq doing the same job."

The retired Marine, who got his start in air traffic control in 2005 when he was based at Marine Corp Base Camp Pendleton, told NBC San Diego that he and his wife are worried about how they will pay for gas, the mortgage, their daughter's braces and their 4-year-old son Tucker's hospital visits.   

During his nearly decade and a half in the profession, he has been through three other government shutdowns but this is the first time he's missed a paycheck.

"This is the one that’s hit us the hardest 'cause this is the first time where it’s gone where we haven’t got paid," Kennard said.

While many struggle to make ends meet during the shutdown, some have turned to small-dollar loans to fill the financial vacuum that comes as a result of the ongoing battle raging more than 1,000 miles away in Washington, NBC News reported. 

Because of a lack of regulations surrounding loans and the Trump administration rescinding some Obama-era protections, the annual percentage rate for payday loans in Missouri are more than 400 percent on average, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Prior to the shutdown, a 2018 Federal Reserve report found that 40 percent of Americans could not afford an unexpected expense of $400. Without an agreement between Congress and the White House, those loans could become more appealing as the shutdown continues to delay payments to federal workers. 

“Low income borrowers are very vulnerable to payday loans,” said Deborah Goldstein, the executive vice president of the Center for Responsible Lending. “They may think they don’t have other options and the payday lenders make it sound like a cheap loan and low barrier to entry when it is very expensive. Their business model is based on people having to take out more loans because of the high expense.”

A New Canaan woman is accused of driving under the influence of vanilla extract.

Police said they responded to Grove and Pine streets at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday to check on reports that a vehicle was stopped in the intersection and the driver had her eyes closed.

They identified the driver as 50-year-old Stefanie Warner-Gris and said her breath smelled of vanilla and there were several empty vanilla extract bottles in the car.

Warner-Gris could not answer basic questions and failed field sobriety test, according to police.

She was taken into custody and refused to submit to a blood alcohol test, according to the New Canaan Police log.

Warner-Gris was charged with operating under the influence. It’s not clear if she has an attorney.

Online court records say she was released on a promise to appear and is due in court on Feb. 22.

A teacher’s aide for a program in Milford that serves at-risk boys and girls has been accused of sexual assault and police have arrested him. 

The arrest comes after Milford police received two separate complaints in October reporting possible sexual assaults by a teacher’s aide at Boys and Girls Village on Wheelers Farms Road in Milford. 

Police obtained a warrant charging 34-year-old Ronnie Maebry, of New Haven, with sexual assault in the second degree, sexual assault in the fourth degree and two counts of risk of injury. 

Bond was set at $30,000. 

Online court records say Maebry is due back in court on Feb. 14. It’s not clear if he has an attorney.

A Hawaiian Airlines flight heading to New York was diverted to the San Francisco International Airport Thursday night following a medical emergency that led to the death of a flight attendant.

Flight 50 left Honolulu at 4:20 p.m. and was headed to John F. Kennedy International Airport when was it re-routed to SFO around 1 a.m. Friday after a flight crew member experienced a suspected heart attack, a spokesperson for SFO Doug Yakel confirmed.

One passenger, author Andrea Bartz, sent out a series of tweets saying flight attendants made an announcement calling for any doctor onboard to help. 

"It’s been a long time since they asked for doctors to come to first class so I hope they’re okay," Bartz tweeted.

Yakel said that qualified medical personnel were attempting CPR onboard but the efforts stopped prior to landing at the San Francisco airport.

"The San Mateo County Coroner declared the flight crew member deceased on arrival at SFO. Passengers were re-accommodated on other flights," Yakel said in a statement.

The flight was seen leaving San Francisco before 5 a.m.

Willimantic firefighters rescued a homeless man who was trapped in a tree for eight hours because of floodwaters. 

The 30-year-old man was trapped in an area near the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum after climbing eight feet into a tree to get to higher ground, officials said. 

"He was a homeless gentleman. He went out there to find his camp and when he got out there, he found out that the river had taken it away," Scott Card, captain of the Willimantic Fire Department, said. 

According to Card, the man said he was calling for help around 9:30 p.m. Thursday and someone on the other side of the river heard him this morning and called 911. 

Rescuers then waded through chest-deep water to save him.

A brief ground stop was ordered Friday at LaGuardia Airport, which experienced a "ripple effect" because of a spike in staff sick calls at other hubs as tensions boil over the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, the FAA said.

The stop was ordered shortly before 10 a.m., on the 35th day of the shutdown. It had been reduced to a "ground delay program," meaning air traffic was moving again but delayed, within about 40 minutes. The FAA said LaGuardia's staffing was not the issue; the problems were in Washington, D.C., and Florida.

"We have experienced a slight increase in sick leave at two air traffic control facilities affecting New York and Florida," the FAA said in a statement. "As with severe storms, we will adjust operations to a safe rate to match available controller resources. We've mitigated the impact by augmenting staffing, rerouting traffic, and increasing spacing between aircraft as needed." 

The "ground delay progam" status at one point caused arriving flights into LaGuardia to be delayed about 1 hour and 26 minutes, according to the FAA.

Arriving flights from Newark International and Philadelphia International airports were being delayed by an average of 41 minutes at one point. Later, LaGuardia released a statement saying, "Due to shaffing shortages at FAA air traffic control centers along the East Coast, there are major delays at LGA." 

At least one traveler tweeted that she was sitting on the tarmac for nearly an hour because of "staff shortages in air traffic control." Making matters worse, her flight landed 45 minutes early, she said.

Another traveler said his JetBlue flight was approaching a 2-hour delay after its original route was canceled because of the staffing issues; he said the plane had to return to the gate to refuel for a new route. Still another traveler said she was stuck on a Southwest flight in Baltimore.

Yet another, one traveling Delta, described total chaos in LaGuardia's Terminal C. Delta released a statement saying it was working closely wtih the FAA and airport officials to try to minimize the impact on its operations and customers.

"At this point, we don't anticipate significant schedule disruptions, but it is another good illustration of the escalating impact of the government shutdown and the need for the federal government to promptly re-open."

The trouble wasn't only on the ground at LaGuardia. 

In a video taken aboard a Delta flight from Atlanta to the Queens hub, the pilot can be heard telling passengers: "I’m sure they’re doing the best they can but um I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes another 20 to 30 minutes before we come, become airborne. I can’t see out the taxiways but uh just by listening to the radio chatter I get the feeling this is not gonna go uh very uh quickly. So I’ll uh keep you posted, as soon we can start our push, our name’s in the hat, as soon as they let us do that I’ll have a better idea of how long this is gonna take."

The air traffic chaos comes on the second missed payday for 800,000 federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay.

On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo demanded Trump reopen the government saying "it gets worse every day," signaling the ground stop issued earlier in the morning.

"Look at the level of madness that we have going on in this nation right now," he said.

I mean, look at the level of madness that we have going on in this nation right now.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the shutdown on Twitter amid the chaos, writing, "The #TrumpShutdown has already pushed hundreds of thousands of Americans to the breaking point. Now it's pushing our airspace to the breaking point too. .@realDonaldTrump, stop endangering the safety, security and well-being of our nation. Re-open government now!"

According to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, President Donald Trump was briefed on the situation.

“The President has been briefed and we are monitoring the ongoing delays at some airports. We are in regular contact with officials at the Department of Transportation and the FAA," she said. 

Due to the impact by the brief ground stop and subsequent delays, Air Canada revised its ticketing policy for customers booked on flights impacted to change their bookings without a penalty fee. 

United said it is working to minimize the imact on their operations.

“We’re working closely with FAA and airport officials to try to minimize the impact on our operations and, most importantly, on our customers," United said in a statement. "At this point, we don’t anticipate significant schedule disruptions, but it is another good illustration of the escalating impact of the government shutdown and the need for the federal government to promptly re-open.”

Meanwile, Delta is experiencing hundreds of flight delays, the airline said.

"As of Friday morning, Delta is experiencing about 200 flight delays at New York’s LaGuardia Airport as well as other airports in the Northeast region due to the FAA’s Ground Delay Program. Delta is working to reacommodate customers to their destinations," Delta said in a statement.

Unions that represent air traffic controllers, flight attendants and pilots are growing concerned about safety and security of its members and passengers with the shutdown well into its fifth week. 

The presidents of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Air Line Pilots Association and Association of Flight Attendants cautioned in a join statement that the airline industry "cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented." 

"Staffing in our air traffic control facilities is already at a 30-year low and controllers are only able to maintain the system’s efficiency and capacity by working overtime, including 10-hour days and 6-day workweeks at many of our nation’s busiest facilities,” said the statement from the unions’ presidents.

In response to the FAA staffing shortages, Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA president, iissued a statement saying: "This is exactly what AFA and other aviation unions have been warning would happen. The aviation system depends on the safety professionals who make it run. They have been doing unbelievably heroic work even as they are betrayed by the government that employs them. They are fatigued, worried, and distracted - but they won't risk our safety. So the planes will stay on the ground. This is anything but a sick out - it is only about our safety and the air traffic controllers' absolute commitment to it."

Nelson's statement continued: "Do we have your attention now, Leader McConnell? All lawmakers? Open the government and then get back to the business of democracy to discuss whatever issue you so choose. This shutdown must end immediately. Our country's entire economy is on the line."

Federal workers say going without pay is grinding them down, and they're not sure how much longer they can take it. 

"At work, the morale is really low," said Tyler Kennard, an air traffic controller in San Diego. "It's actually more stressful now with this government shutdown than it was when I was in a war zone in Iraq doing the same job." 

The retired Marine, who got his start in air traffic control in 2005 when he was based at Marine Corp Base Camp Pendleton, told NBC San Diego that he and his wife are worried about how they will pay for gas, the mortgage, their daughter's braces and their 4-year-old son Tucker's hospital visits. 

During his nearly decade and a half in the profession, he has been through three other government shutdowns but this is the first time he's missed a paycheck. 

"This is the one that’s hit us the hardest 'cause this is the first time where it’s gone where we haven’t got paid," Kennard said.

Two Senate votes to reopen the government failed on Thursday. 

McDonough Middle School in Hartford is on lockin as police investigate what they said appears to be a shooting incident on Bonner Street. 

SWAT is at the Bonner Street scene and police said they are clearing the immediate area out of an abundance of caution until determine that the area is safe.

McDonough Middle School, which is located at 111 Hillside Avenue is on code yellow until further notice as a precautionary measure and no one is allowed in or out.

The school is on a normal schedule, with dismissal scheduled for 3:25 p.m. 

Norwich police are continuing to investigate the disappearance of a man who was last seen 37 years ago and said they suspect foul play. 

Keith Lalima was 21 years old when he disappeared on May 7, 1981. 

Witnesses told police that Lalima had been involved in an altercation outside a bar, the former Village Green bar at 493 West Main St. 

Police said this disappearance of Lalima remains an open case and remain open until it is resolved. 

Anyone with information surrounding the disappearance of Keith Lalima is asked to call the Norwich Department Detective Division at 860-886-5561 ext. 3150.

Several people at a Wallingford trailer park were trapped in their homes by floodwaters Thursday evening and into Friday morning.

Water surrounded homes at the Yalesville Mobile Home Park on Main Street. Firefighters were keeping people from entering the trailer park, while others in their homes could not leave, due to the flooding.

Firefighters first got the call around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday after heavy rain caused the nearby Quinnipiac River to over-spill its banks.

Kids Grandma's Cozy Cottage Daycare next to the trailer park had to be carried out of the facility by firefighters Thursday as the waters rose, fire officials said. The daycare remained closed on Friday.

Gas to the trailer park was shut off as a precaution. It will remain off and access to the trailer park will be restricted until the water recedes, according to fire officials.

Police have arrested a man in connection with a crash that killed an 80-year-old man in Hartford in October.

Police have arrested 33-year-old Miguel Nazario, of New Britain, in connection with the crash on Wethersfield Avenue on Wednesday, Oct. 10.

The victim, 80-year-old Stanislaw Gnatek, was rushed to Hartford Hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

Police said Nazario remained at the scene cooperated with police. He was also taken to the hospital, police said.

Nazario has been charged with misconduct with a motor vehicle, failure to drive in proper lane and failure to use care to avoid a pedestrian.

A transportation aide has been arrested in Fairfield and charged with assault after police launched an investigation into how an autistic teen was injured. 

Police said a father went to the Fairfield Police Department on Monday, Nov. 26 and said his 15-year old son attends a school that works directly with autistic children and one of the teen’s arms was injured when he returned from school on Nov. 19.

Police said they reviewed surveillance footage and determined that the boy’s injuries were “consistent with actions taken by the transportation aid over a period of time.”

Police arrested 65-year-old Joseph Jean-Felix, of Bridgeport, outside of his home on Jan. 18.

He was charged with five counts of assault of an intellectually disabled person, five counts of unlawful restraint in the first-degree and five counts of risk of injury to a minor.

Jean-Felix was held on $50,000 court-set bond and is scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court on Jan. 25.