A pizza delivery driver remains in critical condition after a shooting in New Haven late Friday night.

Police said they responded to Ferry Street at Clay Street in the Fair Haven neighborhood around 11:15 p.m. after getting a report of a person shot.

When they arrived, officers said they found a 54-year-old male pizza delivery driver who had been shot in the neck inside of his car. The victim has been identified as Hernando Pezo.

Pezo was transported to the hospital to be treated for life-threatening injuries, where he remains in critical but stable condition, police said.

The shooting is under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call New Haven Police Department Detective Bureau at (203) 946-6304.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has almost finished up his nearly two-year investigation into collusion and Russian interference in the 2016 election, the acting attorney general said Monday, according to NBC News.

"The investigation is, I think, close to being completed...," acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said during a news conference after announcing criminal charges against one of China's largest telecommunications companies.

The Connecticut Department ofPublic Health has confirmed a case of measles in New Haven County, the first confirmed case this year in the state.

Health officials said the patient is an adult.

Measles is highly contagious and can spread quickly if you are not vaccinated.

Vaccination is required to attend schools and colleges in Connecticut, but medical and religious exemptions are available. Health officials said the measles vaccine is very effective and two doses, which is the standard recommendation, are about 97 percent effective.

In 2018, there were three confirmed cases of measles in Connecticut.

“Cases of measles, while not widespread in the United States, are not uncommon and measles is circulating in the United States and internationally. Currently there are ongoing measles outbreaks in the United States in New York and the Pacific Northwest. The single best way to protect yourself and your children from measles is to be vaccinated,” said DPH Commissioner Dr. Raul Pino in a press release.

Symptoms of measles generally start showing a week to 21 days after exposure. Typical symptoms begin with mild to moderate fever, runny nose, red eyes and a sore throat. Three to five days after that, a red or reddish-brown rash appears, usually starting on the face and spreading down.

The rash typically lasts a few days. Someone with measles may be contagious up to four days before the rash appears and for four days after the rash appears.

If you think you might have measles, you should avoid public and contact your doctor before going into the office to avoid exposing others.

For more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

Acts of animal cruelty would become a federal felony under a bill that was recently reintroduced by two Florida congressmen.

The proposed bill, titled The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, or PACT ACT, would prohibit gruesome acts of violence toward animals, including “crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling or otherwise subjecting animals to serious bodily harm,” according to The Herald Tribune.

Similar legislation was passed in 2010, the newspaper reported, but only made it illegal to share and create videos of “animal crushing” around the internet. The acts leading up to the vicious videos remained legal under federal law.

The PACT bill was introduced by Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, of Longboat Key, and Democrat Rep. Ted Deutsch, of Boca Raton. Anyone convicted would face up to seven years in prison, fines and other felony charges.

“The torture of innocent animals is abhorrent and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” Buchanan said on Twitter. “Protecting animals from cruelty is a top priority for me and I look forward to working with Democratic @RepTedDeutch on this important issue.”

According to The Orlando Sentinel, the bill was passed twice before in the U.S. Senate, but was blocked in the House by former Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.

Connecticut State Police arrested three people after a fight broke out at Bridgeport Superior Court ahead of a murder suspect’s arraignment Monday.

Police said troopers, Bridgeport police officers and Trumbull police officers all responded to the courthouse at 172 Golden Hill Street for a report of a large fight and a big crowd inside the building. Officers separated the groups and learned they were all there for a pending arraignment of a murder suspect.

No one was seriously hurt. Three people were arrested.

Jermaine Felton, 38, was charged with third-degree assault, assault on an elderly victim, and breach of peace. He was released on a $125,000 bond.

Shamar Swinton, 37, was charged with interfering with an officer, breach of peace, and assault on an elderly person. He was held on a $135,000 bond and is due in court Tuesday.

Antiqua Washington, 29, was charged with third-degree assault and breach of peace. She was released on a $25,000 bond.

The investigation is ongoing and police said more arrests are possible.

In just a few days, girls from across the country will officially be allowed to join troops of the Boy Scouts of America.

The organization announced in late 2017 that they would allow both girls and boys to become members as part of an effort o be more inclusive.

A troop of girls in South Windsor is ready for the change.

The parents of these girls who are joining the scouts said it was their daughters who told them they wanted to join the Boy Scouts when they heard they’d have the option. Now they’re looking forward to a new chapter. The girls say they can do anything that boys can do.

The tent building, knot-tying outdoor skills and leadership that have been a part of the Boy Scouts legacy for more than a century will soon officially include these girls.

BSA Troop 682 will become active under the Boy Scouts of American on February 1. They held an open house Monday for families curious about what’s coming.

Though part of the Boy Scouts, this troop will operate as an all-girls unit.

“The girls if they’re in a girls troop, the boys if they’re in a boys troop are doing the exact same programs. They’re not dumbing anything down or changing anything,” explained Committee member Mike Miller.

Troop 682’s Scout Master Nicole Papa’s daughter was her motivation to make this troop a reality.

“My daughter came to me after the announcement and said I want to be a scout. I said what kind of scout and she said I want to be a boy scout,” Papa said.

Since August they’ve been operating under the Scout Explorers program while waiting to be formally recognized. They already have nine girls signed on and hope to grow bigger.

“I’ve run across girls over the years who said I wish I could do that. Up to now it’s been no. Now its yes,” Miller said.

Nisha and Pawal Rana brought their daughter, who was once a Girl Scout, to learn about Troop 682. They say the change is a long time coming, but a welcome one.

“Boys and girls are equal in today’s world so I don’t see any reason it should be separate,” Nisha Rana said.

The girls in this troop and across the country will be able to remain in the program for years and work their way up to the level of eagle scout, just like the boys.

February 6 is National Girls and Women in Sports Day and leading up to it, the women of Wesleyan University Athletics want to get more girls out and playing.

Saturday they hosted their annual all girls multi-sport clinic.

From crew to volleyball, in total, seven different sports were on display inside the Freeman Athletic Center at Wesleyan University.

“I think it's a great opportunity to showcase all the different sports,” said Wesleyan softball coach Jennifer Lane.

It’s their fourth year hosting a clinic as part of National Girls and Women in Sports Day and this time, they have more than 140 girls ready to learn from the all-female roster of student-athletes.

"We never had something to kind of unite the young girls who played sports in our community so it's really nice to kind of be able to do something like this now,” said Alyssa DaSilva, a sophomore on the Wesleyan softball team.

The growing numbers are a reminder that times are changing. Lane said she’s enjoyed watching her own daughters have female role models in professional sports on TV.

"It's no longer like you're teaching the girls to be like the boys in sports,” added DaSilva. “They can just have their own experience in it and they know that too."

Other schools in the area plan to hold similar clinics: the University of Hartford on February 2 and Quinnipiac on February 10. Click here for more information. 

A chance meeting led the U.S. secretary of education to accept an invitation to visit a local school she once portrayed as a “dangerous daycare.”

East Hartford Board of Education Chair Bryan Hall is in Washington, D.C. attending a National School Board conference. Hall wrote a letter to DeVos two days ago asking to meet with her but says he doesn’t believe she received the letter.

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke at a luncheon there. After the speech, Hall says he and Connecticut Association of Boards of Education Executive Director Bob Rader walked down a hallway and entered a door to try and find Devos.

“We picked the right door. We picked the door Secretary DeVos was behind,” said Hall.

Hall says when he got the chance to speak with DeVos, he shook her hand and asked her if she remembered what she said in regards to East Hartford Public Schools. She asked if he was referencing East Hartford High School and Hall said yes.

Back in 2017, DeVos told a congressional committee that a former student at EHHS described it as “nothing more than adult daycare. A dangerous daycare.” It sparked outrage and protests in the community with many asking DeVos to come see the school for herself. But before Monday, she never said yes.

“I said, ‘I would love for you to come to East Hartford, to show you that what you said is not what East Hartford is about, that we have wonderful students, wonderful schools, and that our schools are not an adult daycare,’” said Hall. “I said, ‘I would love for you to come to East Hartford,’ and she said, ‘I accept.’”

Hall spoke to NBC Connecticut over the phone and told us a staffer emailed him a request form to fill out for the visit. He hopes she’ll come so that they can show her all the good happening inside EHHS.

“I'm thinking positive right. It was a real good meeting, and I'm feeling very, very positive,” said Hall.

NBC Connecticut reached out to DeVos for comment but did not hear back. Previously, a spokesperson for DeVos released the following statement in regards to the “dangerous daycare” reference.

"The Secretary’s focus is on individual students and ensuring they each have access to a high-quality education that meets their needs. In her remarks, she relayed one student's experience and used his own words to describe the challenging circumstances he faced in high school," DeVos' press secretary, Elizabeth Hill, said in a statement.

"He, like so many other students across the country, needed another option but didn’t have access to one. For anyone to assert that Michael’s individual story should be generalized to the broader student population is a symptom of the one-size-fits-all status quo that too many continue to seek to defend. Michael is an individual student with an individual story to tell. He was able to rise above what he considered challenging circumstances and go on to excel academically. We should be applauding students like him," Hill's statement says.

There’s no timeline for when the education secretary would make her visit.

Hoarding conditions and cold weather made a difficult job for firefighters when flames erupted at a home in Meriden Monday.

Meriden Fire Chief Ken Morgan said crews were called to the home on Belvedere Drive just before 5 p.m. When they arrived they found heavy smoke pouring out of the door and heavy fire in the back of the building.

Firefighters found one person inside the house and took them outside. The victim was able to tell fire crews where he thought the fire started and was later taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Morgan said there was a lot of stuff in the home and while it wasn't piled high, there was so much it was difficult for crews to find little pockets of fire.

“We've got it all knocked down but there’s going to be extensive overhaul in this building due to some hoarding conditions so we'll be here for quite a while taking care of that,” Morgan said.

It appears the fire may have started in the basement, where much of the collection was stored, according to Morgan. The state of things inside the home paired with the cold temperatures and icy conditions outside made it difficult work for firefighters.

“None of the firemen have been injured. considering the work they had to do to a - get into where the fire was at and b - deal with the stuff they had to get over to get to it we're pretty lucky today,” Morgan said.

The home is considered a complete loss.

Mohanad Elshieky, a 27-year-old comedian and asylum-seeker traveling home to Oregon after a performance in Washington state, was ordered off a Greyhound bus by immigration agents and detained — even though he is in the country legally, NBC News reported.

After removing him from the bus, the officers asked for his identification, Elshieky recalled. He said he told them he had a driver’s license from Oregon and a valid work authorization card — a document issued by U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services that refugees and other immigrants can show to employers.

Elshieky said he came to the United States on a visa for exchange students in 2014. Later that year, as civil war gripped his hometown of Benghazi, Libya — and threatened him personally — he applied for asylum, he said. In October 2018, his application was accepted, according to documents viewed NBC News.

Through a spokesman, Customs and Border Protection described the incident as a misunderstanding and said Elshieky did not have the proper paperwork on him at the time, noting that Elshieky’s asylum documents “would have worked to resolve this inquiry quickly."

The family of a woman who has been missing from Naugatuck since last week say they fear for her safety, according to police.

Police said 30-year-old Zandra Ghiroli, also known as Sanra Ghiroli, was last seen leaving a friend's house on Brennan Street on Thursday.

Her family reported her missing at about 10 p.m. on Monday and advised that she may be somewhere in Hartford.

Ghiroli's family told police that they fear for her safety.

Officers said she has an extensive medical history.

Ghiroli is described as a woman who is 5'4" and 140 pounds with short blonde hair and blue eyes. Police said she has a tattoo of a heart on her breast and she was last seen wearing a down purple-colored winter coat.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Naugatuck Police Department at (203) 729-5221.

Waterbury Police have arrested a man who is accused of crashing into at least four police cars while trying to flee from a traffic stop on Monday afternoon.

Officers conducted a traffic stop on a white Ford Edge at the intersection of Brass Mill Drive and Union Street around 12:45 p.m.

When the driver, later identified as 38-year-old Desi Williams, of Ansonia, saw police approach on foot, he accelerated forward, rammed a police vehicle, pushed it out of the way and fled, police said. The vehicle was disabled.

As Williams drove north on Brass Mill Drive, officers said he hit and damaged two other police vehicles that were attempting to stop him.

At one point, police said Williams stopped, then backed into and rammed the police car behind him.

While Williams continued to flee from police, they said he lost control of his vehicle and hit a utility pole on Walnut Street, disabling his vehicle.

Williams got out of the vehicle and fled on foot, while his female passenger, later identified as 46-year-old Kimberly Finney, of Ansonia, stayed in the vehicle and was detained, according to police.

Shortly after, Williams was detained, officers said.

During an investigation, police said they found a loaded revolver in the vehicle. They also found marijuana and an electronic stun gun in Finney's possession, they said.

According to police, Williams is a convicted felon and Finney had an active arrest warrant for failure to appear.

Williams was not injured in the incident. Finney was transported to St. Mary's Hospital to be evaluated and has been released. No police officers were injured.

Police said Williams is facing a list of charges including reckless driving, weapons in a motor vehicle, reckless endangerment, criminal attempt at assault on a police officer, evading responsibility and engaging police in pursuit.

Finney was arrested and is facing charges including possession of a dangerous weapon and possession of marijuana, in addition to her warrant.

Finney was released on bond. Williams was detained on bond pending arraignment in court.

Even though the longest shutdown in U.S. history is over, its impact continues for many immigrants who are awaiting court dates. 

California immigration courts canceled more than 9,400 hearings over the course of the shutdown, according to an estimate by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) research center at Syracuse University. New York ranked second with more than than 5,300 cancellations. 

The cancellations contribute to a backlog that was already at more than 809,000 cases as of the end of November, according to TRAC.

San Diego immigration attorney William Baker said immigration court looked like a ghost town on Monday compared to a typical day when rooms are filled with those waiting to see if judges will grant them permanent status or if they would face deportation. 

"For people waiting to go to court, it leaves a lot of uncertainty and stress in lives," Baker said.

As many await hearings, a shelter at the Normal Heights United Methodist Church in the city is at full capacity for asylum seekers.

"We're above and beyond but how do you turn down a pregnant mother and kids?" asked Jeannetta Kramer, office manager of Normal Heights United Methodist Church.

The church provides them with clothes, shoes and a place to stay while they wait for their court hearings.

“The usual stay is two months but, it varies," said Kramer.

The church also provides asylum seekers with transportation to and from their court hearings.

Lázaro Rodriguez, 47, an asylum seeker from Cuba, has been staying at the shelter for one week.

“I came to the U.S because it’s very hard to live in my country because it’s communist,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez added his American dream would be to get a house and have a family.

Most asylum seekers in this shelter are from Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, and Haiti.

Since the government reopened, the church has seen an increase in asylum seekers coming through their doors.

“As of today, we have quite a few people coming in,” Kramer said on Monday.

The church had to start a shelter as they saw an increase in asylum seekers coming through their doors. In 2016 there were up to 5,000 asylum seekers who asked for their services.

“They’ve come here through word of mouth,” said Kramer. “Those who have come here have passed the word to their friends or families.”

Many immigrants fear that they will not get a new court date in the next three weeks, a timeline President Donald Trump gave Congress to come to an agreement before another government shutdown would happen.

Two people have serious injuries after a crash on Interstate 84 in Danbury late Monday night and fire officials said they found one victim several yards away from the vehicle and the other in a pool of water. 

The Danbury Fire Department responded to I-84 East near exit 3 after getting several calls reporting a motor vehicle rollover and people possibly trapped. Once they arrived at the scene, they found damage to a vehicle, 200 feet of guardrail and a highway light pole, but no one was in the car, according to fire officials. 

Using thermal imaging cameras, hand lights and scene lighting, crews started searching the woods and wetlands area along the highway and they found one person in a shallow depression 75 yards from the scene of the crash.

Then they found another victim in a pool of water around 25 to 30 yards from the first victim. The person had a minor head injury and signs of moderate to severe hypothermia, according to the fire department.

Crews brought the victim up an embankment to EMS units and both victims were transported to Danbury Hospital.

A mother from Connecticut is dead after she somehow fell down the stairs at a subway station in Manhattan while holding her baby secured in her stroller, police say.

Malaysia Goodson, 22, of Stamford, was found unconscious on the southbound platform inside the Seventh Avenue B D E station subway station in midtown at around 8 p.m. Monday, police said. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. A 1-year-old girl believed to be her daughter was found conscious and treated at the scene. She is expected to be OK.

It’s still not clear whether Goodson accidentally fell down the stairs or if she had some sort of medical episode, according to the NYPD. It’s also unclear if she was pushing the baby’s stroller or carrying it, but police did say she had the stroller in her hands with the girl secured inside.

The Seventh Avenue/53rd Street station does not have an elevator and only has an escalator that goes up. 

A medical examiner will determine Goodson’s cause of death. The investigation is ongoing.

As Frankie Hernandez drove home from work Friday, he encountered the wild scene of a road rage incident on the Massachusetts Turnpike and knew he had to do something.

"I said, 'This is not happening, this is only in the movies,'" Hernandez recalled. "He was going so fast."

At first, Hernandez thought it was a bad accident, until he saw a man holding onto the hood of a speeding SUV.

Authorities say the man on the SUV's hood, 65-year-old Richard Kamrowski, had gotten into a minor side-swipe crash with the SUV, and that he confronted the SUV driver, identified as 37-year-old Mark Fitzgerald, on foot during stop-and-go traffic. One thing led to another, and for reasons still under investigation, Kamrowski ended up on the hood of Fitzgerald's SUV. Court documents show that both men blame the other for the escalation.

Hernandez, an Army veteran who served in the military police, raced up to the SUV, boxing it in with his car.

In video obtained by NBC10 Boston, you can see the man still holding onto the hood as Hernandez speeds up.

"I'm licensed to carry, so I drew my gun as asked the driver of the SUV to get out of the car because he was not complying whatsoever," Hernandez said.

Hernandez held the driver at gunpoint until Massachusetts State Police troopers arrived seconds later. In the video, you can see a trooper pull his gun out and order Hernandez to drop his gun and lay on the ground.

"He has the right, he is the law enforcement, so I backed up, and dropped my gun to the side, complied to the order I was given," Hernandez said. "I just kept my eyes on the driver of the SUV because when I laid my gun to the side, I didn't want him to rush at me or rush at the gun."

Eventually, troopers released Hernandez and gave him his gun back.

Hernandez is just glad he was there to help end the scary ordeal.

"This is something I don't want to see again, because it was a live person almost getting ready to die, basically," he said. "Always be prepared and keep calm because when you have a firearm, you got to be mentally fit."

Fitzgerald and Kamrowski pleaded not guilty to their charges in Waltham District Court on Monday.

Authorities are still investigating the road rage incident.

U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons because "its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday. That view contrasts with comments from President Donald Trump, who in June declared that North Korea was "no longer a nuclear threat," citing his talks with leader Kim Jong Un, NBC News reported. 

Coats also refuted Trump's statement that ISIS has been defeated. He said the group was "nearing" military defeat in Iraq, but has returned to its "guerrilla warfare roots," continues to plot attacks and "still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria." 

On election meddling, the annual public survey of national security threats found that U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Russia and China will seek to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, having learned lessons from Russia's operation in 2016.

State police have arrested an 18-year-old Uncasville man and charged him with murder after the bodies of a man and a woman were found in a home on Morgan Street in Montville early Monday morning.

State police said Marcus Fisher, 18, was arrested Monday and has been charged with two counts of murder, one count of murder with special circumstances and one count of arson in the second degree.

Police said officers responded to a Morgan Street home around 4:45 a.m. Monday after getting a report of two bodies and found a man and woman dead inside.

According to police documents, they interviewed a person of interest and he later confessed to his involvement in the murders of the two victims.

Police have not released the names of the victims. The autopsies are expected to be conducted today.

Bond for Fisher was set at $1 million. He is due in court today.

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Milford Police are attempting to identify a man who they say is seen in surveillance footage burglarizing a gas station on Sunday.

Officers responded to a burglary alarm at the Mobil Gas Station on Bridgeport Avenue around 2:20 a.m.

When officers arrived, they said they found the front door glass had been ripped off and was lying on the ground outside of the building.

Video surveillance showed a man run quickly into the store carrying a large plastic garbage can.

The man can then be seen loading the garbage can with cigarettes from behind the counter and taking money from the cash register before running out, police said.

According to police, the man is believed to have left the scene in a dark-colored vehicle, possibly a Station Wagon, which was waiting for him on an adajacent street.

Police said the man was wearing a black jacket with the hood over his head, a ski mask, gloves, gray pants and black and white sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Sgt. J. Cortes at (203) 783-4761 or you can email at jcortes@ci.milford.ct.us.

The New England Patriots are the favorite to win Super Bowl LIII, according to a special resident at The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk.

Rasal the harbor seal is trained to target objects with her nose. When presented with alternating images of the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams helmets against her exhibit window, she went for the Patriots helmet, making her pick for the big game.

The seals have been making picks since 2012. Orange the harbor seal, who died in May 2018, made five of the last eight picks. Their record is shaky – picking incorrectly for the first five years and correctly for the last two.

For more on Super Bowl LIII, click here.