Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) said the government and the economy are doing great for those with money but not for everyone else during the first night of the Democratic presidential debates Wednesday.

Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said that President Donald Trump has increased the price of 2,500 drugs and gave $1 billion in giveaways to pharmaceutical companies.

Democratic presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke and Bill de Blasio sparred over differences in their healthcare plans, with de Blasio criticizing O'Rourke for his plan to include both private insurance plans and Medicare.

Julian Castro states that if he were president, he would sign an executive order to remove some of President Donald Trump's immigration policies on his first day.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said during Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate that blaming immigrants for their own misery was wrong. People should blame corporations and the 1% for creating these desperate situations, de Blasio said

Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) calls gun violence a national epidemic.

Summer is here - complete with a risk for thunderstorms Wednesday night.

There is a risk for storms Wednesday in northwestern Connecticut around sunset. They should weaken as they move in from New York state.

A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Fairfield County  but has since expired.

There is also some some summer heat in the forecast. It hit 88 at Bradley International Airport Wednesday, the warmest day since May 26.

Temperatures will drop down to the 60s overnight, but Thursday and Friday look hot, with temperatures expected in the low 90s.

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Ten minutes into the first Democratic debate on Wednesday night, while six of the 10 candidates had still yet to speak, Elizabeth Warren was asked her second question.

And just like that, the spotlight wasn't just on what the candidates would be saying, but how much time they'd have to say it. 

Not long after that, Tulsi Gabbard's sister Vrindavan had some thoughts about the time distribution, and tweeted it out on Gabbard's account

"...They aren't giving any time to Tulsi at all. -V (Tulsi's sister)"

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In the end, Warren didn't have the most time - she spoke for 9.1 minutes, third behind New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (10.82 minutes) and Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (10.25 minutes). Gabbard got in almost 6.68 minutes of talk time. 

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee had the least time, at 4.83 minutes.

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Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro believes that on January 20, 2021, there will be a Democratic president, House and Senate.

Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, says that he is the only candidate who will make climate change a top priority.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said "we must begin impeachment now. ... It's the only way we save this country," when asked how he would address President Donald Trump's potential crimes.

At the Democratic debate in Miami Wednesday, the 10 candidates largely agreed on what the Democratic platform should be during the 2020 presidential election. But a few major differences divided them on hot button issues that will likely define their campaigns as the primaries approach.

Here’s a look at where candidates diverged:

HEALTHCARE
When moderators asked point blank which candidates supported abolishing private health insurance — often seen as an eventuality of Medicare for All — only two candidates raised their hands: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But others, including Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, said during the discussion that they supported the expansion of Medicare to all Americans.

“Healthcare is not just a human right, it should be an American right, and I believe the best way to get there is Medicare for All,” Booker said.

Others, such as Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, advocated for a public option, which would give more Americans access to a public insurance plan (possibly Medicare or Medicaid) but would also allow for private insurance.

“I am just simply concerned about kicking half of America off of their health insurance in the next four years,” Klobuchar said.

No candidates openly advocated for keeping healthcare as it is today, and all seemed to agree that the current system is not working.

IMMIGRATION
The debate turned into a shouting match when an emotionally charged viral image of a father and toddler who drowned this week trying to cross the Rio Grande became the context for a discussion about one of the most polarizing issues in America: immigration.

Julián Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the first Democratic candidate to release a comprehensive immigration plan, said he would sign an executive order on day one to end President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, as well as practices that require migrants to wait in Mexico until their immigration court hearings and metering at the border that caps the daily number of migrants who can apply for asylum. He blamed metering for the deaths of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria, whose corpses were photographed when they drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. 

That metering caused the Salvadoran migrants' deaths is unsubstantiated, according to The Washington Post. 

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Castro also called on all of his colleagues to pledge their support to repeal Section 1325 in Title 8 of U.S. Code. The section criminalizes crossing into the United States without proper documentation, as well as marrying someone or creating a commercial enterprise to evade immigration laws.

Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke refused to say that he would decriminalize crossing the U.S.-Mexico border for unauthorized immigrants who are not asylum seekers or refugees, and has previously said he does not support decriminalizing border crossings. “A lot of folks who are coming are not seeking asylum,” Castro fired back. Both Texans were soon talking over one another, their words largely drowned out.

Migrants who apply for asylum at a legal port of entry are not breaking U.S. law. Most unauthorized immigrants in recent years have overstayed visas that allowed them to enter the country legally instead of crossing the border illegally. Though their immigration status is the same as migrants who cross the border illegally, they have committed a civil instead of a criminal offense and it's usually easier for them to legalize their status. 

The first debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race kicks off at 9 p.m. ET tonight at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Ten candidates will debate tonight and 10 more tomorrow. Watch the debate live here or on NBC or Telemundo, and follow along with news and analysis below.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discusses gun violence and his experience raising his biracial son in New York City.

Catch up on the full remarks of each of the 10 candidates from night one of the Democratic debates in Miami, Florida. 

Bill de Blasio

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? Russia

Key Quote: "The way that American citizens have been told that immigrants somehow created their misery and their pain and their challenges, for all the American citizens out there who feel you're falling behind or feel the American dream is not working for you, the immigrants didn't do that to you. The big corporations did that to you. The 1 percent did that to you. We need to be the party of working people, and that includes a party of immigrants."

Cory Booker

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? Nuclear proliferation, Climate change

Key Quote: "I live in a low-income black and brown community. I see every single day that this economy is not working for average Americans. The indicators that are being used, from GDP to Wall Street's rankings, is not helping people in my community. It is about time that we have an economy that works for everybody, not just the wealthiest in our nation."

Julian Castro 

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? China, Climate change

Key Quote: "If I were president today, I would sign an executive order that would get rid of Trump's zero-tolerance policy, the remain in Mexico policy, and the metering policy -- this metering policy is basically what prompted Oscar and Valeria to make that risky swim across the river. They had been playing games with people who are coming and trying to seek asylum at our ports of entry. Oscar and Valeria went to a port of entry, and then they were denied the ability to make an asylum claim, so they got frustrated and they tried to cross the river, and they died because of that."

John Delaney

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? China, Nuclear weapons

Key Quote: "Listen, I will sign into law bills that come to the White House that are passed on a party-line basis, absolutely. But all the big transformative things we've ever done in this country's history have happened when huge majorities of the American people get behind them, which is why we need real solutions, not impossible promises. We need to put forth ideas that work, whether it's on health care, creating universal health care so that every American gets health care, but not running on making private insurance illegal."

Tulsi Gabbard

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? Nuclear war

Key Quote: "We have to bring our troops home from Afghanistan. We are in a place in Afghanistan where we have lost so many lives. We've spent so much money. Money that's coming out of every one of our pockets, money that should be going into communities here at home, meeting the needs of the people here at home. We are no better off in Afghanistan today than we were when this war began. This is why it's so important to have a president and commander-in-chief who knows the cost of war and who's ready to do the job on day one. I am ready to do that job when I walk into the Oval Office."

Jay Inslee

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? Donald Trump

Key Quote: "And I know to a moral certainty, if we do not have the next president who commits to [the climate crisis] as the top priority, it won't get done. And I am the only candidate -- frankly, I'm surprised. I'm the only candidate who's made this commitment to make it the top priority. If you join me in that recognition of how important this is, we can have a unified national mission. We can save ourselves. We can save our children. We can save our grandchildren. And we can save literally the life on this planet. This is our moment."

Amy Klobuchar

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? China, Iran

Key Quote: "There is a much bigger issue in addition to that, and that is pharmaceuticals. The president literally went on TV, on Fox, and said that people's heads would spin when they see how much he would bring down pharmaceutical prices. Instead, 2,500 drugs have gone up in double-digits since he came into office. Instead, he gave $100 billion in giveaways to the pharma companies. For the rest of us, for the rest of America, that's what we call at home all foam and no beer. We got nothing out of it."

Beto O'Rourke

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? Climate change

Key Quote: "So getting to guaranteed, high-quality, universal health care as quickly and surely as possible has to be our goal. The ability to afford your prescriptions and go to a primary care provider, to be -- the ability to see a mental health care provider. In Texas, the single largest provider of mental health care services is the county jail system today. And health care also has to mean that every woman can make her own decisions about her own body and has access to the care that makes that possible."

Tim Ryan

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? China

Key Quote: "We have a perception problem with the Democratic Party. We are not connecting to the working class people in the very states that I represent in Ohio, in the industrial Midwest. We've lost all connection. We have got to change the center of gravity of the Democratic Party from being coastal and elital -- elitist and Ivy League, which is the perception, to somebody from the forgotten communities that have been left behind for the last 30 years, to get those workers back on our side so we can say we're going to build electric vehicles, we're going to build solar panels."

Elizabeth Warren

Key Quote: "So the way I understand this, it's there is way too much consolidation now in giant industries in this country. That hurts workers. It hurts small businesses. It hurts independent farmers. It hurts our economy overall. And it helps constrict real innovation and growth in this economy. Now, look, we've had the laws out there for a long time to be able to fight back. What's been missing is courage, courage in Washington to take on the giants. That's part of the corruption in this system."

Biggest geopolitical threat to the United States? Climate change

New Britain Police are investigating a stabbing on Kelsey St.

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One man is dead after a shooting in Hartford and police are investigating the death as a homicide.

Officers responded to the area of 31 Winchester St. after getting a ShotSpotter alert of several shots fired.

The 30-year-old victim was rushed to the hospital in critical condition but was later pronounced dead, according to police.

Police said a second victim was taken to St. Francis Hospital by private vehicle. The identity and condition of the second victim is unknown.

This is the second homicide in Hartford in a week. Over the weekend a man was shot and killed on Winship St. in the city's South End.

They tried to grab the spotlight, offered policies, interrupted each other and mostly steered clear of President Donald Trump (although the biggest applause line was directed right at Trump). The Democratic contest to beat Trump next year ramped up tonight with the first of two debates among the large field of candidates.

Ten candidates took the stage tonight in Miami, and another 10 will tomorrow night in match-ups hosted by NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. 

The field is large and the 10 Democrats struggled to break out. Here are some of the top moments during the two hours of questions.

REMAKING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
The first question went to Sen. Elizabeth Warren and it was on one of her top issues: the economy. With 71 percent of Americans saying the economy is doing well, 60 percent of them Democrats, are the significant changes she calls for risky?

“Who is this economy really working for?” she asked. “It’s doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top.”

The economy is doing great for giant drug companies, not for Americans who needed prescriptions filled, for those who want to invest in private prisons, not for African Americans and Latinx whose families are being torn apart, and giant oil companies, not for Americans hurt by climate change, she said.

“When you’ve got a government, when you’ve got an economy, that does great for those with money but isn’t doing great for everybody else, that is corruption pure and simple we need to call it out, we need to attack it head on and we need to make structural change in our government, in our economy and in our country.”

The economy is the top issue for all Americans regardless of political affiliation, at 33%, according to Emerson College Polling.

Warren is the only candidate in tonight’s debate who is polling in the double digits. She has made a name for herself for comprehensive plans that would remake the economy, from eliminating student debt to increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthiest Americans.

BILINGUAL CANDIDATES
Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke was the first, speaking Spanish as he addressed the need for an economy that works for everyone. A short while later, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey did the same.

“When people come to this country they do not leave their human rights at the border,” he then said in English.

The Hispanic population in the United States stood at 57.5 million in 2016, the country’s largest ethnic or racial minority, according to the Census Bureau. Hispanics constituted 17.8 percent of the country.

And in his closing statement, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro -- the only Latino candidate in the field -- added that he would say, "Adios to Donald Trump."

AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN SON
In such a crowded field, the Democrats need to stand out. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried one way, interrupting the other candidates a number of times.

And then on the question of guns, he went for another: as the only candidate on the stage raising a black son, with whom he has had to have direct conversations with about police.

De Blasio has raised the topic before, telling New Yorkers about warning his son, Dante, about the dangers he might face in encounters with police. De Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, is African-American.

While many reacted well to his comments, the leaders of the police union took them as a sign of disrespect.

IRAN’S NUCLEAR THREAT
Booker, of New Jersey, tried another tactic. When all of the candidates were asked to raise their hand if they'd sign the Iran nuclear deal today, Booker was the only one to keep his hands down.

Booker said he supported the deal, which was signed by former President Barack Obama but rejected by Trump, who claimed it would not stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. But if he had an opportunity to leverage a better deal, he said, he would take it.

And by keeping his hand down, he ensured he'd get a little more face time during the crowded debate.

TWO TEXANS TALKING OVER EACH OTHER
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke went head to head in a battle over immigration.

But their differences were small compared to the gulf between the Democrats and Trump. Castro wants crossing into the United States to be decriminalized for everyone while O’Rourke would keep it as a misdemeanor for non-asylum seekers.

HOT MIC INTERRUPTION
An unplanned break came after Chuck Todd asked Warren a question about gun control. Instead of her answer, the audience heard from the previous moderators, Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie.

“We are hearing our colleague’s audio,” Todd said. “If the control room could turn off the mics.”

The problem persisted.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joked that they had prepared for everything, but “we didn’t prepare for this.”

NBC cut to an extra commercial break while the technical problem was fixed.

WHAT TO DO ABOUT HEALTH INSURANCE

Lester Holt asked the candidates who would abolish private insurance in favor of a government-run plan.

Only de Blasio and Warren raised their hands and Warren promoted Sen. Bernie Sanders Medicare-for-All proposal.

Yes, I’m with Bernie on Medicare for all,” Warren said. When families in the United States go broke, one of the top reasons is medical costs, she said. And those families often have health care insurance.

“Health care is a basic human right,” she said.

De Blasio jumped as O’Rourke said he would not abolish private insurance. When O’Rourke said that he thought the choice was fundamental to get everyone insured, de Blasio insisted that private insurance was not working for tens of millions of Americans.

“How can you defend a system that’s not working,” de Blasio said.

THE COUNTRY’S GREATEST THREAT
What is the biggest threat to the United States?

The answered ranged from China to Iran to Russia to nuclear proliferation to climate change.

But Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's answer delivered the biggest applause of the night: Donald Trump.

For about two hours hundreds of people gathered outside New Haven City Hall Wednesday to show their support for undocumented immigrants.

"We have a broken immigration system. There is no getting in the back of the line because there is no line," said Kica Matos, an immigrant rights organizer.

"It's portrayed like these are criminals coming and stealing out jobs when a lot of these families are fleeing poverty and violence and desperate situations. They just want a better life for their families," said Manchester resident Dawn Cook.

Recent news spurred the protest with President Donald Trump saying that ICE will soon launch mass raids targeting undocumented immigrants. Those at the rally say they're horrified to hear about recent accounts of children in detention receiving little food and going for days - even weeks - without soap, showers, or toothbrushes. They also spoke about the heart-wrenching news of a father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande trying to cross the border.

The loss of life is something Trump blamed on the Democrats.

"Open borders means people drowning in the rivers," the president said. "Change the laws. They have to change the laws."

Faith and community leaders spoke at Wednesday's rally. State Attorney General William Tong talked about his own background as the son of immigrants.

"I'm here as the proud son of two immigrants that came to this state. I'm here as the proud son of a man who was at one point undocumented," said Tong.

Interim Police Chief Otoniel Reyes told the crowd that officers are there to defend everyone's rights.

"It doesn't mean that we won't criminalize criminal activity. It means we will not criminalize immigration. We will not criminalize humanity. So we commit to you that we will continue to support you," said Reyes.

Many at the rally told the mayor that they want the city to adopt a sanctuary city ordinance. The mayor says she is willing to meet with activists about it.

The girlfriend of the estranged husband of a missing New Canaan mother has made a request to travel outside Connecticut.

Michelle Troconis and her boyfriend Fotis Dulos are facing charges in the disappearance of Fotis’ estranged wife Jennifer Dulos, accused of tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution. Both Troconis and Fotis have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Troconis’ legal team filed a motion to amend her conditions of release Tuesday, requesting permission for her to travel out of state from June 30 to July 17 to visit a person attorneys say is unconnected with the case. Troconis is currently required to wear a GPS monitoring device and stay within the state of Connecticut.

The same motion also requests barring Fotis or any of his team from contacting Troconis, saying that Fotis' defense attorney has made comments to protect his client at the expense of Troconis.

Fotis’ attorneys have previously requested access to Troconis and permission for Fotis to speak with her and his children.

Jennifer Dulos has been missing since May 24, last seen dropping her children off at school. According to public filings, she and Fotis were in the midst of a divorce and custody battle over the couple’s five children.

According to court documents, when Jennifer was reported missing and police went to search her home, they found what was determined to be blood. Investigators believe she was the victim of a “serious physical assault.” The case remains a missing persons case.

City surveillance cameras captured a man police said matched the appearance of Fotis throwing away bags of garbage along Albany Avenue in Hartford the day Jennifer disappeared, according to court documents. A woman matching Troconis’ description was also seen in the video.

Investigators have spent the better part of the last month searching for clues related to Jennifer's disappearance at locations all over the state.

As the search for Jennifer continues, police have dedicated a website, FindJenniferDulos.com, and an email address, FindJenniferDulos@newcanaanct.gov, to the investigation. Police have also set up a tipline, 203-594-3544.