The tropical disturbance over the Bahamas has strengthened into a tropical storm. The National Weather Service takes Humberto through the northern portion of the Bahamas. 

The northern portion of the Bahama island chain will likely see several inches of rain over the next 24 hours. The storm will impact areas that were hard hit by Dorian nearly two weeks ago. 

The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to stay well east of Florida. Tropical storm watches have been lifted for the sunshine state and the eventual storm track takes a potential Category 1 hurricane out to see next week. 

Humberto may come close to the island of Bermuda by the middle of next week. 

Mid-September brings the peak of tropical storm and hurricane season with, on average, the highest number of named storms.

The managing partner of a small, Chicago-based travel agency is accused of scamming Delta out of nearly $2 million worth of frequent flyer miles, NBC News reported.

Gennady Podolsky, a 43-year-old dual Ukrainian and American citizen, was arraigned on wire-fraud charges Friday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia said in a statement. 

He was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on 12 counts of wire fraud.

Prosecutors say Podolsky used travel agency customers' trips to manipulate the airline's corporate reward program.

A teenager with a dairy allergy had told a restaurant's staff about his condition and was misled into thinking his meal was safe before he ate it and died from a severe reaction, a coroner concluded at a London court Friday, the U.K. Press Association reported.

Owen Carey died after celebrating his 18th birthday with a meal at a Byron Burger, a chain restaurant in London, in 2017. Investigators at the Southwark Coroner’s Court looking into Owen's sudden death found the teen had told wait staff about his allergy. He died after eating chicken marinated in buttermilk, NBC News reports.

Owen “died from a severe food-induced anaphylactic reaction from food eaten and ordered at a restaurant despite making staff aware of his allergies,” Assistant coroner Briony Ballard ruled.

After the ruling, Byron Burger's chief executive, Simon Wilkinson, said in a statement that the restaurant takes "allergies extremely seriously and have robust procedures in place and although those procedures were in line with all the rules and guidelines, we train our staff to respond in the right way."

Wilkinson added that the company "heard what the Coroner said about the need to communicate about allergies," and that "it is clear that the current rules and requirements are not enough and the industry needs to do more."

One firefighter was taken to the hospital after suffering minor injuries while battling a fire at a house in Newington Saturday and another firefighter was treated at the scene. 

Fire officials said two people were home on Deer Path when the fire started in the garage and they called for the fire department to respond. 

Two cars were in the garage, officials said, and the was some damage to the main structure of the home. Most of it was caused by smoke, officials said. 

The cause of the fire is being investigated.

An argument at a peewee football game in Fort Worth, Texas, led to a shooting in which two people, including a child, were injured Saturday afternoon, police say.

The shooting happened just before 4 p.m., during the third quarter of a football game between the Fort Worth Longhorns and the 81G Bulldogs, a witness told NBC 5. The teams were playing on a field at Eastern Hills High School.

Witnesses said the mother of one of the players became upset when a fight broke out between some of the players on the field.

The woman then called her older son, who arrived with a gun and started to shoot, police said.

"Everybody in the bleachers, they dropped in the bleachers and everyone ran everywhere," said Damber Walker, whose son plays for the Bulldogs. "Kids on the field were running. Coaches were running."

The gunman, whose age was not immediately available, was on a small hill overlooking the field and fired between 10 and 30 shots, witnesses said.

"He was shooting at our sideline. He was standing at the top of the hill. You could see him pointing down shooting directly at the kids," said Jonathan Cunningham, one of the Bulldogs' coaches. "So we checked on our players, our kids, making sure everyone was OK. That's when we noticed one of our parents was shot."

A woman was struck in the leg and a girl under 18 years old was grazed in the back, police said. Both were transported to an area hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life threatening.

Police said they have not located the shooter.

Pratt Street in Hartford was spilling with pride Saturday.

With the support of sponsors and after months of work by organizers, the 5th annual Hartford Pride Festival welcomed revelers with lots of smiles, love and inclusion.

“This is my first Pride Fest and I’m so excited. It is amazing. The city is showing so much pride. It’s great,” Tigerlilly Rodriquez, of Hartford, said.

Folks even came in from out of state to check out the capital city’s colorful celebration.

“I used to live here and I found out there was a pride parade today and now I’m here celebrating,” Dannielle Gladeu, of Portland, Maine, said.

Those we spoke to hope events like this help everyone feel included.

“This is just support for all the kids that don’t have the acceptance from the parents and that’s why I come,” said Yahaira Rodriquez of Hartford who was wearing a sign that said “Free Mom Hugs.”

Pride Fest celebrations continued into Saturday night with drinks and dancing at Hartford City Hall.

Three months after he was shot in his native Dominican Republic, Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz says his life is forever changed.

In his first interview with an English language publication, Ortiz tells the Boston Globe that he almost died.

“People need to understand, this isn’t a movie where you get shot in the street and you’re back two minutes later,’’ the slugger said in a wide-ranging interview at Fenway Park. “No, I got shot and almost died. I only have one life to live. I can’t just go to the pharmacy and buy another one.’’

Ortiz says he was drinking with about eight of his friends on an outdoor patio at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo on June 9 when a gunman fired a single bullet from close range into his back.

Everyone scattered when the shot rang out, leaving Ortiz critically injured on the floor, he said. The 43-year-old says an "angel came out of nowhere," a bar patron named Eliezer Salvador, and he helped Ortiz into his Rolls-Royce and rushed him to a private clinic.

Ortiz recalls that he was alert enough to know he had been shot but says he didn't understand much else about his condition at the time, telling the Globe that he didn't want to look at his wound.

As the retired slugger was taken into his first surgery, Ortiz says he told the medical staff, "Please don't let me die. I have four children. I want to be with them."

Surgeons removed his gallbladder and operated on his badly damaged intestines and liver. Shortly after, the Red Sox arranged for Ortiz to be transported to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Before his flight to Boston, Ortiz says he remembers being questioned at his bedside by Dominican Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez but remembers little else about the day after the shooting. 

Ortiz spokesman Joe Baerlein says that was his only interview with a law enforcement official about the ambush.

Once at Mass. General, Ortiz was operated on for a second time. Trauma surgeon Dr. David King told Ortiz they needed to assess the internal damage and the quality of his first surgery in the DR.

“They did a hell of a job, all good,’’ Ortiz quoted King as saying afterward about the Dominican surgical team.

Despite successful surgeries, his recovery was slow. Then, three weeks after his second surgery, Ortiz contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection. 

“It was very dangerous,’’ Ortiz said of his condition. “I got to the point that I started losing hope.’’

Ortiz says he grew more despondent when he was informed he urgently needed a third surgery.

He recalled some of his darkest days after his last surgery and how he could swallow nothing but melted ice chips for seven weeks — except for a small cup of Jell-O and some fruit that he threw up.

Tubes and intravenous lines provided his only nourishment, and he recalls that his mouth was so parched that it physically ached.

“I had nightmares all the time about being in the desert, looking for water,’’ he told the Globe. “I would wake up with my mouth dry and feeling like I’m going to die.’’

He felt hopeful when his medical team told him he would survive but he says at that time he began to consider he may never be the same Big Papi everyone was used to — someone with a larger-than-life personality, capable of lifting up the spirits of an entire city.

“I felt that if I didn’t die, then I would never be the same again,’’ Ortiz said. “I went through hell with that.’’

Ortiz says, in hindsight, the turning point in his recovery came when he woke up from a nightmare and saw his sister Albania arguing with God as she asked for help.

He was upset by what he saw and acknowledges that it hit him hard.

"But after that day, everything was different,’’ Ortiz said. “I started getting better.’’

He held down food for the first time on July 22, nearly seven weeks after he was shot.

Then, nearly a month after his third surgery, Ortiz was discharged from the hospital and he returned to his home outside Boston to begin the next phase of his recovery.

There, he had visits from Yankees and Phillies players. And of course, Red Sox players, past and current. He says if not in person, then by phone.

While it has all been renewing for him, Ortiz says he continues to try to understand why he was shot in the first place and says he's never been able to make sense of the multiple theories that emerged in the aftermath.

Authorities originally announced that an unidentified person with an unknown motive had placed a $7,800 bounty on Ortiz's head. Six suspects were arrested and Ortiz says he knew none of them.

“I don’t know why I was involved in something like this because I’m not the type of person who looks for trouble or causes trouble. All I worry about is trying to help people, about trying to do the right thing,” Ortiz said before cracking a joke. “You gotta pay a lot more than that to get me killed. I ain’t that cheap.’’

Almost three weeks later, officials said eight more suspects had been arrested. Ortiz tells the Globe he knows none of those people, either. Police concluded that Ortiz was not the intended target and that the intended target was Ortiz's friend, who was sitting next to him at the bar. Authorities said there was a $30,000 bounty on the friend's head because his cousin, an alleged drug dealer, wanted him killed for allegedly speaking to police eight years earlier.

Ortiz says this also makes no sense to him. Neither do questions about whether or not Cesar Peralta, a Dominican drug kingpin known as “The Abuser,’’ or his cartel may have been involved in the shooting.

Regarding the tabloid rumors that spread following the shooting, Ortiz dismissed those, including one that suggested he had been chased and forced off the road by someone trying to harm him before the shooting.

“If that ever happened to me, the first person I would call would be the president of the Dominican Republic,’’ Ortiz said in his Globe interview. “I know he would do something about it. That’s how close we are.’’

Due to his own lingering questions, Ortiz decided to hire former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis to investigate the shooting. His spokesman says Davis has yet to uncover any significant new evidence.

“I want to find out who did this,’’ Ortiz said. “I’m not going to sit around and chill if there’s somebody out there who wants to kill me.’’

Baerlein says the Edward Davis Company is also providing security services for Ortiz and his family.

While Ortiz continues to make strides in his recovery, including gaining back some of the 40 pounds he lost, he says he has sadly found himself withdrawing a bit since the shooting.

“I was always very accessible, but I think I’m going to cut down on that a little now," Ortiz said. "One lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t be naive. There are a lot of things going on now that you have to be aware of. I need to pay attention and be more careful.’’

Red Sox Nation was happy to see Ortiz back at Fenway Park earlier this week, where he tossed a ceremonial first pitch before the Sox played the New York Yankees in the final game of a four-game series. During his first Fenway appearance since the shooting, Ortiz thanked God and the Red Sox.

"First of all, I want to thank God for giving me a second opportunity in my life to be able to be here with all of you," Ortiz said. "I want to thank the Red Sox, my real family. They always have been there for me, supporting me. They were aware of what happened to me, and they were the first ones there supporting me. Thank you very much, Red Sox fans."

Sox fans outside Fenway Park Saturday night reacted to Ortiz's Globe interview, saying it's sad what happened to him and that he didn't deserve it.

“It doesn’t matter that he’s Boston’s hero, right, he’s still a human and it’s terrible that someone would take advantage of that,” said one woman with her son. “That’s awful. Like, he’s his hero, ya know? And to know that heroes feel like that, makes you pretty sad, huh?”

“He’s probably one of the kindest, gentlest people in the world, probably on the planet actually, and he didn’t deserve what happened to him,” one fan said.

Other Sox fans understood how the shooting could have adjusted Ortiz's lifestyle.

“Get paranoid man. You just get paranoid. You’re looking over your back all the time. I think a lot of people want what he has,” one man said.

Ortiz, who dropped his daughter Alex off at the Berklee College of Music in late August, says he plans to head to Los Angeles soon to resume his role as a Fox Sports analyst for the major league baseball playoffs in October. He'll then take a trip to Florida in November for his annual charity golf tournament.

And he does say that he will return to the Dominican Republic one day, likely with security.

Ortiz says he expects to be fully physically recovered by Thanksgiving but knows other scars will linger.

Someone drew a swastika inside a Department of Homeland Security office building, the agency reports.

The swastika was discovered at the DHS complex on Nebraska Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C.

“This display of hate and cowardice does not represent the dedicated hardworking men and women of the Department of Homeland Security,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Andrew Meehan said in a statement. “It has no place in an organization that works tirelessly to protect the American people and combat hate in all its forms.”

The swastika has been removed.

The Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties have been notified.

When Jenna Evans couldn’t find her engagement ring one morning, she looked inside herself to solve the mystery.

Evans, 29, woke up to find her engagement ring missing from her finger and her bedroom altogether. She said she checks for her ring all the time ever since her fiancé proposed in April.

“So, in case you missed it, I swallowed my engagement ring in my sleep on Tuesday night,” Evans wrote on Facebook.

She claims her fiancé told her to remove it in a dream. 

"We were on a cargo train at night and it was a mission impossible kind of situation. There were bad guys and he said, 'you have to swallow your ring.'"

She didn’t remember removing her 2.4-carat diamond ring, but she said she remembered swallowing it with a big gulp of water like a vitamin.

“I have a lot of strange dreams, so I also thought that it was probably a dream. I just went back to sleep,” Evans told NBC 7 San Diego.

“It took a while to recover from the laughing to figure out what we should do,” Evans added.

She went to urgent care, where doctors were shocked to find a diamond ring traveling through her body in an X-ray.

Doctors decided against letting “nature take its course” and referred Evans to a gastroenterologist, who promptly scheduled her for an upper endoscopy, the insertion of a small camera and device down someone's throat.

“I could definitely feel it in my guts, it was starting to really hurt and make us nervous,” Evans said.

They found her ring sitting in her intestines just beyond her stomach.

The incident was not completely unexpected, Evans said. She has a history of sleepwalking and even doing laundry in her sleep. But she said she’s never eaten in her sleep, let alone swallowed a non-food object.

With the ring back on her finger, Evans and her fiancé Bob Howell plan on getting married in May of next year.

Evans is doing well now — in fact, she’s been laughing about it ever since. She said she plans on scheduling an appointment with a sleep specialist soon.

“I don’t have any fears that I will swallow it again. I hopefully will only achieve such greatness once,” she said. 

Fridays for Future school strikes — a movement led largely by teenage girls — has eclipsed the quiet, solitary protests started by its founder, 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg, in August 2018. Now upward of 2 million supporters from The Hague to Kampala, Uganda, regularly skip class on Friday and take to the streets to protest government inaction on climate change.

Some 450 teen strikers from 38 countries gathered in Lausanne on the banks of Lake Geneva last month to figure out how to get the world to act now, NBC News reported.

Donning sundresses or sensible jeans and T-shirts, or rocking eye-catching hairdos in bright blues, greens and pinks, the girls were as diverse as their countries of origin. But they had found commonality in fighting climate change.

President Donald Trump's plan to pay for his proposed border wall by taking funds from more than four dozen Air Force military construction projects poses various national security risks for the U.S. armed forces, according to a report compiled by the U.S. Air Force, NBC News reported.

The report, obtained by NBC News, details the importance of each of the 51 military projects chosen by the Trump administration to lose their funding, including construction of a new gate to address a growing security concern at an overseas U.S. base, projects to build facilities to safely store more than $1 billion in munitions overseas, and even replacing a boiler whose failure is "imminent" and could cause the evacuation of an entire base in Alaska.

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in February in an effort to circumvent Congress and fund the wall he had promised to build along the U.S. border with Mexico, citing "an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, will all types of criminals and gangs."

On a brisk September Saturday, sipping beer was helping many people in Hartford beat the end of summer blues.

“Everybody’s having a good time. Live music over there and good time,” Heather Jones said.

The “Small State Great Beer” fest was sold out on Sept. 14.

Just down the street, hundreds of people celebrating at Hartford’s 5th annual Pride Festival.

“This is my first pride fest and I’m so excited,” Tigerlilly Rodriquez, of Hartford, said.

“it really just shows how far we’ve come. Along in terms of acceptance,” Marketing Director of Hartford Pride Jalmar Dedios said.

Organizers said this event stands out from those in neighboring states because it’s so budget and family-friendly.

“It’s been fun coming here to see that people are fine with who they are and they don’t care what other people think,” Rebecca, of Long Island, said.

The Pride Festival was wrapping up just as the rain started to fall, but fans at the Hartford Athletic weren’t so lucky.

“We all love soccer, obviously. They wouldn’t let us in with umbrellas but that’s alright, no big deal,” said Matthew Bieniek of the Polish National Home of Hartford, who had a huge group cheering on the team.

“There’s 80 of us. Yes. I’d show you the receipt but I left it in my car,” Bieniek continued.

Fans starting seeing the team in a new night.

“It’s like the first game with lights so it’s really fun to experience it,” Olivia, of West Hartford, said.

A bright way to end a busy day in the capital city.

The final week of summer promises to bring a lot of weather changes.

A weak system will bring some rain showers to the state on Monday.

After the system clears, expect sunny, dry and cool temperatures toward midweek. Highs on Wednesday will likely top out in the upper 60s close to 70 degrees.

But as the weekend approaches, high pressure is expected to slide offshore and provide warmer air for the final weekend of summer.

Highs for the last weekend of summer could approach the middle 80s.

The average high temperature next Saturday is 73 degrees, but it's looking much warmer than that.

Autumn officially arrives Sept. 23 at 3:50 a.m.

See the full forecast here.

A 700-truck convoy and parade took nearly 80 Make-A-Wish families on a much-deserved ride Sunday for the 20th annual Wishes on Wheels event at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.

“I like pickup trucks,” Cameron Wilson, of Wallingford, said.

It wasn’t a typical Sunday for Cameron, who got to pick out a truck to ride in with his family out of a lineup of hundreds.

His sights were set on something colorful.

“Black and red, black and yellow, purple and pink, black and blue,” Cameron said.

As he danced and jumped around Rentschler Field Sunday morning, you couldn’t tell what he’s been through. But Cameron is a little fighter who hasn’t had it easy.

“Cameron’s been through a lot,” his dad, Brendan Wilson, told NBC Connecticut. “He loves cars and trucks, so this is the perfect opportunity for us to just get him out.”

In 2017, at just 2 years old, Cameron was diagnosed with Leukemia.

He has 18 months left of treatment.

“He’s on steroids this week. He’s still getting a lot of chemo at home and at the hospital,” Wilson said.

A truck ride Sunday and the promise of his wish, a trip to Disney, once he’s healthy enough to travel, get the Wilson family through the tough times.

Wishes on Wheels has raised more than $1.6 million over the years to make wishes like Cameron’s come true.

“100-percent of what’s donated goes directly towards the kids' wishes,” said Pam Keough, President & CEO of Make-A-Wish Connecticut.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut has granted 3,300 wishes across the state.

This year alone they will grant 250 wishes, according to Keough.

At 14 years old, Braden Shumbo from Plainville wished for an African safari in Florida.

Cole Kubicza from Cheshire is 9. He wished for a swimming pool and since its installation in his yard, he has seen improved mobility and strength.

Out of all of the events benefiting their cause, Wishes on Wheels stands out.

“This is amazing,” said an emotional Kristin Garrison, the Executive Vice President of Wishes on Wheels.

Garrison is part of the team that makes Wishes on Wheels possible, and had a special shout-out for the hundreds of truck drivers who spent their Sunday making Connecticut “Wish Kids” smile.

“We can’t thank them enough for spending their own time, not getting paid, using their own fuel, coming out to escort these Wish Children on this journey with us.”

Two men were shot in New Haven on Saturday night.

Police responded to an area on Hobart Street between Whalley Avenue and Elm Street after gunshots were detected by ShotSpotter just past 7:30 p.m.

When police arrived they found that two victims were driven to the hospital after being shot.

A 26-year-old man suffered a single gunshot wound and a 22-year-old man had been shot multiple times, according to police. Their injuries were not life-threatening, police said.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call New Haven police at 203-946-6304.

A pilot was taken to the hospital with severe injuries and burns after a plane crash in Sterling Sunday afternoon, according to police.

The crash happened in the area of Plainfield Pike.

The accident involved an ultralite Aerolite 103, one-engine, one-seat glider-type plane, according to police.

The aircraft had taken off from RICONN Airport just over the state line in Coventry, Rhode Island and then crashed into a wooded area adjacent to the airport.

Police are actively investigating the incident.

A helicopter pilot volunteering in the Bahamas in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian was shocked to discover this week that an area full of debris from the storm was inhabited by up to 40 people, NBC News reports.

Justin Johnson, who owns Timberview Helicopters in Destin, Florida, with his wife, Angela, was heading to Fox Town on Little Abaco Island. The couple was in the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas with MEDIC Corps, a volunteer group that serves people affected by natural disasters.

"Being there, you can't process that that really just happened,” Angela Johnson said about the devastation left by the storm, which flattened whole towns and left at least 50 people dead.

MEDIC Corps said the debris-filled village had been overlooked because it was located off main roads, and the residents didn’t have vehicles or speak English. The stranded people were in desperate need of supplies and support, the group said in a statement.

Many were undocumented Haitian immigrants who “are afraid of being deported so it is sometimes difficult to provide evacuation to these communities and they aren’t the first to show themselves,” MEDIC Corps said.

Police are investigating after two businesses on the same street in East Haven were apparently robbed by the same person.

Both robberies occurred on East Frontage Road, according to police.

The first robbery happened at a Sunoco gas station shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Police said the suspect, approximately 6-feet-tall, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a white logo over the left breast, gray or tan jeans and black shoes. The man was carrying a knife.

Police said the man jumped over the counter and gained access to the cash register. He then fled the scene in a newer model dark gray or charcoal Honda Civic with tinted windows.

A second robbery happened at Dunkin' Donuts just after 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Police said a white or Hispanic male entered the business with a knife. 

The man reached over the counter and took cash. The description of the suspect matched the description of the Sunoco robbery suspect, police said.

No injuries were reported in either robbery.

Anyone who recognizes the pictured suspect is urged to contact police.

Huzef Vohra is haunted by flashbacks. The roar of a motorcycle, a loud bang, a whistle-like snore — they catapult the civil engineer back to March 15, to the bottom of a pile of bodies in the corner of Al Noor Mosque. In the disoriented rush that followed a gunman opening fire there, Vohra, 21, charged toward an exit but was quickly caught in the stampede to escape, NBC News reports.

“People toppled on top of me,” he said. “I was trapped.”

Six months later, Vohra and many others in New Zealand are still grappling with a pair of attacks on two Christchurch mosques, Al Noor and the Linwood Islamic Center. Authorities have described the massacre as an act of terror carried out by a suspected white supremacist, who will face trial next year. With a death toll of 51, March 15 marks the worst atrocity in New Zealand’s modern history.

As relatives mourn the dead and survivors adjust to life after the attack, New Zealand’s leaders have responded with a slate of sweeping policy changes. A mandatory gun buyback has netted more than 19,000 semi-automatic weapons, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s effort to eliminate violent extremism online has been embraced by a handful of big tech companies, as well as more than a dozen countries including the United Kingdom, India and Australia. On Friday, a bill was introduced that would track all the guns in the country through a new register.

A man is being held in county jail in connection to the fire that burned down a Minnesota synagogue, police said on Sunday.

Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken said his department is recommending a first degree arson charge for Matthew James Amiot, 36, who has been held without bail since his Friday arrest, NBC News reports.

Amiot was arrested on Friday afternoon and gave a statement to police, but has yet to be charged. The Duluth PD, along with federal ATF investigators, are still looking into the motivation of the fire. A complaint is expected to be filed next week.

“At this moment in time, there is no reason to believe that this is a bias or hate crime,” Tusken said in a Sunday press conference, adding the classification of the crime is subject to change as the investigation continues.

Duluth police and firefighters responded to a report of a fire early Monday morning and found Adas Israel Congregation, a 119-year-old Orthodox synagogue, in flames.