How would you react if you saw headlights coming right at you from a car traveling the wrong direction?

A dash camera photo shows the moment a Waterford police officer had to make that decision Sunday night.

Police said the officer spotted the car traveling north in the southbound lanes of Route 32 in Quaker Hill around 11 p.m. The officer approached with lights and sirens to try to stop the car and prevent what could have become a catastrophic wrong-way crash at a high speed.

The driver was arrested and charged with operating under the influence. Police say the driver’s blood alcohol content was .18, which is well above the state limit of .08.

Police said the photo should serve as a reminder of the dangers of impaired driving. They urge the public to call for a ride rather than risk arrest or worse, a deadly crash.

A woman is accused of either biting or cutting off her ex’s middle finger in Hartford and posting about it on Facebook. 

Police responded to St. Francis Hospital just before 11 p.m. on Sunday to meet with the victim and he told them a woman he’d been in a prior relationship with had tried to attack him with a brick. Then, as he was trying to defend himself and restrain her, the woman either bit or cut off part of his right middle finger, police said.  

Police identified the suspect as 44-year-old Anna Lindo, of Bloomfield. 

She was taken into custody where the assault occurred, police said, and no crime scene was found. 

Lindo’s mother later contacted the police and said she had found the finger in her vehicle. 

Officers responded, recovered the finger and brought it to St. Francis Hospital, but doctors couldn’t reattach it. 

Police said Lindo was agitated and refused to be interviewed. 

As they investigated, police said Lindo had posted several videos on Facebook boasting about the incident and showcasing the finger. 

Bond for Lindo was set at $250,000. 

She was charged with assault in the first degree and disorderly conduct. 

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its preliminary report on the crash of a vintage plane at Bradley Airport that killed seven people and injured seven others on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 2. 

The pilot, airline transport pilot and five passengers died when the 1944 Boeing B-17G crashed. 

According to the NTSB report, an airport lineman at Bradley Airport had assisted the loadmaster as he added 160 gallons of 100LL aviation fuel to the plane that morning. It was the first plane to be filled with that type of fuel that day.

Shortly after takeoff, at 9:50 a.m., one of the pilots reported to air traffic control that he wanted to return to the airport because the plane had a “rough mag” on the number 4 engine, according to the NTSB. 

The pilot was cleared to land on runway 6. 

The plane hit approach lights around 1,000 feet before the runway and hit the ground about 500 feet before the runway, then it veered right off the runway before hitting vehicles and a deicing fluid tank, according to NTSB report. Most of the cabin, cockpit and right wing burst into flames. 

The report goes on to say that there was no debris or water contamination in the fuel, there were no anomalies in the truck’s equipment or fuel supply and no other airplanes reported any anomalies. 

The airplane had been issued a limited airworthiness certificate in 1944 and was equipped with passenger seats in 1995. 

The NTSB said a review of the maintenance records revealed that the plane’s most recent annual inspection was completed on Jan. 16 and the most recent progressive inspection was on Sept. 23.

Read the full report below.  

The man accused of shooting two people at a New Hampshire church over the weekend has a lengthy criminal history in Massachusetts, including ties to a notorious street gang and stints in prison for stabbing a man in Boston and assaulting a woman on the South Shore, government records show.

The suspect, Dale Holloway, was accused of beating his estranged girlfriend, then holding her and her kids against their will inside her home in Plymouth over a period of three days in May 2012, according to court records reviewed by the NBC10 Boston Investigators.

Before that, Holloway pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Superior Court in 2003 to stabbing another man with a knife during an altercation at an arcade on Washington Street in Boston.

Holloway, 37, now faces his most serious charges to date: the alleged shooting of a bishop and bride at a church in Pelham, New Hampshire. Police continue to investigate the motive behind Saturday's attack, which took place during a wedding at New England Pentecostal Church.

Holloway allegedly shot 75-year-old Bishop Stanley Choate in the chest and bride Claire McMullen, 60, in the arm. The groom, Mark Castiglione, 60, was wounded when he was pistol-whipped on the head, according to authorities.

Holloway waived his arraignment Tuesday in a New Hampshire courtroom on charges including attempted murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Efforts to reach his court-appointed lawyer were unsuccessful.

Holloway was both a victim and perpetrator of violence throughout his youth, case records show.

He had ties to Brockton and Boston's Mattapan neighborhood growing up, and spent his early years in a family where his father abused his mother and siblings, according to a memorandum filed in court previously by one of his lawyers. At age 15, Holloway was stabbed at least 15 times during a robbery, leaving him with diminished strength in his right arm, according to the memo.

Holloway also had a significant criminal record as a juvenile, including charges of unarmed robbery, assault and battery and assault by means of a dangerous weapon.

Holloway was 18 when he committed the stabbing in Boston, attacking a man he said was pressuring another teenager into joining a gang, according to court records. On March 21, 2001, Holloway got into a fistfight with the victim and stabbed him several times, leaving the man collapsed on the ground with "his entrails spilling onto the sidewalk," according to prosecutors. The victim suffered a lacerated colon and bowel and remained unconscious for nearly one week while undergoing a series of surgeries at Massachusetts General Hospital, case records state.

Prosecutors asked a judge to sentence Holloway to prison for seven to nine years at the time, saying he was a repeat violent offender.

He was instead sentenced to serve a minimum of two years in prison, with an additional two years of probation to follow. He quickly found himself back in court after violating the terms of his release, however; court records show he was convicted in 2005 in Dorchester District Court of a misdemeanor charge of possession of a class D drug with intent to distribute.

A superior court judge ordered Holloway in 2006 to be committed to Bridgewater State Hospital for 40 days in order to undergo a mental health evaluation. The judge later revoked his probation on the stabbing case and sentenced him to serve a minimum of two and half more years in prison.

In the years that followed, Holloway served time in the Plymouth County House of Correction, Suffolk County Jail and Norfolk County Correctional Center.

His lengthiest period behind bars followed a violent 2012 assault in which prosecutors said Holloway held his estranged girlfriend against her will in her Plymouth home. Holloway showed up on Mother's Day, forced his way into the residence wearing a ski mask and controlled her for the next three days, prosecutors alleged.

At one point, he told her they should "poison their food and kill themselves or steal a van and crash it into a tree" to prevent being arrested and separated, according to a summary written by a panel of Appeals Court judges who later reconsidered the case.

A concerned friend called police, who searched the home and found Holloway hiding under an upstairs baby crib.

The woman told police she left Holloway in December 2011 after he threw her down a flight of stairs and hadn't seen him until he showed up at her home. She showed police a black eye and told them Holloway had been physically, verbally and emotionally abusive since they started dating in 2005. The couple had two children together, according to court records.

A jury acquitted Holloway of rape when the case went to trial, but convicted him of two counts of assault and battery and one count of intimidating a witness. Holloway was ordered to serve a four- to seven-year sentence in state prison.

While he was incarcerated, Holloway penned a six-page federal complaint from his prison cell alleging he was mistreated by government officials who handled the case. He accused police and prosecutors in Plymouth of misconduct, and claimed the victim was coerced into testifying against him.

Holloway named a long list of defendants, including the Plymouth police chief, several police officers and Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz. He asked a judge to order the defendants to publicly apologize to him, and to award him a combined $65 million in damages.

A federal judge dismissed the complaint one month after it was filed, finding Holloway had failed to first prove his innocence in state court.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court also upheld Holloway's 2012 conviction in February 2019. A court-appointed lawyer had argued that prosecutors improperly presented evidence of Holloway's past "bad acts" to the jury during his trial.

According to a footnote, jurors heard evidence that in February 2010, Holloway verbally and physically abused the victim, giving her a black eye and broken nose; that in November 2009, he raped and impregnated the victim with their second child; in May 2011, he assaulted the victim again while she was pregnant, including "throwing her into an icy shower, beating her with a belt, locking her out of the house while she was naked, and telling her to kill herself"; and that in December 2011, Holloway punched the woman and broke her jaw while she was holding her baby daughter.

Jurors also heard evidence that Holloway forced the victim to sign a contract saying she would "be with him forever," and later told the victim he had joined the Latin Kings, a notorious street gang, and said that "if she did not obey him, he or someone else would hurt her," according to the footnote to the Appeals Court decision.

The Appeals Court rejected Holloway's arguments, finding Plymouth County prosecutors operated within the boundaries of the law during the trial.

Holloway was released from prison in Massachusetts in December 2018, according to officials from the Department of Correction. Court records show a Plymouth District Court judge issued an abuse prevention order in May of this year that bars Holloway from being in the vicinity of two minors.

A judge denied a request Tuesday from the NBC10 Boston Investigators to review a copy of the order.

Part of Foxon Road in North Branford is closed due to a crash, according to police.

Police said the road is closed between Merrick Drive and Sunset Road West. Drivers should find alternate routes.

No other details were immediately available.

Google held their annual "Made By Google" event in New York City Tuesday, where they introduced a new phone, computer, home system, earphones and even a game-streaming platform. 

“Our mission is to bring a better Google for you,” said Rick Osterloh, the company's senior vice president of hardware. 

Matt Vokoun, Google's director of product management, said that the new offerings were designed with "more affordable price points" than competitors. 

All five products have the capability of staying connected, sharing information among devices. 

When it comes to private information, Osterloh said that safety measures have been added to the devices for consumers to manage and monitor their private information. “Everything is designed with your privacy in mind,” Osterloh added. 

Here is a breakdown of what Google announced:

Pixel Buds

Google enters the earbuds business with their new Pixel buds. Aside from providing a good audio quality and a small ear-friendly size, these buds will respond to any Google Assistant command. Just say "Hey Google," and ask for a specific task. Pixel buds include a wireless case that charges the buds. The buds can run up to 5 hours, or a full day when recharging it on the go with the case. New Pixel buds will start selling early next year for $179. Google's answer to Apple's AirPods are shorter than Apple's wireless earphones.  

The Pixel 4 Phone

Google's latest phone, the Pixel 4, will include an improved camera that the company says can be used to take professional pictures. Other features in the Pixel 4 include Google Assistant built in and a motion sense detector to operate the phone without actually touching it. Just by waving over the phone, you can skip songs, snooze alarms or even silence calls. The new Pixel 4 will come in two sizes and three different colors: white, black and a limited-edition orange. It will also be available in all major U.S. carriers. Pixel 4 is available for pre-ordering, starting at $799. They'll be available for shipment next week. 

Streaming Games with STADIA

Hitting the gaming market, Google announced a new game streaming platform called STADIA. It will let consumers play HD games from any screen device. The platform is expected to have at least 40 games available from publishers like Warner Bros. and Bandai Namco, creators of the famous Dragon Ball games. This monthly subscription will be available on Nov. 19 starting at $9.99.

Nest

Nest has added new ways for people to create a smart home environment. Nest Aware is a subscription program that will help connect all Nest devices at home. Subscriptions will be available in early 2020 starting at $6, while Nest Aware Pro, with more features, costs $12.

Another product, the Nest mini ($49), is Nest's version of a smart speaker that has a faster and improved Google Assistant. It will permit people to manage some home appliances when connected to Nest Aware.

Nest is also including Wifi as part of their new product line. The Nest Wifi is a home router and smart speaker set that expands internet coverage in your house. The 2-pack Nest Wifi will be available for $269, while the 3-pack will be available for $349, starting Nov. 4. For more information on which set up might be better for you, click here. 

Pixelbook Go

The renovated Pixelbook was built with the idea of being practical for consumers who are usually on the go. It's 13 millimeters thick, weighs 2lbs. and has a battery that lasts up to 12 hours. The Pixelbook Go will be available with a 64GB, 128GB and 256GB memory. The starting price of this new Chromebook is $649.

Rudy Giuliani won't comply with a congressional subpoena as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, an attorney for Giuliani told House investigators in a letter on Tuesday.

Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, had been subpoenaed for documents related to his work in Ukraine, which has come under intense scrutiny after Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, NBC News reported.

Last week, two of Giuliani's business associates who had been assisting him in his Ukrainian venture were arrested on campaign-finance charges.

A Hartford police officer leapt into action to stop a man about to take his own life on the Columbus Boulevard pedestrian bridge Monday.

The life and death situation unfolded during lunch hour.

“There’s tons of children going to the science museum,” said witness Manon Morande. “This could have been horrific.”

Hartford Police Officer Jim Barrett heard the call.

“Something wasn’t right,” said Barrett.

Because Barrett was on his bike, he was on scene in seconds.

Morande watched the intense exchange.

“I saw the gentleman on the other side of the bridge lunging, this gentleman jumped over and put his arm and caught him,” she said.

“There was no negotiating,” said Barrett. “He was committed to jump and he was in the position to actually jump. He was in the motion of jumping that’s what I had to take initiative and take charge and stop it from happening.”

Barrett and Morande stayed until more help arrived.

“I said we’re going to get through this together,” said Barrett.

“I’m trying not to get emotional. He was amazing. We need more people like him around here,” Morande said.

They are both grateful the man is alive and getting the treatment he needs.

Vice President Mike Pence’s office said Tuesday it will not comply with a request from the House to turn over documents related to President Donald Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, NBC News reported.

In a letter to the chairmen of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees, Pence counsel Matthew Morgan called the request part of a “self-proclaimed impeachment inquiry,” noting that the House of Representatives has not yet taken a vote to open the inquiry and asserting that the request was part of a process that “calls into question your commitment to fundamental fairness and due process rights.”

A critical drug that treats most childhood cancers is back-ordered, and doctors in Connecticut are concerned about how it may affect the hundreds of children in the state undergoing treatment.

“I believe that Vincristine was one of the drugs that helped save my son’s life,” Lisa Duffy from Old Saybrook told NBC Connecticut.

Duffy’s son, Luciano, was just 18 months old when he was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia.

“It was a whirlwind of emotion and fear and uncertainty,” Duffy said.

Today, he has been cancer free for 15 years, and is now a freshman at Drexel University. But Lisa says hearing the news of the Vincristine shortage brought back tough memories for their family.

“I don’t know what I would’ve done if I couldn’t get my hands on that medication,” said Duffy.

Every year, around 250 children in the state of Connecticut are diagnosed with cancer.

Dr. Michael Isakoff and his team at Connecticut Children’s treat over 100 of them a year.

“I would estimate that about 80 percent of our patients get some form of Vincristine at some point in during their therapy,” explained Isakoff, who is the clinical director at the hospital’s Division of Hematology & Oncology.

At the moment, Isakoff estimates the hospital’s pharmacy has enough of the chemotherapy drug stocked up to last them about two months.

But what happens after that if the shortage isn’t addressed quickly is something he says he can’t even imagine.

“We completely rely on vincristine,” Isakoff said. “Our patients rely on it. It’s a critical drug to the treatment of children with cancer.”

Teva Pharmaceutical made a generic version of Vincristine until discontinuing it this past July.

They provided a statement to NBC Connecticut, saying in part, “Availability of Teva product has not contributed to the shortage that is being experienced today.”

But Pfizer Inc., which makes the name brand of the drug, told NBC Connecticut that “due to a competitors outage” Pfizer is “expediting additional shipments of this critical product over the next few weeks to support three to four times the typical production part.”

Isakoff said Vincristine has been used since the late 60s.

NBC Connecticut also reaches out to The Yale New Haven hospital regarding the shortage. A spokesperson for the hospital and the Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Centers said they have enough of the drug to last them through the end of November.

New Haven School leaders and community organizers are working to bring a teen detained by ICE officials back home after he was taken into custody last month.

Eighteen-year-old Mario Aguilar Castañon is a junior at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, but hasn’t been in a classroom since September.

According to Aguilar’s legal counsel, “Mario was arrested by the West Haven Police Department after his cell phone slid off of his dashboard on the way home from work and he knocked into a parked car as he tried to pick it up, doing minor damage, the officer arrested him and accused him of driving under the influence.”

Before making his second court appearance on those charges, Aguilar was taken into custody by ICE agents. NBC Connecticut spoke with Aguilar’s attorney, Dalia Fuleihan, and when asked why Aguilar was taken into custody by ICE agents, she says she did not know.

Since being detained in Massachusetts, he was worked to continue his education with the help of his teachers who have mailed him his coursework.

Aguilar is originally from Guatemala. The 18-year-old came to the U.S. to escape a violent local gang actively working to recruit him, and when he refused to join he was beaten and later threatened with death, according to his legal counsel.

The teen’s legal team says he left his native country in an effort to create a better future for himself.

Aguilar’s lawyers say when Mario arrived in the United States, almost two years ago, he moved in with an uncle and enrolled in Wilbur Cross High School. According to Aguilar’s lawyers, when he is not in school, he worked to pay his rent and to send money back to support his family in Guatemala.

Since the incident, Mario has received a wave of support from his fellow classmates, teachers and administrations in his school, hundreds of whom wrote postcards and letters to the immigration court on his behalf, asking that he be released from detention.

Aguilar’s lawyers said that the 18-year-old presented a comprehensive plan to the immigration court showing that he would never need to drive and would continue to live a productive life without posing any threat to the community.

However, an immigration judge ruled against granting the teen bond.

Aguilar’s case has generated tremendous support from a cross section of New Haven residents, including Wilbur Cross students and educators, faith leaders, parent advocates, public officials, advocates and young people throughout the city who are outraged that this has happened to one of their peers.

Aguilar remains in a Massachusetts detention center.

Dalia Fuleihan works with the New Haven Legal Assistance Association who is also a part of Aguilar’s defense team.

She issued this statement to NBC Connecticut:

“Mario Aguilar Castanon is a beloved member of his community who has been unjustly detained by ICE and unjustly denied bond. He is a young high school student who should be attending classes not stuck in prison. There is a large community here in New Haven waiting to welcome him home and provide all the support that he needs. Mario should be released so that he may continue his education and pursue asylum here in the United States.”

NBC Connecticut did reach out to the governor and state attorney’s office as well as ICE and are waiting to hear back.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has big plans for the Newington intersection at Fenn Road and Ella Grasso Boulevard. Plans, they hope the residents of Newington will embrace.

The DOT held public information meeting Tuesday in the Newington Senior Center to gather opinions about a proposed roundabout the hope to install in this intersection.

The DOT says the roundabout, similar to a rotary, could alleviate a problem many Newington residents deal with on a daily basis; traffic congestion.

“They might have to slow down, there might be a couple cars that cue up but in general everyone flows in that circular pattern and nobody has to come to a complete stop,” explained Marissa Washburn, the transportation supervising engineer for the Connecticut DOT.

Those who travel on the Newington roads off Route 9 near CCSU know how bad it can be between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

“I have a 5:55 p.m. class and I have to give myself like 35 minutes just to get down the street,” said Jamie Brown, a CCSU student who has to giver herself extra time commuting to class.

Main arteries along the Route 175 corridor are slowed to an aggravating pace.

“It’s really hard to go from A to B. Probably something that takes five minutes to get through is going take you 20 minutes to get through,” said Newington resident Joe Margarido.

The DOT says the plan could also make the intersection safer by reducing what they describe as “angle” or “T-bone” crashes.

“There’s a high prevalence of angle crashes and some turning crashes as well,” said Washburn. “Those are the types of crashes that generally lead to a higher chance of injury.”

According to the DOT there have been nearly 60 crashes in that intersection over the past three years.

Not everyone though believes a roundabout is the solution to the problem.

“People aren’t as well versed in driving in a (roundabout) and I think it could possibly cause more accidents,” said Newington resident, Michele Zappala.

The DOT says because this is just in the planning process no funding plan is in place yet, but they expect up to 80 percent of it could be federally funded.

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit brought by Maryland and the District of Columbia that challenges President Donald Trump's ownership of a luxury hotel five blocks from the White House, NBC News reports.

A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the case dismissed in July. But the full appeals court agreed late Tuesday to re-hear the case, which has the effect of wiping out the panel's ruling and giving Maryland and DC another chance to argue their case, claiming that Trump's holdings present a conflict between his business profits and the nation's interest.

DC Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh praised the appeals court's action. "We look forward to arguing our case before the full panel to stop President Trump from violating the Constitution and profiting from the presidency.”

They claim that Trump's hotel ownership violates the Constitution's emolument's clauses, which bar the president from receiving "any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state" or any state in the US. Their lawsuit, filed in 2017, said he improperly benefits financially whenever foreign or state governments patronize the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Connecticut State Police have released a 911 call made by a woman locked in the luggage compartment on the bottom of a Peter Pan bus in August.

The caller begins by warning the dispatcher her phone is going to die, and explaining her situation.

Caller: “Yeah, hi, I have no battery left. I’m not OK. The bus driver locked me underneath the bus, um, a Peter Pan bus going en route to Boston.”

Dispatch: “Ok.”

Caller: “Can you hear me?”

Dispatch: “The bus driver’s under the bus?”

Caller: “No, she locked me under the bus with the luggage. I went to go get something –“

Dispatch: “She locked you under the bus?”

Caller: ”Yes. Yes. I’m under the bus with the luggage and I’m afraid. I don’t know if she’s gonna ever let – like - I need help. Nobody knows where I am.”

Dispatch: “Ok. Where is the bus?”

Caller: “It’s a Peter Pan bus. I don’t know, we just left Hartford. We just were stopped at Hartford, I got out and went to go get something. My phone’s gonna die I have no battery – she put me – and I went to go get something and she closed the door and we’re riding the Peter Pan bus route to Boston. We’re supposed to get there – I don’t know – at 6. I’m so scared. Please help.”

The dispatcher then reassures the caller, who begins to panic, and contacts State Police units to track down the bus, which was traveling on Interstate 84 East in Willington. The passenger was found and was not hurt in the incident.

The bus driver, 49-year-old Wendy Helena Alberty, of New Jersey, was arrested and charged in the incident. Her attorney Nate Baber said the charges were nolled.

Baber said based on the evidence presented there was never any indication that his client intentionally locked the passenger in the compartment.

“She’s happy that the state made the right decision in ending the prosecution against her, but from her perspective and ours she should have never been arrested in the first place," he said.

Alberty was placed on leave by Peter Pan at the time of the incident and remains on leave. Baber said she wants to go back to work for the company and they hope to see that happen now that the charges are dropped.

The dozen Democrats taking the debate stage Tuesday night to fight for their party's 2020 presidential nomination will be going up against a political backdrop that's changed significantly since the third debate just a month ago.

Aside from the impeachment inquiry heating up in the House and putting the staunchest of Trump's allies on the defensive, the Democratic candidate pool has dwindled and a new potential front-runner has emerged, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts coming out ahead of former Vice President and formerly reliable frontrunner Joe Biden, according to some polls.

And another one of the leading Democratic hopefuls, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, is on the mend after suffering a recent heart attack.

These and other evolving storylines will play out on national television Tuesday night in battleground Ohio, where the largest debate group in modern history — 12 candidates — will share the stage less than four months before the first 2020 primary votes are cast.

In addition to Warren, Biden and Sanders, debate participants include South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, California Sen. Kamala Harris, New York entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, former Obama housing chief Julián Castro, billionaire activist Tom Steyer and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

Scroll below to follow along with our reporters' minute-by-minute coverage. The blog will refresh on its own every 2 minutes.

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Dozens turned out for a vigil Tuesday to honor two teens who died in a horrific crash in Brooklyn.

Their deaths have left their classmates and teachers reeling.

“It was a lot of tears. But there was a lot of reminiscing on old memories,” said Dakota Cicarelli.

Cicarelli was overwhelmed by the turnout at an emotional vigil for his sister Shawnna Wojnowski and her friend Brenna Ann Larson.

“I cried. A tear came to my eye because it just kind of showed the kind of people they were that this much of the community care about them,” said Cicarelli.

On Tuesday, family and friends traveled to the girls’ school, Ellis Tech in Danielson, where they mourned along with classmates and teachers.

Both were 17-years-old.

“Very well known in school. Always happy. Definitely cheerful and smiling. And they obviously showed there was a lot of friends. A lot of sad faces out there,” said Colin Tatsey, Shawnna’s cousin.

Many can’t believe the two are gone after a fiery pick-up crash on North Society Road in Brooklyn just after midnight on Monday.

There is a growing memorial where the Ford F-150 lost control, went down a ditch and burst into flames.

“It’s just sad that this happened. It’s very, very unfortunate,” said Tatsey.

A third 17-year-old girl who was also in the truck was rushed to a hospital in grave condition.

Investigators are looking into the circumstances surrounding the crash, including figuring out who was driving.

“I think that’s what hurting everybody more is that we just don’t know exactly what happened, what went down. So I think once we get answers it will definitely bring a little closure,” said Cicarelli.

Counseling was available at the school starting on Tuesday and the principal says it will continue as long as necessary.

The Democratic presidential primary hopefuls debated Tuesday in the shadow of the House impeachment inquiry, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, giving an update an hour before.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the leading contenders in polls, was on the campaign trail for the first time since his heart attack at the beginning of the month.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is now a front-runner, with a poll from George Washington University released on Tuesday showing her leading.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is under attack by President Donald Trump and his allies over his son’s previous position on the board of a Ukraine gas company. Hunter Biden in an interview with ABC News admitted to poor judgment but said there had been no ethical lapse. 

Previous debates focused on domestic policy, but the Turkish invasion of Syria, and Trump’s decision to order the withdrawal of the American military, pushed foreign policy to the forefront.

Tuesday's three-hour meetup took place at Otterbein University in Ohio. It was sponsored by CNN and The New York Times.

Also appearing: Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas, and Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang, both businessmen.

Here are some of the top moments from the evening.

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"AN ERRATIC, CRAZY PRESIDENT"

Biden, as a former vice president, has extensive foreign experience, something his campaign has pointed to as a strength.

Asked how he would check the power of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the world stage, Biden criticized Trump: "We have an erratic, crazy president who knows not a damn thing about foreign policy and operates out of fear for his own reelection."

BIDEN DEFENDS HIMSELF, HIS SON OVER UKRAINE DEALINGS

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Biden was asked why if his son had acted properly, he promised that if he were elected president, no members of his family would engage in foreign deals. Trump has repeatedly attacked Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine.

Biden said his son, “did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong."

While Biden was vice president and in charge of policy toward Ukraine, his son took a position on the board of a Ukrainian gas company for which he reportedly was paid $50,000 a month.

Hunter Biden also has pledged that he would not work for foreign-owned companies.

There is no evidence either Biden engaged in wrongdoing, but they have come under fire from Republicans. Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, pressed Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, pressure that prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to begin a formal impeachment inquiry.

“I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father. That’s where I made the mistake,” Hunter Biden said in an exclusive interview on Good Morning America. “So I take full responsibility for that.”

A "PUNITIVE" WARREN? TARGETING A NEW FRONT-RUNNER

O'Rourke accused Warren of sometimes being "punitive" in her policy ideas.

O'Rourke said he thought Warren sometimes was "more focused on being punitive, or pitting some part of the country against the other, instead of lifting people up and making sure that this country comes together around those solutions."

Warren's response? She said she was shocked and added: "I don't have a beef with billionaires."

She said that they had relied on tax-funded roads and bridges and police officers as they made their fortunes. 

Warren, a front-runner in the race, was a target by several candidates.  Klobuchar and Buttigieg criticized her Medicare for All plan, accusing her of not being honest about how it would raise taxes on the middle class. 

"Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything, except this," Buttigieg said.

Warren retorted by calling Buttigieg's plan, "Medicare for all who can afford it."

HOW OLD IS TOO OLD? 

Sanders, asked about his heart attack, said that the vigorous campaign he would be mounting across the country would show Americans they could be confident about his health.

The 78-year-old also took the opportunity to everyone who had sent love, prayers and best wishes after he was hospitalized in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 and had two stents inserted.

"I’m so happy to be back here with you this evening," he said.

Biden, who is 76 and would be 80 in a second term, was asked about former President Jimmy Carter's comment that he could not have handled the presidency at that age.

Biden responded that with age came wisdom and that was one of the reasons he had decided to run. The country needed a president who knew what needed to be done from the first day in office.

"I know what the job is," he said.

Warren, who is 70, said she would outwork, out-organize, and outlast anyone.

Thirty-eight-year-old Gabbard said it was not fair to ask the three about their health and fitness but not the others. The real question, she said: "Who is fit to serve as our commander in chief."

IMPLEMENTING GUN CONTROL

O'Rourke and Buttigieg had a tense disagreement over O'Rourke's proposed mandatory buyback of assault rifles, with Buttigieg criticizing O'Rourke for not having a plan to make it work.

Buttigieg on Monday derided the proposal as a fight O'Rourke was picking as a way to stay relevant. He cited other gun-control proposals that have a better chance of being enacted: universal background checks and the ban of high-capacity magazines, for example.

O’Rourke replied that gun violence was a crisis that the country needed to do something about. Candidates should listen to gun-control groups such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and the student organized March for Our Lives, not polls, consultants and focus groups, he said.

"I don't need lessons from you on courage, political or personal,” Buttigieg responded.

BADA BING

Asked about breaking up big tech companies, Yang took a shot at Microsoft’s search engine.

"There’s a reason why no one is using Bing today," he said. "I’m sorry Microsoft, it’s true."

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A Massachusetts woman who owns a vehicle that plowed into a group of children and fled the scene this weekend is declining to talk to police.

Police in Stoneham have been investigating a hit-and-run crash that left four children injured Sunday evening, sending two of them to the hospital. Tuesday, a spokesperson said the Stoneham Police Department had identified the vehicle's owner as a Burlington woman.

Through her attorney, that woman has declined to speak with police, according to the department.

Surveillance footage shows the group of young children standing in a driveway when a car suddenly speeds toward them, striking the group and knocking them to the ground. In the last split seconds when the car aims at the children, some appear to brace for the impact and try to flee, but it was too late.

"All we heard was the screech of the tires and they just turned toward us," one of the victims said. "We ended up scattered everywhere, we just go flying."

Luckily, no major injuries occurred, according to police. However, authorities in Stoneham remain searching for the driver of the vehicle, who drove off and fled the scene.

The crash happened just after 6:30 p.m. Sunday in front of a home near the intersection of Elm Street and MacArthur Road.

Two of the four children who were hit by the car were hospitalized and treated for minor injuries. Authorities said the kids are just 12 and 13 years old.

The case remains under investigation, police said Tuesday night.

Authorities are searching for a dark-colored Subaru Legacy. Anyone with information on the hit-and-run is encouraged to contact the Stoneham Police Department at 781-438-1215.

A man has died after suffering a head injury last month in a fight at a Massachusetts senior center.

The family of Jose Puello says he was attacked on Sept. 16 in the pool hall of the Lawrence Senior Center. He was just 11 days shy of his 61st birthday at the time, but family members say he never woke up.

"Push him to the windows, and he break the window with his head," said the victim's sister, Ana Mercedes Puello. "My brother was in a coma for like 25 days, then he passed away last Saturday."

Puello had three children, including Melvin, who has been visiting regularly from Florida.

"This is heartbreaking for me," Melvin Puello said. "My dad was my hero to me. Unfortunately, somebody tried to harm my dad, and I'm never going to see my dad ever again after this."

"Our sincerest condolences go out to Mr. Jose Puello's family on the passing of their loved one," the senior center said in a statement. "We respectfully request that you contact the district attorney's office regarding any further questions you may have."

Melvin Puello says the senior center and police have been of little help.

"No help. No answers. It's going to be a month and I still don't have a police report," he said. "We need the person who did this to be behind bars."

NBC Connecticut meteorologists are continuing to track a strong storm that will move into the state this afternoon.

Rain will move from west to east across the state after 3 p.m. and will get heavier throughout the evening and overnight.

The rain is expected to continue into the early morning hours tomorrow, but looks to clear out before the morning commute.

Wind will also be strong in parts of the state. There could be winds of 20 mph to 30 mph with gusts over 40 mph.

Shoreline areas of New London county could see occasional gusts over 50 mph, which could lead to sporadic power outages and downed tree limbs. A Wind Advisory has been issued for southern New London county.

There is also a small risk for coastal flooding. A Coastal Flood Advisory has been issued for southern Fairfield and New Haven counties.

Shallow flooding is expected in the lowest lying areas along the shoreline.

You can get the latest forecast anytime here.