Tonight on Connecticut's news
station, A frightful fall, a child
in the hospital after falling
from a third story window.
We have the newest information
and pride in the capital city
following Saturday's main event,
the celebration of the LD LGBTQ community
extended by some city businesses.
The wet weather continues to
start the week and we continue
to watch Hurricane Lee,
the latest track and how close
it could come to New England
later this week. Now at 10, this is
FOX 61, Connecticut's news station.
Well, thanks for joining us on
the Fox 61 News at 10. I'm Matt.
Karen. We begin tonight in Hartford,
where Pride was celebrated this weekend.
When you think about Pride celebrations,
you typically think they're
during the month of June.
That is, however, Pride Month,
but not here in the capital city.
All weekend long,
the city has been celebrating in Pride,
ending with highlighting a few
locally owned LGBTQ plus businesses.
Fox 60 Ones D Andrea Turner talked
with some business owners today and
the leaders of Hartford Pride Fest
about why they chose the month of
September for their celebration.
She joins us here in the studio
with More D Andrea,
but Met Hartford. Pride Fest began
happening almost 15 years ago,
and as this weekend's festivities wrap up,
some local businesses also wanted
to highlight other locally owned
LGBTQ plus small businesses.
It's an established Hartford tradition.
Our big event is in September and
that was done with the purpose of
not having to compete with cities
like New York, Boston, Providence.
A lot of the people were going
to those cities to celebrate
every second Saturday of September.
Since 2009. You can find pride,
fun and love in abundance
at the Hartford Pride Fest.
We had over 6000 people marched
through yesterday and on Sunday
the celebration continued.
A popup called Pride on Pratt
was held at a local Pratt St.
Business Gentle Bull shop.
But like, who wouldn't want to jump
on this van wagon of like Pride?
Because it is something that is like
near and dear to who we are as humans
and what our business kind of represents.
So it's just like we should be able to
like put our footprint in something that
could be beautiful, giving a spotlight
to other local LGBTQ plus business
owners like Hannah Francis. To have
businesses like this allow me to showcase
my work is what allows ours to prosper.
Officials with the Hartford Pride
Fest say that's what it's all about,
to bring awareness and you know,
the love. And like you said,
you know that the compassion
that we have with each other
and what better way to do so
than an unaccustomed Pride month.
I like that it's celebrated
in September because
it kind of gives us like as a community
and Hartford to like celebrate
on our own and have our own time.
But I think having this allows us
a little like, cozy comfort. Pride
and organizers of this event are
already planning for next year's event.
Year 15 in the Studio D Andrea Turner,
FOX 61, Connecticut's news station.
And now we want to turn to the weather watch.
It was a wet and rainy weekend.
It's really hard to remember a summer
that's really been this storming.
It looks like the severe weather
threat isn't over just yet.
Let's check in with meteorologist
Ryan Brett. And hi, Ryan.
Hi there, Matt. Good to have
you here on a Sunday night.
Hi, everybody. It was a very wet
weekend and it's been a wet few days.
Look at some of these rainfall
totals since Friday.
Unionville More than 4 1/2,
almost 5 inches of rain,
about 2 1/2 inches in Hartford and
almost two inches of rain in New Haven.
Out there tonight it is warm and
muggy and we have a few showers.
There aren't the downpours that
we saw in spots last night,
but it is a damp evening and
it's certainly warm and humid.
There are some more showers
and storms to the South,
and the problem tomorrow is this front
that's been over the northeast the
last few days isn't going anywhere.
So we have another chance for
showers and storms tomorrow.
For the rest of this night though,
it will be mild and muggy,
areas of fog possible and a few showers.
Temperatures dropping into the
upper 60s and low 70s out the door.
Tomorrow morning plan on a lot of
clouds and a few showers around
some patches of fog possible early,
especially in the river valleys.
Then a little bit of sun will develop
with another chance for showers and
thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and evening.
So playing out a lot like the
weather we had today,
not much sun and you've got be ready
for rain at just about any time.
Hurricane Lee now re strengthening
these hurricanes that tend to be
long tracked and last a while go
through fluctuations and intensity.
And this weekend it weakened a little bit,
but now it's starting to ramp up
and it's forecast to become a
Category 4 hurricane again making
a run toward Bermuda on Friday.
The big question is what happens
after Friday as it gets closer to us.
We'll detail that show you the latest
forecast and much more coming up.
Matt.
All right, Ryan, thank you.
Now we want to get to Norwich,
where a child is expected to be OK after
a scary fall from a third floor window.
This happened around 3:00
PM on Laurel Hill Ave.
Officials tell FOX 61 the child fell about
20 feet and was rushed to Bacchus Hospital.
That child was conscious and
is now in stable condition.
Well, one person is dead,
another seriously injured after
a head on crash in Danbury.
This happened around 2:00 AM
this morning on route 7A.
Wrong way.
Driver crashed into another car
going southbound on the highway.
The driver in the car heading
South passed away the wrong way.
Driver is currently in the
hospital with serious injuries.
Anybody who saw the crash is
asked to contact Danbury police.
A family in Litchfield County is
without a place to call home tonight
after their home was destroyed by fire.
Take a look at these dramatic photos.
This charge shell is all that's
left after these flames and smoke
engulf the home at 189 Litchfield Rd.
In Norfolk.
The fire so intense 6 area
fire departments were called in
to help put it out.
The good news is the homeowners
are all safe this evening.
One firefighter was taken to the
hospital after hurting their wrist.
Still no word what caused the blaze?
State and local fire officials
are investigating.
The fire forced the closure of Route
272 from Route 44 to Route 263,
but it is since reopened.
Well, right now,
police in New Haven are trying
to figure out who shot a man
in the area of Printers Lane.
The man,
who was shot in the stomach managed
to walk himself into Gale New Haven
Hospital at around 4:30 this morning.
The man is in stable condition,
but he wasn't able to give police too
much information about who shot him.
But officers were able to find
multiple shell casings on Printers
Lane near Ella T Grasso Blvd.
If you have any information
that may help police,
you are asked to give them a call
or you can anonymously text a tip.
Well,
new tonight,
Waterbury welcomed a special visitor Today,
House Democratic Minority Leader
Hakeem Jeffries,
the New York congressman joins Connecticut
Representative Johanna Hayes for a
worship service at Grace Baptist Church.
The church is a cornerstone in
the community and one of the
oldest congregations in the city.
Leader Jeffries was the morning
speaker for a leadership Sunday where
the theme of the day was new leaders,
new voices for a new community,
letting people know that your voice matters,
and really just connecting with
community and impressing upon them
that we understand what you're
going through because we are you.
This is a important time in America
where we're going to continue to
work hard to bring people together,
to put people over politics,
to fight for lower costs and better
paying jobs and safer communities.
Defend democracy.
Fight for freedom.
A Representative Jeffries was elected
as House Democratic leader last year.
He made history as the first black
lawmaker to lead a party in Congress.
Today, across Connecticut,
grown men carried each other 22 miles
to mark the 22 veterans who died by
suicide each day in the United States.
The event, organized by the Veterans
Military Support and advocacy
group called Shepherd's Men,
set up four different sites in Connecticut,
including 8 1/2 miles from
Hartford's Minuteman Park to the
Iwo Jima Memorial in New Britain,
and then another 8 1/2 miles from
Sherwood Island State Park to Westport
to Purple Heart Monument Park in Norwalk.
The final five mile event carried people
to the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
The group aims to support military
veterans and 1st responders by
calling attention to suicide and PTSD.
Well, it was a celebration of
Heritage today at New Britain's
4th annual Italian Festival.
As expected,
traditional Italian food is a
big highlight of the event hosted
by Festa Italiana Incorporated,
complete with the spaghetti eating contest.
Who doesn't love that?
And of course,
there were other features too,
like music, dancing,
homemade wine contest and the
procession of the Madonna,
the virgin mother of Jesus.
I like seeing
the community come together. I like,
I love interacting with the people.
I'm the guy who's going to be selling
espresso today.
But the most important thing is
to bring the Italian heritage
and give out to the community.
That's what we hear and that's
why our goal is from day one,
when we started this.
Like the glasses there,
Festa Italiana Inc also works to give
back to the community through donations.
The organization donated a total of
$15,000 to three local charities last year.
Beneficiaries of this year's festival
include the YWCA New Britain and the
Boys and Girls Club of New Britain.
People were encouraged to shop Handmade
this weekend at the 3rd Annual Fine Art
Festival in West Hartford. The event,
hosted by the West Hartford Art League,
featured nearly 40 artists.
Their work ranged from pottery,
stained glass, printmaking,
paintings, drawings and wood carving.
Artists say sharing their passion is
one of the highlights of the festival.
Just seeing other people
who do the same thing I do
and get them to, you know,
kind of dig a little deeper,
find out why they do it.
And it's like our own little
language, our art language.
Now the annual event is a fundraiser
for the West Hartford Art League.
The 89 year old nonprofit
offers year round art classes,
a summer camp and monthly exhibits.