[Music] right now at 6 a woman accused of killing a watery educator expected to learn her fate today we are live at the courthouse with the details this morning people in one New Haven Neighborhood say they're concerned about their safety what they want the city to do about it also at business is picking up in the capitol city lawmakers now advancing bills they want to see come up for a vote before the session comes to a close all local all morning this is FOX 61 Connecticut's news station good
Wednesday morning it's 6 o'clock thanks so much for being with us here at FOX 61 and FOX 61 plus America areas and I'm Keith mcgil we're rocking a little bit of pink on the first day of spring feeling Gooding here we go meteorologist Matt Scott standing by with a check of the forecast good morning no close you didn't want to play I I I missed clearly I missed that email or text what do you mean you're a neologist oh no he meant about the pink so I should pre predict that we're all wearing pink t
oday well no but something springy well this is springy I think oh yeah good morning nice to see Hello spring I thought this would be a little springy uh spring showers this morning one or two flakes later on the day we've got some rain to deal with and mixed temperatures and a mixed weekend we'll talk talk about that coming up uh checking the radar for any real activity seeing one or two flakes really not a big deal up in the Lichfield Hills uh most of just really not even hitting the ground te
mperatures at surface fairly mild so we've got some clouds got a better chance of some rain coming in later on today uh I know you see snow but look at these temperatures they range from 32 to 43 right now New Haven and gron uh winds out of the South for now till that front arrives 5 to 10 mph all right here's the bus stop forecast Cloudy Skies now uh a few rain showers coming in later on today with a high uh into the 50s so no later on no snow what about the weekend mix bag we'll talk about tha
t coming up all right I think you're looking just as springy as I am Rachel I I hope no one judges what I'm wearing I mean it's bright but it's unnecessarily clearly that's all we're doing right now so darn it that should have changed good morning 602 right now and uh we aren't following any incidents out on the roads this morning things are running smoothly with most of that road work that's wrapping up for your morning commute at the moment so we'll take a live look outside over New Haven this
morning where things in both directions look okay on 95 and also 91 over in Harford 84 East and Westbound running smoothly through the capital city those Drive times look fine here at 6:03 Keith and Erica good morning yeah good morning Rachel thank you for that right now at 6 a woman accused of killing a a Waterbury educator expected to learn her fate today we are live at the courthouse with the details yes we're going to check in with Brook Griffin right now and get the very latest yeah we abs
olutely do plan on hearing from that family today this is a case that we've been following for a long time now since October of 2022 when it happened the family has been outspoken and really just voicing their concern over the fact that they just don't believe that 30 years in prison is enough for Heather Anderson the person accused of killing that family member Shelley stamp investigators say Shelley stamp was found in her apartment dead in October of 2022 that was after a home invasion they sa
id they tell us she had a piece of clothing wrapped around her neck and her credit cards and personal items had been stolen Heather Anderson was charged with murder she accepted a plea deal for a 30-year sentence at her last Hearing in December stamp's family have sat front row at all of those Court appearances even reading impact statements to Anderson at one of them although during those Anderson looked straight ahead and did not acknowledge the family they tell us they feel Anderson should be
serving more time for what she did for them to bring it down more we're pretty upset about it um like she said she was strangled with her own jacket by this woman and it was brutal and my poor husband found her and there was a second woman allegedly involved as well Shannon gritzbach was arrested on misdemeanor charges originally when this happened court records show she was supposed to be at a hearing last month now there's an order for authorities to rearrest her we're working to find out mor
e details about that but as far as today's hearing there will be no cameras inside that courtroom that judge doesn't allow cameras in the court for this case but we will have a reporter getting all of those details and they'll also be speaking with Shelley stamp's family they'll have all of that coming up later this afternoon live in Waterberry Brook rff fin FOX 61 Connecticut's news station all right bro thanks so much for the update there we will check back meantime at 6:05 this morning happen
ing today officials in New London are going to talk about plans to restore service on the shoreline East to pre pandemic levels the Connecticut public transit council is expected to update the community on the current reality facing commuters and future plans for the rail line this week the transportation committee overwhelmingly voted to move a bill forward to restore funding for the line lawmakers cut funding last year in response to low ridership the future of electric vehicles is back up for
discussion at the state capital today yeah the transportation committee is considering a bill that would address infrastructure concerns let's explain here so it would create an infrastructure coordinating Council to oversee plans for the state's EV network it would create a zero emission vehicle road mapap for the state revise the state's hydrogen and EV purchase rebate program and allow the state to provide bonding for installing EV charging stations and rebates for Ev purchase purches it wou
ld also set the rate used to tr to charge a customer to charge their electric vehicles and lawmakers are also going to consider a measure that would rid the requirement for an additional driver to provide a credit card when renting cars now that's if the driver has provided a credit or debit card for the rental and it would also cap the amount that a rental car company can recover for the loss of a vehicle that was rented there is a proposal to require the department transportation to create gui
delines for how it removes tree and vegetation near highways the guidelines must include safety reasons for removal the way that trees and vegetation get removed and also for how removing trees will improve road conditions it would it would not include for the removal of trees when it comes to weather related safety concerns dozens of people in New Haven Fair Haven Neighborhood calling on the city to do more for protecting their quality of life they say crime and drug use getting out of hand and
business owners say they're losing money potential customers as well because of the problems neighbors say they're being treated differently when it comes to how police deal with the situations the people they keep shooting drugs in you know in front of my in my place this guy came inside of the building with a gun you know and he was like waving the gun and he was taking products and putting on his packet so I called the police the police showed up like half hour later if that situation happen
s and you know n you know wer Square or that happen on on E rock that you know the police will act immediately mayor Justin eler is saying the city is dedicated to combating crime in the city including in the Fair Haven Neighborhood the mayor tells us he's open to meeting with visit owners to hear more about their concerns State Police say a pedestrian was hit on i91 in Hartford the crash was reported just after 8:30 last night in the southbound Lanes near Exit 33 at Jennings Road State Police s
ay there were ser ious injuries we don't know how many people were involved in this crash we are working to get more details from police and we will pass that on to you as soon as we can meantime this morning police and comary now say that the gray female pitbull that was found dead on South Street two weeks ago was not shot officers had previously reported that the dog was but now they say that is not true they say the dog was imated and had serious injuries animal advocacy group Desmond's Army
recently donated $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction for whoever was responsible killing a dog here in connectic is considered a felony if you know anything about what happened if you know anything that could help lead to an arrest please call cantry police a man accused of killing his daughter's dog asking a judge for more time to think about a plea deal from prosecutors 51-year-old Arnaldo Silva facing animal cruelty and threatening charges in the death of a 2-year-old
dog his daughter Gabriella speaking to FOX 61 about her effort to get Justice for her pet she says she'll be at each court appearance and working with Advocates like Desmond's Army to combat animal abuse really great to have all these people who were once strangers become a friend and support you and it makes you want to go on in life and keeps me strong every day to continue what I'm doing as for Arnaldo Silva he's expected to tell the judge whether he accepts or rejects the plea deal at his n
ext court date scheduled for the end of April
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