Women say they frequently have trouble sleeping.
60% reported sleeping well just a few nights out of the week.
The reason, of course, stress.
Doctors say women are just trying to juggle
too many duties, way too many.
The survey also found that when people are pressed for time,
sleep is the first thing they give up.
Operation Fuel not only warms homes, but hearts as well.
Now the organization that helps others
is in dire need of help itself.
Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Eric Parker has the story.
It's been a busy winter for the staff at Operation Fuel.
The Bloomfield-based charity helps thousands
in Connecticut pay to heat their homes.
They say this year, with energy prices up,
the problem has worsened.
A family of four making $40,000 a year
with these increases in their energy costs,
they're not making it,
and those are the families that we serve.
Already this year, Operation Fuel has given out $650,000,
but this year, donations have dropped off.
In fact, they're about $127,000
behind their goal of $1 million.
So what's responsible for the drop-off in donations?
They don't really know.
Their best guess, that until now,
it's been a pretty mild winter,
but they say that hasn't helped people's bills
because rates have gone up.
So people are paying more for less energy,
even though the winter was mild.
And things could get worse.
Utility companies can't shut off service over the winter.
When that ban ends on April 15th,
they often get flooded with requests for help.
That's when we really see a spike
in requests for assistance from our program.
We hope that we'll have the resources
to meet those requests.
We have a feeling that those requests
are gonna be much higher than last year.
The charity is hoping the donor shortage will end
right along with the end of winter's cold weather.
In Bloomfield, Eric Parker, Channel 3, Eyewitness News.
Live from WFSB, Connecticut's first choice for news.
This is Channel 3 Eyewitness News at 5.30.
We begin with breaking news right now.
Pinpoint News Tracker takes you to the scene
of a chicken farm fire on Marlboro Road in Glastonbury.
Now this is a live look from our Hartford City Cam
looking at the fire at the old Arpor Acres chicken farm,
the smoke has pretty much continued,
although it is somewhat less in volume,
it appears now than it was a half hour ago.
Crews from Colchester and Portland have been called in
to assist this fire and putting it out.
We have a crew going to the scene
and we'll have a live update from the scene
as soon as it can be available.
Now to our other big story tonight.
Nogatuck is one step closer to realizing
one of the biggest development projects in the state.
They call it Renaissance Place and its developers say
it holds a lot of promise.
Pinpoint News Tracker shows you right where
the proposed site is along the Nogatuck River.
It's between Main Street and Church Street.
See if you can pick it out there on the map.
Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Dan Cain
is covering this story and he's now going to join us live
from the Mobile Newsroom in the borough of Nogatuck.
Dan.
That's where we are, Alan.
This one really is big Renaissance Place.
$707 million, that's about four times the size
of West Hartford's Blueback Square
and it would really totally transform
this central area of Nogatuck.
The future of Renaissance Place is to a degree
in the hands of voters in Nogatuck
who will be asked to approve the project
at a referendum in May.
Oh, you see a beautiful downtown with all stores
where people can walk in and out of street level stores.
You can see a brand new multi-screen movie theater.
You can see office space for technology.
You're going to see condominiums so people can live,
work and play in downtown Nogatuck.
The $707 million project would completely transform
downtown Nogatuck in four phases over the next 15 years.
The first phase would include 387 residential condos,
17,000 square feet of office space
and 223,000 square feet of retail and commercial space.
That phase of the project would bring in $2.9 million
in taxes and create 1,000 construction jobs
and 950 full-time jobs.
Residents of Nogatuck will be voting on the proposal
which includes nearly $30 million in public investment.
Nogatuck will be seeking state and federal funds
to help cover that cost.
I just ask that the people look at all the information
and make an informed decision.
And if they look at the information,
they're going to vote yes
and this project's going to move forward.
One of the things that's going on is that
people are moving up the Nogatuck Valley
out of Fairfield County looking for more affordable housing.
So Nogatuck figures if they get a Renaissance place in place,
they're in a very good position to take advantage
of that sort of trend and that movement up the valley.
We're live in Nogatuck.
Dan Cain, Channel 3 Eyewitness News.
Safety issues at the Millstone Nuclear Power Complex
in Waterford are apparently a thing of the past.
According to its report,
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says issues
with identifying and resolving problems during the last year
were handled to the commission's satisfaction.
One issue that was resolved, an unplanned shutdown
of the Millstone 2 reactor last year.
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is looking for a new trial
for his murder conviction.
An issue here is the testimony of the mother of a man
who implicated two friends
in the 1975 beating death of Martha Moxley.
Skakel's attorney says the mother confirmed
Jitano Bryant was in the Greenwich neighborhood
the day of the murder.
He told police two other men indicated to him
that they did the murder.
But a prosecutor says the woman does not
corroborate the story.
That quarantine of 80 horses out at the University
of Connecticut and stores has now been lifted.
That's because there apparently have been no new cases
of equine herpes in more than a month.
The 23 horses had shown signs of this virus
back in early January out there in the stores campus.
Still two of the horses have some mild residual effects
from the disease.
They will not have to be euthanized however.
None of the horses died of this herpes.
Only a few dozen seagulls could enjoy this weather
at the Chelsea Harbor in Norwich today.
The water was freezing, locking boats up at the marina
and reducing the possibility of boats
actually getting out of there.
Wild swings and temperatures put an unusual spin
on the weather today.
Fortunately we may have hit rock bottom,
at least with the temperatures.
Let's check in with our meteorologist Mark Dixon
in the early warning forecast center.
Mark, someone said something about maybe 60s next week.
Yeah, that's definitely a potential there Denise
in the long term.
But in the meantime, we are starting to improve.
The weather nowhere near as extreme as far as that cold
and wind combination that we had yesterday.
This morning we started the day statewide
basically in the single digits,
as low as one in Torrington, four in stores,
nine in Hartford, seven in New Haven, eight in Groton.
This of course on our exclusive Sleepy Spin Point
weathernet later this, well,
let me bump that graphic back a minute.
Let me show you that this afternoon
we had temperatures climb into the lower and mid 20s
across a good part of the state,
26 Hartford and 22 in New Haven.
We'll talk more about that temperature swing
in the other direction, talking about when we're gonna make
it into the 40s, 50s and maybe 60s.
It's all ahead in the early warning forecast.
We have some troubling news for anybody who eats.
That would be a lot of people.
That would be a lot of people wouldn't it?
We'll tell you why critics say foodborne illness outbreaks
will only increase.
A world explorer uncovers the mysteries of the planet
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The famous Dr. Ballard shows us his amazing dream realized.
I knew it six, new treats overshadow a looming deadline
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in the stop and shop worker negotiations.
A dog missing, a family distraught.
Channel Three showed you a picture of this missing pooch.
About two minutes after he had a phone call.
And thanks to you, she was back home in less than an hour.
There's no way for us to thank you enough.
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The safety of social networking websites like MySpace.
The safety is getting a lot of attention
among Connecticut leaders.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
joined Democratic and Republican leaders today
to announce a proposal for new legislation.
It would require websites like MySpace to.