News: One hundred years ago, the deadliest health crisis in history, the 1918 flu epidemic, killed an estimated 600 people in southeastern Connecticut.

Daybreak: Todd Ellison, an Essex native and longtime composer/conductor on the Great White Way, speaks to The Day's Rick Koster about his new gig — music director-designate of the elite Philly POPS Orchestra.

Business: The Purrfect Aquarium, a new pet shop in Old Lyme, merges the owners' love of cats and fish.

Perspective: Residents of North Carolina had plenty of notice of Hurricane Florence's arrival and warnings of which areas would be prone to flooding, yet when the storm hit hundreds of rescues were needed. In Perspective an expert on emergency planning explores the psychology of why people don't prepare and leave.