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A Bridgeport woman who suffers from a potentially fatal illness says she will not become homeless tomorrow thanks in part to help from <strong>News 12 Connecticut</strong>.

Dawn Brown says she became homeless three years ago after a close friend who was supporting her while she was sick suddenly passed away.

Brown suffers from Crohn's Disease and has had 10 operations on her stomach since 2008. To make matters worse, Brown says her time will soon be up at the temporary homeless shelter where she is currently staying, leaving her once again out on the street.

<strong>News 12 Connecticut </strong>shared Brown's story with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who then contacted the Executive Director of the Bridgeport Rescue Mission, Terry Wilcox. The mission agreed to take Brown in for one month on an emergency basis.

Wilcox says it would not be possible to help people like Brown without support from the public.

A Bridgeport woman who suffers from a potentially fatal illness says she will not become homeless tomorrow thanks in part to help from News 12 Connecticut.    Dawn Brown says she became homeless three

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And the radar is all quiet behind you j but we're already starting to see the clouds roll in. Still pretty nice evening. We're expecting fifties all the way through the rest of it. And then we drop it into the forties when the sun sets pretty good deal for December. But we do have a flood watch and a high wind watch in effect across the island. Now, both of them go in effect for tomorrow. We're expecting 2 to 3 inches of rain. So that's your flood watch. It could bring flooding in the afternoon and in the overnight and gusts up to 45 you see, especially parts of eastern Nassau into Suffolk at the worst and it looks like the timing here gonna be six pm to midnight. That's what I'm looking at for the squall line to pass through and deliver some potential power outages. So let's bring you right to Sunday in the morning time. Not too bad. We have stray showers, not a bad breakfast or lunch, but then right around noonish, we're gonna start seeing some downpours and it's an on and off rain at that point. We're also looking at wind which starts to pick up to the 30 mile per hour range. Now, these are gusts and a gust is a quick little burst of wind as opposed to sustained winds, which is an average kind of wind speed. So we're seeing quick little bursts of 40 MPH that could knock a tree branch down or two around 67 o'clock, the wind is gonna be coming in with some really heavy rain around 1011 at night into midnight one o'clock or so. This latest model is actually keeping the rain around for the early Monday morning commuters and then things clear out by about 78 o'clock in the morning. So a little bit better there. So the worst of the rain gonna be with a flooding risk at 5 to 2 a.m. and then we see wind at its worst right around midnight. Things look good for the rest of the work week though. It's gonna be chilly.

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Dawn Brown, of Bridgeport, finds help at Bridgeport Rescue Mission after telling story to News 12