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Tonight, im Lauren Demarco thaa a im matt ackland. We begin with the protest that took over the national mallall today and even filledan pennsylvania avenue. D aven hundreds of thousands of peoplef showed up for the womens march on washington. Wash the crowd was bigger than organizers expected and included plenty of actors, musicians and activists. Organizers even had to change their plans to march to the t white house because there were too am people to fit along the original route. Fox5 as Lindsay Watts icily tonight. Unlike yesterdays protest, it appears everything was pieceful today. Matt ...

Connecticut taxpayers could cover up to $80 million in renovation costs for the XL Center arena in downtown Hartford under the budget deal struck by Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders this week. Among the multitude of provisions in the budget compromise is the outline of a deal that would see Los Angeles-based entertainment and events company Oak View Group bear at least $20 million in XL Center renovation costs in return for a long-term agreement to manage the roughly 15,500-seat sports and entertainment venue.

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Polluted by more than a century of metal manufacturing, the 17.4-acre former Anamet manufacturing campus near the center of Waterbury has sat abandoned and decaying for nearly two decades, visited mostly by homeless individuals, drug users and vandals. The city of Waterbury and state have poured more than $5 million into cleaning and preparing the property for reuse, much of it going into demolition of crumbling buildings. An additional $4 million in state brownfield grants has been earmarked for continued cleanup.

Hartford is preparing an ambitious $250 million redevelopment of the commercial core of its Parkville Neighborhood. The plan centers on a $50 million application for state development dollars, which would be leveraged with $200 million from other sources, including possibly from the city, private investment and elsewhere.  Broadly, the plan would boost residential development, job training and new manufacturing development. Many of the finer points of the plan are not being released yet by officials, or are still under development.