Journalist Ann Curry said she was not surprised by allegations of sexual misconduct against her former "Today" show co-anchor Matt Lauer. A "climate of verbal harassment” existed when she was at the helm of NBC's morning news show, she said. 

Curry, appearing on "CBS This Morning" Wednesday in her first televised interview since the seven-time Emmy winner signed off "Today" five years ago, said the national reckoning on sexual misconduct by powerful men that has resulted in the firings of Lauer and CBS' Charlie Rose has been "long overdue." 

She said that she doesn't know a "single woman" who has not endured some form of sexual harassment. 

"We clearly are waking up to a reality, an injustice that has been occurring for some time," Curry said. "I think it will continue to occur until the glass ceiling is finally broken. This is about power, a power imbalance, where women are not valued as much as men." 

NBC fired Lauer in November after a colleague's complaint of inappropriate sexual behavior. Other women have since come forward with other alleged incidents of sexual misconduct. 

Asked whether Lauer abused his power, Curry said she was sensitive to the experience of public humiliation and was trying to "do no harm." But she said, "I can tell you that I am not surprised by the allegations." 

"I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed," Curry said. "I think it would be surprising if someone said that they didn't see that -- it was verbal sexual harassment." 

Such harassment was pervasive, she added. She did not detail examples. 

NBC News declined comment on Curry's comments. The network has previously said that "current NBC News management was never made aware of any complaints about Matt Lauer's conduct" before hearing from the woman whose account on Nov. 27 resulted in Lauer's termination later that week. 

Curry said Wednesday that leaving the “Today” show "hurt like hell" at the time but she has since moved on. 

"For all of you who saw me as a groundbreaker, I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line. But man, I did try," Curry said in her tearful goodbye on June 28, 2012. 

Curry declined to speculate on past reports over whether Lauer pressed for her exit, saying that question is for "someone else." 

"It's been years and I want to really move on from this," Curry said. 

She said the decision to have two female anchors at the helm of the "Today" show with Hoda Kotb's promotion has been overdue because women "overwhelmingly" make up the audience on morning television shows. 

Curry is now promoting "We’ll Meet Again," a six-part documentary series she reported and executive produced for PBS. The show, which explores historic events through the experiences of ordinary people, begins airing on Jan. 23.

Meanwhile, NBC News announced Wednesday that it had promoted Libby Leist, a senior "Today" producer for the past five years, to become executive producer of the show's 7 a.m. and 8 a.m hours. She started as a desk assistant with the network in Washington, D.C., in 2001. 

She "brings tremendous talent and experience to this role," NBC News chairman Andy Lack said in a note to staff. 

Longtime executive producer Don Nash is leaving "Today" after nearly 30 years working on the program. He said in a memo he was stepping down to spend more time with his family. Leadership changes are not uncommon when anchors change at shows, The Associated Press reported. 

Nash has been offered "a number of roles within NBC News and NBCUniversal, and we hope he’ll stay in the family," Lack said in his announcement.

With the latest personnel move, three of the executives in charge of "Today" are now women, the AP reported. Jackie Levin is executive producer of "Megyn Kelly Today" at 9 a.m. and Tammy Filler is executive producer of the 10 a.m. hour. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim has overall oversight of the show.  

Connecticut State Police have arrested a teen accused in a home invasion in Montville. walked into an apartment in Montville and robbed the resident at knifepoint Sunday.

Police said that on Jan. 14 the 17-year-old walked into the apartment at 52 Pequot Road around 9 p.m. through an unlocked door. The resident told police that he knew the suspect and that the suspect had been sending threatening text messages.

The suspect waved a knife around and demanded money from the victim. The victim handed over $15 and the suspect fled. No one was hurt.

According to police, the teen turned himself in to his probation officer after learning of a warrant for his arrest. He faces multiple charges including home invasion, burglary, threatening, assault, reckless endangerment and carrying a dangerous weapon.

The suspect was not identified due to his age.

Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg took to his social media platform Wednesday and urged lawmakers to reach a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and help its roughly 800,000 recipients.

"This is a basic question of whether our government works," Zuckerberg wrote on his official page. "Can Congress come together and find a path forward, or will we default to forcing almost one million people out of their jobs and country?"

The program, referred to as DACA, began under the Obama administration and has protected about 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children from being deported. Trump ended the program last year, giving Congress until March 5 to fix the legislation. 

Lawmakers continue to debate DACA as they race to beat the Friday deadline for passing a short-term spending bill and averting a government shutdown.

"Every day that Congress doesn't act more DACA recipients are losing their status," Zuckerberg wrote, adding that the "dreamers are members of our communities."

DACA recipients are often referred to as "dreamers" based on the DREAM Act, a proposal that would have offered similar immigrant protections but was never passed by Congress.

The Facebook CEO continued: "I'm optimistic this will get solved. There's been some good bipartisan momentum on legislation recently. From my conversations with leaders in Congress, I believe they want to fix this, but we need to keep the pressure on so they know we'll hold them accountable."

Zuckerberg urged his followers to call their local congresspeople about the program.

Facebook, Google and Twitter shared with the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Wednesday steps each tech giant has tekn to combat extremist content in Washington D.C, CNBC reported. 

All three companies told Congress they went beyond screening, removing extremist content and anti-terror propoganda but also have focused in on targeting targeting people who are likely to be swayed by extremist messages, CNBC reported. 

Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of global policy management, wrote in an advance copy of her testimony obtained by CNBC that the key to combating extremism was to disrupt the "underlying ideologies that drive people to commit acts of violence," through counterpropoaganda.

CNBC reported that Google's YouTube said it will continue to use the "Redirect Method," which sends anti-terror messages to people likely to seek out extremist content through what is essentially targeted advertising, CNBC reported. 

The tech giants have come under fire in the U.S. and Europe for allowing their websites and programs to be used by terrorists groups and other extremists for recruiting and propaganda, CNBC reported.

Norwich police are asking for the public’s help in locating a man wanted on drug charges.

Police said 29-year-old Michael D’Andria is wanted on a conspiracy to sell cocaine charge. His last known address is in Baltic.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact the Norwich Police Narcotics Unit at 860.886.5561 ex. 3151 or 3152, Norwich Police Department Dispatch Center at ex. 6, or the Department’s Anonymous Tip Line at ex. 4.

One person was taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries after a tractor-trailer crashed into a pole in Pomfret. 

The crash happened on Putnam Road around 6:49 a.m. and police said the road will likely be closed for several hours. 

Crews will be putting in a new pole.

These snow totals could change and not all cities and town across the state are listed, so look for the one closest to you.

Here is the list, from the highest amounts to the lowest. 

• Lakeville: 7 inches
• Cornwall: 6 inches
• Goshen: 5 inches
• Barkhamsted: 5 inches
• East Hartland: 4.5 inches
• Pomfret: 4.0 inches
• Woodstock: 3 inches
• Enfield: 2 inches
• New Fairfield: 2 inches
• West Hartford: 2 inches
• Norwich: 1.5 inches
• Danbury: 1.4 inches
• East Killingly: 1.4 inches
• Farmington: 1.3 inches
• Wallingford: 1.3 inches
• Andover: 1 inch
• Staffordville: 1 inch
• Ellington: 1 inch
• Glastonbury: .8 inch
• Hamden: .5 inch

A major New York-based camera maker is recalling nearly 300,000 power adapter wall plugs sold with digital cameras nationwide over concerns about a potential shock hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday.

Fujifilm, headquartered in Valhalla, issued the voluntary recall for 270,000 plugs sold in the U.S., along with 24,000 were sold in Canada, because the plugs can crack, break or detach and get stuck in the wall, the company said in a statement. They can also expose live electrical contacts, posing a shock hazard.

No injuries were reported in connection with the recalled products, which were sold with digital cameras in-store at retailers across the country and online at Amazon.com and other websites. The products were made in China. 

Specifically, the recall involves AC-5VF power adapter wall plugs sold with Fujifilm digital camera models XP90, XP95, XP120, XP125, X-A3 and X-A10. The digital cameras were sold in a variety of colors. The recalled wall plugs are black and are combined with a power adapter and USB cord that plugs into the adapter. Model number "AC-5VF" is printed on the back of the power adapter. The serial number is printed on the bottom of the camera or under the battery compartment lid. To check your serial number, click here.

The XP90 and XP95 were sold from June 2016 through January 2018, the XP120 and XP125 were sold from January 2017 through January 2018, the X-A3 was sold from October 2016 through January 2018, and the X-A10 was sold from February 2017 through January 2018. The digital cameras cost between $160 and $600 with the power adapter wall plugs.

Anyone who has a recalled power adapter wall plug should stop using it immediately and contact Fujifilm for a free replacement. Consumers can continue to charge the camera using the USB cable attached to a computer. For more information, call toll-free at 833-613-1200 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, email productsafety@fujifilm.com or go to www.fujifilmusa.com and click on "Support & Contact."

A viral video shows students and teachers at a Puerto Rico school jumping for joy and celebrating when the power comes back on after 112 days in the dark.

The Academia Bautista de Puerto Nuevo in San Juan posted the video on their Facebook page last week and it has already been viewed more than 275,000 times and has nearly 6,000 shares.

"After 112 days, THE LIGHT IS BACK! Indisputable joy from all of us who are part of the ABPN," the post reads. "We are grateful to all the parents, students and staff who have stayed with us and continued to support us in this situation."

The video shows students dancing and running through hallways as teachers ring bells in celebration.

The island suffered a widespread power outage after Hurricane Maria made landfall in September. The power has been slowly restored, but nearly 40 percent of the island remains without electricity.

Nine of the 12 members of the National Park System Advisory Board resigned this week out of frustration that the new heads of the Interior Department hadn't met with them, NBC News reported.

Tony Knowles, the board's chairman since 2010 and a former Democratic governor of Alaska, said in an interview with Alaska Public Radio that he and eight other members of the panel quit on Monday over their frustration that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke hadn't met with them even once. He confirmed a report in the Washington Post.

Another contributing factor was department leaders' apparent lack of interest "in learning about or continuing to use the forward-thinking agenda of science," Knowles told Alaska Public Radio. The board advises the interior secretary and the National Park Service on matters such as designation of natural and historic landmarks.

Interior Department Associate Deputy Secretary Todd Willens said Wednesday it's "patently false" to say the department hasn't engaged with the board, the Associated Press reported. He said the terms of two members had expired and their resignations are a "hollow and dishonest political stunt."

Woody Allen’s adopted daughter, who has accused the legendary filmmaker of sexual abuse, says she has a right to feel angry and hurt after what she described as years of being “ignored and disbelieved and tossed aside.”

“Someone said this to me: ‘She wants to bring Woody Allen down. She’s caught up in the #MeToo, #TimesUp movement,’” Dylan Farrow, 32, told CBS’ Gayle King in what “CBS This Morning” calls her first on-camera interview about her longstanding abuse allegations against Allen, 82.

She added: “Why shouldn’t I want to bring him down? Why shouldn’t I be angry? Why shouldn’t I be hurt? Why shouldn’t I feel some sort of outrage after all these years being ignored and disbelieved and tossed aside?”

Farrow has alleged Allen molested her in an attic in 1992, when she was 7 years old. Allen has denied the accusations and a subsequent investigation did not result in charges. Farrow first discussed her allegations publicly in a 2014 op-ed in The New York Times.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Russia is helping North Korea get supplies in violation of international sanctions and that Pyongyang is getting "closer every day" to developing a long-range missile that could hit the United States, Reuters reported.

"Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea," Trump said during an Oval Office interview with Reuters. "What China is helping us with, Russia is denting. In other words, Russia is making up for some of what China is doing."

With North Korea persisting as the major global challenge facing Trump this year, the president cast doubt during the 53-minute interview on whether talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be useful. And he said Pyongyang is steadily advancing in being able to deliver a missile that could threaten the United States. 

"They're not there yet, but they're close. And they get closer every day," said Trump.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Senator Jeff Flake's speech on the senate floor was made due to low poll numbers than an actual sincere criticism of President Trump. Sanders also talked about Steve Bannon's lawyer relaying information from the House Intelligence committee's questions to his client directly back to the White House, saying it is "standard procedure."

The 25-year-old prisoner who escaped from a Connecticut prison earlier this month was captured in Georgia. 

Jerry Mercado was detained at a gas station in the Atlanta suburb of Canton, Georgia, on Wednesday afternoon after the U.S. Marshals Service acted on a tip they got, officials said. 

It comes after marshals had raised the reward for anyone with information leading to the arrest of Mercado, who busted out of the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield on Jan. 7.

Police said he might have escaped from the prison by stowing away under a vehicle that morning, and officials said Tuesday he was thought to be in New York City and was riding the subway in an attempt to fit in. But officials said Wednesday he left Manhattan and headed for Georgia at some point.

During a news conference on Jan. 8, state Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Scott Semple said investigators believed a vehicle was involved in the escape because there were no breaches to the facility's outer fence.

Semple said there were two vehicles on the property that day - a state police van and a garbage truck - and investigators are looking into whether Mercado stowed away under one of the vehicles to escape.

Mercado, who is from Hartford, was serving a three-year sentence for third-degree burglary charges at the time of the escape. Officials from the DOC said he is classified as a "low risk" offender.

Carl Robinson is primarily a dormitory-style facility that houses around 1,500 inmates on Shaker Road in Enfield.

Adult movie actress Stormy Daniels purportedly denied having an extramarital affair with Donald Trump back in 2006, but she told a different story in 2011, according to a recently rediscovered magazine interview published Wednesday.

InTouch magazine has just made public a 7-year-old interview with Daniels in which she claims that a sexual relationship with Trump began after she met the future president at a celebrity golf tournament in July 2006 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

NBC News has reached out to Daniels, Spears, Moz and the White House for comment on the InTouch interview but received no response.

The InTouch interview surfaced after The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a lawyer for Trump, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money a month before the 2016 presidential election.

Cohen also provided a statement that was signed in the name of Daniels that called rumors of the affair and hush money "completely false.”

The Trump administration is moving to prohibit people from Haiti — which the president allegedly insulted in a meeting last week — from applying for visas for seasonal and farm workers.

The Department of Homeland Security has given notice it plans to prohibit people from Haiti, as well as Belize and Samoa, ineligible to apply for H-2A and H-2B visas, which are temporary. The H-2A visa is for agriculture and the H-2B is for non-agricultural seasonal work in places such as resorts.

In the notice, DHS said that Haitians applying for the visas “present extremely high rates of refusal." DHS also said it stopped taking Belize applications because the country is not complying with U.S. anti-trafficking laws. And Samoa is now listed as “at risk of non-compliance” because it has not made progress in accepting back nationals deported from the U.S. 

Michael Clemens, a senior fellow at the non-partisan Center for Global Development, said barring Haitians from the visa will encourage illegal migration to the U.S. and hurt the U.S. economy. "Haitian farmworkers on the H-2A visa that I have studied in Alabama added $4,000 to the U.S. economy per worker, per month," said Clemens, who is a labor economist.

A gay couple sued Vistaprint on Tuesday in Massachusetts, alleging the printing company sent them pamphlets with messages about temptation and sin instead of the wedding programs they ordered for their special day.

Stephen Heasley and Andrew Borg were married in Pennsylvania in September but on the eve of their wedding, they say they opened up a package that was supposed to be their wedding program, and instead they say Vistaprint sent them pamphlets about sin and Satan.

The couple filed a federal lawsuit claiming discrimination.

The couple's lawsuit says they were horrified to find the package they received the day before their wedding contained pamphlets with "hateful, discriminatory and anti-gay'' messages. They say they hope their lawsuit sends a message that "there will be consequences for acts of hate.''

The couple's lawyer spoke for them from New York via FaceTime.

"It was supposed to be the happiest day of their life and it was marred by this delivery," Michael Willemin says.

Willemin believes the pamphlets are an assault on the rights of all gay people, equating the couple's relationship to satan's temptation.

The printing company, with a regional headquarters in Massachusetts, confirmed in a statement Wednesday night that they just learned of the incident on January 16 and says they support diversity and reject discrimination in all forms.

"Vistaprint in no way condones — and does not tolerate — discrimination against any of our customers based on their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation."

Vistaprint CEO Trynka Shineman and Vistaprint founder and Cimpress CEO Robert Keane said in the statement they have reached out to the couple to "express our sadness that this incident occurred, and disappointment that this in any way diminished the joy of their wedding day memories."

Heasley and Borg say their special event was a little less special because of the hateful messages.

"Of course they didn't want to become the face for this but they know what they're doing has to be done," Willemin says.

The printing company went on to say in their statement that they are hoping to establish a dialogue with the couple so together they can use this incident as an opportunity to shine a light on important LGBTQ issues.

"To know that any customer could feel treated in such a way, especially during a time that should be filled with joy, is extremely disheartening," Vistaprint said in the statement. "We have never been more disappointed to let a customer down."

Vistaprint officials say they are investigating the incident to determine how and why the couple received the materials. 

A flood warning remains in effect along the Connecticut River in Middlesex and New London counties.

Just north of the East Haddam Swing Bridge, the ice jam became a popular destination for families with children who didn’t have school because of the snow on Wednesday.

Visitors told NBC Connecticut they just had to see this unique winter wonder up close in person instead of just on television.

Bob and Denise Heinig from Wallingford brought their two young grandsons to the banks of the frozen river.

"I wanted them to see something that I saw many years ago when I was a young boy along a river that I grew up next to," Heinig said.

While it is wonderful to look at, Heinig said he worries about potential flooding if the ice breaks up too fast.

"Absolutely, I mean this is historic, it’s unbelievable," he said. "If this starts letting go too quickly than you have problems. Maybe we’ll hope for a nice slow thaw and she’ll break up with the cutters and let it flow slowly, something all at once you got some big issues."

NBC Connecticut rode along with the U.S. Coast Guard’s icebreaking tug boat Bollard on Tuesday. That boat will make another attempt at breaking up the incredibly thick ice on Thursday morning and the Coast Guard is considering bringing in a second boat to assist.

"It’s not something they would see every day and it’s an experience that they’ll hopefully remember," Tara Lund from East Hampton said, who visited the ice jam with her two children.

The Lund family was disappointed there wasn’t more snow in their town, so they opted for the photo opportunity by what has quickly become a popular destination.

"It’s really cool and its pretty and I hope I get to see it again," Tara’s daughter, Sierra, said.

During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal had many questions for the VA secretary that led the department's first public acknowledgment of wrongdoing after a scalpel was found in a veteran's abdomen following surgery nearly four years ago. 

"I’ve seen the X-ray of the scalpel and frankly, I was appalled," Blumenthal said during the Washington hearing.

In response, VA Secreaty David Shulkin admitted the incident shouldn’t have happened and apologized. 

"We do acknowledge responsibility for this. This veteran has suffered enough," Shulkin said.

That acknowledgment is the first the VA has made since the story was first reported when the Army veteran, Glenford Turner, filed a lawsuit against the agency on Tuesday. Turner's lawyer said they are suing the VA after the agency previously failed to respond to his administrative claim for medical negligence. 

The 61-year-old was suffering from dizziness and abdominal pain after a prostate cancer procedure was performed on him nearly four years ago. He went to the West Haven campus of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System on March 29, 2017, for an MRI, and doctors determined a scalpel was left in his abdomen, according to Faxon Law Group, who represent Turner.

"Over six months later, the VA has still not responded incredibly to the claim beyond a simple acknowledgment of its receipt," Blumenthal said while questioning Shulkin.

"It’s an event that should never happen and I am deeply sorry that any veteran should have to undergo this," Shulkin said.

The VA said the doctor involved has apologized to the veteran and the agency is looking into what happened. They said they're making sure something like this never happens again.

NBC Connecticut reached out to the West Haven VA and has yet to hear back.

A man was shot in the leg at the Krauszer’s at 468 Main St.in East Hartford early Thursday morning, according to police. 

The man was shot during a dispute around 1:30 a.m., police said.