Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Tuesday that the Justice Department "is not going to be extorted" as some House Republicans raise the prospect of seeking his impeachment, NBC News reported.

During an appearance at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., marking Law Day, Rosenstein was asked about a draft of articles of impeachment prepared by Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, and other members of the House Freedom Caucus.

They have pushed for the release of internal Justice Department documents concerning some aspects of the Russian meddling investigation and the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe.

"There are people who have been making threats, privately and publicly, against me for quite some time," Rosenstein said. "And I think they should understand by now, the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted."

President Donald Trump's New York doctor tells NBC News the president's medical records were taken from his office in a February 2017 "raid" by Trump's longtime bodyguard, the Trump Organization's top lawyer and a third, large man.

Dr. Harold Bornstein said his office was raided two days after he told The New York Times he had for years prescribed Trump the hair growth medicine Propecia.

The 25- to 30-minute incident left Bornstein feeling "raped, frightened and sad," he said. He added that he was not given a form authorizing that the records be released signed by Trump, which would be a violation of patient privacy law.

Keith Schiller, the bodyguard who was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the time, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Schiller left the White House in September.

A person familiar with the matter said then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson included a letter to Bernstein, but the person wasn't sure if a release form was attached.

Bornstein said he was speaking out about the incident now after seeing reports that Jackson won't be returning to his post as White House doctor. "This is like a celebration for me," he said.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the taking of Trump's records "standard operating procedure" by the White House medical unit for a new president. She said she would not characterize what happened as a "raid." 

A New Haven firefighter who is accused of assaulting his girlfriend in Hamden has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested and charged. 

Hamden police said they responded to a residence on Augur Street at 5:15 p.m. on April 28 to investigate reports of a domestic dispute. 

They said a 25-year-old woman had gotten into an argument with her boyfriend, 30-year-old George Chin, of New Haven, in a parking lot on Whitney Avenue. 

The woman was in a car and Chin opened the driver’s side door, reached in and “choked” her, “mush slapped” the right side of her face, then opened the door a second time and poured a cup of juice on her, according to police. 

The victim said she left the area and drove home. 

Moments later, the victim said, Chin showed up at her home and tried to force his way in through a bedroom window and she allowed him in, according to police. 

Chin then hit the victim in the face with a pocketbook and a shoe, according to police. 

Hamden Fire Rescue responded and treated her for injuries on her left cheekbone and the base of the front of her neck, according to police. 

New Haven Police went to Chin’s Maple Street home and detained him until Hamden Police arrived. 

Chin was charged with strangulation in the second degree, assault in the third degree, disorderly conduct in the second degree and criminal mischief in the third degree. 

Chin was released after posting a $1,000 bond. It's not clear if he has an attorney. The online court docket says Chin is due back in court on May 21.

The New Haven Fire Department has no comment on the matter.

The governor’s office says it has reached an agreement with General Dynamics Electric Boat that will help the company grow its workforce by nearly 1,900. 

By 2034, the company’s workforce would be more than 13,000. 

The deal would allow for more than $800 million in capital investments in the state over the next 17 years and more than double spending on in-state suppliers, which the governor’s office says are located in 102 Connecticut cities and towns. 

The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development will be providing a $35 million loan for machinery and equipment through Governor Malloy’s First Five Plus Program, which offers loan forgiveness based on supply chain spend and employment, and up to $20 million from Connecticut Innovations in sales and use tax exemptions for capital and new construction on the Electric Boat campus, according to a news release from the governor’s office. 

The DECD will also provide EB an $8 million grant to be spent on third-party workforce development initiatives through community colleges, technical high schools, and organizations in Connecticut, such as the Eastern Workforce Investment Board to benefit the company and its manufacturing supply chain, according to the governor’s office. 

The state will also provide $20 million for dredging, which the governor’s office says will allow submarines to be launched from a new dry dock and manufacturing superstructure being built to support new submarine construction. 

Get ready for a big weather warm-up as we head into Wednesday.

Temperatures today climbed into the upper 60s and low 70s throughout the state.

High temperatures by tomorrow will be a good 10 to 15 degrees warmer than today.

We're forecasting interior Connecticut to reach the middle 80s which could come close to breaking the daily high temperature record for the day. 

Tomorrow will be a beautiful day to head for the beaches however temperatures will be considerably cooler with an afternoon sea-breeze. 

Temperatures along the shoreline will run a good 10 to 15 degrees cooler than inland areas.

Wednesday will remain dry with an increased thunderstorm threat by Thursday.

A decent amount of instability and wind shear will be present. This will allow any thunderstorm that does form to become strong or even severe. 

Make sure to download the NBC Connecticut App for the latest on the forecast and interactive radar.

Nearly 150 employees in Naugatuck will be losing their jobs after The Dannon Company, LLC -- YoCrunch announced plans to close facilities in town.

According to the state WARN report, 147 Dannon, Yo-Crunch employees will be laid off between December 2018 and March 2019. Parent company Danone filed notice with the state Monday.

“A great company they just expanded here in Naugatuck not too long ago so it is a bit of a shock,” said Ron Pugliese, the president and CEO of Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation.

Pugliese told NBC Connecticut he hadn’t spoken with Danone yet, but felt their decision couldn’t have much to do with the economic environment the town is trying to create.

”Sometimes companies go because the building doesn’t work for them or the lack of transportation, we have everything in that industrial park so I don’t think it’s the problem,” he said.

In a statement, Danone North America said in part:

“We deeply regret the impact this planned closure, targeted for Q1 2019, will have on our employees and our supply partners in the community surrounding this location. We will work diligently to assist them as they look for other employment and customer opportunities both internally and externally.”

“I’m disappointed but I always look to the future and I think we’re going to be OK,” Pugliese said.

Families at Plainfield High School already chip in $30 per year for certain activities at school. Now that fee may see a dramatic increase due to cuts in state funding, and some parents say it may stretch them too thin.

“They’re doing what they gotta do. It’s going to be rough for a lot of families to pay it,” said Plainfield parent Craig Roberge.

Roberge is a single father of two children, and among parents who received a survey from the school district informing them the Plainfield High School activity fee may more than triple from $30 to $100 annually per student.

“It looks like if we want to avoid them cutting activities here in the school for the kids, it’s going to be one of the only options,” Roberge said.

The fee currently covers senior student activities like prom and graduation. The district lost more than $650,000 in state aid, and now the school may ask individual families to pay more to ensure extracurricular activities are still covered.

Some parents that spoke with NBC Connecticut said they understand, but wondered if there isn’t an alternative.

“Most of the parents are strapped. I don’t think they can afford it. I really don’t,” said David Wozniak.

“Don’t put the burden on everyone else. When I went to school I didn’t have to pay an activity fee at all,” said Walter Madden.

Parents can respond to the survey until Friday. The district said if they do up the fee, parents would have the option to pay it all at once, or in four installments. For families with financial needs, the fee would be cut in half or eliminated altogether.

It’s unclear when the board will make the final decision about the future of the fee.

The Yale University Board of Trustees has voted to rescind Bill Cosby's honorary degree after the comedian was found guilty on sexual assault charges on Thursday.

Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated assault related to an encounter with a former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, in his Cheltenham home in Pennsylvania. He was accused of drugging and molesting Constand in 2004. During the trial, five other women testified to also having been drugged and assaulted by Cosby.

A Yale spokesman released the following statement Tuesday night:

"Today the Yale University board of trustees voted to rescind the honorary degree awarded to William H. Cosby, Jr. in 2003. The decision is based on a court record providing clear and convincing evidence of conduct that violates fundamental standards of decency shared by all members of the Yale community, conduct that was unknown to the board at the time the degree was awarded. The board took this decision following Mr. Cosby’s criminal conviction after he was afforded due process.

Yale is committed to both the elimination of sexual misconduct and the adherence to due process. We reaffirm that commitment with our action today."

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth has also announced he intends to ask the Board of Trustees to revoke the honorary degree Wesleyan awarded Cosby in 1987. Roth will make his request when the Board of Trustees meets in May.

In June 2016, the University of Connecticut revoked an honorary degree awarded to Cosby in 1996. It was the first time the school had ever rescinded an honorary degree.

The court case has destroyed the legacy of the once influential comedian. He was originally charged in 2015, but the initial trial ended in a mistrial when the jury deadlocked.

Cosby now faces up to 10 years in prison on each count. A sentencing date has not been announced. His attorneys said they plan to appeal the verdict.

Connecticut has 169 towns and cities with 169 ways of delivering police, fire, and ambulance services. We may like the local control we have over them, but can we afford a system that at times delivers inconsistent coverage depending on where you live?

The state has more ambulance companies than communities. With this many resources, residents expect prompt service in an emergency. But Jane Sullivan of Ledyard says that wasn't the case when she called for help for her legally blind son in 2016.

“It was a long time,” said Sullivan. “I want to say it was 20 minutes maybe or 25 minutes before the ambulance came.”

Town dispatch data shows it took a town volunteer ambulance 20 minutes to arrive on scene. While other full-time first responders from the fire department got to the Sullivan house faster, they couldn’t transport her son until the ambulance arrived.

“It’s something probably that should be looked at in terms of why was the response time so long?” said Sullivan. “Should we look at doing it another way?”

The most recent state data shows the Ledyard Volunteer Emergency Squad had an average response time of 12 minutes, well above the state average of eight minutes and the national guideline for response time. Now Ledyard is taking bids on a new ambulance provider according to town leaders.

In other states, like North Carolina, local governments have consolidated or regionalized public safety agencies. They say that often leads to efficiencies and cost savings.

While Connecticut has 170 ambulance providers, North Carolina has 100, and serves triple the number of people. The North Carolina providers also cover 10 times the geography.

In Cabarrus County, just north of Charlotte, each of its dozen ambulances on the road has a paramedic. That’s not necessarily the case in Connecticut where training varies from town to town and city to city.

According to Cabarrus EMS Director Jimmy Lentz, response times to emergencies have been consistent for years.

“The eight minutes is a national standard and we meet that. Greater than seven, but we stay under eight minutes and we have for 28 years," he said.

Overall, average ambulance response time in Connecticut is also just below eight minutes. But state data shows great differences from town to town in how quickly an ambulance will get to you. It’s the luck of the draw depending where you live how quickly you’ll get help.

When it comes to ambulance services, paying more in Connecticut isn’t necessarily getting you more, or in this case, a faster response.

Property taxes, which cover many municipal functions including ambulance services in Connecticut, are on average double what they are in North Carolina.

Police, fire, and 911 dispatch serving the 200,000 people throughout Cabarrus County's 365-square mile area are also consolidated, though not to the same level as EMS.

Compare that to Groton, Connecticut. It has three local governments, three police departments, and nine fire districts serving 40,000 people in a 30-square mile area called the Town of Groton. The Town of Groton has two political subdivisions, the City of Groton, and Groton Long Point.

City of Groton Mayor Keith Hedrick does not want to consolidate with the town, unless it's part of a larger regionalization effort. But he admits the current municipal structure may not be financially sustainable in the long run.

“It is sustainable for a while,” said Hedrick.

Former Town of Groton Mayor Bruce Flax says the City of Groton government does not have to go away, but they have to find ways to share resources, save money and become more efficient.

Flax adds that at some point there won’t be enough funds to support all these operations and people will have no choice but to “flatten out what’s going on in Groton.” He says the issue is so toxic that he has few takers for the “One Groton” bumper stickers he made.

This is not unique to Groton. Across our state communities have struggled with dwindling state funds and local taxpayers unwilling to shoulder more of a burden, but at the same time they lack the political will to switch to leaner municipal government the way many other states have.

Jane Sullivan, who lived in a part of the country with county government, says local governments in Connecticut should more closely examine ways to deliver more efficient and less costly services.

“Consolidating, maybe there’s savings there,” she said. “That’s what we have to look at today, savings, because every town is crying because of taxes.”

A man is in stable condition after a shooting in Hartford Wednesday morning. 

Police said the man was shot on Franklin Avenue and he was taken to Hartford Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition. 

Detectives are investigating.

In every major ethnic and racial group, support for same-sex relationships has risen sharply in the last five years, according to a major new survey.

NBC News reports that more than 6 in 10 Americans told the American Values Atlas that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, up from 52 percent in 2013. Now, a majority of black Americans signaled approval, with conservative Republicans remaining the main holdouts.

The survey was conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 1.2 percent.

"At a time when Americans are more divided than ever, the sea change in support for LGBT rights that now crosses lines of race, ethnicity, religion and geography means that LGBT rights are becoming one of the few areas of public agreement," PRRI research director Dan Cox said.

A driver who had two young children in her car plunged the vehicle into the Hockanum River in East Hartford Tuesday night while fleeing from police, according to police. 

The Nissan Maxima was involved in a slow-speed chase when it went into the river near Preston Street, police said. 

The driver and the children were not injured and charges were filed against the driver, police said. 

The father of the children picked them up.  

No additional information has been released.

A majority of Americans — 61 percent — think President Donald Trump regularly has trouble telling the truth, according to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll.

Among Republicans, 22 percent say he tells the truth only some of the time or less — but more than half of them still approve of his work as president.

Overall, 76 percent of Republicans believe Trump tells the truth all or most of the time. An overwhelming majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaners (94 percent) and 76 percent of independents believe the president tells the truth only some of the time or even less frequently.

The poll also found that nearly half of Americans talk about politics with someone they disagree with at least once a week.

Half of Americans generally find the experience to be stressful and frustrating.

A rare eye cancer has cropped up in dozens of people in two Southern states, mainly women in their 20s and 30s, NBC News reported.

Doctors are puzzled by the ocular melanoma diagnoses in a group of graduates from Auburn University in Alabama and people from Huntersville, North Carolina.

The cancer is rare, usually affecting just six in a million people.

Doctors are so far reluctant to call it a cancer cluster, as no common thread or cause has been found, but researchers are studying the groups to see if there's a link between them.

A daycare owner is accused of leaving two 2-year-olds and a 4-year-old alone in a car for around half an hour while shopping at BJ’s in Manchester Tuesday morning.

A BJ’s employee who was walking through the parking lot heard the three little girls crying and called police at 11 a.m.

The officers arrived at the same time the suspects, 52-year-old Beth Rich, and 51-year-old Mark Babcock, both of the same address in Coventry, left the store, police said.

The couple said they had just gone into the store for about five minutes and didn’t realize that they couldn’t leave the children unattended in a vehicle for a short period of time given the fact that they had left the windows cracked, police said. They also said that the children were from Rich’s daycare business. 

Police said they estimated that the children had been left in the vehicle for around half an hour. The girls were not hurt and were returned to their parents.

Rich and Babcock were charged with three counts of leaving children under 12 unsupervised. They were released on $2.500 bond and they are due in court on May 15.

“Shock. I was very upset. I was angry," one of the parents, David Cerrigione, said.

“This is somebody that we trusted with the life of our baby," Cerrigione said.

A Miami judge granted a Cuban father custody of a baby girl at the center of a  dispute with U.S. relatives of the infant’s mother, who died during childbirth.

Family Court Judge Migna Sanchez-Llorens ruled Tuesday that the child, Valeria, is the biological daughter of Yoelvis Gattorno, who lives in Cuba, and granted him custody of the newborn.

Gattorno's wife, Yarisleidis Cuba-Rodriguez, died during an emergency C-section on March 2. Valeria was born prematurely at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

Cuba-Rodriguez identified her cousin Nairobis Pacheco, and not the baby’s biological father, as her next of kin on hospital documents. 

Pacheco told El Nuevo Herald last month that her cousin sacrificed a lot so that her daughter would not grow up in a Communist country and did not want those efforts to have been in vain. She told the newspaper that she never wanted to take the baby away from her father, but had asked for temporary custody so that Valeria would not end up in a foster home.

Cuba-Rodriguez had obtained a U.S. visa through a special lottery and arrived in Florida in October. Family members said she had planned on petitioning for husband after she was settled in the U.S. She died before the application process had been completed. 

Gattorno arrived in the U.S. last week on a humanitarian visa to demand custody of his daughter. At Tuesday's hearing, the judge said he can take the girl to Cuba once she is medically cleared. It was not immediately clear how long it would take for doctors to allow Valeria to fly due to complications she suffers from a premature birth. Gattorno is legally permitted to stay in the U.S. for about three months.

The father told the court he wants his daughter to be identified on the birth certificate as Valeria Gattorno Cuba.

On Tuesday evening, he picked up Valeria from Pacheco's home.

"I'm going to hug her, tell her everything I have been wanting to say, kiss her," Gattorno told reporters outside of the home.

Meanwhile, Cuba-Rodriguez's 15-year-old daughter Flavia, who is not Gattorno's biological child, told Telemundo 51 that she fears being separated from her baby sister after already loosing a mother.

"If they take her away [to Cuba], I'm scared I won't see her grow up, her first steps, her development," Flavia said, choking back tears. 

Gattorno told the station that he loves Flavia and Valeria will always be her little sister, adding she will be always be welcomed to see her where they call home. 

Police in Leicester, Massachusetts, have cracked a shoplifting case thanks to a popular toy.

According to a Facebook post, police said they were able to get a fingerprint from Play-Doh left behind at a local retailer that the alleged shoplifter put on a security device.

That fingerprint matched a suspect police had in their system and authorities were able to make an arrest.

The name of the suspect has not been released.

Police added the suspect is wanted in at least two other states.

Scores of criminal cases against alleged illegal border crossers are routinely and quietly filed every month by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego. 

But the so-called Migrant Caravan from Central America is a political flash-point. 

That’s one reason why the Trump Administration issued a news release from Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. Monday night, announcing the arrest of 11 "caravan" members accused of crossing the border illegally near San Ysidro, without asking for asylum. 

“The United States will not stand by as our immigration laws are ignored and our nation’s safety is jeopardized,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. 

A federal law enforcement official told reporters the information about the defendants’ participation in the Caravan “... was uncovered during routine immigration inspection and questioning.” 

NBC 7 Investigates took a closer look at the criminal complaints filed and found the documents include details about the defendant’s country of origin, and, in some cases, their hoped-for destination inside the United States. 

But none of the 11 charging documents include an admission or any information alleging that the suspect had traveled north with the caravan. 

The complaints state U.S. Border Patrol agents witnessed 29 immigrants cross illegally, and detained all of them. Only 11 of the 29 immigrants have been criminally charged with illegal entry. 

The Justice Department declined to answer questions posed by NBC 7 Investigates about why the other 18 suspects have not been charged with illegal entry. 

On Tuesday, one of the Caravan organizers pointed out one of those arrested and charged is from Mexico. Alex Mensing of Pueblo Sin Fronteras (City Without Borders) said no one in the Caravan is from Mexico. 

Mensing also insisted that his group follows the law, and insists that its members enter the U.S. legally, by surrendering and requesting asylum at the official San Ysidro crossing. 

"In no way, shape or form has this Caravan encouraged anyone to cross illegally,” Mensing said. “If anything, we've convinced some people to stay in Mexico because they've learned how difficult it is to seek asylum in the United States."

Immigration attorney Saman Nasseri told NBC 7 Investigates immigration officials and federal prosecutors have wide discretion in filing criminal charges against immigrants apprehended while crossing the border illegally. 

But Nasseri said the controversial Caravan may have politicized that process. 

“Caravan organizers trying to send a message, saying, ‘We're coming to America.’ But the Border Patrol, the President, and the Administration are sending their own message back, saying, ‘OK, if you're going to come, we're going to prosecute you,’" Nasseri said. 

One of the charging documents reveals three of the 29 suspects who crossed illegally came from India. 

Those three were among the group of 18 illegal crossers who have not been criminally charged. 

Immigration attorney Nasseri said that's not unusual, because immigrants come to our border from around the world, looking to enter the U.S. legally, or not.

Next time you head out on a trip, you may want to remember your own toiletries.

The Wall Street Journal reports that hundreds of hotels are getting rid of the tiny bottles of shampoo, conditioner and body wash. Instead, the hotels will put in bulk dispensers on bathroom walls for customers to use.

According to the report, hospitality companies Marriott and InterContinental Hotels Group will roll out the changes at hotels around the country. Marriott is starting with the switch in 450 of its hotels across five brands. It plans to expand to 1,500 hotels in North America by January. IHG already has the change in place at its Kimpton brand hotels.

The companies say the bulk dispensers are better for the environment. Billions of half-full bottles get thrown away every year. 

Several chains said they studied bottle behavior and found many travelers find the wall-mounted pumps easier to use. And, hotels told the Journal that families often complain about not having more bottles in the room to allow everyone to properly wash themselves. The new pumps would eliminate that.  

But not everyone is pleased by the decision. Some customers told the Journal the wall-mounted racks look "cheap." They believe it’s just another in a long string of amenity cuts from hotels, like mouthwash, stationery, sewing kits and pens.

A spokesman for Marriott told the Journal that while change is cost effective, the savings will not be enormous. Each hotel will save about $2,000 a year. They believe the wall-mounted bottles will work better.

A few hotel chains are actively avoiding this trend. Both Choice Hotels and Wyndham Hotel Group decided to stick with the individual bottles of toiletries. Wyndham also increased its bottle sizes to encourage more people to take them home at the end of their stay.

Warm weather brings the threat of ticks and mosquitoes, which can both carry disease, and doctors offers advice for how to stay safe.