Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is using a new app designed to keep parents in the loop while their child is in surgery.

Maxwell Nadeau, who is just 23 months old, is recovering at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center after surgery to correct a spinal condition. His mother, Melissa, describes being in the waiting room as torture.

“You sit and you hope for the best,” she said. “You pray for the best but you’re ready for the worst.”

But, thanks to a new app called “Ease,” Melissa and her husband, Ian, were able to get real-time video and text message updates from doctors and nurses who were inside the operating room.

“We’ll let them know that the patient has gone to sleep and they are doing great,” said Irsa Amin, Operating Room Nurse at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. “Once we’ve started the procedure, we give timely updates, letting them know that we’re finishing up.”

“It felt like a giant relief,” Melissa Nadeau said. “We were connected. Although it felt like I gave my baby to the surgeon who’s amazing, I still felt like I was there. Everything was okay because I had a visual.”

The app protects patient privacy in compliance with HIPAA. The messages disappear after 60 seconds.

Connecticut Children’s is the only hospital in the state that uses the technology.

A raccoon bit a man in Plainfield on Tuesday afternoon and police said the animal tested positive for rabies. 

The man had been visiting a home on Lake Street, in the Moosup section of Plainfield, when a raccoon ran from behind a vehicle, climbed up his leg and bit him, police said. 

Officers responded to the scene at 3:51 p.m. and the injured man was transported Plainfield Backus Emergency Care Center to be treated for minor injuries and to receive immunizations because of possible rabies exposure. 

The raccoon was found and taken to the State Laboratory in Rocky Hill and tests determined that the raccoon did possess the rabies virus. 

Plainfield Animal Control Department is urging residents to avoid contact with stray animals and wildlife and not to leave food outside for your pets and to keep all household animals up to date on their rabies vaccines. 

Machines carrying shelves with hundreds of products on them dance around the nearly 900,000 square foot floor of Amazon’s Fulfillment Center.

The machines, known as “Drivers,” are the most critical piece of the infrastructure when it comes to distributing products for the now ubiquitous, Amazon Prime service.

The company opened its doors on Thursday to show off the new technology, and to tout the new jobs created at the 1,500 employee facility a few miles from I-91 in Windsor.

For the roll-out of the new Drivers, Amazon invited robotics students from Windsor High School. The group of about 30 students walked all across the warehouse floor, learning how the robots work and contribute to Amazon’s work flow.

Om Ghetia, a Windsor High School Freshman, observed how the robots are programmed and controlled through an Amazon Kindle tablet, and even helped to guide the Drivers around.

“I could move it to the position that I wanted it in and it came exactly where I wanted it to. It was very precise,” he said.

Ghetia said in his classes and on his robotics team they develop every step of the way, a far less advanced system than the one at the fulfillment center.

“This is like, very large and I’m surprised how they managed to come up with all of this and the supplies and the manpower to do this,” he said.

Governor Dannel Malloy arrived for the ceremonial reopening of the fulfillment center and touted how Amazon has only grown in Connecticut over the past decade.

“It wasn’t that long ago that Amazon did not have any presence in Connecticut,” Malloy said. Amazon, he stressed, “is a very important part of our economy.”

Amazon will open its third facility in Connecticut next year in North Haven and will employ another 1,500 people. The company’s other facility is in Wallingford where 500 people work.

Foreign policy analysts say China is the hidden hand behind the derailment of the United States' summit with North Korea, NBC News reported. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has become increasingly anxious about the potential reunification of the Korean peninsula. After Kim Jong Un's recent meeting in China, there was a noticeable change in Pyongyang's public statements and private actions.

President Donald Trump called off the summit Thursday, and told reporters that "the dialogue was good until recently, and I think I understand why that happened." 

"Clearly China wants to position themselves to be a driver in this process," retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis, a former supreme allied commander of NATO and currently the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said in an interview. "They encouraged Kim Jong Un to step back from the summit."

With a strict, new European privacy regulation taking effect Friday, several social media companies are reaching out to users with updated privacy policies, NBC News reported. 

Customers will have control of their data under the new regulations, and companies will be held liable for misuse of data. 

Facebook's "Basic Privacy Setting & Tools" page tells users how to manage all of their privacy settings on the social networking site. On Twitter, users can delete location tags from their Tweets, and decide whether to share their data with the company's business partners. 

Meanwhile Instagram has an explainer for users to learn how to set their accounts to private, and to opt out of being suggested to other users. And Google has a portal that gives users a look at how to control which data the company collects from them. 

A man who was barricaded in a house on Fleming Court in Groton for more than four hours Friday morning is in custody, according to police, and no injuries are reported.

Police responded to the home at 5:23 a.m. to conduct a welfare check after a woman called and said her estranged boyfriend, Robert Patterson, 52, of Groton, was heavily armed and acting irrationally, police said.

Patterson was alone in the house and indicated that he sought “death by cop,” according to a news release from police.

At 6:30 a.m., police alerted neighbors to shelter in place and a SWAT team and hostage negotiator were brought in.

Patterson surrendered to police at 9:43 a.m. and police served him with a warrant for a previous incident that charged Patterson with charged with strangulation in the second degree, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief in the third degree. Bond was set at $10,000 for that incident.

Charges for the incident Friday included first-degree reckless endangerment and breach of peace. Bond for those charges was set at $50,000.

As disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein surrendered to authorities and was arrested on rape and other sex abuse and misconduct charges Friday morning, a drove of women hailed his arrest as a step toward justice and a symbol of hope for all abuse survivors.

Some of Weinstein's most outspoken accusers, including actresses Rose McGowan and Asia Argento, took to social media as Weinstein made his way to a police precinct in lower Manhattan. In a powerful Instagram post, McGowan said she and other survivors "had given up hope that our rapist would be held accountable by law."

"Twenty years ago, I swore that I would right this wrong," she wrote. "Today we are one step closer to justice. We were young women who were assaulted by Weinstein and later terrorized by his vast network of complicity. I stand with my fellow survivors. May his arrest give hope to all victims and survivors everywhere that are telling their truths."

McGowan accused Weinstein of raping her in 1997 and has been disrupting what she described as the culture of complicity in Hollywood, saying many people knew of his behavior but did nothing. Through social media and her recent E! documentary "Citizen Rose," McGowan has told her story and offered support to other survivors.

McGowan later appeared on "Megyn Kelly Today" after Weinstein left the precinct in handcuffs and said she doesn't "ever want to see him again."

"I think the world could use that face being gone," she told Megyn Kelly. "Predators eat people. And he ate a lot of my life, and I want my life back."

McGowan admitted that while "his face is everywhere" since stories began circulating of the charges against Weinstein, "I haven't had a sigle nightmare for the first time."

When asked if she could ever forgive Weinstein, McGowan said, "I don't want to. ... It's a very complex issue. Maybe I'll get there someday. ... I can say this, the man who pinned me down had handcuffs on him today."

Argento tweeted when news broke of Weinstein's intent to surrender: "BOOM!"

She continued writing Friday morning as Weinstein walked out of his car and turned himself in, saying she was "glued to the screen" watching the "perp walk."

"Today Harvey Weinstein will take his first step on his inevitable descent to hell. We, the women, finally have real hope for justice," she tweeted.

Argento told The New Yorker in its October 2017 exposé on Weinstein that the producer raped her when she was 21 in 1997. She has since taken other powerful figures to task in helping to lead the #MeToo movement. On Saturday, Argento gave a searing speech at the Cannes Film Festival calling out Weinstein and others "who still have to be held accountable."

McGowan and Argento are just two of some 80 women who have publically accused Weinstein of assault or harassment. Weinstein has denied having nonconsensual sex, and his lawyer told reporters Friday that his client intends to plead not guilty.

"Mr. Weinstein did not invent the casting couch in Hollywood. … Bad behavior is not on trial in this case," attorney Benjamin Brafman said.

Actress Natassia Malthe, who said Weinstein masturbated and then forced himself on her in a hotel in 2010, said she wondered "why it was taking so long" for Weinstein to face justice.

"I'm happy that he’s finally being held accountable," she said Friday on MSNBC. "I was afraid this day would never happen."

Malthe's attorney, Gloria Allred, who also represented women in the case that found Bill Cosby guilty on sexual assault charges, said, "This is only the first day."

"There is a process, he will get a fair trial," Allred said on MSNBC. "Will the victims also get a fair trial?"

Dominique Huett, an actress and model who said Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in a hotel in 2010, said Weinstein's arrest "feels as if justice has begun to be served."

"This was a very systematic pattern of abuse which was rarely considered a crime by a culture in the entertainment business that continually perpetuated it," Huett said in a statement to NBC News. "I am sadly reminded of all of the women’s lives he destroyed and careers that were hindered from this abuse. I know a lot of women feel vindicated in regard to this arrest being held to standard as an illegal criminal act and the court process should reveal the verdict for the crimes of which he is accused in a court of law. This is a step in the right direction for abuse to be taken seriously and progress be made to abolish abuses of power.

Huett added that she feels for Weinstein's family and children that they are "having to face these consequences at last for his behavior, criminally."

Actress Mira Sorvino offered one simple word on Twitter: "#Justice."

Sorvino claimed that Weinstein harassed her and tried to pressure her into a physical relationship. She and other women say the producer subsequently blacklisted them in the film industry and hurt their careers.

After Weinstein was arraigned, Sorvino sent her "love" to "all my sisters today who stood up against a monster... so many emotions... I am proud of and grateful to you all."

"So much love right back at you sister!" Argento tweeted back.

Annabella Sciorra was a rising actress in the 1990s when, she said, Weinstein raped her and sexually harassed her before "destroying" her career.

As news spread that Weinstein would turn himself in, she tweeted, "Anyone know where I can get front row seats?!"

See how others reacted to Weinstein's arrest:

A Hamden police officer is recovering after a tree fell on the cruiser. 

A Facebook post from Hamden police said the tree fell on the police cruiser as the officer was driving on New Road, near Quinnipiac University, Thursday. The area has severe damage after the storms last week. 

The officer suffered minor injuries from glass after the windshield shattered, according to police. 

“It could have been much worse and we’re thankful that it wasn’t. Never like to see anyone get hurt and we obviously send our best wishes for a quick recovery,” Hamden Mayor Curt Leng, said. 

On Thursday night, crews were repairing the lines on New Road. 

Mayor Leng said several trees have fallen in the days since the storms battered sections of town. 

While no one was hurt in the other cases, Thursday’s incident serves as a reminder to be careful out and be aware of branches or trees that could still come down. 

“People that live in the area should double check and keep an eye on limbs that might be broken, that might look like they’re gonna fall and trees that might be a little tilted,” Leng said. 

Because of the potential danger, the mayor is asking people to stay away from devastated areas for their own safety and to allow crews to work more quickly. 

The mayor is also alerting people who have generators to make sure they were inspected and don’t accidentally energize lines.

A robber punched a 65-year-old man in the head in Hamden and stole the man’s wallet, police said. 

Police said the 65-year-old man was in his car, which was parked in the 300 block of Goodrich Street, on Tuesday when a man in his 20s opened the door, punched the victim in the head, grabbed his wallet and ran, according to police. 

The victim sustained an injury to his finger. 

The man police are looking for has a shaved head and was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. 

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Brian Stewart of the Hamden Police Department Detective Division at (203) 230-4040.

NBC Connecticut Meteorologists are forecasting a warm start to the Memorial Day Weekend. 

Today will kickoff a two day stretch of hot weather. Temperatures today are expected to reach 90 degrees in the Hartford area with temperatures cooler along the Connecticut shoreline. 

Beaches will likely be busy on Saturday with temperatures expected to rise into the 80s and even 90s throughout the state. 

Take a look at First Alert Future Temperatures for Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. There will be plenty of sunshine to start your Saturday however clouds will gradually increase by the afternoon.

The weather turns unsettled for Sunday as a backdoor cold front moves through the state. This will setup much cooler weather with an east wind and a chance for showers on Sunday. 

Sunday will feature cloudy skies with afternoon temperatures in the 50s and 60s and scattered showers throughout much of the day.

The rain showers will move out of the state by Memorial Day with partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the middle 70s expected. 

A 6-week-old baby girl who has severe injuries, including cranial bleeding and bruising to the brain, is not expected to survive, according to police, and medical professionals, and police have arrested the parents.

"We do believe this case is heading to a fatality at this point," Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley said Friday morning.

Hartford police officers responded to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Thursday afternoon to investigate a report of an infant who suffered serious injuries.

Police said the baby girl, who is around six weeks old, had cranial bleeding, severe bruising, rib fractures and a clavicle fracture.

She was listed in grave condition and continues to receive emergency medical care, according to a news release from police.

Detectives from the Special Investigations Division and the Major Crimes Division responded to the hospital and took over the investigation. Police said they interviewed the baby’s parents, 23-year-old Edwin Babilonia and 20-year-old Ashley Perez and determined that the incident occurred at the family’s residence around 6 a.m. Thursday, police said.

In an interview on Friday morning, police said the injuries appeared to have happened over several days and doctors are working on organ donation options.

The baby is a twin and the twin was evaluated. The state Department of Children and Families has taken custody of that baby.

Babilonia and Perez have been charged with risk of injury to a minor and cruelty to persons.

They are both being held on $500,000 bond.

Wesleyan University's board of trustees has voted to rescind Bill Cosby's honorary degree after the comedian was found guilty on sexual assault charges.

Cosby was convicted earlier this month 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.

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth announced soon after Cosby was convicted that he intended to ask the Board of Trustees to revoke the honorary degree Wesleyan awarded Cosby in 1987.

A statement from Wesleyan said the board voted unanimously today to revoke Cosby's degree.

Yale University's board of directors voted earlier this month to rescind the honorary degree the university awarded to Cosby in 2003. 

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.

The Hartford police officer who was stabbed in the neck last week was released from the hospital on Friday.

Officer Jill Kidik's release comes eight days after she was critically wounded while responding to assist an eviction process at an apartment building at 5 Constitution Plaza in Hartford.

Kidik was the first officer at the scene and tried to talk to the tenant, later identified as Chevoughn Augustin, into leaving the building.

Kidik was attempting to put Augustin in handcuffs when a struggle ensued and Augustin knocked Kidik to the ground, grabbed a large ceramic kitchen knife, put the officer in a chokehold and stabbed the officer in the neck, according to police.

Some maintenance workers rushed to Kidik's aid and saved her life, police said.

Kidik was rushed to Hartford Hospital and underwent surgery for what police called life-altering injuries.

Augustin was taken into custody and charged with criminal attempted murder, first-degree assault, assault on a police officer and third-degree criminal mischief.

After reports of an undercover campaign by a shadowy Israeli firm called Black Cube to discredit the Iran deal, internal Black Cube documents obtained by NBC News and interviews of sources with direct knowledge of Black Cube’s operations reveal a business intelligence company with government contracts and a special department for politically motivated work.

Black Cube worked to contact the family of former Obama administration officials. A source familiar with this specific outreach told NBC News it was part of an effort to discredit Obama administration officials who had worked on the Iran nuclear deal – and, by extension, the deal itself.

Black Cube sought evidence of nefarious behavior, such as financial or sexual impropriety, by the deal's architects. Operatives hoped to obtain such evidence by befriending their targets or their targets’ associates.

In a statement to NBC News, Black Cube said it has no relationship to the Iran nuclear deal. The firm added that it “always operates in full compliance of the law in every jurisdiction in which it conducts its work.”

Of the workers who say they've experienced sexual harassment on the job, 72 percent did not tell their employer about the incident, according to a CareerBuilder survey released early this year. Meanwhile, three-quarters of those who do report say the issue was resolved. Here's what to know about reporting harassment in the office, according to CNBC.

Know the law. According to the EEOC, sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination, and you have the legal right to be protected from discrimination in the workplace if your company has 15 or more employees, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Check your company's anti-harassment policy, which could be on the website, in the employee handbook or with human resources. Follow the steps outlined, which should include options for filing a complaint. 

Be sure to document the harassment and list names of people who may have witnessed the incident. Provide your report to a supervisor, a manager or human resources. There is also the option to file a charge with the EEOC.

On Friday, survivors of the Parkland school shooting protested Publix over the company's donations to politicians - including one top name in the 2018 race for Governor of Florida - that have been endorsed by the National Rifle Association or those who have not been supportive of the gun control movement.

One of the leading voices in the movement, David Hogg, called for the "die-in" protests Friday afternoon inside Publix.

Hogg and around two dozen protesters laid down in one Coral Springs store with the aim of disrupting business. Hogg spoke through a megaphone as pro-Publix and pro-NRA counterprotesters stood nearby.

Some customers walked around the group to pick up items for purchase. The protest lasted for about 12 minutes. Hogg said the 720 seconds represent the number of school shootings in recent history.

The protests started before 6 a.m., when Hogg, parent Manuel Oliver - who lost his son Joaquin in the shooting - were joined by others in drawing 17 chalk outlines of bodies in the parking lot of one location in Coral Springs ahead of the store's opening - one for each of the victims who died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14th.

"This is actually what really happened in Parkland, we lost 17 persons," said Oliver. "One of them was my son. So every time we can show this and make statements out of it, we will do it."

They are protesting Publix’s donations to conservative gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam, who is pro NRA and anti-LGBTQ, according to the ACLU and the HRC, based on his voting record. 

“Publix can stand with us. They can pull out their half million dollars from Putnam's campaign and they can double that amount and donate it to the Stoneman Douglas victims fund,” said Hogg.

The protest went on as scheduled despite a statement by Publix that they were suspending corporate-funded political contributions.

"At Publix, we respect the students and members of the community who have chosen to express their voices on these issues. We regret that our contributions have led to a divide in our community," Publix's statement read. "We did not intend to put our associates and the customers they serve in the middle of a political debate. At the same time, we remain committed to maintaining a welcoming shopping environment for our customers."

Hogg spoke with several people who came out against the group's actions, with both sides having a peaceful debate.

"From talking to him, I have seen his side and I do agree that mental health is an issue that he’s really pushing and that it’s not about taking away guns from everybody," said Tim Martin, a Republican voter.

"As American citizens, we can sit down and understand that we have disagreements but we can work towards, for example, behavioral health programs," said Hogg.

“I’m not afraid of big corporations and David is not either,” said Oliver. “There’s a big group of people that represent one of the biggest corporations ever and it’s us. And it’s 97 percent of the nation right now.” 

Some customers said Publix is not the enemy.

"Publix has a right to contribute to whomever they want to contribute to," said shopper Patrick Johnson. "As a Republican, as a Democrat, as an independent, everyone has that right!"

A science teacher who was wounded during a school shooting in Noblesville, Indiana, has been identified as a former Southern Illinois University football player, who President Donald Trump has hailed as a "hero."

According to SIU, former defensive lineman Jason Seaman, a teacher at Noblesville West Middle School, suffered gunshot wounds in the Friday morning attack. A student in the class said Seaman tackled the fellow student who fired shots inside the classroom, likely averting a catastrophe.

A 13-year-old student was also injured in the attack. Authorities released no information about conditions of the two victims, who were taken to Indianapolis hospitals.

Seaman's brother, Jeremy Seaman, told the Indianapolis Star that Jason Seaman was shot three times and had undergone surgery. He said he was conscious after the shooting and talked with his wife, telling her he was Ok.

"I want to let everyone know that I was injured but am doing great," Jason Seamon said in a statement provided by a friend. "To all the students, you are all wonderful and I thank you for your support. You are the reason I teach."

On Saturday, President Donald Trump tweeted his appreciation for Seaman, writing, "Thanks to very brave Teacher & Hero Jason Seaman of Noblesville, Indiana, for his heroic act in saving so many precious young lives. His quick and automatic action is being talked about all over the world!"

Authorities responded to Noblesville West Middle School shortly after 9 a.m. for reports of an "active shooter" at the suburban school, roughly 20 miles north of Indianapolis. 

The class had been taking a test when a student asked to be excused, then returned, armed with two handguns, and started firing, according to Noblesville Police Chief Kevin Jowitt.

Seventh-grader Ethan Stonebraker said the teacher "immediately ran at [the shooter], swatted a gun out of his hand and tackled him to the ground."

"If it weren't for him, more of us would have been injured for sure," Stonebraker added. 

The Indiana University Health system said in a statement that the teacher was taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital and a teenage patient was taken to Riley Hospital for Children, but details on their injuries or conditions were not immediately available.

The suspected male student, whose name has not been released, was detained at the scene, according to police. A motive was not immediately known.

Officials noted though that a secondary threat was made at nearby Noblesville High School, roughly four miles from the middle school in the same district and the location where students were being bused to be picked up by their parents. 

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb issued a statement following the shooting saying he and leaders of the legislature were monitoring the situation as they traveled back from a trip to Europe.

"Approximately 100 state police officers have been made available to work with local responders and will offer all assistance needed," Holcomb said. "Our thoughts are with all those affected by this horrible situation.”

"Karen and I are praying for the victims of the terrible shooting in Indiana," Vice President Mike Pence, the state's previous governor, tweeted Friday morning. "To everyone in the Noblesville community – you are on our hearts and in our prayers. Thanks for the swift response by Hoosier law enforcement and first responders."

Friday's shooting came one week after a police said a student opened fire at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, killing 10 people and wounding 13 more.