A woman fell out of a ride at a carnival in Queens when she says it started before she and her boyfriend were secured, leaving her with a sprained wrist. she said.

Tiffany Karl, 19, and her boyfriend got into the basket of a spinning ride called the Zipper at the Astoria Park Carnival in Astoria around 11 p.m. on Saturday, she told NBC 4 New York in an exclusive interview.

The gate to the basket was still open and Karl was only halfway inside when the ride started moving, she said.

"I was literally halfway in ... and the next thing I know, the guy fell and I fell, and Chris is hanging on." 

Karl sprained her wrist and bruised the side of her body in the fall, she said. Her boyfriend was lifted around 20 feet into the air by the ride and had to cling to the basket, he said.

“I just see Tiffany screaming, ‘Hang on, hang on.’ And I see everybody with their hands on their head like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on,” he said.

A consultant for Dreamland Amusements, which operates the carnival, told NBC 4 New York the ride lifted the boyfriend around eight feet into the air, not the 20 feet he claimed.

The consultant said workers dealing with crowd control failed to close the door. Dreamland Amusements has since posted extra staff at the ride.

Less than a third of United States voters believe the U.S. summit with North Korea will have a positive outcome, according to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. A combined 36 percent of voters say President Trump will either be too demanding (26 percent) or give up too much (10 percent) in the negotiations.

Thirty-one percent of voters are more optimistic, either saying the agreement will be fair to both sides (17 percent) or better for the United States (14 percent). Another 31 percent say they don’t know enough to give an opinion.

Republicans are more confident in the outcome of the summit than Democrats. Six-in-ten GOP voters say that there will be a balanced deal (30 percent) or a deal that favors the U.S. (29 percent). That’s compared with only 8 percent of Democratic voters who expect a positive result.

The overall margin of error in the poll of 900 registered voters from June 1 to 4 is plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.

Police in Connecticut tell News 4 there is an active investigation and scene at a single-family home in an upscale Stamford neighborhood Monday.

Details of the investigation on Hycliff Terrace near Halliwell Drive were not immediately available, and Stamford police didn't provide News 4 information beyond the presence of an "active" probe.

According to The Stamford Advocate, cops responding to an emergency call found a woman covered in blood at the scene. It wasn't clear if she was alive.

The value of the two-story 3,338-square-foot home, which has four bedrooms and three and a half baths, according to Trulia, is near $1 million. 

Property records show the house is owned by a couple in their 70s. 

The investigation is ongoing. A statement is expected from the mayor's office later Monday. 

Stamford had its first homicide in 18 months in late May -- in that case, an 18-year-old man was shot on the city's West Side.

Mayor David Martin issued a statement the following day saying, "We often take for granted how safe our community has become." 

The homicide "serves as a sad reminder that gun violence can occur anywhere," Martin said in the June 1 statement. "It is particularly heartbreaking and disturbing to see a youth in Stamford whose life ends far too soon because of a gun."

As the repeal of Obama-era net neutrality regulations took effect Monday, advocates for an open internet continue to fight the changes, NBC News reported. They’ve introduced efforts to re-implement similar rules prohibiting internet service providers from throttling internet speeds at the state level and pass a resolution in Congress to undo the Federal Communications Commission’s decision.

The FCC voted on the repeal last December amid widespread controversy. Since then, at least 22 states have filed suit against the commission. But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai continues to defend the new system.

“Our framework will protect consumers and promote better, faster Internet access and more competition,” Pai wrote in an op-ed published on CNET on Sunday. 

Net neutrality advocates argue that without an explicit ban, internet providers will quietly and slowly replace a level playing field with a web that favors big companies.

German leader Angela Merkel said it was "sobering and a little depressing" to see President Donald Trump withdraw from the G-7 agreement via Twitter after leaving the summit early, NBC News reports. 

It appeared Trump had agreed a fragile consensus with the other members of the G-7 — or Group of Seven, a club of industrialized nations — by agreeing to sign its official communiqué on a range of issues.

But the president blew that apart with a series of tweets from Air Force One, in which he criticized comments made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who hosted the gathering in Quebec, and told his officials not to sign the communiqué.

Merkel told German broadcaster ARD on Sunday that Trump's "withdrawal via Twitter is of course sobering and a little depressing."

Manchester is phasing out its old trash bins for new ones that are two-thirds of the size. Some residents think this change is throwing away their tax dollars, though the town said it’s meant to encourage recycling. 

Manchester’s sanitation division is replacing 16,000 trash bins after finding many of them were worn and torn after an average of 15 years. The town said an average eight out of 10 residents have and use the 95-gallon bin for their trash and the new bins that residents are now receiving hold 65 gallons. 

“We’re just trying to promote recycling. We do feel that based on the average household, there is a fair amount of material that isn’t being recycled right now,” Environmental Services Manager Brooks Parker said. 

There’s an additional incentive to be ahead of the curve, he said, because, “we’re also trying to meet a requirement from the state that they’re looking for a 60 percent diversion of the waste stream by 2024.” 

Jean Lefebvre, who’s lived in Manchester for nearly 50 years, said the size of the trash bin matters. 

“They’re suitable for me, I’m a family of two,” Lefebvre said. “But anyone who has children, I don’t think they’re large enough.”

Residents can sign up to use a 95-gallon bin for $200 a year. The cost, Lefebvre said, is a bit steep and it isn’t the only thing that has people upset.

“There’s going to be trash everywhere. There’s already been posts on Facebook of animals getting into them a lot easier,” John St. Peter, of Manchester, said.

Lefebvre said her original bin never needed to be replaced.

“[The new one] is not as sturdy as the other barrel was, and my barrel was fine,” Lefebvre said.

Manchester residents are being asked to place their old bins out the night before their regularly scheduled collection.

“If you hold on to it, it won’t be used after July, they’re only going to pick up trash from the new style of containers,” Parker said.

A United Airlines flight from Rome to Chicago was diverted to Ireland over a security issue, the airline told CNBC.

United flight 971, which departed from Rome just after 10:30 a.m. local time, was scheduled to land at O'Hare International Airport at around 2 p.m. CST.

After roughly four hours in the air, the flight was diverted to Shannon Airport in Ireland "following a potential security concern," United Airlines said in a statement.

"Additional security screenings will be performed on all customers and baggage, and we will work to get customers on their way to Chicago as quickly as possible," the statement continued.

Further details were not immediately available.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

A man who was arrested in West Hartford early Sunday morning is accused of injuring two police officers, stripping in a police cell, breaking out of handcuffs, damaging a sprinkler system at the police station and flooding a holding cell.

Police officers were on route patrol around 1:44 a.m., as the bars were closing, when they noticed two men in an altercation. When they approached them, 33-year-old Leroy John Herr challenged police about his rights and got within inches of an officer’s face, police said, so an officer pushed him away.

Herr then came back again, rushing toward the officer, and several police officers took him into custody, police said.

After arriving at the police department, Herr stripped off his clothes and managed to break the handcuffs off, police said. Then he jumped, breaking the sprinkler in the cell, and water flooded it. Officers moved Herr after the flood and secured him in another cell. 

Herr has been charged with breach of peace in the second degree, interfering with an officer, assault on a police officer and criminal mischief in the second degree. He was help on $125,000 bond.

Two officers sustained injuries, including cuts to the hands and knees and a wrist injury.

The Red Cross is in need of blood donations and has launched a new campaign to attract the attention of donors. 

As part of the campaign dubbed Missing Types, the letters A, B, and O — symbols of the main blood groups — will disappear from corporate logos, brands, social media pages and websites to illustrate the critical role every blood donor plays.

"Every day thousands of patients across the United States rely on generous blood donors for critical blood transfusions," said Gail McGovern, president and CEO of the Red Cross. "However, we have seen a troubling decline in the number of new blood donors. We urge the public to roll up a sleeve and fill the missing types before these lifesaving letters go missing from hospital shelves."

In fact, over the past four years, the Red Cross has seen the number of new donors decline by about 80,000 a year. With only 38 percent of the population eligible to give blood, and just 10 percent of those actually giving blood yearly, that's only 3 percent of the population, NBC News reported. 

U.S. health officials say they need to collect more than 13 million blood units annually to meet the needs of patients. The Red Cross provides around 40 percent of that total.

According to the America's Blood Centers, a network of non-profit community blood centers, U.S. hospitals need 40,000 pints of blood daily for accident victims, cancer patients, those undergoing surgeries and people treated for inherited blood disorders. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients.  

A recent Red Cross survey found a disconnect between the public's perception of blood donations and the realities of patient transfusion needs. Nearly 75 of those surveyed underestimated how frequently blood transfusions occur and more than one third of never considered that blood may not be available when they or a loved one need it. 

That's what happened when 12-year-old Tymia McCullough, who is battling sickle cell disease, arrived at a South Carolina hospital last year for a blood transfusion — her blood type was not available.  

"It was the scariest, most frightening moment of a mother’s life, because I thought that she would not be able to get it," McCullough's mother, Susie Pitts, told the Red Cross. "In that moment, in that experience, I was very afraid. I was scared for my daughter’s life — what was going to happen if she didn’t get the blood she needed?"

With no widely used cure, McCullough relies on regular blood transfusions to treat her sickle cell disease, an inherited disease that causes red blood cells to form an abnormal crescent shape. 

After eight hours, the hospital was able to get the needed blood supply for McCullough's transfusion. 

"Blood shortages are not uncommon in the United States and can only be prevented when more people roll up a sleeve to give," the Red Cross said in a news release. 

The Red Cross campaign comes ahead of World Blood Donor Day on Thursday, June 1. Among the companies joining the #MissingTypes campaign are Adobe, Anheuser-Busch, Google, PayPal, Mastercard and Oreo. Celebrities are also bringing attention to the need of blood donors, tweeting their names with the missing letters.

To learn more about how to donate blood or to find a drive near you visit www.redcross.org/give-blood.

The valedictorian of a California high school says school officials cut off her microphone during her graduation speech after the 17-year-old senior veered from the administration's preapproved script.

Petaluma High School senior Lulabel Seitz began her commencement address by talking about the obstacles her fellow classmates persevered through in order to graduate. She noted the devastating wildfires in Northern California and being in school during a teacher strikes. 

Seitz then started talking about a person struggle: she had been sexually assaulted on campus, she says, and the school did nothing about it. That's when someone pulled the plug on her microphone.

"We are not too young to speak up, to dream and to create change, which is why when some people on this campus, those same people ..." Seitz is heard saying before her microphone abruptly cuts off.

When her classmates realized what was happening, they stood up, cheered and began chanting "Let her speak." Students clapped in support as she returned to her seat during the June 2 ceremony on the school football field.

Seitz said later that she was "unfairly cut off" for trying to address the silencing of victims of sexual assault, though officials said all speakers had been warned the microphone would be muted if they went off message.

Principal David Stirrat said the school had been tipped off in advance that Seitz might deviate from her approved remarks.

Seitz said the school administration feared the truth. She posted a video on YouTube of her interrupted speech and added an uncensored version of the full speech she tried to deliver.

In the expanded version, she said students hadn't let it drag them down when some on campus "defend perpetrators of sexual assault and silence their victims."

Seitz said she was sexually assaulted on campus by someone she knew and wanted to show frustration for a lack of action by the school. 

"The person didn’t get any consequences, and he was even there at graduation watching me give my speech," she said. "And that’s just not fair to girls."

District officials did not respond to NBC Bay Area's request for comment. The school district told The Press Democrat they couldn’t comment on the alleged sexual assault, citing student privacy laws.

Legal experts were split on whether the school had the right to stop the speech. Seitz has a strong case for challenging, they said, especially because she was not using obscenities or disrupting the crowd.

Seitz, whose grandparents immigrated from the Philippines, is the first member of her family to graduate from high school. She will attend Stanford University.

Emergency crews are responding to a serious motorcycle crash on Norwich Avenue in the Taftville section of Norwich.

Fire officials said the crash is in front of the Xtra Mart gas station at 186 Norwich Ave. One victim has life-threatening injuries, officials said.

The road is closed in the area. Drivers are warned to avoid the area.

No other details were immediately available.

Police are trying to locate a robbery suspect that assaulted a 7/11 clerk at a store in Columbia Sunday.

The Columbia Resident State Trooper’s Office said the suspect entered the store on Route 66 at approximately 3:30 a.m. and hit the clerk with the butt of a gun. The clerk suffered minor injuries. The suspect fled on foot into a nearby vehicle.

Police did not specify what was stolen.

The suspect is described as heavy-set, wearing a dark hoodie, tan pants, white sneakers and a black mask. Anyone with information should contact Det. DiCocco at Troop K at 860-465-5400.

A Southington restaurant has agreed to make changes to ensure the business is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act after a person with mobility disabilities filed a complaint.

Smokin’ with Chris Restaurant reached a settlement with the US Attorney’s office that includes creating accessible parking spaces, adding an accessible entry route and entrance to the building, providing a ramp, constructing an accessible bathroom, and adding accessible seating in the dining, bar and patio areas.

According to the US Attorney’s Office, the restaurant is already in the process of making the changes and will continue improvements over the next year.

Under federal law, privately owned places of “public accommodation,” which includes restaurants, are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of disability. The ADA gives the US Department of Justice the ability to investigate complaints and review compliance. The Justice Department can also turn to litigation in a case that involves “a pattern or practice of discrimination or that raises issues of general public importance.”

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office is committed to enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act, which ensures that individuals are able to access and enjoy the state’s restaurants and other places of public accommodation,” stated U.S. Attorney John Durham in a statement. “We appreciate the cooperation of the owners of Smokin’ with Chris throughout our investigation and their readiness to agree to remediate the restaurant’s architectural barriers.”

More information about the ADA can be found online or by calling the Justice Department at 800-514-0301 and 800-514-0383. Anyone who wishes to file a complaint can contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office at 203-821-3700.

A pedestrian was struck by a car on Greentree Drive in Waterford Monday, according to police.

Police said the road was closed, but did not immediately provide details.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

A 34-year-old man is facing murder charges after he confessed to killing his mother and burning her body in a backyard fire pit, according to court documents.

Officers started searching for 60-year-old Donna Tucker on Friday night after her sister, Denise Trofa, contacted police and said she had not heard from Tucker since Thursday.

According to authorities, investigators searched Donna’s Tucker’s home at 128 Broadway and found her personal belongings, but nothing else. Officers also searched a wooded area near her home.

After a thorough investigation, police said the case shifted from a missing person case to a murder investigation on Saturday night.

On Saturday afternoon, Donna's son, Kyle Tucker, confessed to police that he murdered his mom, officers said.

According to the case report filed in court, Kyle Tucker told investigators “god got into my body and walked me downstairs with my baseball bat and it was very quick and almost even hard to remember.”

Kyle Tucker told police he hit his mother with a baseball bat “really hard” then dragged her body from their kitchen outside to a fire pit and burned her body. He then cleaned the kitchen with bleach, vinegar, turpentine and Clorox wipes, and repainted sections of the walls he could not get clean, according to the documents.

The suspect also ordered an urn meant for ashes off his mother’s Amazon account, but later canceled the order, according to the report.

Officers said they found Donna's remains on her property and believe she died of blunt force trauma to the head before the missing person report was filed. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is expected to determine her exact cause of death.

Kyle Tucker is being charged with murder and destruction of evidence and he is being held at Hamden Police Department on $5 million bond.

Police said they had been called to the Tuckers’ home on multiple other occasions when Kyle Tucker suffered from mental illness. Police said officers did not feel during any of those prior incidents that Kyle would harm his mother.

Kyle appeared in Meriden Superior Court on Monday, where a judge kept bond at $5 million.

The case has been transferred to New Haven Court and Kyle Tucker is due in court next on June 19.

Voters who supported President Donald Trump in 2016 can be expected to cheer his tough stance on trade policy with Canada.

But a close look at U.S. trade data suggests that Trump supporters in states that sent him to the White House are the last ones who should be rejoicing over the prospect of a trade war with Canada, CNBC reported.

The U.S. and its second-largest trade partner moved closer to an outright trade war Sunday, after Trump and top White House advisors lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The town of Ledyard is considering whether to allow residents to post homes on Airbnb and other short-term rental sites.

While town officials know renting out homes is nothing new, they’ve recently received a handful of complaints regarding short-term rentals. As it stands, short-term rentals are not addressed in town zoning regulations. Anything not listed or otherwise permitted is illegal, according to the way the regulations are currently being interpreted.

So, last month zoning Official Joseph Larkin distributed four letters asking residents to volunteer to stop renting their properties on sites like Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway. The notices said homeowners had 30 days to comply or could face a cease and desist and/or a citation carrying fines up to $150 per day. But for now, the situation is in a holding pattern until the town looks into what to do next.

In a statement to NBC Connecticut, Liz Burdick, Ledyard’s director of land use and planning, said in part, “This has prompted the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Mayor’s office to seek a common sense approach to short term rentals and ways to address them either by way of the Ledyard Zoning Regulations or by a Town Ordinance.”

Burdick researched how other towns and cities across the state and country handle short-term rentals. She said ideas brought to the Planning and Zoning Commission Thursday will include letting the community self-regulate short-term rentals, writing simple zoning regulations or writing a town ordinance.

“We’re in a bit of an uncharted territory here and so we just need to create some common sense, good neighbor guidelines,” said resident Jon Day.

Day went to Ledyard’s mayor and other town officials to open the dialogue about short-term rentals in town. Day has rented out his home before and while he wasn’t one of the property owners who received a letter, he took his property offline for the time being.

He and many other short-term rental owners came up with ordinances that he plans to present to Ledyard officials this week.

“It’s really common sense stuff. It’s stuff like noise ordinances, parking ordinances—basically setting out basic expectations of how people should behave,” Day said.

Elena Lockett said she’s rented her Ledyard home through Airbnb and HomeAway without issue.

“At 300 - 400 dollars per night, the guests that I host are professionals and most have young families. The town needs a way to bring in revenue. I pay nearly $9,000 per year in taxes and renting short term is a great way to offset that outrageous bill twice a year,” Lockett wrote in an email to NBC Connecticut.

She mentioned the town potentially compromising by asking owners to register or get a permit if they plan to short-term rent. That way officials can monitor how many rentals are on the market and could have a contact if there is an issue with a particular home.

Some rental owners told NBC Connecticut that they have a vetting process for who stays at their homes, renting gives them additional income, people spend money in the area and it helps ensure houses are kept up in town.

“It’s becoming a nuisance. We’ve got cars going up and down the road much faster than our speed limit, we have strangers stopping at different homes looking for the one they’re looking for at 10, 11 o’clock at night,” Jeanne Hollister said.

Hollister lives on Long Pond Road South and is one of the people who wrote into the town about multiple rentals on her street. She said she and her husband have been bothered by the noise and have concerns about the septic system.

“High school kids came down, they were up all night dropping ‘F’ bombs,” husband Ackley Hollister said.

Day said they take all those concerns seriously, and it’s a policing matter too.

The town will take up the issue at the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting Thursday at 7 p.m.

Dramatic video captured the moment a car slammed into Central Florida toll plaza, sending one of its passengers flying across pay lanes before landing near a neighboring booth. 

Surveillance video obtained by NBC affiliate WESH-TV shows the white Cadillac SUV speeding toward the toll plaza near St. Cloud in Osceola County and crashing into a barrier between pay lanes. 

A passenger is ejected from the vehicle and lands between a nearby booth and a car that had stopped to pay the toll, footage shows.

The vehicle's engine bursts into flames and another occupant can be seen staggering out of the smoke-filled SUV. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, three other passengers inside the vehicle were also able to escape the fiery crash.   

The driver and four passengers were taken to a local hospital, treated for minor injuries and released, WESH reported.

A FHP trooper wrote in his report that the driver appeared to be fatigued at the time of the June 3 crash.

It was not immediately clear why bystanders did not immediately rush to the vehicle to check on the occupants after the crash. Video footage shows at least one toll booth worker walking away from the crash lane, seeing the ejected man lying motionless on the ground, but does not approach him. The employee is seen again moments later talking to someone who is not in the camera's view before the video ends.

Canton girls lacrosse fell just short of the Class S finals this year, losing to East Catholic in the semifinals. But for the coaching duo leading the charge, it was still a season to remember.

Canton girls lacrosse coach Sean Cole has his own style of coaching.

“I think I’m pretty transparent and candid with the girls,” Cole said. “I try to be as honest and sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad. Sometimes it’s really ugly.”

That’s only because Cole has one goal in mind.

“I try to find whatever niche to get the level of awesomeness out of all of those players, right,” Cole said.

As he says, it’s all about the “awesomeness.”

“You know, my kids always give me a hard time that I have far more energy than they have collectively,” said Cole.

More energy that everyone, except maybe his own kid, Lindsay Cole, coaching in her first season as an assistant alongside her dad.

"Lacrosse is a big part of our lives as a family and I am so happy to be a part of it,” said Lindsay Cole.

In fact, it was Lindsay who got her dad into coaching girls lacrosse in the first place and now it’s both Coles that have that one goal in mind.

"Really getting them to embrace their awesomeness," Lindsay said. “Like he always says on the sidelines and it’s really a pleasure.”