A 90-year-old woman is missing and Connecticut State Police have issued a Silver Alert for her.

Evelyn Sasko has been missing since yesterday.

Police said she was last seen driving a black Ford Taurus with Connecticut plates 157JAC on Interstate 84 East in the Southbury area around 10:30 p.m. after leaving Danbury Hospital.

The person Sasko was following from Danbury Hospital to Pomperaug Woods, a senior living community in Southbury, lost sight of Sasko’s vehicle in heavy traffic on I-84, near exit 14 in Southbury.

Anyone with information on where she is should call State Police Troop A at 203-267-2200.

A motorcyclist was rushed to the hospital after a crash on South Meriden Road (Route 70) in Cheshire Wednesday.

Police said the motorcycle driven by Matthew Garuti, of Southington, and a truck driven by a Texas man collided near the intersection with Country Club Road and Reservoir Road.

Garuti was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but police said they are not life-threatening.

Police are investigating the crash.

A pig was found roaming in the area of Route 4 and High Street in Farmington and police said they have located her owner and she is now home.

Farmington animal control had the pig in custody until the owner was found, according to a post on the Farmington Police Department's Facebook page.

The northbound side of the Charter Oak Bridge in Hartford remains closed after a tractor-trailer hauling laundry detergent hit a median just before 5:30 a.m.

Part of the trailer was sheared off and laundry detergent spilled out onto Route 15, which led to drivers being diverted off the highway and into East Hartford.   

The southbound side of the road was closed, but the right lane is now getting by.

No injuries are reported and crews from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection was called in.

The cleanup is underway and the crash is under investigation.

NBC Connecticut Meteorologists are tracking some changes in our weather for the weekend.

Clouds will be on the increase throughout the day as our next weather system moves towards Connecticut. 

Your Friday evening features mostly cloudy skies with temperatures in the low to middle 60s.

Saturday morning will feature cloudy skies with a few areas of drizzle around.

Here's a look at First Alert Future Radar at 7 a.m. on Saturday.

The drizzle and showers will become a bit more widespread by the late morning and afternoon hours.

Most of the rain should be out of the state by Saturday evening with a few lingering showers or a thunderstorm possible early Sunday morning.

Central Connecticut State University has released a report on the investigation into how the university police department handled allegations of the sexual assault of one of its own officers as well as other personnel and climate matters within the department. Among the findings were that the police department had a "fraternity-like environment."

The university president has also placed the Chief Administrative Officer, who was responsible for management of the police department, on leave and hired an assistant to the president for safety to identify and “correct defective procedures, policies, and training, evaluate staffing levels and budgetary issues.” 

Central Connecticut State University President Zulma R. Toro had ordered the investigation into the CCSU Police Department. 

The university said a reported sexual assault of a female CCSU police officer by a male CCSU police officer and an investigation the University’s Office of Diversity and Equity conducted on it compelled Toro to hire the Hartford law firm Shipman & Goodwin LLP to conduct an independent investigation. 

“I am deeply disturbed and saddened by the investigation findings,” Toro stated in a news release issued Friday morning. “There is significant evidence that the sexual assault complaint by one of the department’s own officers was inappropriately handled when the incident was first reported in 2016. I am particularly troubled as to how the department’s chain of command did not, in a timely manner, conduct an investigation when the sexual assault was first reported.” 

CCSU outlined what the investigators found, including:

• Several police officers were hired by the CCSU Police Department even though background checks found evidence of significant discipline or other disqualifying performance issues in their past. 
• An informal environment exists within the department, including relaxed professional standards and a fraternity-like environment, including inappropriate behavior, banter, or horseplay. 
• Required sexual harassment prevention and other trainings are not taken seriously and serve as additional evidence that diversity and equity principles are not respected and that there is a pervasive use of inappropriate gender labels for women and perception that the work of females is subjected to harsher criticism. 

The four-month investigation began in January 2018 and included a review of records and dozens of interviews with the department’s police officers and employees and several University administrators and staff, according to CCSU. 

CCSU has hired Bernard R. Sullivan, the retired Commissioner of Public Safety and former Hartford Police Chief, to serve as CCSU’s Assistant to the President for Safety. 

He will oversee the police department and will also be responsible for identifying and correcting defective procedures, policies, and training, evaluating staffing levels and budgetary issues. 

Based on the report’s findings, Chief Administrative Officer Richard Bachoo has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation, according to CCSU. His responsibilities included management of the police department. 

Toro also has also changed how background checks of police department candidates are managed and the Office of Human Resources, rather than the police department, will supervise and evaluate the collection of background information. 

Mark Ojakian, president, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities, released a statement after CCSU released the report. 

“Today, Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) released a report that is the result of an internal investigation ordered by President Toro into the CCSU Campus Police Department. I, along with the Board of Regents for Higher Education, am deeply disturbed about the report’s findings and the alleged conduct by certain CCSU police officers and CCSU administrators. 

“Let me say plainly, we will not tolerate any staff engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior or failing to take swift and appropriate action when incidents are reported. 

“The initial investigation, which began late last year, the hiring of an outside law firm, and the decision to the put CCSU Police Department under special supervision were all initiated by President Toro who has responded quickly and decisively. 

“I also support bringing in Bernie Sullivan, former State Police Commissioner and former Hartford Police Chief to oversee the CCSU Police Department. I have known Bernie for years and fully trust his ability to restore professionalism to the Department and take any disciplinary action that may be appropriate,” Ojakian said in a statement.  

See the full report here.

South Windsor police have arrested two New York men who are accused of stealing the identity of a local man, ordering thousands of dollars of items in his name and then picking the items up from a delivery driver before he could deliver the merchandise to the victim’s home. 

The investigation began when police received a report of suspicious circumstances on Windy Hill Drive. 

A man who identified himself as the resident of Windy Hill Drive had stopped a FedEx delivery driver on the street Tuesday and asked for his packages, so the driver gave the man one package, police said. 

But, police said, the man did not actually live in the home the package was being delivered to. 

A second package, which contained a drone, was also addressed to the same home and the FedEx driver then made contact with the actual resident, who had not ordered it, police said. 

Officers determined that the Windy Hill Drive resident’s identity had been compromised and people were buying items and intercepting them before the driver brought them to the house. 

As police investigated, they learned that a credit card had been opened in the victim’s name and more than $12,000 had been charged to the account. 

On Wednesday, the suspect who had met the FedEx driver the day before met him on Loomis Road and asked for another package, a $3,000 laptop, that was being shipped to the Windy Hill Drive home, police said. 

The driver said he did not have it and called police. 

While waiting to meet with officers, the driver saw the suspect in his car near Stop and Shop and officers stopped the car after a brief chase and detained the driver and passenger. 

Police identified the suspects as 33-year-old Felix Molina, and 32-year-old Kevin Thomas, both of Brooklyn, New York. Officers said they found a fake Connecticut driver’s license with Thomas’ photo, but the name and address of the Windy Hill resident. 

Thomas was charged with criminal attempt to commit larceny in the third degree, identity theft in the third degree, criminal impersonation, forgery in the first degree, tampering with evidence and interfering with an officer. 

Molina was charged with reckless driving, disobeying an officer’s signal, conspiracy to commit larceny in the third degree, conspiracy to commit identity theft, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence and interfering with an officer. 

Molina and Thomas were later released on $250,000 bail and are scheduled to appear at Manchester Superior Court on June 28. 

Stormy Daniels is scheduled to make an appearance at an East Windsor strip club this weekend.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is the adult film star at the center of a scandal surrounding President Donald Trump and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in Oct. 2016, less than two weeks before the presidential election.  Daniels said the payment was in exchange to keep her from telling her story about a 2006 sexual encounter she claims she had with Trump.

She is scheduled to appear at the Mardi Gras II in East Windsor on June 23, according to the club's Facebook page.

Daniels will make an appearance at the club's Springfield location the night before.

The House of Representatives on Friday passed the largest legislative package on opioids in recent history, NBC News reported.

The package, made up of 58 bills, would direct federal agencies to prioritize training, support recovery centers and conduct research to help combat the growing epidemic, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says killed 42,000 people in 2016.

Among the provisions: requiring medical records list a patient's addiction history, change how prescription pills are distributed and direct the National Institutes of Health to develop non-addictive painkillers.

The package passed 396-14 after months of debate and now heads to the Senate.

The Honduran toddler in a pink jacket pictured sobbing at the U.S.-Mexico border was not separated from her mother when they were detained, as was widely assumed, a man who identified himself as her father told various news outlets.

The nearly 2-year-old was photographed by John Moore of Getty Images as outrage was growing over President Donald Trump’s policy of breaking apart families who had crossed the border illegally. But in fact, she and her mother remained together, the father, Denis Valera, said.

“My daughter has become a symbol of the ... separation of children at the U.S. border. She may have even touched President Trump’s heart,” Valera told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Trump on Wednesday reversed himself and is now ordering the agencies responsible for the families to detain them together. His executive order fails to make clear how the administration will reunite families already separated, where the families will be housed and how officials will not rule afoul of what is known as the “Flores settlement” which requires that children stay no more than 20 days in unlicensed facilities.

The photo, of the child crying as her mother was searched near the border in McAllen, Texas, helped to bring in more than $17 million in donations to reunite migrant families. Her image inspired a couple from Silicon Valley, Charlotte and Dave Willner, to create what Facebook called its single largest fundraiser ever. It benefitted the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services or RAICES, a Texas-based non-profit that provides legal assistance to immigrants and refugees.

Her likeness was also used for a Time magazine cover, the little girl looking up at Trump. Time issued a correction at the bottom of its cover story saying it had misstated what happened to the child. The girl "was not carried away screaming by U.S. Border Patrol agents; her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together." But Time's editor-in-chief stood behind the use of the image on their cover. 

“The June 12 photograph of the 2-year-old Honduran girl became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason: Under the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in turn resulted in the separation of children and parents," Edward Felsenthal said. "Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment.”

A border patrol agent, Carlos Ruiz, told CBS News that agents had asked the mother to put down the child, Yanela, so that they could search her. Sanchez was patted down for less than two minutes, then quickly picked up her daughter, who stopped crying, he said.

“I personally went up to the mother and asked her, ‘Are you doing okay? Is the kid okay?’ and she said, ‘Yes. She’s tired and thirsty. It’s 11 o’clock at night,” Ruiz told CBS News.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Democrats and the news media had exploited the photograph for political purposes.

“It's shameful that dems and the media exploited this photo of a little girl to push their agenda,” she tweeted. “She was not separated from her mom. The separation here is from the facts.” 

Valera told Reuters that the child and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, had left via a Honduran port north of the capital city, Tegucigalpa, without telling him or the couple’s other three children. Sanchez has relatives in the United States and he said that she thought she went looking for better economic opportunities. She has applied for asylum, she said.

Honduran deputy foreign minister Nelly Jerez confirmed to Reuters the details that Valera provided.

“If they are deported, that is OK as long as they do not leave the child without her mother,” Valera told Reuters. “I am waiting to see what happens with them.”

A 34-year-old citizen of Nigeria who is in the United States on an expired visa and was accused of a tax form phishing scandal that impacted 1,600 school employees in Glastonbury has pleaded guilty, according to federal officials.

Daniel Adekunle Ojo was arrested in August at his North Carolina home and charged with fraud and identity theft. 

Special agents from the FBI’s cybercrime squad in New Haven and the IRS made the arrest amid investigating “phishing” emails that were sent to various school districts in Connecticut earlier this year. 

In February, an employee of the Glastonbury Public Schools received an email that appeared to be sent from a school official requesting W-2 tax information for all employees of the school system. 

The person who received the email responded with W-2 information for approximately 1,600 Glastonbury Public Schools employees and later learned that the school official did not send the request.

The superintendent of Glastonbury schools said the employee who sent the email no longer works for the school system. 

Around 122 suspicious 1040 forms were filed electronically with the IRS in the names of victims of the Glastonbury phishing scheme and claimed $596,897 in tax refunds. 

About six of the returns were processed and $36,926 was electronically deposited into various bank accounts, according to federal authorities. 

The school system provided two years of free credit monitoring to staff and faculty after learning about the breach.

Federal officials said Ojo used aol.com and gmail.com email accounts involved in a phishing scheme to obtain the Glastonbury school system employees’ personal identifying information and use it for personal gain. 

Ojo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to the office of U.S. Attorney John Durham. He will be sentenced on Sept. 13. 

Officials said there is an ongoing investigation, which includes phishing incidents that victimized the Groton Public Schools and the Bloomington Independent School District in Bloomington, Minnesota. 

The phishing incident targeting the Groton Public Schools happened in March and a school system employee emailed copies of W-2 information for around 1,300 employees. 

Around 66 suspicious 1040 IRS forms were filed electronically, claiming $364,188 in tax refunds, but they were flagged as part of an identity theft scheme so no money was sent, federal officials said.

The Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents issued a warning about this type of scam to alert staff and said several other school districts received emails but staff recognized the scam and did not respond.

Ojo entered the United States on a visitor’s visa on May 23, 2016 to visit family in New York and he failed to leave on June 8, 2016, as scheduled, according to federal authorities.

One-year-old Ayla Esler burst into a smile after hearing sound for the first time Tuesday, thanks to cochlear implants installed in the toddler’s ears last month at the Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.

The moment was caught in a Facebook video posted by the hospital and viewed at least 60,000 times. The mom, Anna Esler, is seen tearing up as she watches her daughter, who was born with profound hearing loss, react to noise in the room.

“I was really overwhelmed,” Anna told NBC. “We had waited a long time, just to see her respond. I was just so incredibly thankful. It was just beautiful to see her hear for the first time.”

The video shows the rest of the family standing by as an audiologist activated Ayla’s implants Tuesday. Ayla’s dad said the toddler was able to hear him sing for the first time the next day. 

“Wednesday morning, I put the implants on and she was fussing with the adjustment,” Will Esler said. “I started singing to her and she calmed down.”

When Ayla failed her newborn hearing test, the family went through a long process to determine the extent of her hearing loss, her father said.

“If they’re in that severe to profound range, hearing aids don’t work well,” said Dr. Lisa Christensen, an audiologist at Cook Children’s Hospital. “They need something stronger, so we move to the cochlear implant.”

During the procedure, a surgeon inserts an electrode array into the cochlea, a structure in the inner ear. An external device converts noise into electrical impulses and sends them to the electrodes. Christensen said recent advances have allowed wearers to perceive more natural-sounding speech.

Ayla is still adjusting to the implants and will continue learning how to use them in weekly therapy sessions. Her parents said they were surprised the video had spread so far and hoped it would help other parents deciding to “go the cochlear route for their kids.”

Police are investigating reports of a carjacking early Thursday morning. 

Officers responded to Circular and Bradley avenues at 1:50 a.m. Thursday and the victim said two men approached her and ordered out of her vehicle at gunpoint and one of the men drove away with her vehicle, heading south on Circular Avenue. 

The other man left on foot after telling the other suspect that he would meet him down the street, police said. 

The victim told police that the two men were wearing all black and had face masks on. One man had dreadlocks. 

Her iPhone 8 was also stolen, according to police. 

No one was injured during the carjacking. 

Anyone with information should call the Hamden Police Department’s Detective Division at (203) 230-4065.

The NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters have confirmed that Noank Community Support Services, a Groton nonprofit, is currently caring for a child separated from their parent due to the Trump Administration’s 'zero tolerance' border policy on families crossing the border illegally.

The child was transported to Connecticut from an undisclosed area near the United States-Mexico border.

He or she is one of the thousands of minors who have been separated from their parents or guardians as part of a Trump Administration policy designed to discourage entering the United States illegally.

The agency wouldn’t share many specifics but tells us that the child has been in phone contact with the parent and that the nonprofit is in the process of reuniting them.

The group’s executive director, Dr. Regina Moller, told The Troubleshooters that it runs a family like home for unaccompanied minors and they are fully accredited and licensed by the state of Connecticut.

Moller said her group provides individual and group therapy to help the children deal with the trauma of being separated.  She said they offer life and language skill training.  She added the kids have access to recreational activities, field trips and faith services of their choosing.

Noank receives funding from the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration to shelter children until they can reunite them with family.

We’ve also learned the federal government asked if Noank could take a second child separated from family at the U.S.-Mexican border, but that it does not currently have another bed available.

Moller adds that the organization takes children seeing asylum and that they successfully reconnect them with family.

New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart is upset after her American flag was stolen from outside the front of her house.

Stewart, who is also seeking to become the state's next lieutenant governor, posted a video from a surveillance camera on her personal Facebook page.

The video appears to show a man pulling up to the house in a white van, taking the flag and walking off.

The post was accompanied by a caption that read "Anyone recognize this jacka**?"

Around 4:30 p.m., Stewart posted an update and said, "I would just like to thank whoever stopped by to put a replacement up!! Was a nice surprise to find when I got home!"  The post included a photo of an American flag outside the home.

Stewart said she filed a report with police.

Authorities say they have a suspect in custody after a domestic disturbance led to shots fired at police.

According to police there is no longer a threat the public and they are continuing to investigate in the incident. 

NBC Connecticut has a crew headed to the scene and will provide updates as they become available. 

A Virginia woman says her Uber driver refused to give her a ride because of her wheelchair.

Kelley Simoneaux said she ordered a ride Wednesday night after leaving a restaurant in Arlington.

According to Simoneaux, the driver pulled up in a minivan and she then opened the front door and got herself into the van. The driver didn't get out and someone else at the restaurant offered to help her with her wheelchair.

"It's easy. My wheelchair is light, it's able to be broken down very compact. As he was wheeling it around, the gentleman, the driver who had not gotten out of the car at that point or looked at me or acknowledged me, turned around, got out of the car and said, 'No, no, stop! You can't put your wheelchair in there I don't have space for it,'" Simoneaux said.

Simoneaux said she explained to the driver that the chair could be broken down easily and it wasn't much bigger than a size of luggage but the driver kept insisting there was no space for it.

"Are you saying that you're not able to give me a ride because of my wheelchair? And he said, 'I don't have space. I don't have room in this vehicle for your wheelchair," she said.

At that point, she said she felt very uncomfortable and upset and got out of the van.

"The people around me who were witnessing this happen, as well as myself, were honestly in shock. It's not often that you have someone so blatantly discriminating someone to their face,"she said.

She called another Uber, which took her home without incident.

Simoneaux later received a notification the first driver had charged her.

"So I was charged $6.80 for a ride that he refused to provide me," she said.

After the interaction with the driver she started looking at other online groups and connecting with people who had experienced similar situations with ride-share drivers.

"This is not an isolated incident. This is something that is happening within Uber," Simoneaux said. "I've been trying to reach out to them multiple times saying there needs to be a conversation. We needto talk about how ridesharing businesses can accomodate and give equal access to people with disabilities."

Uber refunded her the $6.80, but Simoneaux said she wasn't satisified with their response to her complaint.

She said she wants to have a discussion with the company's Executive Officer of Diversity and Inclusion about the issue.

Uber gave the following statement to News4:

“Our Community Guidelines prohibit any type of discrimination in serving riders with disabilities. We have been in contact with the rider and continue to investigate this matter.”

A new record was set this week at Baylor University Medical Center Dallas when a baby boom hit Tuesday morning.

Over a 48 hour period, doctors and nurses delivered 42 babies.

“We’ve had a ton of people come in in active labor. Some come in for inductions and some come in at 10 centimeters ready to have a baby, and it’s just been crazy,” said chief-resident Shannon Miller.

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Within hours, nearly all of the rooms were full. Residents kept moving, sometimes even running room to room.

“We’re like what’s going on? Everyone around here’s going into labor. Someone said, ‘Ok. We’ve got a patient here who’s seven centimeters.’ And I said, ‘Yeah. I just checked her in.’ And they said, ‘No. This is a different one,'” said first-year resident Dana Potter.

By Wednesday afternoon, more mothers were arriving. It all culminated around 4 p.m. when resident Jenny Uremovich, who was running the board, noticed nine patients were ready to deliver at one time.

“We were just passing each other in the halls, pointing to which rooms we thought were going to deliver next. Sometimes the moms have to push for a while, but it seemed like nobody, especially these nine babies, nobody even pushed for a long time. It was just like boom, boom, boom. Babies everywhere.”

Those nine babies were delivered in just 40 minutes. And by the end of the day, history had been made with 42 deliveries over 48 hours, in a hospital that averages 12 a day.

“You realize how much coordination is required among all staff members. Whether it be resident physicians, attending physicians, the nurses, the people that clean the rooms so that patients can continue to move in, it’s just a really smooth orchestra that took place in the last 48 hours,” said third-year resident Emily Spurgin.

As they got a chance to recover from the excitement and sheer exhaustion, the question of ‘why’ started to come up. What happened nine months ago to result in a baby boom?

“I don’t know. We’ve thrown out a couple of ideas amongst the residents,” said Spurgin.

“I think I’ll have to go with the natural disaster or something going on nine months ago,” said Potter.

After all, it’s been about nine months since both Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria ravaged American soil.

“When there’s emotional events; when there’s news and stories like 9/11; or natural disasters and other things, then typically around 9 or 10 months later we get a baby boom. I don’t know if it’s just families looking at what’s important and reevaluating life. We’ve just kind of had that cycle for years,” said nurse manager of labor and delivery Kristine Debuty.

In Debuty’s 24-year career, she’s never seen a boom like this one. That is why she is calling this week’s newborns the Baylor 42, as they take their place in the hospital’s history.