A family from Southington was driving to the airport when the car in front of them hit a motorcyclist and kept driving. What they did next may have saved the man's life.

Carla Keim and her 19-year-old son Devan were traveling eastbound on Interstate 84 around 4:45 a.m. when they saw the crash. Devan rushed out of the car to help the motorcyclist by using his belt to tie a tourniquet around the man's leg.

"We all worked together but it was Devan who had complete control of the scene," Keim said in a Facebook post.

State police arrived six minutes after the family called for help.

Keim said that her son kept the man alert by talking to him and applying pressure to the wound.

"I begged Devan to get out of the road and let me take over but he refused. 'Mom, I've got it,'" Keim said.

As the ambulance left with the motorcyclist, one of the troopers told Devan that he saved the man's life.

"I am in shock and I am so sad for this man. I am also in awe of my son, in complete awe of a nineteen year old kid who just saved a life," Keim wrote.

There is no official word on the motorcyclist's condition at this time.

Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy, politically connected Florida financier, was arrested in New York on Saturday evening on sex trafficking charges, sources tell NBC 4 New York. 

Epstein was expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, two law enforcement officials said on a condition of anonymity. 

He will face federal charges for incidents between 2002-2005, three senior law enforcement sources told NBC News. 

A law enforcement official said Epstein would be charged with trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex. 

A senior official briefed on the case said there were dozens of alleged underaged victims, some as young as 14. 

Epstein allegedly paid minors cash for massages and then sex acts, the source said. He would then pay those alleged victims even more to bring him their friends or others who he would also allegedly pay for sex acts. 

Epstein’s lead attorney Jack Goldberger, told NBC News he “declines to comment at this time.”

The crimes allegedly occurred at his homes on the Upper East Side and in Palm Beach, Florida. 

Epstein was flying from Paris to New York on Saturday and was arrested at Teterboro Airport, the sources said. 

Spokesmen for the FBI, the NYPD and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. 

"Jeffrey Epstein has evaded justice for too long - this child rapist belongs in prison and should not be allowed to post bail and hurt more girls," said Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Oversight Subcommittee.

A 2008 deal ended a federal investigation that could have landed Epstein, now 66, in prison for life. Instead, he was allowed to plead guilty to lesser state charges that resulted in a 13-month jail sentence and required financial settlements to dozens of his victims. He also had to register as a sex offender.

The agreement was overseen by former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, who is now President Donald Trump's labor secretary. In the face of intense criticism, Acosta has defended the plea deal as appropriate under the circumstances.

Court documents show at least 40 underage girls were brought into Epstein's Palm Beach mansion for what turned into sexual encounters. Authorities say he had female fixers who would look for suitable girls, some local and others recruited from Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.

An attorney representing four of the girls in the 2008 case said they will continue to fight for all of his co-conspirators to be held accountable. 

"With his money, Epstein was able to buy more than a decade of delay in facing justice – but fortunately he wasn’t able to postpone justice forever," said attorney Paul G. Cassell.

Epstein has maintained a home in New York City, a ranch in New Mexico and a private Caribbean island. Some of the girls were brought to those places as well, court documents show. 

Epstein is a wealthy hedge fund manager who once counted as friends former President Bill Clinton, Great Britain's Prince Andrew, and Trump, who was his neighbor in Palm Beach at the time.

Clinton police officers made a family's day when they purchased two new bicycles and helmets for a mother and her child.

They were riding a bike when the child's foot got stuck in the spokes and they both fell.

When police arrived, they determined that the mother was riding the bike because it was the only transportation available to her. Police said she had a makeshift seat out of wood so her 7-year-old son could ride with her.

Police said they were able to free the child's foot from the bike and after an ambulance ride to the hospital and several stiches, police say he should recover fully.

Police were met with tears of joy, hugs and excitement when they gave the family their new bikes. 

The Town of Thomaston is warning residents to take precautions when swimming at Nystrom's Pond because of unusually elevated concentrations of e. coli bacteria.

The Torrington Area Health District recommends that swimmers refrain from submerging their heads in the water and avoid ingestion.

It is also recommended that swimmers shower in clean water after use if they utilize the pond.

The Town of Thomaston warns potential effects of e. coli ingestion include elevated risk of ear, nose and throat infections and potentional gastrointestinal issues.

The pond will be retested the week of July 8.

Anyone with questions is asked to contact the Torrington Area Health District at (860) 733-3621.

Administrative officials for Vice President Mike Pence say an alleged security threat was the reason why a trip to New Hampshire was cancelled this past week. However, police in Salem, New Hampshire say they were unaware of a threat, according to the Washington Post.

Pence planned to meet with patients at an opioid recovery clinic before cancelling his visit to the Granite State just after Air Force Two took off. He stayed in Washington for undisclosed reasons.

The administration did not provide specific details regarding the security risk in New Hampshire.

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that there was a "very interesting problem that they had in New Hampshire, but I can’t tell you about it."

Salem Deputy Police Chief Joel Dolan told the Washington Post that if there was a danger, local police would have been notified.

"We were not aware of any threats to the vice president or the facility," Dolan said. "We would have known about it. It would have been addressed by us."

On this day in 1944, thousands of people came to Hartford for the event of the summer: The Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus.

But what happened at the circus led to one of the darkest days in the city’s history.

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168 people died in a fire at the circus. Saturday, July 6, 75-years later, the victims were remembered.

The Hartford Fire Department hosted the 75th anniversary remembrance ceremony at the memorial for the lives lost off of Barbour Street.

The center of the memorial is right where the center ring was and the trees mark the perimeter of the big top.

Much like this afternoon, July 6, 1944 was picture perfect in Hartford.

“The sky was blue. The sun was where it’s supposed to be,” survivor Nancy Spada, who lived in Hartford at the time, said. She was 10-years-old. “Everything was absolutely in technicolor and then the fire started. Everything turned black.”

A beautiful day at the circus turned to terror.

“The ashes. The people running around. They all looked, I hate to say it gray. Children crying. It was so sad,” Spada said, who vividly remembers how nervous she was waiting for her father to return from running back in to the fire to help. “I waited and waited and waited and he finally came back and it was like I told somebody like John Wayne coming up over a hull, my hero.”

Community members admired the first engine to respond to the fire while reflecting on safety changes made throughout our country sparked because of the tragedy.

“Code enforcement from places of public servant perspective, totally different today than it was back then. That’s probably the biggest outcome that came out of one of the worst fires in American history,” Hartford Fire Chief Reginald Freeman said.

The fire changed lives in our community then and now.

“On my birthday I think about it more than any other time, who survived and who didn’t and I’m a survivor,” explained Frank Strano, who was celebrating his third birthday at the circus. He remembers, “Lions and Roger cages, eye level and as were walking by and my mother has my wrist so tight dragging me.”

78 years old today, Strano remembers those who didn’t survive.

“I put my rose on a three-year-old, that’s how old I was when I came here.”

Strano said his family never spoke of that difficult day.

To that same point, he and Spada have known each other for a long time, but only recently found out they were both survivors.

They’re grateful the community came together to remember the tragedy.

It was a tug of war with mother nature in Wallingford for their fireworks show on Saturday with no rain date on the town’s radar.

Wallingford first responders waiting for a “window of opportunity” to give pyrotechnics the go-ahead.

With a bit of a delay, the show went on at 9:45 p.m., wowing all those who waited out the passing storms.

“For about 20-years we’ve been Wallingford firework regulars. Right at this spot every year,” Jim Denegris said, surrounded by family.

While the fields in Wallingford weren’t as full as in years past, many families braved the forecast.

“I was very nervous. I wasn’t very happy for a little while. Let’s hope we get them in,” Denegris said.

Some we spoke to had to hide in their car a time or two as a storm passed.

“It’s fun to come down with the family enjoy the fireworks as a whole group,” 10-year-old Jonathan Kelly of Cheshire said.

But those we spoke to didn’t seem to mind.

“This is one of the better fireworks in CT,” said his 15-year-old brother Steven.

“We put tarp down because the grass was going to be wet, so our blankets stay dry,” 9-year-old Mykenzie said.

Celebrating Independence Day in the elements, “It matters a lot to me because my aunt and uncle are firefighters, so it just means a lot,” 9-year-old Kaylee said.

Hardly a hardship when thinking about those who serve our country, rain or shine.

“I don’t really care ‘cause I love water,” said Kaylee.

Funds for these fireworks were raised by the community.

The town is saving up for its 350th jubilee celebration next year.

A pedestrian was struck in New Haven Saturday night.

The incident took place at the intersection of Whalley Avenue and Carmel Street.

The victim has non-life threatening inuries, according to hospital officials.

No other information was immediately available.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

To help keep you informed on the most shared and talked about stories, each Saturday and Sunday we'll revisit 5 stories from the previous week, including the most recent updates.

Plastic Bags Will Cost You Soon

The days of free plastic bags at stores across Connecticut are almost over. On Aug. 1 a new state law goes into effect that will require customers to pay for single-use plastic bags. Some stores are also trying to decide whether plastic bags should even be an option for their customers. See what the law means for you.

9 Face Charges in Death of Waterbury Woman

Waterbury police have identified nine suspected gang members facing charges in connection with the shooting death of 30-year-old Fransua Guzman, a mother they say was the innocent victim of a gang rivalry. Get the full story here. 

Man Convicted of Murder Released from Prison

Ralph "Ricky" Birch, a man who was convicted more than three decades ago in the stabbing and beating death of a 65-year-old man in 1985, was released from prison Tuesday after the state Supreme Court overturned the decision last month. Get the details here.

Back-to-Back Earthquakes Rattles Southern California

A 6.4 earthquake rattled Southern California Thursday morning, with residents reporting feeling it from the high desert to Orange County. It was followed by a more powerful 7.1 earthquake on Friday. Learn more here.

Man Charged in North Haven Hit-and-Run

A Meriden man accused of hitting and killing Maureen Munzner, a mother walking with her two sons in North Haven back in March, was arrested Friday. He faces various charges. Details here.

Groton Town Police are investigating after a man was stabbed during a fight at a hookah lounge early Sunday morning.

Officers said they were conducting a patrol check at the Midnight Hookah Lounge on Pleasant Valley Road in South Groton around 3:15 a.m. when they learned about a fight that had happened before they arrived.

While police called for assistance with a large crowd in the parking lot, investigators said they learned that New London police officers were with a male stabbing victim at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital.

Investigators said the man was stabbed during a fight at the Midnight Hookah Lounge. He was treated for non life-threatening injuries.

The investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Groton Town Police Department at (860) 441-6712.

The U.K.'s top diplomat in the U.S. reportedly views President Donald Trump as "inept," "insecure" and "incompetent," according to leaked diplomatic cables.

Kim Darroch, Britain's ambassador to Washington, D.C., made the highly critical comments about the president and his administration in a series of memos to London, according to the Mail on Sunday newspaper. 

NBC News has not seen or verified the existence of the cables.

If true, the leaks provide a rare insight into how a key U.S. ally views the Trump administration behind closed doors.

The memos were reportedly critical of Trump's economic policies, claiming they could wreck the world trade system, described conflicts within the White House as "knife fights" and warned "the worst cannot be ruled out" in regard to allegations of Trump's collusion with Russia.

"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one of a series of leaked documents covering the period from 2017 to the present.

NBC News has reached out to the White House and U.K. ambassador's office for comment.

A pedestrian is injured after a crash in East Lyme early Sunday morning.

An East Lyme police officer was flagged down and notified about a crash involving a pedestrian on Riverview Drive around 7 a.m.

Officers from East Lyme Police Department, firefighters from Niantic Fire Department and East Lyme Ambulance responded to the scene.

The injured pedestrian was transported to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital by ambulance and was then transferred to Yale-New Haven Hospital by LifeStar, police said.

Riverview Drive was closed while accident reconstructionists investigated the crash, but the road has since reopened.

Investigators believe the vehicle was leaving the complex at 91 Riverview Drive when the pedestrian was hit.

The accident remains under investigation.

Any witnesses are urged to contact East Lyme Police Department at (860) 739-5900.

Multiple state parks have reached capacity and are now closed to new vehicles on Sunday.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said the following parks are full:

• Burr Pond State Park in Torrington
• Miller's Pond State Park in Durham
• Pattaconk Lake Recreation Area in Cockaponset State Forest in Chester
• Squantz Pond State Park in New Fairfield
• Wadsworth Falls State Park in Middletown

Temperatures on Sunday will have highs in the mid 80's with partly cloudy skies.

State Police are wrapping up their increased holiday enforcement after the busy 4th of July weekend.

Police have responded to 250 crashes and there have been 42 arrests for driving under the influence.

Over 1,700 citations have been issued with 584 being for speeding, 67 for seatbelt violations and 33 distracted driving violations, according to police.

Holiday enforcement ends Sunday night.

A top U.S. immigration official said Sunday he's confident that the Trump administration will add the citizenship question to the 2020 census after their effort to do so was shot down by the Supreme Court, NBC News reports.

"I do think so," Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services office, told "Fox News Sunday." "I think the president has expressed determination. He's noted that the Supreme Court didn't say this can't be asked. They said they didn't appreciate the process by which it came forward the first time."

"The president is determined to fix that and to have it roll forward in the 2020 census," he continued.

On NBC's "Meet the Press," Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, said it was of paramount importance to move forward with the census without another effort at including the controversial citizenship question. "The Supreme Court has ruled," Hurd added. "Let's move forward, we shouldn't stall the census."

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was expected to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday on sex trafficking charges, sources tell NBC 4 New York. 

The politically connected Florida financier was arrested Saturday as he returned from Europe, the sources said. He's accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls as young as 14 years old. 

A law enforcement official said Epstein would be charged with trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex. 

Investigators went in and out of Epstein's Upper East Side townhouse on Sunday morning. Neighbors and passersby expressed disgust at the alleged crimes. 

“It's a different justice when you’re a billionaire, I’m sure," said Pauline Kelley. "It’s just outrageous and fortunately some of his victims are coming forward now."

Epstein will face federal charges for incidents between 2002-2005, three senior law enforcement sources told NBC News. 

A senior official briefed on the case said there were dozens of alleged underage victims, some as young as 14. 

Epstein allegedly paid minors cash for massages and then sex acts, the source said. He would then pay those alleged victims even more to bring him their friends or others who he would also allegedly pay for sex acts. 

Epstein’s lead attorney Jack Goldberger told NBC News he “declines to comment at this time.”

The crimes allegedly occurred at his homes on the Upper East Side and in Palm Beach, Florida. 

Spokesmen for the FBI, the NYPD and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. 

A 2008 deal ended a federal investigation that could have landed Epstein, now 66, in prison for life. Instead, he was allowed to plead guilty to lesser state charges that resulted in a 13-month jail sentence and required financial settlements to dozens of his victims. He also had to register as a sex offender.

The agreement was overseen by former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, who is now President Donald Trump's labor secretary. In the face of intense criticism, Acosta has defended the plea deal as appropriate under the circumstances.

That deal only addressed prosecution in the Southern District of Florida, potentially leaving open a door for charges in other locations. 

Court documents show at least 40 underage girls were brought into Epstein's Palm Beach mansion for what turned into sexual encounters. Authorities say he had female fixers who would look for suitable girls, some local and others recruited from Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.

An attorney representing four of the girls in the 2008 case said they will continue to fight for all of his co-conspirators to be held accountable. 

"With his money, Epstein was able to buy more than a decade of delay in facing justice – but fortunately he wasn’t able to postpone justice forever," said attorney Paul G. Cassell.

Epstein has maintained a home in New York City, a ranch in New Mexico and a private Caribbean island. Some of the girls were brought to those places as well, court documents show. 

Epstein is a wealthy hedge fund manager who once counted as friends former President Bill Clinton, Great Britain's Prince Andrew and Trump, who was his neighbor in Palm Beach at the time.

A New York couple claim in a lawsuit that a California fertility clinic billing itself as “the mecca of reproductive medicine” got the wife pregnant with someone else’s babies, NBC News reports.

The couple say in a federal lawsuit filed last week in the Eastern District of New York that after years of failed efforts to have children and spending over $100,000 to get pregnant at CHA Fertility, doctors used embryos that belonged to two other couples who had also received treatment there.

After giving birth March 30 to a set of twins that were not of Asian descent, the lawsuit says, the couple “was shocked to see that the babies they were told were formed using both of their genetic material did not appear to be.” The couple, identified only by their initials in court documents to minimize the “embarrassment and humiliation” caused by the clinic, the suit says, then had to relinquish custody of the children.

A lawyer for CHA Fertility Center in Los Angeles did not respond to a request for comment Sunday. A person who answered the phone at CHA said no one at the clinic could immediately be reached for comment.

All good things must come to an end.

The reality of that proverb really sinking in for travelers we spoke to at the Branford Interstate 95 southbound rest stop Sunday evening, especially after a couple of picture perfect beach days this 4th of July weekend.

“It’s hard. It was nice being at the beach, being home with family and now end of the vacation and a lot of traffic,” Nina Dubin said, traveling back to New York from Cape Cod.

“People are going back to New York, so we’re trying to get them to New Haven and it’s a little slower than we thought, but we’ll get there. It’s fine. No one is in a hurry. No one wants to go home really, but you have to. Monday comes quicker than you want,” Jen Fiano of Manchester said, who enjoyed a beach day in Old Lyme and was now taking a quick break before driving new friends to New Haven.

Traffic added to the irritation that it’s “back to reality” for many folks Monday.

“Getting off the Cape, it took us probably about two hours and pretty much been on and off traffic since,” Dubin said.

Some we spoke to could visibly use a vacation from their vacation.

“I’m from New York City. Queens. I don’t know where we are, but coming from Rhode Island. Spend the weekend and we’re in Rhode Island now. I don’t know where we are,” Eric Ji said. NBC Connecticut’s Caitlin Burchill reminded him he was now in Connecticut.

After celebrating the red, white and blue, travelers this evening are feeling rather blue.

“And you’ll head back to work tomorrow?” asked Burchill.

“Yeah, sadly. Sadly. The weekend is already gone. Over,” Ji said.

Also not helping the back to work blues, the forecast of a beautiful week ahead.

One of the players for the U.S. Women's Team in the World Cup hails from our state.

Back here at home, about 35 family members of goalie Alyssa Naeher were watching really closely in Cheshire.

She was born in Bridgeport, raised in Stratford, and played high school soccer at Christian Heritage in Trumbull. And now... this.

"It's really surreal because we've been talking about this for 25 years waiting for it to happen and we're so excited that it's happening," Naeher's cousin Lorna Tyrrell said.

A victory parade is being planned for Wednesday in New York City.