Through a forest in Burlington County and that fire is still raging as we come on the air tonight. Chopper three is over the scene as firefighters there battle an inferno. Good evening, im chris may. Im jessica dean. From chopper three you can see names lighting up the night in the Wharton State Forest much crews have been battling this fire in shamong all day long. They are making progress. Isnt Eyewitness News reporter Todd Quinones is live near the fire seen with the new developments in the fight against these names. Todd . Reporter jessica we received update here this evening recent now this fire is about 50 contained. That is very significant because at 6 00 oclock this evening that number was at zero. So clearly a lot of progress being made here this evening. But still there is a lot of work ahead of firefighters in order to try and get this fire fully contained. At its peak the Wharton State Forest fire threatened homes and businesses forcing authorities to usery verse 911 to warn residents. Also a stretch of route 206 in shamong had to be closed. That it would be prudent to leave in case the fire jumps 20 sick. Reporter about 75 firefighter were used to try and get the fire contained much of the night was consumed by setting controlled fires to try and take advantage of fire break lines. Crews are literally battling fire with fire. They are lighting whats call these back fires much the whole idea right now is to starve the main fire of its fuel source by burning some dry under brush underneath in order to slow down the rate of how the main fire is spreadspreading. Overnight hours will be crucial in containing the fire. Next 10 hours this operation will be monitoring, patrolling mopping up hot spots. Reporter one of the best weapons for firefighters was this uh1 huey helicopter it was being utilized to scoop up water from atsion lake. This helicopter used to fight the fire is capable of dropping about 325 pounds of water on the fire in just one drop. As for the cause of the fire, that remains under investigation investigation. But smoke was first detected just before 1 00 thursday afternoon from medford fire tower and also from some hikers in the area. 99 of the fires in new jersey are human cause. One form or another accidental or up tension al. Reporter and so far about 710 acres have burned here inside the Wharton State Forest. The good news in all of this no homes or structures have been damaged. No one has been injured. At this point firefighters are hoping to have this fire fully contained at some point tomorrow morning. Reportingtonight in Burlington County, new jersey, Todd Quinones cbs3 Eyewitness News news. Todd, thanks fort up dat. Weather conditions in the area contributed to this fire spreading so quickly. Meteorologist kathy orr is here now to explain more. Kathy . Jess cash we had the warm dry conditions and with a little bit of wind through south jersey we saw this on storm scan3. Heres the smoke plume from the this afternoon and were still getting some returns from that. The southwesterly winds are pushing this toward the north and the west and were talking about smelling the smoke as far to the north as northeast Philadelphia Residents there wonder wagon it was tonight. And those south southwesterly winds had continue into the overnight hours. Now, during the day tomorrow there is a fire risk because of the dry conditions. The High Temperature going for 83 degrees. Still a relatively low humidity. Dry brush and we havent had rain in over two weeks. And that trend is going to continue. Something that could get in the way of fighting the fire come tomorrow morning. Dense fog thats going to be through south jersey and delaware. Createing visibility issues for everyone and with the dense fog we do anticipate on shore flow that will continue and visibility reduced to quarter mile or less through the morning hours. Coming up well talk about developing Tropical Storm and how that could impact our weather for the weekend for now well zen it back to you chris. Kathy thank. New video tonight of the moment a septa worker drove a route 29 bus on totara train tracks in south philadelphia. This bus was traveling on columbus boulevard on tuesday when it made a uturn at six son street u thats when the driver slip out of her seat and lost control of the bus. It then crossed over a median on to the tracks and nearly hit that stopped freight train. This video left us with all kind of questions to night we went looking for answers from september tan also hit the streets to find out how the video was playing with riders. Horrifying that would happen. People could get hurt. People get killed. Its scary. Reporter septa bus crash has people shaking their heads. Youre a passenger you got to Pay Attention to whats going on around and if youre the driver you definitely do. Because you got everybodys lives in your hands. Reporter all around the city theyre asking one question. How could that septa bus driver not be wearing her seat belt . Shouldnt be driving a bus. Period. Something has to be done. That aint right. Septa agrees. This absolutely a requirement for all of our operators to have their seat belt on. I caught up with septa spokesperson jerry williams. This accident appears to be a clear case of driver error. Septa says the uturn 10 year veteran driver took was not inappropriate since train car was blocking the bus normal route. But the fact she wasnt strapped in with a seat belt is unacceptable. It is definitely something that she should have been wearing. And if she had had that seat belt on, im sure we would not be looking at this accident. Septa plans to conduct a full investigation before deciding on any discipline for the driver. But in the meantime, they insist their rides are safe. This could have ended much differently than it did. How do you reassure your passengers that theyre safe on septa buss . We have not seen Something Like this. If theres anyone else out there that does not have op their seat belt we checking to make sure theyre wearing your seat belts. Septa is not releasing the name of that driver right now. She and two passengers on board suffered only minor injuries in the crash. New tonight tom brady is speaking out for the First Time Since the deflategate report was released. New England Patriots quarterback is now in the hot seat. Sure didnt look like it tonight. Our Sports DirectBeasley Reece is here with what the quarterback had to say. More like a pep rally. It was his first public appearance sin the report. He denied any rules violations in january and evaded the sack tonight. Salem State UniversitySpeaker Series in same let me, massachusetts hosted former president s but tom brady drew the record crowd. Ted wells report was just releaseed. Boo the pro patriots audience supported their quarterback as veteran reporter jim gray tried to address deflategate. What jim call the he will fan in the room. What is your reaction, to many . Its only been 30 hours so i havent had much time to digest it fully but when i do, ill be sure to let you know how i feel about it. Do you care what others others think, say and are writing youre getting pummeled. Good, bad inn different theres lot of people that dont like tom brady and im okay with that. So like i said have i teammates i love and support that love and support me. I have fans, i have family, im very blessed. Now jim is known for asking the tough questions but he didnt ask tom brady did you do it . Did you tell patriots employees to deflate the footballs . Ahead in sports brady answers the question does this controversy taint their super bowl victory . The nfl is really going to have the last say in this. How, f they discipline him. Absolutely. An open question. Troy vincent will decide if anyone is punish isnt well see what happens. Former eagle, too. Beasley, thanks very much. The delaware attorney General Office is charging a Dover Police Officer with assault in the alleged case of police brutality. Police now released the dam cam video of that incident. Our Natasha Brown is live at Dover Police Headquarters tonight with more. Natasha . Reporter a dash camera from another Police Patrol car actually captured this encounter with this officer and a suspect and now that video has led to criminal charges nearly two years later. This dash cam video at the crux of criminal charges now facing a Dover Police Officer. There may be several others on the road. Reporter in august 2013 Police Responded to a fight at a dover gas station. In the video you see an Officer Police have identified as Corporal Tom Webster surround a suspect, kicking that suspect Latif Dickerson in the face and dickerson appears to fall unresponsive. He broke his jaw and knocked him unconscious. Mr. Dickerson was unconscious until he woke up in the Police Cruiser right outside the hospital. Reporter kathleen morning ray with the alcu. Last year they filed a civil lawsuit again the city of dover and the police depth alleging that dickerson was assaulted. The lawsuit was filed after a grand jury failed to indict officer webster in 2014. But on may fourth, 2015, the Delaware Attorney Generals Office took this case before a second grand jury which did indict Corporal Webster charging him with Second Degree assault. And now after nearly two years the explosive video that led to the charges has been released. We stick to why we released the video. We released the video because the judge considered the law to be confidential. We decided to release it. Were a very transplant Police Department and we feel we handled this situation properly. I believe the city of dover acted properly when they released the video. I think the community had a right to see that. And i think that the transparent see is very important. Reporter officer webster turned himself in on monday. He has been released oh and 5,000 bail. Hes also been suspended without pay pending the out come of this case. Were live in dover tonight Natasha Brown cbs3 Eyewitness News. Okay natasha, thank you very much. Well caught on camera smoke phils Delta Airlines jet. This is video from flight 2028 from Fort Lauderdale to laguardia today. It all started about an hour after take off. Smoke filled that cockpit and the cabin of the m. D. 88. Producer for cbs news 60 minutes was actually on board and shot this video. The pilots made a safe Emergency Landing in charlston, south carolina. There were no injuries. Well now to what might be a scary site that was spotted down the shore. Yes. This would be a shark and its not her first visit. Well tell you where shes been spotted now and the important reason why this shark has her own twitter handle. Kathy. Really . We are looking at a warm stretch of weather in our future but watching a system for Tropical Development that will have an impact on our weekend weather. Coming next the list is long and the price tag is high. Oh, my goodness. You pay for it, schools bought it, now where is it . The i team goes digging for answers. Can i ask you a question. Next on Eyewitness News diversity project at a Montgomery County high School Sparks outrage. Students at a Souderton Area High School were asked could to to write down stereotypes that playing countries. Some parents and students believe that could project could have the line one father who didnt want to be identified said his son was very upset about was written for africa. Project organizers from pearl s. Buck International Feel differently it. Says aids but project africa fried chicken. I never made the distinction. I had a knee jerk reaction like ew but in context i understand. The school released a statement that reads quote unfortunately the placement of the Museum Exhibition did not provide the full couldnt tech of the program for some this turned an event designed to promote conversation and understand into a hurtful and offensive incident. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of School Supplies missing and it mate be the tip of the iceberg. Tonight, an iteam exclusive. Records that might make you wonder where your tax dollars are going. Our Investigative ReporterCharlotte Huffman is getting answersanswers. Youve got missing computers. Iteam showed taxpayers a list of items they paid for but schools cant find. This is the cost of the items here. Oh, my goodness. Thats a shame whats on that paper. They need to get that right much as a parent for real. Reporter the list is long and the price tags are high. Apple lab top worth nearly 2,000. A 2,500 printer. A sharp tv and dell desk top computer worth 1400 each. Even a heart defebrillator for 1250 buck. Thats roth wrong where is it . Where did did it go. Is it somebody too long this stuff. Reporter good question. The iteam received an audit in a random check of 125 items at 10 schools 30 were quote not observed. What does that add up to . 87 almost 88,000 is missing from our schools. Reporter thats just a sample of 10 schools. Wow. Reporter controller Alan Butkovitz says its a system wide problem in a School District facing an 80 million deficit deficit next year. In a School District where students have to take money out of their own pockets to buy supplies and paper where every nickel counts its unacceptable. Reporter its possible some items are in the schools and just not labeled or mislabel but many others simi nowhere to be found. Whether they were actually taken or whether the School District just didnt know where they were cough the same problem because they have to be replaced orchids are not given the equipment that they need to get a proper education. Reporter they do buy lots of equipment. We reviewed purchase orders and found in 2013, the district spent about 1. 3 million on more than 700 new computers. Of course, some of them may have already disappeared. Like the five computers missing at bartram high school. Of all the schools audited bartram had the most missing items. We wanted talk to the principal. Im looking for principal. Hes not here isnt with the schools doors were lock and our calls not returned. If its stuff that belongs to the school w is it its the School District. Somebody has to do something about it. Reporter we went to the district for answers. We need to do better job to account for what occurred for the missing pieces. Missing computer. What are you doing to hold the schools and those principals accountable. We are actually freezing their ability to purchase any more items. So under grants, if you are getting the grants, and youre not compliant with the counting of those materials you purchased the next grant you get well freeze your money so youre not able to purchase any more items. Not until youre able to account for what occurred and where those items are. Reporter the School District is doing better from years past but district officials agree that 30 of property unaccounted for is not good enough. And remember chris and jessica this is just a snapshot of 10 schools. So if it holds true for all schools did the district were potentially talking about 2 million problem. Unbelievable. Its all about accountability accountability. You cant keep teach kids accountability if the district some being accountable itself. Youll be following this. We will. Charlotte thanks. No problem. Well, a bit of a scary visitor showed up down the shore today. These are pictures of when the great white shark named mary lee was tagged back in 2012. 3,000pound shark traveled more than 19,000 miles since then. Today at 10am she was track 10 miles off the while wood coast. Then about 1 00 p. M. She was tracked about 15 miles off avalons coat. Mary lee latest moves are being announce and tracked on her very own twitter page at mary lee shark. You can follow her at mary lee shark. I was saying mary lee is such a soft delicate name for a very strong shark. I think ill follow mary leon twitter depending on where she is i may stay on the beach. 15 miles out right. Thats close enough. Right. More like 50 miles of separation. Maybe we can get her on orr at the shore. Were counting down. Were only three weeks away. The unofficial start of the summer season. Mary lee go away. Weatherwise were talking about summer like ready weather. We are ready. Potential tropical system that could not ruin our weekend but definitely impact it. Lets take you down the shore to Atlantic City where it is a foggy night. We have on shore flow creating a lot of moisture down the shore much visibles reduced big time. In Atlantic City down to half a mile. In wildwood rio grand down to three