Heres a look at where they are stage iing. If we can pan up, you get a sense of howe big this fire is. He said about 3,000 acres. As far as the smoke is going, its tracking southeast towards cape may and Atlantic City and the heat is making that fire fight tough. But when you see the smoke is actually drifting towards the southeast, if youre on the other side of it, you can certainly smell it where we are now. Its drift iing away from us. So the smell in the air is a little more clear. Reports, as you said, 70 contained. More than 50 firefighters we know operating on it at staging area. That state and local and as well as state conservation officers. The good news is that the high humidity is keep iing the fire from spreading. We keep seeing these pop ups where the smoke turns into what looks like our pilot described it as little volcanos erupting of thick, black smoke. The winds are helping to get the fire contained. Back to you in the studio. The direction of that wind has a lot to do with who will feel the impact of the forest fire. Tammie souza is here with us now on where that smoke is heading wp he pointed out its kind of helping to keep the fire danger down. Nonetheless, its still a land breeze affecting them. 91 is the actual air temperature. So a little bit cooler there. Lets take a look at the winds right now. The winds are very light anywhere from 5 miles an hour. 12 miles an hour in philadelphia, but you get out here into new jersey, they are anywhere from 5 to 10 miles an hour and they are generally out of the west and southwest. So this is not a sea breeze thats cooling things off at this point. Were still looking at fairly strong winds there. Looking at the Doppler Radar, we dont have any rain out there to help them. We have a sea breeze thats making it inland, but the showers are formingen o the sea breeze, not near the fire line. What were going to be watching is is probably showers tomorrow that may help extinguish some of this. Well talk about the heat and the storms that it are moving in because some could be severe. Even though theres a warning to stay out of this dangerous heat, some cant resist spending time outside. Tim furlong has their stories new at 5 00. I would recommend any of our sandwiches. Reporter outside the food truck, way hotter inside it. 106 degrees. Body heat on top of heat. Its too much sometimes. But in the food truck game, you dont make any coin. They are working it. Its pretty hot, but were having fun so its bearable. It didnt phase these guys. They are supposed to be outside doing something. Tennis in the heat, the young and the old, this older crew here pounding the h2o between every game. As hot as it was last night, they had 5,000 people here on market street. These will be long in bed the concert starts. Thats their plan. When in doubt, tire them out. Dont take the heat lightly. Speaking of which, sometimes it can be difficult to spot a heatrelated illness. A team is on hand to take questions heat stress. The number is is 2157659040. This heat wave is so severe, they are seeing an up tick in the number of calls for road side assistance. More than 5300 have been rescued since monday. The biggest heatrelated issues is overheating and battery failure and tire blow outs. To get aletters when a storm is about to move through your neighborhood. Developing now out of washington, yet another shake up in the Trump White House today. Sean spicer has resigned. The decision that comes just six months after President Trump took office. Reporter spois spooean spic Sarah Huckabee is now the new press secretary. Sanders read a statement about spicer from the president. I wish him continued success as he moves on b to pursue new opportunities. Just look at his Great Television ratings. Reporter he said to acquit after appointing the washington outsider anthony as White House Communications director. Reince priebus objected to anthony, but says hes 100 behind him. Reince and i have been personal friends for six years. We are a little bit like brothers, we rough each other up once in ail why. Spicer butted heads with the press from day one. This was the largest yens to ever witness an inauguration period. Its byebye an honor and privilege to serve potus. The taem confirmed that its investigating the investigator, special Council Robert mueller because his legal team contributes to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamas campaign. What folks pass in their motivations and political motivations are. These werent minor donations. Its reportedly part of an overall effort to discredit the investigation into trump ties to russia. It sort of looks paranoid to me. President trump is already asking aids the possibility of pardoning family members and others caught up in this probe. The number of people who attended to wearing his American Flag pin upside down, he definitely grab bed headlines during his short time as press secretary. Were looking back on some of his most memorable moments at 5 30. The u. S. Attorney general was greeted by protesters in old city today. Jeff sessions wants them it change the policy of not holding undocumented immigrants for i. E. Without a warrant. They are not allowed to come without permission. Thats an unlaw school entry. If they commit a a crime while they are in here, what roigt do they have to demand that they not be deported. Its just common sense. Coming up, how the immigrant community and the citys Police Commissioner are reacting. Now to an nbc 10 exclusive. For the First Time Since two men were arrested in a a killing spree, learning new details about what went on behind the sce scenes to find the bodies of the victims and trk down those responsible. The case grabbed the attention of our area and the rest of the nation. The District Attorney became the face of it all. They were leading a huge team searching for evidence, bodies and suspects. Today we asked him what he thought the first time he heard about the disappearance of four young men. We started getting those disparate calls tr all the sources you just described and we figured there has to be some kind of connection or probably some kind of connection. Deanna durante sat down with the d. A. For more than an hour today. Working on that story now. Youll hear more details from behind the scenes on that investigation tonight at 6 00. Prosecutors say the cold case of a teenage girl from ben bensalem is finally over. Testimony resumed today. Earlier this week a man told the jury he was inside of shaws apartment in 1984 when shaw allegedly raped and murdered barbara rohan. Sanders helped shaw hide the teens remains and never came forward to police out of fear for his own life. A Center City Gym owner says his building is being targeted by the philly fitness owner. Someone lit trash bins on fire and tossed them into a hallway last night. He sent us these pictures. Its a second foire in the past week. We reached out a response but have not heard pack. Moments after two men used a fullsize pickup truck to break into a philadelphia pharmacy. They ramd the ford f150 through the security gates, scooped up narcotic pills and took off in an unknown direction. Are you fed up with robo calls . The calls have made their way to our mobile phones. Harry hairston and nbc 10 responds shows you how to stop them. We have uncovered new details about a florida woman accused of steal iing a cab. Thats not all. Police say she picked up passengers too. The ambitious plan to get from new york to philly in just 15 minutes. New at 5 00, the local students helping to build the hyperloop. Its a tweet that seemed to come out of nowhere. Elon musk says he got verbal government approval to build a hightech Transportation System connecting new york city to philly to d. C. It is called the hyperloop, promising to get passengers from city to city in 15 or 30 minu s minutes. Randy gyllenhaal checked with riders in disbelief and local students who are working on b this project. Even in the best conditions, the train can take hours to ride from philly to new york and d. C. , so when passengers saw that elon musk tweet. The loop, new york to d. C. In 29 minutes. Reporter it seemed more like science fiction. A lot of questions about this futuristic tube. It comes from the same mind that brought us paypal, tesla and spacex. I wonder how you feel inside. Does it feel like a plane where your ear pops. I would have to see a a picture of the train. Thats pretty crazy. Reporter its no train. It sends pods filled with passengers through a low pressure tube accelerating to 800 miles per hour. The plan may seem ambitious or even farfetched, but already research is being done by local students right here at drexel university. It uses a a new form of transportation. Reporter peter is a drexel grad who works with 150 cla classmates last year. For our hyperloop competition. If. You can imagine air hockey, thats what were creating. He believes this can be built. But critics say its likely just a pipe dream that will face zoning issues and local obstacle cans as they dig into the ground. This is not going to be a fast solution. Its going to go very fast, but its not going to be built very fast. Reporter randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Elon musk said the approval he got was with states and cities like philadelphia. Would be cool and quicker. Theres commutes longer on the expressway than that. It would be amazing. Watch as this man uses two babies as his accomplices to steal sunglasses. You can see him putting the glasses inside their carriers. Police say he choel stoel about 1,000 worth of sunglasses from design provision. If you recognize this guy, youre asked to call police. New drone video e reveals the devastating effects of an earthquake that rattled greece early this morning. Two people are dead. 200 others were injured on the islands. The 6. 5 mag ani the 6. 5 mag antude quake create a small tsunami. Back here at home, it is a brutally hot day. But some jobs have to be done despite the heat warning. We followed a mail carrier on one of her routes. If youre heading outside tonight, make sure you take plenty of water. That really is the key. Great advice. A live look down the jersey shore. Cape may where the ocean breeze is just a little bit of relief from the heat. Look at all those people on an early weekend. Tammie souza joins us how. We wont see relief until next week. We wont see is relief until early next week, but back in the day i dont remember when there wasnt a lot of airconditioning people would go to it the beach and sleep out there. They would stay there until the heat broke. A lot of people taking advantage of an extra day off this week. 91 in new jersey. Lets go ahead and check out the Lehigh Valley. No relief there. 90 in delaware. The feels like anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees above that. So were still dealing with this excessive heat warning in place until 8 00 tonight. Lets check out what it feels like out there at the beach. Ocean city it feels like 96. 104 is what it feels like. Cape may feels muggy at 95 degrees. The water down to 76. Its dropped a few degrees. Im sure thats refreshing for anybody out there. This is where were going. 91 at 8 00 tonight. And 84 at 11 00 tonight. So not a a lot of relief. Youll be. Waking up 75 to 80 degrees tomorrow. We do actually have the threat of Severe Weather. Check out the areas in yellow. This is what were dealing with. A slight risk of Severe Weather for the entire area tomorrow. This extends into sunday. Here we are on the scale right in the middle. This is something thats actually wind hailproducing storms. Theres an outside risk, but intense lightning well be looking for. The radar is quiet. And we saw some showers forming right along it. Enough lift from the sea broez to create some of the showers and storms. Well probably see more of that this evening. You can see some of the clouds out there. Sol of this near where the huge fire is. And theres going to be a little more cloud cover. This is our visible satellite. And this is that brand new government. Visible satellite. You can see the wind blowing by, but you can see the bright shades. Popping up where they may have a few hot spots out there. Big storms coming in out of the Northern Plains and upper midwest. And thats what well be watching for with this soupy atmosphe atmosphere. Lets go through tonight. Well see the 90s dropping into the 80s and youll wake up 75 to 80. Could see a storm in south jersey. And the place is not as important as that the forecast models have grabbed on to these storms and were going to see them tomorrow. By midday, maybe some showers in philadelphia. Well be in the 90s. Could see some showers going into the evening. The latest forecast model lifted the line from south jersey up towards doilstown overnight and into sunday morning. Well have to see where it winds up and things slowly clear out into sunday afternoon. It locks like things quiet down for us. This is when youre looking at for the next three days. Were going to be continuing with the heat. Pennsylvania suburbs will drop into perhaps the upper 80s and low 90s tomorrow. And we get into the Lehigh Valley and looking at 80s. New jersey, 90 to 80s. And even the jersey shore will stay warm but in the 80s. Nbc 10 making an impact in our community. Yesterday they hosted a phone bank right here in our studios. 18 lawyers were on hand. Called from viewers with questions about immigration. 275 people called in. This is the third phone bank of its kind held at our studios this year. A a mom of three is really beating the odds. A a shark bit her arm off last month. Some are calling her progress amazing. What she did for the first time that even surprised doctors. Oh my gosh. This little girl is a a survivor. Her heart stopped for two hours during a popular summertime activity. The warning for all parents, next at 5 00. A permanent memorial now stands along a south jersey highway marks the site of a crash that killed navy officer two decades ago. A section of route 40 in upper township will be known as john r. Elliot Hero Campaign way. He was killed by a drunk driver in 2000. The campaign. An amazing story of recovery of a 2yearold walking and talking after nearly drowning in the pool. Her mother performed cpr for two hours after finding the toddler face down in the pool and the effect on her brain was devastate iing. Couldnt talk or walk or even hold her head up until she was treated in a hype bark chamber a year after the accident. After she had the treatment here, we repeat ed the mri at home and they were shocked. Its amazing. The doctor said the treatment regrow the parts of the brain that had been damaged. Her mom says shes improving every day. That is incredible. Unbelievable. A philadelphia man in a wheelchair murdered. His caretaker shot too. Tonight we are digging through details in the investigation to find the gunman. Snow, sleet, ice and extreme heat, they endure tough weather all year round. How they deliver what youre counting on in height of the heat wave, next. Coming up at 6 00, an nbc 10 exclusive into the confession in the bucks county killing spree. How the victims families helped to find the body of the last missing man. The dangerous heat is sticking around. We issued a first alert through the weekend. We have issued a first alert through the weekend. A forest fire in these conditions, this is what crews are battling in south jersey. Look at the huge plumes of thick smoke. Sky force 10 is over the area. We are tracking the current conditions. Plus how the teheat is impactin those who have to work outside. Erika martin is sweating it. Reporter keith said three letters, hot, im going with omg its really hot out here. Conditions are stifling. Were feeling like the trip the l digits even though temperatures are in the mid to upper 90s. We have a first alert that has beened for this it heat. Booer still going to see temperatures climing into the 90s. In addition were also tracking really strong storms especially for your saturday night. So keep in mind we have a a lot of hot air in place to start off your saturday. Then woer going to have some really strong storms later on saturday. It includes heat exhaustion and heatstroke and as far as the storms are concerned, damaging wind, hail and lightning. The isolated threat of a thunderstorm. So conditions right now are very hot. So back to the studio to tammie souza who has more information. Were going to go from one thing to another. The storms will be in here by tomorrow early in the morning. Things are quiet going on. What we are watching is this little sea breeze developing. The atmosphere is soupy enough its fascinate whg you see storms form right on the sea breeze and continue with the. Natural flow of the wind, which is basically a westerly wind. You dont see the storms here. They pop up, boom and off they go. Now what were really watching is whats m coing out of wisconsin and iowa and north dakota. We have a dip in the jet stream. Were going to have those energies coming towards our area thats going to create a lot of lift. Thats going to create some very strong storms as we head into the weekend. So be shower to download our app. Thats going to have the radar to cope you up to date. Ill be back with the timing of the the storms in a few minutes. Now to the littest developments in a forest fire burning in south jersey scorched 3,000 acres. The smoke now making its way into neighboring counties. Theres some of those scorched trees you talked about. The last time we talked, that was part of that fire. As we can pan up to see what is happening right now in the forest, youre looking at what is left of this fire. We were seeing a lot of black plumes kind of rising from the force. Now were seeing this whipsy white smoke, which is an indication the is starting to quell. The crews are letting it burn out. Out. The pilot is talking to the fire service. They have been flying that helicopter pretty low over the5 fire just to get a really close look at it and see where the hot spots are and see whether or not they need to put water on it. So far, they have not. They have not. Dropped any water and the fire was much angrier just about a half hour ago. Cydney long spent the day with a postal worker and continues our team coverage. Reporter good afternoon, it is this soupy, saunalike weather that hits you. These mail carriers are hitting the pavement, the hot pavement at that with nothing more than their sunscreen, hats and water bottles. With a swig from her frozen water bottom a shady spot on this street, Michelle Ha