Changer in the war against ice. Nbc richard has those details. Reporter u. S. Led air war against isis is about to a lot more intense. With u. S. Fighter jets soon able to take off much closer to the fight. Nbc news has lurp earned that this should be ready in two to three weeks and a major ramp up with wenz, ammunition on their way. Including a midair air refuelling. U. S. Officials say this could transform the air war against ice. For years, they have thrown missions from the persian gulf, hundreds of miles away. Incirlik and other bases are much closer. Places which sit so close to the turkish boarder you can see both the isis flag and the turkish flashings juts a stones throw apart. Turkey is now reinforcing its boarder, bringing in extra troops, digging trefrp nches, the military here s preparing for a fight. The hunter accused of helping waurlt lter paurm kill cecil, the lion. He was allegedly paid 50,000 by palmer to drive him outside the wildlife reserve. The animal researcher who worked closely with the lion is demanding justice. I think zimbabwe jail is a harsh place but if you cant do the time, dont do the crime. The effort to control several unpredictable wild fires remains an uphill battle. The rocky fire in northern highway. Wind driven flames are moving close thoor town of clear lake and the surrounding neighborhoods. We can see the flames coming into the back of valley and thats when we decided we needed to go. There have been some instances of firenados. In mississippi, police are looking for this man who robbed a motel wearing his pajamas. This surveillance shows the robber full pulling out a gun and he ran out with a bag full of stolen cash, walky talkies and other items. And the dangerous weather that led to tent collapsing. Are continuing. Reporter violent severe storms slammed massachusetts, battering boston with strong winds, damaging hail and heavy rain. At fenway, golf ball sized hail, a ground stop at logan. 60 mileperhour wind clocked out power to moir re than 100,000. Pealing lawns back like carpet. R di its like a war zone. Near coast at camp groind charles town, 10 people were injured after trees crashed on trailers and tents. And another tree fell on an suv, killing a driveren and in brooklyn, new york, a sink hole. This as another round threatens the northeast all over again. All right. So, whats ahead for us today. Nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. In massachusetts, for a while, we were thinking a possibility of a strong tornado was going to occur but thankfully it didnt. And traveling across the country the next three days. We have a couple areas in Central Kansas and the flood threat goes from missouri all the way to kentucky. And this time of year, you dont usually get the soaking rain. Everywhere with yellow is an inch of rain from the Mississippi River to the Tennessee Valley to the midatlantic by friday. The cut off is really philadelphia, southwards. It looks like new england will misout on this rain event. So, todays forecast, very halt from phoenix, 112 and dallas, 104 but it isnearly perfect from the northeast to the great lakes all the way through the northern plains. Now a closer look at your day head. Texas is going to be one of the hotter spots in the country. Today, 103 to 105 in the dallas, texas fort worth area and also thunderstorms continue ib n florida. Your friends in dallas had a relatively cool summer, tomorrow looks like 105. Okay. Thank you. One of the most generous Employee Perks weve ever heard of and the good will store that got a very big surprise. Harder if he tried. Hes beached here, gazing out on an unforgiving landscape. For while the people who come in here use quilted northern, a toilet paper that works so well they completely forget their experience. Daddy gator sees all and forgets nothing. Ive got to motor out of here, he thinks. 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Plus, a rash of breakins from the Hells Kitchen fire escapes. We know who made the cut for tomorrows first republican president ial debate. Today in new york starts now. Good morning everyone. Its wednesday morning. It is august 5th. Im darlene rodriguez. Im michael gargiulo. Storm team 4s chris cimino is here with the forecast and to answer to the major question, will there be relief from the heat . Yes, there will. All right. In terms of the humidity. Temperatures similar but the humidity is down. Yesterdays storms swept out that air mass. Its a much quieter morning. In the mid70s in the borough. Morristown 57. 59 in sussex. Mostly in the 60s across long island. A little more refreshing to start the day. The commute forecast, this mornings commute, nice. Partly cloudy skies, 75 degrees. Heading back home this afternoon and this evening, look for temperatures again in the middle 80s with a mix of sun and clouds. No rain or storms to worry about today. Yesterday was just a disaster, lauren. Hopefully today is much better. How is it looking so far . It really was. So far a big change from yesterday. Right now, downtown 1 trains, theyre runs express from 96th to 72nd. We also have fastrack maintenance on the r trains. No service in brooklyn between 95th and 36th. Take the d and or the free shuttle buses to get around. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Lauren, thank you. 4 31 right now. A man caught on camera casing Hells Kitchen apartments from fire escapes. The latest in a rash of burglaries. Tracie . Reporter darlene, police told me over the phone that at least one of the burglaries happened where were standing in the area of helds kitchen near roosevelt hospital. Theyre linking at least six of them to the same guy. Wait until you see the newly released video of the man in action. Take a look for yourself. This just came out from police into our newsroom. He looks directly into the Security Camera on a fire escape. This is from an incident that happened a few weeks ago. The woman inside of the apartment saw that man on her fire escape, he fled. How at least three of the incidents happened on west 49th street. The suspectss m. O. Seems to be the same. He makes off with electronics