And Atlantic City and it even feels like the mid 90s in some areas closer to the shore with the humidity. Feels like the low 90s in areas north and west through the Lehigh Valley. We are at the beginning of a heat wave. Today starts that. We already hit the low 90s today. Tomorrow and thursday we expect to be in the mid 90s, low 90s friday. This will be more than just three days of 90 degree temperatures. We expect this to last through the weekend. This is going to be a very prolonged heat wave. Aside from that we are also talking about the humidity over the next few days making it feel a lot hotter outside. For the rest of this evening it will stay hot and humid, near 90 degrees by 6 00 p. M. By 8 00 p. M. Only in the mid 80s. Still hot and humid. By 10 00 p. M. In the low 80s. Tomorrow, a little bit hotter than today. The 90 degree temperatures dont look like they will break in the forecast. We wont get too much of a break from the heat but some of you may see a bit of relief come thursday from some of the rain showers and thunderstorms we expect to move in. Either way, still hot and humid before the week is over. Coming up we will take a look at that and talk more about the heat and show you how hot the weekend will be. Turning to this. New at 5 00 some positive news for a family rocked by tragedy. Philadelphia police have reunited a young boy with his therapy dog that went missing after a hit and run crash. That crash killed his uncle and injured his father. Nbc 10s renee chenaultfattah is live in the Digital Operations Center with more on this reunion as well as the search for the hit and run driver. Reporter the family certainly did need some good news. The arroyo family telling us a neighbor called police after finding max, the dog, and an officer brought him home. They shared these photos with us. Heres max with the officer and osvaldo arroyo. Here is max in bed with arroyos 12yearold son, jonathan. Were told max is a comfort to the boy who was born blind and deaf. Osvaldo and his brother were doing repair work on a van sunday. They headed out around 10 30, made a uturn on luzerne street. Thats when a mitsubishi suv broadsided their sedan. Police found and impounded the suv and are trying to find the owner, a local tattoo artist. They know who it is. Right now, i dont believe it. Reporter the family talking to denise nakano. The grieving family say they have faith police will catch up to the driver. If you know where to find Alberto Vangas police want to hear from you. Live from the Digital Operations Center, im renee chenaultfattah. Back to you. Also new at 5 00 one man is in custody and his passenger in Critical Condition after police say the driver took off after seeing a cop car behind him. Nbc 10 in philadelphias Port Richmond neighborhood. Police say the driver hit the gas when he saw police in the rear view mirror. After blowing two stop signs, police found the driver had crashed into another car. No word if the men have any outstanding warrants. Now to new information on the police chase that had people glued to these images from sky force 10. A robbery suspect led officers back and forth from south jersey to philly for two hours. We have learned the man behind the wheel was wanted in part for stealing underwear. Nbc 10s cydney long has been following the developments for us and joins us live. Reporter police tell me ritter was willing to fight a Grocery Store security clerk to get away with two packs of mens underwear worth about 21 two weeks ago but his rap sheet has arrest warrants totalling 20,000. Police spotted that white van down the street on the white horse pike parked secretly between the cvs farmpharmacy and local car wash. He has been jailed in cumberland and camden counties. 54yearold Robert Ritter is the man who led police on that dangerous pursuit monday night. He is well known to Law Enforcement. Hes ran from us before. Reporter in fact brooklawn patrolmen have been trying to catch ritter since the shoplifting incident turned into a strong arm robbery july 9th inside this shoprite on route 130. Ritter captured he says on Security Surveillance video stealing underwear and shoving a Loss Prevention officer to get away with it. He actually concealed a couple items of mens undergarments, teeshirts and boxers secreted them in his clothing and attempted to walk out of the store with them. Reporter taking off in that same dodge white van. Yes, it was the white van was involved. We had been looking for it for some time now. Reporter according to these complaints so were gloucester township police. They say ritter stalked and harassed a woman who had a restraining order against him. That was july 1st. 15 days after being released from the Cumberland County jail. It was Oaklyn Police who initially gave chase monday night, sticking with ritter as dinnertime hour turned into darkness. Ritters m. O. Is to not get caught. Minor traffic violations. Nothing quite serious. Simply officer stops him, makes contact and he takes off. Reporter the 20,000 in outstanding warrants are for things like Motor Vehicle violations as well as failing to show up in court. I asked police and the prosecutor but its unclear right now just how quickly ritter could be extradited back to new jersey to face charges here. Im cydney long, nbc 10 news. How did police do . Tonight a security expert is grading the chase. The score he gave officers and what brought down their final grade coming up on nbc 10 news at 6 00. Authoritieshere are the stories making headlines on nbc 10 news at 5 00. A woman is dead after a crash this morning on new castle county. A car collided with a truck at the intersection of christiana and airport road just before 7 00 this morning t woman who was driving one of the vehicles was rushed to christiana hospital where she later died. No one else was hurt. Septa will now offer a lottery next monday for papal passes. This afternoon the Transit Agency announced its solution on how to sell special train passes to see the pope. The passes are the only way you can travel on Regional Rail when pope francis is here in september. The first attempts to sell them last monday crashed septas website. Online registration for the lottery will begin just after midnight next monday. The lottery will run for 24 hours ending at 11 59 that night. Septa will notify winners thursday with an email allowing them to purchase the passes. The agency will then mail the passes to customers and septa says no matter what time you enter the lottery on monday, everyone has the same chance. Ten is the maximum amount of passes you can buy. For more information on the lottery, to get your pass for the pope check out the nbc 10 news app. You will find details for septa patco and amtrak. Super bowl mvp tom brady will not be on the field for the start of the nfl season. Late this afternoon, the league announced it was upholding its fourgame suspension. Comcast sports nets john clark joins us with the details. Big update here. Lots of things happening this afternoon with this. First the nfl announced it will uphold tom bradys four game suspension. Within the last hour tom brady has asked the Nfl Players Association to appeal the ruling in federal court so its not over. Not over by a long shot. The nfl introduced new information in upholding the suspension. The nfl says tom brady had his assistant destroy his cell phone shortly before he was scheduled to be questioned by investigators so the league and ted wells were not able to review his Text Messages that he reportedly had with the patriots ball boy and equipment personnel. The nfl issued a statement in part reading the commissioner found that bradys deliberate destruction of potentially relevant evidence went beyond a mere failure to cooperate in the investigation and supported a finding that he had sought to hide evidence of his own participation in the underlying scheme to alter the footballs. Coming up in sports at 6 00 we will tell you which phillie will be traded definitely will be traded by the deadline on friday. Im john clark. See you then. Now to decision 2016. Where in philadelphia do you go when campaigning for president . Pats and genos of course. We caught up with republican nominee scott walker at pats. He ordered american without. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent a lot of time trying to win over voters in New Hampshire but is still being bested by donald trump. In a new Monmouth University poll trump is leading the president ial race in New Hampshire. Look at the percentage of voters who support trump compared to those who back chris christie. Four out of ten people polled said if trump werent in the race they would vote for someone else including christie. The poll director says despite all the time christie spent in New Hampshire, trump is stealing his tell it like it is thunder. Donalds got lots of skills and lots of talents that have made him wealthy and made lots of people around him wealthy. Thats a great thing. Its not necessarily the same skills transferrable to governing. So you need to understand how you have to work with other people, how if you disagree with somebody you just cant fire them. Christie is battling to be one of ten gop candidates from the field of 16 to make the cut for the upcoming debate. Christie and other candidates struggling for support. We will watch the polls very closely over the next few days. The first Republican Debate will be held next week. Only 10 of the 15 candidates will be invited. Fox will make its list based on the average of five national polls. To getting a Second Chance a young boy and his family are celebrating after doctors at c. H. O. P. Gave him new hands. We will hear from the child and the doctors who pulled off this historic surgery. Plus protecting your pets from the heat. Its a message we hear every single summer but one owner ignored that warning. How police in new jersey worked together to save a bulldog from a sweltering hot car. Turning the tables. A former prison worker pleads guilty to helping those two new york inmates escape. How long she will be behind bars and what she got in return for her plea. A new york prison worker has pleaded guilty for her role in helping two convicted killers escape. The plea agreement means Joyce Mitchell will the not face any additional charges for an alleged plot to kill her husband or for any sexual contact with the two inmates. Prosecutors say mitchell helped richard matt and david sweat by smuggling escape tools in frozen meat. Nbc 10 National Correspondent jay gray has the details. Reporter removed from her shackles briefly, Joyce Mitchell wiped away tears as she signed off on a plea deal for her role in helping two convicted murderers escape the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate new york. She got in over her head into something that she never should have started but she did, and shes paying the price now. But she realizes that she made a horrible mistake. Reporter wearing a striped prison jumpsuit mitchells voice was soft and cracking as she told the judge she understood the terms of the agreement and pled guilty to criminal facilitation and promoting prison contraband. She admitted to smuggling hacksaw blades screwdrivers and other tools into the prison in frozen meat to help sweat and matt tunnel out of the facility. Because the evidence was so overwhelming Miss Mitchell acknowledged her guilt by appearing in court today and entering a plea. She wanted to expedite her case proceeding and move on. Reporter mitchell will spend up to seven years behind bars and pay a 6,000 fine. As part of the agreement, she will not face any additional charges for alleged sexual contact with the inmates and allegations she was involved in a plot to kill her husband, who also worked in the facility. Formal sentencing in the case is set for september. Jay gray, nbc 10 news. There was a call for stronger gun background check legislation today on capitol hill. Two groups teamed up and Want Congress to require legislation that would require a background check on all gun sales. We spoke to a man who lost his son in last years shooting rampage. Whatever i thought was important before in my life isnt to me anymore. The only thing thats important to me is that no other parent in this country should have to go through what my familys going through. The groups say 88 americans are killed by gun violence every day. Firing a gun into the air in reading, little closer to home is now considered breaking the law. The city Council Passed an ordinance making it illegal to fire a gun in city. To fire shots into the air, you will be arrested. Helping members of the military and veterans make the transition back into civilian life with a quality career. Today, 100,000 was donated to the helmets to hard hats initiative. Donald norcross of new jersey was among those who attended the ceremony. The group works with dozens of trade unions and corporations to help find job openings and training for candidates. Its helped an estimated 20,000 people so far including military members in our area. Just because school is out doesnt mean teachers arent working. Nbc 10 at Stockton University in atlantic county. Today dozens of teachers from across new jersey took part in a seminar titled holocaust and human behavior. The highlight, they were able to meet and talk with six local holocaust survivors. They are also receiving copies of each of the survivors memoirs which will be used in the classroom for fifth from twelfth graders. It is hot outside today. Im right outside the nbc 10 studios in bala cynwyd where temperatures feel more like the mid 90s because of the humidity. It will keep feeling hotter through this week so we are talking about a heat wave in the forecast and not just a couple days but several days of 90 degree temperatures. The heat wave is actually going to be starting today with temperatures already hitting the low 90s and it will be feeling close to 100 degrees at least one day this week with the humidity and several days of 90 degree temperatures even as we go through the weekend. We are at 94 in northeast philly, 90, philadelphia. 91 in chester springs. It feels about three to five degrees hotter with the humidity. Actual temperature is 91 in allentown, in reading. 90 in blue bell. Closer to the shore, temperatures about the mid 80s. 88 a little farther in in millville. 86 dover. 90 degrees in newark. The future feelslike temperature when you factor in the humidity take a look at what happens. Overnight, we wont feel any cooler than about the 70s. By 10 00 tomorrow morning, we are already going to be feeling like the low 90s with the humidity. Through the afternoon tomorrow feeling like the mid to upper 90s in some areas and watch as we go into thursday. Thursday morning around 9 00 10 00, already feeling like the mid 90s. Thursday afternoon, we could be feeling like triple digits. Thats what we expect as we go into thursday through the afternoon hours, triple digit feelslook temperatures when you factor in the humidity. Im outside in the heat. I will go inside in the air conditioning in just a minute. Some areas could be seeing a little relief from this heat. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by with that. Couple of places. First you can go towards the shore, its definitely cooler at the beaches. Little bit of a sea breeze here. This is cape may. Lots of people there. And the wind a little bit of a land breeze. Atlantic city marina now down to 79 degrees. That is a nice break from the temperatures inland. If you think were hot, head to the west. 99 degrees in st. Louis. 99 in wichita, kansas. The feelslike temperatures 112. 112 in st. Louis. 105 in wichita. It wont get that bad around here. Maybe that will make you feel better. We do have isolated showers between philly and the shore, going down the Atlantic City expressway. Theres the ac expressway there. This heavy shower near Galloway Township drifting to the south. The light showers around south philly have gotten even lighter. Another shower near williamstown in new jersey. The heaviest activity has been right near the maryland border in extreme southern delaware getting some of that rain. As we go into tomorrow nothing more than isolated showers again. Watch what happens as we go into thursday. Computer models suggesting even a couple showers around in the morning. Then with the heat and humidity of the day, feeling like close to 100. We start seeing showers and storms move through. Behind it its going to not cool off a lot, but the humiditys going to be going down. That is about the only significant change coming as we head through the rest of the week and into the weekend. It is just going to be hot day after day after day. Weve got a sevenday forecast. Every one of those days we have 90 plus. 74 tonight with the early showers, just isolated. Even hotter tomorrow. Still humid, mid 90s. Nothing more than isolated showers. Best chance of storms is on thursday but its also maybe the hottest, feeling like 100 plus. Humidity goes down a bit friday but the temperature stays 90 plus perhaps for the whole seven days. Welcome, summer. There are a lot of new names on the eagles roster this year but they are already a hit with fans. See which jerseys are some of the bestselling across the entire nfl. And a new revelation from one of bill cosbys accusers. 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