Southwest of us. Where were the drones coming from and who is responsible . And from tears to elation. The baseball player who just days ago broke down on the field thinking he had been traded hits a dramatic gamewinning home run for the team he loves. And its gone he did it flores we have a feeling hes not going anywhere. Today, august 1st 2015. From nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer is here. You are right. Wilmer flores has been with the mets since he was 16. You can play at 16 . Well farm system. He was in the farm system. You are thinking you missed the boat . I could have played at 16. It could happen. That aint happening. Well have more on that coming up. We begin the top story which is the out of control wildfires. Two dozen of them out west show no signs of letting up. This morning, the firefighters battling the blazes are mourning the loss of their own killed on the frontlines. We have Gadi Schwartz with more. Reporter good morning, erica. We are talking about 8,000 firefighters out there. Many of them are learning for the first time this morning that one of their own has been killed in the line of duty. Tragedy overnight. The u. S. Forest service confirming that Firefighter David ruhl was killed battling a fire in the Modoc National forest. An engine captain on temporary assignment assignment. In the statement, the Forest Service called the loss tragic and heart breaking. In Northern California a small neighborhood erupts in flames as propane tanks explode shooting fire balls into palm trees. It started raining fire on us. Reporter seven mobile homes destroyed and on the edge of the inferno, firefighters risking their lives to save peoples property. I heard this loud explosion and ferocious noise. Reporter about 70 miles away same story, different terrain. Crews moving to contain the fire that has been torching forest pines. We see flames in excess of 100 feet. Reporter the rocky fire is the biggest at 18,000 acres. All across california 23 large fires are burning in the midst of a severe drought. With that drought, comes dry vegetation and wind conditions make the potential for firefighting dangerous. Reporter the governor declared a state of emergency and National Guard to help crews on the ground. This morning, firefighters start another dangerous day of trying to contain the flames. And this weekends weather is expected to make conditions more dangerous. Red flag Warnings Issued in the northern part of the state and dry thunderstorms, the worst kind for firefighters are expected to bring heavy lightning and strong wind. Erica. Gadi schwartz thank you. To the extreme heat which is making matters worse for the firefighters out west. If you have been pouring sweat, you are not alone. The sweltering heat breaking records in some areas with no end in sight. Nbcs Kristen Dahlgren is live with more. Reporter good morning, craig. It is about 76 degrees already and going to be going up quickly. They are actually getting ready for a race here in central park which starts in an hour and a half. This morning, we have your every day joggers and cyclists out. They have to get these workouts in early because it is going back up near 90 again today. At new yorks coney island ronaldo fuentas is joining the kids to get cool. You get out for ten seconds and get back out. Reporter the fountain or waves the best way to beat the heat for humans and their pets. I put them in the water to keep them cool. It regulates their body temperature. Reporter temperatures on the east coast expected to stay near 90 for the next few days. While out west the mercury is soaring over the century mark. Portland oregon seeing the highest temperatures since 2009. I have my apron and soak it in water. Reporter seattle has now seen the most 90 degree days it has ever seen in a year. We got the ice cream sandwich. Reporter nearby beaches are setting tourism records. That feels better. Reporter Scientists Say the California Drought is so bad, the state is deficient an entire years worth of rain. And another danger under the beating sun. Cars quickly turning into ovens with children forgotten inside. This video shows a new Jersey Police officer busting into a car to save a 2yearold left in the back. You left her in the car sorry. Sorry. No sorry. Reporter the child is okay but the mother is charged with child endangerment. A harsh reminder just how serious this summer heat can be. And now little bit of good news. Drier air here in the east will help it feel cooler than the past few days. All of this comes with warning from authorities. Please check your car. Make sure that you have not forgotten a child in the back. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly and stay hydrated. Kristen, thank you. Kristen mentioned the drier heat may come through, but what we want to know dylan dreyer when the heat wave is expected to break. Any relief . Sight . By wednesday. Temperatures dropping in the 80s. It is a dry heat in the northeast. That dehydrates you quicker. We are looking at temperatures to hover in the 80s and 90s down the east coast with the feelslike temperature in the 90s. Because of the lower humidity. Its going to stay hot through about tuesday. Finally, especially up in boston well start to see temperatures start to drop down low to mid80s. Here is our set up right now. The entire United States is under this ridge in the jet stream. It allows the heat to build out in the Pacific Northwest. Were likely to break more records today. Portland will most likely break a record with a high of 99 degrees. Watch what happens, though as we go into monday and tuesday. Temperatures will fly back down to the 80s in the northwest. Down across the south it is hot but this is typical for this time of year. Does not look like were going to break records in this area but it is going to be up around 99 to 100 degrees. This unfortunately is not going to break any time soon. Its also very humid, too. That does make it feel like its closer to 105, 110 degrees. This is an area thats doing to be feeling heat. In the northwest heat will start to break as we go into tomorrow monday, tuesday. Here we have to wait until wednesday before we get back down to lower 80s. Okay. This is a day we can focus on. There is one. Dylan, great to have you back. Full forecast in a moment. Back. We will get to the full forecast in a moment. Now the wreckage on reunion island believed to be from flight mh370. The wreckage is in france to be analyzed by a special lab as searchers continue to scour the island for more clues. We have nbcs bill neely on reunion island. Bill good morning. Reporter good morning, craig. From a normally quiet tourist island where they really believe they can help solve an International Mystery and where a volcano has just erupted. They are optimistic here that they can find more aircraft debris. Now the big piece of debris and it is from a boeing 777, is now in the hands of aviation experts in france who believe they can unlock its secrets. They packed it carefully. Every square inch of the aircraft wing flap may be vital in answering what happened to malaysia 370. The debris has now arrived in france to be analyzed at a specialist defense lab. French police are searching reunion beaches for more debris. Locals are making discoveries finding pieces of plastic taken in by police as evidence. The man who found the aircraft part and a battered suitcase here finds Water Bottles from china and indonesia. Half of the passengers were chinese. I hope to find a lot more debris to help solve this mystery, he says but there is a problem. The truth is there is every kind of junk on this beach. Something that looks like a machine part. This is a rubber ring from something. It could have fallen off a ship or aircraft or anything. Investigators look for debris by air, too. We joined the search along the coast where finding anything more could be tough. Theres 120 miles of coastline to search on this island alone. On a nearby island it is more than 3,000 islands. There are more than two dozen islands they have to search in this general area. So all eyes on the debris they found and what it might tell us. We wait for the result of the verification whether it belongs to 777 or it belonged to mh370. I think that is yet to be verified. Reporter these are extraordinary times on the normally sleepy tourist island. A volcano erupting. Just miles from where the islanders are trying to unlock the mystery of the missing plane. And search experts from malaysia have now landed here in reunion to help. But spare a thought for a moment for the relatives of those on board waiting for confirmation that their loved ones died in this ocean and yet unable really ever probably to know exactly how or why unless those black box flight recorders and fuselage of that plane is found. A really difficult situation for them. Craig. So many waiting for closure. Bill neely, thank you. Some scary moments for pilots flying into jfk airport. Sheinelle is following that story. Good morning. Federal officials are investigating two close calls with passenger jets and drones in new york. A jetblue flight reported a drone friday on approach at jfk airport. Shortly afterwards a delta flight just missed a drone 1400 feet off the ground. It was below the planes right wing. And some scary moments for two other flights forced to turn around after takeoff. Smoke engulfed a flight after a heated mechanical part. In boston, firefighters boarded a jetblue flight after smoke in that cabin. U. S. Fish and wildlife officials made contact with the american dentist wanted for killing cecil the lion. Wildlife Officials Say a representative for Walter Palmer reached out to the agency thursday. We will have more in our next hour. A lockdown at the white house has been lifted after another trespassing incident. A woman was arrested friday after she reportedly jumped a bike barricade protecting the white house. She is charged with unlawful entry. Two relatives of Osama Bin Laden are dead after their plane crashed in england. The victims included Osama Bin Ladens stepmother and half sister. Osama bin laden came from a large wealthy family, some of whom disowned him before the 9 11 attacks. The white house confirmed mullah omar is dead. The circumstances of his death remain unclear. The u. S. Once had a 10 million bound bounty on his head. The wrestling world is mourning a legend. Rowdy roddy piper had a heart attack in his sleep. Hulk hogan is devastated telling tmz, he was my best friend. Roddy piper was 61. We talked about this. It has been a swing of emotions for one Major League Baseball player. Wilmer flores made headlines for crying when he thought he was traded. But then a gamewinning home run last night. Good to see a guy love his team that much. The fans responding the way they did too. I think so. Passionate guy. And they are in first place . Bigger win. Mets just two games back. Were all nationals fans here. Oh . Oh, were not . This is the wildest turn. I love it. If you see the looks on the faces of the crew in the studio. Lets go to weather. Amazing sight in the sky . I learned something from you two. This blue moon were talking about. What is the definition of blue moon . Officially two full moons in one month. We had the second one last night. The first on july 2nd. It is never blue unless a volcano around. It is usually reddish. As it gets lower, the particles in the atmosphere and the light reflected in red in color. It is usually a reddish blue moon. We have more pictures. Today, we have a couple of scattered showers in the southeast. We have more thunderstorms because of the stalled front through florida. Very unsettled for the last several days. It will remain unsettled near florida and southern florida. We have some mon a good saturday morning, meteorologist michelle grossman. Breezy, temperatures in the low 90s. 89 to 92 under mostly sunny skies. Another hot one on sunday. Were going to reach 91 mostly sunny once again. Even hotter on monday up to 96. More humid. Feeling closer to 100 degrees. Could see a late shower thunderstorm on tuesday. 92 and finally breaking that heat wave on wednesday with showers 87 mostly cloudy on thursday. 84. Have a great day. And t s your latest forecast. Thank you. Dylan, thanks. We are learning a bit more about Hillary Clintons finances after the release of her tax returns. They show she and president clinton made more than 100 million donating 50 million to charity. This morning, we are learning more on how she is taking on jeb bush. Reporter in florida, the state with the ties to cuba ended a ban on trade. We must decide between engagement and embargo and returning to cold war deadlock. Reporter such a position would have been poison but a Pew Research Poll show 72 favor the end of the embargo and 59 of republicans. With Donald Trump Center stage and clinton struggling on immigration. She will be fine. Reporter donald trump will be center stage at the republican debate. Nbcs lester holt asked jeb bush if he thought trump would do well in the polls. Im surprised donald trump has surged. I think he has captured the deep frustration that people feel. I get that. The lack of rule of law. Reporter clinton took a shot friday. He has said all americans have a right to rise a right to social progress. I dont think you can credited bring say everyone has a right to rise and say you are in favor of phasing out medicare or repeals obamacare. Reporter on the subject of her finances a question for both clintons she released their tax returns since 2007. The clintons earned 140 million. They paid 44 million in federal taxes and 14 million in state and local taxes. A combined tax rate of 45. 8 . They contributed nearly 15 million to charity. She is also the first candidate this year to issue a report on her health. A letter from her doctor who says her physical condition is excellent. Pete williams nbc news washington. Still to come in this half hour a look back at the weeks biggest stories and including the cincinnati Police Officer facing murder charges and the nfl upholding tom bradys suspension. We will look at it in the download but first this is today on nbc. In this mornings download we are catching you up on the stories in case you missed them. From the search for the dentist who killed a beloved lion and the nfl. We begin with the clues in the search for missing flight mh370. Engine 370. Contact. Those were the last words from Malaysia Airlines flight 370 before it vanished with 239 people aboard. Nearly a year and a half later, a piece of the plane may have finally been recovered. The first piece of debris located thousands of miles from the priority search zone off australia. Investigators are looking at what this man found. A remains of a suitcase on the beach at the same time. In cincinnati. Okay. Im trying to figure out if you have a license. Samuel dubose pulled over for a traffic stop by officer ray tensing whose body camera captured what happened next. Tensing fires a single shot hitting dubose in the head. Killing dubose as the car starts to move. Shot him. Tensing has been indicted for murder. He pled not guilty. Growing outrage against a minnesota dentist who admitted to killing one of africas most beloved lions. Palmer maintains he paid his guides. His guides have been charged with poaching. Palmer is in hiding. His dental office closed. Officials in zimbabwe have started extradition proceedings. At home officials are asking palmer to come forward. A guilty plea by the prison worker who helped two Inmates Escape from a correctional facility in new york. Joyce mitchell providing new details about her relationship with the convicted murderers. She got to know matt and sweat from the work in the tailor shop. Giving them rum and coke and performing sex acts on matt. I really do love my husband. That is the reason i did not meet matt and sweat. The nfl upholds tom bradys fourgame suspension for deflategate deflategate. Roger goodell said tom brady had his cell phone and sim card destroyed. To say i destroyed the phone to avoid the investigation is wrong. The Arizona Cardinals making history by naming jen welter as a coach. The cardinals share their hire on twitter. She has an Arizona Cardinals coaching job. And a medical first. Making one little boys dream come true. A few weeks ago, zion became the first child ever to receive a double hand transplant. What will be your favorite thing to do once all of the bandages come off . Take my sister from day care and i pick her up. How sweet is that . I cant wait to pick up my sister. Beautiful story. Kudos to the doctors at Childrens Hospital in philadelphia. A double transplant takes a team of doctors and nurses and a whole crew of folks. I was amazed at what he was able to do before the surgery. Really impressive. It will change his life. Im afraid to talk to you. I dont like to bring up the subject around you. Dylan is the biggest brady fan and pats fan. Heres the thing, we will find out all of the false reports in court. Lets wait and see what happens in court. The truth will come out. You should hear her in commercial break. We will see how it plays out. Dylan, left us know. Still to come on today, the 20 million lawsuit facing the fbi after the alleged kidnapper was kille announcer nbc 10 news starts now. Good morning, im rosemary connors. Its a few minutes before 7 30. Its a warm one already. Lets get to the forecast with meteorologist michelle grossman. Hi, michelle. It is warm. Temperatures in the mid70s in some spots already. A nice looking start. A nice finish. Taking a look outside, mostly sunny skies in philadelphia. 76 already in philadelphia. A little cooler to the north and west. 66 in allentown, millville and 77 in wildwood. By this afternoon temperatures up to 91 degrees. Sunday same story, mostly sunny, 91. Heat humidity returns monday 96 feeling warmer than it actually is. Tuesday mostly sunny, 92 finally a