if you think you can come into ohio and divide, poles are, you're not going to win. >> with your help and support, together we can make america truly great again. and some more major political news this morning for hillary clinton. nbc news has confirmed they are looking into procedures used in the email server. it's the next step from the state inspectors general from july trying to figure out if the emails were secure. and official reiterate tad nbc's pete williams, this is an investigation of the actual system not hillary clinton or any one person. there could be a game

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 stone's 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

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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 mile-per-hour wind clocked out power to moir re than 100,000.

pealing lawns back like carpet. >>r di it's 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, what's 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 didn't. 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.

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. right now, thousands still in the dark 24 hours after strong storms knocked out power on long island. plus, a rash of break-ins from the hell's kitchen fire escapes. we know who made the cut for tomorrow's first republican presidential debate. "today in new york" starts now. good morning everyone. it's wednesday morning. it is august 5th. i'm darlene rodriguez. >> i'm michael gargiulo. storm team 4's 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. yesterday's storms swept out that air mass. it's a much quieter morning. in the mid-70s 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 morning's 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, they're 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 hell's 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 we're standing in the area of held's kitchen near roosevelt hospital. they're 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 suspects's m.o. seems to be the same.

he makes off with electronics