sydney and brisbane are in a thick orange haze. huge clouds of reddish dust from the desert of the australian outback. emergency services says there have been a whole surge in calls from people suffering breathing difficulties. online is a reporter for channel 7. the pictures are striking, frankly beautiful, but tell me about the chaos. >> it has just been an incredible last 24 hours. the storms struck sidney first, and like you said, the pictures are incredible. harbour bridge, the opera house, just a red dawn in sydney this morning. it slowly move up toward brisbane and hit its are around, i guess lunchtime hour time. more of a white doubt. -- without. everything covered in dust -- cars, houses. handle a lot of people calling emergency services. they have had a a lot of -- i would say hundreds of people have ended up in the hospital, respiratory problems. an official warning went out to the elderly, two children, pregnant women to stay inside. it was just unbelievable. >> extraordinary images. thank you so much for joining us fro

. >> the giant storm has shifted from sydney, darkened the criticize in brisbane and is bearing down on queensland. this was strig triggered by drought-ravaged areas in the australian outback. environmentalists are sure this storm is an undenyable symptom of manmade climate change. other australians believe this is the result of natural vareability. either way, the unpredictable australian continent is indisputably one of the world's wild weather hot spots. phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. >> france says they have developed a vaccine that could cut the risk of h.i.v. infection by a third. it is the first time a vaccine has shown limited evidence of preventing the disease. 16,000 volunteers y were involved in tie land. they are hopeful scientists will be able to provide a vaccine with full protection from the disease. the details. >> for a quarter of a century, h.i.v.-aids has wrought havoc. dozens of vack nations have failed. now it comes in the region of thailand which appears to show a vaccine can protect against h.i.v.. >> this is a major finding. the first time we find an h.i.v. va

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there is brisbane, australia. you can get the idea of the extent of that dust storm. the worst dusttorm they had in australia in 70 years. for us, we'll still be under southwesterly winds into tomorrow. weather front slips to our south. as we get into tomorrow evening, you'll notice the difference. on friday, we'll get into northeasterly winds. the good news is while there will be scattered showers for parts of tennessee into south carolina, i don't see any repeat of the terrible rains that brought all of that flooding. temperatures around us tomorrow will be into the low 80s as they will be down to our south. for the remainder of the evening, partly cloudy. warm, humid, good baseball weather with temperatures only dipping into the high 70s in the next few hours. and with clouds around and humidity, tomorrow morning certainly going to be feeling more like a summery morning. almost an august morning with temperatures for overnight lows only about 70 degrees. tomorrow afternoon as that weather front approaches, there could be a few scattered showers, maybe even a thunde