this is going to be ma la cass. it's beginning to be a little bit better organized and it will continue to gain some strength as well as speed in the coming days. look at this. right now moving in a westerly direction, but it should be veering toward the north over the weekend. we're looking at it right now around 83 kilometers per hour. gusts over 125, and it should be making its way to be a typhoon in the next several days. we'll keep an eye on that. now, for the rest of east asia, we have high pressure over northern china as well as mongolia and it's also going to be drying up in the korean peninsula. very good news because we had some significant rains over the last 24 hours. now, that rain is actually going to be pushing its way towards japan. i'll get to that in a second, but i do have to point out this low here, stubborn low. it's the remnants of the moisture from tropical storm fanapi which actually made landfall several days ago. it's still here. it will bring more wet and potentially flooding rains across p