now, let me remine you, going back to utah, that we are not expecting a high amount of rainfall, but depending on your location, there's enough rainfall falling and flowing down the mountains, we may be dealing with the another flash flooding situation as we go true the day wednesday. meanwhile, east, dry conditions, high pressure is controlling the weather. sunny skies from new york into atlanta with highs near 30 degrees as we go through wednesday. now, a look at what's happening over east asia. there's a stationary front bringing rain into japan and also clouds into south korea. we will see the rain chances increase as we go into thursday. meanwhi meanwhile, we do have a severe tropical storm moving to the north and west, and it is approaching the islands towards the weekend. this is going to be a big rainmaker, and expected to be a typhoon at that point. we have to look out for this. as this moves continuely to the north and east, we have to watch how it impacts the tokyo area by next week. rain expected with cooler temperatures on thursday with a high of 21 degrees and rain also

. >> being out here in the heat and with this drought remines us all of a fire danger all around us. the signs, as you can see behind me. let me take you to a place in the south bay where it was very hot today. there were lessons learned from yesterday's heat wave. the school district decided to send students home early today before the mid day heat started to settle in. >> when we were sitting in the classrooms it was miserable. everyone was just complaining about the heat. >> reporter: with the high temperatures and no air conditioning in most classes parents supported the district's decision. >> better than having them sweat and be overheated. >> reporter: soon discovered waiting for his ride outside in the hot sun was worse. >> i wish i can go inside and get air conditioning but i have to wait out here for my parents. >> reporter: they eventually picked him up. practices for most sports were cancelled so students were left with a lot of time on their hands. >> going to go home and eat food and sleep and chill. >> reporter: extra homework? >> yeah. sure. >> reporter: the heat wave is beginning to take its toll on those w