takada drummed with all his might before a big crowd. >> translator: the beat is so exciting. >> translatori'm glad i did it. i want everyone to know that such traditional performing arts exist. >> reporter: the dance has come back from the brink of extinction thanks to a new generation. >>> australia continues to suffer from drought and wildfires. meteorologist robert speta is here with more on that. robert? >> yes, we have actually been watching this for several days now and it does look like this is just going to continue to linger. first i want to show you a video out of southern australia of some of the wildfires. this is in the town of cruma where one was very dangerous. the firefighters were out there on wednesday to start the firefight because temperatures went down slightly in this region, but unfortunately it is still very dry. then going into the weekend we are still going to be seeing these temperatures rise back up. so it doesn't look like too much of a break across much of this area as you can see on the satellite picture. just clear skies, so really unneeded here, but austral