we are under an immense heat wave, so the opposite season happening in the southern hemisphere. sydney, one of the suburbs just outside of sydney actually reaching the middle 40s this afternoon. it's local saturday evening within the east coast of australia. so heat wave conditions unfortunately combining with strong winds have led to a high fire danger a across the region and we've seen some impressive brush fires. this, of course, being the fire soap. here is a look at the fire dangers across south australia, victoria and into new south wales. you can see some of the large hadder fires are burning out of control right now. check out these visuals coming from the region. you can see just how stopping the winds are, fueling some of those flames. this could potentially be the worst fire weather in some of these areas for the past two years and potentially the worst since black saturday in february 2009. lots of people talk about that as a benchmark year for brush