[Pedram Javaheri, Cnn Meteorologist:] Pretty good bet it's going to happen again. Yes. And next year as well. We will break down all of this John because heat advisories have already been issued across a wide spread area of Europe in particular portions of Belgium. A high alert there for extensive heat in place at least the next couple of days. And we're not talking about five six degrees above average. We're talking about running 15 to nearly 20 degrees above average in some of these areas. So among the warmest ever observed. And climatologically, this time of year, third week of July into he beginning of August, that is what you expect for the northern hemisphere across the summer season to see the peak summer temperatures take shape that's falling in line with when you expect it. But the severity of it, the extensive nature of it is what's unprecedented. And of course, you notice a very large area of real estate there across the western, central, and southwestern Europe where the heat wave is going to be building over the next couple of days. In fact Brussels climbs up to 37, eventually just shy of 40 degrees. Notice 22 is what we expect for an average day this time of year. And it cools off dramatically come later into this weekend but still staying above that threshold going in towards the beginning of next week and that's across Brussels. But morning temperatures, the sun begins to rise in London, temps sitting at 20 degrees, that is closer to what you expect for the afternoon high this time of year around sunrise in Glasgow and we're seeing kind of low temperatures coming in at 21 degrees which is one degree warmer than what you're afternoon high should be this time of year. And if that's not all impressive, look at this London by Thursday expects to climb to 38 degrees. That would be warmer than the forecast high out of Cairo sitting at 37 degrees. So this ridge system plays and extends further going into this weekend, pushes the heat on into portions of Scandinavia for Saturday and Sunday. And then western Europe gets a brief break there going into this upcoming weekend. But Paris forecast highs somewhere around 42 to 43 degrees, the warmest ever observed in the city is 40.4 from 1947. And the United Kingdom, a 38 degree observation would come in very close to the all time high for the nation there 38.5 in that deadly heat wave of 2003 only edges that slightly and of course, this is a forecast that could be exceeded there depending on how things play out come Thursday afternoon. So really an incredible heat wave there in place John.
[Vause:] How excited are you about the Olympics next year? The summer games.
[Javaheri:] It's going to be a challenging one, yes.
[Vause:] Well, it's going to be hot I guess. But it's now as I said it's now exactly one year until the games play out in Tokyo. Good news the construction on the stadium which will be home to the track and field events is on schedule as you would expect. The host city is celebrating the milestone with a number of events to try and boost the enthusiasm and the interest ahead of the Olympics. Joining us now from Tokyo is reporter Kaori Enjoji. So this is everything that you expect from Tokyo. Little tiny, itty- bitty robots and stuff right.
[Kaori Enjoji, Cnn Commentator:] There's going to be a lot of that John. And I think there's a little bit of the Olympic carnival going on here in downtown Tokyo to give the public a little bit of flare as to what they can expect in exactly a year from now. This is going to be a logistical challenge for Japan as well. So all throughout the day this week and today, there are a bunch of dress rehearsals going on around the city. They're stopping the traffic on the highways. The people are being asked to stay at home and not work between 8:00 and 10:00 to try and ease up the congestion because Tokyo is already a pretty dense urban city. Japan knows that it's going to be in the spotlight and it's a lot of pressure too because they want to stage what they did they want to repeat what they did in 1964 when they wowed the world with the Tokyo Olympics back then. This was the big comeback story for Japan after World War II. So they want to make sure that this is a repeat and plus on that experience. The public is getting fired up. They have 100,000 volunteers already signed up for these events. They're also expecting a lot of people coming through, IOC president Thomas Bach was here in Tokyo to kick things off. There will be a count down later on tonight to mark the 365 days until the Olympics. And you're just seeing a lot of new technology here, virtual reality I think is going to feature well. You're going to see a lot of robots because this is being Japan
[Vause:] That's kind of cool. Thanks Kaori. And thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause. Stay with us. The news continues with Will Ripley right after the break.