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To get the fire, rescue, ems, law enforcement responding out there to do search and rescue and check on the conditions in the community. it was reported earlier, you know, it is blustery out there. a lot of standing water. weve got over 200,000 currently without power so you know, very, very serious condition for volusia county. we have a lot of damage reports, again, as your reporter reported out. lots of trees down. we have roofs off homes. >> all right. thanks, jim. i think we just lost your ...

What happens next. >> oh, my god. >> fireworks started going off at ground level. they just started shooting side ways. they were coming out towards the crowds and towards the people. >> they started going off quickly in all kinds of direction and towards us. >> the crowd begins to panic. >> it happenings to quickly that there was really not time to react or even realize what was going on around us. you could hear the screams and people yelling and crying and everything in total chaos. >> sittin...

Mechanical engineers stick 900 feet underground inside of an elevator. they were descending into the floor of 2300-foot salt mine to start their shift last night when their elevator suddenly stopped. they had food, lighting equipment, water with them, all things they have for overnight shift. that was good news. conditions were very, very cold. blankets, hand warmers, heaters were lowered down while a rescue plan was put in place with a crane that lowered a basket down to lift miners up four at ...

Did you hear anything at about the same time that you were feeling that heat? >> no, because this is such a big deal, there are some public viewings on the street. they closed off all the main the streets around the surrounding areas. we had reservations at a restaurant months in advance. . we were sut iing out on a terra and thats basically it. in a building attached to the address. so we had to -- luckily, we were one floor up from ground level. e we could get out. we did kind of walk out of o...

There are no casualties as far as authorities are concerned. >> and thats whats so extraordinary here. . this fire is breathtaking. it is frightening. this is a multipurpose address. the address hotel is not just a hotel but its a residence and theres a mall. explain what you know about this particular building. >> looks like we lost becky there. i wonder if bruce is still with us. hes providing this incredible image from this balcony. if you can join me again. what do you know about the use of ...

Waiting for the fireworks to go off in the next hour. there hasnt been an announcement whether that will continue or not based on the situation. >> cnn talked to an eyewitness earlier at the address who was at a restaurant on the ground level and she said that the staff was amazing and seemed to really know what to do in case of this fire. talk to me about the concern. youre an american living there in dew by. your concern or the concern of others about the high-rises there and safety and e evac...

You can actually see from my vantage point 20 minutes before the fire broke out, people on the balconies having new years eve parties. literally within a matter of minutes, those balconies all cleared out. in fact, there are people who have been here for six, seven hours in the dubai mall on the ground level of the dubai mall sitting and camping out waiting for the fireworks. they were running away from the address hotel, away from the dubai mall and the street in a panic. >> let me ask you this...

>> elektrastal, russia, this man, in the green shirt, and his friends practice in local parks at ground level. but on may 13, 2012, they take their routine to new heights. attempting to taste a slice of internet fame. >> we simply were ready for this, both physically and psychological for a few years so we decided to try it for ourselves. >> but will all of them survive to upload the video? >> part of you is wondering, is one of them going to fall? is one going to get hurt? whats going to happen...

>> one of his favorite fixations? >> hes always liked to climb. right over the backyard fence, there was 120-foot power tower. there was a green belt behind the house with a series of electrical towers and john had started to climb them. >> so far, john has only managed to get at the scaffolds and ground level before his family had coaxed him down. but that day with both parents away at work, he ventures higher. >> john had recently discovered the spikes on the side of the tower, about 20 feet u...

And its the job of ted padgett and the dallas hazardous materials team to determine the threat. >> our first interest when we arrived was to determine what we could based on ground level runoff and even the airborne particulates. we had three or four tests that we did initially. we checked the smoke. our testing on site indicated we had ammonium products, we had ketones, aldehydes. what you would typically see in any large industrial batching plant. >> while the team checks for toxins, local off...