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Glamour, the lifestyle that the world has come to know. it very interesting to say people were more subdued because this time of year would be the day that most of us would be seeing image of dubai in spectacular fashion. >> literally you couldn't see the -- from my vantage point here at burj in downtown, you couldn't see to the top because the smoke from the fire covered the burj khalifa the very top. it's bizarre because anywhere else you are in the world you always see the entire burj. but here so close you couldn't see the whole thing lit up because of the smoke at the top of burj khalifa....

Concerned, i've been thinking about that. there's a -- there's a conflict going on in the world. now, we don't know what caused this fire. and we don't think it was terrorism but what the governments -- the terrorists want to put fear in a population. now, again, we don't know what was the cause of the fire. but governments want us not to fear. so they're inclined to go along with the fireworks program. and the terrorists are trying to instill fear in a population. and again, we don't know what the cause of this fire was. but governments, new york city tonight, will go along with their celebra...

Over. lama tell us what you're seeing right now. >> right now i'm literally looking at floor by floor, you can say this is around 40 floors right now, and the fire's inside apartments. and you've got a very large white flame engulfing the entire hotel and coming toward burj khalifa and actually heading south towards the beach. but every single room looks really lit. i really doubt there's any water systems in the rooms. you can physically see probably some distance and all the furniture, which is madness honestly. >> i'm going to go back to -- i think we still have amir hanjani on the phone. i...

Of people there in the streets. again, on the left side of the screen we're now seeing pictures of people who were able to escape that massive hotel fire as the fireworks continue. a lot of the discussion happening online is about whether or not these fireworks should have gone forward at all, whether or not this should have taken place. many people in dubai saying that just that horrifyingly frightening image of a 63-story building on fire and the danger there of the debris falling. and you see that in your screen, on your screen right now. the debris falling from this hotel has been landing ...

Any form of level that would say, you know, question the fireworks going ahead in dubai. i think you've got -- if you're the authorities in dubai you've got to put what actually is the focus. and the focus is you have a 991-foot towering inferno, the address hotel, completely on fire. we've heard there are small explosions going on on the ground floors. we know, we've seen from some of the images there are piecing flying off the building. assessment has to be multifaceted. the assessment has to be, what is the condition, what is the likely condition of the building as we look forward in the ho...