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You can tell, there is not much there. it sent 27 tanker cars each carrying thousands of gallons off the tracks, two train crew members escaped to safety, so far no other injured reported, investigators, though, say they have not figured what caused the initial derailment. >> more bloodshed today in syria. this time iraqi oh worshipers were among targeted victims of two explosion near a shiite holy site. u.s. forces are deepening their fingerprints in the fight against isis. john hudy is in our middle east bureau with the details, hay, john. >> yeah, laura, it was a bloody day. 40 people were ...

John? >> that appears to have been a death. i'm checking. dubai's middia office, one minor and one heart attack. i don't know, i'm not sure. i'm not sure. this is all we know, 14 minor, one moderate, one heart attack case due to overcrowding and smoke at the fire. dubai media office putting that out. dubai also wrote on the official twitter account. again, this is crossing over the wires. it's very fluid, patti ann. this information is coming in every couple of minutes we're getting this. it says that four teams of firefighters were working to put out the blaze. unclear how many firefighters i...

That continues to burn. again, unclear, patty ann, what caused it but it erupted quickly, went up at least 20 stories. it could be more than that at this point. but as we said, that major general on tv said the fireworks display and event will go on as planned. we'll see. it's just under an hour from now. but getting people out of there. you talked about the debris raining down. we've been seeing that, tremendous and massive amount of smoke. fortunately the weather isn't bad, no high winds or anything like that. really it's all about the containment effort. it's a sprinkler system presumably, ...

The hotel was evacuated and that there were only 14 minor injuries during the evacuation. one man died from a heart attack presumably during ensuing chaos in that evacuation. again, patti ann, want to stress unclear at this point what caused the fire. i know our guest earlier talked about terrorism. that is certainly something on people's minds clearly, understandably. we don't know if that's the case. we don't know what sparked it but we know it erupted very quickly around 9:30, 9:45 as we get closer to new year's. as officials say the new year's celebration, patti ann, will go on as planned....

Year there around 77 degrees. so pretty typical evening weather wise there? >> it is a pretty typical evening. when they do get rain in dubai, this is one of the months they get it. there's a chance of rain in a couple of days obviously not impacting this at all. humidity is a little bit higher than it would be, say, in the summer, but temperature is not that bad. overall weather fortunately for them not impacting the fire. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us. we'll keep an eye on smoke and burning embers. we're going to go back to john huddy live in the middle east bureau. john rep...