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Seems that we may have lost john. let's go back to amir. let's go back to amir hanjani. are you still with us? >> i am, ayman. >> give us an update of what you're seeing? you've had one of the clearest vantage points of this since it started out. you'll have a vantage point of the burj khalifa if these fireworks do take place. >> that's what i've heard. i'm sort of following this with the dubai government feed on twitter. this would be a very surreal and bizarre thing to have on one side of the downtown a fire raging and engulfing a hotel and on the other side literally maybe 50 or 60 yards aw...

Pyrotechnical displays will be carried out in dubai. they're expected to take place not only in the downtown area where that fire is burning but also in other parts of dubai including burj alall that is near where that fire is burning. we expect to see 1.6 tons of fireworks according to an ap report. we have on the phone one of the eyewitnesses who was at an event with about 10,000 party-goers a short distance away, probably say a couple miles away from that but had a clear vantage point of burj khalifa and where the fire broke out. as i understand, we're about 30 minutes, 40 minutes, rather, ...

>> stay with me just for a second if you can, amir hanjanny. we have an update from the official government media office of dubai in the united arab emirates. they're now saying that as a result of this fire at the address hotel, they are reporting 14 injuries. they're not saying the severity of those injuries or the degrees as of yet, but we understand them to be minor. but according to their office it's 14 minor injuries reported. the fire right now is 90% contained. 90% contained. the images there that you are seeing on your screen, those are from earlier when perhaps the fire was at its pe...

Falling from the address building. so around by the fountains, we've been told that an estimated million people are in downtown dubai tonight. that's all been evacuated at the moment. but we're being told that the fireworks will go ahead despite that fire. and we've been told that there's been no injuries. we've also heard rumors that the government are actually sending in a taxi, a water taxi to the downtown building. i'm here with friends from channel 4 which is a local radio station here, and they're getting information unconfirmed reports at the moment that that water taxis will be sent to...

To play around midnight tonight, the burj khalifa is lit up. by lights and l.e.d. screens but now has been submerged in very, very thick fog and smoke which is obviously coming from the address itself. now, when it got a bit chaotic here, everybody thought it was this, it was that and rumors going around, i got to give credit to the organizers here. they carried on as normal and they've made sure security got the message out to all the revelers here. there's 10,000 of us here tonight. everything is okay and the fireworks will continue as planned. >> john, let me ask you really quickly, have th...