patti ann. >> all right. john huddy, stand by. we're going to go to linda edwards by phone. she apparently is right nearby and in view of the address hotel and has stayed at that hotel many times. linda, what does it look like right now? >> now it is just billowing smoke. before it was completely engulfed in flames. i think everybody is still wondering whether it's going to collapse in on itself. it definitely looks like it was totalled. you know, i'm surprised it said it was only 20 floors burning. it definitely looked like it was burning all the way up and down the hotel. it was burning on one side and not the other. it looks like it was burning the whole length of the hotel in terms of top to bottom. >> so you live nearby. did you see people coming out of the building? did they tell you their evacuation stories? >> they have evacuated the whole area. surprised to hear from your show they are not canceling fireworks because they had -- they were expecting a million people tonight to be in this old town area

i'm patty ann brown in for gretchen carlson and this is "the real story." fire roaring at the address hotel next to the world's largest skyscraper, burj khalifa. debris raining down as firefighters battle those flames. so far we don't know if anyone was injured. the reports are no from officials. we also don't know if anybody is trapped inside. the fire is some 20 stories high, around 900 yards. 1.6 tons of fireworks set to be used in fireworks displays. john is live in jerusalem with the very latest for us. hi, john. >> patty ann and the major general you mentioned saying no one was injured. again, as you said, said the fireworks event would go on as planned. said earlier, inconcva

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