building. i prayed, if this is my last chance, then so be it. glenn is a fire safety expert at jon jay college of criminal justice. joining us on the phone. it s good to have you here. one thing that struck us, as we watched this fire, particularly as it was under way last night, is the idea, and this is early indications. i ve spoken to dubai officials. they re trying to determine definitively what caused this fire, but early on they say that they believe it could have been a curtain in one of those rooms lit up and then led to the rest of the fire. i looked at how quickly that fire spread on the exterior of the building. i m no expert but that seems surprising that that would be the cause. you re an expert. what do you think as you look at this? thanks for having me, jim. when we saw the initial fire
buildings a few years ago had a similar type of aluminum composite surface material. we don t know if that s exactly what was here but everything points to plastic as part of this again, this exterior service of being the culprit of why the fire spread so quickly. that s interesting. i know you re not saying this definitively, but that would explain a lot of things because they say, dubai authorities, that the fire was on the exterior of the building. not only on the inside. and it really spread quickly. like there was something flammable on the outside fueling this. yes. there were reports, i saw, online that people mentioned they smelled a lot of burning plastic, which, again, would be consistent with that. dubai has had a few fires. one, ironically, recently the building called the torch, another a few years ago, a similar situation. so, it s something the dubai government has to take a much
more aggressive approach to deal with, particularly ones that are there. if you say 70% of the buildings have similar cladding. it s early in the investigation, that would certainly be something to be addressed. glenn corbett, fascinating information. thank you for coming on. thank you, jim. back to our breaking news right now. right now israeli authorities are trying to figure out the nature of a deadly attack in tel av aviv. surveillance video shows the horrifying video under way. the gunman open fire just outside a pub in tel aviv. two people killed, four people seriously injured. a manhunt is now under way for the shooter. he got away. they re still looking for him. a question right now is, was this a random act of violent crime? was it criminal or was it an act of terrorism? cnn s ian lee in jerusalem with the latest. authorities just don t know yet, do they?
the gaffa gate in jerusalem, so people are on edge. this will continue to feed that fire. no question. that feeling of being on edge is not confined to israel by any means. megan robertson, thanks for giving us your eyewitness account. i want to bring in karen greenberg, director of center of international communication at fordham law. looking at this open question now, as you heard from israeli police about whether this is criminal or a terrorist incident, but as you look at the m.o., seemingly a random act of violence there. someone has an automatic weapon and they open fire on a street, what does that pattern tell you? well, i think your question is excellent, which is where is the line now in today s world between the criminal and the terrorists. terrorism, which is normally associated with some political agenda, is also about terrorizing civilians. making civilians afraid to go out into any kind of public
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