Center attention to Hong Kong now
where three days of mourning are underway following a deadly fire that engulfed a residential block on Wednesday.
So far 128 people are known to have died.
We can show you the scene there live now.
The disaster victims identification unit has entered the site
to assist in search and rescue and to confirm the identities of the deceased.
The authorities say around 200 people are still missing.
In the last few hours Hong Kong's leader and top government officials
stood in silence for three minutes at 8:00 AM local time and flags have been flown at half-mast.
Paul Marriott works as a teacher at Loting Pong Secondary School.
He told me what he saw.
I will just kind of go through what went down.
So I teach a technology subject at the school
and we do have quite a few little fires little smokes coming out of the hill from time to time.
What happens is sometimes there are little bushfires,
sometimes people drop lit cigarettes and sometimes people will burn sacrifices and stuff to their idols.
So what happened was I was having a lesson I just finished.
I was doing my curriculum stuff in my room at the school in Tai Po and I walked outside just to stretch my legs.
And I had about three of my students say to me,
"Mr. Marriott, Mr. Marriott, there's all that smoke, someone's causing a fire."