our homeland security correspondent in d.c., and she is in touch with contacts. what do you know? well, ali, we know that president obama was briefed on this situation by john brennan, his counterterrorism secretary. and they don t believe there is any indication of terror nexus here. officials have identified the individual involved as joseph andrew stack. we are told that he is the owner of a house in the austin area set on fire earlier today according the a federal law enforcement official. he appears to be the one who set that fire before he took off in this plane which appears to have been owned by him, a piper aircraft. we asked this official, was this a suicide? and the official responded, it looks like it. as you mentioned this building houses 190 irs employees and the irs si they say they are still to account for all of the employees. it comes back to an incident in
working this, and i don t want to well, what is the deal with the burning of the house and who was in that house? well, this 1 what we know. we don t know who was in the house, but there was a fire on house in austin, texas, and this is the house. this is the house on fire in austin, texas, and joseph stack s house, and the plane, the piper cherokee pa 28 was his plane. they believe he was piloting that plane when it went into the building. we will tell you about joseph stack right now, he studied engineering in harrisburg, pennsylvania, and he was a contract software engineer in the 80s as you know from the suicide note, and he spent $5,000 of his money and 1,000 hours of his time writing to senators and congressmen and others about taxes. he lived in california in the depression of the early 1990s hit and lost his retirement savings for second time in 1990s and moved from california to austin, texas, and he could not find work. that is what he writes here.
but at the beginning, they were saying they didn t see any nexus to criminality. they have taken that out of their statement. apparently, because of all of this other information about joseph andrew stack, because there was a house belonging to him that was set on fire before this occurred, according to a federal law enforcement official. it appears he set that fire before he got into the piper aircraft and flew into the building in austin which houses the irs. when i asked the federal law enforcement official was this suicide, he said, it appears that way calling to mind the 2002 incident in which a young man flew an ir plane into an office building in tampa, florida, ruled a suicide. about the irs, we have spoken to them, and all they will say at this point is that they had 190 employees at that building, and they still trying to account for all of them. the white house is saying that the president has been briefed on this situation by his counterterrorism adviser john brennon, even
that is texas governor rick perry, and we are getting in on the end of the statement there. we will take a quick break and continue our coverage of the plane that has gone into a building. the fire has not been extinguished at that fire. three of the seven floors have been searched, and we have more information about the pilot and the motivations of doing this and the recovery of those people who are injured and at least one person unaccounted for in that building in austin, texas. stay with us. in your garage. ofg if you re shopping for a new car, we invite you to put us to the test. and may the best car win. so many arthritis pain relievers
reported to us that the fire not extinguished just yet, but it is still burning. this is very interesting, rick, that they are saying that his let ter is there. well, it is interesting that these two things came together. first we had the report that you had with jeanne meserve saying they now officially can say not one or two, but many irs offices here, ap we don nd we don t kno had direct dealings in this building at one time or another, but we can confirm that he has had problematic dealings with the the irs according to his own word in a letter we can confirm was left behind by him in a website that and we have confirmed this, administered by him. so, obviously, the whole thing comes down to serious issues. anything about family? no, it says very little about family, and i was taken aback by reading this, because we filed original reports, and would you tell me, because i have been