okay. helena, let me take this apart with you, if you wouldn t mind, here. do you know where this plane was either taking off from or attempting to land? that is also information that our public information officers are gathering. how many casualties at this point? again, that s information that we are working on gathering. and once we get that information, it will be provided to media. but you okay. i get that. but you do have you do have casualties. can you confirm that? at this time, no. okay. cannot confirm. okay. because we had reports of two people unaccounted for. there had been reports, but we re hesitant to say, until we get actual confirmation. no, i understand. please, appreciate that i m just trying to get information. i understand. helena, what is this building? is this a government office building? we have no information on the building. we know that the fbi is in an office close to this building, but what is the building in
training facility, we heard a rock and the projectors and slides started moving, i d been teaching it for a while, and i knew the building couldn t shake like that. it felt like an earthquake or something. i knew austin didn t have. what i did when our central administrator elizabeth same in, that we had to evacuate the building, i went inside and got my laptop and we started filming it. when i heard the plane was flying into the building after 9/11 you don t have time to play around, when somebody says that, you get moving and think about surviving it. i m glad that everybody made it out of our building, building three, is okay. you won t see anything coming out of the back side right here, because there s no back doors on the building. the door s on the other side. as soon as we came outside, there was a fire truck out here already. actually, they were out here before the fbi came out here. i was really shocked because the fbi is in our building. anyway, they came over there and they
can pull up maybe we can do a little mapping on this. the 9400 block of research boulevard, if you re familiar with the area and might have an idea. a better idea of where this is. but that s what we have. we have fire crews working diligently right now. two-alarm fire? we ve got a two-alarm fire a and okay. so the fbi offices in austin are apparently adjacent to this building. i m drawing no connections at all here, it s just information. there you see a major highway right there. okay, great. getting some additional information. i apologize but i m just trying to get it to you as quickly as i can. we re getting word of four separate buildings on fire right
of these buildings and the whole second floor is completely burnt out. reporter: thank you so much, ty. now, these two folks are one of hundreds that we ve seen lined up here along the side. i don t know if we can bring the camera over here to show you all the people and, of course, everyone is so concerned just watching this thing. we ve seen people lined all up along the highway, too, from other businesses. we re hearing that businesses just across the street see, just across the street is a shopping center and people in those buildings even felt the buildings shake. it was a real hard impact and we re hoping that everyone pulls through. thank you so much, noel newton, live from the scene there. just recapping those were okay. let s do this. we want to talk to cynthia reid, she is on the phone with us. and, cynthia, my understanding is you are actually in a building next door to the building where this where this whole scene, this crash took place, is that correct? yes,
heard, tell me what you saw, please. much like he says. the building shook, it s almost like an earthquake. we our boss very calmly made us leave. we got to the working lot. it was full of smoke. people running towards the irs building that got hit. people were on the second floor. they couldn t get out. they were hanging out the windows screaming for help. uh-huh. i have to say, ben swinger glass happened to be at the complex. they drove through at mach three with perfect ease. got their ladders off in a split second, and they were up there getting them tightened down. people that worked in the complex, they were getting people out as best they could. wait a minute, cynthia, what s the name of the company you just mentioned? and what kind of work? ben swinger glass happened to be on the property. happened to be on the property? happened to be on the property. and they have the ladders that were long enough, and the guys