he crashed the plane into lts second floor of the office building where 200 irs employees worked. federal officials told cnn the pilot of the plane set his house on fire and stole this aircraft from the airport and crashed it into this building. he took off from the georgetown municipal airport and flew the 25 miles from the airport south to the echelon office building, just off highway 183. hitting the building just before 9:56 a.m. last word, one person was unaccounted for. it appears everyone else except for the pilot got out alive. we have a name, joseph andrew stack, from a federal law enforcement official. investigators suspect he intentionally targeted the irs. stack apparently left a suicide note on the internet. a message on a website registered to him rails against the government and especially the irs and declares that violence in his words, is the only answer. we re going to have a lot
we have in terms of pictures. we can also, guys, loop in that i-report from someone who i believe was probably traveling, was probably traveling on highway 183, and took out their cell phone and hit the camera and started taking some pictures. and the pictures revealed all of the smoke. it looked like some of the immediate moments after the crash. all of the smoke pouring out of the building. and you ll see that coming up here pretty soon. but we re getting these are new pictures, a different angle on the building right now, provided to us from news 8 in austin. we have been hearing some reporting on the number of windows blown out of this structure. well, you can see it firsthand for yourself here. we also understand that people are being evacuated. makes all the sense in the world. but we also understand there are two people unaccounted for. here is the i-report i was just mentioning a moment ago. great work to take that full there. let me stop and see if there s any sound on at
i m not familiar with that but maybe you are as you watch this, and highway 183. and the reporting goes that smoke could be seen pouring from a building on traffic cameras. i think we re trying to work in a tdot camera, texas department of transportation. we ve been showing you pictures from news 8 austin. and the reporting from kvue goes on to say that most of the windows in this building blown out. people are being evacuated. at this point no word of how many people might have been injured. a moment ago we saw a shot, this particular shot pan over to the right and we saw the highway close by, probably highway 183. traffic in that area is being diverted right now and you see you can t really get do we have an ireport? let s show you the ireport. again, ireport.com, if you have an opportunity to be close