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There are rumors that rooms at the beakman arms, a favorite dining establishment of bill and hillary clintons in shap kwau in westchester county nearby, theyre booked up? >> yes. its absolutely completely booked up. its usually booked up this time of the year. but its not usually booked up six months in advance. so thats what were looking at. >> thats good. what about how guests would g et to this venue? its not right here in new york city. reports of, what, trains, helicopters? >> its trains, p...

Correspondent, barbara starr. barbara? >> wolf, its a major air hub for the u.s. military, and they are coping like everybody else. several airfields shut down. now, as for the wounded, you know, wolf, routinely what has happened over the years, the wounded are flown by medevac flights. they come out of iraq and afghanistan. and when you look at the map, you see that routinely, they go back to ramstein air force base in germany, where they get treatment at nearby landstuhl. then are flown on her...

We say thousands of flights. how many people potentially affected by this? >> thousands of flights and tens of thousands of passengers. holland just announced that its closing its airspace as well. but right off the start since early this morning, airfields in scotland, ireland and britain were closed right away. even france has blocked flights from going to the north. its having a tremendous effect all over europe. and those flights that are getting out are going a long way far south and then m...

This plane, not just the one he was on, but this particular type of plane, pretty good and reliability safety record over the years? >> yes, i mean, you know, whenever we talk about safety records, im always tempted to say no better, no worse. if you look at a boeing 737 or the 727, three engines in the backs is the 6727, very similar. there have been about 60-odd serious incidents with the tupolev 154, and when you put that in the perspective of the 20, 30, 40 years they were flying, you then a...

Prisoners, most of whom had been wounded. right up until the last day, theres a japanese bonsai suicide attack on the marines even at iwo jima. >> greta: why was it so important there? >> b-29s bombing japan launch need add emergency recovery field. the japanese had already built their own fighter airfields even while the battle was raging, there were b-29s launched, hit by japanese fire over japan that had to land on that air feel. it saved the lives of thousands of airmen it cost the lives of ...

They did take nearly 1,000 prisoners, most of whom had been wounded. right up until the last day, theres a japanese bonsai suicide attack on the marines even at iwo jima. >> greta: why was it so important there? >> b-29s bombing japan launch need add emergency recovery field. the japanese had already built their own fighter airfields even while the battle was raging, there were b-29s launched, hit by japanese fire over japan that had to land on that air feel. it saved the lives of thousands of a...

Okay, its very short and i apologize for that. well rerack it again. there we go. wow. all right. maybe we can grab some freeze frames. you know, well take it back and work on it a little bit and maybe grab some freeze frames of it. you can see thats pretty dramatic stuff there. the smoke, the thick, black smoke from the jet fuel obviously just pouring out of the building right now. and this is the scene right now. and again, this -- i dont have a time on when this crash took place, but thats so...

Exactly what is going on with that situation isnt clear, but thats the latest bit of information weve put together. >> maybe you can help all of us. look, youre our man in texas. im sure you spent a good deal of time in austin. are you familiar with this area here? we are talking about the 9400 block of research boulevard. are we talking about an industrial -- a business park here? >> reporter: that is in the north part of austin. i know austin very well actually. its one of those places that ha...

Talking about, tony. >> yeah, i dont have the information. i wish i could share it with you. all were getting is that it was a small aircraft, a single engine aircraft, and maybe that makes sense that it would be either taking off or landing at one of those small airfields that you just mentioned. maybe i can run some of this additional information by you to see if youre getting the same reporting. were talking about maybe three to four buildings that might be on fire at this point. clearly we d...