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Employees running for their lives. flames soon engulfed the building calling to mind the horror of 9/11 and soon clear that this, too, was a deliberate suicide attack by a troubled american man with a festering hatred of the federal government. we have complete coverage of the breaking news this hour. we will begin with tom foreman. tom, walk us through how all of this unfolded. >> wolf, we are assembling this map of the texas state capital and this event. you fly into austin, and here was the strike point right down here. the airport is right up here. but all indications from the authorities ...

This crash could potentially have been prevented. we are joined by peter goals. former managing director for the national transportation safety board. peter, thanks very much for coming in. you saw -- last several hours, we have all been watching this. what goes through your mind? could anything have been done to prevent this kind of horrible tragedy? >> i think it is awful tough to try to screen from this. suicide and aviation communities a little more common than people might imagine. couple of times a year this happens and maybe one or two more times you think it might be. in this kind of e...

San antonio fbi media representative eric vasses at the same phone number. the chief, all of our first responders for exceptional response to this tragic event which highlights the effectiveness and ability of a joint cooperative effort to address matters with our city. thank you. >> at this time address the emergency of medical response. i would like to call up ernie rodriguez, austin travis county medical services. >> my maim is ernie. chief of ems for austin travis county ems. we received our 911 call stating an aircraft crashed into the building. we immediately responded. approximately 24 ...

Cause -- >> well, there was a second alarm, so it is about 45 firefighters. >> do you think this is the end of general aviation as we know it? >> absolutely not. as the police chief said, this is not a reason to panic, and it is an isolated event and not tied to overseas' terrorist organizations, and we have to be careful how to balance that. but i think it is an issue obviously that congress needs to look at in terms of protecting not only federal buildings, but the american people. >> and so there you have it. the news conference from austin, texas, local authorities saying that this appears...

Earlier fran townsend was on, and she talked about the potential of a copycat effect, and that is something that we need to maybe talk about again for a second. these things tend to come in clusters and in people who are mentally disturbed or on the edge tend to look at an event like this, and it pushes them over the edge. they tend to come in clusters, so we need to be sensitive to that. she also talked about tsa and homeland security getting ramped up, which is fine, but they are really probably not likely to prevent another incident from a deranged loner like this. it will come from us, and...