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story from washington. pete, can you give us the latest on what we know, how long this pilot has been in the air, and what the danger is to the public at this point? >> reporter: well, sara, we know that this plane took off from the tupelo regional airport around 5:00 a.m. central time, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. we're coming up on the plane being in the air for about five hours now. the plane is a king air c-90. you can see it there, that's a small twin-engine turboprop airplane. it seats between six and eight people. it can go about 250 miles an hour. the question now is how this...

From touupelo airport, circled e airport at a relatively low altitude, then continued northbound over the holly springs national forest. this is now on a loop so you can see the plane going back and forth. this is video from local affiliates. the tail number of the plane, 342er. the airplane is owned by a company locally. police tell us the person flying this airplane initially contacted them via the 911, calling them on the telephone and telling them that they were in the air and they were threatening to crash into the tupelo walmart. according to the track on f flightaware, the plane is stil...