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Time this morning, that local police in austin were called to the home of joseph stack for a domestic disturbance. they said he set his house on fire and took off for the georgetown municipal airport 30 miles north of austin, texas, jumped into his plane, a small piper cherokee, drove it to austin where it crashed into this building. the question is, was the crash intentional? did joseph stack intend to kill himself? ntsb is heading here to sort through the wreckage to determine if there was a problem with the plane. we've already seen people in fbi jackets, local police, local fire department...

It's a commercial building, actually, which houses the irs, that was hit by the plane. now, the big question here, the unresolved question, at this hour, is whether, in fact, mr. stack was targeting that specific building, which houses the irs. did he crash it intentionally to commit suicide or did he crash it intentionally to do that and hit this building as well? that is the big question. no definitive answer. some theorys about what may have happened here, but no definitive indication that, in fact, he was aiming at that building. but we do know that he was a pilot, he had this plane regist...

Flames, still see what's burning inside that build. this is tape right now, but we were seeing video earlier of the fire still burning in some parts of this building. contessa? >> tamron, thank you very much. with me on the phone is mary skoo schiavo, a former d.o.t. inspector general. assuming you heard pete's report there about this beginning with a domestic disturbance and the theft of a plane, mary, how would inspectors now go about trying to piece together the puzzle of why this crash happened? >> well, as in any crash, they're going to start with a lot of the records and a lot of indicat...

But i've noticed talking to people over there, there's a heightened awareness now. it's not just fear and doubt. >> again, we're listening to a firefighter, a former volunteer firefighter who rushed out to the scene, as he pointed out, you don't see something like this every day, even in his line of work. a huge fire resulting from this crash. let's go to nbc's tom costello. tom, i'm told you've got some new information for us. >> this is what i wanted to give you a little bit ago, but i wanted to double confirm it. we believe that mr. stack, who we believe was piloting this plane, does, in fa...

Problem or if there may have been even a medical issue within the aircraft from the pilot. they'll be taking a look and recover the body, doing forensics, working with the local coroner to understand if there was, in fact, a medical issue with the pilot. >> and given what we have learned through investigators, telling nbc, they believe joseph stack and his wife were involved in some kind of domestic dispute at their home in austin, local police were called. joseph stack, they say, the local police are investigating whether he started his house on fire. at any rate, his house burned up. he fled...