eyewitness accounts are giviing us the magnitude of the crash. there are stunning pictures. joining me now is brian piper. brian took those pictures. he also shot video. brian, thank you for waking up and joining with us. i'd like to you where you were, what you were doing and what you were hearing as the plane made impact on the runway. >> well, alex, i was across the water at the marriott which is about a half mile from the runway. i was sitting in my hotel room on the fourth floor and i heard a boom. i knew something was wrong. i immediately turned around and saw the aircraft tumbling nose down. it's like the nose of the plane was in the dirt and the tail was up in the air and it was kind of twisting at the same time, and that's when it came to rest in a big duftball where it's still at right now. >> that's got to be shocking. what goes through your mind when you see something like that? >> i was just shocked at first. but i mean i immediately knew people are dieing in there and i had a much more grim view of what i thought was going to happen to all those people and just