beginning to reconstruct the news helicopter that crashed in seattle on monday killing two men who worked for komo, the news agency there. they will try to determine what caused the crash. meanwhile, komo colleagues, bill strothman and gary pfitzner s are coming to terms with their deaths. today it is much more of a reflective newsroom, as everyone realizes what we ve lost. i think the shock has kind of worn off to give way to realization that something terrible happened just a couple hundred yards away from us. komo viewers have been leaving flowers and well wishes at the station and near seattle space needle where the helicopter crashed. the new revelations about the crack cocaine use by toronto mayor rob ford. ford was running through toronto city hall yesterday after police released the first description of the video on which ford was seen inhaling a vapor. the police report said that vapor quote appears to be a narcotic.
seattle tuesday killing two men who worked for komo, the news agency there. they will focus on the frame and the site of the crash to try to determine what caused the crash. meanwhile, komo colleagues, bill strothman and gary pfitzner s are coming to terms with their deaths. today it is much more of a reflective newsroom, as everyone realizes what we ve lost. i think the shock has kind of worn off to give way to realization that something terrible happened just a couple hundred yards away from us. komo viewers have been leaving flowers and well wishes at the station and near seattle space needle where the helicopter crashed. the new revelations about the crack cocaine used by toronto mayor rob ford. ford was running through toronto city hall yesterday after police released the first description of the video on which ford was seen inhaling a vapor. the police report said that vapor quote appears to be a narcotic. ford has admitted to smoking
komo photographer bill strothman and pilot gary pfitzner were killed. a driver on the ground was severely burned. in iowa, a state trooper was parked off interstate 80 when a pickup truck careened off the freeway and slammed into his squad car. turns out that pickup had been hit by a semitruck and the force sent it airborne. amazingly the trooper and the pick jum driver didn t suffer any major injuries. incredible video. toyota ready to accept a huge settlement with the department of justice. abc news learned prosecutors have been investigating the company for years over cars that suddenly sped up. they want to know whether toyota misled regulators and investigators about what it knew of the problem. the company will now pay hundreds of millions to avoid criminal charges. the same investigators are now pursuing general motors over a defect linked to 12 deaths. ceo mary barra apologized for the deaths and its delay in the recall of the cars with the faulty ignition switch.
top of cars in the midst of their morning commute. killed on impact, beloved komo photograph erbil strothman and gary pfitzner. it was taking off and it wobbled and spun and then started going down side ways on the street. reporter: when firefighters arrived, they found two cars and a pick jum truck engulfed on fire and a small river of flaming fuel running down the street. one motorist reportedly jumped out of his burning car, critically injured by flames. i saw the guy coming out of the car with his body on fire. and i saw also the truck that was hit. reporter: veteran award-winning photographer bill strothman was a wonderful, gentle family man who had recently retired but come back to work part time. he and pilot gary pfitzner were flying a backup chopper while the normal helicopter was in the shop. on the air, horrified anchors were left to report on their
just refuelled and was lifting off from the station s roof when it dropped suddenly to the street below and exploded. it was unstable, pitching, going up and down. it looked like its tail wobbled so it did a couple of tailspins, then just swooped down and hit. reporter: flames and dark smoke engulfed the cockpit and the choerp chopper came crashing down on three vehicles driving by. one of the vehicles was still on fire, ran into the street. reporter: two drivers escaped, a third man was severely burned. killed on impact, the two on the chopper, beloved photographer bill strothman and pilot gary pfitzner. we have reached the point where we can talk about the two people we have lost. this will be a very difficult time. reporter: investigators are now looking for clues about what went wrong. we re looking at everything. we re looking at the environment, the weather, the pilot, the operators in the helicopter as well as the