13yearold daughter, an aspiring basketball player in her own right. As news of the tragedy spread, fans gathered in los angeles. The site of some of bryants so many athletic moments to celebrate his life and career. The ntsb is on their way to the crash site to investigate. Officials are looking closely at whether weather had something to do with it. Dense fog may have contributed to the incident. Lets bring in Steve Patterson who has been covering the crash. And steve, as youve been on the scene all day, the last briefing that you know so well, the sheriff was saying the faa was on location. I was just mentioning how the ntsb is on its way. And the coroner was also on its way. Whats the latest . In fact, there were some coroner vehicles spotted in the vicinity here as well as a bulldozer. Weve seen a lot of equipment as First Responders authorities and crews along with investigators are swarming the scene. The official word will come from as you mentioned, the ntsb, the federal author
Basketball legends of all time has been killed along with five people in a Helicopter Crash in calabasas, kracalifornia. He was 41 years old. They say there was some fog this morning. We do not know if that contributed to the crash in the hills of calabasas. Nick watt is joining us from the scene of the crash. What more do you know, nick . Reporter well, ana, we are still waiting for any official word from authorities as to what might have caused this crash. We have heard from the local Fire Department that they were on scene because the impact of this crash ignited a small brush fire on the hills there between calabasas and malibu, which is just over those hills. Now, we will, hopefully, get some indication of why this happened. This morning, i have spoken to a fifth wing pilot who said he did not fly this morning because of the visibility. That has not been confirmed in any way as a contributing factor in this accident right now. We just want to be clear out of that. Where was kobe b
Daughters memorial as soon as it gets started. Omar is joining us now. Give us a sense of what its like in there. Reporter brianna, a lot of people are still filing in at the moment. We heard from the Staples Center that things would be starting a little after 1 00 eastern time. When you look at the stage and how everything is set up, basically everyone is seated around what would be center court in a normal basketball game, lots of roses surrounding. Were told a little over 30,000 roses are set up in place. There are instruments where we are likely to see a performance and choir earlier this morning. This is a chance for not just the family, for the bryants to reflect, but its for the public to get a sense of closure for an event that happened so suddenly that happened almost a month and a day ago at this point. When this gets going and you look around at people in here, there are some media members, people close to the family and things like that, but there are also many fans who pai
He was loving, adoring and romantic. He was truly the romantic one in our relationship. And looked forward to valentines days and our anniversaries every year. He planned special anniversary trips and a special gift for every year of our marriage. He even handmade my most trezured gifrts. I just thought outside the box and was so thoughtful even while working hard to be the best athlete. Hed give to me the actual notebook and the blue dress Rachel Mcadams wore in the notebook movie. When i asked him why he chose the blue dress, he said it was a scene when ally comes back to noah. We had hoped to grow old together like the movie. We really had an amazing love story. We loved each other with our whole beings, two perfectly imperfect people, making a beautiful family, and raising our sweet and amazing girls. A couple weeks before they passed, kobe sent me a sweet text and mentioned how he wanted to spend time together, just the two of us without our kids, because im his best friend first.
Same make and model. He used the helicopter to commute to the Staples Center from his home in newport beach, california. We are expecting a News Conference to update us on what happened at 5 00 eastern time. In the meantime, just an outpouring of shock, devastation from Sports Writers, the sports community, celebrities. Money of that happening on twitter. I would like to bring up a tweet that dwyane wade posted earlier today saying, no with all of those os there, god, please, no. At 2 50 p. M. A lot of people before the news was confirmed it started to trickle out were hoping it wasnt the case. Kobe tweeted 16 hours ago about lebron james who surpassed him yesterday on the alltime scoring list moving into the third spot. It was a game between the lakers and the 76ers in philadelphia. The irony of this unbelievable as kobe spent his entire career with the lakers and was from philadelphia. This is a tweet from espn. It says king james wrote mamba for life. Mamba of course kobes income na