this is first at 4. an air plane crash off davis islands. news channel 11 chip osowski joins us live. reporter: we saw two vans pull up. we assume they re medical examiner s vans. one witness heard several booms and saw authorities have not confirmed if there was a second airplane involved. when fire crews first responded, the plane was engulfed in flames. authorities tried to pieiece together what happened regarding the charred wreckage. the plane that crashed was a twin engngine sesna with two souls onboard. it was an sesna 300 like the one here the plane was taken off from peter owe night. there was little they could do. we made access onto the property and it started to effect firefighters procedures and it was not a very large fire at the time. it was very easy to get under control. we proceeded with a search for victims in the surrounding areas. it was confirmed we had two people deceasese within the wreckage of the air crash. the faa and ntsb are out here in
it was a bittersweet sound. they paid tribute to john kotfila jr. i m proud t to call him a hero. but a lilike of men and women in the room, he was not defined by one moment in time. reporter: master deputy gary herman thought of him as a son and said the man who put his patrol car between a wrongway driver and another motorist saturday morning was always ready to help others. and that is what made him a true hero. not because of how he died, but because of how he lived. reporter: he comes from a family of cops in california and police from that state showed up in droves for his funeral. his mother and father sat quietly next to his casket while his sister said good-bye. down here on earth, but gained another one up in heaven. reporter: this family lost a sun, but gained the gratitude of a community and the respect sworn to serve. it was in his dna. that is why he became a cop. reporter: it is in his family dna in fact. the deputy comes from a long line of law e
good evening everyone i mrod carter. tonight there s a hulk hogan trial. he has won his lawsuit and he will receive $115 million. we do have a report tonight as we will have much more on this case coming up in just a few minutetes. also tonight two people are dead following a fiery plane crash. now there s a question about whether there was another plane that was involved. chip osowski is live on davis island. you spoke to one witness. what did they have to say about this? reporter: good evening to you, rod. two witnesses are now telling me that they heard a boom, looked across the way there, and they saw one aircraft taking off, another one on the ground in flames. when fire crews first responded the plane was engulfed in flames. authorities spent hours on the scene trying to piece together examining the charred wreckage. . now they know that the plane that crashed was a twin-engine cessna with two souls on board. we re now learning it was a cecessna 340 like the one pic
the kitchen of one of the units and spread to a porch. time. siding with hulk hogan. terry bollea embraced loved ones in the courtroom as the jury read the verdict, but over yet. they gave him more than what he wanted in the multimillion website gawkerer. instead of 100 million, they awarded him 150 million. newschanannel8 s peter bernard is live at the courthouse in saint petersburg. it is rare you hear someone in court. reporter: kind ofof surprised to hear that. the jury has spoken. they believe gawker violated hulk hogan s privacy when they published a video of him having sex with bubba the love the e pinellas county jury sex, lies and the video tape. over and over again, the answer was the same. yes. gawkwker and its owners violated bollea s privacy. hulk hogan, terry bollea to his friends sat stoically with no emotion as the smackdown verdict came down and the lofty award of $115 million. gawker argued the sex tape ofof him having sex with heather clem, ex-wife of b
enforcement from all over the country will be in town today..showing their support for deputy john kot-fee- lah..whose life ended tragically over the weekend in the line of duty. - it s never easy for deputies to bury one of their own.but it s especially tough when the death involves tragedy as it did in this case - part of what makes deputy kot-fee-lahs death such a difficult one to come to grips with is how he died. - he worked as a traffic crash investigator and was leaving tampa general hospital when a wrong-way driver who officials suspect had been drinking barreled into him head on.sending the deputy right back to the hospital he had just left.where he then died. - you can see here at the sheriff s fallen heroes memorial that there are already some flowers here in honor of the deputy..some of you might want to send your condolences with an arrangement or cards.. - officials say you can do that here or at the blount and curry funeral home in ybor city, emerald morrow, 10