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  • >>> THIS IS AN NBC SPECIAL

  • REPORT.

  • HERE IS KATE SNOW.

  • >> GOOD AFTERNOON.

  • WE ARE COMING ON WITH AIR WITH

  • MORE ON THE DEATH OF KOBE

  • BRYANT.

  • HIS DAUGHTER AND OTHERS KILLED

  • IN A HELICOPTER CRASH.

  • LOS ANGELES COUNTY OFFICIALS ARE

  • ABOUT TO HOLD A PRESS

  • CONFERENCE.

  • LET'S LISTEN IN.

  • >> GOOD AFTERNOON.

  • MY NAME IS DARRELL OZBY, I'M THE

  • FIRE CHIEF OF THE LOS ANGELES

  • COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT.

  • I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR COMING

  • HERE TO TODAY'S BRIEFING OF THE

  • INCIDENT.

  • TODAY, SHORTLY BEFORE 10:00 AT

  • 9:47 A.M., THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

  • RECEIVED A 911 CALL OF A

  • POTENTIAL HELICOPTER DOWN AND A

  • BRUSHFIRE AT INTERSECTION OF LAS

  • VIRGENES ROAD AND WILLOW GLEN

  • STREET.

  • UPON ARRIVAL FIREFIGHTERS

  • DISCOVERED A BRUSHFIRE THAT

  • RESULTED FROM THE CRASH ON THE

  • HILLSIDE.

  • THE LOS ANGELES FIRE

  • DEPARTMENT'S INITIAL RESPONSE

  • WAS 56 PERSONNEL THAT CONSISTED

  • OF PARAMEDICS, ENGINE COMPANY,

  • EVERY RESCUE, TRUCK COMPANY,

  • CREWS AND AIRCRAFT AND A CHIEF

  • OFFICER TO OVERSEE THE INCIDENT.

  • UPON ARRIVAL DURING THE

  • INCIDENT, UPON ARRIVALLE OF THE

  • SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OUR TWO

  • RESPECTIVE DEPARTMENTS ENTERED

  • INTO THE UNIFIED COMMAND TO

  • HANDLE THIS INCIDENT.

  • OUR FIR FIREFIGHTERS INDICATED

  • THIS WAS A BRUSHFIRE.

  • OUR FIREFIGHTERS HIKED INTO THE

  • SITE WITH THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

  • AND HOSE LINES TO EXTINGUISH THE

  • FIRE AS IT INCLUDED THE

  • BRUSHFIRE, THE DEBRIS FROM THE

  • HELICOPTER AND THE FIRE ALSO

  • INCLUDED MAGNESIUM, WHICH IS

  • VERY HARD FOR FIREFIGHTERS TO

  • EXTINGUISH BECAUSE MAGNESIUM

  • REACTS WITH OXYGEN AND WATER.

  • AND IN ADDITION TO OUR

  • FIREFIGHTERS HIKING INTO THE

  • INCIDENT WE HAD ONE HELICOPTER

  • FLYING TO THE INCIDENT WITH

  • FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDICS ON BOARD

  • AND THEY WERE POINTED DOWN TO

  • THE INCIDENT EARLY INTO THE

  • INCIDENT.

  • THEY DID A SEARCH OF THE AREA

  • FOR SURVIVORS.

  • UNFORTUNATELY, ALL OF THE

  • SURVIVORS ON BOARD WERE

  • DETERMINED TO HAVE BEEN

  • PERISHED.

  • THE FIREFIGHTERS AND HAND CREWS

  • WORKED TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE

  • WHILE CAREFULLY PRESERVING THE

  • INCIDENT FOR INVESTIGATION.

  • CURRENTLY THE INVESTIGATION IS

  • ONGOING.

  • I WOULD LIKE TO TURN THIS OVER

  • TO MY SHERIFF TO CONTINUE THE

  • PRESS BRIEFING.

  • >> THANK YOU, CHIEF OZBY.

  • PERSONNEL FROM LOS ANGELES FIRE

  • STATION RESPONDED TO THE SCENE

  • OF THE CRASH SITE.

  • AND SINCE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

  • AND WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A

  • CONTAINMENT AREA AND NOW OUR

  • BUREAU HAS A HANDLE ON THE

  • AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS WHEN IT'S A

  • FATALITY AND THEN IT SWITCHES TO

  • THE NTSB AND THE FEDERAL

  • AVIATION ADMINISTRATION.

  • THE FAA.

  • THE FAA IS ALREADY ON SCENE AND

  • ASSISTING AND WE'RE AWAITING THE

  • ARRIVAL OF THE CORONER'S OFFICE

  • TO ASSIST IN THE RECOVERY OF THE

  • REMAINS.

  • THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS.

  • WE HAVE A MANIFEST THAT

  • INDICATES THAT THERE WAS NINE

  • PEOPLE ON BOARD THE AIRCRAFT.

  • THE PILOT PLUS EIGHT

  • INDIVIDUALS.

  • THERE WAS WIDE SPECULATION AS TO

  • WHO THE IDENTITIES ARE, HOWEVER,

  • IT WOULD BE ENTIRELY

  • INAPPROPRIATE TO IDENTIFY

  • ANYBODY BY NAME UNTIL THE

  • CORONER HAS MADE THE

  • IDENTIFICATION THROUGH THEIR --

  • AND THEY MADE THE NOTIFICATIONS

  • TO THE NEXT OF KIN AND IT WOULD

  • BE EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL TO

  • LEARN THAT YOUR LOVED ONE

  • PERISHED FROM TMZ.

  • WE'LL LET THE CORONER DO HIS JOB

  • AND ASSISTING THE FAMILIES OF

  • THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE

  • BEEN IMPACTED.

  • IT'S A TOUGH PROCESS.

  • ALL THE FAMILY OF EVERYBODY ON

  • BOARD THIS AIRCRAFT GOD BLESS

  • THEIR SOULS.

  • SO WE HAVE NOTHING THAT WE CAN

  • ADD UNTIL THE CORONER DOES THEIR

  • JOB.

  • WE'LL BE MAKING THE

  • NOTIFICATIONS WHEN WE HAVE THAT

  • INFORMATION AND WE KNOW THE NEXT

  • OF KIN HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED.

  • THEY WILL BE NOTIFIED IN THE

  • SUBSEQUENT ANNOUNCEMENT.

  • >> DO WE HAVE A CONFIRMATION

  • ACTUALLY OF NINE BODIES THERE

  • ANOTHER THE SCENE?

  • >> THAT IS OUR BELIEF, YES.

  • >> SO WE REALIZE AT THIS POINT

  • THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTIONS,

  • THERE'S LOT OF INFORMATION OUT

  • THERE.

  • AND WE UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW,

  • THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION

  • EXPLODING BUT WE HAVE A

  • RESPONSIBILITY AND OBLIGATION

  • OUT OF RESPECT OF COURSE TO THE

  • FAMILY AND THIS IS A VERY

  • DIFFICULT TIME FOR THE CITY.

  • WE HAVE THE MAYOR OF CAL --

  • CALABASAS AND FOR THOSE WHO WANT

  • TO GATHER HERE, IF YOU DO, YOU

  • ARE WELCOME TO JOIN OTHERS AT

  • THE PARK HERE IN CALABASAS.

  • AND ALSO LAS VIRGENES.

  • WE WILL BE SENDING OUT UPDATES

  • IF THERE'S A PRESS ADVISORY OUT,

  • A NOTIFICATION OF ANOTHER PRESS

  • CONFERENCE ON THE TWITTER AND

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE

  • TODAY.

  • AGAIN, THEY FOR YOUR TIME.

  • >> ALL RIGHT, A VERY BRIEF PRESS

  • CONFERENCE THERE IN CALABASAS,

  • CALIFORNIA.

  • THE SITE OF THE HELICOPTER

  • ACCIDENT THIS MORNING IN THE

  • HILLS.

  • WE AT NBC NEWS HAVE CONFIRMED

  • THAT KOBE BRYANT THE FORMER NBA

  • STAR, THE 20 YEAR MEMBER OF THE

  • LAKERS WAS ON BOARD THAT

  • HELICOPTER.

  • WE JUST LEARNED NOW FROM THE

  • L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF THERE THERE

  • WERE NINE PEOPLE ON BOARD.

  • THAT DIFFERS FROM WHAT WE HAD

  • HEARD EARLIER IN THE DAY.

  • SO PRESUMABLY KOBE BRYANT, PLUS

  • EIGHT OTHERS.

  • STEVE PATTERSON IS IN CALABASAS

  • NEAR THE CRASH SITE AND HE JOINS

  • US NOW.

  • STEVE, I KNOW THERE'S A CROWD

  • GATHERED THERE.

  • YOU COULD UNDERSTAND WHEN THE

  • AUTHORITIES JUST SAID THEY'RE

  • NOT GOING TO GET AHEAD OF THE

  • STORY.

  • THEY WON'T GET AHEAD OF

  • NOTIFYING THE FAMILIES.

  • THIS IS SO HEART BREAKING FOR SO

  • MANY FAMILIES RIGHT NOW.

  • >> IT'S AN INCREDIBLE THING,

  • KATE AND SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE

  • GATHERED HERE BECAUSE I THINK

  • LIKE EVERYBODY ACROSS THE

  • COUNTRY RIGHT NOW, IT'S HARD TO

  • GET A HANDLE AND YOUR HEAD

  • AROUND THE FACT THAT THAT

  • HELICOPTER CRASHED CONTAINING

  • ONE OF OUR TRUE LEGENDS THERE'S

  • A CROWD HERE OF ONLOOKERS,

  • OBVIOUSLY LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE

  • NATIONAL MEDIA DOING ALL THEY

  • CAN TO GET AS MUCH INFORMATION

  • AS POSSIBLE.

  • BUT MOST PEOPLE HAVE GATHERED

  • HERE MOST OF THE DAY IN STUNNED

  • SILENCE JUST KIND OF GAZING UP.

  • THAT IS BECAUSE THE SCENE IS

  • STILL QUITE VISIBLE.

  • YOU CAN SEE IT OFF IN THE

  • DISTANCE.

  • THOSE ARE THE HILLS THERE UP

  • NEAR THE SCENE.

  • CALABASAS AS WE REMAIN HERE.

  • THE SMOKE RISING INTO THE

  • HILLSIDE.

  • THAT'S THE WRECKAGE OF WHERE THE

  • HELICOPTER CRASHED.

  • WE SAW WHAT APPEARED ON THE

  • TEAMS OF INVESTIGATORS COMBING

  • THROUGH THAT WRECKAGE AS THE

  • CROWD HAS GATHERED BEFORE DOWN

  • HERE.

  • A LOT OF FOLKS HERE OBVIOUSLY

  • ARE PEOPLE THAT JUST WANTED TO

  • SEE THIS.

  • WANTED TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES.

  • SO YOU HAVE GOT PEOPLE WEARING

  • KOBE BRYANT JERSEYS.

  • WEARING LAKERS HATS.

  • A LOT OF THEM WEARING TEARS ON

  • THEIR FACE THOUGH.

  • I SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE THAT

  • ARE JUST SPASMING WITH SOBS BOTH

  • FOR THE NEWS OF KOBE BRYANT AND

  • THEN LATER FOR THE NEWS OF HIS

  • DAUGHTER THAT NBC NEWS IS

  • CONFIRMING.

  • SO IT'S JUST A SCENE OF SADNESS

  • HERE, DISBELIEF.

  • AS EVERYONE IS JUST AWAITING

  • MORE AND MORE INFORMATION.

  • THIS CROWD HAS BEEN HERE FOR

  • HOURS NOW.

  • AND MAKE THEY CONTINUE TO GATHER

  • HERE.

  • ESSENTIALLY JUST LOOKING UP AT

  • WHAT'S LEFT IN THAT HILLSIDE AND

  • MANY OF THEM JUST IN SUCH

  • DISBELIEF OF WHAT'S HAPPENED

  • HERE.

  • IT IS TRULY A SURREAL SITE.

  • KATE?

  • >> STEVE PATTERSON ON THE SCENE

  • FOR US.

  • STEVE JUST MENTIONED THIS, NBC

  • NEWS HAS CONFIRMED UNFORTUNATELY

  • THAT ONE OF THE OTHER PEOPLE ON

  • BOARD WAS THE 13-YEAR-OLD

  • DAUGHTER OF KOBE BRYANT.

  • GIANNA.

  • I KNOW HE HAS BEEN COACHING HER

  • BASKETBALL TEAM.

  • HE'S BEEN VERY INVOLVED NOT JUST

  • WITH HER BASKETBALL TEAM, BUT

  • WITH OTHER YOUTH.

  • HE RUNS A WHOLE CENTER NEARBY

  • WHERE YOU'RE STANDING.

  • THAT IS, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST

  • BASKETBALL COURTS BUT CLINICS

  • AND ALL KINDS OF TRAINING FOR

  • YOUNG ATHLETES.

  • >> KOBE WAS VERY INVOLVED AND

  • INVESTED TO THE FUTURE NOT ONLY

  • OF THE NBA BUT OF THE CITY, BUT

  • OF THE COUNTRY.

  • HE WAS VERY INVOLVED AS YOU

  • MENTIONED WITH HIS DAUGHTER.

  • THE LASTING IMAGES WE'LL HAVE OF

  • THE LAST FEW IMAGES OF KOBE

  • BRYANT ARE NOT OF HIM DRIBBLING

  • OR SHOOTING OR POSTING UP OR

  • SCORING A THREE.

  • THEY'RE GOING TO BE HIM WITH HIS

  • DAUGHTER ON THE SIDELINES

  • COACHING HER, TEACHING HER.

  • TRAINING HER.

  • HE WOULD OFTEN BRING HER UP

  • DURING THE INTERVIEWS.

  • IT WAS OBVIOUSLY THE SOURCE OF

  • WHERE HE WAS GOING WAS OBVIOUSLY

  • HIS ROLE AS A PARENT, BUT AS A

  • COACH.

  • AND AS SOMEBODY THAT WAS GOING

  • TO CARRY ON THIS MESSAGE OF HOPE

  • AND, YOU KNOW, CARRYING THE GAME

  • FORWARD IN A WAY THAT HE PLAYED

  • IT.

  • I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE SO

  • POWERFUL FOR SO MANY PEOPLE AND

  • THAT'S THE WAY PEOPLE AS WE HAVE

  • BEEN SPEAKING TO THEM IN THESE

  • CROWDS ARE NOW REMEMBERING KOBE.

  • NOT AS THE AGGRESSIVE PLAYER

  • WHICH HE WAS, BUT AS A TEACHER.

  • AS SOMEBODY THAT WAS WISE AND

  • THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY INVESTED IN

  • THE COMMUNITY.

  • INVESTED IN LOS ANGELES HERE

  • TOO.

  • >> THANK YOU.

  • FAMOUS FANS AND FRIENDS ARE

  • TWEETING, THEY HAVE BEEN ALL

  • AFTERNOON ABOUT WHAT KOBE BRYANT

  • MEANT TO THEM.

  • JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, FORMER

  • PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA TWEETED

  • HIS CONDOLENCES, LOSING HIS

  • DAUGHTER IS MORE HEART BREAKING

  • TO US AS PARENTS.

  • WE SEND LOVE AND PRAYERS TO

  • VANESSA AND THE ENTIRE BRYANT

  • FAMILY ON AN UNTHINKABLE DAY.

  • THE PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT TRUMP

  • ALSO TWEETED THIS IS TERRIBLE

  • NEWS.

  • NBC SPORTS HOST MIKE TIRICO IS

  • WITH US.

  • YOU KNEW KOBE BRYANT.

  • YOU KNEW HIS ASTONISHING LEGACY.

  • TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHAT IS BEING

  • REMEMBERED.

  • >> KATE, A LOT OF ALL OF THE

  • THINGS THAT STEVE WAS DISCUSSING

  • FOR THIS CHAPTER IN KOBE'S LIFE

  • THAT WAS UNFOLDING, BECOMING A

  • MENTOR.

  • BEING INVOLVED IN THE AU TEAM,

  • THE PREPARATORY TEAM FOR HIS

  • DAUGHTER.

  • AND TRAVELING TO DIFFERENT

  • TOURNAMENTS AS GIANNA AT AGE 13

  • HAD HER BURGEONING BASKETBALL

  • CAREER.

  • THAT LOVE OF BASKETBALL HAS

  • BROUGHT KOBE BACK TO NBA ARENAS

  • AND THOSE ARE SOME OF THE IMAGES

  • THAT YOU WERE JUST SHOWING ON

  • THE SCREEN THERE.

  • THE LEGACY OF THE BASKETBALL,

  • NOW FOURTH ON THE ALL-TIME

  • SCORING LIST JUST PASSED BY

  • LeBRON JAMES LAST NIGHT IN

  • PHILADELPHIA, WHERE HE BECAME AN

  • NBA LEGEND.

  • FIVE TIMES A CHAMPION, TWICE AN

  • OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST.

  • BUT IF ANYTHING STICKS OUT, I

  • WAS JUST ON THE PHONE EARLIER

  • WITH A MEMBER OF THE BASKETBALL

  • HALL OF FAME WHO POINTED THIS

  • OUT.

  • IT WAS KOBE'S MENTALITY.

  • THE EDGE THAT HE HAD, THE

  • RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF GREATNESS

  • PLAYING THROUGH PAIN, PLAYING

  • THROUGH INJURY AND PERSEVERING

  • THROUGH DIFFICULT TIMES ON AND

  • OFF THE COURT WHICH IS A PART OF

  • WHO KOBE BRYANT WAS AND WHO HE

  • WAS TRYING TO BE IN TERMS OF AN

  • EXAMPLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.

  • WHEN YOU TALK TO LeBRON JAMES OR

  • MANY OF THE PLAYERS RIGHT NOW,

  • THEIR EXAMPLE FOR HOW TO BE A

  • LEADER AND A STAR IN

  • PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL IS KOBE

  • BRYANT AND THE FEW NBA GAMES

  • THAT HAVE TIPPED OFF SINCE THIS

  • NEWS CAME OUT A FEW HOURS AGO

  • HAVE ALREADY SHOWN INCREDIBLE

  • OUTPOURING OF EMOTION AND MEMORY

  • FROM THE CURRENT NBA PLAYERS FOR

  • THIS PLAYER WHO RETIRED THREE

  • YEARS AGO, FOUR YEARS AGO

  • ALMOST.

  • BUT IS REALLY VERY MUCH STILL A

  • PART OF WHAT BASKETBALL IS

  • TODAY.

  • >> MIKE, YOU MENTIONED AND JUST

  • YESTERDAY, I THINK KOBE BRYANT

  • SAID YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY FOR THE

  • PERSON THAT COMES AFTER YOU TO

  • SURPASS THE THINGS YOU HAVE BEEN

  • DONE THAT'S HIM SAYING I HAVE TO

  • PAY IT FORWARD, I HAVE TO MAKE

  • ROOM FOR THE NEWCOMERS, FOR THE

  • NEW STARS.

  • >> AND IT'S OKAY FOR LeBRON

  • JAMES TO BREAK THAT RECORD AS HE

  • DID IN PHILADELPHIA WHERE AT

  • LOWER MERION HIGH SCHOOL KOBE

  • BRYANT ROSE TO THE LEVEL WHERE

  • HE WAS READY AS A 19-YEAR-OLD TO

  • JUMP DIRECTLY TO THE NBA.

  • HIS DAD PLAYED BASKETBALL.

  • SO IN LARGE PART WATCHING HIS

  • DAUGHTER'S BASKETBALL CAREER IN

  • ITS INFANT STAGES GROW WAS A

  • REMINDER IT WAS BEING PASSED

  • DOWN FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE

  • NEXT AND PASSED OVER FROM ONEND

  • TORE THE NEXT AS WELL.

  • AND THERE ARE MANY WNBA PLAYERS

  • AND PROMINENT WOMEN'S COLLEGE

  • PLAYERS WHO ARE POINTING OUT HOW

  • MUCH KOBE'S INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR

  • PART OF THE SPORT AND HIS

  • SUPPORT OF THEIR CAUSES WAS VERY

  • MUCH AT THE FOREFRONT OF THEIR

  • FIRST MEMORIES WHEN THEY HEARD

  • THAT KOBE BRYANT WAS NO LONGER

  • WITH US.

  • >> MIKE TIRICO, SO GLAD TO HAVE

  • YOU WITH US THIS AFTERNOON TO

  • MAKE SENSE OUT OF THIS.

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH.

  • WE'LL SEE YOU ON "NIGHTLY NEWS"

  • SHORTLY.

  • KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR CALLED HIM

  • MAGNIFICENT AND SHAQUILLE O'NEAL

  • TWEETED SAID THERE'S NO WORDS TO

  • EXPRESS THE PAIN.

  • I'M SICK RIGHT NOW.

  • THE NTSB IS GOING TO TRY TO

  • FIGURE OUT WHAT CAUSED THIS

  • TRAJEN

>>> THIS IS AN NBC SPECIAL

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