WEBVTT - 911 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:12.400 Sunday morning, January our Zabayan was piloting a private helicopter 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.160 with Kobe Bryant, Bryant's daughter and their friends to a 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.239 basketball tournament in Thousand Oaks, California. Along the way, he's 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.279 a buying, encountered fog and was in constant contact with 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:27.080 air traffic controllers. Everything seemed normal until to echo ACTRA 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:37.239 you're still at level for following radio silence two Echo actrascount. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.640 I'm Steve Gregory in Los Angeles and this is the 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:52.920 death and life of Kobe Bryant. Helicopter crashed into a mountain. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.240 We heard it and now I'm looking at the flames 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.360 Malibu Canyon and Agora Road on the Ari Juan Supermarket. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:05.039 We can see it. I'm at four two three five 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.920 Lost Virgins Road. I just towed a helicopter door re 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.720 me approximately from Loss Hills Road at went over my head. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.640 It's quick and clouds and then I just heard a 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:22.000 pop and it immediately stopped. Yes, that was just clarifying 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:27.039 where that plane went down. It's right behind the loss 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:32.759 Or Metropolitan Water District, Los Virginus Metropolitan Water District, laid 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.880 behind the building. The flames have gone out. I can 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.840 just see smoked down barely anything last Virginism Mahad Yes, okay, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.680 yeah it's not it's not maholl And. It's too far south, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.400 So what's a better locations. I can tell my units 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.560 behind the Corporate Water District building about a quarter of 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.760 a mile up in the hills. Okay, I can see 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.520 the flames still. By now, fire and rescue crews have 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.000 arrived on scene and some actually had to be airlifted 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.760 to the crash site. Captain Tony and Brenda was a 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.080 public information officer with the Los Angeles County Fire Department 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.560 and met reporters down at the bottom of the hill 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.680 who had been sent there to the scene, not knowing 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.560 at the time who was on board. Still early on 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.520 in this incident, we received a call just before ten 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.799 am this morning l a County Fire dispatch of an 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.840 aircraft down here in uh the Malibu area, right off 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.640 the Lost Virgins essentially Calabasas, right off the Lost Virgines 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.000 Road here and apparently some folks were out here mountain 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.280 bike in this morning and saw an aircraft in distress 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.920 that went down into the hillside. Um there. This was 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.240 a helicopter it's been confirmed that it was in S 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.720 seventy six so Korsky helicopter and unfortunately there were no survivors. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.360 Um Right now, we're in the very early phase of this. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.840 We still have some fire activity on the hill, so 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.320 La County Fire Department units are are doing a progressive 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.639 hoseley right now to get water up. The aircraft is 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.160 down pretty far from the old so we're having to 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.680 put several hundred feet of hose in to get up 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.799 there to cool down the scene. And right now we're 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.679 waiting for the arrival and TSB investigators. There's not much 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.440 more to add right now. We're still in the very 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.320 early phase of this. We just know that it's multiple 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.560 fatalities and there were no survivors. Los Angeles County Sheriff 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.280 Alex v In a WAVA remembers getting the call. I 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.120 got a phone call from a EID. I was in 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.720 uh I believe uptown wire and he said, hey, there's 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.680 been a helicopter crash in in the Lost Hills area, Calabasas, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.200 which is not unusual and of itself, because it happens 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.080 every few months. There's always a crash with a fatality too. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.320 He said, no this is I got a lot more 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.920 of his nine and one of them maybe Kobe every 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.800 calibrator right there, realizing, oh boy, so made a B 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.680 line home, got changed out and we made a bee 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.560 line over to Lost Hills station. Knowing what that entailed, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.560 the onslaught of the media, and of course as as 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.200 we're driving over there, we're asking all the impertinent questions. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.240 Make sure that all the operational things that happened. They 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.320 set up a perimeter. Uh, they got a containment are 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.720 set up. They have people that are assisting with actually 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.040 going to the site to see if there are any 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.000 survivors and to render aid because we typically we're going 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.800 to get there before fired us on almost every scene. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.360 And uh then fire. It was so remote that fire 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.560 had to be flown in to access it. I think 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.480 it took our guys almost forty five minutes to hack 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.760 their way to the point of it because there was 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.760 no clear trail that they knew of at the time 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.560 because they're going on visual, so they huffed it on 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.680 foot to get there. For those involved, there was one 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.440 of those events that they were never gonna forget. I 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.440 was in the newsroom that morning. I was filling in 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.080 as an anchor for a coworker, and as I was 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.159 writing my newscast, I noticed an alert pop up on 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:52.760 our news wire service, Kobe Bryant dyings in helicopter crash. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.600 I paused for a moment to let that sink in. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.839 I thought it was a hoax. I went down the 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.200 hall to our sports affili to ask their staff, but 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.000 they hadn't heard anything yet. I decided to call a 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.480 source with the l A County Sheriff's Department, who actually 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.440 confirmed it was Kobe. And when I saw the alert 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.719 pop up again, it also added the source of the 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.400 information to TMZ Sports and we'll explore that angle in 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.480 a future episode. It was time to break into our 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:24.520 regular programming kf I am sixty Breaking News. I'm Steve 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.359 Gregory in the KFI news center. This is breaking news 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.760 coming from the KMFI news room. We are being told 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.719 that Lakers star Kobe Bryant has been killed in a 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.960 helicopter crash in Calabasas. There was a helicopter crash early 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.680 this morning around am. The only County Sheriff's Department says 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.720 the helicopter is a Sikorski and it was registered to 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.640 the f A A as a private helicopter to Kobe Bryant. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.279 We're told that others on board were also killed, not 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.440 including Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant's wife. Again from the KFI 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.080 new Center, we're just being told moments ago it's been 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.680 confirmed that Basketball let and Kobe Bryant has died in 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.520 a helicopter crash. We'll have more at the top of 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:08.080 the hour on kf I Am six forty. More stimulating talk. Now, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.920 back to more stimulating talk on kf I Am six. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.400 Behind the scenes, I'm calling my news director and program director, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.240 and after a brief discussion, it was decided our station 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.160 would go into what we call wall to all coverage. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.520 That's when we blow out commercials and bringing our talk 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.599 show host to actually anchor live coverage. The other story 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.440 we've been focused on that day was about a strange 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.480 flu like virus that had been discovered in Wuhan, China, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.320 and whether or not it was a danger to southern California. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.279 I did have an opportunity to sit down exclusively with 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.400 Eli County Sheriff v and Wave to ask him a 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.560 lot of questions about that day. As he looks back, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.240 one of them was when he thought it was time 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.239 to talk with the media and why the crash had occurred. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.080 We had a potential up to nine victims that we 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.800 could not confirm the identity of any individual victim, and 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.520 so everyone else ran with a story that was COVID 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.640 because somebody got ahold. I think through TMZ that they 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.760 already put together. They had the manifest of the flight 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.080 and they had all the names, but we weren't going 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.920 to confirm anyone until we got that from the corner. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.720 So within a few hours of the accident, the sheriff 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.360 and Elly County's fire chief had their first press briefing 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.600 in front of the Sheriff's departments. Lost Hills Substation in Calabasas. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.480 Personnel from Las Hils Sheriff's states and responded to the 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.720 scene of the crash site and assisted the fire department, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:31.400 and we've established a containment area. And now our Aero 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.600 Bureau has a handle on traffic aircraft accidents. However, when 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.080 there's a fatality then it switches to the National Transportation 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.800 Safety Bureau the NTS, and the Federal Aviation Administration the 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.200 f A. A f A is already unseen and assisting. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.000 We're waiting the rival of the Corners Office to assist 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.000 in the recovery of the remains. As the chief indicated 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.600 there were no survivors. We have a manifest that indicates 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.440 that there was nine people on board the aircraft, the 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.440 pilot plus eight individuals. Uh, there is wine speculation and 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.320 whose identities are. However, it is being entirely inappropriate right 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.920 now to identify anyone by name until the Corner has 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.640 made the identification through their very deliberative profits and they 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.960 made notifications and next of kin, and it would be 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.679 extremely disrespectful to understand that your loved one of those 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.040 parents that you learn about it from TMZ. That is 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.680 just wholly inappropriate. So we're not going to be going there, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.079 and we're gonna wait till the Corner does their job, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.640 and we're assisting the families of those who believe there 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.480 have been impacted. And it's a it's a it's a 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.040 tough process, and our hope goes out to all of 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.800 the members they were on board, all the family of 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.600 everyone who was on board this aircraft, and uh, God 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.400 bless their souls. So at this point in time, we 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.080 have nothing that we can add until the Corner does 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.520 her job. And we'll be making those notifications. When we 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.120 have the information and we know the next of kin 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.920 have been notified, then we can release the information publicly 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.640 that you'll be notified in subsequent announcement. This was only 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.720 supposed to be a briefing. Neither the chief nor the 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.880 sheriff would answer questions, but that doesn't stop reporters from 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:17.880 thrown out a few actually of nine bodies there at 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.400 the scene. That is that is our belief. Yes, back 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.720 at the Campfire radio station, we were in full swing 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.200 with wall to wall coverage. Feel absolutely horrible is and 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.920 and probably no fault of his own. I'm sure he 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.880 was being begged for that clearance, but whoever gave him 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.520 the clearance at the Burbank airport. Absolutely we're hearing more 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.120 about who else was on board that plane, and according 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.400 to a Calabasas city official, they have confirmed to NBC 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.720 that there was a teammate on her basketball team also 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.920 on board, and we're hearing that Orange Coast College baseball 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.480 coach John Alto Belly was also on board. This has 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.760 been confirmed by Orange Coast College John Alto Bell. So 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.880 it seems maybe he and and and a daughter. Maybe 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.040 that was a teammate of GS was also on board 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:14.400 that helicopter. Here's Kareem Abdul Jabbar and his emotional response 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.000 to the losing a friend of his, Kobe Bryant. It's 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.719 very difficult for me to put in words how I 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.640 feel about the loss of Kobe Bryant as a young boy. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.960 News conferences is starting here, so we'll play that for you. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.440 Adam Silver has released a statement saying that the NBA 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.160 family is devastated by the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.720 and his daughter Gianna for twenty seasons. He says, Kobe 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.720 showed us what is possible when remarkable talent blends with 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.319 an absolute devotion to winning. He was one of the 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.920 most extraordinary players in the history of our game, with 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.880 accomplishments that are legendary. Coming up, the NBA catches word 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.640 of the tragedy as the death and life of Kobe 0:10:54.640 --> 0:11:14.240 Bryant continues. Yah sixteen teams in the NBA were scheduled 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.520 to play that day, and they all paid tribute in 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.480 their own very unique ways, including the game between the 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.120 Raptors and the spur They have decided that whoever wins 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.640 the tip, and in this case Toronto. They are going 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.760 to let the shot clock run out because of the 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:33.520 number twenty four to honor Cope cry The Clippers were 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.320 also scheduled to play the coach at the time, Doc Rivers, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:12:00.079 was stopped by some reporters just before the games. H M, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:18.560 you know, I don't know, uh, you know, Uh, I 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.880 just don't have a lot to say. The news is 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.880 just devastating to everybody who knew him, who knows him 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:34.720 in a long time, and uh, you know, he just 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.280 he meant He means a lot to me obviously. Um, 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.679 you know, he was such a great opponent. Yeah, this 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.880 is this is a tough one. I don't uh, we 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:51.719 have to go play. Uh, I mean, the news is 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.920 just devastating for for Vanessa and his and his family, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:13:01.240 and um, there's just so many people he touched, you know. Um, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.320 and you know it's looking at my young players and 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:10.240 seeing how emotional they are, uh you know, and uh 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:15.839 it just tells you how far has reached us. So um, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.000 and this is just shocking news for all of us. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.679 And sorry, I don't have a lot to say. I 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.640 just can't have to go talk to a team before 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:30.680 a game and tell him to play again. We're talking 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.640 exclusively with l A County Sheriff alex Via Nueva as 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.560 he looks back on the day of the accident. I 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.600 asked him why it was important to have a second 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.080 briefing that night, especially since there was no new information. Well, 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.400 there's some things that are just straight logistical practical that 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.079 we needed. We need to discourage people from going there 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.240 because they had flooded all the streets, The lookie lows 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.439 were out in force. We had one fool who actually 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.320 in the middle of the night tried to you know, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.000 hike through the brush to get to the crash site. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.720 So we had to have twenty four hour security on horseback. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.160 We had departs on horseback and on a t V 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.520 s patrolling the perimeter. By now it's nightfall in the 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.840 l A County Sheriff and other officials have gathered for 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.440 a second briefing and press conference. Good evening, everyone. Purpose 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.439 of of tonight's press up day is to give you 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.080 an idea of what's gonna be the next steps of 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.800 this uh, this process, this investigation is going to be 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.600 and everyone's role, as you can imagine, this is gonna 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.640 be very extensive process. It's gonna take not just days, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.400 but weeks for us to get to recover from this. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.200 And as the other count of Shriffs Department, we're working 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.800 with our federal partners, which is NTSB and the f 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.800 a A in a system during the course of this investigation, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.600 and the f A is already unseen and they've provided 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:48.200 very invaluable assistance. They've secured a five mile of flight 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.960 restriction for the area of the crash site and also 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.080 five thousand foot ceiling over it, so that is a 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.920 great help in securing the crash site. As you may 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.280 already heard from the NTSP, they're already in route to 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.520 our location to initiate the investigation. We want to thank 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.040 our partners in the Early County Fire Department for their 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.120 timely response putting out the fire and secure in the area. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.760 And right now it's uh as you can imagine, it's 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.760 all logistical nightmare in a sense because the crash site 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.680 itself is not easily accessible. However, we're now faced with 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.520 I guess well wishers and people morning who have descended 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.840 on the area, on the residential community and even the 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.360 crash site itself, and we have to reiterate it is 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:40.520 off limits to everybody. Except the first responders and investigators. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.400 So we now have personnel deployed to get people away 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.080 from there, and they cannot access to crash site. It 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.200 is in very rough terrain, very dangerous even in daylight, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.760 much less in the middle of the night, So we 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.200 just want to people stay away. The location itself is 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.960 in a residential community or adjacent to residential community, and 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.400 there are no businesses, and we want to have the 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.920 roads free for first responders and for investigators. If you 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.160 do not have an identification establishes you as a local resident, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.680 you will not be permitted access to the area, and 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.720 there are road closures in effect right now. So now 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.320 I want to turn it over to a to UH. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.960 Dr Lucas, good evening. My name is Dr Jonathan Lucas. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.080 I'm the Chief Medical Examiner for the County of Los 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:33.160 Angeles UM. Today our department had multiple members of our 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:38.920 Special Operations Response Team that we're on site. Um are 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:46.440 recovery efforts began today, but as the Sheriff UH mentioned, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.760 given the terrain and the condition of the site, UH 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.080 we expect that this will probably take at least a couple, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:59.240 if not a few days to complete the recovery Our 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:04.160 priority is completing the recovery as quickly as possible, but 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:10.680 but but safely, UH and thoroughly and UM and doing 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.400 that to make sure our staff are, like I said, 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:18.600 are safe. UM. Our next priority after recovery is identification 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:24.840 and notification of the families, all of all of which 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.520 will do as soon as we possibly can. I also 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.359 want to emphasize that we'll be doing our work thoroughly, quickly, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.399 and with the utmost compassion. So again, we really we 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.320 offer our condolences to the families at this point, and 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.919 I just want to reassure everybody we're doing everything we 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:46.560 can to confirm identifications and give closure to the families involved. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.000 Thank you. Coming up. A sportscaster and longtime friend of 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.040 Kobe's is in shock as the death and life of 0:17:54.119 --> 0:18:35.119 Kobe Bryant continues. Y Vic the Brick Jacobs is a 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.600 fixture on l A Radio. He's been a sportscaster for 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.720 decades and is a regular on kl A C A M. 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.600 During our wald Wall coverage on KFI, we were able 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.280 to get him to come on. It wasn't easy, but 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.639 Vic fought back tears as he looked back on his 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:54.240 relationship with Kobe. This is such a living nightmare for 0:18:54.359 --> 0:19:01.040 all of us, For new Kobe, It's touched our lives, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:12.040 a transcendent spirit, a profound essence. I'm not just an 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:17.360 insanely great basketball player, but one who, at forty years old, 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.479 was this beginning to blossom. I think, Shannon, you were 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.760 talking about that earlier is so true. He had so 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.880 much to give, you know, he gave all he could 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.919 on the court. Every possession he bowled like it was 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:36.720 his last possession of his freaking life. That's how he 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.399 played the game. He was taped up like a mummy 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:44.640 by Gary VD on hundreds of occasions, and I'd see 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.720 him in the lake, a locker room. I'd see in 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.520 the training room with VD, and he was in such pain. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:56.680 But he knew, he knew people wanted to see him 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.160 and see his lust for hoop. And he has such 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:05.480 an incredible lust and desire for winning. You know. Thus, 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.200 you know he evolved into the Mamba. But I knew 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:13.840 Colbe when he was seventeen, twenty four years ago, when 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.719 he first came to town from Philadelphia rookie on the Lakers. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:20.600 He was going to play summer ball in Long Beach 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:25.719 at the pyramid. I called this hotel room, and I said, Colby, 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:27.760 this is vic the brick looked to come and see 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:32.199 you and say hi, and the cities are excited. And 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.160 he said, sure, come on down. They came to his hotel. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.760 We're eating French fries together in his room, and he 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:44.439 was iced up to his hip. Even at seventeen. He 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.000 was preserving his body like like I had never seen before. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.000 He had such he was so in tune, you know, 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:52.880 with with the whole you know, mind, body and soul 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:59.720 of Hoop. But on the court, unparalleled love of the game, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:06.720 Harold Old desire to win, unparalleled love of the city 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.040 of Los Angeles, of the world. You know. He was 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.639 the first to go to China to open up that 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.440 bridge of harmony through hope. No no, no one had 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.760 the you know, the wisdom and really the division of 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.480 Kobe Bryant. Everyone just saw him. He was he was 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.159 a hardass. So you can't talk to this guy. But 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:28.719 my my experience with Kobe was one of a young 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:32.000 poet at seventeen. And when I first saw him at 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:33.520 Long Beach, I'll tell room, I said, I'm in the 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.679 presence of a poet. I knew I knew he was, 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.919 you know, beyond basketball. He was. He was so strong, 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.520 he was he had this iron will about him, this 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.080 indomitable spirit I knew would transcend the game. And it has. 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:49.159 I mean, he's done so much for basketball. But also 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:51.879 you know when he retired a few years ago and 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:53.919 who could get his last game when he dropped sixty 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.240 on Utah, I mean, come on, I can barely move 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:58.840 and said he was in pain. It was injured. He's 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:00.639 still He knew the fans were there for him. He 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.720 wanted to give you one last incredible memory. Indelible. It's indelible. 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.040 His whole career is indelible. I was on the court 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.560 with him his first big shot against Phoenix, the playoff game, 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:13.399 and I was right behind him when he gave his 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.080 first primal scream at the Downtown Hoopdo Joe. And I 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:17.920 was right behind him in my poncho and my purple 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.480 and gold fur and right behind him, you know, screaming, 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.080 you were the one, you were the one. You were 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:23.879 the way he were the way, and Kobe Bryant is 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.920 the way. He's a gone among men. It's a gone 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:31.439 among men. We've all been, you know, horrifically affected today. 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:33.399 Not just called me the basketball player. I called me 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.280 the person. He loved his four daughters and to have 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:37.320 one have she should go down with him as this 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.399 is this, you know, beyond a nightmare. I first heard it, 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:45.399 you know, via reports, you know, the various you know 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:50.760 media giants K five of course an turn K five 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:55.320 T MZ. And I just started crying my eyes out 0:22:56.160 --> 0:23:06.280 and cried and cried because we all loved him. Some misunderstood, 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:10.560 you know, everyone thought he was this crazy, crazy, hardass 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:17.080 dude who with no emotions and basically that was a 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:20.760 way to motivate himself. But with my with me, and 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:23.879 I told you, you know, since he was seventeen, I 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:29.000 could see, you know, his transcendence as a man. He 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:32.320 was such an ancient soul in a seventeen year old body. 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.480 And not not did he elevate the game of basketball, 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.800 you know and spread it, you know, the good will 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.959 you know, not just a China, but but everywhere you know, 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:47.000 he's he used to speak in many languages after the 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.080 game in this postgame interviews because of the international you know, 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:52.440 grew up in Italy, you know, with Joe and when 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:54.840 you know his father was Joe Bryant's Joe jelly Bean 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:58.280 Bryant was a wonderful basketball player. And I, you know, 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:01.439 I tenner and BASKETBA player in Europe very early. And 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:04.639 you know called he grew up in in uh in Italy, 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:09.800 you know, watching the videotapes of the NBA and getting inspired, 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:13.640 you know, ten tho miles away and some crazy apartment 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:18.679 in Rome and just basically building his psyche. But he 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:21.280 was always so in tune with the game and so 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:24.399 in tune with life. He loved his he loved his 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:27.119 daughter so much. While crews were still working at the 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:31.320 crash site thirty miles southeast in downtown Los Angeles, the 0:24:31.400 --> 0:24:34.520 annual Grammy Awards were about to go live at Staples Center. 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:40.360 Here we are singer songwriter Alicia Keys together on music's 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:47.040 biggest night, celebrating the artist that do it best. But 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:52.200 to be honest with you, we're all feeling crazy sadness 0:24:52.320 --> 0:25:01.960 right now because earlier today Los Angeles, America and the 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:08.840 whole wide world lost a hero. And we're literally standing 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:21.919 here heartbroken in the house that Kobe Bryant built. A 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:23.879 lot of people were scrambling behind the scenes at the 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:27.200 Grammys that night, including Alicia Keys. She and the group 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:29.480 boys two men were able to put together at the 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:32.600 very last second a song to pay tribute to Kobe. 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:44.360 The guitar and mass lead all wait the bed Hi 0:25:47.880 --> 0:26:08.680 and Not memo to be coming up in episode three. 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:13.199 Our mission is not to just determine what happened, but 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:16.520