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