>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and, of course, from all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm michael holmes. we continue our breaking news coverage of the death of kobe bryant, the former lakers star dead in a helicopter crash on sunday at the age of 41. >> he and his 13-year-old daughter gianna were among nine people killed when the aircraft

went down just outside of los angeles. authorities have been on the scene trying to figure out what happened. cnn's nick watt is there with the very latest. >> reporter: well, the first priority is the recovery of the bodies, and then the identification, and then the investigation will really kick into top gear. now, the ntsb is sending 18 people from the east coast. the faa has been on the scene through sunday, being helped by local law enforcement. they've all been looking at, of course, the safety record of the helicopter itself, the record of the pilot, the route, any radio communications, and also the weather. now, we have been told by the l.a. police department that sunday morning around the time of this crash, the l.a.p.d. grounded their helicopter fleet because the weather was not good enough for them to fly. the visibility was low. everybody around here has told us it was fogged in this morning. so that is one area that they will definitely be looking at.

now, nine people lost their lives on board that hillary clinton. kobe bryant, his daughter gigi. we have spoken to parents who were waiting at the mamba academy where gigi was supposed to be playing in a game at noon with kobe looking on and coaching. they, of course, never made it. but seven other people also lost their lives. the pilot as yet unnamed. one other man, john altabelli who was a baseball coach from orange county, he perished along with his wife and daughter. and three other people who are yet to be named. but as one radio sportscaster put it here in los angeles, this is like jfk for l.a. people will remember where they were the day that the laker great, the great figure -- he transcended the sport. he meant a great deal to the city beyond even what he achieved with the lakers. people will remember where they were when they heard that kobe bryant had died. nick watt, cnn, calabasas.

>> now, the news of kobe's sudden death has, of course, shaken fans all around the world. >> yes. huge crowds have been gathering outside the staple center in los angeles where bryant built his legendary career with the lakers, winning five nba championships. makeshift memorials are popping up outside the arena. and for more, cnn's paul joins us now from the staple sensor. paul, kobe bryant fans trying to come to terms with his tragic news, showing their respect. what's the scene there now and what have fans been telling you? >> reporter: well, rosemary, what they're telling me is, first off, they wish this had all been just incorrect reporting, this never happened. but once they found out that their fallen hero kobe bryant had indeed passed away, they came down here to staples. it was an ironic night because the grammys, all the glitz that goes with that, were going on and then all of these lakers

fans in their purple and gold showed up to honor kobe bryant, who made so many memories here in los angeles, both on and off the court. entire families showed up, including this family right here. and i've got to ask you really quick, kobe bryant, what's he mean to you? >> let me tell you. i met kobe when he was 17 at wango-tango. kobe gave me a high five. he had to leave because too much security. but kobe was so excited that everybody loved him in l.a. los angeles has always been kobe, always kobe. and we love kobe. we're always going to love kobe. and you know what, my daughter was born when kobe was drafted. she's right here. all my daughter -- she's been a kobe fan all these years, too. >> reporter: and for you today? >> it's just really difficult, you know, to take in this information. this just struck everyone as a surprise. never in a million years would i have ever envisioned or imagined kobe bryant's face being

plastered all over l.a. live, all over social media, all over everywhere, you know, also his daughter as well, you know, rest in peace to every family. my condolences go out to every single family, everyone who has experienced this tragic loss. and, you know, kobe bryant is just an all-time g.o.a.t. everybody loved him. people who don't even know him can feel this very deeply in their heart. i don't even know him. he's not my family. but everybody here, my dad's been crying all day. >> i've been crying. i love kobe. kobe, kobe was an inspiration. the smart light of my life. without kobe, i wouldn't have the energy he brought to everybody. he gave me that energy to be a better father. >> reporter: that's your grandchild? >> this is my grandchild and he's a laker fan, too. look. they call him baby koos. koos had dinner with kobe. >> his real name is kobe. >> reporter: his real name is

kobe? >> his real name is kobe. >> reporter: thank you for taking the time-out. that gives you the level of passion for kobe bryant and the lakers and the entire family with the grandchild named kobe out here past 11:00 outside staple center, remembering somebody they admired so much and they want his legacy to live on. and if you don't know this, i just want to clarify. when they say gfrmt o..o.a.t., mean greatest of all time. they don't mean a four-legged animal. i'll step out and let you listen. >> kobe. co kobe. kobe. kobe. >> reporter: i'll send it back to you now. >> many thanks to paul. we see there so many broken hearts at the staple center in los angeles. >> amazing, isn't it? >> there's been so much outpouring of grief. not only in the united states.

right across the globe. his impact was enormous. >> yeah. i mean, like we were saying last hour, there's not many players in sport who are known by one name. >> yeah. >> and he can be known that way. >> a very short list, isn't it? >> it is a short list. and current lakers star lebron james, of course, he looked up to bryant when he was coming up through the ranks and he was visibly emotional sunday as he got off the team plane in l.a. just a day earlier he passed bryant on the nba all-time career scoring list, moving him to number three. he spoke about that achievement before news of bryant's death. >> it doesn't make sense. just make a long story short, now i'm here in a lakers uniform in philadelphia where he's from where the first time i ever met him. he gave me shoes the all-star week. it's surreal. it doesn't make no sense, but the universe just puts things in

your life and when you, i guess when you're living the right way or you're just giving everything to whatever you're doing, things happen organically and it's not supposed to make sense, but it just happens. sorry. and i'm happy just to be in any conversation with kobe being bryant, one of the greatest basketball players ever played, one of the greatest all-time lakers. the man has two jerseys hanging up in staple center. it's just crazy. >> incredible. we are also hearing from nba greats like kareem abdul-jabbar. he had this message about bryant and his loss. >> kobe, my thoughts are with you, absolutely. rest in peace, young man. this loss is, it's just hard to comprehend. go with god. >> another nba legend, michael jordan, released a statement on bryant's death.

he said this. i am in shock over the news. words can't describe the pain i'm feeling. i loved kobe. he was like a little brother to me. we used to talk often and i will miss those conversations very much. jordan also praised bryant as an amazing father who deeply loved his family. and for more we are joined now by cnn's world sports patrick snell. it's just extraordinary hearing all these messages from all these threatathletes, fans, rig across the globe. >> internationally, it's been such devastating news. it's a collective heavy heart. we've been reporting on this, monitoring the updates from across a whole variety of sports. you know, u.s. presidents past and present. tributes continuing to pour in this monday. kobe bryant, the nba legend. he really did trans send the world of sports, highly respected, adored and the outpouring of grief and shock

just too apparent this day. it says a lot as michael just said a few moments ago. one of those megastars that you can just call him, you can refer to him by his first name. kobe, a regular fixture down the years as well. whenever a european power house team would come to southern california, would come to l.a. for preseason training, the likes of spanish giants barcelona have done over the years, bringing with them the likes of brazilian superstar ronald, recently argentine who kobe struck up a friendship and maintained it. as he told our andy scholes just 11 days ago in southern california. >> i think he's one of the best athletes of all time. his tenacity, the intelligence with which he plays as well as his skill, just puts him head and shoulders above the rest. now, cristiano is right there with him. barcelona is going through their

transition period, changing manager, a lot of questions to be answered, but i think they'll figure it out. >> and, of course, messi himself with huge respect for kobe. this tribute via instagram earlier. i have no words. all my love for kobe's family and friends. it was a pleasure to meet you and to share good times together. you were a genius like few others. well, my story, growing up a big part of his childhood in italy, he had a passion for football. on sunday the athletic club tweeting, we have no words to express how shocked we are to hear of the tragic passing of one of the greatest sports men of all time. kobe bryant, all our thoughts are with the families and those affected by this tragic accident. you will forever be missed, kobe. michael and rosemary, a highly impactful life he had on so many people, but one

engulfing great in particular, a huge lakers fan, tiger woods speaking to reporters, this after competing on sunday in san diego. tiger saying he actually learned of the tragedy from his own caddy. >> i didn't know until joey just told me coming off 18 green. i didn't really understand why the people in the gallery were saying, doing it for mamba. but now i understand. it's a shocker to everyone. unbelievably sad and one of the more tragic days that i think -- for me, the reality is kind of setting in. any time he was in the game, heed take on he'd take on the best player and shut them down in 40 minutes. that was one of the more impressive things in the entire career. >> tiger woods moved on a dig weekend. >> as a sidebar, he spent 20 years with the same team. that just doesn't happen in

professional sports any more. >> one team, l.a. lakers his whole career. incredible. five-time nba champion. >> what a loss. extraordinary. thank you so much, patrick. appreciate that. also world leaders, past and present, as patrick said, have been sharing their thoughts on the death of kobe bryant. president trump tweeting, kobe bryant, despite being one of the truly great basketball players of all time, was just getting started in life. he loved his family so much, had such strong passion for the future. the loss of his beautiful daughter gianna making this moment even more devastating. >> and former president barack obama tweeting, kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. to lose gianna is even more heart breaking to us as parents. and this from former u.s. president bill clinton. i'm deeply saddened by the tragic loss of kobe bryant. his daughter gianna and all who died in today's accident.

kobe lived a very large life in a very short time. incredible words there. and as we've mentioned, kobe bryant's 13-year-old daughter gianna was also killed in that crash. they were on their way to a basketball game in which gianna would have played, and her dad would have coached. >> yeah, he often spoke about his closeness with his daughter. they had dreamed of playing in the wnba. have a listen. >> coaching a kid is funny. it came out of nowhere because my daughter just decided she wanted to play about 2 1/2 years ago. so i started coaching her a little bit, and then she made a local all-star team. we really just kind of sit back and let them process things and figure things out because we are playing for the long game of them being the best basketball players they can be. but it's fun to sit there and watch them hoop. >> bryant had said he saw giaee

a gianna as the air to his legacy. >> speaking of women playing in the nba to combat racism in sports, hear more of what the nba legend had to say. do stay with us. ♪ when we see you enter through our doors. we don't see who you're against, or for. whether tomorrow will be light or dark. all we see in you, is a spark. we see your kindness and humanity. the strength of each community. the more we look the more we find the sparks that make america shine. ♪

the nba and the game of basketball will mourn this loss together. please join us in a moment of silence for kobe bryant. rest in peace, mamba. >> they are paying tribute to kobe sunday night before their game. bryant began playing basketball when he was three years old. went on, of course, to become one of the nba's greatest. >> and he was outstanding from the very start. entering the nba straight out of high school, now, at the time the 18-year-old was the youngest player in nba history. he played with the lakers for his entire career, as we pointed out, which is very rare, winning five championships. he also won two olympic gold medals for men's basketball. he retired in april of 2016, scoring 60 points in his final

game. >> dave is the sports editor of the nation magazine and joins us from washington via skype. appreciate you doing so under these circumstances. i wanted to begin this with a tweet of yours, and let's put it up for people to read. you said this. when the kids on the 6th grade basketball team i coach shoot jump shots, they always shout "kobe clm when the ball is in the air. they were born in 2018, and yet the legend lingered. that says something about the impact of this man. speak to that. >> yes, absolutely. i mean, kobe bryant was more than just a basketball player. he was part of the pop cultural firm amou firmament. >> he went into the draft straight from high school. in so many ways the world watched him grow up. i mean, these incredible highs, there were miss steps, too, we need to say that.

but people who never met him felt they knew him, and that's a rare thing. >> it is rare that people feel the sense of connection. i mean, kobe bryant started to become at least a national name at age 17, playing for lower marion high school right outside philadelphia, and he dies today at the age of 41. 24 of his 41 years has been lived with us. so we've known kobe for more than half his life and we saw him get married to vanessa and we saw them have their children, so to not only have kobe die today, but also his daughter gigi, it's like a double gut punch. we really thought because of the power of cultural transmission that we knew this family. >> yeah, i mean some of the photos of him and his daughter at lakers games, i mean just really wrench your heart. he clearly loved that kid so much. when it comes to his imprint on the sport, one thing that's striking -- there are many things that are striking but not

a lot of athletes are known by their first name, and one of them is kobe. it's testament to him, but also tells us about his mentality. speak to his approach to the game. >> well, i have a good friend who played with kobe on the lakers. he worried about kobe showing up hours before game time and practice footwork on the court without a ball. so la ron would show up and see kobe with no ball in his hands. just moving his feet like a dancer on the court, playing against his own shadow. that's the kobe bryant that i think moves him to legend among his peers. other than michael jordan, no one had more stories about their legendary work ethic than kobe bryant. >> yeah, this is interesting, too. you know, there are few players who are considered yardsticks, if you like, that other emerging stars would be compared to. you know, he could be the next

michael jordan, but also he could be the next kobe bryant and so on. this legacy by definition is going to be around for a long time. >> absolutely. i mean, today there's a lot of talk that the nba should have canceled their games today because the players were in tears on the court. they could barely function. but in san antonio both teams that were on the court, they decided to start the game with 24 second time shot violations, clock shot violations, just holding the ball for 24 seconds, one after the other, because of kobe's number 24. then the crowd chanted "kobe" for minutes on end. expect basketball arenas to become places of collective mourning in the current days. that's how large a hole kobe bryant is leaving behind. >> and you know days before the tragedy, cnn conducted one of kobe bryant's final interviews. >> yeah, our andy scholes sat

down with the legend at a launch event for major league soccer. here's andy with that story. >> any time you get to sit down with kobe bryant, it's special. he's one of the greatest athletes of all time. a five-time nba champion. he was also excelling in his post-nba career in the business world. kobe was one of the early investors into the sports drink body armour. they had signed an exclusive deal with major league soccer. it was at that big announcement where i got to sit down with kobe. we talked about his love for soccer. we talked about the nba. we talked about his daughter gigi in the game of women's basketball. and here's a portion of that interview from just over a week ago. >> the nba fans love to debate which team from which era was better, shaq recently weighed in saying he absolutely thinks you and him would have beaten this current lakers team with lebron, anthony davis. what's your take on that hypothetical match up? >> i don't weigh in on hypotheticals, i never have.

those things drive me crazy. as a competitor, there's nothing you can do about them. you can't debate yourself to winning. that's the beauty about sports, you win or you lose. in a debate culture there's never a clear winner so it's pointless for me. i don't engage in those things. but it's fun to hear. >> you recently said your daughter gigi got you back into watching a lot of nba. >> yeah. >> you took her to nba games, sitting court side with her. as you coached her basketball journey, i want to get your take if a woman could play in the nba. >> i think there are a couple players that could play in the nba, there are a lot of players that have skill that could do it. diana tourasi, ella de la dawn. they can certainly keep up. >> i know you're a big soccer fan. growing up in italy, i want to get your thoughts on what seems to be an increase in racism in european football and if there is anything that can be done to combat it. >> there's always education and

understanding that racism is the thing that's been a part of our culture for a while. even though now, you know, we've come such a long way, but there's still so much to be done. and i think education is always the most important thing. i think speaking up and taking a stand, a significant stand. when i was growing up in italy, i obviously witnessed it firsthand going to certain soccer matches and things of that nature and things that my parents have taught me and educated me on how to deal with those sorts of things. looking at various muses, i've handed things extremely well from jackie robinson to bill russell and so on and so forth. i think education is very important. >> i was lucky enough to interact with kobe during two sectors of my life. back in college i was a ball boy for the houston rockets. and during my interview with kobe, i actually showed him a picture from back in 2003 of the two of us and kobe laughed, saying, we were both youngsters back then. and i also took that opportunity to thank kobe for just being

such a nice person, you know. back then he was the best player in the nba, but he still took the time to take pictures with all of us, to sign autographs for all of us. something that a lot of superstar players just don't do. and when i thanked him for doing all that for us back in the day and for being such a nice person, he smiled back at me and nodded. and that's who kobe was, just a genuine nice person, and he will be sorely missed. >> andy scholes there. that's a theme that keeps coming through. >> everyone says that. >> he was a nice guy. >> good guy. >> so often professional sports, they're not always so nice. >> he smiled at everyone. he shook everyone's hand. >> and time. we're going to have much more on the lakers and kobe bryant as well as what we know about the helicopter crash that ended his and his daughter's lives and we must keep saying this, seven other people on board. >> exactly. kobe bryant retired from the nba in 2016 and here are the final moments of his last game where

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the arena where bryant played most of his career. and just a few miles away, the city's international airport lit up its towers with purple and gold, the colors of the lakers. >> in new york city, the famous madison square garden honoring the basketball icon with a similar scene. and heartbroken fans inside the arena remembering bryant by donning his lakers jersey. >> incredible. and bryant's professional basketball career began early in his teens. >> and in 20 seasons he won five nba championship rings, set a long list of records. paul as more on bryant's extraordinary life. >> reporter: he was born kobe bean bryant. to the world, the 41-year-old was a global basketball phenomenon. the son of a pro basketball player, the philly native finished high school and was quickly drafted by the nba. >> greatness lies ahead for this young man. >> reporter: at the time bryant was the youngest player in the

league's history at just over 17 years old. >> i think a lot of people, even when i came out of high school, i think people were kind of, kind of giving me the cold shoulder to begin with because i think unfortunately some people wanted me to fail. i kind of defied the odds. >> reporter: the mvp spent his entire career with the l.a. lakers winning five championships with the team. during his 20 seasons bryant became one of the league's top scoring players, even surpassed michael jordan, becoming fourth on the nba's all-time scoring list. on two occasions he helped secure team usa olympic gold on the world stage. bryant dealt with controversy, too. in 2003 he was charged with sexual assault, accused of rapping a 19-year-old hotel employee. the charge was later dropped and the case was settled in civil court. bryant also overcame various sport-related injuries, always determined to heal and return to

the court. then in the fall of 2015 he announced his plan to retire from the nba and played his final game in 2016 the. the following year his numbers 8 and 24 were retired. since then he made his mark in hollywood winning an academy award for ""dear basketball"." his greatest accomplish imt may have been off the hardwood, he was a father of four children. >> we have moments in life where seems like the days other are never going to end. seems like the moment that you're in feels like the darkest moment to you, you know. at that point you really kind of have to step outside of yourself and put it in perspective and understand that i have many, many blessings, a lot of things to be thankful for. >> reporter: at 6'6" bryant was more than a literal giant. l.a. mayor erik garcetti wrote, he amazed people everywhere with his incomparable skill on the court and with his intellect and humility as a father, husband,

creative genius, an ambassador for the game he loved. paolo sandoval, cnn, new york. >> now the news of kobe's death was especially felt at the grammy awards on sunday night, held at what is the lakers headquarters the staple center in los angeles. >> host alicia keys paid tribute to bryant early in the ceremony. >> los angeles, america, and the whole wide world lost a hero and we're literally standing here heartbroken in the house that kobe bryant built. [ cheers and applause ] >> she is so right. and she was then joined by boys 2 men in this moving song. ♪ it's so hard to hate

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world leaders and other dignitaries are joining a diminishing number of holocaust survivors in marking the 75th anniversary of the death of camp survivors. >> the ceremony comes against the backdrop of rising anti-semitism around the world. nazi germany set up the camp and occupied poland in 1940. more than 1 million people died there in gas chambers all from disease. most of them were jews. as china fights to contain the wuhan coronavirus, it's issuing a dire new warning. people can spread it before any symptoms appear, and that presents a major challenge for authorities trying to screen

people for the virus as well as health care workers. we have heard about a nurse from wuhan who says she contracted the virus along with at least a dozen medical workers at their hospital. >> now, china has confirmed more than 2700 cases, 80 deaths. both the u.s. and australia now have five cases each. that's just the beginning. south korea also confirming four cases. for the latest we go to cnn's paula happ paula hancocks live in seoul. and david. let's begin with you. this is what's worrying, the presumption that you can have this period of time where you do not know you have it, but you are infectious. it makes it difficult to get your head around how many people might have spread this without even knowing. >> reporter: and, michael, it's worrying because it makes you question all the screening that has been put in place around the world really.

intense screening in china in particular. stepping off the train, they put a thermometer at your forehead or checking into hotels they see if you have a fever. if the incubation period is 1 to 14 days, according to chinese health officials you can still transmit that virus to another person within that two weeks time line. it makes it uneasy to say somebody who tested coming into a country briefly with a thermometer check is safe to come in or safe to not transmit the disease. a lot of questions remain here. but health officials have been holding this daily update for the press in particular so that we can then relay that to folks. and among the things they have stressed is concern with migrant and rural workers in particular because here we are in the midst of the spring festival, right. this is the holiday where you've got folks who leave the big cities and they head out to their home provinces. well, as the holiday comes to an end, they're supposed to be coming back into those big cities. that means travel by air, by rail, by car, and talking about hundreds of millions of people who would likely be in close

quarters. well, if they can't necessarily guarantee that they are able to stop the spread, well, at this point they're going to have to then launch an education campaign, if you will. this is about awareness how they put it particularly with the migrant and rural workers. they're initiating that right now. they've also extended the festival holiday to february 2nd. but we're told there are discussions underway that it could be extended even further to allow more time for people to essentially stay at home and not get together. and so all of this, of course, compounded with the concerns that going forward, the containment efforts as extreme as they are, may not stop all of this, michael. >> yeah, exactly. that horse may have bolted by now. david culver in beijing following things there for us. let's go to paula hancocks who is in seoul where there has been reports of another case. the concerns there and the precautions?

>> reporter: well, michael, we're up to four confirmed cases at this point in south korea and this here is the national medical center. it is where the government has decided will be the main place that any future case wills come to. you can see here the tent behind me. this is intended to make sure that any potential patients are not going to be mixing with the general hospital. they're also looking into moving the ordinary patients out of this hospital so they can free up beds with the expectation that there could well be many more cases needing to come in. there is one individual here at the moment, a male who was diagnosed on friday. he's up on the 7th floor behind me. you can see everybody taking precautions inside that building. there are hazmat suits being worn. nobody wants to take any risk. in the past couple of hours the risk level is higher.

this alert level being raised means basically the government takes over so that they are the ones that are now spearheading this as opposed to the cdc. what we are seeing here is similar to what we're seeing around the world as the coronavirus is starting to spread, michael. >> all right, paula, thanks for that. paula hancocks there in seoul for us. >> a bombshell revelation on the ukraine controversy is adding to the trump impeachment drama in washington. "the new york times" is reporting that former national security advisor john bolton wrote in a draft of his book that the president told him that he wanted to keep withholding military aid to ukraine until they helped investigate former vice-president joe biden and other democrats. again, bolton apparently wrote this in an initial draft of his

upcoming book, the room where it happened, a white house memoir. a source with direct knowledge of the manuscript tells cnn "the new york times" telling of bolton's account is accurate. >> now, the news, perhaps not surprisingly, has congressional democrats now demanding that bolton has to testify, adding to the uncertainty on whether the senate will vote to subpoena witnesses for the trial. and meanwhile, you've got donald trump responding to bolton's claims. he tweeted this, quote, i never told john bolton that the aid to ukraine was tied to investigations into democrats including the bidens. and then in just under ten hours from now, mr. trump's impeachment trial continues. his legal team resuming their defense on the senate floor. >> all right. we'll take a short break here. but still to come, our coverage of the death of kobe bryant continues. when we return, we look at the flight conditions at the time of the deadly crash.

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you are a legend. you're an icon. you're a father, you're a husband, you're a son, a brother, a friend. thank you for being my friend. i love you, brother. >> heartfelt emotions there. that was former nba all-star dwyane wade remembering kobe bryant shortly after his death on sunday. the 41-year-old and his daughter were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash near los angeles. >> federal and local authorities are at the crash site determining or trying to determine exactly what happened and why there was very low visibility at the time of the incident. still not certain, though, whether that played a factor or not. recovery efforts are underway. >> david sousi is a cnn aviation safety analyst. he is also a former safety inspector for the federal

aviation administration. he joins me now from denver via skype. thank you so much for talking with us about this tragic helicopter crash that took the life of kobe bryant and his 13-year-old daughter gianna and, of course, seven other souls. no official cause has yet been announced, but the national transportation safety board has sent a team to the crash site to investigate the possible cause. what do you think likely happened here? >> well, it's a little too early to tell much right now. i'm really quite surprised. this helicopter is not one that is just for, you know, light recreation or anything like that. this is a professional aircraft that's built for exactly this, for commercial flights. it's weather rated. it has twin engines. it's very, very rare to see this kind of accident with a helicopter of this caliber. >> that is the thing that's hard to grasp, isn't it? there's been a lot of talk about the possibility of weather being a factor here.

if it was, and we don't know whether it was, but why would this helicopter have been given the go ahead to take off if visibility was low at the time? what is the protocol when it comes to situations like that? >> well, most sikorsky s-76 helicopters are equipped to fly even in low visibility situations. they have auto pilot. they have sensing. they have everything that a commercial airliner would have as far as taking off into weather. so that's why i'm still a little bit perplexed about this because of the fact that it could have flown in low visibility conditions because of its equipment that's on board the aircraft. >> right. and as you mention, this sikorsky s-76 helicopter has very strong safety record. it's my understanding there's about a thousand of them in the united states. you can correct me if that's not the case. but talk to us about how that safety record plays into this investigation. >> well, one of the things that i'd be looking at first is the

fact that this is a twin engine helicopter. and bearing in mind, too, this helicopter is the only helicopter that i'm aware of that was designed for commercial use. most other helicopters are designed for military use and then built around that. but this helicopter is actually -- only took some design characteristics from some of the earlier military helicopters, but as far as its design, it was made for this, with safety as its most paramount design feature. >> david sousi, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks very much. >> we appreciate it. >> now for more on the weather conditions at the time of the crash, we are joined by meteorologist pedram javaheri. keep hearing this about thick, thick fog and having to fly on instruments. what are you seeing? >> absolutely was the case. you hear the l.a. authority, the l.a.p.d. saying they didn't fly their aircraft in the same

warning prior to kobe bryant's private flight. of course, we know humidity at the time at 100%, the atmosphere was fully saturated, visibility was reduced, sometimes less than two miles. going into the closer perspective and looking at what happened, the base cloud deck was around 1,000 feet high. the flight itself kept between the elevation of 800 feet to 1200 feet. a lot of that flight was kept below the cloud deck. the peak of the hill is 2000 feet or slightly higher. the flight took off a little after 9:00 a.m. in santa ana. paralleled the interstate 5, glendale, made six loops above the skies of glendale east of the los angeles zoo if you're familiar with this area. it kind of went back toward the west in its last ten or so minutes of flight and pushed in above the skies of the highway 101 there. the crash happened outside of calabasas. in the final minute of flight there, pretty perplexing when

you look at the data coming in from flight radar 24 because the elevations were 1200 feet of this aircraft, went up to 2100 feet in the final 60 seconds of flight. and then at 9:45, within that same minute, crashed at an elevation around 1700 feet. so certainly there was something going on on board, whether it be disorientation by the pilot or maybe technical difficulty there, guys. >> yeah, it is extraordinary. very, very sad. we'll learn more, we will learn more. pedram, thanks for that. >> and bryant's influence reached far beyond the basketball court. >> yeah, in 2018 he became the only athlete to ever win a basketball championship and an academy award. the former los angeles lake erwining an oscar for the best animated short film called "dear basketball." it was based off a poem he wrote which was about him as a young boy dreaming about the game. have a look at just a clip. >> dear basketball, you gave a

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. >> and i'm rosemary church. we continue our breaking news coverage on the sudden death of kobe bryant. the basketball legend died in a helicopter crash on sunday along with his teenage daughter and seven other people. >> u.s. aviation officials and local authorities are at the crash site near los angeles investigating what happened. they do say there was low visibility at the time of the crash, but it is still unclear if that played a factor or not. the recovery underway. authorities say it could take a couple of days to complete. >> bryant was an early star in professional basketball. he was drafted into the nba in his teens. >> in 20