good evening. breaking news. kobe bryant bryant killed in a helicopter crash in calabasas, california. the long-time los angeles laker and five-time nba champion died in the 9:00 a.m. hour local time. it is believed that eight others were also on board. and among them, kobe's

13-year-old daughter, an aspiring basketball player in her own right. as news of the tragedy spread, fans gathered in los angeles. the site of some of bryant's so many athletic moments to celebrate his life and career. the ntsb is on their way to the crash site to investigate. officials are looking closely at whether weather had something to do with it. dense fog may have contributed to the incident. let's bring in steve patterson who has been covering the crash. and steve, as you've been on the scene all day, the last briefing that you know so well, the sheriff was saying the faa was on location. i was just mentioning how the ntsb is on its way. and the coroner was also on its way. what's the latest? >> in fact, there were some coroner vehicles spotted in the vicinity here as well as a

bulldozer. we've seen a lot of equipment as first responders authorities and crews along with investigators are swarming the scene. the official word will come from as you mentioned, the ntsb, the federal authorities which are, again, on the way at this point. but again, you know, the focus is going to be getting there as quickly as possible, determining what happened as quickly and as efficiently as possible. as this investigation gets underway. witnesses report hearing a loud boom, followed by a fire ball. some of the first responders here say the first order of business by far was getting rid of a very quick fast-moving brush fire that had eaten up very quickly almost a quarter acre of that hillside which is now in the dark which is still behind me. as are people who have come here all day to pay their respects and get eyes on the scene. you know, we've seen people from all over the city of los angeles

and elsewhere come to really pay their respects. we do hear that there is another press conference, another press briefing that is scheduled for just about an hour from now from the l.a. county sheriff's department. they had originally said that they would not be confirming any of the dead on board that craft until next of kin was notified. so the assumption, the prevailing theory here on scene is that that pressure will announce maybe the names of everybody officially on board the helicopter. as we've been learning sort of unofficially about more about people that were on board the craft as this investigation has gone on. but the biggest obviously thing we're waiting for is for the ntsb to arrive. for them to dig into what happened on scene there, and for them to quickly determine what has happened here. as you mentioned, again, it seems like part of the thrust of the investigation will be focussed on the weather. i can tell you when we got here, which was maybe a few hours after the crash, there was still

a thick fog layer above that hillside. visibility just as i was driving here was pretty poor. we can't imagine what it looked like at the time of the crash. that may be the focus of the investigation. but again, it's going to take some time for investigators to arrive. richard? >> steven, in certain parts as you know so well, the southland is clear as a bell, and other places you will have often these overlays of smog or in this case fog. also that helicopter sound over high, also very common in southern california. and they'll be looking into all of that. do you know at this moment whether on the ground right over your right shoulder where the site is, will they continue to work overnight? >> so -- i mean, i can't show you, obviously, the background i have is completely dark, and then there's the light pollution from all the national media, from the police, the law enforcement agencies on the

ground. what i can tell you is when i do look over my shoulder, from time to time you see flashlights. you have seen some activity and movement. you can see right now, i think i can see a shining light in the trees. it's hard to point out and hard to tell. that is something we don't know. that is something we may find out in this next press briefing in about 45 minutes to an hour. >> we do know there are dozens down there on the ground. nbc's steve patterson, covering the breaking story all afternoon. steve, thank you for keeping us up to date. i appreciate you starting off the hour. there's been an outpouring at the location that steve patterson was at as well as at staple center downtown. the grief grows this power. president obama wrote, kobe was a legend on the court, and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. shaq with whom he won three nba championships wrote there's no words to express the pain i'm

going through with this tragedy of losing my niece, gigi, and my brother, kobe. and lakers great magic johnson said he loved talking to kobe about basketball, being fathers and husbands, and about their love of italy. kobe bryant, the plan aman and player touched many lives. we have more on his lasting impact. >> reporter: under the smiling face of kobe bryant at a memorial in los angeles, today unshakable grief. >> he meant so much to the city of l.a. as a player, as a father, as a businessman, and as a mentor. there will never be nobody else like kobe. >> reporter: for the fans who gathered here, the death of kobe bryant still seems impossible. >> disbelief. it's like i feel like i lost someone in my family. >> there's probably nobody that has changed my life as much as kobe bryant, and i was hoping to

see him do so many great things. >> reporter: and yet the flowers and tributes and tears are real. and then just as the sadness becomes unbearable, silent fans in los angeles begin to chant. >> thank you kobe. >> reporter: each filled with their own memories they websited of his greatness. >> kobe is not just a person. he's a generation. he's a whole generation of all of us who were kids watching him. he's just -- he's irreplaceable, man. >> a man who made so many of us feel invincible when he took to the court now gone far too soon. memorialized today as one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. >> gaudy schwartz reporting for us. and dave, sports editor at the nation, and on the phone, sports

writer for the athletic. thank you both for being here. dave, start us out here. it has been said as you heard by president obama, there was unfortunately, an inability, because of today's catastrophe, no second act for kobe bryant, but one might argue he was through his second act. we just don't know what his third, fourth, and fifth act would have been. >> well, i don't want to overinterpret what president obama mental, but this idea of a second act had a lot to do with the trail that it looked like kobe bryant was going to blaze moving forward. the idea -- he won an oscar in 2018 for best animated short. the idea that he wanted to take the fame and the fortune he accrued as a basketball player and become something of a mogul, to become a creative in the world of hollywood, and people lebron james were looking to him to blaze that trail for the next act. and then there was the next act

about what was going to happen in terms of gianna and his daughter and the idea of kobe bryant as the father of these amazing daughters. who knew what they were going to do. and it's the fact of the lives being cut short. i think it's hitting people hard. kobe was 41. but he was a young 41 because he was about to start this second life that we're now not going to be able to witness. >> for those who are not an l.a. laker fan, or a kobe fan or do not watch the nba, who was kobe bryant? >> you know, that's a really complicated question to answer, frankly, because there are so many different responses that you'll get. i think the main response that you'll get when you are talking to basketball fans, whether their laker fans or not is that he defined a generation of greatness. he could do things we thought we would never see since michael and we saw them with kobe. and i think that fans everywhere

are mourning a loss of a talent, of a personality and a person that kobe was 18 when he came into the league. and he was 41 when he died today. we got the majority of kobe. and i was struck. i went down to staple center immediately when i heard the news and i was there early, and started to see fans trickle in, and a lot of the fans i talked to, they said he was 41. i'm 42. like, this is a generation of people who came up watching kobe bryant when we were the same age as he. so i think that's something that is going to be hard to put into words in the next few days. >> and part of that, and you make a really good point here. when you think of kobe bryant, the time that he came of age, right, in the public sphere as he, again, played for 20 years, over to you on this, dave. he grew up in a time where fantasy football also grew up.

where the relationship between an nba fan was one to one, not so much from one to a team. kobe bryant being loved by young fans all around the country also means that he was part of the globalization of the nba during the same time and has fans around the world. >> well, the thing about kobe, you talk about him being loved. what i find fascinating is no one was indifferent about kobe. people loved him. people hated him. it wasn't so much that people love ord disliked him, but people were either for him or against him. and there's the expression, thin line between love and hate, the opposite of love is indifference. people were not indifferent about kobe. he inspired that kind of passion. and for him to come up during this age of globalization meant that he was more than an athlete. he was -- he became a brand. brand kobe. the first person since michael jordan to be able to leverage that. but kobe was going to leverage it differently than michael jordan. michael jordan leveraged it to

become an african american owner of an nba team which was trail blazing. t kobe bryant wanted to do something outside of basketball. i think everybody has high expectations as to what the next chapter would bring. it's the cutting short of the chaptd chapter along with his daughter and the other family who we need to lift up. we need to remember everybody who passed today. it's like tragedy on top of tragedy. >> reverend al sharpton had the opportunity to speak with kobe bryant during the funeral of michael jackson, and the rev was telling me earlier how kobe came up to the rev during the funeral because the rev was giving the yu eulo eulogy, and he said this is strange to see a person of this importance during my time and his relevance in pop culture.

i don't know how to process it. today we're seeing him passing at an age where he was not supposed to by all counts, and now who else is looking at his passing and going, what does that mean to me? in your conversations with those in the nba, in the football world, and those on the ground, the fans, have they been asking themselves that same question that kobe asked so many years ago? >> i think it's exactly the same question, and even before the rev had that conversation on your show a couple hours ago, i had said earlier this morning when i first heard the news, this reminded me a lot of what new york felt like when michael jackson died and walking around the city and this numb, heavy silence, this quiet that i witnessed. staple center today that was exactly what i wngsitnessed and

what fans are feeling. and several people i interviewed and talked to said the same thing to me. you remember where you were when certain people have died. michael jackson was one of them, and kobe bryant was absolutely one of them as well. and i think similarly, we have complicated and strong feelings about these figures that we're really going to need the time to process what kobe meant to us, to process his legacy, and it's not that's easy to do in the moment when you hear the news. >> dave? >> i had -- i mean, in the days ahead there's going to be a lot of discussion about kobe bryant and his journey and his arc, about 2003 when he was charged with sexual assault, and those charges being dropped in 2005. i think for today, i mean, i know it's hard to do in this ticker tape social media culture, but i think for today, people just need to exhale and not police other people's grief and just let people feel what they are feeling. because these are some very

intense emotions. >> absolutely. well-said. thank you both so much. i appreciate your perspectives. coming up for you, we'll have more on the death of kobe bryant and his daughter, gianna, and seven others right after this. ven others right after this >> it's very difficult for me to put into words about the loss of kobe bryant. kobe loved his wife and daughters. he was an incredible athlete, and a leader in a lot of ways. he inspired a whole generation of young athletes. i had the privilege of being there when he scored his 81-point game, and it was something that i will always remember as one of the highlights of the things that i have learned and observed in sports. as parents of six, this network is one less thing i have to worry about. (vo) why the aceves family chose verizon. we all use our phones very differently. these two are always gaming and this one is always on facetime.

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the news is devastating to everybody who knew him. known him a long time. and -- you know, he just -- he means a lot to me, obviously. you know, he was such a great opponent. you know? it's what you want in sports. he had that dna that very few athletes can ever have, the

tiger woods and the michael jordans. you know? it's funny. i was getting to know him more since he retired. you know? yeah. this is a tough one. >> on any average day in the southland, there heard doc rive rivers. today he's remembering kobe bryant as the foe he learned to love. the five-time nba champion dying in a fatal helicopter crash that killed eight others including his daughter, gianna. we have to guests with us. reflect on that. when we hear from doc rivers here, jack, you really get a sense. cross-town rivals, you learn to love your opponent at a certain point, and certainly doc rivers is remembering that today.

>> yeah. you know, i've been in -- i was firsthand hearing the phoenix suns. i was doing a book with them, and i remember them talking in the playoffs about how to defend kobe bryant, and the conversation went on for, like, an hour and a half. well, what do we do here? and some of the best minds in the game and the staffs, do we do this or that. finally after an hour and a half, someone said we can't defend against this guy. they had just spent an hour and a half trying to figure out how to do it. that was the kind of player kobe was. there really wasn't a defense for the guy, even more so than maybe michael. i'm not saying i think michael jordan was the best player. i would always take michael over kobe, but when he was gone and revved up, when he was on it,

you were just not stopping that guy, and i think it was that kind of thing that doc rivers was remembering today. >> and dan, it was that tenac y tenacity. right? i mean, 60, 60-point games in his career. that's unfathomable, but there's tons of statistics i could go through, and you know them by heart when you think of somebody like kobe bryant, he represented certainly a generation of an era, leaving high school and going straight to the nba. the nba then changing the rules after that. and making it all the way through the social media era, if you will, of sports and that authenticity that was brought upon you, whether you wanted it or not as an nba star. >> yeah. he was really groomed for it. his dad was in the nba. jack knows that being a philly guy. part of a sixer team. he grew up around it. he was in italy and masters

italian and was really a -- kind of a sophisticated guy who had been around great players and he was ready to go from high school into the nba. so he pulled that off magically, and so many seasons. and i always think of these things, you know, being a boston guy, that the celtic laker thing was a big part of the nba rivalry in the 60s and right through the 80s with bern and magic. and kobe was the last stand of that with going against paul pierce and kevin garnett, and they played in two finals and '08 and '10. kobe's team lost in '08 and got the celtics in '10. a big deal for him to conquer that and win without shaq. >> he called himself as you two know, the black mamba. that's a venomous snake, the largest venomous snake in some parts of africa. 14 feet long as they get.

why did he call himself the black mamba? >> kobe was -- i was trying to think of one word to describe him, and i'm trying to think of the best use of this word. but it might not come out that way. that is ruthless. kobe was the kind of guy -- usually when athletes die or we're paying them tributes, they say they made their teammates better. that wasn't kobe's thing. that was not -- that was not on kobe's mind when he went out there. i mean, you could say that about all the great ones. jordan had to learn that a little bit. but that wasn't kobe's thing. kobe was an island. kobe was to himself. and all that encompasses the bad and good of that, chuck daily used to say great coach, your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. kobe's was his feeling of invinceability what led him to accomplish what he did on the

court, get 60 points in his last game? i mean, that's just absurd. i don't care if you're taking 150 shots, but that same trait made him a very difficult teammate. he was not easy to play with. and the games kobe won later in his career and dan referred to the championships against is celtics. they won because of kobe's greatness. it wasn't because of kobe doing a magic johnson hey, we're in this together. you know? so i say that with some measure of respect, and some measure of that kind of selfishness has to be part of what he was as a basketball player. >> we were showing pictures for those of you just joining us, of the sheriff county vehicles in calabas calabasas. they are potentially still working. the coroner going on site. we also understand the faa is on site. the ntsb is headed there right now. so there's a lot of questions that we're still waiting to

potentially get some answers on. and they're heading and sending certainly their first responders to that space right now. back to our conversation here with jack and dan. i'm going to play a little bit of a former lakers great, jerry west who talked about kobe bryant's death earlier on nbc. let's take a listen to that. >> i'm old enough to know that i'm not going to be here forever. and you see someone leave before your time, you just shake your head and wonder why. and that's what my life and day has been like. >> jerry's a hall-of-famer. dan, many believe that's exactly where kobe was headed this summer. >> no question. it's really great to hear from jerry west on this. and i'd never lived in los angeles, but i've been out there a ton as has jack. we know the sports culture and just the overall culture in l.a., it's a star culture.

and in sports, jerry west, sandy colfax, kinds of the first guys. kareem and magic. kobe in my view, the last great l.a. superstar. it's like with michael jackson or something. i mean, these guys become iconic and it was great to see those images from the west coast, and people putting flowers outside the staple center. just the impact this is going to have out there, a little bit like when dale earnhardt died in florida and what the car racing is down there. lakers are king in l.a. l.a. is the celebrity culture. this guy was their king. >> top to bottom. so many reflecting. go ahead. were you going to speak quickly, jack? >> you heard the emotion in jerry's voice. jerry and kobe bryant are so tied up. you know, when he was ready to come out of high school and at that point, there was no lebron,

there was no sort of blueprint. i think kevin garnett was around the same time, but there was no blueprint for a 17-year-old kid which is what kobe was. jerry west had to sign michael cooper, the laker's best defensive player and said let's go at this kid, and kobe, like, ate him up. jerry west saw, like, five minutes of that workout and go, i don't know what we got to do, but he's going to be a laker, and since that moment, you know, jerry sort of the era from the 50s and 60s, was really tied up with the kobe bryant. he was one of the ones that watched him play for five minutes and said okay, we got the real deal here. >> trial blazer in a laker's jersey. jack and dan, thank you. >> thank you. still ahead, more on the life and legacy of kobe bryant. plus a look at some of the other day's top stories.

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down. there are so many of them in today's society. so i tell them to big deep inside, be patient and be strong. hit the books. and work hard and continue to dream. because that's another thing i think was wrong with today's society. people try to shoot down our dreams. if you have a goal or something we want to accomplish, they put limits on it and tell us what we can and cannot do. have faith in themselves. >> kobe bryant in 1998. joining us now to look at the legacy of kobe bryant, joined by a sports writer, author of "show boat, the life of kobe bryant". roland, you know kobe bryant well. you wrote a book on them. you've been following him. when you look back to 1998 and you see young kobe bryant who was going to play for another 19 years in front of him, what do you think about? >> i think about the night he scored his first field goal in

charlotte. he bounced into the locker room after, a picture of joy. he hit me with a sole shake. he had no idea who i was. just a guy with a microphone and a recorder, but he was eager to greet the world. he quickly found out the nba was a very lonely place. i watched him suffer a lot through those times. but he was so determined. you know? he said i'm not going to let them break me. i'm not going to let them break me. when i would talk to him on the phone or in person, he would say i'm going to find a way. his goal was to be the man. he was certain he was going to be the greatest player in nba history. he said i don't know how i'm going to get there, but i'm going to find a way. >> you can pick the numbers, numbers that you probably have memorized here. 48,637 minutes played. that's the sixth most in nba history. that's just one of the numbers

here, roland. if he was going to be the best nba player, who was he going to be after retirement in december of 2017, when he was saying right before a game in an interview, i can't believe this is my last game. it feels like one of my first. >> yes. i will tell you that kobe from a young age showed a flair for writing. he enjoyed writing. his grandfather used to tell him, don't be a sweaty nba player. go be a writer. he had a high school english teacher at lower marion high school in the philadelphia suburbs who brought that alive. and of course, kobe went on. he had a recording deal with a rap group that he was friends with. he had this big thing, but he knew that he could not be the basketball player he wanted to be. he set those things aside, but he made plans, and, of course,

he moved right out of his basketball career upon retirement into the business of writing and producing and exploring that world. >> roland, what is the death and the passing of kobe bryant at 1 41, a young age, saying about where we are today? where the nba is today? >> well, i think the death, first of all, is a tremendous loss to basketball. it's a tremendous loss. kobe was such a huge part of the culture of basketball, and i'm not talking act the culture of the game itself. he was that, but he was a young man who spoke languages. he had lived in other countries. he had this view of the world that wanted no quarter. and he wanted to give none. he was a pure competitive spirit, and he was going to do everything possible. no stone unturned.

no task shirked. he was going to do everything. his ultimate decision in how he was going to get there is that he was going to outwork everybody. he was going to play every minute possible. he put tremendous pressure as a young rookie, a very young rookie when the game was filled with much older players. he put tremendous pressure on all of those grand lakers that he joined with how he played. with all of his enthusiasm. with his insys answer the on study. as the great jerry west told me, he didn't even date, and that was a huge part of it all. it have the full commitment. >> we know about kobe bryant, 17 years old and older, because he then joined the nba. what was his childhood like? what about his family in his early years formed who he

became? >> well, his family, joe and pam brien bryant, his parents, they were the darlings of philadelphia in so many ways. joe is from south philly. local guy. came up through college and got this -- ended up with this fabulous contract to play for the 76ers. he was part of the bomb squad for the 76ers with lloyd b free. they had a wild and rowdy and very talented young bench, and joe was just sort of the toast of his hometown, and that all eventually played out. he got traded away. he ended up in houston in the san diego clippers. and joe was a big player. had a lot of bounce. and he was a show boat player. and, of course, that ended up being the nickname shaq had for kobe, because kobe was a showman. he loved to be able to thrill the crowds with the displays.

he loved to dunk. all of those things. and out in that culture, kobe found himself soon in italy riding the bus with his father's italian league teams, and he would look at the older guys. he was 12 years old. he would look at his father own the older guys on the italian league bus and say i'm going to be better than all you guys. >> it is a show that will be missed. show boat. author of the book "show boat, the life of kobe bryant". thank you. >> thank you. >> the toronto raptors are going to dribble it up. there's a 24 second shot clock. and, of course, kobe bryant wore number 24. and i wonder if that is what is happening in honor of him.

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he played 20 seasons in the los angeles lakers' jersey. he was a five-time nba champion and 18-time all star. he's fourth on the nba's all time scoring list. he was the father of four dies. one of them, gianna, who also died in the helicopter crash today. we look back at his life and career. >> he was one of the greatest basketball players of all time. and a career long laker. kobe bryant played in the nba for 20 seasons. a career which included five nba championships, 18 consecutive all star selections and two olympic gold medals. >> kobe bryant. >> the son of basketball player joe bryant, koeb entered the nba straight out of high school. >> when i was younger, it was like let's go. you want to win? let's do this. why aren't you working? let's go. let's go. let's go. as you get older, you have a family, you try to raise kids,

and you learn patience. >> for the final time, number 24. >> in 2016 bryant retired from the sport. he said he knew his body was slowing down. >> there's no sadness in that. i've had so many great times. i see the beauty in not being able to blow past defenders. i see the beauty in getting up in the morning and being in pain. i know all the hard work it took to get this to point. >> bryant brought to life his stunning career in an animated film titledd dear basketball. he professed his love for the sport. >> no matter what i do next, i'll always be that kid with the rolled up socks, garbage can in the corner, five seconds on the clock, ball in my hands. love you always. >> kobe bryant was 41. >> joining us now on the phone, co-host of the espn program

"high noon". jason page also. how have you been talking about kobe bryant and the conversations you've had, what have you been hearing and learning? >> like this is stunning. the point that hit me about this is i remember when wilt chamberlain died in 1999 and how stunning that was, and he was 63 years old. at this moment, i don't know if it's a matter of kobe seeming like somebody who was invincible, but it's like this is what it felt like when tupac died. it's sentimental. he graduated from high school the year before i did. the idea of someone like this and someone who was such a significant magnitude being gone, i don't know how long it's going to take before people with come to terms with the reality that kobe bryant is dead. >> as a radio host, you talk about sports all the time.

what have you been hearing and what have the conversations been like? >> well, i come from a similar spot. kobe was one year younger than me. my sports casting career basically followed the path in terms of when he got into the league, i had kind of started in my career as a sports radio host. so i kind of feel a lot of what is being said, but i guess i'll take it from a bit of a fan standpoint, and talk about the fact that there weren't a lot of athletes and there aren't a lot of athletes today that are must-see tv. i grew up with my dad talking about sandy colfax. you knew you were going to see something special. when i think of kobe bryant from an on the court perspective and what he did on the court for 20 years, it didn't matter. his games were on the west coast. i'd stay up until 1:00 because i knew there was always a chance you were going to see something

that you probably hadn't seen before. some remarkable performance when kobe was on tv. it didn't matter if the lakers stunk or were good. it was like a tom hanks movie. if tom hanks was in joe versus the volcano, if you're a tom hanks fan, you're going to see it. the kobe was on a crappy lakers team, i didn't care. i was going to watch because it was kobe. i was going to watch. and there aren't a lot of people like that in any sport that you can talk about that way these days. >> you know, both you and jason when i was asking you about your conversations with those in the sports world as well as those in your respectediive shows in tha space, you reflected on your own history and watching kobe bryant, and that says a lot, because as kobe reflected on michael jackson's passing he was saying that makes me ask where i am nat in my path.

what was kobe bryant on in his path today? where was he going if he hadn't been stopped mid arc today? >> one thing that's interesting. i was reading and interview he'd done about his post basketball life. and the work he'd done in production and everything else. someone asked him what did you think people expected from you at this point? like i didn't have any idea what to do with myself since basketball, and i'm 100% one of those people because he was who focussed on that one thing. we'd seen it from other guys. they didn't know how to adjust. that wasn't the case at all. i think we had a better glimpse about the things he was into and the things that were important to him and the people he worked with. the idea of kobe bryant as mentor to younger players. that's something i would have expected but he said anybody that wants to call me, i'll work out with them. he had become someone who belonged to something larger. right? like he almost belonged to everybody, and i admit that as he got older, i found that to be

surprising and endearing. >> 30 seconds, jason in. >> i think what he said is point on there about him becoming more worldly. i think in his post basketball career we were getting a sense for just how worldly and the fact that he grew up overseas. how much of an impact that was going to play in his life beyond basketball. and it all feels like we've been robbed. it all feels like we've been robbed of the second career, the second career of greatness for kobe bryant. >> jase thank you both so much on the story of kobe bryant. i appreciate it. we'll stay on top of the latest coming out of california. the death of koibe bryant. stay with us right here on msnbc. [happy birthday music]

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