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nichelle medina is at the crash site. what's the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: investigators with the ntsb are expected to arrive here at the scene sometime later this morning. in the meantime fans here and around the world are mourning the loss of a legend. nba teams from coast to coast paid tribute to kobe bryant last night. >> everything i learned came from kobe. >> reporter: the 18 time all-star won five championships with the los angeles lakers. and inspired a generation of basketball players along the way. >> yeah. that dna that very few athletes could ever have. the tiger woods and the michael jordans. >> reporter: bryant was killed along with his daughter gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash yesterday morning. the chopper went down in foggy conditions about 30 miles northwest of los angeles. >> given the terrain and condition of the site, we expect that this will probably take at least a couple if not a few days to complete the recovery. >> reporter: dispatch audio captured the moments before the crash. >> i heard a helicopter flyin

is in moscow for talks with blood even putin the meeting between the 2 leaders has now go the way nichelle think the russian president for the invitation adding it's always better to talk to each other than other than for the visit was originally planned to be over the ukraine conflict and crisis in libya that is now being overshadowed by the military escalation between the u.s. and iran as well as washington stop russia's north stream to gas pipeline to germany it's all of a husband. it's difficult times that angle or merkel arrives in moscow for what will be her 19th visit to russia as german chancellor certain to be up for discussion between herself and president vladimir putin are taking energy out of the current situation in the middle east in the standoff between iran and the united states and getting energy from russia into germany via the nord stream 2 gas pipeline. chancellor merkel and president putin are in agreement when it comes to a deescalation of tension in the middle east mrs merkel spokes person stressing the need for cool heads this week it's constant it's important that

cbs news correspondent, nichelle medina is in calabasas in california, near the scene of the helicopters update. right now, they are remaining very tight—lipped. there were two news conferences that was scheduled yesterday where we got very little information, but here is what i can tell you. investigators with the ntsb, they will be out at the scene later this morning. fans here and around the world obviously mourning the loss of a lakers legend. this all started yesterday, when the helicopter went down at around ten o'clock local time. one thing i can tell you that investigators are really going to be looking closely at, the weather conditions. one factor in all this, there was fog yesterday, so they are obviously going to be looking into that to see if that was one of the causes of this crash. as for those fans, i can tell you, when we were just driving to this particular location, you saw fans out in their jerseys, in their gear. so many people still struggling to come to grips with the loss of kobe bryant, a man who did so much for the game of basketball, the sport. obviously, this