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Sunday, January,

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Kobe Bryant, his thirteen year old daughter

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Gianna, her friend, and five others

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board a private helicopter in Orange County,

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California. The

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group is headed to a youth basketball tournament

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at Mombas Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks,

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a little over seventy miles away, just northwest

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of Los Angeles. It's

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a frequent destination for Bryant and his daughter,

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and the pilot has flown that route many times

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before, but on this foggy

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morning, conditions are different. On the

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five Freeway maintains special Christian

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Special vipart condition Special

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two five hundred five north bound

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two eggs. The pilot notifies the tower

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that he's climbing above the clouds. To echo

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ACT, you're still too low level

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for five following at this time. Moments

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later to echo actraycount radio

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silence. Helicopter

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crashed into a mountain. Uh, we heard it,

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and now I'm looking at the flames. Is it a small

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plane? It was a helicopter. Helicopter,

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Yeah, and so the helicopter going to the hills.

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Yeah, and we're looking at the flames right now on

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the hill. We're

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getting reports than NBA star

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Kobe Bryant and at least four other

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people have been killed in five

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NBA Champion former League MVP

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Kobe Bryant dive. NBA

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star Kobe Bryant was on board

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that helicopter and is now dead

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at the age of forty one. I'm

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Steve Gregory in Los Angeles. The Death

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and Life of Kobe Bryant is a limited

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series podcast that will take a look at that

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tragic day, the media coverage

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on the scene, the confusion, the

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investigation, the autopsies, controversies,

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and the indelible mark that Bryant left on a

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city, a sport and his legion.

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A fan. When you're five, six, seven years old,

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he's bringing championships to l A, they're

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having the parades. You see, everything's

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Kobe, and it's like you grow up idolizing him. So

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many millions of people loved him for so many different

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reasons. It's just a tragic

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thing that there

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are no words that you can describe

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how everybody feels about it. It doesn't matter

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what you do, who you are, it doesn't matter. You

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can imply what this man did in his

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life, the way he worked, that applies

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to everybody, every ethnicity, every background,

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So for me personally, that's

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the thing that'll always stick out for me is as

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his true legacy. Listening to the Death in Life

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of Kobe Bryant beginning Sunday, January

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on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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or wherever you get your podcasts.