-- 2I-5.
THE TRAIL BLAZERS WOULD NOT
BE IMPORTANT IF NOT FOR PAUL
ALLEN.
HE SAVED THEM IN THE 90'S AND IN
THE EARLY 2000'S.
KEN: HIGH PRAISE FOR A LOCAL
ICON.
WE ARE DEALING WITH NEWS THAT
PAUL ALLEN HAS DIED.
HE OWNED THE TRAIL BLAZERS,
SEAHAWKS AND PART OF THE
SOUNDERS.
HE ALSO COFOUNDED MICROSOFT.
HE WAS THE DRIVING FORCE
HE WAS THE DRIVING FORCE IN
NEIGHBORHOODS.
JENNY: WE CHECK-IN WHERE WE HAVE
BEEN COVERING THE STORY ALL
MORNING.
THIS BEGAN
BEFORE 1980, 1980
WAS A DEFINITIVE TIME FOR PAUL
ALLEN AND BILL GATES WHEN THEY
CHOSE
-- THE PERSONAL COMPUTER
THAT IBM WAS MAKING.
THE REST IS HISTORY.
IN 1988, HE
USED THE FORTUNE HE
HAD AMASSED IN THOSE EIGHT YEARS
TO PURCHASE THE TRAIL BLAZERS.
HE HAS OWNED THEM 30 YEARS.
SINCE HE BOUGHT THE TRAIL
BLAZERS, HE USED A PORTION OF
HIS TIME TO GIVE HIS MONEY AWAY,
BY SOME ESTIMATES $2 BILLION TO
CHARITIES FROM THE OCEAN TO
HOMELESSNESS TO LOCAL CHARITIES.
HE ALSO PURCHASED THE SEAHAWKS
.
HE LEAVES QUITE A LEGACY.
NO WIFE, NO CHILDREN, JUST
FAMILY -- BROTHERS AND
RELATIVES.
HOW HIS FAMILY WILL BE PORTIONED
OUT IS STILL TO BE DETERMINED.
FOR A LOT OF US WHO HEARD THE
NEWS YESTERDAY
, IT CAME AS A
SURPRISE.
AS IT DID TO THE TELEVISION
VOICE OF THE TRAIL BLAZERS
MIKE,
HE WAS A VOICE FOR 17 YEARS.
WE WOULD DO IT INTERVIEW, MY
FIRST QUESTIONS WOULD BE ABOUT
ROCK 'N ROLL OR SPACE OR
OCEANOGRAPHY.
THERE IS A GUY, NOT YOUR
TYPICAL OWNER, WHO HAD A LOT OF
INTEREST IN A LOT OF THINGS,
INCLUDING SPACE TRAVEL,
OCEANOGRAPHY, ROCK 'N ROLL, A
LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
A LOT OF THINGS HE SPREAD HIS
MONEY OUT ON.
HE OFFICIALLY -- ORIGINALLY
DEFEATED THE LYMPHOMA, HE
ANNOUNCED IT HAD MADE A RETURN.
HE PASSED AWAY
SOMETIME MONDAY
AFTERNOON IN SEATTLE.
A SHOCK TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IN
THE NORTHWEST AND A LOT AROUND
THE WORLD WHO WERE IMPACTED HIS
GENEROSITY.
KEN:
DYING AT 65 IS YOUNG THESE
DAYS.
REST IN PEACE PAUL ALLEN.
AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, REACTIONS
HAVE BEEN POURING IN FROM ALL
OVER.
THIS WAS TWEETED
OUT,
ROCK
BOTTOM WILL TEACH YOU LESSONS
THAT MOUNTAINTOPS NEVER WILL.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS RUSSELL WILSON
TWEETED WE HAVE LOST A FRIEND
AND GIANT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISION,
GENEROSITY AND FOR BELIEVING IN
ALL OF US.
BY YOUR EXAMPLE YOU MADE US ALL
BETTER, KINDER, REST OF THESE.
AN ORGAN CENTER TWEETED HIS
CONDOLENCES,
PAUL ALLEN LOVED
OUR CHILBLAINS ARE'S WITH EVERY