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    Relatives search for motive behind tragedy

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The death of the Hollywood director Tony Scott is even more of a mystery as fox reports live tonight.

His family is out denying media reports that doctors had diagnosed the famed director with -- inoperable brain cancer.

You heard the reporter -- Brain cancer who can comment at all about any -- according to the family.

He did not to their knowledge -- did not have any issues with any cancers they don't know where that came from.

-- officials with the Los Angeles county coroner's office say they've completed the autopsy on Tony Scott.

But that we may not know the results for more than a month.

Witnesses say they watched the director of the big budget hits including top gun and days of thunder jump off a suspension bridge right in the Los Angeles harbor on Sunday.

And now the website TMZ reports that some people on the scene recorded the jump on their cell phones multiple recordings multiple pictures.

The fox reports chief correspondent John -- and -- -- several of these are out there and I guess they're shopping them for some money.

Yes apparently -- chat among those who took videos and photos.

Was some tourists who are on a hobbled cruise boat.

Just as Tony Scott jumped from that bridge they are among those who took videos and photos -- also others apparently.

Who were -- on the bridge and have a lot of quite close up photos.

Of the exact moment that Tony Scott made that jump Harvey Levin of the web -- executive producer the web site TMZ.

Has seen it many of those photos he says they are disturbing.

And they -- sale listen.

They are -- shopping.

These photos and we have seen one of them where Tony Scott literally is perched on the top.

The literally.

Bomb may just making the jump I mean you just you see him crouched to make the jump.

And they are shopping this thing vigorously.

As far as we are aware ship those -- off shopping these videos and photos vigorously have not yet found to -- accept -- and we don't know why he jumped still right.

Costs quite simply we do not know his wife and -- sadly a widow Donna Wilson Scott said that Tony Scott I did not have.

-- -- of any description she said the reports of brain cancer unquote absolutely.

False of calls.

That is the possibility that Tony Scott have been diagnosed of some form of cancer.

And I have not told his family how we also understand that the -- whole autopsy has been completed.

And they're also reports including from the web site TMZ.

That it failed to find any indications.

All that any cans that we won't get the full report from the -- up for a few weeks until he gets the toxicology reports back.

In the meantime -- it's worth remembering that -- investigators say Tony Scott did leave a number of notes for his family so it may well be that those family members already have the ounces.

That the rest of us are still searching for -- Jonathan Hunt in the newsroom tonight Jonathan thank you.

-- we've reported.

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