Plane crash nola east (Fox 8 News anchor Nancy Parker killed in the crash...RIP)

I believe the Fox 8 camera guy filming the story said he saw them flying then he lost vision as they swung around a building obstructing his view, and he never saw them again. So I believe they were well in the air.
I flew out of Lakefront airport for the first few hours of my pilot training. I took off from that very runway many times. From the perspective of someone standing on the ramp watching the takeoff (to the south), an airplane climbing on takeoff would eventually pass behind the airport complex and tower.

So the cameraman really is establishing/confirming that the airplane crashed soon after takeoff.