Comedy night and hung a sign up in front of theater with Robin Williams name to honor him. You talk anyone and appreciated when people talked to them as a person. Share a moment. We can not tell how many who have said, i had this interaction with Robin Williams one time at comedy and it was a conversation you will always remember. Charities the family is asking people send donations to, to on the actor including in super bowl and st. Judes research hospital. These are Charities Close to his heart. They are asking people donate money rather than leaving flowers. His children are release sames about their loss. His oldest son said i love my fair and best friend and the world got more gray. I will carry his heart with me every day. Younger son said, there are no words Strong Enough to describe the love and respect i have for my father. The world will never be the same as a tribute the chinese theater in hollywood dim the lights for a full minute in his honor. He was just the 8th person honored this way in the 87 years. Surely the star on the he will wood is steps away from the theater and the Hollywood Chamber of exercise laid a wreath next to flowers left by fans along where momentoes. He was a giants fan seen at games and a season ticket holder. They honored him at at t pack last knit before the face off against the white sox. Fans stood in a moment silence and remembered williams on the jumbotron. The manager remembers when he brought his friend and famous new Yorker Billy Chris am to crystal to a yankees giant games. He loved william even though he could not understand him. Matt is at at t park with a report for us at the top of the hour. A San Francisco musician who accompanied comics said he owes his career to Robin Williams. He says that he met williams in the late 70s when both were starting their years. He was very downtoearth, very approachable and friendly and warm. On the tour when he was being badgered from all sides this public he would be hyper. He went on tour with williams and accompanied him on the first comedy album and appeared on mork and mindy. We will follow his death with coverage now on twitter abc7newsbayarea. Another huge loss fans are paying tribute to Lauren Bacall suffering a massive stroke and died in new york city yesterday. She had a long career in film including dark passage, and created magic with Humphrey Bogart would she married in 1945. She received an honor air Academy Award and two tony award forker book another work. The board of education in fremont will shelf a controversial Sex Education textbook your health today, for 9th grade but the parents say the chapter contained inappropriately explicit descriptions of sense youll sexual activities and teachers will use last years book. The asking administration is in touch with the publisher who offered to modify the textbook and address concerns of parents. Expect to pay less for natural gas next year. A little. Pg e says the acknowledge ratepayer can save between 50 cent and 60 cents a month and the utility is passing along the savings after the deadly 2010 san bruno pipeline explosion and fire. The program was supposed to cost 299 million but the cost was closer to 223 million. Closer to 223 million. There is now a risk of cat 19yearold water tunnel outside of Yosemite National park with repairs costing 100 million and the cost to build new tunnel is 630 million. Taxpayers approved a ballot measure in 2002 to upgrade the aging water system but it does not include the tunnel. A bay area woman known for trying to board planes without a tickle is back in court today. She was supposed to have a Mental Health compassion but she was arrested in los angeles device last week. First, federal flying from san jose to lamb without a ticket. She then tried to get on another plane without a boarding pass. Heart man is banned from sfo where she has been arrested half a dozen times. It is looking cloudy this morning. Mike, is it locational . Good observation. We expected more clouds than we have. Because of the cloud base, we do not have any fog to worry about because the base is at 1,700. But the cloud deck will create flight arrival delays into for. Check ahead. Temperatures in the upper 50s for most of the San Francisco area and cooler right there coming in through the Ferry Building and 59 and same across the Golden Gate Bridge and in the financial district 58 degrees and we have a lot of 50s around until you get inland east bay with 60s and 61 in union city, santa clara 63 along with saratoga. We start off with clouds this morning and same at yesterday, sun returns to most neighbors by noon but the coast is partly sunny topping out in the mid60s and mid60s around the bay at noon and mid70s inland and mid70s away the bay at 4 00 and low 80s inland and in the 60s elsewhere but inland has a few 70s hang on by 7 00. We have construction in the east bay traveling along 80. Clear conditions from hayward to foster city. Different story from later Morning Hours yesterday. A huge trailer shut down the entire westbound portion of the bridge. Everything is back to normal. In the east bay, we have construction project eastbound and westbound along 80s gene powell and buchanan with construction crews. You will want to slow for the cone zone. It does not appear to be causing delays. On the bay bridge, through the maze, everything is empty. Another green light for californias bullet train. A big go ahead that has been picked you. Too sick to work but not too sick to pick up a pay check. A new investigation hasness on a sickout that left thousands in a jam on their commute. Downtown San Francisco a live look. The new abc7 news now. The new abc7 news now. You will not miss covering scan that rose, berkeley san jose and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. Still investigators found dozens of muni prayers who took part in the three day sickout in june were well enough to pick up their pay chose on the day they called out sick. According to investigators from the Personnel Office 375 operators called sick without a note from the doctor and 60 showed up at headquarters to bet their paychecks on the same day they called in sick. The operators with up documented absence could have their pay docked. 387 others who called sick had a doctors note. The but the legal train roth has project another hurdle. It is the second section of the project to be okay. Another section was approved last year. The project will be completed by 2029 and moves passengers between los angeles and San Francisco in three hours with speeds up to 300 Miles Per Hour. Competition between two ondemand ride companies, uber and lyft accuse each other of booking and canceling rides on the other service. It considered sabotage because it reduces the number cars available for passengers. Both deny the accusations. A battle to save the only Public Hospital in west contra costa hospital. Nurses and doctors and patients have filed suit in federal court to stop Doctors Hospital in san pablo from closing. They have stopped taking patients delivered by ambulance. The Doctors Hospital is operating in the red but advocates say it provides Critical Services to low oncouple minority and seep your residents. The death of rome has triggered a spike in calls to help for the National Crisis outline but many living with depress or addiction or Mental Illness never make the call. Here are the warning signs of suicide. It could scary question but those in Santa Clara County suicide and Crisis Center are not afraid to ask. They have to ask. They want to save lives. They do not want to feel alone and most people who call us feel they alone. Robin williams admitted in interviews that he, too, dealt with lonely misand depression lonelyness and depression. Depression can affect anyone. You do not need to have a particular job or profession or financial status. This mothers daughter hang herself six years ago. Another woman had a lot to live for a good job and engaged. She just gave up hope she would get better. She started out of the darkness foundation, dedicated to Suicide Prevention and recently asked the publicist of Robin Williams if the comic would speak at the october march. Ought key is to talk about it so volunteers get 2,000 call as month for help. If you on or about someone you know shows signs of depression we have a National Hotline number to call and local resources to turn to in the bay area. You will find phone numbers and sites where you can get more information. We will turn things over to meteorologist mike nicco. It is cloudy this morning. Is it warmer . The same as yesterday. The trough of lowtoupper will move away and that will keep us average to below average headed from west to east across our bay area neighborhoods. Here is live doppler 7 hd with the 23 Miles Per Hour wind in fairfield from southwest to northeast so a stout sea breeze. The winds are going to pick up east of the Golden Gate Bridge can north of the bay bridge through San Pablo Bay and grizzly bay to the delta community. 1 00 oclock to 9 00 this afternoon to evening the winds at 15 to 25knots. It could look leak glass now but it will not in the evening. You can see the gray and black start to the day. Mild to warm highs. It will be cloudy tonight. Patchy drizzle is possible but hardly any tomorrow. The warmer air arrives tomorrow and we are back to average. The cloud deck will dissipate between 11 oclock and noon. An hour later than yesterday. Along the coast we may not see so were sunshine. Our summer fred from the 60s at the coast to 80s inland and to the south we have a few 80s los gatos and gilroy stuck in the mid80s and midtoupper 70s for the south bay and clouds in santa cruz at 75. We have 71 at millbrae and everyone else on the peninsula, midtoupper 70. Midtoupper 60s loan the coast into downtown and San Francisco and possibly 70 in south San Francisco. Bodega bay and sausalito, midtoupper 60s and we will jump into the upper 70s to low 80s through the north bay valley and warm we than year. You are the most likely area to see high clouds today. A few clouds along the east bay but probably mostly hazy. Lowtomid 70s and upper 70s to mid80s throughout the east bay. If you did did not need the conditioning yesterday you will not need it today. U. V. Index is very high. Be prepareed. With quick are sunshine we warm two to four degrees tomorrow and a couple more degrees inland tomorrow and friday and we are in the upper seven to low 80s an the bay and mid80s to nearly 90 inland and midtoupper 60s loan the coast with morning clouds and afternoon sun. Have a good day. Clear conditions in walnut creek southbound 680 with tail lights pushing to highway 24, so no delays or construction progresses and the east by, we have a couple of areas of congestion and through oakland it will last until 6 00 this morning and northbound loan along the film it, a few lane blockages and delays coming away from high street and when you head beyond 980 you are on way. Sound traffic has slowing through the bright lights of the construction project but the rest of the drive is clear and along 580 no delays at highway 13 northbound and southbound up to the caldecott tunnel more on that in a couple of minutes. Apple will release more than a few new iphones. It looks like apple could be planning to lunch a new tablet in the fall. Production has begun on a new full help sized ipad expected to be the followup to last years ipad. If you bought a new mcyou may be struggling whether to buy Microsoft Office, there are other free options and wall street journal weighs in. Time to break the habit of thinking you need to pay for Microsoft Office when you buy a new computer. There are a lot of free options including one from microsoft that gives the basics. For free. Michael jackson will make Music History from beyond the grave. He be the first artist ever to premiere a music video exclusively on twitter. That your technical and Paul Mccartney is planning a spectacular candlestick tomorrow. We will keep our cameras throughout the entire commercial throughout the entire commercial break to keep you in dramatic video shows a water rescue in phoenix, arizona, yesterday evening. 16 people and ten cars were stuck in water during a storm. Phoenix fire says the conditions were so rough in the area that some of their vehicles were stuck in the mess. A map was taken from the scene in Critical Condition after suffering a medical episode. Millions on the east coast are policing for storms today after a day of record rainfall in several cities. Parking lot at Baltimore International airport, flooded. Along with dozens of streets. Detroit got the heaviest rainfall if a century. Hundreds abandoned car on flooded streets and highways. Dive teams were call to make sure no one was stuck in the submerged vehicles. Fork lits moved the cars. A woman in arizona posted this video during the height of the informs. The wind was so powerful it sent an entire trampoline tumbling down the treat. We are a day away from the final even at candlestick with Paul Mccartney. It will go out with a bang with special effects if the show. The program motor says it is more than he usually shows and all to celebrate the closing of the 54yearold stadium. 49,000 people are expected to turnout for the concert. Comedy day in San Francisco is dedicating the event to Robin Williams. Organizers say he was the big inspiration for many and used to regularly attend the show now in the 34th year. Here is wearing a baseball hat on the home page. There will be 40 comic for five years on one stage in september this year. How is the weather, meteorologist mike nicco . The last concert of the summer is in redwood city. Music in the park, sunny and 77 at action. 70 at 7 00. A cool 66 by 8 00. Breezy. All throughout lake tahoe and north and southwest wind up to 35 Miles Per Hour this afternoon. Our best chance of rain is around Crescent City and near the lake as far as what will happen, 101 in palm springs and a sea breeze in Southern California and cooler in sacramento at 87 and lake tahoe at 73 and yosemite at 8 as we look at san jose, we have Clear Conditions but nothing funky about it highway 17 southbound is empty. A project in the north bay will slow traffic northbound highway 101. A couple of lanes are taken away until five oclock. A look at drive time traffic 580 tracy to dublin, we still at 27 minutes. Highway four, antioch to concord, gun minutes 21 minutes. A vandal has done more than 25,000 in damage to the National AidsMemorial Grove in golden gate park. Someone cut off tree trunks andisms and smashed flower planters and damaged benches and fencing. The vandals hit the grove six times this year. Police have not made any arrests. The federal government is helping resolve the problem of rape kit backlog first reported an hour ago. The District Attorney of alameda is teaming up with the f. B. I. For find way to be more efficient. A congress map says 41 million is earmarked to complete testing. It is waiting for a final vote in congress. There are 500,000 untested rape kits in the United States including 2,000 in alameda county. The cash hunt has ended according to a Statement Issued on the hidden cash twitter account, it had become a full time job for the two who spent more time and money and energy than expected. He says they continue they go to corporate sponsors which defeated the pup. It started it may in San Francisco and spread across the country and even to europe. Hopefully michigan accomplished and hopefully they inspired others. The touching tributes to Robin Williams are growing and we have highway the San Francisco giants morninged the comedy genius and long time fan. The crucial vote expected today in sacramento that could shape the California Water future. Coming back with another full hour of news but check out this picture of the golden gate park. We will be back with more. Stay tuned. Go go wow go power. Oats go made from oats cheerios cheerios go, go, go go power oats go cheerios go power go. Power yayyyy live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good wednesday morning at 5 00. Thanks for joining us. We will check on the weather forecast. Temperatures are about the same but the cloud cover is different. Good observation. The temperatures are the same. Whatever you wore yesterday morning will work today. Or if you are a fashion person, making something similar but different style. Radar is dry. Umbrella is what you could need with drizzle along the coast. No special sunrise because of the cloud cover. 79 in the south