Some of his neighbors spoke with kpix 5s andria borba. Reporter in tiburon the flowers arent for the comedian the actor, but for Robin Williams, the father, husband, neighbor. So distraught, thought of his family. He was such a great guy. Its a loss to the whole community. He was such an icon and inspiration. And he really, really tried to be not a celebrity. He tried to be just a human being. Reporter 911 was called to his home just before noon. Medics en route. Apparent Suicide Attempt by hanging. Reporter the 63yearold Academy Award winner was pronounced dead in his home at 12 02 p. M. [ inaudible ] reporter the publicist said he had been battling severe depression as of late. On his street he wasnt a superstar but just a neighbor walking his dog, the dad helping his kids. He is one of the most sincere friendly people i have met. I remember sometimes id be hanging out with casey and he would always be offering to help us. Just sincere, honest and friendly. I feel really horrible for his kids especially and his family. Reporter robins wife susan said this of her husbands death i lost my husband and my best friend. While the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of robins family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on robins death but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions he was loved by everybody. Reporter andria borba, kpix 5. The world fell in love with mrs. Doubtfire one of williams biggest movies. It was filmed here in San Francisco. Christin ayers with more on the comedians bay area roots and some early signs that he had some demons to conquer. Rest in peace. Reporter the bay area raised a glass to Robin Williams. Loved mrs. Doubtfire which is why we like coming here. We always think of him. Reporter here at Bridges Restaurant in danville where some of the famous scenes were thought. Thats where he jumps over and says help is on the way, dear reporter the bay area was where a young Robin Williams got his start in comedy fresh out of juilliard. Journalist and broadcaster ben torres profiled williams in this 1980 article for parade magazine, one season into mork and mindy he remember his energy as boundless. Unstoppable talent. You couldnt control the guy. He couldnt control himself. Reporter but fongtorres says even with his star rising, williams was struggling with a dark side. He was already saying at age 29 that he was looking at himself 30 years from now in about 2010, being a derelict washed up drunk in a bar trying to buy a drink for an older lady by trying to remind her that he was in mork and mindy. You know, he had a sad vision of his future even then. He scares me. Thats a genuine fire that the fire goes out. Mork and mindy could end this year, the next year, i dont know how long it can go. Reporter christin ayers, kpix 5. And this is Robin Williams final instagram post. It was posted 12 days ago. Its a photo of himself with his daughter zeldas as a baby. He also we had to this for his daughter. A quarter century old today but always my baby girl, happy birthday, love you. Comedian Paul Rodriguez fought back tears as he credited williams with giving him his big break. Man, its like somebody punched you in the stomach. I think everybody in america tonight is going to experience crying for someone you never met. But you felt you knew him. If you were fortunate enough to have gotten to [ pause ] to meet him, you know, then, ahem, then its just really sad. You want to call your friends, text them and find out, who would make up such a story . [ crying ] but you know, uhm, i just revere him. Fans have been leaving flowers and mementos on Robin Williamss star at the hollywood walk of the fame. At the red star premier for the expendables last night stars teared up. Im a dad. Anytime a father [ pause ] loses kids or kids lose their father, its hard. But theres something about being able to have the kind of life that he had and the kind of energy that he put out and everything he did that we have to take that because thats what some people leave behind. Just arrived a few hours ago from europe. The first thing i saw on television was shocking, sad. Yesterday we had a superstar. Today, unfortunately, we have a legend. Our condolences to his family. He was a great familiar and also a friend and i admired him. And, you know, hes a legend. Its unbelievable. One of the greatest we were all blessed to have that experience and those of us who had a chance to work with him are even more blessed. If anything else, i learned how wonderful it is to be an artist by watching him, how wonderful it is. Rest in peace, my brother. And reaction continues to come in on the death of Robin Williams. Were tracking his career at kpix. Com and you can leave your tributes to williams on our facebook page. Im still in shock over this. I know. He was such a genius and aside from all his work he did in the movies and on tv, he also did a lot of charitable work, as well. Just seemed like a very good man. He almost seemed like a piece of us. You hear about people dying and say thats too bad. He is a local guy. We all knew his work. He saw him back in the light 70s. Who is this guy in Robin Williams stole the show long before mork and mindy. I had no clue he was. I thought, this guys a talent. Definite true legend. Your favorite Robin Williams movie . Good morning vietnam. Love that movie. There are so many. Theres so many neat moments throughout his entire career that you can just remember certain things and it just makes you chuckle. The griego family movie rv. Rv. You were talking about that the other day. My kids know bob monroe. Sorry to see him go, thats for sure. We are going to see some patchy fog around the bay area to start the day. It looks like the threat of thunderstorms, thats sliding up into the Sierra Nevada. Things going to calm down but the temperatures going to stay fairly mild. We have a weak cold front headed toward the bay area. See it just off the coastline bringing us more clouds today and that area of low pressure that we were worried about bringing the thunderstorms is weakening, falling apart and sliding east. Out the door we have some partly cloudy skies with patchy fog. Temperatures as warm as 64 degrees in oakland. 63 in San Francisco. And 59 degrees in livermore. By the afternoon, we have some 80s for the valleys. A lot of 70s inside the bay today and some 60s toward the coastline. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. And well go back out to the altamont pass. This accident is still there. Any activity though is definitely off to the right hand shoulder. Fortunately its only about 52 Miles Per Hour right now as you pass the accident scene its not going to slow you down much so it shouldnt delay you by more than a minute or two. Heres a live look also in the east bay northbound and southbound southbound. We got your usual roadwork up and down the nimitz freeway. This morning it is southbound 880 between jackson and embarcadero that should wrap up in the next 20 minutes. Same thing on the approach to the Richmond San Rafael bridge, westbound 580 approaching castro street traffic down to one lane. At the toll plaza traffic is still light. Again there are some delays. They have been doing that work overnight. And in the east bay the roadwork continues again in our usual spots eastbound 24 counter commute on the approach to the caldecott tunnel. That is scheduled until 6 00. Sometimes caltrans picks that up ahead of schedule. And the roadwork continues into the macarthur maze westbound 80 closed to eastbound 580. That is your kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. Still no sign of a shooter opening fire at a bay fair mall in san leandro. Two men were arguing inside the mall yesterday. They ended up outside and one pulled out a gun and shot the other in the leg. Police are now asking for witnesses to come forward. New this morning, the men accused of having a bomb the man accused of having a bottom in his San Francisco apartment may face a charge in connection with a lethal toxin. Ryan chamberlain is charged with possessing explosive material and having a handgun missing a serial number. Yesterday a prosecutor said high ranking officials at the department of justice are now deciding whether to add that toxin charge. It was Police Gunfire that killed the hostage in the wild bank robbery and shootout in stockton. 33 officers fired about 600 rounds in the gun battle that ended a wild chase last month. Two suspects were killed along with 41yearold misty holt singh a married mother of two. And we now know she was shot 10 times by police. Every member of our department is deeply saddened that this event ended with the tragic death of an innocent victim and to every one of us wishes this tragedy had ended differently. Police say the soul surviving suspect 19yearold jaime ramos health holt singh as a human shield held holt singh as a human shield. He is in custody. 44 people are arrested after a second night of riots in missouri following a weekend that police shot and killed a black teen. Police say there was no looting of businesses unlike what happened sunday night in ferguson but officers were in riot gear, did have to fire tear gas into a crowd of protestors last night. Parents of the man who died 18 yearold Michael Brown are pleading for people now to calm down. I dont want no violence. We dont want no violence. Michael wouldnt want no violence. Yesterday the fbi opened an investigation into the death of mr. Brown who Authorities Say was shot several times. Witnesses say brown had his hands up when he was shot. Happening today, hundreds of San FranciscoUnified School District workers are up for a raise. More than 800 employees mostly lunch monitors and student aides are paid below the citys 10. 74 required minimum wage. The district is a state agency and not required to match local minimum wage requirements. There is money now to pay those employees more. The board of education will vote on that tonight. 4 42. Bay area commuters may be stranded again. A look at the potential for another transit strike and the Ripple Effect that could leave commuters with few options. Whats cool about your school or your summer camp . Email your nominations to coolschools kpix. Com. We may come and feature your school on the show. Well be right back. 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Another 72hour ceasefire is holding in gaza brokered by egypt. They met for nine hours yesterday. Progress was made on several issues during the negotiations. A palestinian teacher keeping the world inform of her experiences. A teen is using social media to tell firsthand accounts between hamas and israel. She lives near gaza city and has been posted pictures and individual of explosions near her home. Its 4 45. Lets check weather. Mild weather, patchy fog into the afternoon though. The skies going to clear out. Well see some sunshine and mild temperatures for this time of year maybe slightly below average. We have systems heading through. One area of low pressure thats weakening and falling apart brought more thunderstorms to the Sierra Nevada. Then you have that front thats off the coastline thats going to pull through later today and bring more clouds in our direction. Looks like though toward the afternoon should be mostly sunny with passing clouds and cooler. A little breezy, too. Then more sunshine on the way with some slow warming into the latter part of the week. An interesting setup. You can see the low that brought thunderstorms to the as a matter of fact every Sierra Nevada yesterday. Didnt touch off any here. The next one drops through through the day today and tomorrow helping to keep the temperature down a bit in the northern parts of the state. 59 degrees in eureka. About 100 and hot in fresno. 87 in sacramento. 76 slight chance of a few more thunderstorms into lake tahoe. Computer models picking up on the low clouds and fog surging along the coastline and then moving back onshore overnight tonight and into early tomorrow morning. So more of a typical pattern setting up. Temperatures 79 into san jose. 76 in palo alto. 67 degrees in pacifica. Some 80s still in some of the interior valleys. Inside the bay 71 in oakland. 68 in San Francisco. And 78 degrees in sonoma. Next couple of days slowly warming up back into the 90s in the warmest spots toward the weekend. 60s and patchy fog toward the beaches. Time now for traffic. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. The bay bridge toll plaza, a live look this is what it looks like now. Slight delays in the cash lanes, probably will get better before it gets worse before they turn the metering lights in about an hour. Right now pretty clear coming into San Francisco especially if you have fastrak. Westbound 580 at north flynn, an accident there, delays are building also 205 out of tracy through the altamont pass. Once you get past north flynn, everything clears out. That was quickly cleared to the righthand shoulder so no lanes are blocked. Its just the lookyloo traffic slowing down the commute a bit early morning. Heres a live look at the nimitz, 880. As you come through downtown once again you may still hit that overnight roadwork jackson to embarcadero until 5 00 but once you get past the oakland coliseum, hayward, youre Just Cruising farther south. And heres a live look. You can see those sensors 22 Miles Per Hour. We put one up approaching canal so obviously there are delays westbound 580 on the approach to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Traffic has been down to just one lane overnight. That is scheduled to wrap up by 5 00, as well. Heres a live look once again approaching the Richmond San Rafael bridge toll plaza. Traffic is very quiet at this hour. In the east bay once again the overnight roadwork continues eastbound 24 helding to the caldecott. A little bit of slowing now between oakland and orinda. And the macarthur maze roadwork also has that connector shut down until 5 00 westbound 80 to eastbound 580. Thats the latest from here in the kcbs traffic center. Frank, michelle, back to you guys. Right, liz. Well keep that traffic thing going. Lanes closed for more than a year on a stretch of warren avenue down in fremont. They are open again. It was all because of a grade separation project part of the bart extension that will bring the train system down to san jose. The vta which is overseeing the project says the grade separation puts barring tracks, Freight Train tracks and the street on different levels. This is a significant Congestion Relief and safety in the city of fremont. What this project does is it separates the current Freight Railroad traffic and the future bart system from automobile and pedestrian traffic. The new warm springs bart station in south fremont expected to open late next year. Stations in milpitas and north san joses berryessa district are slated to open up in the end of 2017. Another transit strike could hit parts of the bay area. As fill phil reports, this time it involves workers as phil matier reports, this time it involves workers with the golden gate transportation district. Right now im saying there is a real possibility there will be another strike. Reporter if there is a strike, it will likely start with the Golden Gate Bridge districts ferry operators just as it did in 2012. We hope to avoid a strike. We think its creditably detrimental to our customers and so were working with them to reach a settlement. Reporter only this time, it could be a lot worse. You see, the districts buses would be expected to pick up the slack during a strike but thanks to a wave of retirements, vacations and absenteeism, the bus service is having a hard time even meeting its current schedule. Even if they had enough drivers on paper theres a good chance that the bus drivers would stay off the job, as well. So this time there could be a total shutdown of ferries and buses. Yes, its possible that we would go on strike and the entire system would be shut down. Reporter that could affect bus riders from santa rosa all the down to San Francisco. The traffic would be a mess so something we dont want to see happen. Reporter ferry boat captains make 85,000 a year, deck hands 50,000, plus benefits. Bridge management is offering a 3 a year raise but wants the workers to kick in 2 more for their healthcare something the union calls a shell game. So a 3 raise turns out not to be that at all even though thats what theyre telling the public. Reporter the union wants a 3. 75 raise and is willing to make a. 5 hike in its healthcare contributions for one year, something the district says it cant afford. We have financial limits and its not fair to our ratepayers to indiscriminately to go along with any desire people have. Reporter phil matier, kpix 5. Time now 4 52. Finding the money for college, where to find the online gold mine coming up. And we want to invite all you pet lovers, sends your questions about their health and wellbeing. Email pets kpix. Com or on our facebook page, search kpix cbs, and well have our pet expert give you an answer every friday right here at noon. Two men walked in to a mcdonalds and discovered an extraordinary burger with heaps of jalapenos. Now for just two dollars. They also discovered the phenomenon of economnomnomics nomnom. Nom . Mcdonalds dollar menu and more. Load malware. More than 10 thousand people reportey a warming to facebook users. Dont click on that fake app. Its a virus that will load malware. More than 10,000 people have been duped when users click on the fake app. It sends them to a website that asks them to watch a tutorial video on changing the color of their profile page. By agreeing to it, users give hackers access to their profiles, letting the app spam their friends. A new startup website is matching students who need College Money with people willing to give money for the cause. Don ford tells us more. Its a wonderful thing. Reporter High School Student martin and her mother are starting to confront the huge cost of college but with the help of the startup website raiseme, she is getting scholarship money she didnt know existed. Microscholarships does the application for you. Reporter students are eligible for scholarship money based on good grades, sports awards and even volunteer work. Heres how it, would. Martin submitted her a in algebra 2 and wow you just got another thousand dollars. Reporter doesnt mean she is getting a check in the mail, though. When she is in the 12th grade, she can go ahead and apply to the colleges she wants to and if she is admitted to em this they will include her scholarship earnings from raiseme in her financial aide package. Reporter many of these microscholarships went unclaimed. Now they are easier to find. The website is still in the startup phase. But it has funding. There are 30 colleges signed up and 20 more in the process of joining. There are other benefits, too. I dont think she would have really been looking seriously at colleges yet if it hadnt been for raise me putting it on her radar. The colleges give you different amounts of money for their college but it doesnt translate over to the other colleges. If you come to us, you know have this money waiting for you. By the time they get to 12th grade they will have accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship money. Reporter don ford, kpix 5. The money adds up in a harry. Students can earn 75 an hour for volunteer work and 1,000 a year for taking an honors course. Reporter im mark kelly live in tiburon where people are remembering Robin Williams life and legacy. Coming up, what neighbors say about his comedic talents. ,,,,,,,,,, he was a superstar. Today hes a legend. Its a big loss. Fans and colleagues are mourning the loss of Robin Williams. The 63yearold was found dead in his home in tiburon yesterday. Williams publicist says he was battling severe depression. We dont want no violence. Michael wouldnt want that. Another night of unrest in ferguson, missouri. Witnesses say the teen who was killed by police had his hands raised when he was shot. Tier gas was used to break up the crowd again. There may be another strike. Workers with the golden gate transportation district could soon