That was the one i always go to, just use the hashtag cbs3 and we will try to share your comments throughout the morning. Also, tracking big storm moving into the region, lets give you live look at storm scan3. Looks likes it will be a real soaker. Kate hire with your first forecast. Guys, thats right. As this storm system continues to make its trek toward us, it does appear as though we may ends up with not just rain this time around, probably some thunderstorms, maybe Severe Weather out of this, as well. You can start to see, if you recall from yesterday, there wasnt very well organized system out of this. But right now, you can sort of make out sort of the classic comma shape going on, lets zoom it in little closer here to home, where we continue to see some heavy rain already moving in now to berks and lancaster counties, chester, delco, starting to get clipped a little bit here, but his is just the beginning, guys, i highly, highly suggest some rain gear when you walk out the door today. I think you will thank yourself later on because the showers, storms, will be somewhat off and on throughout the day, but thats just it, they havent any time today, especially into tonight, those downpours will be just that, heavy at times. The Severe Weather threat has been issued from the Storm Prediction Center for the western half of our region, and points west, and there is going to be some strong wind that picks one some of the storms, but we cant even rule out the possibility of hail. It is not even a brief tornado. I put question mark there because it is just a chance, all of this really just a chance for any given location, but it is a possibility, especially if we get some sunshine out there will help get some of the atmosphere instability going. Now, flooding if we were to pick up this amount of rain. Okay . So if you pick up in gloucester 5. 2 inches every rain, over the course of six hours, would you start to see flooding. Weve had nice long stretch of dry weather. So i dont think this will necessary be the case for the southern portion of new jersey, but up toward northampton you might flirt by the time this is all said and done with those kind of numbers, in terms every rainfall rates. Seventytwo meanwhile is the current temperature at the airport, at 69 in trenton, see Minimal Movement on the thermometer throughout the day at best, into the upper 70s, later on, but, again, a lot of clouds, the showers, the storms, throughout the day, it will be a running theme for us even later on tonight. Bob, good morning. Good morning, 4 33, as you told you last night, paving operation was set to begin, and heres our news van on the scene, as the big trucks pulled up to the roosevelt boulevard. To begin a longterm project of milling the roadway, taking uppiece of equipment there, taking it down to the concrete, and will eventually repave the inner drive of the roosevelt boulevard, theyll be working every night, all night, for the next couple of months. Lets go to the maps. It is the stretch of the boulevard, they began r at ninth street working the inner drive, the first phase will take them to up adams avenue. Again, theyll mill the roadway, put down the new pavement, and then theyll move to the next section of the boulevard. Eventually theyll go all the way up to the bucks county line here, near the pennsylvania turnpike, again on the overnight pushed to the out r driver then during midday today you will feel that bumpy rocky surface there on the inner drive. Live look at i95 where the crews is been working near kerlin street, actually pick up and pulled away, watch for the schuylkill expressway, construction underway right now. So coming in toward philadelphia, two left lanes are closed near passyunk from there you pick up the market line. Fans continue to mourn the loss every genius Robin Williams. Star was found dead in his San Francisco area home of apparent suicide. Wendy gillette has a look back at the man and his life he made so many laugh. Robin williams made people laugh. I had fun doing it. Something that kicks in, joy, where you just get excited. Which is his comedic genius, he managed to poke fun without being offensive. Williams spent much of his childhood in suburban detroit, started doing imitations early ton amuse himself. I was an only child. Lived, we moved from place to place, it was reality. Went onto prestigious guliard, where he met christopher reeve. The two remained friends. He landed lead as the wacky al yen in morning and minutes i. His manic style led to Big Box Office success, with giant hits, like mrs. Doubt fire, and good morning viet nam. He was the voice of the jeannie in disneys al lad inch, setting precedent for harnace g star power to sell animated films. And he proved he could be just as serious as he was funny. Ever watch your best friend in your lap he won oscar in good will hunting, with act a grammy awards, six golden globes. But williams success did not keep him out of trouble. He fought addiction to cocaine in the late 70s, early eights, went to rehab for alcohol addiction in 2006. He check into aility again this year to stay sober. He married three times, leaving behind three children, two boys, and a girl. In march 2009, williams was hospitalized with heart problems. He put his comedy tour on hold to have valve replacement surgery, but he came back laughing. The cow bell is still laughing. He returned to television on cbs the crazy one, bringing his goto skills. How much of the script in the show is you 23. 5 improve. Despite his demons, williams was a steamroller on stage and screen for more than three decades, often outrageous and always leaving them laughing. In new york, Wendy Gillette for Eyewitness News on the cw philly. Always leaving them laughing, thats for sure. Now williams played big role here at the cbs family, past tv season staring in the yaz crazy one. Can you be serious . Well maybe for a second. Sorry. I went to hollywood this spring to spends a day on the set. I spoke with williams and costar michelle, both had praise for each other and their costar. To see the boys grow, amanda, czar i i knew was always great, just really fun to see just expand. He is a legend. But he is to us but not in his own mind, if that makes sense, eggs the kinds he is, most gentle soul, would do anything for anyone. He is literally that would give you the shirt off his back. Thats so true. Everybody to a man, to the crew, actors, very same way, legend, man would light up a role, a set whenever he walked n he also told me during that interview that he was exhausted because there is so much involved when it comes to putting a Television Show together, but he also said he had good back up. He talked about his costars. So such a shame. I couldnt believe it. That seems to be the one thing every celebrity that is tweeting or talking about Robin Williams, he was a great comedian, but a greater person. No question about it, and i interviewed him three, four times, but did spends a little bit of time on the set with them. Such a lost. Williams was nominated you may know for dead poets society. That was actually filmed st. Andrews school at middletown, delaware, school released a statement saying quote williams brought humanity and humor to the school during his time filming there. In los angeles, fans laid flowers on williams star on the hollywood walk of fame. The citys famed comedy club the improve changed the marquis to say Robin Williams 19512014 legend. Many took to social media as you might expect in the moments after his death. And that includes legendary comedian and philly native bill cosby, simply tweeted im stunned. He included that picture of himself and Robin Williams on the set of the movie jack. Many drivers starred with williams in good will hunting. She said my heart is broken. Robin was beautiful kind soul. Cant bear that hes gone. So incredibly sorry for his family. Ellen degeneres posted there is the following i cant believe the news about Robin Williams. He gave so much to so many people. Im heart broken. For more on the passing of Robin Williams, go to our website cbsphilly. Com. Again, were asking to you share your thoughts on his passing on cbs philly facebook and twitter pages. That was one of the pictures we took right there when i was out there. Well continue to talk about Robin Williams throughout the morning. Final good buys in the news this morning were said to the mother of two murdered in pennypack park. Friends and family gathered then in northeast philadelphia to remember connie mcclane murray, her huskies do you have err confess today strangling her. She was laid to rest at rest duck sean cemetery in bucks county, survived by pair of teenage caughter. Authorities say sprint car research died when hit by a car driven by tony stewart. They questioned him twice this weekend, criminal charges have not been filed. Were racing sprint carson dirt track in upstate new york saturday, ward got out of his car after stewart caused him to spin out, and he went to confront stewart, he was struck and killed. Stewart pulled out of a nascar race sunday and expressed sadness. Much more to come this morning. Possibly some good news for the Philadelphia School district. Which is considering laying offs in the ongoing budget crisis. Latest on that coming up in two minutes. Pennsylvania House Majority leader mike met with superintendent doctor william hite. Believes Philadelphia Schools will open on time. This after governor corbett advanced the district 265 million, says there is bipartisan support for the cigarette tax, to help fund the district. But the house wants a clean vote on the tax without unnecessary riders or attachments. More traffic trouble for philly commuters, bob mentioned earlier, penndots biggest project re paving the inner lanes of roosevelt boulevard from the bucks county line to ninth street. The 5. 8 million project is going to slow the morning drivethru late october. It will add an estimated two and a half dollars to fill your tank. I think it is going to be a major mess. I think people will be slamming on their brakes. I think people will be look to go see whats going on, not paying attention. Construction workers are also repairing four bridges, along Spring Garden street in philadelphia. The 6. 6 million project should be ready by next summer. All right, no construction going on there today. I have to say, im with that gal that we just heard saying oh, i think there will be a lot of people. I got so frustrated with city avenue being repaved. Now that it is done, it is amazing. Chaos is amazing when this stuff. Got to get through it. Got to get through a long process, yes, and casino of long day when it comes to the weather. Soggy day looking ahead, some people getting soak even right now. So we take you through the process waist going on here. As i mentioned, possibility we even see Severe Weather. Start things off with quick check on the live neighborhood network. You can see if you look closely the pavement is damp indicating obviously that something happened. We already had some rain moving on through, 71 degrees the current temperature there right now. Winds will pick up with time as we look at storm scan3, wider zoom, much more of an organized system lasse solved with this. So watching the warmth sort of flood in here with the warmth and moisture. May ends one some flashflooding out of this specially to the north and western counties, and you just got to get this cold front through. Somewhat slow to move. By the time it does, well be left with several inches every rain because of it. When you take it into the early late evening time frame here, by this point, at least, the latest model run picks up on a lot less than the previous model runs v maybe couple of tents of an inch from silly on southeast, could be looking at inch plus, back through the north and western suburbs. Thats where i think the brunt of the rain will head. By say tomorrow, early afternoon, when the storm is completely gone, left with several inches of rain on the gown, now, it wouldnt be enough to cause any casino of flooding, but it would be enough to cause flashflooding. There is a difference, remember, flooding little more longterm flashflooding hits you quick, goes away quickly as women. Today is the day for umbrella, absolutely, have it ready to go. You will thank yourself. Eightyfour tomorrow, more sunshine, can heat up more readily then by thursday, friday, hey, just some nice weather to look forward to. Ukee, back to you. Thank you, katie n sports, phillies start five game west coast trip in anaheim later tonight, will square off with south jersey native mike trout and the angels. Yesterday, the phils wrapped up four game set with the mets. Phils down onenothing in the fourth inning. Rough. Darren rough crushed that pitch. 422 feet, they say, into the centerfield bushes. Two run homer, fightings have the first lead, lasted until the seventh. Then the mets scored four runs, anthony has big hit, three run homerun off justin. The mets won it fivethree, taking three of four games from the fightings. The taney dragons from philly play friday in a Little League world series, before the fightings left for california they had some advice for the dragons. Best of luck, i mean, have fun. It is a great situation to be in. The city proud of you, no matter what the outcome is, but you got a chance to do great things, so just go there, enjoy it, have fun. Be a kid first before you and ball player. Just enjoy the time you have over there. And embrace it, and dont be it will be a memory youll never forget. Thats right. Lets go taney. Today the eagles and patriots begin barak it is is, capped off with pre preseason match up friday night. This is what it look like last year, this time around, theyll practice in massachusetts. Birds defense will be tested by future hall of famer tom brady. More news when we come back. Good morning. Robin williams found dead in his San Francisco home. He apparently committed suicide, fought to stay sober for years. Connie murray, her husband, christopher, later confessed to her murder. More road work is underway in philadelphia. Penndot is repaving the inner lanes of the roosevelt boulevard. That is just one of 97 Construction Projects in our area, made possible by new funding from harrisburg. Bob will have more details coming up. Our time now 4 50. Lets get a check on business. Money watchs jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, hearing more trouble from the us postal service. Whats happening . Reporter good morning, ukee, erika, the post office lost 2 billion this spring, which means it, wont be able to meet 6 billion payment pavement for its retiring fun. Post offers actually brought in more money by increasing prices, still salaries, benefit costs are going up, and there has been big drop in people who use first class mail. Thats big source of revenue for the post office. But, i guess theyll need more of those famous people on stamps. Ukee, err dismay. How about that, hey, jill, bluejeans are considered a staple of american wardrobe. If your sales are down, thanks to new trend, whats that . Yep, thats right, denim sales actually down 6 in the u. S. Last year, thats according to the group, levis net profit dropped 76 in the last quarter, because of plummeting sales. And experts say thanks to new trend, called at the leisure, women wearing comfy yoga pants, or leggings, all day long, so one strategy to combat the dropping sales, Clothing Companies like made well have started to add more stretch in their jeans. But i dont know, erika, i dont i dont know if you are like me, i am totally in the yoga legs cents all day. My word is pride after i work out, then im in them the rest of the day, im with you, little gross but ya. Just so comfortable. I know, theyre fantastic. It is all about comfy, right . Thanks, jill. Appreciate t. Hey, coming up after a short break, traffic and weather together. We do it on the 3s, well be we wants to get traffic and weather together. Good morning, everybody, last night began the construction project on the roosevelt boulevard. This will impact everybody from nine street all the way up to the bucks county line. They began milling the roadway. Basically taking up the old asphalt, dumbing it into the dump trucks, pulling that away, will come back later on tonight and lay down the nice smooth new stretch of asphalt, but, theyre going to move slowly but surely, up the boulevard. Last night, they started, the first part, between ninth street and adams avenue. So, the inner drive will be closed until about 6 00 in the morning, then during the midday, when it is open, youre going to find that rocky road, ninth street, up to adams avenue. Outside we go. To live look at i95, where they were also working on the overnight. Just pick up the cones here right near philly international airport. Katie, i know loving the temps on the overnight. Yes. Not loving the weather over the next 24 hours. I would say, yes, i would say nobody is loving. This obviously always want to get some rain intermittently to help keep the flowers watered, and everything else, but a day like this is less than ideal if you had outdoor plans. Obviously, we have very heavy rain already starting to move through lancaster, berks counties here, so up toward the Lehigh Valley youll get soak here, already seeing some showers, but of course, the brighter the color on the radar, radar 101, tends to be more intense rainfall, that is certainly what were finding, far from done with this, however, my friends, you know, once this heavier batch moves through this morning, we will get at least a little bit after lull. Just a little bit. I still highly suggest keeping the rain gear at the ready, though, because the rain, the thunderstorms, will be somewhat off and on, any time today. But it does lock like the heaviest rain that we get region wide comes later on tonight. Guys, back to you. Katie, thank you. Lets get some of the stories our sister station kyw news radio will be getting for you. New york is done. Tourism officials have the Democratic National committee, one of five cities hoping to host the partys 2016 convention. Eight years since fire destroyed center city lincoln apartment building. Now renovations could finally be begin to move forward. Will he run for president . New pole numbers on new jersey governor chris christie. Check in two, three, four times a day, kyw news radio 1060. Coming up in the next hour of Eyewitness News, new reaction to the death o of Robin Williams, including what his daughter just said overnight. Also, well take a look at some of his movies that havent hit theatres yet. Shocking baby pictures ignite fire storm on line. Now the grandmother who took those pictures tries to set the record straight. Were back at the top of the hour. Good morning. From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia. This is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Good morning viet nam. This morning we are remembering our comic genius after the sudden death of Robin Williams. From his iconic roles to the impact hes had on fellow actors and even strangers, looking back at the remark many legacy williams leaves behind. Today is tuesday, august 12th, good morning, im erika von tiehl. Im Ukee Washington and you know i had the honor of meeting robin few months ago on the cbs set of the crazy once. This time, spent some quality time with him out there on the set. I was just shocked to learn the news. This morning we are tracking reactions on twitter, as well. Were asking you what was your favorite Robin Williams movie and why. For me, it definitely had to be the bird cage t just to me is such a funny movie. I know goes back almost 20 years. So many movies and television moments, unbelievable. Stand up comedy, yes. Such and funny man. Asking you for your thoughts, use the hashtag cbs3 on twitter and facebook, well share your comments coming up throughout the morning. Also this morning, keeping an eye on a storm, storm scan3 here, some storms could really soak our area this morning. Katie is out on the skydeck talking more about that. Thats right, guys. Starting offer with plenty of cloud cover, temperatures are a lot warmer out there this morning to begin, with and i can start to feel the raindrops. So, it was one of those do i need the umbrella for this hit or not . Well talk about the rain track for you, tell you when the heaviest is set to arrive, snob. Ready for your next hit, 5 00 oclock. Good morning, everybody, on a tuesday, live look at the ben franklin bridge, coming into downtown philadelphia. The paving project, got underway on the roosevelt boulevard. Our cameras were there. Well show you the scoop. Well check in with mass transit coming up next. Good morning. Thank you, bob