tiburon where robin williams died. and they confirmed that the actor and comedian hanged himself. good evening everyone, i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. team coverage on the death of robin williams, claudine wong speaking to those who knew williams before the world did, but we are outside with ken wayne. >> reporter: new details about the death of robin williams only seem to add to the sense of said sadness. in almost clinical detail, they describe the scene their found behind these walls. officials say they got a frantic 911 call monday at 11:55 a.m., after williams was found by his assistant, he was unresponsive and cool to the touch, and pronounced him dead at 12:02 p.m. >> the preliminary and i say,

preliminary results of the forensic examination reveal supporting physical signs that mr. williams life ended from asphyxia due to hanging. >> reporter: paramedics found him with a belt around his neck, his body slightly suspended off the ground. >> what that means his body is in a position that looks like he's sitting in a chair. slightly off the ground, suspended from the belt that was wedged between the door and the door frame that was placed around his neck. >> reporter: he also said williams had cuts on his wrist and a pocket knife with what appeared to be blood on the blade found near his body. sheriff's officials say they're aware he had received treatment for depression but if williams left a note saying why he apparently ended his life, they're not saying. >> we're not discussing the note or a note at this point, the investigation is ongoing and that information will be discussed at a later time >> reporter: toxicology tests being done to see if there were

drugs or alcohol in his system, the results won't be known two to six weeks. live in tiburon, ken wayne, ktvu channel 2. >> making his home here, his roots go deep. robin williams' first role at the college of marin and it wasn't a big part. >> reporter: no, it wasn't. but marin county was home to robin williams, where he lived and also where he went to school and also years later at the college of marin, they could remember when he took the stage. robin williams took his place here, he was an unknown student hoping to get a part. >> he came and auditioned and we really couldn't use him, i used him as a walk on, a spear carrier, carried a spear in the shakespeare production i did. >> reporter: and yet even then, there was something about this young man that caught everyone's attention. he had this uncanny ability to

make people laugh. >> i've never seen anything like that in my life. and i said, this kid's going to be something. >> reporter: he spent three years at that college, but in many ways, he never left. he kept coming back and giving back in scholarships, and even in 24-hour fundraisers. >> and robin williams would show up at 2:00 in the morning, not when everyone was there. and he's walking down the empty hallway, i'm walking down, he looked so familiar, i said hi! and he said oh, hi! as if i were somebody that a long lost friend he hasn't seen in a long while. >> reporter: his was a star that has always burned bright. >> he is a shooting star, he'll never die, with the leg is si that he left. the legacy of kindness. >> reporter: and tonight, he's being remembered not just for what he became, but for what he has always been. >> i will always remember him as

one of the nicest kids i ever knew. >> reporter: and while he says robin williams will always be missed, he and others we talked to say they're trying to focus on his life and not on his death, because his was a life that brought so much laughter and so much joy to everyone around him. live in sausalito, claudine wong, ktvu, channel 2 news. robin williams' aw side and long time depression is connecting him to people who felt the same. >> i could see my healthy self, through that box, and i'm trying to push through it. >> >> jenee darden is just one of the people who say she's connected robin williams, half a

million people this year will suffer from symptoms of clinical depression and many won't get help because of the stigma or the misunderstandings about the conditions. and if you or someone you know struggles with depression, you can get help. we have posted some resources on our website including a phone number for a crisis hotline, just look under hot topics on ktvu.com. also on our website, we have the section dedicated to the wonderful life of roews robin williams. we're getting word that another hollywood legend died, bacall. soon she was making movies, most memorably with humphrey bogart. the marriage of bogey lasted until his death. she won two tony awards and an oscar for lifetime achievement in 2010. tmz says she died of a massive

stroke at a home in new york, she was 89 years old. it's estimated that half a million rape kits remain untested across the country, and today, local congressman mike honda unveiled a pilot program. in santa clara county with how that county handles rape kits. aze? >> reporter: every rape kit that needs to be tested is tested here at the crime lab across the street, they call official but not all the counties have resources for this. >> it's so bad for so many reasons and one of the reasons is it minimizes the victim. >> reporter: kathy runs the shelter next door solutions and says 40% of their clients are sexual assault victims. she's pushing for every rape kit to be tested, saying the delay reduces the chance for the victims to speak up. >> all victims of rape are going to say doeth doent bother, don't bother. because you're going to go through all of this, you're going to have to wait six months

or a year or whatever it is. >> reporter: congressman mike honda of san jose says he's trying to perform the heimlich maneuver on choke holds for the rape kits of being tested right away. >> what's troubling, when you have 400, 500,000 rape kits ing on the shelf, and there's a lack of funds, in the personnel, we got to do something about it. >> reporter: today the congressman introducing the project to eliminate the backlog, essentially calling for police agencies and mrieft crime labs to perform dna testing and rape investigations and alameda county for example, as many as 2,000 rape kits remain sitting untouched in evidence rooms. >> rapists and child molesters need to be identified, held accountable, and incarcerated. and to the extent of legislation, furthers that goal, it's outstanding. >> reporter: terry harmon oversees the sexual assaults unit, santa clara doesn't face

the same issues as alameda, attributing their success to local dna testing. >> that allows us to be very much on top do we have a problem, do we have a personnel problem? >> reporter: in san francisco, the police department there tells me the department is required to test all rape kits after a city ordinance went in to effect. live in san jose, azenith smith, ktvu. they're hope to go help the thousands of children who have been coming from the central america. they studied the late labor leaders cesar chavez, and how he fasted to help labor workers, the students are now in the midst of a five day fast of their own, they're only drinking water until friday. >> i'm fasting because i put myself in those children's views, what if it was me, having to cross the border and having

my parents leading me because the country i'm in is so dangerous with violence? >> the students are also collecting money, shoes, and clothing for the immigrant children. nearly 63,000 unaccompanied children, mostly from guatemala, honduras, and el salvador have crossed illegally from october to july. that was twice more than the number last year. unaccompanied children from countries that do not border the u.s. be cared for by the u.s. government or a relative or sponsor if they have one until a deportation hearing is scheduled. just days after the a's signed a ten year lease with oakland, the city of san jose went to court to try to bring them to the bay. a ninth court of appeals panel that major league baseball is preventing the team's move, saying it's a violation of federal anti-trust laws. >> the a's want to exercise that agreement but baseball has

refused to allow the a's to locate in san jose. >> a lower court has already determined that major league baseball has an antitrust exemption, the ninth circuit court expect to do issue a ruling within the next 30 days, the case will most likely end up before the u.s. supreme court. the high speed rail authority discussed what to do with money raised from a state environmental fund, the rail project will get $250 million of cap and trade revenue in the next fiscal year, it comes from polluters who pay into the green house gas reduction program. just yesterday, federal regulators gave final approval to a 114 mile segment from fresno to bakersfield, now using future cap money from palmdale to burbank. pg and e rates are about to go down after a fight with consumers, the reduction will start next year, it was able to lower rights raits because of lower than expected costs for

pipeline safety improvement program after the deadly 2010 san bruno explosion. the utility reform network or t.u.r.n. both pressure p.g. & e. to take the coast instead of rate payers. >> 150-year-old tombstones getting a high tech treatment, how lasers are being used to make over a historic bay area cemetery. and two of the biggest bay area water agencies consider mandatory cuts, the decisions that could force you to conserve. right after the break, i'll tell you all the clouds out there mean a chance for rain in your neighborhood, back here in just a minute. female announcer: when you see this truck, female announcer:

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it's the final resting place for the men and women who fought for their country and delicate work is is underway to make sure it's a fitting location to honor their service. back in 1884 the state department set off nine acres in the presidio. david stevenson shows us the careful work being done to update the site and the history. >> reporter: it's a national shrine with tomb stone dating back to the american wars. >> there's a lot of history and we want to preserve it in the best way possible.

>> reporter: preserving the national cemetery in san francisco's presidio means tearing up the solid greenland scape in order to replant 26,000 head stones. climate and the sandy ground makes them shift. they want to improve the problem, permanently. setting it, pouring in a concrete box and then replacing the head stone. >> reporter: engineers use gps to mark head stone locations and laser beams to resiesly align rows. work began two years ago at the rear of the cemetery, people who drive in or visit a loved one. the project is 80% complete though private monuments like this one has slowed progress, each headstone will be power washed to bring back that familiar shine said to stay upright and in place for years to come. >> that's the goal, this would

be a fitting location to honor all of the men and women who are buried here. >> reporter: the project is set for completion in about 18 months, when it is done, it will give a sense of lasting order and peace to those who come here to honor their loved ones. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. a new development tonight in a deadly shooting in san jose, police announced today they arrested 19-year-old herman alexis ojona after escolara was shot on gramercy place. he was walking with his girlfriend to a house for a barbecue. it's a neighborhood that residents say is plagued with gang violence. according to the san jose mercury news, he's charged with a murder and gang enhancement. bay area volunteers are headed to hawaii to help with disaster relief efforts after

tropical storm iselle, from richmond, ramone, san mateo and mill valley. coordinating government and community help for those impacted by the storm. approving a 10% water reduction plan, the new regulations will require all san francisco customers to reduce water use outside by 10%. the new rules will take effect in mid september and will last through june 30th of 2016 2015, the u.s. allocation is based on their 2013 usage, an excess use charge of twice the billing rate for every unit in excess of a customer's allowance. east bay mud today also voted to conserve irrigation water and the board approved new rules outlying flooding gutters and watering lawns more than twice a week, however, no decision was made on any possible fine. governor jerry brown with a

group for a proposal, water, agricultural, and labor business leaders as well as the state assembly and senate. a final agreement on his water bond proposal, so it can be before voters in november, a balance plan that addresses efficient water use, ground water management and storage. >> it's a grab bag, but rather, elements that promote the water action plan that has been laid out over the last few months. so we're close, and we're going to keep pushing the best we can to get over it seriously. >> if voters approve it, the proposal would help sell bonds to laze $7.5 million to pay for the governor's plan. and ktvu.com has a special section dedicated to the drought, ways to concern and up to date information on water agencies imposing fees, just look under hot topics right on

our home page. temperatures today inland, quite a bit cooler than they were yesterday at this time, and even yesterday, temperatures inland about five to 10 degrees cooler from the 90s, the mid 90s we saw yesterday, and then around the bay, just about the same, so if you're in oakland or hayward, you may not notice much of a difference, if you're in the antioch or livermore, five to 10 degrees, you notice not quite as hot. the weather systems i'm tracking are pretty complex, it all worked for us, didn't get any thunderstorms here's where it could've caused problems with thunderstorms this morning it's tracking off this way, look how it pools off all that moisture, all the flows go this way. if this low had come down the cloeft and retrograded, it would've pulled all this, all the shower activity over the top of us, that was the big concern last night. didn't happen, fortunately because rain would be good, but not showers.

tromiccal moisture, cloudy throughout san francisco's cloudy in oakland, skies tomorrow, 78 in fairfield, 74 in livermore, 71 in santa rosa, the fog forecast tomorrow morning, you see that push right there, that's a good-sized push, not huge but it's good, in the casio gap, the golden gate gap, that's how the fog is getting through and temperatures tomorrow, less cloud cover, but a lot like today. so not a big change in temperature. so we're going to see mid 80s in the hotspots, even in sacramento. san jose, there's the clouds, san francisco, that fog is trying to reform and it will, we'll have fog in the coast tonight. forecast highs tomorrow, 75 in vallejo, these are the numbers i showed you, not much change. which is good, a good pattern, good for fire dangers for air quality as well and a big bullet dodged, this could really

happen, there was a chance it could happen and that kind of pattern, if it had occurred, it would've gone west a little bit, yeah, west. it would've, we could, potentially thousands of lightning strikes, remember a few years ago we had that in california, thousands of lightning strikes, the height of fire season didn't happen on to a cooler weather pattern as we go into the weekend. >> looks nice, thank you bill. well, apple may think different but its work force looks like other tech giants, the latest tech company to release a work force diversity report it shows that 54% of apple's tech employees are white, 23 % are asian, and 80% of its tech sector are men. our definition of diversity goes far beyond the traditional categories of race, gender and ethnicity, it includes sexual orientation, veteran status, and disabilities. 49ers quarterback kaepernick talks about the three days of

practice he finished with the ravens. and kansas city royals, mark is up next with sports.

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the a's look good. >> yeah, they have the best record in all of the baseball but the royals undoubtedly the hottest team in all of baseball and john lester, doing all right, he's throwing shutout balls and the a's so far, early after this game, doing their share offensively, donaldson, they need him to come through, that he does, there to make it 2-0 in the 3rd and followed by brandon moss, another guy who's got to start coming through, maybe get a little blooper to fall in left field, start of good things to come, base hit scores a run, john lester in the 4th inning, throwing, shutout ball for the a's. meantime, the 49ers, coming on home after spending some time back east, covering unusual situation with their pre season game in baltimore, john's team, they continued three days of workout against the ravens, an unusual situation with scrimmaging, offering a unique chance for offenses to go

against another team's defense, and of course, vice versa, kol capper -- kaepernick thought it was a real advantage. >> i thought it was higher, you're going against people you're not going to be playing on sunday, so you get different looks, different players, you get different techniques from them. so you got to pick up all those things in practice like you would in a game. >> 49ers back in town and looking for the unveiling of levi stadium in an american football type of situation, looking forward to that and the giants back at it after a day off trying to get back in the ways at at&t park, white sox, baseball in town tonight, highlights at the sporting line for right now. >> mark, thank you. tonight at 10:00, continuing coverage on the death of robin williams, the tributes, the memories and also the still-unanswered questions,

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