it's bad and i use my hand to block it off and hit my wrist. >> now at 11:00, a 72-year-old security guard beaten with a pole just trying to keep a neighborhood safe, his message tonight to the people who attacked him. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hello . i'm sara donchey. a 72-year-old security guard suddenly sees a robbery in an oakland neighbor he was hired to protect. he stopped to record it on his phone and that one small act

landed help in the hospital. the three burglars beat him and broke both his hands and what happened before, during and after that attack has the whole neighborhood asking really tough questions. our reporter betty yu checked in on him tonight at his home in oakland. i see the cast. i know he had surgery. how's he doing? >> >> reporter: all considering, he's in really good spirits, but he's in a lot of physical spain. the security guard told me he loves the work he does. he considers the residents of this oakmoor community his second family and says this attack is the most painful experience he's gone through. this is how a resident found a beloved neighborhood patrolman after he was brutally beaten by three burglars in broad daylight in oakland's oakmoor neighborhood. the 72-year-old took out his cell phone to doubt the crime in progress. >> the three of them came out and attacked me with whatever equipment they have, beat me up

and it was a horrible, horrible, horrible scene. >> reporter: fearing for his life, he pleaded during the beating. one had a gun. the other had a metal rod. >> i used my hand to block my head this way and that rod hit my two wrists. that was shattered my ribs and then they kicked me to the curb. >> reporter: alex suffered two broken hands and wrists and is recovering after surgery. the suspects destroyed his phone. he initially drove to laymark boulevard after a homeowner was alerted to a break-in on her security camera. were you scared going in there? >> i wasn't scared because i've been on the job more than 20 years, but i never expect this kind of thing would happen because i'm not armed perform. >> reporter: alex was able to flag a passing cyclist to call 911. he said it took paramedics almost an hour to arrive. >> i was yelling in pain tell the ambulance not to come

again. if i was going to die, let me die. it was all that terrible. >> reporter: he eventually lost consciousness. the getaway car, a silver hyundai elantra, was captured multiple times on home security cameras and given to opd. police told this neighbor that the stolen car later turned up abandoned in oakland shortly after the crime. an armed robbery took place outside her home just weeks before. >> we definitely are scared as there's a lot of different feelings. we're enraged. we're fearful, but we're saddened, too, that elders are being, you know, especially patrol is hurt. >> reporter: neighbors set up a gofundme page for alex to help him through his recovery. >> it's bad, but thank god, i'm alive. it could have been worse. these hoodlums committing all these crimes, using your

precious brain for vandal. and crime, it doesn't pay. crime doesn't pay. >> one of the big questions we asked, did he have a gun? was he armed? he wasn't. we were wondering would he consider carrying a gun if he goes back to work? >> i asked him and he said even after all this he still wouldn't even though he's received training because he says guns can often either provoke or exacerbate these kinds of situations. >> i don't consider carrying a gun personally. those people can provoke you to do what you do not plan to do and especially with anger management, they can do anything. if there's no gun, i believe you blocks it out. you cross yourself out, but if the gun is out there. >> sounds like he's worried about things escalating. he assumes it will happen even. >> and his job mainly is just to document, be the eyes and

ears of the community, which is what he was doing when this happened. as far as his recovery, he said he goes for his next checkup in two weeks and then he'll find out if it will be weeks or months, but now he can't eat. he can't use the restroom without assistance. a long road ahead. >> thank you, betty. we appreciate. it. a community can reeling in grief after a a 16-year-old was fatally stabbed at montgomery high school. family, community members stopped by a memorial to remember a life taken too soon. andrea nakano joins us with how they're trying to move forward. >> reporter: a family member of jayden pienta stopped by tonight and tells me not only is the family dealing with the grief, they are all coping with a lot of negative comments from the community that jayden was the one that started the fight and instigated the incident. she said the whole story has not come out yet.

meanwhile, many in community have been rattled by this incident and not sure about how to exactly move on. >> is this going to get better? is this going to get worse? >> reporter: robert brown is the father of a student at montgomery high school. >> i feel disappointed that the school system has failed our children. >> reporter: he brought his daughters to the memorial to remember a young life lost to a senseless act of violence. >> it should have never escalated to what it did. there's been constant violence to the school with fights all year long last year and the kids causing these fights aren't reprimanded in a way where they're fearful of their actions. >> reporter: chaplains with therapy dogs were brought in to sit with those mourning. they say their job is just to listen. as so many grieve, many are concerned jayden's death won't be the end to this violence. >> what fight is going to erupt in the hallway again? is there going to be more knives, retailation? >> reporter: the santa rosa police department will be working with the school to

insure students can return safely next week, but some parent like robert brown are looking to pull their child out of school altogether. >> she needs to learn in an environment that is safe. if she doesn't feel safe, she's not going to learn to her fullest capacity. >> reporter: there will be a community meeting to talk about the next steps and one of the possibilities that will be discussed is to bring back school resource officers. the santa rosa police department says it's more of a listening session to see what the community wants moving forward. >> today santa rosa students took to the streets in protest saying exactly what you heard andrea talking about, that they don't feel safe coming to school. our da lin was there, too, with the changes they want to see. >> reporter: students say if they don't feel safe, they can't focus on learning. before they marched, these high school students rallied on campus to demand better security and communication from administrators. students say a campus fire and

a hoax involving school shooting happened recently and this week police arrested a student for bringing an unloaded gun to school. >> there was a gun on campus and we weren't educated of that. in light of recent events, i do not feel safe at school. >> why does it take my best friend's death to be an eye opener to do better? >> reporter: among those speaking at the rally was olivia cruz, a junior from montgomery high, who witnessed the stabbing that killed her best friend, 16-year-old jayden pienta. >> my school absolutely failed him 100%. i was the one who called 911. i walked him into that office saying he was stabbed. >> reporter: the stabbing happened wednesday morning in an art class at montgomery high. family and friend of the victim say the 16-year-old pienta and another 16-year-old junior walked into the class to confront a 15-year-old freshman. they claim the freshman had previously slashed pienta's car

tires. they say the 15-year-old boy stabbed pienta killing him. >> the school knew about their history. parents called the school multiple times about their whole beef and all their drama and nothing was done. >> reporter: the school district would not comment on what they knew or what intervention was done before the stabbing. the district removed the school resource officers or sros in the summer of 2020 after the police killing of george floyd. montgomery high students also claim they don't have security guards on campus. >> we weren't aware of any specific instances or issues between those students. >> i'm on two hours of sleep because every time i sleep i dream about him. i relive everything that i saw and i don't want to. >> reporter: classes at montgomery high were canceled on thursday and friday. they'll reopen the school on monday, but students plan to stage a walkout. the ransomware attack against the city of oakland taking an ugly turn, the warning from the city that has

some cybersecurity experts worried about people's safety. and juliette goodrich will join us with the story of a band that looks and sound just like the real thing and how they're making a difference here in the bay and beyond. plus we're three weeks away from the spring equinox and winter

the cyberattack against the city of oakland has gone from bad to worse. whoever is holding the data for ransom has released at least some of it to the public. it was hit with a ransomware attack that's lasted weeks and

at one point it bought a lot of city services to a halt. we asked what kind of data the hackers have but did not hear back. they said earlier they would notify victims if their information was leaked, but security experts like jeff harp said all the damage would be done. >> the more serious thing is if this was a release of law enforcement, maybe it's all the police records at opd. now you've got police officers' address, telephone, phone numbers and all that stuff that probably will be released and that can be dangerous. >> cybersecurity task force from the state of california is helping the city of oakland respond to this attack. paul is here with us. we have spent more time than in recent memory talking about snow. >> it's been that kind of winter. >> it really has. look at that, wow. >> one of the highway signs on i-80 near the donner summit tweeted out by caltrans, the sign's almost gone.

>> almost. >> it says freeway entrance. where? find it. >> i know. >> good luck. >> so many images like that appear in southern california and i know we're not done yet. >> the amount of snow is starting to rival the winter of 1997/'98, which is like the gold standard for snowiest winters in the sierra in recent memory. yet another winter storm warning is in effect for the high sierra. if you thought you might want to take advantage of the fresh powder, think again. your window for travel has essentially closed unless you want to do an overnight drive. if you do, prepare to stay until wednesday next week. this winter storm warning goes through 10 a.m. monday, but the snow will continue in take lighter form after. that road conditions will be treacherous, if not impassable on i-80 and u.s. 50, feet of snow accumulating. around the bay it's going to be a couple waves of rain headed our way saturday, the first of which is about 12 hours away, the second of which is about 24

hours away. lingering showers on sunday, but it's going to be a hit or miss pattern the second half of the weekend. on futurecast we stay dry the next several hour, but rain showers become much more likely as we head through mid to late morning. the heaviest rain will start to move into north bay about 9 a.m. moving quickly across the bay area. this band of rain will have very heavy downpours and gusty winds, but the heaviest rain will only last about 20 or 30 minutes in one particular spot. that moves out already by early afternoon. the rest of the afternoon we'll see a few lingering hit or miss showers, more miss than hit, before more rain moves in tomorrow night, basically around midnight for some of the heaviest rain and lower snow levels as well, down to 2,000 to 2,500 feet. lingering showers after that. the heaviest rain won't last more than 20 or 30 minutes saturday night, lingering showers into the beginning of next week. we go forward to drive time monday morning and be prepared to splash your way to work.

let's add up the rain through monday morning, talking about a half inch to an inch of rain most locations and most of it's going to fall in the 20 to 30 minute intervals tomorrow morning and then again by tomorrow night. this amount of rain is not enough to cause significant flooding threat and it should have a beneficial impact on the overall long term drought situation. there is a winter weather advisory in effect for the north bay mountains. most of the accumulating snow will be above 3,000 feet in elevation, but some of the highways to the north bay mountains will have issues once again. there are going to be gusty winds that accompany the heaviest downpours moving through. the wind gusts in the 25 to 35- mile-an-hour range with the first wave of rain tomorrow morning. the winds will be noticeable after that moves through, 15 to 20-mile-an-hour gusts much of the afternoon and maybe stronger gusts with the second batch of rain, maybe more in the 30 to 40-mile-an-hour range. be prepared for sporadic power outages, right now cool, 40s and dry. we stay in the 40s most

locations tonight. the coldest spot briefly dip into the upper 30s. we don't warm up much, highs in the low 50s tomorrow. it will be cool, breezy and wet the first half of the day. fewer showers during the afternoon, but the ground will be wet. keep that in mind if you're trying to do anything out. off and on showers sun and monday, less than a 50/50 chance each day. it's lower than a 50/50 chance of rain wednesday and thursday. the forecast has gradually trended in a drier direction, but not warm until friday next week, the next time temperatures will sneak up close to what is normal for early march. be prepared to shiver a bit heading into the weekend. >> i don't think we talk about normal that much anymore. >> certainly not around me. >> that's true. thank you. call hr. >> have a good weekend. girl scout cookies have gotten more and more expensive but not this expensive, why one kind is going for hundreds of dollars on the resale market. coming up next in sports, we have huge games to show you.

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allowed under 100 points to the opposition just once in 62 games. golden state just accomplished it twice in 24 hours. pelicans and warriors, jordan poole has been getting buckets lately. early action, poole on the attack, jonathan komminga comes soaring in. klay thompson from the parking lot, finished with 27, dubs back up two. next possession penetration, the extra pass from poole, donte divincenzo knocks it down, warriors up four. 2:30 to go, poole, what a move off the mark, divincenzo saving it. look out. that's another dunk and chase center was rocking. warriors end the game on a 19-6 run and win it 108-99, a

perfect five-game homestand. now it's on to life on the road, which has been rough. the good news, steph curry is expected to be back sunday at the lakers. >> i just realized how important these games are. we aspire to have home court, especially in the first round. so it's a great challenge and really out there for us to take. we just got to embrace. it we only have 17 regular season games left. that's insane, went by so fast. women's pac-12 tourney, tara vanderveer and stop-seeded sanford matched up with the fifth seed. cardinal up five midway through the fourth, but the bruins claw back, one-point game, two to play, kiki rice from the elbow knocking it down. next possession, charisma osborne, tough j, got. it ucla pulls off the upset.

stanford denied. they'll have to settle for selection sunday. they are definitely heading to the big dance a. were usf, the dons, will have to win the west coast conference tournament. so far off to a nice start. they beat pacific, but the competition will ramp up from here. >> charlie, thank you so much. shoyu may not have heard this name, but you might know the songs he's singing, how a bay area born cover band has kept the gigs coming for the past 30 years. ♪ sweet caroline good times never seemed so good. ♪ whatever you do don't ever let anyone

cover bands are tough to pull off. you're trying to sound like one

of the greats, but also make your own mark in the music world. this year the group super diamond is making history celebrating its 30th anniversary. juliette goodrich has the story that began right here in the bay area. >> reporter: at an undisclosed location in san francisco, a secret little sparkle. >> no one really sees you around here in your sequins, right? >> right. so got to keep it on the low down here. hope nobody sees me. >> reporter: meet randy cordeiro. his name might not ring a bell. but you might surely recognize the song. ♪ sweet caroline good times never seemed so good. ♪ >> reporter: randy is the lead vocalist for a neil diamond tribute band known as super diamond. the group began as a loving salute to one of the most loved

and best selling musicians of all time, the iconic neil diamond. as to why neil diamond? the seeds were planted early on. >> my mom's favorite artist was neil diamond and so i grew up with it. >> reporter: randy realized he could mimic voices. >> when i learned i could do neil diamond, i thought i've got to do this live in front of people. ♪ baby love me yes yes she does. ♪ >> reporter: the rest is history. for 30 years randy has transformed into a character known as surreal neil along with the band performing at soldout shows throughout the bay area and nationwide. >> they're a great band and just as great now. >> reporter: one of their first venues, the historic bimbo's 365 club. the manager still books them. >> people really enjoy coming to see them and making memories and sharing it with their kids. >> reporter: as to what