. they were tricked, swindles and shamed. why a man says a man promised them a profit and was arrested for a ponzi scheme [music] from kpix, there is the lat news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. hello, i'm sara donchey. buying and reselling tickets fo concert and games is big business. investigators say an eastbay man led people to believe that is what he did and promised luxury suites, the onl problem, it was a scam. prosecutors insist there were n tickets and instead, he stole $39 million over seven years in a ponzi scheme. a federal gran jury indicted him this week. ho

does a ponzi scheme work? fraudsters lure people and companies to invest their moninto something that generate high returns. but in reality the monsenot invested at all. the returns are just coming fro other investors who was scammed but first, we will talk about weather. we know earlier, darren, we saw rain over the last couple o days t cleared up a little bit. we are talking about the potential for more rain now. darren has been busy tracking all of that. we are seeing on the radar a little bit of activity, a little bit of green out there in the mountains, let's head this way and join darren at the video wall for now. there it goes. we see it. the rain. it looks like a little bit of snow way up in northern california, right? >> i thought you were going to do the whole forecast. >> i almost did. >> you could have. >> i could have, i do pay

attention to what you say. >> i have 100% confidence in your ability. there is light rain out there. not going to get heavier than it is now and not going away. we will see light showers overnight. it looks more impressive on the radar than it is in real life. there is a lot more showing up here that is measurable. only getting a couple hundredths of an inch tonight. if we play it through it does not go away. until 10:00, 11:00 in the morning, then it does. once we are in the ternoon tomorrow, p than today. a lot more blue sky. not going to change a lot on the temperatures, probably warm back up to the middle 60s which is where we are today. th temperatures will not change a lot. it will look prettier. it is not the end. by the time we get to monday morning there could be another chance here. see how the clouds thicken up late sunday? another system coming in right there. that on means

possibility that for monday we might have to talk about rain. but it will be the end. we wil turn it off and get back into, like, overdrive spring. there are day time highs in the middl 80s showing up in the seven-day forecast when we get there in the next visit when we get into the seven-day forecast. here i saturday, day time highs, middl 60s, exactly where we were today. pipping out a few more details -- picking up a few mor details here, up along i-80. no a lot of difference. sunday's numbers are five degrees warmer than this. then we really start to warm up by the middle of nex week. i will see you with that in the next block, sara, back t you. >> thank you, appreciate it. thousands of oakland parent are going into the weekend unsure if their kids will have class come monday. oakland teachers were on the picket lines for a second datoday. while they are fighting for mor pay, support and better facilities the kid's missed one

more day of learning. >> reporter: this is the second strike by oakland teachers in the last four years, add the lockdown from the pan demic and some of these kids missed a lot of school. many parents say they support the teachers but i is the kids that are suffering. >> at this point, really, i am trying to figure out the next day. >> reporter: rebecca has a fourth grader. luckily she work from home. she was able to take care of her son. wishes he was back in the class room. >> it is debtment to the kids, right? they need to be in school. >> reporter: carpentersupports the teachers but the concern is not knowing. >> the pandemic, not being in school, the kids suffered a lot by not being in class. and, so not being prepared with materia to send the kids home with. an of those things they are really challenging. >> reporter: it is not only

parents that are feeling the anxiet . >> it has been a big change. yo never know what is going to happen. >> reporter: she says it is difficult to find information o the status of the strike and ho the kids will make up this time away from school. she says she has been getting conflicting updates from the oakland unifie school district and the teacher's union. >> that is frustrating. i don' know who to believe on this, i am sure the truth is somewhere in the middle. it is challenging to try to thread that needle with all of the different communication. >> reporter: the school distric said they offered the teachers an unprecedented 22% raise. it leaves little to address the other issues. the last strike in oakland lasted seven-days. all right, back to our top story tonight that we mentioned at the beginning of the broadcast. the luxury ticket

ponzi scheme. a man stole $39 million promising luxury ticket and suites. the suspect knew their family for 30 years. >> reporter: more than 100 victims are tied up in this $39 million scheme. according to federal prosecutors, many of them are from san francisco's chinatown. many cases they are seniors who do not speak english. >> reporter: this is the plan federal prosecutors say ran a $39 million ponzi scheme and spent at least $7 million of it to fund his own lavish lifestyle. the 41-year-old is accused of connie victims to invest in a fake scheme, buying and reselling tickets and luxur suites at staple center and chase center. kingsley spoke t me on behalf of his mom, a resident who is out $3.5 million. >> my mom had to go through all of that. she did not speak english. going through all of

that, living in shame, being embarrassed. but today, with everything that has transpired she has really realized that it was not about the money any more, right? it is about gettin these guys here. it is really not time to be scared they should be scared now. >> reporter: the family's attorney filed lawsuits against derek and his father felix. a long time family friend and well-known life insurance agent who since retired. >> started off as hey, maybe yo can give me money i can give yo some interest, right? 11%, 18%, sounds really good. so, in the beginning it started, the amounts were like in the thousands. it was all right. and, a felix would pay it consistent. and building his credit. and then after that, i started to climbing up to tens of thousands. but then the interest payments were slow and then stopped coming and it was

diverted. >> a significant amount of the funds went towards paying n al luxury cars such as porsche and jewelry, designer sneakers and handbags. these victims gave them their entire retirement funds. >> reporter: she represents a dozen victims and filed an initial police report in 2019. sfpd began investigating. >> these are mom and pops, you know, the former victim, his mo was a garmet worker. the other victims they, they are restaurant workers. we had victims that were extremely suicidal. we have been able to work through. we had another victim who had a heart attack and subsequently passed, we believe is related to this. . >> reporter: she signed notes that was signed by him. >> built on trusts, relationships of 30 years, people they considered like uncles or second fathers. the

promisory notes are no better than a handshake. >> if your parents are immigrants here, chances are they don't know a lot. hard wor is all they know. and if you, if you see that they know somebody that they really, really trust that is outside of the family and you don't seem t be in the loop, that is probabl a red flag. >> reporter: the suspect's next court appearance is scheduled for may 10th. facing a maximum of 20 years in prison for multiple counts. still ahead, remembering th student who was involved in a series of stabbings what we kno about the suspect. why one south bay city is going as far as closing highway off-ramps and upping the police enforcement this weekend. also coming up later, the

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. tonight, an emotional memorial at u.c. davis to remember a student and a 50-year-old man killed in separate attacks over the last week. the 20-year-old was week away from graduating with a degree in computer science. >> a brilliant mind and a kind soul. the gift and the gifted. he is, not was, our special

gift. >> a third stabbing victim was homeless woman, she now recovering. the suspect, 21-year-old carlos dominguez is a former student. he pled not guilty today to two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. the judge denied him bail saying he presents a serious danger to society. the school says the former biological science major failed out of school last week just two days before the attack began. according to the federa documents, he is from als is - alsalvador. tonight, the main focus at el salvador, tonight, the main focus tonight was on

the victims. >> we are here still standing strong. >> his family set up a scholarship that raised over $50,000. it will support under graduate u.c. davis students doing research so others can finish the work that he had onl begun. tonight, san francisco police investigating a shooting that happened at the intersection of van nuys and market. a 30-year-old man was shot about 4:00 this evening. h was take tone the hospital. no word yet on how he is doing tonight. officials did close down the southeast entrance of the muni station after the shooting no arrests have been made as of yet. >> more than six years after th ghost ship fire killed 36 peopl in oakland the warehouse where it happened has been raised. ou helicopter flew over to see it, a vacant lot. it was a warehouse illegally converted t living spaces for artist. in

2016 a fire broke out while it was packed with people for a music event. many trapped inside. expect to see extra police in san jose this weekend. the department stepping up patrols and closing streets to keep traffic down and to keep people safe during an organized march. the police are warning people t avoid driving in or even watching sideshows saying doing that will cost you. >> some of the fines associated with the sideshow activities, the ticket alone can go up to $1,000. there will be a 30-day impound on the vehicle. including storage fees. >> officers say if you plan to drink have a designated driver, take transit or use a ride shar app. all right, darren back wit us now to talk about the weathe it is nice to see rain there on the map. woe saw it earlier. talking about it and then no wa up there. for us? just gloomy? >> mainly gloomy. there is thi like lingering chance that you can get light rain. especially

if you are out and about in the morning. that is the more likely time unless you are out and about now. we are getting light rain now. that is really the best time. you will see whe we get to the seven-day forecas a chance of rain on it going al of the way through monday. really the most likely time frame is now through tomorrow morning. then, there is going to be a few follow up showers perhaps coming through on monda that is what it looks like righ now on the first alert doppler. it looks busy on here. as i mentioned earlier not a lot of rain. the radar can read all of the rain it wants in the upper levels. how much of it is following through and getting o the ground it is a different story. not a lot to that. the forecast models do a better job of depicting where the more likely rain is and more bands, they are going to move over hea through the overnight hours, with us in the morning in the early morning hours. like predawn hours, passed sunrise, here we are at 6:30. 7:00, showers that are grazing the south bay. we will be done. noon, 1:00, more blue skies, that is the story for saturday. more blue sky than today. the

temperatures in the middle 60s. sunday, the clouds tick up again for the system with a chance of rain for monday morning. but, that one is really going to be unimpressive mainly the north bay getting a few showers on monday morning that is what it looks like for now through tomorrow. a quarte of an inch can fall, 0.10. and that snow it is not unheard of. you can get snow like this in may. getting late in the year for this to still be happening. that is another six inches of snow on the passes. a winter weather advisory here. on the weekend. it is going to impact travel. be advised and let anyone you know, highway 50, it will be slow, you probably at times will need chains going into early may. in terms of th temperatures for the weekend. here is saturday. i want to do the comparison with monday. if you pick out your part, lower 60s, going to move saturday out

of the way and move sunday in. sunday it is three to four degrees warmer. now, pick out your part of the bay and you will see there is a slight warm up. i don't think you will notice a lot. we get warmer on sunday. we are going to be on saturday. right now, 54 degrees in san francisco, that is your number right in line with that. in the seven-day forecast, a warm up as we get towards the end of the week. look back here by friday, oakland is back up t 72. you see that drop of rain? that is monday morning, keep your plans if they are outdoors whatever they are. not significant. we got to put it in. technically it is possible. we don't want you to be surprised. north bay valley, 8 degrees, san jose, on the verge of 80. inland, east bay valley in the middle 80s. quite the turnaround for the next week. for the next few days it will look gloomy. >> we will be prepared for it. thank you very muchoge duri thb ur. tag about

visiting the negro league in kansas city today. some heard him use the n-word to describe the museum. >> earlier in the show, i said something did not come out quit the way i wanted it to. i just wanted to apologize if it sounded different than i meant it to be said. >> now, the a's issued a statement on twitter calling hi language unacceptable. they said they are working to addres the situation. san jose earthquakes are gearing up to take on lafc at levi. they are calling it the biggest cinco de mayo on the west coast. 40,000 tickets have already been sold. the match u on the big stage at levi stadiu has a lot of people counting to the bay area arrival of the men's world cup in 2026. for now they are focused on taking down the defending champs tomorrow. we spoke to the

quake's coo about equipment around the club and soccer in the bay area. >> about three years until the world cup comes here to the bay area playing right here. we are excited to help work with the 9ers on growing the sport, with matches, events, all kinds of stuff. >> if you are headed to tomorrow's match it is importan you will want to give yourself lot of time. they are expecting heavy traffic. still ahead, a lot of excitement for the coronation o king charles iii. how you can celebrate here in the bay area and how you can watch from home sports after the break. warriors and lakers pick it up tomorrow from southern california. draymond green was talking about stepping on it, this message all about family. and the blue crew at

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. everybody is planning their weekend, where they are going t watch, who they are going to be yelling at. we are over here debating the name arenasles, ia

going to call it staples, some people will always call it pac bell, some people think oracle is in the oakland. >> we will call it the crypt. >> the warriors, 0-2 against th lakers inside of that venue. some point, golden state will have to steal a game on the roa in order to win the series hoping it may come tomorrow. green started his second game o the season in last night's win with looney not feeling too hot he did not score a single poin in the kings but yesterday, 15 points in 13 minutes last night as for the other green, draymond was strong, too. nearl had a triple double. 11 points 11 rebounds, nine assists. after the game, green brought his kids dimond jr and olive. >> okback some of the pictures and interviews and

moments and you just really appreciate them. last night i was in the gym, they were with me. they loved it. >> no, i wasn't. >> no, i wasn't. it pushes you harder knowing they are watchin over single thing they do. >> baseball, milwaukee is in town. peterson spoiled his outing on the 5th bases loaded. two outs, 2-2 count, sneaks it up the middle. the giants had all they needed. he got over zealous, tagged out going for second, no worries, san francisco, victorious, 6-4 in the series opener that is now three straight wins for the giants. a's, royals, now, there is no one hotter than brent rooker. left field, out of here. his 10th homer of the year, second most in the

american league. a's lead 9-3 after five. plenty of run support for kyle. perez, ground into a double-play. it ends th fifth inning, 12- 8. now, he earns the victory 33 games in the a's have a starting pitcher first time this season. it is safe to say no one from the a's will be winning the cy young this season and tomorrow, lakers/warriors should be a goo one. >> i can't wait. i am planning it out. can't wait to watch, charlie, i will send you a message on twitter. we are a few hours away fro seeing a very rare event. the coronation of king charles iii.

. an incredibly rare event is

happening about 3:00 a.m. our time. for the first time in 70 years the u.k. is holding its first coronation, it starts jus after 3:00 in the morning. som people have been camping out fo hoping to get a great view of the procession. >> have you seen the king yet? >> yes, twice, he has come back he waived to us. yeah. incredible. >> king charles and his wife will ride from the palace and the state coach arriving at westminster abbey where they will be crowned and camilla wil become queen. here, some pubs will open at 3:00 a.m. yes, 3:0 a.m. they will have coronation mugs, a full english breakfast and themed costumes and bakery in several locations will have themed afternoon tea. if you ar planning to stay up to watch it cbs news coverage of the coronation starts at 2:00 a.m.

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. okay, we all left something in an uber, right? >> yes. >> have you? >> yes. >> especially a friday night when you have been out with you friends maybe drinking water. okay. something other than water. but ub erk r keeps trac ever the most commonly left behind items. here they are. clothes, phones, keys, wallets, laptops, no surprises >> if you leave your phone in a uber your life comes to a stop. >> absolutely. here is where i gets interesting. they log the more unique things. here are a few, a six cheesecakes, don't ask questions, i have no idea, ankle monitor, rash cream, a

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