in the mission, and the wild side shows that ended without any arrests. and getting paid for your work seems bold, but many aren't getting their full paychecks. our investigation looks into the growing problems of wage theft. the final race day at golden gates fields. what they have if stored for northern california's last remaining horse track. the crisis that became a victim of it as well. the story of the journalist, randy schultz a little later in the newscast. live from the studio in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. we start with breaking news out of the east bay, fire crews are battling a fire in pittsburg. this is a live look at the fire as you can see the large plume of smoke near the hills. cal fires says it has grown to 48 acres. >> the fire broke out just

before 5:00 a.m. and the fire officials say it began as a building fire on john henry parkway and then spread to the grassland that is just to the east of the road. >> let's go back to the live look that we showed you earlier in pittsburg. there are homes in the area as of now. we are keeping a close eye on this and we'll have more information as they become available. this comes less than a week after the housing project went up in flames. workers tried to put it out, but they spread it too quickly. firefighters found debris from that fire about four miles away where it was so windy on that day. let's get over to darren with a look at how things are affecting the blaze today. darren? >> what is a well-known troubled spot for winds across the bay. we all know that the

winds are blowing through the delta. you can kind of see where the water will get in between mount diablo and the central valley. come up to the visual on the right monitor with me here. that's the exact vantage point we're looking at as you can see in the smoke. this is what we will play in a second and that smoke is getting pushed along very fast. smoke obviously naturally would want to rise straight up. when the winds are going 20 miles an hour like it is doing, you can now also visualize from watching this, how embers could spread very quickly out in front of the moving fire and get some forward momentum. i'll hit play and we'll watch that. one other thing that you're going to see right about 5:25, the smoke is going to change color and they will zoom in for a moment and a sign that this momentarily along with being a grass fire, which is why it is

white colored will start to burn a structure and you will see it go dark in one second where there is so much you could tell about those fires, especially in the early stages of them. that's when it went into a structure fire as you saw that in the view. now we would readjust that shot as you can see we are back to the same story. let me show you the other vantage point of that and those wind speeds here it is always one of the windier parts of the entire bay when we would have grass fires, this is one of those areas along the corridor there, which is where we would run into the issue. it will stay like this for the next few hours from now through 11:00 tonight and it does not appear that it will get much

help. another heat advisory to talk about in a few minutes. >> thanks. turning to other news now, it's pride month. time to celebrate the community in history. >> and so much happened right here in san francisco. >> if you wanted to know more about how the gay rights would shape san francisco, you can check out the book. and it is written by san francisco chronicle reporter, randy schultz. >> if you wanted to learn about how the entire country responded to the crisis, and also written by randy schultz. >> the battle of the gaze, written by randy schultz. >> the man not only wrote three books, he was also in the middle of it. often drawing criticism from all directions. >> and wilson walker has his story. >> it is more of the age being out in the sun. let's say

that. >> reporter: off the shelves in the living room, pulling the old copy of history in the troubled response to the work of his former colleague at the san francisco chronical. >> and you know, he was out very early. and you know, amazing work that way. i always tried to report on things that would not be covered if i did not do it. >> reporter: the first openly gay journalist would produce three monumental books on history and rights and at the center of that work was his coverage of an epidemic. >> well, it was very difficult when it is in your community and the people you know are dying and you don't know yourself what your situation is or maybe you do. >> reporter: we talked about this a lot because we were both openly gay working in the

mainstream media and covering the biggest story to hit the gay community, which is aids. >> reporter: the retired kpix political reporter says covering the crisis was inevitably personal while publicly it was often controversial and something he was not afraid of. >> and randy started doing stories that were advocating closing the houses in sex clubs where they were calling him the traitor in the gay newspapers. and eventually they did close the bath houses where they would save their lives. >> reporter: more controversies with that thriller element of that band played on, suggesting one single patient was largely responsible for bringing aids to the united states. >> and this new book does put to rest the whole notion of

patient zero. >> i know randy himself would express some regrets to others about including that story as they were getting ready to be published. and it is unfortunate that it was the hook. >> reporter: the upcoming biography would look at the entire life of randy schultz and his lasting imprint on lgbt history. >> i'm hoping with the book, it will capture more of that complexity in a way that will portray the whole human that he was. i think that he has a very substantial and complicated legacy. >> writing his obituary was a challenge because he could not deny there was controversy. and i got some angry response later from, you know, some people that it was too nice or it should have been much more critical. >> and bad people would get aids and bad people would get aids. >> reporter: just 42 years old,

he died of aids in february of 1994 at his funeral, drew anti-gay activists from across the country. 30 years later, his legacy is still very much a part of san francisco, a pioneer who worked to save lives when many others refused to listen, even if it meant angering those in his own community. >> he was a great old fashion gum shoe reporter. he was obsessive. he never took no for an answer. he didn't care about being liked, which is important if you're going to be a successful reporter. we were lucky to have them. the real tragedy, of course, is 30 years ago right now, randy died from the disease that he was warning everybody else about. that's the real heartbreak. >> you know, but randy would talk about having, you know, difficulty, going down, walking down the castro, and people would throw things at him or spit at him or yell at him or whatever. and i think that at

some point, he sort of felt like, you know, the persona and in the castro. but he did what he felt, you know, was right to do. and you know, i think he was very courageous that way and deserved a lot of credit for that. whether you agree with him or not. >> reporter: he has a plaque on the castro's honor walk that was placed here in 2014 in a pretty great spot just a few spots from their old camera store. the book on his life is due out on october 6. >> we will be bringing you stories like this all throughout june. you'll be able to find them on our website kpix.com. well, in other news, cars set on fire with lasers and fireworks. this is the scene in the middle of their embarcadero last night. you can see at one point, someone jumped on the burning car. this is right under some muni lines. we

reached out to the city to see if they were damaged, but we have not heard back. there was a second side show in the city near valencia and cesar chavez. in oakland side show activity on grand view that stopped traffic at the intersection just outside of the grand lake theater. no arrests were made. in other news this evening, a man accused of shooting and killing another man during a brawl at lake berryeesa is being held at a hospital tonight and will be booked at a jail later this week. the suspect was among a number of people stabbed during the fight. this happened about 5:00 last night at the oak shores day use area. the incident is still under investigation. and still ahead here at 6:00, a final farewell to northern california's last horse track. a look at the past and the future of golden gate fields. plus california is about to ban hidden service fees. why the senator who wrote the law is now giving restaurants an

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the end of an era for horse racing in the bay area. the last race has been run at golden gate fields. >> after more than 80 years of horse racing, the historic track is shutting down for good. >> thousands of people did pack that venue one last time. >> as da lin reports, not everyone is upset about the closure. >> reporter: ladies and gentlemen, welcome. >> the iconic trumpet call one last time at golden fields. eight races with 50 horses on sunday. a long time race fan is sad to see it go.

>> i want to be a part of history for the last day to say i was here for the last day of golden gate fields like i was on the last day at bay meadows. >> reporter: dennis has been coming here for over 40 years. mostly small bets. >> i lost more than i won, but i still enjoy coming. >> reporter: what will keep them coming back is the adrenaline. >> the sense of jubilation and that experience of saying yes, i got the winner by a nose. >> the end of an era after 83 years, we are going to miss everybody. >> reporter: the general manager of golden gate fields says horse racing is a declining sport and business. online betting means fewer people at the track. most of the loyal customers, they are older people. >> and there are days when we have had thousands here. dollar runs were very popular after the pandemic unfortunately. it was very difficult to get that going again. >> reporter: thousands showed up for the final day. there was a long line of people trying to get in. >> she has a beautiful hat,

yeah. i told her that she has to wear it. that's the image i would have in my mind when i think of horse racing and derbies. >> reporter: carol and her husband came from nevada to say farewell. >> i hate to see it go, but i know it's progress and time moves on. i can tell you when i leave, i'll probably have tears in my eyes. >> reporter: her parents brought her often when she was a little girl. she's had a lot of great memories. >> i just love this track. >> reporter: but some are celebrating the closure saying no more horse deaths at the track. the california horse racing board says 18 horses have died at the facility since the track owner announced the closure last year. >> i'm so excited that this is kind of a step towards eliminating horse racing in california entirely and excited that as a society, we are evolving away from using animals for entertainment and for profit. >> reporter: the venue has 140

acres on albany and berkeley, amazing views of the bay. a lot of talks about the future of the prime piece of real estate. no plans as of now, but most people believe it will be a mixture of park space and housing. >> and you could get some affordable housing here. that would be my ideal situation for it. >> reporter: and this is the final race at golden gate field. 5:37 p.m. on sunday. >> i'm going to miss the people yelling, screaming. >> reporter: albany and berkeley city officials say it will likely be another 10 to 15 years before they could build something here. there will be a lot of community meetings and possibly lawsuits, so they anticipate this to be a long and slow process. >> no kidding, 10 to 15 years. >> the last racetrack to close before golden gate fields was, you may remember, bay meadows in san mateo. >> the track was demolished in 2008 to make room for housing. the only remaining racetracks are all in southern california right now. del mar in san diego

county, los alameda in orange county. >> let's go to darren peck with more on the weather and the wind over in pittsburg. >> yeah, i've got to talk about the heat, but you're right, i want to start out with a pretty stunning image. our camera on top of mount diablo always gives us the great overview for inland contra costa county, watching the grass fire outside pittsburg since it started right around 5:00. this is the time lapse from 5:30 until now, so you can see the amount of smoke that's coming out of this. now up to 55 acres by the way e per cal fire. take a look behind the smoke in the distance there and that is the wind turbin farm out there and that will tell you everything that you need to know about how notoriously windy this is. and we will do it again with the other update coming up. one other thing that we have not touched on yet

that's moving from pittsburg be inland and you would wonder how bad air quality is right there. most of that smoke for now is staying elevated and perhaps it is moving out. we are not seeing it settle out where it is just moving along and we'll have another look at that in the next half hour. they've got 40% containment on it, which is pretty. go all right, let's come back to the story of the day weather wise, which is the heat advisory for tuesday. so it is beautiful out there today. it will feel very different around tuesday and a big spike in temperatures. the heat advisory is for all of the inland valleys. you can see them on the inland and east bay on it and the santa clara valley, but you don't get included in this in the interior of the bay, which is normally getting some help from a little bit of that onshore flow and we will have that with

this heat wave and still hot. here are tomorrow's daytime highs where they need to be pointed out and being in the low to mid-80s. these numbers are 10 degrees above today. so you'll notice tomorrow, we started that warm up. by the time we would get to tuesday, we will put in five more onto this and remove the numbers here and take a look at where we will be at on tuesday. san francisco you're going to 72. oakland is going to 80. and that is what you know when you get to those numbers. it's a warm day with your temperatures near 100 inland. it is all the inland valleys here, you're not included where it will be hot. you will be 90 in san jose and 94 in los gatos. let's put this into the seven-day forecast now and see how long that heat will last. say

good-bye to the virtual map where we will bring in the first virtual climate. and that is where you'll get to your 97 on tuesday and wednesday is not included in the heat advisory. at this point it's a one day event for the heat advisory. thursday is dramatically cooler with a little below average by the time we would get to next weekend and to show you what it will be like in general for the bay and the ups and down. >> straight ahead in sports from sonoma. they they are celebrating behind me, the

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>> you've got to respect this track in sonoma. you don't beat it, you survive it. they could attest the sonoma raceway that would live up to the billing. >> drivers, start your engine. >> reporter: it looked like highway 37 before the race where things are coming to the standstill. and spun out and hit the wall. got caught up in it, but managed to get out okay and earn that second place finish. last year's winner took the lead with nine laps to go and quickly passed by kyle larson, ending up the day 27th. no looking back for the elk grove native. >> you did it and how much has that got to mean more to do it

here? >> definitely. always when you could win in your home track, it means something. the guy i looked up to a lot and another local northern californian, and he's won five times here. so i would love to get to match him some day or surpass him potentially. but it's tough. we'll see. i know i'm with the great team. and i definitely have extra motivation. >> reporter: next stop, iowa on father's day. >> respect the track. thanks. to baseball, giants started the week in midst of their longest losing streak of the season as they had a chance to end it with the sweep of the defending champs. the texas manager, hoping that wasn't the case for his squad. the bottom of the one with the bases loaded, the rookie would deliver the two out single up the middle to score the first

two runs. down the left field line for a two run blast. they go on to win 7-2, snapping san francisco's three game win streak. giants are two games below .500. they will host houston on monday. over in oakland, former a's and they are back at the coliseum. oakland trailing toronto 2-1 in the seventh. he bloops one into no man's land. giving the a's the lead, but they would tie the game and they forced extras. the top ten, isiah kiner-falefa with the bases loaded. doubles in to left center. all three runs would score with five rbis to take two out of three in the series. let's head over to paris. men's final of the french

open. carlos alcaraz against alexander zeverov. alcaraz will drop it off and the 21-year-old would force the fifth set championship point for alcaraz. and his return is short and into the net. falls to the clay in celebration. his first career, french open title, and third grand slam of his young career, the future of tennis. in golf, the statue of jack nicklaus at his tournament. the memorial on 18, former cal bear, morikawa trailing scottie scheffler. and it goes just barely passed the hole. morikawa could not believe it. scheffler still needed this five footer and he rolls it in for his fifth win of the year. first player since 2017 with five wins in a season. gets the congratulations from nicklaus and his wife and new baby, benny. we were talking about this at 5:00. i forgot to mention, he's been arrested, he's won a lot of times this year. he also had a kid just a few weeks ago. so it even adds to the busy month and a half

he's had. >> yeah. at the masters, there's a question that he might have to go if the baby was on the way. >> that story line might have been taken out of context. >> it is good drama. thanks, matt. coming up in the next half hour, it's hosted hall of famers. now the oakland ballers will call it home, but how did raimondi park get its name? our investigation looks into the growing problem of wage theft. it's a different kind of solar farm where panels share space with sheep. the new project making green energy more accessible

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fire crews continue to battle in pittsburg and contra costa fire says it started on the parkway and then spread to the open grassland. they say 40% of the flames have been contained. no word on what might have started the fire. in other news, they will give us a look at how many californians are not being paid properly for their work. imagine being put in and not getting paid. >> first exposed how bad the problem is here and back tonight with what that state is

not doing to protect you. >> reporter: we spent years investigating the wage theft in california, failing to pay them what they are owe. and we learned about how their system is broken and they are confirming just how broken it is. >> reporter: for the childcare to the retail and restaurants, the wage theft is a costly crime. low wage workers, immigrants, people of color. this is a photo of their kid with they began working in the franchise. these are her kids today. her daughter now drops her off at work because they still can't afford her own car. she says she loves her job at jack in the box. but after 17 years of loyalty, all while making minimum wage, she says

she just learned she was entitled to take breaks. they will come in many forms and maybe the employer would ask you to work off the clock and doesn't pay you overtime for missed breaks. she estimates her unpaid wage claims in the past three years would be enough to buy her own car. but our investigation found backlogs in the labor commissioner's office so severe that she may never be able to collect. the labor commissioner's office has 30 days to schedule a conference with your employer. but the collaboration found the median wait time is more than a year and most people never get paid even after winning their case. well now they are confirming the findings, blaming staffing

to wait six times longer than allowed in combined unpaid wages. they are now recommending they take action, along with 22 other recommendations. speeding up their determination, which for people, can't come soon enough. and they say they acknowledge and accept their recommendations, saying they are working towards implementing them. she is still waiting for the hearing. and that reverses the part of the

state law. it all happened after the original bill that was meant to relieve those problems for consumers, face pushback specifically from those restaurant owners. now the new bill will only require them to openly disclose the tacked on fees. almost any business in california will not be allowed to hit them as those fees to purchases. after years of construction and several service disruptions, the new fleet is getting ready to hit the tracks, nearing the finish line from diesel to electric. the first of its kind project in north america, while they ran the final test of the new electric fleet. they first broke ground in 2017. they say the new system will approve the air quality and aureoles them from traffic congestion.

>> it will be taking 55,000 cars off the road. they are going to move more people faster. >> reporter: lieberman says there is a target launch date of september 21. well, as we head towards summer, you might be thinking about going solar to keep the energy costs down. they voted to cut incentives for the home rooftop seller as well as for apartments and the commercial buildings. the cpuc recently adopted new rules that they worry would hurt efforts to expand their solar programs, the smaller scale projects, designed for low income customers. every little bit will help especially because more than twice as much solar was added to global grids as was power from coal, so that's

good news. and getting solar into the mix out of the country isn't easy. but out in west marin, it was a pretty good fit. our family has been here as we settled in here in the late 1890s. so this is home for me, where they are. >> reporter: he's a rancher in west marin and he got an unusual call. it's the solar farm and enough power for about 400 homes a year. >> and so listen, what are you up to and your plan? >> reporter: to install enough solar panels.

>> those that are similar size and some bigger and smaller. >> reporter: ceo of renewable america. >> we want to see more of these projects. >> reporter: these small farms will fill a niche and pouring two gigawatts of electricity into the nearby grid. >> this is a win-win. but we are also using all this grassland that is underneath the panel for grazing. >> reporter: that work is rounding up this herd of sheep. >> she's a herder. so she gathers them for me. right now i have 150 in here on the small solar farm. >> reporter: they will graze this grass down and i'll move

them out. >> it's the perfect combination. this single project will take 19,000 pounds out of the atmosphere. taking 4400 gas powered cars off the road while trying to meet their irreduction targets. >> and so they will come by 2045. it's a win-win in my opinion. >> with 30% produced worldwide now coming from the projects like this, it's easy to see them smiling about this one. >> who is a good dog? it only took about three months to build that solar farm, just three months, but the red tape and if you own a home, you know what it is like to get that permit and it took three years to build it. in national news, they show a tightening race between biden

and former president trump. 50% say they will vote for former president trump. however, they favor biden with 49% favoring mr. trump. and 55% of likely voters say it is not a factor. 28% say it is a major factor. inflation coming in a close second, followed by the state of democracy and crime. they say the u.s.-mexico border. still ahead here at 6:00. a hole on the surface of mars as they want to get to the bottom of this. we'll have what that could mean for the future mission to mars. >> and he was so loved by his

family that they would pry. >> he's a part of their baseball history, but who was he? the family behind the oaklan

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humans to mars. when they get there, they'll need to stay there. >> that's one of the reasons that they could use to build the habitats that will protect them from the radiation and for meteors. more than 50 years, so it will be a while before they make it bark with a lot of questions to mars. and any thoughts? >> right, tossing me with that easy one. look at what's coming our way as they are marching their way back. tuesday is the top. not as hot as we were a couple days ago, but close. another heat advisory. we will talk

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breaking news we have been following throughout the newscast where they say forward progress has been stopped on the brush fire in pittsburg. this smoke is finally starting to die down after spreading

quickly across the area earlier. cal fire says they have grown to 55 acres. there is still no word on any evacuations, but it is 40% contained. >> yeah, you can see that the smoke looks thinner and to get the latest on that. >> well, the first thing about this, that's not the first fire in that region. the first grass fire that we have covered this season. and it is probably not going to be the last one. the notorious trouble spot. we know how they will move through the bay with a wide view of the entire bay as you could see, i'm standing here in san francisco. we've got the golden gate as we know we've got those strong winds through here, continuing up around and out across the delta there and that is where you could get those sustained winds. that's the vantage point as of 5:30 and a time lapse. so the smoke will be worse there and i'll let this play as you'll see the improvement. what we're

looking at, we are looking back out towards the same location. watch the time lapse as you'll see the interesting item show up as we would get to 5:30. the color of the smoke will change from white to dark right there, do you see it? and they zoomed in. you see a little bit of retardant getting dropped down on the fire. when you see dark plumes, there are some form of structure, something. we don't have any reports on what's been burning out there other than the fact this is primarily a grass fire. but we do know that there are times there where the smoke darkens. that's usually the sign. look at them getting pulled so fast off the east. those are your strong 25 miles an hour winds and you could even see the wind turbines that are out there driving home the point and that notoriously windy part of the bay. as we would look at it and look at where the colors will deepen as we would get out there, rushing from the bay to try to get out into the central

valley and looking down from that vantage point. what happens now, they don't change a whole lot, so it's great news that they have gotten forward progress there and they have gone up. how is air quality doing out there? it is doing okay surprisingly. one thought on that would be that the winds were moving along so quickly. all right, the forecast on heat coming our way. there is a heat advisory for tuesday. but the real jump that you'll notice will happen tomorrow with temperatures that will go up 10 degrees. a little more detail in that heat advisory, it does not cover the immediate bay where we've got that influence in the cooler air that will help keep the temperatures better behaved right through the immediate bay shore. for tomorrow, because tomorrow is the day when you do your 10-degree jump. pick out your part of the bay. it's warmer tomorrow, but we have not gotten to the heat advisory

levels just yet. they have not hit the 70s tomorrow yet. but watch what happens as we switch from these numbers and where we will be tomorrow to where we will be when we top out on tuesday. now look at santa rosa and san francisco, you're going 72. and look at oakland, you'll be going up to the 80s. and well into the upper 90s for livermore as well as they will warm up as well. all right, let's put this all in and we'll say good-bye and lose the virtual map. where the numbers are going to be the most telling and the big spike on tuesday when we would go to 97. then look what happens on wednesday. we're really going to cool down cig enough cantily by thursday, you're back down into the upper 70s. and for next weekend, it doesn't look terribly there to show you the seven-day forecast as well. where you can see the same

thing playing out over the seven days. brian, back to you. >> thank you, darren. coming up next, a lot of history behind the ballers home.

and in front of a sold out crowd at raimondi park. >> there is an amazing story to tell you about who the park is named for. introducing us to ernie raimondi. >> reporter: putting a baseball stadium here may feel like something new and it is actually the rebirth of the proud legacy, centering on one

of the town's most famous baseball families. when the oakland ballers chose them to be the home field, they wanted their brand new team to benefit. and it is a deep history and the more rich it is. >> reporter: as it was later renamed as bayview park. but in 1947, it got the name they enjoy today, named for ernie raimondi, a local ballplayer killed in action during france of world war ii. >> this is when they devastated that park. this is me being two years old as they did it in 1947. >> reporter: only nine.s old when they died. aside from the scrapbook of the old newspaper clippings, they still don't know a whole lot about her dad. >> and he was so loved by husband family that whenever i

would ask questions, they would cry, you know. so you tend to not ask, you know what i mean? it would have been nice to have a dad and especially one that was so loved by everybody in the family. >> reporter: but apparently baseball, they thought pretty highly of them too with their club drafting him at the age of 16, while still a junior at their high school. and the move was very controversial as the newspaper accuses them of cradle snatching. he would play third base alongside dimaggio, younger brother of joe dimaggio. back then the seals were a part of the highly regarded pacific coast league. >> the coast league was really big here in the west coast. and at one point, it was considered the third part of the major league as he would play games there while he was still in high school and at the stadium. and he got a double or

something. >> reporter: bill is the son of ernie's bigger brother, billy, who played 22 years with the rivals of the seals. with the six boys of the raimondi family, four ended up playing some form of professional baseball. all of them getting their start at the field at raimondi park. >> yeah, they all went to the high school and they were all known in oakland. >> all of them used to play there, you know, you would go and play baseball. just when you're a kid. so they all went there, all the boys, all of the brothers. >> reporter: so when he paid that ultimate sacrifice of war, the park was renamed for him, but really it's an honor the entire family will get to share. >> it is very meaningful to have a park in oakland named raimondi, you know. >> especially one with a baseball diamond, right? >> yeah, it is. >> reporter: he agree and even though they never knew the father, they had picture next to the bed every day of their

life, connected to him for 80 years by the love of the game. >> i don't know. it's just the history of my family in baseball that is so special, you know. it's in our blood. we love baseball. and i'm hoping that the ballers, you know, they will remain there to get the crowds. we need baseball in oakland. >> reporter: outside the any stadium is a tribute to the local baseball heroes including one whose season ended far too early. >> they could not make it to the home opener, but plans to be there on june 27 when they host ernie raimondi. >> you can catch all the ballers on friday night, home games live all summer long on our sister station. that's pix+, channel 44, cable 12. for now appreciate you watching. 60 minutes is next. the news continues reaming on kpix.com.

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