. >>> happy birthday to former "friends" actor matthew perry, 45.os turns 51, and bill clinton turns 68 today. >>> now, keep it here for more news, weather, and sports. i'm dara brown along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today." have a great one. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >>> and a good tuesday morning, 4:30, bright and early, i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. lots to get to, let's check the forecast first. >> good morning to both of you, sam, laura, everybody at home. what a spectacular calm of days here. look at your highs for today. 76 degrees. on the peninsula, 73 for the east shore, and wine country, mid-80s typically, we're forecasting the upper 70s for today. all good things must come to an end. changes coming your way. first let's check your drive, good morning to mike

matthew perry and i won last year. looking to defend our title. >> jimmy: playing with him again? ant to come, that would be great. >> jimmy: you set it up so that you can win your own tournament every year. >> i'm a little bad about that, but yes, that's the goal. >> jimmy: is anyone even in your -- well, ballpark? >> i didn't want to bring this up. but we have a team tournament in spring training every year. me and my partner chad billingsley lost this year. the first loss for me. it hurt a little bit. >> jimmy: who did you lose to? >> wilson and our backup catcher drew butera. >> jimmy: maybe you can get them traded or something. >> yeah. i'll work on it. >> jimmy: have your agent work on it. [ applause ] if you're up for it, when we come back -- i don't know why we're doing this. but i'm going to sit on a little crate, i'm going to put an apple on my head. >> okay. >> jimmy: i'm not going to wear a helmet or anything. i am going to protect my eyes. other than that it's going to be you throwing a baseball at my head. at the apple, hopefully. >> i'll give it a shot. >> jimmy: all

. >> cspan: utility story about matthew perry and how the americans opened up japan to the outside world how did that work? >> guest: what he decided to do with the japanese ignored. he decided that the best way to deal with them was to them into submission. he went right up to one of the ports and strolled into the capital with some very aggressive looking men and terrified the japanese at the time. this was the first time they had ever even seen a steam power. one historian said that it would be to really understand the pressure the japanese were under it would be like in an announcement may be on cnn that we have some weird looking aircraft headed towards earth. that is how shocked they were. >> cspan: this was july of 1853. is that the first time japan had ever seen an american? >> guest: probably the first time any of them had. they decided they would try to learn from them because it was obvious that they were lagging in technology they had to learn to build up their military. >> cspan: what happened to the country? >> guest: the country did precisely that. there was the restoratio

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all of this, of course, is also seen through a 2016 prism, as rick perry considers whether to run for president again. merril matthewswith an independent nonpartisan public policy think tank in dallas. >> i think the indictment could help him significantly, especially if, of course, he's not actually convicted on this, but the notion that you've got a conservative leader who is out there doing things and leading on issues, being attacked by democratic charges ends up working, i think, in his favor in a way that i think he probably couldn't have anticipated and may very well put him in the front runner place for a little while. >> other texas political watchers say perry's political gain could be short lived if this case does go to court where testimony about who said what to whom could get ugly. even as ugly as governor chris christie's bridgegate in new jersey. >> this has put not just texas republicans but national republicans in a mind to take another look at perry, which is exactly what he's trying to achieve, but once we get beyond the politics, the theatrics of this, and into court, i think it will undoubtedly

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