it's a chance for the mlb to show off its top japanese players and to prove it's still relevant in this baseball-mad nation. nhk world's rena nakano explains. >> reporter: daisuke matsuo remembers the first time he went to a major league baseball game in the u.s. >> translator: when i got my first autograph from jason varitek in boston, i was so happy. >> reporter: and he was hooked. since 2004 matsuo has made four trips to the u.s. his mlb autograph collection has expanded to more than 300, and now he's getting ready to see his fourth mlb season opener in japan. >> translator: if you watch the game live, you get really into it with other fans. you can feel everyone's passion for the game. >> reporter: and that passion dates back more than a century. japan's had its own pro league for decades, but interest in the game spiked when mlb teams started recruiting japanese stars. nomo, ichiro, matsui. so when big leaguers come to japan, it's a big deal. fans line up for autographs, snap up collectors items, and dress up like their heroes. >> translator: we're witnessing a special moment in hi

mlb officials say games such as wednesday's opener are key to holding on to their japanese devotees.> even though we are 7,000 miles away, we have to make a point of always trying to deliver the competition to the fans. we can't expect the japanese fans to respond simply to a media exposure to major league baseball. >> reporter: mlb officials and baseball watchers are optimistic new superstar hopefuls such as the rangers yu darvish and the yankees hiroki kuroda will reunite interest and create more die hard fans like daisuke matsuo. he says the as game is just the ticket. >> translator: because ichiro is coming, a lot of people will show support. there are two other japanese newcomers on the mariners, so i know more of us will fall in love with the mlb. >> reporter: and in the process, maybe form a lasting relationship with the league's players and the game. rina nakano, nhk world, tokyo. >> just really exciting. wednesday's athletics versus mariners game begins at 7:00 p.m. japan time. >>> fortunately the big game is in a dome. i heard there may be thundershowers in tokyo. rachel fe

the group includes long-time executives of mlb. bankruptcy judge must still approve that deal. >>> well, a lower ax is missing. it's a real life case. >>> and nobody hit the jackpot in the megamillions jackpot. wait until you hear how much money is available. >>> well, stocks so far this wednesday, nasdaq down about 20 points. as you can season the big board, the dow is down just a little over 89 points on the day. >>> krispy kreme is holding a job fair for supervisory and management positions. the job fair runs all day until 4:00 p.m. the store will be open to the public on april 24th. >>> today a big supermarket complain is holding what it is holding a pink slime swap meet. fresh and easy will allow the swap. the supermarket is promoting the fact it's never used the additive often called pink slime in its beef. critics calls this an unappetizing additive. >>> $500 million. that's what the brand price has reached. friday night's jackpot is nearly double what it was last friday. these people were buying tickets in concord. there ha

major league baseball doing something it hasn't done in nearly 17 years, big change in mlb.in detectly be help being out the -- indirectly be helping out the nationals and 72 hours before a big decision is made on fred davis. >>> and now 9 sports with dave owens, the best sports in town. >> happy friday, everybody. i'll tell you, monday is a big day in professional football. it's a week before free agency officially begins, but it's also the deadline for teams to put franchise tags on players. each team gets one. the redskins selected fred davis who was going to be an unrestricted free agent this season. the skins get to keep him at least one more year. his salary will be the average of the top tight end salaries for the last five seasons. now baltimore used its franchise tag on running back ray rice. rice head the league in yards from scrimmage this season, second overall in rushing. the franchise tag again gives feels some time to negotiate a long term deal with its players, so interesting stuff. >>> big news in baseball, mlb expanding its playoff format for the first

. ♪ >>> welcome back, we're only hours away from the mlb regular season opener.rning, pacific time. but this is more than a business trip. the as are spending quality time in the community. kate is the only local who made the trip. she has the story. >> just over a year ago, children were playing inside the stadium behind me while folks were taking in the sun just down the road on the beach. and men and women were hard at work at one of the area's largest fish markets. but in an instant, everything changed here in japan on march 11th, 2011 a tsunami wave wiped out the city claiming the lives of over 5,000. and on tuesday, members of the athletic took a time out to spend time with the children who were affect does the most on that devastating day. >> you don't think about yourself. you know? i obviously feel bad if you complain because your foot hurts a little bit or your back is sore. kids are the same everywhere. they want to hit the long ball. they're trying to get over the fence in our hitting session out there. i'm kate long worth, nbc bay area. >> thank you,

not official yet but mlb plans to extend to two more wildcard teams. one in each league and the division winner would get a first round buy and the two wildcard teams would meet in a one game show down. world soccer. team u.s.a. beat italy for the first time ever. that was mike piazza in italy. joe sets up clint there. quick right foot. the only goal of the game. 1-0. first time in 78 years of competition between the two countries that u.s.a. finally beat italy. that is sporting lights. sporting life. >>> a big change may be taking place on bridges. it looks like something that has been there for years could be disappearing. tonight at 10:00, hew move they could save millions may mean the end of an era. thank you for trusting ktvu.

the mlb has added an extra wild card team, meaning 10 will make it. two 2 wild cards will meet in a one-game play off. in theory, a third place team could win the world series. the first intersquad series. all part of the process eto end the 14-year streak of losing. >> he did not want them to think everything they do is being critiqued every single second. some of the younger players, it's nothing like a nine-inning game to just kind of remind you about some things. team closing out a historically bad season. finishing with a career high 27 points, 20 rebounds. 1-31, the most losses ever by division won men's basketball team. the optimistic outlook? s to get better from here. tony will tell you when the rain will and then they look at these seven-day. >> anne arundel county executive john leopold facing an indictment for inappropriate conduct in office. the latest on those charges. if this toyota made famous in 1963, john f. kennedy, jr., saluting his casket. what links this photograph to >> we will miss all of the severe weather. we could have some

he got his first taste of mlb action. it took three at-bats to silence his critics.ate with the the reds. draws the the walk without even swinging the bat. bottom of the second, he's up again. how about a single on a ground ball to center scoring josh donnellson? starter strikes out hanigan. four innings. three hits, no earned runs. but back to bet tis. working the count. give him something to hit and that's what happens right there. crushes one to left. a's win 6-3. >> he's played eight games in december and has not since. we think it's pretty important to get him ready. he's well built and has a few muscles. we want to make sure those things are working at once and then the fact that the guy's dropped into a new country, has a lot of variables that most guys don't have to deal with. >> well, the giants are getting healthy at the perfect time. tomorrow, closer bryan wilson who battled a right elbow energy, will be back on the diamond. he's expected to make his cactus league debut against the mariners. boci plans to use wilson in the third or fifth inning, but pau cy

in all honesty, i don't think you could ask a pitcher in mlb that's going to tell you that he's 100% time. you just feel better than you do on some other days. but getting to that point, i'm close. i know that i'm close because as i alluded to, the bounceback, the recovery time from throwing the day before to how i feel today has gotten better. >> more from braden tonight on game day. kim coyle is at maples pavillion after the big upset win over cal. >>> but dallas braden is roommates, spring training roommates with brian wilson. >> oh, really! >> now, you heard braden, the way he can talk. then brian wilson. i saw sort of the odd couple, but you would like to be a fly on the wall! >> wouldn't you! that would be great. thank you much. >> okay. >>> the newsroom is abuzz with this story. eat it and don't feel guilty about it. chocolate! it's not just a treat for your tongue. it can actually be good for you. we've heard that! but the strongest evidence yet chocolate may help your heart. the health risks it can help reduce. that story and more tonight at 11:00 and on cbs 5-- >> light or

the new york "daily news" reported the mlb would block the move to san jose because bud selig could notet enough owners to revoke the giants' territorial rights. billy bean says the daily news story is speculation. >>> how a ballpark helps lure a swarm way from a giants' game. >>> welcome back. a live look at trans-america pyramid. beautiful day over the city by the bay. everything changes as we meet back here tomorrow. so enjoy that sunshine and the 70s in some cities out there today. you'll hit 70 in santa rosa. 68 gilroy. 69 in santa cruz. cooler than what they're going to experience tonight at 6:35. 81 degrees. you get to watch this game if you want to on our sister station comcast sportsnet bay area. the first televised pry season game tonight at 6:35. baseball is back. they're going to hit 90 out there today. 81, cooler by 6:30. for ,, showers, cool front on the way tomorrow. showers that move through quickly and then windy conditions all day long tomorrow. so ladies don't bother doing your hair. happy birthday. back to you guys. >> thank you very much. we're hearing there's no la

the rookie sluggy got his first taste of mlb as he made his spring training debut. could the 26-year-old deliver? let's go to arizona. a's had a date with the cincinnati reds. bottom of the first, cespedes at the bat. take a look at him. full count. he draws the walk without swinging a bat. bottom of the second, he's up again. a's up 2-0. singles on a ground ball to center. scoring josh donaldson. top of the third, bartolo colon strikes out ryan hanigan. four pitches, three hits, no walks, no earned runs. bottom of the fourth, here we go. 5-1, a's. working the count, and then see you later. they said this man had power. you know what, they weren't lying. a's ge the win 6-3. >> he's played eight games in december, and has not played in games since. we think it's pretty important to get him ready, as you can tell, he's pretty well built and has a new muscles. we want to make sure that all of the things are working at once, and you know, you have the fact that the guy has dropped into a new country, has a lot of variables that a lot of our guys don't have to deal with.

angeles for lewis sanchez and marvin norwood the two men accused in the near fatal beating during the mlb opening day all outside dodger stadium. stow spent several months in rehab. >>> the senate is spoised to pass a overhaul of highway and transit programs gives states nor plexibility -- flexibility towards spending aid it would send 109 billion dollars over less than two years. democrats say it would create two million jobs. >>> maryland house of delegates and republican caucus offer what they're calling a common as soon as approach to the state budget. the overall budgeting process the group hopes to simplify what can be be confusing subject mat -- what could be confusion subject matter. it will be today at noon. >>> tonight president oa and prime minister -- british prime minister will attend the university of dayton arena. part of the state visit emphasizing the relationship between the united states and united kingdom. >>> and first lady michelle obama will hold an event. including students from maryland, virginia and district learning about 45 minutes ago that mrs. obama will lead

mlb network had a live game audio.n to this. ♪ >> he's singing adele. >> that's the second baseman, he's caught there singing some adele. he tweeted afterwards, don't mind the music. hash tag, i'm entertain ed. don't fight it. >> who doesn't sing adele these days? >> yeah. >> so, the other day, the captain of the delta flight 486 from atlanta to new york, got on the intercom before the plane took off and asked is anyone allergic to penguins. when they hit altitude, this is what happened. they unleashed some penguins to walk up and down the aisle. this is the in-flight entertainment. no snacks on this flight, they just gave them penguins. these penguins were flying to new york for the premiere of a movie called "frozen planet." on discovery network. >> and they take their meds. >> and they take their meds, exactly. bianna? >>> one final note, take a look at this poor reporter trying to get some answers out of the lawyer. this case he has been covering as a reporter -- oh. show that one more time. look at this. >> look o

do we expect mlb to approve this?>trace: most say they will because the ownership group has deep roads in los angeles and it finally says goodbye to the unpopular era of mccourt, $1 billion more than any other major league we baseball has soldier for banking on a multimillion broadcast deal that could include fox sports, but the concern is there will not be enough money left over to pay for the bail operations. but, sportswriters believe there will be and the deal will be done. listen. >>guest: the deal is all cash. there is no debt in the deal. and to have magic johnson in ownership group, that means to the sport which is lacking minority ownership, it is huge. and cast as an insider, that appeals to baseball. i don't see any problems. >>trace: and he is talking about kastens former president of the atlanta braves and the washington nationals. >>shepard: the guy who owns it, frank mccourt, he is making out fine. >>trace: he walks away with a bundle. he bought the dodgers in 2004 for $430 million and he has $579 milli

on mlb network. viewing party at dan's house.dy coming over. >> pwlaevrngt and. >> players visited the city of here in japan. you saw the damaged cars lined up there. in a nasty offering they conducted baseball clinic and major league presented them with 500,000 dollars. lots of new faces in oakland. players come and go a's roster from year to year. one guy remains a constant and that is catcher kurt suzuki. >> ace catcher suzuki seen it all in the 5 years with the a's including this the off season fire sale of the team starting pitcher. >> new beginning. you trade away bailey, cahill 3 guys a force in our pitching staff. >>reporter: picked up several young pitcher in the trade so kurt experience will be key to the team success. >> main thing is keeping the pitcher loose an comfortable knowing they belong and we'll guide them through the way and i'm ready to go. >> whether younger pitchers or older pitchers. vet run guys he has a presence and knowledge and that's why we hold him very highest time. kurt had a career low batting av

mlb defended the rights since 1990, bills owner says he is opposeful the team will move south. >> margaritaville. jimmy buffett will perform as part of his 2012 welcome back to finland. it's near by seven years since he was at the pavilion. the concert starts at 8:00. >> coming up a new bank fee. a major bank says it plans to hike skis on some customers. >> the 20 something invasion. we'll have details next. >> san francisco invaded with game development. [ male announcer ] unisom helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep. so i wake up rested. [ male announcer ] unisom. fall asleep faster. sleep longer. >> welcome back. 5:53 now. a group of undocumented students going the extra mile to support the dream act literally. they are walking from san francisco to washington, d.c. the four students will kick off the walk today at uc-berkeley. they are trying to rally support for the dream act which would allow undocumented immigrants to gain u.s. citizenship by going to college or joining the military. the events will be held at sather gate on the uc-berkeley campus. the students will start the 3,000

on saturday the new york daily news reported that the mlb would block the move to san who sigh because commissioner bud selig could not get enough owners to revoke the rights. the a's general manager says the daily news story is just speculation. >> want to check the forecast now. no speculating. christina has the details. >> yeah. speculating we have a little bit of everything this week. good morning to you. we're starting out the work week with a nice dry beautiful monday. then things change tuesday. we get some showers just in time for tomorrow morning's rush. so, mike and i will be here to guide you through the showers tomorrow. right now you might have to fight through some fog on the way to work, especially over our local bridges. we're looking pretty clear inland, waiting on the fog to creep in which will likely happen through the next few hours. the visibility not too bad except for over the golden gate bridge and the marin county coastline. throughout noon today, up to 60 degrees inland. 63 by the bay and 55 at the coast. so, it will be about 5 to 8 degrees cooler than yesterd

. >>> before i let you go, the mlb regular season kicked off today in tokyo. some teams have a lot of spring games left. what can we hope for this season with the nats? >> i think this is a team that's going to go over .500 for the first time in washington d.c. i'm looking at 87, 88 wins as a high up side proposition for this club and i think with a new wildcard added in the national league and the playoff field being 10 teams deep the nationals will be post seven relevant in september. they've got one of the deepest -- postseason relevant in september. they've got one of the deepest pitching staffs. >> i'm not that same way. looks like makes morse will start on the dl. a lot of -- mike morse will start on the d.l. i've worried about they've never seated before at this kind of a level. they -- competed before at this kind of a level. they may be game or two shy of that second wildcard spot. >> thanks so much, guys. we'll send it back over to you. >>> still ahead tonight some states aren't waiting for the supreme court's decision on healthcare reform. we'll tel

on saturday, the new york daily news reported the mlb would block the a's move to san jose because commissioner selig could not get enough owners to vote to revoke the giants' territorial rights. a's general manager billy bean says the daily news story is just speculation. >> local review site yelp and murdoch's news corp. stocks worth watching this morning. scott tells us why. >> good morning. the second most important day for a publicly traded company is the second day of trading. yelp ipo trading shares on the stock exchange for the frs time friday. always reminds me of vince. yelp jumped 64% from it's high price of $15. will investors pile in again today? we'll see when the markets open in less than five minutes. other stock watching is news corp., publish of the problem child newspapers in england. the worse the news is for the sun and other murdoch papers the higher news corp. stock goes. why? investors hate the newspaper business and think the murdochs may be considering dumping newspapers altogether. news makes most of its money from t vrktv like the fox netwo. apple holds an event expe

they must subscribe to hbo, kom ka cast or mlb premium. microsoft hopes to lure people who aren't interested in gaming to both buy xboxs and pay its annual subscription fee. of course, microsoft also wants to compete with google tv, nintendo's new wii u as well as the apple tv. tyler? >> another tech titan, google, is going old school when it comes to advertising. what's the online ad giant doing with traditional ads? >> it's spending a lot of money on them. $70 million on tv ads last year up from just $6 million in 2010. google's overall ad spend nearly quadrupled to 2$213 millionlast year. getting into tv is really a big about face for google which has shunned tv ads for years. after all, google builds its business on the power of search ads. now google is turning to traditional 30-second spots in order to grow its market share. it's promoting its social network, google plus, browser google chrome and even google search in the tv ads. google's ad spending as a percentage of revenue is almost as high as apple, microsoft's and yahoo!'s. go

. >> i'm thinking maybe because there's inflation in the mlb, the dodgers go for $1 billion, $1.3, $1.4 billion. that would be a record breaker. >> last night after an all-day conference call between the major league baseball owners, the magic johnson group with a bid of $2 billion. >> that's a lot. >> to purchase the los angeles dodgers. >> $2 billion. >> $2 billion. >> let me ask you this. do they get the parking lot? >> that was the key, joe. that was the key to their purchase, that's why they got it, because at the end of the day they threw in an extra $300 million to make it up to $2 billion to buy the parking lots and all the land surrounding dodger stadium from the mccourts, thus they are the winners and the new owners. >> so crazy frank mccourt now takes the gun from the head of one the most storied franchises in america and turns it over to magic's group. that's great news. >> every sports franchise now goes to hedge fund guys. 20 or 30 years ago, there was a guy from this industry, from that industry. it really symbolizes now where all of the money is coming from. it's annoyin

mlb officials presented a check for half a million dollars for restoring a stadium.erved lunch to the kids and families struggling one year after the earthquake and tsunami hit. >>> sean payton will decide later this week whether to appeal a year-long suspension for the team's bounty program. payton says he plans to name an interim coach by the end of the month. one name being bantied about is retired coach bill parcells. >> he's a great teacher. certainly i'm biased having worked with him. he's a hall of fame head coach. >> es p pn is reporting payton and the saint's gm mickey loomis met with parcells yesterday. p if parcells takes the job that would push back his likely induction into the pro football hall of fame by five years. >>> we're following a lot of developments in the next hour of the cnn newsroom. let's check in first with dan lothian. >> there were tough questions yesterday in the supreme court challenging the individual mandate in the health care law. this is the third and final day of oral arguments. how are things shaming up for the obama administrati

mlb nonvoting, convertible preferred or 56 of something like that. one broad observation would be going forward the legislation like this, there might be a wider variety of options. the map be more consideration to recovery in gains for taxpayers. if a few projects were to pay off a lot, that might help to pay for any losses in the portfolio and other projects. >> let me ask you one more, and this is a requirement to, provide an amount sufficient to carry out the project. got to be pretty difficult to determine the overall cost of a project and whether or not available funds that will be -- will be there are sufficient to cover the amount before we have issued this loan guarantee. and we finish that? >> well, most of the cost is going to take place during the construction phase until this project is up and running and begins to generate revenue. and at that phase of the loan agreements provide that there must be very detailed budgets. there must be independent engineering analyses and then reports as progress goes along. as i mentioned before, there

one pick overall in 1990 and he's had battles with injuries over the years and only switch hitter in mlbith career average of over 300. the team that's the happiest, the new york mets. he killed them for 18 years and foul play in the basketball court in the philippines. i always cover philippine basketball. today, no different. two players getting a little rough under the basket. so one takes matters into his own hand and smashes the ball to his defender's face. notice the delayed reaction before he takes it off the floor. here he is again. >> oy! >> even sonny liston came back from the grave and said he fell on purpose. and there you go. you want to talk more about philippine basketball, i do it. i go inside the numbers, keeping score on foxandfriends.com. >> that's you'll i'm going to get on your blog is philippine basketball? >> all right. i'll talk about other stuff. >> maybe the sweet 16. now we're down to eight. >> i'm not going to do that. it's going to air through the weekend. i'm not going to come in saturday and sunday to update it. >> why? >> lazy. >> be a trooper. >> you can

long time girlfriend on this trip but naturally didn't know the perfect place so he reached out to mlbe question on the 90th floor of the tower. that's one of tokyo's tallest buildings. seattle lost the game 3-1 so they're not going to go through with the wedding. ryan was 1-7 on the trip but probably just isn't too worried about it since he scored elsewhere. by the way, if you want to talk sports a little bit later -- fox and friends.com/keepingscore. >> your blog. >> yes. my blog. >> lot of scoring today. >> lots of sports. >> i responded to your twitter, you asked what the big story is today. >> what did you respond? >> i said that shirt/tie combination, i think it's smart. >> it's time for it get off the shelf. >> i think it's time for you to take a couple of days off if you're going to start talking like that. it's a story we've been following closely. catholic groups being forced to let an atheist run their organization. our next guest have a huge update on that case. >> easter egg hunt canceled because of bad behavior by parents. everybody is paying the price, even people who we

celebration the start of the 2012 season, mlb as tradition would have it, went to tokyo.e suzuki having a huge return home. he had four hits in his game with the mariners as they went to beat the oakland athletics in 11 innings. homered and singled in the go-ahead run in the 11th. game two is going on right now. seems kind of odd being there. it sounds like bill parcells is inching back towards the sidelines. we told you earlier this week that sean peyton, his good buddy was trying to get him to coach the saints next season because he's suspended. the big tuna says he'd be a hypocrite if he didn't consider taking the job for just one year. as you know, peyton was suspended for all of next season because of the saints bounty pool. parcells calls peyton a good, dear friend and feels an obligation to be there for him. obama looks like he's going to be struck down by the supreme court but president obama is looking ahead to a time-out to go on one on one with jeremy lin. get some lin sanity. it turns out that education secretary arnie duncan was a pro for a while and played a

if i'm reading, i go back to mlb or nba.com -- it's a distraction. and the scramble with friends, i got a 367 last night. well, my second daughter let me win. >> here's the stat when it comes to product launches and the average performance of apple one week after a product launch. after all the iphones and ipads, excluding the original ipad, the shares were down 3.5% in the week following a product launch. >> interesting. >> well, you know -- >> that's what history tells us. we don't know if it's going to come true this week. we'll see. >> aren't you guys amazed that steve jobs had -- what did he have? i'm told from people at a high level at apple, he had ipad 4, he had an ipad 5. the man was obviously able to see four or five steps into the future beyond anyone else. and tim cook, i think s a great implementer of what was in the pipe. >> it's been said, his greatest invention was i-cook, creating tim cook and developing him the way he has. >>> it was quite an eventful super tuesday in the battle for the republican presidential nomination. mitt romne