new accusers stepped forward to accuse the former penn state assistant football coach. one of them is sandusky's adopted son, matt sandusky, who said through an attorney he had been abused by a former coach and had been ready to testify if jerry sandusky took the stand. the second accuser, travis weaver, was not included in the current case but appeared on nbc's "rock center." >> i told him if he didn't get off me, wi going to call the police on him and he just laughed at me and forced me to stay on the bed. >> reporter: the new accusations raise the specter of more charges and more trials. >> it's certainly possible. the only question is whether the victims will want their day in court to tell their stories. >> reporter: in closing arguments, the sandusky jury was given a stark choice, he was either a serial sex predator or part of a conspiracy theory.

it was said he had showered with boys, but tried to cast doubt on eight alleged victims. he asked why only eight of the hundreds of thousands he had helped through his second mile charity had come forward to claim abuse. and he also told jurors, quote, if he did this, he should rot in jail. brian mooar, nbc news, bellefonte, pennsylvania. well, defense lawyers for george zimmerman, accused of murdering trayvon martin, have released new evidence, including video of a re-enactment which gives his most detailed account yet of what he claims led to the shooting of the unarmed teenager. nbc's jay gray has more. >> reporter: less than 24 hours after firing the shot that killed trayvon martin, george zimmerman was back at the scene and telling detectives his side of the story. >> i started screaming for help. i started screaming help, help, as loud as i could. >> reporter: it's the first time we've heard zimmerman describe the fatal night in his own words. >> my jacket moved up and he

saw -- i feel like he saw -- he looked at it and said, you're going to die tonight, mother [ bleep ]. >> reporter: this police video and other interviews by investigators are part of discovery evidence released overnight by zimmerman's defense team. >> it is what it is. now it's out there for the public to review, but most importantly it's evidence that's going to get out to the jury. >> reporter: during a voice stress test administered by police, zimmerman described the unarmed teenager as the aggressor. >> he took my head and slammed it into the concrete several times. and each time it felt like my head would explode more than the last. >> reporter: and later he talked about the fatal shot. >> i grabbed my gun and i aimed it at him and fired one shot. he kind of stood back and said you got me or you got me or you got it, something like that. >> reporter: martin's parents and lawyers have questioned

zimmerman's memory, especially when it came to what happened that night. >> there were things about my son that were not true and hurt me a great deal. >> reporter: both sides in this controversial and high-profile case are preparing for a trial while continuing to try to gain momentum in the court of public opinion. jay gray, nbc news. well, there is at least one spot in the country where the heat is making everyone happy. and that's in florida, where the miami heat have won the nba championship. here's nbc's mario solis. good morning. love them or hate them, but the big three of james, born and wade have finally won the nba championship. game five of the nba finals was all miami. lebron said he treated last night as if it was a decisive game seven and it showed. a game high 26 points for the finals mvp. the heat were lethal beyond the arc, tying an nba finals record with 14 three-pointers. the miami heat win the championship with a 121-106 win over the oklahoma city thunder.

we'll have much more on the nba finals coming up in sports. for now, back to you. and now here's a look at some other news going on around america today. in north carolina some scary moments as an suv collided with a light rail train. authorities say the driver want paying attention when she tried to go across the gate and cross the tracks. rescuers were able to free her from the wreck. she was cited for the accident. in new york the streets erupted with fire after gas line burst. construction crews cut the line, causing flames to shoot in the air. nearby buildings were evacuated and power had to be shut off for thousands as a precaution, despite those sweltering temperatures. fortunately, nobody was injured. and finally, in south carolina one kid found out the hard way do, not steal money and definitely don't steal 60 bucks from your sister. the 13-year-old was ordered by his dad to hold a sign along a busy street reading i like to

steal, lie and disrespect others. tough love there. he says he's thankful for the discipline, especially since, by agreeing to the public punishment, he avoided a spanking. rough. now for a look at your national weather, we turn to bill karins and your weather channel forecast. that's some tough-love punishment. >> i'm not sure, the public embarrassment, ends up on tv. >> both stink in my opinion. >> very much so. don't steal the money is the moral. yesterday, nobody hit 100 degrees in new england. very close in washington, d.c. we made it to 99 degrees. 97 in philadelphia. in new york city, i have to check the gauge, they were much cooler than everyone else. 96 in hartford.

96 in boston. the hot air is still in place. the heat index is add to the temperature and it feels like mid to upper 80s when you walk out the door this morning. the air mass is not pleasant. it will take about 24 hours for that cooler, drier air to move in. the big change will come with the cold front this afternoon. everybody has a chance of seeing showers, maybe some strong thunderstorms. the timing of those looks to be mid to late afternoon. so people driving home on 95, you could get caught in torrential downpours. this area of yellow from southern connecticut to new jersey, down through baltimore and d.c., damaging winds and strong storms are possible this afternoon. the other story out there, tropical trouble likely in the gulf of mexico. we could have our "d" named storm forming through this upcoming weekend. the full weekend forecast coming up and any more details on that i'll pass to you. coming up, stocks tumble, twitter trips up and what you never want to see on your utility bill. your "first look" at the

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welcome back to "first look." i'm lynn berry. here are some of the top stories making news this morning. afghan security forces cared out a counter attack at a lakeside hotel which taliban militants had taken over. 18 civilians were freed while as many as 10 people were killed. president obama accepted the resignation of commerce secretary john bryson who stepped down less than two weeks after suffering a seizure and multiple car accidents. house speaker john boehner demanded thursday that the obama administration turn over documented in the botched gun trafficking situation or he said the house will proceed with a content vote next week against attorney general holder. in response to the pursuit of those documents led by a republican-led house committee.

bello nock, the circus daredevil with the foot-high red hair, walked a tight rope 360 feet above the ground of the mississippi gulf coast. he said it started out windy, but thankfully the breeze was calm and he did make it across safely in 13 minutes. >> last night on the "ed show" when it comes against the contempt move against eric holder, peter welch argued to ed shultz that holder would have been breaking the law if the information was given that was demanded by issa. >> the subpoena that the committee issued to the attorney general as of last friday was asking, directing him to turn over information that would have been a violation of law for him to turn over. grand jury transcripts, the rules of criminal procedure

prohibit it. transcripts of wiretap communications. darrell issa and the committee was demanding that the attorney general commit a violation of his oath, violate the law, and in his refusal to do that, they're calling him an obstructionist. >> lean forward with "the ed show" week nights at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc, the place for politics. now here is your "first look" at the dish of scrambled politics. it may not effect the election, but buzz feed points to a web phenomenon on sites no one wants to read about mitt romney. the reason is being debated. some argue he's been running for president for five years, others say he's running a safe foreign campaign. but no one debates romney is a traffic killer. talking points memo, reports indiana senate nominee richard murdoch is ready for any supreme court health care ruling.

his campaign mistakenly posted and then quickly pulled down several videos, each written for a different outcome. celebrating wisconsin governor scott walker's recent recall victory, misfit politics put together a funny parody of last year's viral sensation honey badger. >> look, there's the recall election. got wa scott walker don't care. he doesn't even raise taxes. what's that? a bunch of hippy protesters protesters are just crazy. look at that angry union guy scaring children. that's nasty. >> massachusetts senator scott brown trying to fight off charges he is superficial made things worse. brown told a local station as senator he's been in "secret meetings with kings and queens." an assertion his spokesperson was later forced to admit wasn't true, and that led matt ortega

to create a site showing brown pleating with various kings and queens. finally, if the presidential election was held in hollywood, why bother? politico reports among actors or actresses in may, 330 made contributions to the president, four contributed to romney. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. now here's your "first look" at how wl street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,573 after tumbling 250 points yesterday. the s&p 500 shot down 30. the nasdaq plunged 71. taking a look at overseas trading, in tokyo the nikkei fell 25 points. while in hong kong, the hang seng sank 269. stocks posted their worst day in three weeks on thursday and the downward trend could continue today. after the bell, moody's down rated 15 global banks including the five largest u.s. firms.

the move was not altogether unexpected but may put a damper on today's trade. yesterday manufacturing weakness and global demand worries drained energy and material stocks and pushed crude below $80 a barrel for the first time since october. semiconductor stocks weighed on the nasdaq after micron technology posted its fourth straight net earnings loss. disappointing results from bed, bath & beyond weighed down the s&p with the retailer shedding 17%. home resales fell in may, the four-week average for new jobless claims rose last week to the highest level since early december. elsewhere, twitter was hit with two service outages. the company denied it was hacked after a group claimed responsibility. instead blaming what it called a cascading bug. if this week's heat wave what you dreading your next electric bill. a mom in texas opened hers to find charges of $1.3 million.

the utility company admitted it was just a computing error. thankfully. coming up, the heat put on a record-breaking performance to earn themselves the nba title, which means, love him or hate him, king james earned his first nba crown. your "first look" at sports is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. don't wait. go to afibstroke.com for a free discussion guide to help you talk to your doctor about reducing your risk. that's afibstroke.com.

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nba champions. nbc's mario solis is back with more. >> good morning again. it was the championship run two years in the making. it started with lebron's infamous decision and culminated last night with a dominant win over the thunder. miami's big three and thheat are now nba champions. game five of the nba finals will go down as the night lebron james finally won a title. from the opening tip you could tell that lebron was playing on a totally different level, igniting his team and the crowd. heat up five after one kept it going in the second quarter. off the steal mario chalmers to lebron. miami running away with it, up 59-49 at the half. thunder hung around. kevin durant with two of his team high 32. okc cutting the lead to single digits. but the night belonged to the heat. lebron the score or became lebron the facilitator. time after time he kicked it out o mike miller for a three and he didn't disapoint. miller was a staggering seven of eight from the arc. the heat tied an nba finals

record with 14 three-poters, blew it wide open late in the third with a remarkable 16-0 run. lebron finishes with 26 points, 13 dimes, and 11 boards, a triple-double for the finals mvp. king james has finally been crowed and silenced the critics. the miami heat are the nba champions. they beat the thunder 121-106. >> i dreamed about this opportunity for a long time including last night, including today, you know. and, you know, my dream has become a reality now. it's the best feeling i've ever had. >> you know, obviously we all excted it to be a little easier than it was, you know, but we had to go through what we had to go through last year. we needed to. and as much as it hurt, we had to go through that pain and that suffering. tonight, you know, it was our time. that's yr "first look" at sports, i'm mario solace. >> now here is nbc meteorologist bill karins about trying to set

the record straight about who you were rooting for. was it the heat. >> i wanted the series to go long. >> you wanted to drag it on. >> i wanted drama. we didn't get it. a little disappointed. we didn't get it, full series. talking about your weekend forecast. here's what we're looking at, the heat in the northeast will be a thing of the past this weekend. still warm in the 80s, but not the 90s. all the hot weather bottled up here. a very hot weekend from denver to colorado springs, phoenix, albuquerque, texas to oklahoma. that's the hot stuff. let me take you through the forecast. temperatures in texas, 95 today. as we go through the weekend, we jump it up. thunderstorms in the northeast. some of those are strong this afternoon. the temperatures drop. boston only 77. 100 on saturday in dallas. one of the stories we'll watch, we could have our next tropical system developing in the gulf of mexico. that will be a big story come about monday next week. >> thank you very much.

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some more election news. a new report found that president obama's campaign spent $6 million more than it raised last month. which explains why his latest campaign ad ended with the phrase i'm barack obama and i'm selling some old cds on craigslist.

check this out. a new survey found that 31% of americans would want to sit next to mitt romney on a flight. romney was so upset, he's like, i don't understand, how would they get on my private jet? i don't understand. doesn't make sense to me. >> tonight jimmy welcomes denny leery and musical guest fun. that's "late night with jimmy fallon" on your local nbc station. i know that band, by the way. >> yeah, right. >> i do. time for your "first look" at entertainment news. this weekend a debuting animated family film should knock the current cartoon king out of the top spot. "brave" pixar's film with a female lead cost a whopping $145 million to make. its historic scottish theme has some experts wondering if it's too serious for kids. our stage manager said that's not the case. still it should earn roughly $50

million, easily topping "madagascar 3." and another film, "lincoln: vampire hunter" has lincoln making the world safe from vampires. its "r" rating will keep the ratings down in $159 million range. and speaking of quirky to romantic comedy "seeking a friend to the ends of the world." it stars steve carell, it's for older audiences. carell loyalists may help it make as much as $10 million. >> where are the huge blockbusters? spider-man is coming. >> spider-man is coming july 3rd. stay tuned, "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. the miami heatre once again nba champions.

lebron james captures that elusive title he so desperately coveted. >> given everything you went through, when the clock hit triple zeros, what's the first thing that went through your mind? >> it's about damn time. it's about damn time. >> everything he's been through? the guy makes $8 billion a year. king james and the heat are crowned champions nearly two years after becoming the nba's most hated franchise. will this be the first of many champi championships for lebron and the heat? highlights ahead. while it was a good night for south beach it was a bad night for wall street as moody's downgrades the credit ratings on our nation's biggest banks due to "significant exposure to risk." the question was jp morgan chase's multibillion dollar

trading blunder a warning sign of things to come? and mitt romney delivers his much-anticipated address on immigration, after being backed into a corner last week by president obama's plan to stop deportation of young illegals. the question is, despite vague details, will romney resonate with latinos in november? it's way too elderly for this. good morning. i'm mike barnicle for willie geist. willie took the papers, too. this is way too elderly, the show trying to self deport from this early morning time slot for years now. i'm glad you're watching on msnbc or listening live on