nationwide manhunt. the search intensifies for an award winning surgeon suspected of killing his former girlfriend at the buffalo hospital where they worked. this morning new details on their relationship and why their co-workers say there were warning signs. checks in the city. president obama attended star-studded fund-raiser in new york city including one at the home of sarah jessica parker, while mitt romney did some phrasing himself in the president's hometown. >> justin bieber, the biggest pop star on the planet and he's who are for a concert today pop star on the planet and he's who are for a concert today friday 15th, 2012.

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and ann curry, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to "today" on friday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> i'm ann curry. as everyone can say bieber mania has invade rockefeller plaza. between 7 and 8,000 people so far are here for this concert. >> i don't think we're in kansas anymore. arriving tuesday morning and tuesday afternoon, sleeping out in nasty weather, which of course has gotten a lot better for this concert. justin is going to be here in our 8:30 half our. we'll talk to him before 8:00. he has brought not one but two

special guests with him. a little later on justin and i are going to do something that i have never done before. >> all right. we'll find out what that is. he's smiling so it's a good thing. we have a lot of news to get to first, so we'll head inside. we've got tamron hall. good morning, tamron. >> good morning. a nationwide manhunt under way for the suspect of a a shooting in a new york hospital. >> reporter: dr. timothy jorden, award winning trauma surgeon. until now, known for saving lives. jackie wisniewski, a single mother with a 4-year-old son. a hospital receptionist with a dream one day of becoming a nurse. two colleagues with a personal relationship, friends recently saw signs of trouble. >> she had choke marks. i saw choke marks and bruises on her neck. she would be on the phony with me, stay on the phone with me. i think he may be coming over.

>> reporter: she told her she had moved out of his home earlier in the year and wanted to make a new start. >> the scariest part, she kept saying he's going to kill me. >> reporter: police have only said jorden is a person of interest in the case. a manhunt began after witnesses reported hearing four shots and finding wisniewski dead. >> this was the target this took place, not a random act. again, he should be considered armed and dangerous. >> reporter: jorden, age 49, is well-known for volunteer community work. a product of a local hospital, joined the army, became a medic in army special forces units. colleagues and friends said in recent months jorden changed his appearance, losing 75 pounds and growing a beard. while others who know jorden describe him as a soft-spoken, even keeled man who does not seem capable of the heinous

crime he's suspected of carrying out. >> i find it hard to believe. i mean, the facts will come out. knowing tim as i have, got to be close to six years now, i've never seen him angry, ever. >> that was nbc's ron allen reporting. the defense could begin calling witnesses in the jerry sandusky trial as early as monday. the prosecution is finished calling eight accusers that the former assistant football coach sexually assaulted them as children. the defense claim the accusers are financially motivated, a charge they denied. sandusky maintains he's innocent as he denies 52 counts of abuse spank 15 years. more coming up in a live report. a star-studded night of fund-raising for president obama as he joined first lady at the home of actress sarah jessica parker breaking in $2 million. a second manhattan fund-raiser featured a performance from mariah cary as mitt romney

blasts the obama administration as the enemy of job creation. kevin costner duped stephen baldwin out of millions of dollars for a profitable new contract to clean up the bp oil spill. baldwin testified he and a business partner would not have sold shares if they knew bp sold more devices. costner said he allowed the case to go to court and refused to sell because his reputation was at stake. miami heat held out for a win beating oklahoma city thunder tying the series one game each. game three, by the way, will be in miami on sunday night. it is now 7:05. back to matt and ann. you survived, made it back in. >> got to go back out there right now. >> when it comes right down to it, none of those people know who we are. thank you.

al is outside, even as we take a look down from a chopper looking at this massive crowd on the plaza, al is in the middle there somewhere. >> that's right. i'm going to do my disappearing trick for them. it's unbelievable this crowd. it's just grown. let's see what we've got. we've got a growing issue as far as hurricane coverage is concerned down in the pacific. tropical storm carlotta, probably become a hurricane, 410 miles southeast of acpull come. by sunday make landfall affecting acapulco by then. at home, risk from the dictators to oklahoma. rain already firing up. rainfall amounts anywhere from dodd >> beautiful weather today and into the weekend. a few clouds in the sky. wind is out of the east.

>> and that's your latest weather. ann. >> thank you. as tamron mentioned, the jerry sentenced trial resumes monday after the prosecution calls the final accuser to the stand thursday. michael isikoff at the courthouse in bellefonte, pennsylvania, once again this morning. michael, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. prosecutors nearly wrapped up their case thursday with one of their strongest witnesses. a young man who said he screamed for help in jerry sandusky's basement. jerry sandusky and his lawyers now have the weekend to prepare their defense after prosecutors call their final big witness on thursday, an 18-year-old known as victim number nine who testified to a pattern of sexual

assaults in the sandusky home over a three-year period. the witness, at times nervous and biting his nails, said sandusky took him to his home more than 100 times where the former state defensive coach got really aggressive and forced me to commit varying sex acts in his bedroom. sometimes, the young man said, he would scream, telling him to get off of me. pressed by sandusky lawyer joe amendola, he acknowledged he didn't tell anyone at the time. he's an important guy. he's the guy everyone knows and he's a football coach for real, who would believe kids. the young man was the last of eight alleged victims to testify, all participants in sandusky's second mile charity for troubled kids. prosecutors presented photographs and doums including affecti affectionate letters and stories

he allegedly wrote. >> the letters are a powerful pea piece of prosecution evidence. they began with them and closed with them. >> reporter: a state investigator explained how they built the case against sandusky over an often frustrating three-year period using undercover surveillance of sandusky and a lot of knocking on doors. it was a daunting case to try to get other victims to come forward, he testified. people wanted to maintain that secret. but then a break. an anonymous e-mail that led investigators to mike mcqueary, the former penn state quarterback who told them he had discovered sandusky late at night with a young boy in the school shower. then in 2011 they got the search warrant for sandusky's home and later a locker room at penn state where they found various photographs of the alleged victims and lists of second mile children with asterisk and dashes next to some of the

alleged victims' names as well as notes on their clothing and shoe sizes. when defense lawyers start presenting their case on monday, they say they will show sandusky was really a caring father figure for the alleged victims and that they are now lying about what he did in hopes of making big money from civil suits against him and penn state. ann. >> michael isikoff this morning. michael, thank you. it is now 7:10. here is matt. >> thank you, ann. presidential politics. president obama was in new york city last night, this after dueling it out in the afternoon with mitt romney in ohio. they both gave competing speeches on the economy. chuck todd, nbc's white house correspondent and political correspondent. good morning. >> good morning. it wasn't quite bieber fever at sarah jessica parker's house but the president found himself again rubbing elbows with celebrities as he raked in catch at a fund-raiser last night with

performance from mariah carey and alicia keys, but at the end of the day found him toe-to-toe and arm to arm with republican rivals. >> at the home of sarah jessica parker were filled with more paparazzi than usual thursday evening in anticipation of a different kind of visitor. >> president obama and michelle are coming to my house for dinner. >> reporter: it was one of two-star studded fundraisers the president attended. the second featuring mariah carey. while in new york city he signed his names to one of the final beams to be installed at one world trade center, open next year. officials including governor chris christie, a vocal critic of the president and mitt romney reporter, politics were put aside to mark a building almost 12 years in the making. >> it is great to be back in cleveland. >> reporter: but political gainsmanship was all the rage in ohio earlier thursday. both the president and romney in the state delivered dueling speeches on the economy. mr. obama spoke for almost an

hour contrasting his vision with that of his opponent. >> if you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for mr. romney. >> reporter: the president is trying to this this a choice between two visions, romney 250 miles down state at a factory in cincinnati stuck to his goal of trying to make this election simply a referendum. >> he's been president for three and a half years. talk is cheap. action speaks loud. if you want to see the results of his economic policies, look around ohio looks around the country. >> of course the economy isn't where it needs to be. of course we have a lot more work to do. everybody knows that. the debate in this election is about how we grow faster and how we create more jobs. >> reporter: while the president tried to laugh off his gaffe about the private sector last week. >> you my have heard i recently made my own contribution to

that -- >> reporter: romney campaign featuring it in a new tv ad claiming he's out of touch. >> private sector is doing fine. >> reporter: something the president made passing reference to. >> that may be there plan to win the election but it's not a plan to create jobs. >> reporter: mitt romney went from ohio to chicago, the president's hometown last night to raise just over $3 million. mitt romney begins a five-state bus tour over the weekend to a bunch of smaller towns in battleground states. the president is going to be headed to mexico for the g-20 summit. >> chuck todd at the white house. chuck, thank you very much. david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." good morning to you. >> good morning, matt. >> two speeches in ohio, presidential debate with candidates in separate rooms. they are talking about the number one issue, the economy. if we assume the people on the left and people on the right made up their minds. if you look at the people on the fence and this subject is so important to them, how did these competing messages play. >> i think they were important. what they underline is you've

got two distinct visions for how to create jobs, as chuck alluded to, how to get the economy to recover, how to deal with this looming fiscal cliff that the country faces. >> you say two distinct visions. what are the most glaring differences between their economic philosophy of a all comes down to taxes. a monumental fight whether to raise taxes, the government raises taxes. romney says don't do it, wants to continue tax cuts especially for wealthy americans. the president says no, the way we get fiscal taxes in order is raise it on upper level americans. >> how does mitt romney he say accomplish in the next four years what i haven't done in three and a half years. >> mitt romney is running a referendum. you're not happy, vote him out.

you need an alternative. what the president has to do is say, don't forget about george w. bush. things got really, really bad under him. >> i hear that. i hear him saying that all the time. the question is three and a half years into an administration do you think that strategy works, the blame bush strategy or do people want you to take ownership at this stage. >> they want you to take ownership. i think the argument is they have got to prevail providing context. looks it's not about blaming the previous president, the hill was so high to climb. we're making some progress but the hole is so deep. this guy isn't giving you any better ideas how to get out of it. i, president obama, have a vision. >> let's turn to the guy who called this guy. romney going to wisconsin, the governor there just survived the recall. he's calling on mitt romney to tell people in his state and across the country why he should be elected, not why barack obama should not be elected. has mitt romney accomplished

that? >> i think it's something he's still working on. no, i don't think he has. i think he's in the process of trying to be distinguished. what he's got to distinguish himself in this area is from national republicans. president obama wants to make mitt romney a continuation of all the problems on capitol hill. mitt romney has to stand up and say i've got a distinct vision. how do you create jobs. that's the big question for any challenge now who said the president failed. >> coming up on sunday "meet the press," who are you going to be talking to. >> david plouffe and senator john mccain as well. >> happy father's day to you. >> same to you. >> now here is ann. now to an update we brought you earlier this week. max page, the young boy who played darth vader in a successful super bowl ad is roving from open-heart surgery this morning. michelle franzen has more on this story. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. max remains in icu. the first 48 hours following open-heart surgery like this are the most critical.

max is showing incredible strength and doing fine so far. his mom gave us an e-mail update in the last few hours saying max is awake at times, talking, and looking forward to going home. max page, the little boy behind the darth vader mask in the famous volkswagen super bowl commercial put on a brave face to undergo open-heart surgery, doctors say with flying colors. >> we're very pleased with his progress and outcome. i think everybody was calm. i think max was more calm than the parents actually. >> reporter: his parents jennifer and buck said in a statement it was max who offered them comfort and laughed heading into surgery. holding onto his stuffed animals and his brother's hand, his mom said he told everyone, it's okay. i'm not scared. it's the same upbeat attitude max displayed at home just days before, running around and running through the can do list he created of things he plans to

do while recovering this summer. >> hide and seek, scavenger hunt. >> what do you think is going to be the best part after you're done with the surgery? you have a lot on that list you need to do. >> i think i'll just be able to do much more stuff then. >> reporter: the seven-year-old was born with a congenital heart defect that affects one in 1,000 children born each year. doctors say the valve in max's pulmonary artery was underdeveloped. doctors inserted a new valve helping his heart function and helping max to be like other kids. >> running and playing was becoming more difficult for him. as we know max, he was a real competitor so he wanted to keep up with his friends. >> doctors say they expect max to make a full recovery, but he'll have to rest at home at least six weeks. he'll do that in mom and dad's bed when you funned up before the surgery. >> he looked around and said if

i'm going to be in the house all summer, it needs to be more fun. waiting for the force to return. doctors expect max to stay here for a few more days, about a total of five days. they say that replacement valve should last anywhere between 10 and 15 years, which, ann, we'll make sure max gets time to enjoy being a kid until he becomes an adult. >> good news he's out of the surgery and doing better. michelle franzen, thank you so much this morning. still ahead the countdown is on. justin bieber takes the stage for a full 8:30 half hour. but first, this is "today."

just ahead a surprising revelation from a teen set on fire by a group of classmates.

what he said at the stand at the trial of the alleged ringleader of the attack. >> on a much lighter note, adam sandler will join us, but first we'll head out to al and justin bieber. >> they are getting ready. even having fans having breakfast. are you big justin bieber fans? having a good time? what's for previous, bagels and cream cheese? what time did you get here? >> 4:00. >> woke up at 2:30. now you're here. what's your favorite bieber song. >> i like them all. >> you like them all. "boyfriend" that's a new one, right? >> yes. >> all right. back inside. >> all right, al, thanks very much. we're going to sit down and talk to justin in our next half hour before the concert. but first your local news and weather. [ male announcer ] with ultra-filtered water from the first ever hands-free dispenser,

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cards. he faces shot 09 feet charges. > -- child pornography charges. >> closures on fort mchenry for sailabration until 11:00 tonight. looking at a slow-go from liberty down towards edmondson, 34 miles per hour on the outer loop. not bad on 95 out of white marsh. here is a quick live look at traffic. we will update you baltimore national pike. adding to its edmondson. live view of 295, southbound traffic picking up. all volume-related towards the capital beltway. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> high pressure in control across the northeast on the mid- atlantic. bringing an onshore flow. mostly cloud-free. " front is pushing off, bringing

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7:30 on friday morning, the 15th of june, 2012. bieber mania day here at rockefeller plaza. thousands of justin bieber fans have shown up this morning. it's one of our biggest crowds ever. many of them have been camped out for the last four days just to be here. i'm ann curry alongside matt lauer, we're excited about this day. coming up we'll sit down with the man himself. >> we'll find out what he thinks of all this bieber fever and talk about the new direction he's taking in his music. then justin has convinced me to do something i have never done

before. >> are you scared? >> a little bit nervous about that. should be interesting. justin has lined up a couple of special guests who will join him as well, coming up. >> i think they will make the crowd very happy. begin this half hour in florida on a serious story. the prosecution is expected to rest its case today at the trial of a teenager accused of instigating a brutal attack on a classmate, this after the victim took the stand thursday. thanh truong joins us. good morning. >> reporter: ann, good morning to you. for the first time since he was severely burned, 14-year-old michael jackson brewer testified against the teenager accused of being the ringleader on the stand. at times he was frustrated about the attack and surprisingly admitted he lied about some of the stories. minutes after michael brewer took the witness stand thursday, he described the events in 2009 that led to him being set on fire. >> i just remember a cold liquid

going down my back. i started walking and i started feeling burning, then i started running. >> reporter: with flame on his body, brewer ran to a nearby pool and jumped in. >> i could see skin hanging from my arms. i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: prosecutors claim now 17-year-old matthew bent charged with second degree murder instigated the attack, that he offered money to other teens to douse brewer in rubbing alcohol. the defense countered on cross-examination. >> you at no time ever heard him tell anybody to pour anything on you, did you? >> no, i didn't. >> you at no time ever saw him or heard him tell anybody to set you afire, did you? >> no, i didn't. >> the repetitive, direct questions seemed to frustrate brewer. >> in my defense, they set me on fire. >> reporter: in previous sworn statements, brewer said the attack happened after he and

bent had a dispute over a $40 little mermaid video game. but on thursday brewer changed his story saying the fight was over a marijuana bowl he refused to buy from bent. >> you told us it wasn't about this, it was about a bowl. >> yes, sir. >> are you telling us you lied to us back when we took your deposition. >> yes, sir. >> the defense has argued bent was present at the scene the day of the fire but was never directly involved in the burning. >> you never saw him with any containers or anything in his hand. >> no, i didn't. >> two others teens have admitted their roles in the attack. one teen confessed to pouring the alcohol on brewer. the other said he flipped the lighter that set him ablaze. both have testified it was all bent's idea. those teens took plea deals and are now in prison. an emotional brewer left court on thursday wiping away tears after recounting the horrific day.

if matthew bent is convicted, he could face up to 30 years in prison of the trial resumes this afternoon where the defense will present its case and likely closing arguments will follow later today an. >> thanh truong this morning. thanh, thank you so much. now let's get a check of the weather from al. >> all right. we are up here on our perch going from the 48th street all the way to 50th street, it is packed with bieber fever fans. whoa, perfect morning for bieber fever. let's see what we've got as far as your temperatures are concerned today. it is going to be hot in the midsection of the country. a big ridge of high pressure dominating. the afternoon high in chicago, 93, 95 memphis 95, rest of the country those 90s extend and 100s into texas and the southwest, 60s in the pacific northwest, 70s and 80s in the mid-atlantic state, northeast, down into the southeast and

florida. that is what's >> mostly sunny on this friday. we will have a comfortable temperatures. a little cooler along the eastern shore. you know who else has bieber fever, my people! my people! my people! [ cheers and applause ] matt. >> all right, al. thank you very much. now to a consumer alert for anyone with a checking account. according to a new report many

banks are charging americans excessive and confusing fees. senior investigative correspondent lisa myers has details on this story. lisa, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. with so many americans living on financial edge, a new report cautions your own checking account can be hazardous to your financial health. it warns consumer can be hit with excessive overdraft cost, hidden fees and in comprehensible disclosure agreements. two years after reforms designed to curb abuses, many banks are still getting rave reviews from their customers. >> also some hidden transaction that's going to catch up with you two weeks later and, bam, you have an overdraft. >> the new report from charitable trust says bank practices are putting kurps at financial risk through high and unexpected cost through little benefit. it says the typical checking account now has as many as three dozen fees, some of them exotic.

empty envelope fee, self-service fee, even a fee for counting coins. >> we don't know what a lot of these fees are but they are in the disclosures. >> reporter: the report says overdraft fees, which generated $29.5 billion last year, remains excessive and are especially damaging to families like steve dolan's, which live paycheck to paycheck. this week dolan accidentally overdrew his account by $150 and got hit with $102 in penalties, which he calls predatory. he thinks it's all about sagging bank profits. >> they had to do something so they decided to go after people like myself, the working class, who they can count on overdrafting now and then. >> reporter: banks admit they are under financial pressure and say all the fees are necessary to recover what it costs them to service checking accounts, an average of $250 each year. they insist all their practices are spelled out in checking

account disclosure agreements which now run an average of 69 pages. richard hunt is a spokesman for the banking industry. but a 69-page disclosure. >> we don't like. we don't like it. >> do you think any consumer can comprehend it. >> i know i can't. >> why do you do it? >> we have to. all the regulations passed by congress and regulators force us to do so. we have to protect ourselves om liability. >> reporter: consumers who have a dispute with their bank can take it to arbitration. there's a catch here, too. some banks have carried in the fine print a requirement consumers play all the bank expenses and attorneys fees even if the bank loses. matt. >> so it's a win-lose for the consumer. all right, lisa. thank you very much. coming up a one-on-one with justin bieber before he gets to the concert stage, but first these messages. -my shoulders know. know. [ female announcer ] do you know what a difference dove nourishment can make? my hips, they know.

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dr. nancy snyderman, nbc's chief medical officer. good morning. >> reporter: the challenge is to diagnose kids. doctors have relied on a book called diagnostic and statistical manual of disorders, a lot of big words, doctors call it dsm, to diagnose autism. doctors are looking at putting everyone on the autism spectrum into one category. tony leonard was 15-month-old when his parents saw he was developing differently from other children. >> at the time he was diagnosed, he was two and a half, and he was diagnosed with pddbos. >> reporter: stands for pervasive disorder not otherwise specified. pddnos. although it was devastating, the leonards say this early diagnosis was the best thing

that could happen to the family. >> made a good point. this the same child that woke up this morning. just because there's a name for what he has didn't doesn't mean he's a different child. >> the standard for diagnosing children with autism is known as the dsm 4. they are in three occasion. for helen, dual role as mother and educator, getting the diagnosis right is key. she runs a school for high-functioning autistic school that her son, tony, now 15 attends. >> it's thank you and until we meet again. >> very nice. >> she says the words for these classifications children like tony would fall through the cracks. but the guidelines are now changing. dr. katherine, a psychologist

and on the american psychiatric association panel appointed to make sure dsm criteria are up to date. >> in the new dsm 5 criteria only one category of autism disorder no longer pddnos and asperger's. >> that has some parents worried. this doctor is one of them. >> the problem is if you take away the autism label or asperger's label, it enter fees with people thinking conceptually in a sensible way of what does a person need. >> his study found 39% of children with autism or related disorders would no longer meet diagnostic criteria, most of them higher functioning children like tony. >> sadly my worry is that the people who are going to be penalized, essentially, are the ones we've included now, the most able people, who can be the people who support and become productive members of society. >> for many parents the results

of the doctor's study strikes a nerve. the possibility of losing government-funded services is terrifying. >> he's had so many wonderful people, therapists and teachers who have invested their time into him and he's progressed tremendously because of that. >> dr. lord and other experts on the panel caution these changes are in patient's best interest. >> one of the things our committee really wanted to do was to have a single autism spectrum disorder that implies anyone with an autism spectrum disorder needs services. >> with the dsm 5 expected to come out in may 2013, stakes are high. >> what we don't need are economic or political issues to distract us from the fact that despite what the diagnosis, the label is, the needs these children have don't change. at the end of the day, that's what we need to be focused on. >> a shared focus and a common goal so that these children will

have the opportunities they need to reach their fullest potential. >> the reason for the proposed changes is that doctors believe this field has been too segmented, too complicated, and this move will help narrow the playing field and in a weird kind of way, ann, if we make it simpler, it can include more kids. >> the idea is if we make changes, some kids will fall through the cracks. >> that group, high functioning kids, look, these kids can be mainstream, don't need as much help, but those kids, some parents would argue, are exactly the kind of kids you should invest in because those children are silicon valley of tomorrow. so this is, i believe, going to be a battle in medicine, sociology and funding. i don't think this is over. >> a very interesting story. nancy snyderman, thank you for bringing it to us. still to come, we'll lighten

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matt? >> that's right, ann. i can hear you. we're in the greenroom on the main studio floor. i'm here with justin bieber. justin is here with a young lady we learned a little about in the past. tell us a little about her. >> say hi. >> how are you? >> hi. >> avalona has a nickname. >> mrs. bieber. she had her own little wedding at the hospital. >> and we -- but it raunt really the red sauce. do you want -- >> what she's trying to say, there was a paper cut-out of me and she did the whole wedding

with the paper cut out. >> there was a paper. >> paper bieber. and you guys have stayed in touch. >> yes. basically we talk on ichat all the time. right? didn't we? >> didn't had it. >> i didn't think i had it, then i found it and we figured it out and faced time. what did you say about your mom. >> mother-in-law. >> mother-in-law. >> it's nice to have you in new york for this concert, because i know you're a huge fan. he's going to go outside in a couple of minutes with all the other fans. are you ready for that? >> i'm excited. i'm excited to see the other fans and be back in new york. >> we should just mention and we'll talk more about this, you're in the midst of an international tour. you're a busy young man these days. do you even know where you are. >> sometimes i don't. sometimes i wake up and feel like i'm in my bed and freak out

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. here is sarah caldwell. roads.s check the area in the past few minutes, we have an accident at eastbound 175. quarterfield road and park west drive in severn, we have a crash to report. outer loop on the northeast corner, and in the city, we have a crash on monroe street. of fort avenue, between enough and fort mchenry.

that is due to this sailabration event. we will switch to a live view of traffic on 95 and white marsh boulevard. pretty good here, just south of white marsh, delay towards the beltway northeast. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> on the traffic cameras, you can see the sun is out. we have a few clouds of short. most of the clouds have cleared out. a few clouds may move in today. this will allow for a clockwise flow. just enough moisture it bringing some scattered clouds. use a cold front across the plains. for now, high pressure is the dominant weather pattern. 69 at the inner harbor. 67 at ocean city. going to be comfortable in the

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♪ we're back now 8:00 on friday morning. it's the 15th day of june, 2012. it's a day when we have gathered about, i don't know, what do you think, ann, 8,000, 9,000 of our closest friends. let's go for 10. can you do it. there you are. 10,000 justin bieber fans here on the plaza. get ready for a summer concert coming up in our next half hour. i will tell you this guy not only the pop music world, talk about social media, 44 million friends on facebook. >> it's amazing. that's part of the reason he's

become such a phenomenon. we're going to talk with him, sit down with him in just a couple of minutes. then justin has convinced me to try something i have never tried before. >> macrame. >> that's something i've never tried before. >> you want to tell us more? you're scare. >> i'm matt lauer with ann curry and al roker. what else? >> he'll give usa half hour of music. also he's got two special guests this morning. this crowd will love who his guests are. >> if justin bieber and special guests were not enough, we have another big star. wait, there's more, ginsu knives and adam sandler. he's got a new movie out, that's my boy." >> playing a father. it's hysterical. very interesting. >> a lot to get to. let's go inside.

natalie is away today. tamron hall at the news desk. good morning. >> good morning. prosecutors at the trial of jerry sandusky, penn state assistant football coach finished calling eight witnesses to the stand. one testified he screamed on being assaulted in sandusky's basement bedroom hoping sandusky's wife would here him. he said the basement must have been soundproof. the trial resumes monday. a nationwide manhunt for a buffalo surgeon wanted as a person of interest in a deadly hospital shooting wednesday. dr. timothy jorden, an award winning surgeon with army special forces training. the shooting was a hospital receptionist who colleagues say had broken off a relationship with jorden. to wall street, mandy drury at the new york stock exchange. good morning, mandy. >> good morning. we had a really big late day surge on the news global bank standing ready to provide support if there's significant

global market turmoil after this sunday's greek elections leading the eurozone. that's under their belt but a lot of cautiousness. an encouraging note as we go into the weekend and hit the roads as well. the average gas prices down 10% or $0.40 a gallon since the peak back in early april. that is good news. back to you, tamron. >> mandy, have a great weekend. a look at what's trending. a quick roundup what has you talking online. new details as police are reviewing witness statements and security video of the brawl at a manhattan club reportedly between singer chris brown and rapper drake. pictures show the aftermath. officials say bottles were thrown and at least eight people were hurt. brown tweeted a picture of a cut on his chain. drake denies any involvement. the scuffle started with an insult over singer rihanna who dated both stars.

twitter lit up when an other worldly spaceship, the aircraft was a drone being delivered to the naval station in maryland. "call me maybe" hit the top of the charts due to parodies, corgi courtship by the pet collective. ♪ that's pretty cool. also on board internet favor has racked up more than a million hits with his deep baritone version. ♪ i just make and it's crazy but here's my number call me maybe ♪ >> okay. also a favorite of justin bieber, who live in concert on

the plaza, tick-tock only minutes away. back to ann and al. >> we want to tell everybody about the weather. >> this young man is in a sea of young ladies. what's your name? >> asher. >> just hanging out? >> yes. >> who you here with. >> my mom and ter. >> very nice. are you a big bieber fan? >> yes. >> you've even got a justin shirt. that's pretty cool. >> take a look at the sunglasses. >> wow, justin bieber. bieber vision. bieber vision. all right. let's see what we've got as far as your forecast is concerned. our pick city today, saginaw, michigan. nbc 25. sunny and warm, high of 87 degrees. can you see we've got pretty good storms firing up in the mid sebs of the country. that's where we've got a risk of storms firing. isolated tornadoes, damaging hail. east coast looks fantastic. we've got beautiful weather in the pacific northwest as well.

sunshine and 75 in seattle. dodd >> beautiful weather today and into the weekend. a few clouds in the sky. wind is out of the east. that's your latest weather. we still have to pick -- justin is going to pick the best justin bieber sign. that person is going to get two tickets to a concert. >> i'm sure the competition was pretty intense. you can see the signs raised behind us. up next, matt is going to go one-on-one with justin bieber. >> that sounds threatening.

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a concert with justin bieber. 18 years old, already toured the world, made a movie, wrote a book and graced the cover of "forbes" magazine. about to release a brand-new album called "believe." justin bieber, welcome back. good to see you. you've done it again out there. >> thank you. thank you. >> it's great. we've had people out here since tuesday, sleeping out in the rain. >> wow. >> you did something really nice yesterday. as we look out over this crowd, you stopped by yesterday as you came by rockefeller center and surprised these people. >> we had some time off. i made an effort to go out and see the fans. a lot of those people in the streets back there, they are not going to be able to see me. >> that is ever nerve-racking? you know what's going to happen when people have been waiting three or four days and your car pulls up and you got out. it's going to create a scene. do you get nerve out about that? >> no, i have security around me. they know what they are doing. they keep the fans at a safe

distance. they aren't trying to hurt me. >> i mean they haven't showered since tuesday. >> no. >> these people gathered around the stage. you're going to play hits and music from your new album, "believe." i heard somebody in the record company describe it as transitioning from a teen phenomenon to an adult artist. is that scary for you? >> at the end of the day, it is. i'm 18 and i have a lot of insecurities. at the end of the day me being in my position, it doesn't like get rid of those insecurities. so like coming out with this album, i know i've been working hard on it and i know i'm doing really well. i'm confident in the album. it's coming out in two days. >> people have different expectations of a quote, unquote, adult performer as opposed to someone who is a teen performer. >> exactly. but i think it's about proving people wrong and going out there and making good music, and going out there performing better than

everyone else. that's what you have to do in order for me to cross over, or else i'm going to be another teen heartthrob and just -- i want to be remembered. >> eighteen is a milestone. forget music. just in life. i want to read you something your manager scooter, your manager said in an interview. just because he's legal doesn't mean he's an adult. he still needs guidance, still finding his way. he's no longer a boy but definitely not yet a man. keep in mind this is from a guy named scooter. do you agree with him? >> i agree with him. definitely. i think i'm in a place where i'm 18. i'm still growing up. i'm still learning about different things. girls, my music. so it's like i'm not all the way there but i'm at a stage where i'm growing, my fans are growing with me and i want to make music that reflects that. >> you talk about music and girls. you co-wrote every song on the album. let me read you a couple of

titles and tell me whether there was anyone in your mind. boyfriend, as long as you love them, one love? anyone in particular come in mind. >> for the album i wanted to work with different artists and different producers. i worked with drake -- >> that's not what i meant and you know it? anyone in mind when you write songs like "as long as you love me." >> i worked with big shawn. >> all right. i get it. i get it. you're in the middle of an international tour. i want to get a sense of how much of a blur something like this is for a young man like you so i've got some quizzes for you, some questions. >> all right. >> over the past two weeks, about how many miles have you traveled? >> i don't know. probably over 10,000 miles. >> 16,000. we should have given him half credit. 16,000. how many countries have you been in? >> six. >> seven.

>> seven. i was just guessing. >> how many planes. that's too hard. how many buses have you ridden on? >> two. >> good. okay. how many fire boats have you been on? >> one fire boat. >> no. i'm afraid that's two fire boats. >> oh, yeah, there and back. >> you're arguing. how many interviews have you done over the last two weeks. >> over 100. i feel like over 1,000. you're asking me new questions. they were asking the same questions over and over again. >> you've done over 100 interviews in the last two weeks. that's exactly right. how many glass walls have you run into? >> let's not talk about that. >> what happened? >> i'm pretty clumsy. i don't see glass walls. obviously i think -- i wasn't wired to seelass walls. >> you really hit your head. >> i really actually hit it hard. i got a concussion and everything. >> you're all right now. >> i'm good now.

i've had concussions. i used to play hockey. i got hit in the boards. >> you're used to it. you're manning up. that's okay. let me talk about social media. 44 million friends on facebook, 23 or so million followers on twitter. how much is that responsible for what's going on outside the studio. >> 100%. i couldn't -- i wouldn't be here without all my fans and all their support. it's like -- i wrote a song called 'n' believe" on the album "believe." it's basically how my fans inspired me. it's a song for them. i always like to pay it for. even like carly jefferson, the number one song in the world right now. i was able to give her that platform and sign her with scooter. just giving back in general. >> that's how you stay in touch with these people until you get your message out. do you know how many twitter followers i have. >> how many? >> zero. >> you know why? you just started it. >> here is what's going to happen. you are going to help me send my

very first tweet. >> okay. >> i worked on my phone yesterday. i'm still a little clumsy at this. i want to find out the power of bieber. do a little test here. let me sign onto twitter. there it is. you're typing faster. what should be my first tweet ever? >> your first tweet ever. i'm going to speak very proper, because i know that's how you talk. hello, period. next capital. >> first tweet ever. >> everyone go buy justin bieber's -- >> how about hanging with justin at the "today" show. >> hanging with justin -- >> at the "today" show. >> yeah. at the "today" show. >> concert coming up. >> just a second.

>> you're slower than me. >> you know what, it's because -- all right. all right. then what? >> tweet the name of the first song you're going to do but don't say it out loud. just for your twitter followers. >> hello. everyone go by justin bieber's album "believe" july 19th. >> you didn't write any of the stuff i asked you to write? >> ready? if you want to find out my first -- justin's first song -- >> this is your tweet, not mine. >> i said if you want to find out justin's first song he's performing -- >> i want you to send this out quickly, and then i want you to get your phone. and i want you to tell your 23 million followers to follow me. >> good idea. >> here is what we want to do. i have the director of our digital news operations at nbc,

ryan osborne. he told me if i have more than 750,000 followers tuesday, he will streak in the studio. >> you're going to streak in the studio? >> he'll streak in the studio. you've got to get your people going. >> i have to now. >> tell them to follow me. i'm not sure we actually wan that to happen, but we're going to see the power of justin bieber by tuesday. we have 9,000 already. okay? this has been going on three minutes. ryan, start taking your clothes off. >> everyone follow -- >> over 10,000. we'll figure this out, give you an update later in the show. >> mlauer. >> my handle is @mlauer. okay. justin coming up in concert. check this out on twitter. you can catch justin bieber all around the world, a special next wednesday and thursday 8:00

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alright, let's take this puppy for a little spin alright madre, padre. back now 8:22 with adam sandler. adam plays a dad with lackluster parenting skills trying to reconnect with his son. >> it it when i was in third grade. my body grew. >> i'm sure it's fine. let me see it again. you got a back tattoo. >> adam sandler, good morning. >> i saw al roker over there not laughing. al. >> i was laughing inside. >> why are you so jealous, al. >> because you're so good.

that's why. >> sandberg and you together you pull off the father-son connection. >> a nice boy. he did feel like a son to me. >> you have a lot of similarities, similar sense of hum humors. snl. are you sure you're not related? >> same name. same initials. no. i'm positive. i met his parents there. amazingly nice people. for a minute me and his dad was fighting over who was his real dad but i let andy go back to his roots. >> he sure admires you. >> he should. >> he says he stalked you, grew up really admiring you. it's a dream come true for him being in a movie with you. how do you react to that? >> i think that's fantastic. he did know my old stuff better than i know it. he quotes lines to me. yeah, that was a good one. he reminded me i used to be something very special, but

still i'm fantastic. >> everything about this movie is wrong, true or false? >> that's true. that's true. it's a funny party. you'll have a good time if you see it. you should not bring little kids. no doubt about that. >> rated r for crude sexual content, nudity, pervasive language and some drug use. did you even try to make it pg-13? >> no, we knew it was filthy right offer and embraced the filth and dirtiness. >> you played a kid who had a relationship, not legal with a teacher. >> went to jail. >> became a father, had to raise the boy, was not good at raising the boy. he named the son. >> hans solo. we thought it was a cool choice. my boy is mad at me for naming him that. >> you show up as the father only when you needed money.

>> maybe i wanted to see my boy get married. he turned his back on me. remember that. >> that's where the movie gets really good. you idea in you in these movies. your movies gross something like $3 billion according to your bio. >> that's enough, right? >> that's not enough. you're still going. >> now it's spare change. we're looking for spare change. >> what are you looking for? >> i have no idea. what else am i supposed to do with my life. i make movies. i like making movies. when i'm not making them, i stare at the wall and say what am i doing. i hang out with my kids, my wife a lot but i like to work. >> this is about fathers, father's day is coming. two little girls, three and six-year-old. >> my six-year-old has a bieber toothbrush. >> she's going to be mad. she knows about bieber in different ways. >> the beauty of the bieber

toothbrush, by the way, it plays a song. they have to brush the whole song. that's a lot of brushing. >> here that's one of the songs we're hearing now. adam >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. let's get a check on that morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> kind of busy as we wrap up the morning rush. accident still in the clearing stages. another one at severna and quarterfield road. one on 795 just past taken ave. past franklin boulevard, watch for a crash. we have another one clearing on the ramp from war for road to the outer loop on the north side. another one in taneytown and route 140 and york street. here's a quick live look at

traffic. delays are easing up towards edmondson. let's switch over to 95 and white marsh. you are trapped -- you are tapping the brakes just a bit. no problems to report on 895 at the harbor tunnel. >> what a nice day, and we have a string of them coming up. big area of high pressure will hold the stormy weather to the south and west. as we go into the weekend, things look great. northeast breeze at 9. clouds are not going to be as big an issue today as yesterday. 71 the high, or the current temperature, at the inner harbor. most of the day, a lot of sunshine. 79 to 834 the high. a lot of time to enjoy it. or less the same on saturday and

on sunday. -- or less the same on saturday and sunday. midweek, maybe some rain. >> we will have another update at 8:56.

♪ 8:30 now on this friday morning, the 15th of june, 2012. our crowd is so big, we considered remaining this place bheeb e bieber plaza for the day. the fans have come to see their idol. in just a few moments. i'm ann curry alongside matt lauer and al roker.

welcome to the plaza this morning. boy, you are shameless. >> this is the power of bieber and what he can do with a simple tweet or two. at the moment i think i have something like 33,000 followers and that's just in a few minutes. i did send my first solo tweet, by the way. i said -- >> you held out for twitter. when you go twitter, you go twitter. >> one of my own. keep it going. we'll have a streaker on tuesday. >> by the way, all these kids out here, somebody had to get them here. let's have a shout out to the moms and dads. >> it's the moms and dads on twitter, i would like them.

>>@mlauer. >> justin looking for the best sign. the lucky win ner to the bieber concert. take mom or friends. >> a check of the weather. >> for the weekend, father's day weekend. saturday rain, upper mississippi river, mid mississippi river valley, rain. east coast looks fantastic. sunday father's day, sunny and cool in new england, mild mid-atlantic, great lakes, showers in the pacific northwest. risk of some storms. >> mostly sunny on this friday. we will have a comfortable temperatures. a little cooler along the eastern shore.

>> and that's your latest weather. matt. >> al, thank you very much. we have been counting down all morning. al, thank you very much. we have been counting down all morning. let's not count down any longer. ladies and gentlemen, justin bieber! ♪ if i was your boyfriend i'd never let you go i can take you places you anlt never been before baby take a chance or you'll never ever know i got money in my hands that i'd really like to blow ♪ i'd like to be

everything you want hey girl let me talk to you ♪ ♪ if i was your boyfriend never let you go ♪ ♪ keep you on my arm girl you'd never be alone ♪ ♪ i can be a gentleman anything you want if i was your boyfriend i'd never let you go ♪ ♪ never let you go ♪ ♪ i'd like to be everything you want hey girl let me talk to you

♪ if i was your boyfriend never let you go ♪ ♪ keep you on my arm girl you'd never be alone ♪ ♪ i can be a gentleman anything you want ♪ ♪ if i was your boyfriend i'd never let you go i'd never let you go ♪ ♪ so give me a chance you're all i need ♪ ♪

♪ if i was your boyfriend never let you go keep you on my arm girl you'd never be alone ♪ ♪ i can be a gentleman anything you want ♪ ♪ if i was your boyfriend i'd never let you go never let you go ♪ na na na na na na na yeah girl ♪ ♪ na na na na if i was your boyfriend ♪ ♪ na na na na na na na na na na na na na na if i was your boyfriend ♪ >> justin bieber, thank you very much. we're back with much more music and a special guest. but first, this is "today" on nbc.

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>> announcer: toyota concert series on "today," brought to you by toyota. >> well, as you can see, bieber mania has taken over rockefeller plaza. camped out since 6:00 in the morning tuesday morning. justin bieber joins us with a new album "believer" coming out next week. when you look at these people, you hear more than 8,000 people, biggest ever for us, what do you want to say to all the people. >> all i can say, it's just amazing for me to see all you beautiful faces. i want to say thank you guys for coming and waiting in the cold. i always appreciate everything they do for me.

>> bring with them to the concert today. a lot of people took us seriously. there are some great ones. i know you and scooter have been checking them out. >> i have been. >> any one stands out in your mind. >> i like all of these. there's one right here. it's got like buzz lightyear and me. maybe that one there. >> right in the middle. is that the one you want to choose? the winner of the sign contest will get what? >> two free tickets for my concert. >> is that the official announcement. >> that's the official announcement. we got the winner. over here with the globe. >> we'll get that person's sign and get that person. we'll meet them in a couple minutes. >> meantime, an international tour, your u.s. tour is about to start. tell your fans this morning. when will that tour again? where will it be. >> start off in arizona. all across america, then over to

europe and south america. i'm really excited to be able to travel the world, see my fans. i can't wait. everyone, they have got to believe. >> here is what i'm supposed to do now. they want us to take a photo. come up and take a photo of justin, ann and me. we're going to tweet this out. what's the handle again? @mlauer. we're at 43,000 followers. all right. >> now all you need is a bidi account. >> take it easy, one step at a time. vidi. it works good, like a video account. >> we want to hear another song. ladies and gentlemen, singing

"baby." once again, justin bieber. ♪ ♪ you know you love me i know you care ♪ ♪ just shout whenever and i'll be there you are my love you are my heart ♪ ♪ and we will never ever ever be apart ♪ ♪ are we an item? girl quit playin' we're just friends what are you sayin'. >> said there's another and looked right in my eyes ♪ ♪ my first love broke my heart for the first time ♪ ♪ and i was like baby baby baby oh like baby baby baby no like baby baby baby oh i thought you'd always be mine

mine ♪ ♪ baby baby baby oh like baby baby baby no like baby baby baby oh i thought you'd always be mine ♪ ♪ mine ♪ for you i would have done whatever and i just can't believe. >> we're here together ♪ ♪ because i'll buy you anything i'll buy you any ring ♪ ♪ i'm in pieces baby fix me. >> and just shake me till you wake me from this bad dream ♪ ♪ i'm going down down down and i just can't believe my first love won't be around ♪ ♪ baby baby baby oh like baby baby baby no like baby baby baby oh i thought you'd always be mine ♪ ♪ mine ♪ baby baby baby oh

like baby baby baby no like baby baby baby oh ♪ ♪ i thought you'd always be mine ♪ ♪ mine ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ but i really wanna see her on the weekend she know she got me dazin' because she was so aamazin' and now my heart is breaking i just keep on sayin' ♪ ♪ baby baby baby oh like baby baby baby no like baby baby baby oh ♪

♪ i thought you'd also be mine ♪ mine ♪ baby baby baby oh like baby baby baby no like baby baby baby oh i thought you'd always be mine ♪ ♪ mine ♪ yeah yeah yeah ♪ gone gone gone ♪ i'm gone [ cheers and applause ] >> and we have more music from justin bieber in just a moment. first, this is "today" on nbc.

the music rolls on on a friday morning. ladies and gentlemen, once again, justin bieber. ♪ ♪

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[ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> we've got more music ahead on friday morning from justin bieber. but first this is "today" on nbc.

good morning. we've got another song from justin bieber. for right now let's take a look at this sign contest. >> let's talk to the young lady and her dad that created it. >> this is paige and her father keith. congratulations. >> how are you? i'm justin. pleasure meet you. did you help make our sign? really? how did you make it like do that? >> my mom did that. >> your mom did that. cool. your sip is really awesome. definitely the best sign here. five? i don't think i could have done that when i was five. >> at the rick of sounding like a game show, tell her what she's won? >> you've won two tickets to my

concert. >> way to go, paige. >> congratulations, paige and keith. this is pretty wonderful. i don't know how they made this happen. >> are you dad? >> yeah. >> we've got to get three tickets, mom and dad and you come. we'll do three tickets. >> that's pretty lucky. congratulations to the both of them. much more coming up, including your local news and weather right after this.

>> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. a grand jury indicts the man at the center of the harford county cannibalism case on an attempted murder charge. it stems from a violent encounter inside a morgan state farm room. a man says that alexander kinyua hit him over the head with a

baseball bat, knocking him out. days later, he killed in the

>> temperatures on the vine without sunshine -- to reverse on the rise with sunshine. very comfortable. load humidity. 79 to 83 for the high.