>> his mother overcome with grief. fans asking if the game he loved contributed to his death. >> a hero throws a tackle in a walmart parking lot. the iraq war vet trying to stop a suspect with a knife who took a woman's purse. >> but up first, al qaeda unmasked. in just four hours, the world gets to see a massive stack of documents from osama bin laden's compound. for the last 12 months, the documents were analyzed by intelligence officials and this morning, at 9:00 a.m. eastern they'll be posted online. we're told the information includes digital, audio and video files, printed materials, recording devices and handwritten documents. nic robertson live in london this morning. nic, peter bergen previewed those bin laden documents. in them, osama bin laden says we need to extend and develop our operations in america and not keep it limited to only blowing up airplanes. it's terrifying. >> reporter: it's absolutely terrifying. one of those documents, he says, specifically to his sort of und underlings, if you will, it would be nice to nominate a brother to look after the plots in the united states. we've seen the nsome plots foiled. the united states remains a target but knows they have to look at another way of targeting it. >> check out this bin laden quote, nic. the americans have great accumulated expertise, a photography of the region due to the fact they've been doing it for so many years. they can even distinguish between houses that are frequented by male visitors at a higher rate than normal. pretty sketchy and paranoid, right? >> totally paranoid. this is bin laden's concern about al qaeda's training camps in the border of pakistan and afghanistan, the waziristan area. we know also from the documents as well, he gives specific advice to his son, 20-year-old son hamza who's believed to be living in that area. he says he needs to move, get out of that area and only move when there's a lot of cloud cover. he knows the ability of drones and satellite surveillance to track people. he also says at one point, one of the documents, he's considering pulling most of al qaeda operatives out of that area because it's becoming too dangerous, christine. >> nic robertson in london. thanks. next hour, cnn national security analyst peter bergen joins us. he's one of the few people outside the government who's already seen some of these documents, actually. we're hearing from the u.s. ambassador to china this morning about the sudden about-face regarding chen guangcheng. who after leaving the embassy yesterday this morning is pleading with president obama to help him get out of that country. he says he doesn't feel safe there and that a deal that was struck between a u.s. and china is not going to protect him or his family. he also says he feels abandoned by america after spending six days holed up in our embassy in beijing. chen says his phones are being tapped and that his wife is being threatened by chinese authorities. he spoke to cnn's stan grant from his hospital room yesterday. >> translator: i would like to say to him, please do everything you can to get our whole family out. i'm very disappointed with the u.s. government. the embassy kept lobbying me to leave, he says, and promised to be with me at the hospital. but this afternoon, soon after we got here, they were all gone. >> for our part, the u.s. ambassador is responding to this. the u.s. ambassador to china's name is gary locke. he says all all points we were inten on carrying out his wishes and insuring we could put together something that met his needs. he said he wanted to stay in china. we asked him if he wanted to go to the united states. he said no. >> questions about whether the game is to blame for the death of a future nfl hall of famer this morning. former nfl linebacker junior seau was found dead yesterday in his home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. he was only 43 years old and leaves behind four kids. his grieving mother overwhelmed at a news conference yesterday. >> he never say something for me. junior! why you never telling me? i pray to god. take me, take me, leave my son alone. thank you. thank you so much for everybody. god bless you guys. >> still not clear whether any possible brain trauma played a role. this may have been the second time seau tried to kill himself. back in 2010 he drove his car off a cliff and survived. there were suspicions back then but police later concluded it was an accident because of lack of sleep. at 6:30 eastern we speak with former nfl running back jamaal anderson who knew junior seau. were all of the collisions over the 19 pro seasons too much? we'll take a look at that. we're hearing from the mother of a & m drum major robert champion. 13 people have been charged in connection with his death. two of them will face misdemeanor charges, though. champion's mother told cnn's anderson cooper she was disappointed with these charges. >> i was very, very disappointed. my husband and i both, you know, we had anticipated something that was a little more harsh. >> prosecutors say unfortunately this case does not support murder charges. the police say champion collapsed and died back in november after a brutal band hazing ritual. tears and testimony marking a dramatic day in the trial of former presidential candidate john edwards. his daughter, kate, reportedly leaving the courtroom crying yesterday, just as testimony began about a fight between john edwards and his wife elizabeth. in the courtroom, edwards turned to his daughter and mouthed the words i don't know what's coming. do you want to leave? that's when kate exited the courtroom, wiping away tears. that fight took place in 2007 at an airport. elizabeth edwards was battling breast cancer at the time an a tabloid just reported edwards was having an extramarital affair with rielle hunter. history made on the die mondayed in anaheim last night. jered weaver through a no-hitter against the minnesota twins. very overpowering fashion you might say, striking out nine batters in a 9-0 win. if you're counting it is the second no-hitter in the majors in less than two weeks. that is something else. still ahead, he says he just wanted to make an nfl linebacker ray lewis proud. a guy comes out of nowhere, levels a thief in a walmart parking lot. wow, you're watching "early start." 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daredevil nick walenda has been given the green light to walk a tight rope across niagara falls. it's a stunt that required a policy change by the state park commission and approval by the new york state legislature. this will be great stuff. >> i know. let's get a quick check of today's weather. good morning, rob marciano. >> a gorgeous date if you're going to tight walk across niagara falls. >> does he go from canada to america? >> he had to get permission from the u.s. side. i bet it's from the u.s. >> who checks his passport on the way? daring, daring officials, right? >> border patrol alert. south of the border, well south, record highs again yesterday. temperatures into the 90s. midland, texas, 98, muscle shoals, alabama, 92 degrees. showers through the new york city area which didn't see temperatures that warm. you will see temperatures rebound after this pulse goes through. showers will be prevalent not only there but also across parts of the western great lakes. chicago, 80 degrees again yesterday. that's the ninth time this year you've reached 80 and that's the most this early in the season since they've been keeping records. the june-like warmth continues there. showers across parts of the south where they had flooding across mobile. here's where we think the severe threat will be, buffalo to chicago, kansas city later on today. we had one report of a tornado yesterday. it did do damage and heat is on. the pacific northwest will see rain and cool temperatures. you want to cool off? go to seattle. 49 degrees there for the high temperature in the emerald city. >> nice. good for seattle this time of year. >> 15 minutes after the hour. let's get an early read on water cooler worthy stories this morning. a new scientific study claims shooting, playing those violent shoot 'em up games improves your firing accuracy in real life. >> because we need that. >> in a massacre trial in norway, he says he practiced by playing the game call of duty: modern warfare. he shot and killed 69 people in the 2011 attack. in this study, the subjects were given a violent or nonviolent video game to play. those who played the shooting game, ashleigh, were more prone to hit their targets. >> poll position didn't make anybody a better driver. >> they are rated, folks. a story of a city transit work worker. you might consider this person a hero. he gave a needy teenager a year's worth of free tickets. he could not afford the bus fare to ride to and from school. it costs 15 bucks a day. he gave him $300 worth of paid but unused tickets. the transportation official said unfortunately that's a violation of the transit system's policy. however, we have a silver lining on this one. apparently there was a woman who heard the story, contacted the teenager's school and she says she is going to pay for his transportation every day until he graduates. so there you go. >> "vanity fair" has an exert of a new biography on president obama. alex mcnear says he was interesting in a particular way. he worked his way through an idea or a question, turned it over, looked at it from all sides and then came to a precise and elegant conclusion. he a serious relationship with genevieve cooke when he lived in new york. when she said i love you, he said thank you. that's why she's an exgirlfriend. her diary entry foreshadows a marriage to michelle. i was not the person that brought infatuation, that light, bubbly, strong black lady is waiting somewhere. >> the thing about old girlfriends or boyfriends, i mean, come on. >> i don't want anyone digging up any of mine. >> ancient history. >> unfair, too. i think it should be off limits. head on over to cnn.com/earlystart. get a lot of information there. sky high baggage fee. another airline fee you won't believe. up towards the stands. hey joe. yeah? 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