so, is this 12-year-old powerhouse their good luck charm? her star-spangled slam dunk wowing the nation and she's here live on "gma." ♪ and the home of the brave hope everyone had a great weekend. and we have so much to get to including the trial of george zimmerman beginning today in florida with jury selection. security very tight at the courtroom. bomb-sniffing dogs being led through the area and zimmerman is expected to wear a bulletproof vest in court today. >> more than a year after his arrest. but let's get right to the breaking details on that whistle-blower who leaked top-secret documents in the government surveillance of americans. edward snowden revealed his identity to "the guardian." he know he's a hunted man right now and he's looking for a country that will give him asylum from prosecution. brian ross gives us the latest. >> reporter: that's right. he knows the u.s. would try to catch him and put him in prison but the person responsible for one of the greatest national security leaks in recent american history apparently insisted that his identity be made public after he fled the country for hong kong. >> my name is ed snowden. i'm 29 years old. >> reporter: snowden said he is a former cia technician who until he disappeared last month was a $200,000 a year civilian contractor for the nsa in hawaii. >> when you see everything, you see them on a more frequent basis and you recognize that some of these things are actually abuses. i think that the public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside of the democratic model. when you are subverting the power of government that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. >> reporter: snowden revealed himself and his motivations sunday afternoon in this interview posted online by "the guardian" conducted by columnist glenn greenwald in hong kong. >> this is the truth. this is what's happening. you should decide whether we need to be doing it. >> reporter: snowden said he saw firsthand and became increasingly concerned about the reach of the nsa's electronic surveillance of innocent americans. >> even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded. >> reporter: and that's why he said he chose to expose secret u.s. programs that collect the phone records of americans and monitor overseas internet e-mails. >> i sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if i had a personal e-mail. >> reporter: snowden said he went to hong kong three weeks ago hiding in a luxury hotel and lining pillows along the door to prevent eavesdropping fearful of what the u.s. could do to him. >> you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them. >> reporter: overnight, snowden's father said that he hadn't seen his son since he moved to hawaii. neighbors said he and his girlfriend moved out around may 1. he said nothing good happening next and i do not expect to see home again. he said he went to hong kong, robin, because it has a history of allowing free speech but it is also a place that does have an extradition treaty with the u.s. >> all right, brian, thank you. and there are so many details that are coming out, snowden also telling "the guardian" that he told his boss that he needed to be away from work for a while to receive treatment for epilepsy. here's more of what he had to say. >> the nsa specifically targets the communications of everyone. it collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way of getting to the point you don't have to have done anything wrong. you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made. i'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office watches what's happening and goes, this is something that's not our place to decide. over time that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk about it and the more you talk about it, the more you're ignored, the more you're told it's not a problem, until eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public. i could be, you know, rendered by the cia. i could have people come after me. if they want to get you they'll get you in time. and let's get more on the fallout now from abc's jon karl. our legal analyst dan abrams and, jon, let me begin with you. over the weekend the director of national intelligence, the intelligence chairs on "this week" yesterday making clear just how serious this leak is. >> reporter: oh, absolutely, and you heard from the top intelligence official in the government, james clapper, saying that this has done grave damage to our intelligence capability so, make no mistake, george, if snowden did what he says he has done here, top officials view him not as a hero but as a criminal. you can expect them to seek extradition. you can expect them to fully prosecute this. right now the justice department saying only that they've opened the investigation but they view this with utmost seriousness. >> and, dan, the only question really now is how -- what kind of charges they'll throw at snowden and whether he can find asylum somewhere? >> that's right. the first question is going to be, what do they charge him with? they're going to throw the book at him. the question is how heavy is that book? and that's going to be the issue that the government is going to have to decide here. number two, and connected to that is, how do they get him here for trial? and if he stays in hong kong, you know, there are real questions. now, there's no question hong kong has an extradition treaty with the united states but when matters become political there are specific exceptions and the question is going to be does the government of hong kong and china maybe more importantly view this as the kind of case where they want to draw the line and say, you know what, we're going to battle on this one and we're not going to extradite him. it would seem as of now that snowden is making that bet. >> but that would be a real rift in the u.s./china relationship. okay, dan, thanks very much. robin. all right there, george, now the latest on nelson mandela, the heroic south african leader nearly 95 years old was rushed back to the hospital this weekend as you know drawing the eyes of the world to pretoria. abc's brandi hitt is there with the latest, and brandi, we learned just this morning how serious his condition is. he's in intensive care? >> reporter: that's right, robin. good morning. nelson mandela's family members continue to go in and out of heart hospital with the latest headlines this morning, reading "mandela lockdown" family bars everyone from visiting the icon in hospital while his health slips. it does appear the family is banning government officials from visiting mandela. officials paint a much different picture of the 94-year-old saying he's in intensive care and holding on to life. robin. >> of course, a very anxious time for everybody in south africa. brandi, this is the fourth time he has been hospitalized in the last six months and now we hear intensive care. how are people reacting to his latest time being in the hospital, brandi? >> reporter: well, robin, over the past year no one has wanted to discuss the inevitable but for the first time that discussion is now happening publicly with one of mandela's longtime friends who served time behind bars with him saying it is finally time to let him go, robin. >> all right, brandi hitt there in south africa. thank you very much. of course, we're thinking of mr. mandela and his family this morning. george? okay, robin. thanks. let's go now to the trial of george zimmerman, charged more than a year ago in the shooting death of trayvon martin. jury selection begins today and questions about race likely to play a big role in that process. abc's matt gutman is covering the trial from sanford, florida. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, george. right now, dozen of potential jurors are in that building. they have started filling out detailed questionnaires. legal analysts is more important than race and guns are what these jurors actually look like themselves. this morning, george zimmerman will be back in this florida courtroom facing the potential jurors who could soon be asked to decide his fate. in just a few hours prosecutors and defense attorneys will begin grilling the 500 potential jurors in an attempt to find out their feelings about self-defense and guns and race. >> you're going to see a judge that is on ultra alert for the defense trying to exclude jurors solely based on their race. >> reporter: zimmerman who is a white hispanic shot and killed trayvon martin, a black teenager during a scuffle on february 26th, 2012. prosecutors have charged him with second degree murder. zimmerman says he was only defending himself and pleaded not guilty. since that night, the case has polarized this small florida community with protests and rallies seizing sanford, even drawing the notice of the president. >> you know, if i had a son he'd look like trayvon. >> reporter: late sunday those protests returned. >> all: the whole system is guilty! >> reporter: but the tension never left. for months, zimmerman has appeared in court wearing a bulletproof vest. this morning we're also learning martin's mother says she has been the target of death threats. people have been threatening talking about your kids and family members and specifically by name? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: ben crump is the family's attorney. you called it the civil rights trial -- or the civil rights case of the century. >> the whole world is watching to see how far america has advanced in the matters of equal justice. does everybody in america get equal justice or is it just certain people? >> reporter: which is one of the reasons the composition of this jury will be so important. another reason we're going to see a lot of legal wrangling over what this jury looks like and whittling that jury pool down from 500 to 6 could take weeks. robin? >> matt, thank you. and that's why we brought back dan abrams to talk just about the jury selection. a lot of people think when it's a highly publicized case and it's hard to seat a jury. not really the case. >> it's going to be tough but they'll find a jury. these don't have to be jurors who know nothing, have never heard of the case. these have to be jurors who haven't developed opinions about the case. and as a result you're going to have people who likely don't know a lot about it, haven't been following it closely. probably find some who haven't followed it at all. once you get through a lot of people, and it's going to take a little longer, because it's a high-profile case, but they'll be able to find a jury in this case. >> each side, what are they looking for? >> that's right. the one issue that no one will want to admit they're looking at is race. both sides is going to look very closely at race and this is going to be the reverse of what you typically see in a case because here the defense is going to be the one who is going to typically want white male nra-supporting prospective jurors. the prosecution is going to want the opposite which is unusual to see in a case like this but they're going to be listening very, very closely to the answers, reading these questionnaires really closely to try and see nuances, little things in there about these jurors that they say, you know what, this tells me that this person is this or that. >> a lot of information that's come out lately. does that help either side? >> well, look, a lot has come out that has helped george zimmerman since the initial attention on this case. the injuries that he suffered, some questions that have been raised and so this is not an easy case for prosecutors. >> not at all and a lot of people will be watching starting today. all right, dan, thanks very much. george. >> okay, robin, thanks. the latest now on that deadly shooting friday in santa monica. the gunman killed in the shootout has been identified as john zawahri as we are learning more about the arsenal he built up before the rampage. abc's john schriffen has the story. >> reporter: investigators are sifting through the surveillance tape this morning trying to figure out what could have driven 23-year-old john zawahri to allegedly open fire in the streets of santa monica friday. >> requesting assistance on shooter, multiple victims down. >> reporter: forcing terrified customers at this restaurant to duck. police say zawahri, seen in these high school yearbook photos, is the same man seen in this newly released surveillance photo dressed in black and carrying a semiautomatic rifle. police say he was carrying as many as 1300 rounds of ammunition. he's accused of killing five people before entering the santa monica college library where he was shot and killed by police. >> we want to express our condolences to the families of those who were killed by this cowardly murderer. >> reporter: police say the rampage began at a home neighbors say he shared with his father, this woman who lives next door did not want to go on camera. >> we heard about five or six gunshots but then i looked at the window and it was smoke. a lot of smoke. >> reporter: authorities say that zawahri killed his father and brother and then burned the house down. among the others he allegedly killed 68-year-old carlos franco and his 26-year-old daughter marcella. >> the blessing is that they went together. they loved each other very much. >> reporter: for "good morning america," john schriffen, abc news, santa monica. >> boy, that's so sad. time for josh with today's other top stories. we're going to begin with the breaking news overnight from afghanistan. taliban fighters armed with guns and explosives waging a fierce attack on nato headquarters at the airport in kabul, storming two buildings under construction firing for hours. all seven militants in the attack were eventually killed but a state department hangar was damaged. the attack now raises new questions about security. and a rare sign of goodwill between north and south korea. senior leaders from both nations have agreed to meet on wednesday, the first such talks in two years. the hope to ease tensions after the north recently threatened nuclear strikes. and a security scare at the french open. a protester under arrest this morning after stunning the crowd and one of the sport's biggest stars. rafael nadal was preparing to serve for the second set of the men's french open final when a masked man jumped on to the court holding a lit flare. >> boy, rafa nadal got away in a hurry. >> reporter: just a few feet away, nadal looked stunned and began to run before they tackled the shirtless protester. >> i felt a little bit scared in the first moment but when these kind of things happen we're lucky we have very good security around. >> reporter: this marks the second time in five years someone has managed to get on to the court at the french open. in 2009 a man tried to put a hat on roger federer. >> this is the question that has to be asked what are these people doing on the court? the game of tennis has to do more. it definitely has to get with it. >> reporter: of course, it harkened the most violent tennis intrusion at all. in 1993, at a match in germany when a man jumped from the crowd and stabbed monica seles in the back. >> all i felt was like, whoo, something in my back. >> smoke bomb went up. >> reporter: back in france this morning it is not clear if the protester intended any harm to nadal or was simply trying to get attention. we can tell you the man was protesting the legalization of gay marriage in france. nadal, however, went on to win his record eighth french open title. staying in the sports world, however briefly, lebron james and the miami heat have arrived. 33-5 scoring run in the second half last night. they made quick work of the spurs and evened the nba finals at a game apiece, 103-84. game three tomorrow night on abc and if nothing else it allowed certain folks on the east coast to enjoy the finale of "game of thrones" in absolute peace. you didn't miss anything if you turned away. >> it was a good first half. >> it was a great first half and i think everybody on this desk is all square. >> we're at 1-1. you were down in miami so they had to be very happy down there. >> someone else was down in miami too. >> the bromance continues. >> it was good. it was a good pregame. we had a good pregame. after a big heavy hit of rain on the east coast with andrea we're getting another hit of rain and most people are going to say we don't need this. 14 states have flood warnings out, flood watches out right now soon to be warnings as that heavier rain continues. here's the bright spot where we think the heavier rain will be, 2 to 3 inches, from new york to boston. hartford, you're involved, as well. anywhere from washington, d.c. along the coastline will be about an inch to maybe 2 inches of range coming in that direction and heat continues. cooler along the coastline look at this step toward denver, reno, 100 degrees yesterday, a record, and now 102 in denver today so just ever so slightly sliding east. good morning. after a noisy night, we have a chance of scattered light showers through the remainder of the morning, early afternoon. it will be drier and brighter starting tomorrow, temperatures pretty close to average most of the week. don't see any wild swings like we've been going through. best chance of storms in the north bay as we head toward the midafternoon and afternoon hours. 50s along the >> and some of those rains on the east coast could come in strong storms so stay up with your local abc station. >> good to have you back from gulfport, florida. all right, now, to prince harry wowing a crowd while flying his apache helicopter in an aerial display show this weekend. abc's lama hasan has the story for us this morning. [ playing the theme to "top gun" ] >> reporter: the prince is used to flying his apache chopper fighting the enemy on the front lines in afghanistan but he has never done anything like this before. >> this is a very complex maneuver. >> reporter: for the first time ever, prince harry's hair-raising stunt wowing the crowd. watch this jaw-dropping death-defying stunt. harry weaves in and out flipping the chopper almost all of the way on its back. watch the video again, as the warrior prince cheats gravity and little did the crowd know who the man behind the wheel was. >> if anybody hasn't realized the captain was, it's really prince harry. >> reporter: the crowd shocked. the announcer had to say it again. >> there you have prince harry demonstrating in front of you. >> reporter: showing off his stunts before landing the chopper safely. oh, harry, your talents are limitless. for "good morning america," lama hasan, abc news, london. >> i love that, the warrior prince. and coming up on "gma," the latest on the bizarre case of the well-known cancer doctor accused of lacing her lover's coffee with deadly antifreeze. and vanished, the naval officer gone missing without a trace. a desperate search to track down the father of two right now. also coming up, a private eye's secret files on marilyn monroe. what has just been revealed about her final hours of life. >> fascinating that. and oh, boy, little girl, huge voice, the heat ran away and win. was she the reason? she joins us live. g