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researched on the internet the temperature of how long it would take for a child to die. severe weather threatening tens of millions of americans and the midwest is baring the brunt of it. entire communities are underwater. one governor calls the devastation in his state unprecedented. new theories and a new search zone in the hunt for malaysia airlines flight 370. where are search crews looking now and how sure are they that they're in the right area? we begin with another shocking twist in the case of a georgia toddler that died after his dad left him locked in a hot car. police say both of the boy's parents researched child deaths in hot vehicles online. the child's father is already charged with the murder of his son. but could his mother face

charges, as well? want to bring in cnn's nick valencia. nick, startling new details from this police affidavit. what more is being revealed? >> a day after leanna harris defended his actions, she may have to defend her own actions. search warrant release add couple of hours ago, she researched. yesterday at a funeral for the 22-year-old cooper harris, tiny red cass pet, placed in front of hundreds of people that came to pay their respects. under a light summer rain in alabama, 22-month-old cooper harris was laid to rest. at a funeral service attended by hundreds. not present, his father, justin ross harris, who's accused of killing the toddler and called if from jail to thank guests for supporting his son and apologized for not being there. on the phone, his wife said that she's absolutely not angry at her husband. she called him a wonderful father and said that the truth would come out.

harris could be heard sobbing over the phone as the crowd inside gave him a standing ovation. earlier saturday, new details about the 33-year-old. according to search warrants obtained by cnn, harris told police, quote, that he recently researched through the internet child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. the police officer wept on to say, quote, justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen. what remains unclear is exactly when that search was done. friends and family say the man police paint as a murderer is not the man they know. >> i want that he would be able to forgive himself. >> reporter: family friend carol brown. >> it's just seems out of character for ross. and i know people change. it's been 15 years or so since we've had contact in the church. so, you know, people change. but i -- it's just hard for me to imagine that that is the

ross, the sweet ross harris, sweet, little, funny boy we knew. >> reporter: a lawyer has instructed harris's family not to speak to the media. those who have spoken off camera say a man be the moral fiber of harris would never be capable of killing his own son. left for seven hours in his father's car under the blistering atlanta sun, cooper harris died. what is still unknown is what could have motivated harris as police say to kill his only child. outside the university church of christ, friends and family grieve as they wait to find out if baby cooper's death was a terrible accident or something more sinister. now, you heard from carol brown in that piece. she went on to say she has the same questions. how could justin ross harris gone to the car and not seen the car in the middle of the afternoon. even despite those facts, we shouldn't rush to judgment and

leanna said the truth will come out and unwavering support for the man charged with the death. >> appreciate that. now to severe weather that's hitting hard across much of the country. more rain could fall today, in fact, in minnesota. just south of the twin cities. not good news with water still rising on the lake. dozens of homes have already flooded. residents are piling sandbags, five feet high, to try to save their homes. and torrential downpours led to flooding and flash flood warnings in the memphis area. those warnings have now extended in several counties. heavy rains could hit the area again this afternoon. tracking all of the severe weather for us is meteorologist karen maginnis your eyes on the midwest and i guess the tropical system in the atlantic, too. >> yes. we have many fronts looking at various things across the united states, but in particular, right around memphis. let's show you that picture.

tower cam. looking to the left side of your screen. that is arkansas. to the right, that is tennessee. the river's running pretty high because some areas saw as much as ten inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours and right now at 73 degrees, being reported in memphis and that's the warmest temperature of the day. right now, we're just seeing mostly cloudy skies, maybe a few light showers, most of that precipitation moved to the east but because those thunderstorms this opened up this morning they didn't move very much and that's why we saw this heavy downpour precipitation. you can see from memphis extending to the north of little rock, a lot of these areas. five, six inches of rainfall. some of the common amounts that we did see. in particular, little dixie, arkansas. in excess of 10 inches of rainfall. more than 5 inches in memphis. it locks like you really start to warm up, memphis, coming up for tomorrow with temperatures in the 90s. but then as we go into the next

three days, three to five inches of rainfall right across the tennessee valley extending into northern sections of georgia and yes, across the upper mississippi river valley, two to four inches on already saturated ground. they can't take anymore. we have seen the pictures out of minneapolis where numbers of neighborhoods around lakes and different other regions, where they have had to sandbag. neighbor relying on neighbor. still that moderate risk from nebraska and kansas into iowa and missouri and a disturbance off the coast of florida and has a 60% likelihood of becoming the next tropical system. this could produce heavy rain does fall in coastal sections of florida. computer models say all kinds of things but, fred, we have to take it day by day. could be arthur. >> oh my. oh, first named one again. karen, appreciate it. all right. next we head to iraq where

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an apparent message of defiance today from islamic militants trying to take over iraq. official spokesman for isis has purportedly released a statement, audio message, declaring the establishment of an islamic in iraq and renaming the group simply as the islamic state. cnn has not been able to verify the authenticity of the message. today five russian fighter jets arrived in iraq to gain ground against the militants, first of 25 war planes to be delivered under a deal of the iraqi and russian governments. the pentagon is rejecting complaints by iraq's prime minister that isis militants have been helped by the slow

delivery of two u.s. fighter jets. a spokesman said the f-16 couldn't have stopped the advance. fighting rages on in several iraqi towns. iraq says its air force carried out a strike against isis fighters trying to build a dam to block the euphrates river in anbar. iraq's military is calling up shia men for training. we have a correspondent live in baghdad. do they have any previous military training? >> reporter: well, some of them will have been part of saddam hussein's army. they will have gotten training there and that seems quite an unlikely situation for the yirk i can government to find itself in, calling up on -- calling back some very old ghosts into uniform but they're also those who have very little training, even the head of the training camp himself admits to us at times the recruits given a week,

maybe ten days. some of the families of the recruits we spoke to said sometimes the training abbreviated to three days and then the men are shipped out to the front but there is not a lack of willing. when we were at a training camp, one man well into the 70s said he was coming every single day for the last 2 weeks, fredericka, hoping to be part of the force defending as he put it the saktty and the dignity of iraq but there is a reality that the isis propaganda machine is not without some semblance of truth of what they're announcing. they say the caliphate north of syria all the way todial la in the east of iraq and the lands they have forces in, they have presence. so, as much as this is a statement of defiance, this is also a statemnt both of ambition and somewhat reflective of the reality on the ground,

fredericka. >> and then, nima, what about the city of tikrit, saddam hussein's hometown? we understand that these militants might be controlling it. is that true? >> reporter: well, they say they do. the iraqi government says they don't. we have seen some footage that shows a lack of iraqi government presence in tikrit in spite of some other vid yeses that have been distributed by the government. tikrit is so crucial and strategic and most importantly if they take tikrit, they're closer to baghdad and we'll continue to see claim and counter claim over this but the reality is that it's not just for isis saying whether or not they have it. the reality is there are clashes on the ground and that's what the iraqi government is having to deal with right now. >> all right. nima, thank you so much from baghdad. coming up, a new search area for missing flight 370. bigger than ever. but will it help crews find a

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all right. bottom of the hour now. welcome back. i'm fredericka whitfield. here's the top stories right now. the u.s. supreme court takes center stage tomorrow when it rules on a case involving obamacare. hobby lobby objected to a requirement of insurance plans to cover contraception. the company's owners argued that would force them to violate their religious beliefs. in a sense, the court must decide if a corporation can be treated as a person. and tomorrow general motors will make a compensation offer to victims and families who suffer as a result of a defect in gm's vehicles. faulty ignition switches were tied to at least 13 deaths. some gm employees knew of the problem in 2004 and the automaker did not issue a recall until this year. in toronto, embattled mayor rob ford is set to return to work monday. he's been aware for almost two months now since being forced to seek help for allegations of

drinking and drug use. he has less than four months left on his term and plans to seek re-election in october. and take a look of this incredible video, lightning as this is video taken by an astronaut on the international space station. the storm you're seeing there is mostly over houston, texas, at the time. okay. a woman just weeks away from scheduled delivery of a baby manages to run not just a little run but a big run. 800 meters in this race. there she is. she is amazing! and she's run to a studio near us. we get to talk to her live. but first, you may remember a viral video last year of a man playing guitar under going deep brain stimulation. a lot happened including a second brain surgery. dr. sanjay gupta has his story in this week's "human factor." >> brad carter's an actor, on

"two detective" "csi" and a latest role might surprise you. ♪ carter starred in this video. he played guitar while undergoing deep brain stimulation. >> whoever sees this? rit ent viral. what led him to the operating room, a central tremor. >> slower i try to play, the harder it becomes. >> reporter: for years before that diagnosis, he was told nothing could be done. >> you have a tremor you can't do anything about. i had made it 30-something years with no tremor so didn't make sense it comes out of nowhere. >> reporter: as it worsened, carter spent years being misdiagnosed, lyme's disease and parkinson's and then affecting the ability to act. >> how will i be on sets and how do i hide this? >> reporter: and playing music. carter refused to give up, especially with so much on the line. deep brain stimulation was his

best chance. a current courses through the brain. in an attempt to control the tremor. although hard to see watching him there, carter was frightened. >> as scary as that is, i'm going to take that chance rather than keep living my life in misery. in a secret hell. people see brad carter, actor, comedian, you know, the funny guy, fun to be around but when i'm home i'm dealing with this thing eating me up inside. >> reporter: get this, weeks after the viral video, carter's tremor came back. he had to prepare for yet another brain surgery. and the prospect that once again, the operation would not work. >> it's not perfect. you know? it's still tremors. but you got to admit it's a lot better. >> reporter: second surgery did work. perseverance, fighting to be well. overcoming. led to this. an al bum due out this fall. >> i think i've got something to

be really proud of. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting.

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what did her attorney tell you about what y she won't testify? >> she pled the fifth twice and won't answer questions of whether they targeted conservative groups when they applied for tax exempt status. so that's been ongoing for more than a year. but she's refused to testify. i did talk to her attorney. bill taylor. today. said people, even though it's a constitutional right, people look at someone pleaded the fifth because, of course, you say so, i don't in any way implicate myself, and they think, oh, that person's guilty. he said that's not the case at all. she is innocent. she just didn't want to be a part of this zoo. take a listen. >> there was no pretense that this would be a fair process. from the beginning, the republican majority has screamed without any evidence about things that she did and made it clear that -- >> even if it's not fair -- >> the only purpose of having

her there would be to vilify her. >> if she's done nothing wrong, why incriminate herself? go up there and do it. >> she doesn't need to be subjected to the kind of bullying that goes on in that committee. >> that's lerner's side. what did the chairman tell you? >> chairman issa, republican, says this is not a circus. it is not an attempt to get her. this is an attempt to find out exactly what happened. i think part of the problem for this committee is they do believe that lois lerner has the answers and not getting them from her. >> the attorney said things and not been correct or disingenuous or outright lied and shown by e-mails. attorney trying to get the client off the hook after flubbing the taking of the fifth -- >> any of this connected directly to the white house? >> we have never looked for the

white house other than the white house is not cooperating and continues to not cooperate. >> but no evidence linking any of this to the white house? >> i don't -- but, candy, i don't play the game of no evidence. that's what the commissioner played. i know of no violation. we follow the facts. as we get to the facts, we then follow additional facts. >> so, you know, fred, as you can see, this is an ongoing process. this is nothing -- this committee or the ways and means committee will drop any time soon. what's happened is added on top of this are all the missing e-mails. some of which sort of were written during the time that congress was looking at, so ongoing and i don't think we'll hear the end of this any time soon. >> what might be next? >> well, there could be more hearings. congress has asked for more documentation. lois lerner used to work at the fcc and now chairman issa has

subpoenaed or asked for all documents dealing with lerner to or from, since the late '80s. that's a lot of documents. >> wow! >> you know, they're still taking incoming. obviously, you know, the democrats said it is a circus and trying to drum up trouble so it looks -- reflects badly on the administration. and of course, the republicans say, this is just more evidence that this agency is out of control. and the white house has done nothing to rein it in. >> interesting. candy crowley in washington, as always, thank you. >> thanks, fred. the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 is shifts once more. this time further south in an unchartered region of the indian ocean. australian officials unveiled a new zone based on new data analysis. it makes some critical new assumptions about why the boeing

777 vanished more than three months ago with 239 people on board. joining me now is david susi, cnn safety analyst and former safety inspector for the faa. good to see you again, david. one of the big assumptions reflects a belief it's likely the pilots suffered oxygen loss. what combination of factors has to happen before that happens? >> there's two different possibilities here, fredericka. one is lost prez yourization in the cabin and not able to reduce the air flight speed and lower it to an area where they could breathe so that is a possibility number one, just that there was something that incapacitated them such as an explosion, decompression to cause a problem with the aircraft. secondly, could have been that the oxygen bottle itself was simply empty in the event and assumed they had oxygen and continued to fly.

only takes about 12 minutes to lose consciousness when you don't have the right amount of oxygen going to your head. it can happen very, very quickly. >> the theory implies that this plane was likely an autopilot. does that make sense to you that there would be a combination of things happening and likely be while in autopilot? >> yes, it does. there's several modes of autopilot and need to clarify a little bit in that in an efficiency mode and confusing them originally in their analysis is that the aircraft speed kept changing and couldn't figure out why but in efficiency mode, burning off fuel, it changes the flight add tuesday and then needs to make up for that by changing the speed of the aircraft. so, in this efficiency mode it does that. the other thing that confused them is the fact that if it was in autopilot, standard autopilot without efficiency mode the aircraft would have spiraled in, in other words, tried to maintain the altitude and then suddenly stalled and spiraled in causing a lot of debris.

they have looked at the area before. they found nothing. but under this efficiency mode, you could assume that the aircraft would maintain attitude, flight attitude, could have lost the power and drifted down in one piece on the ocean and then subsequently then sunk and in that case it would have left, of course, no debris on the surface. >> over time even if that were the scenario and sinking over time wouldn't there be a breakup of the fuselage? some kind of materials? you know, coming from the plane and floating to the surface thereby creating a debris field? >> that could very well be and should be a breakup with an implegs. filing up on the inside and pressure equal to the outside, wouldn't necessarily cause a structural failure and imploded if there's a difference in pressure from the outside to the inside. but in this case, if the

aircraft landed and it was unattended then the outflow valves which are the big four foot by four foot openings in the aircraft would have flooded and the aircraft would have been flooded completely with water. it is possible it could have continued all the way down to the bottom and only imploding the small things and not have caused a massive structural failure resulting in large things floating to the top. small things could have gone unrecognized. in the search the oceans were not smooth and trying to take a look from the aircraft and impossible to see anything of that size from that altitude and they did their best they could but now they're going back looking at bottom of the ocean and not necessarily the top for debris. >> incredible. good to see you. thank you so much. >> thanks, fred. all right. and, hey, entering the home stretch right there. oh my gosh. she's amazing! 8 months pregnant and hauling 800 meters like it's no big

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alysia montano may have come in last place but not exactly there to win. she was there to cross the finish line and she did. she's joining me now from los angeles. alysia, good to see you. >> nice to see you, as well. thank you for having me on the show. >> fantastic. i know the track world knows you as the flying flower. very much the pregnant flying flower. you know, explain why this race was so important for you to run even though you're 8 months pregnant. >> for me, this race was really important to take part in, one, because i'd been at the usa national championships since 2006. i hadn't missed one. and i wanted to start my family. but i thought that it was very -- a different experience to be on the outside, the pregnant woman and then recognizing how unlikely it was for me to see a pregnant woman running in general and, you know, i wanted people to recognize that fitness and pregnancy is a good thing and looks like being a professional

woman in general, whether the profession is a professional athlete or if i were, you know, business woman that had to go in the office and work a 9:00 to 5:00. this is what it looks like for me and i wanted pooh 'em to see that. i talked to my husband about potentially writing a blog and this just seemed like a much better way to show, you know, the world kind of what it looks like for me as a professional woman. >> amazing. i see your point. you're saying when women are pregnant, incorporate it into the work. your work is being a runner. and this is your event. and you were saying, you know, i'm not going to put the brakes on it because i'm pregnant and then people think seeing a pregnant woman running, you know, with this kind of speed is, oh my gosh, is it safe? you actually checked in with your doctor and the doctor says since this is a part of who you are, it is. but your doctor worried about you falling. how much of that was in your mind running? >> absolutely. so one of the biggest concerns is even if you're walking down

the street as a pregnant woman, the center of gravity is off. i did think about posture upright and, you know, obviously, keeping my pace very comfortable. i mean, for me, my pr in the 800 meters is 1:57. that's a whole 35 seconds faster than i ran out there on thursday. >> oh my gosh. >> you're putting us all to shame. you were just, just under 40 seconds slower than your usual -- i mean, that is just extraordinary. >> thank you so much. of course, another thing about falling, you know, i didn't wear your standard spikes. you know? you usually competitors wear these things with spikes in the bottom of the shoe. i wore regular training shoes with no spikes in the bottom to be sure i didn't catch or anything like that. another thing to say is, you know, again, this isn't for everybody. everybody -- every pregnant woman isn't able to run a 2:32

800 meters. you have to look at it relative to where you're at. we as professional athletes train our bodies to keep the heart rate at a lower level, obviously, to make it to the line before everybody else without, you know, slowing down. so, for me, that was significantly easier than i normally take it. >> wow. alysia, usually you get to that starting area, the lane, and fellow competitors, looking at each other, sizing each other up. but this time, give me an idea the expressions from the other competitors. were they thinking you're off your rocker or know that you were -- you know, they had seen you running and kind of expecting you to do this or what was the reaction from them? >> well, pretty sure they were sizing me up, they had a whole lot more to size up than normally. but you know, i saw a couple of people. i didn't warm up the same way

you normally do. usually 45 minutes before the race. i just walked a couple of laps around. you know? stretched. made sure i stretched really well. got into the pin which is where they keep the athletes and before they start racing. hydrated myself. made sure -- i'm the only person that's eating. eating before the 800. i'm sure, you know, the ladies kind of thinking like, all right -- >> what is she doing? >> never eats beforehand. same time, they're focused on their own thing. i didn't want to be a distraction to them but i'm doing my change, as well. i feel like, you know, mentally it was the same as any other day. i had a couple athletes be like, this is awesome. such a good example for us to see and i just thanked them for saying those words to me and then do our thing. after that, obviously, they ignored me and i ignored them. and we just went at it. not really. they went at it. i watched them. >> and it's great because, i mean, while you came in last, i don't think anybody remembers

who came in first, second and third because you get all the attention. you're the one that did something extraordinary that caught so many people. >> thank you. >> and caught the attention of so many people. and then, you end that win and, you know, you move on and you have a baby shower. your baby shower was yesterday. and i guess if it hadn't sunk in yet, it has in a really big way, you could have a baby at any moment now. >> yeah. definitely. my baby shower was so phenomenal. i had such a good time. so nice to see old friends. that's my high school coach and his wife. that got to come and see and everybody was just so proud of me and nice it came at running at this amazing event and kind of being an inspiration to not only women, to people and having them see what it looks like being a professional woman and fit in pregnancy and i was just so, so grateful to have this support and these people surrounding me. >> i guess, but you know, your message, too, your message and

that of your doctor, not everyone can do that because they're pregnant. you have to, if you're going to make a commitment to exercise, it has to be preskribled for your personal fitness. not everyone can run an 800 meter at 8 months preg napt. >> absolutely. >> you are a special case. >> thank you so much. thank you so much. >> congratulations and all the best to you and baby on the way. and hey, great things on the horiz horizon, right? >> yes. >> even greater things. alysia montano, thanks so much. all the best to you. appreciate it. >> thank you so much. all right. well, she is rocking the track and this guy is a rocker that you know. in the music world. rick springfield says he was meant to be an author. not just of writing music but books. hear what he told me about his newest creation. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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rick springfield, the rocker behind hits like "jesse's girl" is an author and critics say writing in this form may have been the true calling all along. i talked with him face to face about his passion. first novel, "mag nif cent vibration" is getting rave reviews, as well. "variety" magazine says, quote, this is not the prose of a rock

star who decided to try his hand at novel writing but of a novelist who just happens to be a rock star." wow. that is quite the compliment. rick what does it feel like to get that review though you told me before we went on it was writer you wanted to be before you became the songwriter? >> i wanted to be a writer and like i said before, i noticed girls were looking at the spotty band down street, not writer sitting in his studies. i said, i'm going the music route. it's great. i'm very proud of -- i've gotten better reviews for writing than any of my records. >> isn't that incredible. comes full circle, it really was your destiny to be this writer, despite what you were saying about the music world. let's talk about this. your book, main character in "maybe enough sent vibration" finds a phone number for god and begins a relationship with him over the smartphone. where did this idea come from?

>> oh, it's modern technology but it's a thing i've always wanted to -- i don't -- i haven't met anyone who has spiritual beliefs that wouldn't love to have a conversation with god and i sought what path would that take if it happened. i started writing down, started out with the original conversation with god and he doesn't believe it you think some guys got his gut, this info, he's told something no one else knows and my god, and it just goes from there. it's really just a setup of the story. but they -- three people hook up through the book called "magnificent vibration" and go on a search for carnal salvation and maybe save the world. wow! when you were penning this, were you thinking, this really is going to take off, i can imagine people identifying with it, or was it something in you that you said, i just got put it down on paper because it's been, you know, running through my head. >> my beliefs, we're at a tipping point in the world.

first, it's dark humor, it's funny, not meant to be preachy book but there is my concern in it poisoning the world, killing each other and getting to a tipping point, there's not a road back. that's kind of the underlying theme of the book about you know, respecting your mother, mother earth. that's, you know, basically underlying theme of it anyway. but it's a lot of dark humor. its someone reviewer said it reminded them of a mix between port noise complaint and hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. covers a lot of ground. >> rick springfield on tour, not left music. ease just incorporating it all now. straight ahead, mexico just a few minutes away from moving on to the final eight in the world cup, oh, what ended the dream.

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all right. tennis world isn't spinning as use ul these days. we're only heading into the second week at wimbledon, both williams sisters ousted in a shocker saturday. serena williams nell three sets, she dominated the first set, 6-1, but then dropped the next two sets. and on the men's side, second ranked rafael nadal dropped the first set for the third straight match but he stormed back, dropping only three game over the next three sets. no tennis today. play at wimbledon resumes tomorrow. talk soccer. mexico was just a couple of minutes away today from moving to the final eight at the world cup. but the netherlands tied it with a goal in the 88th minute.

then mexico was called for a penalty inside the box. and that penalty kick in extra time sends the netherlands on to the third round. the dutch team will play costa rica or greece. a match between those two teams scheduled for later today. team usa facing belgium tuesday. okay. this year's world cup is on track for breaking a 1998 world cup recovered 171 goals scored. is it because the players of the players or the ball? in today's science behind segment, we look at the why behind the what in this case, the brazuca ball. as dan saimon reports it's gottn attention of nasa scientists. >> reporter: every world cup fan likes to see gold, and this year

it's happening at a record pace. but are players scoring more because of the ball with funny name? >> brazuca. >> brazuca. >> reporter: adidas the maker would say nothing amusing about this year's world cup soccer ball. it's invested a great deal in researching, manufacturing, and advertising the brazuca. and experts will tell you, the effort seems to have paid off. >> it's good because i think it's more stable, it flies. >> reporter: dr. robbie mada aerodynamics engineer at nasa, studied just about every ball on the planet. >> golf balls, baseball, soccer balls, volleyballs, i think i got them all. >> reporter: using wind tunnel equipped with lasers and smoke, scientists learn how the ball moves through the air. the brazuca travels better than previously balls which may account for why there have been more goals scored in brazil than any other world cup since 1970.

explain what makes this a good soccer ball. >> well, this is a good soccer ball, for one thing, i haven't heard complaints from the players. that's a good sign i believe you can impart more spin, the bend it like beckham, easier to achieve, i think. >> reporter: the brazuca has longer, deeper seams and a pimple-like surface. the smoother ball is hard to control. the brazuca has six polyurethane pal panels. old black and whites have 32. if you think a ball is, well, just a ball, you'd have to go back four years. this is the ball from the 2010 world cup, goalies hated it because the ball knuckled, path unpredictable. well, adidas took that criticism to heart and this is the result. 2010 the south africa world cup had 77 goals in the first 36

games. in brazil with the bra zhuk character 108. >> i would say the ball definitely has something to do with it. >> reporter: part may be psychological. players may be more comfortable striking it. whatever the reason, the brazuca is a testament to sportsi engineering, clever marketing. the ball has its own page on twitter with 2 million followers. ♪ >> reporter: dan simon, cnn, san francisco. hello again, everybody, i'm fredricka whitfield. topping news, stunning internet searches by a mother and father whose son died after his dad left him locked in a hot suv. police say justin and leanna harris researched child deaths in vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for death to