hitting north carolina there you see shots from atlantic beach north carolina. i believe the you wall of hurricane arthur is about 20 minutes away, 20 to 30 minutes away from hitting there, there is shots from northern north carolina on the outer banks. we re following a huge development in a case that has gripped the nation. allegations out of the case in cobb county, georgia. brooke baldwin in atlanta. when you look at the images of the family, couple, little boy, looks picture perfect. the prosecution, look at this, made the father, justin ross harris to be nothing short of a monster. this father is charged with felony murder in the 22 monday old death of his son cooper there. police say the boy had been in harris suv for about seven hours. this was june 18th. think about it, scorching hot
women the day his son died. also, we learned today that there is not just one but two life insurance policies that he had taken out on his son. we ll have much more on the case, the new details coming up. horrendous, just watching this, jake tapper leaves you speechless. crazy and you and i were talking about this a week ago. the sympathies of the country were with this family. totally. because 35 to 40 kids in the united states every year die this way. it s obviously a tragedy but now the shocking details from this hearing earlier today. but right now let s turn back to the hurricane if we can. i want to bring in chad myers in the cnn severe weather center in atlanta and rene marsh standing on the shoreline in atlantic beach. rene, you ve been there all day, describe the conditions right now. reporter: well, i can tell you, jake, right now at this point we re getting a little bit of rain. the wind is starting to pick up but i can tell you that this
thought about and sonny mentioned, 38 death as year children left in cars. we have to start out by saying most of the time parent whose have a momentarily lapse and leave a child in a car or look around a supermarket and can t find their kid, we ve had that fear. because our antennas are focused on where the kids are. that s not criminal and that s redeemable and that doesn t get prosecuted. where children die, i was doing research on this, 60% of those cases are prosecuted as homicide cases in the united states. 40% are not. it s a subjective decision made by a prosecutor as to whether it was gross negligence or reckless conduct that the parent engaged in. in this case, i think that standard is met very easily if any of this evidence is believed at trial. remember, he s presumed innocent like every defendant at this stage. absolutely. it s almost like we ve had a
because remember, they said do you have to stop at a stoplight? yes. how soon after you leave chick-fil-la? the district attorney did today was brilliant. when you have a case like this, you are going to timeline it out. so if this case proceeds to trial, brooke, we re going to see a huge timeline, power point, leaving the chick-fil-la, 40 seconds later stop at a light and you have to look left and right. so the implication is even if you re deaf in your right ear, if you don t hear the child chattering, when you re watching traffic, turning to see if it s safe for you to drive that vehicle or not, you are going to see that little boy there and you re not going to forget him that that little short time period. didn t he even have to back the car into the parking spot? he did back in. there was testimony there was no rear camera so he would have had to look backwards to back
i wouldn t want him to live next to me. what did you hear that made you think he probably can t beat this? well, this case was totally transformed today, jake, and usually, you know, in preliminary hearings, these probable cause hearings, you get a brief outline, a bare bones case presented by the prosecution and you don t get a sense of where they are going. this case transformed from a case where a lot of people were saying, well, it could have been an accident, are they doing the right thing in prosecuting him to a case where at the very end the judge said, i m not going to grant bond in this case because it might be a death penalty case. now, that, what the judge was saying basically he s heard enough that the prosector could charge this as a premeditated murder which would be punishable by death. talk about a transform mansion from a case based on an accident to something different. on that subject you just touched on that i think a lot of people