[Griffin:] The U.S. women's soccer team had several opportunities to bring home that World Cup, but they were up against a team that just would not quit. Our Kyung Lah picks up the story from Japan.
[Lah:] From the urban sports bars of Tokyo, to the gymnasiums of rural Japan, the sound, the same, jubilation. A team of underdogs against a stronger team they'd lost to 25 times. More than a sports team, they carry the prayers and hopes of a badly damaged nation, moved to tears as they watch. "I think we witnessed something historic," says this fan. "I was so moved." [On Camera] Hours after that incredible win, the game is being replayed across Tokyo. It's not just soccer fans, but an entire nation desperately in need of a feel-good moment, and some heroes. [Voice-over] Coming four months after the tsunami, Japan continues to reel from the disaster. Fukushima nuclear plant remains a crisis, still spewing radiation and months away from a cold shutdown. Japan's economy has struggled in the wake of the epic disaster. The lawmakers, locked in partisan bickering and trying to oust the prime minister, while in the tsunami zone, nearly 100,000 remain in evacuation centers of temporary housing with years of rebuilding ahead. "This game happened at the right time for us," says a tsunami victim. "This victory gives us the strength to keep going." The morning papers for once blared upbeat news, snatched up by eager readers. "There's been so much bad news from Japan," says this commuter. "This is good news and it encourages us." The sports world is already calling the women's team the comeback kids for how they refused to yield in the World Cup, but to their home nation, they are a potent symbol, a reminder, to never give up. Kyung Lah, CNN, Tokyo.
[Griffin:] Back here in the U.S., let's take a look at the stories our affiliates are covering. In Upstate New York, two people have died, 35 others injured when that tour bus crashed into the woods some 60 miles from Rochester. The set from Washington. It was going to Niagara Falls. Police believe a tire may have blown out. Next stop in Iowa, a robber picked the wrong house, that's for sure. Congressman Leonard Boswell was home with his family when a robber pushed his way in at gunpoint. Boswell wrestled the guy, tried to grab the gun, but it was his grandson who went for a shotgun in another room. That was enough to send that robber hightailing it out of the front door. Police say nobody seriously injured. In Phoenix, a 61-year-old woman is accused of groping a TSA agent. Police say she refused to go through screening and then reached out and grabbed the agent's breasts. She was arrested and charged with a felony. Kevin Robb is a metal sculptor who by all accounts reached the height of success in the art world, but a stroke in 2004 cost him his career and nearly his life. Now he's creating art again. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has his remarkable story in today's "Human Factor."
[Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cnn Chief Medical Correspondent:] Kevin Robb's sculptures can be found in museums, parks, and private collections all over the world, but for the past seven years this Denver artist hasn't been able to sculpt.
[Diane Robb, Kevin Robb's Wife:] I was teasing him about, what, you think that sculpture looks better from the ground up? And then I took a look at him and I could tell that there is something seriously wrong.
[Gupta:] What Kevin's wife Diane didn't know is that her previously healthy husband had a blood clot which had travelled to his brain and caused a massive stroke.
[D. Robb:] He was on life support for 13 days, and then from there, he was in rehab hospitals for seven weeks.
[Gupta:] When Kevin finally came home, he had lost his memory, his ability to speak and most of his movement, but when he was taken back up into his studio, something inside him lit up.
[D. Robb:] He stood here, walked over and touched some of his machinery, and for the first time since his stroke, there was life in his eyes.
[Gupta:] Kevin continued his rehabilitation, and over time he learned to walk on his own. Bits of his memory came back and he can now speak more than 100 different words. All of that led him to be able to make art again.
[D. Robb:] Kevin sketches, we have staff that understands what he wants, and Kevin is back in full swing in creating sculptures.
[Gupta:] None of it has been easy. Diane and Kevin have to speak in a sort of complicated type of charades.
[D. Robb:] You want to go someplace.
[Kevin Robb, Sculptor:] I want Tom, keys
[D. Robb:] He wants the keys to the truck so he and Tom can go someplace.
[K. Robb:] Yes.
[Gupta:] And Diane says Kevin's love for his family and his fierce determination to get better brought him and his art back to life. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
[Griffin:] Well, she rose from a secretary to a CEO in Rupert Murdoch's media empire, but Rebekah Brooks has fallen on her sword. Arrested over the weekend in the ever growing phone hacking scandal. We're going to look at her rise and fall next.