Reporter Christine Sloan tells the story from New Jersey of a well-intentioned mother who it seems just didn’t get it about deadly heated cars. She left her two-year-old in a van in the parking of a Costco on the hottest of days. Employees, passersby and finally the police all see the problem and break a window to get the kid out. The mother returned, her cart full, having been away 30 minutes. She apologizes. Reporter Sloan climbs into another car that has been parked for 30 minutes and measures the temperature. It registered 149 degrees Fahrenheit on her pocket thermometer. That’s 59.44 Celsius. A killing heat.
