sunday's u.s.-portugal world cup match. more than 18 million of you saw it on espn and another 6.5 million caught the spanish language broadcast on univision. the ratings were the highest ever for any soccer match televised in the united states. this could also mean another ratings bonanza when the team takes on germany this thursday, but today you have costa rica-england and italy versus uruguay and ivory coast versus japan. >> the u.s.-germany game is at 12:00 so you may have to skip work. >> we don't condone that. >> who cares. >> it comes right after here here on cnn. we'll extensive pre-game coverage of the u.s. game and i know you'll be watching. you can come on the pre-game show. >> pass it down. >> big reach there. >> let's move to weather right now. i know indra is keeping her eye on flooding going on in the midwest. what can you tell us about the situation there? >> definitely not what you want