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Ex-Navy Diver Dies On Rescue Mission; Rush To Rescue The Trapped Boys Before Monsoon Rains Come; Two Boats Capsize Of The Coast Of Phuket, 40 Killed; Japan Executes Two Cult Members Behind Sarin Attack In 1995; China Retaliates With Tariffs On U.S. Goods; Mike Pompeo In North Korea For Nuclear Talks; U.K. Demands Answers From Russia On Nerve Agent Poisoning; Negotiations On The Ian Nuclear Deal Continues; World Headlines; U.S. Immigration Chaos; U.S. Jobs Report; Going Green. Aired 8-9a ET

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IVAN WATSON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Ivan Watson in Atlanta. Welcome to "News Stream." Rescuers lose one of their own trying to help that group of

trapped boys in Thailand as oxygen levels run critically low in the flooded cave.

Opening up the biggest trade war in history, China says the U.S. started it and now Beijing is forced to retaliate.

And the scandal hit head of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency resigns and is replaced with a former coal lobbyist.

Hello, everyone. We begin in Thailand where the death of a former Navy diver is highlighting the dangers of a rescue operation to free 12 boys and

their football coach from a cave. And it's putting new pressure on authorities to come up with a plan. With heavy rain on the way and a drop

in oxygen levels, concerns are growing. The window is closing.

A Thai SEAL Commander warns circumstances have changed and there's a limited amount of time. The death of the diver is casting a shadow over

rescue efforts and raising new questions about the best way to get the boys and their coach out safely.

CNN's David McKenzie is at the cave site and he joins us now. I mean, David, going from the euphoria of discovering that the kids are alive to

now one of, is frankly, heroic divers dying in the rescue effort. How is this tragedy going to affect the ongoing very complicated and now dangerous

effort?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it certainly cast a gloom on the specialist divers who are working feverishly to get these 12 boys and their

coach out, Ivan. Certainly it's affected them psychologically but they say they need to push on because the window is closing.

Nearly a mile inside the bowels of this mountain, the command center to get these boys out. It leads to cramped tunnels, zero visibility water, hours

of specialized cave diving along guide ropes. Punctuating the hazards, a tragedy. The 38-year-old Saman Gunan, a former Thai Navy SEAL, died after

taking critical oxygen to the boys. He ran out of his own air, paying the ultimate price.

Gunan's death underlying to specialists like Miiko Passi (ph) how hard it will be to get the tired, hungry and inexperienced boys out through the

underwater tunnels. Passi (ph) has spent years breaching wrecks across Asia. This diving is far more challenging.

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MIIKO PASSI, SPECIALIST DIVER: Definitely you can feel it. That it has an effect, but we're moving on. Everybody is a professional so we're trying to

put it away and avoid it never happen again.

MCKENZIE: And everyone is focusing on getting these boys out?

PASSI: Everybody is focusing on getting them out. Keeping them alive or getting them out.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCKENZIE: But they are trying to find another way. In this exclusive video, CNN joined rangers from the Thai National Parks heading into the

jungle searching for sinkholes or chimneys that could lead down to the boys so they can pull them out.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So far, no success.

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MCKENZIE: With the team, foreign cavers and climbers from southern Thailand who usually collect birds' nests, through this hole they get deep

inside the mountain, but it's a dead end.

The water is already falling on my head. Their window is closing and this might be their best hope yet. They've put more pumps in overnight pulling

millions of liters out of this cave system. If they can get just enough out, perhaps the boys will get out safely. Thai officials say that if the

monsoon begins in earnest they may have not other choice but to pull the boys out from this hell.

It's already been raining today, Ivan, and in the coming days the monsoon possibly could start and that could flood the cave system no matter how

much water they're pulling out of it. So, there is a sense from authorities they're going to try to move on the rescue sooner rather than later. That

old time of weeks or even months seems way too long at this point and they fear they need to move soon, Ivan.

WATSON: But as we've seen with this tragic loss, they have to move carefully, despite the urgency. Just please, remind our viewers how

dangerous and how, frankly, long the journey is for these cave divers to reach the children.

[0805:10] MCKENZIE: Well, in this cave system that's up the hill behind me, it is incredibly treacherous. There are sections where you can wade and

certainly they've made progress in diminishing the water levels. Other areas, you will have to dive. Now, every specialist I've talked to up to

this point say, yes, you know, the fact that they can't swim is a factor.

A much bigger factor according to them is the fear factor that when you're in an enclosed space with zero visibility, tired, hungry, inexperience, the

panic that could well up inside you could just be a deal breaker to get yourself out safely. Anyone who's gone diving in open water knows at times

it can be nerve-racking.

Having a roof over your head, so there's no escape route is just such a claustrophobic feeling for even experienced cave divers. Time and again

they've said that's the biggest factor. Somehow trying to keep these young boys calm through those treacherous sections where at times they might be

pushed through on their own and others surrounded by at least two navy specialists.

You know, that -- limiting the fear factor is the big issue, but again, it might be the case that the worst option is the only option that they have

to get these boys out of alive.

WATSON: All right. David McKenzie, live from Chiang Rai. Thank you very much for that update and please keep us posted on many other developments.

As we've mentioned, the rescue is being complicated by a couple of very urgent issues including the threat of heavy rain. So our CNN meteorologist,

Chad Myers joins me now with more on that. Before we get to the rain, Chad, we're hearing amid all these complications that the oxygen levels are

dropping in the chamber, in the cave, where the boys are taking shelter down to 15 percent. Can you explain the science behind that? What does that

-- what impact did that have?

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: We will get to that -- even, Ivan, I know you've been on a lot of long haul flights at altitude and it's happened to

me before where my pressure has gone up and my pulse rate has gone up a little bit because you're not breathing as much oxygen. This is exactly

what those boys are experiencing right now.

On a normal day, the air flows right into Pattaya Beach. No problem at all. Its normal oxygen, 20.9 percent oxygen. We'll call it 21, we'll round it

up. But when you block the airflow all of a sudden you block the oxygen from exchanging. So those boys and the workers are breathing in oxygen,

breathing out carbon dioxide and so you're lowering the amount of oxygen in the air.

Twenty-one, no affect. That's where you should be breathing. That's down here at sea level. All of a sudden, 15 percent of what they're breathing

now, you start to little impair your coordination, which also may make learning that process of scuba diving a little bit more hard. So you're now

(ph) about -- now (ph) about 2,000 meters right here. This is exactly what you would be if you're flying in an airplane for a very long time --

somewhere around 16 percent oxygen because you don't fully pressurize the cabin.

It's pressurized to about 2,500 meters. But 12 percent all of a sudden you're losing coordination and perception and somewhere around 8 percent,

which would be way up there, somewhere in the ballpark of 9,000 meters, that's where it actually can be fatal. That's why it's so hard to climb to

the top of Mount Everest to K2.

(Inaudible) has been very, very good when it comes to the weather the past couple of days. It wasn't very good the days that the boys went in and the

days after as the water were going up. So what can we expect? Well, for the next few days, showers, two, three millimeters of rain -- very, very great

weather. It couldn't be better for the next 72 hours.

Then after that, heard the reporter say when the monsoon comes in earnest, that looks like it will be about 120 hours from now. So here's where the

boys' went in. There was some rain that day, but then all of a sudden, 16, 16.5, 14 millimeters of rain, three days straight. And then here, July 2nd,

3rd, 4th, 5th, no rain at all. So, this is as good the weather as it's going to get. And it's going to be good for three more days.

And all of a sudden, Ivan, this weather begins to go downhill. The rain goes downhill and it fills into that cave. It goes down into the cave

running off of the mountain itself into the opening, into all of those porous little areas and all of a sudden the water fills back up again. It's

a race against time at this point.

WATSON: All right. Well, thanks for laying that out for us. From the CNN Weather Center, Chad Myers. Thank you very much.

And those heavy seasonal rains have already taken a deadly toll in southern Thailand. That's where at least 40 people have died and dozens of others

are missing in two boat accidents off the coast of Phuket. Most of the victims are Chinese tourists. A violent storm Thursday whipped up waves as

high as five meters causing the boat to capsize.

[08:10:00] Now to Japan, because the government there has executed seven members of a cult responsible for the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

in 1995. The leader who went by the name Shoko Asahara had spent 22 years in prison before his execution. The deadly plot killed 13 people and

injured thousands more. The followers of the doomsday cult placed plastic bags filled with sarin on crowded trains during rush hour.

To China, where the government says the U.S. just started the biggest trade war in economic history and warns it also put tariffs on U.S. goods as soon

as the U.S. imposed its trade measures. This is what the U.S. put into effect just a few hours ago. Tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods

targeting more than 800 products including industrial machinery, medical devices and auto parts.

China says the U.S. is simply a trade bully. Beijing had previously released a list of over 500 American goods of equal value that would be

subject to 25 percent tariffs in retaliation. And those include U.S. airplanes, meat, whiskey and tobacco. To help explain more about this,

let's bring in Steven Jiang. He is in Beijing live.

You know, China is accusing the U.S. of firing the first shot in this trade war. How long until consumers, producers, traders in the world's two

largest economies start feeling the consequences of this escalating conflict?

STEVEN JIANG, CNN BEIJING BUREAU SENIOR PRODUCER: Well Ivan, it's going to take some time for these tariffs to be reflected in that prices that

consumers and businesses will have to pay. Remember, these measures only kicked in several hours ago, but it is interesting to take a look at the

kind of products both sides have chosen to tariff.

Now, from the U.S. side, really Donald Trump is going after high-tech industries, which he says has benefited tremendously from unfair practices

on the Chinese part by stealing American intellectual property or forcing American companies to transfer technologies to their Chinese partners.

From the Chinese side, you mentioned some examples. Many agriculture products featured quite prominently on the Chinese list. Why? Because many

of these things are grown in states where voters voted for Donald Trump in 2016 where he continues to enjoy a very strong political support, despite

being a controversial president nationwide.

So, analyst say the Chinese government has been very politically savvy by hitting these American farmers as well as blue collar workers economically.

They likely hope they will eventually turn against Donald Trump and his trade policy exerting enough pressure for the U.S. president to change

course.

Now, whether that could work remains to be seen, but that approach has been described to me as something similar to Chinese acupuncture where, you

know, you insert needles very carefully in precise spots on the body by twisting or squeezing the needles just a little to exert maximum pressure

or pain presumably for Donald Trump in this case, Ivan.

WATSON: Of course Steven, that acupuncture is supposed to make you feel better, relieve pain, but here you're arguing in your metaphor, it's trying

to impose political and economic pain on the U.S. economy and on President Trump. Our man in Beijing, Steven Jiang, thank you very, very much for that

update.

Now, the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Pyongyang for nuclear talks. He was met on the tarmac by several top North Korean

officials. He is under pressure to deliver results after the lofty promises of denuclearization from the Singapore summit. CNN's Andrew Stevens is

following Mike Pompeo's trip and he joins me now from Seoul, South Korea. Great to see you, Andrew.

So, we were both at the Singapore summit. President Trump said Americans could sleep safely, Andrew. What kind of effect does that kind of

triumphalism have on Pompeo's quite detailed work that he's going to have to do with the North Koreans?

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I think in a sentence, Ivan, it just piles the pressure on Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, to actually come

away from Pyongyang with something concrete. Some action which North Korea commits to, to either show that there is a timeline in place to this

commitment to denuclearization that Kim and Donald Trump both signed on that June 12th summit, or that there's some other plan from North Korea.

Perhaps giving a detailed list of its nuclear material, its nuclear infrastructure and certainly everything that North Korea has and operates

in that very reclusive country, is unveiled to the U.S. But at this stage, you know, the expectations look like they're being set fairly low.

[08:15:01] It's interesting that Mike Pompeo arrived today, Ivan. He met with Kim Yong-chol, who is the right-hand man to Kim Jong-un. They had

about a 2.75 hour meeting, Mr. Pompeo tweeting after just saying that that meeting had wrapped up and thanking his staff for the hard work they're

doing, but giving no indication whatsoever about what that meeting -- those talks included.

Pompeo will then meet tomorrow morning. We expect him then to meet Kim Jong-un. But at the moment, coming back to your original point, this has

been described as a great move forward for the U.S. by Donald Trump. We really only have his word for it at the moment because there are no, as we

both know, key concrete steps taken since that June 12th summit.

And we don't know at this stage what North Korea is willing to offer. Indeed, we don't even know what their definition of denuclearization is and

how it compares with the U.S.' own definition of denuclearization.

WATSON: And U.S. intelligence have raised skepticism about North Korea's intentions to potentially get rid of its nuclear arsenal. Andrew Stevens,

live in Seoul. Thank you very, very much for the update.

Coming up, U.K. counter-terror officers are trying to track down the source of a nerve agent which poisoned a couple. We are live in the affected

village next.

And Scott Pruitt has resigned as the U.S. environmental chief. Whistle- blowers and critics are celebrating, but Pruitt's defenders say he's a casualty of a coordinated effort to take down President Trump.

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WATSON: Welcome back to "News Stream." The U.K. is demanding answers from the Russian government over the source of the deadly nerve agent that

poisoned two people on Saturday. Police say the sickened couple are in critical condition after handling an item contaminated with Novichok, a

Russian-developed chemical weapon.

It's the second time this year the dangerous substance uprooted the sense of calm in the British countryside and is leaving people there on edge,

nervous for what may come next. CNN international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson joins us now live from Amesbury with the latest on the

investigation. Nic?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, Ivan, what we've seen, the five sites that the police have now isolated in connection with

this latest outbreak of nerve agent contaminating people here in Amesbury and Salisbury is an increase sort of in terms of the investigative

capabilities that they brought into those site. This site is where the couple were taken away by ambulance on Saturday. And today we've seen

several fire service trucks pull up here, several ambulance incident response unit, several police vehicles go on site.

[08:20:02] We've seen equipment like breathing equipment, like air tanks, oxygen tanks being carried into the site. Theses sort of suits that they're

using that we understand they're sealed suits that have their own air supply so that they can perhaps -- we don't know because we can't get in to

see -- but perhaps get into the flat where this couple became ill.

And of course, this is at the center of this very important police search right now for precisely what it was that contaminated this couple. Five

sites being searched. Where was the contaminant located? When did they come in contact with it? How did it contaminate them and could it still be in an

unknown location? And is it possible and this goes for central concern of the community here?

Is it possible that that contaminant could still be or other contaminants left over from that nerve agent attack back in March, could they still be

out there in the community somewhere waiting to infect someone else? And that, of course, the population here is a very big concern, Ivan.

WATSON: We can't stress enough how disturbing it would be for people to be coming down with, you know, nerve agent poisoning in a small town like

Amesbury and Salisbury. Deeply, deeply disturbing. Nic Robertson with the latest on the investigation from Amesbury. Thank you very, very much.

We turn now to key talks in Vienna, that's over of the fate of the Iran nuclear deal following the U.S. withdrawal. Now, Iran has warned it needs

practical measures from China, the E.U. and Russia others to compensate for U.S. sanctions.

Ahead of the talks, Iranian state media reported the President Hassan Rouhani has expressed his disappointment with the proposal offered by

European leaders. The future of the nuclear deal has been in doubt since Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. earlier this year.

Well let's get back to one of our top stories, and that is the trade war that's brewing between the U.S. and China. Our CNN money editor-at-large

Richard Quest joins us now. Great to see you, Richard. You're in front of boats, but let's talk about trade and tariffs right now. When are people in

the world's two largest economies going to start feeling the impact of this dispute between the Chinese and the U.S. government?

RICHARD QUEST, CNN MONEY EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Oh, they're feeling the effects already but it's very subtle, Ivan. What you're seeing is various companies

now, Harley-Davidson, General Motors, paying more for steel that now have tariffs coming into the United States. You're seeing Chinese companies

being told not to do business with various U.S. partners because of what's happening.

You're seeing investment decisions being put off. You're seeing soybean farmers in the American Midwest watching the price move against them.

You're seeing pig farmers in the American west now that pork has got tariffs going down to Mexico. So you're seeing the price of pork fall

sharply.

When you have a trade war like this, the effects are very, very disbursed across the economy. The initial effect, Ivan, is one of brutality. The

tariff goes on, the company has to decide, are we going to pass it on to the consumer or are we going to eat it in the margins of profits? But the

longer it goes on, then you start to see job losses in the wider economy.

And I will just say, you know, you've said at the beginning, Ivan, that a trade war is brewing. I will just add to that. No, the trade war has

brewed. It's happened. It's underway. It's begun.

WATSON: And we don't know when or if it will end. Richard, another question to you, Washington is not just going after China. It's also

slapping tariffs simultaneously on a number of other large economies, important trading partners, Canada, the European Union, Japan. Can the U.S.

economy afford to, so to speak, go to trade war with so many big trading partners simultaneously?

QUEST: The key here on that point is it's containment versus escalation. Now, if everything manages to contain on the steel and aluminum tariffs at

around 15 to $20 billion, $3 billion here -- $5 billion, then yes. It's containable and it's manageable and the economic damage will be limited.

However, if the U.S. goes the escalation route, which it looks like they are doing.

Let's just take Europe. The steel and aluminum tariffs, now the president has threatened automobile tariffs. The E.U. has come back said, right, you

do that, but with $254 billion worth coming the other way. Same with China, they're up to $500 billion in terms of escalation if it goes the full way.

[08:25:03] So, Ivan, if it's contained, okay, it's not bad. It's not good, but it's not dreadful. If it escalates, all bets are off. And the only

thing one can hope is that there are some sensible thoughts and people in the room that says this has to come to an end, but how you do that is

almost impossible.

WATSON: Richard, can I ask you a question? I've been kind of wondering about. This is kind of shaking up the rules of the international trading

system. Does it create opportunities for some people? Are there savvy entrepreneurs who could kind of zoom in here, find a space and try to find

way to make a quick buck while more established companies are reeling from the impact this is having on their overseas business?

QUEST: Well, yes, absolutely because domestic producers, which don't have tariffs on them, will pick up the slack. Those countries -- I'll give an

example. Let's look at China. China's products now are tariffed coming into the United States, but other manufacturers of those same products, some

highly specialized electronic products in say, for example, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, other places in Southeast Asia, absolutely Ivan.

They are finding the potential to nip in and make a quick new niche market, but it's very few and far between. You're talking the ramifications of

those suffering loss are far greater than the relatively small number of people that will benefit. The tricky -- the tricky bit here is how to

negotiate your way out of it.

Everyone knows that China needs to reform, but China won't. However, the U.S. has managed to piss off all its allies in one fell swoop. The very

people, the very countries that it needs to prosecute against China. Getting out of this one is going to be difficult because negotiations will

not be easy.

WATSON: And the question, of course, do some of President Trump's advisers really want to get out of this or do they want some kind of (inaudible)

into the system? And that is something we'll have to watch closely. CNN's money-at-large editor, Richard Quest, who I believe is speaking to us from

a yacht club in New York. Thank you very, very much for your insight, Richard.

QUEST: Thank you.

WATSON: All right. A legal U.S. resident, 62-year-old Jose Luis Garcia is back with his family after an ordeal that left him in the custody of

immigration officials. Just ahead, we'll hear from Mr. Garcia and his daughter on how the nightmare has affected their family. Stay tuned.

[08:30:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

WATSON: Welcome back. I'm Ivan Watson in Atlanta. You're watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines.

Oxygen levels inside the cave where 12 boys and their football coach are stranded have reached dangerous lows. An experienced volunteer rescuer and

former Thai navy diver died after running out of air while delivering oxygen tanks for the group. Rescuers are hoping for an alternative route

into the cave.

Beijing says it imposed tit for tat tariffs on U.S. good Friday, the moment U.S. tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods went into effect. China

is accusing the U.S. of starting the biggest trade war in history.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a new leader, for now. Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, will take charge of the environment in the

U.S. for the time being after his boss, Scott Pruitt, who you see there on the left resigned on Thursday under a cloud of controversy. Pruitt's facing

14 separate federal investigations into ethics and spending.

On Friday, a crucial deadline for the United States to make sure every migrant parent separated from his or her child at the border has a way to

contact them. It is the first in a series of deadlines set by a federal judge to reunite the thousands of children with their families by the end

of the month.

For weeks we've been hearing around 2,000 children are in U.S. government custody. But now the Health and Human Services secretary says it is

possible that number could be closer to 3,000. There are some reunifications happening, though.

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(CRYING)

WATSON: That puts a lump in your throat. This 8-year-old girl and her mother were separated at the border and detained for 55 long days. A

lawsuit the mother has filed against the U.S. government says she and her daughter fled Guatemala in late April. They are seeking asylum in the U.S.

because of severe abuse and domestic violence at home.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WATSON: Now, I want to bring you an update on another U.S. immigration story that we've been tracking. You may remember Jose Luis Garcia, a legal

U.S. resident detained by ICE. The 62-year-old is, again, a legal resident of the United States, a green card holder who has lived in the U.S. for

nearly 50 years. And last month, ICE agents showed up at his home and took him into custody.

His family says it's because nearly 18 years ago, he was convicted of a misdemeanor in a domestic violence dispute. He was facing deportation when

I spoke with his daughter right after her father was taken last month.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

NATALIE GARCIA, DAUGHTER OF JOSE LUIS GARCIA: It was just a typical Sunday morning, drinking his coffee, watering the lawn, and -- he started

screaming out my name and I ran out. And -- there was eight officers or agents arresting him. And I asked for a warrant and they didn't show me a

warrant. They said that they were going to take him and it was due to a domestic dispute he had in 2001.

He had a misdemeanor. They didn't tell me where he was being taken or anything. They just took him. You cannot separate people. You cannot just

come to people's homes with no warrant, with no identification. My father carried his green card in his wallet, his driver's license. They took that

from him. They took it. They said it was government property.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WATSON: Now, I am pleased to report that several weeks after that interview, Jose Luis Garcia was released. This is, these are images of a

very emotional reunion with his wife, upon his release on what the family says was June 29th.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

WATSON: And I'm joined now by Natalie and Jose Luis Garcia from our Los Angeles studio. Thank you for coming in to speak with me. Natalie, when we

last spoke, your father was facing possible deportation to Mexico. What happened? Why was he released?

GARCIA: Yes. They, for the first time ever, a bond hearing was actually processed as a cancellation of removal. So he was able to come home that

day and we are starting the process of him getting his citizenship.

WATSON: Applying for U.S. citizenship.

GARCIA: Correct.

WATSON: Mr. Garcia, can you tell me, what was it like being detained off the front yard of your house and what were the conditions like in

detention? Where were you held?

JOSE LUIS GARCIA, U.S. RESIDENT DETAINED BY ICE: Well, that was -- it was horrible. Something unexpected.

[08:35:00] And it just caught me by surprise. And it was -- it was -- that's where the nightmares start. And the center, it was -- the conditions

are really, really bad. The stuff they give you to eat there is gross. Not for humans. It's just really bad down there.

WATSON: What do you think you'd like to tell other people in the U.S., immigrants, potential immigrants, green card holders, based on your

experience?

J.GARCIA: Definitely, they have to become U.S. citizens to avoid whatever happened to me and it's just -- do it now. Don't wait.

N.GARCIA: Well, it's also the zero-tolerance policy is not being properly utilized. It's too broad. They're picking up people like my father who

should not be in there instead of targeting the individuals, the real criminals. Real criminals aren't easy access.

ICE is targeting people who have -- they have addresses on file. They have their -- all their information on file instead of the criminals, drug

cartels or anything. This zero-tolerance policy should not apply to my father or any people who are in my father's situation. It's too broad.

WATSON: Let me go back to you, Mr. Garcia. You're not just a grandfather. I believe you're a great-grandfather.

J.GARCIA: Yes, I am.

WATSON: Were you looking -- did you realistically think that you might be sent to Mexico and not be in a position to see your family in the U.S.

again?

J.GARCIA: Well, I -- everything went through my mind. But to me, I had the hope to stay over here. But, you know, when you are facing something like

that, I said to myself, you know what? I can't go back to Mexico.

I've never been in Mexico since many, many years. I had no problem to survive anywhere that I go, but I didn't want to be away from my family, my

kids. This is my country. This is where I want to be. This is --

N.GARCIA: What you want.

J.GARCIA: I had given a lot to this country. You know, I've been working since I was 16 years old.

N.GARCIA: He came here for the American dream. And that's what he came for. And he had every right to stay here. It's the American dream. Like

every other immigrant who comes here, they want to come -- work and give to this country.

WATSON: Do you still believe in the American dream?

J.GARCIA: Yes.

N.GARCIA: We do. And this generation deserves to have the American dream as well.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WATSON: OK, that was my conversation with Natalie and her father Jose Luis yesterday. I might add that he has had five children born in the U.S.

during nearly a half century here, nine grandchildren, and two great- grandchildren.

CNN reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement who sent the following statement, quote, although Mr. Garcia was found removable from

the United States based upon his criminal conviction, he was ultimately granted relief from removal by an immigration judge.

Still ahead on "News Stream," from coffee farmer to problem solver. We'll meet one woman who united her village behind a sustainable energy solution

that is paying off big time.

[08:40:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

WATSON: Welcome back. The U.S. jobs report for June has just been released. U.S. economy had 213,000 jobs last month. But the unemployment

rate still rose to four percent as more people enter the labor force looking for work. We will have much more on "CNN Money" in about 20

minutes.

It's time now for the final piece of our series called "Going Green" where we meet five innovative heroes creating sustainable solutions around the

world. In Kenya, it began as a way to cut down on smoke inhalation from wood stoves and reduce the need for firewood. It has become so much more,

and the health of not just the surrounding environment but of nearly 300 homes in the village have one woman to thank for it.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ZEDDY ROTICH, INNOVATOR: The biogas stove is very efficient. It also provides very clean energy. It is so good. I enjoy it. I really like it. I

am Zeddy Rotich. I'm a coffee farmer and I also use cow dung to produce energy. I come from Kericho County, Kenya.

Initially we were going through so many challenges, traveling and getting firewood especially during the rainy season. You know, wood usually does

not produce energy for cooking. There are so many challenges in collecting firewood. We decided to come together as a group. That is a group of 300

women. We wanted to construct biogas (ph) units at least 10 every year for the women.

It's producing clean energy (INAUDIBLE) and compared to the other, older type of energy where I used to cook using old fuel, because it is a

government requirement not to cut down trees. Therefore, it is so hard to get firewood to cook and you have to cook for the family.

Nowadays, I don't even use wood for cooking. Because initially, I used to wake up early in the morning and collect the firewood fast and it could

consume a lot of time. And that also means I go to my coffee farm very late hours after taking a lot of time collecting firewood.

In the morning, I wake up, I feed my cow. They give me cow dung. When I collected cow dung, I put it into the mixing chamber, then I mix it with

water. That is ratio one to one. Then I drain it into my digester. And from there, I can easily get my biogas.

All other women should have biogas units because it is so efficient. The advantages outweigh the advantages of using wood fuel. And I just tell all

the women it is possible to get the biogas units and to start using the biogas.

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