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Coast to coast across the united states and live around the world this hour you're watching "cnn newsroom." it is a pleasure to have you with us. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. the head of the u.s. environmental protection agency, the epa, laz resigned under a cloud of controversy. scott pruitt is the target of at least 14 separate ethics investigations. he blamed unrelenting attacks on himself and his family. a former thai navy s.e.al. has been killed during efforts to rescue a youth football team trapped in a cave system. officials say the former di...

Now that we've learned this one diver has died? >> definitely you can feel it that it has an effect but we're moving on, everybody is a professional so we're trying to avoid it happening again. >> everybody is focusing on getting the boys out? >> everybody is focusing on keeping them alive or getting them out. >> that is the focus of all of these rescue teams including from the u.s. they want these boys out and they want them out alive. erica? >> as we're following these developments here we know teams are working hard to pump water out of the cave. more rain predicted for the weekend but ther...

Forecast is going to change. this is july in thailand, and this is the rainy season. so it is going to start raining. those water levels will start rising. so when we talk about that window of opportunity, this is it. this is when the decisions have to be made because when it starts raining, as we saw when they first got trapped in the beginning, john, those waters can rise extremely quickly. so now is the time to make a decision. >> some of those rains in the forecast for as soon as monday. that's why they're watching so carefully. matt rivers, great to have you on the ground for us. we'll ch...

The young boys are trapped, and it's similar to other ways too. >> this cave is in additioned with snow melt water. the cave in thailand is flooded with monsoon water. >> both men begin their scuba voyage into the cave. with our cameras. to give us a look at the dangers and show us why you absolutely never do anything like this without diving certification. just getting the cave system requires going true a tunnel, and this is not the narrowest tunnel they will face. waters that go as deep as 90 feet. >> are you scared sometimes when you go in a cave like this? >> i have at times been afraid w...

They're saying there are 18 potential. just an idea of what they're working with. cnn joined a group of national park rangers and thai military on a mountain trek to find other entrances to the cave system. teams drove up a steep muddy hill side and through thick vegetation just to find potential access points. these rescue divers have been navigating the waters in narrow tunnels inside the cave, and our own correspondent gary tuckman actually went underwater in a cage similar to where they are currently tracked just to show how perilous this rescue job really is. >> i walk in 40 degree water ...