they only like to write about the bad things. and there aren't too many of them. there aren't too many of them. okay. do you have anything further to say? okay. thank you very much. >> mr. president -- >> mr. president, can you tell me why the palestinian authority has been taken out of the u.s. state department's website -- >> go ahead. what was your question. >> mr. president, i asked you can you tell us a little bit more about the call you referred to. when will the next round of negotiations with china start? >> we've had two calls. very, very good calls. very productive calls. they mean business. they want to be able to make a deal. it's very important that -- i think temperament veit's very i them. they've lost 3 million jobs. a lot of things have happened. it's why president xi's a great leader. he understands. it's going to be great for china. it's going to be great for the u.s.

it's going to be great for the world. he understands that. he's able to do things that other people aren't able to do. so we were called and we're going to start very shortly to negotiate. we'll see what happens, but i think we're going to make a deal because they don't want to lose their chains. they have supply chains that are unbelievably intricate and people are all leaving and they're going to other countries, including the united states, by the way. we're going to get a lot of them, too, a percentage. meaning we'll get -- i think we're going to get a higher percentage than a lot of people would think. so we are going to start talking very seriously. we'll see how that goes. we've had a lot of good news. we had other good news yesterday, but i can't talk to you about that, and, frankly, you people -- you call that one totally wrong. you have that one figured as wrong as you can figure it, but we had some other good news yesterday. >> will you be speaking to president xi directly? >> i don't want to say. i can't say. >> do you have a response to

foreign minister zarif? >> no, i don't want to comment on that. but he was here. and we'll see what happens with iran. but you called it wrong in the media yesterday. >> mr. president -- >> i like to at least tell you when you call it i tell you when you call it right, too, which isn't too often. >> some allies saying it was disrespectful for macron to invite -- >> no, no, no. >> you don't feel that way? >> he has my approval. we have a very good relationship. that's another thing you got wrong. this was the best meeting we've had with president macron and france. it was straight up. now, we're not finished yet. we have another sort of day left. we have a lot of meetings, including with the president of egypt, which i'm looking forward to and a meeting with angela merkel in a little while and a meeting with a few others. we have some very important meetings planned plus we have some sessions. we'll have a news conference if

you so choose. >> mr. president -- >> on macron, no, no, that was -- he spoke to me. he asked me. i said if you want to do that, that's okay. i don't consider that disrespectful at all. especially when he asked me for approval. >> mr. president, president el sisi's a important figure in the u.s. peace plans. >> very important. >> can you speak about that and whether taking the palestinian authority out of the state department's website list of countries. >> you'll have to ask mike pompeo, secretary of state, and he's working very, very hard on that situation and very competently. and if you look and see what's going on with the palestinians and with israel, we'd like to see if we can make a deal. it's very tough. it got complicated by the israeli elections, but we're going to know who the prime minister is going to be fairly soon. it's tapping along. that was a complicating factor. i think the palestinians would like to make a deal. as you know, i cut off most funding to the palestinians. a lot of funding.

and i think they'd like to get it back. i think they'd like to make a deal. we'll see what happens. nobody's ever done that before. they used to negotiate paying a fortune of money, $750 million they'd pay, pay, pay, and they'd be treated with disrespect but they kept paying. this went on for years. i don't believe in that. we cut off their funding, a lot of it. we'll see what happens. i think they want to make a deal, the palestinians, and i think that israel would like to make a deal. i think people after so many years and decades, i think they're a little tired of fighting. even he gets tired of fighting. him, i'm not sure about. i think he always wants to fight. >> so you're confident that it's going to be released right after the israeli election? >> you mean the deal? >> the peace plan. >> no, of course not. it won't be before the election, i don't think so. >> no, after. >> you may see what the deal is before the election. i hope it will happen. everybody says that's the deal that can't be made. they always refer to that deal, israel and the palestinians,

tremendous hatred for many, many decades, and everybody says that is a deal that cannot be made. so we'll see if he can make it. >> mr. president, when did mr. macron tell you he was going to invite -- >> i don't want to comment on that. i knew he was coming in and i respected the fact that he was coming in. he met with president macron and iran has got a very difficult situation. they're in a position that's not a very good position from the standpoint of economics and that's okay because we can clear that up really quickly. i'm looking to have a really good iran. we're not looking for regime change. you've seen how that's worked over the last 20 years. that hasn't been good. we're looking to make iran rich again. let them do well if they want or they can be as poor as they can be. they can be like they are now. and i'll tell you what, i don't think it's acceptable the way they're being forced to live in iran. and what we want -- it's got to

be non-nuclear. it's got to be non-nuclear. we're going to talk about ballistic missiles. we're going to talk about times. we' we're going to talk about the length of the agreement. it expires in a very short period of time. the agreement that president obama made expires in a very short period of time. what kind of agreement is that? he paid $150 billion for a short-term agreement. you'd like to have $150 billion for a short-term -- he'll do that deal. plus, he gave them $1.8 billion in cash. where is your finance minister? which one? explain to him, $1.8 billion in cash. would you take it? egypt will take it. >> mr. president, what's the next step then with iran from your perspective? >> well, we'll see what happens. you know, it's all very new. they're under a lot of financial stress. we put sanctions -- the secretary of the treasury is here right now and he's really

very expert at what he does. he's done a very effective job. they used to say that, look, we are the largest economy by far in the world. when i became president we were heading to become the second largest. china was going to overtake us. not going to happen. not going to happen any time i'll tell you when i'm here. can't happen. we picked up $20 trillion in worth and china has lost 20, 25, $30 trillion in worth. we're now almost double the size, the economy. if i hadn't won, our economy now would have been overtaken by china and all these clowns that are sitting on television that have been running this government for many years that have been taken to the cleaners by china, they're all sitting there saying, well, i don' think the president is negotiating properly. they don't know what they're talking about. i have great respect for the fact that china called. they want to make a deal. i have great respect. and i have great respect for president xi. and i think we're going to have

a deal because now we're dealing on proper terms. they understand and we understand. but that's a great thing that happened. and they want to get something done. now, maybe it won't get done, but this is the first time i've seen them where they really do want to make a deal, and i think that's a very positive step. >> but with regard to -- >> and as far as iran is concerned that was with great respect, and i spoke to president macron yesterday and i knew everything he was doing. and i approved whatever he was doing and i thought it was fine. i think it's too soon to meet. i didn't want to meet. i said i don't want to meet. right now. but it's truly going to be a time to meet with iran. it's going to be a great thing for iran. they have great potential. iran has great potential. you know who else has great potential? north korea. kim jong-un. and under his leadership, north korea has great potential and i don't think north korea wants to

blow it because if they blow it, it won't be good. >> you didn't want to meet with zarif but did you send a message to him on iran? >> i don't want to comment on that. i can't comment on that. [ inaudible question ] >> am i going to tariff french wine? well, it depends on the deal we work on on the digital tax. >> what's the status of that? >> we're negotiating right now. >> back to iran, sir. are you willing to wave oil sanctions to get iran to the table? >> i'm not going to tell you what i'm willing to do. iran has a chance to build themselves up and be a great nation. greater than before. but they have to stop terrorism. that is your number one nation of terror. now, not in the last year and a half, two years because they can't spend like they used to spend. they took president obama's $150 billion and they doled it out to terrorists all over the place. i think they're going to change. i really do. i think they have a chance to be a very special nation. i hope that's true. >> mr. president, can you speak

about the trade deal with japan? many are commenting that the japanese prime minister seemed less enthusiastic than you. >> well, you have to understand he's a friend of mine. one of my closest friends in this world. he's one of my closest friends. they send us millions and millions of cars. they have for many years. they're essentially not taxed. so they send them in from japan. they're essentially not taxed. and my first step with japan was to say, you have to move car companies into the united states. and they did. many car companies are now operating plants in the united states and building plants in the united states. because we have had over the years a tremendous trade deficit with japan. but we have a lot of cards with japan. number one is my relationship with paul ryan ab with prime minister abe. so i don't think we have to use the cards. they send us millions and millions of cars.

essentially it's 2.5%, but there's ways of getting around it. essentially non-tariff free. if i want to put tariffs on those cars, i'd make so much money for this country your head would spin. so, yeah, he's going to make the deal. i feel pretty certain about that. that's what i do. we have cards. that's what people didn't understand. he knew this a long time ago. we have the cards. we're the big piggybank that everybody's been robbing for 35 years. we have all the cards. but we never play it because we never had a president that understood this and we never had an administration or trade negotiators that understand it. >> are you planning to eventually take off the 2.5% auto tax? >> nobody's ever asked me that question but you. why would i do that? tell me, why? okay. thank you very much. >> thank you, press. thank you, press. thank you.

>> you're getting there, jeff. slowly. finally starting to get it, jeff. >> thank you, press. >> you've been listening to the u.s. president donald trump alongside his egyptian counterpart abdel fattah el sisi. these world leaders at the g7 summit. mr. trump discussing a wide range of issues. one of them that is major news for sure around the world. mr. trump saying that china called saying that there were two phone calls and that china wants to return to the table for a possible trade deal. this is significant, especially given what we've seen of the markets as of late. >> yeah, and there's a possible sign that u.s. futures have moved into positive territory, but we'll have more on that. he also covered another important headline coming out of that. israel and palestinians want to make a deal and we also heard him comments on iran, too. he said he didn't want to meet with iran right now, but he was

saying no comment on the fact that the iranian foreign minister was there at the g7 summit, invited by france on the sidelines there. so he was a little annoyed by that, but he said that we want to make iran rich again. he says that they need a new deal when it comes to nuclear issues. so the big headline we return to, of course, is what was said about china. i want to bring in cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson who is live with us this hour from southern france. an incredible news conference there. and of course the most important thing, that headline talking about china saying it called. wants to make a deal. and it appears that u.s. futures have responded to that. we don't know that for sure. the problem at this point is we've seen so much flip-flopping that it's hard to know whether this is the case.

>> so, we need to wait to see what china has to say about it. i think that's the other part of the headline here that will be -- to hear from them what they say their message and those phone calls were to president trump through the night. as you say, yesterday the president was saying that he was of two minds of raising the tariffs. his advisers said he was only in two minds because he was thinking he should have raised those tariffs further. sounding as if he was in an escalatory mode. but president trump has just done in this sort of mini press conference here, impromptu press conference, it was supposed to be a bilateral meeting with the egyptian president sisi, has made the argument that we've been told he's been making behind the scenes here. that his actions with china, his raising of tariffs and this trade war with china is the right way to go to bring the message to president xi, that as he says, the united states holds

all the cards. that as he says in the past, presidents have been ripped off essentially and should have taken a stronger line with china. this has been his narrate, that he is doing it the right way, and what he is telling us this morning is an affirmation of that. so perhaps no surprise we're hearing the president frame this phone call in this way that president xi says he wants to make a deal. let's hear how the chinese frame this phone call and how they would see this deal shaping up. and i think it was also very interesting, just to move on briefly to the iran issue, that president trump said he was consulted by the french president macron about zarif's visit, that he approved that visit, which seems to counter what he had said yesterday, which was that he hadn't signed off on the french being an

interlocutor for the g7 with iran. now, that may be a technicality there because as everyone said yesterday in the midst of all of this confusion about zarif's visit that macron was acting from a national interest for france, speaking for france, but here we have president trump very clearly now saying that he approved it. he also alluded to some other news to come that he couldn't talk about now. his lines about iran, this is not about regime change, his lines about iran, their economy could be doing so much better, we have the keys to that. we've heard before. but he does seem to imply an advancement at least along the lines of de-escalating the current tensions with iran. how far, we don't know. we do know that the french president macron spent half an hour with javad zarif, the

iranian foreign minister yesterday. not an insubstantial amount of time when he was hosting so many other leaders here at the g7, rosemary. >> indeed. so much covered there. in addition, raising a possible breakthrough suggesting that israel and the palestinians want to make a deal. of course by want to get some more details on that wide-ranging press conference there with his egyptian counterpart. we await for more details, of course. nic robertson joining us there from southern france with some analysis on what we've all just heard right across the globe. many thanks to you. and putting it, rosemary, into context, to nic's point, it is going to be important given that we heard this from the president. we also have to hear it from others that it's also, indeed, the case. >> we've learned that lesson. >> yes, we have. >> we've seen a lot of flip-flopping back and forth on this. we need confirmation from china whether this is their understanding. >> indeed. the markets responding

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back to the negotiating table. said this just a few minutes ago. we covered it live as breaking news. to resolve the trade war. earlier, the threat of new tariffs along with confusing signals from the g7, it sent asian markets tumbling. >> yeah, and that was the first response from jittery investors since president donald trump announced those new tariffs friday. let's bring up those numbers so you can see. they're down. hong kong's hang seng down 2.25% there. japan's nikkei lost more than 2% and the shanghai composite down more than 1%. interesting to note that u.s. futures have urned it the corner, though. now, these numbers started to shift upward as president trump was talking about china having called and having said that they want to get back to the negotiating table, but we are waiting to hear a response and reaction from china, and we're not necessarily making a link between those comments and those

numbers at this point. >> and let's bring in now our andrew stephens. andrew has been following the numbers and joins us this hour live in hong kong. and andrew, look, so we just heard the u.s. president, certainly positive news that he says that china called, two calls, and that china wants to return to make a deal. here's the thing, we heard from the president who, you know, has that framing. it will be important to hear the framing from china as well. >> it will be very important to hear what china's interpretation of those two calls is, but certainly the investment community is taking pretty positively so far, george, as you pointed out, the u.s. futures that had gone from about 200 points down to about 60 points up on the back of that press conference in france with donald trump. so pretty positive reaction there. and donald trump saying that the chinese negotiating team had called his team in washington on sunday with a renewed call for talks. he went on to say that those

talks are expected to start shortly and he's confident that they are going to get a deal. donald trump saying that the his strategy of this sort of maximum pressure almost strategy if you like on china is now paying dividends. what we do know from china so far is a comment from the chief trade negotiator on the chinese side. he spoke today in shanghai and he said that china was willing to get back to the negotiating table for a coordinated consultation in a calm attitude. stressing that calm attitude. so obviously those comments were made in the light of the calls on the sunday night. so the deal -- so the talks at least definitely look like they're on, george. we don't know at this stage just how willing china or the u.s. is to make a deal. there would have to be compromise compromises, i suspect, on both

sides. so far if you look at the language being used and the action being taken on the tit for tat that's been escalated dramatic hi dramatically in just the past 72 hours or so, we see that kind of escalation. whether they're ready to step back from that brink, we'll have to see. certainly a pretty positive note from the president and the markets are responding accordingly. >> and the broader question here, andrew, given there have been jitters about a possible global recession and certainly leaders looking to this trade war, how important might this be to find an off-ramp given the backdrop of what's happening with these numbers? >> well, that's a great point. it is important to find an off-ramp, but it's also important that donald trump can walk away telling his -- his base and telling potential voters in 2020 that he solved the china trade war. he put china back in its box. we've now got a level playing field. so if he can say that and that is taken on board as a positive

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from coast to coast here in the united states, you are watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm george howell. >> and pile rosemary church. want to check the head loins for you this hour. donald trump's announcement that china wants to resume trade negotiations has turned the u.s. futures markets around. look at those numbers. the dow futures up nearly 0.5%. changing as we were speaking. but markets in the asia-pacific region already took a hit for the day. >> mr. trump also discussed the iranian foreign minister's visit to the g7 summit in france. he said that he wasn't surprised by javad zarif's appearance in a sideline meeting.

he also said that he didn't think that it was disrespectful for the french president emmanuel macron to invite him there to the summit. the british prime minister met with the eu council president on the margins of the g7 summit sunday. officials say boris johnson told donald tusk brexit would happen with or without a deal, however, he adds everyone should prepare for a no-deal brexit. well, josh rogin is a cnn political analyst and a columnist for "the washington post." he joins us now from southern france. and josh, about half an hour ago we all watched president trump make headlines in his meeting with his egyptian counterpart when he announced that china called and said it wants to return to the negotiating table and make a deal. this after the markets we just saw the numbers responded negatively to mixed messages from mr. trump and his advisers on the subject of increasing those tariffs on china.

we mentioned, too, u.s. futures appear to be responding positively to all of this. what did you make of it? as of course we await word from china to confirm this is, indeed, what is happening. because we do have to start questioning that because of all the flip-flopping. >> well, of course. i think this entire weekend has been a demonstration of two things. one, how concerned the international community, not just the g7 leaders, but the international community around the world is about the rising u.s.-china trade tensions and also, you know, how the markets and even the media -- it doesn't really understand what donald trump is saying. partially because donald trump is saying lots of different things all the time. but also because, you know, he's responding to questions about his attitudes about the trade war, but nothing is really changed, right? he seemed to say that he had -- that he had had second thoughts and that was interpreted as a reversal. they tried to correct that. it was interpreted as another

reversal. then today he announced the trade talks are going to resume. over the last few days, actually nothing's happened. this sort of confusion has roiled the markets, but in essence we're at the same place that we were two days ago. and i think that's, again, sort of a stark reflection of sort of the confusion and also the tension surrounding this issue. >> yeah, and what about the surprise visit to the g7 summit of iran's foreign minister at the invitation of the french president, of course? but in the same press conference president trump suggested he was fine with the visit and also said he wanted a new nuclear deal with iran and he also pretty much said he was not interested in any regime change here. >> right. you can see an effort by president trump to avoid any conflict with french president macron by claiming that he was asked for and granted approval to the french president to invite morn minister zarif here,

but my reporting shows that, you know, the president was actually inforei informed and not asked for approval. and french president macron informed all the g7 leaders that zarif was on the way. many white house officials were frustrated and saw the move by the french president as disrespectful. president trump is in a mode of trying to make everyone think that everything's just fine. so when he talks in public he says that he was very much okay with the visit. at the same time, there is no doubt that this came as a surprise to many inside the u.s. government, if not the president himself, and they saw it as an attempt to interject iran into these discussions and to force the president's hand in a way that at least many white house officials didn't appreciate. bottom line here is that no progress was made. and so in that sense it seems like the -- whatever french president macron was trying to accomplish by bringing zarif was not accomplished. >> and speaking of surprises, in the midst of all of these topics

that were covered, suddenly we hear from president trump that israel and the palestinians want to make a deal. where did that come from? >> well, he said two things. he said he thinks they want to make a deal and he also said he doesn't think there will be a deal within the first term of hs presidency. so in a way he's talking out of both sides of his mouth. it came because he was asked a direct question in the press conference. again, this is sort of what happens when the president travels and has all these bilateral meetings. he's about to have a press conference this afternoon here where he could take any number of questions and say any number of things on any number of issues which will send reporters, analysts and government officials in any number of directions. this is the chaos and dysfunction that washington has been living under under the last 2 1/2 years. pr broad confusion both in and outside the administration what our foreign policy is, what the president wants to do and what he has actually done and is doing. it's when he comes out into the

world for meetings like the g7 summit that the rest of the world gets a taste like this. and let me assure you that there have been no big policy developments here as far as u.s. foreign policy is concerned. it's just president trump talking about a lot of stuff, and a lot of confusing ways. and that's setting off a lot of narrates that it will take the white house and washington and the world weeks if not months to process. >> yeah. we will, of course, watch this over the next few hours across the day ahead to see where all of this lands because this is so early as we're trying to digest all of the new stuff that was coming out of that news conference. josh rogin, thank you for helping us with that process. joining us live from southern france there at the g7 summit. appreciate it. >> again, rosemary, you know, to the point that we've all been making here, it is a matter of waiting to see, right? >> yeah. >> waiting to see that these things are, indeed, confirmed by several different sources. we are only hearing from the u.s. president.

so we will have to wait. >> making policy on the run. apparently we'll have to see. we need confirmation. an iran-linked paramilitary group is accusing israel of drone strikes in iraq. says at least one of their members was killed sunday by the syrian border. >> so far israel isn't commenting about that or alleged drone activity in lebanon. the militant group hezbollah says its media offices were damaged sunday by two crashed drones near beirut. >> but israel is saying that it carried out air strikes saturday in syria. let's get more now from cnn's senior international correspondent, sam kiley. sam live in jerusalem with the latest. sam, what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, george, on the matter of the alleged drone strike against part of the shia militia forces that were responsible alongside the regular iraqi army for driving

the islamic state so-called out of iraq. they did that with american air support, not just americans, of course, british and others involved in that coalition campaign. so they were uneasy allies of the united states and iraq remains as such. so that is why it is so controversial once again to have one of these iranian-backed militias alleging that israel, another american ally, could have been behind a drone strike that actually took life inside iraqi territory. a very awkward situation indeed for the americans when it comes to iraq. so that is sort of rumbling on in the background. and against that background because, of course, there have been previous air strikes, unexplained, unacknowledged, though hinted at by israel's president -- prime minister benjamin netanyahu against iran or iran-backed targets in iraq. then you have israel at the weekend very quickly announcing that they they had attacked iranian and iranian-backed

militias inside syria at the weekend, thwarting what they said was an imminent attempt to invade israeli airspace using unseen drones with regard to attacks on israel to try to hit targets in northern israel. they said these drones were the sort that they had seen -- that had been seen in action flying out of yemen against saudi targets in the past. but a very high degree of energy suddenly coming out of the israelis. very quick to acknowledge that they've been involved in this syrian operation and then absolute silence about the allegations of drone attacks inside lebanese territory. very confusing picture, george. >> yeah, confusing, indeed. sam, thank you for walking us through it. we appreciate the reporting. we'll stay in touch with you. here stateside there is concern about tropical storm dorian, expected to strengthen into a hurricane by wednesday.

>> forecasters say it will bring wind, rain and storm surges to the lesser antilles and puerto rico over the coming week. >> here's the thing, a tropical storm warning has also been issued for barbados. let's get the latest from karen maginnis live in the weather center with that storm brewing. karen, what more can you tell us? >> you described it accurately. it is a little storm, a little tropical storm. doesn't look like too much. as we look at water vapor imagery, it's just a petite system that lies to the east of the lesser antilles. it's going to move more towards the west and more towards the northwest. right now moving fairly quickly at 14 miles per hour. supporting winds of 50 miles n hour and higher gusts. it will move over the central portions of the lesser antilles. then push into the caribbean. we think by 72 hours that puts it about wednesday evening it will be in the vicinity of puerto rico. as it puts itself in that

vicinity, we don't know if it's going to move over the island, to the scout of the islaouth ofo the west. computer models are in fair agreement, but you get to that 72-hour time period and they start to diverge a little bit more. if you look at one of the computer models, it's not a direct hit. if you look at others it is a direct hit. why do we care about this at category 1? category 1 can produce casualties and fatalities. september 20th, 2017, devastating hurricane maria. category 4 hurricane moved across puerto rico and they're still recuperating. in this particular situation, rosemary and george, it looks like it's going to be a weakened system, but still we're three days out and it's still very hard to tell. back to you guys. >> all right. karen, thank you. >> thank you so much. harmful chemicals may be con. >> tommy: contaminating americans' tap

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well, this is a rather disturbing fact, you could say, but all across the united states harmful chemicals have been discovered in americans' water supply. >> yeah, now advocates are calling on officials to address the problem before it has more tragic results. cnn's regnnee marsh reports. >> you have the chemical in your body? >> yes. >> very high levels? >> very high levels. >> reporter: sandy never suspected the water that flowed through her pipes may be poisoning her. >> there's a good chance this will be what ultimately kills me. >> reporter: sandy's water is tainted by p-fas, a class of chemicals that studies have linked to kidney and liver cancer, high cholesterol, birth defects and pregnancy complications. it's in most products that are water, heat and grease resistant like nonstick pans, food containers and fabric protectants.

in belmont, michigan, where sandy lives, has some of the highest levels in the nation. the groundwater was contaminated by a nearby shoe factory, wolverine tannery which dumped tons of water contaminated with scotch guard for years. sandy is suing wolverine and 3m which makes scotch guard for her contamination and the death of her husband joel who died in 2016 from liver cancer one year before she found out the water was tainted. >> every night you try to fall asleep and you wonder is that what did it? should i not have had him drink so much water? >> reporter: the state of michigan is also suing wolverine which in a response to cnn said it blames 3m and some of the lawsuits against it include misleading and unsupported allegations. 3m told cnn it regularly and

proactively examines the environmental impact of our products and has invested $200 million globally on p-fas remediation efforts. >> is this the largest environmental crisis this state has seen? >> in terms of residential drinking water, yes. >> reporter: milks 1,800 cows on his new mexico dairy farm and every day for nearly a year he dumps it all down the drain. >> that would be about 12,000 gallons a day of milk. >> reporter: the milk is contaminated, according to fda tests and his milk license suspended. cows lie dead from old age on his farm because no one will buy their beef. >> we have no income. for our family it's been devastating. >> reporter: fire fighting foam used in a training exercise contaminated the water on schaaf's property. p-fas contamination sites are

everywhere. 712 locations in 49 states have been discovered according to the environmental working group, an activist nonprofit. manufacturers like 3m and dupont have stopped making two of the chemicals in the class, but they're still shipped in on products from overseas. they're so prevalent, cdc scientists believe that p-fas chemicals are in the blood streams of nearly all americans. despite all that, the chemicals are unregulated. >> i almost feel like we live in a third-world country. when we see a problem like this that is polluting the ground water, we have proof from the tests and yet everyone is standing, sitting on their hands. >> reporter: environmentalists have been trying to get the epa to act for years. the obama administration took some steps to address p-fas issues but there is little confidence that the trump epa will move quickly to make quick regulations. betsy sutherland worked at the epa for 33 years before leaving in 2017. >> they are solely devoted to

deregulating, to repealing public health protection. >> reporter: internal government emails show the trump administration wanted to suppress a cdc study that showed the chemicals were dangerous even at levels the epa had deemed safe. a white house aide wrote in an email they could not get the cdc to, quote, realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be. after mounting public and congressional pressure, the study was released. the epa did put out an action plan in february, but critics say it's just promises with no real movement. >> well, the epa is responsible for regulating these chemicals, and in a statement the epa said it was a top priority for the administrator and it will decide whether to set a limit for the chemicals by the end of the year, but members of congress say the epa isn't acting with enough urgency so there is a bipartisan move to force the epa to act within two years. rene marsh, cnn, washington.

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an endurance athlete from spain is now the first person to cross the pacific oath on a paddle board, all the way from san francisco to hawaii. wow. >> really? >> is that possible? >> let's see. okay. so this story from jim mendoza from affiliate khnl about this record-breaking journey. let's watch. >> aloha! welcome to hawaii. >> thank you. >> how are you doing? >> fine. >> reporter: this was antonio de la rosa's first contact with another human being since he paddled away from san francisco on june 9th. the 42-year-old ultra endurance athlete from spain is the first person to cross the pacific ocean as a stand-up paddle border. >> it's a record. for me and for everybody. >> reporter: he covered about 2,500 miles of open ocean using wind, currents and elbow grease. >> no, no motor.

no, no, no, only motor, this is the motor. >> reporter: his vessel, "the ocean defender" is a combo paddle board and small boat with a sleeping cabin, storage bins and a solar panel for power. >> gps, one inside and one outside. computer. >> reporter: de la rosa packed enough supplies for a 90-day trip. he estimated it would take about 70 days to make the pacific crossing. he did it in 76. gopro cameras documented his days and nights at sea. there was no escort vessel so he was all alone. he estimates he lost about 10 pounds but never got sick despite very little sleep. >> every hour i get up, checking the gps and checking the direction, moving the system. >> reporter: hurricane flossy didn't hit him, but it did push him off course. >> during one week i washed to the north, to the north and i

say, oof, what happened? >> reporter: loaded down, the ocean defender" weighed more than 1,000 pounds. >> it's difficult moving this kind of boat with very small paddle. >> reporter: he says the view out there was breathtaking but he did encounter floating plastics, nets and discarded line. de la rosa has done other extreme adventures. >> every year i think, okay, what i do next year? i love this kind of life. >> reporter: he once rode across the atlantic ocean. now he's conquered the pacific. >> aloha, hawaii! adios amigoso. >> reporter: jim mendosa, hawaii news now. >> still braver than me or maybe you. thank you so much, everyone, for joining us. i'm rosemary church. >> rosemary didn't get my corny joke. i'm george howell. "early start" is next in new york in hudson yards. have a great day.

called last night our top trade people and said let's get back to the table. >> president trump moments ago talked about positive signals coming from china on trade. >> president trump also just moments ago denies he was blind sided by the iranian foreign minister's surprise appearance at the g-7. >> brazil's government under pressure to deal with the wildfires in the amazon rain forest as cnn cameras capture the view from above. plus, nfl star andrew luck's