Deadly Stage Collapse; Immigration Rule Change Impact
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I want to get you up to speed right now. Some breaking news right off the top this hour about a deadly stage collapse in Toronto. One person killed, several others were injured. One seriously. It happened not long before the gates opened for a concert by the alternative rock group Radiohead. Police say the victims were setting up the stage when the scaffolding type structure collapsed about 40 to 60 feet on the main stage. Weather was good at the time that that collapse happened and no high winds were reported. The sold-out concert has been canceled. We also have new developments this hour in the child abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. CNN has learned that a psychologist brought in by the state is expected to examine Sandusky tomorrow. The exam is a court ordered -- court- issued yesterday of which allows the defense to introduce testimony that Sandusky suffers from something called histrionic personality disorder. Sandusky's attorneys have filed a motion that states that condition will help explain letters Sandusky wrote to his alleged victims. The trial resumes on Monday. I want to go to Syria now, the United Nations mission sent there to monitor a cease-fire that nobody followed. That mission now called off. The general who leads the observer team says it's just become too violent in Syria. And the risk to his unarmed troops just too high.</s>MAJ. GEN. ROBERT MOOD, COMMANDER, U.N. OBSERVER TEAM: Operations will resume when we see the situation fit for us to carry out our mandated activities.</s>LEMON: Just today, at least 77 people were killed in shelling and street fighting across the country. A Russian flagged cargo ship is headed towards Syria and U.S. intelligence officials are watching it very closely. They believe it's carrying weapons, ammunition and some Russian troops. There's a Russian naval base on Syrian's Mediterranean coast. U.S. officials say the Russians are probably beefing up security at the base as the country spirals out of control. In Colorado, firefighters are praying for rain, hoping to slow a wildfire that is raising across rough terrain and inching closer to neighborhoods. Unseasonably dry, windy weather is making it extremely difficult to fight the blaze. Thousands of people have been forced from their homes.</s>VICKIE BARON, PREPARING TO EVACUATE: My prayers can't be for the wind to change, because that turns it to somebody else. My prayers every night are that everybody stays safe.</s>TERRI SUBER, PREPARING TO EVACUATE: It's just stuff. It's rebuildable. The dogs, the horses, that's all that really matter. I'll get them out if they had to.</s>DONNA ASHTON, PREPARING TO EVACUATE: It will be hard, just because I like home, I like being up here. You know, but we can't stop it.</s>LEMON: More than 100 homes have already been lost. The fire is just 20 percent contained. Tropical depression Carlotta is expected to dump as much as eight inches of rain over parts of southern Mexico. Officials are now concerned about the possibility of mudslides and flash flooding. The storm was a category 2 hurricane when it slammed into the coast of Mexico last night. Two young sisters were killed when their home collapsed. An international manhunt is under way right now for a man wanted for killing three armored guards during a robbery attempt in Canada. Police say the suspect, Travis Baumgartner, worked for the same armored car company as the victims. Last night's shooting happened on the campus of University of Alberta. One of the guards killed has just gotten. A fourth guard is in critical condition. Historic launch today in China where a spacecraft carried the nation's first female astronaut into space. Thirty-three-year-old Liu Yang was accompanied by two other astronauts. If all goes well, her ship will dock with China's orbiting space laboratory. Liu's mission makes China the third country and the United States to send a woman into space using its own technology. President Obama's surprised decision on immigration rules is dominating political debate. Effective immediately, people younger than 30 get a two-year deferral from deportation if they arrived before age 16, lived here for at least five years, be in school, have graduated or be a U.S. veteran and have no felony convictions. President Obama calls the new rules fair and just, but Republicans say the whole thing is political and they argue it amounts to amnesty for illegal immigrants. Beyond the political debates, the real world effect of these changes make a huge difference in the lives of thousands. And CNN's Nick Valencia has one story.</s>NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Don, the change in U.S. immigration policy announced on Friday could potentially impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Paula De Lima is one of them.</s>PAULA DE LIMA, UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT: I'm fighting for my case and that's the reason why I'm here.</s>VALENCIA (voice-over): Standing outside the Atlanta immigration court, the fight for Paula De Lima to stay in the United States began in April. The 18-year-old undocumented immigrant got into a minor car accident outside of Atlanta and was arrested for driving without a license. Brought to the U.S. at 4 years old, De Lima says the only home she knows is the U.S. Going back to Paraguay isn't an option she says.</s>DE LIMA: It was like a really bad feeling. I mean, I have gone there since I was 4 years old. I don't remember anything. I don't know anything. Yes, I have family, grandparents, but it's not the same. I've been here my whole life. I've been here 14 years of my life. I've given everything to this country that I have.</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Good afternoon, everybody. This morning, Secretary Napolitano announced new actions by administration will take to mend our nation's immigration policy.</s>VALENCIA: But a change in immigration policy announced on Friday by the Obama administration could give people like De Lima a renewed hope of not being deported.</s>VANESSA KOSKY, DE LIMA'S IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY: If I could do cartwheels, I would do cartwheels.</s>VALENCIA: De Lima's lawyer Vanessa Kosky says it's not a certainty the new immigration would benefit her client, who was asking for a stay on her deportation order. But she says she believes the latest announcement opens doors many others have been knocking on.</s>KOSKY: This is unbelievable for so many young people, people under 30 years of age in the United States who are brought here by their parents, who have done the right thing, who have gone to school and want to follow the American dream. It's unbelievable.</s>VALENCIA: De Lima is scheduled to be deported in late August. If allowed to stay, she says she wants to join the Navy and one day, become a schoolteacher. (on camera): While the change in U.S. immigration policy does make her eligible for work deferment and potentially avoiding deportation, there are no guarantees. If accepted, applications for stays of removal could take weeks, if not months -- Don.</s>LEMON: All right. Nick Valencia, thank you very much. And earlier, I spoke with a young Palestinian woman. Her family came her when she was just 6. Now she has a degree, she volunteers at an immigration advocacy group, and she's facing deportation in September. I asked her about what she thought of the president's announcement.</s>ALAA MUKAHHAL, UNDOCUMENTED PALESTINIAN FACING DEPORTATION: This is a temporary fix, until Congress can come up with a more permanent solution, until Democrats and Republicans can work together to come up with a permanent solution. But as long as Congress is on a deadlock, this is -- I mean, this is what the president is doing to give at least undocumented youth who have been here a long time a chance to be able to get work permits. So, I think this gives us hope, if anything.</s>LEMON: Alaa Mukahhal hearing is set for September. Naturally, she's hoping to be able to stay where she grew up, and that is in Chicago. Always outspoken on immigration issues, the man nicknamed America's toughest sheriffs has been known to lock horns with the White House. But Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told me he knows exactly why the president made his announcement on immigration.</s>SHERRIFF JOE ARPAIO, MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA: Politics. Why timing? Why now? Why not let Congress decide next year on this issue and all of the illegal immigration problems that we have?</s>LEMON: Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Does God exist? More young people doubt that he does. Next, a look at what's to blame. And first, "don't ask, don't tell" was repealed. Now the Pentagon plans to celebrate gay pride.