[Dean:] It is the Fourth of July holiday weekend across America, which for many means fireworks, cookouts, and celebrating freedom. This week's CNN Hero is helping refugees who come to America seeking safety and freedom get one step closer to achieving the American dream. Meet Kerry Brodie.
[Kerry Brodie, Cnn Hero:] What we're teaching our students isn't just knife skills, and it isn't just cooking. It's the idea that you are a human and you have value, and that's something that people have tried to strip away from others for such a long time. What's the dream team cooking up?
[Unidentified Male:] Samba cake.
[Brodie:] Samba cake, awesome. That experience of watching our students transform, of seeing our students really come into their own inspires me.
[Dean:] To get the full story about Kerry's program and to nominate someone you think should be a CNN Hero, go to CNNheroes.com. Team USA is one day away from going for back to back World Cup titles.
[Blackwell:] But they just cannot seem to escape the controversy and the criticism. Vince is back.
[Dean:] Why?
[Vince Cellini, Cnn Sports Correspondent:] Well, the 13-0 Victory over Thailand and the White House, we're not going to the White House, so there's a lot going on there. But I don't know. It works for them. You could say no women's soccer team has faced more scrutinycriticism than Team USA has at the Women's World Cup this year. But the team seems to thrive on it. Not afraid to face it head on no matter what it is or who it comes from because they have been there before.
[Alex Morgan, Uswnt Co-captain:] We understand that the eyes are kind of on us, and it's kind of in a magnified situation. So in that case we've had a will the a lot of team conversations about keeping that bubble tight and making sure that everything outside is just noise, and at the end of the day, we're here to do a job, and a job that we've like dreamt of and worked our entire lives for.
[Cellini:] Team USA to play the Netherlands, big underdog in the World Cup crown, for that 11:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning. The news NBA fans have been waiting for, Kawhi Leonard is heading to Los Angeles, but he won't be a Laker. Instead signing a four-year $142 million contract with the Clippers. This according to ESPN and Yahoo! Sports. Leonard had also considered the Lakers and returning to the Raptors after winning a title in Toronto. The Clippers also reportedly trading for Oklahoma City star forward Paul George in exchange for two players, five first round picks, thus giving the Clippers that most precious of things, hope. Well, we've seen the tennis phenom Cori "Coco" Gauff at Wimbledon cruising through the first two rounds. And now we know she's a warrior too. She proved that. Down five-two in the second set yesterday, the 15-year-old American faced two match points against Polona Hercog. She battled back, winning both of those pants, went on to capture the second in a tiebreak, and in the third staved off a comeback from Hercog, pulling out an impressive and grueling three-set win. With all this attention, you have to remember she's just 15 and was virtually unknown a week ago.
[Coco Gauff, Tennis Player:] It's just crazy how like I remember before I played Venus, as you know, when you walk to leave the practice courts there are people waiting, and one little kid asked me for a picture, and then after the next day after I played Venus, everybody was screaming my name. So it's just pretty surreal how life changes in a matter of seconds.
[Cellini:] Surreal, but this is very real. Look at the crowd going crazy back in Delray Beach, Florida, where her family lives, brothers and grandmother are watching. It was so cool to see them all together and support her. But I tell you what game she has, poise and moxie and certainly talent on top of all that. She's been a fun one to watch.
[Blackwell:] Just a week of dreams to start by winning over her idol Venus Williams in the first round, and now going on against Halep up next.
[Cellini:] And this run continues, see how far it can go.
[Dean:] She's got a long future.
[Blackwell:] It's fun to watch. It's fun to watch her for the first time doing all of this.
[Cellini:] She's electric, that's for sure.
[Blackwell:] Vince, thanks so much. So Royal watchers, this one is for you.
[Dean:] The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby boy will be christened at Windsor Castle today, two months to the day after he was born. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have planned a private ceremony for Archie attended by fewer than 25 people, which means the media will not be allowed in. But the royal couple does plan to share photos after the event. Some of the British press, though, are criticizing the move, pointing out that since taxpayers paid for renovations to the couple's new home, they deserve more access.
[Blackwell:] And just a little time to show you this video from Los Angeles, and we can sympathize here, two news anchors duck for cover during last night's powerful earthquake.
[Dean:] That epicenter of the quake was 125 miles from their studios in the L.A. area, but the power of the tremor was evident.
[Unidentified Female:] We're making sure that nothing is going to come down in the studio here.
[Unidentified Male:] And it is going for quite a bit, everybody.
[Unidentified Female: I -- Unidentified Male:] It continues to rattle pretty strong here.
[Unidentified Female:] This is a very strong earthquake. It's 8:21 here on the air, we're experiencing very strong shaking. I think we need to get under the desk.
[Unidentified Male:] We're going to go to break. We'll be right back after this.
[Unidentified Female:] We'll be right back.
[Unidentified Male:] Wow.
[Dean:] That was very real there.
[Blackwell:] She did the right thing. By getting under the desk. I don't know if I would get under the desk just because
[I -- Dean:] This is glass, well, plexiglass.
[Blackwell:] That's enough.
[Dean:] Hopefully we never have to find out.
[Blackwell:] Yes.
[Dean:] Thanks so much for starting your morning with us.
[Blackwell:] Fredricka Whitfield is up next with CNN's continuing coverage of that 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit California overnight. We'll be back tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. Eastern for CNN NEW DAY. We'll see you then. Stay with us.