he's interested in the island's infectious dance music, suns m arama. >> cube man musicians are highly skilled and the sound is dense. >> he is negotiating with the copyright holder for more than 1,500 tunes. they agreed to discuss a contract. the doors are opening, but cuba is a socialist country and some major challenges remain. aging infrastructure and strict regulations are at the top of the list. for the refrigerator maker, the first problem comes when trying to find an office to rent. the places he is shown are either not suitable or too expensive. >> translator: there are so many business opportunities in cuba, but there's still amount we don't know about contracts and payment. we'll just have to learn as we go. >> reporter: the difficulties don't seem to deter the business delegation or other international companies. cuba's economy expanded more than 4% last year, and in terms of solid growth, that's the best they have seen in years. >> that's the latest in business for this hour, it's back to catherine now. >>> we take you to singapore now where a court has sentenced four bang

bragged about, unlike previous conventions which were all dull as dish water, his would be show business-arama baby and we know what happened there. in contrast, looking at the speakers tonight at the dnc and the performers, elizabeth banks, tony goldwyn, america ferrara, lena dunham. we'll hear from meryl streep, alicia keys. what does that say to you. somebody who is a communications pro in the republican party, how much does that celebrity factor, the show biz factor matter? >> speaking personally, i can't wait to get off of this stand and try to get autographs. i've never been in a room with this many famous people. there is not a lot of evidence and i hope no hollywood people are listening that it makes that much difference. they're not expected to endorse republicans. they turn out in large numbers for democrats is not news worthy, there are a few exceptions. i thought sarah silverman, true to the bernie core supporters was an effective moment. oprah winfrey's endorsement of barack obama was extremely effective. we enjoyed the music of brooks and dunn. celebrities and famous people aroun

unwilling to raise taxes sufficiently have raised, but to raise enough revenue general taxation and aramaic i don't think that imposed on states. that is a decision and then they are looking for money elsewhere. attach a little bit about privatization. some significant turn is not looking at that as much because that the end of the day, the state leaders are determining the scope of the contracts and how the money is used. they obtain the resources from children at the highest levels and say we will take the money and diverted to use date coffers. another same theme in terms of state control. there has been an increasing number of puzzles over the years to increase what are called block grants. mine has proposed this before. chomp at the grant medicaid program, the book being the subject of s.a.t. and camera provides strong evidence that block grants are a horrible idea. if you have, even if he thought it might be a good idea in the first place. under the evidence, if you have governors using dia lussier shell gave to move money around and then diverting those friends from intended purpose