biggesti&uh(a . >> visiting president has not visited there since calvin coolidge. stay cool with coolidge. that was his campaign slogan. >> you dropped the trivia like it is just, you know, no big deal. >> i have a copious bounty of presidential trivia. >> oh, boy. mr. obama hopes to forge new relationship with the communist country as we obviously know. not everybody is very happy about this. let's go to teresa priolo live in new jersey also known as little havana on the hudson. good morning. >> reporter: little havana not looking much like the real havana of course because the snow. as you mentioned, juliet, union city is often referred to as little havana. largest cuban population in the united states outside of miami. many fled oppression of castros. obama is attempting to appeal to as he continues his visit to the island nation. the first family is waking up this morning on cuban soil. something that hasn't happened in nearly 90 years. >> good to see you. great job. >> reporter: last time a it something president visited it was by battleship, not air force one.

took president calvin coolidge three days to arrive from washington. took president obama just three hours. >> this is historic visit. it is historic opportunity to engage directly with the cuban people to forge new agreements and commercial deals to form ties between our peoples for me to lay out a vision that is >> reporter: cheers could be heard over the rain as cubans tried to get a view of first family as they walked in cuba. the first official meeting between the two governments in over 50 years. this historic trip is intendedded to help normalize relations between the two countries but some like new jersey senator bob menendez, the son of cuban refugees is criticizing the president for visiting while the cat slows are still in power. >> millions of europeans, canadians, mexicans, latin americans have visited cuba over last several years. made investments. the system has become more repressive. not formore freeport port there is criticism sheltering u.s. fugitives likes joanne chess marred who midded a new jersey state trooper. they are say it is

and president obama said that it only took him three hours compared to calvin coolidge, it took him three days to be here. but there's excitement and optimism as the president wraps up his visit, that there will be positive change here in cuba. >> lynn: well, this indeed was a very very historic visit just on some of the things that we have already mentioned, the first time that the president has come to cuba in 90 years, but also the fact that the president and raul castro had a joint news conference if you will, and that raul castro took questions from the media. that's something that many cuban americans thought that they would never see. in addition to today's speech, as you mentioned, jeff, with the esident speaking and raul castro in the audience, talking about freedom, choices and rights. air force 1 taking off at jose marti airport. and calling for an end to the trade embargo. that has been in place for several decades, and he said congress, who can basically squash that, that they need to see the cuban people, the cuban leaders making strides with human rights, and the embargo, a

president obama touching down, landing in havana, the first president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge in 1928. while we're here, we will have an exclusive interview with president obama, and he will meet privately with the cuban president, and speak directly to the cuban people first. in a televised speech. the first family is here. the cuban people are welcoming them with open arms. as many ask back home, how far will be president go with what he says, about a communist government and human rights? and about the freedoms of ordinary cubans? president obama landing here in cuba late today making history. just 90 miles from the u.s. he is the first president to visit cuba in 88 years. it comes a little more than a year after the president announced the u.s. would begin normalizing relations with cuba, a thaw decades after the cold war ended. president the first time we asked him if this day was coming. will you visit cuba ininour final two years as president? >> you know, i don't have any currt plans to visit cuba. >> reporter: not ruling it out? >> well, let's see how tngs evolve. >>

president calvin coolidge, sailing into havana on a battleship. the only other sitting u.s. president to visit here. it was 1928. his wife, grace, arm in arm with the cuban president. the cheering crowds, leaning from balconies, welcoming president coolidge. a reporter, writing for "the new york times" back then saying, "his face was full of smiles." the streets, then and now, with cuban and american flags. and tonight, president obama, seen smiling too. the president sent a letter to cuba this past week, one of the first direct letters to arrive here in decades. the president writing to a cuban woman. ileana yarza, who has written the president before, sharing her happiness at the president "taking this much needed step." her havana home. the u.s./cuba direct stamp in the corner. the president writing back, "hopefully, i will have time to enjoy a cup of cuban coffee." the hope of this visit on so many faces today. even on a playground, aware of the history. we have not forgotten the children here. the soccer game beyond the fence. robin, telling me, it will be great. we are

landing in havana, the first president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge in 1928. while we're here, we will have an exclusive interview with president obama, and he will meet privately with the cuban the cuban people first. in a televised speech. the first family is here. as many ask back home, how far will be president go with what he says, about a communist government and human rights? and about the freedoms of ordinary cubans? president obama landing here in cuba late today making history. just 90 miles from the u.s. he is the first president to visit cuba in 88 years. it comes a little more than a year after the president announced the u.s. would begin normalizing relations with cuba, a thaw decades after the cold war ended. when we sat down with the president the first time we asked him if this day was coming. will you visit cuba in your final two years as president? >> you know, i don't have any current plans to visit cuba. >> reporter: not ruling it out? >> well, let's see how things evolve. >> reporter: after that first interview, we brought you to cuba. dr

decades, todaypr he shook hands with raul castro in havana cuba the first president to visit since calvin coolidge in 1928. >> as is true in countries around the world we have normalized relations we will continue to stand up for basic principles to believe it, america believes in democracy.in >> president obama also taken part in an entrepreneurship eventnt and will attend the state dinner tonightan, tomorrow expected to address the cuban people in a speech . the us military place a small group of marines and a small outpost in iraqo to protect iraqi military the move comes a day after a staff sergeant was killed by rocket fire,n several others were wounded, the pentagon released a statement announcing the deployment but do not say how many,, two officials say it is between one and 200 t . u.s. bancorp rejected a challenge to colorado's pot law basco anoka wanted the colorado marijuana legalization to be declared unconstitutional they argue that allowed the user to get around federal antidrug laws and claimed it was complicating antidrug efforts but it was dismissed without comment, the supreme c

calvin coolidge was the first and only one to so so in 1928. al jazeera's melissa chan is there for us. melissa how are cubans reacting to the upcoming visit? >> you can imagine how excited everyone in cuba is. this is an historic visit. and one thing is they have been a bit cynical about this visit as well. they love president obama, he's the one that broke the status quo and brought normalization to the forefront along with raul castro. the potholes are getting fixed, some of the infrastructure has been getting fixed that has not been addressed for a very long time so the president also bringing a little bit of good luck in terms of the city getting specifiegetting spiffed. this is a very intense time for the city. the tampa bay rays against the cuban national team. and a concert, they expect half a million people at that concert randall. >> we learned a little bit more about the president's itinerary. where will he be going? >> reporter: in terms of the president's itinerary, it's -- he's got a packed schedule for monday and tuesday. he arri

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president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge. what the historic thought and relations means for business. latests holding its product event, and mailing an updated smallscreen iphone. they also discussed the fbi controversy. are two hours from the close of trading. let's go to julie hyman. julie: stocks not seeing much changed today. they have been seeing a little bit of strength and day has gone on a volume is down about 20%. also down for the other major averages. not seeing as much activity today. if you take a look energy and materials are the 2444 groups -- are the two performing groups, financials as well. industrials and 10 are in the list as well. there is not a clear pattern in terms of what is moving. ll,rgy continues to fa even as oil prices have rebounded today. we are seeing a gain of yearly 2% in crude. we continue to have a weakness in energy stocks. interesting to virgins there. david: materials are lacking today as well? jeffries are downgrading in part because of a big rally recently. evaluation bounce might hav

are we back to calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, and fdr?re huge cycles within human civilization. tom: but in a corporate paper, are we back to 3% on a corporate coupon? george: we are. that is roughly where it is. roughly into get 3% a fixed income. it is absolutely where we are. what got us here is the question about growth and monetary policy and the lack of measures. tom: the summation of this, francine, is none of us will retire. casket is out behind radio. because we are never going to retire. francine: as you were talking, i was thinking of that magical headline from donald trump, saying yen needs to strengthen because devaluation is something he will not stand for. coming up tomorrow, we talk to the rbs chairman. a.m. in new:00 york, 10:00 a.m. in london. i am looking to the conversation as there are more and more worries about brexit. ♪ ruble.e: we are watching tom keene is in new york. vonnie quinn has the latest on vladimir putin. vonnie: we have some live pictures of the russian president speaking from the ministry of internal a

president since calvin coolidge in 1920. our affiliate station in miami was on the ground as the eagle landed. >> reporter: president obama brought his family to cuba, a big step toward normalizing relations with a cold war adversary is the first sitting there president to visit cuba in nearly 90 years. >> this is a historic visit an opportunity. >> reporter: the president greeted same embassy staff. for weeks work: has been repairing for his revival restoring some roads and fresh coats of paint have been applied to homes and businesses and areas the president will tour in this welcome sign was put up an old havana. many cubans are hopeful the more openness between the islands nation and the u.s. text i think we are going to have some changes. >> reporter: the president will meet with a number of prominent cuban dissidents but the white house will not say ho is on that guest list. president obama will meet with u.s. and cuban business leaders, many cubans are hopeful his visit to make life here better. >> people want to hear

yeah, that trip for calvin coolidge took three days by battleship. president obama said he got here for about three hours. he toured yesterday and today will turn to politics. he says he won't hesitate to bring up problems, concerns that they have with the cuban government especially when it comes to human rights issues here. the president will then take part in a state dinner later this evening where the leaders will get a chance to chat. tomorrow he will take in a baseball game, first ever major league contest played here on cuban soil. preseason game of course. one that many of the cuban people say is the first step toward easing restrictions and relations between the two countries. that's the latest live here. jay gray, news 4. >>> developing this morning, north korea fires several missiles into the sea. this latest round includes a missile launch and several short range projectiles being sent into the waters off the east coast of that country. south korea's news agency reports this is just three days after the north fired medium range missile. o

the last time berkeley high was in the big game, calvin coolidge was in office. >>> and president obama working to mend fences by releasing previously classified files relating to argentina's violent past. (vo) making the most out of every mile. that's why i got a subaru impreza. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> president obama is wrapping up his visit to argentina by paying tribute to the victims of that nation's dirt i can't, war 40 years ago. the president promised to open previously classified files related to that period. >> reporter: president obama spending his final days in argentina paying tribute to the victims of the dirty war, a dark period of military rule marked by the deaths of tens of thousands. it was sparked by a military coup supported by the u.s. president obama says it's time for america to take responsibility for the role it played. >> democracies have to have the courage to acknowledge when we don't live up to the ideals that we stand for. we've been slow to speak out for human rights. >> the president has agreed to declassify previously secret docume

president calvin coolidge addressed the pan-american conference in cuba back in january 1928. president obama referenced that today in his first stop of the trip, a visit to the u.s. embassy. staffers and their families they talked with. watch. >> it's been nearly 90 years since a u.s. president stepped foot in cuba. it is wonderful to be here. back in 1928, president coolidge came on a battleship. it took him three days to get here. it only took me three hours. i know it's been a pretty busy seven months. you've helped support high-profile visitors from across the administration. and the business community. and now me and michelle, and i know your workload is a lot heavier than it was. but i want you to know everything we've accomplished so far, more americans coming to cuba, more engagement with the cuban people, civil society, faith groups, entrepreneurs, students, young people, more opportunities for the cuban people to improve their lives. it's all happening because of you. every single day, you're bringing the cuban people and the american people closer together. >> the

president has visited cuba, not since calvin coolidge arrived on a battle ship.hanging over this entire trip is the communist government's long history of human rights abuses. president obama is expected to raise this when they sate down for a bilateral meeting, the two presidents, which will be beginning any minute. he will be here. this is his first full day in cuba. following along with history day with us, let's bring in chris cuomo who is in havana, and patrick ottoman. chris, you've been watching all this. this is not your first time in cuba. talk to us just in this moment. history in the making. this is the signature meeting. this is that photo opportunity. this is the moment that will go down in history, what we just saw between president obama and raul castro. >> reporter: it's been a big string of firsts. yesterday when air force one touched down. to use patrick's words, yes, 1928, yes, calvin coolidge, but more accurately the word is never. since the revolution, none of this has happened. and cuba prerevolution was not the cuba of today. the comparison

president to visit the country since calvin coolidge in 1928 by boat. marci gonzales has a look at the historic first moments. marci: a warm welcome to cuba. storage step forward in trying to mend -- an historic step forward and trying to mend the divide. has been obama: it nearly 90 years since a u.s. president set foot in cuba. it is wonderful to be here. the president visiting with u.s. embassy staff, playing along with the first family and old havana, past the vintage cars and weathered building, before sitting down with president raul castro. we are building .ies between our people and i'm laying out my vision for a brighter tomorrow. marci: problems of the present in full view. just before president obama's arrival, outspoken opponents to the regime arrested, part of the human rights concerns the president plans tois dissidents. >> he needs to challenge the regime come if you want to move forward at thus, you have to do this. marci: while there are plenty of critics of this visit, in havana we have seen excitement about the possibility of change.

no sitting president has set foot in havana since calvin coolidge sailed there in 1928. but president obama spoke to them live from the great theater of havana. listen. >> i believe the citizens should be free speak their mind without fear to organize and to criticize their government and to protest peacefully. and that the rule of law should not include arbitrary detensions of peopldetentionsof people whoe rights. >> our reporter david ariosto used to live in havana, as a base to report on it for an american audience. he went back to have a look at the america's policy and how it could fundamentally change cuban communism. >> reporter: for restaurant owners in cuba this is the picture of progress. live music, free-flowing rum and a high class of clientele who aren't just foreigners, cubans at least dine and drink. and for a country that has long aspired to do away with notions of rich and poor, a new and historic shift in u.s. policy could deepen the divide in this communist country where new stratas of wealth and class are already beginning to form. while be panels of

he will be the first sitting pbesident to visit that island since calvin coolidge, back in the 1920s. the president has said that he hopes his visit kick starts business relations between the united states and cuba. >> the more that u.s. businesses are engaged in, the more we have people traveling there, the more cuban-americans are able to interact with family members that in some cases they haven't seen in decades. the more likely we are to see the kind of changes that all of >> reporter: representative, ileana rossley releasing this statement this afternoon. u.s. policy must focus less on easing our regulations and more on putting pressure on the castro brothers to unclench its fists, which oppress the cuban people. again, there's a protest set for sunday, 11 a.m., here at 8th street and 13th avenue by those who are not happy about the easing ofome of these restrictions. we're live in little havana, i'm alex diprato, 7 news. >> danielle: and also on 7, the nun who is already known for being a saint is actually about to become one. and now we know when. pope francis announcing the d

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the televised address will take place in the same theater where calvin coolidge, the last american preside to visit, spoke 88 years ago. then mr. obama will attend the major league baseball game cuban national baseball team. the stajum underwent tons of im improvements improvements. for most fans, it is invite only. the rays will become the first major league baseball franchise to play in havana since 1999. the tweets pouring in from people around the world using the hashtag obamaencuba. click on the cuba crossroads sections. >>> a rain day in parts of south florida. here's chief meteorologist john morales watching the radar for us. >> the rain should taper off tonight. big changes with aig drop in >>> coming up next, house party horror. a night of fun ends in a hail of gunfire inside of a home packed with hundreds of people. hear from the people who made it out alive. >>> south florida college student now missing after a freak accident on a caribbean island. >>> it's another "sports final" sunday night in miami. the heat crushing the first place cavaliers last night at the aaa. the kanes

the last president who visited was calvin coolidge and he spoke 88 years ago. i asked some cubans will the visit could lead to change? >> for the moment, things have changed at least for the country >> i don't think there's much difference. things seem to be the same. >> the president meets with a civil society. anti-government protesters like the leaders of the lady in white who want more democratic reforms like free speech and right to assembly. this man says he's with the ladies in white and obama's visit won't change it. >> this moment in time, the political police and the government agencies, there's no change, there's always repression and a march of bad things. change is for them. >> and before leaving tuesday afternoon, president obama will attend a baseball game between the team and tampa bay rays. >> the first time they've played in cuba since 1999. >> for days after president obama leaves on friday, the rolling stones will roll intnt town for a major concert. building a massive stage to perform forn expected crowd of 1 million people. now, the preses

in havana, traveling with the president, kevin cork, fox news. >>> in 1928 president calvin coolidge sailed in to the sound of the cuban artillery saluting the arrival. it was president coolidge's only foreign trip as president. he attended the sixth pan american conference to declare goodwill toward cuba after decades of hostility, but no sitting president has returned up until now. >>> coming up, apple's product announcements always come with a whole lot of fanfare. today is no exception. we are asking our expert about the new offering just for the apple faithful, or is it something that maybe any of us can get excited about? you've got to go to our facebook page. an easter bunny involved in a brawl. it happened inside a new jersey mall where families were there trying to get the children's pictures taken. watch the video. ktvu on facebook. >>> a quick peek outside. northbound 680 through the sunol grade slow. "the four on 2" will be right back. >>> the surprise had been leaked but that did not stop the fanfare surrounding apple's unveiling of new products. but late morning members

first sitting american president to come to cuba in nine decades dating back to 1928 when calvin coolidge came here with his wife. see you at 11:00. >> reporter: well in place ahead of the president's visit tomorrow. >> stay with local 10 news for more coverage tonight at 11:00. president's arrival tomorrow afternoon at 4:00. >>> now to wild weather in fort lauderdale. a water spout was seen churning off the coast. this video posted on youtube. >> another video shows the conditio out at sea under a severe thunderstorm watch. heading into tonight. we have team coverage on the wicked weather. jennifer is in the weather center. >> first we start with derrick live in fort lauderdale with a look at the damage. >> reporter: people out here say they were actually really scared as they saw this giant water spout moving towards the beach and they have good reason. take a look at the damage that that water spout left behind. those are pieces just beyond these people. pieces of sail boats just tossed everywhere. take a look at this incredible away over theater then making landfall in fort lauderdale

the first sitting president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge, back in 1978. so with when all of the ceremonies, photo ops and speeches were over, was it all just political theater? or did the president really

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the vice president. >> this is the first time since calvin coolidge and i'm sure you know this when calvine president of cuba showed up to greet. >> okay. i don't even think the white house wanted him to meet him there in the first place. >> why not? >> because if they wanted to, i think they would have demanded that he do it. >> demanded? >> let's also remember that the president was able the white house was able to get him to agree to have a press conference. something that he doesn't normally do. they got something much more posh than a photo op. in an airport. >> i want you to watch the woody allen movie bananas. >> i have already seen it, bill. i'm one step ahead of you. >> everybody should watch that movie and get up to speed. >> donald trump meeting with2a some prominent republicans in d.c. newt gingrich was there. he will debrief us. watters with the young'ns talking politics. >> what is the most important issue facing the country today? >> i don't have enough shoes. >> we hope y don't let dust and allergies get between you and life's beautiful moments. with flonase allergy relief,

the first sitting president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge, back in 1978. so with when all of the ceremonies, photo ops and speeches were over, was it all just political theater? or did the president really usher in a new era?

the last time an american president visited was cuba was calvin coolidge in 1928 and he years ago. i asked some cubans if the change? >> for the moment things have changed. at least the image for the country and the people. >> i don't think there's mch of a difference. president meets with a civil society like the leaders of the lady in white who want democratic reform. like free speech and the right to assembly without being arrested. this man said he's with the lea dis in white and the visit won't change much. >> at this moment in time, the political police and government agencies there's no chchge. there's always repression and a march of bad things. the change isisor them. not the people. >> before leaving cuba mid tuesday afternoon, president obama will attend a baseball game betweenen the cuban national team and the tampa bay rays. e first time an american league team played in cuba since 1999. michelle obama will be active. she's planning to meet with young girls with the let's go learn initiative. that's about educating young gerls about their future and self-esteem. the pr

the first time in 90 years that a sitting president has been in cucu. 89 years ago, calvin coolidge was there. and you heard him talk about achieving more to help themselves, and also the future and the younger generations in cuba. the president wrapping up his remarks at a news conference, earlier today with raul castro. america wants to be your partner, encouraging more access to the internet. and he continues to speak, let's listen in. >> anchor: okay, the president just wrapping up those remarks a few moments ago. he has a state dinner at 7:25 tonight. and then the president will be addressing the nation of cuba, cuban television, and some of the reports will be carrying the speech by the president, where he will focus on human rights and what the country is facing, and then later, president obama will be sitting down with a group off dissidents in cuba to facing >> danielle: they're taking q-and-a. and the president looking also, self-employment. break. >> lynn: welcome back, everybody. a tragedy involving a woman attending a music festival >> anchor: rosh lowe is following this li

president obama becomes the first commander-in-chief to visit the communist nation since calvin coolidge in 19-28. the president also visited revolutionary square... and a museum dedicated to independence hero jose marti. this visit comes about three months after the white house announced plans to normalize u-s embassies have opened in washington and havana since then. but, tensions remain over issues such as human rights and the u-s trade embargo: 3 first lady also attended a mojito-flavored shrimp mousse... a rum cream soup... and pork with plantains. 3 ((walter and as relations between cuba and the u-s continue to warm up... cuban consulate, right here in st. petersburg. fox 13's is in cuba following the president's visit. he talked with several st. pete city officials about that embassy plan... including mayor rick kriseman: 3 3 3 and of course, the tampa they're playing cuba's national team... later today. at the stadium in havana... and a big crowd of cubans came out to see them. the game starts at two p-m today. both president obama and cuban president raul castro will be in the s

the first president to go to the communist island since calvin coolidge arrived in a battleship in 1928it marks the end of decades of standoffs between the two nations. our correspondent joins us from havana. raul castro will officially welcomed the obama's later today. is on the cards today? >> let me to you what the first item on the agenda is -- it is a symbolically heavy one. president obama will be going to martin memorial. there will be a wreathlaying on behalf of president barack obama. then he will walk to the palacio de revolucion. he will be holding bilateral meetings with his counterpart, raul castro. this is the first time these meetings are happening on american or cuban soil. we are very close to one of the most famous images of havana. the effigy of che guevara. chances are that president obama will be captured in the same picture as that monument on that side of the building. the day is set for all sorts of momentous occasions, momentous photo opportunities, as well. this is also about serious discussions with the cuban government. they don't know each other very well. i

president to walk on cuban soil since 1928, when calvin coolidge arrived aboard a warship. president obama brought another symbol of american power: a delegation of corporate leaders, including the c.e.o. of xerox, and executives from companies like marriott and starwood, which just struck a deal to become the first american hotel operator in havana in nearly 60 years. they will tap a market long out of reach due to the ongoing trade embargo that cut off communist cuba during the cold war. scholar peter kornbluh, author of "backchannel to cuba," said the island is ripe for investment. >> they see a market that is really ready for u.s. companies and the professionalism and the infrastructure and the resources that u.s. companies can bring. they see a potential tourist hotspot that from here to eternity. >> reporter: when the castros accepted the 2014 offer to normalize relations, they appeared willing to test the benefits of capitalism. since then, the u.s. has approved over $4 billion worth of business between the former foes, loosened the travel ban, restarted direct mail

not since calvin coolidge has a sitting american president visited cuba. the saint petersburg mayor is also there pitching for a cuban consulate in his city, but not everyone thinks it is a good >> i think it is breaking down barriers. >> reporter: tampa mayor bob buckhorn says he thinks the embargo is a failure. >> out of the respect of the people i represent, thousands of whom built this city and were thrown out of cuba, some spent decades in castro's jails, out of respect for that experience, i personally am not going to cuba. but i don't stand in the way of other people doing it. >> reporter: some in west tampa are not happy the president is there. every american citizen. >> reporter: these lady haves family from cuba and could barely contain their anger when trip. >> so what did you think when you saw the president stands next to raul castro? >> not a happy thought, but i'm not going to mention what i'm saying because that is our president and i'm trying to be respectful but my thoughts were not kind. >> reporter: i have seen a lot but also a lot of s

calvin coolidge. of. >>> breaking news. a baby's terrified cries cut through the darkness, a couple picks up the luggage and runs away. >>> explosions rock in an airport and brussels. >> an urgent manhunt under way. two terrorists likely killed in the blast and in a hat and jacket on the loose. >>> and president obama says ... >> we must be together in faith and race. >> and the world pulls together in tribute. >> and the most powerful symbol of freedom flies at half-staff white house. >> the death toll has gone up to 34 and isis has claimed responsibility. >> casualty numbers to be released tomorrow but believed to be in the hundreds. a warning for people traveling in europe an increased security at home in the u.s. let's go to wusa9 in d c where how people are paying tribute to the victims. >> reporter: a make-shift memorial at the belgium embassy as you can see for the victims of this morning's deadly attack in brussels that may have happened to here and there but it the way here. >> the pictures tonight of brussels coul

davis who lost to calvin coolidge. stephenson the 1952 nominee and most recent brokered nominees. >> he had a familiar ring. >> they resent it and think something should be done about it. >> dewey and stephenson lost the general election and brokered candidates aren't good. and a study shows they were nominated 55% of the time and those on the second ballot or later 59% of the time and the last winning presidential nominee produced by a brokered convention was fdr in 1932. >> i appreciate your willingness to these days. >> interesting to cleveland's since a republican presidential convention opened without a clear nominee. for democrats it's 32 years. both times the frontrunner won it. >> call it brokered or contested. wheeling and dealing will be done either way. ronald reagan won naming george bush as vice president and won the delegates over when gerald ford was leading contender for g.o.p. paul orlousky, cleveland 19. >> mark: orlo, thanks. >>> it is held at the q. >>> after facing off against bernie sanders in mic

when calvin coolidge came to cuba some 90 years ago, he came aboard a u.s. gun ship.sident obama is promising something much different, what he called cruise ship diplomacy, more trade, close relations, much more interactions on the governmental level and really on the people-to-people level. earlier today we had the rare opportunity to sit down with one of the top cuban negotiators who has made the normalization of relations between cuba and the u.s. happen. and she talked about some of the issues that are going to be addressed during this historic visit, poppy. >>> i think there is a respect, undoubtedly there is respect. you saw that and i saw that during the summit of the americas in panama. how president raul castro addressed to president obama, recognizing that after president jimmy carter, he has been the only one in our past history who has decided to begin the process to a normalization of relations with cuba. >> reporter: and president obama will of course meet with cuban president raul castro. there will be several opportunities for those two leaders to int

something that an american president hasn't done since calvin coolidge.ma sees havana, it's the "inside story." welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. for people who have been waiting to see this trip for decades, it's the culmination of a strong desire to get on with writing the final chapters of the cold war story. for people who have noted how little the castro regimes have done to meet the u.s. halfway in return for reopening relations, this is another step down the path of 9 naive you tai. naivete. the administration says it has insisted on meeting with cuban dissidents when the president is in cuba. and wreath laying at a monument, obama on havana. lucia newman has a preview of the president's visit. >> reporter: it stills looks like the havana of the pre-cold war era. like most visitors president barack obama will likely be thrust back into the 1950s when he sees havana's art deco architecture and cars, before the 1559 revolution still working against all odds. he will tour old havana and perhaps eat one of the scores of privately new restauran

the rays played a game against the cuban national team in havana and the first time since calvin coolidge visiting the island. the game was about the goodwill and it was the rays that came out on top. james looney went deep in the 4th. p and three rbis for him and the rays won. >>> a historic day. >>> been a long time. >>> joe, thank you. >>> and thank you for joining us. have a great night everyone. see you later. ♪ let's go ♪ hey, oh ♪ let's go [ beep ] ♪ they're piling in the backseat ♪ aah! ♪ they're generating steam heat ♪ ♪ pulsating to the back beat ♪ the blitzkrieg bop ♪ ♪ hey, oh, let's go ♪ shoot 'em in the back now ♪ what they want, i don't know ♪ they're all revved up and ready to go ♪ ibiza can only take us at 6:30 tonight. great. i will meet you at ibiza. it's pronounced "ibeetha," not "ibeeza." that reminds me -- this weekend, i want to see that baby panda at the "thoo." [ both laugh ] yeah...i'm the idiot. this year for valentine's day, we're gonna have a nice, quiet dinner at ibiza. last year, we, um... we overreached... a little. we created sexy alter egos -- clive and j

the last was calvin coolidge.sident obama used the address to say to cuban leaders they must continue the process of change or they will let down their young people. pres. obama: there is a revolution in cuba. a generational change. many suggested i come here and asked the people of cuba to tear something down. appealing to the young people of cuba to build something new. [speaking spanish] laura: the future of cuba allies in the hands of cuba's people, president obama said in spanish. that is something that the twentysomethings of cuba, that he might have been speaking to, have taken firmly to heart. katty: it seems like the cold war. even though it was a long time ago, it was a simpler time. let's go back to brussels. these are live pictures. the center of brussels, where residents of the city have laid flowers. you can see cands burning. flags from around the world are being laid in brussels by residents, remembering those who lost their lives and standing in solidarity. let's hear from some of the people who w

. >> reporter: as you reported some 88 years since calvin coolidge made the trip in the waning days of administration. it almost has sort of a celebratory air of it. obviously many problems remain in cuba, still an embargo imposed by congress, would have to be lifted by congress from the united states on cuba. the president will arrive, he has got the entire first family intoe on sunday. he has first lady michelle obama, his daughters and his mother-in-law. on monday he gets down to business. let's go through some of the major events here on his three-day schedule. he'll meet with the president of cuba. white house officials insist there will be no meeting between president obama and fidel castro. on tuesday an address to the cuban people. he will talk about many of the major issues on the agenda, human rights as well as economic opportunities, a round table with dissidents. this is something a lot of people are looking forward to, this meeting with cuban dissidents later that day. and to wrap up, perhaps appro h appropria appropriately, a baseball game. the tampa bay rays will play wi