and cuba continue to warm. yesterday it was revealed that a senior u.s. diplomat held a series of previously undisclosed meetings with cuban officials while on a recent visit to that country. the diplomat also met with opposition activists during the trip. not long ago the united states eased restrictions on traveling and sending money to cuba. the u.s. has also been in talks with cuba over migration issues and over restoring direct mail service between the two countries, something that was suspended in 1963. >>> there was yet another warning today about the dangers posed by global warming. according to a report issued by the international food policy research institute, an ngo devoted to eliminating hunger, rising temperatures could devastate family farming in poor countries around the world. sub-saharan africa and southern asia will be hit especially hard, the report says, forcing 25 million more children into hunger over the next several decades. >>> in the southeast asian nation of malaysia, the impact of climate change isn't the only environmental wo

tuvo buenas razones. >>> me tendrían que preguntar si quería ir a cuba, no me sentía con el momentonuevo disco la canción que grabó con juanes es porque no se lo permitió su disquera. >>> y jenni rivera abrió las puertas de su casa, y dijo quetp le encantaría tener un bebé con su novio esteban loaiza, y le dio la bienvenida al amor. escuchemos. >>> comprendo a mis fanaticas cuando dicen que están adictas a la relaciones tormentosas, porque me llegó algo nuevo a mi vida, y no sabía cómo aceptarlo, como asimilarlo, estoy contenta de que sea mi presente, que quiera estar en mi futuro y acepte mi pasado. >>> esas declaraciones las hizo para people en español, y posó con toda la familia y hasta el perro. >>> y se lanzó como cantante la hija de pedro infante hibajo. >>> y con lágrimas le dedicó una canción al fallecido artista. >>> cuandoh@ él fallecióh@h@ápr@ muy de repente, y pwpjoÑse cómhf h@quedó go, copwpjkuh@áprimer i sorpresa. >>> me hablaron al celular y me preocupé, pero nunca espere esto. >>> a su corta edad lupita infante vivió las tragedias y los éxitos, y la preparó para enfr

he's charged with hijacking a pan-am flight and forcing it to land in cuba in 1968.er getting off a flight from havana. if convicted, he could face life in prison. >>> the former top man at enron will ask the supreme court to let him out of prison. jeffrey skilling was convicted on 19 counts of securities fraud, insider trader and conspiracy, all stemming from the spectacular collapse of the energy brokerage company. he claims prosecutors never proved he personally profited from the high-flying deals that brought that company down. the supreme court will hear his case early next year. >>> your child's school probably has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to potential weapons. but do these policies, maybe, go too far? see how one kid got suspended for taking a cub scout camping utensil to school. >>> looks like a 6-year-old who was headed to reform school, he might catch a break. this 6-year-old boy lives in delaware. he was suspended from school. this is what the problem was. he took a camping utensil to school, one of those knife, fork spoon thing a-ma-jigs. he'

. >> cuba is opening up to market forces and redistributing land. this is the biggest development of its kind since the revolution and 1959. the president has been leasing millions of acres of unused land to farmers. we have a report from the central province. >> in this small family farm is working hard to meet demand. part of a cooperative made up of individuals who stuck together for credit and supplies. farmers produce three-quarters of the islands food. in the past, it was tolerated, now it is actively encourage. >> th are paying a lot more attention to us. now we earn more money because we're selling more food. >> this is a new member of the cooperative. all of this is on land that two years ago belonged to a state farm. the club has acquired the land. all of it is in need of attentio -- the co-op has acquired the land. much of the fertile land has been covered by a weed. once a week takes hold, nothing else can grow. -- once the weed takes hold. it is a nightmare. even the cattle cannot grace. -- graze. the state is helping with access to fue

he was on his way to cuba. he was a communist. you have one after another of all of these guys -- so it isn't good. it isn't because obama is liberal. if something happens to him, it will be moveon.org. >> it's because he's black. come on, let's just say it. >> no. >> yes, it is. >> okay. maybe liberals -- liberals are a little racist. >> she says it with a straight face. that's what i love about her. >> they are. would you like examples? >> no. i'm -- i don't want to go in to that. it sounds ridiculous. >> charlie rangel or the democratic party treating governor paterson? >> charlie rangel is on the way out. they're after him. >> that's what i'm saying. they're jumping on his case but leaving chris dodd alone? they give the head of the dnc -- >> you act is if the republicans don't attack their own -- don't go after their -- after 100 years. they go after them in -- >> if you are comparing -- >> democrats go after their own at their own pace, the same as the republicans. >> if you were comparing the crimes and put charlie rangel w

his gnawingal address -- inaugural address, the outstretched hand, he has had talks with iran, with cuba. there is a great deal of promise for delivery. middle east peace talks stalemated, going nowhere. i mean, it's a very uneven thing. and on climate change, his u.n. speech was a huge disappointment to the people. >> let's go back to a couple of issues that seem to be driving the scorecard. first, afghanistan the you were in pakistan recently. this question -- is he right now? this is a fact question. is he right to reconsider his decision back in march to go in deeper? >> i think the president and his advisors want to make sure that they're getting this right. they feel that the country got very angry at george bush for seeming to rush to war in iraq, and they don't want to do that again, even though they were the ones who said they were going to get serious about afghanistan. they want to make sure they've got it right. i think there's probably more public support for that than we think. people know that lives are at stake here. but getting the strategy right, i think, chris, somethi

despite that she's really not able to see the world beyond the walls of cuba. she in fact was denied a visa by her government barred from going to new york city to receive a journalism award from columbia university. why is she being honored in new york? it's for her blog called generation y. gets a million hits a month. blog topics liveke a risky post. she writes the message at home and hunts around her hometown searching for an internet cafe or hotel that has a business center and uploads it to her blog from there. ironically, the award is for furthering inter american understanding and excellence in latin america but denied the visa to get to new york in order to celebrate that honor. >> she goes through a lot and puts a lot at risk. good story. >>> are some of hollywood's a-listers too thin? joy behar got an idea of what lynda carter thinks about that last night. >> today's actresses are built like boys. they come on my other show "the view" and they're so thin they look as though they were raised like veal like in a corral where they stop them from eating

the senate health education labor and pension committees. >>> after spending the past 40 years in cubarmando pena soltren accused of hijacking a plane and forcing it to land in cuba back in 1968. he surrendered to federal authorities sunday at jfk after getting off a flight from havana. if convicted he could spend the rest of his life in plizen. >>> the three people accused of feeding anna nicole smith's drug addiction will be in court today. a judge will decide if there's enough evidence for them to stand trial. anna nicole smith was 39 years old when she died of a drug overdose in 2007. two doctors and smith's lawyer and boyfriend howard k. stern all pleaded not guilty to con spearing to illegally provide her with controlled substances. larry herk hedd a expected to testify in this master later this week. >>> county safety officials say that sweat lodge where people got sickened two people died didn't have the needed permit the needed building permit. he says the structure at a sedona arizona, resort was taken down before it could be inspected. the sheriff was lacking to see if any t

>> he went to cuba. do you think that fidel castro would allow you to make millions of dollars trashing his system? >> good question. sean: you would be killed. >> i do not think so. you are still following that line? >sean: i have a friend of mine whose family was killed when he came to power. >> what about the murder done in our name in the last decade. you are getting diverted. you do not want to talk about this, that is the real issue. what has been done in iraq and afghanistan and other places. sean: did you read the 9/11 commission report? >> of course i did. sean: it says that they were at war with us. >> who are they? sean: terrorists. >> those are criminal fugs. sean: they are warriors. >> they are not warriors. you have seen the videos of them climbing the monkey bars. you are making them equal to us. only a wuss would be afraid of that. these are criminals committed mass murder of 3000 people. they should have been brought to justice by now. why have they not? sean: it is not as simple as you

and a year later there were missiles in cuba. and finally, obama is supposed to go back no copenhagen in two months. i don't think he wants to come home 0 for 2 again from copenhagen. that likely mean he's going to be under enormous pressure to make concessions that we probably shouldn't make. >> walter russell meade, is this a self-inflicted wound, a, to president obama's own standing and b, to america's standing? i think you would agree much more about foreign policy? but this is a tricky moment with afghanistan, pakistan and whatever else. self-inflicted wound? >> it is. there was no need to do it. he did it anyway and now he's got to live with the consequences. better on something like the olympics than on something like iran or pakistan, a big mistake with a big issue. in america, we have this habit of electing these charismatic outsiders that don't have a lot of experience, but by gosh we're sure they've got great instin instincts. george w. bush. actually president kennedy wasn't experienced when we elected him. then whef

, she is the same gentleman who did a movie on health care last year and he implied that communist cuba has better health care than the united states of america. that is the same guy. we have people here from michigan and california and new jersey. three states where the other side the government, all else spending. we know in california, michigan, and new jersey -- 3 states, states with hard working people, we have seen what happens when the other side gets full rein in government. we have seen the spending and debt and the crushing of the entrepreneurial spirit. we have seen what happens. michigan has not had a positive job growth and almost a decade because of that. california, one of the best dates we have -- best states we have think about the condition there today. the same ideology that has brought so much difficulty in michigan california, in new jersey they want to bring that to the entire nation, and we will not let them do that. [applause] i want to point out three people that are really leading an effort in these three states. i believe the states can be turned around for fr

, the terrorists, alleged in some cases, clearly guilty in other cases, in guantanamo out there in cuba or putting them in some maximum security prison in the united states. what's the difference? >> we have them in guantanamo, of course, today, and guantanamo is a symbol of everything we've done in the past in terms of our abuse of prisoners, et cetera, and remains a symbol which we need to remove. we need to remove that symbol as soon as possible because, in fact, the quicker we do that, the more secure this country will be. >> because? why does the symbol hurt us in terms of our security? how does it work? >> it's an excellent recruiting poster and has been used, in fact, in the name guantanamo by osama bin laden, himself, and it's used as a great recruiting tool for our enemies. it also has driven a wedge between our allies in -- with the same view that it should be closed and they don't like the symbol either. >> admiral hutson, the cheneys, or rather the cheney and the cheney, they pronounce their names differently, have been out there scaring the country, making the point if you

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has sat down in the last two weeks has engaged cuba.to cuba and had one on one talks. that was the first time it had happened in five years. and now iran. it goes right to the point of what jamie brought up. this is the consequence of the election. this was the pledge that candidate obama made, and now we're seeing it in action now. now, in talking to the white house here, what is success -- they don't like to actually say what it is, but they say you'll know it when you see it. one, this idea that iran will allow this unfettered access. to define unfettered, what that means is not just physically being able to go to this facility, but also giving all the records, who worked on it, allowing some background checks to be done by the international atomic energy agency. so they know who were the scientists behind it and all of that stuff. and then the second thing is the pace of negotiations. does iran say, great, we'll see you in february? or will all of a sudden there will be something on the calendar in about every couple l of weeks? may

he returned there from cuba yesterday. in 1968 four hijackers forced the plane to go to havana.guilty in the '70s. >>> a top health official says you're going to be better off with the swine flu vaccine than without it. a doctor of the cdc warns the risks from not getting that vaccine are higher than any potential risks linked to it. >> a lot of people are saying it's new, but it's important to know that the seasonal flu vaccine is made exactly the same way as this h1n1 vaccine. 100 million people, including a lot of children, get the seasonal flu vaccine every year. and it has a really good safety record. so i think parents are wondering, is this something new? has it been fully tested? what i can say is that everything we know right now suggests a very good safety profile for the vaccines. >> she also says it's okay to get swine flu and the regular flu shot on the same day. swine flu has killed 76 kids in the united states so far. >>> i've had so many people ask me this weekend, are you going to get the swine flu or swine flu shot? are you going to wait? different people answe

they have a lot of doctors in cuba. it just pays better to drive the taxi cab. and so this reach that we have of taking the private insurance company of 1,300 and force 100,000 policies to go through new regulations to be written, and we know that there are going to be fewer than 100,000 policy operators so people will lose their policy. i hope the president, mr. speaker, turns on c-span and understands what i'm saying. you can't say it any more, mr. president. if anything like this passes, people will lose their policies, and they're likely to lose their doctor. and you haven't told the speaker of the house that she can't support something like this if she's going to be consistent. with the intent of the language she used herself. so, mr. speaker, i'll submit this. this -- the recharacterization needs to revert back to the language of the bill. we needs to understand what happens when bureaucrats make decisions. and by the way, we sometimes need to listen to the people on the other side of the aisle. they're for single payer government takeover. 100 or more of

he was on his way to cuba. he was a communist.e one after another of all of these guys -- so it isn't good -- it isn't because obama is liberal. if something happens to him, it will be moveon.org. >> it's because he's black. let's just say it. >> no -- >> yes, it is. >> maybe liberals -- liberals are a little racist. >> she says it with a straight face. that's what i love about her. >> they are. would you like examples? >> no. i'm -- i don't want to go in to that. it sounds -- >> charlie rangel or the democratic party treating governor patterson? >> charlie rangel is on the way out. they're after him. >> that's what i am saying. they are jumping on his case and leaving chris dodd alone? they give the head of the dnc -- >> you act is if the republicans don't attack their own -- don't go after their -- after 100 years. they go after them in -- the democrats go after their own. >> if you're comparing -- >> the democrats are going against their own the same as the republicans. >> putting them in the same universe -- >> liberal and cha

he was on his way to cuba. he was a communist.ave one after another of all of these guys -- so it isn't good -- it isn't because obama is liberal. if something happens to him, it will be moveon.org. >> it's because he's black. let's just say it. >> no -- >> yes, it is. >> maybe liberals -- liberals are a little racist. >> she says it with a straight face. that's what i love about her. >> they are. would you like examples? >> no. i'm -- i don't want to go in to that. it sounds -- >> charlie rangel or the democratic party treating governor patterson? >> charlie rangel is on the way out. they're after him. >> jumping on his case but leaving chris dodd alone? they give the head of the dnc -- >> you act is if the republicans don't attack their own -- don't go after their -- after 100 years. they go after them in -- >> if you're comparing -- >> the democrats are going against their own the same as the republicans. >> putting them in the same universe -- >> liberal and charlie rangel as the same category with timothy mcveigh? >> no. no t

luis armando pena soltren returned from cuba yesterday. 1968 four hijackers forced the plane to go toa. >>> green peace says dozens of its members scaled the uk parliament. investing in clean energy. at least 31 protesters were still there this morning. >> wow. >>> open enrollment season is here and you have some important decisions to make this year. jen westhoven is looking out for you. very costly if you make the wrong choices and these choices last for the entire year. >> did you get your envelope yet? watch your mail. they're sending them out. that's your insurance through work. you'll see a lot of literature. a lot of times they don't let you roll it over. watch out for this buzz word this year, consumer directed. kind of code for you pay more at the doctor's office. you may pay a lot less out of your paycheck. lower premiums. 20 pe lower. something to think about if you think you might not be at the doctor's office that much. very hard to boil down health care into something quick and easy. it does mean when you go in you can pay more and if you have a family, for example your

act requests and this move is backed by organizations pushing to close down that prison camp down in cuba at guantanamo bay. the band r.e.m. says the idea of using their music to torture detainees is downright anti-american. >>> sex drugs and bernie madoff. insiders say there's so much cocaine in the ponzi schemers office that they called it the north pole. topless parties sexual escapade escapades and even more shocking allegations coming out. >>> bernie madoff is accused of using massive amounts of cocaine and sexual deviance in the workplace. it claims he used money for escorts and company parties included topless dancers. the suit allegation as late as 2006 madoff transferred stolen money to his london office to buy extravagant items like yachts. his attorney is not commenting. >>> pay cuts. we're talking big pay cuts is what's happening to top executives at seven companies that got big government bailouts last year. this hour the treasury department is expected to announce its ordering those companies to cut the base salaries of top executives by as much as 90%. and total compensatio