this is one-fifth of the cuban workforce. people who lose their jobs will be allowed to start their own small businesses under close government supervision. this is not liberalization but this is a major step in >> the small business owners will have no choice but to put up with constant government intrusion. but if they are forced to compete with subsidized services, the current reforms will fail. we are going to look at some cubans who were trying to make it on their own. >> she works as a seamstress, who and in the past she was only fixing clothing and making alterations. but now she has a small shop where she sells dresses and things that she has designed herself. she is in charge of the bookkeeping. she has applied for a license to set up her own business from the labor and industry. -- labor industry. >> my obligation is to pay taxes and do my work. >> she has to pay 300 cuban pesos in taxes. she sold one dress, and it is not enough. she is optimistic she will be successful. her mother is skeptical. >> i don't know if w

end of the cold war at least has been a group of floridians from they'd county florida from a few cuban americans from new jersey and a few from mountain of that and other places who have a walk on this particular aspect of foreign policy and who are well funded and willing to throw that money out to other congressmen and women who don't really have a dog in the fight cuba after all is not a huge issue and so will sell their vote for the the quid pro quo of debbie wassermann schultz or elaine a waltz whiteman's or some other cuban americans vote on more critical issues that's what it's all about that tiny little majority has tyrannized cuban policy since the. the cold war what is going to take i mean how do you beat out this tiny little majority i mean these days we even have fidel castro basically not announcing defeats but admitting that his economic policies are not liberalizing or the economy releasing political prisoners late and what are we doing to reciprocate absolutely nothing and you would have thought that the obama administration might do a little more that's what it sounded

. >> cuban rum is one of this caribbean island's best known export along with cigars. cuba still manages to sell 3.5 million cases a year. they believe they could be doing half as much again. >> it is 40% of the world market. that means we have another possibility to sell in the u.s. , we are losing two cases -- 2 million cases every year. >> rahm is such an important currency in this island it has gone into partnership with the french drink giant. cuba bros the sugar from molasses -- [unintelligible] international and marketing skills. this is cuba's best known brands sold everywhere except in the united states. even if the trade embargo ended tomorrow, it would not make any difference. former cuban rum makers who had to flee after the revolution are marketing their own brand of havana club in the u.s. >> the brand will extend to cigars. -- the ban will extend to cigars. cuban-american relations have improved a little on -- under president barack obama but hopes of an end to the trade embargo appeared to have gone up in smoke. >> stay with us. the driver of an undergr

his wife, judy gross has written to cuban president castro expressing her husband's regret but the cubanernment ignored her and she says the white house has done nothing to help. >> he was so pumped up about obama. and i feel almost betrayed that here's a guy who was so dedicated and they haven't had the courtesy to even call me or talk to me. >> reporter: she says her husband is not a spy. she said she went to cuba phi times last year to help the jewish community gain internet access to jews around the world. cuban officials say the committed serious crimes by giving restrict satellite communications equipment to local dissidents in cuba but they haven't filed any charges while still holding gross. on 9 tonight, derek is one on one with former national public radio analyst and current fox news political analyst williams. he talks about the comments he made on the omile riley factor about being nervous when seeing muslims in their garb on airplane plane. he said he had no apologies. >> i don't have any regret over it. for me it was, you know, a genuine expression of my feeling in that mo

. >> the president wrapped up his visit to miami last night at a cuban restaurant, where he ordered special hamburgers made of spanish sausage, topped with french fries. the president paid for the meal himself. and then warned reporters not to tell the first lady. >> we know all of the spots he likes to get burgers at these days between d.c. and all the places he visits. >> he likes to eat. >>> when we come back, we'll update the top story, the final hours before the rescues begin in chile. >> firiewser is there. in. can microsoft's newest smartphone to d can microsoft's newest smartphone to d we'll be right coming in a little short. os isk.os is you've got more whole grain in your little finger! let's get ready for breakfaaaaaaaaaast! ( ding, cheering, ringing ) keeping you full and focused with more than double the fiber and whole grain...

cuban military base. the quick brutal invasion became the us blueprint first in grenada then panama the gulf war and the invasion of iraq. grenada also marks a paradigm shift in journalists' relationship with the military the invasion of grenada with something of a testing ground for what we've seen come afterwards in which the media with extremely controlled so that the message coming out with the message that the united states wanted the people to hear you know first one of the first of the sort of media wars that culminated in what we see today with journalists actually. being embedded with the troops and only reporting the vision that is the official vision of a united states army for the tiny nation's largest community these days symbolizes intense anger to see. this going to you're going. to want to. live. in mosul that is not yet. the u.s. invasion of grenada remains a symbol of how far the united states will go to keep socialism from spreading in this hemisphere and while grenada may be a distant

the castro regime a handy excuse for the failures of its socialist experiment it's hurting the very cuban people that we claim to be helping cuba now hosts businesses from here i can about latin america and mainly leaves off its beautiful resorts but booming tourism does not seem to make life easier for every day cubans they're set to make four cents of every dollar a foreign company pays that the government takes the rest but. where has recently taken steps to modernize its economy now over half a million people are allowed to engage in small private enterprises but for the us to lift the embargo there needs to be a pragmatic reason ideological ones have proved unsustainable there's a really strong and i think economic interest people are seeing there are markets tend to be exploited and if we don't take care of them. or we don't jump in europe is just going to feel it for us and that's not nor interest and then there's the question of oil and that's a new thing as well moreover russian and spanish companies are queuing up to help cuba exploited supposedly huge offshore oil reserves the

be in beijing well the number of cubans who for country. population of one hundred thousand. was very high in many ways it was a litmus test for u.s. military might in the post vietnam war era and an opportunity to fire reagan's billion dollar war machine the u.s. invaded on the basis. rechecks. the most blatant was that. there was a soviet and cuban military base there quick brutal invasion became the us blueprint first in grenada and panama the gulf war and the invasion of iraq. grenada also marks a paradigm shift in journalists relationship with the military the invasion of grenada was something of a testing ground for what we've seen come afterwards and which the media with extremely controlled so that the message coming out with the message that the united states wanted the people to hear you know first one of the first of the sort of media wars that culminated in what we see today with journalists actually being embedded with the troops and only reporting the vision that is the official vision of the united states army the u.s. invasion of grenada remains a symbol of ho

and we've that wiping out the vast share americans had in the cuban economy arguably the idea behind the cargo was to let castro's regime wear out and prompt people to revolt against it it's been fifty years and it never happened let's lift the embargo will sell more products there more americans will be able to spread their influence there i think it's our best hope for having influence in cuba when that wonderful day comes when the castro regime falls the embargo has been largely seen as in fact if it's given the castro regime a handy excuse for the failures of its socialist experiment it's hurting the very cuban people that we claim to be helping cuba now hosts businesses from europe can about latin america and mainly leaves off its beautiful resorts but booming tourism does not seem to make life easier for every day cubans they're set to make four cents of every dollar a foreign company pays that the government takes the rest. where has recently taken steps to modernize its economy now over half a million people are allowed to engage in small private enterprises but for the u.s.

the cuban ron burgundy seen here looking like a cuban ron burgundy says he sees nothing but jewy jewishness after calling stewart a bigot. he made the allegation on a radio show the other day. the former daley show warm up act dominic defended his ex-boss. take a lins, us len takers. >> how is he a bigot? >> he looks at the world through his mom who was a school teacher and his dad who was a physicist or something like that. great, i'm so happy he grew up in a suburban middle class new jersey home with everything you can ever imagine. >> what is he bigoted toward? >> not everyone is like him. look at his show. what does he surround himself with? >> and now the old jews run the media canard. that means fact, right? >> yes. >> i'm telling you that everybody who runs cnn is a lot like stewart. a lot of people who run the other networks are a lot like stewart. and to imply that they, the people in this country who are jewish are an oppressed minority? yeah, i can't see somebody not getting a job somewhere because they are jewish. >> and here is a shock so shocking it will shock your socks off.

. >> you know i just want to say, i'm sure that rick san chelz has a cuban-american had to at some point overcome some discrimination but you know, everybody in this business, at some point has said to you, you know, you don't really have what it takes, you should consider another line of work. it's a very common thing and in your' a minority you might wonder whether prejudice is a factor. >> but at the same time dismissing prejudice is a factor. born in cuba, came up through miami television. >> any time you're a moinority that's a legitimate question because you don't know what people's motivations are, it happens to everyone but to say that he was made uncomfortable at cnn because of his hispanic heritage i think is close to delusional. i mean, i'm not the best person to comment -- >> opting to tame on jon stewart, rick sanchez doesn't realize jon stewart is a comedian and does a satirical show and rick sanchez provided the raw material for jon stewart to make fun of. >> more of a media critic than a comedian i would say. >> go ahead, carole. >> what i'm trying to say is that rick san

. >> cuba marks the 34th anniversary of the bombing of cuban flight 4 wednesday with a call for the u.s. to extradite the key suspect. 73 people were killed in the october 6, 1973 attack which was the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the weste hemisphere. speaking before relatives of the victims, the cuban president called on the obama administration to extradite the anti-castro cuban exile and cia operative. >> the government of cuba asks president obama or whomever is in charge of the fight against terrorism to act firmly and without double meaning against those who from the and the states have and continue to perpetrate terrorist acts against cuba. >> castro also call for the release of the cuban 5 who are seing lengthy sentences in the u.s. for ting to monitor violent right-wing exile groups responsible for attacks inside cuba. a u.s. and of japanese scientists have been awarded the nobel prize for chemistry for developing a chemical research tool known as cross cuddling. -- cross coupling. the nobel committee member compared it to itlego toy -- a lego toy. >

. >> cuban rum is one of the best known exports along with the cigars. cuba manages to sell three and a half million cases a year despite the trade embargo. they to be doing almost half as much again. >> we have the possibility to save in the u.s. and we are losing 2 million cases. >> rum is an important hard- currency. they have gone into partnership. q. but rose this sugar from molasses and have been rum makers and if there expertise. -- this sugar is from molasses and the rum makers are offering their expertise. this would not make any difference. they are marketing their own brand in the united states. the brand wars extend it to cigars. this is one of the premium brands. there is another sale in the u.s. made in the dominican republic. cuban-american relations have improved a little under president barack obama and it appears that the hopes of lifting the trade embargo have gone up in smoke. >> the giants that thought to be the largest animal and britain has been killed. -- the giant stag thought to be the largest animal in britain has been killed.

the latter are agents of spanish merchant shipping and the cubans are keeping planters and cuban merchantst in that way starting in the 1810's in 1920's, rebels against the empire because in fact, cuba and puerto rican are still inside the empire. new york becomes a staging ground for a whole series drop the rest of the system -- -- throughout the rest of the country. the reason cuba and puerto rico are so rich and prosperous for sugar is because in fact they keep slavery when haiti had a revolution in the english give up slavery. so the early years, they support slavery because their profits are tied to that. , thee 1880's in 1890's base of the cigar rollers in new york city, there's a dramatic shift toward complete independence. the spanish cuban-american war, which is launched from new york city and largely backed by the press and business elements in new york city, is largely run out of new york. in 1898, new york sees itself as a potential center of a american empire. >> we're talking to mike wallace. he really has curative this exhibit that el museo del barrio. looking before 1945, b

question, a cuban american, but latino. yes or no?> don't congregate all these folks mexican, cubans in the same bag. >> they are in the latino caucus, are they not? well there's your bag for you. question, on a political probability scale 0 to 10. 0 meaning zero probability, what is the likelihood that 3/4 of eligible hispanics will vote one week from tuesday? 0 to 10. 3/4, climbing from 51%. >> to 3/4? >> no. >> no? >> zero. >> 75% turnout, you aren't going to see in any group and i will point out that the seat marco rubio looks like he might win was occupied by senator martinez, who again is somebody from the latino community. >> i would say probably 0 to 1. in the 2008 campaign. barack obama's campaign and the dnc poured an unprecedented $20 million into targeting hispanic turnout. they aren't doing the same. but you know who is? they are pouring tens and millions of dollars into targeting hispanic voter turnout and they could have a real effect. >> what is that? >> the service employees international union. >> uh-huh. >> mort. >>

y despierta amÉrica estÁ en el bongos cuban cafÉ! en la ciudad de miami.os tienen sobrepeso o son obesos. cÓmo revertir este problema? vamos a conocer una clase de pequeÑos tests que pudieran ser la soluciÓn. >> llegÓ el momento especial >> un tremendo invitado. >> directamente desde mira quiÉn baila, marcelo buquet! [ aplausos ] >> compadre! >> bienvenido! >> cÓmo estÁs? >> bienvenido. >> angÉlica. belleza. >> cÓmo estÁs? hermano? quÉ gusto! bienvenido a despierta amÉrica. >> la gente lo quiere! [ aplausos ] >> marcelo con nosotros en despierta amÉrica un fin de semana muy especial el que va a suceder este domingo en mira quiÉn baila sentenciado. cÓmo te sientes? >> tremendo. acostumbrado y relajadito flojito y cooperando. >> te estÁs haciendo pro en el asunto. >> profesional. >> fuiste a practicar artes marciales para hacer lo que los jueces te pidieron, flojito y cooperando. >> so vio constantemente durante la competencia que dicen que te ven tenso. >> ellos me tensan. [risas] y me pongo asÍ... >> alejandra es re te suave! [risas] >> coincido. pero a mÍ

is it time for castro and by extension the cuban people to stop paying for the cuban missile crisis in. >> well, it's time for the people of cuba to stop paying for the castro regime. that's what it's time. and i don't see, frankly, that raul castro is going to be the answer to liberalization ultimately in cuba. i would hope that when fidel does die, eventually, that there will be some international support for the beginning of a process for the cuban people to express themselves in a democratic fashion. it was always quite extraordinary to me to go to the organization of american states meetings. and the only country that couldn't take its seat there was cuba because it didn't have an elected president. even hugo chavez was an elected president. and it shouldn't be that in the western hemisphere in the 21st century there is a place where people have no say in who's going to govern them. and so i know it will take time. i'm not saying that the day after castro -- fidel castro dies there has to be an election. but the international community ought to take an interest in advocating for d

ya lo sabe, este viernes a partir del aceite la maÑana en el bongo's cuban cafÉ.ado. ella no se presentÓ pero me imagino que niurka tendrÁ sus motivos. >> no hay mÁs renuncias. sÓlo queda esperar el desenlace de esta semana. >> ay, ay, ay, quÉ nervio. >> ¿quÉ irÁ a pasar? >> lo que sÍ pasÓ es que la sociedad de autores y compositores de mÉxico otorgÓ varios premios a diferentes cantantes y compositores. ahÍ encontramos a pato y a reyli a los que no les gustÓ nada de nada de nuevo disco de luis miguel... >> siento que a luis miguel le ha faltado asesorÍa en cuanto a la selecciÓn de material. tiene que dejar de querer hacer las cosas Él, tiene que renovarse. es una pena que cada aÑo salga con los mismos arreglos, los mismos temas... >> yo sÓlo he escuchado el tema que estÁ en la radio que tampoco me ha emocionado ni me ha conmovido. no he escuchado el disco pero sÍ, he escuchado los comentarios de que estÁ un poco flojo a nivel composiciones. >> pues son compositores ellos y les hubiera gustado que una de sus composiciones estuviera en ese disco. >> no, pero yo enti

he met with voters at a well- known cuban restaurant. at a separate fundraiser he accused republicans of peddling the san philosophy that led the country into recession. >>> the candidates running for maryland governor square off on monday in a fiery debate. martin o'malley and bob ehrlich argued about the economy, unemployment, and future job growth. they fought over education. >> those children of color are being denied their constitutional rights. that is unacceptable in the state of maryland and in the united states of america in 2010. >> you talking encoded language about kids. you never talk about the things they are doing well. >> o'malley is seeking reelection after defeating bob ehrlich in 2006. the next debate will take place in the coming weeks. >>> investigators are trying to figure vowel how powerful plastic explosives ended up in an historic u.s. new york city cemetery. there were found wrapped in a plastic bag at a cemetery in manhattan. they may have been discarded. >>> an apparent settlement in a lawsuit over photographs

and cuba together jazz greats spent the weekend jamming with cuban musicians. several have travelled to the united states in recent months and taking advantage of a more relaxed visa policy under president obama. it's an honor, he said, to perform in havana. >> because of the long tradition of great musicians, we have solved a problem of bringing music of the worlds together. >> and this is not the only cultural exchange. the american ballet theatre is scheduled to perform in havana next month in honor of cuban ballet legend alicia alonzo. >>> david archuleta's new album hits store shelves. the latest release is called the other side of down. he said it's surreal to know that people get to hear his new album. he said his music reflects his personal growth. i wanted to show i'm a real human being, i make mistakes, i'm confused, i am a dork. i wanted to show the fun, light- hearted side of me. people, i think, have been able to relate and connect to me singing more meaningful deep message songs. >> he hopes it will help people through rough times. >>> call all gl

if cnn were anti-cuban, why would they hire the guy in the first place?hy would they put him on the air? >> and there was a jewish guy who hired him in the first place. >> bill: that's right. cline hired him. >> here is my take on this and i say this as a charter member of god god's chosen people so i have an inside track on this. that even though what rick sanchez was really, really, really dumb, i don't think he should have been fired. and what's not being reported in any of the stories is that nobody gets fired in television unless management wants the person fired for some other reason anyway. >> bill: his ratings were not very good. and, in this case, look, if ed bradley in his day had made a similar comment, there is no way in the world cbs would have fired him. if diane sawyer and katie couric as women today made a similar comment, there is no way either of them would have been fired. he was expendable. his boss, the guy who hired him got fired himself a couple weeks ago. >> bill: i'm going to challenge you on something. look, cnn sells their credi

people that enjoy cuban music want to see that or they don't want too see a swing dance group so ratherhan putting them altogether, we separated them and had these more focused concert and in the year, too, it was immediately that that formula worked. >> it speaks to the fact first of all your passion for something. if you don't have passion for something it doesn't fly and i think a lot of people would have said forget it it is not going to work. you not only brought it back, but you expandnd it on a lot of different nights. >> yes. we grew almost twofold every two to three years, so it went from $28,000 the first year to more than $6 million organization with 100 and more concerts a year. it is among the best in the world and it has been a real testament to san francisco. >> it is one of the premiere cultural event else. you can put a lot of things in quotes here. the festival -- the effort or presentations go really, a lot of festivals last for a week or two, but this goes on for a greater part of the year. >> it does. >> it is ongoing. >> there are two primary preventing seasons. th

that a scene out of kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. didn't they see that as, well, not prieston owes, but -- >> some people thought she's not a team player, because she's saying, you, it's on you, mr. president. other people use the "you" in this meeting and so forth, but what it shows is how spring-loaded the white house people are to hillary clinton, because they all remembered the 2008 primary battle where, you know, by a hair obama won. chris: this is great stuff, because here's richard holbrooke, who i thought was a hillary guy. he was one of the people in your book that says, wait a minute, your war problems? i thought she was part of the team, katty? >> it reflects the ambivalence. to suggest that he was gung ho for this war from the beginning. he was a man that said he wanted this open airing of discussion, he wanted hillary to say what hews vie are. chris: did he want her to be more hawkish than him? was this a good political move? >> i don't think that was it necessarily. i think he genuinely wanted the open debate that he fe

rights which i don't know what you're talking about it means that you're going to know the interesting cuban rights are an abstraction but actually they're not else the business of unemployment for example unemployment it's a violation of human rights and poverty is a violation of human rights. corruption is a flagrant violation terrorism is the folly of persons right to work. there are all human rights but unfortunately our society isn't educated enough in this hero for human rights. they mean them schools and it's society does not accept human rights you know how the human body sometimes. medicine it's the same with our society our social organism is being told about human rights but it won't accept everything. you and president medvedev have found a common i'm sorry and this use exactly what has to be more nighest the way people perceive social life. agree on modernization that you've mentioned the soviet communist party trial that you two parts and. you were talking a lot about the need to disturb the public opinion in russia. based on what you've said about this i drew the conclusion th

it looks like it will head for the u.s., but it will stall out and weaken near the western tip of cuban and die out by next weekend. the sheer, the things that rips storms apart will increase in the days ahead. that's why this should not turn into a big, strong storm and be a big problem for florida, such as wilma was. this storm system, hurricane now, probably the cancun area, a tiny bit of rain and damage. that's about it. it doesn't look like significant impacts. computer models are all weakening it. only one brings it close to south florida. as of now, that looks like an unlikely scenario the other stories going on around the country, big storms rolled through areas of the northeast and southern new england yesterday, including new york city. we also had strong storms down there in southern portions of louisiana. heavy rain on the coast now. as far as the morning forecast goes, you need the umbrella, be ready for a slow commute around philadelphia, trenton. new york city, just about done with your rain. from philly is where you are seeing the worst of it. d.c. and baltimore look dry

so kate will spend much of her downtime inside the cuban at nights she can wander the exhibits and she said she hopes to visit everyk. >> and cranny but can't -- every nook and cranny and for a month she will tweet and blog about the experience inside the museum. >> i think that's pretty cool. >> that's pretty neat. >>> 6:35 right now. it's one of the biggest events in philly since the liberty bell cracked. no hitter in the playoffs. >> roy halladay was unhittable. game one of the playoffs except for a walk, the doc made have thrown the second perfect game and is the first pitcher to get a hit and not gib up a hit. he becomes the first pitcher since don larson's perfect game in 1956 to throw a no-hitter in the post season. here's what the final out and diaz made a great play here. roy halladay a no hitter first time we have had two since nolan ryan in 73. >> go ahead. >>> coming up next, her eyes started to water. >> oh, boy. >> i love this story. a beacon light for ships in the ocean. >> one area lighthouse is a beacon of a reminder for women during breast cancer awareness month. >> l

has weakened to 45 miles an hour moving to the east at 14 and will likely rain itself out along the cuban island. we're hoping it hasn't had too big of impact and now it doesn't appear as though it has. for us clearing skies with that breeze, 47 inside the city, sunny to start the day tomorrow, maybe an afternoon sprinkle, 66 degrees and your five-day forecast loaded with 60s, but really a very nice run of days. we'll have the slight chance of a shower tomorrow afternoon and maybe some scattered showers tuesday and the rest of the time we spend a lot of time in the sunshine, not bad. don't go anywhere. coming up on the news edge at 11:00 feldy is talking more basketball and a little bit more on gilbert arenas. too. we'll be right back. bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and

. >> reporter: he grew up as a poor cuban immigrant in south florida, who he says was both a blessingnd a curse. >> and i would work with my father as a little kid. and he took me once to boca, where all the rich people live, and we delivered this furniture and it was so heavy and we finally got inside and i said to the lady inside, and this is an immigrant story, can i have a glass of water? and she said no, you cannot have a glass of water. you have to drink outside in the hose. where the docks were drinking. >> reporter: he said his father used that incident to teach him that as an immigrant, he would struggle to gain respect. >> that story sticks with me throughout my life. in a strange way, i was feeling like jon stewart wasn't respecting me the same way that lady wasn't. i was wrong. >> reporter: it's not the first time sanchez has been in trouble. in the '80s, the fbi investigated his links to a miami drug dealer. in the '90s, a high profile dui caused a death. >> i've had a couple of things in my life that i had to get through. >> reporter: they were big setbacks. >> of course

. >>> the wife of a maryland man jailed in cuba has issued a written plea to the cuban president. her husband, alan gross, is an aid contractor from bethesda arrested back in december on suspicion of espionage. the wife recently wrote the leader a letter claiming her husband loves his work and loves the people of cuba. >> he never intended them or your government any harm. >> judy gross denies her husband was a spy. he said he made five trips to cuba last year. she is asking cuba to free her husband because their daughter here at home has been diagnosed with diagnosed with breast cancer. >>> health officials in haiti are working to keep cholera from spreading in the camps of the earthquake-ravaged haitian capital. >>> juan williams was removed for making comments on the o'reilly factor last week. >> what do you make of your dismissal and this extraordinary reaction to it? >> i think americans feel, you know what, there is nothing wrong in telling someone how you feel and then to be punished for that is unfair and amounts to centorship. >> did npr do the wrong thing? >> they should

. >> the president wrapped up his visit to miami last night at a cuban restaurant, where he ordered specialamburgers made of spanish sausage, topped with french fries. the president paid for the meal himself. and then warned reporters not to tell the first lady. >> we know all of the spots he likes to get burgers between d.c. and his visits. >> he likes to eat. >>> when we come back, we'll update the top story, the final hours before the rescues begin in chile. our reporter is there. >>> and the first reviews are in. can microsoft's newest smartphone outdo the droid? we'll be right back. >>> pay on wall street is reportedly on a record pace for the second-straight year. "the wall street journal" reports the top publicly held financial firms are on-pace to pay out $144 billion this year. that's up from last year. the journal says it's rising but not as quickly as pay. >>> this morning, overseas markets are down. tokyo's nikkei average lost 200 points today. hong kong's hang seng is down in late trading. in london, the ftse opened lower. on wall street, it starts the day with the dow at 11,01

this cuban doctor hopes that the outbreak may have leveled off. >> last night, things got more stable. five people came in last night, but today there were no patience. >> but if even fewer new cases have been reported, the authorities are determined not to let down their guard. >> the numbers are going down, but this does not mean we have reached the peak. this outbreak is not over. >> across the country, thousands of people have been in fact, though the number killed remains in the hundreds. the bacteria reaches the slums, it will most certainly spread rapidly and claim many more lives. >>> a hotel has apologized after european couple who thought they were renewing their marriage vows were in fact being subjected to abuse. a clip posted on youtube revealed a staff member who pretended to bless the couple had in fact unleashed a string of sexual and religious slurs in the local language. the maltese foreign minister expressed horror and officials have launched an investigation. >>> you are watching "bbc world news." there is plenty more still ahead, including -- faking it, jail for t