. >> what gives cuban cigars their mystique? >> it's the forbidden fruit for 50 years. >> that's on the verge of changing. >> it's a 45 minute flight. so it's very easy for this country to send cigars to the united states. >> legal cuban cigars. it's not smoke. ahead on "sunday morning". >> charles: carl reiner was one of tv comedy's founding fathers in the 50s. and all these years later, he has lost none of the talent for making people lavas we'll hear a little later. >> hi there, everybody. >> for carl reiner, being a cam dee legend is great, a living legend, even better. >> every once in a while, i go, there's a 115-year-old woman the other day who was driving -- >> that feels good. >> that's great. >> how do you stay mentally sharp? >> i don't know. it's a gift. >> a walk with carl reiner ahead this sunday morning. >> and looking at still life photography on a grand scale. barry peterson shows us a stary stary night. >> takes us out on a topless ride in a vintage convertible. first the headlines this morning, the 2nd of augus

what happened when an artist attempted to send a group of pigeons from havana to florida caring cuban cigars in violation of the u.s. embargo. the first, we speak to the celebrated palestinian artists emily jacir. for years she has greater groundbreaking art to capture the palestinian experience. among her projects is one that was banned by the city of venice years ago, which translated the italian names into arabic. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a new opinion poll shows vermont senator bernie sanders is the leading democratic presidential candidate in new hampshire. the poll shows sanders has 44% support among likely new hampshire democratic primary voters, compared to only 37% support for clinton. this poll follows a series of speaking events where sanders has drawn record crowds. on sunday, 28,000 people turned out in portland, oregon. it was a large is campaign rally for any democratic were republican presidential candidate this year. a day later, more than 27,000 people attended his event in los an

the day before he is about to sign the embargo, he asked his press secretary to buy as many cuban cigars as he could get his hands on. he gets his hands on 1200. 1200. he delivers them to the president, and three minutes later he signs the embargo. jfk got his cigars. that's not the end of the story of course. now that cuba doesn't have a friend in the united states, it needs trading partners. cuba is a communist country. who will they picked to be there keep partners? the soviet union. as the soviet union and cuba become closer partners the , soviet union says hey there's a country where friendly with 90 miles from the coast of florida. i wonder if they would let us put some nuclear weapons on that island. so that we can be right in range of the united states. they plan on it. they start building facilities in cuba. they start putting warheads on ships and sending them to the island. reconnaissance photos, of which this is one, of american spy planes look at this and say, you know what they are doing? they are building places to store these weapons. then, the united states discovers tha

kennedy really loved cuban cigars. the day before he is about to sign the embargo he asked his press secretary to buy as many cuban cigars as he could get his hands on. he gets his hands on 1200. 1200. delivers them to the president and three minutes later he signs the embargo. jfk got his cigars. that's not the end of the story of course. now the cuba doesn't have a friend in the united states, it needs trade partners. cuba is a communist country. but i think? the soviet union. in the soviet union and cuba become closer partners. the soviet union says hey there's a country where friendly with 90 miles from the coast of florida. i wonder if they would let us put some nuclear weapons on that island. so that we can be right in range of the united states. they plan on it. they start building facilities and cuba. their building places to store these weapons. on tv, jfk says the soviet union should turn the ships around. no weapons and cuba. this is what comes to be called the cuban missile crisis. this is the closest we ev

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brian: cuban cigars, bad or good? leon: i think we are about to find out. robertbrian: we will talk about. it is muggy and nasty. the weekend has a lot of promise. leon: you better make good on the promise. brian: it has been a very calm season with tropical storms. we have tropical storm danny, 1500 miles east of the lesser antilles. miles perare about 50 hour with wind gusts in the 60's, moving to the west at 12 miles per hour. that will intensify the next several days. the latest update from the national hurricane center said it will be category one by late in the week. category, possibly a two storm, still not quite in the caribbean. this bears close watching because of this intensifies it will track due west and curve up to the northeast, the bahamas, the eastern u.s. it is too early to tell. we will spend the next couple the watching this, allowing hurricane hunters to fly through for data. 87 is the typical high this time of year. we were hotter than normal, record was 98 in 2002. it was not quite as bad as yesterday. at 7:59, sunrise at 6:29. 77 dow

he used to come here and smoke his favorite cuban cigars which cuba supplied him until he died. >> reporter: the hotel still puts on a nightly show. a venue that's been immortalized in films like the godfather 2 and about the night that changed cuban history. it was january 1959. all of cuban high society was here celebrating the new year when they received the news that the dictator fled the country and that the revolutionaries had just triumphed. the casino was closed down, the mafia was thrown out. and it wasn't long before the hotel national again became a fortress. with trenches dug around the coastal part of the garden at the height of the cuban missile crisis. >> translator: we are underneath the gardens now. the only thing that's new are the lights. >> reporter: the tunnels were open to the public a decade ago to commemorate the crisis that brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war. >> translator: that militia uniform was mine. i was here when i was 18 years old, not working for the hotel, but as part of the university militia. >> reporter: half a century later, the hotel is s

bill, you know how much a cuban cigar costs. a good cuban cigar one or two, maybe four, depending on the size. >> i think you can get four, as a matter of fact,. >> four cigars for a hundred bucks? >> yes, ma'am. >> geez. >> they're cuban cigars. >> thank you, michelle. >> thank you. >> michelle caruso-cabrera in havana. people are also asking, when are we going to start to see flights to cuba, all sorts of questions, it's going to be a rush and frenzy of quiactivity. now, cnbc update. >> here's what's happening at this hour. jeb bush touring the iowa state fair, campaigning for votes. he flipped burgers alongside iowa's governor, while at the same time punching on fair favorite, pork on a stick. he also voted for himself by dropping a corn kernel in the bush jar at an impromptu voting station. >>> general electric is expected to secure trust approval for al stom's power unit. the company offering more concessions this to head off the eu's concern. >>> and a pilot wuas pulled fro his plane by rescue crews this morning after cras

he would come here and smoke his favorite cuban cigars. >> the hotel's cabaret still puts on a nightly show. a venue that has been immortalized in films like "godfather ii" and documents about the night that again changed cuban history. >> it was in 1969 and all of cuban high society was here celebrating the new year when news that bautista fled the country, and fidel castro had just triumphed. the hotel closed down. the ma mafia was thrown out. and it became a fortress. >> we are underneath the gardens now. the only thing that is new are the lights. >> the tunnels were opened to the public a decade ago to commemorate the crisis that brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war. >> that militia uniform that you see there was mine. yes, i was here when i was 18 years old. not working for the hotel, but as part of the university militia. >> half a century later the hotel is still a major tourist attraction. >> the hotel has managed to create something not common in hotels. that is to appeal to people's interest in history. >> a history that in some ways has come full circle with the a

but not everyone will be kicking up their feet and celebrating with a fine cuban cigar.o patrick oppmann. he is live in havana. you're standing where this is going to take place. what can we expect to take place there tomorrow? >> reporter: absolutely, jim. and a lot of work is still being done. it looks more like a construction site right now than an embassy. they're doing the final preparations, getting that flagpole ready, getting the stage ready. but tomorrow morning, we expect secretary of state kerry to land here, the first secretary of state to visit cuba, the highest level official from any administration to visit cuba since the cuban revolution. he'll come here to the embassy behind me. he'll speak to a select crowd of dignitaries. and cuban officials, we expect as well. raise the flag. have a series of meetings. and then be out of here within 12 hours. but by this time tomorrow, you'll have the u.s. flag, we expect, flying high over the cuban capital, first time we've seen that in 54 years. historic day. >> i've been to cuba a number of times and i know that ju

he made a fortune doing it and quickly pointed the way for other cigar manufacturers, cuban and american manufacturers to operate in key west. growing and by the time the 1880's hit, key west was far and away the most important cigar manufacturing place in the world and key west cigars had a reputation as being the finest smoke to be had. period notes the first immigration quotas, which dramatically limited the number of jews who could legally immigrate to the united states. of course, as it does today, when we curtail legal immigration, we see a rise in illegal immigration to guess people will go where they need gogo -- because people will where they need to go. eastern european jews hoped to reach the united states and they were now traveling to cuba. there was a loophole that if you could establish residency in cuba for a year, you could enter into the united states. a number of jews started coming to cuba, less than 100 miles from key west, and when that loophole was closed, you had this stranded community of european jews who still wanted to get to the united states. there emerged s

. >> you can bring back up to $100 of cuban roman cigars. that is cool. >> american visits to cuba as you might expect airbnb rents 2,000 rooms there helped by a hotel shortage and the rush of americans that say they want to experience cuba before it changes. >>> dozens of yellow cab drivers are taking anger against uber to the streets. the lines of medallion owners protest the decision to limit the fleets of new car service companies. they say the app-based companies like uber take business from traditional taxis. drivers say buying the medallions give them the exclusive right to pick pup street hails. >> yellow cab drivers, rain, sun or snow -- >> mobile app companies allow surcharging. yellow cakes are not allowed. yellow cabs have to pay a thousand stamp every year. 400. >> the mayor says the city is studying the i am pack on four hire vehicles and the rights of passengers. >>> the teen choice awards make waves honoring some of the biggest names in hollywood. who walked away with the coveted surf board trophy coming up next. >>> you are

done -- you know, shouldn't be done for getting american tourists to cuba to smoke cigars and drink rum and dance cuban music. that should not be the reason for. the reason should be to create a better way for those folks are still left behind. and that's, you know, once we get to that point, i'm all for it. there's no reason why not. but i just wanted to mention that i was thinking about this the other day. when i was in high school in wilmington, delaware, it was right after i left, i left in july of '62, and in october of '62 was the missile crisis. so that's when i couldn't go back to cuba. my parents couldn't come out. so we didn't see each other for a number of years. but during the missile crisis everybody in my civics class at high school, that's when we had civics class. everybody had a subscription to u.s. news and world report. and if there was anything about cuba in that magazine, it was given to me to read it and then to stand up and give a report. the same thing is happening now. i need to get back up. i don't mind at all. >> well, move back to education. if you could list the seven or ei

revolution in cigars.d large cuban cuban grown tobacco made here in huge factories because of some tariff duties and labor problems. they were selling these savannade, famous cigars. -- havana cigars. they were so famous, people were putting key west on the labels of the cigars that were not made here. a lot of the workers were donating to the revolution in cuba. one of the letters we have is a letter from major general antonio who was second in gomez in cuba against the spanish rule. he is writing to the president of the key west central committee thanking them for their hospitality on his visit here and, of course, the donations they made to fund the revolution in cuba. spanishraig renowned in -- he was quite renowned in spanish-cuban history. er.was called the bronze lawy the spanish built a defensive wall across cuba from north to south to restrict the revolution to the eastern side of the mountains of cuba. he was the first guy that led an army across there into western cuba, but the cigar industry, they a major industry -- did extensive advertising and work, labelsnice and box labels and so forth. one of the things we have here pohalski cigar company. they

cuban people enjoy freedom. some of the remaining '50s charms exist, and cigars and businesses are still run by the dictatorshipers. in the coming months we will see if this thaw of the relationship 54 years frozen in time will lead to a break through that benefits people here and 90 miles away in the u.s. follow me on twitter and facebook. i am jake tapper. that's it for " the lead" here. >>> happening now, breaking news isis chemical attack. the u.s. confirms forces used a mustard agent on the battlefield and other chemicals weapons as well. >>> historic sight. the american flag flying in cuba above the newly re-opened u.s. embassy for the first time in half a century, but tensions remain as washington and havana re-establish relations. can they move forward with the u.s. embargo still in place. >>> bin laden warning. a chilling message believed to be from the son of the notorious al qaeda founder unseen since he was a child, and now he is calling for

cuban missile crisis. he wanted to a atomic bomb cuba. he is satirized in dr. strangelove. cigar chomping.e is that guy. wing, middleeft politically, he was an ardent conservative. or what you were, the guys loved him during the war because he cared about his men, he flew with his group. he taught them how to fly. they did not want to execute the strategy but he said look -- if you see flack in front of you, you cannot avoid it. why not? you are in such a tight box. if you stretched out a little else with this evasive action -- that is the big thing. the invasion would cause you to miss your target. target,if you miss the you have to go back again. you do not want to go back again -- so us do it the right let us do it right the first time. you see all of this flack in front of you. you have a plexiglas bubble in front of you protecting you. to keep a steady platform so that you can bomb like that. the other thing he figured out -- remember the navigator? there were a lot of bombardier's like that coming right out of college and rushed into training and into war. he said that he cannot trai

cigars. >> reporter: the hotel's cabaret puts on a nightly show. a venue that has been immortalized in films like the godfather two, and documentaries about the fight that again changed cuban history. >> it was 1 january 1959, and all of cuba's high society was here, celebrating the new year, when they fled the news that the dictator fled the country and revolutionaries triumphed. the casino closed down, mafia thrown out and it was not long before the hotel nationale became a fortress, with trenches dug around the garden at the height of the missile crisis. >> translation: we are under the gardens now. the only thing that is new is the lights. >> tunnels opened to the public commemorated the crisis bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. >> that uniform you see was mine. yes, i was here when i was 18. not working for the hotel, but as part of the university militia. >> half a century later, the hotel is a major tourist attraction. the hotel created something not common to hotels. a history that in some way came full circle. with the arrival of new hollywood stars. again, the americans. to the hotel nationale >>> japan is marking the 70th anniversary of its defeat i

cuban government on what is other wise a day of celebration. cbs news, havana. >> john kerry is the first u.s. secretary of state to visit cuba in 70 years. he also toured a church, checked out cigarsa lemon maid. >>> a chemical explosion rocked a warehouse in china sending a fire ball and smoke into the air. this is the same sight of ha that deadly explosion earlier this week. chinese officials are denying a report that evacuations are in place for people within two miles of the fire. the number of people killed last wednesday is now at 85 with dozens of people still missing morning. >>> travelers have a new way to get to and from the oakland airport. uber made an agreement with the airport to allow the company's uber service to pick up and drop off people. now it is part of an 8 month pilot program. ride share companies like lift, they have to follow strict rules when taking people to the airport. >>> siri is maybe having a hard time understanding people at times but for and 18-year-old, she really came there. the jack holding collapsed when he was work orange his truck. he heard series voice. the phone was in his back pocket and siri accident richardson called 911. ray asked to

cuban employees. the others working there could always leave. >> he later had a one-hour castro where they smoked cigars the meeting will bill rhodes recounted in his back castro he said made a startling admission about a major mistake he made when it came to cuba's financial system. he says castro said he should have put his gun toting pal in charge of the central bank. >> he said, why i ever did that i don't know because obviously he knew nothing about finance and banking but he said i put him in there because i guess i trusted him. but it was a mistake. >> those three banks still have big outstanding claims against the cuban government worth millions of dollars, potentially billions depending on how they get settled, brian. a lot of old stories coming forward as we start to approach this big event on friday with john kerry here at the opening of the u.s. embassy. >> a big event, michelle. glad you're there for us. thank you. >>> biotechs have been on a tear so far for the year. the bbw etf, up nearly 17% year to date. but some analysts are now seeing warning signs that we have perhaps weechd have rea