i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro.slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a business man. i've lived in miami for 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth to cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. i mean, cuba is a communist country in economic transition. fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses. there are people that are making money. there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> anthony: people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> hugo: another cuban from cuba. and that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-americans, a lot of cubans living abroad are now coming back, and through relatives, are buying property. ob

made it the united states policy to assassinate fidel castro. >> wow.s is not what we bargained for. we just thought we were going to get rid of a corrupt government. amy: for more, we're joined by , director and producer of the documentary "embargo." why did you do this? talk about what these -- what do people in that film clip are saying about this 50 year history? >> first of all, i would to cuba originally in 2002 at senator cantwell and a group of women from the university of washington. i am an american i grew up during the cuban missile crisis generation and the assassination of president kennedy. those were hidden scars i did not really understand that i had until the day that i met fidel castro in havana. after i met fidel castro, what he said to our group of women, which was kind of shocking to me as an american, he said "i tried to create utopia and i did not succeed and i don't have time to fix it." us all the humility of this man that i had for my entire life. was a monster in this country that i was terrified of. i saw a very different vie

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he had bone are views with martin luther king, john lennon, fidel castro... he developed was an entire brand culture. it persists today. the business empire is licensing the brand to create other products. it's a low capital company with brand ownership. the tv show we mentioned already in the 1950s, its revolutionary and a new idea at the time, featuring people in his mansion in black and white, and in an equal light. many television outlets refused to air it, they would not at the time. it was a period when doctors wouldn't prescribe contraceptives to single women at some stages. it's an interesting comment on social changes in that period. james, thank you for your analysis. very interesting. an interesting set of stories. thank you for watching, goodbye. a rather wet night across many parts of the uk, some heavy rain spreading from west to east but the good news is that three the morning, this weather front clears north, is that three the morning, this weatherfront clears north, a damp and drizzly start across these eastern areas, things should improve. t

. >> during the debriefing we actually learned that in 1995 they actually met fidel castro. not aware of, obviously and was a significant indicator how valuable kendall and gwen were to the cubans. >> he was castro's most valuable spy in the u.s. government. he compromised hundreds of millions of dollars of operations. he identified specifically the names of both covert and overt u.s. government intelligence officers. there was no diplomatic initiative that castro didn't know ahead of time what america's hand was. castro should have made every single one of our moves. how do you think he made seven presidents? >> he was the personal spy for fidel castro. >> not all american citizens take an oath of allegiance. but he took an oath of allegiance to the u.s. government to protect the u.s. government. and he violated that. >> did he say he was sorry? >> no, he's not sorry. kendall myers is not sorry about anything that he did. he is completely unrepentant. he's do it all over again. >> cnn films presented by volkswagen.

he supported fidel castro. a guy who brutalized his own people, the same brutality he's standing up against in this country supports in another country and isn't registered to vote in this country and didn't get involved in the last election. that's hypocrisy? >> chad? >> colin kaepernick has done lots in his community, recently donated almost a million dollars, pledged almost a million dollars to various projects within his community. colin kaepernick is aptly involved. perhaps before he wasn't but this spark of inspiration from him i think will certainly he will be voting in future elections and he more than participates -- >> he didn't vote in the last one. >> as the son of a marine, i recognize that the flag does belong to the military, but also belongs to my mother who is a schoolteacher, it belongs to me as an nfl football player, it does not belong to. we and those folks who believe in patriotism in a narrow view. the flag belongs to us all. >> well, chad, you just said the flag doesn't belong to ben. yo

translator reportedly fainted within an hour into it but if you think that was long cuban president fidel castro back in one thousand nine hundred sixty well he spoke for foreign huff hours. for others it was listed about the length of the speech and more about getting attention zimbabwe's president robert mugabe with this attack on homosexuality we are not gay. it got a reaction but not quite the walkout as when iran's former leader mahmoud ahmadinejad's spoken two thousand and eleven. it wasn't the first time delegates had lived in protest but it was certainly the most notable. only says. the un general assembly has frequently been a stage for theater and emotion this from soviet leader nikita khrushchev and palestinian leader yasser arafat in one thousand nine hundred seventy four i come bearing all branches one hand and the freedom fighters the other. for my hand. in two thousand and six u.s. president george w. bush and his venezuelan counterpart hugo chavez ups the stakes in drama and rivalry every nation in this chamber has responsibility it this response the following day . yesterday the

translator reportedly fainted more than an hour into it but if you think that was long cuban president fidel castro back in one thousand nine hundred sixty one he spoke for foreign harf hours. for others it was less about the length of the speech and more about getting attention zimbabwe's president robert mugabe with this attack on homosexuality we are not gay. it got a reaction but not quite the walkout as when iran's former leader mahmoud ahmadinejad's spoken two thousand and eleven. boys that. it wasn't the first time delegates had lived in protest but it was certainly the most notable. son with impunity says. the u.n. general assembly has frequently been a stage for theater and emotion this from soviet leader nikita khrushchev and palestinian leader yasser arafat in one thousand nine hundred seventy four when i come bearing all branch in one hand and the freedom fighters going to the other to not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

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fidel castro did not like the opening.ly hard-liners, a rogue group, in cuba that may be responsible. secondly, clearly, very conservative cuban-americans don't like the opening either, and they use this as a wedge to unwind the obama opening. and then, third, russia or china. both gain in influence in cuba politically, militarily and economically if the united states's instoonfluence is diminished. >> former u.s. ambassador to tamale, vicky huddleston, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> and show respect or goat get o out. the message laid out yesterday in colorado. as the gazette and colorado springs reports, investigators are trying to find out who wrote the words "go home" on the message boards of five black prep students yesterday. despite this, ordered all 4,000 cadets to attention and then did this -- >> if you're outraged by those words then you're in the right place. you should be outraged nome as an airman but assen human being. we would be tone deaf not to think about the backdrop of what's going on in o

interviews with those like fidel castro, jimmy carter and muhammad ali all considered must-reads at the time. he ran his empire from his bed. life is too short, he said, to live somebody else's dream. mission accomplished. cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >>> there's more to tell you about tonight. still ahead emmy award winning actress julia louis-dreyfus revealing her battle with breast cancer. the passionate plea she's making on women's behalf. >>> on the brink of flu season, how bad will it be this year? >>> today there was a surprise announcement by one of the most acclaimed actresses on television. julia louis-dreyfus, the emmy-winning queen of comedy and star of "veep" and "seinfeld" revealed she's battling breast cancer and issued a call the action. catie beck has details. >> reporter: the day after she broke the record for winning the most emmys in a single role -- >> thank you so, so much. >> reporter: -- beloved comic actress julia louis-dreyfus learned she had breast cancer. today on twitter, the 56-year-old wife and mother went public to send a message. one in eight wo

[ music >> reporter: la -- havana, cuba, looks today a lot like it did in the late 1950s when fidel castroeized power. you say this is a havana frozen in time? >> havana frozen in time. >> reporter: what time? >> pretty much from '59 and back. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: following the revolution castro's government seized private businesses for the state. well to do cubans fled to the u.s. their homes were taken over by the state, then given to the masses. >> after revolution when their owners left the house, she took over. >> reporter: the government gave her the house? >> the government gave her that house. if the original owners came back, what is going to happen with her and her family? >> reporter: say many, if not most look like this, falling down or barely standing because the poor have no way of keeping them up. >> you see a lot of old buildings that are falling apart, but people it's really hard to fix these buildings. you can find three different generations live there. >> reporter: despite all the evidence to the con temporary, you won't find -- contrary, you won't find many proud c

interviews with those like fidel castro, jimmy carter and muhammad ali all considered must-reads at the time. he ran his empire from his bed. life is too short, he said, to live somebody else's dream. mission accomplished. cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >>> there's more to tell you about tonight. still ahead emmy award winning actress julia louis-dreyfus revealing her battle with breast cancer. the passionate plea she's making on women's behalf. >>> on the brink of start the interview with a firm handshake. ay,no! don't do that! try head & shoulders instant relief. it cools on contact, and also keeps you 100% flake free. try head & shoulders instant relief. for cooling relief in a snap. is is not this john smith.ith. or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage members. no, it's this john smith. who we paired with a humana team member to help address his own specific health needs. at humana, we take a personal approach to your health, to provide care that's just as unique as you are. no matter what your name is. >>> today ther

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policies through its ridiculous policies and rhetoric and threatening and sanctions him or has kept fidel castro in power for seventy odd years ok they're doing exactly the same thing this is like a replay of you but your united states made for bill castro who he was made the conditions that kept him in power the u.s. government is doing the exact same thing here in but with north korea it says it's like a replay of history so this doesn't make any sense on so many levels but this is sort of business as usual for washington and unfortunately history will not sort of be on the size of the u.s. in this because at some point it has to end they've been or seventy years of carved out a strip between north and south korea which is a basically giant dollars think for u.s. dollars for the military industrial complex there's no reason for the united states to be there and frankly there's no reason for the north and north and south korea to be pointing guns at each other only reason the orse because the united states had to take was interesting that you know other players are involved obviously trying to

and interviews with controversial figures like fidel castro and month max. one of the things that i have always felt about playboy. whether included the centre polls are not is that the magazine it you know it did not of sex magazine. if it had been it would not be as continually as popular is that i. have not always saw himself as a liberal activist. advocating for free speech civil rights and legal abortions. but to his critics. he was seen as a pornographer who objectified and degraded women. claims he always denied. despite the magazines controversy or maybe because of it playboy subscriptions peep to more than seven million in the nineteen seventies. while reership has slowed in recent years have there's mark on popular culture is permanent. will be buried in a mausoleum next marilyn monroe. we never met credits with launching his success more than half a century ag. but it's a resistance when i came eighty is here with us in the studio i and that mall up problems for ryan and the budget and on a is in a lot of but will treason about that max consolatio

he gives them the magazines had articles written by ian fleming in jaguar why they interviewed fidel castro and miles davis he was a ground breaking when i try on yeah there's all this is lost is amazing sharga not know he was was he an icon you know of course he was a hero to very many people but but he was also a villain tall others wasn't. yes he was a villain to the traditional idea that was prevalent in the thirty's the forty's in the fifty's appealing to women and the american home a certain way and because he pushed down trees opening nightclubs in major u.s. cities because he had his playboy bunnies but he made them either or pornography whichever word suits your fancy he made it palatable any made it from art it wasn't run she like a larry flynt or some of the magazines that were to follow any kept it from being just in the shadows he brought women and nudity and art and put it out there for mainstream consumption he was vilified by some when he was a hero and a champion to many other children thanks so much for joining us on what i saw on a little low in los angeles host of the ne

i think when you do what kaepernick did at the outset and well a fidel castro t-shirt or the famous socks with police cast as pigs. it's better to say i feel exclude and i want in. because people stop rinsing at the point at which you kneel. i agree with everything the judge said in your segment. and i think that kaepernick is fully within his rights. i don't want to see him fired or punished. i don't want that to happen. but i think it will end up in a stalemate. kennedy: you saying this our cultural north korea. the president as you point out gave life to an issue that was pretty much a minor issue. >> it was six people it was a minor cultural issue rather than a political issue, the idea that there are six people kneeling during the playing of the national anthem. the president at the political rally saying you are my people, i get you. we are not going to see our flag disrespected by those sobs. it tells fans you should boycott if you don't do this. he wanted there to be 200 people. i'm sure he's disappointed there weren't 500 people. kennedy: so the president obviously knows what he'

who supported in defiance a t-shirt of fidel castro and praised the education system there over america's people are not understanding what these gestures are endorsing. the fact they are doing it overseas is all the more noxious. lou: this is a fight the president will win. i can't tell you how long it's going to take. but he's resolute and right. >> where the land of the free because of the brave. let's not forget it. lou: michelle malkin, thanks for being here. do you believe the strengthening populist wave in this country will lead to mitch mcconnell's exit? please roll the video as we show you a stunt driver. what a road he picked, making his way at pike's peak in colorado testing every jaw dropping edge and guardrail. a 1,000-foot drop awaiting him at any possible mistake. and a 1,400 horse power twin if you are bow ford mustang. up next. suicide bombers attack kabul's airport. guess who was there and guess who was targeted. we take up the war on radical islamist terrorists. lieutenant tony shaffer joins us next. announcer: did you know dragging chains could spark a wildfire? smokey

translator reportedly fainted he was an hour into it but if you think that was long cuban president fidel castro back in one thousand nine hundred sixty one he spoke for four new hof hours. for others it was less about the length of the speech and more. getting attention zimbabwe's president robert mugabe with this attack on homosexuality we are not gay. it got a reaction but not quite the walkout as when iran's former leader mahmoud ahmadinejad's spoken two thousand and eleven. boys that. it wasn't the first time delegates had lived in protest but it was certainly the most notable. son you know this is. the un general assembly has frequently been a stage for theater and emotion this from soviet leader nikita khrushchev and palestinian leader yasser arafat in one thousand nine hundred seventy four when i come bearing all branch in one hand and the freedom fighters going in the other to not let the olive branch fall for my hand. in two thousand and six u.s. president george w. bush and his venezuelan counterpart hugo chavez ups the stakes in drama and rivalry every nation in this chamber has resp

going on in venezuela now -- largely rooted in what took place under hugo chavez and tied into fidel castro in that whole ideology in latin america that is very suspicious of the big american companies that do business there. some of their excess in the past. but i think really to bring in socialism and it has not benefited the people of venezuela. kimberly, when you ask me about my overall thoughts, this brings it into some clarity. here you have the president saying we cannot as a country, the united states, a superpower -- the world's only superpower -- stand by and watch what's going on in venezuela. at the same time, he says wait a minute, we are all nation-states and we have to look out for ourselves and our sovereignty. you can imagine the people and government of venezuela immediately react. what happened to sovereignty? what happened to the big nation, the powerful united states acting in an imperial manner and sticking their nose in our business? wait a second. hang on. it is the trump doctrine here? what is trump standing for? the same thing with ivonne. he says ivonne is terribl

some of us believe -- explains why i didn't like fidel castro and we wish that we would stick with theollege basketball is not only a miss but air ball. [laughter] >> the schools are accused of basically trying to bribe kids to come. that may be a violation of ncaa rules but should not be treated as crime. i think the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office have better things to worry about. discretion is in order here. paul: thank you all. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to between it to us. thanks for watching, i'm paul gigot, i hope to see you next week right here. ♪ >> lou: good evening, everybody. the popullist wave in america is growing. and the snootiest have been shaken by alabama. they decided for roy moore in the run off senate scomplekz the judge's wins clearly taken as a profound warning to all establishment elites and rinos, particularly those in the senate. alabama voters

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he later shows up at practice wearing socks that depict cops as pigs, he praises fidel castro when iniami, maybe that's why he's not the quarterback of the dolphins now and jay cutler is. there may be other reasons. you need to move beyond colin kaepernick, whose intentions were good and donated and raised thousands of dollars, but sounds very politically naive and people like doug baldwin and give them a voice. >> the president when running, as a candidate, donald trump said we're going to get tired of winning. did he just win thursday night in so far as they didn't protest during the anthem at that game, they linked arms. now here comes the nba saying we don't want our guys taking a knee during the anthem? >> president trump seems able to spin almost any circumstance as a win. >> is he right in this case? >> i don't think so. i think this is evolving. players and people around all the leagues are evolves in their understanding. this is a humble suggestion on my part. because who am i, a very fortunate white man, to tell primarily african-american citizens what they should do. but th

some of us believe -- explains why i didn't like fidel castro and we wish that we would stick with theederal prosecution of college basketball is not only a miss but air ball. [laughter] >> the schools are accused of basically trying to bribe kids to come. that may be a violation of ncaa rules but should not be treated as crime. i think the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office have better things to worry about. discretion is in order here. paul: thank you all. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to between it to us. thanks for watching, i'm paul gigot, i hope to see you next week right here. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> president trump firing back at the mayor of san juan. mayor slamming the administration for, quote, killing us with inefficiency. welcome to a new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> president trump accusing the mayor of disparaging first responder saying that she and other puerto rican leaders want everything to be done for them. the island steel reeling, according to pentagon more than a million people still don't have access to clean drinking water and 95% remain w

libya's moammar gadhafi tore a page of the charter and fidel castro warned that george w.en in the chamber. >> still smells of sulfur today. >> reporter: they are more measured in tone. >> i think you'll have the president who did the bombing on v syria on the chemicals and gone at syria and iraq at record place. >> reporter: then the member from france. the first new general assembly for antonio. >> the most dangerous crisis we face is the nuclear risk in relation to the democratic people of korea. >> reporter: donald trump has made the organization relevant. they wathought he would trash i but it's being handled here in the security council. >> reporter: trump will call for more reform of the u.n. unclear if he, again, demands changing of the marble. richard roth, cnn, united nations. >>> joining me now to discuss further is cnn political commentator errol louis and julian zeleny. let's talk about north korea. julian, richard showed the proximity between the north korean delegation in the front row and president there 20 feet away. of course, they will have opportunities

you made this point to me had socks on, kaepernick did that referred to cops as pigs, supports fidel castro, dan? >> let's remember how this started, sean. that is exactly the correct. colin kaepernick walked on the field with a pair of socks depicting cops as pigs. let me get this straight nfl, this is the hill you want to die on? you want to get on the back and ride this colin kaepernick wave to what? darryl, just to be clear on this, listen i get it. conversation about race is always a good one to have. but it's not the conversation americans are concerned about. it's the format you choose to do it. kneeling during an them is universally accepted as an act of disrespect. why would you do that and in subtle everybody who you're trying to, quote, engage in a conversation on race? it's ridiculous. >> let me say this, there's a way and time to have a conversation on race. what we expect from our president is that we have a problem where many african americans and people of colorful disrespected by some of the things that happened in our country. >> sean: let me ask you a question, darryl, th

decided to kneel during the national anthem when he didn't vote in the national election and praises fidel castros to police by pigs by wearing clothes that show that m. >> first of all, black people were wearing the uniform of the united states of america, returned home from world war ii as veterans and were murdered by bigots who denied legitimacy. let me finish, sir. >> i am agreeing with you. >> let finish. those people who committed those acts were unamerican and didn't understand complicated nature of black people's relationship to a country that we often stood proudly for a flag that did not protect us. you can name legitimate flaws in colin kaepernick's approach without under cutting the basic moral trajectory of what he is saying. the fact is unarmed black people still die in disproportionate numbers from police people. the facts that he was highlighting and under scoring are still real today. we can discount colin kaepernick and still say that the issues that he highlighted and that he confronts must be dealt with and those owners had a reckoning in a very serious and fundamental fashio

. >> fidel castro was also the darlings of hollywood, so sometimes they just do not check the facts,ut the fact is that those haitians that are leaving the united states because their tps, which is the temporary protection services, which is like every 18 months you get a permit to keep on working and the haitians and thousands of people have the tps, but the trump administration has announced that the tps is over for haitians, and that's why they're moving up to canada. >> liz: what do you make of the hollywood hipocracy about people like justin trudeau or castro? >> well, you know, i always say that if you are in hollywood and you really love castro, you should go down to havana without dollars and without a car and live with the cuban family over a week and then you will really know, then you will change your mind to sort of a reality check. >> liz: let's get your thoughts on the border wall because prototypes are starting i think to be built. there's going to be protests there what are your thoughts about the border wall? >> listen president trump needs to fulfill the promise of

this political hero worship included benito mussolini, adolf hitler, joseph stalin, mao seton, fidel castro and more recently hugo chavez. few people remember it today but the original lyrics of call border's popular musical anything goes originally read you are the talk, mussolini, today, you are an o'neill drama, you are whistlers mama. some progress there. whereas few people today openly praise hitler or mussolini it is not uncommon to see young men and women in our nation's capital wearing t-shirts, to see american entertainers like michael moore and intellectuals like noam chomsky praise the castro brothers and hugo chavez. decades trying to understand why intelligent and educated people are attracted to totalitarianism and why they persist in doing so even today after a century of bloodshed perpetrated by government against their own people. he was born in 1932 in hungary and fled to the west, the hungarian revolution of 1956 was put down by soviet forces, he is a well-known political sociologist, communist study and nonfiction author, in 1973, soviet and americans and american societ

tell colin kaepernick that if this is what it's about, why would you wear a t-shirt supporting fidel castro, who is only in power because of brutality against people? he used the police to be brutal and to shut people up and to kill them and they disappear and go to prison and political disdense. he wore a t-shirt -- >> we can have a whole conversation about cuba. >> let him make his point. >> the second thing is this. colin kaepernick, if you -- don't lecture me, go talk to kaepernick and say don't be an idiot. actually go out there and register to vote and be involved. if you're going to be a leader then maybe register to vote -- >> ben, ben, ben, outside -- ben, ben, wait a minute. as another conservative, outside of that talking point that he isn't registered to vote, colin kaepernick has invested a lot -- a lot of money and time into the african-american community. >> but he still -- >> wait a minute. i'm not going to allow you to sit on this tv and spread falsehoods and disrespect someone that has done a lot of things -- >> wait a minute here. part of the issue is that when african-am

you still have the castro regime that is embedded there, i understand the difference without fidel castrore in the leadership position. but still, i do think that the infusion of america and americana americana into cuba will do this. we are not sure it is the cuban government. there is this mystery as to who is doing it. we really don't know, and we are going to need the fbi to figure it out. >> sandra: allots to figure out here. zac, i'll give you the last word. >> we really need to figure that out. one of the interesting theories that is gaining credibility is that another country may have done this, a rogue country, an enemy of the united states like russia or somebody else. so we need to figure out who perpetrated this attack against not only american officials but a canadian one as well. it is in our national security interests. >> sandra: a big day, pulling more than half of our diplomats out of cuba because of these sonic attacks. thanks to both of you for coming on tonight. good to see you. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> sandra: we will be right back. ♪ looking for balance

fidel castro used to taunt puerto rico calling it -- telling them you're a colony, just an american colony and they would insist, no, we have rights and citizenship and this is what we want. we want commonwealth and not statehood and castro saying when you need them they won't be there and so much at stake. >> so much at stake an honestly i feel like the tip -- the actual logistical ways of things broken down in puerto rico, lack of power and communications, has made it hard to tell the story. >> yes. >> as well as hard to -- making it hard for the response thus far and the response thus far is inadequate. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> bill moyers will join us, he was working in lyndon johnson's white house and mohammed ali defied the draft. he'll tell us what president johnson said about that. and what president johnson had to say publicly about other protests by athletes at this time. including at the olympics in 1968. >>> and once again tonight, nfl players stood in solidarity against president trump's comments. and we have learned just how widespread the use of private e-mail is and

the same year, fidel castro spoke at the u.n. 4 1/2 freaking hours, including a special rant about how john f. kennedy was illiterate. in 1974, head of the plo, yasser arafat giving his debut speech to the general assembly. >> translator: i have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. words of the translator there. >> arafat didn't mean that -- did mean that quite literally, he insisted on wearing a gun in a holster for his first u.n. speech, which is nuts. but every year there's someone. in 2006, venezuelan president hugo chavez said the american president at the same time, george w. bush, was satan. >> translator: the gentleman to whom i refer as the devil came here, talking as if he owned the world, truly as the owner of the world. yesterday the devil came here. right here. right here. and it smells of sulfur still today. >> every year there's at least one from somewhere. today our president made his first speech before the u.n. general assembly. i called kim jong un "rocket man." he threatened to, quote, tot

amy: what advice do you think fidel castro could give to president trump around hurricane preparedness, , or on any issue rightt n now? >> certainly, educating people, getting them ready for eventualities and certainly preparing in a way that we have gotten much, much better at. i i think the rereason we have gotten better at it, we took eight or ninine groups -- delegations of emergency managers from florida, the gulf coast, the sououtheast, from the panhandle down to cuba over thee years to introduce them to the cuban system. and they were all extremely impressed. they all came back wiwith ideas. and i think some of the much tighter preparedness t that we e seeing in these recent hurricanes had too have -- had o have been influenced in some way by the cuban model. amy: we want to thank you, elizabeth newhouse, for joining us director of the center for , international policy's cuba project. has taken numerous delegations from the u.s. to cuba to see how the cubans manage disaster preparedness. elizabeth newhouse herself grew up in cuba. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the wa