government for decades, lanski died in 1983.d daughter want the cuban government to pay them for what they took away. >> i think it owes us. i mean, i think -- and i'm speaking from for my -- for my mom and uncle pap and myself. we're remainders of the state of meyer lanski. they owed meyer lanski. >> reporter: officials are willing to settle with the family owed property, but it's owed millions in damages from the u.s. trade embargo. it's hard to imagine them paying money to the family of a mobster. one roadmap could be that the cuban government views the mob hotels as symbols of vice and corruption. they were confiscated rather than nationalized, officials say, making it much less likely that the government here would ever pay compensation for the hotel rivera. lanski's daughter and grandson live simply in florida. they inherited lanski's notoriety but little of his alleged ill-gotten gains. >> there was a lot in the estate that never got to us. do we cry about it? no, we're lanskis, we just move on. >> reporter: the rivera ho

says lansky was major figure in the american mafia. there was also a character in the godfather part 2, believe it or not, based on him. >> i thought, what is that? the very next thing i see is a tire, full-sized tire, spinning vertically, not wobbling or anything like that, bounced in from the of my car. >> neki: wow. this is scary. this indiana man dodged death when a tire of a semitractor-trailer smashed right intoo his windshield all while he was driving on a busy highway. he survived the terrifying ordeal with just a scratch on his thumb. can you say guardian angel, people? officials say if there had been passenger in the car, they may not have survived. >> andrew: all that and a crash on your thumb. >> neki: he's lucky. >> andrew: unbelievable. still to come on local 10, an historic visit. president obama set to land in cuba in just a couple hours. we have team coverage from the island on the other side of the break. >> neki: a night of fun turns dangerous in plantation. n update on thehe deadly house come back. it took joel silv