cory: my favorite mark cuban story.tanding by the water cooler, one guy was talking about something, and you walked up to them and said is he trying to sell you something? and he said no, we're just talking. and you said if you're not going to sell something, you don't need to work here. to go to your desk and sell something. mark: yes, if two people are talking, and one of them is not writing a check, you're wasting your time. cory: you took over the mavericks, a team that was really struggling, and you got people on the phone. mark: you cannot survive without sales but there is a flip side because there is no ipo market review to do things that are different milestones in the short-term to get a platform to raise money or get to profitability much more weekly. -- quickly. i will now allow companies to platform, but then you've to go to revenue unless there is something dramatic about to happen. cory: silicon valley, we have snap trap and interest -- snapchat and pinterest. mark: if you raise 500 million, you see them

. >> mark: the interesting thing rick carlisle says mark cuban isn't going to say anything and then mark cuban says something. it's going to be a great series. >> mike: between mark cuban and darrell going at each other it might be fun -- >> jeff: the games are going to be good. i just don't know with dwight howard back, i just -- james harden/dwight howard will be a little too much for the mavericks unless rondo plays a special series. because it hasn't worked out so far, but no better time for rondo and the pastmavericks for him to play great in that series. >> mark: i see houston winning that series. >> mike: rondo had many of his best in the postseason with boston. now philly needing to get it inbounds with 8.4 remaining. iguodala to inbound. pondexter will guard it. davis is playing a free safety there. can't throw it in the backcourt. and they find green. green found an opening, get it to curry and best free-throw shooter in the nba this season with a chance to ice it with 6.2 remaining. 33 for curry. but he's even missed a couple of free throws today. 91% during the regular season

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. >> mark: the interesting thing rick carlisle says mark cuban isn't going to say anything and then mark cuban says something. it's going to be a great series. >> mike: between mark cuban and darrell going at each other it might be fun -- >> jeff: the games are going to be good. i just don't know with dwight howard back, i just -- james harden/dwight howard will be a little too much for the mavericks unless rondo plays a special series. because it hasn't worked out so far, but no better time for rondo and the pastmavericks for him to play great in that series. >> mark: i see houston winning that series. >> mike: rondo had many of his best in the postseason with boston. now philly needing to get it inbounds with 8.4 remaining. iguodala to inbound. pondexter will guard it. davis is playing a free safety there. can't throw it in the backcourt. and they find green. green found an opening, get it to curry and best free-throw shooter in the nba this season with a chance to ice it with 6.2 remaining. 33 for curry. but he's even missed a couple of free throws today. 91% during the regular season

most prolific owners in all of sports, talking about tech billionaire and dallas mavericks owner mark cuban has some pretty strong thoughts on everything including how technology can change education. we caught up with him for a wide-ranging interview. check this out. mark: there will be a lot of universities that go out of business. i'm not talking about university of phoenix type for profit, but schools themselves. cory: we've seen some of that. mark: right, sweet briar -- you're starting to see some changes, right? i think what people and investors fail to realize, let's just say for example, a school charges $40,000 a year for tuition. if you lose 1000 students, that is $40 million a year. there are not a lot of companies, particularly education-type companies that can adjust to that loss. what is happening is i am looking for a investment perspective for companies that support keeping kids in school. if a kid goes through school in four years --college or postgrad. if a school keeps a kid and graduates in four years, that is a much more cost-effective graduation for the school. they wo

cory: dallas mavericks owner mark cuban. ♪ cory: this is the best of bloomberg west.m cory johnson. with learning platforms, recruitment tutoring, things are a lot bigger than textbooks. i spoke to dan rosen's wig about the expansion of career development and internships. dan: 70% of college kids to college to get a job. the ratio of career counselors to college students is one to 1000. it is an underinvested area area this gives college students and internships fight -- site. this gives them career coaching and counseling to help them figure out the right job. cory: what is intriguing me is it seems like it extends customer life. you take your customer past the fifth year into a longer-term relationship that lets you advertiser marketing value longer. is that part of the plan. dan: there is the right thing to do what do students need? we had to figure out what college to go to, matching them with scholarships. we extended it three years ago for the same business reasons. we have 75% of high school kids who plan to go to college in our network. we help them pick the r

cory: fascinating stuff from mark cuban. you get a sense that there are big ideas coming into education whether it is charter schools at the kid level all the way to the postgraduate level, real changes in the way that education is being offered. brett: cory johnson at the summit in scottsdale. thank you. coming up, our guest host of the hour talking about how tech is disrupting the travel industry. and later in this hour, andrew mason's next act. ♪ brad: i'm redstone and this is "bloomberg west." coming up, how one company is working to make your trip a more local experience. andrew mason joins us on his latest adventure. but first, a check of today's top headline. strong's job market -- signed in job market remains strong despite the disappointing labor report. 5 million positions waiting to be filled in february, the highest number of openings in 14 years. construction and food services had the biggest lanes. and samsung showed positive signs in its first-quarter guidance. it is fast -- forecasting a profit of 5 billion f

you bought the stock the day that we had mark cuban on the program. >> i got out way too early. g a fast money trader, getting in and out quick. that's not a curse. but nonetheless, a longer-term investor like mark who famously said when you and i asked him the question, how long are you in this thing, he said forever. he said my timeframe is forever. my price target is -- infinity. >> i think he was making the point that he's not a short-term guy. my conviction is so deep on this name that i'm not looking to make a buck. i'm looking to make a lot of them for a long time. >> yeah. i got out over $75 ago, judge, was not in for the earnings announcement last night unfortunately. had a lot of friends tell me that they had nice positions and stuck with it. kudos to them. kudos to you, mark, it's a fantastic company. 62 million as far as streaming folks around the world. >> international really strong, joe as well. >> internationals come around, that's exactly what many were questioning, multiple quarters go, could they do it on the international side. i've traded the stock along with

cory: dallas mavericks owner and broadcast.com cofounder mark cuban.p next, dan rosenweig. ♪ cory: this is the "best of bloomberg west." i am cory johnson. it began as an online textbook rental company. now, it is much more. with learning platforms, recruitment, tutoring, things are a lot bigger than textbooks. i spoke to ceo dan rosenweig about the expansion of career development and internships at the summit. dan: 70% of college kids go to college to get a job. but the ratio of career counselors to college students is one to 1000. it is a completely underinvested area. less than 40% of college kids even go to their career counseling office because they don't have anything for them. this gives college students an internships site. 62,000 companies, 2 million users. this gives them career coaching and counseling to help them figure out the right job. cory: what is intriguing me is it seems like it extends customer life. you take your customer past the fourth year or fifth year of college, in my case, past that fifth year into a longer-term relationship

and mark cuban is jillian and connor's last chance at getting a deal. just calm down.y're 100% wrong. you guys remind me of me when i was 21. you're trying to win every battle. that's what being competitive is all about. now i tried to ask the questions that would educate me about where you're going strategically and could i add value. (chuckles) tell me about your infrastructure. really quick. (snaps fingers) ten seconds or less. what--what do you have? so we have a design, so we can design new products in different colors, different sizes. great. so you have someone who can make 'em and build 'em? yeah. okay. and the 200 you sold at your web site was how long ago? it was six months ago. okay, why have you not continued to sell them on your web site? because we ran out. (laughs) okay, so you have $50,000 in the bank. why didn't you use that money to fulfill the orders? because we--we couldn't make any more of those. that was with a small designer who did freelance work with a supply chain that connor put together... (laughs) that was amazing for his first whack at it.

mark cuban: a lot of universities will go out of business.'m not talking about the university of phoenix type for-profits, but schools themselves, we have seen some of that. you are starting to season changes, right. the seo school charges $40,000 per year for tuition. with a thousand students? that's $40 million per year. there are not a lot of education type companies that can adjust to a loss of $40 million. what's happening is i am looking for -- from an investment perspective for companies that support keeping kids in school. if they graduate in four years they help to track students in a way that's cost-effective helping to keep kids in school. helping to reduce costs. those are the changes as kids don't go to school. cory: you are using big data to monitor. they currently have retention systems in which schools for together monitoring systems. what the kids are doing on their own schedules you want to be able to monitor them. if something isn't happening on time, you want to be able to send an alert not just of the students but to the

when someone like mark cuban says any black kid walking up the street makes him afraid.n walking up the street is the most non-threatening kid in the world. >> mark cuban would know a lot more about blacks than you would. >> i honestly think, we have to separate the two. listen 99% plus police are just doing an amazing job. they have the hardest job in america. i don't think they respect enough. there will be a bad apple here and there. that does not preclude us from saying if you want to change your lot in life every single person no matter what race color or situation you find yourself -- >> it begins with parents. what did you think of that mom? >> oh, my goodness y loved her. the blackout in 1977 rths we couldn't loot. my mother wouldn't let us look. i'm looking out the window. people were dropping the big tinexwatches. hundreds of watches, there was the boombox i wanted for three years, three years. al i didn't know how i was going to get it. i look out the window and somebody's got that boom box. i'm looking at my mom, please please let me go. she's like no. >> tha

our guests include richard ranson, mark cuban, and they join me from the summit on education and technology

aaron: one was mark cuban -- was an angel investor in box. and that was just done by a cold e-mail that we sent to mark back in 2005. so he sent us a $350,000 check to people he had never met. so that gave dylan and myself the idea, maybe we should pursue this full-time. which led to us basically proposing the idea to our parents that we're going to drop out of college. they subsequently got freaked out. him and but we had to do it and pursue the mission. we dropped out. and then we convinced our other two friends, sam and jeff, to also drop out of college. and we all huddled together in berkeley, and -- emily: this is when you moved to the garage? aaron: we moved to this garage, this renovated garage in berkeley that my uncle had built up. and i'm not sure that it was legal at all. we would spend 16 hours a day, 17 hours a day, just working on the software, on the business model, on marketing. it was just four of us living, working, you know, eating, sleeping in the same place. it was pretty disgusting, actually. [laughter] if you really want

. ♪ matt: mark cuban will be joining us later today at 11:00 a.m. on "market makers." want to miss. he joins from a congress about education to discuss whether has not been a uniform -- a unicorn billion dollar company in the field. millions of products enter the united states every year. about 1% -- less than 1% of all imports are inspected by the consumer product safety commission. cost-cutting for manufacturers continued to supply dangerous goods to american retailers. one company has come under fire for repeat safety violations. renee dudley joins us. the tragic death of a toddler has shed light on how potentially dangerous products can reach u.s. shelves. renee: dollar tree has the most violations of any retailer cited by the regulators. they were cited for things like lead in toys, excess levels of banned chemicals. we have seen repeated use of unsafe products. dollar tree is under investigation by federal regulators. that investigation could result in several penalties. matt: the story is terribly sad. a toddler who chokes on the cap of a marker. there was appar

coming up, you can find him at a dallas mavericks game -- but tomorrow you will find billionaire mark cubanmarket makers" talking about education and technology. have a great day. brendan: happy wisconsin. ♪ scarlet: it is 56 and as past the hour, that means it's time to go on the markets. futures have signaled we are in for a selloff, but investors point to a disappointing march jobs report. the dollar is little changed now and it was low earlier, which is one reason why oil prices continue to move north, up by more than 5%. joining me for today's options insight is the strategist for derivatives that mk am holding. it looks like the bad news is going to be interpreted as bad news in the kleins -- bad news in declines. jim: it was a weaker than expected jobs report and the futures were lower after that. i think the focus now is on earnings -- alcoa, which typically signals the beginnings of the earnings season -- scarlet: when it was a member of the dow. jim: now people are looking forward to the beginning of earnings season. scarlet: is it going to be about the strong dollar weighing on t

mark cuban i thought put it best in this interview. he said, if a guy in his underwear two-minute delay markets, anybody can pair well put it we will hear from one congressman, a former wall street banker himself. we will be back. ♪ betty: a british trader accused of helping cause the 2010 flash crash. a london court says he will be free want to post more than $7 million in bail. u.s. authorities say he manipulated the markets to help cause a crash in 2010 which wiped out more than $1 trillion in value in stock spare the list is expanding its executive team as it gears up to challenge over. he was previously working at google and facebook and whatsapp. will handle brand marketing after a decade at nike. uber has a valuation of $40 billion. the rivalry continues. those are top stories this mime. we will hear from congressman jim heim. how regulators handled the traitor. big toy for hours in the tech world. ebay, facebook, reported yesterday after the close. and microsoft. joining us now is paul sweeney, who covers these companies. let's

cory johnson is having a big week, mark cuban -- the ceo of lincoln, jeff weiner.hnson, what is the ultimate vision for the company despite walking meetings, which the two of you have in common. cory: except for the walking meetings with me looking freakishly tall next to the normal size jeff weiner. this was a struggling business at almost 10 years old by the time it didn't ipo, but wasn't talking about the -- did an ipo, but they were talking about the transaction. facebook gets a lot of attention for the social graph, mapping identities and the relationship of friends and families, and their relationship. he kept about the economic graph that should be the center of linkedin's business. check this out. jeff: at heart, lincoln is about -- linkedin is about matching members to opportunities. enhancing your job, a new skill that enables you to be better. we have data on skills members have, and what skills they might need to advance or find a new job. with linda -- lynda.com, we have data about the skills, and now a world-class library in terms of content that enab

we heard mark cuban on "squawk box" saying there were red flags in this case. >> we should add, lynn"power lunch" today in the 1:00 hour. tune in there. >> all right. more about that case. her new charges, she said she was fighting back. >>> coming up in a little more than three weeks the apple watch goes on sale. piper jaffray's jean munster thinks apple could sell 1 million watches 0 the opening weekend. joining "squawk alley" live to explain his prediction. we'll be right back on "squawk on the street." >>> there's a problem with las vegas and it could point to more bad luck for casino stocks. plus, why the first quarter's worst performer could fall even further. all that and more on tradingnation.cnbc.com. check out the live segment in "power lunch." more "squawk on the street" after this. you get a trade idea about, say organic food stocks schwab can help. with a trading specialist just a tap away. what's on your mind lisa? i'd like to talk about a trade idea. let's hear it. [ male announcer ] see how schwab can help light a way forward. so you can make your move wherever you ar

you also heard of that with mark cuban, for example.ting that would better codify insider trading. it's sort of the collection of prior cases and other laws. but there's not a clearly defined insider trading law. and maybe we need one. >> maybe we don't need any. >> well that's another story. >> thank you kate. >> thank you. >>> coming up reaction to the lackluster jobs report. the chief economist from barclays and top strategist from wells fargo joins us next. i care deeply about the gulf. i grew up in louisiana. i went to school here. i've been with bp ever since. today, i lead a team that sets our global safety standards. after the spill we made two commitments. to help the gulf recover and become a safer company. we've worked hard to honor both. bp has spent nearly 28 billion dollars so far to help the gulf economy and environment. and five years of research shows that the gulf is coming back faster than predicted. we've toughened safety standards too. including enhanced training... and 24/7 on shore monitoring of our wells drilling

i mean these tv slapdowns, like mark cuban yesterday was fan it's a pick.a on tv that's making a statement that matters. when we came to the defense in exactly this hour yesterday in this crazy s.e.c. stuff going after her. but whatever it is that's drama where it makes the difference. where ceos are courageous and speak out. when it's just these slapdowns and scott, you've been the best at getting ackman to throw food back at icahn. and we love watching it midday. and especially food fight makes sense at lunchtime. but when it's ceos racing around the country, it has a hugely effect -- >> why are all of these companies agreeing to do the spinoffs and settling with the activists if it doesn't make sense? because one after another has fallen into line especially this year. >> some of them say dan loeb at third point, has come up with a couple of candidates steve miller being one who's a tough nosed turnaround guy that has joined the board. andrew livers and dan loeb wisely realized this guy is a fantastic net add to the board. and pepsi, you know, looking at

president has done since dwight eisenhower meeting face-to-face with his cuban counterpart. it marked the most dramatic moment yet as the two countries redefi their relationship. time for us to try something new, president obama said. today's highly anticipated talks overshadowed this weekend's summit of the americas, the first-ever attended by a cuban leader. we begin tonight with our senior white house correspondent chris jansing in panama. chris. >> reporter: good evening, peter. the anticipation had been building to this historic moment for months. and when president obama finally sat down with raul castro the meeting lived up to the hype going longer than expected and marking what the president called a turning point. with a handshake and a simple sit-down president obama and raul castro rewrote the history book. and the world was watching. >> i think we are now in a position to move on a path towards the future and leave behind some of the circumstances of the past. >> reporter: moments rife with symbolism, signaling a thaw in cold war era animosities. but the president acknowle

. >>> today president obama met with cuban president rule castro. this markst time that leaders from the u.s. and cuba met together. president obama calling the meeting historic. president obama saying it's time to try something new. in his speech, mr. obama talked about the new ties. >> at the same time, we agree that we can continue to take steps forward that advance our mutual interests, we'll continue to work toward reestablishing diplomatic relations reopening embassies. in his speech, castro praised obama but also railed against 50 years of grievances against his communist nation. president obama is weighing in on hillary clinton's presidential campaign a day before her expected launch. sources close to the former secretary of state say she'll announce her campaign in a video posted on social media tomorrow. the president spoke about clinton after the summit of america's in panama. >> with respect to hillary clinton, i'll make my comments very brief. she was a formidable candidate in 2008. she was a great supporter of mine in the general election. she wa

cuban president raoul castro will mark the first meeting between the two leaders since the white house announced plans to normalize diplomatic relations. one topic on the table travel restrictions. new rules only allow some americans to visit the island. cuba's neighbors are watching the developments closely and gauging what it will mean for other caribbean destinations. >> any new destination that comes into our competitive marketplace certainly has the opportunity to redirect some of our business. but when you start looking at cuba, we recognize that we know it's on the horizon. >> if tourism ties are ever fully restored it would likely put cuba back on the map as a popular getaway. >>> did i hear you say rain? >> yeah. there is a chance, a chance of rain in the forecast. we're going to talk more about that. good afternoon, everyone. let's go ahead and call on our weather watcher program here. i just love this part of the program. okay, right here looks like it's 65, frank checking in from novato. great picture, frank. all right. let's see who else is reporting. 66 degrees this happe

obama and cuban president raul castro are reportedly due to meet informally at the summit, marking the first time presidents from the two countries have sat down since meanwhile, on thursday, obama 1956. announced the state department has finished its review of whether cuba should be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, but said he would wait to act until receiving final recommendations white house advisors. >> as you know, there is a process involved in reviewing whether or not a country should be on the state-sponsored terrorism list. that review has been completed at the state department. it is now forwarded to the white house. our interagency team will go through the entire thing in the present it to me with a recommendation. that hasn't happened yet. amy: fights broke out ahead of the summit wednesday when anti-castro cuban demonstrators tried to lay flowers at a bust of cuban patriarch josÉ martÍ near the cuban embassy in panama city, and were confronted by a group of pro-castro activists. cuban delegates also protested over reports that former cia-backed paramil

the cuban missile crisis marks the closest the world has ever come to a global nuclear war. al jazeera's latin american editor christina newman is in panama. do we know any more about this historic meeting? >> hello felicity. we do know that after more than 53 years of hostile silence, the two presidents seem to not stop talking to each other. they spoke on the phone before coming to panama and briefly in the hallways before the summit began and now a very very long meeting. we do know because they did speaking the media just shortly before closing the doors that president obama said that they had agreed both to disagree with respect and that they believe in time they could perhaps come closer together to try to solve their differences. both presidents however, underscored that neither one is going to give in or make any concessions in term of their ideological beliefs. president obama has made it very clear that he is going to keep on insisting on respect for human rights and free elections in cuba while president castro has dug in his heels. he said his communist system ca

mark: i want to close. we will talk more about your heritage and ask you whether or not you have an affinity for our connection to anything part of your cubant. do have your favorite cuban food? senator cruz: picadillo. i grew up eating all the time. beans and rice. for christmas, we would roast a whole pig for christmas eve. my abuelo and abuela, did not speaking was. mark: do you have a favorite cu ban singer. senator cruz: i tend to listen to country music more than cubranan music. mark: on the political front, what is your aspiration for the republican presidential nominee in 2016? what percentage of the vote of the hispanic vote will they get? senator cruz: if you look at who is been hurt under the obama economy, the hispanic unity has been hammered. it is far worse off. the rich are doing great. under the obama economy. but the most probable young people, hispanic, african american, single moms, their v lives have gotten harder and harder. i intend to campaign in the hispanic community across the country in expanding opportunity for everyone to achieve the american dream. and i also intend to campaign vigorously on school choice which

president obama and cuban president raul castro meeting and shaking hands, marking the first time the two have seen each other since restoring diplomatic ties last year, and for his part, castro heaping praise on our president. >> we have the very latest from panama city. >> reporter: a stunning reversal of more than 50 years of a lack of communication between the u.s. and cuba as today the president of the island nation, raul castro, absolved president obama of the rift that has kept the two countries that are separated by a near 90 miles but worlds apart over the past half century. the two men did have an opportunity today to address the summit today. president obama for his part acknowledged the long road ahead but he promised not to let the past dictate the future. >> the point is the united states will not be imprisoned by the past. we're looking to the future. and the policies that improve the lives of the cuban people and advance the interests of cooperation in the hemisphere. >> reporter: president castro, meanwhile, spent nearly an hour reciting past grievances between the tw

the benchmark nikkei index hit the 20,000 mark for the first time in 15 years. >>> top u.s. and cuban diplomats have met for historic talks in panama. they're looking to end decades of hostility, and restore full diplomatic relations. >>> and boko haram attacks are forcing thousands of nigerians to flee their country. one boy describes how he got away. >>> bullish investors sent japan's stock market past a key milestone. the benchmark nikkei index touched the 20,000 level today. the first time it's been that high in 15 years. gene otani from the biz desk has more. gene tell us what's got everyone so excited. >> well the key word is touched. because it ended a fraction lower for the day. some investors seem comfortable with corporate japan finally turning a corner. they're buying up shares on expectations that companies will be posting stronger earnings this year. the nikkei index has been inching steadily closer to the 20,000 mark in recent weeks and it finally crossed over today, soon after the markets opened. it didn't stay there long though. some investors started selling shares. t

mark potter. the coast guard it's seeing a steady increase in cubans sailing rickety boats from the united states. trips often by their families in the u.s. last year more than 3600 were spotted. >> several children and s the pontoons. >> there is a smul her and a network that's building the boats and organizing what people n go in the boats for each trip. >> this criminal video shows a boat secretly beint on cuba's south coast for passengers hoping to eventually reach the unit states. there are three main routes by which they come to the u.s. without viesavisa. by boat to honduras or the yucatan for again a dangerous land trip through mexico. by far, most of the cubans now enter the united states at tn border in texas. we have 1700 cubans that were processed in 2014. >> outside the u.s. port of entry in brownsville, texas, buses take newly ns to cities across the y with me arriving in miami. they hope to improve their lis economically. this woman says i need to independent. under a unique law from the cold war era, almost all cubans arriving in the united states are a to here indefinitely. this s

mark a dramatic thaw in relations. we report from havana. >> julio was a cuban soldier fighting in ethiopia in the 1970's, one of a thousand troops that president castro sent to help the ethiopian government with its war against somalia. >> it was a just fight. those who wanted to go could go. many went to support ethiopians. they are like us and we made good friends. >> president castro called it an act of solidarity with com address in need. while the cold war was still hot, washington so you cuban involvement in ethiopia, angola and nicaragua and accused havana of aiding armed rebels it calls terrorist organizations. >> freedom fighters or terrorist organizations, cuban history is built on emphasizing the battle of the oppressed against the oppressor. these were built at defenses against the threat of u.s. invasion. >> the u.s. said cuba provided arms training and safe haven to rebel groups such as the farc in columbia and baath separatists in spain. >> this is for hunger strikers who died in 19 ate one in their battle against british authorities. the following year, washington placed cuba on its list. >> there is a mut

cuban revolution. president obama: this shift in u.s. policy represent a turning point for our entire region. the fact that president castro and i are both sitting it today marksoric occasion. it is the first time in half a century all the nations of the americas are meeting to address our future together. amy: at the meeting, cuban president raul castro urged obama to remove cuba from the terrorism list. president castro: we have expressed, and i repeated it again here to president obama, our willingness for respectful dialogue between both states within our profound differences. i see as a positive step's recent statements that he will quickly decide to remove cuba from the list of countries that sponsor state terror, on which we should never have been included. amy: cuba was placed on the terrorism list in 1982. in his letter to congress, obama wrote the cuban government "has not provided any support for international terrorism" in the past six months, and has "provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future". once cuba is officially removed from the list in 45 days, iran sudan and syria will become the only countr

there just minutes from now following his historic meeting earlier today with cuban president raul castro. that event markingions that a united states president has met with the president of cuba. an both vow of a new era in relations between the two countries. hello, everyone, this is "america's news headquarters." >>> president obama telling cuban leader raul castro the u.s. is ready to turn the page with

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the announcement comes after his talks on saturday with cuban leader raul castro on the sidelines of a regional summit in panama. it marked the first meeting between both countries in more than half a century. they confirmed they will work to reopen embassies on each other's soil. the u.s. will remove cuba from the list in 45 days. >> some republican lawmakers are voicing criticism. >> the decision made by the white house today is a terrible one but not surprising. cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism. >> house speaker john boehner issued a statement saying cozying up to the regime in cuba is a blow to all who long for dignity. program is expected to face further difficulties in lifting economic sanctions on cuba. the caribbean country wants to see them removed before restoring diplomatic dies with the u.s.. most of the embarringos on cuba can only be ended by the republican controlled congress. >>> armed militants in somalia have attacked a government building in the capital killing ten people. islamist extremist group al shabaab has claimed responsibility. a car bomb exploded outside of a building that house the educati

there just minutes from now following his historic meeting earlier today with cuban president raul castro. that event marking the first time in generations that a united states president has met with the president of cuba. an both vow of a new era in relations between the two countries. hello, everyone, this is "america's news headquarters." >>> president obama telling cuban leader raul castro the u.s. is ready to turn the page with cuba. in a historic meeting that hasn't happened in 50 years. >> this is obviously a historic meeting. the history between the united states and cuba is obviously complicated and over the years a lot of mistrust has developed, but during the course of the last several months, there have been contacts between the u.s. and the cuban government. >> now, that meeting also not without controversy. kevin cork has more now from panama. >> reporter: a stunning reversal of more than 50 years of a lack of communication between the u.s. and cuba as today the president of the island nation raul castro absolved president obama of the rift that has kept the two countries that are separated by

i owned it before when cuban had it, obviously too soon. markthe calls, i was asking for direction. >> amazon? >> would i touch it right now? >> yea. >> i like the name, but i stay away from. more interested in netflix at this point. >> the sentiment that was so negative, seems to have completely turned. >> because of the first quarter. >> he showed if you want to make money, he can. >> the reason amazon is breaking out for the first time ever. with their cloud business. >> the question is, to dan greenhouse's point, did he only show it because he knew wall street was, like, all right, dude, come on. >> don't forget how poor -- i don't follow them, but don't forget the poor sentiment. amazon had a terrible year the prior year. a show-me moment. >> does he go back to the old way? >> he showed us what he can do. >> what if they come out and show the retail business is actually making a ton of money and cloud business is losing a ton of money, and you get speculation that, okay, they break it apart, so you have plenty to keep it going. that's in se

mark potter. >> reporter: from the north coast of cuba the coast guard says it's seeing a steady increase in cubans sailing rickety boats to the united states. the trips often financed by their families in the u.s. last year more than 3,600 were spotted. >> several children and a couple of boats on the pontoons. >> there is a smuggler and a network that's building the boats and organizing what people can go in the boats for each trip. >> reporter: this grainy cell phone video shows a boat secretly being built on cuba's south coast for passengers hoping to eventually reach the united states. there are three main routes by which they come to the u.s. without visas. by boat to honduras or the yucatan for again a dangerous land trip through mexico. by far, most of the cubans now enter the united states at the mexican border in texas. >> in 2014 we had 1,700 cubans that were processed. >> reporter: outside the u.s. port of entry in brownsville, texas, buses take newly arrived cubans to cities across the country with many arriving in miami. they hope to improve their lives economically. this woman says i

cubans. it has been a physical obstacle in the course of negotiations. mark: peter cook, thank you. ted mccone is a senior fellow for the policy program at brookings. he joins me from washington. welcome back to "bottom line." ted: good afternoon. mark: is there diplomatic overtures -- they have dominated headlines. will those overtures be enough to open lines of communication between the u.s. and other countries in the region? ted: i think the process of dialogue underway between u.s. and cuba is leading to all kinds of positive results for the united states going into this summit. president obama arrives in panama with a lot of wind on his back. not only because of the gesture towards cuba but also in terms of the breakthrough with iran. a demonstration to the rest of the region and the world that this president will lead boldly through presidential diplomacy and try to turn the page from some of the past problems we've had to a new policy of engagement and partnership and those are the kinds of teams that are important for this region. mark: as peter cook just mentioned, there ha