pete mayor rick krysman. laura talks to him and more about what the rays playing on >>> today on this historic milestone. tampa is home to many of cuban americans and many keeping close tabs on the relationships between the two countries. kerry kavanaugh has more on the reactions. >> reporter: certainly an important event for so many people in the community. tonight huge celebrations going on at the annual cuban sandwich festival. live music and lots of food and celebration of all things cuban happening this evening. hundreds of people have lined the streets and many decked out in cuban colors and celebrating and cuba and u.s. are venturing in this territory and building back relations frozen for 60 years and optimistic that president obama's progress will continue opening doors for businesses and families to connect for cuba. >> i think it is a good thing some people don't think so but there is reasons for everything and some can put aside past prejudices and say what is the country about over there. >> repo