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Im going to get more from cnn political commentary ana navarro. shes in miami. i know this touches you personally because youve long fought for human rights in cuba. whats going through your mind this morning? >> reporter: i have mixed emotions, carol. i am very happy for the release of alan gross. it was a huge injustice for him to be there. he was in very bad health. his mother died while he was in prison. this is a man whos lost over 100 pounds. hes lost his teeth. it was really tire, dire co...

>> reporter: oh, ariel, listen. this idea that theres great travel destrixs on cuba right now is a myth and a fallacy. everywhere i go i hear people talking about how theyre taking bike tours through cuba, salsa tours through cuba. i hear them talk about the mo hey tos on the beaches. that have already relaxed these travel sanctions a great deal. i will not go to cuba. its personal choice of mine. ly not go give one penny of my money to a va jet stream that r violates human rights. one of the th...

That is going to probably be at the heart of the reaction here to the announcement. theres a lot of anger in this community and theres also going to be a lot of disappointment on many of the cuban exiles here who probably arent going to be happy to hear about the easing of relations here. >> thanks very much. i have to get to a break. back with much more on this breaks news about cuba and the release of alan gross. ive had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most my life. but that hasnt stopped ...

Children again. hell be able to tell his wife that hes not going to die in a cuban prison which is he he told he her when he saw her last in july. he was really fading away. he was sent here by the united states as part of u.s. programs to essentially instill democracy in cuba. there was a failure and alan gross was caught almost immediately. he didnt speak spanish. and they used him as a bargaining chip to get these other intelligence agents back which is really what the cuban government wanted...

Announced today are going to go a long way, much further than perhaps any administration in living memory to try and reach a normal and racial, sane policy with cuba. >> thank so much for the reporting. cnn is the only american network in cuba on the ground at this morning. sounds like the flood gates are about to open personally and financially. >> its going to be interesting to get the reporting on the ground. there are generations of cuban americans who believe that they had their lives and w...

>> im going to take our viewer to check in with michelle kosinski. >> reporter: the white house has basically confirmed that this is happening, that gross is now on a government plane headed back to the u.s. and the president was asked about this subject just days ago. in fact there was an interview done with spanish language television on test 9th. i want to read you a part of it. he was asked about alan grosss situation, what is the u.s. government doing to secure his release. and that is some...

Talk about u.s./cuba relations, something he almost never does. but they havent heard these details. they dont have easy access to the internet or cnn. so were telling them and for many of them this is the biggest cuba/u.s. news that theyve heard in their lifetime. so far theyre tightly restricted. state media is not sharing them that news with them. at least not yet. >> a patrick on man, thanks so much. i have to take a break. well be back with more in the newsroom. is most my life. but that ha...

Cuban intelligent agents in jail for more than 15 years. cuban releasing an u.s. intelligence source who has been in jail in cuba for more than 30 years np u.s. not releasing those names for security purposes. officials tell me with grosss release, president obama set to announce the most sweeping overall in u.s. policy against cuba since the embargo was impos imposed. a major relaxing of travel. virtually anyone can go to cuba with a license to travel. lets take a listen to a little bit more ab...

Cuban relations in decades appears to be unfolding this morning. alan gross, an american contractor held prisoner in cuba for the last five years is now on his way home on a plane heading back to the united states from havana. gross was arrested back in 2009 after he was caught smuggling satellite equipment into cuba. it with us part of a u.s. aid plan to increase internet access in a severely restricted company. the release of three of the so-called cuban five, being held on espionage charges i...

>> so tom, are movie growers in danger? >> i really dont think so. i think that the company of sony obviously has been hacked and damaged and data has been lost and reputation has been shot. but to put a threat like that out with the thousands of movie theaters that we have in this country, and owl of the different ways of distributing the movie even online that cant be stopped, i dont see the actual bombing of theaters as a credible threat to be honest. but i think what theyre accomplishing her...