reporter: union city is a melting pot of latin american influence. yet there is an intense hatred for the castros overcome with difficulty. i do hope this is a good chance for the the people of cuba to improve their lives and that s why i support the idea of, you know, ending the embargo. reporter: this second visit of a pope to cuba in the last two decades is seen by many as one more step to their liking. hopefully, more opportunity for people to express themselves and those people there nee something to start thinking that there is something else. reporter: at this restaurant, the nostalgia for what refugees left behind is on display. patrons come from all over and we found a nun from cuba who spoke to us through an interpreter. translator: this is what the people need to be able to see what it s like and be able to open their hearts. different world from the free-willing capitalism of america and deep down, many feel this way. same people are still there, sam
the game. see ya. you said you just moved here from the carolinas? i moved here from north carolina only to bring a panthers fan all the way across the country. reporter: obviously you re a huge panthers fan. absolutely. cam newton all the way. reporter: what do you think about super bowl city? it s fabulous. it s fabulous. i m moving back home after being gone for 38 years so the only thing that i really, really miss is my children. and my grandchildren. [ laughter ] reporter: we can t forget about them. awesome stuff. i was able to find it. are you jealous that i got to talk to both quarterbacks of both teams today? oh, yeah. do you know how many people would want to do that? [ laughter ] reporter: i m just glad that peyton manning i think i won. you thought the broncos were going to win. so that was good. emily turner down at the plaza in super bowl city. thank you. from super bowl city to the super bowl stadium, for the past few hours now they have b
stadium. all across the bay area, j.r. joins us from the playboy party. howdy guess you would join that one? reporter: that is ms. universe. she is talking right now. let s take a live listen. who are you guys rooting for? i d have to say neutral, although i already have a favorite in mind. reporter: she doesn t think she ll be hitting the dance floor. she s not a big dancer. who is that right there? that s chuckly dell lidelle. you see some of the bunnies taking pictures with vip guests, and we turn and look in the distance. that s where the party is going on as we speak. certainly a good time. real quick, ms. universe, we re live on tv right now. what do you have to say to san francisco? i love san francisco. i would love to live here. reporter: we love you too, especially if you dress like that all the time. all right, j. r. he s shameless. well, this is a big weekend for the bay area, and we fly the flag proudly for san francisco. lars you will rich sa
after the plan laid out by the white house. and she helped care for more than 140 children whose parents are behind bars in nepal. now she s got a new title. cnn hero of the year. cnn hero of the year. newsroom starting now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. thank you so much for joining me. i m carol costello. concern this morning that a young woman s death will be overshadowed by fame. by now, even if you re not a football fan, you know the name jovan belcher. you know he killed the mother of his child and then committed suicide. but what do we know about his girlfriend? his partner? the mother of his child, kasandra perkins? according to the kansas city star perkins and belcher were madly in love but argued of late. the star added many people knew that belcher owned guns and enjoyed shooting but they d never known him to be violent. not even close. nbc s bob costas on sunday night football took on the gun issue and started a twitter firestorm. you w
hello and welcome to moviefone. you know that voice, the most famous voice in america and the hottest number on date night. now the brand-new nationwide search for the new voice of moviefone launching this morning only on gma. this could be you. hello and welcome to moviefone. good morning, america. of course, we ve all done that. at one time or another. i didn t know it was an actual human voice. oh, yeah. i thought it was a machine. it sounded like a robot. it does, it does. so the search on for the new voice and i know this is hard to believe, remember when you had to get the newspaper and look do you remember that? yes. tiny print. okay. i still do that. happy memories though. also coming up this morning, you see emeril ready. there he is. he s getting ready for our biggest breakfast in bed surprise ever. getting out of that cab and we ve got an amazing twist this morning for mother s day week. this is a great one. really great. we are so l
you for joining us tonight. four days 23 hours and just about 30 minutes from kickoff of super bowl 56 in englewood, california. super bowl without the chiefs who to thank it. um funny thing in the in the run-up to what s annually the biggest most analyzed and hyped game on the planet. actually not so funny thing we haven t been delused to this point with gushing stories about joe burrow, the the wonderkin bengals quarterback who beat the chiefs a couple of sundays ago or about the pressure. he s likely to get from the rams and one of the best defensive front sevens in the nfl. the dominant headlines have been off the field and they aren t gushing. the nfl has a racial equity problem. brian flores says so in a class action lawsuit filed last week against the league and three of its teams. he d been fired as the miami dolphins coach after back-to-back winning seasons and didn t as he saw it get a fair shot at any of the other eight head coaching jobs filled past few weeks. in
that 55%, that 1.6 million votes is a substantial vote for scottish independence and the future of this country. and we ll be live in scotland reflecting on how calls for change here could impact the still united kingdom. in other news fighting getting closer to the center of the yemeni capital sana a. and sierra leone begins a three-day lockdown. and we ll tell you about an artistic revival in the ruins of the roman city of pompeii. in the last few weeks the opinion polls had said it would be close, but in the end voters in scotland rejects independence by a sizable majority. it would have meant the end of 307 years of being united. the final results show just 45% of the electorate wanted to break away, but a little less than 55% wanted to stay. some possibly swayed by concessions london offered in the final few days. and although it s over, it s not over? reporter: exactly, david. i think the referendum was nearly a stopping place for people to pause and t
took a chance and won. good evening. it s great to have you with us here on a sunday night. we do begin with a frightening scene that played out before a giant crowd. families gathered at the circus in providence, rhode island, this sunday. a dramatic high wire act being performed. it is difficult to watch here. everyone survives. the performers, you can see them in the center of your screen. hanging by their hair, when suddenly, the whole thing gives way. as you just saw, they plummeted up to 40 feet to the ground. these are the images that followed. rescue teams helping the seriously injured. people taken to the hospital. the family members there. this little girl hoped to see one of the later shows. everything canceled now. the investigation is well under way into how this all happened. reena ninan on the moment and the aftermath. reporter: with thousands in rhode island watching in wonder. circus performers hanging from their hair in an aerial act meant to defy gravit
trump tonight. and later, hillary clinton s getting very close, apparently, to making her pick for vp. her decision s expected within the next 48 hours, and it will probably leak. that s all ahead. weekend update with colin jones and michael chey. [ applause ] welcome to weekend update on msnbc! i m michael shay. and i m colin jones, live in cleveland for the republican national convention. or as i ve been calling it, white rio. this looks like a gary it, white rio. this looks like a gary busey look-alike contest. we re right next to the rock n roll hall of fame, where you ll find all the legendary artists who won t let republicans use their music. mike pence still finished speaking and you still feel the electricity in the room, static electricity, created by all the shoes softly shuffling toward the exit. what was your takeaway so far for the convention? boy, did they bring out the heavy hitters, scott bayo, the duck dynastine ass dynasty d. no wonder tr
and the president s first tweet target of the day. mitch mcconnell, and trump supporters turn on republicans, putting money behind primary challengers to sitting senator, who criticize their president. he s profoundly wrong on free trade. we begin this morning with the president s aide and his allies in south korea, all insisting they are speaking with one voice on north korea, but until yesterday, no one was exactly sure what that voice was going to say. you re in luck. we have a team here to break all of it down, starting with nbc s chief global correspondent bill kneely live in seoul, south korea south korea. take us there. what are people on the ground saying? yeah, good morning, stephen any. they are taking this very seriously certainly in the presidency, because they have to. where i m standing is 35 miles from north korea, and of course they ve been facing north korean missiles for decades. there is no such thing, stephanie, as a limited war here, so south kore