Cub Cuba News Today

That wraps up this important hour. Im stephanie ruhle. Ill see you at 1 00. Here comes hallie jackson. An extraordinary morning and weve got special coverage of it for the next hour live from new york which is where my job covering the president is bringing us as he brings his brand of America First in the world stage in just a matter of moments. But his political future may not hang on what eats about to address, iran, north korea. Instead its ukraine with the ground shifting back home on impea...

People to thrive in freedom and peace. and that mission we are also committed to supporting those people in the western hemisphere who live under brutal oppression, such as those in cub cuba and venezuela. according to a recently report from the human human rights counsel, women in venezuela stand in line for ten hours a day waiting for food. over 15,000 people have been detained as political prisoners. modern-day death squads are carrying out thousands of killings. the dictator maduro is a cuba...

Water between cuba and florida. floridas gulf coast is on high alert. showing you now video that gives you an idea of the area of downtown miami that is starting to flood as the outer rain bands move in. 6.5 million people have been told to evacuate in a state of 20 million. and 70,000 people are in emergency shelters throughout the state. you can expect to see more images like this. almost 300,000 customers without power at the moment. that is a figure that will likely go into the millions in t...

The air is to look at some of these outer bands and the moich reaches far to the north but there is another thing as our meteorology group was looking at the images you can really study what that eye is doing and what the outer bands are doing and what the core of the hurricane-force winds are doing as it pulled away from the coast of cuba. and really increased. now has supporting winds of 130 miles an hour but undergoing an eye replacement cycle. you have probably heard that a lot. the inner wa...

The florida keys, no power. they have been seeing tropical storm force and hurricane force winds for the past four or five hours at least. all right. one of the things as i was standing here waiting to go on the air that i noticed is a cluster of thunderstorms, the part of the outer bands making its way to ken dnedy space cent. as irma was hugging the northern coast of cuba as a category 5, then 4, really must have been terribly battered. but now were less than 70 miles south/southeast from key ...

Rescuing or help after the storm passes. michael? >> yeah. ed, you are going to be right in the thick of it a few hours from now. appreciate your reporting there in naples. and we are now getting a better idea of the devastation after hurricane irma roared through cub cuba. intense winds knocked down frees. the full extent of the damage still not clear. on saturday morning, officials recorded winds nearing 200 kilometers an hour. one tourist town near the coast has waves rolling through it. alon...

Into to the next two years. >> he promised he was going to do this, remember he talked about this four years ago, he said that was one of the things he would love to see, a normalizing, by the way its not free and open trade just yet. were going to work our way into it. >> jay-z and beyonce are happy. >> there will probably be some business opportunities in cuba. but the guy that comes from cuba says he doesnt like the deal, he may never have gotten this through congress, through senate, so he w...

With oil prices going down, this could lead to economic collapse for cuba, for venezuela, so the time was right to have this -- i only hope that the people in cuba will only benefit from this, just like to the people of the united states, the economies will benefit. i at the same time abhor their dictatorial are jet stream. >> that is whats driven people like senator marco rubio and senator menendez, whose families have fled cuba, not so much of the the markets and the united states benefit, but...

Administration. >> bob menendez had some equally tough words for president obama. >> i fear that "todatodays act also put at risk the thousands of americans that work overseas to support civil society, to advocate for access to information, to promote humanitarian services and promote democratic reforms. as to the presidents broader policy announcements, i believe that it is misguided and fails to answer the nature of the regime in cuba that has exerted its authoritarian control over the cuban p...

And with his family especially at this time of the holidays. there are some strong arguments on both sides of this. this ended allan grosss imprisonment, but at the same time, with a snap of the finger, president obama announced a normalization of relations with cuba, how -- where do you sit on this? because i have a feeling you might have a view that is interesting to people. >> so, immediately after it came out, there were a lot of conservatives saying what is he doing? obama, here he is, gett...