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This is a typical street of this neighborhood. houses of wood, houses of concrete. the street is not in good condition. here was the bus station. its not a bus station anymore. now its a building. its a monument. of the past. >> montea is a suburb of havana, home to one of cubas most celebrated writers. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> author of the internationally successful mario detective series, padura has been able to

Leaving for the historic trip to cuba. the first sitting head in 90 years to visit the island nation. from havana, chris jansing with a good day to you. what all is going to happen during this visit? >> obviously this is a tremendous importance. we havent seen anything like this on the island of cuba for almost 90 years and just 90 miles away from the mainland. there has been a huge chasm. the president making the decision that he wanted to try diplomacy and announcing about 15 months ago that h...

A number of them announced we saw that starwood properties that is sheraton and other brands will renovate three historic properties into hotels. they had about 4,000 places where others can stay. we have already seen as well, 77% increase in the amount of tourism here. a lot of this is about the economy. the president has a busy schedule starting tomorrow and we can show you. meeting with raul castro, this is going to be a long meeting or just with each other.

>> translator: all we think about through the week is our machines, our v8 engines. you know, car racing in cuba, they love it here as much as they love baseball. >> whoa. thats serious. they are diehard gear heads. drag racers who for more than 20 years have been defying the law and escaping the grind of daily life by pressing pedal to the metal and hurtling down the highway faster, faster, fast as they can go. >> they just find the best part of the day when theres not so much traffic. hundreds...

A country where chewing gum or listening to the beatles were prohibited. i dont think we need to have twitter every day. one thing i love about coming to cuba is the fact i can put my iphone away. who cares. look what we have around us. i hope cubans continue to have access to free information. they still want to preserve these family times. ♪ >> tourists have been coming to cuba for some time. predominantly europeans, many of them men of a certain age looking for, how should we say, company. ...

United states, cuba, and the rest of the world. president obama and the first family will depart for havana just hours from now. the first presidential visit to the island nation in 88 years. obama is taking on a careful balancing act, trying to normalize relations teen the two nations while expanding cubas leaders to expand their freedoms. whats been the sentiment in preparation for this historic visit? >> theres a huge level of excitement. i just talked to a young teacher who said it was a day...

In jerusalem, christians will take part in a procession from the mount of olives to the old city. the last time a sitting u.s. president visited cuba was more than eight decades ago. in the coming hours, president barack obama will arrive in hive after re-establishing u.s. relations with the island nation. mr. obama is expected to meet with cuban president raul castro. hes expected to attend a baseball game and to talk to anti-government activists there. the u.s. has lifted some trade and trav...

Gears of the whole system are still largely stuck in time. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ]. >> 93-year-old juana is very much a part of that past. [ speaking foreign language ]. long before the revolution, she was a shining star at the east tropicana. singing for capone, luciano. you know the names. >> juana! juana! [ speaking foreign language ]. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ].

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Headquarters. chalk up another win for presidential candidate hillary clinton. she can officially add missouri to her primary win column. late yesterday rival bernie sanders decided not to demand a recount and conceded defeat. he could have asked for a recount because the margin of victory was less than one-half of 1%. he says he prefers to save missouri taxpayers money. good news for folks out west after a record four-year dry spell, california is on the mend. so much so that officials there ...