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Lifted than the people of cuba. whether cuba with the terrible economy is ready for goods and tourists is another question. cnns patrick oppmann has more. >> reporter: there are two cubas. one that you dont see. you see buildings are collapsing around me. people are hanging on. part of that is due to the long time u.s. economic sanctions. part of that is frankly due to the cuban governments inability to manage their own economy. so you talk to people here and you hear how they only make $20 a mo...

Announced yesterday. we did see, again, people yesterday here, very vocal, very small group, but very vocal, showing their opposition to the change. and perhaps what were seeing today, the fact that this group seems to be considerably smaller and things have called down quickly here, this could suggest a change in the way that cubans are thinking here in miami, wolf? >> all right. alina, in little havana, reporting for us, patrick oppmann reporting from havana, not little havana, but havana, cub...

Making this agreement happen. we heard church bells all throughout havana ringing, marking an historic day on the island. >> patrick oppmann, stand by. critics are already hammering president obama and his administration over the move toward normalizing relations with cuba. one of those critics is republican senator marco rubio of florida. hes calling it outrageous, counterproductive. senator rubio joins us live from capitol hill. senator rubio, thanks for joining us. what do you say to the pres...

So the white house had a green light to move forward. one other thing i want to point out in listening to this background call with senior administration officials, this is not lifting the embargo. this is not ending the travel ban. americans will not be able to go to orbitz or travelocity to buy tickets to cuba. you have to go to a third party. you cant go to the store and buy cuban cigars. people can travel to cuba and bring back cuban cigars, but they cant go to a cigar shop in the united sta...

Spent the last 20 years in a cuban jail. he is now a free man here in the united states. the director of national intelligence here in the u.s. issuing a strong statement welcoming this u.s. spys return to the united states. lets go to havana as we await alan gross. patrick oppmann is our man on the scene. alina machado is in little havana, a section of miami. patrick, first to you, a lot of excitement, i think, what youre seeing is average cubans on the streets of havana from what you can see a...

Years ago. we could have done the day poor alan gross was put into jail unjustly and what the president did today is insult the cuban-american community. we want freedom and democracy to come to the cuban people. this is not the way to get to it, wofrl. >> congressman, you make solid points and you make a bad point about patrick oppmann, he is an excellent journalist and he was reporting what he saw on the streets of cuba and it is unfair that hes not giving talking points for the cuban regime. ...

Letter to both president obama and raul castro asking them to put aside their differences, deal with this prisoner exchange and then move the relations between their two peoples forward. apparently thats what both president obama and president castro have done. theyve responded to that call from many world leaders but in particular pope francis to let bygones be bygones and find a new path for cuban/u.s. relations. >> a dramatic new path. patrick oppmann joining us from havana. stand by. ill com...

World. were the only u.s. television network that has a correspondent, patrick oppmann, reporting live from havana. much more of our coverage right after this.

The three remaining members of the cuban five, they are released as a humanitarian gesture, according to u.s. officials. the cubans have also freed alan gross, an american contractor who had been held in a cuban prison for five years. patrick oppmann is our man reporting live from cuba right now. patrick, what else did the cuban president, raul castro, say? i understand like president obama, he thanked the pope for his efforts behind the scenes as well. >> reporter: absolutely. it was not just w...

Air here, obviously very unexpected announcement and commended the u.s. president for these negotiations. very conciliatory language, complimentary language weve never heard from a cuban leader towards a sitting u.s. leader, just remarkable to hear raul castro speaking well of president obama. then he talked about a normalizing of relations. and we were with regular cubans when that happened, people in their home, happened to hear -- they had the tv on. and they were completely surprised. they h...