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Say theyre negotiating to bring spring training games to the island next year. patrick ottoman, cnn, havana. a woman from spain has been crowned miss world in 2015 beating more than 100 contestants for the title. the pageants 65th edition was hosted in china. it included russia, indonesia, and jamaica. she succeeds the winner from south africa. in the miss world pageant contestants are awarded points on a range of activities, including taking part in charity protests and the crucial intervie...

I think whats transcendental about cuba in the midst of this moment of change is the spirit of the cuban people. i actually only hope that the change will be as kind to cuba as humans have been to me. patrick ottoman, cnn, havana. scientists believe they have a new clue to solve a mystery from 3,000 years ago. thats when queen never teed i vanished. the british archeologist says the remains could be behind the king of tutt tomb. theres a scanning that revealed an empty spot between the walls. ...

Motors he said. it took us years. years of research paying off as clients line up to have them filly vents like this concert on the sea front. >> for those who have figured out how to maneuver the red tape of aerial photography, the view is worth the hassle. >> cubas drone pioneers says the -- >> translator: these are times to challenge ourselves. to try new things he says. thats what were doing. next they say, they want to organize and exhibition of aerial photography to be shown in other count...

>> church leaders say theres no sign of raul castro has turned to religion. but pope francis wants to build bridges and heal old wounds in cuba and perhaps in the unlikeliest of places, in people, restore some faith. patrick ottoman, cnn, havana. stillive coverage of the popes visit to cuba. well have special programming leading up to and including the mass in revolution square. that begins at 7:00 p.m. in tokyo, only right here on cnn. turning now to europe where hundreds more of refugees a...

Cuba for washington, d.c. lets dig deeper into the popes visit. we have cnn correspondent, patrick ottoman. he is live in havana. its estimated that more than half of cubas 11 million people are catholic. what does this visit mean to them, do you think? >> reporter: it means a great deal. this will be the first spanish-speaking pope to come here. a pope thats played a key role in u.s.-cuban relations, the thawing in those relations. and we expect the pope to be landing in about three hours or so...

Only news network correspondent reporting live from cuba now. hes with us from havana. patrick. whats been the reaction on the streets there? >> reporter: mostly a reaction of joy. it was somewhat surreal, jake. we knew early this morning once the announcement came out in washington that this monumental change was going to take place, but here in cuba where the government controls all media, basically, it was until noon raul castro took to the airwaves in a rather unusual announcement that peopl...

Havana. for many people this was a historic day and if not the end of the u.s. embargo, certainly the beginning of the end, jake. >> patrick, thank you so much. cnn correspondent, alina machado is in little havana, a neighborhood in miami. shes live, as well. were people outraged by todays announcement? what are folks there saying? >> reporter: weve heard a little bit of everything here. weve been here all day and to give you a sense of where we are, we are in front of versailles cafe where cu...

To pass to the captain. then i ordered people to stay calm and asked people to stay calm and asked the stewardess to give everybody free drinks compliments of the revolution. >> potts then directed the plane to go to cuba where he has been ever since then. at the time, black panther, potts hoped to receive military training to ultimately overthrow the u.s. government. that wads his plan. instead, cuban authorities tried, convicted, and imprisoned him for 13 years. and now hes hoping that prison ...

Last time, william potts was on a plane to miami, this was in 1984, but it was a different plane because he was hijacking it. the flight with 57 passengers onboard, and with a gun in his hand, potts told the pilot, his name was lieutenant spart ks, and demanded this plane go to cuba. well, at the time, he was a member of the black panthers. potts hoped to learn military skills, he says, to overthrow the u.s. government. that was his plan then. today, hes in u.s. custody after being in cuba for t...

0 newt 6:30 p.m. eastern. thats it for me. thanks very much for watching. ill be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." "newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. just in to cnn, new research shows autism can be detected in the first few months of life. we will tell you what this means. im brooke baldwin. the news is now. the homesick hijacker back in america. decades after this man hijacked a flight to cuba, he returns because he wants to. as her new murder trial gets un...