Since a u. S. President stepped foot in cuba. It is wonderful to be here president obama is waking up in havana this morning marking what he calls an historic opportunity to engage directly with cuban people. Welcome to your world this morning today is the day that two of the president s three day visit part of that diplomatic thaw. The president and his cuban Counter Party the two president s will meet in a few hours. Not everyone is happy that he is on cuban soil. Our correspondent gives her coverage reporter with this single step he is hoping to change the course of history. The first sitting american president in 88 years to set foot on cuban soil im glad youve brought your families here because i always like taking pictures with kids. Thats the future that we hope for. Young American Children and young cuban children. By the time theyre adults, our hope is that they think its natural that a u. S. President should be visiting cuba and that the two peoples are working together reporter that wasnt the case here for more than five decades his predecessors hoped to topple the government with economic strangulation, even assassination attempts. President obama moping engagement might work better. He has made it possible for america to do what he and his family did, become tourists. He has also changed the rules so that some american businesses can operate here, running flights, moving cargo, selling communications equipment, but he cant lift the embargo without congress. First of all, if you come here you cant just hire who you want. You have to go through staterun hiring organizations. Theres a dual currency which is a challenge. Theres a 10 charge if you want to use dollars. Reporter despite the focus of the international media, the cuban Police Arrested the ladies in white after their weekly protest just hours before the president arrived. Translation this isnt the moment for the u. S. Government to come to cuba. Cuba hasnt changed. Nothing has changed about human rights. Reporter the president is under pressure back home to show that he is going to pressure the wastro groefr castro government over its human rights. Top aids tell me that he is walking a fine line because he needs the cuban government to speed up the reforms. He knows he needs momentum because if not the next president could simply pull the plug reporter that is something the cuban people seem well aware of nobody knows what will happen, but we think cuba and the u. S. , you know, will be open. Reporter the president hoping this visit will help ensure that eventually for these children seeing a u. S. President will be an event, but not a moment like this, one that history will remember going to al jazeeras melissa chen who is live in havana this morning. What is on the president s agenda today . Reporter the president is expected to meet president castro. After that he will have a joint press conference with him. Were not entirely sure whether the two of them are going to take q and a. We hope so. That will be topped off with a state dinner tonight at the palace here in havana. Yesterday president obama arrived and i have to say that he arrived in conditions that were quite rainy and stormy. It still is rainy and stormy, but we believe everything will be clearing up in a few hours we have some Outdoor Activities today planned on his agenda as well. As we mentioned, there is still some criticism in cuba, and in the u. S. About this visit. I jaw want to here is what ted cruz says in a political column over the weekend are you seeing that level of opposition and criticism to the president s visit on the ground there in halve . Reporter im glad that you raised that issue. Without discounting the goals, i think every society should have voices of conscious, most people support normalization. Theres little polling done on the island. This is one of the few pieces of information that we do have. Regardless of what cubans think with their government and the american government, a lot of them are definitely saying that we need the embargo to end. Politicians in the u. S. Like ted cruz and marco rubio, who say they want to keep the embargo, not a popular sentiment here on the island. I should also add that the same poll also showed that president obama was more popular in cuba than the castro brothers thank you for that as melissa mentioned, the president is going to be meeting with the cuban president. His brother is plotting a different course than his brother reporter in size, style and in character this castro could not be more different than the brother he replaced as the president. He fought to overthrow the dictatorship, but it was fidel who set the future course. Punctuated by anti american speeches. So long they broke the guinness book of records. He had a mission and he didnt want anything to affect that mission. He placed a lot of importance in the ideological aspects of the revolution reporter for nearly 50 years he was the unchallenged Supreme Leader of the cuban revolution. He focused on the creation of the socalled new man and blamed the u. S. For cubas shortcomingss. When poor health forced him to step down, most assumed that his brother would simply follow in his footsteps. No almost everyones surprise, he has introduced a series of long awaited reforms, from letting cubans open up small private businesses to loosening restrictions on travel abroad. He has been liberal. There has been more did democracy. A lot of reforms reporter he is above all a practising matist pragmatist he is, like, you have to solve it for the people. For raoul, he thinks that the revolution must be saved by protecting the life of the people reporter he is, in fact, pragmatic enough to put ideology and years of mistrust aside in order to reconcile with the revolutions arch enemy. But he is equally committed to maintaining cuba as a oneparty communist state. Translation the same way we have never suggested the United States change its political system, we demand respect for ours. Reporter he is due to step down in two years, and with the clock ticking on the castro era, he seems to follow another example. Open up the economy and maintain the grip on political power stay with us for complete coverage of the president s visit to cuba in our next half our were going to be talking to analyst about the significance and the goals of this trip turning to the president ial races, attention has shifted west ahead of tomorrows contest for the republican a total of 107 delegates are up for grabs. The biggest price is the winner take all primary in arizona. There is also a primary in utah. Democrats 149 delegates are at stake. Tensions boiling over at another donald trump rally. There is a disgusting guy puts a kkk hat on. He thinks he is cute. He is a disgusting guy this is from arizona on saturday. A woman wearing a klan hood was escorted out. Another man kicking and pumping a protester. That man has been charged with assaults. Donald trump says he does not condone the violence and called the people involved agitators. Also this, video the of another incident showing his own Campaign Manager reaching for the collar of a protester. A campaign spokes woman says the Campaign Manager was having a conversation when a member of the security detail pulled the man from behind. Donald trump called his Campaign Manager spirited. He was trying to remove offensive signs all the president ial candidates say Bernie Sanders in addressing the group that wants to hear the positions on Israeli Security especially regarding iran. Our correspondent reports. Reporter this year a record 18,000 people have made the trip to washington. The mission is to strengthening, protecting and promoting u. S. Security relations with israel. That means lobbying fechl for more military aid to israel. In past years fighting to prevent some advanced arm sales to arab governments, like the awax radar games to saudi arabia which was opposed. The perceived arab threat has been outdated by the greater mens israel sees in iran. In some ways the traditional enemy of my enemy is my friend. There are in those in the past, weapons to countries, they now have a common interest. Reporter last year aipac confronted the Obama Administration by lobbying congress. The campaign failed. It undermined the traditional policy against taking sides between democrats and republicans in the u. S. Political arena. Still, the group promises to keep up the pressure on iran. These delegates heard one opponent of the deal warned that remaining sanctions are losing their power to curb irans regional ambitions. Today screen when things are prohibited, people will have the sanctions at the margin reporter that disturbs this activist it is important to us to really get the right answers and how afraid we should be and how deep the problem is. Reporter most americans agree with two in every three opposed to the nuclear deal according to a recent poll. It may not reflect the opinion among jews, but one measure of their influence four president ial candidates, democrat and republican, will be here to court their votes doubling down on opposition to confirming Obama Supreme Court pick. He says he cant see any republican majority confirming a candidate opposed by the nra and National Federation of independent business. He shot down any suggestion by some in his party that garland get a hearing during the lame duck session investigators are trying to figure out what led a restird state trooper to rob a plaza. It happened 60 miles west of harris burg. He was shot dead after killing two workers. One was working as a security guard. It is not clear if he knew either of the victims. One sther ifs deputy was killed and another injured while serving a warrant. Authorities say someone opened fire on the officers when they trade to go inside the home. A body was found inside. Its not clear if that was the shooter, but the shooting is believed to be drug related the claerpd says spring but it feels winter here t a blast of the snow hitting from long island to maine over night. We got a dusting here. New england could be getting a health a amount of sly. That storm system making its way up the east coast. Good morning. You love it. Reporter this is the last one. Its march. You never know. Sure enough. It is the last snow, but in has to be it. Not so much. This crawled up the coastline. You can see a lot of places are starting to clear out. Fill delicatessen fee a, new york. Probably through to the midday. It gets out of maine. Portland may be this afternoon or evening by the time the snow is over. The coastal areas are where we will see the heavy amounts. Boston, 4 inches. Portions of maine could be eight or more. We still have the winter storm warnings up for all of those places. Again, most of this is through today. Tomorrows forecast yoefs. Behind this system there is definitely been some colder and not spring like air. Behind this, look at some of these temperatures this morning. Little rock is milder than arkansaw. Ive seen temperatures to the freezing mark go south and texas. Because of that we were starting to, of course, get warmer. It has been a mild winter in general. A lot of things were starting to grow. We have freeze warnings up for many parts of even the deep south this morning because of that cold air. Otherwise starting to rebound in the mid section of the country through to today. Denver is at 71 but there is a corridor that goes up that could be as warm as 80 degrees. In the meantime a lot of improvement from yesterday. The mid section of the country gets a little warmer for tuesday and then the temperature starts to drop off on wednesday. The east coast has a couple of warm days before the rollercoaster begins again. There are some milder temperatures, but its very up and down hold on tour hats. Thank you very much. Scientists are keeping an ip on the sky. Two comets will make a closefully by. One will come between three million mims of our planet. It will happen 8 p. M. Eastern and tomorrow will go past missed it by that much i dont think we need to worry about if ready to strike new details about what the paris attacker is telling police about his next operation. Ive looked for an opportunity to get back. Reporter how tough . It as been tough a sweet beginning for exconvicts looking for a second chance. Chance. The pentagon is deploying more marines to the rock. The first marine to die in iraq after attacked by rocket fire. Several other troops were injured. That city is an i. S. I. L. Stronghold. The anti i. S. I. L. Coalition going after targets in iraq. Killing more than a dozen people in western anwar province which has been under i. S. I. L. Control for more than a year. The air strikes where videos were shot. In geneva syrias opposition saying it will decide by the end of the week whether to continue peace talks. The chief negotiator saying the government has avoided addressing a political transition and ending the president s rule french president Francois Hollande is meeting today with families of the victims of the paris attacks. At the same time the prime suspect is being questioned. Salah abdeslam is fighting his extradition to france. He was captured friday in brussels after months on the run. He told belgium authorities that he backed out of plain to detonate a suicide vest on the night of the attacks. He has talked of plans for more tacks reporter investigators say paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam had plans for more operations including restarting something in brussels. He want to go to the stade de france in paris, but he stopped. We dont know why, but me stopped. The next informations are that he was ready to restart something from brussels, and its maybe the reality because i said we have found a lot of heavy weapons in the first investigations and we have seen a new network of people around him. Reporter speaking at a forum on sunday, it was said that 30 people were involved in the attacks, but theyre certain there are others. Salah abdeslam has been held by Belgian Police since arrest on friday. His lawyer doesnt want him extradited to france translation he is cooperating with the belgian legal authorities. In the context of the european arrest warrant, i can tell you that we refuse extradition gentleman in paris senior government ministers held meetings with Security Officials over the weekend translation Salah Abdeslam will have to answer for his actions in a french court. The need for justice is what all the relatives of the 130 victims are demanding as well as the french people. Reporter the belgian foreign minister says existing laws require the suspect to be sent to france within three months. In the coming hours there will be more contact between our respective judicial authorities to make sure the extradition procedure is fully respected according to the law reporter as Salah Abdeslams continuing continues, another suspect remains at launch. He was seen driving one of the cars used in the paris attacks two days before the massacre for the third time in recent days, north korea carrying out another round of missile tests reporter south korea says a five short range missiles were fired today. It comes dap after the north test fired Medium Range Missiles into the sea. Last week the u. S. Imposed new sanctions over the dprk over a Nuclear Launch we are finding out more about the attack in istanbul. Authorities say they have now identified the suicide bomber as a turkish member of i. S. I. L. Five other people are being held. I. S. I. L. Not yet taking formally responsibility for the attack. It was the latest to hit turkey in recent weeks. That car bombing in ankara earlier this month killing more than three dozen people on that occasion. The new years festivities have been muted in turkey. There have been clashes between the two sides leaving a lot of people homeless translation it was very difficult. The sound of bombs and guns. I have my family with me, six children. We have been waiting for it to end. We had some food and water and me managed to survive before that ceasefire ended, they have been getting back on their feet. Government having to pay to put families up in hotels because there are still fears that explosives are inside the buildings investigators in russian are trying to find out what brought down a plane this week. It mitched the runway. Automatic 62 people on board were killed. There were strong winds at the time, but its not clear if that played a role. Officials say the cockpit voice and recorders are not likely to reveal data how budget cuts mean many people cant find anyone to represent them a court side controversy after accusing women riding on the coattails of men. From rural midwest to wartorn mideast. She went for the money and found a greater calling. Just in a few hours we will witness history making again. The obama will sit down with castro. He will be the First American leader to visit the country in 90 years. Obama highlighted his vision for a u. S. Cuban relationship it is a great opportunity to engage directly with the cuban community. To build new ties between our two peoples and to layout my vision for a vision thats brighter than our past for some cubanamericans this is a big change anything but positive it is dividing the community between young and old. Our correspondent with more. Reporter inside the miami studios here these broadcasters have a unique mission. For seven days a week they transmit to the people of cuba and say theirs is a message of resistance. For at the years theyve been reporting on the Opposition Movement. For many here president obamas visit is a step in the wrong direction. What he is doing is not engaging castro. He is befriending him. It should be engaged to the people. The only positive towards cuba is use substantial International Leverage he has to call for free elections. Reporter it is a sentiment echoed by many in the socalled exsild community. For those that came here many years ago, any move towards normalization isnt well received every time he takes the microphone, he reiterates that theyre not going to change. Reporter this woman arrived at a teenager and spent her adult life fighting for change on the island. Like many of her generation, she thinks president obamas visit sends the wrong message we were going to go there eight moment when there is more repression, when our visit will serve to empower those in po