Hydroelectric plants. Peter cook previous president obamas facetoface meeting with role Castro Raul Castro. Hillary clinton will make it official on sunday. She is running or president. A person familiar with the matter says mrs. Clinton will make the announcement on video before heading to iowa and new hampshire. It does not look like she will face many competitors in the democratic primary which begins in february. Jeffrey is still in favor of raising Interest Rates in june. Recent soft figures on the economy will probably only be temporary. Fed policymakers were split on when to start raising rates. That was before the weakest jobs report in a year came out last week. Ge is selling up the bulk of its finance unit so it can refocus on its industrial business. It has agreed to sell 27 billion worth of real estate. Most of that is going to blackstone and wells fargo. Ge announced a Share Buyback of as much as 50 billion. This is an excellent time to sell financial assets. 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The first meeting since the two leaders launched efforts to fall relations between the u. S. And cuba. Peter cook has more on the summit of the americas and the ongoing talks between the two countries. This will be their second conversation this week. Peter that is right. They will have this facetoface meeting tomorrow. They had a phone call on wednesday before the president headed down to jamaica and then panama where they discussed the progress that has been made so far with the three rounds of talks trying to once again reestablished diplomatic relations between these two cold work adversaries cold war adversaries. More about this meeting between the president s that will take place tomorrow. It is not publicly on the schedule yet. He says it is a chance for the two leaders to compare notes. The two leaders will be able to address and take stock in any discussion they have where we are in the process of normalization where we are in the discussions around the establishment of embassies. Where we will continue to have differences. Peter there do continue to be differences. This is a big moment for president obama and president castro. Their first meeting since the announcement back in december that there would be this effort to restore the back relations. They have a lot to discuss. Restore diplomatic relations. Mark one big obstacle in these talks has been the u. S. Designation of cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. Is the president prepared to drop cuba from that list . Peter that has been a big question. The president has been asked about it. We know this much the president has received a recommendation from the state department and that recommendation is that cuba should be dropped because it no longer is actively supporting terrorist groups. That decision has to be made after cabinet agencies get a chance to weigh in. The president is waiting to hear from all those agencies. Everyone is hinting that this move is likely to take place. It could happen even at the summit or more likely in the days to follow in washington. It is a big step, a symbolic step for the cubans. It has been a physical obstacle in the course of negotiations. Mark peter cook, thank you. Ted mccone is a senior fellow for the policy program at brookings. He joins me from washington. Welcome back to bottom line. Ted good afternoon. Mark is there diplomatic overtures they have dominated headlines. Will those overtures be enough to open lines of communication between the u. S. And other countries in the region . Ted i think the process of dialogue underway between u. S. And cuba is leading to all kinds of positive results for the United States going into this summit. President obama arrives in panama with a lot of wind on his back. Not only because of the gesture towards cuba but also in terms of the breakthrough with iran. A demonstration to the rest of the region and the world that this president will lead boldly through president ial diplomacy and try to turn the page from some of the past problems weve had to a new policy of engagement and partnership and those are the kinds of teams that are important for this region. Mark as peter cook just mentioned, there have been reports that president obama a soon move cuba from the u. S. List of state sponsors of terrorism. What message would this send to american businesses . They have watched for decades. Ted it certainly has a symbolic impact to reassure the Financial Community that cuba is no longer on this list and the red flag will no longer be raised every time they want to look at doing finance deals and cuba with a third party. Practically speaking, it will not have that much effect because we still have a very comprehensive embargo in effect on cuba. Congress holds the reins on that issue. In terms of u. S. Businesses being suddenly able to do new business and cuba, we will not see that other than the exceptions to the embargo that we already know about in the areas of food and agriculture and medical products and telik medications. Telecommunications. Mark last month, the United States placed sanctions against venezuelan officials. Will this overshadow the summit . Ted it created a problem that was not necessary in terms of the timing of this decision. It was not a surprise that the u. S. Administration was going to move in this direction. Congress has mandated it. The timing was unusual given the goodwill that was generated by the december 17 announcement on cuba. This brought back some of the old memories of u. S. Intervention and sanctions, even though the sanctions themselves are very minor. In the last couple of days, we have seen the administration respond quickly with not only the hands that they will lift cuba off the terrorism list, but also an important visit by the senior envoy from the state department to meet with the president of venezuela to smooth over the problems they have had. The president will show up in panama and make a fuss. He will make his point and have protections in hand. It will be a theater as these things tend to be. Overall the general mood will be a positive one for president obama. Mark the chinese have invested heavily in the region, especially in the caribbean. Is that why president obama stopped in jamaica on his way to the summit . Ted i dont see it so much directed ast china, although they have become much more of a player. I think it is more about venezuela. The caribbean countries are reliant on subsidies from venezuela for its Energy Imports and the idea is to promote u. S. Energy exports and we are in a better position to do that now. Also, the idea of clean energy. Secretary kerry is going to panama with a strong Climate Change agenda. We will see more of that in the coming days. Mark ted mccone joining us from washington. Always a pleasure. Thank you for your time. Up next, another check of the friday top stories and the challenges of trading shannon has some alarming stories when bottom line continues in just a moment. Mark its get to the top stories we are following on this friday. Blackstone group on a real estate buying spree. The Worlds LargestEquity Real Estate investors spending more than 14 billion to buy General Electric assets. Most of those are opposite buildings in southern california, seattle and chicago. Its also buying ge assets in europe. In a separate deal, blackstone has agreed to buy excel trust or 2 billion. The gaps quarterly profit topped forecasts. The discount brand old navy was the key. Old navys sales rose 11 in the fourth quarter. Investors betting the proposed deal with intel is not dead yet. The chipmaker rejected intels takeover offer. Shares are up 5 since yesterdays opening bell. A sign all terror could be pressured into reconsidering. The imitation game brought to life the work of 1940s computer genius alan turing. A sign allltera. They will sell the notebook on monday come expecting to bring one Million Dollars per also for sale, a working enigma cipher machine the germans used to code their messages. Coming up at 2 20 shannon with a special report on Government Insurance and what it means for treatment of the mentally ill. Willem marxs back from california with the challenges facing privately owned hydroelectric generating plants. We will talk movies with a top official from the tribeca Film Festival. Bottom line continues in just a moment. Mark welcome back. This is bottom line on bloomberg television. Mental health is a 100 billion industry. Patients with governmentfunded insurance and a history of psychoses are finding it nearly impossible to get help. Shannon has been investigating the issue and she joins means to deal. What is going on here . Why cant people find the treatment they need . Shannon doctors dont want to take insurance. If you have a lot of cash, you can find a doctor. Insurance does not pay enough and they dont want to deal with hard cases. They dont want patients calling them in the middle of the night, patients who may be violent or require hospitalization multiple times. We talked to a family in long island. They had been desperately trying to get care for a mentally ill family member. It was a highprofile case in long island last year. He murdered his mother, decapitated her and then jumped in front of a commuter train on long island. His mother had been trying for months to get help for him. He was hearing voices. He had been to the er multiple times. She could not get him a doctors appointment. He was in a Treatment Program left the Treatment Program. She was trying to find him a doctor to control his symptoms. She could not find it in time. His medications ran out and he murdered his mother and then killed himself. Mark this seems this is a tragedy within a tragedy. The doctors did not want to take the time, did not want the calls in the middle of the night. Shannon the doctors in private practice were not reimbursed for all that effort. Were not paid a fair rate. There are market forces. They can fill their practices with enough easy patients and the hospitals and Mental Health clinics are supposed to be the safety net. Doctors have a right to determine the kinds of patients they specialize and insurance they take. Those clinics and hospitals say they are so overstrained i spent time at one clinic in long island. They have seen cuts throughout new york state. Other Mental Health clinics have closed. They are overwhelmed with patients. The family tried contacting them and they could not get them in. Mark how does the Mental Health industry differ from other specialty doctors . Shannon we have all heard of doctors who no longer take insurance. In the practice of psychiatry half of doctors take insurance either private insurance or medicare. Mark a very telling graphic. Shannon you can see part of the difference in pay because of the reimbursement levels. Psychiatrists make half of what other specialists make. Insurers reimburse them less. A psychiatrist in florida for an office visit was paid 72. A primary care doctor in florida with the same insurer with the same time required was paid double that. That is coming from the insurers. The insurers and say their job is to get the best value for their members their patients. If they start paying more, that will be transferred into peoples premiums and rates will go up. Mark was obamacare supposed to help . Shannon there is a Provision Requiring all insurers have to offer Mental Health services particularly in the plans sold on the exchange. Because those insurers pay such a little amount no doctors want to take them. One Mental Health clinic i talked to said the health plans sold on the Obamacare Exchange pay 40 less than other private plants. Those other plans this clinic already loses 20 on for every patient they see. Mark arent there other safety nets . Shannon these Mental Health clinics. Funding for these programs fell by 4 billion. It started coming back in 2013. States started to recover from the economic low mustard and putting money back in and we had a lot of talk about Mental Health. 2014 those increases started to slow down. We are still at levels we were at before the recession. Mark are we seeing anything from state regulators . What are your options . Shannon some state regulators are trying. The new York Attorney general has gone after a couple insurers that he says are putting additional excess of barriers for doctors of Mental Health services. Requiring preauthorizations being more likely to deny claims. Some states are trying california is doing investigations as well. For families, this family and long island they felt like they tried everything they could. Patricia was an english professor. The uncle was a priest. He had connections in the faith community. A friend of the mothers who used to be a Nurse Practitioner tried as well. They still cannot get any help. When i ask this to doctors, they say there is the emergency room. A lot of people are going to fall through the cracks and end up in our prison system. Mark this story is on bloomberg. Com. This should be required reading this weekend for everybody who cares about this issue. You may know someone who is going through this. Thank you so much. Four years of drought, record low snow. What is california to do . That story is next. [office phone chatter] [frogs croaking] you know what, let me call you back. What are you doing . [scream] [frogs croaking] [yelling and screaming] its back Xfinity Watchathon week. The biggest week in television history. Its your allaccess bingewatching pass to tvs hottest shows, free with xfinity on demand. Xfinity watchathon week. Now through april 12th. Perfect for people who really love tv. Mark welcome back to the second halfhour of bottom line. Thank you for staying with us. Lets get you to the top stories we are following on this friday. A check of the price of crude oil. You see on your screen, crude finishing the day up 2 . Olympic crew to for the week, up 4. 8 . A look at crude trading for the week up 4. 8 . Four years of drought and record low snowpack means there is little water to drive the states hydroelectric turbines. Willem marx is back from a tour of the golden state this weekend joins me here in studio. How critical is hydropower to california . Willem you went back 50 years it was over half the power of the state. Today it is 15 . They are expecting just half of that this year. They have managed to make up that shortfall with things like solar. Gas is trading low, so they are able to pick that up a lot cheaper than normal. That is the way they have made up with the the shortfall. Over the coming months as they generate hydro, they will not be filled up with snowmelt. The snowpack is californias largest reservoir. This almost none of it this year, about 6 of the average. Mark what were the folks telling you . Shannon we spoke to a hydrologist willem we spoke to a hydrologist. For their model, the data that came out is outside of the plot. The last serious drought was in 1997. They are now its seeing conditions worse than they could imagine and they have no way to forecast the future demand in terms of water supply. Mark willem marx thank you so much. For more on the drop in california mark henwood joins me from sacramento. They build and operate hydropower facilities. Welcome to bottom line. Mark thank you. Mark let me begin by asking your reaction to these mandatory restrictions ordered by jerry brown. What impact does this have on your business . Mark the restrictions have little impact on the hydro business because hydro is not consuming water. What happened last year when we had a similar circumstance, the water board permitted people to file exemption for hydro and we were able to continue to bring in using water. I would expect a similar situation this year. To the extent water is available hydro producers will be able to run it through their turbines. Mark we are only four months into 2015, what are the organizations telling you about how theyve been acted by the drought impacted by the drought . Mark we deal with a number of irrigation districts. The impacts are quite significant on that. Each and every one of these districts, we deal with who do have hydropower production is in the process of planning for severe drought, controlling water consumption by their customers. Tightening their belts and not spending any discretionary dollars because they will have little product to sell this year. It is a big issue with them. Mark if this drought continues and cheap solar Power Sources continue to come online, will we be looking at the beginning of the end of privately produced hydro power in the state of california . Mark i dont think it is going to be the end of private hydropower in the state. Our company will ride through this we are a very conservative we are very conservative financially. Most of the projects will be able to make it through a low cash flow period. That said there are other forces at play which are aff