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President, raul castro, for about 45 minutes, president obama was in the oval office. that's the first time an american president has had such a substantive conversation with a cuban leader in, what, more than 50 years? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and i think it is pa sign that the cold war with cuba is over. that's what president obama announced just a few moments ago here at the white house. the president culminating a deal that's been in the works since june of 2013. senior administration officials held a conference call with reporters earlier today laying out sort of how this all went...

I offer my deepest condolences to luke's family and to his loved once." somers, a photojournalist was kidnapped in september 2013. senior yemeni official says somers was shot by the al qaeda militants but survived the initial raid and was badly injured when u.s. special forces got to him. this official says somers died as he was being transported to another location for medical treatment. a south african aid organization, gift of the givers, says the other hostage who died in the raid was one of their workers. defense secretary chuck hagel says several terrorists were killed in the mission a...