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I'm going to get more from cnn political commentary ana navarro. she's in miami. i know this touches you personally because you've long fought for human rights in cuba. what's going through your mind this morning? >> reporter: i have mixed emotions, carol. i am very happy for the release of alan gross. it was a huge injustice for him to be there. he was in very bad health. his mother died while he was in prison. this is a man who's lost over 100 pounds. he's lost his teeth. it was really tire, dire conditions that he was under in a cuban jails for having done nothing. for having done something...

>> reporter: oh, ariel, listen. this idea that there's great travel destrixs on cuba right now is a myth and a fallacy. everywhere i go i hear people talking about how they're taking bike tours through cuba, salsa tours through cuba. i hear them talk about the mo hey tos on the beaches. that have already relaxed these travel sanctions a great deal. i will not go to cuba. it's personal choice of mine. ly not go give one penny of my money to a va jet stream that r violates human rights. one of the things i contributed to was passing a resolution condemning cuba for human rights violations. belie...

That is going to probably be at the heart of the reaction here to the announcement. there's a lot of anger in this community and there's also going to be a lot of disappointment on many of the cuban exiles here who probably aren't going to be happy to hear about the easing of relations here. >> thanks very much. i have to get to a break. back with much more on this breaks news about cuba and the release of alan gross. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara®. it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4...

Children again. he'll be able to tell his wife that he's not going to die in a cuban prison which is he he told he her when he saw her last in july. he was really fading away. he was sent here by the united states as part of u.s. programs to essentially instill democracy in cuba. there was a failure and alan gross was caught almost immediately. he didn't speak spanish. and they used him as a bargaining chip to get these other intelligence agents back which is really what the cuban government wanted more than anything. i've been told from sources over the year that if fidel castro had to choose...

Announced today are going to go a long way, much further than perhaps any administration in living memory to try and reach a normal and racial, sane policy with cuba. >> thank so much for the reporting. cnn is the only american network in cuba on the ground at this morning. sounds like the flood gates are about to open personally and financially. >> it's going to be interesting to get the reporting on the ground. there are generations of cuban americans who believe that they had their lives and what matter to them most stripped by that administration that is fill in place. there's a lot of cov...