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Who went to due ba this week to raise the cuban flag at the recently reopened u.s. embassy there. dissidents were not invited on the lame excuse that this was a government-to-gof affair. you can chalk this up for an obama administration prep to easy photo ops. >> dan. >> this is a miss, i think, for the social platform twitter who allows the people to put out tweets limited to 120 characters. that's about 25 words. >> you're an expert. >> i'm an expert in receiving them. twitter announced this week that now people the speak directly to each other privately in 10,000 character tweets. that's ab...

Junkies. >> compartmentalize sending 140 character tweets is crazy. >> reporter: others say after reviewing the call it's good. >> i see a 30-second snippet of something it can intrigue my interest. therefore, i might want to see the whole thing. >> reporter: whether you sign on to it or not, one thing's for sure, the game just got a lot bigger. >> that was abc's sara hanes reporting. i'm one of these football widows so i don't know how i feel about it. >> a lot of women love football too. and i'm sure there is a widower -- a guy who's losing his girlfriend or wife to these things, as well. >>...

Are stay at home moms. jon: on this point the president in making that statement recognized that this was a fire he had to try to put out. >> yeah that he personally had to put out. they tried the night before to put it out with 140 character tweets from the campaign manager, jim messina and then from david axelrod, that was clearly unacceptable. the president had scheduled a series of local interviews, local television anchors around the countryment it was a subject he could not avoid, he wisely, i suspect not happily jumped into the fray and said, enough is enough, this was out of bounds and...

We caught up with akemi in new york, whose name american is carmen barnes. her two uncles and aunt and at least a dozen of their children and grandchildren all still missing. >> i want to get on a plane and go over there myself, you know, and go door to door, but i know that's crazy. >> reporter: her family, especially her mother, is tormented by the silence. describe for me what you're going through. >> it's agony. it really is. just not knowing. i just wish somebody could tell us whether they were in a shelter, whether they survived, whether they're alive, whether they died. >> reporter: and...