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Raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a News Conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. Of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. Thank you for joining me today, im carol kos toll low. this hour with berman and michaela starts now. Hello, everyone. Im john berman. And. And im michaela pereira. History is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u. S. Its releasing alan gross from prison after five years. A series of genuinely breathtaking developments. Cuba ...

Hope for Cuba Foundation met with former Senator Chris Dodd, who was recently appointed as Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas.

Leaders in particular castro and give era we're looking for support. experience in guatemala was very important here. they were looking for support in the face of what they quickly understood was going to be a swift and inevitable break with the american government. and they were to find this support in moscow that you wanted to we gave them was this is so mop way and it was only after a year of diplomatic economic and political guerrilla tactics with major u.s. companies that the veil was lifted. and castro declared himself a friend of the soviet union and a partisan of a system of collectivi...

Relations will be hurt but it won't be a full roll back. the american flag will continue to fly over the newly reopened u.s. embassy in havana. u.s. cruise ships and airlines will continue service to the island that restarted in 2016. but in an exclusive interview with cnn, cuban officials that coordinate anti-drug smuggling efforts with the u.s. are afraid increased cooperation will suffer under president trump. the biggest impact will be felt in the u.s., he says, because cuba is not the country the drugs are coming to. fundamentally, the drugs go north, if there's a step backward in coopera...

Soviet union. he said our sympathy goes out to the people of of cuba now suffering under the yoke of a dictator. the castros out lived eisenhower and the embargo, that lives on and has not been lifted and today hoping there will be change where the previous policies did not, and the president who was born not even when this all began is making a high stakes bet, and president obama sent john kerry today to havana to become the first secretary of state to step foot on the island since 1945. kerry tried to turn the page to a new chapter in u.s. cuban relations. >> clearly the events of the past ...