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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, i m carol kos toll low. @this hour with berman and michaela starts now. hello, everyone. i m john berman. and. and i m 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. it s releasing alan gross from prison after five years. a series of genuinely breathtaking developments. cuba is also releasing a u.s. intelligence asset, a spy, who s been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. in return washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. that is big in and of itself. it all seems part now of something much, much bigger. president obama will announce major changes in u.s. policy toward cuba. officials calling them the most sw ....
happenstance? yes, absolutely. the irony of roger stone rejecting a conspiracy theory. and so today, april 13th, 2017, was the day that america woke up to the sudden knowledge that bombs have mothers. that all of the conventional nonnuclear bombs in the american military arsenal have one big beautiful mother. and there she is. the bomb s official name for bookkeeping purposes in the military is the gbu-43. the letters on the side of the bomb describe its function, what you can expect from it. massive ordnance air blast. but the military doesn t want us to call it the gbu-43, or the moab. names are important to the military. they name their bases after war heroes, after general, including generals who have committed treason by fighting in the confederate army against the united states of america. the biggest u.s. military base in the world, the one with the biggest military population is in fort hood in texas, named after treasonous confederate general john bell hood. but ....
about a pending vote in the u.n. general assembly regarding israel. according to the charges, a very senior member of the presidential transition team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. nbc news reported today that the very senior official was jared kushner, the president s son-in-law. in a statement today michael flynn said, i recognize that the actions i acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in god i am working to set things right. my guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsel s office reflect the decision i made in the best wanted of my family and of our country. i accept full responsibility for my actions. there was strong reaction to today s news from democrats on the hill involved in the russia probe. their message, there s more to come. inside the ....
president, had been marginalized, and would likely leave after his year anniversary at the white house. that anniversary came and went yesterday and was accompanied by a tweet showing a beaming kelly and president trump with the caption congratulations to general john kelly. today we celebrate his first full year as white house chief of staff. today, white house officials told fox news that the president asked kelly to stay on through 2020, the end of his first term, and that kelly accepted very many of the previous rumors about kelly had come from within the white house and his changes elsewhere in the administration. with general kelly at his side, president trump is going to war with the powerful koch brothers, who are waging a campaign against the present strategy of using tariffs to leverage new trade deals. because of new tariffs, our farmers livelihoods are at risk. carmakers, factory workers and macs you don t like manufacturers. farmers want trade, not aid. tell t ....
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. so an engineer has stabilized the dam for now. you heard them state their plan. claire stagers with us from the university of lynchburg. good to take to you, claire. good to talk to you. how are you doing today? shepard: good. might have been frightening when they said 125 houses could be under 17 feet of water. yes, sir. i m not part of that but i m close to it. it would turn my ten-minute commute to 30 minutes if i had to reroute. shepard: i guess three inches of rain in an hour, that s a lot for anybody, even your part of the world. yes, sir, a lot of water. came into our basement as well last night. shepard: thanks, claire. i know they ve been trying to shore it up. they have taken a 3 x 3 foot area, a spillway, to relieve the pressure. the problem is there s rain on the way. let s get to rick reichmuth live in the extreme weather center. how are they looking in lynchburg? we have ....