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We have this information into cnn in the past hour or so. police in afghanistan say a u.s. air strike has struck an afghan army outpost killing eight afghan soldiers. >> it was on monday morning local time. a u.s. army colonel says the incident is under investigation. we will bring you more information when we have it. the decades-long relationship between the united states and cuba is entering a new era. >> today the two countries restore full diplomatic relations, each opening embassies in the other's capital. patrick altman has more from havana. >> reporter: for decades when fidel castro ...

Ties with cuba today and in washington the building formerly known as the cuban interest section is now an american embassy. [shouting] >> it is the cuban embassy in america, obviously. cuban officials flew the country's flag there for their first time since 1961. the new era started after midnight. u.s. officials say the american flag will not fly outside the american embassy in havana until secretary of state john kerry hosts a flag-raising ceremony next month. cuba's flag went up at the state department without ceremony. despite all the good will, both nations face political disagreements t...

>> jose good morning. well, certainly a more muted response here in havana than what luke was describing in washington. in some ways it's business as usual. there's still the hundreds of people that line up here outside the u.s. interest section every day, applying for visas. today, it's very, very different. this had been a u.s. intersection for decades. a step below an embassy, but today it's a u.s. embassy for the first time in 54 years. and here's something you wouldn't see five ten years ago, frankly even yesterday. u.s. embassy employees now are handing out this american flag as well as ...

Well cuba has an interest section in d.c. that has served for years. that building will probably be the new embassy when we get a new embassy again. over the last few weeks that building has had a freshly paved driveway. they repainted the fence and "the new york times" reports they have erected a huge new flagpole in the front lawn probably to get ready for the time coming when they'll raise the cuban flag in washington, d.c. so this is all underway. it is happening. the next big question is the embargo and congress and today president obama circled back to that too. >> americans and cubans a...

Is. soon there after there was a prisoner swap. the easing of restrictions and people sending money home to their families and they eased up on banking restrictions and travel restrictions. the president called on congress to debate lifting the embargo that we have imposed on cuba all this time. the president can't do it on his own. those have been a really, really big deal. today the reopening of the embassies after 54 years of being closed. president obama said today the secretary of state john kerry will travel to havana this summer to raise the american flag over our embassy there. as for ...