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Only news network correspondent reporting live from cuba now. he's with us from havana. patrick. what's been the reaction on the streets there? >> reporter: mostly a reaction of joy. it was somewhat surreal, jake. we knew early this morning once the announcement came out in washington that this monumental change was going to take place, but here in cuba where the government controls all media, basically, it was until noon raul castro took to the airwaves in a rather unusual announcement that people talked about the respect he feels toward president obama, thanking president obama and pope fran...

Havana. for many people this was a historic day and if not the end of the u.s. embargo, certainly the beginning of the end, jake. >> patrick, thank you so much. cnn correspondent, alina machado is in little havana, a neighborhood in miami. she's live, as well. were people outraged by today's announcement? what are folks there saying? >> reporter: we've heard a little bit of everything here. we've been here all day and to give you a sense of where we are, we are in front of versailles cafe where cubans traditionally gather every time there's something that goes on with cuba. you see those pol...

To pass to the captain. then i ordered people to stay calm and asked people to stay calm and asked the stewardess to give everybody free drinks compliments of the revolution. >> potts then directed the plane to go to cuba where he has been ever since then. at the time, black panther, potts hoped to receive military training to ultimately overthrow the u.s. government. that wads his plan. instead, cuban authorities tried, convicted, and imprisoned him for 13 years. and now he's hoping that prison time in cuba will play into his favor as he faces charges here in the united states. let me go stra...

Last time, william potts was on a plane to miami, this was in 1984, but it was a different plane because he was hijacking it. the flight with 57 passengers onboard, and with a gun in his hand, potts told the pilot, his name was lieutenant spart ks, and demanded this plane go to cuba. well, at the time, he was a member of the black panthers. potts hoped to learn military skills, he says, to overthrow the u.s. government. that was his plan then. today, he's in u.s. custody after being in cuba for the last 29 years. and he's the one who arranged his capture. cnn's patrick ottoman was the only rep...

0 newt 6:30 p.m. eastern. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." "newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. just in to cnn, new research shows autism can be detected in the first few months of life. we will tell you what this means. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. the homesick hijacker back in america. decades after this man hijacked a flight to cuba, he returns because he wants to. as her new murder trial gets under way, new tests show a trace of amanda knox's dna on a knife. plus, patriotic or poor taste?...