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It is cooler. today they are a relief. we heard from president raul castro and the pope. the pope stuck to the script. he said he's looking forward to meeting the people here. he hit the themes of having increased relations, better peace, it was short and it was sweet. president castro went a bit longer, talked about the politics between the united states and cuba. said there had been a good first step but outlined grievances, saying guantanamo should be returned. the president decidedly less political quoted jose marte, saying there should be no barriers and should be an openness among people...

>> all right, pope francis just gave his address. patrick, he stuck almost exactly to the script that was sent out in advance. not that usual for pope francis. usually he does extemp rise a little bit. he added one line at the end that he hopes there's a new spirit that takes us away from war around the world. >> absolutely, been very critical to what's happening in syria. back to cuba, interesting he describes themselves as witnesses when they were participants and the moments we're living right now, the u.s. and cuba have normalized relations. they don't take credit publicly, but everyone kn...

Politics, constant push and pull and the pope is one world leader who can come here, push for openness and won't have raul castro criticizing him for violating cuban sovereignty. as far as the pope was concerned, these are his people, too. >> certainly, we have heard the confirmation of that. president raul castro said you are welcome here, we want you to have the full experience, and today he will be meeting with 2,000 young people and they will have wifi available. you have to understand, that's not how this place works. the cell towers in place, patrick, are usually used to block signals, n...

About global warming and the pope's words about conservation of humanity and resources. he says he's echoing the sentiments of the father of the revolution, his brother, obviously, fidel castro, who he says in 1992. he's right now speaking, patrick, about the need to conserve resources, to think about how he consumes to rethink what rich countries, he said, and rich companies do. it's interesting, you said that there is an open flame from a crude oil refining place here in the bay of havana that you said they'd turn off for the pope's visit. what's it mean to you that that is what the presiden...