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Transmit the solidarity and love for cuba before the depar of commander fidel castro." that's from the leader of venezuela. you also got reaction? >> yes, getting reaction a few moments ago. a few minutes ago from the spanish prime minister. he says, "my condolences to the government and authorities -- to the cuban government and authorities on the death of former president fidel castro, a figure of historical significance." >> raphael, stand by. we're joined by peter cornblue from washington. a cnn analyst. he's written extensively about cuba. thanks for your time. thanks for being with us. i...

Texas and new hampshire appears on the list. the matter of course is in the hands of the mexican government but they are under a lot of pressure to extradite him, anderson, because "el chapo's" escape last july was a huge, huge embarrassment for mexican president who had previously said that a breakout would be unforgivable. >> yeah, raphael romo, thank you so much. just ahead, breaking news on the campaign trail. polling showing donald trump widening his lead in new hampshire and ted cruz is leading in iowa but how big of a threat is cruz? did president obama put his critic's concerns to re...

His capture reportedly involved members of the mexican navy and a number of intelligence agencies and american help in the search according to u.s. law enforce the official. several "el chapo" associates were killed in the raid. raphael has been monitoring the developments and joins us now. how did the raid and capture go down? do we know? >> yes, anderson. mexican officials say the raid happened at 4:30 in the morning l . it was a bloody raid. according to the mexican navy, five people died in the shootout and six arrested. one soldier was injured in the first pictures, he appears stunned. we...

First we're going to go to raphael romo with the late breaking details on how this went down. raphael, tell me everything. >> brooke, we're hearing two different stories from the mexican side. one story is what you have just reported that a mexican source is telling us that there was an operation at 4:30 in the morning and there was a shootout where several people belong iing to e chapo's hitmen died when they faced the mexican navy. that's where he was captured. there was also a press release issued where they say that there was a report of armed people in one house in the city where the mari...

But the forces were able to win that battle. what is clear and what the mexican president has confirmed is that the number one most wanted man in mexico and the united states was captured today. mexican officials are also saying within this hour there will be a press conference to confirm some of the details that we have been talking about. this is huge for mexico, brooke. i can't overemphasize this. it is a man they had been looking for for 182 days since he escaped on july 11th last year. this was the second time he escaped. he is the leader of the cartel, a vast criminal organization that t...