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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, im carol kos toll low. this hour with berman and michaela starts now. Hello, everyone. Im john berman. And. And im 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. Its releasing alan gross from prison after five years. A series of genuinely breathtaking developments. Cuba ...

Leaders, with the cuban american congressional delegation, both democrat and republican and evan is right. he and i do disagree on some of this. i disagree that the demographics have changed as much as some would like us to believe they've changed. they've changed some and after this recent election there were mistaken reports that cuban americans had voted majority for charlie crist and they haven't. in fact, if you take a look at florida, there's not one, one statewide elected official that does not support the embargo. the one congressman, democrat cuban american who did support the embargo...

Years. president obama set to announce with these wide ranging initiatives, really everything he can do outside of the existing legislation. so we're talking about a relaxing of travel restrictions for americans that means a general license to travel practically anything of terrorism, a resumption of banking between the u.s. and cuban banks, americans k use credit cards on the island. the president also going to announce expanded commercial and export of sales and goods to cuba. and officials say this is not a reward to the cuban regime, the regime of the castros but more an acknowledgement th...

He landed at andrews air force base a little while ago. he's going on now to try to recover the health that was so badly damaged by five years in cuban prison. but there's a much bigger story here, which is a loosening of decades-long restrictions. cubans are still finding out about this basically from u.s. media that's here. they don't have easy access to the internet or regular access to channels like cnn. and raul castro is due to address the nation here any moment now. the cubans still haven't been told by the official state media that this very important change is taking place. they have ...

We've come a long way and what is driving this, i think, is demographics, frankly. the fact that you vent v younger cubans that don't feel the embargo has worked. you have older cubans who still support it but younger cubans don't. also since 1980 and the demographic population of students who have come here, they're economic migrants, not because they're fleeing political oppression, i think ana and i would disagree on this but that is also driving this. this is why the obama administration feels that it's safe to do something like this. >> ana, evan was mentioning where the support for this ...