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We're all overwhelmingly happy that alan is now free and reunited with his family and on american soil. i was a 17-year-old kid when i first heard an american president talk about cuba as an imprisoned island. for five and a half decades since our policy towards cuba has remained virtually frozen. and done little to promote a prosperous democratic and stable cuba. there's no other country in the world to which we have closed our lives for as long as we have closed them to cuba. the berlin wall fell 25 years ago. and the wall separating americans and cubans has yet to come down. not only has th...

Phil indicating is in mime's little havana neighborhood but let's go to the white house. rich, this doesn't mean a lot of changes today, right? >> reporter: it doesn't, shep. especially when it comes to americans traveling to cuba. there are a number of americans, in a dozen of different american categories like journalists you and i can go to cuba, aid workers can go to cuba, a whole host of americans cannot and still cannot. it's easier for those in those categories to go to cuba so there's not a wholesale change. can't get on a mr. sal flight starting tomorrow something the obama administra...

Exchange for alan gross. instead he agreed to exchange those prisoners for cuba locked up for 20 years. the president mentioned and we can confirm we don't know much about that spy but he's not an american. president obama called him one of the most important agents the united states has ever had in cuba. all of this sets the stage for today's bomb shell announcement that our two nations will once again have diplomatic ties. what does that mean? it beans a cuban embassy in washington and our cuban interest section in havana will gk a united states embassy. it means relaxing of trade and travel...