This is a new day. Men discussese a wide range of topics including cueban rights and trade embargo thats been in place for more than 50 years. Later, the president held an event focused on young entrepreneurs in havana as Business Owners will be the engines o change in cuba. Today about half a million cubans, including some of you are proud. Some mpanies wasting no time getting in on the president s loosening of relations. Google announced a joint venture with cuban artist to provide internet and Smart Phone Technology to the iland people. Castro began offering wifi two years ago but they have one of the lowest rates of Internet Penetration in the world. Cubas head of operations spoke about the j jnt venture. I think the energy and the feedback that were gettin from our counter parts in cuba is theres a lot of excitement about expanding access to technology in the internet. Travel also a hot topic in the warming relations with cuba. Tonight carnival announced its the first u. S. Cruise
Got the tournament over in brooklyn and the big east tournament at Madison Square garden. They came to play, literally and figuratively. Well get out there later in the show. Lets start this friday morning with the president ial race and the surprising display of civility at the republicans final debate before next tuesdays high stakes primaries. It was a striking turn around from their 11 previous clashes. We have complete coverage, including a new controversy for donald trump. Let start with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning. Hey, matt and tamron, good morning. It was a kinder, gentler gop on display last night, and may have been the last opportunity for most marco rubio and john kasich. Big week ace heads ahead in their home states. No lying ted or little marco. Reporter for the republicans, the 12th time is the charm. I cannot believe how civil repter finally, a substantive battle over immigration, trade and foreign policy. Following his controversial comment
With a wave and smile, the president ial limo adorned with cuban flags left for the airport. The first stop a erousing welcome from the u. S. Embassy employees at the hotel from the employees and families. The 2008 slogan invoked, yes we can, to drive home the historic change. Even if not all back home believe in it. Our u. S. Cuban relations like so many others hes tackled in his presidency, he can now say, we can now say yes, we did. Yes, we did. [speaking spanish] anchor president obama began his remarks with the light hearted look at the history 9 decades in the making. Ba in 1928 president coolidge came on a battleship. It took him 3 days to get here. It only took me 3 hours. Anchor before getting to the heart of the rational fo his trip. This is a historic visit and its a historic opportunity to and to forge new agreements and commercial deals and ties twoon our two peoples and for me to lay out my vision for the future thats brighter than our past. Anchor it was time for the fir
Well watch it at me. And Rolling Stones, people were walking by the stage just to check it out. They had never seen anything like. It and the older people cant wait to hear that music again d the younger people are looking forward to being introduced to it. Neki well check in with you later in the show. Anchor breaking news out of lauder hill. Police say three people were shot on broward boulevard and 31st avenue. They said they should survive. Throw people were detained as well. We have a crew on the way to the scene. It is heart breaking to see my family going through this. Neki they are trying to keep with the loss of trau walker. Dirt bike hit an suv. He was wearing all black and no head lights. Ine after surgery they could not savevehim. They tried everything. He was not responding. I am going to keep his s srit and dream, live. Something that he wanted to do. Raven nation. Neki the Baltimore Ravens expressing condolences. They want to speak to an nfl player who may have are witne
Of rain or that cluster of rain i should say. The cool front well to the north of us and that cold air still has some time to get herestill has some time to get here. It will, i promise. But before then, we will probably wake up to a lot of cloud cover out there. A few showers this morning cannot be ruled out. Then with a bit of daytime heating i cant rule out an isolated thunderstorm. I will have more with the seveni will have more with the sevenday in a few minutes, neki. Neki thanks a lot, jennifer. Out of plantation, Officials Say that multiple people have beenshot overnight. Not clear exactly how many at this time but we are told all of those victims are in the hospital. Lol 10s Layron Livingston is live at the scene an update. Layron, good morning. Reporter good morning, neki reporter good morning, neki. We have a definitive figure how many people pacted in this shooting. You four people shot we are hearing from a detective on ene. One of these people are unfortunately dead after