News with scott pelley. Pelley few americans thought they would live to see this day. An american president meeting with a communist president named castro in havana. 55 years after eight u. S. Aircraft bombed the bay of pigs in an attempt to overthrow the castro dictatorship, air force one flew the last mission of the coal war with russia. Once the world held its breath over cuba. President obama arrived in a country still waiting to exhale. Margaret brennan is in havana. Reporter it was a striking image, president obama in havanas revolution square with a giant outline of communist icon che guevera looking down, a gesture to a troubled past on a the future. This is a new day. Reporter since arriving yesterday, the president has delighted the cuban people by cuban troops, but after their meeting today, mr. Obama said he had a frank discussion with rauu l castro about hubas human rights record. To the extent that we can have a good conversation about that and to actually make progress,
Story behind one of the most famous stories of all time. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley few americans thought they would live to see this day. An american president meeting with a communist president named castro in havana. 55 years after eight u. S. Aircraft bombed the bay of pigs in an attempt to overthrow the castro dictatorship, air force one flew the last mission of the coal war with russia. Once the world held its breath over cuba. President obama arrived in a country still waiting to exhale. Margaret brennan is in havana. Reporter it was a striking image, president obama in havanas revolution square with a giant outline of communist icon che guevera looking down, a gesture to a troubled past on a day president obama focused on the future. Reporter since arriving yesterday, the president has delighted the cuban people by touring old havana and receiving cuban troops, but after their meeting today, mr. Obama said he had a frank discussion with rauu l castro
Be waiting here for them to come take her. Pelley and the untold story behind one of the most famous stories of all time. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley few americans thought they would live to see this day. An american president meeting with a communist president named castro in havana. 55 years after eight u. S. Aircraft bombed the bay of pigs in an attempt to overthrow the castro dictatorship, air force one flew the last mission of the coal war with russia. Once the world held its breath over cuba. President obama arrived in a country still waiting to exhale. Margaret brennan is in havana. Reporter it was a striking image, president obama in havanas revolution square with a giant outline of communist icon che guevera looking down, a day president obama focused on the future. This is a new day. Reporter since arriving yesterday, the president has delighted the cuban people by touring old havana and receiving cuban troops, but after their meeting today, mr. Oba
Castro in havana. 55 years after eight u. S. Aircraft bombed the bay of pigs in an attempt to overthrow the castro dictatorship, air force one flew the last mission of the coal war with russia. Once the world held its breath over cuba. President obama arrived in a country still waiting to exhale. Margaret brennan is in havana. Reporter it was a striking image, president obama in havanas revolution square with a giant outline of communist icon che guevera looking down, a gesture to a troubled past on a day president obama focused on the future. This is a new day. Reporter since arriving yesterday, the president has delighted the cuban people by touring old havana and receiving cuban troops, but after their meeting today, mr. Obama said he had a frank discussion with raul castro about hubas human rights record. To the extent that we can have a good conversation about that and to actually make progress, that i think will allow us to see the full flowering of a relationship that is possibl
Issue may be infrastructure. Crowds of tourists checking in at Hotel Lobbies are here to see cuba before mcdonalds and starbucks beat them solid. This hotel is booked solid for the next three months. Its a little bit difficult to get a room here. [ laughter ] reporter this director of a Charter Company is recommending to book six months to a year in advance. We doubled our booking from 20142015. We had, i would say an 80 increase on how many cars, coordination of travel and in 2016, we are looking at incriminating from 15another 4550 . Wood just signed a deal in cuba. Marriott also has the green light. Theres a sense of history here, of culture, of architecture, its close, so people want to come. We would obviously like to be here when they come. Reporter all of this is trickling down to the private sector as well. This couple moved here from italy where they run a restaurant out of their home. I have seen many change ins the Restaurant Business here in cuba, he says, i see many cuban