Smithsonian volunteers for being with us for this event. If you would be kind enough to turn off your cellphones and so forth. As a c. I. A. Officer who went through the church pike hearings, part of its will be by vince today houghton, attempted assassinations, none of which succeeded, which reflects incompetence or a lack of commitment. Looking back, the charges almost seem quaint because today there is little hesitation by successive administrations of both parties in knocking off the heads of terrorist groups and the leaders right and left. As you know, on a couple of occasions, taking out an american citizen. Looking back on that, it almost seems quaint. However, it will be fun to revisit with my colleague, vince houghton, who has a phd in diplomatic and military history. The area of his research with was scientific and technological issues or developments during the world war ii and the early part of the cold war. Vince also got a masters in relations between the soviet union and
re in the hospital right now. Those who survived the crash, were learning more about that, by the way, it happened near the town of medlen. 75 people lost their lives in this crash. You saw right there the rescue effort. It was extre wheel continue to follow up on the investigation. For now, well send it back to you. Yeah. Cloudy skies and rainy days finally back in the picture. It is raining on all corners of the capital beltway and thats the way its going to stay for the next little bit. It will be a wet ride. No heavy rain out there. Whenever its raining, youre it will be moving in to finish out the morning commute. So umbrellas required today. Its not cold. Its in the mid to upper 40s now. Courtesy of a southerly breeze. Your weather headline, finally some rain. Not cold at all today. Mild and breezy with more bursts by wednesday. Later on in the week, starting to dry out and of all things might feel like december for the first weekend its time for Melissa Mollet right now. A lot o
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Pressure in control. The breeze will be increasing through the day and we will see dangerous risk of rip currents. Highs in low to mid 70s with sunshine. The full forecast coming up. Lets check traffic. 95 nw. At 54th st. Is where we start off. There are no accidents. All the construction has been cleared up. Its going to be a smooth thursday morning drive for now. Take advantage. Its 95 at 151 street. Here is the palmetto eastbound these commuter heading right into the interchange. And and broward 95 both directions president barack obama is going to visit the communist island of cuba. Month. Its expected to release more details of the travel plans today. Marybel rodriguez is live at first i restaurant. Reporter the president will visit cuba on march 21. Normalizing relations between the us and cuba the white house determining the conditions are right for the president to visit the communist island but not everyone agrees. Secretary of state john kerry travel to havana in august to re
Hello and welcome im belkys nerey craig and im craig stevens, seven news continues at eleven. This is seven news at eleven. Craig breaking news at elelen, president obama expected to make a historic trip to cuba, it looks like it is going to happen some time in mid to late march. Good evening again, it has been nearly 90 years since a sitting u. S. President visited cuba. The night teams Robin Simmons is live in the satelliteenter with the latebreaking details on all of this. Reporter it is really worth noting that the cuba embargo is still in place and so we will not so it completely opened to tourists until Congress Opens the embargo, but it appears that president obama is just weeks from being the first sitting president to visit cuba. December th, 2014, president obama announcing the the goal reopening embassies, and just four months later he met with caso for the first time at the summit of the americas in panama, president obama and the cuba leader shaking hands, mr. Obama talkin