Relations under the Trump Administration, and economic prospects for the future. Panelists also speculate whether President Trump will change the Obama Administration cuban normalization policies. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you all for being here. A special thanks to our audience in the cspan world for joining us. This event is being recorded by cspan. Thank you for being here and for the audience for joining us. My name is frank moore. I am the director of the kimberly green Caribbean Center here at Florida University. Our friends at cspan, we are here located at the biscayne bay campus of Florida University here in miami. We have another campus where the center is located in west dade. The center that i direct is one of the institutes and programs or centers at the Steven J Green school of International Affairs and university. We are absolutely delighted to be hosting or cohosting this event. I want to thank the dean of the Chaplain School of hospitality and tourism management, m
Thank you for being here with a special thanks to the audience in the cspan world for joining us this even if is recorded by cspan thanks to the team to be here and joining us. I am the director of the Caribbean Center we are located at Florida International university here in miami and we have another campus where the center is located. The center that i direct is one of the institutes or programs of centers that the school of Public International affairs we are absolutely delighted to be hosting or coasting these events a thanks to the Chaplains School thanks for supporting this it is degraded to have on your campus. Also to the Cuban Research institute a little bit of why we are here last year the Brookings Institution specific and Foreign Policy team from the Latin American Initiative reach out to me to see if we were interested in cosponsoring a steady a steady on one of the of more dynamic sectors of the cuban economy in the context of 2014 of the relationship since then. So ted
Little cooler in broward. Temperatures in Pompano Beach degrees. Things will begin to change. As you can see, plenty of cloud cover all over the gulf of mexico. Ill have more on your weekend forecast coming up in just a little bit. All right. Right now on social view 6, the number one trending hashtag on twitter in miami, ultra 2016. Dade front park transformed as thousands converge for a weekend of electronic music. Live coverage continues now with stephanie bertini. Reporter the park is full of people and music. It also runs parallel to biscayne boulevard. Off part of biscayne here at southeast 1st. Detours in place as arked by the cones. Lots of officers out controlling the flow of traffic, redirecting drivers if needed, and making sure pedestrians are safe. Theres thousands of people in this area this weekend. Because of the crowds, police are recommending you use Public Transportation like the metro mover, which youl find is busier than usual this weekend. A trolley that runs down
This building for the debt ceiling. House republicans are now saying they will support a plan to ebbing tend the governments borrowing authority, this if president obama agrees to talks on reopening the government. The two sides are going to discuss the plan during a meeting at the white house this afternoon. Wall street seems to like what it is hearing. Checking the big board, is dow is now up 237 points a t this hour, that being down slightly from earlier today. Here is press secretary. The implication that you keep the Nuclear Weapon in your back pocket to threaten default in the near term. Doesnt make a lot of sense to us. Having said that, we will see what is House Republicans propose. We will see what they are able to pass. And consider it then. The president said the other day, that in the hypothetical, he would be willing to do this because he thinks that we need to avoided default. But he is not he has been very clear. He will not pay ransome in exchange for the republicans in
Randall joins us live from washington, and randall, ive been looking at the markets all morning, and the markets at this hour are up close to 200 points. 190 points, and it seems the talk of the deal may actually be the real deal. And what are you hearing in wash where . The same thing. Obviously the Financial Markets are looking for a way out of this impasse, and all of the developers in the past 2448 hours suggest that theres at least going to be a solution to the debt ceiling. Not the government shut down, but at least raising the nations debt him so the nation can continue to pay its bills once the middle of the month comes along and the nation reaches that ceiling. The United States should not be put in such a position to make such perilous decisions for the economy and our citizens. S this no way to know the damage that it could have on the markets. This morning, trying to again warn of the consequences of failing to reach the debt ceiling. And theres talk around washington in re