Havana on sunday. Now reporter Chris Martinez shows you what the president hopes to accomplish in this historic three day visit to the communist nation. President obama brought his family to cuba. A big step toward normalizing cold war adversary. Hes the first cuba in nearly 90 sot obama this is an historic visit and an opportunuty to with the cuban people. The president greeted u. S. Embassy staff and then toured old havana. For weeks work crews have been preparing for the president s arrival. Restoring some roads and repaving others. Fresh coats of paint have also been applied to homes and businesses in areas the president will and this welcome sign was put up outside a restaurant in old havana. Many cubans are hopeful the visit will pave the way for more openess between the island nation and the u. S. I think were gonna have some changes but its going to be slow. During his stay, the president will meet a number of prominent cuban dissidents at the u. S. Embassy. But the white house
Their chances at being the nominee slipping away. The candidates spent more time attacking trump than they did each other in this debate just a few days after super tuesday, where trump earned wins in seven of the eleven states. They criticized him on everything from his vague policy stance to his business record, but things quickly went haywire and got really weird when trump defended his anatomy against a previous attack from rubio. Can you say awkward . Because thats how some you might have felt hearing that on National Television at a president ial debate. But there was a lot more to last nights debate than the squabbling between the candidates. Im looking at not just what happened inside the debate, but outside as well. Well talk more about that at 5 30. Allison, back to you. Wall street is reacting to Donald Trumps popularity in the polls. Some investors say even though the election is eight months away, the bring to the impact the economy. Experts say wall street loves 2016 race
Newest numbers in the race for the nomination. And floridas own marco rubio is closing in. Rubio has cut Donald Trumps lead to just 6 percentage point according to a new, exclusive lakeland ledger, 10news wtsp poll. And right here in tampa bay the same spread. Trump leads rubio 35 to 29 percent. Now, lets head straight to 10 news political reporter mark rivera who has more on what happened during the Republican Debate in miami. Pkg but civility didnt stop marco rubio, risking it all to win florida, from taking swings at donald his best to preserve integrity while critiquing the frontrunner. The candidates discussed trade, education, and islam trump saying there among muslims for americans rubio says that creates a hostile environment. Governor scott in he said he too had a political rise as a businessman outside of the republican establishment. 1 21 i mean, that sounds like one person in particular. Can you makes some news for us and endorse . Im not going to make an tuesday. 1 34 but
3 3 3 3 walter 3 we begin with a news alert. The Tampa Police Investigating a Police Shooting. It happened in the 33hundred block of cherokee. The tampa ready to give us some details. Thats expected around fourfifteen. We will bring you much more then. 3 3 developing this morning. Crews are searching for a man who disappeared after jumping into lake thonotosassa. It happened around seven last night. The man was on a pontoon boat with a group of people. He jumped in the water, started panicking, and went under. Witnesses say he didnt know how to swim very well. We will keep you updated as the search continues. 3 3 new this morning. Tampa police are investigating after a stolen car plowed into a house. It happened off mulberry street early this morning. Police say they tried to pull over a 2009 ford edge. But the driver took off. They only made it one block before crashing through a fence and into a home. Police arrested the 2 teenagers inside the stolen car. No one is hurt. And the home
Debate in miami where candidates made one of their final pushes for your vote here in florida 10news reporter emerald morrow is live instudio. Emerald, the race is a lot tighter between the republicans than it is among the democrats. Yeah, and since were a winner takesall state, it could be make or break for rubio. Whos second behind frontrunner donald trump our joint poll shows donald trump leading with 36 percent of the republican vote. And rubio trailing not too far behind with 30 percent. Ted cruz is strong nationally, but comes in with just 17 percent here in florida, and john kasich is at the bottom of the pack with just 8 percent. On the democratic side, through. The gap is much wider. Florida democrats are really feeling Hillary Clinton. And not so much feeling the bern. His voter support is just at 23 percent. While clinton is soaring in the polls with a whopping 68 percent. And speaking of whos supporting who. Cnn is reporting that ben carson will announce his support for don