Gross, he was allegedly an aid worker kept in cuban president for five years. There he is reunited with his wife. You saw the picture of alan gross when he landed at Andrews Air Force base. Hes expected to have a News Conference within the half hour from washington. There you can see the official delegation greeting him. You can imagine whats going through his mind. Five years kept in a cuban prison. There he is back on manner soil. Everybody has been citing the role of the vatican in all of this, and i wonder if you can put this in Historical Context for us. The biggest openness of cuba to the world was in january 199 when pope joh Pope John Paul ii went to havana. I was fortunate enough to be there. There was tremendous optimism. There was joy in the streets. People really thought this was the beginning of cuba opening to the world. Unfortunately, i was there a year later to cover another story, and things had changed hd dramatically in the other direction. But it certainly seemed to
Occasions our willingness to maintain with the government of the United States a respectful dialogue based on the principle of sovereign equality in order to address a wide variety of topics in a reciprocal manner without detriment to the National Independence and Self Determination of our people. This was a position expressed to the u. S. Government both publicly and privately on on severalfidel occasions during our longstanding struggle with the aim of addressing and resolving our differences through negotiations without renouncing any of our principles. The heroic cuban people has shown in the face of aggression, serious dangers, adversities, and sacrifices that it will and has always been faithful to the ideals of independence and social justice, strongly united throughout the last 56 years of revolution, we have maintained our unswerving loyalty to those who fell in defense of our principles, dating back to the beginning of our wars of independence in 1868. Despite the difficultie
Same time that they are moving towards normalizing relationships. Anything not been like this in the past. Does not mean that over we cant two years anticipate them taking certain up ions that we may end finding deeply troubling. Either inside of cuba or with respect to their foreignpolicy. That could put significant on the relationship. Thats true of a lot of countries out there where we have an embassy. Normalizing int of relations is that it gives us a greater opportunity to have with that government, then not. The uld be surprised if cuban government purposely is now o undermine what effectively policy. Wouldnt be surprised if they take actions that we think are a problem. In a position to actions to whatever they take, the same way we do with a whole range of countries around the world, when they do things that we think are wrong. But, the point is that we will be in a better position to actually have some influence. There maybe carrots as well as we can apply. The only way to sen
Spencer christian is keeping track of the storms and the rainfall amounts that we have had. He joins us now. Spencer . We certainly had a lot to track this week. Right now live doppler 7 is tracking the most recent system. Most of the active weather has moved over east of the main part of the bay area out towards the central valley, although there are still some areas in parts of the east bay, south of livermore east of san jose out in the hill country. And new waves of moisture coming onland down in the Santa Cruz Mountains and up into the peninsula. This is very light precipitation right now. However, there could be some locally heavy downpours that will develop during the overnight hours. At the moment youre looking at this rainfall breaking up into little patches of showers. Lets talk about how wet a december this has been. San joses wettest december hat 9. 26 inches of rainfall. We have two weeks left and already san jose is in second place right behind its wettest december ever w