Raul castro says there are profound differences between his country and the United States, and certainly those differences were on display today. Amid all of the pomp, ceremony, and goodwill, castro lashed out at critics on his countrys record on human rights. Shaking hands for the first time on cuban soil. They talked for two hours behind closed doors, but when they emerged it was clear that the acrimony, 54 years couldnt be forgotten, even with the ceremony and goodwill. Asked by an American Voter why cuba has political piz prisoners, castro bristled. Translator what Political Prisoners . Give me a name or names. Give me a list, and if we have those Political Prisoners, they will be released before tonight ends. Reporter human Rights Groups say arrests of dissidents in cuba have increasing, though longterm prison sentences decreased. Shortly before president obama arrived a protest was forcibly eliminated. Translator i think human rights issue should not be politicized. That is not c
President obama. And Sweet Beginnings from former inmates, finding a way to make a new beginning in a jar of honey. And we begin today with president obamas historic visit to cuba. He is the first u. S. President to set foot on the island in nearly 90 years. Mr. Obama hailed it as a new day in relations. Mike viqueira reports from havana. Reporter this was the moment, president obama and president raul castro, shaking hands for the first time on cuba soil. They talked for two hours behind closed doors, but when they emerged it was the clear that the acrimony, 54 years wouldnt be forgotten. Asked by an american reporter why cuba has Political Prisoners, castro bristles. Translator what political prisoner . Give me a name or names. Or after this is over, you can give me a list, and if we have those Political Prisoners they will be released before this night ends. Reporter arrests and shortterm arrests of dissidents in cuba have risen in the past years. Sunday just hours before mr. Obama
Problem. By the end of this year bart plans to have its first 10 new cairns systems. By the end of 2017 at least 60 new cars in service. And the end of 20 1rb8gs at least 230 new cairns service. The end of 2019, 420 new cairns service. And by the end of 2020 at least 610 of its new cashes service with the remaining 165 cars to be delivered in 2021. That will get bart to 775 new cars in total. Bart hopes, depending on funding to add 306 more in the following years. Five years to put in new cars . Honestly, im going to have to buy me like at least two or three cars to drive on the freeway. This cant be. Five years . Im going to start taking the ferry. Reporter do you think these cars can make it for the next five years . About 25 of them. Probably a little bit more than that. But its going to be a lot of maintenance. Reporter bart is ramping up will be fazed out. One benefit, as older cars are taken out of service that will create a huge pool of Replacement Parts for the ones to continue
Busy. We have more headlights headed in the westbound direction from golden gate field into San Francisco but still a nice 14 minute drive and here is what you fine at the bay bridge toll plaza, no delays here and traffic is flowing nicely across the upper deck interest San Francisco. Slow traffic from tracy and that is typical. Per un. And highway 4 is looking good. Different yourself extra time because of the shake roads. And rain is offandon. We will look at the north bay drive if a bit. As you mentioned bart riders face the start of another work week without trains running as part of the east bay. Our reporter Amy Hollyfield is in the North Concord bart with a look at what they are doing to get down to this problem. Amy . Yes, reggie, a bus from pittsburg just arrived and the people on board are very exasperated. They want to know when the should are resolved. Bart has not said. We got progress over the weekend. Officials ran a test train. On the troubles tack between pittsburg bay
Here and there. Live doppler 7 hd. The rainfall doesnt cough the entire bay area but we have a line of steady locally heavy showers moving on shore now moving from monterey bay through the santa cruz area up toward morgan hill and out toward mt. Hamilton. Just south of san jose. Looks like a little bit of a break around san jose right now and up through the Santa Cruz Mountains to the peninsula we have pockets of showers redeveloping as well. These are some of our rainfall totals for todays storm. Over half an inch as you can see up north in mt. St. Helena. Quarter inch in santa rosa, quarter in napa as well. South bay and east bay locations received only a few hundredths of an inch so far. The totals may grow as we have showers pushing through the area. 6 00 this evening, well continue to see widely scattered showers becoming more widely scattered, becoming lighter into the late evening hours but still possible for some heavy downpours to pop up here and there. Larry . All right, than