about what they have learned, the investigations, they were this week meeting with the fbi giving them their preliminary report as this medical mystery threatens to strain relations between u.s. and cuba back to a wild war freeze. the u.s. embassy in havana shut down. u.s./cuban relations in an escalating crisis two. dozen american embassy staff have reported mystery ailments. president trump blaming the cubans. i do believe cuba is responsible. reporter: now in the first interview, cuban officials and top officials and a doctor pushing back. did you do it? translator: without hesitation, i m telling you, no. reporter: the current says they have had nearly 2,000 people looking into this charge that u.s. diplomats were targeted by a sonic weapon, suffering a range of symptoms, hearing loss, headaches, north side nausea and mild traumatic brain injury. reporter: cuba has never
talk to the physicians in miami and elsewhere who treated these 24 diplomats who had a variety of ailments, some minor, some hearing problems, minor hearing problems that went away, some profound. we originally had seen news reports originally pin it directly on cuban officials, the cuban government. we backed off that a bit. quite a bit. what is the u.s. government s position right now on this? are they willing to say that the cuban government was not involved? what they re saying, what general kelly said last week in the briefing, what officials are saying at the state department is that cuba should be able to prevent this or solve it, given their form of government, given the power of their security forces. what cuba is saying is that they just don t understand it. and we talked to medical experts here. we talked to physicists yesterday who say that there is no sonic weapon that exists that could do what has been described. yes, israel has something called the scream, an eno
as many as 2100 flights into the u.s. on any given day. the cuban government pushing back on claims that a sonic weapon was used against american diplomats in havana. according to reports top cuban officials are calling the claim, quote, science fiction and slander. they re finally talking, steve? reporter: dana, they are talking. they re very angry. they re pushing back hard against these claims that they carried out so called sonic attacks against american diplomats in havana. cuban officials say they don t even have the technology to carry out such attacks. they carried out an exhaustive investigation, taking air and water samples in the area where the attack supposedly occurred, interviewing more than 300 people. once these attacks became public knowledge after august, the u.s. took some stern actions. 24 u.s. diplomats were actually diagnosed with physical
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to. we don t know what he means by that either since the u.s. doesn t appear to be blaming the cuban government for carrying out the attacks in the first place. but there has been speculation since day one that some sort of sonic weapon might be to blame for all of it. that speculation has been, in part, because the first reported system was hearing loss. i think the speculation has been there in part because we know there is such thing as a sonic weapon. the u.s. navy used them against the is somali pirates. the other reason people suspected the injuries to americans, that they may have been caused by sound weapons is because a lot of people who were hurt described hearing a sound when they were injured. from a u.s. press. a blaring, grinding noise jolted one american diplomat from his bed in a havana hotel. he moved a few feet and there was silence. it was as if he had walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his roof.