back in the 1990s, tried to ease some of these travel restrictions and then, of course t-cas trow government shot down these brothers to the rescue planes and everything changed again. and so what's going to be key here is how raul castro's government behaves in the next year or so, whether they do anything that sets this effort back again. it's really all on them whether or not they can make sure that this relationship doesn't get set back after what president obama is really going on a limb for in this announcement today, carol. >> evan perez, thanks so much, i appreciate it. i want to bring our viewers back to havana cuba, patrick oppman is standing by. he has new information about the negotiations to release alan gross. tell us more. >> these negotiations were so fraught, living here in cuba, we heard little bits of information over the past months and the