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. raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a news conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. thank you for joining me today, i m carol kos toll low. @this hour with berman and michaela starts now. hello, everyone. i m john berman. and. and i m michaela pereira. history is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u.s. it s releasing alan gross from prison after five years. a series of genuinely breathtaking developments. cuba is also releasing a u.s. intelligence asset, a spy, who s been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. in return washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. that is big in and of itself. it all seems part now of something much, much bigger. president obama will announce major changes in u.s. policy toward cuba. officials calling them the most sw ....
guests coming in and out of trump tower. it is like a second white house right now. it really is. it is a manhattan white house in waiting you might say. and donald trump just wrapped up a very important meeting with the japanese prime minister shinzo abe. who just wrapped up his own comments on that meeting just a short while ago here in mid town manhattan. they had a lot to talk about from trade to national security issues in asia. but keep in mind as you also mentioned donald trump has had a number of very interesting at any time lysing encounters throughout the day today. encounters that suggest he knows he has fence mending to do. a signal is being sent that the president elect just might be ready to put the scorched earth campaign behind him and perhaps engage in some healing. in addition to his meetings with foreign policy heavy weights like henry kissinger donald trump has been sitting down with his rivals and critics from the primaries. nikki haley, under considerat ....
than 30 hostages at a high school. we can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, there s been enough already. across the nation, people were paying attention to this. the officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. for 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. we find the defendant while the nation s eyes are glued to los angeles. police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the president of exxon corporation is missing from his home. his wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. they had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7: 30. miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. friends say riso is just like the house they ....
organize. howard dean presided over the party at a time it did quite well, and the strategy he had was that they needed to compete in all 50 he was suggesting that the tens of thousands that you ve been seeing right now live out on the streets expressing their first amendment right to free speech and peaceful assembly, they re quote professional protesters that are part of a plot and that their presence can be blamed on the media. no less than the man who will soon be the most powerful person in the world assailing both the pregs of freedom of assembly and that constitutionally protected activity. the tweets at the top of the feed for all to see until this morning when he followed up with this, love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. we will all come together and be proud. joining me now filmmaker michael moore whose new film is michael moore in trumpland. you ve been monitoring the protests. they ve been quite organic. ....
bitter campaign there was sadness, disbelief and tears shed around the white house this morning. but president obama stepped up and made a strong call for unity. i had a chance to talk to president elect trump last night, about 3:30 in the morning i think it was, to congratulate him on winning the election. and i had a chance to invite him to come to the white house tomorrow to talk about making sure there is a successful transition between our presidencies. and tonight there are peaceful anti-trump protests around the country. you can see some of them. people exercising their right. live pictures from new york city and chicago. hundreds have taken to the street. wall street in the meantime surging today. a steep drop overnight. election results first showing trump likely to win. the market fell over 900 points ending up with a swing up over the president elect pulling off a stunning victory, capturing the key battleground states of florida, north carolina and ohio. and ....