this morning cuban fans showed up to watch varona practice. he's the rays only cuban player. he left the country on a 12-hour boat ride with only four other people. it was a decision that i made, he says, and i got to the u.s., and i am making my dreams come true. an emotional varona returning to his home country, seeing his only sibling, his sister, for the first time since he defected. when i asked her what it was like to see her kid brother again, she lost control. i can't. i'm sorry. i can't. baseball is a national obcisisen here. there's a dark side. players like varona end up defecting to the united states and often do it under incredibly dangerous circumstances, even smuggled in by drug cartels. the players are leaving cuba and giving up their citizenship in exchange for opportunity. varona who once made about $4 a month playing baseball in cuba signed a multimillion-dollar dool with the raise. the u.s. and cuba signed a new agreement which means players will no longer have to defect in order to play ball in america. varona's teammates are proud to be part of this mome

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the talent pool has thinned in recent years, as players like varona leave the island for america. right now, there' s an effort to stop that happening. rays players say they' re proud to be a part of history and to have varona as a teammate. >> he' s great. he' s a great teammate, real passionate and real enthusiastic out there. you can just tell he loves the game. michelle: the u.s. and cuba have signed a new agreement, one that means they will no longer have league baseball. marco rubio blasted the president for going to the game in an overnight statement, saying diplomacy with cuba is not a game. starting in just over a month, carnival cruise lines will set sail to cuba. the country gave the o.k. to a ship, carrying around 700 passengers. prices for the seven-day voyages start at $1,800 per person this marks the first time in more than 50 years a cruise ship is approved to sail from the united states to cuba. brett: new information, gawker plans to appeal the ruling granting hulk hogan $140 million in a sex tape lawsuit. yesterday, a jury decided to give the former pro-wrestler

a tearful homecoming right here in cuba for a cuban-born big leaguer tampa bay rays prospect dayron varona, who defected from cuba three years ago to pursue his shot at the majors, reuniting with his family members here. the rays in havana to take on the cuban national team tuesday. president obama and raul castro both expected to attend, and, of course, we'll be there, too. >>> when we come back here tonight from cuba, the streets of havana are alive. the gold rush is on. opportunity knocks, and the american hotel chains, their big announcement, as we take you on a tour of havana. there are two billion people who don't have access to basic banking, but that is changing. at temenos, with the microsoft cloud, we can enable a banker to travel to the most remote locations with nothing but a phone and a tablet. everywhere where there's a phone, you have a bank. now a person is able to start a business, and employ somebody for the first time. the microsoft cloud helped us to bring banking to ten million people in just two years. it's transforming our world. it's easy to love your laxative when

with a bit more symbolism: rays' lead-off batter, dayron varona is a native cuban who defected to the u.s. three years ago in the hopes of playing ball. one anticipated by-product of the warming u.s.-cuban relations would be a relaxation of the embargo that bans cuban players from playing in the u.s. peter bjarkman has written widely on baseball in cuba. they're not allowed to legally immigrate out of the country to play professional baseball. so far, nothing has changed the position of the cuban government. they are willing to talk about making some of their players available, but they want to control the ownership of those players, have them come back, play during the winter season in cuba. play on the cuban national team. >> a throw home... not in time! >> when the rays scored the first run of the gam >> brown: when the rays scored the first run of the game, michelle obama cheered and there was a handshake between the two presidents. >> brown: in an interview during the game with espn commentators, president obama re-iterated some of the themes he'd addressed earlier in the day, an