[Berman:] We could on the verge of history in relations between the U.S. and Cuba. President Obama could meet face to face with Cuban president Raul Castro. We learned the two leaders got a jump on a possible meeting. They spoke by phone on Wednesday.
[Bolduan:] That's a huge deal when you think about the relationship between these two countries has been frozen for 50 years now. The White House is considering removing Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list. Let's bring in senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, who is in Panama, traveling with the president. Jim, we can say this means history but why would this mean history? How close is the White House to this decision do you think?
[Jim Acosta, Cnn Senior White House Correspondent:] I think they're very close to this decision. We were told earlier this week that the State Department's recommendation is expected to be that Cuba be taken off this list of state sponsors of terrorism. Only four countries on the list, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan. It's not great company. The Cubans wanted off that list for a long time. It's a major impediment to the normalizing of relations. Cubans are demanding this be done to have embassies opened in Washington and Havana. But getting back to this historic encounter that we'll witness over the next this meeting that's supposed to occur between President Obama and Raul Castro. They spoke on the phone on Wednesday. They've been keeping a lot of this Cuba stuff under wraps. My sense is because we'll be getting a lot of news dumped on us about the latest on this relationship in the next day or two. But, yes, no question about it, if and when we have a picture of President Obama meeting with Raul Castro, they could be coming face to face tonight at meeting. But when they have a meeting when they sit down and talk about things, that will be something. I was at Nelson Mandela's service in South Africa when they shook hands. They spoke by phone in December of last year to talk about the reopening of ties. But nothing like this. This is going to be something else.
[Berman:] Jim Acosta, and John Kerry, our secretary of state just met with the Cuba foreign minister.
[Acosta:] That's right.
[Berman:] Jim, you were a young man. John Acosta, thank you. In Panama for us
[Acosta:] I was a very young man. You go it. Take care.
[Bolduan:] I'm going to speak in Jim's defense. Jim is a young man, John.
[Berman:] Our thanks to him for that. Ahead AT THIS HOUR, what a story out of California. A police beating caught on camera. This beating happened after a chase on horseback. What on earth is going on there? We have new details ahead.
[Bolduan:] But first, a young woman meets children living in poverty. She uses money she made while babysitting to provide them shelter and an education. Maggie Doyne is today's "CNN Hero."
[Maggie Doyne, Cnn Hero:] Most 28-year-old girls my age have a very different reality. A lot of engagements and first babies. I took a very different path. After high school, I decided to travel around the world with my backpack. In Nepal, for the first time, I really saw the effects of civil war and children and women suffering. And it changed me. There was one little girl, she was standing in a heap of garbage. And she said, "namaste." That means hello. And that was the beginning.
[Doyne:] I called up my parents and I asked them to wire me over my $5,000 of babysitting money. Time to get up. Morning.
[Unidentified Girl:] Good morning.
[Doyne:] We started with the home. Then we built a school. We select children who without us would not be able to go to school. A lot of them are begging on the streets. You've got it. We have been one of the top performing schools in the region for 350 children. And 50 of those kids live in our home. Our first priority is to keep a child with their family. And then in the severe case of a child who really has nobody, they come in to live in our home.
[Bolduan:] Those smiles say everything. Every week we honor a new "CNN Hero" like Maggie, everyday people going above and beyond to change lives every day. If you know someone who deserves this recognition, go to cnnheros.com and tell us about them, please.