HAVANA (AP) – The Latest on President Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba (all times local):
8:45 a.m.
The streets around Havana’s National Theater are almost completely empty of ordinary Cubans shortly before U.S. President Barack Obama is to deliver the main speech of his history-making visit to Cuba.
Hundreds of plainclothes policemen and women fill the streets for blocks around. People invited by the Cuban government, including doctors in white coats, are filing from buses into the theater.
Two enormous framed flags – one Cuban and one American – hang on the stage behind where the president will speak, along with the smaller flags on poles behind him.