[redhead]

"How did Mike Siedel of the Weather Channel legally travel to Cuba to cover this event. Isn’t there a federal ban on citizens traveling to that Communist state?"

Exactly my question. Probably flew to another country, then to Cuba. That's the "how." But I sure would like to know the HOW...

[kabumpo]

Again, journalists, academics, congressmen, senators, mayors, governors, religious groups go to Cuba from the US all the time. There are weekly nonstop flights from JFK. Several flights a week from Miami.