Obama's day: Cuba, a trip to Tennessee

President Obama rings in July on Wednesday with an historic announcement about Cuba and a trip to Tennessee to promote his health care law.

In the late morning, Obama announces that the United States and Cuba will re-establish embassies in each other's capitals, another step toward normalizing relations that were broken off in 1961.

Issues remain in that effort, however, including compensation for U.S. property seized by Fidel Castro's communist government and the ongoing U.S. economic embargo against Cuba.

In the early afternoon, Obama travels to Nashville, Tenn., where he will visit an elementary school for a health care event.

"The President will discuss how we can move forward and continue building on the progress made under the Affordable Care Act, which has helped more than 16 million Americans gain health insurance," says the White House schedule.

Obama will also seek to pressure Republican-run states to adopt the Medicaid expansion plan envisioned in the law.

Tennessee's Republican governor, Bill Haslam, proposed a Medicaid expansion, but the GOP-run legislature refused to sign off.

After the Tennessee event, the president returns to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening.