you just received the jane fonda humanitarian award, glamour uk women of the year, latino power list. and now us, bbc 100 women, it s a pleasure having you with us. thank you. and thank you for the, for the honour of being on the list with such incredible other women. 0k. let s start with an easy question. let s talk about your name, america. mm. what s the true story behind your name? yeah. well, i m named america after my mother, who is also named america. and it s true, growing up in the united states of america, everyone assumed that it was a, it was a patriotic homage by my immigrant parents. but the truth is, is that in latino america, the name america is much more common. and so my mother is actually named after a very obscure holiday that she was born on, called dia de las americas. and i was due on her birthday. and so i was also named america. so that, so my name is very central american and latino americana. that s a name that you didn t love when you were younger,
sandra: all new at 2:00, the pentagon set to brief the press any moment now as president xi and putin wrap up day two of their historic summit bringing america s top two adversaries even closer together. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith in new york. we are certainly monitoring the pentagon for any news that comes from there, john. john: it could be a big news hour. we ll keep an eye on the pentagon for any updates as president xi tries to broker a peace plan for putin s war. experts warn any china-backed peace plan would have one winner, china. that s where we start with the fox news alert. sandra: president biden just wrapped his remarks on a day he has devoted to talking about climate and environmental justice. at the same time as china and russia are plotting against the united states. the two major powers showing off their close relationship during today s second round of talks. john: president biden under fire for still
tonight. also this evening, abc news showing the death of an inmate in custody, held down for 12 minutes by deputies and staff at a hospital in virginia. he is seen handcuffed and wearing leg irons, pros cue or thes say unable to breathe. we re tracking this new and dangerous flooding rains,co winding gusti more than 80 miles per hour, from the west to texas, tennes up into the noashet.ht tonight, the massive strike shutting down the nation s second-largest school district. more than 30,000 staff members, including school aides, bus drivers, catch tier ya workers, and custodians walking off the job in los angeles. tonight, a reality check here. what they re earning and what they say they need just to pay the bills. kayna whitworth with workers who are parents, too. vladimir putin and china s president xi on the world stage. what they declared today. tom sue fbi burr ridge in key. the race for president back here at home. and tonight, the new interview. what florida go
potentially deadly fungus being found at hospitals across the nation. what s being done about it? a new battle front. we speak with a paver experts increasing threats developing in outer space. but, breaking tonight, day two of the high stakes summit between chinese president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin. fears over the leader s cooperation growing today as the pair signed an agreement expanding their economic ties. the duo also touting china s supposed peace plan to end the war in ukraine. a plan ukraine says is a nonstarter. it comes amid heightened criticism over president biden s lack of communication and confronting of president xi and a perceived lack of strength from the biden administration. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off with that story live on the north lawn. peter, good evening. good evening, trace. as white house officials try to read the tea leaves from russia to figure out how this putin xi meeting is going to effect t
carefully studied china s peace plan for ukraine. we ll talk with congressman henry cuellar, and we will ask him with the hours long meeting with the president of mexico. and a teacher shot by a student is speaking out in an msnbc exclusive. i will never look at the look on his face as he pointed the gun directly at me. we begin this very busy hour with new developments in the high profile manhattan grand jury investigation of a hush money payment made from trump to stormy daniels. a new witness spoke to the grand jury on monday and accused former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, of acting alone and making the $130,000 payment to daniels back in 2016. former legal adviser to cohen, costello, testified for over two hours yesterday and slammed cohen. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it, but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. here on msnbc, cohen responded to costello s comments and defended his testimony. the beauty t