formidable adversary. president biden s hope is to open the lines of communication with russia. he wants to stop any further deterioration in the relationship which he admits has reached a new low point. there s a lot on the agenda from nuclear arms and climate change to recent cyber attacks and a potential prisoner swap for americans detained in russia. there will be no, repeat, no typical joint news conference afterward. instead each lead letter hold his own press briefing. the white house is determined to avoid the kind of embarrassing spectacle we witnessed back in 2018 in helsinki when then president trump took the stage with putin and said he believed the russian leader over his own, his own u.s. intelligence agencies. the long awaited biden/putin summit takes place next hour at the historic villa la grange. our team is here covering every monumental level and the stakes are enormous. let s begin with natasha. who will be there? how will it be structured? yeah, wolf.
degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. they lasted about two hours, the two presidents as well as secretary of state antony blinken, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. good morning to you. i m jim sciutto live in geneva. great to have you there, jim. i m poppy harlow live in new york. the sit-down comes as president biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. so what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today? there s a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to climate change to recent cyberattacks and a potential prisoner swap for rusamericans detained in russian. there will not be a joint news conference. our team is covering every angle. we begin coverage with cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. tell us what s happening r
biden to get a cease-fire. cautious optimism: 16 states in america report zero covid deaths that s right, none. signs tonight the u.s. is rounding the corner on this this pandemic. st pandemic. state of emergency: hundreds rescued in the south after nearly a foot of rain falls with millions still in the path of relentless storms. covid eviction crisis: up to 40 million americans are behind on rent and could lose their homes, with just weeks until a federal moratorium expires. where are you going to go? we don t know yet. o donnell: new colon cancer screening guidelines. less than a year after chadwick boseman died from the disease, the recommendations to catch one of the deadliest cancers in america. and the taste of success how these high school friends turned a sweet idea into a delicious business. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining
geneva with what we can expect at today s summit, john, this is the fifth time for vladimir putin meeting a u.s. president. nothing new here. what feels new to you? what feels new is working the same hours that you do brian, both ends of the clock. brian: you didn t sleep. this is tough. we are expecting vladimir putin to touch down any minute at geneva airport. he might be running a little bit later. i have been doing enough of these things to know that putin always likes to leave his host waiting. it will be the first time that president biden sits down with russian president vladimir putin as the president of the united states. already the white house is playing down expectations. some of the topics that they are likely to discuss include the nord stream 2 pipeline. the biden administration official position is that they still don t want it to happen but they got out of the way not putting sanctions against the ceo of the company that s putting it together it is weeks aw
jr., a black man killed as police tried to carry out an arrest warrant last month. brown s immediate family is now set to see parts of the footage on tuesday, after a judge issued an order to grant the family access. body cam video is not public record and cannot be released without a court order under north carolina law. and then just moments from now, also we ll be hearing from george floyd s family for the first time since new federal charges were announced against the officers involved in floyd s death. all four former minneapolis police officers now facing federal charges for violating floyd s constitutional rights. more on that in a moment. cnn s natasha chen joining us from elizabeth city, north carolina, where people are gathering. what more are you learning? reporter: fred, we re here with a number of clergy members from throughout the state of north carolina. you can see all of them have lined up here, walking together, holding signs that ask for transparency, a