government. signing a bailout is at the center of negotiations between the political parties. the international atomic energy agency says it has, quote, serious concerns about iran s nuclear program. the u.n. s nuclear watchdog says it has credible information that tehran may be developing nuclear weapons. iran s president calls the report a fabrication. u.s. officials say they ll use the report to lobby for new sanctions. the vote is under a year away, but controversy is already swirling in the u.s. presidential campaign. four women accuse republican candidate herman cain of sexual harassment. cain flatly denied the accusations in a news conference tuesday saying the democrat machine was behind a ploy to derail his presidential bid. those are the top headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. t
canada. it s little more than a post tropical cyclone but has bruised the eastern united states with property damage, flooding, and power outages. at least 20 deaths have been linked to the storm. more than four million customers still don t have electricity. businesses have a lot of clean willi ing up to do. the governor of virginia expects more reports of damage and death today. a state police official in flooded out vermont is afraid of what his crews might discover. the flooding s really bad in vermont this morning. now that the storm has moved out, business owners in new jersey have serious cleaning up to do. irene s rain forced a river out of its banks and into downtown mi millburn. business owners are mopping up floors and basements that are full of water. we have more from mill burn. what s it look like, chris? reporter: good morning, carol. you know, things look a lot better here on the streets of millburn. they don t sound quite right. [ alarm ] reporter: the
i m ali velshi, one of irene s last stops dealt one of its hardest blows. parts of vermont completely unreachable as rivers start to roar. one official describing the aftermath as awful. cut off in carolina. i m carol costello. thousands who ignored evacuation orders stranded on the outer banks. emergency supplies heading there by ferry today on this american morning. good morning. it is monday, august 29th. you lose track of it on these type of weekends when so much happens. there is a lot going on for a lot of people who say we missed we dodged the bull letsz, a lot of people who didn t dodge any bullets. whoever says that is not listening to the chainsaws humming in connecticut, vermont, new jersey, all the way up and down the northeast coast. i think people thought it would be worse. we re lucky we dodged the bullet. i expected so much worse. nobody in western jersey dodged the bullet when you look at the towns and water still raging. everyone is clear there