loyalists. gadhafi s sons say they are both in custody and wanted by the fcc and war crimes charges. yemen s embattled president has arrived in riyadh. he s expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. they ll join other victims of media intrusion who will give evidence before the inquiry. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts now. it s 9:00 a.m. here in london. good morning, i m nina dos santos. and it s 5:00 p.m. here in hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories this wednesday, november the 23rd, stock markets sink into the red worldwide. as poor manufacturing numbers fr
contain the flames and let the pfeiffer burn out itself. one fire fighter was injured. about ten homes evacuated. spectacular sight of another kind, ash plume from a volcano in chile stretching across argentina. the ash was so thick it grounded air travel in the country. some airports will remain closed until sunday. soot is also coating streets and ski slopes in argentina. evacuations are expanding in chile. and now to more shocking revelations in the anthony weiner sexting scandal. this morning s new york times reports that weiner waited until 15 minutes before his news conference to tell nancy pelosi what he was about to reveal. she wasn t happy about it. instead of discussing resigning, weiner told pelosi he would not step down. mark marusarz has the latest on the congressman s career crisis. good morning, mike. peggy, daniel, after the fireworks we witnessed, anthony weiner was quiet on tuesday, holed up in his district office
to hold it off and trying to fill 160,000 sandbags in one iowa community yesterday. they expect the flood threat to last for weeks if not months with record amounts of water being released upstream. residents in the southwest are facing the opposite problem. not enough water. now because of the severe drought gripping the region, fourth of july celebrations are going to be dimmed. cities and counties have started banning or reducing sale and use of fireworks. officials are worried a tiny spark could set off a fire. thousands of people forced to leave their homes as the dangerous fire in arizona grows ever closer. people started streaming out of the small town of eager yesterday afternoon as flames were spotted on the move. the massive fire, now the second largest in arizona history, is believed to have been started by an unattended campfire. in rhode island what used to be the largest rubber goods factory in the world was a massive inferno. take a look at this, unclear what spark
iceland s capital, reykjavik and we can talk to him now. reporter: zain, good morning, it s not over yet. geologists say they ll see the end of the eruption soon and it s unlikely to blow up again and volcanic activity is reduced considerably this morning. very much calming down. however, they do expect to see a few more small explosions. the ash plume is not visible on satellite images, that s good news. and any ash that we re seeing in the air now is old ash. and it s just a matter of time when the ash does dissipate. keflavik airport is now open and they expect conditions there to improve. they expect that the next time this volcano will erupt could be in five to six years. we ve all been worried, so many people just bracing themselves, complaining about iceland and the ash that s affecting so many of us. what about the people themselves in iceland? the local population that live
ash. notice going essentially hours back. see the pink shading there, kind of the coral color? that s indicating the volcanic ash. it s moving to the north part of to uk. notice here we have a low altitude ash and higher over here toward the northwest. this time yesterday we had a lot of that spreadinging through parts of northern england as well as scotland. a big improvement indeed. as i show you this graphic right here, actually we have more flights in the air, including parts of northern england. this time yesterday we weren t seeing this. the area that we are dealing with reportedly some cancellations and closing that includes here, anywhere in germany, we re going to see some delays because part of that ash plume has been spreading over toward parts of germany. but for parts of the uk, the good news is they re able to catch up on some of the flights