stand. sara sidner, what s it like to be in the middle of the chaos. this is piers morgan tonight. tonight s breaking news. steve jobs stepping down as ceo of apple. joe, is this a surprise, lots of speculation about steve jobs future because of his health? what s your view? the only real surprise is that it happened tonight, really. he s been sick for a long time. he has not looked well, obviously, in appearances recently. everybody he s had a liver transplant, a tumor on his pancreas. so his health, one assumes has been deteriorating, and there is a certain kind of sad inevidentability to this moment. obviously apple s become this extraordinary global business. one of the biggest market caps of any american companies in history. what impact will steve jobs standing down as the chief executive officer have on the company, do you think, if any? well, steve jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism. he s also one of the genius marketers.
endangering the lives of civilians who could be caught in the crossphile. jurlists, three being held after five days at the tripoli hotel. cnn s chaunce was one of them. steve jobs will step down. jobs is on his third medical leave of absence. he didn t mention his health problems directly but he said the time has come to resign. portions of the u.s. east coast are likely to be under a hurricane watch in just a few hours. hurricane irene is tearing through the bahamas right now with sustained winds at 160 miles an hour. it could hit the populated, northeast this weekend. those are the top stories. i m zain veer gee. world business today starts now. an ipod, a phone. are you getting it? the innovator steve jobs steps down as ceo of apple. we ll look at the company s future under new leadership. hello. i m andrew stevens in hng kong. and i m nina dos santos in london. you re watching world business today. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s start with the ma
or alive, they say. one of his sons still at large, is sending e-mails to our nic robertson. nic just got another one a few minutes ago and he joins us shortly. in the meantime, heavy fighting today in tripoli. take a look. street battles all day. this is from the capital s eastern neighborhoods not far from the airport. the field in opposition still taking heavy shelling from nearby loyalists. in the last hour or two, the two sides have exchanged artillery throughout the day. opposition commanders have been trying to direct fire to minimize civilian casualties. gadhafi forces are intertwined amongst the population. in southern tripoli, similar disdain for civilian lives. taking pot shots at people. to the east, new video of the damage that loyalist fighters are leaving behind as they retreat. these are the oil facilities still burning nearly a week after they fled. before they did, they fired shells into the tank, causing this inferno right there. on the road from sa wa
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