from getting dragged down bit euro zone debt crisis and many italians are unhappy with his leadership. the brute force of floodwaters is wreaking havoc around southeast asia. it is worse around thailand. the cresting river is expected to pass through the city at weekend. nationwide, 283 people have been killed by heavy rain and flood. occupy wall street protesters may be headed for another confrontation with police. new york mayor michael bloomberg says protesters must leave the park a section at a time so it can be cleaned up beginning this morning. a spokesperson for the group says it s an attempt to evict them. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. it s friday. the top stories on g20 finance ministers meet in paris. slowing slowly
taking on islamic militants who have overrun a coastal town. it s a case eerily similar to the one against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. an egyptian businessman could be arraigned in new york today, charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. 74-year-old mahmoud abdel salam omar is accused of groping a maid at the pierre luxury hotel. she says she went to the room at omar s request to drop off tissues. call it a bin laden bounce. strong performances on national security and international relations are driving president obama s overall poll numbers even higher. a new cnn opinion research survey finds that 54% approve of the job he is doing. that is up six percentage points since early april. when are you planning to announce you ll run for president? what do you think the odds are you ll run? are you going to run? that is the question. there is no public schedule, but sarah palin s bus tour seems to be headed for philadelphia today. now palin v
course as i know you v and it is a fascinating read. one of the things that strikes me is that we are talking about two guys, very young guys, 23 and 30 years of age respectively, and speak to their youth, a, and b, what are they accused of doing? well, in the case of wad ramadan alwan, he is now 30 years old, but he has been at the business of terrorism for more than 10 years. since he was a teenager. and in his case, he was involved directly in the manufacture and the placement of ieds designed specifically to kill u.s. troops on roadsides. he bragged recently that he had in fact handled more than 100 ieds himself during the period 2003 to 2006. and then he was arrested by iraqi authorities. he was finally released and in 2009, he came to the u.s. and has been living in kentucky. it is interesting that you used the word brag, because one thing that stuck out for me is the same alwan, 30 years of age and also talking about the types of ieds that he was using against troo
on it. we believe there was a fire. we re trying to get details. passengers had to be evacuated. scary moments obviously but apparently there are no injuries. just a few minutes ago we did watch a bus transport passengers from that plane to the delta terminals here in atlanta. we want to bring in on the phone, you were in a hotel that overlooks the runway as i m told. can you tell us exactly what you saw? caller: we were just out on the balcony of our hotel that overlooks the runway and we were just watching planes come in and then after one landed there was a big boom and just a line of smoke and then it looks like it turned off the runway and then the fire got a lot bigger. and then fire trucks went over and they started evacuating everybody. did you see any need for any ambulance or anything like that? caller: a bunch of ambulances and fire trucks went to it. i don t know if they needed them or just because of the fire. okay. thank you so much for that eyewitness a
you put stuff in it. yeah. you ride your beer and drink it, too. oh, my goodness. unbelievable. already, fredricka, have a fine time. we ll see you tomorrow. all right. see you tomorrow. you bet. top of the hour right now, we re focusing on the things that are not so fun in joplin, missouri. more than 150 people still have not been heard from since the deadliest tornado on record hit there last sunday. 132 are confirmed dead. more than 1,000 people were hurt. the federal government has approved nearly $3 million in aid. and president obama actually plans to meet with survivors tomorrow in the city of joplin. all week, we ve been hearing extraordinary stories of survival and, of course, about the people who died trying to save others. our paul vercammen is in joplin. you ve been hearing from the victims there? reporter: when you get an idea of what happened here, a man named dean wells, 59 years old, was so busy helping other people get to shelter in spots of t