considering calling off the exploration so salvage work can start. face-off in the debates in south carolinament they talked about jobs, tax returns, health care and who s best qualified to take on president barack obama in november. newt gingrich lashed out at the media when asked to comment on his ex-wife s claims about their marriage. six nato troops are dead. their nationalities haven t been released. nato says there was no hostile activity in the area when the chopper went down. but the taliban are claiming responsibility. those are the headlines from cnn. i m zain verjee, world business today starts now. hello. and a very happy friday too you. welcome to world business today. activists strike back after celebrity-ebb endorse web site megaup load to shut down over privacy claims. google pulls back on the stock market. and why the captain of a wrecked cruise liner was ordering dinner and desert when he should have been evacuating the ship. all of that and more to
lengths to avoid arrest for more than two years, altering his face through cosmetic surgery. the space shuttle atlantis is about two hours from landing at the kennedy space station. the crew will fire the engines to re-enter the atmosphere and end america s 30-year shuttle program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. a warm welcome to world business today. these are the top stories on thursday, july 21st. nickly sarkozy and angela merkel see eye-to-eye ahead of debt crisis talks in europe. the same can t be said in the united states, where legislators are considering a short-term fix to the borrowing limit debacle. and for all the talk of tablets, don t write off the p.c. just yet. we ll talk to intel on how it s bucking the trends in the tech sector. first, leaders of the euro are racing against the clock to talk about the economies. this as an emergency summit gets under way in brussels today. there s
the crisis, by drought, poverty and violence. half of the camps are fled to ethiopia and kenya. a man who was accused of strangling a woman, has been sent to prison. her killer went to extraordinary lengths to avoid arrest for more than two years, altering his face through cosmetic surgery. the space shuttle atlantis is about two hours from landing at the kennedy space station. the crew will fire the engines to re-enter the atmosphere and end america s 30-year shuttle program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. a warm welcome to world business today. these are the top stories on thursday, july 21st. nickly sarkozy and angela merkel see eye-to-eye ahead of debt crisis talks in europe. the same can t be said in the united states, where legislators are considering a short-term fix to the borrowing limit debacle. and for all the talk of tablets, don t write off the p.c. just yet. we ll talk to intel on how
does the future hold for so many of the people living in these tents right over here behind me? that s the major concern. could this bacteria make its way to the capital city of port-au-prince and start to spread, start to infect lots of people? we have the story of a beautiful woman, 22-year-old st. helene and her 15-month-old daughter cheri. they may be carriers, unwittingly carrying this bacteria from the city hardest hit to the capital city of port-au-prince. is it possible that life-saving supplies are actually sitting in warehouses when so many hundreds have died. and we ll have a conversation with a remarkable woman, dr. megan coffey. she came here right after the earthquake, ten months ago, and she never left. she s spending her own money to try and buy patients supplies. let s get started. we start with a tragic story but an important one to remember as well. the anatomy of an outbreak. how would this bacteria potentially make its way from the rivers further north of
when confronted, he s running and hiding. also something to think about next week, a third party candidate, is he or she a legitimate candidate or a bogus one put on the ballot to help one of the other two? allegations of fake tea party candidates by democrats in tight races. why would they do that? siphon off votes from tea before party backed candidates. plus, which are the out and out dirltiest races of 2010? we ve got the lowdown. we begin as we always do keeping them honest, with an arkansas public official who s response to the rash of suicides by gay kids is that he like it s when gay people die. he said that on his facebook page. he likes it when gay people die. now, if these were just the comments of an everyday person, this wouldn t be news. but these comments were being made by a public official. not just any official, a school official. elected to the school board in the midland school board in eastern arkansas. in fact, he s the school district vice president