egypt s lower house of parliament will convene its first session since the fall of hosni mubarak nearly a year ago. italian officials say search and rescue efforts will continue on the costa concordia but also say the environmental risk is becoming urgent. rescue divers found another body on the cruise ship sunday, bringing the death toll to 13. 19 people are still missing. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain vergee and world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. this is world business today. top stories on monday the 23rd of january. research in motion s co-ceo steps aside. and greece, are debt talks growing on? and kim dotcom is back in court. the two chief executive officers of research in motion have resigned. the company s share prices scraped lows we haven t seen since 2004 after a series of missteps angered investors. ramy inocencio, our asia business analyst, joins us with the lates
also, wow, two more contests within a fortnight. are you kidding? they are heading to florida. it s getting ugly. romney is calling gingrich a failed leader. but why? the mayor of the island where the cruise ship capsized is warning of an ecological time bomb. there may have been more passengers than originally thought that weren t on the roster. head s up football fans, super bowl sequel, giants and patriots meet again at this year s super bowl. we ll begin this hour with powerful and very dangerous weather sweeping across the southeast this morning. and if you didn t see pictures, here is what it looked like in arkansas, listen closely. the sound of really intense wind and rain in the dark, someone had the forethought to get pictures. a hot lot of people were sleepi multiple tornadoes r from illinois to alabama. reports of widespread damage, luckily no deaths. thousands waking up without power, indiana, kentucky, tennessee, mississippi, alabama all in harm s way rig
gingrich s ex-wife on the eve of the primary, reviving the issue of infidelity, and newt denounces cnn s john king for using that report to lead off a deba dein south carolina. i astounded that cnn who take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. was that a mistake by cnn? was the abc story itself a late hit, repeating charges that marianne gingrich first made long ago? we ll ask the correspondent, abc s brian ross. fox s juan williams draws flack at another debate for challenging the candidates with a series of race-related incidents including this one with gingrich. can t you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all americans, but particularly to black americans? was he acting as a journalist, or an advocate? plus, the new york times ombudsman hit by a media firestorm after asking whether his paper should be a vigilante for truth? we ll ask art brisbane why his column touched a nerve. i m hourt kurtz, and this is reliable sourc
newt gingrich takes south carolina. we proved here in south carolina that people power with the right ideas beats big money, and with your help, we re going to prove it again in florida. the former house speaker says he may not have the money, but he can take on mitt romney. we ll take you live to south carolina for the post-primary analysis. despite false reports swirling on social media, former penn state coach joe paterno is alive, but in serious condition. students lit candles in his support. we will take you live to penn state. and search and rescue teams continue working on the italian cruise ship this morning. they stopped briefly overnight for safety issues. we ve got the latest in the investigation. plus, new audiotape from the ship s captain. hello, and good morning to everybody. we start with the runaway victory for newt gingrich. in the south carolina republican primary. look at the numbers. it was a double digit win for the former house speaker. easily be
concordia. today, divers blew a hole in the capsized cruise ship to make the search easier. soon afterwards, they found five bodies, bringing the total of known deaths to 11. now back on land, the ship s captain still in jail, likely facing a host of criminal charges, up to and including manslaughter. not only did he not go down with his ship, an exasperated coast guard official had to order him, more than one, to go back and help rescue passengers. here s a portion of an extraordinary audio recording that turned up today in italian media. it s translated on your screen for you. quite an exchange, isn t it? we re going to have more on this in crime and consequence coming up a little later in the hour. you may not have noticed they are gone, but lawmakers are heading back to work today after a three-week holiday recess. and the unwelcome mat has been rolled out. occupy congress greeted our elected representatives with a noisy protest and a pink slip for each and every o