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
peace-making work around the world. if i had one constant prayer the last 35 years of my life, it would be to bring peace to israel. his place in history. reporter: what s the one piece of advice you would give any president when they walk in the oval office for the first time? tell the truth. plus, larry cuomo. what he thinks about the state of our union. we have extraordinary mobs at the same time. this is piers morgan tonight. jimmy carter was president from 1977 to 1981, but his work since then has won him praise worldwide and a nobel peace prize. his latest book is through the year with jimmy carter and tonight i m privileged to sit down with president carter. president, thank you for welcoming me to this extraordinary center. good to have you at the carter center. i love the dates here. you became president in 77. cnn is launched in 1980. the carter center s launched in 1982. right. so we re all kind of interwoven here. the carter center is
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