[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [cheers and applause] pete: if your photos, our nation s anthem on the final day of august, august 31st, year of our lord, 2024, and here we are at 6 a. M. We re ready. I think we re ready. Maybe. Rachel or, good to see you. Rachel: i m ready, but i m not ready. By the way, good morning, joey. I m not ready for summer to be over. I notice people had all these photos of their boats and water skiing and feel taking kids tubing. My kids start school next week, and i m just not ready. I love summer so much, joey. Joey: down south we start early, andin know i didn t know that until i started coming up here. August 6th is when we start, i had at least five things we didn t do this her rachel: like what is? joey: i wanted to do a weekend trip to the beach, just stuff like that, fun things i wanted to do with my kids in between my son being a fanatic about his running and going to the the running camp and stuff like that. We didn
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the maldives. president mohammed masheed announced his resignation after a police mutiny. they are calling for a greater role for islamic values in the country. cnn has no confirmation of who is currently in control. europe is still dging itself out from last week s snow and more cold weather on the way. some communities in southeastern europe are struggling to cope with record low temperatures. ukraine along has reported 135 deaths from the extreme weather. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. more travel misery in europe as air france cancels half of all its flights. the airline tells passengers not to bother traveling until the end of the week. it s a big day for greece and a landmark day in europe s history. it s been 20 years since the signing of the maastricht treaty. the question is was it such a