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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...

Where is the snow forecast? here's where it was last year. some spots in the colorado rockies, over 100 inches of snow by now. all across the upper plains, upper midwest, a foot of snow or more in many spots. even in the northeast they had a white christmas. this year, not even close. the snow -- either the snow or wind has taken all this away. a couple of light snowflakes along the lake where we had some lake-effect snow the past couple of days, but that is it. our snow is gone. there's just nothing around. breckenridge, only 59 runs open right now. they're hoping for more snow. vail, only 29...

similar bombings two weeks ago on al qaeda. the opposition accuses the government of staging the blasts to back up a claim that it's fighting terrorists. iran planning more war games. state-run media report another round of military drills are going to take place next month in the straight of hormuz. the most recent exercises ended just this week. tensions now have been rising over this strategic critical waterway. iran threatened recently to block the strait if new sanctions harm iranian oil exports. the government also threatens to take action if u.s. air craft carrier goes throu...

Than normal. and that's where the name comes from. what it mean on a larger global scale is when you have the colder water in this part of the country, this part of the world, it does affect the wind patterns, and the jet stream. the jet stream is where we get our weather systems almost like a conveyor belt. where they're traveling along. when the jet stream's set up during the la nina pattern, it means wet weather for places like the philippines, brazil, australia. here in the u.s., the jet lifts north and guests a steady stream of tropical moisture from the pacific. that is what's impacting ...

This large that have been torn apart and ripped right out in some cases around three feet wide. they're saying that the trees that are down in this city is devastating for them. but we are talking about at this point, 16 lives in this town alone in tuscaloosa lost. 85 is the latest number i'm hearing from the storms just yesterday. and that puts us at the second deadliest storm since 1974. actually, the deadliest single day tornado outbreak since 1974. 146 tornadoes yesterday, guys, across the country. and this puts our month's total at 808 but the pictures we'll be seeing coming out of today ...