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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,...

>> we figured let's make it good for the economics. what you came out with at the end was a project that was good for the environment the economics. it was a win/win for everyone and everybody. >> reporter: critics say the only winners would be the farmers whose land would be drained. the environmentalists say the others wouldn't been. >> this is a flyaway for the north -- for the continent. there's just too much at stake to build the world's largest pump system. >> reporter: the water continues to rise at the con cluns near the mississippi at the rivers there. it's close to overtopping. if it...

as many as 850 people. we will have much more on this in 20 minutes from our senior white house correspondent ed henry. now, i want to show you an x ray like none you have never seen before. take a good look at this. these are people crammed into a tractor-trailer in mexico. they shouldn't have been in the trailer nor in mexico, nor in the united states. where this rig and another like it were allegedly headed. they were stopped yesterday in the southern state of chiapas. 530 migrants who authorities paid $7,000 each to make a journey that is not just illegal but dangerous. in the ...

Businesses. i'm in the french quarter right now with emergency vehicles and emergency personnel really dispersed throughout the area not knowing when a tornado, for example, that often comes with hurricanes will strike. we also know that national guard members, for example, have been put on active duty. others have been put on standby. there's a lot of activity going on. people thought the storm would be here by now, but it's moving slowly. it's a monster storm. right now it's about 7 miles per hour that the storm is moving. the bottom line is here, and i'm not a meteorologist, i know you're n...

Flooding potential that will last for days and the severe weather. we have the first tornado watch. that is something to watch out for. >> raphael, thank you. we are moving on. the thousands are bolting up and gearing up to go to higher ground and battening down the hatches. the biggest fears are in the big easy. the nightmare is another katrina-like failure of the levees. the ones you see will have a much better effect to weather this storm. >> i want to assure you all that there is nothing that this storm is going to bring us that we do not believe we are prepared to handle. >> we have tamro...