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I always introduce CNN student News. Sometimes, I might even toss a paper airplane your way at the beginning of the show. Today, though, I am going to let some friends of mine do it.

 
A bit of breaking news from yesterday afternoon. Many of you know who Micheal Jackson was. The self-titled 'king of pop' died of a heart attack two years ago at age 50. Yesterday, a jury found that Jackson's personal doctor was quilty of an involuntary manslaughter. Micheal Jackson had trouble sleeping. What he did was to give Jackson propofol; a drug used to keep people to sleep during surgery. That along with other sleeping drugs is what killed Micheal Jackson. He could be sentenced to 4 years in prison for the crime.

 

It's election day in U.S. A lot of local elections are happening for positions like city council, mayor, and judge. The big presidential vote is 363 days from now. While it is pretty certain no democrates will challenge president Obama for his party's nomination, we don't know yet who will represents the Republicans. The Republican debates you've heard about help voters hear what the candidates have to say and the process of deciding the republican nominee will start early next year in a series of decisions called primaries and caucuses. Typically, an incumbent president, a leader who is running for reelection, has some advantages in a campaign against his challengers. Our reporter explains what these advantages are, and why president Obama isn't taking advantage of all of them.

 

Reporter:
Whether it's air force 1, 'Hail to the Cheif' or even the white house itself. This crisp, cool day in the Rose Garden. Part of the reelection playbook is leveraging the power and the prestige of the presidency to overshadow your opponent.  Though, it hasn't always worked. The so-called Rose garden strategy has been deployed by most modern presidents.

"Most of the predecessors of Barack Obama would use the white house as a staging platform and they wanted to remind people that they are the commander in chief, that there's just an inherent power of seeing the Great Seal of the U.S. behind you from the white house.

Burned by Washington gridlock, The president Obama is taking a different approach.
"Washington right now is politically as toxic as you can get and as most people can remember it being. I think the president enjoys going out and talking to the American people." So over the past three months, he's repeatedly hit the road to small towns, looking more like a candidate Obama than commander in chei, often ditching an airforce one for a bus, rolling up his shirt sleeves.

Sometimes skipping 'hail to the cheif' altogther. The image mirrors the message.

'It was time to get out of Washington.' The president wants to distance himself from Washington and the parisan politics that he promised but he failed to fix.
'Some folks in Washington don't seem to be listening.
'What's broken is our politics'
'A problem is that we've got the kind of partisan, brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of a country.'

You will hear him say throghout the campaign that he's tried to fight again gridlock, something that he explained at a recent press conference.
'I used up a lot of political capital and I've got the dings and bruise to prove it.'
Democrates say this message can work.
"He can go out there and say I've been trying to change the system, I've been fighting the established the order and pusing my jobs bill. which is really, I think, the best thing he's got going for him, right now."

But Republicans are already building a case against it.
"Problems is that he is the head of the government in washington and his party controls half of the congress in Washington. It just becomes a very, very difficult sell to the American people to persuade them that the head of the democratic party that controls the senate and the head of entire government, is running against the government that he heads."

 

A prime minister is under pressure, austerity measures, a government's way of cutting spending, huge debt and protests. You might guess what we are talking about is Greece. We are talking about Italy. This is the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. He oversees a country that is so deep in debt it can't get a bailout like Greece.
He is trying to grow Italy's economy and creat jobs. ut, if he can't or if the Italian government thinks he can't, our reporter describes what could happen.

 
Reporter:
The Italian prime minister is under renewed pressure today as his counry's economic crisis sends tremors throgh the finantial markets. At one point, he was forced to deny persistent rumors but he is poised to resign over his handing over the economy. Italy, of course has enormous public debts and markets and appear to have lost faith in his ability to push through much-needed austerity measures. but The problem is that debt is so high more than Greece, Spain, portugal and Ireland put together, bailing out Italy simply isn't an option and there are fears of an Italian default that could bring down the entire Euro zone.
At the weekend here in Rome, tens of thousands of protesters marched through the center of the city to demand him to step aside and call fresh elections or allow a caretaker government to take over. The public appear to have lost patience. There is a crunch budget vote in Italian parliament on Tuesday, at which will be a crucial test of the prime minister's fragile coalition.
If he loses that, we could be looking at a new Italian government very, very soon.

 
Update on the flooding in Thiland. These pictures tell you the story.
What started with an usually heavy rainfall has turned into Thiland's worst flooding in half a century. More than five hundred people lost their lives. Almost 15 percent of the population have flooding their homes. The waters are rising in Bangkok, the capital city. This was supposed to be an airport runway. Thiland's government is concerned that things could get worse before they get better. You can get involved in helping Thiland's people by logging onto CNN student's news.com. Click the 'impact your world' link in the spot light to reach across an ocean.

 

While you are on our homepage, you will see a box dedicated to CNN HEROES. People like Bruno, is an Italian chef who is reaching out across his community to help others.

 
We are cooking up something special for today's 'before we go' segment. The annual pumpkin, chunkin' event begins as a creative way to get rid of Halloween leftovers. Would you believe it a benefits charities? It sure it doesn't benefit the pumpkins. Participants raised 70,000 bucks and more than a few gourds for scholarships. Could those be used to study engineering and to build a bigger better pumpkin chunker. You've 'gourd' to belive it could plant the seed. Maybe I should ground myself after that one.
You knew we wouldn't leave you without a little 'pun-kin'.