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Leading things off with historic eletions in Egypt, a country that was ruled by the same persone for 30 years. A political revolt forced Hosni Mubarak out of power back in Febraury. Now the country is electing a new pariament and a new government that will write a new constitution. As voters cast their ballots across the nation yesterday, one official quote, the elections will not be successful until everyone who has a right to vote participates. 
The polls are closed now, but our reporter was there yesterday to capture the mood around this election.

Reporter:
They lined up early on a bright and crisp Cairo morning; calm, solem yet hopeful that Egypt's first post-Mubarak eletion marked a historic turning point.

'I'm 63 years old. This is my first election.'
'It's the first time? Your first time to vote? '
'Yes'
'And How do you feel?'
'I feel okay, My vote will change Egypt.'

For decades, Egyption elections were something of a joke, rife with fraud, often violent, and always chaotic. Not this time. A year ago, when we were covering Egyption parliamentary elections. We actually had to waited for quite some time to take pictures of anybody casting their ballots. There was that little of interest.
This time around, it's the voters who have to wait. Significantly, it was the army, not the hated police who oversaw the vote. They were firm but polite.
In Cairo's  working class Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood, members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party helped people to confirm that they were at the right voting station. They said it was a public service.
But their presence underscores their strong organizational or abilities, and suggest their months of preparation before the vote may well pay off. Interior designer came out to cast a ballot against them.

'They are just slaves. They don't do what they say. They use religions to convince people to vote for them.'

The voting options are mind-boggling. Dozens of new parties have burst onto the political scene. Finally, given a say in thier destiny, voters seem aware of their hard-won power.

'We are all faithful to our country. The proof is that we are all standing in one line, talking politely to one another, because we all agreed that this is the best way to deal with our problems.'

A trully revolutionary idea now becoming reality; one vote at a time.


Heading south to another African nation holding elections, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some people wanted the elctions delayed because of trouble with planing and organizing them. There was a lot of violence that took place on the Election Day. But the polls did open up yesterday and voters have a lot of choices to make; Eleven contenders running for president, more than 18,000 candidates for 500 seats in parliament.
This election is important for a lot of reasons. It's the second one since the end of a war that left millions of people dead, and the country is still rebuidling. Plus, since Congo is such a big nation, what happens there affects surrounding countries as well.


Afghanistan is getting ready for some transitions. More control of the country is going to be hand over from NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to Afghan troops. On Sunday, Afghan president named the regions that will be a part of this transition. Once it's finished, about half of the country's population will be under Afghan control. But there are concerns about how fast this handover is happening. Some observers are worried the transition will give the Taleban, Afghan's former rulers, a chance to regain ground in Afghanistan.


For some of the Peruvians who live near the Andes, life depends on the snow that's usually on the top of the mountains. There's just one problem thesedays, no snow. Our reporter looks at a unique idea to try to solve tho problem. It basically boils down to fake it till you'll meke it.  

Reporter:
High in the Peruvian Andes, where so dry and cold that very little vegetation grows, life depends on one animal; the alpaca.
But in recent years, racing alpacas has become a greater challenge. Mountains that used to be covered with ice around the town of Licapa are now barren. Shepherd like Salomon Parco say, no water means no water and no water means no grass to feed the animals. Eduardo Gold is the founder of Peru Glaciers. The organization's goal is to bring the ice back to the mountains. Its idea is very simple. If dark mountains absorb more heat from the sun, white mountains will have the opposite effect. 
The solution is to make them white. An infrared thermometer shows quite a difference in temperature between the white and the dark rocks. A crew of five go the mountains, splashing a mixture that turns the rocks into white. The mixture is not paint but a combation of water, sand and lime.  And It seems to be working.
Gold finds ice in a crevice between the rocks something the locals say wasn't there before. So far, the crew has covered an area of roughly 15,000 square meter, almost the size of three football fields, still too small to determine if the idea will work in the long term. His goal is to cover 3 billion square meters which would be much more than 500,0000 football feilds. For that, he would need about 1.5 billion dollars to spread over 5 years.


There's still some time left to vote for the CNN Hero of the year. You can do that from the Heroes box at CNN Studentnews.com. It's also where you can learn about this year's top 10 CNN Heroes including the person we are featuring in today's show.

Robin Lim.
The moment that a woman falls pregnant in Indonesia, she is 300 times more likely to die in the next 12 months than if she was not preganant. If you have money, you can get excellent medical services but the poorest people don't always get the services they need.

My name is Robin Lim. I'm a midwife. Most people call me Ibu Robin, because Ibu means mother. I've learn about the dangers of motherhood when my own sister, she died as a complication of her third pregnancy. I was just really crushed. 
I came to Bali to reinvent my life. I started the clinic run by Indonesian midwives. We offer prenatal care, birth services. Now matter how poor they are, now matter their race or religion. We teach new graduating classes of midwives how to do a more natural, gentle birth. Women can stay as much as they want.

'Robin helps poor. She cares about me very much, like my own mother. I'm extremely grateful'

Each baby, each adult deserves a clean, healthy, loving environment. Those are human right.


Let's see. Chips? Not feeling it. Chocolate bar? Better not. You know one thing that no vending machine has? Pizza or at least no vending machine but this one.
Someone has invented Pizza from a vending machine. The Creator said it took ten years to develop the technology. And now the "Let's pizza" machine can take ingredients that you want and cook your pie that you order in less than 3 minutes. You can watch all of this happen. You might question just how fresh the pizza is. But you can't blame the company for wanting a piece of the vending machine pie.
And This could be a huge success if they are using upper -class ingredients. Either way, you knew some cheesy puns were coming out of Today's before we go segment. We are going to slice our way though 10 more minutes of commercial free news tomorrow.