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CNN news 2012-02-08

Back from the weekend, I'm Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News. You've probably ordered fast food -- not like the guy you're going to hear in a bit, though. First up, we're heading to Nevada.

It's a state that Mitt Romney has to be pretty happy with right now. The former Massachusetts governor finished in first place in Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses over the weekend.

Now these caucuses are different from primaries, where each person casts a single vote. During a caucus, groups of people meet and declare which candidates they prefer. As the votes started being counted on Saturday, CNN projected that former Governor Romney would win Nevada. A lot of experts have predicted that, since he won the state's caucuses four years ago as well.

But the result isn't changing the Republican field of candidates. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Representative Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum have all promised to stay in the race. The next round of contests is tomorrow, caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a primary in Missouri.

Looking at an economic headline that some experts are calling a nice surprise, the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent in January. That is the lowest it's been in nearly three years, and the economy added 243,000 jobs in January. That's nearly double what experts were predicting.

But most economists say there's still a long way to go here, and there's no guarantee that the job growth we've seen lately will continue. President Obama had a similar message during a speech on Friday. He says these numbers will probably go up and down.

While the current news is good, the president said there are too many Americans who need a job or need one that pays better than the one they have now.

See if you can ID me. I'm a group with members from different countries. I change presidents every month, I have 15 members and five of them are permanent. I'm part of the United Nations. I'm the U.N. Security Council, and my main responsibility is to maintain global peace and security.

At this time, the Security Council is not taking action when it comes to the nation of Syria and the violence that's been raging in that Middle Eastern country for months.

The Council was considering a resolution that would have demanded that Syria's president stop the fighting in his country. But China and Russia voted against the resolution. Those countries say they want the violence in Syria to end, but they said the language of the resolution would have made the situation more complicated.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the no vote.

What happened yesterday at the United Nations was a travesty. Those countries that refused to support the Arab League plan bear full responsibility for protecting the brutal regime in Damascus.

In Australia, authorities are using military helicopters and a giant cargo plane to help evacuate areas that are being hit by flooding. The area being affected the most is the state of Queensland.

Weeks of heavy rains have caused river levels to rise up, and officials are predicting record-breaking floods there. Thousands of people have been told to get out of the path of the waters. Food and medical supplies are being flown into areas that are more isolated.

In the town you see right here, the water has started to go down after days of major flooding. Authorities have lifted evacuation orders and residents are gradually making their way back. But they have been warned: stay away from the waters.转贴于：24EN.COM