CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Today's awesome edition of CNN Student News is dedicated to the students and teachers of M.D. Roberts Middle School in Jonesboro, Georgia. Thanks for stopping by CNN Center yesterday! I'm Carl Azuz, and I'm here to bring you the headlines.

AZUZ: First up, Mexican President Felipe Calderon travels north of the border for a two-day visit to the U.S. He's scheduled to meet with American business leaders, leaders in Congress, and he's meeting with President Obama, the two leaders getting together yesterday at the White House. They talked about immigration policies, organized crime and violence along the U.S./Mexico border. And of course, they discussed trade. Mexico is America's third-largest trading partner. And it's the second-largest market for American products that get sold outside the U.S.

And it wasn't just the presidents who got together on Thursday. First lady Michelle Obama and the first lady of Mexico went to a D.C.-area elementary school as part of the "Read Across America" efforts. And one thing about the school they visited: it's bilingual. The students learn in English and Spanish.

AZUZ: The North African nation of Libya is anything but stable. The Libyan military dropped more bombs on towns that are under control of anti-government rebels. These air attacks have some U.S. officials pushing for a no-fly zone. Now, a no-fly zone is when airplanes -- both military and civilian -- are not allowed to fly over an area without permission. Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court says it's investigating Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for alleged crimes against humanity. The court says if Libyan troops commit crimes, Colonel Gadhafi could be held responsible. That's what's going on now. Michael Holmes takes a look back to give us some background on Libya, its leader Gadhafi, and how this situation got started.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: You had these people for 42 years being angry, upset, disenfranchised. And what they saw happen in those other countries emboldened them to speak out.

What we're seeing happen in Libya is really just sort of a replay of what we saw happen right throughout the Middle East and North Africa. It started with some common denominators: high unemployment, massively young populations who are unemployed, over-educated in some cases, in some of the countries. Unable to have a say in what's going on in their own countries; disenfranchised from the system. And when we've seen them speak out in the past over the 42 years of Gadhafi's rein, we've seen those protests, if you like, or uprisings put down in brutal fashion, with thousands of people being killed over the years.

At the moment, it would appear that Gadhafi's goal is just simply to survive. I mean, he seems to have adopted a "head in sand" attitude that none of this is going on. He denied there'd even been protests in Tripoli; said everybody loves him. He seems to be in survival mode at the moment. He is clearly encircled. Clearly, his future is not bright.

The tribal nature of Libya can't be understated. It is, like a lot of the Middle East, very tribal. And he has been able to control the mood of the tribes, if you like, basically paying them off or threatening them. Gadhafi himself is from a very small tribe. He was born in a tent in the desert. But he's been able to, through patronage and fear, keep it under control. What we've seen lately is even the tribes starting to turn against him and say, "Well, we don't back him anymore." Saw that first in the east. We're now seeing that in parts of the west, as well. The tribes turning against him has been very significant, as, of course, have been the defections from the military, when people, soldiers have basically switched sides. It's taken a lot of the sting out of his ability to strike back. What we have seen, though, he still can strike back. He's had jets bombing places in his own country. He's had soldiers on the street shooting at his own people.

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Is This Legit?

JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit? The U.S. government releases the national unemployment rate once a month. Legit! And that report is coming out today.

Economy

AZUZ: Unemployment's one of the big factors that people use to get an idea of how the U.S. economy is doing. CNN Money put together information on five major economic categories, and we're going to walk you through some of them right now. First, unemployment. What this chart does is measure from 1980 through 2010. You see that the worst unemployment rate during that time was in 1982, when it hit 10.8 percent. Best rate? 3.8 percent in 2000. At the start of this year, it was back up to nine percent.

Next, savings. On average right now, Americans are saving a little more than 5 percent every month. Worst level in the last 30 years? That would be in April 2005, when Americans saved less than 1 percent.

Like we said, these charts look at five different economic categories. You can check out all of them from the link we have up in the In Depth section of our home page, .

Wisconsin Budget Battle

AZUZ: We've reported on the budget battle happening in Wisconsin, and the situation is heating up. You know that 14 Democratic state Senators who left the state on February 17th have not come back. They left to block a vote on Republican Governor Scott Walker's budget proposal. On Wednesday, the senators who are there approved a resolution that would fine those missing Democrats $100 for every day they're absent. Yesterday, the Senators approved another resolution that would hold the absent Democrats in contempt. What that means is that state police could issue a warrant in an effort to bring the missing senators back to Wisconsin.

Shoutout

TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Gayer's students at St. Paul High School in St. Paul, Oregon! This is the flag of what country? You know what to do! Is it: A) Australia, B) New Zealand, C) Venezuela or D) United Kingdom? You've got three seconds -- GO! This is New Zealand's flag, whose four red stars distinguish it from Australia's six white ones. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

AZUZ: Parts of New Zealand are recovering from a devastating earthquake that hit the city of Christchurch a little more than a week ago. There's a lot of work to do there. But one worker found something in the middle of the rubble left behind by the quake. And officials are calling this discovery a sign of hope. TVNZ's Simon Dallow filed this report on what was discovered.

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SIMON DALLOW, TVNZ REPORTER: Hiding under this symbol of a broken city, two capsules holding secrets of Christchurch's past.

ANTHONY WRIGHT, CHRISTCHURCH MUSEUM DIRECTOR: This morning, a crane driver working in the square noticed something on top of the plinth remaining that the statue was on. And what those things were were this time capsule and this glass bottle with a rolled parchment inside it.

DALLOW: Today's unexpected find bringing smiles to faces of those whose worlds were shaken to the core in last week's quake.

WRIGHT: It's one of those symbols of hope. It does go right back to the founding of Canterbury, so from that point of view, it is great in all this turmoil to have these icons of where we've come from.

DALLOW: The statue hiding the city's secrets is of John Robert Godley, Christchurch's founder.

BOB PARKER, CHRISTCHURCH MAYOR: I'm hoping that there's some very interesting thoughts and visions in here, and to honor not just those who founded this place but those who have given their lives as a result of this dreadful earthquake.

DALLOW: The statue was erected in 1867 and badly damaged in the quake. Today, the major announced it'll be urgently repaired. The capsules are now at Canterbury Museum, being carefully stablized before a detailed examination begins on them.

PARKER: We think that in these two things contained the vision of our forebares. We think that when we open these, we will gain an extra understanding of why they came here, why they wanted to be here, what was their hope, what was their vision, what was their goal.

DALLOW: Understanding Christchurch's past as work begins towards rebuilding its future.

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Today's Blog Question

AZUZ: All right, this story got us thinking: how would you represent your generation to someone in the future? It's sort of what we're asking in today's blog. If you were to build a time capsule, what is the one thing you would include in order to tell people about the time we live in? You can share your encapsulating ideas at .

Before We Go

AZUZ: And before we go, you may think dancing's for the birds. And in this case, you're right! This is some serious head banging. Check it out: synchronized head bobbing. The whole thing looks like a talon-tapping good time. We have to say, watching the people you're about to see, yeah, that's almost as funny as watching the bird. Just throw your hands in the air! Uh, lady, I don't have hands. But I do have a righteous mohawk. And the bird knows how to get down!

Goodbye

AZUZ: We don't think he has any set moves, though. He's just kinda winging it. You know what his favorite dance is? The funky chicken. And if he really likes a song, he'll ask you to put it on re-beak. That's enough fowl puns for now. Time for us to fly. One more thing, though: this pillow I occasionally like to toss at the camera? It was named at CNNStudentNews by someone named Latimer. He called it The Closer, and here's why.

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