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（Student News) -- April 23, 2012THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.***(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)GROUP: We are the (inaudible) senior class of (inaudible), Nebraska, and you`re watching CNN Student News with Carl Azuz. Whoo!(END VIDEO CLIP)(MUSIC PLAYING)CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS: From those seniors in Nebraska to the CNN Center here in Atlanta, Georgia, we`re welcoming all of you watching around the world to a new week of CNN Student News.First up, election day in France, as voters cast their ballots in that country`s presidential election. Just like in the United States and other countries around the world, the economy and jobs -- two of the big political issues leading up to this election.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): According to French television, exit polls showed that current president Nicolas Sarkozy came in second yesterday to Francois Hollande. But neither candidate got at least 51 percent of the vote.In fact, neither got more than 30 percent. And according to French law, if no candidate wins an absolute majority, the top two candidates have a runoff election. That means Sarkozy and Hollande will face off again on May 6th.(END VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ: One year -- according to the owner of the Costa Concordia, that`s how long it will take to remove the cruise ship from the waters near an Italian island. The salvage process will start in May. First, the Concordia will have to get back to a floating state, and then the ship will be towed to port.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)AZUZ (voice-over): You might remember the Costa Concordia ran into rocks and then turned on its side back in January. The pictures were amazing. There were more than 4,000 people on board the ship, 32 of them were killed. The ship`s captain is facing possible criminal charges in connection with the wreck, although he claims that the rock that the ship struck wasn`t on his charts of the area.(END VIDEO CLIP)(BEGIN VIDEO