BLITZER: Lisa Sylvester is monitoring some of the other stories in THE SITUATION ROOM right now including a growing tragedy in Thailand. What's going on?</s>LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Wolf. Well, Italian authorities say the death toll from months of severe flooding has now risen to 207. The county is expected to be hit by more rain in the next few days. Remnants of a typhoon that killed dozens of people in the Philippines over the weekend. Jurors in the Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter trial heard a dramatic message Michael Jackson left on Murray's phone six weeks before the singer's death. In slow and slurred speech, Jackson tells his personal physician why he loves children.</s>MICHAEL JACKSON, ENTERTAINER: I love them because I didn't have a childhood. I had no childhood. I feel their pain. I feel their hurt.</s>SYLVESTER: Murray is charged with giving Jackson a fatal dose of the surgical anesthetic Propofol. The defense saying Jackson ingested Propofol while Murray was out of the room. And Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is traveling to Washington today to attend her husband's retirement ceremony. U.S. Navy Captain and astronaut Mark Kelly retires from the military tomorrow. Shortly after the ceremony, Giffords is scheduled to return to Houston where she's upped going rehabilitation. The Arizona Democrat was shot in the head by a gunman in January. She is making a remarkable recovery. Everybody is sending a lot of prayers her way. Wolf --</s>BLITZER: Certainly are hoping for a full recovery at some point down the road. Thanks very much. We're also following Herman Cain's sudden rise in the Republican presidential polls. I'll ask one of the other candidates, and this one also from Georgia, Newt Gingrich. Why Herman Cain is suddenly resonating. Standby for my interview.
Rep. Gabby Giffords to Attend D.C. Ceremony