Mr. Hardin and Students: Hi, I M Mr. Bob Hardin, Government Teacher Here at Valley High

Mr. Hardin and students: Hi, I’m Mr. Bob Hardin, government teacher here at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, giving a shout-out to Tom Hanson, one of our star alums from a few years back, with these students here, and Channel One News starts right now.

Tom: Aw, thanks, Mr. Hardin! Loved your class! Guys, that was my old government teacher getting the show started. Pretty cool.

All right, now, let's get right to what is making news, and yesterday, it was a big day in Iowa as voters picked who they wanted to represent their party in the upcoming presidential election.

Both sides went into Iowa neck and neck. On the Republican side, while Donald Trump was leading the polls, not enough of his supporters showed up. So Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, won the most votes.

Senator Ted Cruz: Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives across Iowa and all across this great nation.

Tom: In a rare result, there wasn't a clear winner: Democratic caucus voters were evenly split between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Senator Bernie Sanders: We had no political organization, we had no money, we had no name recognition, and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the United States of America.

Hillary Clinton: I am excited about really getting into the debate with Senator Sanders about the best way forward to fight for us and America.

Tom: All right, next up, we head to the country of Myanmar. That is where hundreds of lawmakers were sworn into office yesterday, which is a pretty big deal because it is Myanmar's first freely elected parliament.

Hundreds of lawmakers showed up for their first day on the job yesterday. It marks the start of a new era for Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country formerly known as Burma, which had been under army control for nearly 50 years. Because of its strict military dictatorship, Myanmar had little contact with the rest of the world.

Things started to change in 2011, when a new president came into power, and the country started to move away from military rule toward democracy. There is still a long road ahead to full democracy, as the military still has a lot of power.

And a Boston school known for being forward thinking is now at the center of a controversy after students there started a social media campaign calling out racial incidents on campus.

1 | P a g e YouTube video: We want you to blow up every single social media you got.

Tom: Meggie Noel and Kylie Webster-Cazeau created this YouTube video to draw attention to allegations of racism, which they say have been ignored at their school, Boston Latin. The students say racial tensions in the hallways and online ramped up when Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson did not go to trial in the shooting death of Michael Brown, a black teenager.

Kylie Webster-Cazeau: …feel really uncomfortable that students who they sit next to in class every single day, who they see in the hallway, whose locker is next to them, said these things and thought these things.

Tom: They also claim school officials did not punish those students. Their video went viral and got the support of the Boston mayor.

Mayor Marty Walsh: The experiences that our kids have in our schools shouldn't be racism.

Tom: The district is now investigating. Boston Latin is the oldest public school in the country, considered a top feeder school for Ivy League colleges. Twenty-two years ago, roughly 23 percent of the student body was black. Today African-American students make up less than 9 percent. The school's headmaster has laid out a six-point plan to address the issue, and students from all over Boston are joining the discussion.

All right, coming up, we are breaking down who says what in your favorite Disney movies.

Tom: Pocahontas, the Little Mermaid and Cinderella — they all dominate the big screen, but, you know what, Arielle? It is their male sidekicks that always get the last word.

Arielle: Yeah. New research shows that female characters often talk less than male characters. Analysts noticed the trend after watching a dozen Disney Princess movies. Check it out.

Ursula: Keep singing!

Arielle: Of course, my favorite character, Ariel, loses her voice to an evil sea witch in "The Little Mermaid." But according to new research, she isn't the only Disney princess left speechless.

Carmen Fought: Certainly, the thing I was most surprised by was the complete predominance of male roles.

2 | P a g e Arielle: After analyzing every spoken word in the Disney Princess movies, linguistics professor Carmen Fought and her team found that there were more male characters than female in 11 out of the 12 films.

Fought: Even if the princess is the most empowered, feminist role model you can possibly imagine for a girl, she can't be the shopkeeper; she can't be the person in charge of lighting the candles in the castle.

Arielle: And it is the guys who do much more of the talking.

Gaston: It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas! Thinking!

Arielle: In “Beauty and the Beast,” male characters spoke 71 percent of the time. In the magical world of "Aladdin," men spoke 90 percent of the lines.

Aladdin: Look at me from the side — do I look different to you?

Arielle: But that wasn't always the case.

Snow White: I didn't mean to frighten you.

Arielle: Female characters spoke as much, if not more, than males in Disney's first three princess films.

Cinderella: It's midnight!

Fought: When they went over from “Sleeping Beauty” to “The Little Mermaid,” they added a lot more characters, and almost all the characters they added were male.

Arielle: Women also hold their own in some of Disney's more recent films.

Merida: Mum, you're back!

Arielle: In the 2012 hit "Brave," female characters spoke 74 percent of the time, more than any other Disney Princess film.

Elsa: Let it go! Let it go!

Arielle: But a year later in “Frozen,” it was just 41 percent, even though it is a story about two sisters that was written and co-directed by a woman.

Kristoff: Now back up while I deal with this crook here.

Arielle: So how much of a problem is that?

Darlena Cunha: You need to take that artwork as a whole.

3 | P a g e Arielle: Time contributor Darlena Cunha says it is not only about word count.

Cunha: We're seeing more women in charge, more women taking chances, more women being active in the roles that they fulfill and in their ambition to get those roles.

Arielle: But Fought is also looking at what is being said, whether it is commands, apologies or compliments.

Shang: You fight good.

Fought: People all over the world — they're watching these movies. They're incredibly popular. What message are they getting?

Elinor/Merida: Just listen! Listen!

Arielle: Researchers found in the last batch of Disney films, for the first time, female characters were valued more for their skills instead of how they look.

Tom: Wow, so interesting. Thanks, Arielle.

All right, coming up after the break, we head back to Iowa, where politics took the main stage last night.

Tom: Well, it is officially election season for the 2016 race to the White House, and last night marked the first battleground in my home state of Iowa. So what do young people in Iowa want in their presidential candidate? Maggie Rulli talked to teens to get their take on what is important.

Jake Griffith: I'm supporting Donald Trump this year.

Mandi: Hillary Clinton.

Tyler Bryant: Rand Paul.

Girl: I support Ted Cruz.

Jacqueline Castro: Bernie Sanders.

Panel 3: Marco Rubio.

Jacob: Economically, I stand with Republicans, but with social issues, I’m more of a Democrat.

Maggie: In the halls of Valley High in West Des Moines, students know their politics.

So why do you support Trump?

4 | P a g e Sidney: I think that we just need a really aggressive leader, and that he’s gonna be a really dominant one.

Maggie: And why are you liking Bernie?

Cameron: He wants to raise minimum wage and provide a free or a lower-tuition college education, and he’s providing a strong stance on climate change.

Maggie: We sat down with seniors on every side of the political spectrum to find out what matters most to young people.

Cameron: Economic policies: things like college tuition, which has risen so much over the past couple of years.

Mandi: Job market security, so that even if I have loans when I get out of school, there is gonna be a job in that field for me where I can start earning money.

Sidney: I think homeland security, honestly, is the biggest, like fighting ISIS.

Elliot: College is a big issue. We're all seniors, and we're all very concerned, I suppose, about what’s going to happen in our future.

Girl: Minimum wage — I work a couple of minimum-wage jobs, and I have to pay for college by myself.

Maggie: In a recent Gallup poll, 86 percent of voters said the economy was their top concern. That was followed by the way the government operates in Washington and health care, but that was for older voters.

How do older generation voters differ from younger generation voters?

Elliot: Older people would rather, you know, continue on the path and hope for a gradual change. I think younger people want solutions and want them quickly. In my group of friends, like, people really want change. They wanna switch things up and kind of do things that are sort of dramatic or revolutionary.

Maggie: And you can definitely tell which candidates are going after the younger vote.

Group 1: I literally can't go, like, an hour without hearing, like, three Bernie Sanders ads. Scroll through Twitter: Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Maggie: Because candidates know that if they get Iowa, the odds for the 2016 presidency will be ever in their favor.

Cameron: I think Iowa definitely has a sway on the political atmosphere in the U.S.

5 | P a g e Elliot: The momentum that winning Iowa creates can cause a candidate to be more likely to win.

Maggie: Maggie Rulli, Channel One News.

Tom: So where do you guys stand on the important issues? Well, take our quiz to find out who is your best matched presidential candidate. It is part of our One Vote coverage over at ChannelOne.com.

All right, guys, we are all out of time. We will see you tomorrow.

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