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Students: We are 4-Hers from Boyle County, Kentucky, and we’re here in Washington. D.C., for the presidential inauguration, and Channel One News starts right now!

Keith: Today, January 20, is a big day. It is when President-elect Donald Trump becomes President Donald Trump, with a swearing-in ceremony, parade, poetry, music and, of course, the inaugural ball.

Now, President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in outside the Capitol Building today at noon. How and when the president will take the oath of office was specifically outlined in the Constitution. But do you know where? Well, that brings us to your pop quiz question.

Students: Which amendment sets the date and time for when a new president takes over?

Is it? a. the 14th Amendment b. the 17th Amendment c. the 18th Amendment or d. the 20th Amendment

You have 10 seconds. Time is up! The answer is d. The inauguration date and time was outlined in the 20th Amendment.

Jim Bendat: Inauguration Day is really much more about the country and about democracy than it really is about just one individual.

Keith: In the beginning a new president was sworn in and took over in the spring. But waiting so long between the November election and inauguration caused a lot of problems and confusion. So in 1932 Congress passed the 20th Amendment, which says, "The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January."

Today at noon, Donald Trump will take the oath of office, saying the words outlined in the Constitution like the 44 men before him…

Presidents: I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.

1 | P a g e Keith: …officially becoming the 45th president of the United States.

And we will have a wrap-up of all of the inaugural events for you on Monday. And a special thanks to the 4-H members from Kentucky for helping us out today. Now we are sending it back to you guys in the studio.

Emily: Thanks, Keith. Looks like you are having fun out there.

I am Emily Reppert here in the studio. Now, after he gets sworn in, President Trump will give an inaugural speech and attend several inaugural balls, but yesterday, he got a head start on all the fun.

He spoke at a congressional leadership luncheon attended by many of his administration picks. The president-elect laid a wreath at Arlington Cemetery, where U.S. servicemen and women are laid to rest. And the Trump family ended the day at the inauguration eve dinner.

Now, Donald Trump will not only make history today, becoming the 45th president, but also the first person elected president without ever holding a military or a government position. And that is a big part of why his fans like him — because he is an outsider, not a politician who is part of a system he says is corrupt and needs to change.

But Donald Trump isn't the first president to want to shake things up. Take a look.

Allan Lichtman: Donald Trump is perhaps the most far-outside outsider of anyone ever to be elected president in the history of the country.

Emily: But Donald Trump is not the first renegade to make it to the White House.

Lichtman: The first true outsider to be elected president was, of course, Andrew Jackson.

Emily: Historians say Trump has a lot in common with Jackson, an unpredictable but very famous public figure.

Lichtman: He was elected on a platform of cleaning up the mess in Washington. Does that sound familiar?

President-elect Donald Trump: We are going to drain the swamp of corruption.

Emily: But Jackson forced Native Americans from their land and got rid of the Bank of the United States, which plunged the country into a depression.

2 | P a g e Theodore Roosevelt was also considered an outsider because he didn't always get along with his party. The Republican Party chose him as vice president with William McKinley just to get Roosevelt out of its hair. Then McKinley was assassinated.

Lichtman: Cowboy reformer maverick became president of the United States.

Emily: Roosevelt became known as a "trust buster" for breaking up monopolies — businesses that had too much control over a particular industry. He also promised the average citizens a square deal.

Man: The next president of the United States — Dwight Eisenhower!

Emily: General Dwight Eisenhower ran for president without ever holding a political office. So did General Ulysses Grant and Major General Zachary Taylor. But Donald Trump will be the first president to never hold a military or political office.

And at 70 years of age, Donald Trump will be the oldest person to become president. And rumor has it his inauguration speech will be pretty short. So here is another one for you:

Who gave the shortest inaugural address? Was it George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or FDR? The answer is on ChannelOne.com.

All right, when we get back, Arielle Hixson is also in D.C. as thousands are getting ready to send a message to the new president.

Emily: Now, the party at Trump's place isn't the only event in town. The Women's March on Washington takes place tomorrow in D.C. Arielle Hixson has a preview.

Arielle: That is right. An estimated 200,000 people are set to march here in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It started as a protest but moved quickly into a much bigger movement. And for one woman who is going to be here, it is a repeat of history.

Rosemary Dumont was only 16 years old when she took a train from Chicago to D.C. to take part in the famous March on Washington in 1963. It was organized by Martin Luther King Jr. to try to push forward the fight for equal rights…

Rosemary Dumont: To be perfectly honest, it’s — I had never been around so many people of different colors before. I mean, it was just such a mixture.

3 | P a g e Arielle: …an experience that shaped her entire life. Rosemary is now 70, living in Frederick, Maryland, and she says it is hard to believe the battle for civil rights is not over.

Dumont: It makes me very sad. Very sad time. Sorry.

Arielle: Rosemary plans to attend the Women's March on Washington this Saturday. On the event's official website, organizers say, "The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized and threatened many of us" and "This march is the first step towards unifying our communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots level up."

A grandmother in Hawaii reportedly came up with the idea and created an event page on Facebook in November.

Rosemary says she has seen how strangers can unite to create change.

Dumont: We are here, and you're not gonna be able to ignore us. And I just hope people don't give up.

Arielle: She is hopeful the march will help bring the nation together. Arielle Hixson, Channel One News.

Emily: Thanks, Arielle.

There are also marches scheduled tomorrow in every state and more than 50 countries.

All right, coming up, a young woman who is making her own history.

Emily: Okay, Demetrius is here to send us off with a Feel-Good Friday.

Demetrius: Well, if you are in high school, getting into an Ivy League college is a dream come true, right? Now, imagine if you are the first student in your high school to get into Harvard. That is what happened to this Kentucky teen.

Shan'Taya Cowan says her schoolwork has always been a priority. And when she got to high school, her ambition went into overdrive.

Shan'Taya Cowan: My drive got me here because I have a single parent — raised in a single-parent household, so I always saw my mom struggle, I guess you could say. So I never wanted her to go through that; I never wanted to go through that myself, so that was always a trigger for me to do better, work harder.

4 | P a g e Demetrius: Shan'Taya grew up in West Louisville in Kentucky. She goes to a high school where a majority of the students come from low-income homes. And her high school is on the district's priority list, meaning it needs more academic support than other schools. Still, Shan'Taya says her drive keeps her going.

She was with her mom last month when they found out hard work pays off.

Shan'Taya: I stopped, like, in my tracks. I didn't say nothing. I froze, and she was like, “What? What happened?” She thought something bad happened. I was like, “I just got into Harvard!”

Brandy Corbin: She always works hard; she always has the best questions. She's a really deep thinker.

Demetrius: Shan'Taya says her teachers and counselors made her realize school is the path to opportunity. And she has a message for students who may be struggling to believe that.

Shan'taya: Don't give up. Because a lot of times when I was — just thought, “I'm never gonna get this, you know. Why me? Like, I’ve gone through so much; they don’t want me. I'm broken. I'm not capable enough to actually go there.” And I just want them to know, like, don't give up.

Demetrius: Demetrius Pipkin, Channel One News.

Emily: Way to go, Shan'Taya!

Time to go, but we are back on Monday with more from the inauguration and marches. Have a great weekend.

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