Keith: Hey Everyone, It Is Tuesday,March 1. I Am Keith Kocinski, and Channel One News Starts

Keith: Hey everyone, it is Tuesday,March 1. I am Keith Kocinski, and Channel One News starts right now.

Today is Super Tuesday. It is a big day in the race to the White House, but how does it actually work? Azia is here with a breakdown of why today is the day of the delegate.

Azia: Yeah, Keith. Republican and Democratic voters will participate in primaries or caucuses to decide which candidate will represent their party in the presidential election.

First, you have a delegate, who is someone chosen to represent his or her state at the Democratic or Republican convention in the summer. Each state has a certain number of delegates based on things like population and loyalty to the party. The delegates are sent to vote for the winner at the parties' conventions in the summer.

In most statesthe delegates are awarded to candidates based on who wins the most votes during primaries or caucuses.For example, Iowa has 30 Republican delegates.Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucus with 27.6 percent of the vote, so he got
27 percent of the delegates — a total of eight.The rest were spread between the other candidates and their percentage of the vote.

But somestates are winner take all, like in Florida. The winner therewillbe awarded with all the delegates.

Today, Super Tuesday, there are 595 delegates up for stake for Republicans and 1,004 for Democrats. So how many delegates do you have to win to know you have got the majority? Well, for Republicans, it is 1,237. For Democrats, the magic number is 2,383.

But here is a twist: Democrats have something called a superdelegate. These are not chosen by the people but instead are leaders or elected officials in the Democratic Party. And they don't have to support the candidate that wins their state. They can pick whomever they want.

Now, this summer all those delegates will attend the Republican and Democratic conventions — a big, giant party where they will finally vote. Then there will be two candidates left standing, one from each party, and they will face off against each other in the November election.

Keith: Cool,Azia. And if you want to keep up with who has the most delegates, check out our interactive Delegate Tracker over atChannelOne.com.

All right, coming up, a Navy SEAL gets our nation’s highest gratitude.

Keith: Okay guys, now let's check out some of the other top stories of the day. Over in the country of Syria, a cease-fire seems to be working so far. Both sides have agreed to stop fighting for a while to allow in much-needed aid and to give peace talks a chance.

It is a shock to many, but the partial cease-fire is still holding in many areas. Both sides have complained that there have been some incidents of bombings, which is against the rules, but overall, there is calm.

For civilians in areas that are quiet, this truce offers reliefand a glimmer of hope that it might grow into a lasting arrangement, especially in neighborhoods like the old city of Homs, where you can clearly see the damage from five years of civil war.

Life is starting to return to normal; people are reopening their businesses, fixing homes, and even schools are open. The U.N. says it is going to deliver aid to 150,000 people all over Syria and also announced a new round of peace talks set for next week.

Let's stay for a minute in the Middle East and move east of Syria to the country of Iran. That is where millions streamed to the polls for an election that could change the future of how the U.S. deals with the Islamic country.

It was the first election since the U.S. and other world powers signed a nuclear deal with Iran last summer. Up for stakes were 290seats in parliament and 88seats in the Assembly of Experts, a group of clerics that chooses the country's supreme leader.

The current supreme leader,Ali Khamenei, has been in power since 1989 and represents conservative hardliners. But election results show major support went to reformists and supporters of moderate President Hassan Rouhani, who signed the deal with the U.S. last year. Reformists also won a majority of the seats for the Assembly of Experts, and that means the country's next supreme leader might be more of a moderate leader.

The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest military honor. On MondayPresident Obama awarded it to a Navy SEAL who risked his life to rescue an American hostage in Afghanistan.

Edward Byers,Jr., usually tries to stay hidden as a member of the Navy's elite SEALTeam 6. But on Monday the 36-year-old was at the center of the president's attention.

President Obama: He's the consummate quiet professional.

Keith: President Obama awarded Byers, a senior special ops chief, the Medal of Honor. In 2012 he was part of a raid that rescued an American hostage in Afghanistan. Dr. Dilip Joseph was abducted by the Taliban.

President Obama: With his bare hands, Ed pinned the fighter to the wall and held him until his teammates took action.

Keith: Byers is the first living, active-duty member of the Navy to receive the award in four decades.

Okay, after the breakwe meet an up-and-coming crime-fighting character with the power of a different perspective.

Keith: Trig, calculus, geometry — someone please save me from all this homework.

Arielle: Keith,I am here to save you! Well, actually,I can't. I am not a real superhero —

Keith: I never thought you were.

Arielle: Solid. And I am not very good at math,but I do know of one supergirl who is not only breaking down the doors of bad guys but also breaking down barriers for Muslim-Americans.

The universe of superhero comics is filled with outcasts — people who don't fit in but protect the world anyway. But there has never been a comic superhero quite like this. Kamala Khan is just an average teen from Jersey City, New Jersey, who happens to have shape-shifting abilities.She also happens to be Muslim.

Sana Amanat is the series editor.

Sana Amanat: We didn't want to tell a story about a Muslim or a South Asian.We wanted to tell a story about a young individual coming into their own.

Arielle: To tell that story, Sana used her own childhood as a Muslim growing up in New Jersey.

Sana: I had this one instance where, right after the first World Trade Center bombing, this kid came up to me and was like,“Hey, can you tell your people to stop attacking us?” That was a big turning point in my life because it was the first moment where I realized I was the other.

Arielle: She related to comic books like “X-Men,” which features a band of mutants who do good in the face of prejudice.

In the first issue of “Ms. Marvel,” a nod to an earlier series by the same name, Kamala Khan shape-shifts into a blonde, blue-eyed hero before her father convinces her that she is perfect just as she really is. It is a story that readers everywhere could relate to. That issue went through a groundbreaking seven printingsand was a New York Times bestseller with over 20,000 copies.

It also showed what Kamala's life is like using humor.

Sana: First page of the comic is her smelling a BLT in the local convenience store, and bacon is forbidden inIslam. It's just a moment where you are just trying to be something that you're not.

Jonathan Gray: Diversity has always been really important in comics.

Arielle: Professor Jonathan Gray writes about comics and pop culture.

Gray: That Marvel is representing this character at, you know, at a time where we have some, you know, divisive political rhetoric — I think that it shows that we can sort of embrace our diversity and not sort of be turned off by it.

Arielle: “Ms. Marvel” has been a phenomenon, and one sign that shows how important she is to Marvel: On the most recent issue of one of its biggest franchise series, “The Avengers,” Kamala Khan is front and center.

Sana says they never intended to get political with this comic, even in light of the recent anti-Muslim backlash.

Sana: We went in to try to tell a unique story:who Muslims are and who Muslims can be, but really about who a good person is.

Arielle: In these storiesMarvel presents diversity as both a struggle and a sign of strength. And now, with Marvel's new character, its motto could very well be“With great power comes great responsibility.”

All right, back to fighting crime — or working on my next story.

Keith: Okay, I guess we will see you later, Arielle.

Well, have a Super Tuesday, but before we go, here is one more thing.And these girls may not be superheroes, but they are definitely super swimmers.

It is safe to say the Carmel High School girls' swim team in Carmel, Indiana, is making a splash in the high-school sports world. This month the swim team won its 30th straight state title, an achievement no other high-school sports team has ever accomplished, setting a national record.

Burchill: We always wanna be improving, so I think that’s the main reason. And we're so supportive of each other, and it’s honestly just such a great place and a great team to be a part of.

Keith: A big congrats to the whole team!

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