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Students: Hi, we're from Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School from Brooklyn, New York, and Channel One News starts right now.

Azia: And thanks to the students from Uncommon Collegiate Charter High for getting us started today. Now, Maggie, we know the winners and the losers of Super Tuesday.

Maggie: We sure do.

Azia: But despite all the hype and the chatter, we still don't know the nominees for either party.

Maggie: Yeah, and hot off a super Super Tuesday for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, political analysts have been taking a look at what the future holds for both parties' presidential hopefuls. So what do all the results really mean? Well, we are going to break it down with OneVote.

As the candidates start ticking off wins state by state, it is important to remember that, while states matter for momentum, the real numbers all come down to delegate votes, the people that will officially vote for the final candidate at the party conventions in the summer.

So while Donald Trump's sweeping victory on Tuesday night makes him seem like a lock for the nomination with 319 delegates, Ted Cruz is still in the race with

226 delegates after big wins in Texas and Oklahoma, two states with a large number of delegates. And experts say that positions him as the only real alternative to a Trump presidency.

Senator Ted Cruz: The strongest campaign to beat Donald Trump is our campaign.

Maggie: Delegates aside, Trump's widespread victory across seven states from Massachusetts to Georgia showed that his popularity is not bound by geography. No Republican candidate has ever won the same wide range of states as Trump.

Donald Trump: And I think we're gonna be a much bigger party, and I think we're going to win in November.

Maggie: On the Democrat side, the delegates are all falling in Hillary Clinton's favor, winning some of the largest states by blowout margins. Clinton has more than twice as many delegates as Bernie Sanders, with 1,052 to his 427, although many of Clinton's are superdelegates, meaning they can change their mind at the party's convention.

She also saw the overwhelming support of black voters, older Democrats and women. Now most experts say Clinton has a lock on the Democratic nomination, and her victory speech on Tuesday night shows that she is already looking past Sanders and has moved on to attacking Trump.

Clinton: We know we've got work to do. But that work — that work is not to make America great again. America never stopped being great.

Maggie: Sanders still has a strong following and is predicted to remain in the race for at least a few more weeks, even if the delegate math is against him.

Senator Bernie Sanders: Fifteen states will have voted; 35 states remain.

Maggie: The next test comes when the candidates square off again this Saturday. You can find the list of all of those states over at .

Azia: Thanks, Maggie. Okay, after the break: teenagers making their political case.

Azia: Okay guys, now let's check out some of the other top stories of the day. And first up, world leaders are talking tough when it comes to North Korea, showing the growing anger over the country and its nuclear program.

Yesterday the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved the toughest sanctions, or economic punishments, against North Korea in 20 years. Now all cargo coming out of North Korea must be inspected, and anything coming into the country that can be used for military purposes won't be allowed.

According to international agreements, only certain countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons. And North Korea isn't supposed to, but it keeps building and testing them anyway. North Korea is a very poor country led by an unstable dictator and has had little contact with other countries. And much of the world is worried about how the country would use nuclear weapons since it has made many threats in the past.

Our next story is proof that politicians can and do listen to teens. A bill that made headlines out of the state of South Dakota focused on transgender teens. And after much debate and a political process, the governor had the final say.

The bill, HB 1008, would have required transgender teens to use only bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their sex at birth. It passed the South Dakota state House and Senate. Then it went to the governor's desk. And after meeting with both sides, Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed it.

Governor Dennis Daugaard: In the transgender bill, the opportunity to meet with both sides gave me more information about the perspective of each side.

Azia: His decision affects more than a thousand transgender teens in South Dakota. Thomas Lewis is one of those students who also met with the governor.

Thomas Lewis: The governor himself understands that at the end of the day we are all people who just want to use the bathroom.

Azia: Critics of the bill say the legislation would have been discriminatory. But supporters of the bill said it was only meant to protect the privacy of students.

Okay, coming up, we go in search of America's next great tech hub, and you may be surprised where it is.

Azia: Okay, you guys may know about Silicon Valley; it is that crazy-expensive place in California where the tech giants are. It is home to Google, Facebook and Apple, right, Arielle?

Arielle: Yeah, now there is a new area trying to take on the title of America's next tech hub — smack-dab in the middle of America's heartland.

You no longer have to go west to see the biggest innovations in tech. Now there is a new spot in the US crawling with digitally driven companies. It is called Silicon Prairie. Think of it less like the Great Plains and more like the Great Start-up because there, the new “it" thing is high tech.

Stephanie Jarrett: It's time we bang the drum and let people know there's something happening over here in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Arielle: What is happening is an explosion of start-up software companies in the heartland. In 2012 Stephanie and Paul Jarrett launched Bulu Box, a service that mails out boxes each month with different kinds of top-end health products to sample. But first, they had to leave San Francisco. 

Paul Jarrett: We could just be another start-up on the West Coast, in the valley, or we could be part of this movement in the Midwest.

Arielle: Bulu Box now has 100,000 subscribers and reached $5 million in sales last year, which was helped greatly by its community.

Stephanie: It felt like people in Nebraska — investors or just other connections — would bend over backwards to help you.

Arielle: This is Silicon Prairie, and it is remaking cities across the Midwest from Des Moines to Kansas City to Lincoln, where David Graff cofounded Hudl in 2006.

David Graff: Our pitch is “Get in here and make a difference right from the start.”

Arielle: Hudl is a spot for sports teams, both amateur and professional. Coaches post their game film to Hudl's site, and the company's software instantly analyzes it.

Graff: It's a very supportive community for your entrepreneurs.

Arielle: And everything in Silicon Prairie is a lot cheaper than Silicon Valley. The median home in San Francisco sells for $1.1 million. In Lincoln it is about $158,000.

Stephanie: You can grow your team a lot faster, with a lot less capital — same with our office space.

Arielle: Today Lincoln is home to more than 100 software start-ups, and once-abandoned buildings are now full with workers.

Paul: You just hear from people that come visit and check out the town, like, they go, “Lincoln is cool! Like, this is really cool!” And we're like, “It is, right?”

Arielle: But there are challenges. Companies have struggled to get outside talent and investors to come here. Seventy-five percent of investments in 2015 went to three states: California, New York and Massachusetts, but that is changing.

Steve Case: I don't think that reflects the distribution of great entrepreneurs with great ideas.

Arielle: Steve Case, a cofounder of AOL, heads up Revolution, a venture-capital firm. It plans to invest close to $1 billion in tech companies inside the coasts.

Case: Some people call it the flyover country, which is kind of pejorative. We think they're great entrepreneurs building great businesses.

Arielle: Hudl started with three employees; now it has 400.

Graff: It's been an amazing ride. We're incredibly lucky, and we've got a great team around us. And I think that's what the most fun part of it is.

Arielle: Hudl employs people in 14 countries, but its new world headquarters is going up right here where it all began, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Arielle Hixson, Channel One News.

Azia: All right, guys, it is almost time for us to go. But before we say good-bye, here is one more thing to check out.

Zane Plummer, a senior at Watonga High School in Oklahoma, is a busy guy: the football team manager, in the marching band and now a star on the basketball court. Zane has been the basketball team manager since his freshman year.

David Lorenz: He's a child that has autism, but we don't look at him like that.

Azia: In a recent game, he got the chance to suit up and ball out. The other team was already way ahead in the game when both sides agreed to let Zane have a go. He even drained a few three-pointers.

Zane Plummer: It means a lot. 

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