would you please welcome the salute to hero honorees that we honor this morning in the states rotunda seated behind me. [applause] i would like to take a moment to now thank governor parson for his service to our state, his humble, steady leadership that benefited all missourians. we was she on the first lady well in this next chapter. [applause] i stand before you today, mindful of the honorable history of this occasion, humbled by the trust missourians have placed in me and determined to meet the challenges ahead. i will always remember and honor the solemn oath i just took. growing up, no one would've looked at me and said, one day that kid is going to be sworn in by senator roy blunt as the 50th governor of the state of missouri. and i will never forget where i came from, the sixth child of lorraine, a single-chip mom who often struggled to raise her family in north st. louis city. my mom wasn't what some would call highly educated, but she worked hard. she was a very, very wise caring and loving person. she was god-fearing. today, i probably -- i proudly wear her rosary with me a

act sparked outrage as lawmakers as lawmakers debated, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the rotunda state capitol to protest the law which eliminates civil rights protections based on gender identity. >> i feel it is mean and hateful. >> reporter: representative aime wichtendahl, the state legislature's first openly transgender member argued this is just the start. >> vote this bill down today, because this is not the end. those think tanks will ask you again and again and again to remove rights and freedoms from your fellow iowans until none remain. >> reporter: republican lawmakers fast-tracked the bill and governor kim reynolds signed it into law this afternoon. >> it is common sense to acknowledge the obvious biological differences between men and women. >> reporter: it defines sex based on a person's anatomy at birth and removes gender identity from the civil rights law which protected specific groups from discrimination. gender identity was added alongside sexual orientation back in 2007. >> before i signed this bill, the civil rights code blurred the biological line between t

as lawmakers debated hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the rotunda of the iowa state capitol to protestiminates civil rights protections based on gender identity. >> i feel it's mean. i feel it's hateful. >> reporter: representative amy wishendal, the state's first openly transgendered member argues this is just the start. >> vote this bill down today, because this is not the end. those think tanks will ask you again and again and again to remove rights and freedoms from your fellow iowans until none remain. >> reporter: republicans lawmakers fast tracked the bill and governor kim reynolds signed it into law. >> it's common sense to acknowledge the obvious biological differences between men and women. >> reporter: it defines sex based on a person's anat my at birth and removes rights from the state's civil rights law which protected groups from discrimination. gender identity was added along sexual orientation in 2007. >> before i signed this bill, the civil rights code blurred the biological line between the sexes. what this bill does accomplish is to strengthen protections for women a

we're having mayor lurie's lunar new year celebration right here at city hall rotunda at 5:30 p.m..so come along for some great entertainment and the mayor will be there also. drum beat heartbeat community as one celebration of lunar new year and black history month combined. so on tuesday february 11th one week from today 5 p.m. up the san francisco main library.com check us out. >> well since we're promoting events you know we have sundays potentially at the ramp next week and a few other things downtown that's it. >> so i would say i think it's really neat that there y'all are integrating like the existing kind of like the new sort of skylight down there. >> i think that's really neat is the highest form of maria praise commissioner commissioner davis praised we will have another hearing before s.f. music week but we should just put that on the calendar. it's the first ever s.f. music week i believe it starts on the 24th or 25th of this month. >> two week of program music across the city noise pop is putting it on but it's done through all iwd should be really cool we won't be be