Maria Keena visits with the Executive Director of Arch City Defenders, Blake Strode. The group has settled a lawsuit over conditions at the former St Louis City workhouse. Victims of the conditions will have 120 days to make claims.

Matt Barton is a St Louis Audubon Society Urban Conversation Specialist. He joins Debbie Monterrey with a look at the deaths of birds in downtown St Louis and Clayton through collision with buildings. He says recent research shows St Louis as the 5th most dangerous location nationally in the spring migration period.

Ben Szalinski, Statehouse Reporter, with Capitol News Illinois, joins Megan Lynch. He expects Gov JB Pritzker to include messaging counter to President Donald Trump. Szalinski says there is a deficit that the state will have to address in the coming years. Could tax hikes fill those holes?

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TV Guide's Matt Roush says yes, US viewers and those worldwide are tuning in to watch the Winter Games from northern Italy. He joins Debbie Monterrey to discuss viewing habits for the games and a pair of new Netflix docu-series.

Michael Calhoun visits with CBS legal analyst Thane Rosenbaum as Bayer is working toward a $7.25 billion settlement over future claims that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer. Rosenbaum says Bayer is hedging its bets ahead of a possible Supreme Court ruling that could wipe out previous settlements.

Author Joshua Lisec joins Megan Lynch. He's written more than 100 books and is a persuasive-writing coach. He says 'AI composition is pretty obvious,' to the reader.

iHeard St. Louis, is an initiative from the Health Communication Research Laboratory in the School of Public Health at Washington University. Professor Matthew Kreuter joins Megan Lynch to explain the goals pf the project.

CBS News's Ed O'Keefe looks back on the life of Rev Jesse Jackson. The civil rights leader passed away overnight. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

Webster University Media Instructor Julie Smith explains how India enforces their rules on social media. The government has a 3 hour rule for removing content that violates the rules.