smashburger isn't the only bright spot on colorado's food scene. each year the state office of economic development honors 50 companies showing high and sustainable growth. most are the small businesses helping keep the colorado unemployment rate below the national average. one of the 50 companies chosen in last year is chocolove, a boulder chocolate factory that produces up to 60,000 bars a day, using a premium belgian chocolate as the base for 20 different confections. whole foods was the first national retailer to bring them to consumers. packaged with a love letter theme, chocolove is priced to be an affordable luxury and this year, that luxury will add up to $14.5 million in sales. timothy moley developed the business over several years, then in 2008 took a big step to expand, with an s.b.a. loan. >> i proceeded to go into debt $2 million to make an investment in the future the future of the people who work here, the future of the local economy the people who came to rebuild this building and the future of various businesses that we buy from i

he joins us live from colorado. thank you for making time to join us tonight. >> thank you. >> last week moments after the court ruling, i know our office spoke with you and we learned that you had sent those ballots out to troops overseas. was that a hard decision for you to make? did you know you would do that when that verdict came down that night? >> i knew exactly i would do that. it was my intention since the beginning of this whole process to send those ballots out to military overseas voters. and so it was an exciting moment for me and my staff and i made that call as soon as i was able to. >> we have been looking at this issue of voting rights in terms of its effect on electoral politics, literally on elections. in your role as county clerk, how do you see this? do you feel like this is unfolding in a partisan manner? is this a technocratic issue to you? how do you see these changes the secretary of state has been trying to put in place in colorado this year? >> you know, in pueblo county, i really concentr

he's not giving up on trying to make it harder to vote in colorado. last week he wrote to the clerk in pueblo county which happens to be a heavily democratic county. he wrote to the clerk and ordered him not to send out ballots to troops overseas who missed the big 2010 election and have not voted since. he wants them to be considered enactive. quote, as my office has previously explained, you do not have the authority to mail ballots to such voters. the clerk of pueblo county believes the law requires him to send ballots to overseas troops in order to help them vote. he told "the colorado independent," the troops have larger things on their minds. when they have the ballot in their hand, they'll vote. the county clerk says he will comply with this order from the secretary of state. overseas troops who haven't voted lately, busy fighting on our nation's behalf and didn't have a chance to respond to the postcard reminders. thanks to your state's republican secretary of state, there will be no ballots sent to you to vote in this next election. the secre

i see the colorado plateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse around this. they have this flawless symmetry blending all the way around. it looks like that place. it looks like that landscape. i look into this and i see the sharp edges of the land. i see the way the earth is shaped out there. i see the routes in their vessels. i mean, to understand these, this one came out of a 13th century site in southwest colorado and i would sit with these bowls for hours and hours, drawing them into my sketch book because that was the only way i could really understand the complexity of how they got their symmetries to match up because i could never get them to match up in my drawings. i could never do a 100 percent accurate rendition of these becau

. >> hello, colorado! >> reporter: president obama hit the fund-raising circuit in denver, trying to drum up support for his campaign. >> if you thought the last election was important, then wait until you get a load of this election. >> reporter: it was one of six fund-raisers scheduled during his three-day western swing. the president wraps up the trip today at the university of colorado where he'll announce another executive order, this one aimed at helping millions of college graduates pay back their student loans. in california tuesday, he stopped at "the tonight show" with jay leno and admitted he is not paying much attention to the gop field. >> i'm going to wait until everybody is voted off the island. >> really? >> reporter: with the iowa caucuses just ten weeks away, gop candidates are doing everything they can to stay in the race and energize their campaigns. >> as president, i'll create at least 2.5 million new jobs. >> reporter: rick perry is launching this 30-second spot in iowa today. his ca

next stop, with colorado, as he pushes his own economic initiative. yesterday was. later this week, he announces his measures on college plans. >> these are part of executive actions that the president is taking. they require no congressional approval and they effectively allow the president to blame republicans and congress for taking no action. president obama made a surprise stop at a los angeles restaurant to greet voters and grab a bite. >> i'm going to have the chicken. >> reporter: he's in the middle of a three-day western swing aim at raising campaign cash and pushing his economic policy. >> we can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional congress to do its job. where they won't act, i will. >> reporter: at his first stop in las vegas monday, the president announced a new order to announce homeowners. about a million people with government loans could refinance if their home is under water if they've paid their mortgage for six months. economists announce more will need to be done to fix the housing market, but every little bit helps. >> it might be unsatisf

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colorado looking to get on the board first. oliver lines up a field goal testimony. bergan up the gut. blocked. returned. a special teams touchdown. 7-0. third quarter, luck, had the colorado defense guessing, fake handoff and hewitt is wide open. the second touchdown of the game. 34-7 stanford. fourth quarter, luck with a quick drop. watch griff do the rest. scores. luck 370 yards passing and three touchdowns. stanford wins big 48-7. >> obviously love to score a touchdown on every drive. no turnovers. i think we had a couple punts, which will kill you. so we're going to have to improve if we want to win consistently. >> mike: san jose state playing in provo without rutley and maced million dearly. into spartan territory and the cougars waste no time. wright to jacobsen, 40 yards. the cougars end the spartans two-game win streak. >> the san jose sharks hoping the third time will be a charm. they made it to the western conference finals for two years, and hopefully thil -- this will be their year. no stanley cup. sharks on the p

his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people

today in colorado, at the university of colorado, president obama is expected to announce new rules that he calls pay as you earn. the government's already made concessions to lower student loan payments. this will allow students to consolidate old loans and newer loans into one payment, lowering the interest rate by half a percent and prevent a lot of people from going into default. college is still a good deal. the unemployment rate for college graduates still half that of the national average. what is this doing to the approval rating? about even. looks like in the latest poll he got a bump after announcing that all of our troops would be home from iraq by the end of the year. >> thanks so much. >>> and that same "new york times"/cbs news poll tracie was referencing, found americans are united on one front. dissatisfaction with congress. 9% approve of the job congress is doing. a whopping 84% disapprove. that's a 22% jump since republicans took control of the house back if january. when asked which gop presidential candidate they prefer, 25% chose businessman herman cain. one-time fro

but not long ago i was up at a place called chimney rock in southwest colorado. and it's over 8,000 feet. and you are up at the southern end ftd rocky mountains and there is this scarp of rock that rises up probably about a thousand feet out of a valley floor and right at the tip of this scarp there are two twin towers of rock. if you get to a certain place on top of this very narrow butte, you can see between these twin towers and there happens to be a great house built between these two towers and every 18.6 years when the moon goes into its northernmost point on the horizon, it rises between those two towers. i was there at the beginning of the last 18.6 year cycle and we stood up there, probably 20 of us, researchers, forest service people, all gathered at the same spot with cameras and huddled -- it was late december at 8,000 feet and we were all watching this gap. and somebody had done very intricate work to figure out exactly where you need to stand to see the light at exactly the right time. and as we were all gathered up there, i remember this older arch

unfortunately, 140,000 people in colorado at one point were without power. the highest totals were up by golden, colorado, where we had up to a foot. it will meltly. but not this morning. it's 16 this morning in denver. very cold temperatures here where it snowed yesterday. some of that cold air will spill to the south today. we have a lot of rain on the map. umbrella day in much of new england, the mid-atlantic, down through the southern ohio valley, kentucky's going to get wet weather this morning and a lot of wet weather back here in oklahoma and in north texas. you can see all the yellow on this map. even some lightning indicated here on our radar through oklahoma right now. i mean, this is good. this is an area under a horrible drought but the cold air is spilling in behind it, too. notice snow out of amarillo toward albuquerque. the other rainy spot, kentucky through the new england. a lot of light rain out there this morning. bring the umbrellas from d.c. to philly to new york all the way through new england. the dry spots today are going to be the so

it is a clear shape from the colorado plateau. we do see it in calinke, you see it in certain incan sites in south america. so it might be a pan american feature. i'm not sure what it is. some hopi people have told me that the t, the bottom of the t, goes down into a mythical underground lake so this is an upside down mountain that leads down into a place called the house of rain. that is where twyla, probably oldest american deity, the rain deity, lives down in the house of rain and this is a t shape from up on the colorado plateau and that is the last picture on these slides, so -- the t shape, the pottery, i followed genetic information that you find in bones and teeth. i followed as many different pieces of information as i could and they sent me walking. i started in chaco canyon and walked north up to mesa verde, around to comb ridge in utah, down into the hopi mesa, across the mugion rim, to mexico and then into the sierra madre, following people, following routes. because everything in the desert leaves a route that leads

the paperwork to pull the warrant is submitted to colorado. that very same day, anwar al-awlaki safely out of the country for months boards a plane in saudi arabia bound for the united states. >> he comes back into the united states in october of 2002 at j.f.k. airport in new york. he was taken into custody by customs. >> reporter: these documents obtained show the log when he re-enters in the early morning hours of october 10th, 2002. >> not only is he on the terrorist watch list. >> he was picked up in a secondary location. agents attempted that the warrant was still good but they had trouble reaching the f.b.i. agent. >> i received a notification from customs and inspector there has. >> reporter: when the f.b.i. agent cannot be reached, border agents called cane. >> they called them to notify them that he was here and asked him for instructions to communicate to the inspectors. i was notified the warrants had been rescinded. >> but they knew they had been rescinded this morning. in this case the agent was in virginia and this attorney was i

he announced it today at the university of colorado denver. his plan will let borrowers consolidate their debt into a single government loan at a lower rate. but student debt in this country is approaching $1 trillion, and today the college board reported tuition and fees at public colleges rose by more than $600 this year. we asked dean reynolds to look into that. >> reporter: it would be nice if katrina manalac, a senior at the university of illinois at chicago, could just concentrate on her studies. >> what is this? >> reporter: but there's something else on her mind. after she gets her diploma, she will have $50,000 in unpaid student loans. tell me what that's like? >> it's a really overwhelming feeling. i-- as much as i tonight want to think about it i have to think about it. >> reporter: she needed the loans to cover the ever- escalating cost of going to school, costs that have risen 8.32% at public universities in just the last year to an average of $17,000, even for in-state students. terry hartle of the american council of education.

he's also visited areas in nevada and of course here in colorado. both of those are key swing states and could be crucial to his re-election prospects in 2012. and we are waiting for the president. expected to arrive here in about half an hour, richard. >> and you will be there. kristen welker live with the president in denver, colorado. thank you so much. stand by. we'll be with you in a little bit. >>> and a reminder president obama will be speaking live. we'll go straight to that right here on msnbc. so stay right here with us. we'll have it live. >>> two new polls this week tell the same story about the current state of the gop field. a cbs/"new york times" poll showing cain in front with 25%, followed by romney with perry commanding just 6%. and another one, cain up front. romney right behind. and perry way behind. joining us msnbc campaign embed andrew rafferty who is with the cain campaign. what's the reaction like right now given all this positive poll news? >> well, the reaction is that they know they are a front-runner, and they are expect

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there are now 28 dead and the latest victims in colorado, kansas and missouri. you may recall a death was almost reported here in maryland. the canteloupes were off shelves by now but listeria can take up to two months to appear in the body. time for five things to know on this wednesday morning. as you head out the door, baltimore city mayor stephanie rawlings-blake will take part in demonstration showing how to use one of nine. >> he charging station for hybrid vehicles. and baltimore will collect polystyrene food containers next month for recycling. it is marked with the number 6 surrounded by the recycling symbol. and ken kamenetz will celebrate opening of two locally owned businessesch the breadery and ribbon cutting ceremony will be at 10 this morning. >>> and if you a fan of harry potter, the boy wizard you better get your hands on the hard copies of the movies as quickly as possible. reports say the movies will be pulled from shelves after december 29th. harry potter and deathly hal lows part 2 is due out november 11th. >>> dc film office says the movie

in the meantime the president is in my home state of colorado making remarks at the university of colorado at denver. he plans to introduce his plans to try to reduce the debt load among students who took out student loans and are having difficulty paying them back. let's hreug even for a moment. >> the reason i've been hitting the road so much is because the folks i'm talking to in cities, and small towns, and communities all across america, let's face it, they are making a little more sense than the folks back in washington. [cheering] >> here in colorado you've got folks who are spending months, some years looking for work. you've got families who are making tough sacrifices just to pay the bills, or the mortgage, or college tuition. and americans know we need to do something about it. and i know this is especially hard for a lot of young people. you know, you guys came of age at a time of profound change, globa globalizatino and technology have made the world much more competitive, although this offers unmatched opportunity, i mean the way that the world is now linked up and synced up

now the snow is breaking out south of denver and towards colorado springs. it is really snowing hard at 25 from cheyenne to denver. it wouldn't surprise me if that's now closed, too, or impassable. the areas of pink, 6 to 12 inches. possibly over a foot of snow in some areas that get any bands that set up on top. now let's go into the complete opposite and talk about a hurricane that could be a major hurricane that's going to do some significant damage possibly to cancun. we're still watching south florida. it's looking better and better for you. even if you have to deal with the storm. it will be significantly weaker than what we're dealing with now. currently a category two hurricane. the computer model with all the squiggly lines, every one takes us to cancun in the next 36 hours. that's where they're doing the last-minute preparations and getting the boards on the windows and shudders closed. after that, our computers vary with where it's going to head. they weaken the storm to a tropical storm about it weekend. we're not sure where it's going to be at t

. >> baltimore county man is taking action against a colorado farmer after their loved one dies after eating tainted cantaloupe. >>> launching their first enters in the holiday wars. what tops the list? >>> we'll take you to the foundation's golf day. >>> but first tonight, the family of a man who died from eating tainted cantaloupe speaks out tonight. he died on august 31st. it came from a farm in colorado. >> reporter: his daughter says they first noticed a problem when their father gained 9 pounds in three days. he began to lose his appetite. a couple of days later, he was again admitted into the hospital. six days after that, he died. his test results showed listeria. he was at least one of 15 deaths now contributed to that infected batch of cantaloupe. >> i think the following day, the tuesday, the girl from maryland says it was the cantaloupe outbreak of listeria. it was surreal. i was dealing with the fact that he wasn't here anymore and then this whole other thing going on and it's just kind of taken over. >> now coming up at 1 # 1:00, hear from this mourning family as well as

a colorado cat gets into a staring contest with a rious a colorado cat gets into a staring contest with a rious mountain lion. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with a fiery debate. gop presidential candidates went head-to-head last night in las vegas for the fifth and final round of a six-week string of high-stakes match-ups. mitt romney and rick perry shared a heat exchange over illegal immigrants while herman cain's 9-9-9 tax plan came under attack. >> reporter: herman cain and his 9% sales tax plan that helped catapult him to the top tier of the republicans running for president drew intense fire at the cnn debate in las vegas. >> 84% of americans would pay more taxes under his plan. >> that simply is not true. >> go to new hampshire where they don't have a sales tax and you are fixing to give them one. >> the state tax is an apple. we are replacing the current tax code with oranges. >> i'm going to be getting a bushel basket that has oranges and apples because i'm paying both taxes. >> reporter: mitt romney,

a colorado cat gets into a staring contest with a curious a colorado cat gets into a staring contest with a curious mountain lion. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. and today we begin with a fiery debate. gop presidential candidates went head-to-head last night in las vegas for the fifth and final round of a six-week string of high-stakes match-ups. mitt romney and rick perry shared a heat exchange over illegal immigrants while herman cain's 9-9-9 tax plan came under attack. >> what happened in vegas did not stay in vegas. the fire was on display. >> you lose all of your standing. >> rick perry and mitt romney talked over where romney hired illegal immigrants. >> the newspaper. >> we hired a lawn company to mow our lawn and they had illegal immigrants working there and that was reported to us, we let them go. you have a problem with allowing other people speaking. >> i understand that. you're going to get testy. >> santorum accused of both of being less than they appear.

. >>> now, out to oakland, colorado, where a protestor protest turned violent. marching down the streets along and at first peaceful but then came trouble. first somebody broke a window of a highway patrol car. then somebody fired a shot into a store front and some of the demonstrators threw paint balls and officers responded with tear gas then arrested more than 100 people. >>> now, to atlanta where overnight police moved into a downtown park and arrested about 50 occupy wall street protestors who have been camped out there for about two weeks now. police tell us they gave those demonstrators plenty of warning. the mayor says the cleaning of that park was prompted by a man showing up yesterday with an assault weapon. are people making a point or just becoming troublesome or is being troublesome part of the message which would be, by the way, exactly what? would love to know your thoughts about that. mailbag@wusa9.com is my e-mail address. throw your thoughts into mcginty's mail bag. >>> president obama rolling out another plan to help americans who are struggli

the colorado plateau is covered with chert, a glassy rock that is really really good for making tools, making very sharp edges. you find there are pieces of chert all over the place and you can still cut your skin open very quickly with it and it's been sitting out in the open. >> where does chert come from? . >> it's a marine rock that's mostly silica. you find it in these layers, sandstone layers. if you are especially in a marine or water environment, you will find this layer of chert. it's in all colors, purple, green, red, blue. it's a beautiful rock. . >> one thing i wanted to ask you, the review in the paper recently on sunday said that your book is different from all the other books about the anastazi because you brought out some of the non-flattering parts of their culture like violence. how did you conclude that they were a violent culture? . >> well, i didn't necessarily conclude they were a violent culture, i just concluded there was violence in their culture. the evidence is very clear where you find masker sites, where every place you drop a trench there are bodies, unbu

. >>> a young boy in colorado likes to play dressup. not for hallowe'en though. all the time. >> he likes dressing up like a girl so much that he wants to join the girl scouts but as an bolt it is reported that may not happen. >> these mexican dolls. i like any girl stuff. >> reporter: everyone has favorite toys no matter what age they are. >> this is my pony. >> reporter: liking stuff some would say is not quite for him. >> i named him. >> what do you like? >> girl stuff like me. >> reporter: he is happy most of the time but says sometimes in school being a boy and dressed like a girl even occasionally is tough. >> it is like hurting my heart. >> what does it feel like when they talk down to you? >> it hurts me and my mom both. >> reporter: bobby's mom tells us a troop leader told the 7- year-old he couldn't be a girl scout. bobby cried. >> it was like somebody told me i can't grow up properly and have to change my name to something else. >> i said what's the big deal? she says it doesn't matter how he looks, he has boy parts. he can't be a girl scout. girl scou

folks in colorado 18.5 inches amazing 8 inches in denver more in mountains makes skiiers happy. moving into cool spell second coolest so far thunderstorms last night photographed fox about thvalley cloud to ground lightning storms introduced cool air into area, captured this great cloud to ground shot and he and wife celebrating third anniversary captured waves a beautiful shot from the red tape in michigan interesting time of the year with the changing it everything from wild waves of the lake to light in at today drab and cool temperatures more fitting of mid november that 74 degrees yesterday it was. more like mid september expect month shift in temperatures just 24 hours time. november level readings here tuesday into the weekend but frost possible tomorrow night but tomorrow some sunshine majority dry hours instead of the showers may develop temperatures down 21 degrees today only low 50s on the way with normal readings to the weekend what is going on to do this to us. jet stream blowing in from the north buckle sot were typically cold air on one side warm on the other we a

you can see that snow is winding down in the denver area to colorado springs. this has been causing a bit of problems for baseball because they are supposed to be playing the world series in st. louis. the rainshowers have postponed game 6 of the world series in st. louis. they will still try to get that under way tomorrow. light shower activity here. some of the ohio valley rain will work our direction overnight. 63 degrees for the official high in at b.w.i. marshall. it was a typical day as far as temperatures in the afternoon, although the morning was quite mild with the lows in the 50's and we're supposed to be dropping back into the 40's. 70's on the lower eastern shore. expect mild temperatures tonight with a light breeze and cloud cover. cool, hit and miss showers and overnight lows in the 50's. this front the trails from the ohio valley does get in here tomorrow night into friday and it will be a lot colder. there could be some laden freeze conditions friday morning. west winds, 10 to 15 during the afternoon tomorrow. it will produce a 10 to 15 not top

i love snow, they're going to get a big snow in colorado. hear that, derek? big snow in colorado. it's going to snow in denver tomorrow. that same storm is going to dive into the southern plains and the deep south and may give us a cold rain on saturday. it may stay to the south and east of us, that's going to be the same storm that gives us a cold rain. in the meantime tonight, we are clear. just a few clouds to the north and a few clouds come in, especially on wednesday afternoon. the next cold front is thursday. breezy and cool overnight. still mild on wednesday. you need your umbrella on thursday and breezy and cooler, quite a bit cooler on friday. for tonight, clear to partly cloudy, breezy and cool. 46 to 52. so lows in the suburbs will be in the upper 40s, which is not that cold for this time of the year and low 50s in arlington and springfield and downtown. 48 in college park. probably only 50 in waldorf. upper 40s in reston and fairfax and sterling and probably mid 40s toward leesburg and manassas. tomorrow morning, partly cloudy, breezy and cool. you need your sunglasses

. >>> a 7-year-old colorado boy is anxiously awaiting word if he can join the girl scouts. bobby montoya was born a boy, but ever since the age of two, he's convinced he's a girl. he dresses in girl clothes, p y plays with girl toys and even had a princess birthday party. >> i said, what's the big deal? she said, it doesn't matter how he looks, he has boy scouts, he can't be a girl scout. >> tonight the girl scouts of colorado say they're still considering his membership. the organization said, girl scouts is an inclusive organization. if a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, girl scouts of colorado welcomes her as a girl scout. no word if a decision will be made? >>> the fallout from the nuclear disaster in japan can be much worse than first estimated. the fukushima disaster relesioned twice as much radiation into the atmosphere than japanese authorities first estimated. the amount is about 40% of that released in chernobyl in 1986 which is the worst nuclear disaster in history. the new estimate comes from a worldwide network of sensor

we have a winter storm heading for areas of colorado, winter storm watches are already up. today's the day when the temperatures begin to plummet. yesterday we had a record high 80 degrees in denver. today, 55. tomorrow near 32. okay on the east coast today, but tomorrow is when the rain should move in. if you're watching us on wsm tv 3 in syracuse, new york, see paintings created by animals using their trunks, paws, hoofs at art gone wild at rosamond gifford zoo. >>> now here's an early look at today's headlines in entertainment. after 14 years two pals from boston are reuniting in hollywood. matt damon told gq, he and ben who starred together in "good will hunting" will work on a film about whitey bulkier with damon starting and aflack starring. >>> 20 million people who watched the first "two and a half men" with ashton kutcher have stopped watching. it's still the most watched sitcom on television but kutcher stands below charlie sheen's average ratings and speculation are viewers are turned off about kutcher's alleged infidelity. >>> listen up, fans, of mtv's "jersey s

unless there is significant movement on the economy, colorado, do you think that could be a tough win for the president? >> i think the obama folks are pretty optimistic about colorado because of the growth in the hispanic population. the fastest growing ethnic group. the spanish voters were very important for a win in the senate race last year. michael bennett won election to the senate that was very toughly contested. and hispanic voters in places like colorado, nevada, new mexico, they think that they can be an important part of carrying those mountain west states. >> as we look at the president's jobs tour, how strategic is this that it's all about 2012? >> he's going to a state that has not been hit by a tornado or tsunami. the white house schedule is very much focused on the states that they know he needs to carry next zeer susan page, as always, a pleasure. thank you. >> thank you, alex. >>> office politics, ed schultz talking billion the occupy wall street protest. >>> up next, the secrets at the stores. sneaky stricts to get you to spend more. you're watching "weekends with a