ronna rice runs her family's business, "rice's lucky clover honey." the white house says rice was picked as part of a group of people that demonstrate the progress that's happened over the last 7 years. the national western stock show is off to a great start! the show and rodeo had its largest opening weekend. more than 50- thousand people showed up at the complex on saturday.,,,surpassi ng last year's record of 47- thousand visitors. the head of the national western stock show, paul andrews, says every year they add new events to the show. the 110th national western runs 24th. for event and tickent information -- log onto national-western- dot-com. you will have plenty of chances... the show runs through january 24th the start of a new week is bringing no relief for chinese stocks and oil prices. the main stocks markets in china plunged again today between 5 and 6-percent. but so far, the global markets are showing signs of resilience. european markets are edging higher...and so too are u-s futures. stocks in this country have had a miserable start -

ronna rice - a business owner from greeley - will be sitting in the first lady's viewing box. she was invited to represent economic progress over the last 7 years. rice and her family run rice's lucky clover honey -- which her husband's grandfather started in 1924. also attending the address: shem-sa- deen ben-masaud -- the imam and at the metro denver north islamic center in northglenn. we've talked to him in the past - about his interfaith work in our area. he'll be the guest of democratic congresswoman diana degette. denver's getting a new chief financial step down from the c-f-o position, as well as the deputy mayor position after 4-and-a-half years. she plans to start a consulting practice., and some have speculated she may make a run for governor in the future. current budget director brendan hanlon will replace kennedy as cfo... don mares, the director of denver human services, will take on the deputy mayor duties. the government and a group of automakers are reportedly set to announce an agreement at the detroit auto show this week. it's aimed at improving safety, foll

ronna rice is among 23 guests - invited to sit in the first lady's viewing box. she and her family run rice's lucky clover honey. rice told us... she's getting a lot of calls from home while she's in d.c. shemsadeen ben masaud will also be at the address. he's the imam at the metro denver north islamic center in northglenn. we've talked to him in the past about his interfaith work in our area. congresswoman diana degette. you can watch the state of the union address - tonight at 7 p.m. - right here on 9news. nbc's coverage is expected to last two hours. law enforcement and first responders who rushed to the scene of a shooting in colorado springs -- will be honored for their bravery today. in november a man opened fire outside of a planned parenthood... killing 3 people...and injuring 9 others. this was the scene in november... when a man started shooting inside the clinic... killing three people, including a u-c-c-s police officer. nine others were hurt... in the hours-long standoff with the gunman. the police department at u-c- c-s... colorado springs police an

ronna, when you heard the president talk about the united states, boasting about the economy, i meane others, the united states is growing twice as fast as europe, four times as fast as japan. brazil is imploding. russia is of course imploding. china is slowing down. the united states does look pretty good. >> there's two ways to look at it. there's the argument that the u.s. is the prettiest house on the ugly block that is the global economy. that's legitimate. the u.s. has outgrown a number of emerging market countries. but the other way to look at it is that the u.s. just so far in part because of the fed's money dump hasn't really felt the full force of the global slowdown. i think that's going to change this year. i think the u.s. is going to be affected by the major slowdown in china. you may see even a 1% economy. >> so what extent is that part of the problem here, the disconnect? if you look at some of the data, it is warning in america, but a lot of people don't feel like it's morning in america. >> for most people, it's not. the analogy i like is the least dirty shirt in th

. >> ronna rice runs her family business. she sat in the first lady's viewing box. the imam at the metro denver north center. coloradans are reacting to the speech. we've posted all of the statements for you on the 9news app. >>> today colorado's lawmakers will head back to work, and there will likely be a lot of work over the state budget. our state democratic house and republican senate have very different ideas on how to balance the books. republicans want to issue bonds to pay for upgrades, and democrats want to use an expected to debate ideas to boost affordable housing. raising minimum wage and abortion rights will likely be on the agenda. >>> people are crossing their finger, hoping they become a billionaire. the jackpot estimate, though, is reviewed daily. so that number will no doubt move up sometime today. steven dial, a reporter from our sister station in florida shows us where the winning numbers are picked. >> $1.5 billion. that's the largest lottery jackpot in american history. we're about to show you behind- the-scenes look at the security that goes i

ronna rice the ceo of lucky clover honey. her family founded the business in 1924. it expanded across the u.s. and around the world and allowed the company to hire more employees. the people in the guest box represent americas future and what our country has to offer. >>> senate majority leave mc connell will not push lawmakers to approve president barack obama's request for new war powers, he says he fears it could tie the hands of next president. the obama administration has proposed a 3-year authorization to help in the fight against isis. >>> the afc playoff picture is all set after really a crazy wild card weekend. the chiefs and the patriots squared off on saturday. that was an interesting game. we know the broncos will be facing pittsburgh at home on sunday afternoon. we will get a denver-pittsburgh match up and roethlisberger separated his shoulder. >> and antonio brown, the two of them carved up denver less than a month ago are going to come in here and we don't know what condition they are going to be in. before this weekend, i thought pittsburgh of the th

crews are using massive boulders to try to stabilize the shoreline at ronna beach.atening to wash away the road. >> the water does not stop for anything. the water has a lot of power. >> crews continue -- plan to continue showing up that stretch of coastline all throughout the weekend. >>> we are just 15 days now away from super bowl 50. on of the top concerns, leading up to the big events, as protesters disrupting super bowl festivities. kpix 5 dan markovic's live assumable city this morning to explain why san francisco police say they are prepared for these demonstrators. good morning, anne >>reporter:you know, it would not be the bay area without a few protests. that is just the name of the game around here. look at the activity in justin herman plaza this morning. where they are setting up for the super bowl city, it is like they are working with this giant metal lego kit right now. they are making a fan of village it will be a playground for football fans. it is all going to be free, and open to the public. here is what it will eventually look like when it open

. >> ronna, talk about that. china, is that what is spooking the markets and causing all cau this? >> yeah, absolutely. china is the world's second largest economy. and it's been in a meltdown for some time now. growth has been slowing for over a year. you have a recession in the manufacturing sector. and you have the currency plummeting. china is basically in the middle of a debt crisis that was very similar to what the u.s. went through in the run-up to the sub prime and financial crisis in 2008. it's interesting the markets are reacting similarly right now. >> and, alison, oil down to its lowest level in years, average gas prices they're about $2 a gallon. that's great for son sumers at the pump, but how is that playing into whatever's going on on the market? >> yeah, you see wlast been happening with oil, jake, over the past 18 months. it's been like a slow motion crash in oil. and, yeah, it's great for consumers who get the reap rewards in the wallets for gas prices, but think about what makes up the dow, s&p, these are energy companies that rely on higher oil prices to bring

capito: let me ask you this -- senator langford ronna been excellent point. your ability to trace and perform an adequate background check is only as good as the information coming in. as we saw in the charleston, south carolina incident, it was unable to be traced to that individual. is that training at the local level? is it the examiner? what happened there? ms. lynch: i think you know that the examiners are dedicated and do their jobs with great commitment. in the charleston case, my understanding is the arrest was located in one particular jurisdiction but the query was made of another jurisdiction. and because there was not a conviction yet, it prevented it from being the courts system, so the examiner followed all the queries as per normal and the information was literally sitting in an adjoining counties docket and was not pulled in to that. it was heartbreaking to all of us who work on this matter from the fbi and throughout the department of justice. one of the reasons why even then we began looking at the ways to improve the system and the fbi dire