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5:00 a.m. 26 e-mails to your staff. i dont want to give away my source, but im told you sent these e-mails to your staff. im not sure the staff is correct, sir. >> im not a huge sleeper. between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. is when i would be having my milk and my snuggie. >> reporter: ali, milk, cookies, we dont want to know. >> lets find out about what youre doing. 32 are some reporters behind you. >> reporter: in the stakeout behind me, photographers and reporters are waiting to see if anyone com...

All right. were talking about the state of black america report with ryan mack, the president of optimum capital management, alfred edmond from blackenterprise.com. and, guys, while this is interesting to everybody in the country, because we all want to know about how to deal with these challenges, the challenge for african-americans is so great that perhaps the solution for african-americans can be used elsewhere. the national urban league is suggesting a two-year job creation plan, $168 billio...

the hotels is, for example, lets say, 6,000 points a night but if you throw in $20 a night, it will go down to maybe 4500 points a night. with 170,000 miles that would last me a little over 30 nights or so. >> boy, can you believe that? "cnn newsroom" continues right now with ali velshi. >> tony, thank you. you have yourself a great afternoon. im ali velshi. im going to be with you for the next two hours, today and every weekday. im going take every important topic we cover and break...

How many books can you read about business? i read a book on how to start a financial planning company. amazon.com was my best friend. then write a plan of action. these are four steps you can have. we need you to be successful. small businesses are generating 70% of every new job. >> we talked about this before. people are saying this is a great time to start your own business. >> this is absolute best time. in america right now, we need more business owners we need more entrepreneurs. we need ...

During vice president joe bidens visit to the region earlier in the week. we are back with ryan mack, president of optimum capital management. he is answering a lot of your questions youve been sending to us all day long about saving for retirement, being prepared. before we went to a break, interesting stat. single black woman had a median net worth of $5 to a single white woman of $42,000. the first it looked like a typo but youre telling me no, this is true. why? >> if you look at your weal...

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It hasnt helped nor improved our lives. furthermore, banks are not very tight and not willing to lend. lets go to the blog. the stimulus act has helped my husband and his chimney and stove service with the provision of the $1,500 tax credit for newly installed fuel-efficient wood burning stoves. and lyriclover says america should focus spending on american manufacturing. too many small towns are dying because our own industry has vaporized. you can jump via the blogs on cnn.com/josh and facebook...

2007. it is working and people are working. >> okay. >> ive seen individuals -- seen individuals going back to work. >> all right, so, tami, whats the other view of this, that it would have been better to let the economy bottom out? i know youve been doing some reporting on this. is that the other view of this? >> sure. well, the republicans are really pointing to the jobs numbers, saying, look, unemployment is still at near 10%. and that the national -- the council of economic advisors, christi...

But, tammy and ryan, tammy, first, is it working, in your view? >> yes. i mean, the states have needed this money, and, in fact, theyre asking for even more. theyve been using this money to keep teachers in the schools, to keep, you know, cops on the streets, theyre now doing their 2011 budgets and some of the stimulus money is running out and theyre desperately asking washington for more. some estimates say that 900,000 people will be laid off in state and local governments if they dont even ge...

Existed otherwise. we have a quote from a conservative think tank, the heritage foundation, this is what theyre arguing, they say that money would have been spent somewhere else in the economy and the effect is that youre going to cancel stuff out, and thats why they say unemployment numbers are not dropping. they say, you look at the big spending, the money night everybody else where and maybe it would have been saved in the private sector and many things would have ultimately led to a differen...