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And now, gerri willis is with us, and there is important news on home prices. >>gerri: what people really care about, home prices, up 11.3 percent year-over-year, which means the biggest gain since november of 2005. median home prize is $183,000 way below where we were but it is coming off the bottom. a lot people talk about the inventory and that is important because the banks have a lot of houses on their books. >>shepard: it is your belief that the bottom of the housing market is in the rear view? >>gerri: we are seeing or have seen, all markets are different but the housing markets have se...

>> shannon: with september's unemployment rate falling to 7.8% things on the surface appear to be looking up. what does the number actually mean for you? molly henneberg digs a little deeper. >> reporter: three of president obama's most loyal voting blocs in the 2008 election are struckling in the current economy. remember, september's national unemployment rate is 7.8%. breaking that down by demographics, african americans 13.4% unemployed, up from 11.3% this time four years ago. hispanics, 9.9% unemployed, up from 8% in september of 2008. and young people ages 18 to 29 a september unemployme...

Far more bleak for some particular groups. molly henneberg, takes a look at this part of the story from washington. >> three of president obama's most loyal voting blocks in the 2008 election are struggling in the current economy. remember, september's national unemployment rate is 7.8%, and breaking that down by demographics, african-americans, 13.4% unemployed. that's up from 11.3% this time four years ago. hispanics, 9.9% unemployed. up from 8% in september 2008. and young people, ages 18 to 29, a september unemployment rate of 11.8%. and up from 9.8% in 2008. one analyst says young people ...

Factors, but where we are concerned it's about race. according tote survey, it doesn't matchup with the latest census numbers from the government. for instance over three months, gallup's polling data was weighted to represent a population that is 11.3% african-american, short of the census figures that show the break down is 12.1%. the polls reflected hispanic population up 12.4%. why is this significant? these are the types of voters that support the president in big numbers. gallup found in may he poled at 54% among hispanics which is low, but 90% among african-americans. taking any of the ...

Total membership to record levels. jd power and associates found between 10 and 11.3% of customers ditched large regional and mid-sized banks and steep spike in defection rates the previous year. tensions rising between new jersey and new york with chris christie accusing mike bloomberg overstepping his bounds by sending nypd ties to monitor muslims in newark and talked about that last week. it's heating up even more. on wednesday, christie defended his state's sovereignty saying i think they know their jurisdiction is the world. their jurisdiction is new york city. my concern is this adaptati...