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Today, however, investors doing a bit of a flat line dance here on the market numbers. continuing fears about the global recovery, that's feeding in. the numbers don't look nearly as bad. maybe the markets are happy that tony harris is back from his vacation. the dow off four points. back above 10,000. 10,008. nasdaq up seven points at 21.48. >> back, rested and happy. that's the leading indicator of good times to come. >> we like it when you're like that, tony. >> stephanie, good to see you. all right. the government already pays for the census with our tax dollars, of course. so why does t...

Scientists hope it will do. the company says the project would not have happened without stimulus funds. in fact, the company's opener had pulled out because of the financial crisis. now they hope to have that plan up and running in 2014. and we are keeping our eye on that and lots of other projects in the $862 billion stimulus bill right here at the cnn stimulus desk. well, as we told you this morning, "endeavour" did not takeoff. it is only one of five shuttle launches left. they will try it again tomorrow. we have a beautiful live picture of it as it still sits right now. the picture is n...

Governor's race is now set, democrat dan hynes has conceded to incumbent governor pat quinn. he was trailing after tuesday's primary but he didn't bow out until after more votes were counted. the battle between bill brady and kirk dillard is still too close to call. all right, we're back here in the stimulus area that we've been using for the last little while. we've been digging into the money that has been given to stimulus projects and finding out whether jobs have been created. what are you looking at? >> $862 billion in total can, right? and we are looking at clean energy projects, we h...

Also a really tricky situation. the point is the government already pays for the census, so we're trying to wrap our minds around it, why the census also needed this, don. $1 billion. they got $1 billion from the stimulus fund. again, i'll remind everyone we're looking at the $862 billion stimulus package that passed last year, we're looking at what they're fundi ining cen is getting $1 billion. the total cost will be $14 billion, they said that last year. the government already pays for it so why another billion out of the stimulus, why anything out of the stimulus if the government's paying ...

Looking at your tax dollars, the $862 billion plan. we'll speak to michelle obama, she's working on the anti-childhood obesity initiative, we have video of her meeting. we are looking in to what happened with the tax dollars with that initiative. but first, let's look at a little clip of what she said. >> as a parent, this is an issue that i care deeply about, and i've spoken about on a very personal level, but i've learned that there are many parents around this country who are struggling with this issue, who are concerned about it, and are looking for ways to help. >> certainly a problem a l...