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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...

Borrowing going to the newest projects remember the stimulus projects? forget the debt-limit. they passed a $787 billion. supposed to be shovel-ready stuff. well, some people had questions. now there are questions about how exactly that money is being used. william here to explain live in los angeles. william, what are some of these projects we are hearing about? are they creating jobs? >> reporter: as you know, it all comes from the same place, which is your pocketbook. federal agencies spending $196 million in stimulus money every hour, and they will do that every hour for the next eight mon...

Of work that the boys and girls club does. they're saying, hey, we feel good about this use of stimulus money, right? >> yes. they were very grateful for it. >> reporter: the president is highlighting his small business plan and i understand you looked into a small business in new hampshire? >> yeah, it's a construction firm. they received received $1.2 million and were able to create two jobs -- >> your mike went out all of a sudden. use mine. tell us about the small business. the images on the web. >> they were able to save five jobs and create two. and they renauovate a va hospit. >> how ma...

You might find interesting. we see how much money in total from stimulus funding that nashua, new hampshire, has gotten where the president is going. you have $14.4 approximately million dollars spent in stimulus funding. we looked at the population. it's about 87,000 that you see here. so that works out to about $166 per person. now, if you to the national averages and look at how many billions of dollars were in this package divided by our population it's not that high. it's interesting that the president goes there to take a look at what those projects are. our researcher right here, emily ...

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