DOWNTOWNS: Virginia town sees some improvement

Video: Danville sees improvement

 

 
 Virginia town sees some improvement 
 

President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board earlier this week claimed the worst of the recession may be over.

Obama himself has said that so-called “green shoots” are beginning to show in some areas of the US economy. 

In a special look at the global recession, Al Jazeera’s Cath Turner went back to the town of Danville in the state of Virginia, to see if the economic optimism is being felt there.