now he's ending that relationship permanently, and joining oil refiner sunoco as a senior vice president. g.m. has had four c.e.o.s in the last 18 months. the automaker is expected to go public again next month. >> susie: in the "money file" tonight, five steps to figure out how much life insurance you need. here's john simons, editorial director of personal finance at black enterprise. >> reporter: let's face it, life insurance compels us to contemplate something none of us really wants to deal with-- death. getting the right amount of coverage forces us to assign a dollar amount to the financial impact our deaths will have on our dependents. it's important to have a rough idea of the coverage you need before you sit down with an insurance agent. here's how to do it in five easy steps: step 1: you'll need to add up your current debts. that is, your mortgage, your auto and other loans, and credit card balances. step 2: add in a rough estimate of your burial or cremation costs. step 3: take your gross annual income and multiply it by the number of years it will take your youngest child to

here's what we're watching for tomorrow: quarterly results from microsoft, royal dutch shell and sunoco, along with weekly jobless claims. then, with more and more americans focused on finding a job and holding onto their homes, we continue our coverage "midterm 2010: it's the economy." we look at tea party economics. it looks like the end of the road for a tunnel project connecting new jersey and new york. new jersey's governor chris christie is standing by his decision to cancel the country's biggest public works project. while it was expected to create 6,000 jobs, christie says his state would be on the hook for about $3.5 billion, and it cannot afford that. the tunnel was supposed to double the number of trains that can run into manhattan under the hudson river. >> tom: more corruption in small town california. four current and former officials of the city of irwindale are accused of spending $14,000 of taxpayer money on a new york city trip that included broadway plays and baseball games. the four, including a current city council member, were supposed to be in new york to work on