financially, there is a connection to loews hotels, loews corporation to the family. >> what was thedifficult part of renovating this hotel? >> the challenge we faced was once we got into that building and went behind a wall, i came to the realization that my father and uncle, god bless them, did not spend a lot of money when they were building it 50 years ago. we found some conditions that made it challenging to rebuild at the pace that we were hoping to. >> structural issues? >> structural. because of super bowl, we knew that we had an end date we do not want to go beyond. we had to scramble. >> you have spent $100 million. it was the most you have ever spent on any renovation. why so much? >> we felt $100 million was necessary to bring the regency back to a place that befits the neighborhood, but also the vision that we have for this hotel. the $100 million mark not only includes the rooms and the corridors and the restaurant and the new fitness center and the salon and the new lobby, but we replaced every window. the windows were 50 years old. guests will appreciate that. we're l

it was an integral part of how they wanted to build loews hotels, which has today morphed nto the loewsorporation. the hotel business is at the root of where our family started going back 75 years ago with hotels in new jersey. this hotel has become very important to the image of loews hotels. it has become very important to the bottom line of loews hotels. i grew up in this hotel. since i was 12, i have been walking the corridors and the back of the house and know many of the workers who have been here since the beginning. >> you stayed at this hotel ourself. >> emotionally, there is a connection. physically, there is a connection. financially, there is a onnection to loews hotels, loews corporation to the family. >> what was the most difficult part of renovating this hotel? >> the challenge we faced was once we got into that building and went behind a wall, i came to the realization that my father and uncle, god bless them, did not spend a lot of money when they were building it 50 years ago. we found some conditions that made it challenging to rebuild at the pace that we were hoping

in 1959, his family branched out and bought loews theaters. the loews corporation has $80 billion in assets that generate $15 billion in annual revenue with interest from everything in hotels, insurance, oil and gas.

this is a view from the loews hotel. rain drops on the lens.nto philadelphia in the last few minutes. 52 degrees right now. this is our rainy, cloudy view from the nbc10 studios. the wind blowing the flag. the flag won't get any rest until tomorrow. these are steady north. northerly winds at 25 miles an hour to poconos and northeast philadelphia and wilmington. blowing rain into the area. steady rain in center city, chester county, montgomery, bucks county also getting rainfall. and it is going back into south jersey and delaware this morning. so grab an umbrella, future weather shows at 9:00 this morning, another round of rain pushing in. then it's going to taper in. we'll still see showers around 3:00 this afternoon. not everybody will see it. the wind will still be blowing. as the mayer is set to rappel down the building at 2:00, winds gusting at 35 miles an hour. maybe not the best day for that. this evening, we'll see improving conditions. tomorrow, the clouds will be out of here, the rain will be done. but until then, showers and gusty wi

>>> a cool start to our saturday as we take a live look over center city from our camera atop the loews hotel. good morning. welcome back to "nbc10 news toda today". i'm rosemary conners on this saturday. michelle grossman is tracking the pleasant conditions in store for us today. i think it's going to be pretty tough to beat yesterday's weather. >> it was so nice yesterday but today is going to be great. near 70 degrees. lots of sunshine. cannot wait for that sun to come up. great day to get things done, do all of your fall activities. sports are happening today also. live look outside. clear skies this morning. clear skies over night. that tends to drop the temperature. that's what we're seeing right now. looking at temperatures mainly in the 40s across the area. if you're getting out early this morning you need the jacket because we are looking at low 40s to the north and west. 43 in allentown. just 42 in pottstown. 44 degrees in lancaster. 43 in mount pocono. south and east, low 40s. 41 in millville. 43 in atlantic city. if you're getting a head start on the day, bundle up this morn

a view from the loew's hotel. a little bit of a sheen when rain came through in philadelphia. trenton, there's the light rainfall. not much to it. steadier rain just to the north and some showers that are just pushing back into the delaware area and newark and middletown about to see the rain return. just some light showers. heavier storms are well to our southwest and they'll hold off until late tonight and early tomorrow morning. so, during the day today, here's your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast. 67 degrees for the pocono mountains. few showers this morning and then partly sunny this afternoon and middle 70s for allreading a allentown. look at the temperatures, 77 degrees. turn out to be a nice day for northeast philadelphia and mt. holly, cape may up to 75 degrees and 76 in vineland and dover into the upper 70s. spotty showers this morning and a slight chance of a noontime shower and then we'll break out into the sunshine for westchester, chester and glassboro. cooler weather ahead in the seven-day forecast when i come back. >>> if you're hitting the roads, you'll

application deadline is december 12 and this that is earlier because we have a different process, for the loewe l l enroll and we have been getting a lot of questions about that already. and again, january, 16th, is when the applications are due. >> and now, all of our students who are already in our schools, who are in pre-k, and all of our fifth and 8th graders will be receiving a mailed, and we will be mailing it out by october 25th. and to help our families and to support them, through this process, we have a lot of resource and this is the new enrollment guide and that we will be launching and this is the different look this year, as well as all of our english learner program guides, and so, families who are looking for more information, that enrollment guide has pretty much all of the information that they need in order to apply for schools, and learn about our process. we will be releasing where the schools are locate and we will show the middle school feeders as well and this is a resource that the families find very useful and valuable. and we have the school tours beginning in october

this is the view from the loews hotel. this camera was shaking in the wind yesterday and the wind is still going, now out of the southeast at 7, but we're getting gusts of more than 20 miles an hour. 71 degrees. five degrees warmer than yesterday. we should be in the 40s this time of year. a much warmer start. clouds building over the entire area. it's going to take some time for the showers to work through south jersey, but we will see them to start with in northern and western suburbs. that's where temperatures right now are in the 60s and low 70s. 69 degrees in chas worth, brandywine at the airport is 70 degrees, 70 in west chester. chester springs and phoenixville both at 71 degrees. very warm start, and it's all because of the storm system that's just to our west. it's those winds coming up out of the south, pushing the warm air into the area, warm, moist air. it's these bright clouds that are to our west that are going to produce heavy downpours later today. and the first could arrive this afternoon. future rainfall

tri-valley, temperatures loews wednesday the next batch of rain coming in late friday night into saturday morning. you'll notice we will see that chance of rain coming in on saturday and the skies will glaern as we approach sunday. here's mike for a check of your roads again. >> thanks, rob. the concern on our map in not necessarily the dublin interchange. it's moving nicely. over here highway 84 typical through livermore. right at grant line road a stalled big rick is blanking of t the. >> over here the south bay, north 101 just shows a little tiny bit of slowing. that is typical for san jose at this time. and let's get a live look outside and see how things are going at the bay bridge toll bridge. there you go in the cash lane. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. >> well, less than 12 hours the giants will start swinging, hoping to get ahead in the first game against the world series against the kansas city royals. >> the who? >> oh, yeah, the oils. the excitement is fall abible - thought royal had to do with that song that my kids play all the time. obviously it's a team that's

. >>> 5:24, and check out this camera atop of loews hotel, as we use the wipers this morning.of the area right now. you see the flags on the aramark building there, too. some pretty stiff wind out there, and it's going to be that way throughout the day. meteorologist bill henley is back in a moment to let us know when the rain may let up. >>> researchers from the university of pennsylvania and met immune are getting more than $12 million to take on the flu. this news is from our partners at the "philadelphia business journal." those companies and the university plan to use that money to develop and access a certain type of antibody for treatment. inovio has already licensed the antibodies developed at penn in hopes of making universal vaccines. >>> investors will be keeping an eye on the stock market today to see if yesterday's rally will continue. kate rogers is here with that in our "cnbc business news." kate, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, tracy. well, futures have turned lower this morning after a big rally for the markets on tuesday. investors reacting to apple'

. >>> 29 minutes, and we're seeing skies clear over camden city and a view from loews hotel in centerrough coatesville in chester county. the first 2 1/2 hours we were on the air, zero visibility with fog in coatesville. but it's just improved in the last half hour. now, they're reporting half a mile visibility there. you can see some scattered clouds overhead. still thicker fog for allentown and reading. and it has improved there in doylestown and blue bell. dense fog reported in mt. holly and burlington county, new jersey. the thick fog thats that delayed the smyrna school district for an hour this morning for smyrna is a quarter-mile visibility. cumberland county is still dealing with dense fog in millville. now the temperatures are colder this morning. look at the 30s for pottstown, allentown, mt. pocono is at the freezing mark. it's 41 in mt. holly. and 48 degrees at philadelphia international. the bus stop temperature is calling for a cold one, fog starting to ease 43 degrees in center city. while it's in the thirds for the rest of the area, at least to start with. this afternoo

. >> the kings theatre is one of 5 movie places built by loews in the new york city area.ee are currently used by chuvenlingz. the other is a performing arts center. breaking the sound barrier isn't rocket science anymore. it was once considered impossible done by military jets every day and now by one daring google executive. ♪ alan eustis took a leap of faith from 136 thousand feet up, about 25 miles high. on his way down, he became the first person to break the sound barrier in just a spice suit. he plum edit to earth at 822 miles per hour in a free fall that lasted 4 and a half minutes. his jump is part of a project for a company working on making a self contained commercial space suchlt i am richelle carey in new york. "real money" is next. have a good night. >> the united states is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively, they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkille

the people bringing the loew's. >> mr.n has lived here his entire life and fought to preserve every piece of its history. >> look at that. >> is really something. >> but one spot hodes a special place in his heart the. the kings theatre. >> the first time i came here was in 1969. my wife and i had just gotten married. we lived in the neighborhood. this was not a movie theatre. it was it was a movie palrie pal. flood columns, shand leers, the 80 foot ceiling. it was immense and magnificent. >> build in 1929, it staged vaudeville performances, hosted concerts and showed big films of the era. the theatre survived the great depression but the king's couldn't last the 1970's blackout after the theatre shut its doors, decades of neglect, water damage and looting took their toll. architect gary martinez remembers opening the doors for the first time. >> the first time i walked in this space, into the theatre, i thought, gosh, this is so daunting. i mean it was really in bad shape. >> the restoration took a team of hundreds of peo

the view from the loews hotel. it will be a rainy, windy start, 14-mile-an-hour winds in philadelphia and 12-mile-an-hour winds for wilmington, northeast philadelphia at the airport and trenton right now has a 12-mile-an-hour wind. we saw some thunderstorm activity to start with in delaware. still some pretty good showers in new castle county in delaware. that's a line of showers that extends into trenton. the heaviest rainfall by far has been in ocean county. some areas seeing more than 5 inches of rain. but now the heavier showers are offshore. and look at this. starting to get some rain moving into the pocono mountains, and it's heading towards allentown, too. the first sprinkles are moving in. it's part of a system that's centered to our south that's going to stay with us today, tonight and tomorrow. so, a wet and windy one. on-and-off rainfall. gusty winds and temperatures only into the low 60s later today. and the wind will continue tomorrow with occasional showers and plenty of clouds for thursday. but the s

loew and they a would want me as i wanted them. ♪ [applause] >> thank you. have 2 parser that i think you will see particularly happily surprised by and possibly astonished. i went to the chinese conference -- the tribe of chinese, most of the chinese who settled the caribbean and latin america and difficult for you, -- california, and they are are a particular tribe. in the 1800s, the first arrived in jamaica. they were originally from northern china and were driven south by genghis khan. gatheredhem today are in a province and one of the southern provinces of china for the essay province that is -- china. -- it is a province against hong kong. when the british abolished slavery into the empire in 1838, they cannot force the africans to work for free anymore so they started importing indentured servants. the chinese and indians came into the caribbean and into latin america and in jamaica's case, to cut sugarcane. what do many of us do not know is that the chinese came to cut sugarcane, replacing the slaves. when it happened, they were only allowing males t

loew and they a would want me as i wanted them. ♪ [applause] >> thank you. have 2 parser that i think you will see particularly happily surprised by and possibly astonished. i went to the chinese conference -- the tribe of chinese, most of the chinese who settled the caribbean and latin america and difficult for you, -- california, and they are are a particular tribe. in the 1800s, the first arrived in jamaica. they were originally from northern china and were driven south by genghis khan. gatheredhem today are in a province and one of the southern provinces of china for the essay province that is -- china. -- it is a province against hong kong. when the british abolished slavery into the empire in 1838, they cannot force the africans to work for free anymore so they started importing indentured servants. the chinese and indians came into the caribbean and into latin america and in jamaica's case, to cut sugarcane. what do many of us do not know is that the chinese came to cut sugarcane, replacing the slaves. when it happened, they were only allowing males t

the barriers to entry are the loews in human history and literally change willing the world and improving the human condition around the world. none of this was envisioned in 1934 and very little in 1996. that wasn't that long ago, back when my hair was black. if is time to rethink this, federal spectrum, federal government occupying maybe 80% by some estimates, the best spectrum and what can we do to get the federal government to relinquish the spectrum, something secretary irving knows a lot b >> know a bit about your days back in the commerce. >> larry, you were there, obviously, all there in '96, larry was one of the principal architects of the telecom act and clearly, come also from the hill, had a real sensitive knit terms of congress. maybe talk a little bit about the early days of thinking about revising the communication act of 1934 in probably the most dramatic way it's been done since, which is the telecom act of '96. coming from the hill, what were some of the things that the hill was concerned about and how do you begin to think about that in terms of being in an administrati

. >>> get ready, five foot tall talking robots roaming the aisles at loews stores coming soon, equippedstore. the new technology being tested in california. no word on whether it's coming to other states. >>> she released her first hit album, "piece of you" nearly 20 years ago. today she's still shining. >> yep. not only does jewel continue to write songs, perform and be a mom to a three-year-old, she's also writing a memoir. so what's her secret to doing it all? >> joining us on the couch is singer, songwriter, jewel. good morning to you. >> how are you? >> you've got a great story. you should write your life story in a memoir. famously you were singing on street corners. >> yep. >> and then you branched out to coffee shops. >> yeah. >> how did that work? one of the coffee shop guys said, yeah, you can come in. we're going to charge at the door. but you only get paid tips? >> i moved out at 15, so probably destined for homelessness. i made it to 18 doing really well and supporting myself and when i wouldn't sleep with the boss, he fired me without giving me my paycheck. i started livin

that's the view from the loew's hotel in center city. the temperatures are started to climb.tional, it's 67 degrees. the humidity is up there and watching fog off to the north and west disappear. 60s across the board and heading towards 80s this afternoon. >> katy zachary has a look at traffic. >> fog is lifting from our roadways and that's a good thing for drivers but volume is building. a live look right now at 309 right near highland avenue. you can see brake lights because they're approaching an accident that just happened there in the last few minutes. 95 at cottman avenue. look at this drive time between wood haven and the vine. 45 minutes. so, slow going on 95 southbound there. >> katy, thanks. >>> a man that was stabbed at a bar in upper darby has died. miguel slashed his throat inside a fight on market street. it was caught on surveillance video, that's what you're looking at there. police are still looking for him. >>> delaware county will hold the first meeting of its ebola and infectious task force today. the task force will include police, fire, ems and workers f