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

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. jonathan tisch runs the company with his cousin and is also the chairman of loews hotels. >> he took this area and made it guest friendly. >> he completed a massive luxury renovation of a flagship hotel that is near and dear to his heart.

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

that's the area where the loews hotel is located. that area had been closed while crews were making repairs. >>> we have new information this morning on the condition of the woman injured when a temple university student fell on top of her from eight stories up. the family of erica goodwin says she's been upgraded from serious to critical condition. goodwin was hurt when 18-year-old rebecca kim fell out of a center city window thursday night. kim died after landing on goodwin, who was on the sidewalk below. rebecca kim was a freshman at temple university who grew up in montgomery county. police say she fell to her death after climbing out of the window to take pictures. >>> an afternoon at the gym was cut short for some folks in camden county yesterday. they had to be evacuated after witnesses say someone pulled out a gun. a viewer sent us this video from outside of the l.a. fitness in summerdale. people at the gym tell us that an employee was working out there when some type of an altercation happened and he took out a gun. official

that shut down waterlines to a closed office building as well as an open and busy loews hotel. that's nearly all the hotel's 581 rooms including jared richie's. >> that made it a little challenging to take a shower use the bathroom. >> reporter: so no water for the shower and you were getting dressed in the dark? >> no water no power and everything in the dark. actually no heat either so the rooms are getting a little cold. >> no water and no electric in the hotel. >> reporter: not good news for a hotel. >> not exactly what we would like to have this evening, but we are trying our best to accommodate our guests. we are offering them other options in the city if that's something that they would like. and a lot of our guests have been extremely understanding and are hanging out in the lobby. >> reporter: we were there when the electricity came back on around 9:00. hotel guests hopped back on the elevators to head back up to their rooms, but they may be without water for quite a while. >> repairs will take eight to ten hours to restore water to the hotel. >> reporter: and you can

around 6:00 last night, a water main ruptured underground, leaking water into the sub-basement at the loews hotel at 12th and market streets. the hotel's electric lines were down, so that meant no power or water for the guests. hotel management told us that they were close to full occupancy. >> no water, no power, everything in the dark. and actually no heat either, so the rooms are getting a little cold but that's all right. >> power was restored around 9:00 last night and the water started flowing about 30 minutes ago. 12th street between market and chestnut has also reopened. it was closed while crews made the repairs. >>> we have some new information this morning on the condition of the woman injured when a temple student fell on her from eight stories up. erica goodwin's family says that she's been upgraded from critical to serious condition. goodwin was hurt when 18-year-old rebecca kim fell from a center city window thursday night. kim died after landing on goodwin, who was walking below. kim was a freshman at temple university and went to high school in montgomery county. police say

around 6:00 last night, a water main ruptured underground, leaking water into the subbasement at the loews hotel at 12th and market street. no power or water for the guests. hotel management tell us they were close to full occupancy, but power was eventually restored right around 9:00 last night and the water began to flow again about 5:00 this morning. >>> philadelphia university is trying to reach a fund-raising goal by tomorrow the one-year anniversary of the murder of an architect. a robber shot and killed 26-year-old amber long for her purse in northern liberties. the gunman and another robber are still on the loose. long's mother established a memorial scholarship at philadelphia university where long studied, to help other architecture students. $19,000 had been raised so far. the goal is $25,000 by tomorrow. if you would like more information on donating you can use our nbc 10 news app or you can go to our website. >>> we have some new information this morning on the condition of the woman injured when a temple student fell on top of her from eight stories up. erica goodwin's famil

you can still see a lot of snow there in the parking lot at the loews here in frederick, maryland. this is bucky's town pike route 85 and we can tell you the commute, even though there was no snow, the commute was still very difficult for many throughout the day with all that rain and freezing rain overnight. traffic was very light and very slow at this hour, still very cold and still a lot of rain coming down so you want to give yourself plenty of time and you'll go slower on the roads today. when you see the salt trucks today, you will see them, you definitely want to give them a lot of time to maneuver. >> the ice is on the overpasses ramps, some of the bottom areas cold spots, in the valleys. they ice up first because the cold air sits. it doesn't move. and we hit them really hard first and then you know like some of the open areas, they're pretty good. but we do it constantly so fluctuation, temperature up or down and we can have another mess. >> and workers like bret have been working very hard today. he got out here at midnight and he says he still has a couple more hours of

look at the antenna there on top of the loews hotel in center city. that wind is going to be with us right on through the day. right now it's steady at 14 miles an hour. we're getting gusts of 24 miles an hour. so the temperature is still falling, and we're in the 40s now, but it's 30s for this afternoon. and it was rain yesterday in the pocono mountains. good news is the slopes will get some of the real stuff. mother nature getting some snow for tomorrow. for today, you can see the clouds that are blowing through the area. some fast-moving clouds will be thinning out as the day goes on. but then overnight tonight, this batch of clouds moving in. it is in the northwest this morning, montana, idaho, wyoming getting some snowfall from this and this is a clipper that's going to be moving rapidly through the midwest and then into our area tomorrow morning. the future weather shows that it's going to be 9:00 this evening by the time it reaches the midwest. that fast-moving system will be here tomorrow morning. dry overnight tonight, but at 8:00 tomorrow mo

>> i think the alarming number is labor force participation is at the loews level since 1978.rles: no one was ready for that. why are people still -- why have they given up? >> because there really isn't much out there. a lot of the jobs have been part-time jobs and lower paying jobs and they aren't really finding the work. what we are seeing in the small-business market are those that are ready to hire, and i won't be debbie downer when it comes to the small-business market right now, but they can find very few qualified to were skilled workers work in those jobs. charles: what percent? >> 43%. i know you have numbers that showed 70 something. >> okay, we want to hire this in the local areas, they don't have the job skills or they just don't have what we need at this particular time. those 3000 people would disagree. so right now that is one of my justifications for the market. >> is as far as wages going, i think i will keep them in the sidelines, keep getting jobs between 250, we are moving along. and to me that is good enough to get by. >> i love to see this economy accele

this is a view from center city from the loew's hotel. you can see just very light snowflakes. a dusting in parts of the area. cold enough for snow but much warmer than yesterday. and numbers are 17 degrees warmer in philadelphia. but the wind is still a factor. feels like 15 degrees with the wind blowing. the snow is back on and the pocono mountains off and on since we went on the air at 4:00. blue mountain which we'll see a light accumulation and a dusting expected in philadelphia and into new jersey and delaware. you can see steady snow is continuing into chester county and just off to the north and's already starting to taper off. moving into cape may, not far away. starting to cross delaware bay right now. sunshine will break through as the clouds move out this afternoon and the temperatures will be warmer during the afternoon hours. yesterday's high was 21. we'll be in the 30s today with sunshine and the snow long gone by this afternoon. tomorrow, the 30s will be long gone. teens in the morning and 22 in the afternoon and lots of sunshine but a bitter cold day saturday an

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mow nont nous it's a waste of taxpayer money and one of the reasons this institution is held in such loewssteam. yield back. >> collins? >>> thank you very much. i want to welcome our second panel that's here. i know you've been waiting -- from georgia who has joined the committee. mr. chairman thank you very much for taking time to do this today. today we're going to move now to the hr-30, save american workers act of 2015. excuse me. we're moving to keystone pipeline which is saving building america workers thousands of jobs and the consumers who would benefit therein. hr-3 keystone xl pipeline. obviously, i note that we have two gentlemen that are with us who care very much about this by and one who has concerns about it from energy and commerce committee, mr. polon. we'll have you open to anything. anything you had in writing will be entered into the record. mr. schuster is recognized. >> thank you for having me here to discuss the consideration of the rule hr-3 to approve the keystone pipeline act. it's based on the cassidy pipeline bill. the keystone pipeline is the most extensively