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Whether this is one for the record books because it's still snowing in eastern massachusetts and southwestern maine, but certainly, the snowfall totals have huge impacts on people's lives and seeing snowfall totals up to three to eight inches in connecticut. >> uma: that's amazing because obviously, we haven't had this type of a storm of this magnitude in some time. >> we've had a couple of quiet winter comparatively speaking, but it's winter and you get snowstorms and this is certainly a major one. it's certainly going to be comparable to some of the major storms seen in southern new england ...

Mike, those numbers suggest where we have been. where am lis say going construction jobs. >> one analyst told me today he expects there will be gradual improvement in hiring in the construction industry over the next year or two. he is looking for signs of hope while is he troubled about more skilled workers leaving the field. >> it's discouraging that the industry has not yet been adding jobs but when you combine it with some other things like the announcement of a big air bus plant going in to alabama, very strong demand for apartment construction. can you see that there are still areas of s...

>> construction sector is the hardest hit with unemployment peaking at 27.1% since february 2010. and was still well above the national average at 12.8% last month. the numbers are improving but simonson says the reality is some 750,000 experienced workers have left the field in the last two years. >> they're finding job jobs in other industry, not in construction. maybe truck driving, manufacturing services or they're going back to school. retiring. >> reality because employment in the field has essentially been stagnant for much of the past two years. experts say construction demends on over...

Quite a robust period in the middle of the 2000s, the median net worth of a family dropped lom 39% between 2007 and 2010. most of that is your home. that's what's really drove it. but here's another interesting chart. if you were at the top, up up 1.9%. if you were at the bottom, you lost 27.1%. but if you were in the middle you lost anywhere from 29% to 35% because the people in the middle are the ones who depend most heavily on their houses for their net wealth. and finally there's another survey that came out a little while ago i was saving up for a moment like this which looks at the house...

Study from northeastern university, they say it is more of a depression for the blue-collar segment of the population and the hardest hit industry is construction, 27.1% of construction workers are unemployed, and actually we're in a bright spot today in the economy, the see crest resort conference center on cape cod and they are undergoing renovations which means folks are employed here to talk to us about that, and, john daly with scout construction. -- scout capital, the project manager you have been getting -- >> we have been contacted from maces as far away as colorado, texas, florida, 2,...