Many of the well dressed attendees, like NY1 traffic reporter Jamie Shupack were caught in a downpour entering the hotel.

Callie Schweitzer of Talking Points Memo.(TPM) and Sara Ganim of The Patriot-News The Pulitzer Prize board lauded Ganim and the newspaper for “courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.” In March 2011, Ganim broke the news that Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was under investigation for alleged child sexual abuse. It’s the first Pulitzer Prize for the news organization, which was founded in 1854.

The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib

David Arquette is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, fashion designer, and occasional professional wrestler.

Ginnifer Goodwin, is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her role as Margene Heffman on Big Love, and for her roles in films like Mona Lisa Smile , Something Borrowed and He's Just Not That into You. She currently has a lead role in the ABC series Once Upon a Time.

Omar Hashim Epps is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and record producer.His film roles include Major League II, Juice, Higher Learning, Scream 2, The Wood, In Too Deep, and Love and Basketball. Epps' television work includes the role of Dr. Dennis Gant on the US medical drama series ER, and since 2004 Dr. Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House. Epps is the only main cast member of House to have appeared on both ER and the aforementioned series.

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

Kerry Washington is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Ray Charles's wife, Della Bea Robinson, in the film Ray (2004), as Idi Amin's wife Kay in The Last King of Scotland, and as Alicia Masters, love interest of Ben Grimm/The Thing in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007. She has also starred in the critically acclaimed independent films Our Song and The Dead Girl, and is the lead actress in the 2012 ABC drama Scandal, a Shonda Rhimes series where Washington plays Olivia Pope, a former crisis management expert to the President.

Charlize Theron is a South African actress. She started her acting career in the United States and rose to fame in the late 1990s following roles in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), becoming the first African to win an Academy Award in a major acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for her performance in North Country (2005). Theron became a US citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship.

Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live

Tamron Hall hosts “NewsNation,” which airs weekdays from 2-3 p.m. on MSNBC

Dana Bash, CNN

Reggie Love

Arianna Huffington

Chris Matthews and wife Kathleen Matthews

Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, reporter, and commentator for NBC News based in Washington, D.C..

David Gregory, host of Meet the Press

Kelly O'Donnell Is a political reporter for NBC News.

Wolf Blitzer, CNN

Megan McCain

Jim Cramer

Michael Isikoff is an investigative journalist for NBC News

Thomas Roberts, news anchor of MSNBC

Michael Steele

Chirs Kofinis (Joe Manchin Chief of Staff)

Education activist Michelle Rhee and her husband, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson

Education activist Michelle Rhee and her husband, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson

David Frum?

Roger Simon is the Chief Political Columnist of Politico

The Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan.

Al Hunt

Viola Davis. Beginning her career on the stage, Davis won a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004). She won a second Tony and a third Drama Desk Award for her role in Fences (2010). Some of her notable films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), Solaris (2002) and The Help (2011). Her eleven-minute-long performance in the film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (2008) earned several honors, including an Academy Award nomination. Her role in the film The Help has garnered two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a BAFTA Award nomination, another Academy Award nomination, and a Golden Globe nomination. In addition to her success, she was listed as Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Jonathan Alter is an American journalist and author who was a columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011. He is currently a lead columnist for Bloomberg View, a new commentary website

Kelly Ripa is an American actress, talk show host, and television producer. Ripa, who played Hayley Vaughan on the television soap opera All My Children from 1990–2002, is best known as host of the popular syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly. Additionally, Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos own a New York based production company, Milojo. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.

Kelly Ripa is an American actress, talk show host, and television producer. Ripa, who played Hayley Vaughan on the television soap opera All My Children from 1990–2002, is best known as host of the popular syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly. Additionally, Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos own a New York based production company, Milojo. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.

Nikki Schwab, 'Yeas and Nays' columnist with the Examiner

Nikki Schwab, 'Yeas and Nays' columnist with the Examiner