nbc10's mitch blacher is joining us outside the courtroom with reaction to today's verdict. mitch? >> reporter: jim and renee, padge windslowe's daughter -- or sister, i should say, and her lawyers say they will appeal the jury's decision. the jury found her guilty of third-degree murder aggravated assault as well as possession of an instrument of crime. windslowe testified she's given thousands of silicone injections all without having any formal medical training. the philadelphia police lieutenant who cracked this case said that he hopes that it will serve as a lesson to young women. >> send a message, a lot of young ladies, society puts a lot of pressure on women, especially when they're young. unfortunately, they don't have the money to get these plastic surgeries they should get and they rely on, in today's world, google and the internet to look at some these things. always look at the internet and look for kriblgt of these sources. if they're not a doctor you shouldn't get the procedures. >> reporter: the prosecutors say windslowe made more than a half million dollars in cash

nbc10 investigator mitch blacher breaks down the numbers. >> reporter: it's a neck and neck money race between state senator anthony williams and former d.a. abrahams. abrahams reports he has $425,000 in the bank. abraham is a close second with $424,000. nelson diaz's campaign reports show he has $79,000. and councilman jim kenny's reports say he has $76,000. the four candidates are backed by powerful political action committee who is can legally raise more than $11,000 in a single donation. >> making government more accountable. >> reporter: the union-backed pac launched the first campaign ad. it supports jim kenney. >> the idea is to prevent corruption. >> reporter: michael cook is the the director of enforcement at philadelphia board of ethics. he makes sure the election is a clean one. >> the idea is to give people enough time before the election to make an assessment about who's funding the candidate and what the candidate is spending money on to see if it has any influence about what they want to do with their vote. >> reporter: the nbc10 investigators found former state senator

mitch blacher joins us. what did you find? >> we pored over the statistics and crunched the numbers and found traveling by school bus is still one of the safest ways to go. >> reporter: the pictures appeared to tell a different story. from fchl's west oak lane to pennsylvania's delaware county. even tuesday's crash in montgomery county seems to paint a spectacular picture of a worst-case scenario. but bus accident statistics show why they call most scenes like these accidents. >> by far it's safer for students to travel on the school bus than any other means of transportation. >> reporter: attorney richard kelly represents hundreds of school bus contractors in the delaware valley. the nbc10 investigators found federal research supports his school bus safety claims. statistics show less than one-half of 1% of fatal auto accidents in the u.s. involve school buses. we also found the riskiest part of traveling by school bus is boarding it. the federal stats show around the country people run the school bus stop arm 80,000 times a

mitch blacher live in center city where that verdict came down this afternoon. >> tell us about it. >> jim and renee, she's was convicted on three counts. we're talking about third degree murder aggravated assault as well as the possession of an inskrument of time. padge windslowe provided thousands of people with silicone injection without any medical training. a british daerns died under her care at an airport hotel. they will appeal. a police officer who helped break the case says she got what she deserves. >> god is still in control. i'm still there for my sister and i'm still going to stand with her till the end. >> made us sick to our stomachs that some human being could do that to another human being. she deserves as much time as she could get in simpral jail at this point. >> reporter: mitch blacher, "nbc10 news." >>> as we mentioned, many of you on nbc10 viewers found out about these verdicts first on the "nbc10 news" app. if you want to be among the first to learn about breaking news any time have the app downloaded on your smartphone or tablet. >>> a police cruiser that end

for the investigators, i'm mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. >> all right, mitch. the region is already preparing for the pope. >> and the millions of pilgrims will come to our region. today, the events leading up to the papal visit to philadelphia that will put the city on the world stage and why not just for catholics. >>> and paying for prescription pills. the thousands who pay too much for their medicine and can count on getting some of their money back. >>> new jersey is rolling back prescription co-pays for retired public workers. the move comes three months after an appeals court found the state hiked the rates illegally in 2013. the state will return the co-pays to their 2012 levels and it will compensate retirees who have been overpaying. >>> athe lehigh valley got a workout today. they loaded 20,000 food truck items headed to the second harvest food bank. they collected those items as part of a service project. >> we absolutely rely on done eggs. the 7 million pounds of food that second harvest distributed last year a little more than half of that is dona

thank you, george and our team coverage continues on nbc 10 with mitch blacher. >> mitch, that seems to be the epicenter and you've been able to get fairly close to that game stop. >> we're on the other side of the mcdonald's where george is on the other side of that. we're about 50 to 100 feet from george directly in front of the game stop. there is a stark contrast behind that police tape to where we are standing. the thrift mart grocery store, it is still open right in front of the hope plaza parking lot. a lot of the people who were shopping when this incident happened, they are still here. the police have kept them here. they are questioning them and taking their information and trying to gather as much information as possible. we'll continue to gather information, of course and pass it along to you as we collect it. let's go back to the studio. >> mitch, do we know how crowded that game stop was? we know on a day like today with the bad weather we've had, so many businesses are closed and do we have any idea how crowded that store was this afternoon? >> that's a question we sti

mitch blacher found gas leaking on city streets, some are now open to new options. tell us about it. >> they include private companies replacing more than 1500 miles of leaking and aging gas lines. the city council has refused to tell it outright but when we started asking about leaks, the city chair asked for ideas to fix those leaking mains. david is a gas worker he's a school teacher. he's looking for gas readings. and having no trouble finding them with a gas detector he bought online. he is one of a dozen people on gray's ferry avenue who say they continue smelling gas near their homes. he's low budget gas reader confirmed what his nose was telling him. >> you know not trusting the authority of those people. >> reporter: those people are the people running philadelphia gas works, including the city council. >> i resent people thinking we're the problem. >> reporter: as chairwoman of the philadelphia gas commission council member tasko chose to stand by the 88-year gas main replacement schedule. she stood with the rest of the council against selling the pgw to a

investigative reporter mitch blacher is reporting. how much is the city spending? >> we're talking about $25 million for philadelphia to lease one million square feet of office space. it's not the first time the city has been accused of not using what taxpayers pay for. nine floor inside the aramark tower for $5.5 million. seven floors at 13th and chestnut for another $4.5 million and more than $2 million for a floor inside this building at sixth and walnut. in all, the city of philadelphia leases 37 spaces costing nearly $25 million a year. >> a lot of places that just have too much space. >> mayor nutter appointed businessman tom knox to chair a review of city property in 2013. that report concluded the city appears to lease far more space than it needs and knox says some offices with million-dollar views were only used for storage. >> how much wasted space are we talking about? >> hundreds of thousands of square feet. >> the nbc 10 investigators found since the report came out in november 2013 the city of philadelphia has leased 200,000 additional square feet an

mitch blacher with more. >> reporter: she faces multiple convictions and as much as 70 years in prison. padge windslowe gave thousands of women silicone injections. >> she was a liar. it was a front. >> reporter: she's a convicted murderer because prosecutors proved her scheme turned deadly. >> she did it for the money. pure and simple. that she could bring in women and charge them thousands of dollars to put a fraudulent body in their body. >> reporter: windslowe sold herself as a physician's assistant despite having no medical training. she said women, including celebrities, wanted her services. her lawyer was asked if she would have used her butt enhancement services. >> my butt's big enough. >> the battle isn't over yet. god is still in control. i'm still being there for my sister and i'll stand with her till the end. >> reporter: prosecutors say windslowe made as much as $600,000 in cash. they say that went to a recording studio, posh cars, jewelry and clothes. we're live in center city mitch blacher, "nbc10 news." >>> check out the video here showing a wrong-way crash that happen

blacher nbc 10 news. >> thank you, mitch. how bad are the bridges you cross every day? you can find out. just search by zip code just use your nbc news app by your smartphone or tablet. >> your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> blue skies, sunshine all across the region today. nbc 10 on the campus of drexel university where folks were still bundled up the winds made it feel cooler than yesterday. >> nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz with the nbc 10 first alert forecast. >> it is definitely cooler today and the sunshine though and the sky. the sky is just spectacular color of blue. this is up in the poconos and the other reason i wanted to show this to you is look at all of the ice that's melted there, and just in the last few days with this warmer weather things have changed significantly. the temperature has changed since yesterday. it's down about 10 degrees. mid-40s to the low 50s plus the wind on top of that making it feel even cooler. it's bone dry now, but there is rain that's going to be co

he spoke to our investigative reporter mitch blacher. what's the explanation? >> reporter: there is no explanation why he was 25 days late in telling the public where his campaign got its money. he's been busy explaining to a judge why he should be allowed to stay in the race. in the past week mayoral candidate t. milton streit has spent more time in a courtroom than campaign trail. >> it's politics. >> reporter: he's been fighting questions about whether he lives in philadelphia which any mayoral candidate must. >> if they don't have anything on this. they have to reach for something. you know and it's -- you know i don't -- you know it's just foolish. >> reporter: the controversy started when he mistakenly filed as an independent instead of a democrat. the allegations surfaced that street lived with a girlfriend in new jersey. a judge has said street's name can be on the ballot as a democrat. his residency will be decided later this week. but the nbc10 investigators found new questions about his campaign's transparency. this campaign finance report filed by f

mitch blacher in the chestnut hill section of philadelphia. we checked with you an hour ago in the cedarbrook section then. how have conditions changed in the last hour? >> reporter: here in chestnut hill pretty much the same thing as we saw over in other parts of northwest philadelphia. you can see the slush on the street, it is passable. we have seen cars have really very little trouble getting through. it is slick and slippery. they're passing through it. the thing we have been keeping our eye on are the septa buses. we know at this point about exactly 30 septa buses had trouble with the snow they had to be dug out. the passengers moved to other buses. septa seems to be handling this as well as possible. we talked to some of the drivers in buses as far as their conditions go. they say that they are just taking it slow and had they do get stuck, the septa management is doing a good job. you were talking about the fact that a lot of businesses are closed. here the library is open and a business that pretty much everybody might need today, thi

thank you, george and our team coverage continues on nbc 10 with mitch blacher. >> mitch, that seems to be the epicenter and you've been able to get fairly close to that game stop. >> we're on the other side of the mcdonald's where george is on the other side of that. we're about 50 to 100 feet from george directly in front of the game stop. there is a stark contrast behind that police tape to where we are standing. the thrift mart grocery store, it is still open right in front of the hope plaza parking

nbc10 investigators reporter mitch blacher has been looking into this case. >> tell us about the case against this ex-firefighter. >> reporter: they say he stole more than 82,000 by defrauding state police and firefighters from the disability pension. he collected disability as he worked as a martial arts instructor and participated in competitive mix the martial arts. shane streiter applied in 2009 claiming he was disabled because of two accidents while on duty. in each incident he claims to have injured his back or neck. but this video shows a very different story. state officials found it online. we highlighted streiter for you. this is from a highly competitive mixed martial arts tournament in las vegas in 2010. in a statement to acting new jersey attorney general said in part it's outrageous this former firefighter was showing off his prowess in mixed martial arts all the while lying about his disability. streater has been charged with theft by deception. he could get up to ten years in prison if convicted. >>> to breaking news now in montgomery county. an officer has been shot.

mitch blacher is live. what is it like where you are? i see the snow coming down. >> reporter: it is coming down pretty -- at a pretty steady pace at this point. it is as light as we have seen it since we have been out here, still pretty heavy. we're at cheltenham avenue. you can see the street the conditions, it is pretty slippery. we have seen a lot of slipouts and couple of spinouts from cars. we actually came up here because septa had some buses that were up here and they were stuck and had to be dug out and supervisors had to come and escort some of the passengers to another bus, auxiliary bus. septa tells us that 25 buses throughout philadelphia had that same problem today. as you said there is a snow emergency in philadelphia basically means get your cars off of the snow emergency routes, or they will be towed. trash pickup has been canceled today in philadelphia. at this point, the streets are in the kind of shape you would think they're in. a lot of slick -- we encountered ice undersneeth theneath the street as we came up. the t