copland initially agreed to talk to us about our investigation that found the district has consistently overestimated how much money it needs. but he cancelled the interview after the court's recent ruling. >> we're making a best guess for the next year. >> reporter: district spokesman doug young says the over-budgeting wasn't done on purpose. >> every district has to go through an extensive budget process. >> reporter: our nbc 10 investigation finds lower merion is not alone. we looked into 12 suburban philadelphia school district budgets for the last six years. 11 consistently told taxpayers they needed more money than they did. according to our analysis, lower merion, central bucks, and downing town area schools had the biggest differences between what they told taxpayers and what they spent. it adds up to tens of millions of tax dollars. >> we were doing it in secret. we were not telling the public what we were doing. >> reporter: former unionville chance school board member keith smith says he convinced the school board to stop the practice. now he's an expert witness in the case.

police say that the thomas copland prowling through rooms right after he walked into his room. he ran out and flagged down a neighbor and called for help. he got into an unlock back door. >> good for him. keeping his cool. scary. >> that's right, keep your head about things, headed out the door -- >> yogi berra said if you come to a fork in the road, take it. yeah, there you go. sky5 over a crash scene here, the expressway southbound from the ramp, granite avenue, not northbound on the expressway, about 35 minutes now out of the braintree split up to the o'neal tunnel, and we'll go to the maps, 95 northbound, a crash here. delays from route 1 into canton, and 128, delays all the way up towards the mass pike at this time. and 495 southbound, a crash keeping things slow, trying to get towards the mass pike, and the delays almost back to 290, and if you are taking the trains this morning, middleborough train, 004, up to 25 minute delays due to ear issues. in the weather department, really not too bad today, another nice one. just how high are we going to get today there cindy? >>