let's talk a little bit about negrin, as well, specifically because the fraternal order of police inhiladelphia, which has clashed with seth williams, the current da, announced its support for rich negrin this week, along with the guardian civic league and other law-enforcement groups. how big is that endorsement? >> significant, but maybe not decisive. the new candidate makes six white candidates running in the democratic primary. i think tariq el-shabazz has to be celebrating that he is, at least at this point, the only black candidate in that seven-way primary. so i think that all union endorsements are significant in the city of philadelphia, but in a multi-candidate race, anything can happen. >> but this becomes less significant -- i won't say it's unimportant -- unless rich can get enough money to promote it. i mean, at the end of the day, if it doesn't get promoted, it's the bomb that goes off in the middle of the desert that nobody sees. this is an organizational race. so the ward leaders are gonna make a lot of money, and the political operatives are gonna make a lot of mone

negrin is democrat and the city's former managing director. he's one of seven democrats and one republican vying to become philadelphia's neck district attorney. >>> man drives up to a gas pump starts filling up his tank but he never drives off from that gas station. instead someone else does. yeah someone stole that $60,000 range rover and police have warning for folks who are filling up. fox 29's dawn timmeney live at philadelphia police headquarte headquarters. dawn? >> reporter: lawsuits see, police say turn your car off and lock it when you're filling up or going to the store. investigators say these kinds of car thefts are very common at this time of year, because it gets cold, people leave their cars on trying to keep them warm and that gives thieves the perfect opportunity to pounce and it only takes a minute. >> left his car rupping. someone followed him in off the boulevard. >> reporter: as the unsuspecting owner of this 2012 land rover phil his gas tank at sunoco station on cottman avenue and roosevelt boulevard in mayfair, two car

>> i think ajay and i agree that it looks like, you know, rich negrin has the most visibility at thisoint. but it's too early to tell in terms of what's gonna happen, 'cause you have no idea where the party's gonna go... >> right. >> ...where johnny dock is gonna go. so, until the party really decides how they're gonna run the structure, even if they call it an open primary, they essentially -- it's a controlled race. when you have the district attorney's race, the turnout is extremely low. you usually get 15% to 20% turnout, and as a result of that, whoever the democratic party decides to push -- i think that'll be -- >> rich negrin would be the first hispanic if he gets the nomination. >> if he got in. >> and a former managing director for mayor nutter -- for the city, before that, a long-time aramark executive as well. a very solid guy. in a crowded field, though, that's really what it does, 'cause you can have 14%, 15%, 18% turnout. whoever the party endorses will be the person. i do love, though -- only in philadelphia, i feel like, getting back to the other thing -- the fellow w

rich negrin told nbc 10 the new district attorney must restore the trust in the office. >> we can't have a real person that has real credibility and viability, then we don't have integrity at the top. >> we have a statement from the mayor tonight. he says public officials need to raise the bar and their behavior and show philadelphia that they can uphold the law. live in center city, i'm brandon hudson, nbc 10 news. >>> as brendan mentioned, right now there are eight candidates in the race for district attorney. seven democrats, one republican. democrats will be narrowed down to one after the primary in may. >> for months the nbc 10 investigators tracked the ongoing investigation against seth williams. our own mitch blocker tried numerous times to get answers from the d.a. you can see what we uncovered and get all of the details from today's indictment right now by going to nbc 10.com. >>> turning now to the weather. the calm before the cold in west philadelphia. this was the scene near 54th street and city avenue. plenty of people out enjoying the spring-like temps. that is about to cha