an incredibly tough couple of months for my family. we have the right to defend

ourselves. the american people have reached a bipartisan agreement i think the public is just shocked. good morning and welcome to "sunday today" on this march 24th. i'm hallie jackson in for willie this morning. and in russia, a national day of mourning, 48 hours after that horrific terror attack at a concert hall in moscow that left at least 133 people dead. isis claiming responsibility but that's not stopping the russian president from pointing a finger at ukraine instead. we'll have the latest in a live report just ahead. plus, a "sunday focus" on the palace intrigue swirling around princess kate, who is now revealing doctors discovered cancer during her abdominal surgery in january. so will that finally stop the speculation surrounding her for months? then, our "sunday spotlight" on the california teenager who had a bright idea that's taken

off, collecting and cleaning old lego kits and giving them to kids and community groups who might not otherwise be able to get these beloved bricks. and later, willie's "sunday sitdown" with country superstar kenny chesney on another album release, taking his show on the road and finding his groove by keeping it real with his no shoes nation. >> i was trying to be another version of what was popular at the time instead of really being myself. once i started to really get genuine and authentic about what i did, that's when it all changed. what a concept. >> what a concept. that "sunday sitdown" with kenny chesney plus another "life well lived" later on in the show. let's start this morning with what we're learning about the deadly attack in moscow, two days after gunmen stormed a concert hall and shot everybody they saw. nbc's matt bradley has more from london. matt, what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning,

hallie. it's a national day of mourning, flags are flying at half-staff. public events, many of them, have been canceled, and russia is waiting for their government to make good on the promise it will punish those who perpetrate this had crime. today moscow still smolders as the death toll continues to climb. at least 133 people were killed and hundreds more injured after as many as four gunmen attacked a packed house at this concert hall. shooting automatic weapons, throwing bombs, and dousing the building in flammable chemicals. this video showing gunmen opening fire on victims even as they huddled on the ground. i honestly thought it was a firecracker, said this witness. but these crackles, they were -- they weren't stopping. there was screaming, panic. at least some of the gunmen were able to flee.

russian authorities say since then everyone have been caught. 11 arrested including 4 who participated directly in the attack. islam claimed responsibility. they have no reason not to take the terror group at their word. videos were aired friday night showing interrogations of two suspects. one is asked why he did it. "i did it for money," he replies. the isis claim didn't stop russian politicians from trying to blame a more familiar enemy. ukraine. russian president vladimir putin said saturday the perpetrators were caught as they fled toward ukraine, where they had expected to be welcomed. ukraine has denied any involvement. the national security spokesperson said they shared information with russia about a planned terror attack in moscow. they also said isis is solely responsible and ukraine had no involvement. today is officially a day of national mourning in russia. now russians are queueing in

clinics trying to donate blood to stop their nation from bleeding. and, hallie, the russian government is trying to sow doubt about who commit this had attack. the islamic state has already shared a video of the attack, presumably shot by one of the attackers. hallie? >> matt bradley, thank you for that update. back here at home millions in the northeast are start to go clean up after saturday's downpours left homes and roads flooded. and now a first weekend of spring that will feel like winter with up to a foot of snow possible in the midwest. nbc's jesse kirsch is in minneapolis this morning where they are bracing for it. hey, jesse, good morning. >> reporter: hallie, good morning. when we think of spring, we're probably not thinking of snow, and yet here it is coming down again in the twin cities this is just the beginning of what we're expecting. we'll cap off a rough weekend of weather. parts of new york state as well as parts of new england already seeing more than 2 feet of snow this weekend and more than 200,000 customers are reportedly

without power in maine with thousands more in the dark in new hampshire. other parts of the region had intense rain, winds, and flooding as well. on saturday alone, philadelphia was pummeled by more than 3 inches of rain and flooding. the national weather service says that was the wettest day in march for the city of brotherly love going back to the 1870s. meanwhile today 12 million people are facing winter weather alerts farther west including heavy snow from the dakotas to minnesota where at times strong winds could cause blizzard-like conditions. we're expecting steady snowfall through tuesday. and look at that, some areas could get 18 inches of snow. on top of all of that, to the south, 53 million are under wind alerts, and there's also the lookout for some severe weather. that means the potential for tornadoes for some people as well. hallie? >> lots to watch out for this week. jesse, bundled up for us. to politics and time running out for former president trump

to post half a billion bond in his fraud trial. if he doesn't secure this bond, some of his new york properties could end up seized. nbc's vaughn hillyard is following this one for us. hey, vaughn, good morning. >> reporter: tomorrow's deadline will tell us a lot about former president trump's financial stability and the future of his corporation. he needs to post an appeal bond of more than $464 million after a judge found him to have engaged in years of financial fraud. there is a chance that a state appeals court could delay this deadline until after it hears that legal team's actual appeal, but that hasn't happened yet. and new york attorney general, letitia james, has already begun the process of preparing to potentially seize several of his properties, including the seven springs estate and trump national golf club just north of manhattan and potentially several trump skyscrapers right here in the city as well. his own attorney has said 30 surety companies have denied mr. trump's request for a bond,

though trump, in a social media post this week, undercut his own attorney's claims, saying he has nearly half a billion in cash on hand. on top of that financial deadline, mr. trump will be here in new york city tomorrow morning for an unrelated hearing, one that could determine when the first of his four criminal trials will begin. this hearing, about the alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels around the 2016 election. it was supposed to start tomorrow, but the judge granted a delay until at least april 15th. hallie, it will be a big day for the presumptive republican nominee in new york city. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you. kristen welker is moderator of "meet the press." hey, friend, good morning. >> good morning, hallie. good to see you. >> you heard vaughn lay it out there. the former president said in this post he has this half a billion dollars basically in cash for bond. his lawyers say he does not have it. the deadline is tomorrow. what are the consequences if he doesn't actually post this? >> well, there are the practical

and the political consequences. if he doesn't post this, hallie, as vaughn was just laying out, the judge could potentially move to start to seize some of his properties, but the political -- look, he has cast himself as a victim of political persecution, without any evidence, in all of these legal battles, so he'll undoubtedly continue to do that. but, look, i've been having conversations with republicans. they say donors are getting quite frustrated by being asked to pony up money to pay for trump's legal bills. now what's also notable, president biden in private fund-raisers has started to poke fun at trump for this lack of cash. that's gotten a good laugh at fund-raisers. my question, will we start to see president biden take that show on the road? in other words, will he start to do this at actual campaign events? i want to zoom out for a moment, though, hallie. historically speaking, you know money doesn't always indicate

who is going to win. right now president biden has more than double what trump has in his war chest. but go back to 2016. hillary clinton had more money in her war chest when trump was able to beat her, so we'll have to see how this all plays out, but it certainly is looming very large over the 2024 campaign, hallie. >> that is for sure. kristen, thank you so much. we'll look for more this morning, of course, when kristen is joined exclusively by former supreme court justice stephen breyer as well as the former chair of the republican national committee, ronna mcdaniel. don't miss it. to some breaking news out of the vatican on this palm sunday n. a very unusual move, pope francis skipped reading his homily while presiding over mass in st. peter's square this morning. now the pope's been dealing with several health battles over the last few weeks including bronchitis and the flu. in the past, when the pope has had to skip a reading, an aide has done it for him. but this morning, the homily was not read at all. all of it, obviously, putting a bigger spotlight on the pope in

the week leading up to easter. we are learning more this morning about the deadly school bus crash be in texas on friday. a bus with dozens of preschoolers onboard. one child was killed, about ten others hurt. the bus, coming back from a field trip, was hit by a concrete truck going the wrong way. a driver in another car was killed as well. saturday the school district said the bus did not have seat belts and said they'll be looking into adding them in the future. listen, if you haven't checked your powerball ticket yet, let me be the first to tell you you didn't win. nobody else won either. nobody matched all the numbers in last night's drawing. so now the huge jackpot is up to $800 million for monday. couple that with the mega millions jackpot at $1.1 billion, that's nearly $2 billion up for grabs for one or maybe a few lucky folks. we'll see. to a big day for college basketball fans. with the second round of march madness wrapping up later today for the men, the women, they're just getting started. iowa's caitlin clark once again

is showing why she is the most exciting basketball player in the country right now. maybe even the planet. we have all the highlights this morning. she is unstoppable, marissa. good to see you. >> reporter: hallie, good morning. if you're watching this, you're feeling bleary-eyed. chances are you, too, were up late watching games. you know there were some nailbiters. we have women heating up the second round. men dancing into the sweet 16 after some very dramatic games in true march madness fashion. >> deep three, good! >> reporter: this morning the road to the championship -- >> now he's going to drop a two -- >> reporter: just a little bit clearer amid all the madness. >> poked away. alexander at the horn! >> reporter: creighton and oregon in a double overtime thriller after midnight. >> with stones in pittsburgh! >> reporter: the blue jays eventually pulling away. and in a battle of the underdogs --

>> and the wolfpack are riding this wave. >> reporter: the glass slipper belongs to long shot nc state. the 11 seed wolfpack heading to the sweet 16 for the first time in nine years. >> great dish. >> reporter: ending the 14 seed oakland golden grizzlies' cinderella story of their own in an overtime nailbiter n. a battle of the titans -- the five seed gonzaga bulldogs hit the long ball and slam dunked their way to an upset. beating the four seed kansas jayhawks. also punching their ticket to the sweet 16, iowa state firing up cyclone nation after hitting three after fadeaway three. >> and the answer! >> what a start. >> reporter: and on the women's side of the big dance, big-time buckets. >> this three ball -- >> reporter: and across-the-board highlights -- >> a 10-0 run and another

takeaway. >> reporter: the mountaineers escaping with a win after a neck and neck contest with princeton setting up a monday night showdown against an icon. >> and there she brings a sigh of relief. >> reporter: as caitlin clark looks to cement her record-setting legacy with her first ncaa championship win. clark, showing frustration, even taking this shot to the face. her response -- driving, shooting, and passing, 27 points in a hard-earned victory against holy cross. >> i only have one more time to play in this building. i love this place a lot. i will enjoy every single second on monday. >> reporter: lots of exciting matchups coming. all eyes on caitlin clark tomorrow. tonight we will get answers to questions like will the gaels be the second ivy league school after princeton did it last year? for everyone watching those games, i know i have a basketball here, but i think we all need right now is a stress

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the royal family's used to living life in a fishbowl with constant speculation about their private lives, and lately it's been kate, the princess of wales, who has been the one in the harsh glare of the public spotlight. commentors online wondering why she hadn't been seen out and about since her abdominal surgery in january. but now that kate has put those questions to rest with her cancer revelation, will it be enough to stop the relentless rumor mill? nbc's molly hunter takes a look in our "sunday focus." coming on the air with breaking news from the royal family -- >> reporter: after weeks of breathless coverage, the princess of wales finally broke her silence on friday to announce she's undergoing treatment for cancer. >> this, of course, came as a huge shock. william and i have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family. >> reporter: the deeply personal

video message ending months of questions and speculation about the 42-year-old's health following planned abdominal surgery back in january. >> it has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family. >> reporter: the clamor for information had reached a fever pitch, and without regular updates from kensington palace, the information vacuum filled with wild speculation. last week the british prime minister even intervened, his spokesperson calling on brits to get behind the princess of wales. the leader of the opposition chiming in, too. >> i think that we should leave her alone. she deserves privacy. >> reporter: and after that digitally altered mother's day photo intended to quell the rumor mill, more questions than answers quickly followed. >> conspiracy theories on why kate middleton has not been seen -- >> reporter: fueling even more outlandish conspiracy theories. prince william in uncharted waters as he tried to protect his family. >> i think his instinct is to

try to keep a lid on things as much as possible. the problem is if you go back to the age of diana, life was so simple. there was the media. there were the newspapers. there was tv. and there was the royal family. there wasn't this nightmarish social media thing in the middle, which now informs almost everything. >> reporter: and the appetite for more details, more information, insatiable. according to uk media reports, three staff members at the london clinic where kate underwent surgery back in january could be under investigation for allegedly trying to access her private medical records. earlier this week tmz and "the sun" published a video of william and kate out shopping in windsor sparking a frenzy the mother of diana would have been all-too familiar with. >> paparazzi images of william and kate and their children in particular haven't really been used in the uk press and that is

largely because of what happened with william's mother, and that's been an unwritten rule for many years. i would be interested to see now whether that continues. >> reporter: and, despite the respectful deference usually paid to kate in the british media, the sheer scale of the hysteria in recent months has taken its toll. >> while all the people i've spoken to over the last days made it clear both william and kate have found the speculation on social media and in parts of the media very, very difficult. >> reporter: but now there's hope that will subside as the british public processes the shocking news the royal family now dealing with two major health crises as 75-year-old king charles continues his own cancer treatment and kate, emotionally and respectfully, pleading with the press and the public both here and around the world to grant her family privacy. >> we hope that you'll understand that as a family we now need some time, space and privacy while i complete my

treatment. >> reporter: for "sunday today," molly hunter, london. >> our thanks to molly for that reporting. a kensington palace spokesperson on saturday sharing appreciation from william and kate for the well wishes from around the wormed saying, they are extremely moved by the public's warmth and support and are grateful for the understanding of their request for privacy at this time. coming up next, womeny's "sunday sitdown" with kenny chesney on his new album and tour, the loyal following of his no shoes nation, and one of his first-ever gigs at a mexican restaurant working for a few bucks and some free food. and then, a life well lived. the holocaust survivor with just $10 to his name when he arrived in the u.s., going on to build a life for himself as a tailor to presidents, celebrities and superstar athletes. and as we head to break, our photo of the week, those gorgeous cherry blossoms in full bloom in the nation's capital. look at that. the washington monument peeking out in the background there. thousands of people from around

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berkeley students worried about their kids' safety are hoping their action changes how the students are protected. their nonprofit group, safe bears, raised $40,000 to hire private security for the campus. the pilot program brought six guards to patrol the campus. they were unarmed but wore vests and trained in things like deescalation and cpr. the group plans to survey cal students about the guards. they ultimately want to make the case that berkeley campus leaders could expand this program long-term. a follow-up to a story we reported yesterday morning. oakland's only in and out burger is now officially closed. the chain citing safety concerns. the corridor between 880 and the oakland airport has been hit hard by crime. other nearby businesses, including denny's and black bear diner, have closed recently.

the oakland mayor says the city is working with county and state leaders to make the corridor safe once again. going to turn now to cinthia pimentel with our microclimate forecast on this sunday. >> good morning, everyone. well, the rain has definitely been coming down, down here in the south bay in the overnight hours. we're seeing some slick roads through downtown. temperatures waking up in the 50s. we'll go over and take a look out towards the valleys. 49 in dublin to start our sunday morning. 52 in oakland, with a breeze coming out of the west-northwest at 12 miles an hour. this is really starting to be the exit of the rain that we have had this weekend, and we'll continue to see that as the morning hours go on. as far as out towards the airport, sfo, some slick raunways out there and starting our temperatures in the 50s. so if you are planning to drive around the bay area this morning, just be careful with some slick roadways out there and some areas that are seeing a bit of heavy downpours at this hour. so we'll take wit storm ranger

and see where that rain parts of san jose through downtown, parts of willow glenn and santa clara, this is becoming heavier at times when we see the flashes of yellows and orange. the radar is picking up on heavier rains of the drops. koouper tino seeing that action, too. in the santa cruz mountains, slippy through highway 9 and out towards the peninsula, redwood city and half moon bay, also seeing pockets of heavy downpour. up towards the north bay, a little more scattered, continuing to sweep through the bay area, as we go throughout the day. so we'll see pockets of isolated showers, possibly isolated thunderstorms too as this exits. i'll walk you through the rest of the day, with more rain ahead. >> cinthia, thanks. see you at 7:00. also coming up at 7:00 this morning on "today in the bay," a rare deadly mountain lion attack

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♪ i'm back in my helmet, cleats and shoulder pads ♪ that is kenny chesney singing "boys of fall" about that all-american tradition of high school football played under the friday night lights. growing up in east tennessee, chesney was a high school ballplayer himself. but in the years since, he's been filling slightly larger stadiums with a talent he picked up in college. over his three decades in nashville, chesney has been one of the biggest superstars in all of music while wrapping up a staggering 32 number one hits and winning nine of country music's entertainer of the year awards, all of it with the enthusiastic support of his no shoes nation fans. willie got together with kenny recent lip at met life stadium in new jersey, one of his stops on tour. ♪ going to take this heartbreak and tuck it away ♪ ♪ save it for a rainy day ♪ when you first come out on

stage and see this place full and lit up, what's that sensation? >> it's like an avalanche of energy. that is exactly right, that's why we always come back here, is that energy, that passion and that love for music. ♪♪ >> even on a cold, rainy day in an empty football stadium, kenny chesney can feel the crowd. >> i've never seen it this quiet. it looks like an empty church now. >> he has been selling out stadiums like this for more than two decades. his shows more like spiritual gathering for the fans known as no shoes nation. ♪ who gets to live like we do ♪ >> your concerts have been described as a party, but in some ways, i think that undersells it a little bit. it's community, isn't it? >> it's an easy way out to describe it. there is that element, but it is a community. if it was just a party, we wouldn't have kids here. we wouldn't have families bringing their kids here. what we try to bring to the

audience every night is the anecdote in ways they get on tv, from the news, whatever it is, all the devises and stuff. >> chesney's new album "born" is the latest in a career full of crowd pleasers. ♪ one thing's for sure, we've all been living since the day we were born ♪ >> i'm thinking as i listen to some of the songs, maybe it was designed to echo through a stadium like this one here. >> i think so. without even knowing it, a lot of this record was made with the idea of people getting off their couch and feeling love. it ram tops a place where it's just on after that. >> the no shoes party resumes when chesney hits the road for his "sun goes down tour." ♪ everything gets hotter when the sun goes down ♪ >> what does it feel like to get

back on that horse, okay, i have this big tour ahead of me right now? >> yeah. that's why i don't have any fingernails. there's a certain level of anxiety i have with it, but it's exciting because i get to take this music and these songs and this experience and what we've built. and to feel that love and that connection with all those people, that is a real gift. >> the 55-year-old was born and raised in knoxville, tennessee. an athlete in high school, chesney took up music in college while studying marketing at east tennessee state university after his mother bought him a guitar for christmas. >> i was the kid in college sitting in a corner with a tip jar. i played at a mexican restaurant in johnson city, tennessee, called chucky's trading post, and i played for $15 a night plus whatever i made in tips, which some nights was good on a

week, free enchiladas. that's pretty good when you're in college. >> after graduating, chesney moved to nashville where he started as a songwriter before signing a record deal in 1993. ♪ i wish i were the tin man ♪ >> over his first five albums, chesney charted enough number one songs to make a greatest hits album. ♪ she got it all ♪ >> but something was missing. >> really strange. i mean, to be in a place in your life where you have so much music that you have a greatest hits record, but we would still go out, and people would go, who is this guy? all that changed around 2001. ♪♪ >> chesney found his choice with the album "no shirt, no shoes, no problems," building that loyal fan base with a fan base

for the beach. ♪ no shoes, no shirt, no problems ♪ >> i was trying to be a version of what was popular at the time instead of really being myself. once i started to really get genuine and authentic about what i did, that's when it all changed. what a concept. >> was that because you've had enough success that you felt, okay, i've got the clout anyway to make this change? it's time to step out and be who i want to be now? >> i think so. i just think it was a natural progression of growing up and becoming different. and having more to write about. >> even after 30 years of success and more than 30 million albums sold, chesney still approaches every gig like he's back strumming for enchiladas. ♪ to the bar at the end of the world ♪ >> in ways i still feel like i'm doing the same thing. i have a lot more stuff around me. the interaction is still the same. >> right. >> but it's just with a lot more

people. >> is this a good moment to stop and pinch up self a little bit and say, wow, look where i've come since i rolled into nashville in january of '91 and i'm going to fill up this place? >> no, i'm terrified of becoming complacent and failure. we get into a stadium market on a friday. and on a friday after sound check, i'll go to the very top and sit, just by myself. i want to be grateful for what's happened and just reflect on all the years it took to get to this spot. also, it's a way for me to emotionally and mentally measure how far it is to down here. because i know what it looks like from the stage to up there, but if i'm going to get close to connecting with people, i have to have their perspective. so if you want to find me on a friday night, i'm probably sitting up here alone thinking about what i've got to do and

just taking a moment to reflect and remember how grateful i am to be there. >> pretty incredible. kenny's "sun goes down" tour with openers zac brown band and uncle cracker starts april 20th in tampa. it runs all summer with tickets available now. kenny's new album "born" dropped friday available to stream on your favorite music platform. our thanks to the team at met life stadium, home of willie's new york giants, for hosting the conversation. don't forget to subscribe to the "sunday sitdown" podcast to hear the full, extended interview with kenny chesney. you can find it on apple podcasts or wherever you get yours. and next week willie's "sunday sitdown" with an absolute legend of comedy, carol burnett, on a lifetime of making us laugh even to this day with the new apple tv plus good sunday morning. the time is 6:38. waking up to heavy downpours

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so if you have kids or have ever had kids or have ever been a kid, you probably played with legos and left legos lying around, a bunch of kits long forgotten never to be be played with again. that got a high schooler from california thinking, what if he could put together all those forgotten sets and deliver them to organizations and kids who can give them a new life. nbc's steve patterson has his story in our "sunday spotlight." >> reporter: like all 17-year-olds, charlie jeffers is trying to make all the pieces fit together on top of schoolwork and everything else, charlie is laying a larger foundation. and, no, i don't just mean building legos. charlie is the head of his very own profit, pass the bricks, taking discarded lego kits and

rebuilding them for donations to local charities. >> the goal is to have it so every brick has the opportunity to get kind of like another life and that every person who wants lego has access to that. >> reporter: he came up with the idea after noticing so many of those beloved tiny pieces end up in a landfill. >> plastic is never going away. it's always going to be around. might as well reuse what we have instead of making more. >> reporter: and the donations have been pouring in. >> these are all the donated bricks we haven't sorted through yet or washed. >> reporter: treasures of what might have been trashed. >> i think the house is there. >> reporter: this says harry potter. what's that? that's an x wing. did you know you have this? >> not until 20 seconds ago. >> reporter: just now. >> this is awesome. i wouldn't find a lot of these

elsewhere. it's fun getting super cool stuff. >> reporter: next, charlie sanitizes the legos, designs new sets, and delivers them to children in need. >> that's cool. >> reporter: what started as a small way to give back to his community is being built out more than he ever imagined. >> i remember going to one of the boys and girls clubs. they saw the legos and got so excited. i think that, honestly, was such a kind of impactful thing for me and really made me want to, like, make this as big as i could. >> reporter: charlie has 40 volunteers around the world collecting 1,500 pounds of bricks and donating over 3,500 sets. did you think it was so big? >> i hoped but i didn't know. it's been awesome. >> reporter: what started as child's play for charlie is now a calling sharing that joy with

kids who can't afford it. >> i feel that same joy when i build, even one kid that gets a set can feel that same thing. i think that's awesome. >> reporter: one teen's repurposed passion bridging the gap brick by brick. for "sunday today," steve patterson, california. we highlight another life well lived. as a teenager maximilian green field was imprisoned in the auschwitz camp. his job to wash the clothes of a guard. he accidentally ripped a shirt. after the guard beat grunfeld, a prisoner taught him to sew. he fixed the collar but kept the shirt and wore it under his uniform leading his guards and prisoners to believe he had special prisoners that may have helped him survive. greenfield was transferred when

the camp was liberated. he was able to thank general dwight d. eisenhower in person. years later he would make president eisenhower's suits. he moved to new york and changed his name to martin greenfield. he found work at a brooklyn clothing factory and became such a successful tailor he bought the place. greenfield quickly became a sought-after designer making suits for six presidents as well as celebrities like frank sinatra, paul newman, martin scorcese, and lebron james. greenfield's skills with a stitch had hollywood calling, too. his suits, seen on tv shows like "boardwalk empire" and "billions" and in movies like "the wolf of wall street." but his most famous movie creation may have been worn by joaquin phoenix joker, a red suit and orange vest. >> can you introduce me as joker? >> greenfield wrote about his remarkable life in a 2014 memoir called "measure of a man -- from

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it is time for now the highs and lows of the week. and our first high goes to some of the stars of the first week of march madness, like 11 seed duquesne taking down 6 seed byu in the first round, winning the team's first ncaa tournament game in 55 years. sounds like a coach who knows what he's doing. keith dambrot, who also coached lebron james in high school. king james. look at this. giving the team a pretty sweet gift before the game. new shoes.

and after they won, look at this. lebron is psyched. he's posting, keep it going. the duquesne students were really excited, the professors, too, like robert healey, going viral after tweeting the announcement he sent to classes, class canceled due to march madness. go out and celebrate. i'll figure it out. now, sadly, that celebration came to an end yesterday with the dukes falling to the fighting illini. but, still, a nice moment for them and some new kicks for the players, too. even though march madness means a major moment for the players, it brings out the best in college bands. number 13 seed yale upset 4 seed auburn in a fight to the final seconds, they had a band out there cheering them on decked out in yale gear every step of the way. just one thing, the yale band couldn't actually make the cross-country trip to spokane, washington, so the university of idaho band stepped in instead. it turns out they were not the only substitute band in the first round. colgate's band couldn't make the matchup with baylor since they

were playing at the hockey women's frozen four so the university of memphis stepped up. how cool is that? sir cymbal player understanding the assignment. sticking with sports, our first low goes to the literal camera angle nearly missing the first pitch at the l.a. dodgers' preseason exhibition game in seoul. the shot focused more on the leg of south korean actress than her arm, which was the actual limb throwing out the first pitch. for whatever reason the dugout went viral for their reaction to the whole thing. the actress keeping her head high proving she really is in a league of her own. our next high to the special guest who boarded a southwest airlines flight much to the delight of her fellow passengers greeted by, look at her, about to show you, 11-month-old ellie rose. there she is. look at that little sweet pea. she's already a seasoned flyer. she has 20 flights under her belt. this one extra special. this was the first with her dad flying the plane.

first officer ben introducing precious cargo to the whole flight. >> the good news is 99% of the time she is very giggly. the bad news is 10% of the time she has serious pipes. so i hope you get the 90%. if not -- >> looks like ellie got that 90% all smiles in her little captain's outfit there. it's not just airline passengers who loved this one. so far the video has racked up 20 million views on instagram. i'm betting 20 bucks in 20 years or so it will be ellie in the seat of that cockpit. our final low to an alleged burglar who apparently thought a little stretching would help her get in and out undetected. check it out. she was caught on surveillance camera in australia doing some yoga, limbering up before sneaking into the bakery on the other side of the door. maybe she was channelling her

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the top, jane and zory enjoying the beautiful cherry blossoms in peak bloom in washington, d.c. you see megan and tina with a double celebration in montego bay, jamaica. not only is it meganmegan's 50th s birthday, she beat breast cancer. we're so happy. amazing news there. steve, carol, our fabulous sunday today associate director pam with holly, colby, and cindy celebrating little henry's first birthday. i hope it was magical. a happy birthday to jackie in ohio who just turned 85. hi, jackie. looking good. down along the bottom, bonjour to charlie and marlee. enjoying a spring break trip with marlee's first time skiing. she's getting an opportunity to practice her french. i hope it's better than mine. great shot. s susan and glenn brought their mug to singapore as they celebrate their 40th anniversary. congratulations. that's incredible. and finally, on the bottom there, heidi jackson celebrating her birthday just outside tampa. hi, mom.

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