tonight nova nation is going nuts. "action news" is next. let's go nova. let's go nova.

>> as you can see villanova fans are on cloud tonight nine tonight have a they beat oklahoma a by 44-point. tonight know of ace earning a spot in the ncaa national championship game. saturday night i'm walter perez. big story on "action news" is the v which stands for victory tonight. wildcats are heading to the ncaa championship with the win over oak a they beat sooners by 44 points. the worst blow out in semi final history. we have team coverage from houston all the way to the delaware valley, "action news" reporters jeff chirico and dann cuellar are live with fans. alycia vitarelli live from houston. but we will begin with jeff skversky live from nrg stadium. jeff, cats made a statement tonight. >> how about that at final four, 95-51 villanova over oklahoma. it is biggest win in final four history. and now villanova, oh, so close to a national championship, they are a win away from their first title in

31 years. take a look at villanova head coach jay wright all smiles, as he comes off the floor after destroying oklahoma. jay actually apologized to oklahoma's coach, for doing that tonight. villanova locker room afterward, subdued, the guys were not celebrating, they only huddle up in the locker room and said stay hungry and humble. look, they are eyeing second championship in school history monday night against north carolina. >> to be able to have a shot the national championship is something we dream about. if we play defense and rebound the way we did tonight even if we're not making shots we have a chance. >> it is crazy, something i always dream about. you know, to have that you know, to have that friendship, i hope it doesn't hit us until after monday. >> describe the feeling in the locker room to know you are a win away from this group winning your first ever national championship. >> i was impressed. i had to do some media events.

they were waiting. i came in. you know, no jumping up or down. just business. they want to get on to the next game. i hope, you know, we can be fresh. we have to play everybody a lot of minutes. i hope they are starting to get ready for monday night. >> reporter: villanova with the largest win in final four history over oklahoma, all of this despite the fact they were woken up at the 5:51 in the morning thanks to the fire alarm going off at villanova a team hotel. so much for being tired. the road to the final four end right here in houston, with villanova taking on north carolina monday night for the national championship game. we are live from houston, jeff skversky for channel six a "action news". we will have much more in sports. >> sound good, thanks, jeff. we will go to alycia vitarelli live in houston with the fan reaction. alycia, it was not a very exciting game but i'm sure nova a fans didn't mind at all. >> reporter: are you kidding,

walter? nova pride is running high here today. everyone is still bleeding blue and white. i just ran back inside the stadium for a few moments. they are still celebrating in there. people came from far and wide all across the delaware valley to watch the wildcats tonight and to watch them will make history. >> let's go nova. >> reporter: some sad faces for these not so okay oklahoma sooner fans, see you later, sooner. >> vville know of, v for victory. >> reporter: while nova nation is on fire tonight they are bleeding blue and white and wildcats are roaring. >> go nova. >> reporter: real exciting. >> yes, very exciting, yes. so exciting. >> we were there in 85. we will do it again. >> reporter: tyler katz is a childhood friend from ryan arcidiacono at long horn and grew up. >> beautiful watching in such a big stage like this.

>> let's go nova. >> reporter: these guys drove from neshaminy high school. you drove, 25 hours to be here. >> it was worth every mile. >> worth every cent. >> reporter: these ladies paid heavily to fly but said it was worth every penny. >> we had to bite a bullet and, it is the final four. it was a big commitment to book it and stay through tuesday. >> so tonight wildcats win. >> tonight we win. >> yes. report report and right now the team is certainly celebrating this massive historic win, i had a chance to catch up with ryan arcidiacono's mom, patty, when i ran back over to the stadium. i got the this great shot of her and her family gathered together. ryan is one of six children. they are all here tonight. the whole family. they are little bit of good luck that they bring is that every game, they sit in the same seats in the same order and let me tell you i imagine they will be doing that again monday night.

one more win. stay in those seats, arcidiacono family. everybody else, good luck charms in your delaware valley, keep them going. go know of a back to you guys in the studio. >> thank you. time for chopper 6hd over villanova just moments after wildcats won. students and fans flooded on to lancaster avenue in celebration. there was lots of cheering, chanting but all and all it was overall a peaceful scene. lets move on to "action news" reporter jeff chirico on campus at villanova where earlier hundreds of fans flooded on to lancaster avenue, jeff? >> reporter: yeah walter, this part of the campus is quiet right now. but a couple hours ago it was a mad house. as you can imagine excitement through the roof, students racing through campus celebrating that unprecedented win, and nova pride stronger then ever. this was the moment that the wildcats clinched it.

>> we're the best team in the nation. >> we're honestly playing like that, in one can beat us. we're going all the way. we're going to the championship man. >> i watched villanova blowing them out since high school. this will be the best time of my life. >> reporter: they are on their feet cheering as sports and school history is made. >> growing up my mom came here in the 90's. she was here for the championship game. she's grown up. being around all sorts of villanova stuff and campus. it is unbelievable. >> i believed in them. i didn't expect it. you guys represent us. we will be with you all the way. >> nova. >> reporter: and that, they did from the moment that the doors to the watch party opened, students were pumped. >> let's go nova. >> reporter: we will cats began dominating early and the students began seeing a champion ship. after the win, horde of celebrating students raced through campus, and then on to

the streets. the pride, and power of nova nation now felt coast to coast. >> nova championship year. >> this is awesome. amazing. >> this is best day of my life. >> reporter: the celebration started off well but we have learn there have been six a rests so far. we just saw another one, another person escorted away by police a few seconds ago. we are told two were for assaulting a police source. we understand that police source is okay. we're live from a very excited villanova university, jeff chirico for channel six "action news". >> thanks, jeff. party is still going strong off campus as well. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is live in bryn mawr, hi there, dann. >> reporter: walter, it was absolutely crazy here tonight this place jumps, went wild when wildcats blew the sooners away.

with the beer raining down inside kelly a's taproom with the crowd clearing at high levels, there was so much pride and joy over victory with the wildcats dominating oklahoma throughout the night. >> it is a a dream come true. absolute dream come true. but now nobody can stop us. absolutely no one can stop us. >> bring it home, boys. >> reporter: with the heavy police presence, the soon the celebration will spill out on to lancaster avenue like a new years celebration. one girl climbed up on the traffic light and had to be brought down by police. for the most part crowd was orderly and joyous. what do you think made all of the difference here tonight. >> defense. >> this means so much to me because my grandfather went to nova, my dad went to nova, now

i go to know a my dad celebrated 1985 championship. now i will celebrate 2016 championship. >> we completely dominated it. >> the first game of the season. >> we were so working hard for this let's go villanova we will beat syracuse, let's go nova. >> but, of course, it is not over yet. wildcats have one more door to kick in on monday begins north carolina when they do, look out. nova nation is going to go through the roof. we are live from bryn mawr, dann cuellar for channel six "action news". >> monday will be a big night. thanks, dann. we want to see how you have been cheering on those wildcats. share your favorite photos and videos with us using the #six abc action. with that said here's a look at some of those pictures. the as you can see you don't have to be a nova grad to be a member of the nova nation tonight. stay with six abc for all things nova nation as wildcats get ready to take on the tar heels in the the national

championship game on monday night. jeff, a leash bring you live reports of houston right through the final buzzer. in other news tonight official from his west chester university are investigating two reported separate sexual assaults that happened early yesterday morning. the first happened at 2:30 a a.m. on the second floor of the new street parking garage where police say a female student was raped by a male student. the second a salt happened this morning inside a campus dorm. police say a student was sleeping when a man she knew assaulted her. they say that suspect is not the a west chester university student. investigators say they do not believe there is any link between the two cases and they are asking anyone with any information about the first a salt to please call police. the pilot of the small experimental plane suffered minor injuries this afternoon when his plane crashed landing upside down in gloucester county, new jersey. it happened at monroe villain licensing on roads in south harrison township at 4:00 o'clock. officials say the plane experienced some kind of

engine-related problem. moving on to the accu weather forecast, we had some showers, earlier but it turned out to be a decent day. but the wind of change are blowing. taking a look here at sky six over atlantic city you can see the camera is shaking just a bit. the wind is whipping in other part of the area in fact is there a high win warning tonight and then it is going to get really cold. meteorologist melissa magee is at the big board with the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa a. >> yeah walter, a couple of changes we are tracking. first change comes in the form of precipitation. sometimes when that occurs we have severe weather to track out as well. severe thunderstorm warning has been issued along that i-95 corridor, ardmore, philadelphia, drexel hill, including in that warning, same thing across areas of camden, gloucester, salem county as well as central delaware. the warning stays you will until 11:30 tonight as we could find wind of 60 miles an hour. also moderate rainfall and lightening. here's storm tracker six live double scan radar. this thinks the pocket of moderate rainfall that we are

tracking as it works its way eastward and also some showers, press ago way from the coastal sections of new jersey. once the moisture passes us, overnight tonight into the day on sunday we have a high win warning that has been issued. it goes up a at midnight lasting right through noonan sunday because it will be gusting from 50 to 60 miles an hour. the here's the the other change. the temperatures. fifty-four in philadelphia 49 in washington d.c. off to the west 29 in buffalo. thirty-three in pittsburgh. we will tap into a piece of this colder eras early as sunday. so we will talk about what we can expect and wind chill makes a come back tomorrow. powerful wind to track out as well w that said, wind chills in the 20's and 30's, we will go over the knicks with the full and exclusive accu weather forecast, walter. >> thanks, melissa. some scary moments this have afternoon at the wells fargo center. video that appears to show an escalate or that suddenly sped up causing a pile up of fans leaving today's flyers game. witnesses say it appears there were some injuries, but so far

there is no word on official word about that. officials from the wells fargo center say the escalate or has been pulled from service as a mishap is investigated. much more to come on "action news" tonight, a horrific shooting streaming live on facebook, thanks to the video, police know what the gun man looked like. now the search is on for the killer. also a plane slammed in the koran a freeway in california, the man we have learn, this is second time that this happened with that plane, in this very same location. we will explain. and ducis rodgers has more on villanova's amazing win when "action news" comes right back.

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talked about at the top of the show that goes up until 11:30 tonight as for that 95 corridor, areas into delaware, camden, gloucester counties. we will go in tighter on, street level, storm tracker six and see the toppings of rain from doylestown, down to norristown, malvern, pressing into philadelphia, down into wilmington and salem as well. a lot of lightening associated with this pocket that will continue to work eastward as we go throughout the rest of the overnight hours. now the next pocket of precipitation that we're tracking is off to our east, down across areas of south jersey and that will start to move on off from the western direction as we go truth the rest of the overnight hours and then we will track the biting wind, and then those wind chills. so a lot to go over. currently outside in philadelphia, it is 53 degrees. fifty in trenton. fifty-three in dover. north and west we're starting to see that cooler air with that northwesterly wind invade. thirty-nine in the poconos. forty-two in lancaster.

48 degrees in red willing. here's satellite six with action radar, we've got showers, embedded thunderstorms pressing very close to that i-95 corridor. it will continue throughout the rest of the overnight hours with the area of low pressure system. it is a clipper system that will pivot through throughout the rest of tonight. a couple of things, will occur. future tracker six showing you the first thing we are tracking is that precipitation. line that we're tracking currently will move off shore overnight tonight. 2:30 in the morning i wouldn't be surprised if we have had rain and if not snow showers well north and west of the i-95 snow corridor maybe north have of lehigh county and up through poconos. in the area of that, the wind will pick up which is why we have a high wind warning that goes up at midnight the tonight. we are lasting right through noon time on sunday. wind gusting as high as 60 miles an hour in some spots. then we will feel that colder a air. the freeze warnings has been posted at 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on sunday for chester and northern montgomery counties because temperatures overnight will be

dropping into the lower 30's. so future tracker six is showing you at 8:00 o'clock in the morning check out these wind chills number. the the teens, and 17 in allentown. four in the poconos. twenty-one in philadelphia 23 in wildwood. not much of a recovery by the afternoon. wind chills only 31, in the city. just 27 in reading. here's the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast. high tomorrow 47. dress for wind chills in the 20's and 30's. the it is warmer on monday up to 60 but that rain will arrive. on tuesday, breezy, chilly, high of 47, and on wednesday, sunny and cool, 52, periods of rain on thursday at 61. then we're cooling down on friday and saturday high only in the upper 40's a. we're tracking rain tonight walter, watching out for biting wind and wind chills tomorrow. >> thanks, melissa. keep track of any changes in the forecast with six abc.com/weather. check out live storm tracker six radar with the seven day and hourly forecast and please follow our team of meteorologists on facebook,

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people attended the charity black tie gala tonight at lincoln financial field right there in south philadelphia. all of the support the red cross house, it provides local disaster relief. complete with live entertainment and silent auction. action nice's jamie apody was serving as mc. time for a check on sports. ducis rodgers is here. the as we said before what a dominating performance by villanova unreal. i have not seen a game like that ever. >> unreal. >> villanova will play for national championship monday night. we can say that again. villanova will play for national championship monday night. the cats absolutely destroyed, embarrassed oklahoma. ninety-five-51 the final. large is margin of victory in the national semi final game. this is a oklahoma team that beat them by 23 in december. josh hart scored 23. villanova shot 71 percent from the feel.

jeff skies verse ski witnessed the come nation firsthand and he joins us live from houston with the post game reaction, jeff. >> reporter: ducis, the villanova hoy hotel had fire alarm going off down here in houston at the 5:51 in the morning. you would think villanova players would be exhausted, and tired, but not a shot. they had a record setting performance in the final four, and they are 71 percent shooting is the second best shooting percentage in a final four game since the 1985 villanova team, won the national title, and now this team is just a win away from winning it all. >> way to go. >> one more. one more. >> josh hart and villanova is chanting one more, hart's 23-point by most byville know of player in the final four since 1971, adding up to a 44-point win, largest in final four history, even the players, and coach jay wright

could not believe their eyes. >> are you amazed. >> i am amazed, i'm shocked. it was just one of those days. we made everything they could not make anything. >> i really can't put tonight word. it is something that, you know, no matter what, you know, we can always look back at that but we're to the done yet. we have another game monday against a great opponent. >> to be to have a shot at a national championship, and if we play deedee fence, rebound like we have tonight. even if we're not making shots, we have a chance. >> none of us thought we were going to do that but testament to the hard work we put in and type of shooters we have and defensive rebounding. >> one more. >> one more. >> reporter: one more, monday night, villanova will play north carolina in the national championship game, nova looking for their second title in school history. look, the final four back in 1971, villano