plus an excellent update from lesley van arsdall on the road with villanova taking on lafayette tomorrow in pittsburgh and her report and sports coming >>> it's march madness eve. happy hoops holiday everyone. our lesley van arsdall in pittsburgh with villanova and lafayette. report. >> if we go out plane our game we know that not many teams can beat us. when we don't play that game we can get beat by anybody and that starts tomorrow. >> villanova has made it to the regional semi finals sips 2009 the year they went to the final four. this year seems to feel different. >> i think our overall play we have a lot of guys that can hit threes. javon and myself get on the inside and our defense -- team defense is very g we communicate well and our chemistry is off the charts this year. >> we've been here before. we've been through a lot of thing. 13-19 season. lost at georgetown. we stuck together and persevered through it and i think our mind set sets us apart. in we know how dangerous this team can be. how explosive they can be offensively and we're focused in. trying to defend their offensiv

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"eyewitness sports" anchor lesley van arsdall is there for the game. >> ♪ >> reporter: the villanovaildcats have won 15 games in a row heading into their east regional open and one seed for the second time in program history their fans beaming with pride and making sure that they received a proper send off. >> my wife and i were married at villanova all four of our children weren't to villanova. >> really makes me proud to be a student here. >> really exciting we're really pumped for them. >> villanova will take on 16 seeded lafayette heading to the big dance for the first time since 2000 sand. the wildcats have not made it to the regional semi finals since 2009 when they went to the final four. jay wright says anything short of that will be a disappointment disappointment. >> i think they would be disappointed they didn't get to the final four. they know it's possible they might not. you got to deal with it. the on thing they can do is stick to the process. one game at a time and they've done a good job of that. >> this could be the best team that he's ever coached both teams will b

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"eyewitness sports" reporter lesley van arsdall is live for us in pittsburgh tonight. sley, what happened? >> reporter: natasha i don't think they know at this point. they are in shock. this was as you said a tough loss. they're going home much earlier than they expected. we'll show you the guys coming off the court just dejected after this game. this was supposed to be their year. it's especially hard for the seniors on this team car run hilliard and jason pinkston. hilliard kept the team in this one. he had a game high 27 points. they shot 28% from the field in this heartbreaking 71-68 loss to inform c state. >> it's tough. these guys have done so much for me. these guys are my brothers my everything. >> we felt that we had it. we let it slip away at the end but we battleed. they just were the better team today. >> we all had high expectations. we had them all year. we were able to live up the expectations we ran no a good team. definitely disappointed we should keep our heads high because of how well we played this whole year. >> reporter: they did have an unbelievab

"eyewitness sports" reporter lesley van arsdall is live in the "eyewitness news" digital center with more on this very big deal. >> lesley. >> that's right chris eagles trading the team's all time leading rusher to buffalo for linebacker alonso. the trade will not officially happen during the league year starts neck week. that is isn't stopping the buzz going op. eagles fans hope chip kelly knows what he's doing. >> do you understand the trade? >> no, down the trade? >> most fans were a little confused at the news eagles might be trading their three-time pro bowl running running back lesean mccoy for a player who missed the 2014 season with a torn acl. >> it's a shame. mccoy has been with us for so long. i've ban huge fan of him. sad to see him go. >> chip kelly was honored at the cats jcc sports awards tonight but didn't want to talk about the trade. >> another jersey down the drain. >> over at our sister station 94 wip the possible deal anyone wanted that talk about. >> there are people who don't like it but a lot of people that say, yeah i kind of get what chip is doing much that t

i'll host a panel of expertise and lesley van arsdall will be in pittsburgh with villanova. when we come back. >> it was back to where it all began for sylvester stallone. >> where else? the steps of the art museum. "eyewitness news" was there today. we caught is it a lope filming the new rocky movie called "creed". in it rocky becomes a trainer to the grandson of apollo creed. it's going to be released in november and sly has been all over town great seeing him once again today. we'll be right back. stay with us.

lesley van arsdall. uav versus ucla with a 12:10 tip off. national i versus kentucky at 26789. 40.state versus arizona and utah taking on georgetown at 7:45. our phillies news, cbs sports.com john heyman is reporting that the the phyllis are talking to the rangers about a possible cole hamels trade. the rangers have one of the better pharmacist terms in baseball and they lost their ace for the season. the nix visiting the sixers in south philadelphia. every game it seems like noel is getting better. fin issue at the half. he was uncoverage all night and then watches noel zooms into your picture for acrobatic basketball five steels three props, a good night, it sixers crush the nix 97 to 81. so the future is looking bright. that ought to shut a lot of people up who have been questioning what the sixers are doing. that was one performance. >> still to come tonight, they lost a the lot in the wake of hur can sandy but they never lost hope. more than two years later an emotional home coming down the shore. that's > it's an emotional home coming for some local families two and a half ye

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lesley van arsdall has those details.n a today after a maybe skidded off a runway. the accident happened early this morning at halifax airport in nova coccia. officials say the air canada jet touched down short of the runway hit a power line and caused a power outage at the airport. passengers described the terrifying moments. >> all of a sudden it was a big bang and then the next thing we're sliding down the runway and i look outside the window and i can see sparks coming from my side. >> the engine came out. so the engine was about a couple hundred feet away from the plane. >> 25 people were hospitalized. their injuries are not believed to be life threatening. heavy snow was reported at the time of the landing. >>> a german community is mourning the loss of 16 students and two teacher kill in the germanwings plane crash in the french alps. as cbs correspondent chris van cleve shows us investigators are still trying to figure out why the co-pilot up tension alley downed the aircraft. >> reporter: cold rain and biting win

lesley van arsdall has all the details. stay with us everyone. back in >>> death toll is expected to soar on the small island nation of vanuatu. cyclone pam destroyed 90% of the homes in the capital city when it made landfall on friday. eight people are confirmed dead but rescuers haven't been able to reach the outlying islands to search for survivors. the category five storm packed winds up to 185 miles per hour. >>> the coast guard says the captain of a tuck tugboat sang off the new york coast died after panicking and jumping into the water. he was not wearing an emergency suit. three surviving crew members got those suits on and held on to life rings as the boat went under on saturday. about a mile off the coast of fire island. those men were treated for hypothermia. >>> now a plane flying from grand rapids to chicago came down safely saturday after landing gear on the nose apparently failed. >> emergency landing. >> passenger shot that video when the plane landed. go jet flight 3645 touched down just after 3:00 in the afternoon afternoon. the

lesley van arsdall >> police released body camera footage showing the dramatic rescue of an 18 monthgirl last saturday. she was strapped in her car seat at the time hanging upside down as icy water flowed through the car for 14 hours before she was found. first responders pulled lilly out and she was carried to awaiting ambulance. once inside an officer patted her on the back and she began showing signs of life. she was released from the hospital wednesday and was not seriously injured. her mother died in the crash. >>> and talk about a birds eye view. this is due by in the united arab emerates and this eagle is setting a world record. a mini camera was strapped to the bird's back. it flew from the top of the world's tallest tower all the way to the ground. now this is the highest recorded bird flight from a manmade structure more than 2700 feet. the flight was organized to spread the word about eagles. >>> it is a philadelphia tradition meantime for more than 200 years the st. patrick's day parade it steps off tomorrow as chris may shows us tonight for one woman the day comes with a

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