When it comes to the fithings you love,. You want more. Love romance . Get lost in every embrace. Into sports . Follow every pitch, every play and every win. Change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. March madness is in full swing across our region as local favorites take to the court, nova fans are celebrating a big win, a a as temple fans are hoping for the same, outcome. Were also keeping a close eye on the weather, we have wintry weather, heading our way, it will bring rain and measurable snow to the region, on the first day of spring. Hi, good evening, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We will have more on the developing weather situation in just a moment but first tonight we are joined by sports director don bell who has more on the local teams in the big dance. Weve got two in play, philly trifecta, tipped off at 12 40 this afternoon second seeded villanova taking on 15th seeded unc ashville. Jay wright and fellas starting their run in brooklyn. We will pick it up in the final play of the first half, Ryan Arcidiacono, the senior, clutch three, a 14point lead as they skip into the locker room. The in the second villanova taking advantage of the under sized bulldogs, dan youll ochefu had 17point and ten board. Cats by 18. Later, Chris Jenkins the sharp shooter, fading away. Yes, five cats scoring in double figures, nova moves on with a 30point win, over unc ashville. So nova off to a great start, come nation in game number one. For more on the wildcats we will take a trip up i95 and check with leslie van arsdal in brooklyn, leslie . Report report hi there, don. Part of that potential big five sunday match up was decided earlier today, villanova a with the convincing win, that they know is just the first hurdle will. Villanova dominated unc ashville the with the 8656 victory. Senior center dan youll ochefu looked great, who led all scorers with 17 points. Knows just how important this first win is. It is huge for us. Going in the game people say two seed begins a 15, but we knew, watching all of the film on ashville we knew they were very capable have of beating us and type of respect that we committed to our scouting report was big. Reporter Ryan Arcidiacono added 14. Definitely work on our rebounding and decision making. We had too many turnovers, but overall we did a good job. Reporter coach jay wright know when they play as well as they did today how dangerous we can be. It is tough, especially in the higher seed. You know expectations, and also it is not as much as how much we won by but we played well. That is what is important for us, to get daniel back playing healthy, you can get him back healthy but not in the game healthy, he is not doing you much good. Him getting these reps in i game was important for us. Now also i talk to coach jay wright about the possibility of playing temple. He said fran dunphy is a very good friend of his and he hates coaching against his friend and guys, i dont blame him. Send it back to you in the studio good always a tough situation. We want to let leslie get back inside Barclay Center because temple is playing iowa, threepoint game and leslie will have latest on that at 6 00 p. M. Including post game. Looking forward to that. In the meantime, nova fans are loving the win, Eyewitness News reporter anita oh is on campus where there is plenty of school spirit. Are. Reporter match up against unc ashville noise exception for villanova fans. In a 8656 victory, on friday. Go cats, go cats. Reporter villanova wild cat beat unc ashville bug dogs. Wow, wow. Reporter villanova student could not make to it new yorks Barclay Center for march madness game followed closely a at connolly Student Center on campus. It is electric. Getting into it, and you know, analyzing every second of march madness. Reporter for some know of nation is in their blood. The Basketball Team has been part of my life always. I have been a fan since i was little. I have been a villanova basketball fan my entire life. Season ticket since i can remember. Reporter others could not escape conversion. When i seen it, i had to get into it. Reporter last time wildcats won the big dance was 1985, but 30 years later. Lets go cats. Reporter the confidence has not been lost. They will pull it out, not worried. Villanova is a good team and we will make a come back. Were going to come back. Reporter for past several years team has mailed to make it past round two of the tournament but nova a nation is hoping for much better luck and hoping they were well on the road to the final four. Reporting from villanova a, anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Looking good there. As don mentioned temple is still playing, a live look at temple university, all eyes are on the owls as they battle the iowa hawk eyes, 6158 iowa with 23 seconds left, very, very close there, we will wait and see how it turns out. St. Joes fans will be up late tonight, they will get cincinnati is scheduled to start just before ten, watch it on tru tv. Here on cb. Three, Steven F Austin have of West Virginia tipping off at 7 10 and late game for you is michigan against notre dame. And then we are on have after basketball. Hopefully you enjoyed warm temperatures today because things where to change. The winter is making a last stand with the big weekend chill and the possibility of spring snow. Meteorologist lauren casey in for kate bilo and she joins us from the Weather Center. Lauren . Thanks, ukee. A a lot of us dont want to hear that word snowfall but it is in the forecast for upcoming weekend but nice thing bay march snow it gets out very quickly. Temperatures feeling great, 63 y philadelphia we have cloud in place with sunshine mixed in and wind winning out of the west all throughout the day. Wind speeds up to 25 miles an hour in philadelphia. It is a trend all across the a area wind speeds 15 to 25 miles an hour with those higher gusts, gusting to 36 miles an hour in philly over last hour, seeing wind gusts up around 30, 35 miles an hour. Wind though will start to wayne as we head in the evening hours. Storm scan three showing us patchy low clouds in place on satellite. We have a couple showers light in intensity north and west of the city toward the Lehigh Valley and poconos but moving toward sunset those showers will start to trend, to taper off, light showers coming to an end up toward Lehigh Valley this evening. Looking dry for your friday night plans all a across the area and looking colder for everyone by tomorrow, the colder a air spilling in, our High Temperatures really take a hit and then on sunday that does set us up for a coastal storm moving up toward the Delaware Valley, cold air in place will bring us some spring snowfall, first day of spring is on sunday but not going to look or feel like it. Precipitation type at this point is what it the looks like, mainly snow for philadelphia a, areas north and west we will see a rain and snow mix for portions of southern new jersey, into new jersey and down toward the shore. We will talk about how much snowfall to expect accumulation wise coming up and when the snowfall will clear out of here coming up in your full weather in just a few minutes. All right, we will check with you then. Philadelphia Housing Authority is getting ready for a big boom, tomorrow morning at 7 15 it will implode two high rise buildings in the community in north philadelphia. This will make room for more than 1200 new units, that will be both for sale and rent. Some unit will be affordable housing, others sold at market rate tone Courage Community development. Despite hardship, so many family lives here, this was home to 500 families and very respectful of that. This is a place, in spite of it all we had graduations, people gave birth here, they saw their children willing off to college. Reporter the philadelphia Housing Authority said it will use 260pound of dynamite for that implosion. 126 members of the philadelphia a Police Department were promoted in rank to day. Family, friend and fellow officers were on hand for the ceremony as temples Performing Arts Center this morning. Mayor jim kenney, Police Commissioner richard ross told the group they should be proud of this moment, and thanked them for their service and leadership. Coming up on cbs3 Eyewitness News a threat against Donald Trumps family who received the suspicious letter and what it said that has the fbi and secret service on high alert. Life changing day for thousands of medical student all across the country, Eyewitness News cameras are rolling as local students learn their fate for the next few years. Big money is on the line, with the march madness bracket challenge, just how much, are americans wagering . That is coming up. The prime suspect behind the par ace tax has been captured alive. Authorities say that Salah Abdeslam, was shot in the leg and then arrested during a police raid in belgiums capitol. Two other suspects are also in custody. Authorities zeroed in on sal Salah Abdeslam hide out after finding his fingerprints earlier in the week. He had been on the run since nova tax that killed 130 people. Nypd, fbi and secret service are investigating a threatening letter sent to Donald Trumps son and wasnt just paper inside the envelope. Cbs news correspondent brooks, now has the very latest. Reporter eric trumps wife opened the letter thursday night at their home near central park and found a threatening message, and suspicious white powder. Source told cbs news that preliminary tests shows substance is not hazardous. The letter that arrived here in midtown manhattan was post mark from massachusetts and it included a threat demanding donald trump drop out of the president ial race or his family will be harmed. Eric trump has been a visible presence on the campaign trail, the three twoyear old executive vicepresident of the trump organization, often stand at his fathers side during large rallies, or hosts his own smaller sessions with voters on his fathers behalf. Trump also faced a second threat, thursday as the hacker group known as anonymous stepped up efforts to disrupt his campaign. Donald trump is an enemy of the constitution and national rights. Reporter group posted personal information, including what purports to be trumps Social Security and cell phone numbers, and called on hackers to take action against campaign april 1st. The trump representative said they are seeking the arrest of people who a attempted to hack trumps information. Brooks, for cbs news, new york. There has been no comment on the letter from donald trump or his campaign. Jurors are now deliberating in the hulk hogan sex tape lawsuit begins web site gawker. Lawyers for hogan urged the jury to award tense of millions of posting a sex tape. Lawyers for gawker says the First Amendment protect their ability to publish legitimate the news stories, even when the content is objectionable. New jerseys Largest School district is offering voluntary blood tests to check students for lead. Elevated levels were found in the drinking water, at 30 newark schools. The as many as 17,000 children will receive, free testing. Officials say that led has in the been found in the citys water supply but they believe it likely, leached in the School System through old pipes, and fixtures. It turns out power ball fever, has nothing on march madness, this season. The american gaming association, estimates americans are betting, 9. 2 billion on ncaa brackets this year. It is more than the 6. 6 billion americans spent last year on power ball and Mega Millions lottery tickets. About 40 million americans, filled out brackets with the tournament. And, with Winter Weather on the the way you might want to fill up your gas tank before the the rush. Another reason is gas prices normally go up in the springtime and that leaves us to tonights good question, why do gas prices go up in the spring . This question was submitted by math the math from washington township. Keep an eye on those pumps, soon youll be shelling out the more to fill your tank but why . It is an election year, they should be staying steady, and stable, what is going on. We should be on solar energy, clean air, lets get to the solar thing, yet. Fossil fools here as well. Nicole has the answer to tonights good question why do gas prices go up in spring . That is coming up after march madness tonight. Do you have a good question . Log on to cbs philly. Com good question. Tweet us using the cbs3 good question. I believe we said Winter Weather. Winter weather all the way. Lauren casey joins us now. Old man winter, just an attention hog, and i need another shot were this is all said and done. One thing it will be on a sunday. Too many of us wont to have worry about getting out and commuting through the snow as it is likely to be an all day event but temperatures right now does feel like spring up in the 60s in philadelphia 62. Colder air has already arrived in the poconos. Temperatures right now, 45 degrees and we have these strong west to northwesterly wind, and gusting up in the 40 d peak wind gusts 41 miles an hour in mount pocono. Got close to that in philadelphia a, but as we head in the first part of the evening, the wind speed will start to relax and less wind overnight tonight. Temperatures getting a little bit chilly. A few passing clouds and then for tomorrow, a much colder day in store, High Temperature only 48 degrees but nice, light wind so not too much wind child impact. We will start off with sunshine and see increasing cloud in the second half of the the day but into this evening we will see decreasing clouds as the sunsets, we will lose heating of the the day and these lower level clouds will dissipate and shower activity we are seeing in the poconos will start to dissipate, as well. But, up wind, down toward the gulf of mexico, this is what we have our yon eye on. Our next storm system a lot of moisture in association with this area of low pressure picking it up from the gulf of mexico. This this will run autopsy long the coastline and arrive in our neck of the woods as we had into sunday but yes, spring snow, it is not completely unfamiliar to us. Check out the last couple of years when we had our latest snow in philadelphia a. March 30th, last year we pick up a trace of snowfall, april 15th, in 2015, hopefully we he dont to have deal with that. March 21st, we pick up over an inch in 2013. Likely to see measurable snow as of this system moves in. We are dry during the daytime hours on saturday, tomorrow could see a few showers sneaking in even in philadelphia by 9 00 oclock hour in the evening. We could see a passing rain shower. And then as we head into sunday morning we will see precipitation swamp building in from the south. Some models having this precipitation having it move in earlier then this particular model but all of them telling buys midday on sunday that precipitation will spread out across the area, down the shore in parts of the interior southern new jersey, we will see this snow kind of mixing in with rain. So for the daytime hours on sunday. Philadelphia points north and west likely to be all snow through much of this event. The a as we head into sunday night it turns over to all snow even down the shore, kind of a mix but we will see our best chance for straight up snowfall, down the shore, as we head into late sunday night and early monday morning. That is your monday morning commute, still dealing with residual snow showers, but starting to clear, from west to east, and then eventually we will head into midday on monday, all of that precipitation moves out of here, but you can see by our future weather imagery likely to be an all day event on sunday. Things we have working for us as far as not accumulating the snowfall is high march sun angle, warm ground surfaces, we have had warm temperatures. Ground is not very chilly. Daytime arrival will cut down on accumulation and temperatures through much of this event will be above freeze ago cross much of the the area, but the snow could come down hard and fast at times, throughout the day on sunday, leading to that accumulation, so about two to 4inchs cross much of the area less if you head south and east where we will see that mixing with rainfall and possibly some sleet as well to our High Temperature, on sunday, 39 degrees, and then we will see that snow coming down, bye it is not going to stand a chance of sticking around on the ground for very long. We are still chill any to monday at the 43 degrees but of course, well above freezing. The it will melt that by wednesday. We are at 63 degrees. Yeah good bounce back. It is coming. Bouncing back quick. Appreciate it. Still a a head tonight on Eyewitness News. Easter will see you dig deeper in your pocket for Chocolate Candy a and Easter Basket goodies, consumer reporter jim donovan is on your side with why consumers are likely to spend more this year. Im cleve bryan in pitman new jersey where a caring young lady got a special award and a very special guest. If your heart, it is opened it is never going to stay broken. Fur heart, it is opened, love after some sluggish winter months where dealers hope Easter Holiday put a spring in the step of consume your. How much do you plan to spend . On your side consumer reporter takes a look at the numbers. Reporter get ready to see more bunnies, animated chocolate on screen. According to a survey by National Retail federation, americans are expected to spend, 16. 3 billion, this easter, that is roughly 146 bucks, per pe