They are due to land in five minutes meantime the action cam is live at Villanova Stadium. Everybody is waiting, the doors open earlier at 3 30 and the stands are now full and nova nation is waiting for their glimpse of the wildcats since they have won the entire championship. All of it. What is next for the team and fans and the city of philadelphia. Sara bloomquist is live at the airport where the team is slated to land any second now. Sara how is it going there . We are watching for the wildcats, they are a little late. We expected them at 4 00 and now we hear 5 05, every plane we see is that it . Is that it . Not yet. They are ready at the airport. Philadelphia police are in position and as we pan around its here on the runway that the plane will taxi out there on the runway and the police will go out to receive them out there. As we see over there way you see the airport fire units they are expected to do some sort of water arch. Im not sure if that is over the plane or the tour b
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