Right now xavier and its fans looking forward to success in the ncdoublea tournament. The pivotal person that many say is the reason this team is succeeding. Fighting against addiction. A message of hope for the tristate heroin epidemic coming from people whove experienced it. People are dying every day, every day without hope nobody changes changesthe bond these men share and the honor theyre trying to win tonight. An honor for a tristate veteran. Coming decades after his service. The International Visitors who delivered a medal. Nine on your side at eleven starts now there are so many stories of horror and pain from the but tonight hope. And its coming in the form of heavy metal. A band of recovering drug addicts using their music to spread a positive message. Message. Nine on your sides roseann aragon is live in covington. Where the band is sending that message tonight. It was a high Energy Competition that lasted weeksit started with 72 bands but only 7 left standingin tonights final competition this one band though says the competition is just one of several challenges theyve had to overcome. Nats the beat the lights the passion. This is the madison theatre band challenge. 72 bandstonight only 7 left standing nats this sound of heavy metalis the band among giants. It started as an idea we were joking around about and it escalated into this. Nats an idea that was formed in rehab. All but one of the members are recovering drug addicts. Started out young in high people were doing to fit in. chris wooldrigebass player homeless at 22. My family washed their hands of me. It was a battle theyd fight together. It took me years and years. It wasnt something i was cpable of doing in one day. During recovery trying to change our lives we decided to take that positive energy and incorporate it into our music. Nats it has a lot of emotion. Part of our lyrics are things that we actually went through. Things that weve actually seen. Feelings we actually felt. This music in this band has gotten me through some of the lowest lows of my life and theyre always there for me. Im getting ready to have a baby and they showered me with diapers. Theyre strategy in practice and in life pure perseverance and never giving up. Spreading hope one note at a time. To change. To live a better life. It is an extremely difficult situation and without hope theres no way that anyone can rise above. All of the members are now more band to go in this competition but no matter what happens this band says theyre already proud of how far theyve come. Reporting live ra 9 oys. Their story has a good ending but the lives of so many other addicts are in trouble. If you or someone you know is in the clutches of heroin we have resources to get help right now on our website. Wcpodotcomslashheroin. Tonight, expect mostly cloudy skies with a few areas of patchy fog by daybreak and and lows near 30. Some sunshine returns for the first day of spring vernal equinox but clouds will also hang around. Highs will top off in the mid to upper 40s. A below average start to spring, as we should be at 54 degrees but well gradually bring in warmer move into the lower 60s. Could this be xaviers year . Fans of the muskies think the man leading the Basketball Program is fueling the success this team is seeing. And as they play for a spot in the sweet 16 tomorrow chris riva shows us fans are expecting the final four. Riva su open many around the xavier basketball say the program has gone to the next level, meaning they can championship. Head coach chris mack is widely credited for xaviers next step in success. While there have been a long line of great coaches before him, xavier fans say mack is different, because he is home grown. Greg Christopher Chris has done an amazing job to take this program to a new level. We obviously have an amazing history, but he has taken it to a new level. Riva track xavier fans here in st. Louis feel mack as not only an apreciation for the city, but also xavier. Len i am a bomber myself. I am part of the long blue line. I think chris understands xavier and hopefully he is going to stay a xavier a long time. Drew obviously with the success a lot of people are going to come knocking at the door. Rightfully so, but hopefully being a cincinnati guy he will stick around. I think he will. Tom al lot of people use xavier as a stepping stone. Hopefully he will be national titles. Maybe is 20 years they will name the court after him. Len i think chris understands xavier and the benefits of greater cincinnati. Riva track fans here in stl. Would like Nothing Better than the home town kid guide them to the final four. At the ncaa tournament chris riva 9oys. Chris riva and John Popovich will be in saint louis for tomorrows game. Look for full coverage from them tomorrow on nine on your side. New at 11. Police say he was trying to sell a pickup truck on craiglist but ended up robbing the potential buyers instead earl lee now faces charges of aggravated robbery. And police say he didnt act alone the potential buyers were held at gunpoint as two other people tried to take their money and their car those two have not been caught. A scary scene but amazingly full of High School Students overturns in indiana it was a Basketball Team on their way to a game in the northeast part of the hoosier state. Police say the bus was sideswiped by another car. Many of the students and coaches on board were taken to the hospital but their injuries are not lifethreatening. A horse trainer says they were starved sick and dying. And tonight a Clermont County neighborhood is pitching in to help save three horses. Kimberly kinder bought the horses and is now trying to get them back to help. One of them had active lice and mites and visible open sores. She says she couldnt believe her eyes when she went to pick the animals up last weekend. Just utter shock. The closer we got the more emaciated they looked. Looked. Since then the community has donated thousands of dollars worth of supplies for those horses. Clermont county animal control and the Prosecutors Office animals. They did not returns our calls for comment. Police say its a reminder about the dangers of technology. A northeast ohio man accused of driving to missouri to kidnap a teen girl. Then holding her against her will for days days the suspect Eric Shotwell of minerva ohio charged with rape kidnapping and assault. Police say he met the 14 yearold on a Smartphone App called say hi and used stealth to take her from her eastern missouri home on sunday. She was found thursday at his home. The fbi is now investigating. Violence outside a donald trump rally in arizona as groups in two parts of the country protest visits from the leading gop candidate. But the frontrunner is remaining confident as the next primary draws near. Abcs Elizabeth Hur has the latest on democracy 2016. Wearing a kkk hood sparked a fight during Donald Trumps rally in tucson, arizona. Sot donald trump the other guys wearing a ku klux klan outfit. He thinks its wonderful. These are bad people. Im telling you. Earlier, in phoenix, protesters blocked the main road leading to the rally, some chaining themselves to cars. Nats in new york, thousands of protesters clashed with Trump Supporters outside the trump tower. Sot peter blewette, protester he literally represents the worst parts of america, and hes bringing out all the garbage. But the frontrunner predicts he will win the republican president ial nomination. Sot trump but you know the expression, to be the future of the Republican Party you have to go through trump. Right. Right. Gotta go through trump. Ted cruz is trying to put the brakes on the trump bandwagon, now that the republican establishment is backing him. Sot sen. Ted cruz we should appeal to the values that unify us, that bring us together, that we believe in. John kasich still in the race disagrees. Sot gov. John kasich i dont, frankly the democratic side, Bernie Sanders toured the border area in arizona. Dismissing any talk of of the democrats uniting behind hillary clinton. Sot sen. Bernie sanders some of the largest states in this country, states like california, states like new york state, oregon, washington state, they have not yet cast a vote. The vermont senator continuing his campaign in phoenix saturday night. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. Its incredible video that could be the key to solving a deadly plane crash in russia. Take a look you see what looks like a fireball shooting toward the ground. Before an explosion that lights up the sky. Officials think its the plane crash in russia that killed 61 people. Tonight investigators dont know if it was bad weather human error or a malfunction that took down the flight. Its been two years in the making and tonight leaders are looking forward to construction of the new clifton market. Market. Its an important because residents have been without access to dedicated Grocery Store since 2011. Its going up in the spot where kellers iga stood. Construction should take about four months. And then workers will get in shelving and equipment. A night of moulin rouge in hopes of finding the cure for pediatric brain cancer. Cancer. Its the once in a lifetime gala. A fundraiser for the cure starts now. Their goal tonight was to raise 400thousand dollars for the group. That money coming through raffles and auctions of prizes that really are once in a lifetime. Theres a trip to paris to see the real moulin rouge, we have a dinner with bengals player at the precinct, we have a perfume experience in new york city, so just incredible experiences that you couldnt buy if you wanted to toyoull remember lauren hill raised money for the the cure starts now. Before dipg took her life. More than eighthundred people took ten years of turning dresses into dreams. And the generosity from cinderellas closet continued today. Today. About fourhundred tri state juniors and seniors got formal dresses and accessories today. Teens who otherwise wouldnt be able to afford prom. Erin peterson got the idea for cinderellas closet while working in a Consignment Shop and seeing a teen who so badly wanted to attend her prom. I asked her if i could buy the dress for her and i didnt know how much it was it turned out to be 3995 and i bought it and as she left she turned around and said im going to look just like cinderella and i knew we could do that for some other girls girlsthose teens are referred to cinderellas closet by their school. When a medal really matters matters still to come, hear when a 91yearold delhi township man did to earn one youre watching 9 on your side at 11 most of us werent even a thought when he was off risking his life to protect our democracy. Today in delhi a world war 2 hero who witnessed the unthinkable. G ot a thank you. From france. Order this is one of the greatest honors of my life. 72 years later. A salute to that 18yearold soldier who traveled to france fighting on its border with germany. It would be wrong to say that i wasnt frightened. Because its a horrid experience to realize that number one someone is shooting at you and number 2 you have to shoot back. Now 91. And surrounded by loved ones and dignitaries at Grace Covenant Church in delhi. Command Sergeant MajorHenry Armstrong remembers well that first night in france. On a us in the detail killed a tree. There was a tree that looked like a human being on the opposite of where we were and i think everybody there shot that tree that night. laugh some memories bring laughter. Others bring pause. The saddest part was the concentration camp of course. And to see we found a pile of rags that contained the bodies of women and children that had been machine gunned. And i often wonder about the guy behind the machine gun. How he felt about thatarmstrong helped liberate a concentration camp. And helped liberate france. France. Every french person has a special place in their heart for you. And so all these years later. A member of the french consul pins on armstrong his countrys prestigious french legion of honor medal. A thank you sir. For your armstrong was a Founding Member of the Delhi Township Veterans Association and is still serving, supporting fellow vets. And talking at schools tonight, expect mostly cloudy skies with a few areas of patchy fog by daybreak and and lows near 30. Some sunshine returns for the first day of spring vernal equinox but clouds will also hang around. Highs will top off in the mid to upper 40s. A below average start to spring, as we should be at 54 degrees but well gradually bring in warmer move into the lower 60s. Monday, sunshine returns resulting in a rise in temperatures towards. Highs coming up, ken broo is in tonight with the latest in sports. The reaction from indianas big win over kentucky today in the ncaa tournament tournament and the waiting musketeers. They play wisconsin sunday night. This time tomorrow night, itll be either or. Like the line in that Steve Miller Band song. You might get rich, you might bustedxavier hopes to be the former, when it takes on wisconsin in the round of 32. Our John Popovich is at the ncaa tournament site in st. Louis. Its the nature of tournamnet week. You play like heck for forty minutes. You lay it all on the line. And then youre done. You walk off the stage. Enjoy the vicory and this is what it looks like inside the Scottrade Center on saturday. Half the teams are gonehalf the fans are gonehalf the reporters are gone. Its quiet. You just site and you wait. And you wait some more of there is a practice for the players and there are media obligations. Theyre brought to a press conference to try to Say Something different than what they said the night before after the gamebut most of the time, theyre just out there chillin. Passing the time and the times goes slow Jalin Reynolds the time does go by slowly. But you try to get your rest. Take a nap and eat rightkaiser gates upi kist sit back. Take a nap and get some foodplayers come with their music and their headphonestheres the ever present smart phones. Messa ges. Texts all gt deal with. You learn how to deal with a lot of idle timetrevon bluiett its a sacrifice you it upsometimes the madness of march can be a bit boring. It wont be that way sunday night. John popovih nine on your side with the musketeers in st louis shock has given way to realization for every uc player and fan its over. The bearcats season ended late friday night, when this last second dunk by Octavius Ellis was ruled after the horn. And st. Joes knocked uc out of the tournament with a two point win. Trt 10outcue . Its just tough, just tough caupain i said it to myself about 50 times, not again. Its been happening all year. Its just tough, just tough yale pulled off a big upset in round one, today, it ran into franklins luke kennard and duke. Kennard had 13. But duke had more than that. Bobby ingram was seven of 19, lot of that with the kid whos a dead ringer for ted cruz, Grayson Allen and his 29and duke marches into the sweet 16, 7164 final. And in des moines tonight, indiana knocked kentucky out of the tournament. The hoosiers move onto the sweet 16 after a 7356 win. Trt 12outcue . Locked into the concentration crean and our guys did a great job in a short period of time for getting ready for what we knew would be a great physical and mentaly battle. And they really stayed locked into the concentration. and in columbus tonight, thomas mores sydney moss scored 39of the saints 74 points. And the saint march into the Ncaa Division iii title game, with a 7465 win over amherst. The championship game is next weekend. Newcaths run in the sweet 16 is over. Tonight, against dunbar, ben weyer delivered another strong game. But dunbar was strong inside tonight and that was the season ends for the thorobreds, 5547 is the final. Out west, the headline from the reds today Raisel Iglesias training start. Nothing great, two innings, walked two, struck out one, allowed a couple of unearned runs. But he seems to be over his shoulder fatigue. The as beat the reds, 76 and at the Arnold Palmer invitational, the lead belongs to jason day. Heres a reason why on the eighth today, day pulled this shot out of his bag. He leads Henrik Stenson by