i m erin burnett outfront tonight, mega millions madness psh americans dreaming of winning the jackpot, the big nest american history. so many people have things that look like this. this is sour show s. your chances of whipping. odds aren t great. 176 million to 1. do you have greater odds of dieing from a bee sting, but i want to get one thing out there right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot s grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and abouts 147 million playing, a little oevgs 3ds. if you haven t bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. lines of tickets in 42 states and the district of columblump lottery tickets reach $3ds million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen before, and it adds up to more than just a win
that the cold war ended more than two decades ago. wolf blitzer is off today. i m gloria borger and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the average price for a gallon of regular gas today is about $4. make that $3.92. our new poll shows nearly half of americans expect that price to hit $5. that s $5 this year and most blame the oil companies. president obama tried to hitch a ride on those sentiments today. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here. jessica, is the president going after big oil? again. believe it or not, it really felt like today was let s play politics with gas prices day in washington. the president played his part from the rose garden. think about that. it s like hitting the american people twice. he called on the senate to pass a bill that would have eliminated billions in tax breaks for oil companies. american oil is booming. the oil industry is doing just fine, with record profits and rising prod
it s looking more and more as if the supreme court will cut the heart out of health care reform law. that s the part which would require americans to buy insurance if that mandate is found unconstitutional and we won t know it until june. it s an open question whether the rest of the law could survive. the court wrapped up three days of historic arguments today. cnn s congressional correspondent kate bolduan and our legal analyst jeffrey toobin, they were both inside during the oral arguments. let s start with kate. what s your take, kate? how did it go today? wolf, after three days of oral arguments and four issues being debated and more than six hours of debate, this historic case is a bit exhausting and i m sure even for the justices and for the attorneys arguing before them. this all wraps up with still the same question at the center of this case. is the individual mandate constitutional and with that very question in mind, the justices today took a look at the quest
hoodie does not make them a hoodlum. the bible teaches us, mr. speaker, in the book of michael db. the member will suspend. the member will suspend. these words, he has shown you the member will suspend. the chair must remind members of clause 5 of rule 17. what you do justly as you love mercy, as you walk humbly with your god, and in the new testament i have to tell you this, i can t wait for this conversation that s coming up in about 30 minutes here on cnn because representative bobby rush will join me to talk about that speech and that moment. make sure you stay tuned. newt gingrich lays off a third of his staff and replaces his campaign manager, but gingrich says that s not a sign he is dropping out of the presidential race. the campaign says it s just a response to financial realities. gingrich vows to stay in the race until the republican convention. we re going it talk with his campaign chief of staff. can t wait for that interview, live this hour as
a high court is nearing the end of a remarkable six hours of arguments on four separate issues arising from the affordable care act of 2010. the session that began last hour is due to wrap up 45 minutes from now. soon after that the final health care arguments will center on the power of the feds to compel states to broaden medicaid coverage. we don t expect any decisions until june at the earliest, but our jeff toobin and kate baldwin will step out of the courthouse to bring us up to speed when the what if arguments are over today at the u.s. supreme court. the facts surrounding trayvon martin s death are getting more complicated by the day. so far there have been conflicting reports as to what exactly happened and whether george zimmerman was really acting in self-defense when he shot trayvon martin in the chest. now shocking new evidence that sanford police were taking steps to arrest zimmerman early in the investigation. the miami herald reports the police incident re