One wins again. You can see some people already two or three days before the jackpot drawing picking their powerball tickets. Right now the jackpot stands about 700 million. Thats more than the gdp of a handful of countries, you could afford to buy a skyscraper and its causing a lot of people to consider rolling the dice. Take a listen. We didnt do the 500,000 one, but no that its up to 700, were going to do it. Reporter saying its almost a billion dollars. Still not going to do it, i have bad luck, there you go. Reporter you dont think youd win . Absolutely not. Reporter and to be clear, you probably wont win, absolutely no chance youre going to win this thing, odds are not in your favor, at least 1 in 295 million, one for every person living in the country, but the tease and excitement is getting a lot of people out here early. We saw long lines yesterday. This jackpot has been growing since early november. If it rolls over again, you could see a billion dollar jackpot. Thats never h
Tomorrow as colder air starts to make inroads into the region with slowly falling temperatures. On saturday, temperatures will continue to fall with a powerful second surge of arctic air. This will likely generate some snow in the area on saturday night with increasing wind and dropping temperatures. Wind chills on sunday morning continue to look dangerous with 25 to 35 chills common. Some areas in Northern Iowa may experience wind chills around 40. This is dangerous for both humans and animals pets, and you need to ensure you have adequate shelter in place. Highs on sunday wont break zero. Thanks kaj. Three people are waking up this morning millions of dollars people from california, tennessee, and florida have all come forward with the Winning Tickets in the largest Powerball Jackpot ever. The first winner announced was in chino hills, california. Thats just angeles. You can see here some people gathered outside the 711 where the ticket was sold. The winners will split a jackpot of 1
Liferchanging for you out there oh, my gosh. Check again. well leave them up for just a moment. Well make sure and i know we have the pool here. About a million tickets to check. Well, maybe 100. We havent heard screams yet, but if you do, that means we will not be here tomorrow but those are the winning numbers and, of course, on we hope you won. Good luck the scare at the south Beach Post Office bringing out the hazmat team and fbi. It began with a man that wanted to send the envelopes to the fbi laurie our reporter has more on that. Reporter he storms out of the post office today and leaves behind two envelopes roughly the size of this notepad here and just keeps on going. Authorities say his action triggered a large response. Were currently waiting for the bomb squad from the miamidade county. The area locked down and hazmat crews suited up. Suspicious activity inside this miami Beach Post Office. We received a call about 2 55 this afternoon of 2 packages delivered by a subject tha
Disparity. Johnson countys program is called ladders, and it started last school year. Through that program and others many are working to make sure kids have a bright future. Nats of dancing its not hard to find happy kids at the dream center. Here at the dream center we have homework support, we have mentoring, we have a performing artscademy. Frederick newell, who started the nonprofit, says its all about education and giving youth more opportunities. We are creating programs here that kind of help with making sure people dont get involved in the system. His organization isnt the only one striving to help kids. The ladders program is a team effort in Johnson County that includes law enforcement, the school l district, the Juvenile Court system and the county. It focuses on the offense of disorderly conduct, which often comes with fighting. Instead of getting charged kids go through the program, which includes a Mental Health evaluation, Community Service and a writing assignment to
Jason good wednesday morning, i am jason guy. You will feel that chill again in Central Florida. A beautiful shot of lake eola for you. It is 49 degrees in this spot and we are not done dipping just yet. Amy sweezey has your forecast. Amy is another cool start, a couple degrees warmer than it was this time. I m not sure you will notice the difference because we are mostly in the 30 s and 40 we will drop a little bit before sunrise. Not quite as much as yesterday, only because we have more cloud cover helping us out this morning. Still, temperatures will climb. We will be in the low to mid 60 s for highs. We will still be cooler than average again this afternoon. We we dropped to 32. 43 in Daytona Beach, 47 in sanford. 50 degrees in melbourne. There is a frost advisory in effect. Some of the grassy spots, especially in shady areas will likely see some frost in Marion County and putnam county. Have them. Clouds will keep the temperatures from dropping and keep the sky milky today. We are