On the attack. Donald trump declaring himself all but unstoppable. Killing everybody nationally. Trump, 35 but the new poll numbers showing plus its handshake after handshake. Will it pay off with the voters . And record jackpot. Powerball fever at a boiling point. Will it reach a billion dollars . The long lines across the nation. I drove three hours to get here. What to do if you have the Winning Ticket . Its money on the mind this morning on gma. Hey, good morning. We are a nation in the grips of powerball fever. Millions of us buying tickets an act that is a triumph of hope over math. In 292. 2 million which is about the same as your odds at flipping a quarter and getting heads 28 times in a row. I believe you did it 27 times. When i was 8 years old. Notwithstanding the bad math when we heard sara was heading out to a Convenience Store we gave her 40 bucks to buy us tickets. How is it looking out will. Thanks, first of all, for being debbie downers, there are a lot of zeros on the end of this Powerball Jackpot and im in one of the many Stores Across the country that will be selling these things faster than hotcakes but you got to be in it to win it. Check it out. Its the largest jackpot in history. 800 million. And it has people across the country lining up. Here in prim, nevada, hundreds and hundreds standing in line for their shot at beating the odds. Just play, man. You got to play. Truck stop poor souls from alabama, one of six states that dont sell powerball aspiring millionaires flock to pick up their tickets. I drove three hours to get here. Reporter according to the florida lottery, more than 16,000 tickets were being sold every minute friday afternoon. Which equates to 271 every second or nearly 1 million tickets every hour. At a rate like that its no wonder some statisticians say the jackpot could grow to 1 billion. Next. Reporter there have been a record 19 drawings since the last Powerball Jackpot winner so how did this happen . Because believe it or not, winning got harder. The month of october saw the number of white balls go up from 59 to 69. While the amount of red balls went down from 35 to 26. That changed the odds of winning the jackpot from 1 in 175 if you bought 50 Powerball Tickets a week youll win the jackpot on average once every 112,000 years. According to this statistics professor who says its still worth a shot. With a jackpot this high its the first time that even superficially the powerball bet is a good bet. So, i would say go out and buy a ticket. Reporter okay, you heard it from the professor. Weve got to get in on this game. You no longer have 40 worth of tickets because youre buying me ice cream, pregnancy girl problems. No whammies, okay. Im going to be back in a minute with Winning Tickets. Bring mine, okay. Sara, youd rather have ice cream than 900 million . Because my chances of getting the ice cream are higher than you getting your millions of dollars. Very good point. Thank you so much. Bring us all back bring me a ticket, sara. Dan. Were joined now from austin, texas, about i the Multistate Lottery Association chair and executive direct for are the texas lottery commission. Gary grief. Gary, good morning to you. So heres the big question, do you think we have any chance of this jackpot hitting a billion dollars . Gee, dan, youre hitting me with that pretty early. I just barely had my coffee. Bleary eye after watching all these sales yesterday and sales are exceeding all of our expectations. Well make a decision on whether we want to increase that jackpot. Id say the likelihood is very good that we will do that. How much well do that, though, dan, thats still to be determined. Okay, so you wont commit to a billion. What about 900 million . I cant commit to anything until i see those number, dan. I can just tell you its going to go up. Our players are responding like we have never seen before. Im seeing lines at retail stores, so Everybody Needs to i appreciate it. I dont want to press you too hard. One last question, if one of our viewers happens to win, what do you do once you realize youve got the Winning Ticket . Sign the back of that ticket and put it in a safe place. Youve got at least 180 days, no matter where you live in the country to claim that prize. Take your time, get some good legal advice. Get a financial adviser. Gary, we wish you a fully caffeinated and smooth day ahead. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you, daen. Thanks to gary. On his advice were buckling our seat belts. The other big story, el chapo has been captured again. The notorious drug lord apprehended in mexico six months after he tunneled his way out and now hes going back to the same prison from which he escaped. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, paula. He has already been charged in multiple u. S. Districts but overnight not a single mention from the mexican president about extradition. So as you mentioned, el chapo, the man who escaped from two mexican prisons in his career wakes up in the same supermax he busted out of just last year. Overnight, mexican military officials muscling el chapo towards a helicopter and a flight to mexico city. Hours after Mexican Special forces captured the drug lord Joaquin El Chapo guzman. That last showdown playing out in the drug kingpins home state on friday. Mexican marines raiding this compound, exchanging fire with el chapos men killing five of them seizing these weapons including 50caliber sniper rifles and grenade launchers. But, not their suspect. Mexican Officials Say guzman slipped into the citys sewer tunnels. Emerging from the sewers and carjacking a vehicle before finally being nabbed. Seen handcuffed in that filthy shirt where these pictures were taken. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] reporter the mexican president declaring it a triumph friday night announcing the news to the world with this tweet. Mission accomplished. The u. S. Department of justice calling his capture a victory for the citizens of both mexico and the united states. El chapo, one of the most wanted criminals responsible for nearly a quarter of the drugs trafficked across the border. Often through tunnels, abc news getting unprecedented access to one of them. Okay, so right i just walk right here. Gentably through here, dont touch the walls or anything. Reporter it ends the biggest in a straight out of hollywood escape surveillance cameras showed el chapo ducking and then disappearing into that mile long tunnel dug by his engineers right under the prison. The motorcycle zipping him to freedom in that Million Dollar tunnel to this remote farm. And apparently he had hollywood on his mind. Shortly after he broke out of that prison the attorney general says that he contacted producers and local actors about making a biopic about his life. Those communications helped lead authorities right to him. Dan. You couldnt make it up. Matt gutman, we appreciate it. Here at home meanwhile, we have new video of the shooter who says he was inspired by isis ambushing a Police Officer on the streets of philadelphia. That officer somehow managing to get out of the vehicle and return fire. Were learning more now about this gunman and abcs eva pilgrim is on the story from philadelphia. Eva, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, dan. A chilling attack, a police this very street this morning. We are waiting on authorities to formally announce charges against the man allegedly at the center of it all. Police say that alleged gunman claims hes pledged his allegiance to the islamic state. Surveillance video shows this terrifying attack. According to police, the man dressed in a white robe is 30yearold Edward Archer seen here rushing towards a marked Police Cruiser firing a dozen rounds and even reaching into the car before running away. Shots fired. 60 and spruce. Im shot. Im bleeding heavily. Reporter this morning archer who police say he confessed to carrying out the unsuccessful assassination attempt in the name of islam is being investigated by the fbi. Abc news learned the 30yearold was not on any watch lists but officials are now examining two trips to the middle east. One to saudi arabia in 2011 for the muslim pilgrimage hajj and another to egypt in 2012. Scariest things ive ever seen. I mean this guy tried to execute the Police Officer. The Police Officer had no idea he was coming. Its amazing hes alive. Reporter despite being seriously injured, the video shows officer Jesse Hartnett getting out of his patrol car and chasing after his attacker firing back hitting him in the backside. Other officers picked up archer a short distance away. Three gunshot wounds to the left arm is all we have. Absolutely amazing that that is all he sustained. I cannot explain how he escaped that nothing short of miraculous and were thankful for that. Reporter speaking to philadelphia abc station wpvi hartnetts father says he rushed to the hospital where his son was able to talk with him after waking up from surgery. Its going to be a tough road. Hes a tough guy. I love him and very proud of him and hes an excellent person. Reporter now, Edward Archer was treated and released from the hospital this morning waking cell. As for the gun used in that attack police tell us it was stolen from a Police Officers home several years ago. Dan. Extraordinary story. I want to switch gears quickly, eva, to point out this is your first story for abc news, you spent many years reporting for our powerhousetation in philadelphia, wpvi now joining us here at abc news and want to extend a warm welcome to you. Delighted to have you as part of our family. Thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. Welcome to the family, eva. We want to move to politics and the first big battle, the Iowa Caucuses roughly three weeks away. Hillary Clintons Campaign sent some panicked emails this week and things are tightening up on the republican side. Heres abcs devin dwyer. Isnt a trump rally more fun than all these other stiffs . Reporter in South Carolina donald trump touts the latest poll that has him on top. Second 19 or 20 ors is like that. Reporter hes ahead by double digits with 35 in a new Fox National Poll but in iowa hes at 23 in a much closer raise race. He heads to the Hawkeye State where cruz is on top logging hundreds of miles and handshakes this week. Thank you very much. Reporter pointing out trump likes to swoop into iowa on his plane to campaign and then go home. Labor intensive. You dont do it from a tv studio in manhattan. Reporter Hillary Clinton was at a studio friday in l. A. To play charades with Ellen Degeneres and president fit fitzpatrick from scandal. Panicked Clinton Emails warn donors that polls in New Hampshire and iowa are seriously tight and after months of mostly ignoring the vermont senator clinton is going on the attack. Senator sanders voted with against the gun lobby. Maybe its time for senator sanders to stand up and say, i got this one wrong. Reporter sanders fired back calling clinton a flipflopper on guns after hours earlier coming to her defense over questions about her personal life. What bill clinton did, i think we can all acknowledge was totally, totally, totally disgraceful and unacceptable but i am running against Hillary Clinton, im not running against bill clinton. Reporter and with so much on the line the candidates are swarming iowa today, donald trump and ted cruz hold dueling events in the state. Bernie sanders will be there too. One person not on the trail today, Hillary Clinton. Dan and paula. It was a busy place this morning. Thank you, devin. A remind abc news will broadcast president obamas state of the Union Address and the republican response which will be by South Carolina governor nikki haley tuesday night beginning at 9 00 eastern. All right, a lot of other headlines to get to and for that as always its over to dr. Ron claiborne. Good morning, sir. Paula. Strangely silent around here this morning. Sara is gone. Oh, sara is gone. Thats it. Good morning, everyone. We begin with the mother of the socalled affluenza teen spending the weekend if jail after being unable to post 1 million bail. Tonya couch appeared before a texas judge for arraignment friday. The judge having some harsh words for couch after she complained about the conditions in her jail cell reminding her that shes in jail and not at a resort. Couch told the judge she understood and faces up to ten years in jail for allegedly hindering the apprehension of her son ethan who fled with her allegedly to mexico. Rising tensions in the armed standoff in oregon that is showing no signs of ending. The local harnny county sheriff asking for 36 other counties, neighboring counties to dispatch deputies as backup. The group of militia men seized the quarters of a wildlife refuge one week ago. Blue bell creamery reporting it found list teary in one of last year blue bell was forced to all all of its ice cream from shelves after a listeria outbreak. This morning theyre stressing none of its food has tested positive for listeria, only at that facility. Take a look at this. Freak accident in pennsylvania. Julie bailey was driving her kids to school wednesday, wednesday morning when a wickup truck in the opposite lane lost its wheel and part of its axle sending them flying straight at her vehicle. Bailey says shes alive because of something that her son did the night before in the drivers seat which may have saved her life. My son was driving the car the night before and he has longer legs than i. I adjusted it a little bit but didnt go up as far as i normally do. Wow, that extra room may have given her just enough distance to keep that axle from actually hitting her. Amazing, huh. Two texas tornadoes survivors are living large thanks to a generous millionaire businessman ron sturgeon dollar a month in rent to a family left homeless in last months deadly tornados in that state. Friday was movein day for Amber Jenkins and her mom katherine. She feels so lucky, she said, she may buy a Powerball Ticket now. Yeah, good luck with that. Good luck. Yeah. Now we know rons view on the odds of powerball. Thank you, ron, appreciate it. If youre not going to buy a Powerball Ticket i think its a good weekend to sit on your couch and watch the nfl. Heres why, the playoffs begin, wild card weekend, four big games that starts with the Houston Texans hosting the kansas city chiefs. You can watch it on both abc and espn and joining us from espn studios right now is nfl analyst former player and coach herm edwards. Good morning, coach. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Have nice conditions in houston, but not so much in minnesota thats right. You know what, before we talk about todays texans chiefs game. Its all about tomorrow. Seattle. The prediction right now for the weather. The windchill could make it feel like 20 degrees below or colder, coach. How dangerous are those conditions . Well, i dont know about dangerous so much. Who can withstand the elms. Both playing in a big game. You think about games of this nature, the first thing youre concerned with as a coach for the players is their feet and hands, keeping those things warm and then the balls. The balls have to be warm for the kickers obviously and the quarterback so you cant heat them with any heaters but that becomes a part of the process. Along with the wind conditions. Is it wet and is it windy or just windy or just dry and cold . So these are the conditions you have to play in, especially in playoff atmosphere and its outside, both teams. No one gets any edge on that. Its just mental toughness and obviously ball security. Yeah, no one gets the advantage. We have to start thinking of names. Weve seen the freezer bowl and ice bowl. Lets go back today. You once coached the chiefs playing the texans. I like the chiefs. I like the roll theyre on. Both these teams are built the same way. Lost their running backs earlier but found a way chiefs being, what, with two wins, houston with two wins and find a way winning the division, the chiefs have won ten in a row now so i think the key is alex smith. He is actually the only quarterback in the playoffs with all the quarterbacks that has not turned the ball over. Hes been in three playoff games. Hes thrown nine touchdown, zero interceptions. This defense of the chiefs takes the ball away, 119 points scored off takeaways. I think the chiefs find a way to win the game. Football game. Both built the same way with good defenses and its not going all. Enjoy the games from inside that the warm studios, coach. Particularly tomorrows game. Thanks for joining us this morning. Reminder you can watch them starting at 4 20 in afternoon on both abc and espn and this is pretty big because its our first nfl game in ten years. Speaking of the weather over to indra petersons, good morning, indra. Have you ever seen golf ballsize hail . How about like tennis ballsize hail. No manage you. Its dangerous. Thats when they saw outside houston. You know when the National Weather service says take cover its going to be a whopper out there. Downright dangerous coming through the windshields completely wiping them out and today that storm is still out there. The good news it has calmed down around the gulf but its going to be ramping up again and making its way all the way into the northeast so, yes, chicago, youll look at to 3 inches of snow then this guy is going to make its way into the northeast. Rainy day out there but this is the story you want to see. This is the yowzer, guys. 20 below. Thats what it will feel like. No just not minnesota and out towa