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this morning with lotto fever. the largest lottery prize in u.s. history just keeps getting bigger. the mega millions jackpot has hit an estimated $540 million. it s expected to rise even higher as millions of americans buy tickets ahead of tonight s big drawing. nbc s kurt gregory has more. this single, little slip of paper could mean half a billion. it s such an insane amount of money. reporter: a whole lot of green for a lucky winner tonight in the mega millions lottery drawing. and with still hours to go before the drawing, the record-breaking sum could climb higher. buy race cars, maybe. donate to charity. travel. retire early. i d never have to mow the grass again. thank you. reporter: and those half a billionaire dreams are bringing in customers across the country. this has been crazy all day today, very, very crazy. it s been busy, just lottery. you know, if everybody want mega million, if everybody try, will take chance. reporter ....
higher as millions of americans buy tickets ahead of tonight s big drawing. nbc s kurt gregory has more. this single, little slip of paper could mean half a billion. it s such an insane amount of money. reporter: a whole lot of green for a lucky winner tonight in the mega millions lottery drawing. and with still hours to go before the drawing, the record-breaking sum could climb higher. buy race cars, maybe. donate to charity. travel. retire early. i d never have to mow the grass again. thank you. reporter: and those half a billionaire dreams are bringing in customers across the country. this has been crazy all day today, very, very crazy. it s been busy, just lottery. you know, if everybody want mega million, if everybody try, will take chance. reporter: but chances are slim with odds 176 million to 1. it s more likely that you hit two holes in one in the same round of golf than hit it rich when those little plastic balls decide the winn ....
who will shortly introduce a my product of many hours of fopartisan cooperation andautho negotiation and authorization for the limited use of military force and libya.ion, a tr introduced by my colleague fromi massachusetts will be as i menti mentioned above authorized the president to employ the u.s. armed forces to advance u.s.in national secteurity interests if libya as part of the international coalition that isl enforcing u.n. security council resolution in libya to limito this authority to one year which is more than enough time to finish the job and makes clear the senate agrees with the a president there s no need and no desire to commit u.s. forces conventional ground forces init libya. this i would be the first to admit this authorization is not perfect and will not makeappy. everyone happy.ake it doesn t fully make me happy.i iswould have preferred that thim ithorization make clear our military mission includes the president s stat policyfi to objectives of f ....
maritime transportation i want to welcome all of our members and congratulate ranking member. i can t tell you how thrilled i am that you have that position rick and i have a long time working relationship. we are going to be off to aúbúbb great start and will be a greatb session working together and i certainly look forward to working with all the members of the committee. the subcommittee on the coast guard maritime transportation is meeting guard commandant and national incident for the oil spill. the bp deepwater horizon spill was unprecedented in its size and duration. elected tremendous natural and economic disaster on its weight. the joint coast guard and part of interior investigation into the cause of the explosion and sinking of the deepwater horizon as well as the failure of the blowout preventer to contain the spill is still ongoing. the subcommittee will examine the findings of these officials investigation once it is complete. while we await findings of ....
right way. i also sat on the appropriations committee and there are prioriti priorities. one thing of the costs are in the area of technology. i represent n.s.a. there is a lot of technology and we always have to keep,with other countries that are using technology against us. we have to stay ahead of the curve. another issue is space. one of the main reasons we are the most powerful country in the in the world and have freedom and liberty is because we control the skies. when sputnik came out years ago the concern was russia with control the skies. we put a man on the moon and as a result of research that put us on a level that we were experts in the field and continue to be but we re starting to slip. china is budget money into improve their military and space program. they are going to go to the moon again and talking about partnering with russia. satellites help us take pictures and a lot of what we do. we have to be prepared. i don t know what the gentleman was talk ....