isabelle rosalis has the details. reporter: good evening, pam. the mega frenzy is over. one lucky ticketholder, maybe an office pool, if they pick the lump sum, they will take home anan annest estimated $725 million. the state of south carolina had a $1.537 billion jackpot back in 2018. the big win coming down on friday the 13th. it turns out that this is real lucky, a really lucky day for mega millions players. six previous jackpots were won on that date. michigan coming in especially lucky with four wins in the state there for the jackpot. the big win there. 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2017. friday s winner matched all six numbers. those numbers are 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and the mega ball number
they will take open an estimated over $724 million. but they will not take home the top spot for biggest jackpot in history. that belongs to the state of south carolina with a $1.537 billion jackpot in 2018. the big win coming down on friday the 13th. turns out that this is real lucky. a really lucky day for mega millions players. six previous jackpots were won on that day. michigan coming in especially lucky with four wins in the state. they are for the jackpot, the big win. 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017. friday s winner matched all six numbers. those numbers are 30, 43, 45, 46, 61, and the megaball number of 14. i spoke with the owner of hometown gas and grill in lebanon, maine, where that winning ticket was sold. and he told me he got a wakeup call around 6:00 a.m., bright
of their $537 billion market kap. in fact, the punch of that fine was wiped out by a $6 billion gain in their stock yesterday. central to the most recent criticism of facebook privacy practices is the cambridge analytica scandal and its role in shaping the 2016 election. the company was a central player in the influence campaign targeting persuadable voters to lean toward president trump. the president s 2016 campaign spent a total of $5.9 million bucks for the company s services. cambridge analytica employees were even embedded with the campaign s digital team along with facebook and google employees. now a chilling netflix documentary called the great hack is digging into cambridge, facebook, data collection at large, and all the parts they played in the influence campaign during the presidential
billion ticket, probably still trying to pick their jaw up off the floor and hopefully contact an attorney. so, look, that s $1.537 billion after uncle sam in the state of south carolina takes their cut, you are looking at probably somewhere between four to five hundred million dollar change to take home. the fact that they won it in south carolina means that we may likely never know who the winner of the second largest joackpot s because south carolina is one of six states that allows these winners to remain anonymous. officials may not know for quite some time because they have 180 days to come forward to claim their prize. they could wait roughly six months to decide when they want to make their move after their get their affairs in order preparing for this. this is a life changing event.
of course he does. i want to win the mega millions, but i didn t. he also thinks it is the right policy for republicans. i m trying to be honest with you where i think the political landscape is. that doesn t mean it s something you can t campaign on. generally a promise is something you intend to keep. it is interesting. i think the issue there is he was claiming as if it had been discussed, as if it has been a plan in the works. now he can say he wants it. thank you very much for being with us. we do have breaking news. let me hear it. one winning ticket sold somewhere in south carolina. the mega millions jackpot of more than $1.5 billion. live in south carolina with the latest. what have you learned? john, yes. still waiting to find out exactly where in south carolina. i ll tell you the person with that winning ticket, that $1.537