ticket that made someone a millionaire hundreds of times over. we know exactly where that golden ticket was sold but who has it? julie banderas live in the newsroom with the latest, julie? that is the $338 million question of the hour, jon. the odds of winning, 175 million to 1. it all goes to one winner in new jersey. that single winning ticket was sold at a liquor store in passaic, new jersey, to be exact. so far the winner hasn t come forward. the lottery officials making the official announcement at a news conference a short time ago. the big headline from the news, the winning ticket was not sold in borden town, new jersey, originally reported this morning. before the drawing the jackpot had been estimated at $320 million. of the late ticket sales brought the value up to $338 million. that is the fourth largest powerball prize ever. winners, they have a couple options here. they can elect to be paid out over 29 years. or the lump sum option which in this case is 221 million
check in borden town. steve: altogether the powerball ticket is worth $338 million. but when you figure out your tax bite, 46.1%. about half goes to federal and new jersey state taxes if he does take it in the lump sum, he will take home $221 million. brian: how do you live on that? steve: how do you? unfortunately, for the tax bite, it is $11 million more than it would have been last year because of that increase in taxes on people who have a lot of dough. gretchen: remember in the good old days when they started these lotteries and all those tax dollars were supposed to go to improve education in america? how did that work out? schools are broke. i don t get it. i thought the lottery was supposed to be the savior for our school systems 20-something years ago when this started but it still hasn t helped the school system apparently as far as
0 come realize water s true potential. dive in-to the waters of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. love your passat! um. listen, gary. i bought the last one. nice try. says right here you can get one for $199 a month. you can t believe the lame-stream media, gary. they re all gone. maybe i ll get one. [ male announcer ] now everyone s going to want one. you can t have the same car as me, gary! i m gettin one. nope! [ male announcer ] volkswagen springtoberfest is here and there s no better time to get a passat. that s the power of german engineering. right now lease one of four volkswagen models for under $200 a month. visit vwdealer.com today. it is time for the end point. final thoughts. tomorrow and wednesday, the supreme court is going to hear arguments on the same sex marriage cases. it is a culmination of a the lot of activity. i think people are expecting a big ruling. but as i wrote in my post on the new yorker.com on saturday, there may be procedural issues th
more than 19 inches of snow falling in parts of colorado over the weekend. shut down this interstate near denver. burning tanker trucks and causing a 50-car pileup. incredibly no one was seriously hurt. the same system is bringing severe weather to the south. winds in atlanta blowing this tree into an apartment building. luckily the building was empty. i heard this cracking noise and it came tumbling down like the london bridge. reporter: in florida, 50-mile-an-hour winds and blinding rain forced organizers of the arnold palmer invitational where tiger woods was in the lead to suspend the golf tournament. the menacing storm hasn t finished its work yet it will now head over to the east coast. gio benitez, abc news, kansas city. thank you, gio, the storm is bringing double trouble to millions of commuters in the northeast. we are just over it. what happened to spring? heavy snow expected during the morning and afternoon commutes. accuweather s jalelah ahmed is tracki
the queen was very upset. bill: made a memory, didn t he? not going to vegas. bill: terrific having you along for the ride. nice to be here. bill: you did the 5:00 a.m. show. what time did you get up? today? i got up 1:0 this morning. this was 30 minutes late. my alarm clock went off late. bill: happening now. here is jon and jenna. catch you tomorrow. jon: we begin with brand new stories and breaking news. jenna: so much for march going out like a lamb. brand new snowstorm made a mess of the midwest and racing east. who is in the path? we ll tell you coming up. plus not case closed for amanda knox. her murder conviction was overturned in italy. there is push to put her back on trial. how likely is that? someone, someone is $338 million richer. who is it? new details emerging about the only ticket that can lay claim to the fourth largest jackpot in powerball history. it is all happening now. . jenna: we re both at work today. so you probably can stop speculating.