Last few days. A shot at a cool 1. 5 billion. In less than an hour you could be the winner of all that. If you didnt you dont have a ticket yet your chance of doing that just to drop to zero. Ticket sales close to just a few minutes ago. Were live in columbia where at a Convenience Store sales of and study all day long. Reporter we actually just saw a sauce of people come in and get the very last ticket. The last ticket was sold here in the more money that people used to buy the tickets the more is going into the lottery. If this rolls over again there could be a two Million Dollars jackpot. The South Carolina education lottery says this is the largest jackpot in the history of the world. We are sitting on a very historical event. It is 930 million if you win and take the cash option. Stop if yotake the annuity is a payout of 29 years. If someone were to win in south would be significant on the state. 7 would go to the department of revenue for the state. Thats a large sum of money. 50
Protect it. We are going down to the vault. Down into the basement level. Our studio is held, and for all of the lottery games to include the powerball reporter we are heading underground and if you think that sounds secure enough. The Florida Lottery has their own florida Law Enforcement agency. Ron cave is the director we are charged with i nsurance, the integrity of the game in the 40 Florida Lottery system. Reporter the machines involved in the big drawing are held inside this room. Each ball set is rated and then goes through an xray for defects before making it into the big show. By law, the doors to this room cannot be open until hours before the drawing. All of these correct. Reporter of these doors were to be open at any time, he says he will get another to his cell phone. Reporter , as the secretary for the Florida State lottery. He says here in florida, everyone has powerball fever we are averaging about 556 a second here in florida. That is a lot. Reporter what about number
Afternoon that could have us experiencing flooding. Be careful as you make your plans. This will be the last rain event we will see and it will be over by early tomorrow morning. Then, drier weather settles in. Behind that front, temperatures will be in the 20s and 30s overnight. 61 in greenville. 52 in asheville. We will see highs in the mountains add 64. 57 in spartanburg. The end of the day, we will see a temperature from 6667 as a high. It gets back to normal as we get into the weekend. We will talk more about that, coming up. Mike we have a live look at the the lake is in a high water condition. The water will flow into the saluted river downstream into lake murray. The dam there was never in danger of collapsing. Aly in landrum, people are still dealing with the effect of the rain monday night. Mike the manager at caroland farms says the Pacolet River overflowed spilling onto the land around it. All of the farms cattle were moved to safety. So far, it doesnt look like any equipme
3 3 the Womens Basketball continues their undeafeated streak last night after taking on vanderbilt in nashville. Last time these two met. Wilson posted 20 points each. And dominated a 30 point win over the commodores. Final score was 71 to 61. News19s alyssa lang will have all the highlights coming up a little later in the show. Meanwhile. The womens team will play missouri here at home on sunday. Tip off is set for noon. 3 3 there was no big winner in last nights powerball drawing. So now the estimated powerball for saturdays drawing is 700 million dollars. Which is the largest jackpot of any lottery game in u. S. History. And keep in mind. The jackpot could go even higher before the next drawing. Perhaps as high as 8080million or more. And of course you can see the drawing right here on wltx at 11pm. During the afc wild card game. 3 meanwhile. There is still floating around irmo just wating to be claimed. Last staturday. Someone bought a winning Powerball Ticket at jp mart store on l
Especially in the northern overnight. You can see our system is ramping up here and you can see georgia. We also saw some thunderstorms and parts of charlotte or they are having basically a thunderstorm that was producing sleep. He was him in a little bit closer to South Carolina, we are still seeing freezing rain across good portions of the northern midlands. As we move in a little closer, freezing rain and parts of fairfield, kershaw and maybe even northern portions of Richland County. It is not over yet. We will continue to see this moistures treatment. Potential for freezing rains, in the northern midlands and portions of richland and sumter counties. Many reports from all across the midlands includes freezing rain and a couple of sleek reports over in lexington earlier. And really this will be the trend for the rest of tonight as the system continues to ramp on up. As far asasadvisors are concerned, freezing rain richland and sumter counties, that could include some tough driving,