jackpot, that s the biggest in american history. so many people have things that look like this. this is sour show s. your chances of winning, odds aren t great. 176 million to 1. do you have greater odds of dieing from a bee sting, but i want to get one thing out there right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot s grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and about 175 million playing, a little over $3. if you haven t bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. there were lines for tickets in 42 states and the district of columbia s lottery tickets reach $3 million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen before, and it adds up to more than just a windfall for the lucky winner. in 2010, lottery sales generated nearly $18 billion in
american history. so many people have things that look like this. this is sour show s. your chances of winning, odds aren t great. 176 million to 1. do you have greater odds of dieing from a bee sting, but i want to get one thing out there right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot s grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and about 175 million playing, a little over $3. if you haven t bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. there were lines for tickets in 42 states and the district of columbia s lottery tickets reach $3 million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen before, and it adds up to more than just a windfall for the lucky winner. in 2010, lottery sales generated nearly $18 billion in profits for state governments.
there have been several tickets purchased for the jackpot. i can t wait to see the new set if you win. that was a rare moment of obama speaking on popular truths there. a tax on the poor, the stupid. tax on the stupid and mathematically challenged. i say that as someone who bought $20 worth yesterday. you can t win if you don t play, ben. let s talk a little bit about the income sort of reality of the lottery. in new york state, households where $30,000 was the median income spent twice as much on lottery tickets as households where the income was $50,000 or above. in illinois it s predominantly low income areas, african-american or latino that generate the highest lottery sales. spending has been up despite the economic downturn. this comes as no surprise, when people feel the pinch they want to pin their hopes on the dream of megamillions. as social mobility in this country declines and the gap
i m erin burnett outfront tonight, mega millions madness psh americans dreaming of winning the jackpot, the big nest american history. so many people have things that look like this. this is sour show s. your chances of whipping. odds aren t great. 176 million to 1. do you have greater odds of dieing from a bee sting, but i want to get one thing out there right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot s grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and abouts 147 million playing, a little oevgs 3ds. if you haven t bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. lines of tickets in 42 states and the district of columblump lottery tickets reach $3ds million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen before, and it adds up to more than just a win
town wins a $950 million lottery jackpot. you heard right. all except one guy who missed out on it. we start with this. we re just a few hours away from the start of the nevada caucuses. it is the fifth contest in the republican presidential race, but the first one to take place west of the mississippi we will have much more on that in just a moment. but first, here are some of the other top stories we are watching for you this morning. in syria anti-government activists say the military is randomly bombing residential neighbors. it has been the center of the uprising in syria. activists say as many as 260 people including women and children have been killed in the past day alone. cnn has not independently confirmed the accounts, though. here is what one brave activist told our anderson cooper last night. they have been bombarding an a area for like three hours with tank shells because a part of the syrian army led down to welcome the syrian army. so they bombard randomly