early votes cast could break turnout records. also tonight the state of emergency in florida. hurricane and tropical storm watches up as subtropical storm nicole takes aim. we ve got the new track. the new numbers on child rsv cases. 77% of pediatric hospital beds filled nationwide. what parents need to know. the chaos at twitter under new owner elon musk. after laying off nearly half its workforce the company reportedly scrambling to hire some key workers back. and is facebook next in line for mass layoffs? and the world record powerball jackpot. nearly $2 billion up for grabs tonight. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone, from our nbc news election headquarters. with 40 million early votes already cast, millions of election day voters will soon add their votes as the first poll openings here in the east are now just hours away. control of congress and the direction of the country to be decided. democrats defending their slim
had been rescued. some had scrambled on to their roof tops and some just ran for their lives. we ve never seen something like this. folks who deal with this for a living have been doing it for 20 years. have never seen water this high. we still can t get to a lot of people. there s so much water, the current is so strong, it is not safe for some of the water rescues that we need to do. we ll be in the search and rescue certainly today and tomorrow and then we ll be looking at a year s worth of rebuilding. president biden has declared a major disaster across eastern kentucky and the national guard is helping to rescue people. joining us now from clay county, what is the situation where you are? reporter: well, fred, it is really hard, still, to get to the worst of this. this is an ongoing situation. we re not really in the aftermath yet. my cnn crew dave and chris pulled over on the side of the road to talk to you and catch you up on what we are seeing so far. the import
this is not cheap. $4.26. it is not great but definitely a step in the right direction. there s actually 16 states that now average less than $4 a gallon. i think the bad news is that oil prices have started to creep higher. they actually traded above a hundred dollars a barrel earlier today trading around $98.75. we need to keep an eye on this. if they go above a hundred dollars i think we ll see a return of the dreaded rising prices at the gas pump. sadly we ve gotten used to the $90, 80 something every time we fill up but we d like to see it go down. good to see you. thank you. could you use say an extra billion dollars in change? the megamillions jackpot is more than $1.2 billion and counting ahead of tonight s lottery. a live report on lotto fever straight ahead. but first in california to understand what s behind catastrophic wildfires and how
Single UK winner claims €145m Euromillions jackpot as Irish Lotto heads for €11m
The bumper winner becomes the fifth biggest winner in UK National Lottery history. By Rónán Duffy Saturday 3 Apr 2021, 5:54 PM Sat 5:54 PM 59,460 Views 49 Comments
Dan Morrissey Syndicate from Carlow claim Ireland’s biggest ever win in 2008. (File)
Image: National Lottery
Image: National Lottery
A CLAIM HAS been staked for the €145 million Euromillions jackpot won on Friday by a single UK ticket-holder.
The player matched all five Euromillions numbers as well as the two Lucky Stars to win the jackpot, becoming the fifth biggest winner in UK National Lottery history.