he began ranting about iran, iraq, they re going to take us down that sort of thing. he suggested we say the lord s prayer, and i think at that point we all decided in concert we should take him down and restrain him. after an emergency landing in texas, the captain was taken to a local medical facility for evaluation. pope benedict is meeting with fidel castro today as he wraps up his three-day visit to cuba. he says he would only take a few minutes of his very busy time. his brother raul met with the pope on tuesday. thousands gathered for pope benedict s final mass before heading back to the vatican. andrea mitchell is reporting live from cuba with more on the pope s trip today right here at 1:00 p.m. eastern. you know, it might sound unbelievable, but it is true. no one in any state matched all the lucky numbers in tuesday s megamillions drawing. the jackpot is now a whopping, get this, $476 million, the largest in megamillions history. the last prize win was two
the current average closer to 44 cents. now, merchants say that swipe fees cost them around $20 billion in profit a year. while banks say that new reform is is going to be lost billions of dollars of profit for them and the american consumer is caught in the middle. what about the credit card? what about credit cards? they re still hanging on? they re hanging on to the rewards. the key here is the reform that the fed s looking at doing is the swipe fee and it is debit cards. we saw it tied to the card act. they got hit on the customer end in terms of debit cards, now the vendors are looking to have that pull back a bit. enjoy the rewards while you can. cash them out now. thanks, carmen. america s newest millionaires could come forward to claim their prize today. one winning ticket was sold in friday s megamillions drawing, seven new york state workers are said to be splitting the $319
that halted trading for a time. the egyptian exchange shut down on january 27th at the start of the popular uprising that brought down the president hosni mubarak. there was no winer in the megamillions drawing. it s sure to grow in time for next week s drawing, or the next drawing, which is on friday night. so good luck to all of you, christine. let s get a quick check of the morning s weather headlines. jacque jeras is in atlanta. and she s got for us what has been a crazy start to the year, for sure. snow in the northeast. crazy start to spring. we don t expect it to be totally beautiful, but there s surfing in minnesota and there s tornadoes there s blizzard-like conditions. what s going on? and it s all from one storm system, believe it or not. so we re getting a little bit of everything with this thing. along with some really gusty winds. and we ll start out with wintery
the top five, starting with this one, last year, two i should say two years ago. two winning tickets in california and new york. won the $336 million jackpot in megamillions. in 2005, two lucky oregon tickets won a cool $340 million in power ball. number four and five will have to move down a notch if someone wins tonight s megamillions drawing. and back in 2000, a $363 million jackpot split by two tickets. illinois and michigan. and if you think that is something, wait until you hear the top two biggest jackpots. whew. that s a lot of money, isn t it? that s next.
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