okay. now, it wouldn t be cooler without lindsay lohan, an update on her. i love lindsay. she s addressing her money woes and also is hitting the road. she s reportedly selling all of heir worldly possessions, mainly her wardrobe and high-end vintage wear. and she s actually going to get on the road with a boy band, which i think is a great idea. so, she s promoting, selling her stuff. i love it. you know, lewis, i ve got an idea. yeah. okay, so, we ve done this telethon, sort of a telethon for our good friend, david axelrod, the mustache we re going to get rid of the mustache during morning joe. why don t we offer to cut something off of somebody else for lindsay lohan? are you volunteering? what are you talk being? well, i think we should do a fund-raiser for lindsay lohan. what exactly are you cutting off? cut his eyebrows off! i love it. i know you re not going to
reporter: good morning, rob and paula. this jackpot has already defied its own odds, 16 drawings in a row without a winner. that made last night s jackpot the second largest in u.s. lottery history. at 10:59 eastern time the numbers were drawn. the powerball jackpot just kept growing and growing. it grew to over a half a billion dollars. and would-be winners had more than half a billion ideas on how to spend it. [ indiscernible ] and make a five-story mansion. a happy life with no money woes. pay off bills. reporter: from convenience stores to supermarkets, the lotto machines were burning up as millions of americans in 42 states and district of columbia were lining up and dreaming big. that s the one right there. i ll see you tomorrow. reporter: in the final hours, tickets were selling at more than 100,000 per minute. in one gas station in indiana
three siblings convicted last year after a cross-country crime binge including a shootout in colorado and bank robbery in georgia. but as for the catt family these suspects were identified in crime stoppers tips. reporter: police say surveillance tape did them in when they were seen buying their disguises at a home depot. no one in the catt family has entered a plea yet. meanwhile we have discovered a long trail of money woes for the father including bankruptcy. paula and rob, over to you. people say the family unit is gone in america. come on. now, see? there s still families out there doing stuff together, spending time. family bonding. spending time during the holidays. quality family time. what s the problem? they re going to try to get out of jail. $380,000 bail, what it s set at, collectively for all three. the family that robs robs together stays together. oh, man. all right. coming up, we re seeing less of jessica simpson. a lot less, in fact. the big
it s going to be close. it s not because of a lack of trying that the president has fallen behind. has he done a hundred fundraisers this year alone. that s three times what george w. bush had done at this point in 2004. the problem for the president his campaign is spending a lot of money. on the positive side, they think that money is helping them with organization and key battleground states and may pay off with turning out voters in november, shep. money problems for the convention i hear too. ones scheduled for the dog days of spending in charlotte. $27 million for democrats. shook up the schedule today and said they are no longer going to be at the charlotte speedway kick things off on labor day. instead doing a smaller thing in downtown business district. down playing the money woes, the bottom line is when you talk to some of the president s allies they say this raises question whether there enthusiasm gap whether it s going to be hard for the president to win battle gro
now romney is a strong favorite in, you mentioned the month of february is good for him, maine, colorado, arizona and michigan. he seems to be leading there in those states. he is tied in minnesota. but newt gingrich has a strategy and he laid some of it out the other evening at his news conference. he is counting on the march 6th super tuesday, winning georgia, tennessee, oklahoma. next week, alabama and mississippi and he plans to win texas in april. what do you think of that strategy? well it is a defensive strategy because he will do pretty well in the south but how he gets there? he will be limping into super tuesday. can he win those states, some of those states? surely. there are some obstacles for him. and the base does seem to be reluctantly coalescing behind romney and, the lack of debates really hurts gingrich because he doesn t have the organization or the money that romney has. gregg: he does have money woes apparently. some republican leaders