for some it s a piece of papers. for some it is a life changer. won a million dollars. no, no, no. bob is one of the 33 people to win a million bucks in the powerball drawing. 25, 11, 54, 13, 39. now power ball number 19. reporter: he was oh so close to hitting the big jackpot . 18 and the winner was 19. reporter: $564 million split between three winners who bought their tickets in puerto rico, north carolina and at this convenience store in texas. lucky machine. that s the lucky machine, huh? that s maybe the lucky machine. reporter: a lucky machine or really lucky people. only a one in 175 million chance of matching all six numbers, but the odds didn t keep people across the country from dreaming big. lucky one. reporter: the lucky feeling lingering for the winners and the store owners getting their own big prizes. a million dollars. reporter: just for selling one of those three winning slips of paper.
they don t have the treasury secretary out and they are trying to downplay this to say well, it wasn t that bad and in fact it is really the supreme court s fault and the president didn t know anything about it and it is just over here and we will take care of it because they as pfeiffer points out the ramifications are huge and huge not just for the president s agenda but for the application of the first term agenda which is to say his healthcare law. shannon: and there has been a lot of discussion about the fact that at one point the person who was heading up the tax exempt organization issue sarah hall ingram is now heading up the enforcement arm of the irs when it comes to the affordability care act which really is the enforcement is the way that the act lives. it is the center of his law because it is there the mechanism, the irs is the mechanism by which people will be compelled, forced to purchase health insurance and that is kind of the deal. that is the whole point of this
estimated $595 million. let s play powerball. 22, after that we got the number 10-we are going to meet mike conrad, matched all five white numbers. next number up lucky 13 then 14 and than had we have the number 52. for tonight s winning number. match this number, tonight it is 11. arthel: there you heard all the winning numbers right there. and saturday evening announcement made a trip to the grocery store far more than a mun day crews down the produce aisle. wow, i can t believe it. that is shocking. believe it the jackpot produced $590.5 million pay day for some lucky person or persons. the chance to win was a long shot but the odds didn t deter people across the country from
i do mean lucky. the chances of winning? 1 in 175.2 million. such long-shot odds didn t deter people across the country who lined up to try their luck. the winning ticket was sold in a publix outside tampa. i call it powerball publix. but no one has come forward yet. nonetheless, once the lucky winner steps forward to collect the cash he, she or they will walk away with a lump sum of $282,677,000, after all the, uncle sam has to get his 25%. the world s largest jackpot, by the way, was a $650 megamillions in march of last year, but florida has the juice when it comes to the powerball. the sunshine state has had more powerball winners than any other state, six winners in all, after last night s drawing. shannon? i am going to have to make a
paid toward the middle or end of the job. and we didn t know how that would come together. it turns out that pitching the idea to other potential lenders wasn t easy either. unfortunately, the odds didn t seem to be in the company s favor. still a gelato business in maine is a far-fetched idea to bankers apparently. so there was a lot of hesitation to even crash anything. the other challenge was that the gelato fiasco needed money fast. something that banks don t do. by the time that we tried to apply to those other places, the fix was in, the game was rigged against us at that point. i wasn t too surprised that they said no just because if you walk into a bank today and expect them to give you an answer next week, it s not quick respond. the pair says that tensions were never that high, but they got quite the entrepreneurial reality check. it was five or six nos in eight weeks or so during the time where the build-out was going on at the same time. every day that passed wa