Just under an hour from now, someone could come close to being a billionaire. The jackpot is up to 900 million dollars. Retailers were selling tickets at a pace of 42,000 per minute. Fox 13s evan lambert is with us, some information that everyone wont want to hear. One in 292 million, as much as we all like to dream, there are a lot of things that could lap to us first. With 900 million reasons to buy a powerball ticket, the doors slammed opened and closed, at this shell gas station. Imagining themselves as the winnerrer of the winner of the record breaking jackpot. Their birthdays and the years keep our fingers crossed. Focusing on what they do with that kind of money. Invest, i dont know, maybe start a new business. I dont know. Retire early. But sorry to be the bearer of bad news. For about 291,999,999 of you keep dreaming. Thats because the odds of winning are 1 in 292 million. Taking a quarter, tossing it in the air and expecting the same side to come up 28 times in a row nearly i
Bays number one news atiothis i the fox 13 6 00 news. Good evening thanks for being with us tonight im lloyd sowers. Im hayley hincez. Developing developing first tonight what would you do with 900 million. Thats the question that so many people are asking themselves tonight. The tickets have been printed all day as the powerball craze has taken over. Fox 13s evan lambert is live at a gas station in clear water. Evan, how is it going out there . Hayley, i can definitely think of a few things i would do. Just to give you an idea this place has been busy all day. We got a little bit of a line forming now but most of these people are buying those tickets. Wanting a chance at what 900 million and how could you want. We are going to talk about to wear about hear about the odds one in 192 million. Lets talk about things that are more likely to happen to you than winning that jackpot tonight. A couple things here. First being attacked bay slashing. The odds of that one in 11. 5 million. Dying
From our visit orlando to your camera, a lot of cloudy skies, low clouds and fog we had this morning, helped to stabilize the atmosphere atmosphere. Good news because it looked like earlier, a couple of days ago we might have strong thunderstorms rolling through and that is not the case. Now there are thunderstorms towards tampa and those are weakening, good news, this atmosphere is too stable across most of Central Florida. To sustain any kind of nasty weather. Outside, right now, first i have it zoomed into the orlando area. You can see portions of lake county, and Volusia County it shows we might be having rain and a lot of it is what we call virga, precipitation not hitting the ground and the top righthand of your screen, no lightning in the immediate area. Pan it out a little more and 17 strokes of lightning, all of which down towards tampa right now and pan out a little more, zoom it out an change the view one more time, and go further into the ocean and you can see stronger in t
Overnight tonight through friday morning. Anything we see will be less than. 10 of rain. Sunny warmer over the weekend. 10 degrees warmer on sunday than saturday. And much warmer on monday through wednesday. Elizabeth, beach weather . Maybe, gosh, upper 80s now. I like that. It looks great. For right now the biggest difference in the morning commute is just the dry roads and we really i just checked the chp reports. Nothing there since about 4 15 this morning. So the roads look good, mass transit also problemfree this morning. By now more than 30 trains good to go. A lot of the roadwork has been picked up. Incline out to yerba buena island, caltrans has that wrapped up by 5 a. M. Developing news in texas. Another mass shooting at fort hood has left four people including the shooter dead. 16 others were seriously hurt. Some still in Critical Condition this morning. Kpix 5s anne makovec is tracking the latest in our newsroom. Reporter he had been treated for anxiety and depression and wa
Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The search for the missing malaysian airliner resumed in the southern reaches of the indian ocean this morning. Five planes searched for two unidentified pieces of debris in one of the most remote places on earth, nearly 1,500 miles from australia. Fog and rain hampered yesterdays search, but weather is improving today. The debris was spotted by satellite but officials have yet to positively identify it. Tara mergener is in washington. Tara, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. By air and by sea, searchers are dealing with some really rough conditions out there. The hope is that these mysterious objects will shed light on the fate of flight 370. Australias p 3 oryan aircraft traveled for three hours this morning to a remote part of the southern indian ocean. Crews are searching the area for two pieces of debris spotted on satellite images sunday that may be connected to missing flight 370. Weve been trying everything weve got at that area to t