Trump, 35, second 19 or 20 or Something Like that. What the new poll numbers are showing this morning, plus, its handshake after handshake. Will it pay off with the voters . And record jackpot. Powerball fever is at a boiling point. Will it reach a billion dollars . The long lines across the nation. I drove three hours to get here. What to do if you have the Winning Ticket . Its money on the mind this morning on gma. Hey, good morning. We are a nation in the grips of powerball fever. Millions of us buying tickets, an act that really is a triumph of hope over math. Yeah, here might be a tough pill to swallow, the reality of it all. Your chances of cashing in, 1 in 292. 2 million, which is about the same as your odds at flipping a quarter and getting heads 28 times in a row. I believe you got 27 times in a row when you tried it. Yes, that was when i was 8 years old. I had a lot of spare time. And, by the way, notwithstanding the bad math, when paula and i heard sara was heading out to a Convenience Store in new york city, we gave her 40 bucks to buy us tickets. Sara, how is it looking out there . Well, thanks, first of all, for being debbie downers on this because in case you havent heard, there are a lot of zeros on the end of this Powerball Jackpot, and im in one of the many Stores Across the country thats going to be selling these things faster than hotcakes. But you got to be in it to win it. Check it out. Its the largest jackpot in history. 800 million, and it has people across the country lining up. Here in prim, nevada, hundreds and hundreds standing in line for their shot at beating the odds. Just play, man. You got to play. Reporter and at this georgia truck stop, poor souls from alabama, one of just six states that dont sell powerball, aspiring millionaires flock to pick up their tickets. I drove three hours to get here. Reporter according to the florida lottery, more than 16,000 tickets were being sold every minute friday afternoon, which equates to 271 every second or nearly 1 million tickets every hour. At a rate like that, its no wonder some statisticians say the jackpot could grow to 1 billion. Next. Reporter there have been a record 19 drawings since the last Powerball Jackpot winner, so how did this happen . Because, believe it or not, winning got harder. The month of october saw the number of white balls go up from 59 to 69 while the amount of red balls went down from 35 to 26. That changed the odds of winning the jackpot from 1 in 175 million to 1 in 292 million. If you bought 50 Powerball Tickets a week, youll win the jackpot on average once every 112,000 years according to this statistics professor, who says its still worth a shot. With a jackpot this high, its the first time that even superficially the powerball bet is a good bet. So, i would say go out and buy a ticket. Reporter okay, you heard it from the professor. Weve got to get in on this game. Dan, you no longer have 40 worth of tickets because youre buying me some ice cream. Pregnant girl problems. Zane, hook me up with some Winning Tickets and no whammy, okay. Im going to be back in a minute with some Winning Tickets. Yeah, bring mine, okay. So, sara, youd rather have ice cream than 900 million . Because my chances of getting the ice cream are higher than you getting your millions of dollars. Very good point. Sara, bring us back thank you so much. Bring us all back some ice cream. Bring me a ticket, saar r dan. Okay, guys, thank you. Were joined now from austin, texas, by the Multistate Lottery Association chair and executive direct for the texas lottery commission, gary grief. Gary, good morning to you. So heres the big question, do you think we have any chance of this jackpot hitting a billion dollars . Gee, dan, youre hitting me with that pretty early this morning. Ive just barely had coffee. Im a little blearyeyed after watching all these sales happen yesterday, and sales are exceeding all of our expectations. Well make a decision on whether we want to increase that jackpot. How much well do that, though, dan, thats still to be determined. Okay, so you wont commit to a billion. What about 900 million . I cant commit to anything until i see those numbers, dan. I can just tell you its going to go up. Our players are responding like we have never seen before. Im seeing lines at retail stores, so Everybody Needs to just buckle up their seat belt and see what happens at 11 00. Somebody get gary an i. V. Drip of caffeine and maybe hell commit to a billion dollars before the end of this newscast. I appreciate it. I dont want to press you hard. I know theres a lot of data skill coming in. Let me ask you one last question, if one of our viewers happens to win, what do you do once you realize youve got the Winning Ticket . Sign the back of that ticket and put it in a safe place. Youve got at least 180 days, no matter where you live in the country, to claim that prize. Take your time, get some good legal advice. Get a financial adviser. Gary, we wish you a fully caffeinated and fully calm and smooth day ahead. Thank you very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank you, dan. Thanks to gary. And on his advice, were all buckling our seat belts. This morning, we do want to move to the other big story were following. El chapo, one of the worlds most wanted has been captured again. The notorious drug lord apprehended in mexico six months after he tunneled his way out and now hes going back to the same prison from which he escaped. Abcs matt gutman has the very latest from mexico city. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, paula. Overnight the mexican president not mentioning a word about extradition. Now, el chapo has already escaped from two prisons in his career and wakes up this morning in the last prison he busted out and even the local papers this morning are wondering whether the third time will do the trick. Overnight, mexican military officials muscling el chapo towards a helicopter and a flight to mexico city. Hours after Mexican Special forces captured the drug lord Joaquin El Chapo guzman. That last showdown playing out in the drug kingpins home state of sinaloa friday. Mexican marines raiding this compound, exchanging fire with el chapos men killing five of them managing to seize these weapons including 50caliber sniper rifles and grenade launchers. But not their suspect. Mexican Officials Say guzman slipped into the citys sewer tunnels. He and a bodyguard spotted emerging from the sewers and carjacking a vehicle before finally being nabbed. Seen handcuffed in that filthy shirt and whisked to where these pictures were taken. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] reporter the mexican president declaring it a triumph friday night announcing the news to the world with this tweet, mision cumplida, mission accomplished. The u. S. Department of justice calling his capture a victory for the citizens of both mexico and the United States. El chapo, one of the us United States most wanted criminals responsible for nearly a quarter of the drugs trafficked across the border often through tunnels. Abc news getting unprecedented access to one of them. Okay, so right now i just walk right here. Just walk gently through here. You dont want to touch the walls or anything. Reporter el chapos capture ends the biggest manhunt when he escaped from this maximum security prison in july. In a straight out of hollywood escape surveillance cameras showed el chapo ducking and then disappearing into that mile long tunnel dug by his engineers right under the prison. The modified motorcycle zipping him to freedom in that Million Dollar tunnel to this remote farm. Seems he had hollywood on his minnesota. Just busting out of the prison north of here, he apparently contacted local producers and actors about making a biopic about his life and those communications apparently helped authorities track him down. Dan. You couldnt make it up. Matt gutman, we appreciate it. Here at home, meanwhile, we have new video this morning of the shooter who says he was inspired by isis ambushing a Police Officer on the streets of philadelphia. That officer somehow managing to get out of the vehicle and return fire. Were learning more now about this gunman, and abcs eva pilgrim is on the story from philadelphia. Eva, good morning to you. Reporter dan, a chilling attack. A Police Officer ambushed driving down this very street this morning. We are waiting on authorities to formally announce charges against the man allegedly at the center of it all. Police say that alleged gunman claims hes pledged his support to the islamic state. Surveillance video shows this terrifying attack. According to police, the man dressed in a white robe is 30yearold Edward Archer seen here rushing towards a marked Police Cruiser firing a dozen rounds. He even reaches into the car before running away. Shots fired. 60 and spruce. Im shot. Im bleeding heavily. Reporter this morning archer, who police say confessed he carried out the unsuccessful assassination attempt in the name of islam, is being investigated by the fbi. Abc news has learned the 30yearold was not on any watch lists, but officials are now examining two trips to the middle east, one to saudi arabia in 2011 for the muslim pilgrimage hajj and another to egypt in 2012. This is absolutely one of the scariest things ive ever seen. I mean, this guy tried to execute the Police Officer. The Police Officer had no idea he was coming. Its amazing hes alive. Reporter despite being seriously injured, the video shows officer Jesse Hartnett getting out of his patrol car and chasing after his attacker firing back hitting him in the backside. Other officers picked up archer just a short distance away. Three gunshot wounds to the left arm is all we have. Absolutely amazing that that is all he sustained. I cannot explain how he escaped that. Its nothing short of miraculous, and were thankful for that. Reporter speaking to philadelphia abc station wpvi, hartnetts father says he rushed to the hospital where his son was able to talk with him after waking up from surgery. Its going to be a tough road. Hes a tough guy. I love him. Im very proud of him, and hes an excellent person. Reporter Edward Archer was treated and released from the hospital. This morning he wakes up inside a philadelphia jail cell. As for the gun used in this attack police say it was stolen from a Police Officers home several years ago. Dan. Extraordinary story. I want to switch gears quickly, eva, just to point out that this is your first story for abc news. You spent many years reporting for our powerhouse station in philadelphia, wpvi, and youre now joining us here at abc news, and we want to extend a warm welcome to you. Were delighted to have you as part of our family. Thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. Welcome to the family, eva. And we do want to move now to politics and the first big battle, the Iowa Caucuses roughly three weeks away. Hillary Clintons Campaign sent some panicked emails this week and things are tightening up on the republican side. Heres abcs devin dwyer. Isnt a trump rally more fun than all these other stiffs . [ cheers and applause ] reporter in South Carolina donald trump touts the latest poll that has him on top. Killing everybody nationally. Trump, 35, second, 19 or 20 or Something Like that. Reporter trumps ahead by double digits with 35 in a new Fox National Poll but in iowa trump is at 23 in a much closer raid. Today trump heads to the Hawkeye State where ted cruz is in the lead and barnstorming the by bus logging hundreds of miles and handshakes this week. Thank you very much. Reporter pointing out trump likes to swoop into iowa on his plane to campaign and then go home. Labor intensive. You dont do it from a tv studio in manhattan. Reporter Hillary Clinton was at a studio friday in l. A. To play charades with Ellen Degeneres and president fitzpatrick grant from the hit tv show, scandal. A selfie. Reporter clinton is not laughing about a growing threat from bernie sanders. Panicked Clinton Emails warn donors that polls in New Hampshire and iowa are seriously tight, and after months of mostly ignoring the vermont senator, clinton is going on the attack. Senator sanders voted with the gun lobby, and i voted against the gun lobby. Maybe its time for senator sanders to stand up and say, i got this one wrong. Reporter sanders fired back calling clinton a flipflopper on guns after hours earlier coming to her defense over questions about her personal life. What bill clinton did, i think we can all acknowledge, was totally, totally, totally disgraceful and unacceptable, but i am running against Hillary Clinton. Im not running against bill clinton. Reporter with so much on the line, the candidates are swarming iowa today. Ted cruz and donald trump have dueling events across the state. Bernie sanders will be there too. One person not on the trail today, Hillary Clinton. Dan and paula. All right. It was a busy place this morning. Thank you, devin. And a reminder, abc news will broadcast president obamas state of the Union Address and the republican response, which will be by South Carolina governor nikki haley. Thats on tuesday night beginning at 9 00 eastern. All right, a lot of other headlines to get to this morning, and for that, as always, its over to dr. Ron claiborne. Good morning, sir. Hey, good morning to you, dan and paula. Strangely silent around here this morning. Sara is gone. Oh, sara is gone. Thats it. Good morning, everyone. We begin with the mother of the socalled affluenza teen spending the weekend in jail after being unable to post 1 million bail. Tonya couch appeared before a texas judge for arraignment on friday. The judge having some harsh words for couch after she complained about the conditions in her jail cell reminding her that shes in jail and not at a resort. Couch told the judge that she understood. She faces up to ten years in jail for allegedly hindering the apprehension of her son ethan, who fled with her allegedly to mexico. And rising tensions in the armed standoff in oregon that is showing no signs of ending. The local Harney County sheriff asking for 36 other counties, neighboring counties, to dispatch deputies as backup. The group of militia men headed by ammon bundy seized the quarters of a wildlife refuge one week ago. And new problems for blue bell creamery. Its now reporting it found listeria in one of its production facilities again. Last year blue bell was forced to pull all of its ice cream from shelves after a listeria outbreak. This morning blue bell stressing that none of its food has tested positive for listeria, only at that facility. And take a look at this freak accident in pennsylvania. Judy bailey was driving her kids to school on wednesday, wednesday morning, when a pickup truck in the opposite lane lost its wheel and part of its axle sending them flying straight at her vehicle. Bailey says shes alive because of something that her son did the night before in the drivers seat, which may have saved her life. My son was driving the car the night before, and he has longer legs than i. I adjusted it a little bit but didnt go up as far as i normally do. Wow, and that extra room may have given her just enough distance to keep that axle from actually hitting her. Amazing, huh. And finally, two texas tornado survivors are living large thanks to a generous millionaire businessman, ron sturgeon offering his mansion for a dollar a month in rent to a family left homeless in last months deadly tornados in that state. Friday was movein day for Amber Jenkins and her mom katherine. Amber says she feels so lucky, she may buy a Powerball Ticket now. Yeah, good luck with that. Good luck with that Powerball Ticket . Yeah. Now we know rons view on the odds of powerball. Thank you, ron, appreciate it. If youre not going to buy a Powerball Ticket, then i think its a good weekend to sit on your couch. Thats right. And watch the nfl. And heres why, because the playoffs begin. Wild card weekend, four big games that starts with the Houston Texans hosting the kansas city chiefs. You can watch it on both abc and espn, and joining us from the espn studios right now is nfl analyst, former player and coach herm edwards. Good morning, coach. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. We have nice conditions in houston, but not so much in minnesota. Thats right. And you know what, before we talk about todays texans chiefs game, its all about tomorrow. This game, seattle at minnesota. Weve seen the freezer bowl. Weve seen the ice bowl. The prediction right now for the weather, the windchill could make it feel like 20 degrees below or colder, coach. So, whats it going to be like for the players and how dangerous are those conditions . Well, i dont know about dangerous so much is that who can withstand the elements, and both of these teams are playing in a big game. You think about games of this nature, the first thing youre concerned with as a coach for the players is their feet and their hands, keeping those things warm and then the balls. The balls have to be warm for the kickers