i got my ticket last night at this very 7/11 and i got to kell you the wet nastywet her afternoon certainly has not kept power ball buyers away from this storm. this store is packed with buyers. i spoke with the owner of this particular store and she anticipated it would be busy today. but the word she is using to describe this place, insane. it is the largest power ball jackpot in u.s. history. $900million. seems like everyone wants a crack at that load of crash. >> all worries end the day. >> reporter: while the majority of power ball hopefuls are opting for quick picks. >> these are the winning numbers. i told them i would be back tomorrow morning. >> you going to hook them up? >> i will hook everybody up. i got to share it. 900 is too much. i have to take care of families. i will come back for you too. everybody gets some of that. >> reporter: others are choosing their numbers very carefully. to be honest, not that carefully. >> so you have a system? >> not even close. quick picks. praying. just kind of pick boxes. that's what it is all about. >> no system? >> i wish i had a system but i don't. >> i will use a few numbers that mean something to me. but i don't know. i will write down a bunch of numbers an hope i get lucky. you never know. >> reporter: power ballot rei officials are expecting $400 million in ticket sales on saturday alone. and while the odds are not in your favor, one in 292 million to be exact, that is not stopping millions from taking a chance. and back live, you can see wining the lottery here is finding a parking spot. it is not likely the jackpot if it does, it would jump to $1.3 million. the owner here tells me she is hoping and praying that doesn't happen. because frankly, she says she and her employees need a break. rod? >> i mean, that's a lot of people. the chance is 192 million huh? >> reporter: one in 292 million. but lots of folks are willing to give it a shot. $2 here, $2 there. >> and the thought of $900 million. the funny thing. if you think about it, the normal lotto is $8 million. people think i will not play. when it gets to 900 million, we take a shot. >> i will take 1 million. that's what i'm saying. hey, just sign me up for that. all right chip. thanks so much. we appreciate it. >> good luck. we joke that money cannot buy happiness, but it can sure but it can't do either. mary spoke with an expert who has studied dozens of lot roy winners. >> reporter: it could make a person a millionaire dozens of time over as the power ball is set to roll on the largest u.s. lottery jackpot ever. while all of that money can't buy happiness ... >> it doesn't hurt. it is an important ingredient to happiness in our society. >> reporter: socialologist h. roy caplin literally wrote the book on lottery winners and has studied the impack taking home the big prize can have on people. he has some advice for tonight's potential winner. >> don't go on a bing. don't even quit your job. >> reporter: in his research, he found big lotto winners don't always quit their jobs, but they stock up on expensive new goodies like houses and cars. >> they move into houses and had no money for furniture. bought a big cadillac. >> reporter: stories of lotto winners blowing their cash in a matter of months are out there. but in his experience, the lottery can actually save lives. >> for most people, it helped calm their lives down. in some people it saved their lives because they were in dangerous jobs or their health was deteriorating and it helped to remove them from the situation. >> reporter: tonight's drawing will take place right here in the lottery headquarters in tallahassee. i'm mary mcguire, newschannel8. >> if you have not bought your ticket, head to wfla.com. we have the luckiest winning numbers in the last four years. you will find that in the don't miss it section on the home page. all right, switching gears. it has been a rather dreary and stormy afternoon. the question is will we see more rain tonight? meteorologist julie phillips in the forecast center with a look at that. saw lightning today. >> yes. a lot of heavy rain and some storms rolled through. throughout the afternoon. some of those on the radar, but let's take a look at the tower cam. this is what we saw earlier moving through downtown tampa. this video you can see the rain starting up. we also saw a good amount of lightning across much of the tampa bay area. you can see possibly if we can get some strikes on the tower cam we saw. but we definitely saw some decent rain move in this afternoon and we are still seeing it push east across the tampa bay area on the radar. you are looking at this right now. the red is very heavy rain mead, lakeland. lake wales all dealing with the heavy rain pushing off toward the east. further to the south, we are tracking heavy rain around kinsey. all of it pushing to the east coast of florida. we have linger showers moving through pinellas county and the northern counties as well. we will see some light rain. then we are talking cooler air move into the rest of this week. so we will have a lot to talk about. >> all right, thanks julie. appreciate it. of course, you can track the rain this evening or any time by using our storm team 8 weather max app. it is free to download. right there in your app store. all right, tonight, a man is being extradited back to polk county to face charges of lewd conduct with a 15-year-old girl. 24-year-old joshua austin was arrested in polk county. he med the teen in a website chat. he mailed her sex toys. the father of the teen found the items and the messages. ordered the man to stop. when he did not do so, he dad called in detectives. in hillsborough county, this happened at 5:00. a honda accord crossed over the grassy median hitting an suv the driver of the accord died. tonight, we are hearing from a muslim woman kicked out of a donald trump rally for silently protesting. rose hamid stood there when trump suggested that syrian refugees are affiliated with isis. trump supporters started booing, chanting, and jeering before police escorted her and three others out. >> what happened when the crowd got this hateful crowd mentality as i was being escorted, it was really quite telling and a vivid example of what happens when you start using this hateful rhetoric and how it can incite a crowd where moments ago they were very kind to me. >> trump campaign staff instructed those supporters before the rally to chant trump's name in case of any protests. it was a day of service in tampa. together to help veterans and their families. also ahead, the makers of blue >> more than a dozen organizations came together have come together for a day of service. even the little things can help out a lot. >> there are a lot of homeless people here in tampa florida. >> reporter: 200 people lined up in greater bethel church looking for help. >> it is nice to see someone out there who cares. >> homeless veterans and their families got help and advice from everything from healthcare, education, nutrition. even a suit station. designed to help the unemployed interview. >> you need some type of resource. there. >> reporter: martin luther king day is not until the 18th and the day of service is just one of many events happening throughout the month. just a small thing molly is grateful for. >> i think it will make a good difference. >> reporter: i'm adrienne patterson, newschannel8. up ahead, the forecast. an also ahead, not so sweet >> and now, eight on your side consumer alert. blue bell ice cream facing another problem with listeria. bacteria was found in one of the production plants but blue bell claims no listeria has been found in any of its products. blue bell recalled its entire product line last year after listeria was found in the ice cream containers. no post, no e-mail, no glance is worth your life or someone else's. that is the message at&t is hoping to drive home with the 3d driving simulator app. the company showed off the app today in tampa. the app allows the users to feel like they are in a potential distracted driver situation. >> they are driving along through our neighborhood seeing kids on the street. seeing other cars. and, they are distracted by looking at their device. so in the end, they see the full consequence of distracted driving. >> according to an at&t study, 60% of the people survey 28% text the web. 17% said they snapped selfies. residents had an opportunity to offer thrapple put on hillsborough county's master plan for regional parks today. that meeting was the first to be held of ten over the next three months. the county wants feed back on activities and things that residents want to enjoy on the nature preserves throughout the county. >> i'm really excited to see that the county is interested in pursues more activities and more planning into preserving and making our parks more enjoyable. >> the next meeting is scheduled for saturday, january 16. now, in an effort to curb the growing problem of bike theft, the hillsborough county sheriff's office held a registration event today. it was held along up ther tampa trail in odessa. deputies stress that by cannot only prevent theft, but increase the chances of getting your bike back. >> to have a register of anything i think is important. because, just like i have little chips in my little dogs, just in case they get lost, i don't think there is any reason why you wouldn't register. >> if you have your bike stolen, deputies say contact your local law enforcement agency and let them know that it is registered with the sheriff's office. and, it has been a stormy evening for most across the tampa bay area. we will be dealing with lingering rain on the radar. temperatures in the mid 60s by the time you wake up. mainly dealing with the clouds. most of the rain should have pushed out an temperature ins the upper 60s . so still mild this time of the year. what you will notice, temperatures actually drop as we head into tomorrow afternoon. the winds pick up. it will be breezy. and cool for your sunday. currently, you can see the they moved on shore this afternoon. and are continuing to push east across the tampa bay area. we are dealing with a good amount of lightning within some of these storms as weapon. we will take a closer look at where we are seeing rain. northern counties see the bulk we are going to see. we have moderate rain moving into pine island and pasco county. just some sprinkles left in citrus county. if you are in polk county, we are tracking heavy rain out of lakeland and willow oak. heavy rain, a lot of lightning here at lake wales. this is pushing into the eastern portions of polk county. and then further to the south, we are still tracking some heavy rain around arcade ya. we have a little bit of rain still offshore that could move into pinellas county. so the threats, while the severe threat has started to drop, that pretty much we are seeing rain, the atmosphere has been destabilized. we could have some lightning. a lot of us can see some rain, the hail threat nearly at zero for today. some gusty wind still possible. and that tornado threat low for the rest of this evening. as well. temperatures are holding steady in the upper 60s near 70 at tampa. as we take a step back, you can really see some chilly air that has moved in across the central portions of the u.s. 5 in rapid city. two in bismarck. two in minneapolis, and this cold air is moving in our direction. there is a large high that is built in with the cold air. we are tracking a cold front just off to our west right now. that is what the storms are out ahead of. so, the rain will continue to push inland after midnight. a fairly low rain chance. as you wake up tomorrow morning maybe a light lingering shower in the southern areas. dry sunday. it will be fairly mild in the upper 60s to start the day. but as the northwest winds kick in, they will become breezy into the afternoon hours. back pretty quickly into the mid 60s and then on monday, it will definitely be chilly starts off the day in the 40s . only making it into the low 60s by monday afternoon. we are looking at the coldest air this season moving in. the coldest night at this point has been 48 degrees while tuesday night will drop back into the mid 40s and really, all this week, we will be looking at below average temperatures. i haven't talked about that in a while. we will start off tomorrow in the upper 60s . we will cool off through the day. maybe a lingering shower, but most of the rain we will see is before midnight tonight. then it is dry for most of this week. but notice those temperatures. they are holding steady in the mid 60s . reenforceing cold front rolls through wednesday morning. higher rain chances thursday and friday. but this is different than what we have seen so far this season. >> i know. i was having a conversation with a friend. she was excited saying she could put on her winter clothes. i said it is still in the 60s. >> i know. but us girls get excited about that. thank you very much julie. coming up in sports, dan lucas tells us which teams met with dirk cutter to discuss their head coach opening. >> plus, manatee county leaders are going to talk about patty's lab after the black lab patty bit a little boy. what they are hoping to accomplish on the important visit. >> plus, weather and traffic on >> all right. the bucks coaching search added offensive coordinator dirk cutter, the perceived leader in the clubhouse for the bucks job has interviewed with the san francisco 49ers. now, the niners reportedly have a favorite. and bengals offensive coordinator hugh jackson. but cutter picks up a little leverage in his status with the bucks. you can scratch one team and one head coach candidate. the dolphins have hired adam gase to be their next head coach. it was reported miami wanted to interview dirk. so there is one threat out of the way. while the job interviews take place, the real show begins. the nfl playoffs kickoff today with wild card weekend. four games including a third meeting between division rivals tonight. yes. the steelers travel to cincinnati where they beat the bengals less than a month ago. bengals quarterback andy dalton ben has seen enough post season games in his career to know none of those story lines matter. >> it is the post season. so everything feels a little different. but i guess you are playing out of a divisional opponent for the thinker time. a rubber match. whatever you want to call it. so yes, there's lots of tape you can look at is the best way to say there is familiarity. >> and, game one is underway. the kansas city chiefs at the houston texans. the chiefs return the opening kickoff. field goals. and they kicked off in the third quarter. 13-0 in that one. the lightning play ninth number two, back to back road games in canada tonight. canucks. the bounces, finally went the way of the bulls last night in edmonton. down 2-0 in the third period. the shot is deflected off the stick of a defense man. so it is now 2-1. just over guess what? off the stick of another defense man. it is 2-2. less than two minutes later, steven stamkos off the skate of a defense man. that is how you rally for three goals in a big 3-2 win. this afternoon, gators basketball hosting lsu. mike white, growing pains in year number one for him. he is a star in the making but the gators are having a rough year shooting threes but justin leon nails one there. the gators were three of 18. they still won. 68-62. so a big win for florida today at the dome there. a freshman. but that's basketball. that's how it works. >> thank you very much. >> bit of a rainy night.