home before taxes $2 18.6 million. it s a record jackpot. it s much, much bigger than that $390 million figure from 2007. so these are some really lucky people. we had a chance to speak with the maryland lottery director about the kind of device they give to winners. let s listen to what he had to say. our advice to the winner, to the extent we give any advice is good advice. hopefully they will reach out to trusted advocates for them financially and legally. then at an appropriate time come in and make a claim on the ticket. now, of course it s only been a little over 12 hours since this person would have found out they won the personal locally. according to maryland law people don t have to take part in publicity, some other states. we may never find out who is the lucky winner here, fredricka. that might be the smartest strategy. suddenly you get new friends and relatives. meantime store benefits as well. 7-eleven is hoping to cash in for themselves? that s right.
it s looking more and more as if the supreme court will cut the heart out of health care reform law. that s the part which would require americans to buy insurance if that mandate is found unconstitutional and we won t know it until june. it s an open question whether the rest of the law could survive. the court wrapped up three days of historic arguments today. cnn s congressional correspondent kate bolduan and our legal analyst jeffrey toobin, they were both inside during the oral arguments. let s start with kate. what s your take, kate? how did it go today? wolf, after three days of oral arguments and four issues being debated and more than six hours of debate, this historic case is a bit exhausting and i m sure even for the justices and for the attorneys arguing before them. this all wraps up with still the same question at the center of this case. is the individual mandate constitutional and with that very question in mind, the justices today took a look at the quest
news to dmitry medvedev with a new message for mitt romney. high winds drive a fire wild in the rockies. at least one person is dead. several more have lost their homes and danger is on the move. trayvon martin case. deeper the investigation goes, the more complicated it gets. there s only one truth but at least two conflicting witness stories about what happened. not a good time to be in the pink slime business. first the public recoils and then stores stop selling it and plant stops making it. today is the day there could be fireworks at the u.s. supreme court. two years in the making. the key and most controversial part of president obama s health care law put to the test. we begin with the russian president. he s not happy with republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he made that very clear this morning in south korea telling romney to listen to reason when talking about russia. dmitry medvedev is apparently upset romney called russia our number one geopo
door during a flight across the country screaming there s a bomb. we ll take you inside jetblue flight 191. we he begin with the drama still unfolding on capitol hill. members of congress heard from the parents of trayvon martin. he is of course the florida teenager shot and killed last month by george zimmerman who has not been arrested or charged with any crime. the grieving parents met with house democrats. they insist their son was shot because he was black. i d like to say thank you, thank you for the support. as i said before and i ll say it again, trayvon was our son, but trayvon is your son. thank you to everyone who is supportive of our family, everyone who has helped us stand tall in this matter. at a time investigators are asking for calm and for time, the martin family supporters in congress are only escalating their rhetoric. this investigation is laceded with racial profiling, lies, and murder. trayvon was hunted, chased, tackled and shot. ill conceived
it s one of many new developments. late word that authorities in a nearby county arrested a man who they say e-mailed a death threat to sanford police chief bill lee. chief lee, you ll recall, stepped aside temporarily yesterday. to date man who fire him but hasn t, city manager nort an bonapart spoke about the force that chief lee runs. any trust that may have existed in the police department is gone and that for african-americans in sanford, florida, it was always shaky to begin w. let s be very clear. chief lee has been the chief of the sanford police department for ten months. the issues brought to my attention regarding the black community and the sanford police department go back many, many, many years. we ve been looking into the reasons why that is including the brutal beating of an african-american homeless man in which police initially let the assailant, the son of a sanford police lieutenant, go free. that beating led to the early departure of the last police c