announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good tuesday morning, everybody. as that woman said about the mega millions every day would be christmas. i m wringing at my hands to tell you the story and i m not close nobody s close right now, although we don t know. we could be holding the winning ticket. i bought one today. did you buy one. we bought $5 worth. i bought 6. let s get to it. we start this morning with mega millions madness. the jackpot up for grabs tonight. by the numbers it is astonishing. right now the $586 million jackpot would mean $316 million pay-out to a single winner taking a lump-sum payout before taxes. there s been no jackpot winner since early october. estimates say 11 million tickets an hour will be sold today in states where mega millions is played. abc s marci gonzalez has more. reporter: the excitement building as the mega millions jackpot, now at $586 million, just keeps growing. unimaginable
jackpot, that s the biggest in american history. so many people have things that look like this. this is sour show s. your chances of winning, odds aren t great. 176 million to 1. do you have greater odds of dieing from a bee sting, but i want to get one thing out there right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot s grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and about 175 million playing, a little over $3. if you haven t bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. there were lines for tickets in 42 states and the district of columbia s lottery tickets reach $3 million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen before, and it adds up to more than just a windfall for the lucky winner. in 2010, lottery sales generated nearly $18 billion in
american history. so many people have things that look like this. this is sour show s. your chances of winning, odds aren t great. 176 million to 1. do you have greater odds of dieing from a bee sting, but i want to get one thing out there right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot s grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and about 175 million playing, a little over $3. if you haven t bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. there were lines for tickets in 42 states and the district of columbia s lottery tickets reach $3 million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen before, and it adds up to more than just a windfall for the lucky winner. in 2010, lottery sales generated nearly $18 billion in profits for state governments.
Strengthen and protect the nation. and we promise we won t spy on americans. but i didn t hear that. but unless, of course, they have bad bad intentions. don t you want to know ahead of time? i want the i want the congress to decide when things like this are happening and i want the constitution to protect everybody s privacy and i want the federal government to keep us free and safe. ok. did you like that answer? it was a very good answer, judge. but i want the government to know when i m having more cake in my oven. you do not want them to know that! mrs. kilmeade doesn t want them to know that. they would be so bored with my life, do i have to listen to this anymore? judge napolitano, thanks so much. have a great weekend. coming up straight ahead, outrage growing over the shooting death of trayvon martin but are some groups like the new black panther party calling for vigilante justice actually contributing to all the anger? and turning a dollar and dream to
right now. that s as a new witness comes forward claiming to have seen the deadly shooting and aftermath. and chilling new video of those deadly tornados that flattened henryville. a school bus was thrown through a window. and a 12-year-old girl being brutally beaten. this morning, new developments involving four of the rhode island teens behind the attack. and are you feeling lucky this morning? millions of other folks like you are lining up for a world record lotto jackpot. the mega millions is staggering, $540 million, and it could go up by more today. this morning we have your odds of winning and some good advice on how to play the very best numbers. we re asking the question, would you come back to work the next day? heck yeah. i m not so sure. and a smaller jackpot on this highway. a crane with a huge magnet attached picking up millions of coins after a brinks 18-wheeler leaves the road. we ll tell you where it happened and how. we want to begin with new