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.
martin had emerged. now, also in dispute the relevancy of george zimmerman s arrest record. his supporters say that it has no bearing on the case. though in previous weeks it was cited by the martin family. now details about trayvon martin s life are emerging, problems at school primarily and the family says they have no bearing on what happened the night the son was killed. the teen had been suspended three times from school, including once fore writing gra titi on a school drawer. the officer called it a burglary tool and the miami-dade police uncovered no evidence that the jewelry was stolen. well, today at a house democratic forum on the case attended by trayvon martin s parents, family attorney darrell parks said that his past has no bearing on his encounter the night of february 26. whether or not trayvon martin was a perfect student is irrelevant to whether zimmerman s conduct that night was justified. trayvon was a kid. he was another unarmed black boy whose life wa
we ll play for you uncensored in a moment. first, the breaking news which happened just moments ago in sanford, florida, where david mattingly joins us live. david, sanford city commissioners passed a no-confidence motion in the local police chief. what exactly does that mean? does it mean anything? reporter: anderson, this was a no confidence vote. they voted 3-2 in no confidence in the city s police chief bill lee. this is really a nonbinding vote, but it demonstrates to the police chief that he no longer has the support of the city commission here. and what it is saying is that they re now going to be looking into more details. they re not going to make a decision right away. it doesn t mean that the chief is fired. but they are going to be looking into deeply in his handling of this killing of trayvon martin. and the chief has only been in office less than a year now. he does not have the support right now of the current mayor of the city, jeff triplette. i watched the
check out this video of the moment the quake hit, also in mexico city, so remarkable about this footage is remember how far away this was from the quake s center. chad myers is tracking the very latest of this down in atlanta. chad, how many people felt this hit? some sobering numbers now, john, coming in really here. we ll talk about strong shaking, 600,000 people in mexico felt strong shaking with moderate damage. 2.3 million people felt moderate shaking but i think the number here that may really surprise us tomorrow is the u.s. geological survey has the new computer model that will tell them how many fatalities are estimated. there s a 42% chance that somewhere between 10e and 100 people died in this earthquake. there s a 30% chance of up to 1,000 people dying in this earthquake, and now we know this is just the very latest, igualapa, cnn just confirmed this town is reporting 800 structures have collapsed, mainly homes, but this is very close to the epicenter of the 7.4
new york times opinion piece calling his former employer togsic atogs toxic and destructive. wolf blitzer is off. i m candy crowley. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world with. you re in the situation room. puerto rico isn t often a hotbed of american politics but certainly is right now sunday s republican presidential primary looming. 20 delegates are up for grabs and as mitt romney and rick santorum will be the first to tell you, every one of those delegateses koubt es counts. jim acosta is watching it unfold for us in san juan. you had the opportunity to see both of these candidates, jim. reporter: that s right, candy, and it s going to be interesting to see how this plays out, because naturally mitt romney has been given sort of the advantage here in puerto rico. s got the endorsement of this territory s governor, luis fortunio but the governor welcomed senator santorum to the island when he arrived earlier this beak. i have to tell you what every