nbc 10 news starts now. >> i got the winning powerball ticket for tonight right here. >> who wants to be a billionaire? >> i'm greedy. i want all the money. >> the world's biggest lottery

jackpot up for grabs. >> slim, slim chance, but can't win if you don't play. >> more than a billion dollars at stake and the drawing just happened. grab your ticket. the winning powerball numbers are straight ahead. >> good evening. i'm jacqueline london reporting live from south philadelphia on the night of this historic drawing. >> and i'm jim rosenfield. tonight's powerball jackpot, in case you hadn't heard, is $1.5 billion. and we want to get to that moment you've been waiting for, we've been waiting for those numbers to be drawn. and here they are. the numbers -- again, there they are on your screen. we're going to see these numbers running across the bottom of your screen coming up in just a few minutes. let's send it back to jacqueline. i'm not hearing any screams from any winners where you are in south philly, am i?

>> no. no. you're not. and i'm looking very closely at the ten that i purchased trying to see. we'll find out. if i just look here halfway through this newscast, you know i do have one of the winning combinations here. the customers here at the oregon diner would love for a winning ticket to be on the menu here tonight. they have their eyes on the tickets and the screens here to see if they have the lucky combination. tonight nbc 10 has live team coverage on what to do if you win, what not to do, and also a cautionary tale that might make you feel lucky not to be the winner. let's begin with randy gyllenhaal live from new castle. >> reporter: i got the 8 on the ticket. i don't think that counts, though. for the first time we're seeing peace and calm outside these local gas stations. they stopped selling tickets here about an hour ago. but at its peak, delaware lottery officials tell us they were selling 22 of these every single second. all right, buddy. give me a winner.

>> buddy c. runs the cash register at the fairfax news stand in wilmington. and for the past few days -- >> all right, thanks. >> reporter: he's given this advice to every hopeful billionaire waiting in line. >> keep it simple. >> reporter: another tip here in delaware, you can remain completely anonymous if you strike gold. the past three jackpot winners in this state kept their names secret. now, the biggest winner in all of this is the government. local states take home much of that money and they spend it in very different ways. here in delaware, most of it goes towards the general fund. in new jersey it gets spent on education, and in pennsylvania, elderly citizens benefit. >> the whole family's playing powerball right now. >> reporter: everybody is playing powerball. >> right now. >> reporter: players are hoping somebody finally hits the jackpot. this thing has been growing since early november. tanya jackson and her son picked

up 15 tickets. >> this is an investment in his college fund. >> i'd like to be ceo, possibly an inventor. >> while debby wish hopes to win again. her family split a million bucks in an office pool a few years back. >> i shouldn't play. because it won't strike twice. >> reporter: yet here they are once again aiming a little higher for a billion. and over the next hour or so, state lotteries will begin to tally up the numbers. this one's a bust. but we should learn soon if a state did hit the jackpot. they didn't reporting within the next hour or so. if nobody wins, it could roll over to $2 billion this saturday. live in new castle county, randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. >> and our team continues with aundrea cline-thomas and i'm guessing you didn't win the jackpot either. >> i've got to come back to work

tomorrow. there are big winners out there probably. and if that's you, you're going to want to listen to this. we talked to financial planner rob wilson who has tips about what to do next. and he should know. he has a client who won a $40 million jackpot ten years ago. so the won the powerball jackpot, now what? >> you weren't happy yesterday, you're not going to just automatically be happy today. because you won the powerball. >> reporter: hard to believe now that you've become an instant millionaire. but before rushing to claim the prize, rob wilson says first take a deep breath. then hire an attorney. >> you get a good attorney that can help you create a truss or an llc that you can have redeem the ticket so that you keep your name out of the newspapers and you keep your phone from ringing off the hook. >> reporter: an accountant will help with the taxes, a financial adviser will help you not spend it all. wilson advises winners to take the lump sum amount versus the

annual payout. >> you don't need to feel like you have to rush out and start nfbing or buying buildings. yes, you can just leave it in a bank. >> reporter: but you would have to spend the earnings across multiple banks. that's all about having a plan because all of a sudden distant relatives could resurface, old friends may try to come back in the picture. wilson warns it's easier than you think to lose it all. >> last month you didn't wake up saying your goal in life was to go buy a maserati. think about the things that are truly important to you. >> reporter: now, this could be the best news of somebody's life or it could end up being the worst news of their life just depending on how they handle that money. now, we talk to a lot of people today. they say they didn't even want to win the big jackpot. they said all of that money would just be too much of a burden. reporting live in cherry hill, i'm aundrea cline-thomas. thank you. and we asked philadelphia mayor jim kenney what he would do if

he won the powerball jackpot. he said he'd probably go crazy. >> school's got a lot of problems. i don't know what i'd do. i'd probably go crazy. you think about those possibilities, but you never think about it in the terms of a billion and a half. you think about it in terms of a couple hundred million which is substantial. but a billion and a half is overwhelming. i think i'd be back to work on thursday. >> reporter: and the mayor says he is playing in a pool all by himself. now you always hear stories about people who win these huge jackpots and then their lives end up taking a turn for the worse. coming up, we're going to have some stories of people that happened to them. a cautionary tale that makes you feel a little bit better that we didn't win. i did notice that the powerball is ten. you know it's lucky to watch channel 10. that's further proof. >> glass half full, jacqueline. in case you missed it, the

winning powerball numbers are scrolling right there at the bottom of your screen. i saw sheena checking her numbers. she's here as well. >> i didn't get one, jim. not one of those numbers i think was on my ticket. but that's okay. hopefully somebody did win. that would be amazing. i know we have a pool going, so we'll have to see how those numbers pan out. >> yeah, we do here in the office. >> and we know who has our tickets, right? yes, we do. and we know where he lives. so if he doesn't show up, we'll find him. >> she's not talking about me. >> he'll be here tomorrow and we'll see what the numbers are. hopefully somebody wins this, though. temperatures, let's talk about that for the moment. it's still very cold outside when you factor in the wind. it still feels like the teens. allentown still feels like 11 degrees. not as windy as it was earlier today. but windy fwhuf to make temperatures feel cold outside. mt. pocono 3 degrees below zero.

we only got to 29 degrees. the average high 40. tomorrow will be in the low 40s with much less wind. then friday near 50 and saturday near 50 but there's rain heading our way going into the weekend. tonight, though, we have some snow showers trying to approach the area. right now in western p.a. some of these could be moving into the poconos. i'll show you the timing. as we head into the weekend. we're tracking a nor'easter that should be moving up through part of the mid-atlantic states. that's coming up. >> in other news, new at 11:00, a man's in the hospital tonight after a shooting here in montgomery county. police found the man along jeffrey road in willow grove just before 7:00 tonight. so far no word on any arrests. and no one's in custody for the stabbing death tonight of a man in west philadelphia. police found the victim with multiple stab wounds here behind this wal green's at gross and vine streets. he was later pronounced dead at

the hospital. we're learning more about the house fire in wilmington that claimed the lives of three young children. they both died yesterday after flames ripped through their home here on monroe street. their mother christina is in the hospital in critical condition with serious burns to nearly half of her body. her husband and father of their two girls spoke to nbc 10 today about the tragedy that devastated his family. >> they were innocent. >> fire officials are still investigating the cause of the fire. they say the house did not have any working smoke detectors. a bucks county basketball coach could face up to 90 days in jail for allegedly head butting a referee during a game. you may recall this video right here. today the bucks county district attorney issued a harassment citation for neshaminy coach divine. it shows him knocking a ref to

the floor earlier this month. divine is suspended from coaching. it's unlikely he'll serve any time in jail. ten american sailors held by iran are now safe tonight. iran freed them earlier today preventing a major international crisis. one of the soldiers actually apologized for entering iranian territorial waters. >> it was a mistake that was our fault and we apologize for our mistake. >> u.s. military officials called these videos pure propaganda showing the ten americans on their knees on the deck of their own navy vessel surrounded by armed iranian military. secretary of state john kerry thanks iran for their release, but foreign policy experts warn that iran remains a dangerous adversa adversary. to division 2016 now and republican presidential candidate ted cruz answering questions about a new report accusing him of breaking campaign finance rules. "the new york times" reports cruz failed to disclose that he rely on $1 million in loans to

help finance his 2012 senate campaign. the money included a sum from goldman sachs where his wife is an employee. such disclosures are meant to keep candidates from getting special treatment from lenders. cruz called the mistake tonight an inadvertent filing question and says these loans have been disclosed over and over again. the republican party is preparing for a contested national convention tonight. the point of the convention is to foirmle nominate the party's candidate but several top gop leaders say they're preparing for a primary season in which no candidate wins enough delegates to secure that nomination. there are still a dozen major candidates in the hotly contested gop race. back to our top story tonight. that historic powerball jackpot. you see the winning numbers scrolling on the bottom of the screen. you say we shouldn't be necessarily disappointed iffy with didn't win? how come? >> that's right, jim.

one huge jackpot winner says that winning the lottery was actually the worst thing that ever happened to him. you'll hear these true stories coming up.

and your winning powerbalanpowerball numbers, there they are. here they are in numerical order. and that powerball is 10. jacqueline london live once again in south philadelphia. i think there's a winner out there somewhere, but if not, make us feel better about all this. >> okay, defer nlt try to make u.s. all feel better. usually ask people what they would do if they won, but tonight we wanted to ask people what they wouldn't do. here's what they told us. >> i would never cook or clean again. >> one day win all this money,

just like separate from their families, that is something that i won't do. >> i won't give it to my son, that's for sure. >> i wouldn't get ridiculous with it like buying cars and houses. >> oh, never having to cook or clean again. wouldn't that be amazing? can you imagine winning a billion dollars and then losing it all? it's actually not impossible. take a look at some people who have had all of this money and then took a turn for the worse. according to a vanderbilt law school study, lottery winners are twice as likely to declare bankruptcy as nonwinners. how is that possible? well, william post won 16 million in the pennsylvania lottery but ended up losing it all. william sealy won $450 million and says it was the worst thing that ever happened to him. and there's more. it was cloud nine for jack whitaker an his wife when they took home $103 million in 2002.

but his granddaughter ended up dying from a drug overdose and a friend of hers was found dead in his home. whitaker was sued for wrongful death but claimed to be broke five years after winning the lottery. and that's not all. maria holmes was the largest north carolina jackpot winner in history winning $127 million. as a single mother she said she was going to take care of her four kids, her immediate family and her church as well as go back to school. >> it's not going to change the person that i am, but it's just going to change our situation like financially like we're going to be able to have our own everything. >> but authorities say she risked nearly a quarter of the $88 million she took home bailing her boyfriend out of jail numerous times on drugs, weapon and street racing charges. once she paid $3 million for his bail, then $6 million and $12 million. he was already in jail on

weapons and heroin charges when she won the lottery. how do you stay on top and not hit rock bottom when you strike it big? richard lustig is a winner of an incredible seven prizes. >> don't go crazy with it. i don't care how much you win, you could burn through it all. >> sage advice right there. there are many cases of people who have been smart with their money. there are other people who just can't resist that temptation to spend and spend very quickly. so that can leave you with a lot of regrets. i suppose we should just be very grateful for what we have here at oregon diner in south philly, talked to the entire staff. they had a huge pool from all three shifts. none of them won. and the people here at the diner, a little bit quiet, so none of them won either. they have plans for the future. one person here we spoke with would love to buy the eagle, another would love to help mayor

kenney to eradicate homelessness. maybe the next powerball jackpot. we'll see if there's a winner in new jersey, or delaware. >> lottery officials saying it could be a few hours whether we know if there are any big, big winners. let's go to sheena parveen. another cold night ahead. >> yeah, jim, another cold night tonight you're going to want to bundle the kids up at the bus stop. the only difference is it won't be as windy by tomorrow morning, but by tonight the freeze continues out there. tracking some small showers approaching but certainly not for everybody. we start with a warm-up and rain going into the weekend. and your holiday weekend will be a little different from beginning to end if you have monday off for martin luther king day. it's going to get colder again. for now it feels like 18 degrees in philadelphia. feels like 3 below zero in the poconos, 13 in pottstown, 18 in millville. so still feels very cold outside. but we won't have as much wind

tomorrow meaning it won't feel as cold as it did today. at the bus stop, areas north and west, 7:00 a.m., the actual temperature will be around 15 degrees. shouldn't feel too much colder than that. philadelphia area around 22 degrees, new jersey and delaware around 20, by the afternoon mostly cloudy with temperatures a lot warmer than today. around 40 degrees. today we only got to a high of 29, and that was along with some wind. not as windy tomorrow. locally most of the area is clear. but we're watching this very light snow showers. a lot of this might not be touching the ground. but there's more off to the west. and that's some that could be touching the ground. i think especially in the poconos could have a good chance of that. that's mostly going to be overnight tonight. here's future weather so that feels-like temperature is going to stay on the cold side overnight. still feeling like the teens, then by 9:00 a.m., any snow showers should be coming to an end north and west. but the model's trying to pick up on another badge but

certainly not feeling as cold as today. friday we pick up more of a south wind. milder air moves in. it's going to be warmer friday, but then look at that rain moving in friday night, 11 chk p.m. south of the area. but they part of a much larger system. that's all part of a developing nor'easter that will start in the southeast, move across the mid-atlantic states but then really move out to sea. so we're going to see some of this, but we're mostly going to see it as rain overnight friday into early saturday. it will be too warm for anything else. saturday morning we might have rain across the area, but then we start to dry as we go into sunday. tonight the clouds increasing, chance of light snow and 22 for the low in philadelphia. tomorrow mostly cloudy, not nearly as cold as today. highs around 40 degrees. friday will be around 50 degrees with rain moving in at night. saturday we start to clear up, but windy again. 37 degrees by sunday and by martin luther king day. we're in the upper 20s. stay tuned. we'll be right back. >> we're just getting word that

officials in california say there is a lottery winner there. and we'll be right back.

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there's a powerball winner in california near l.a. we don't know about other states. what about our weather? >> well, i'm a little depressed now. but it's not going to be as windy tomorrow. that's good news.

maybe that will cheer everybody up. >> sure. >> since nobody here that we know of won the powerball. 41 for the high. warmer into the weekend. rain comes, then colder for martin luther king day. >> cheer up, sheena. see you tomorrow. ♪

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