richard lustig claims you can improve your chances. he says he's won millions in the florida lottery, and has even written a book. his tips, buy as many tickets as you can afford and pick your own numbers, don't let the machine do it. >> it's all about what numbers? how do i pick the best numbers? what's the secret to picking the numbers? there is no secret. >> reporter: the odds may be long. but people keep hoping they'll be that one in 175 million. >> it's always a dream. always a dream. >> reporter: when they draw the numbers tomorrow night, a lot of people will be checking their tickets very carefully. and maybe deciding whether or not to go into work the next morning. brian? >> now's your chance to buy for the office staff, john, nobody in line. go ahead. john yang in chicago covering powerball for us. >>> still ahead as we continue tonight, cancer patients call it chemo brain. they can feel it. their loved ones can see it, and now for the first time scientists say they can too. >>> and later, the stories we haven't heard until no

richard lustig. thanks for being on the show. >> thank you, melissa, for having me on.give me your best tip. >> oh, boy, there is not any one particular best tip. there are several that are very, very good. so i try to give a few of them out when i do these inteiews. right now the thing i'm pushing the hardest which i usually do is talking about a budget. people need to set a budget when they're going to play lottery. don't spend grocery money. don't spend rent mo money. melissa: okay. >> figure out what you can afford. don't worry how much the guy down the street is spending. melissa: no what you can spend and go out and spend it. one thing you say though, get a set of numbers that are your set of numbers, play them all the time rather than doing the quick pick. why do you think the quick pick is bad? >> the quick pick is bad because it is a, every time you buy a quick pick you're getting a completely so your odds are always going to be at the worst they psibly can be. as you just said, a minute ago, the odds of winning tonight's jackpot is 1 in 175 million. that is ju

we'll ask seven-time lottery winner richard lustig done the impossible so many times. he haves very specific tips. he says there is whole trick to it. i was looking at couple of them. he doesn't really have math on his side for some of them. he keeps pointing out he won seven times. lori: look forward to hear about that. melissa: that will be interesting, 5:00 p.m. eastern here on fox business. if you want to win the lottery, if you don't, don't watch my show. but if you want to win the lottery and tune in at 5:00 p.m.. lori: you're a winner regardless if you're watching "money.". incoming ceo says yes of coldwell banker says yes. he joins tracy and ash on fox business. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes. >> i'm ashley webster. new urgency on the fiscal cliff. both the president and republicans say they're confident a deal can be reached and both admit not doing so would be disasterous. tracy: yeah. stocks hit session highs after the president spoke. we don't see that very often. market guru jim bianco is here. he says why he thinks companies moving up dividends to avoid the fisc

that's where richard lustig comes in. >> people can win. >> reporter: he's defied the odds. not once. but seven times. writing a book about his jackpot. his unscientific suggestions, pick your own numbers. don't let the machine pick for you. and do your research. check online to see if your numbers are won. i choose my numbers. and i go on. do i keep those numbers? >> absolutely. >> reporter: and he says, buy, buy, buy. >> buy as many tickets as you can afford. >> reporter: even lottery officials agree with that one. the more tickets sold, the better odds someone will win. will it be me? >> where do i play powerball? after a few first-time player hiccups? five down here and one down here? is that what he said? i'm ready for my jackpot. $425 million. one of these. and here they are. >> we had a little underline. buy as many as you can afford. >> make sure you have that taken care of before you buy these. >> good luck. >> good luck to you, sam. >> that's my savings plan. is that wrong? is that -- that's not -- >>> let's get to the boards. we showed you where the snowy side was

richard lustig claims you can improve your chances.ys he's won millions in the florida lottery and has even written a book. his tips, buy as many tickets as you can afford and pick your own numbers. don't let the machine do it. >> it's all about what numbers, how do i pick the best numbers, what's the secret to picking the numbers. there is no secret. >> the odds may be long, but people keep hoping they'll be that one in 175 million. >> it's always a dream. always a dream. >> the key question, of course, is whether you're going to play. one of our viewers has tweeted in to say that playing the power ball is a tax on the mathematically challenged. i'm in. another disagrees. he says a dollar in apple stock eventually becomes $2 versus zero in power ball. not sure if it's conventional wisdom that a dollar in apple doubles. maybe that's a bit of a warning sign for the shares. but in any case what are you going to do with your dollar? are you going to put it in the powerball? put it in the stock market? e-mail us, you can tweet us. >>> and

. >> reporter: florida player richard lustig says he's won the lottery seven times, pocketing millionsn prize money. >> it doesn't matter how you pick your numbers. what matters is what you do with that set of numbers after you've chosen it. i teach people how to research that set of numbers to find out if it's a good set of numbers, and if it is, you play it, and you play it all the time. >> for this drawing lustig has bought several powerball tickets of his own, one of many hoping to hit the jackpot. tickets will continue to be sold until about an hour before tomorrow night's drawing, and if nobody wins tomorrow night, that jackpot will keep growing, and it's likely to top half a billion dollars. savannah. >> mara schiavocampo in midtown manhattan, thank you. now a check of the weather with al. >> thanks, savannah. big changes coming out to the west. you can see all the storms that are stacked up out there and that's going to be bringing in a lot of wet weather over the next 72 hours. as you look ahead you can see the rain making its way from northern california all the way up into t