>> a bazillion. [ laughter ] >> anthony allread joins us as people rush to buy their tickets. and they are selling fast! >> reporter: when i started out my day here in the morning, the sign above me only had a a couple hours later, and look here! up to $800 million! so it got me thinking about some of the things that i could buy right here. and one of those things they would buy, have to have me a home like phillies outfielder ronnie howard. that is a posh place they could not do without. and another place that i found around here is a couple of y'all of -- offuates -- yachts. those are a couple things i think i could afford and keep. one of the other things i know i could afford is one of those suits from the keith collection. [ laughter ] >> almost! you can almost afford that. and it's $800 million. [ laughter ] and it's going higher. anthony buying stuff in his mind already. thank you, buddy. >>> demand for tickets is so high, it crashed the florida lottery's ticket sale website at least once. >> reporter: the machines are under lock and key at the florida lottery headquart

anthony allread is live tonight safering what you would spend that money on. >> reporter: that's right! but i have breaking news to report. i have not yet bought my powerball ticket! about $800 million, i get all warm and fuzzy inside! since i live in clearwater i spent the day running around blow all that money right here. >> reporter: one of the things i found was a yacht! i would buy a yacht. this $2 million yacht, if i could trick it out even more, i could get it up to $5 million. i talked to some people, what would they spend that money on, and they said vacationing right here on clearwater beach because it's one of the best beaches in the bay! and they just kept telling me how they would blow all that money right here. the sign earlier today said $7 hundred million. now it's up to $800 million. i can't imagine what the sign will look like if it goes up to a billion dollars. >> so much money! >> they'll have to change the signs from million to billion. >> they could do it. national debt with the lottery. thank you anthony. >>> a couple trying to get help here is instead getting co