briar cliff professor chuck shaffer explains the statistics behind your chances. chuck shaffer, briar ciff mathamatics professor says, "you have five white balls to pick out of currently 69, so you have to figure out how many ways there are to select 5 out of 69 - that gets you the white balls. then, in addition, you have one ball out of 26 for the red ball that you have to get right. so, you figure all those out together and it comes out like 292 million, roughly, to 1. so, you have one chance in that many." jenna: the powerball drawing is tonight just before 10. we'll havevehe numbers in our late nscast. tim: coming up after the break... caucuses are in the break... caucuses are in less than a month and the races are tightening for both the democrats and the republicans, we'll have the latest from the campaign trail. it will be warm again tomorrow, but a major arctic blast awaits for the weekend. meanwhile, it looks like we could see snow tuesday. your forecast is after the break! " " tim/jenna/fred tiwelding company skycam hd shows a nice scene from the ho chun

chuck shaffer, briar ciff mathamatics professor says, "you have five white balls to pick out of currently 69, so you have to figure out how many ways there are to select 5 out of 69 - that gets you the white balls. then, in addition, you have one ball out of 26 for the red ball that you have to get right. so, you figure all those out together and it comes out like 292 million, roughly, to 1. so, you have one chance in that many." we should know by morning if there's a powerball winner. jenna: the drawing for this jackpot has created a mad frenzy across the nation, but buying a lottery ticket isn't on the list of things to do for everyone. for some, the lottery is a reminder of a gambling addiction, something that can be difficult to overcome - especially when betting, or buying a lottery ticket - is all that anyone can talk about in the past week. "if you want to go out and spend 2 great it's fun you know why wouldn't you do it the big part is knowing it is just a chance it's a very slim chance but you do it for fun ans you always have that big dream of what you would potentially do with