here is abc's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: lottery fever getting hotter. >> woo-hoo!reporter: with no one picking all six winning numbers in the powerball drawing, the jackpot rolling over. the prize now up to $620 million in that game, and there's another $1.6 billion up for grabs in tuesday's mega millions drawing, the largest lottery jackpot in u.s. history. >> it's been insane. everybody's looking to win a little piece of the pie. >> reporter: the odds of winning are so slim, around 1 in 300 million for each. you're more likely to give birth to identical quadruplets or become a saint than win one of the jackpots. >> it's worth a chance. >> reporter: and if you do win -- >> what would i spend my money on? navigating the world. >> i'm going to retire. >> reporter: with the cash payout for the mega millions jackpot estimated around $904 million, you could also buy 822,000 new iphone xs, more than 12,000 tesla model s cars or 13 private jets. and a tip from experts, they say since people often make their picks based on special days of the month, choose numbers over 31

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marci gonzalez, abc news, los angeles. >>> a judge has sentenced marion suge knight to 28 years in prison. today's sentence came nearly four years after the former rap mogul ran over and killed businessman terry carter outside a compton business stand. knight avoided a trial about to begin when he agreed two weeks ago to plead no contest to voluntary manslaughter and accept the sentence. >>> it's been clearly one year since the devastating north bay wildfires. what some people are doing to try to cope with the issues they are still facing. >>> and protecting your kids in this age of new media. the new app that lets you keep your eyes on what they're doing online. >> i'm spencer christian. no matter which way you look this afternoon, we see beautiful >>> teens and young adults say cyberbullying is a social problem. nearly 50% of young people and their parents agree, social media is having a mostly negative effect on the younger generation. mostly 3/4 of 15 to 26-year-olds polled say online bull leg and abuse is a serious problem for their pierce. the poll is conducted by the associated pre

marci gonzalez, thanks so much. >> marci, thank you very much. >>> time for the weather. rob, sadly, not in the studio but he's not unhappy about the fact that he's in austin, texas today getting ready for the formula one grand prix. robert, good morning to you. >> good morning, dan. formula one is the motorsports series in the world, steeped in history. it's completely international. it only makes one stop in the u.s. and it is right here in austin, texas at the circuit of the americas. it's going to be on abc this afternoon and we are here to cover it of course. yesterday i thing i pulled out a lottery ticket by getting a ride-along with a legendary driver. we'll have more on that later. but let's talk weather. pretty impressive cold front that moved through the upper midwest. in wisconsin the badger game against illinois, there were snow squalls there and shocking news out of ohio state. congrats to purdue. also in through parts of illinois. juliette, there was wind damage with a snow squall there. radar showing action as far as the radar is concerned across the northe

here's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: tonight, a 13-year-old boy, rushed onto shore after being attacked by a shark, is recovering. >> i'm asking for a helicopter. we need to airlift someone out for a shark attack. >> reporter: the teen diving in encinitas, california, on opening day of lobster season, when the shark latched on, leaving him with what doctors describe as traumatic injuries to his upper torso. >> he was yelling, "i got bit. help, help, help." >> reporter: fellow divers pulling him to safety. the shark, still lingering nearby. >> luckily we got him out of the water, because once we threw him up on the kayak and started heading in, that's when i looked back and a shark was behind the kayak. >> reporter: investigators now trying to figure out what kind of shark it was. saying they believe it was huge, about 11 feet long. >> we imagine it could be a great white shark, but we don't know for sure. >> reporter: tonight, authorities in san diego county, consulting with shark expert dr. chris lowe. >> it's important that we get information out to the public. and the thing that we m

here's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: lottery fever getting hotter tonight. >> whoo-hoo! >> reporter: with no one picking all six winning numbers in last night's powerball drawing, the jackpot rolling over. the prize now up to $620 million in that game. and there's another $1.6 billion up for grabs in tuesday's mega millions drawing. the largest lottery jackpot in u.s. history. >> it's been insane. everybody is looking to win a little piece of the pie. >> reporter: the odds of winning, so slim. around 1 in 300 million for each. you're more likely to give birth to identical quadruplets or become a saint than win one of the jackpots. >> it's worth a chance. >> reporter: and if you do win? >> what will i spend my money on? navigating the world. >> i'm going to retire. >> reporter: with a cash payout for the mega millions jackpot estimated around $904 million, you could also buy 822,000 new iphone xs, more than 12,000 tesla model "s" cars, or 13 private jets. and a tip from experts. they say since people often make their picks based on special days of the month, choose number

here's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: tonight, a man and his three grandsons, dead. shot at a 1-year-old's birthday party. >> i don't know exactly how many kids. i just know there were a lot of people who witnessed it. >> reporter: police say it started around 7:15 saturday evening in the backyard of a home in taft, texas, with an argument between two distantly related families. >> reports of subjects fighting in the middle of the street. >> reporter: investigators say a father and son, both named ronnie rodriguez, opened fire, killing four men, injuring a fifth. >> it was an argument over something real small and it escalated real quickly to where guns were involved. >> reporter: police identifying the victims as 62-year-old juan espinoza sr., his grandsons 20-year-old juan sandoval, 22-year-old jeremy sandoval, and 25-year-old nicky sandoval. and tonight, the fifth person who was shot is listed in stable condition, expected to survive. police say they've arrested one of the accused gunmen but are still searching for the other. tom? >> marci, thank you. >>> now to a

a plane touching down on a highway in california, and abc's marci gonzalez has more on this amazing maneuver. >> holy [ bleep ]. what the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: a southern california freeway turned into a makeshift runway. >> on the 8 freeway, can you confirm -- is it a confirmed crash? >> reporter: here you see this this single engine plane landing on interstate 8 in san diego county. >> god, i hope he makes it. >> reporter: narrowly missing power lines, an overhead sign and the two cars it touched down between. >> what the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the 36-year-old student pilot attemptingland not the 25-year-old instructor then taking over the controls. >> he knew they weren't going to make it to the airport so his next course of action was to try to put it down here on the interstate. >> he kept slowly lowering so it didn't look like it was in a panic crash. >> reporter: the pilot finding that small break in the traffic incredibly gliding the plane down safely. >> very well done by the instructor and he was able to do it at a speed where he didn't overtake the car in front of him or run in

abc's marci gonzalez reports. >> reporter: those raging floodwaters in central texas crushing this bridge rose nearly 26 feet in just hours. >> we didn't know how fast it could rise. >> reporter: the near record breaking flooding prompting evacuations, rescues and claiming another life. officials say a woman's body was found, believed to have been swept away when floodwaters overtook an rv park. >> is that a deck? that looks like a deck that has just gone over. wow. >> reporter: the colorado river swollen, too, destroying homes. >> i didn't think it would get this high. >> reporter: with water levels in some places now finally starting to recede. >> right now the llano river is at about 12 1/2 feet, down from just shy of 40 feet yesterday. and that has been outstanding news for us. >> reporter: but flood watches and warnings continue in much of the state with more rain in the forecast through today. erielle, kenneth, back to you. >> hard to hear that. marci, thank you. >>> two baltimore firefighters were injured at an apartment complex fire. they fell through the floor after an explosion,

. >> reporter: our marci gonzalez is there. >> how long have you been waiting in this line?two hours. >> it's been 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: so many of those in line from coast to coast are buying tickets for both the mega millions game tonight and tomorrow night's powerball. and if you are lucky enough to win both, that could be a staggering $1.4 billion payout. >> one of the first things we'll buy is we're going to buy a place. >> and there's a gucci purse that is 25k. that's probably the first thing that i'd buy. >> reporter: important advice because now someone in the country may be just hours away from becoming america's next instant billionaire. look, the chances of winning one ticket, just one of those games, it's pretty tough. but the chance of winning both the mega millions and the powerball, we're talking 1 in 88 quadrillion. michael, i don't even know what that looks like. >> you know what it says, gio? it says you got a chance. that's what it says. thank you so much, gio. amy? >>> all right, michael. now to president trump at a rally praising the congressman who