“Actually, (I was) a little scared because I didn’t know exactly what do to”, he said.
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Two other winning lottery tickets were sold in California and Florida.
He works in IT and she is employed at a Memphis dermatologist’s office.
Their daughter, Tiffany, lives nearby and recently graduated from college at Murray State, and their son, Adam, is an electrician, ABC News reported. A Rechnitz spokesperson tells BuzzFeed that the nurse is a “wonderful lady and an incredible employee” who stayed to finish her shift even when she thought she had won $1.6 billion.
The moment a winning Powerball jackpot ticket was purchased in a food mart in Munford, Tennessee, was captured on surveillance footage.
“We were up all night, ” Lisa said of their reaction Wednesday night.
“I’ll be there Monday, ” she said.
The Robinsons presented themselves at Tennessee Education Lottery headquarters at 1:30 this afternoon after reportedly flying on a private plane from NY after their Today Show appearance on NBC.
Most of the members said they will use the money to help pay off debt.
Oregonians won thousands in the drawing, which doles out prizes for those with tickets that match some number combinations. “Now I’ll be nervous because everybody knows”, he said.
CBS News’ David Begnaud reports from the small working class town of Munford, Tennessee, that Dana Naifeh’s grocery store sold the state’s winning ticket. “I know they will use it wisely”. It was the largest lottery prize offered in North America and no other lottery in the world had ever featured a jackpot of that size that could be won on a single ticket.
If one person walks away with Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot winnings, they would be among some elite company.
Workers celebrated at a Southern California nursing home when word spread that a co-worker had a winning ticket for this week’s $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot. State lottery officials could not immediately be reached Friday morning.
They say their lawyer advised them to go on TV first as a way of controlling the story.
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The winners overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million to land on all the numbers: 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10. Each ticket is worth more than $500 million.
