“That’s what we’ve done all our lives, is work”, John Robinson said. “I’m nervous for you”, one of the show’s hosts said to Mr Robinson, who held the piece of paper in his hand throughout the show.
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The Robinsons then took the Today anchors back to the night of the drawing, when John picked up four tickets on his way home from work feeling under the weather.
“Actually, (I was) a little scared because I didn’t know exactly what do to”, he said.
The Robinsons said they had reached out to NBC on the advice of their lawyer, Mr Joe Townsend. The ticket was apparently sold at a food mart in Munford, a town of about 6,000 located 30 miles from Memphis. The numbers were computer-generated, he said.
He said the family appreciates community, family values and have always lived within their means.
The woman’s daughter told the Los Angeles Times that the family “had not won the prize,” and reports suggesting otherwise had been a “misunderstanding based on a photo that was sent to her mother”.
No one has stepped forward yet to claim the third winning ticket, sold at a Publix grocery store in Melbourne Beach, Florida.
Spokesman Josh Nass says he was told the nurse’s son sent her a cellphone picture of a ticket.
Rebecca Hargrove, second from right, president and CEO of the Tennessee Lottery, presents a ceremonial check to John Robinson, right; his wife, Lisa, second from left; and their daughter, Tiffany, left; on January 15, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.
Lisa Robinson said her husband was asleep when the numbers were called.
California Lottery officials confirmed a winning ticket for the record-breaking Powerball jackpot drawn on Wednesday was sold at a Chino Hill’s 7-Eleven.
The owner of that ticket from Chino Hills has not come forward or been officially identified.
Traverso who has seen the prize checks said they often seem fake.
Instead of filing away those Powerball tickets for tax season or throwing them in the trash can, residents in Oakland and Macomb counties may want to double check their tickets.
“I said, ‘well, I’ll believe it when the news comes on in the morning and they say there’s a victor been in Munford, ‘ ” he said.
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Over 635 million lottery tockets were purchased for Thursday raffle, affording 1-in-292.2 million odds for hitting the first-prize Powerball combination of 4, 8, 19, 27, 34 and Powerball 10.
