CNN news 2011-01-12
Well, their lives changed in an instant. Suddenly Jim and Carolyn McCullar from Washington state are mega millionaires. Jim says he knows exactly what to do with the money.
“Been married 41 years, I know what to do with this check. ”
That's right. Happy wife, happy life. He's a good man. Jim says they learned that they had the lucky tickets first on television. Then, confirmed it online.
You sit down, we had two chairs sitting there. Put the two chairs side by side, and I clicked on the Washington lottery icon, and up came the winning numbers. And I said, Look at this, and look at that. She looked, and she studied, and she looked, and she studied, and she looked at me and screamed!
Tears started flowing down, and I looked at her, and I started crying. I thought -- all she could say was, Is this real? Is this real? And I said, I pinched myself already. We're awake, and this is real, and what are we going to do? What are we going to do? And I said, I have no idea, but we'd better hide.
The McCullars will split the $380 million prize with a winner in Idaho.
Well, some residents in Venice, Florida, are seeing orange. We're talking about a massive orange that's a crocodile. The rare creature tops or trek Cross Country. Sylvia Mythen captured pictures of the croc near a neighborhood pond. One biologist says that it's probably an albino. But the state fish and wildlife department believe that the orange coloring is from paint or stain.
An Atlanta valet says he's the luckiest cell phone owner alive. The phone actually blocked a bullet to his chest when gunfire erupted outside the nightclub where he works.