Biggest Lotto Jackpot In American History
HARRIS: And good morning, everyone. Checking our top stories at this hour, three Americans and a Briton are among nine oil company workers abducted in Nigeria. They were taken in the Niger Delta, where militants have attacked oil and gas pipelines. Members of the rebel group claiming responsibility say they want greater local control of the region's oil well. Minnesota under the big chill. Wind chill readings are forecast to drop as low as 60 degrees below zero overnight. Highs remain below zero over most of the state. The highs, the temperatures are expected to inch up just a bit over the weekend. Recordings of Saddam Hussein and his advisers shed no new light on Iraqi weapons programs. The tapes were recently discovered. They date from the early to mid-1990s.</s>NGUYEN: Well, $365 million.</s>HARRIS: Yes.</s>NGUYEN: That is a whole lot of money, folks. Yes. But it could be yours if you're lucky enough to win tonight's record high Powerball drawing. CNN's Gary Nurenberg is standing by in the Powerball city of Washington, D.C. -- and, Gary, I'm going to go out on a limb here, but do you think that the sizeable jackpot piqued the interest there?</s>NURENBERG: You know, it's not anchor's salaries, Betty...</s>NGUYEN: Oh, yes, right.</s>NURENBERG: ... but, yes.</s>NGUYEN: I wish.</s>NURENBERG: There is some interest here. All morning long, we have showed you how crowded it's been at this crowded mini mart in Washington, D.C. We've showed you the lines. But inside is only half the story.</s>NURENBERG (voice-over): There are lines outside the mini mart, too, a special lotto window. Red, white and blue balloons let passing motorists know they can buy Powerball tickets here. It is so busy, they hired John General to direct traffic in the little parking lot.</s>JOHN GENERAL, PARKING LOT WORKER: Well, they're not pleased with taking directions and little orders or what have you about where to park.</s>NURENBERG: The chances of winning less than being hit by lightning twice.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm playing because I don't want to be hit by lightning. I want to be hitting that Powerball.</s>NURENBERG: Go for it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Definitely. I could use it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not? I mean it's a chance in a lifetime, but it's a chance in a lifetime.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you always believe that you can win. You always have to be positive that there's always the chance that it just might happen to you. You never know.</s>NURENBERG: And that is what everyone here believes. Clearly, it is not fun to wait in line for hours. But clearly if they win, there won't be many complaints -- Tony and Betty.</s>NGUYEN: Oh my goodness. You know, here's what I don't want to be, that person who's still standing in line, the last person when it shuts down, no more tickets for sale.</s>HARRIS: Be nice.</s>NGUYEN: Can you just imagine, if the lines are that long already, Gary?</s>NURENBERG: You know something? I'm losing you.</s>HARRIS: Oh.</s>NURENBERG: So I'm going to have to say no comment to whatever that was.</s>NGUYEN: No comment. All right, just give me a lottery ticket, would you? That's all I'm asking, really. That's the main question for you. Thank you, Gary. We'll talk to you later.</s>HARRIS: And still ahead, from the president on down, Congress says the response to hurricane Katrina was a failure of leadership at every level of the government. So what are the lessons learned for the next major disaster? Congressman "Chip" Pickering of Mississippi and William Jefferson of Louisiana -- all right -- will join me next. Plus this.</s>KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's been nearly six months since the worst natural disaster in U.S. history and not a single destroyed home, not a single grocery store, not a single business on Beach Boulevard has been rebuilt in Bay St. Louis.</s>NGUYEN: Our Kathleen Koch goes back to her hometown when CNN SATURDAY MORNING returns.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Humorist Dave Barry has spent his career making people laugh. He started out teaching, but knew his real passion was writing.</s>DAVE BARRY, HUMORIST: Most of the people I know who are really happy people with what they do are doing what they chose to do because that's what they were interested in from the start. And some are making a lot of money and some are not. But they're all happy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Barry joined the "Miami Herald" in 1983 and his humor column appeared in more than 500 newspapers nationwide. His recent announcement that he'll no longer write weekly columns was no joke. But not to worry. You can find his work on bookshelves. His most recent novel, "Dave Barry's Money Secrets." In 1988, Barry won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. But to him, that doesn't necessarily spell success.</s>BARRY: Ultimately, there's the kind of success I don't think you can know if you've achieved it or not, which is do people 50 years later know who you were and what do they think about you?