Winner, winner, chicken dinner: Numbers revealed for $1.5B Powerball jackpot

The Robinsons said they had reached out to NBC on the advice of their lawyer, Joe Townsend.

The winning ticket was confirmed by Tennessee lottery officials Friday afternoon.

“When I heard about the billion dollar Powerball jackpot, I made a decision to try my luck and buy a ticket”, said Walker.

Two other winners of Wednesday’s US$1.6 billion jackpot, from California and Florida, have yet to come forward. Winners must present their tickets to lottery officials for verification. Fox 5 was able to confirm with employees of the store someone recently purchased a large amount of tickets from Chino Hills Parkway location.

The couple revealed their plans to pay off their mortgage and their daughter’s college loans at a press conference, which their daughter, Tiffany, and their rescue dog, Abby, also attended.

Ilene Townsend, the lawyer’s daughter, was able to contact the “Today” show’s producers.

Lisa and John Robinson’s ticket is due to be verified by lottery officials in order to claim one-third of the biggest lottery prize ever in the United States.

The “win” had been publicized by a spokesperson for nursing home owner Shlomo Rechnitz, who bought 18,000 Powerball tickets for employees and residents at the 80 nursing homes he owns, reports ABC7.

Spokesman Josh Nass says he was told the nurse’s son sent her a cellphone picture of a ticket.

Cheering crowds swarmed the suburban Los Angeles store and its parking lot late on Wednesday (local time). The winners each overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million to match all the winning numbers.

It appears that the holders of the two other winning tickets are yet to be identified. The store will receive a $1,000,000 bonus, lottery officials said.

“I said, ‘Well, I’ll believe it when the news comes on in the morning and they say ‘Hey there’s a victor been in Munford, ‘” he recalled. John said. “I really didn’t feel like stopping that night, but I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll stop.’ I came home, and I wasn’t feeling good, and I handed the tickets to her and said, ‘I’m going to go lay down”‘.