LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Back now to top story today, which if someone wins it, could be our top story tomorrow. It is nearing lunchtime in Iowa, and lottery players are buying Powerball ticket. Reporter Steve Oswalt from CNN affiliate KCCI joins us now from Des Moines, the headquarters for the Powerball lottery.</s>STEVE OSWALT, KCCI REPORTER: That's right. This is actually the state where Powerball was created. Dr. Ed Stanek created the game several years ago right here in Des Moines. I'm going to have photographer Mike Sims (ph) take a closer look at some of the folks here. They are buying lottery tickets, Powerball tickets at a very fast rate here at this grocery store in Des Moines' East Side. We -- have Mike take a look at this receipt. It was printed up on the Powerball machine just a second ago. You see the bottom line there. They sold 1,100 tickets since they opened for business at 6:00 this morning. It is now about 11:20 Iowa time. One person, Daryn, has purchased up to 300 tickets. They had one single purchase. A guy came in and said: Give me 300 of those Powerball tickets. I want to win tonight. We also interviewed a guy just a second ago who tells us his name is Lucky. That's the name he goes by, has for 50 years. He expects to win, too. Of course, everybody does.</s>HARRIS: So Lucky is trying to get lucky.</s>OSWALT: Exactly.</s>HARRIS: All right, good deal, Steve. Well, thanks much. We'll check back with you later on and see how things are going there.</s>OSWALT: All right. Thank you.
Iowa Gripped by Powerball Fever