You can say life literally changed overnight for a 66-year-old North Carolina man. That's because Charles Jackson, Jr. woke up Tuesday morning and realized he was the winner of the $344 million Powerball jackpot. The winning numbers were drawn Saturday night.
Jackson said he didn't check his ticket until Tuesday morning and realized he had won--but he thought at first he had only won $50,000. He said at first glance he thought he had only matched four of the five white balls. Jackson said he called his wife "I need to go to Raleigh. I won something." He decided to check the ticket again and realized he had won, in his words, "the whole dang thing."