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cholesterol and lowers bad, ldl, the bad cholesterol. don't go crazy. a chocolate bar contains hundreds of calories and most of those are from saturated fats and sugars. moderation. going to wrap things up for "sgmd" for this weekend. make is a point to come see us next weekend. time now for the top stories with randi kaye in the "cnn newsroom." from cnn center, this is "cnn saturday morning." it's 8:00 in the a.m. 5:00 a.m. in the west. good morning everyone. i'm randi kaye. millions lined up for a chance to win big and it looks like at least one ticket hit the record-breaking jackpot. we'll tell when you it was sold. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> when do we want it? >> now. >> keeping up the heat in the investigation of trayvon martin's shooting. there's a march planned today for the sanford police department. we are live in florida. and some scary moments for
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firefighters in dearborn, michigan, when the roof they were on started to collapse. training, quick thinking and a lot of luck saved the day. >> saw it on video so many times. oh, boy. i guess we really avoided a crisis there. so -- especially when it was my feet dangling in that hole. from cnn's world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe. live from studio 7, this is "cnn saturday morning." the streets of sanford, florida, are again filled with people seeking justice for trayvon martin and the arrest of his shooter george zimmerman. people are gathered right now for a march. today's focus, the sanford police department, which has been heavily criticized for allowing zimmerman to remain free. george howell is outside police headquarters. protesters will end up here. and george, one month now since the killing of trayvon martin but the outrage certainly shows no signs of waning.
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in some cases it seems to be growing. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: randi, indeed, we are expecting thousands of people to be here. here at the sanford police department at 11:00 a.m. eastern here, just in front of the police department, thousands of people. right now people are getting together for a march. the march will start here, rather start at this hour, and end up here at the sanford police department. it's hosted by the naacp. and the message is simple, arrest george zimmerman. keep in mind, the rhetoric from other groups from the national action group, they are saying that, the rhetoric should be raised, level raised, and if george zimmerman is not arrested, there should be economic sanctions. that's what we're seeing right now with these rallies and civil rights leaders speaking. >> and al sharpton is making comments what he thinks the next step is in this protest. what is he saying? >> reporter: again, he is saying that economic sanctions should be the result if george zimmerman is not arrested.
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you're seeing two groups right now, seemingly two different messages. the naacp, their main focus, see zimmerman arrested. >> and is this expected to be a peaceful march, or is there extra security think at the headquarters? >> reporter: we've seen a few police officers driving by. certainly they are getting ready for it. the streets here around the police department are blocked off, but we are expecting a peaceful rally with the naacp. thousands of people, many bussed in from cities all over the country with the same chorus. people who want to see zimmerman arrested in this case. >> george howell, thank you very much. we're hearing from trayvon martin's brother. in an interview, jahvaris fulton cannot believe his younger brother is dead. seen here in these images. he finds it incredible anyone would believe allegations that trayvon threatened to kill the man who ultimately shot him. >> i was listening to
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zimmerman's father speak yesterday, and he said something like, my brother was on top of his son and said they're going to die tonight. that doesn't sound like my brother at all. >> trayvon's mother says she is still confident police will "do a thorough investigation." our soledad o'brien leads a special town hall about how the trayvon martin tragedy became a nationwide story and what it says aberration tension in our country. you have another chance to watch it. "beyond trayvon: race and justice in america" at 2:00 p.m. only on cnn. the mega millions lottery, if you haven't checked the tickets and missed the drawing last night, here's what you missed. >> our first number tonight is 46 followed by 23. up next we have 38. that's followed by -- 4, and the final white ball for this friday
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evening is 2. now the mega ball number. it's 23. >> 29 tickets in california matched five of the six megamillions number. only one number away from hitting that jackpot. so very close. hackers setting sights on credit and debit cards. now a security firm says 10 million people could be at risk. global payments, the company at the center of the breach, says it notified credit card issuers as soon as it discovered the problem. it didn't say how many accounts or which companies were affected. visa released a statement saying accounts from all major brands could be affected. how can you protect yourself? i spoke with clyde anderson. >> laws have been put in place to make sure you're only responsible for a small amount. $50 is what you're responsible for. a lot of credit card companies will waive that. you have to report it as soon as possible. it's up to you to go in and make sure the information on your report, on your credit card statements is accurate.
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>> clyde says keep a close eye on your statements. look through every charge and pull your credit report. making it harder for some to get an f ha loan. fighting a debt with a creditor you may no longer qualify for an fha insured loan, even if you have perfect credit scores. before you could be in a dispute and a lender might have approved your loan based on credit history and other factors. now they will have to justify and back its decision with documentation. part of the effort to reduce its risk and address it's depleted reserve fund. it was one of the first images we showed you after an ef-4 tornado ripped through henryville, indiana. remember this? a school bus impaled into a restaurant? we're getting a look now inside that bus as the tornado hit captured by security cameras onboard. moments before, there were 11 students sitting in those seats that you see there. the school bus driver is on the radio, and listen as he turns
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the bus around and heads back to the school, a tornado heading straight for them. >> tornado on the ground. >> everything's -- if you have a book to put over your head, do it. there's a tornado right there, guys. look a funnel cloud. don't block me, truck. don't block me. guys, we're just going to go as fast as we can into the school. everybody stay together. the whole group, together. right now, go, go, go, go. go-go! one, two, three, four, five -- six, seven -- eight -- nine. come on. come on! >> ten, elive. go, go! >> three minutes later -- this is what happened. thank goodness those kids were out of that bus. reynolds is back with us. quick thinking. what a hero, right? that bus driver? >> absolutely right. every second matters.
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goodness gracious, you saw the aftermath. what happened with that bus. the number one thing that affects people during those situations, the tornadoes, debris. stuff is picked up, thrown through the air and becomes projectiles. the safest place to be, inside a strong stur. not in a bus. the school building, exactly where she put them and thankfully they all survived. certainly a terrifying thing. today we're going to see chance of severe weather popping up across the southern end of the mississippi valley, but generally not quite as intense. more than anything, the best chance a few strom thunderstorms. a combination of rain, sleet and snow towards the east. in the west, rain in valleys possibly snow in the highest elevations. more coming up. >> thank you. dreaming big. everyone wanted ed ted to big a lottery. we have tips to you. for you. [ male announcer ] any technology not moving forward
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five of the six numbers. they get a lot of cash themselves as well. back to our main story this morning. 640 million dollar lottery prize. winning ticket sold in maryland, and in one of our side bars now we want quick tips every jackpot winner should know. joining us from chicago, security's attorney. i'm guessing you didn't win. sitting in chicago working as well. what is the first thing that -- what's the first thing that you would tell the winner, if you had a chance to talk to them today? if they called you for some advice? >> well, i think the first thing they need to do is get a good safe, because you are not the winner of the lottery until you give the lottery officials the actual ticket. so the first thing you want to do, make certain that the actual ticket is secured. >> you also have pretty good tips. i want to go through some of my favorites here besides keep the ticket safe. that's the number one tip. right? >> you know it is.
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there are a couple other tips as well. many people debate whether they should take a lump sum distribution or whether they should take the payments out over the 26-year period. i usually counsel people to take the payments over that 26-year period, and the reason is simple. a lot of the people who win the lottery simply don't have the infrastructure set up in order to manage that sort of winfall. so if you make some mistakes in the first year, or second year, or third year, and you still have the payments coming in over a 22 or 25 or 26-year period, you can still live through those catastrophic mistakes and still have hundreds of millions of dollars coming in. >> i'm still stuck on your first tip of keeping the ticket safe. i mean, who loses a multimillion dollar lottery ticket? who? >> you nigmight be surprised. a couple instances people won the lottery and then lost the ticket. and if you don't have the ticket, and if you can't present the actual ticket, you're simply out of luck.
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>> and i guess you can't even share it with family. that's just incredible. you say that people shouldn't take the lump sum exactly, though. why is that? >> well, because the statistics indicate that about 90% of the people who win the lottery have no money left after five years. and there are a number of mistakes that lottery winners do make, and unfortunately, they make the same mistakes again and again. if you take that lump sum distribution, you know, and you make some mistake ths that can catastrophic. the money over two decades or more, you can live through the initial mistakes so many lottery winners make. >> psychologically, you want all the millions because you're worried you may never get it. >> that's true, and the person who won the lottery will likely be the number one target of both legitimate banks and brokerage firms and also scammers out
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there. probably worldwide. that person is an absolute target. now, the good news for this person is that maryland is one of five states where the winner does not have to come forward, and identify himself or herself. they can remain anonymous, which is good. but the worst thing they could do is for example, have a press conference. or get their name out there, because -- >> so does money affect your decision-making process? because i know one of the things you also say, don't make any major decisions for six months. so, why not? >> yeah. the temptation to do stuff and spend that money is going to be extraordinarily great, but some of the worst mistake thats lottery winners make are the initial decisions that they make. so i usually counsel people, hey, look. wait three months. or wait six months, before you make any major, major decisions. obviously, go out and buy the car. maybe even buy the new house, but you have to be careful with that money. especially in the beginning, because it's such a big change. >> andrew stoltman, fun talking to you about this. thank you.
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>> thank you. the lottery may not just be luck. there's actually an app that can help you pick the right numbers, or so they say. we'll take a look, next. plus, crab funding started out as a way to fund business ventures. online ventures now used to raise health care. coming up, how a family from one site helped their daughter battle cancer for the fourth time. this is made for pain. [ male announcer ] bayer advanced aspirin enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes extra strength relief to the sight of your pain. feel better? yeah...thanks for the tip!
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check it out. a very busy morning here in studio 7 at cnn. those are 3d printers. you can actually get one for your home. they can print practically anything. i mean anything, even me. yeah. printing one of me. very interesting. can't wait to see when that's done. we will show you the finished product and all kinds of things that that can do coming up. all right. i admit it, this whole half a million lottery gave me lottery fever. checking my ticket as often as i was checking my iphone. how can i combine the two? let me bring in cnn money tech reporter lori siegal. good morning to you. >> good morning, randi. >> so we didn't win the lottery this time, but there must be
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some type of lotto app to improve our luck maybe for next time? >> yes, randi, you're right. i have my failed lottery ticket right here, and i actually -- i actually picked my numbers based on an app called lottery pro. what it essential sdli, pick up your phone and shake it. open up the app, shake it, it gives you six random numbers. i was a little skeptical on it so i called up the founder. what he said was statistically, your chances are still 1 in 176 million. don't get your hopes up, but that said, he said there are a lot of features that can actually help you in some ways. >> all right. any help, of course, is good. can you give me some examples? >> so i'm the kind of person, i don't really go out and purchase lottery tickets all the time, but when the stakes are very high, when they're at $200 million, $300 million. >> i would try it out. it will alert you when the jackpot is $200 million or $300
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million and tell when you to go out and do it. statistics, numbers that won in the past, numbers that haven't been used in a while. another cool part, say you do decide to go out and purchase a ticket, it will send you a push notification or text message that has your lotto results. likely you'll get a text message telling you,y are not going to be a multi-millionaire, but you still don't have to watch tv or go online and avoid the hassle. >> i'll keep shaking my iphone and maybe it will give me winning numbers. how much is this? >> so it's 99 cents for a perspective. also go by a mega million ticket for about a dollar. you make your choices. it is a cool app. i tested it yesterday. it's a little slow because i think a ton of people were trying to use it. >> let me tell you about another app which i actually just started using called shazam, a name that tune app. you're reporting they've made a pretty big upgrade? >> yeah. shazam has always been so
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popular on the smartphone. everybody loves it. you walk boo sboor a bar, restaurant, you want to know who sings it. take out the app, press shazam and it dpints the song, gives you the opportunity to buy it. what they're doing now, they conquered this, turning it to the big screen. we want you to -- instead of shazaming songs we want you to shazam commercials and advertisements and unlock all types of discounts. >> how do you know exactly? i haven't used it. somebody told me to get it so i got it. how do you know, if were you to use it watching a commercial, how do you know when to do it and, what? just hold it up to your tv? >> yae. it's not widely used right now, we should note that. companies like old navy, best buy. say you're watching their commercial. at the bottom of your screen and icon that says, shazam now, you see the blue icon. a lot of advertisering are saying, we no longer just watch television. we watch tv with a tablet or
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smartphone in front of us and want to increase the interaction between the user and the ad. so what toyota did during the super bowl, asked people to shazam their ads and then gave away two cars. madonna gave away a song. a little weird to hold up your phone and do it, but it definitely can't hurt. >> no. not if you might be able to get a free car. maybe not every day. >> i would take it. >> every little bit helping. lori, great to see you. thank you. >> you, too. >> have a great day. a tv news chopper captures an amazing moment. watch. the three firefighters are ventilating a roof of this building when the roof simply collapses. there it goes. the guys formed a chain to pull each other from the hole that was opening there. all three walked away without any injuries and went back to fighting that far. how brave of those guys. wow. >> check back in with reynolds. >> speaking of fires, what's the
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situation in colorado? still trying to contain one there? >> yes. unfortunately the situation is still fairly grim. they could use in the central rockies, some precipitation. seeing some in other parts of country, namely, out west and even in the east. from new england clear down to parts of georgia seeing scattered showers. not much in terms of the rockies. begin first with the precipitation we're seeing in the east. zooming in towards new england, rain along the coast. back into the berkshires, snow. the southeast, a rumble of thunder across parts of georgia. porgs of the gulf coast. the back half of the system may bring scattered showers in places like hattersberg and perhaps new orleans. moving into the florida papanha out into georgia. and san joaquin vaefl and parvad in washington and oregon,
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zooming in on the central rockies. the big issue, dry conditions with the fires and, of course, at the same time we're going to have strong winds. 85 degrees expected high in denver. cooler in the mountains, battling the blazes, but the wind is going to be really the telling prospect. we're going do have relative humidity of 10% to 17%. winds, 10 to 20, gusts around 30. that might be a bit conservative. might have some gusts approaching 35 perhaps 40. that isn't going to help matters at all. the wind will be relentless at times across the great basin. in fact, from reno back from the salt lake city even into las vegas, expect gusts. 40 to 60 miles per hour late in the afternoon. certainly something to keep in mind. with the wind, yes. you might have delays in a few spots, and i'll tell you, out in the northeast, the delays you'll have there, not really due to the wind but showers. low clouds. could have delay there's over an hour. delays in san francisco, of course, atlanta and charlotte, not quite as long, under an hour.
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same story in los angeles and salt lake city. the pesky wind should last through a good portion of the weekend. up to speed, randi. back to you. >> you're a world traveler. listen to this. going on vacation to exotic lands, not the kind you might normally think of, how about tripoli this summer? yeah. libya. we're talk to man who made those kinds of trips around the world happen. also, raising money to help friends and families in need. just ahead, meet the fonder of give forward dot corp. a website offering financial support through online fund-raising and a family who raised thousands of dollars as they battle to save their little girl from cancer. they'll be here as well. we'll be right back. [ woman ] my husband, hank, was always fun. never took life too seriously... till our son was born. that day, he bought life insurance. now there's no way i could send our boy to college without it. if there was one thing i could say to hank,
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at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. my meineke. 30 minutes past the hour. welcome back, everyone. i'm randi kaye. thanks for starting your day with us. checking top stories now -- we now know that there are at least two winning tickets in the mega millions lottery. the winning number, 2-4-23-48-46
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and a mega ball 23. one winner is in maryland add one in illinois. word from the illinois lottery moments ago. saying that a grand prize mega millions winning ticket was sold in a store in red bud, illinois. that's near st. louis. we're going to talk with one of those officials coming up here shortly. wall street didn't have, just a -- didn't just have a good week. it had a great first three months of the year. the best in more than a decade. dow up 8.1% since new year's day, thanks in part to improving consumer confidence and spending. the s&p 500 and nasdaq up by double digits. hillary clinton stressing washington's rock solid commitment in rehaud today saying iran's nuclear activities are the most pressing concern and said the u.s. and partners will look how to ramp up pressure on the syrian regime to end its crackdown on opposition protesters. newly released documents in
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the 2009 disappearance of a utah woman. a handwritten will saying she feared her husband might kill her. last month the husband, josh powell, snatched his two sons and killed the socialer worker and himself minutes before his home exploded. americans away a ruling on the supreme court, the cost of medical care continues to rise affecting the lives of millions every day. here are some startling statistics. six out of ten people have skilled or delayed seeking health care due to costs. three in ten did not fill a prescription for the same reason. each year 72 million americans take on medical debt. and 62% of bankruptcy are caused by medical reasons. taking care of a loved one who is sick is hard enough without having to worry how you're going pay for the
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increasing medical expenses, but crowd funding websites offer ways to friends and even strangers to raise money to help families offset expenses. giveforward.com is one of those sites. desiree vargas wrigley is the website founder. desiree, good morning to you. thank you for coming on the program this morning. crowd funding is really becoming 0 pap lar trend. what inspired you to start giveforward.com? >> so i was inspired primarily by hurricane katrina. i was frustrated by the fact you couldn't give directly to families trying to rebuild after the flood. so i partnered with ethan austin and we launched giveforward as a platform to really help give friends and family an toons their question what can i do to help when a loved one's in need. so over time -- >> so how -- >> basically we give people personal fund-raising pages they can customize there story and share it with friends and family all over the world using
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facebook, twitter, e-mail, even a personal blog. then people donate way credit or debit card and at the end of a fund-raiser a patient and their family receive this great packet of financial and emotional support. >> so obviously, anyone who might be wanting to donate and help, they're probably wondering, how do you know this is a legitimate need? how do you make sure that the recipient is legitimate? >> yeah. a couple safeguards in place. first is that we have a flagging system just like any site, like ebay or craigslist. that helps deter any kind of fraud. but the major point is that when people raise money on giveforward, they are predominantly raising money from close friends and family. to be successful on giveforward, you have to defraud all of your personal network. that's not likely to happen. what we see more often, people come on to the site to raise money on behalf of someone they love. it's usually not the patient themselves, and it's usually people with insurance, middle-class americans, hard working and they have this great
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network's people who want to support them and we just give them that tool to do that. >> desiree, stay with us a moment. i want to bring in shannon roll dreeg is torres. she's joining us because she actually uses this website. good morning to you, shannon. tell me about your daughter bella's battle with cancer and what brought you to this? >> hi. how are you? well, in july of 2007, when bella was 4 1/2, she became paralyzed overnight and was diagnosed with stage 4 sarcoma, and she was, went through a year of treatment and was cancer-free for six months, and then unfortunately in april of '09, they found a tumor in her brain which they removed. again, she was on chemo and radiation. and she was cancer-free for two years and then unfortunately in august of 2011, they found another tumor in her right ovary. which was removed as well. and she had radiation to her pell vision, to the right side of her pell vision, and then just now in january, january
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12th of 2012, they unfortunately found four more tumors throughout her abdomen. what brought us to giveforward, is, unfortunately, bella has, used all the conventional therapies out there for her type of cancer. and we are doing some experimental treatments that are not covered by insurance, which is our last hope, really, to find the cure for her. >> how has -- how has give.com be able to help you? have you been able to raise some money this way? >> yes. we have been able to raise a lot of money towards, for the majority of this experimental treatment. which is unfortunately not very -- not cheap and not covered, but swrahave an amazin network's family, friends and community and have been able to raise most of the money that we needed to fund this experimental therapy. >> do you think you would have been able to do that without
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something like giveforward? >> no. absolutely not. giveforward is, was, is extremely convenient. you know, donors don't have to write checks, go to the bank. they go to a website, pull up bella's blog, which is pray for bella dotcom. post it on her blog. they go to give the link, giveforward, click, donate and send, but besides the convenience for our family and for donors, it's nice as well because donors are able to leave, you know, a little message of love or a prayer for bella that, you know, we get to read and we read it to her. so it's nice. >> yeah. >> they can donate and also leave, you know, a nice message for us. >> let me bring desiree back in. desiree, how many families have you helped? >> we've helped over 10,000 families raise overs 12d $1122.
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million. >> you hear how it changed their world, really? >> we do. we're so lucky. we get wonderful e-mails from community members on giveforward. this is the first time i've gotten to hear a voice of a member. it's touching. as a new mom i can only imagine what you are going through shannon. we are really praying for bella back in chicago. >> we appreciate it. >> desiree, shannon, thank you both very much and shannon we wish you the best of luck with bella. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you, randi. and now back to our main story. another winning ticket turns out was sold in illinois. so let's go to athena jones live in baltimore, maryland. oh. let's listen to this press conference first in front of this 7-eleven in baltimore where apparently the winning ticket was sold. >> -- tickets was sold at this 7-eleven for the drawing that occurred last night. we do know that it was sold at 7:15 last night. it was a quick pick, and there
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was only one ticket purchased by the player at that time. we obviously don't have any idea right now who the player is, when they will come forward. our advice to the play sir to safeguard the ticket, sign the back of it. it is an instrument and you want to make sure that they get it, the attention and consideration it requires and that our advice from the maryland lottery to whoever the winner of the ticket is, is to get advice. we wouldn't recommend who that would be, but we would encourage them to seek out legal and financial advice, but certainly the maryland lottery is available, and ready to process the claim of this ticket when they're prepared to come forward. we're closed, but they might find -- have way of getting ahold of us, but we open at 8:30 on monday morning. >> a little excited. i know -- [ inaudible ] all this
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excitement. how do you feel about [ inaudible ]. >> yeah. obviously it's a tremendous opportunity. we're very, very excited that it happened in maryland. there were some other winning tickets, jackpot tickets, across the country. we're not going to talk about those. you know, maybe the -- somewhat tortured metaphor i would use, this is a play where there were multiple touchdowns that were scored last night. we're going to spike the ball for maryland and we're going to let the other states and the other lotteries come forward when those, when they're prepared to do talk about the winning tickets. >> [ inaudible ]. >> sure. so the owners of this 7-eleven owned this store for ten years. they, of course, received a sales commission in maryland that's 5% on the -- 5% of sales. got a nickel for selling the mega millions ticket.
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for selling the jackpot ticket in maryland we will pay a $100,000 winning bonus to the -- that's what they'll have coming to them soon when we get everything processed. >> pretty wild. it's like a last-minute by. 7:15. >> you've been listening to a press conference there outside the 7-eleven where the winning ticket was sold in baltimore, maryland. our athena jones handed the mike over so we could tloirch that. she has the microphone back now. let's get to her. athena, we lived to the press conference there, and any word on whether or not this person might come out? i guess the store owners and lottery doesn't even know who they are yet? >> unclear in maryland. people do not have to take part in publicity. winners do not have to take part in publicity. it's anyone's guess whether this person will come forward. of course, they're advised to get legal advice, sign their ticket. we don't know whether or not we'll actually hear from them or see them. >> yeah.
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the lottery folks there, the guy who was talking, seemed pretty excited that maryland was one of the winning states, one of the jackpot, where one of the jackpot tickets was sold. the store owner gets about $100,000 or so? >> that's right. the winning store gets $100,000 bonus, that's in addition to the 5 cents on the dollar of each ticket sold. and we also know that we've been able to check and confirm that another winning ticket was sold in southern illinois in the town of red bud. red but, near st. louis, a town near st. louis. so two confirmations. at least two winners of this giant jackpot, record setting. a lot bigger than the last record back in 2007 of $390 million. so big winning here and excited official, randi. >> all right. athena jones, we have the 7-eleven, maryland, in baltimore, red bud moto mart in red bud, illinois. they're stacking up. see many other win es we are
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get. we'll talk to a lottery official as soon as we it. they're going to call in for us. thank you very much. for many of us it's time for spring break or maybe you're planning your perfect summer getaway. i'm getting something like this may come to mind, the beautiful beaches of california. maybe florida. but the sun-soaked beaches of libya? i'll explain, next. and check this out. we've been slowing you all morning these 3d printers for your home. we have them in the studio today and they can print just about anything 3d. prosthet prosthetics, even drill equipment. make you anything that you want. so stick around. we'll show you the cool objects coming up. [ male announcer ] the next generation of lexus
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were back. when you picture your perfect summer vacation, do the sun-soaked beaches of libya come to mind? i'm guessing you might picture something a bit more like this. that was just eight months ago when rebels in tripoli stormed the compound of moammar gadhafi. now take a look at this voideo taken from the same place earlier this month. american, british tourists visiting gadhafi's compound. despite travel warnings they decided to travel to witness
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this. destinations including libya, kosovo and others. many have travel warnings in effect, but you believe they're not safe for tourists? >> well, we look at each situation very carefully, and we're not going to take people to an active conflict zone. we went to libya last october just to make an assessment, and we thought, things were slightly edgy, but we thought it was safe enough to take a group there, and then just last week we came back from a tour, and we found people very welcoming. the situation was pretty stable. we had a low-level security team with us, just to keep an eye on things, and it went off fine. it was great experience. >> i love how you explain that as slightly edgy. what do these tourists get to see when they go to libya? >> we're really trying to understand the motivations, the reasons behind the conflict. we take people to see the family, work out how a local community is living. we see the local political
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leaders. we try and get under the skin of the place. not trying to dwell too much on the damp and destruction. this tour is really for people with a serious interest in current affairs, the kind of people who watch cnn, they may read the "new york times." people who are pretty serious about this. >> do they get to meet any of the opposition forces and the rebels who have now taken over the compound there? >> that's right. we spent some time in tripoli. we've met leaders of the ntc. we've met leaders of the local brigades and met people who lost out. people who didn't really do very well out of the revolution, and i met, also, some sympathizers of gadhafi as well. >> sounds like a fascinating conversation for them to have. these aren't exactly hot destinations. i would never call them that. what gav you the idea to start tours like these and think that people would actually come? >> well, i've got, i really don't like the phrase, war zone tourism. what we're trying to do almost act like a news organization,
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and give people access to current affairs. so we do tours that don't dwell on conflict at all. we're going to be doing a tour here in london that looks at the financial crisis. we have tours in turkey. we'll soon have a tour in scotland, looking at the road to independence there. the idea really is to explain to people, give them access to current affairs and not really dwell too much. it goes back to my experience as a reporter and how much i enjoyed it. and i thought, well, if i enjoy it, why can't other people try and do a bit of the same thing? >> how much does a trip like this cost? obviously, there are different destinations, but give me an idea. >> i can say to you in pounds. you'll have to do the exchange. >> no. i can't do the math in my head. >> about 2.5,000 pounds. starts out with places like libya, security, it's more. about $6,000, i think. >> curious about the feedback. what do they tell you after this type of experience? the people who go on these? >> people really have a really
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incredible experience. it stays with them a long time. we go to north korea, for example, as well, and people stay in touch with us, and we organize other trips for them as well. so there's, it has a big impact, and we've, you know, we do find that people come back to us to go to other destinations as well. >> you have a website or something, in case anybody wants to check it out? >> yeah. politicaltours.com. you're welcome to look at it. >> all right. i may see you on one of those adventures. nicholas wood, thank you very much. >> thank you, randi. all right, everybody. i want to check something out. here in our studio, yes. those are 3d printers, hard at work, buzzing away behind me. you might be able to hear them. they can make anything. they actually printed my face and can make it 3d. a little mini me and maybe you might want to make a little mini you at home. we'll tell you how and show you how these work coming up. my mother froze everything.
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but it's coming to a home near you. and joining me now, this is fascinating. i've been listening to these hum away in our studio all morning. what have you made here? >> it's the sound of progress. right? >> a lot of progress. >> yeah. so what we've been printing here is your cnn logo. which we found to be a very good new application. you can see it on the table. a couple of ears. nan ooh -- nono holders like on my wrist. if you can think it, you can print it, exotic things like, eve an shoe. >> you can even print a shoonchts which is perfectly functional. of course, for years we've been printing anything from automobile prototypes to airplane parts. and hearing aids and invisiliners and now are bringing this to the home.
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>> how does it work? i'm listening to them. what does it do? builds them layer by layer. >> 3d printing is all about building one layer at a time. think about it like decorating a cake. you go in and put the cake ingredients wherever you want them. it's the most efficient way to do it, because you get the geometry without any of the waste and really allows you to bring personal manufacturing to the home. and to the garage entrepreneur. you don't have to do it some place in china. >> i'm sure anybody watching says, okay, it's cool, but it's got to cost a bundle. >> not so much. it used to be very complex and expensive. all about bringing it to the home, so one of these beautiful printers is $1,300. it's going on sale in the next few weeks. we're actually launching a state-wide cube odyssey, taking a few of these cubes, in a cube, to 25 cities launching in
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beverly hills next week. >> nice. >> april 10th, and we're going to be in 25 cities promoting it, because we want kids in the ages of 8 to 80 to unleash their creativity and experience this in 3d. when you come back to the cost, this is about $3.50 to you at home. imagine. >> i see something over there, though, on table that looks kind of like me. did you actually make this? >> we actually made this, and we made it for you. >> let me see this. >> we made it yesterday. >> oh, my gosh. >> and we made it from your pictures, because this is -- >> this is a mini me. >> it is a mini you. look at the likeness. we took too pictures of you with an iphone app that we loaded and we could immediately create a 3d replica that you can enjoy. this is so funny. how long does it take to make something like this? >> something like this took less than an hour to make? >> then you paint it? >> no. this one was printed in full
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color. just like this -- we have a little app that basically allows any girl to design a dress. >> how cute. >> so you can design and print your own dress. >> i need a body and a dress. maybe i could just put these two together, and we'd be in business. >> we could fit you perfectly and put you into the shoes. >> right now i'm just a talking head. on tv they all tellis that us t what we are anyways. >> the possibility of endless. probably a product michael jackson would have died for. just feel it. >> yeah. it's fascinating. you're making great stuff and i love that you're making prosthetics as well. thank you very much. i'm going do hold on to it. i don't know what i'll dou with it but i'll hold ton it. imagine it. a mini me. live to athena jones in baltimore, maryland, where the first winning mega ball ticket was announced. that's next. [ music playing, indistinct conversations ]
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check stop stories now. hillary clinton is reassuring gulf arab states they have washington's rock-solid commitment in riyadh saudi arabia today, threatening its neighbors and undermine regional security and the international community will look at thousand stop t how to stop the syrian regime from killing its own people. history being made. featuring alternatives to the country's ruling party takes place. opposition leader aung san suu kyi says while the elections are no free and fair, her words, it's helped boost political awareness. wall street didn't just have a good week, the great first three week fls a year, best in a decade.
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the dow is up 8.1% since new year's day, thanks in part to improving consumer confidence and spending. the s&p 500 and nasdaq are also up by double digits. back to our main story. three winning tickets for the mega millions keep climbing here. red bud, illinois, kansas, and baltimore county, maryland. we are keeping track of the winners. atheen no jaena jones is with u. what do we know about this store? >> reporter: we're right outside the city of baltimore, outside the city limits. we're in baltimore county. we know the ticket was sold last night here at 7:15 p.m. a quick pick ticket, which means picked by this machine right here and the winner just spent a dollar and here he's going to have this huge pot of money to split with those two other winners. you know, over $200 million. it's a record jackpot. the last record was $390 million
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back in 2007. so this is a big chunk more than that. this store here is going to get $100,000 just for having sold that ticket. that's in addition to the five cents on the dollar they get in ticket sales. we spoke with a lottery director here in maryland that said the state sold $11 million in megamillion tickets just yesterday. $11 million in one day is quite a lot of money. we also know americans nationwide spent about $1.5 billion playing this game. and as the lottery -- >> we lost athena jones there, but she was telling us, there at that 7:00serv 7-eleven. three winners we know of in kansas, illinois and maryland. meanwhile, marchers are on the move in sanford, florida, taking part in a protest aimed at the city's police department,
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which is facing sharp criticism for its handling of the killing of trayvon martin. the naacp, participating in today's march, slams the police saying in part that their work on this case shows "evidence of racial bias and investigative mishaps. george howell was on the scene. good morning, george. >> reporter: randi, good morning. obviously, the march is starting already. people are already lining up to march. it sends here at the police department. the head of the naacp joins me now really overseeing. thank you for joining us. >> sure. >> talk to me about the march and rally. what is the message from the naacp? what message do you want to make today? >> the march from all the groups here is that mr. zimmerman needs to be locked up, and this station needs to be investigated. there's a deep well of concern in this community, both about this case and about many other cases that have happened across the years.
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so top of mind today is this case, but folks are saying, let's go further and make sure we also understand that what it will take for justice to really work here in sanford. >> reporter: we are hearing from other groups, the national action network, the reverend al sharpton possibly having a different message saying it may be time to take it to the next level. possible economic sanctions. does your group see it the same way? >> i spoke with al this morning. i saw this in reports. unfortunately, that was a media rumor. that the folks here, caught folks off guard. the reality is, we and they and all the group, are very clear that we're not talking about sanctions against sanford or florida, or against sim noemino county. in these struggles sometimes there come as time for direct action, for civil disoh peddians. if it happens, it will be in the best tradition and it will be something that all of the groups have discussed and are agreed upon. but as far as sanctions against
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seminole county or sanford, all of us, i can tell you, think it's a bad idea. really doesn't fit this case. >> a big day. a rally here, a candlelight vigil later today in miami, and a rally in washington, d.c. what does it mean for your group, people coming together to see so many people joining in to this particular cause? >> this is one of those moments. i mean, this is like when mrs. till spoke up for her young son in 19 54. it's like a rodney king for our generation, when people took notice and said there's a problem we freed to talk about nationally. what this means is our country is finally having a real conversation about racial profiling, some ten years, frankly, after we stopped talking about it. >> thank you for joining us. back to you, randi. >> george, thank you both very much. soledad o'brien leads a special town hall event how the trayvon martin tragedy became a
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nationwide story. another chance to watch "beyond trayvon: race and justice in america" at 2:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. setting sights on credit and debit cards. 10 million people could be at risk. global payments, the company at center of the breach, says it notified credit card issuers as soon as it discovered the problem. visa release add statement saying, accounts for all major brands could be affected. so how can you protect yourselves? earlier i spoke with finance expert clyde anderson. here's what he said. >> it's hard to really protect yourself on the fronted end. that's why laws are put in place to actually make sure you're only responsible for a small amount. $50 what you're responsible for and a lot of credit card companies waive that. really, you have to go in and report it as soon as possible. it's up to you to go in and make sure the information on your report and credit card saintatet
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is accurate. >> clyde says, keep a close eye on statements, look through every charge and, of course, pull your credit report. republican party, lining up against mitt romney with a number of big names endorsing him. straight to cnn editor paul steinhauser. good morning. tell me about these endorsements and do they matter? >> reporter: we always say randi, in this cycle endorsements really don't matter. the story line has changed. of since mitt romney won the illinois primary a week and a half ago, won convincingly over rick santorum, newt gingrich and ron paul, we've seen a wave of big name endorsements, as you said. just yesterday you had paul rhine, congressman, and marco rubio, conservative senator from florida. jeb bush last week. former popular governor of florida and this week an elder statesman in the party, george herbert walker bush, former president. it gives an air of inevitability
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to romney he's going to win the nomination. the story line strengthens because all of these people are starting to back him. the establishment is starting to back him, but also, randi, some endorsements help as we because these are conservative people. ryan and rubio, a group romney needs help with when it comes to getting backing. >> he certainly does. talk about wisconsin. that primary is coming up this week. is thas must win for santorum? if not, what happens to him? >> reporter: it's got to be a must win. wisconsin the only one he has a shot. maryland and district of columbia, pretty much romney territory. look at this poll though. the most recent poll out of there from yesterday. nbc marash, you can see here, santorum has his work cut out for him. seven points down according to this mbs maynbc maris poll. if he doesn't win in wisconsin, another three weeks until the next contest. how does he survive? that's tough. he doesn't feel that way. take a listen to what he told our john king last night.
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>> my epithet written many times. we're going to take it a day at a time, work hard and i think we'll win this election in the fall. >> pretty optimistic. be honest. if he doesn't win in wisconsin, odds are tougher and tougher and tough er for rick santorum. and builds stronger for mitt romney. >> they don't want a floor fight at brokered convention. something has to give? >> only helps barack obama come november. you got it. >> paul steinhauser, flies to see you. talking about all morning, able to confirm three winners of the mega millions jackpot. one in kansas, one in illinois and one in maryland. they're each going to get about $200,00 $200,000. more information coming up after the break. so keep it here. ca.
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so it just shows you how random lottery winnings are. that all the places and in all the united states, red bud lahaa winner. >> how was the lottery notified red bud had a winner and have you been able to speak to the store owner there? this convenience store? >> we were notified by the national association that controls mega millions we had a winner and identified the retailer that sold the ticket and we have reached out to the store and we've also asked the store if they know who it is, to have them contact us, because it's very important now for whoever has that winning ticket to obviously sign the back of the ticket, put it in a safe place. reach out to us so we can begin the process of awarding the person the prize, and it's quite exciting. isn't it? >> it sure is. we know there was a winner in maryland and understand from maryland they don't have to come forward and go public. what about in illinois? does the winner have to go public to claim the prize? >> they have a period of time to you know, get ahold of us so we
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can begin the winning, the process with the winners. indeed, we dopublicize. we will discuss ananonymity. we do have some duty to the public who played, to prove we actually awarded the prize to someone. if there's a reason they want to remain anonymous, some sort of mod toll save on taxes we will work with them on that. ultimately a reporter like you could find out because we have to prove weawarded it. >> was it a quick pick or if they chose the numbers? >> i don't know yet that. the largest prize winner in the history of the lottery here. >> the store gets something, too? don't they? >> 1% of the value of ticket. in the neighborhood of $213,000 as a bonus. >> nice.
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pretty nice deal for them. are you planning any type of news conference? anything going to happen later today? >> well, i think we, you know, we may not have a news conference today, but we would certainly want to reach out to the person to make sure that we begin the process and make sure that the ticket is safe, and we know who the person is, and then discuss with them how they want to publicize it. i know that a member of media people reached out to me to comment on the prize. i think i'm sitting here in anticipation of finding out who won the prize. >> we know it wasn't you, michael. right? >> i can't play, but if i could have i'm sure i would have won. >> that's right. you can't play. michael, thank you very much. we appreciate your time. michael jones, superintendent there of the illinois lottery with new information apparently bought at a convenience store, the winning ticket there in red bud, illinois mo. who knew? coming up, barred from being a member of the famed augusta
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mega million jackpot. three winning tickets so far sold in kansas, illinois and maryland. a huge sports weekend especially if you're a fan of college basketball. sports guru joe carter joining me now. you can't win either. that's why you're here? >> very much not a winner. >> i'm sorry. let's talk sports. talk about the final four, a couple games today? >> gone from 68 teams now down to 4. boiled it all down. two games today. really that kansas/ohio state game is billed as the more competitive, better basketball matchups. the teams are more evenly matched up, but the louisville/kentucky game has all the pageantry and glitter because of the long-standing intense rivalry between the two schools. about 65 miles separate the two schools. any comparison i can give you between, or to compare how intense the rivalry is i would say, you could look at auburn/alabama on the football field. that's the louisville/kentucky rivalry on the hardwood. they play each other once during
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the season, but this is the very first time these two schools will play each other in the final four. so it's a huge deal. someone said, this is the basketball version of the civil war in that state of kentucky, but i think a lot of people said this game may end up being a blowout. kentucky's on paper, at least a much better team. vegas has them as a nine-point favorite. a lot for a semifinal game. the night cap, ohio state/kansas, like i said before, this is a game between two evenly matched teams, this is going to be a better all-around basketball game. back in december these two teams played. kansas won by 11 points. back in december, ohio state was without its star player. like being without peyton manning if playing the colts. missing that key guy. ohio state's favored by two points with jared soleyn jer back in the lineup. two games tonight. final monday. >> a pick? how's your bracket? >> totally busted. i think it's going to be ohio state and kentucky in the finals
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and kentucky's going to win the whole thing. >> yes. talk about the masters. a little controversy in the golf world. nothing to do with tiger woods. >> no. actually tiger is probably sitting back, this is great. talking about something other than me. the odds on favorite heads into the masters next week. i want to be clear to start the story off. augusta national has been opened since 1933. a very tradition-rich golf club, and female members -- excuse me, females are allowed to golf on this golf course. they're not allowed to be members of the club. that rule's been in place since 1933 and there appears to be nothing that's going to change it, but there's a debate revivd, let's just say, because of ibm. now, ibm has a new ceo. that new ceo happens to be a female. what ibm is to the masters a huge corporate sponsor. years past, augusta national gives its corporate sponsor ceos automatic memberships to the club, but these ceos have always been men in the past.
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now it raises the debate of, will augusta national change its policy, or will ibm pull its sponsorship to support its ceo? augusta national has not commented. ibm has not commented. i can tell you based on a lot of things that happened in the past, they don't do anything on anybody's clock except theirs. if they decide to change the rule, they'll wait until after the tournament and make changes later. >> and secretive about their memberships. >> never discuss anything about a membership. it's a private club and everything is internal. >> joe carter, nice sow see you, thank you. >> you, too. a march for justice in florida. supporters of trayvon martin head for police headquarters. more details just ahead. so what do you think? basic.
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