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boo boo here. he was just 23 years old when he won a jackpot worth $5000000.00. i felt like i was on top of the world and that you know that this money would just never run out is almost like i was living the life of the rock stars just go party and within 2 years vote to june to me to nath $1000000.00 was gone and that businesses. and the rest also went down the drain over the next 2 years due to substance abuse a habit initially funded by the lottery when i was i was heavily addicted and. and. i had to resort to sawing drugs he's right back up you know $45600.00 a day he eventually ended up in prison where he spent 2 and a half years for dealing drugs ironically this is what saved him he had to get clean. that's where i've been that's some of the stuff that has helped me get to
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where i am today. and. daniel is far from an isolated case one 3rd of winners ultimately end up losing everything it's a phenomenon known as the curse of the modern. daniel's father jed and his sister naomi watched helplessly as he fell from riches to rags. i almost cried like don't look at weeks if i have it's unless i. do it. daniel is now back on the straight and narrow but at the age of 40 this former millionaire is penniless and had to return to live with his parents in this relatively modest house. there we need. a
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gentle guise of a degree. a man who believed he was on top of the world while spending up to a $1000.00 a day on drugs now works as a car mechanic daniel is still recovering the lottery almost broke him and his entire family. was just after the watery when. you kind of see my eyes you can tell it's likely they're all dark around the edges and from not sleeping much. they end up being the worst thing that ever happened. it took him down arrow . all of those we basically lost him we tried so many different times to you know get him to stop doing what he was doing her trying to minute by no no explain the alarms leave me alone. as soon as the check was cashed jedda naomi saw fake friends crooked investors and other scammers descending on daniel like vultures pick up the clothes into a deep and. it was kind of irreversible well when he hit rock bottom that was
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a colleague and he came to us and asked if we could come home we gave him this the rules no more this no more of that. and we always looked at him conditionally. daniels' $5000000.00 when essentially ruined 15 years of his life he's never bought a lottery ticket since for all winners managing millions of dollars without any preparation can be a struggle. one of them decided to launch a campaign against these easy money traps. timothy scholtz is one of the youngest powerball winners ever in the u.s.
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. prior to hitting the jackpot he worked at a gas station like this one. tim was $21.00 and broke when he won a check for $14000000.00. so my father woke me up. i was sleeping and banged on the door and he basically said to him somebody won the powerball she knew that i played once was it and i looked at the numbers in the newspaper because the surreal is like is this it felt like a dream and then we literally started hugging each other like 2 you know grown people in it it's your kids in a candy store that's what it felt like. the young gas station attendant from rural iowa sold himself his own winning ticket he became rich and famous overnight . and so i couldn't go anywhere i couldn't go to the grocery store without people reckon. you know people ask me for my autograph 2 decades later he's back to being
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anonymous doesn't go on good there's one powerball ticket was. he still plays the lottery every week hoping to win again. just holding that stick it is like i mean i know the power that comes with this if you happen to win out the emotional thrill is still there but his fortune has plummeted from 14 down to just 5 $1000000.00 a big fan of cinema tim put some of his winnings toward organizing festivals and producing his own animated films all of which. he decided to go online to prevent other moderate winners from making the same mistakes he did his you tube channel provides winners with a platform to share their stories whether positive or negative. says the 1st lottery winner i'm actually going to be interviewing in person so this is going
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to be fun. today he's meeting denise who lives in an upscale suburban neighborhood in mantega california. i didn't you say how are you to get have a good. this is a beautiful home thank you i spotted a nice in a real estate lottery winner show in which she won 785000 dollars. ready for this wow. she now lives in this beautiful villa with 2 of her 8 children before the big when she was working 3 jobs and had just lost her home to live there she was there my grandson lives here his mother lives there and his sister would see it like i said it's hotel motels holiday and it. really for all of my daughters because. it pays their. men are assholes
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they could always come home and that's why the loving mother didn't spend her cash on luxury cruises or a big car she invested everything in this house to give her family a home and set herself up for retirement she wants to send out a message on tim's channel sit down where all this focus is. if you do win the lottery you need to learn how to resist temptation people and a lot of the like why do you travel why don't you x. . and you know that's all good but at the end it didn't leave. your tentative. tim received hundreds of letters from strangers asking for money. working winners also need to learn how to say no even to friends and family it's one of the most important lessons i had to learn because it's really tough especially what struck it all that i love if i gave everyone what they wanted i would have been broke a long time ago. to how leagues in nebraska have so far managed to avoid these
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traps that more naive winners fall victim to they were quick to learn how to manage their $62000000.00 driving their beefy pickup truck with golf cart in tow the couple are headed out to their latest major investment. and our away from their mansion they've bought 400 hectares of land forests and ponds right in the middle of nebraska farming country. the herrick's are effectively the new norms of oto county. the i although it is as such more david's estate. and when asked if she likes the farm. america says no to gird it's too dirty. david has
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gotten into farming. ready. to rent some of the land out to local farmers and cash in on a percentage of their profits. the rest is for him a $300.00 hectare private estate for hunting and fishing a dream come true for david even if not so much for erica. that freddie you. hear. this all the land all together was 2 and a half $1000000.00 so you know you can't go wrong only when you take care of it. that's the biggest thing but the last erica doesn't really see the point of this huge investment despite being multi-millionaires they still try to remember the value of money you've got to always be aware of what you're spending because it
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goes quick while big or small your budget is you got a budget and their monthly budget it's about $25.00 grand a month so who's the big spender. he buys big things cars trucks so my little $20.00 purchases versus his. $30000.00 car america is more cautious but the couple could easily move like royalty the interest alone generated from their fortune earns them $500000.00 a year oh boy it is toys david could chill out at home all day but this isn't that kind of family. for us at our age being young and retired. and you still have to do something you can't just i'm retired cetera all. right with everything that. david enjoys his newly found leisure time before the lottery he barely had time to
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see his family between his 2 jobs but since winning he's been able to realize a childhood dream and become a volunteer firefighter it's a commitment that also enables him to keep his feet on the ground. it's nice to have people record being recognized like that for more than just the lottery. because for me the lottery was one quick moment. but i'm still the same person i got to be i got to be true to myself still and i assure you that you're my service to the community will save can now take the wheel of the kind of truck some boys dream of. you. will be taking it out around gretna for the national holiday every 4th of july locals pay tribute to their firefighters who watch over the city voluntarily.
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you always going to have a cause your purpose always got up some get you out of that. 30 or 40 or 40 years figure out a way of like it changed well. since winning he's donated almost $150000.00 to local charities he's become grutness big benefactor. it's part of his lottery winners recipe for success being appreciated for who you are not what you hand. over in buffalo jack is less selfless with what he spends he prefers to make the most of his money in the moment. then charity and. the life of a young and rich rich. tyree. ladies on most nights you'll find him partying with friends and their girlfriends. live in the house laurie for a chair service law. thanks to his laundry winnings jack can revel in all
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this is deja vu news live from berlin killed dozens in the share in a region where islamist groups are battling for control of the suspected terror attacks called results of the country's presidential election show with no clear winner triggering a runoff vote next month also for note. after today's french police shut down an illegal new year's race some 2 and a half 1000 people to find a coronavirus curfew to attend the event. and the bundesliga is back
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after a short winter bright we'll bring you all the highlights from frankfurt's clash with who's. on pablo foley yes welcome to the program we start in the west african country of me share where a gunman have killed at least 56 people and wounded at 20 the interior minister is calling it a suspected terrorist attack he says the militants targeted 2 villages situated near the border with mali a number of islamist groups are active in both countries under bottling for control of the region. earlier i spoke to deja vu correspondent wise interests who is following the developments from nigeria he gave us the latest on the attack in neighboring share. this terrorist attack in the j.r.'s border with miley
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is an area that has been witnessing this kind of attacks for quite a long time if you remember last year 200 need syria and i view where assassinated by december 10th group that was why the interior minister says it's a suspected terrorist attack it has been happening in the come in the from my early days coming in pro book in a fossil day he'd run bach today hideouts well was that the attack comes just days after new share voted in parliamentary and presidential elections could the attack be connected to that to many people who did see him no connection between what how can the political situation in the general public but if we look bach if in the just concluded election day away at traits bible koran in some areas of defiance that people should not go out on food is to
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add in now to see it may come out. in the near future act to people who might have group that might come and claim responsibility. ok well deja vu correspondent it was interesting q. for your reporting. iran says it plans to start enriching uranium to a level that would move it a step closer to being able to produce a nuclear weapon the announcement comes almost a year after the u.s. assassinated one of iran's top generals in a drone strike washington accused kusum soleimani of masterminding militant attacks side iran's borders. we were here for the iranian revolution faithful his death has never truly been avenged hundreds gathered some slow money at a modest graveyard in tehran they say he's death remains on for given it is resulted in yet more anger at the u.s.
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among loyalists. to generation we'll keep following his path we will slap israel and the united states and only suppose it's a clash i mean have the know that. the elite military force of the money belong to the revolutionary guards staged a military exercise on the anniversary of. the site a disputed island in the country's naval border. missiles flew as the gods lead the war on terror and it's ready for war. money as. we were born with a reciprocal and strong glow toward action the enemy takes against. well sure that we've shot this time and time again. so the money is mission with strengthening a right wing interests abroad with groups like hezbollah in lebanon on a day to have been honoring the dead command. well you know. how.
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in a ceremony in which they vowed victory would be there as in the name of god and i don't doubt. the u.s.'s acute saloon money a year ago because of his activities abroad including with his blah washington hasn't directly address the anniversary of his death but on monday put out a statement again saying iran is fostering terror abroad. well let's take a look at some other international stories police in norway said the death toll has risen to 4 following a landslide in ascii northeast of oslo several people are still missing after the landslide tore into the town earlier on early on wednesday it collapsed houses and forced more than $1000.00 people to be taken to safety. u.s. senator ted cruz says he'll be among about a dozen republican senators who will challenge president elect joe biden's victory
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when electoral college results are tanita in congress next week it's a largely symbolic move has little chance of preventing biden from taking office as . india's drug regulator has recommended approving 2 coronavirus vaccines for emergency use one is developed by u.k. based astra zeneca and oxford university while the other is supported by a state run institute the government is preparing the rollout of a nationwide inoculation program. well police in france are investigating who organized an illegal rave in the region of brittany thousands of people attended despite a nationwide nighttime curfew and resisted police attempts to break up the party for 2 nights france's latest lockdown was eased in the middle of december but bars and restaurants have remained closed french authorities are expecting a sharp rise in coronavirus cases after the festive season. as the
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sun rose on saturday the police moved in hundreds of party goers were aidid in fine for breaching france's coronavirus restrictions. in the cavernous warehouses near the city of grain the party was finally over. i mean i'm a nervous about the. police moved in to restore public order to dig there could i please do surest officer. security area in an operation that went off largely without incident. we then issued a number of citations to people found to be in file ation of the low. hours earlier the race had still been in full swing around 2500 mostly young people had gathered on new year's eve define police efforts to stop the event.
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could listen to a sion got out of hand very quickly 3 officers were injured and so i made the decision to withdraw all forces and while this run the risk of letting the situation get even worse is removing police from the scene allow them to pursue a strategy of containment. with the police holding back the party continued for a 2nd night the organizers defended their decision to stage the event. i think there was a real desire to come together. most of us are in our twenty's and we feel we're losing our youth in this weekend demick. and many of us are also struggling against depression. friends has the highest number of covert 1000 cases in western europe to contain the fire as bars and restaurants have been closed and an 8 pm curfew is
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being extended to many parts of the country. with a risk but we wanted to come together and party the whole world of culture is shut down since the crisis began we had to come and support the organizers. fearing a super spreader event authorized he said urged everyone who attended to self isolate when they get home. all covered 900 deaths surged here in germany over the past month more than. half of all deaths attributed are attributed to the virus were recorded in december chances are i'm going to machall is due to hold talks with other political leaders on tuesday. and they're going to discuss whether to extend the lockdown that currently runs until the 10th of january leaving doctors union says germany's health system is in desperate need of release its urgent need to keep the current restrictions which would mean schools stay closed. or earlier
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we spoke to to b.s. could an epidemiologist and director of the institute of public health at the hospital here in berlin and we asked him if the calls to extend germany's lock down are just a slight unfortunately yes we could expect that the numbers are not going down over the christmas holidays and in new years the hospitals are full the use of full and because we have a high rate of infection still going on these numbers won't go down so unfortunately there's no other chance but to extend the lockdown with the constant age of infection rate and the hospitals being full that opening schools for our normal school days not possible so we definitely have to find different solutions for that we have to learn to really that the lockdown is is is working or poorly and we have to maintain to see as minimal people as possible so that they're locked on actually is working and we get the numbers down we need to get these numbers down otherwise you will not see any relief for the hospital staff and any relief for the i.c.u. use t.m.
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a now where the latest victims in the 6 year long war are 5 women who were killed when a shell exploded at a wedding party in the port city of whole data both the saudi backed government and iran backed rebels blame each other for the attack the conflict has been called a forgotten war yet it's left more than 100000 people dead and many more starving. it is just a year and a half old and he is fighting for his life saeed's parents brought him to this hospital in yemen's capital sanaa dozens of starving children arrive every day. but in many cases the doctors are powerless to help. the wonder why they've been however the doctors here aren't being paid we have no medicine for the sick children there's no food for them either even though they are now nourished some of the mothers are really desperate they can't breastfeed their children because they
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too are starving or modest means less than the end of search and what of the. 5000000 children in yemen don't have enough to eat the u.n. figure sure. many have to go to work instead of to school. and their plight is only worsen in. the country has no been at war since 2015 its economy is in ruins and no yemen is being hit by the coronavirus. charity see this as the world's worst humanitarian crisis the situation in yemen is very serious we are very close to the stage of the clearing of famine in yemen because of the deteriorating food security situation for millions of people across the country. aid workers see some 1500000000 euros are needed to help yemeni survive the winter money is running out as the situation worsens. well to sport now and the bundesliga is back after an unusually short winter break the
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highlight of saturday's early matches so i thought frankfurt inflict a 2nd defeat of the season on visitors by our labor cousins and his fine early season form is beginning to desert them. in the seventy's just to get clashes between these 2 sides nil nil has never been the end result and after just 10 minutes this peach got the visitors off the mark couldn't see of not in my memory. skill luck and ingenuity helping him to his 2nd goal of the season. the lead lost in just 12 minutes as i mean eunice raced clear to come lee put away the equaliser his 1st goal for france which i will feel defending have opened began pound off to the break later couzens back line once again looked shoddy with daiichi come out as cross finding live accusing defender edwin tops of to poke to into his own match was the rub of the green but enough for frankfurt to claim
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a deserved to one when. luiz pace in the title race. shall go have extended their winless wrong to 30 games after that after a defeat to hatta on saturday there now just one loss or draw from equalling tasmania berlin's record set way back in 1966 for the worst ever run in the bundesliga shelters new coach christiane falls took over last week becoming their 4th head coach this season but he couldn't turn the tide as as hatta took the lead through my tail when tuesday in the 1st half and 2nd half goals from junk and crystal tech and a child to a 3 male defeat to welcome them into the new. this is news live from berlin up next is reporter with a look at operate during the pandemic that's after the break and don't forget you
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