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that i'm in danger ♪ ♪ when i think about it let's think about it you were trouble from the first time ♪ ♪ i laid my eyes on you girl, you can't fool me this ain't the first time this has happened to me ♪ ♪ girl, you can't fool me this ain't the first time and ima be okay you were trouble ♪ ♪ from the first time laid eyes and you made me wonder what can you do ♪ ♪ to surprise me girl girl, you can't fool me this ain't the first time
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this has happened to me ♪ ♪ girl, you can't fool me this ain't the first time and ima be okay girl you think you'll stay ♪ ♪ no - no - no -no girl, you think you'll stay this ain't the first time and i'mma be ok ♪ ♪ your eyes your thighs your booty and your smile ♪ >> jimmy: bad rabbit, thanks to adam levine, alice eve, apolo apologies to matt damon. "nightline" is next. good night.
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so night on "nightline." powerball madness. it's one of the biggest jackpots in history. tonight, nearly $600 million up for grabs. and we will meet one lottery winner who splurged on everything from tour buss to a nascar team. falling in love again. at least that's what co-stars ethan hawke and judy delphie want you to think. they open up about on screen chemistry and offscreen heart ache. and make it through 3,000 miles of alaska's wilest terrain in 72 hours or get left behind. we watch as they push themselves to the brink in "survival alaska."
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>> lootry billboards hang over our traffic jams as taunting reminders of what could be. their big bold announcements of tens, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars, just there for the taking. and tonight, countless americans across the land are filing into gas stations and delis, scraping their wallets clean for a chance at the largest power ball jackpot in history, and enough money to never be stuck in traffic ever again. here's abc's david ray. >> reporter: bluebird liquors in hawthorn, california, home of the beach boys claims to be the luckiest lottery store in the golden state. >> we've had a bunch of winners here before, right?
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>> yes, sir. >> how many? >> like six millionaires already? >> from this store only? >> so today, the line of superstitious customers hoping for good vibrations stretched out the door. tomorrow, it will be even longer. power ball has only been in california a month, and that's one big reason the jackpot has jumped so high. all these new customers in the golden state. >> this has been phenomenal for the state of california as well as the california lottery. we're selling millions and millions of dollars woth of tickets every day. >> everyone know what is they would do with the money. >> i would travel the world. and visit all the places that, you know, i dreamt of going to that i can't go to. >> nice. >> reporter: turning dreams into diamonds all depends on picking the right numbers. is there anything you can do to improve your odds? >> how about you? did you pick any special numbers? >> yeah, i did. my birthday. >> but at southern methodist university in dallas, they've
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actually done the math. professor scott norris has done the math. his formula is painfully complicated. >> there are 59 possible balls and five are drawn and the number of combinations is given by this form ma. >> the solution isn't any easier. >> we got a total probability of about 175 million. >> reporter: the odds don't change, no matter how many tickets are sold. >> the odds are the same no matter how many people play you just have a higher chance of having to split the jackpot. >> and all that talk of lucky numbers? >> all numbers have the same odds. >> 1 in 175 million, long odds indeed. you're more likely to be possessed by the devil than win the powerball. in fact, the odds are better you eel be hit by an asteroid or devoured by a flesh-eating bacteria than win the powerball. not that you would spring two
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bucks a ticket for either of those things. the lottery is a collective fantasy. literally a ticket to dream. the dream gets bigger as more people buy in. but your chances don't improve all that much, even if you buy more than one ticket. >> your odds increase exactly proportionate to how many tickets you buy. if you buy 100 ticket, your odds increase to 1 in 1.7 million. however, that's still exce exceedingly unlikely to win. >> some states seem to be luckier than others. the biggest jackpot, $300 million plus. illinois and new jersey have been lucky there. both tickets have sold three winning lottery tickets worth that much. michigan is home to one of the largest single cash payouts. donald lawson took home $337 million last year. nebraska holds the distinction of selling the single most valuable ticket. $365 million back in 2006, but it was split eight ways by workers in a meat packing plant.
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what would you do with the money? abc news posted that question on facebook and the answers still pouring in seem to fall into three categories. there are the dreamers. i would buy all my female friends five pairs of shoes they want but can't afford. jerry would find me a young hotie and live overseas. joe won $75 million. >> if i can win, anybody can win. >> reporter: former construction worker, unemployed when he bought his mega millions ticket. went on a spending spree. a fleet of atv, cars, boats, six houses. >> we call that the east wing. >> and for his wife megan, a 4 carat diamond. his biggest purchase? soo. >> i would say my nascar team. >> he spent $1.5 million on a nascar racing team. he spent almost half his winnings. >> we don't have to worry about money. >> reporter: but he's doing
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better than most lottery winners. 44% have spent all the money in five years orless. joe still has $20 million or $30 million left. >> it's nice to get up in the morning and say i don't have to go to work. >> jennifer says i would give, give and give. >> connie little says she would feet the homeless from state to state. sonia nelson would start a nonprofit charity to help those not even looking for help. needy, hard-working folks. it has happened. pastor ron yurcus found a $1 million ticket. he and his wife gave it away. and an elderly couple from nova scotia, canada, gave away their $11 million check. they didn't want the headache of sudden wealth. alexandra charr kept her job as a waitress after winning $1 million. she remembers the fun in telling her boyfriend. >> i went inside and i asked him if he had any doubts about me. and he said i'm going to marry
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you one day. i said everything is going to be okay. and i said yay, because i won $1 million. good answer. >> reporter: alexandra says if you think money will buy you happiness, you have a hard time asking it. >> i ask myself why is it me that i won the lottery? i believe it was given b to me because i want to do something great with it. >> in fact, barely half say they're happier after winning. >> i want to buy me a house and my sister a house. and i want to get a nice car. >> pretty down to earth. >> reporter: which leads us to the third big categories. debtors, people who are tired of being broke. adman says she would buy a house, pay off bills and chill. >> tammy, pay off my student loans. that's all i'd want. >> have you thought about what you would do with all that money? >> nope. too much money to think about. >> but you're putting in your $2? >> can't win it if you don't play in it. >> reporter: true. but your chances of winning are only slightly better than if you buy a ticket than if you don't.
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that's why in dallas, that math wiz professor has never played the lottery. ever. i'm david wright for "nightline" in los angeles. >> our thanks to david and good luck, all you dreamers out there. coming up next, "before midnight" stars ethan hawke and julie delphie. on-screen romance, offscreen heart ache. hey america, even though she doesn't need them,
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work they did before the big budget blockbusters turned them from acting class main stays to magazine cover obsessions. but in the case of ethan hawke and julie delpy, one of the first films of their storied careers had them entrenched in a hyper real love affair that's lasted decades long and still going strong. as juju chang found out when she sat down with the stars of "before midnight." >> i want to keep talking to you. >> reporter: imagine growing older with the ever so hip and handsome ethan hawke and the luminous julie delpy. fans saw them fall 234 love "before sun rise." >> you should get off the train with me here in vienna and check out the town. passion tinged with regret in their 30s "before sunset." >> i want to see if we stay together or dissolve into molecules. >> reporter: and now we witness them wrestle with the happily
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ever after "before midnight." in all three of these movie, life gets in the way of love. >> it's not just in these three movies, i'm sorry to alert you. >> are you trying to say you want to kiss me? >> reporter: the movies have become underground classics, attracting legions of fans, in part they feel so much like -- like real life. >> it feels so real. >> we tried to get to a place in those three films, trying to find the right -- you know, the right balance of, you know, something that rang true but at the same time, it's totally fictional. >> reporter: the trilogy follows the star crossed lovers a's they stroll through various european backdrops. >> sometimes i feel like you're breathing helium and i'm breathing oxygen. >> what makes you say that? >> reporter: some takes are 12 minutes long which makes you feel like you're eavesdropping on the conversation. >> reporter: some of them are the hardest teams that don't
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seem like -- you're walk and talking. the films have encompassed a career project for the american and french stars. they were first cast in "before sun rise" when they were both in their early 20s. >> yeah, we were young. neither one of us have a wrinkle in the world. we watched it and remember how insecure we were being that age. >> reporter: now they're in their 40s. >> if you saw me an a train now, would you find me attractive? >> of course. >> reporter: they've both had successful careers. delpy is a director and musician in her own right. >> reporter: while hawke went on to star in blockbusters like "gatica." and was nominated for an oscar in "training day." >> thanks for the help. >> you should have shot him. >> reporter: but it's hawke's
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personal life that brought the most attention. his marriage and divorce from uma thurman and then his remarriage to a woman who briefly worked as the family's nanny. all that material and emotional depth, they bring to their on screen characters. >> i can't keep living luke this. >> part of that is showing the consequences of following your dream. in this case, jesse sending his son back to his ex-wife in the states after a summer visitation. it's an emotion hawke knows all too well. >> one of the most painful moments of my life, every year after the summer, was a the summers -- if you're a dad, you finally get some big bulk time. ands as the end of the summer approaches, it's like a rain cloud builds up. and it's like picking off a scab and watching it bleed again every time. >> reporter: they're not only the stars of the film, they also
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co-wrote it. >> how do you three write these scripts? how does that work? >> we sit here for days and days and weeks and weeks on end. and we basically make fun of each other for about ten hours a day. >> reporter: as a young director, linkleiter was heralded as the voice of a generation in "dazed and confused." >> that's what i love about these high schoolgirl, man. i get older, they stay the same age. >> reporter: now 20 years later, he's matured just like celine and jesse. >> at 23, they were both able to get off a train. okay, i'm enot doing anything for the next two weeks, i guess i can. you get older, you get responsibilities, you might have a job, you have people waiting on you. you have dependents. these are bigger choices. >> no matter what age, it's their chemistry that keeps viewers coming back for more. >> reporter: but the truth is we are a bit more comfortable with each other than a lot of people would be. because we're friends. but at the same time, there's
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something about being friends that makes it -- oh, my god, ethan is touching my breast, what's going on? >> reporter: fans hope it's not the end of their love story. >> we met 18 years ago. we kind of sort of fell in love. >> it's not common that co-stars co-write a movie together and do it three times. >> reporter: and hopefully a fourth. thanks, juju. coming up next, they have 72 hours to make it out of the alaskan wilderness. if they fail, they are left behind. progressive claims. this is flo. i need you. i feel so alone. but you're not alone. i knew you'd come. like i could stay away. you know i can't do this without you. you'll never have to. you're always there for me. shh! i'll get you a rental car. i could also use an umbrella.
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>> there will be no s'mores on this camping trip. in fact, there will be no food at all. unless they find it. trekking through 3,000 miles of alaska's most desolate terrain, their only prize is survival. and here's abc's geo benitez. >> reporter: risking their lives in a test of survival. living off the lapped fnd for t months. >> there's a bear right there, look. >> reporter: the goal, working as teams, they must get from point a to point b in under 72 hours. missing the deadline means missing a flight on the extraction plane. >> we've got to move. >> we've got to go, man. >> reporter: which could leave them stranded for days. for two of the contestant, this hard core life is second nature. brothers met us outside on a
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rainy day. they spent their childhood in alaska's rugged outdoors. >> we're out here in central park in the rain. he would have it no other way. >> absolutely. we grew up, going into the wilderness was not a weekend trip or a special thing. this is what we did. we grew up training sled dogs to win the iditerod. >> last year, dallas became the youngest person ever to win it. this year, he convinced his brother to join him on nat geo's "ultimate survival alaska." >> kind of got me roped in there. they came up a guy short at the last second. so i got a phone call and an hour later i was on the road. >> reporter: the spirit and the body are tested. >> dallas is setting the pace. for him, it's too easy. but for the rest of iz human, you have to catch your breast once in a while. >> it's literally a once of a lifetime experience. that mentality, that was the best part. we were just out here doing this, nothing else to worry about. just survive from day to day.
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it's a very primal existence and it's very fun in that regard. >> he's not kidding when he says forging for food. on their first hike sdsh -- >> everything is wet. >> reporter: the brothers can't even light a fire because of a downpour. they only have two boxes of matches for the entire trip. >> getting a hot meal is the number one priority right now. >> if we don't get this fire going we'll be going hungry. >> the two were left eating uncooked rice and beans. >> not the tastiest meal i've ever had, but there's ral rees in it. -- calories in it. >> reporter: you're basically lost, that's extremely frustrating. you're wet, you're cold. you don't know where you're going. >> reporter: and at the end of the challenges, there is no prize. >> so i guess a lot of people might be watching this show and say why do this? why go through all this? >> reporter: the easy answer is it puts yourself in a situation where you can really test
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