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closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc good morning i'm kristen sze. i'm eric thomas in for cheryl jennings. who wants to be rich? >> the jackpot has just hit 640 million dollars. throughout the bay area dreamers are snapping up tickets especially at the fewer stores considered lucky. katie marzullo is live at kavanagh liquors in san lorenzo. >> reporter: people are willing to wait in a long line. here's the front of the store the start of the line. then it goes down the side around the back and almost up the other side. despite waiting in line the atmosphere here is fun, festive. people want to wait because they know this store has a long history of being lucky
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the line wraps the building, it formed before the store opened. the store opened almost an hour early. >> i was like it looks like -- look like i got a better chance so i stopped. >> reporter: it snakes around through the aisles inside as well. >> it is not going to not buy 'em here, not by any chance. because too many people have been winning here. >> they told us 175 i'm separating now and pick the best for myself. >> reporter: they know their chances are slim better luck getting hit by a car, lightning or having conjoined twins. but kavanagh liquors has sold five winning tickets since 19891, the most recent in january. -- 1981, the most recent in january. they wait any way with a few dollars and the best intentions. >> definitely help my family out. probably reend vest make the money make money for you. >> i don't -- i don't want it all i want some i want to
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spread the wealth. >> reporter: so much money hard to comprehend even when we told people the jackpot reached 640 million dollars they barely bat add eye. 640. >> good -- good. >> i would try to take care of my family and give back. i'm going to go stupid i'm going to have fun with it >> reporter: this is the time to enjoy the excitement, fantasy, in a few hours ticket sales will stop and somebody's destiny will be sealed. >> we only go until 7:45 tonight then the whole place will clear out. >> reporter: an expert tip, psychologists say just play what you can afford your chances of winning between buying one dollar worth of tickets or $20 worth of tick coats doesn't go up that much. katie marzullo, abc7 news. -- >> we all want to win. goes coming into all that money buy happiness? a special 20/20 explores that
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topic tonight. i just talked to barbara walters. >> in the beginning i think everyone feels it changed their lives for the better. but they find it doesn't necessarily bring happiness, especially as one of the people we have, a man who is an unemployed construction worker and he won and bought a nascar team. he bought six houses. diamond rings for his wife. she is worried, she is still collecting coupons. >> barbara says winners often make enemies or mismanage their wealth. you need to know how to be wise about it. watch "lotto frenzy, be careful what you wish for" tonight on a special 20/20. >> the drawing is at 8 p.m. we'll send out the numbers on twitter as soon as they are drawn and post them on our facebook page if you are not following or friending us yet you might want to take care of that right now a huge crowd of volunteers is combing parts of
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southern santa clara county hoping to turn up more clues in the disappearance of 15-year-old sierra lamar. police are examining what they hope will be a available find in the search. terry mcsweeney is live in morgan hill with the latest on the story. some of those volunteers searching for something that might lead investigators to sierra lamar are behind me in this field this is about the location where yesterday one of those volunteers found a box that said staeufpb less steel handcuffs on the side -- stainless steel handcuffs on the side and contained used condoms. whether that is related to the case, we won't know for a few weeks into the fields go a group of volunteers maybe this will be the group to find the clue that leads investigators to sierra lamar, missing two weeks today. a big find yesterday, or was it? a box containing used condoms, no big deal to these searchers. >> come out to help. if we find something fantastic,
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if not we are making the effort. >> reporter: no big deal to investigators who know the importance of the find, if any, is not coming in today like it might in a movie or television show. >> is not something where you have a 24 hour turn around period. sometimes it is a couple weeks to get results back. >> reporter: marc klaas founder of klaas kids foundation coordinating this volunteer search and the man whose daughter polly was kidnapped and killed in 1993 is amazed by the turnout. >> since polly disappeared 19 years ago i have not seen people turn out in these large numbers. they are setting a new standard. i hope 'tis all over the united states are watching. -- >> reporter: some brought golf clubs, all brought the hope that something they find will bring an end, whatever that is, to the search for sierra lamar. if you are interested in participating in the search it
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going on again tomorrow and sunday. the headquarters is the elementary school in morgan hill, the search starts at 8:00 different shift going out throughout the day they would love to have your help. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. a dead man found in the middle of main street in san francisco this morning has been identified. officers found 21-year-old deondre young between bryant and harrison near the bay bridge. police are looking for witnesses. >> i heard the ambulance outside when i came out i seen the dead body. i couldn't get a good look they told me to go back inside. >> you didn't hear a gunshot? >> no, i didn't hear nothing everything was quiet, kind of spooked. this never happens over here the first time something like this happened in this area. >> police are saying young died from an apparent again
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shot wound anyone with information is asked to call the police department's anonymous tip-line. first lady michelle obama is coming to the bay area today addressing supporters at a fundraiser this evening. tomorrow she will participate in a u.s. coast guard ceremony in alameda. she will help introduce the cutter stratton into the coast guard fleet. she helped christian the ship in 2010. she will meet with female vets who served with stratton. >> the supreme court is likely to decide the fate of president obama's health care reform law. we won't hear the ruling for months. they meet behind closed doors today to discuss and case that took up three days of legal arguments this week. the primary issue before court is whether federal law can require all americans to buy health insurance the so-called individual mandate. regardless waft court decides today the roast of us won't find out until june. >> -- the rest of us won't
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firefighters narrowly escaped a dangerous fall when the roof began to collapse under them. firefighters in michigan were trying to let out smoke and
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gases when it began to give way they had to pull one of the firefighters to safety. no one was hurt and the cause is under investigation. will new sanctions against iran's oil industry cause a big jump in u.s. gas prices? sources say president obama has decided it will not. the associated process the president has concluded there is sufficient petroleum to allow countries to punish iran. new sanctions law required the to make that decision by today and he must make it again every six months. the administration is hoping sanctions will convince iran to drop its nuclear program. mastercard confirming massive theft. this occurred from late january to late february the crime involves a credit card payment processor also known as a middleman. it is a company that shepards transactions between retailers and banks and holds enormous amounts of data. card holders with concerns
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should contact the institution that issued their card. honda recalling 550,000 crv and pilot suv's low beam headlights could fail affected vehicles include 2002 to 2004 crv's and 2003 pilots the problem is with the wiring. no crash or injuries reported. people can check to see if their vehicle is part of the recall by going to honda's website. we have a link to that site and a number you can call for questions on abc7news.com. under see it on tv. this morning apple hassled a class action lawsuit and you could get money from it. it was over the iphone 4's reception problems some said if you health the phone a way the reception would drop big time. apple will pay you $15 if you bought your handset before february 17th. you have now until the end of august to file. fda is expected to decide today if it will ban the use
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of the additive bpa from food packaging part of a legal settlement with the national resources defense council to protect consumers from bpa that leeches from products like soup chance and water bottles. the chemical can act like estrogen in the body. animal studies show large quantities can affect the brain and sexual development. recent studies suggest it is unlikely bpa is a health risk to people. meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with our forecast. looks like it is going to be wet starting tonight through tomorrow snow on the way for the sierra. a little drizzle to talk about this afternoon. mild temperatures before they drop tomorrow. one thousand people gathered in san francisco this morning to discuss domestic violence. one young woman's advice to parents and other teens about dating violence. you want free club level access to giants' games or free airline tickets? free airline tickets? weif you have copd like i do,
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this morning 1,000 health care professionals gathered in san francisco to talk about the affects of domestic violence on health. i was organized by a national organization called future -- it was organized by a national organization called future without violence. cheryl jennings was there. sheryl interviewed a teenager
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today who was recently on "the view" her ex-boyfriend raped her, came back and shot her in the face. she has been through 12 surgeries with more to go. she has this urgent advice for parents and teens. >> i expect not only parents to be more aware, and to, you know, carry on conversations with their children not only when they are teenagers but when they are in elementary school. middle school, talk about relationships not only relationships with, you know a boyfriend-girlfriend but with friends, with people. >> she told the conference she now educates other teens about dating violence in her home state of ohio. she now happy and getting married to a soldier who served one tour of duty in iraq and will be shipped off to afghanistan two months after they get married. >> brave young lady. mike is here with a look at our forecast. let's talk about wet
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weather, it is the weekend and it is going to be wet. unlike the last couple of weekends not everyday is going to be wet. nice powder to ski on up in the sierra and you want to get up there today or at least early tomorrow before it all begins, this is going to come down bucketsful. that in a minute. first, clouds have been low, dropping drizzle even a sprinkle from time to time, mainly on the peninsula along the coast into the north bay, best radar returns to our north storm track retreated farther north as you see on doppler. look how the clouds are by seconding, -- are bisecting. you see areas without the clouds in tlow to mid 60s elsewhere in the mid to upper 50s monterey bay more sunshine temperatures around the bay and inland mid to upper 50s. mild temperatures today and sprinkles possible just about everywhere best chance along the coast and the north bay
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heavy rain tomorrow and showers in the afternoon it will be windy and cooler tomorrow, it is going to be dry sunday, monday and tuesday. as far as today, 70 in livermore and san jose the warm spot most of us in the 60s. we'll tart from 61 in santa rosa, half moon bay and work up to the 70s in livermore and san jose. monterey bay mid 60s inland warmer low to mid 70s. around the state showers well up to the north mid to upper 60s chico, sacramento, big sur, san diego, near 90 in palm spring today 58 in tahoe. tonight mild low to mid 50s except morgan hill, santa cruz, clear lake cloverdale all in blue upper 40s. mild flow off the ocean keeping us warm tonight even with the rain. area of high pressure pushes this next system briefly up to the north upper level winds parallel it to this that's why
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most rain is to the north with us moist flow off the ocean creating drizzle and clouds. tomorrow this storm is going to come nan going to be potent not as strong as the last couple we've h -- 5:00 we head into the evening hours more drizzle and light rain especially along the coast, higher elevations up into the north bay, 6:00 tomorrow morning heavier, steadier rain moves into the north bay by 12, it is already out then the winds kick in and showers come up and they keep going all wait through sunday morning. about 4:00 by 8:00 you can see quiet through sunday afternoon. let's check out rain totals up to s in our mountains up to an inch in the north bay up to 34 of an inch peninsula and east bay up to half an inch in the south bay. if you are heading to the sierra, winter storm watch tomorrow morning through sunday morning i'm sure that will be updated to a winter storm warning soon because we are going to get two feet of snow down to 6500 feet which
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means those passes you will need chains. tomorrow breezy sun, slighter warmer sunday, monday, tuesday a lot of the sun before another chance of rain wednesday. sunday the best day to be out. giants' closer brian wilson's fast ball may not travel 400 miles per hour but his now his byrd can. virgin america has decked out a jet with the giants' logo on the body and wilson beard on the nose. it will go into service next week. want to win a free flight or free tickets to the giants game? enter ver engine america's fly the beard contest by feeting a picture with the bearded plane we have a link to details on our website, abc7 news.com click on see it on tv. 11 bay area profession s are candidates for the leukemia and lymphoma society's 22nd annual man and
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woman of the year campaign they are beginning a 10 book campaign to raise money for blood cancer research and patients. don sanchez is the hahn rare chairman. since 19 -- since 1949 they've raced more than 814 million dollars resulted in medical breakthroughs that are safing lives. next, we have friday's perfect pet. >> mike will introduce us to nia.
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today at 3:00, legal advice on what you should do if you suddenly come into big money perhaps tonight after the mega millions drawing at 8:00. then at 4:00, traffic stop so unusual the officers had to take pictures for themselves. holy batman. at 5:00, no matter who wins the mega millions tonight california has another winner. we'll look at the windfall for the state's struggling schools. the closest thing we have to a caped crusader mike nicco is here with friday's perfect pet. >> you can be a winner if you don't play the lottery if you find mia a home. >> she is a little nervous. she is the sweetest thing approximately 2-years-old, spade, wonderful with -- spayed, wonderful with people ly when she gets to know you.
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she would be good in a family with older kids, i dog would be a good companion, quiet dog like her. she would be okay with cats probably the cats would rule over her. >> she sees herself now, look at her. that's you precious. >> she is so sweet and gentle. >> she had -- >> she had puppies the puppies had been adopted. she is all by herself so she needs a home. >> okay. we want to make sure we find her a home. nice to have the alameda animal shelter a part of the rotation now. >> thank you. >> 510-337-8565. give them a call. you are pretty, you are. just ask for cindy. >> i'm there >> she will help you around. nice seeing you again. >> you too. >> back to you guys. from all of us here at abc7 news thanks for joining us. >> "who wants to be a
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millionaire" is next. >> have a great day. if you have those numbers before they draw -- >> wish
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