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we know who bought two of the winning tickets in this we know who bought two of the winning tickets in this week's $468 million power ball. james rivers will share in one third and another goes to man in minnesota. as vinita nair reports, that newly minted millionaire says that big win wasn't a big surprise. >> $149.4 million. >> reporter: paul white is rolling in the green. he claimed his third of the powerball jackpot and he said he always thought this day would come. >> so i feel like it's almost been coming, i really do. >> reporter: the 45-year-old from ham lake, minnesota, says his lottery believe often made him the source of red cool with his family and friends. >> they thought it was funny then. who's right now. >> reporter: white drew one of
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three winning tickets from wednesday's $448 million jackpot. white's not sure what he'll do with all that money but one thing is certain. >> i'm not going to be one of those people that says i'm going to keep working because i'm not working for anybody else anymore. >> reporter: and the electrical contractor has plans for his boss who sat with him. >> ron, this morning started my boss. he's going to end the day as my chauffeur. >> reporter: after taxes, he'll both a little over $58 million. vinita nair, cbs news, new york. and on the "cbs moneywatch," the nation's employment picture is brighter, but dim prospects for the back-to-school shopping season. ashley morrison is in no, with that and more. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, alexis. asia's stocks were higher. hong kong's hang seng was up a fraction while tokyo's nikkei was up 9 points. the number of americans applying
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for unemployment benefits hit a six-year low. over 600,000 applications were processed in the last four weeks, but more than 4 million americans remain unemployed. and while most americans have stopped cutting jobs, many are reluctant to hire. stocks climbed out of a three-day slump. the dow jones industrial average ended 27 points higher on thursday while the nasdaq was up 15 points. shares of groupon, the troubled online deals company have soared. groupon's hosted stronger than expected revenue for the second quarter. the stock rose over 21%. company co-founder eric lefkofsky, who is also the company's large's shareholder was named permanent ceo. and the back-to-school shopping season has gotten off to a low start. it runs from mid-july to mid-september. the international council of shopping centers says retail
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revenue rose 3.8% last month. that's the slowest pace since march and it may be due to consumers worried about their finances and waiting for some better deals, and hopefully those better deals will come. >> i hope so. i always did my back-to-school shopping. >> you're always on it. >> if the deals come, i missed them. ashley morrison in new york. thanks so much. straight ahead, your friday morning weather. and an ohio newspaper carrier not only delivers the news. he makes news. delivers the news. he makes news. 12 grams of protein in every 5.3 oz cup. sink your teeth into that. dannon oikos. the new protein. ♪ dannon
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forecast in some cities around the country. new york, showers and 82. miami, thunderstorms and 89. chicago mostly sunny and 80. dallas, sunny, 103. los angeles, partly sunny, and 78 degrees. and now for a check of today's national forecast. it's another day of showers and thunderstorms from kansas to the ohio valley. the southeast will see showers and storms. the same goes for the northeast coast. isolated showers are possible along the west coast. this morning we're getting a rare realtime view of the tornado that swept through moore, oklahoma, in may. the video shows the approaching funnel cloud and debris tossed violently around. it was recorded by church surveillance cameras just recovered from a broken dvr. that tornado killed 25 people. a florida man accused of killing his wife made it easy for police. he apparently posted a picture of her body on facebook. on thursday he was charged with first-degree murder.
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gaby fleischman of our miami station wfor reports. >> reporter: this picture shows a smiling medina family out for a pool day. less than 12 hours later, 31-year-old eric medina posted another picture on his facebook page, an image of his wife jennifer alfonso lying dead on their kitchen floor. >> i can't fathom that. >> reporter: investigators swarmed his home after they say he walked into the police department thursday afternoon and confessed to shooting his wife to death during a domestic dispute. their 10-year-old daughter was at home at the time but wasn't hurt. >> the little girl was crying. >> reporter: police say before medina turned himself in he posted a picture of the murdered mother along with this, quote, i'm going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife. take care, people, my wife is punching me and i'm not going to take the abuse anymore. so i did what i did. i hope you understand me.
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in this youtube video, medina doesn't seem so defenseless. neighbors say they didn't know medina well but describe him as an odd and sketchy person saying he took it upon himself to protect the neighborhood. >> when i first met him, you know, i saw this guy, he's looking at me. i mean he was walking -- he walks around with a concealed gun, and he try to be like the neighborhood watch guy. he's always there late at night. and this was always weird to me. he was always kind of looking around and trying to be a hero. >> that's gaby fleischman of our miami station wfor. facebook removed the picture and disabled medina's page. 11 people in ohio are safe thanks to their quick-thinking newspaper carrier. ben carroll was delivering the columbus dispatch on his bicycle on thursday when he smelled smoke. then he saw flames on the side of a two-family home. >> that's when i looked in and saw these kids and it kind of hit home real bad. i had no choice but to bang,
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hey, your house is on fire, your house is on fire. >> five adults and six children escaped. carroll says he isn't a hero. he was just in the right place at the right time. investigators described the fire as suspicious. coming up in sports, who's sitting atop the leaderboard at the pga championship. and he's a big deal on the basketball court, but in a court of law, the nba's mvp is just like everyone else. the story when we return. ines. some companies just don't appreciate the power of conversation! you know, i like you! i like you too! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and talk to a real person. i get out a lot... except when it's too cold. like the last three weekends. asthma doesn't affect my job... you missed the meeting again last week!
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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. washington, showers and 88. atlanta, afternoon thunderstorms, 86. st. louis, showers and 84. denver, afternoon rain, 75. seattle, sunny and 82. in sports, golf's last major tournament of the year resumes this morning with two players tied for the lead. adam scott and jim furyk begin the second round of the pga championship atop the leaderboard.
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tiger woods struggled in the first round at oak hill. he double bogeyed on the fill hill to finish at 1 over 71. one tiger who sunlt slumping is detroit pitcher max scherzer. the tigers' ace improved. completing a four-game sweep of the indians. the l.a. dodgers continue their red-hot play on the road. a.j. ellis smacked a three-run homer helping the dodgers to a 5-1 win over st. louis. l.a. hoss won 17 of their last 18 games at home. the baltimore ravens were back on the field for the first time since winning the super bowl. baltimore opened their preseason schedule against the bucs in reiny tampa. the ravens got a 7-6 lead. the defending champs don't look back from there. they win, 44-16. and the super bowl runners-up were also back in action. the san francisco 49ers hosting the denver broncos, before star
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quarterbacks collin kaepernick and peyton manning played just one series. the only touchdown comes when niners' running back d.j. harper coughs up the ball and phillips returns with a score. the broncos win, 10-6. finally, just because you earn the tens of millions of dollar as year and you are the face of the nba doesn't mean you can escape jury duty. lebron james got his notice in the mail and showed up at court in his hometown of akron, ohio, thursday. before he left, the miami heat star posted this photo on instagram. jury duty time. time to serve my civic duty. he never got the chance. james and the rest of the jury pool were sent home after about an hour because two potential trials didn't take place. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," tv's famed "loveboat" sails off into the sun set and hank azaria. it's alexis christoforous. this is the "cbs morning news." ,,,,,,,,
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there's been a surge in demand for bomb detection since the attack on the boston marathon in april. as chip reid reports when it comes to finding explosives, dogs really are man's best friend. >> reporter: at this 10,000-square-foot house in windsor, connecticut, these dogs are in special training. >> good girl. >> reporter: so she sat down. what did that mean? >> this particular piece of luggage has some explosives in it. >> reporter: zain roberts is the leader in this company, a private company that trains bomb-sniffing dogs. the demand for these dogs?
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is tremendous. >> reporter: since boston in particular? >> since boston, yes. >> reporter: since the boston bombing business has increased about 30%. they have 200 dog teams across the nation and expect to have 24 by the end of the year. the trainers are all former members of the military or law enforcement. they protect everything from financial institutions to professional baseball games. >> the presence of an explosive detection and can really make people feel safe. it's a great deterrent if people want to bomb a location. if they see a dog, they're going go somewhere else. >> reporter: the pentagon spent six years and $19 million but they concluded that the best bomb detector is still a dog. >> if you took a machine and tried to search all that luggage as farther fast as i could search it with one dog, i'd beat you every time. >> reporter: robert has trained mary to detect a wide variety of bombs. most of these dogs failed as
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guide dogs because they were too energetic or failing at detecting bombs. labs in particular have a strong food drive which is why food reward training works so well. basic training takes about 12 weeks. >> what a good girl, celeste. >> reporter: robert says when the dogs graduate from this one-room schoolhouse, he's always sad to see them go. what is the bond like between a handler and his dog? makes you smile right off the bat. >> absolutely. i often can't remember the handler's name, but i never forget the dog's name. >> reporter: but he'll soon have to learn new names because important jobs are waiting for all of these good dogs. chip reid, cbs news, windsor, connecticut. and coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on the fire. huge wildfire burning across southern california. we'll report from the fire line. and also the flooding
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endangering part of the nation's midsection j and 39 years ago today the only president of the united states resigns from office. we'll revisit that historic day. that is the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm alexis christoforous. have a great day and a wonderful weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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it is 4:29. here's brian with a check of the weather. >> everybody came into work this morning and said, brian, it's drizzle, drizzle, drizzle. everywhere the windshield wipers are on. we have more drizzle than usual and yet there is nevertheless a silver lining behind the drizzle. we'll have it for you. let's see if it's caused any problems on the road. >> i know it's not good for the hair or the roads, either. on the golden gate bridge the lanes change trucks just moved out of our view. pretty soon they should have four lanes open. not many cars at this time of the morning and no incidents. we'll keep you posted. >> you know my drill now, don't you? >> yes. >> thank you. 4:30. we begin with breaking news in the search for that missing oakland woman sandra coke. her ex just got out of prison. something he said set off a
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