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>> it's a bit nerve-racking. >> reporter: and it never would have happened if not for one woman. >> it's an innate human desire to want to know where we come from. >> reporter: wendy cramer is the mother of a donor son. she saw how curious he was to learn more about his donor father and founded an online database called the donor sibling registry. it's a networking site for children who want to connect by matching their donor father's i.d. number. 47,000 people have registered, including 2300 donor dads. >> kids want to know, i want to hear my donor's laugh. i want to see him smile. i want to know what he thinks is funny. i want to, you know, i want to look into his face. i want to shake his hand. >> reporter: carrie phelps felt that way. >> i've always known i was a donor child from the earliest age, 2. you can imagine a parent with a 2-year-old asking, where's daddy?
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daughter of a single mother, was 14 when she found her donor father. phelps had little information about him, but spent two weeks plugging what she did know into an online search. she found seven possible matches. one photo stood out. >> from that moment, when i saw his face for the first time, it was just incredible. >> reporter: her donor dad was todd whitehurst. she e-mailed him, they met, became closer and even took vacations together with some of his other donor children. like this trip to cape cod last july. >> i feel that it's just the right thing to do. if the children want to meet, then it's important, i think, to be available to meet. >> reporter: get ready to watch an extraordinary family moment. >> you must be keegan. >> yes! >> reporter: eight donor children came together. four of whom whitehurst had never met before, who are also
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first time. yeah, it gets complicated. >> look how strong you are. you're like an ox. >> reporter: what is this moment like for each of you? >> it's pretty awesome. >> this is insane. >> reporter: sarah mally, a student at boston's emerson college, had learned six months earlier that she and her twin sister, jenna, were donor babies. she contacted whitehurst through the registry and he helped arrange this family gathering. what was it like when you first walked out? >> overwhelming. i was worried it would like a hello, it's nice to meet you, hand shake. like we hugged and that was th whole big thing. >> reporter: just sitting here, did you feel father's pride? >> oh, absolutely. when i hear her talking about the hug, i want to give her a hug again. yeah, she's wonderful. >> reporter: the reproductive industry does little to make it easy for donor dads and their
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>> nobody keeps track of the donors. nobody keeps track of the kids. there's no tracking whatsoever. >> reporter: wendy cramer says sperm banks ask mothers to report donor births but it is not required. and no organization links different clinics to track the total number of births from a single donor i.d. how many potential kids are out there from a single donor? >> nobody really knows. the largest group that we have on our website, we know of a group that is somewhere around 200. >> reporter: 200 kids? >> right. i don't know about you, but if i knew that i was -- i had 200 half brothers and sisters, i would feel like i was part of a herd. it would feel odd. >> reporter: whitehurst donated to the same clinic for four years. how many times would you guess, ballpark? >> probably on the order of 400 times, something like that. >> reporter: 400 times?
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>> reporter: and consider this -- single donation at a sperm bank can produce as many as 24 sellable vials. his 400 donations could have produced 9600 vials for the clinic to sell. how many donor children do you know that you have? >> i have 22, that i know of. >> reporter: you could have a family touch football game and have enough players for both sides. does that seem a little crazy? >> it does seem crazy, yeah. they've all turned out to be quite remarkable children. >> reporter: carrie phelps now studies computer science at stanford, just like her donor dad. >> i never felt like there was something missing, because i've been so lucky. i'm so wanted. and that's something that i think a lot of kids can't say for certain. so being able to meet all of
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>> reporter: on a street corner in gotham, this has the power to freeze people in their tracks. it's one of four bat mobiles created for the 1960s "batman" tv show, and it's the bait to pull you into an exhibit at the new york historical society called super heroes in gotham. i love this. it says emergency bat turn lever. bat t y projector. >> this would stop traffic anywhere. >> reportete this is the exhibit's co-curator. >> it's great to see them line >> reporter: it's a show >> it's beautiful. >> r rorler: generations of fans have fallen in love with not just the caped crusader and his ride, but with a whole universe of super heroes. gotham may be a made-up world, but its hold on us is real. when you walked in this exhibit, >> like oh, my gosh, i remember seeing these comics. >> reporter: 12-year-old zachary
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of the 4,000 students who will be whisked through the exhibit during its four-month run. >> they know who all the super heroes are, yet they don't know the history. i think it will give them ideas. i hope it will in terms of creating some of their own comic books or art. >> reporter: that inspiration comes from seeing the humble beginnings of extraordinary characters. and the n who created them. >> we have batman, number one. >> reporter: for example, batman's solo debut in this may 19 issue. or superman in action comics number one. original sketches. the 1938 royal typewriter made of steel that gave birth to the man of steel. and the wool and cotton costume worn by actor george reeves in the 19s television show "the adventures of superman."." the truth behind how the fiction
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tales these then would tell. many of the original creators were the first in their families to be born in the u.s. looking not to save the world, but just to survive in it during the great depression and then world war ii, when the country desperately needed heroes. these weren't established artists in their 40s and 50s, these were teenagers. >> yes, they were very young, looking for work. they were often discriminated upon because they were the sons of immigrants, most all of them the sons of jewish immigrants. >> reporter: so some cloaked themselves, changing their names to fit in and get published. stanley lieber became stan lee. the co-crow yeah for -- creator of spiderman andhe hulk. jacob kirtzberg transformed to jack kirby. bert kahn disguised himself as bob kane. co-creator of batman.
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of superman, even reportedly used more than one pseudonym. from this first superman cartoon in 1941, super heroes would take flight as the gravity defying media juggernaut we know today. comics have proven so commercially indestructible, disney bought marvel entertainment for $4 billion in 2009 and has kept an endless line of super hero films coming. d.c. comics has five tv shows on now, including "super girl" on cbs, about superman'scousin. it debuted as the season's most watched new show. and the comic conventions known as comic-con attract a rabid faithful, fuelling a booming market. one estimate puts sales of comic books and novels in 2015 at about $875 million. a record.
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will become artists at some point t realize that it's possible and everyone has to start somewhere. >> reporter: even this daydreaming 9-year-old, who drew batman in his hebrew school book. 75 years ler, that book is in the exhibit, and a grownup mark gerberg is a new yorker. >> the only way i could compensate for being a skinny little jewish kid who got beaten up all the time was to draw. become a super hero in my own way.y. you never lose that initial fascination with cartoons. >>eporter: and those adults are passing that fascination onto their kids who, perps for the first time, realized you don't need super powers to change the world. >> i do feel more inspired by them in that kind of way, that you can become bigger than you think you are. >> reporter: a belief they too
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more tension on the korean peninsula. south korea fired warning shots after a north korean drone was spotted flying on its side of the border. the south is on alert after the north conducted a nuclear test last week. north korea is celebrating. it even brought a famous news anchor out of retirement for the occasion. charlie d'agata has her story. >> reporter: she put the bomb in bombastic when she broke the news in her signature style that north korea successfully tested the hydrogen bomb. whether it's true is a matter of debate. the annonocement alone has already had an impact on both sides of the korean border. it was south korea's turn to crank up the pressure by pumping up the jam. blasting propaganda and pop music across the border. but pyongyang deployed its own weapon this week, to drop the
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tested the h-bomb. we will not disrupt or dismantle the program, she said, until the u.s. reverses its vicious, hostile policy towards north rea. the 70 something grand mother the go-to news anchor when the regime wants to impress the world. often outfitted in traditional dress, her passion plays well in an isolated country that prides itself on the projection of power, real or imagined, under supreme leader kim jong-un. otherwise, she would be out of a job, obviously. or worse. she barely made it through this announcement on the death of kim jong-un's father, kim jong-il in 2011. we make this announcement with great sorrow, she said. in an interview with chinese television, she recommended a good anchor shouldn't shout but speak gently to viewers.
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deaf ears to up and coming talent. it's clearly a style that we in the west find funny. >> and now to phil with sports! phil! >> reporter: but all that bombast hits home, back home says david kane, director of usc korean studies institute. >> yeah, this is classic propaganda. she's a woman, considered to be more of the hearth and home. yet she's powerful and defiant. >> reporter: powerful and defiant but she remains a mouthpiece of the government. she's been broadcasting for the country's one and only station for 40 years. but these days they just bring her out for the big games. >> that's the "overnight news"
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get-rich-quick dreams. americans spend a fortune for a ticket to easy street, but it's a rough ride on wall street as investors dump more stocks and prices plunge. >> we've got no running water. >> detroit teachers call in sick again to protest the conditions of their schools. >> these are our children. they deserve better. >> and jet fuel's down, profits are up, so why can't air travelers get a break? this is the "cbs overnight news." the numbers have been drawn in the biggest lottery jackpot in history, a prize of more than $1.5 billion was up for grabs in last night's powerball jackpot. so if you haven't checked the numbers yet, let's get right to it.
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a world record jackpot, and it's coming to you right now. get ready, this is powerball. good evening, america. tonight's jackpot is approaching $1.6 billion. that's billion with a "b." hope you have your tickets. good luck. first number is 8. the number 27. peter won $is million by matching all five numbers. next is 34. then the number 4 and we'll find it up with the number 19. all right. now for your winning powerball number, good luck to you. it is the number 10 tonight. and that power play multiplier is 2. >> it is now worth a record $1.5 billion. carter evans is at a store on the california-nevada border. >> reporter: there's just one reason to stand in 30-degree weather in the middle of the desert-- or, in this case, a billion and a half reasons. >> you get nowhere in life for
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>> next! >> reporter: thousands have been waiting to buy a ticket just across the border at the primm valley lotto store in california because nevada is one of only six states that does not participipe in powerball. mark mershant says this is his first time playing the lottery. so, you live in vegas now? >> yeah. >> reporter: you know a little bit about odds. >> a lot. >> reporter: these odds aren't so good. >> i don't know about that one. but you are a hater! >> reporter: it's no accident the jackpot soared. back in october, powerball changed the rules in an effort to boost ticket sales with a bigger payout. powerball started offering 69 numbers to choose from instead of 59, but that decreased the odds of winning the jackpot from 1-in-175 million to 1-in-292 million. the outlandish odds should keep people away. >> we're going to have a winner here tonight! >> reporter: instead, the lure of a life-changing jackpot is too much to pass up.
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>> an hour and 40 minutes. >> reporter: to malcolm o'quinn, it all comes down to this: >> $20 for a billion and a half. >> maybe a lot of those people are lining up after watching their life savings shrink. on wall street, today the broad continuing selloff accelerated and all three major market indexes fell to a level more than 10% off last year's highs. the dow industrials have lost more than 7% in just two weeks. our market watcher, jill schlesinger, is joining us now. jill? >> reporter: this has been a rough firseight days. the dow is down by 7%. the nasdaq by 9.6%; and the s&p 500, the broader index, down by 7.5%. so, it's been rough. >> why is this happening? >> reporter: you know, the broad concern is around global economic growth.
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down around the world, it t ll impact us here in the u.s. we're only growing by about 2%, 2.25% right now, and, frankly, any kind of hit to that is going to hurt quite a bit. we also know that oil is trading at around $30 a barrel, another sign, perhaps, of globalal weakness. and finally, we're starting up with earnings season, and there's a real concern that this is going to be aad quarterly earnings season. a lot ofompanies, pretty sluggish by the end of the year. part of the reason is, they had to hire more employees and that took a bite out of their profitability. >> so, tell us, when is this going to stop? >> reporter: i wish i knew, but here's what we do know: the hope is that the market sell-off really does sort of get a little bit of legs underneath it when we get some more information. so, maybe those corporate earnings are better than expected. if we get another quarterly earnings where it's a negative earnings, it will be the third in a row. it hasn't happened since 2009. also, we would like to see oil prices stabilize. they don't have to go up by a lot, they just have to stop falling. and finally, of course, what we
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economy doing? if we have more information to prove that we're on the ght track, i think things will calm down. in the absence oinformation, fear dominates, and that's when we get nasty days like today. >> jill schlesinger. jill, thank you very much. slumping oil prices are one reason the oil-producing nation of qatar is shutting down th cable news channel al jazeera america. al jazeera's arabic language channel has a reputation for being anti-american. also in business news today, general electric said its corporate headquarters will be leaving connecticut after 41 years and heading up to boston. ge blamed an increase in connecticut business taxes. today, in detroit, some more schools were shut down again a a teachers called in sick in a continuing protest that has seen nearly 70 schools shut down this week. the teachers claim that the
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danger, and anna werner shows us why. >> reporter: some of these classrooms are cold? >> very cold. >> reporter: at the spane elementary school today, some kindergartners wore their coats in class. in several roomsit's just too cold for five-year-olds. >> you can smell the mold through the hallway. >> reporter: school counselor lekia wilson lead us on a tour. >> this is where the gym is. >> reporter: an entire section of the school is closed off, including the gym. >> you are seeing the result of rain coming right into the school. >> reporter: water leaking from the roof warped the wood floor. now, the smell of mildew fills the air. >> you could have some champion swimmers come out of here. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the school swimming pool has been waiting for repairs for five years. andre harlan is the gym teacher. how do you teach gym without a gym? >> well, we do conditioning in the hallway. >> reporter: so, they walk the halls? >> or run. >> reporter: the state took over financial management of detroit
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the district is still $515 million in debt. ivy bailey is interim head of the teachers' union. >> we kept talking and talking and talking and talking, and it was going on deaf ears. nothing was changing, and teachers were just fed up. >> reporter: darnell earley is the emergency manager appointed by the goveror to fix the problems. >> certainly, if we don't get the money that we need to deal with the debt situation, that's only going to make it worse. >> reporter: and one of the things earley says the district cannot afford is a new roof for spane elementary school. doesn't that cry out for sort of immediate repairs in your view? >> well, it cries out t r the immediate action, and my understanding is that there is a plan to do that. >> reporter: without an infusion of cash from state legislators, scott, the district says it will run out of money come april. >> anna werner reporting for us tonight.
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will be right back. today, iran released those ten u.s. navy sailors we told you about last night who were detainededhen their boat sailed into iranian waters in the persian gulf. tonight, david martin explains how a potential crisis was defused. >> reporr: in video released by iranian television, the boarding of the two navy boats seems peaceful enough, but this tells a different sty. the navy crewmen look like they're being held prisoner. then the lieutenant in charge is asked what the boats were doing in iranian waters. >> it was a mistake. thatas our fault, and we apologize for our mistake. >> reporter: that contrasts starkly with vice president biden's account on "cbs this morning" that one of the boats had engine failure and drifted into irani waters where they were, in his words, rescued. >> there's no apology. there's nothing to apologize for. when you have a problem with the boat, you apologize if the boat had a problem?
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and there's no looking for any apology. >> reporter: the crew was held for about 16 hours, and u.s. navy doctors have now examined them and found no evidence of mistreatment. so, at least the incident came to a quick and satisfactory end, which, as secretary of state kerry pointed out, is saying something when it comes to iran. >> i think we can all imagine how a similar situation might have played out three or four years ago. >> reporter: iran's foreign minister tweeted -- what really may have resolved it is iran's desire not to derail the nuclear deal between the two countries. as part of that deal, the u.s. is expected to begin releasing about $100 billion in frozen iranian assets in the next few days. scott? >> david martin at the pentagon. david, thank you. today, president obama hit the road to sell the ideas he
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the union address, his last. the first stop was omaha. the president spent 40 minutes meeting with high schooleacher lisa martin, who moved him with a letter in which she had expressed a sinking feeling of dread and sadness about climate change. mr. obama's address took a number of jabs at the rhetoric of donald trump, and then many were surprised when the republican response did the same. major garrett isn the campaign. >> as frustration grows, there will be voices urging us to fall back into our respective tribes, to scapegoat fellow tizens who don't look like us. >> reporter: following the president, south carolina governor nikki haley, the daughter of indian immigrants, echoed his message of tolerance. >> during anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. we must resist that temptation.
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hard, abide by our laws and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. >> reporter: today, donald trump, who has called for a ban on muslims entering the u.s., hit back at haley. >> she's big on amnesty but very weak on illegal immigration. and so, therefore, we have a disagreement. i mean, she comes up to my office when she wants campaign contributions, and i've given her tremendous contributions over the years. >> reporter: trump has given haley's campaigns at least $7,000 since 2010. haley acknowledged today that she was in part speaking about trump. >> i understood that when i hit repupuicans and democrats, i was going to upset people. but they gave me the and that's what i did. >> reporter: republican national committee chairman reince priebus told us he thought haley was making a broader point. >> i wasn't sitting there listening and thinking about fighting within the republican party. i was just thinking about just the political rhetoric in
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and i've always said things like that. >> reporter: conservative firebrand ann coulter said on twitter trumumought to deport haley. scott, priebus told us the republicans have had their fair share of drama andndntrigue but predicted they would unify, create a presumptive nominee by april and do so, he said, before the democrats. >> major garrett on the carolina coast. major, thank you. the first votes in iowa are 19 days away. a poll out today puts ted cruz ahead of donald trump by just three points. marco bio was third. success in iowa always depends on getting to know the people there, and dean reynolds has this. >> reporter: burrowed within the wintry landscape of western iowa between moville and sac city is the town of holstein, population 1,300. it's where you'll find the midwest deli and grill, and
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the place was buzzing this week because a candidate for president was stopping by. are you responsible for the coffee and cookies? >> i am, i am. >> reporter: do you know how many are coming? >> not a clue. >> reporter: so, you don't know how many cookies... >> i don't know how many cookies to bake. >> reporter: there's a great frequency and urgency to such events in iowa now as the caucuses draw near. the candidates, camera crews and correspondents are all part of the traveling show. >> i realize that a lot of other states feel we get a little special treatment, but, you know, we don't have times square. we don't get the ball that comes down here. this is our little thing. >> reporter: the remaining republican candidates have spent between 11 and 68 days apiece in iowa over the last year. the three democrats have spent over 30 days each. anne petersen has seen many over the years. like who? >> i can't remember becae none of them won. >> it's ld! aren't you cold? >> reporter: it was two below when carly fiorina came in from the cold.
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about 75 people, including 22 kindergartners, braved the chill to take her measure. >> i know you iowans are tough, but it's really cold. >> reporter: mark leonard is a regular at anne's place. >> we have that privilege here in iowa, and, if you've not met the president of the united states, it's because you didn't really care to. it actually forces candidates to come here. >> reporter: holstein is heavily republican and energized. they know they may have a profound effect on u.s. history, and they relish the opportunity, as fleeting as it may be. >> you know, all you have to do is put forth a little effort and you can meet all of these people and it's really nice. >> reporter: and one of them-- >> could be. >> reporter: could be-- >> some day -- >> reporter: the president? >> yeah. >> reporter: there's a story here in iowa about an older gentleman who was asked if he'd made up his mind yet. he said he was leaning toward
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here's transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> reporter: in just the first three quarters of 2015, s. airlines made almost $18 billion in profit. during that time, they were on pace to pass 2014's record of $3.5 billion in baggage fees. their planes flew 85% full, and the steep drop in fuel prices have the carriers cashing in. passenger rita moss. >> everything from the seat to the baage being added on as extras, and the prices are still not decreasing. >> reporter: the very first thing anybody hearabout the airlines in january was, they raised fares. >> very modestly, d that was the first raising of fares in a very long time. >> reporte jean medina speaks for the airline industry. >> what's good news for consumers is when airlines are profitable, customers, communities and investors and employees win because they're reinvesting that money back into the business. >> reporter: the airline business is boom and bust. since 1990, the industry has
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2005, it lost nearly $29 billion. >> first class is getting more xurious, but in the back they're squeezing us tighter than ever. >> reporter: charles leocha is the chairman of the travelers united. >> the fact that oil has dropped to such a low level has really given them a windfall profit. and some of that you would think might be shared with consumers, either in the forms of lower fees or lower airfares or perhaps by giving us a couple of extra inches in the airplane. >> reporter: the airlines say airfares actually dropped by about 3% last year, but, scott, that pales in comparison to the dropopn oil prices. >> kris van cleave at washington's reagan international. kris, thanks very much. the rams are about to prove
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this time-out. for two decades, los angeles has been without an nfl team, but now it may get two. last night, nfl owners gave the st. louis rams the okay to move back to l.a., ananthe san diego chargers may join them. john blackstone's on the story. >> l.a. rams! >> reporter: some l.a. football fans have waited 21 years to get this happy. finally, nfl football and the rams are returning. >> it's more than just football. it's a history, it's a tradition. >> reporter: l.a. will get a new $2 billion stadium privately financed by rams owner stan kroenke. kroenke is a hero in l.a. but a traitor in st. louis. the city's mayor, francis slay.
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out of here. he wasn't going to stay no matter what we did. >> reporter: the mayor estimates st. louis will lose nearly $4 million a year in tax revenues alone, but the bitterness of losing a big sports franchise can last for decades. nearly 32 years ago, the baltimore colts loaded up moving vans in the middle of the night to take them to indianapolis, something many baltimore fans still haven't forgiven. in los angeles, naming rights for the new stadium could be worth $25 million a year. work is already under way at the site of the new stadium that local officials project will create 12,000 permanent and part-time jobs. john blackstone, cbs news, los
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millions of wannabe millionaires and now billionaires see their dreams drop in less than 60 seconds. sam arland will host tonight's drawing. >> i'm thinking about the possibility that i may completely transform someone's life. >> reporter: with more than $1 billion on the line, this place can feel a lot like fort knox. there's a red plastic lock with a bar code that must match a code kept only by an auditor. there are eight curity cameras, and tom delacenserie, the cretary of the florida lottery, has muscle agents on standby. what's a muscle employee? >> the multi-state lottery which is in charge of powerball. >> reporter: nobody with big muscles. >> nobody with big muscles, no. >> reporter: two of the four machines and even the lottery balls are selected randomly. >> they are x-rayed, they are weighed to make sure that they're all right, and then they're sealed into a case. >> reporter: as an added precaution, the handlers aren't allowed to touch them with their
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they have to have gloves on because we don't want any oils on the ball or any moisture on the ball that could affect the draw. >> reporter: at around 9:00 p.m. eastern time tonight, two powerbalmachines inside this vault will be selected at random. they will then be rolled into this drawing room where we're told 13 people bind that glass will be allowed to watch the drawing. ott, we're told within an hour of the powerball jackpot happening, we could know if there's a jackpot winner. >> and if there is no winner, the jackpot goes up to $2 billion. david begnaud, thanks very much. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us just a little bit later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new
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