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. >> new california lottery game might help. it appears to be the hottest ticket in the state these days which can only spell success for public schools. at capitol l reports lottery is on a pace to set a record. >> we are on a record pace. >>reporter: california lottery tickets are hot these days. so hot the state is on pace to set a record by the end of the fiscal year in june. 4 billion dollars in sales. highest ever in its 26 year history. brenda and melanie do their part to help. >> hope of maybe i'll hit a good one. at this point 500 dollars is really good one. >>reporter: lottery officials credit spic to new scratcher game that began last fall and all 36 million tickets printed will likely sell out by the end of the month. >> it's really all about the scratcher game. people love our new scratcher tickets. wave new 10 dollar ticket on the market that is selling unbelievably well and that is really the difference. >>reporter: but is it the new game or are the poor feeling desperate. last year before the new scratcher sales

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. >> and the hottest thing in california now may be the lottery on track to hit a record high $4 billion in sales this year. officials credit the spike to a scratchers game that began in the fall. all 36 million tickets are expected to sell out. 30 million more are on order but one psychologist warns it's not how many people who are playing the game, but it's who is playing. >> when people feel like they have less security they spent more money on lottery tickets. the people with the least amount of opinion are the most likely to increase spending in a bad economy. >> and officials say the games are played by californians across the board. >> and there are navy sailors will hit the high seas in a ship named after gabrielle giffords. it's is among the most versatile and can operate in shallower waters. giffords resigned after being critically wounded in an attack that killed six people in tucson. >> a question of religious freedom versus health care rights of women. a birth control compromise for catholic employer autos there is a blitz of credit card offers. ahead, one woman's preapprove

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and one of these ways is the california solar initiative, that wonderful law that we started at the beginning of the year. the incentives are of two kinds. if you win the lottery, you can either take an upfront payment or you can take an ongoing payment for x number of years. the same thing applies here. you can take what's called an epbb which is one of the world's great ack named called expected performance-based buydown which is a mouthful for rebate. the payment is by watt of capacity. so that's what you're going to get right up front to knock down the cost. if it was $25,000 or $30,000, that's a lot, but you get something knocked off. a lot of time the installers, the people that you deal with, the one stop shop that does the whole thing for you will carry the rebate for you. not all, but most of them do. so you don't even have to finance that and wait a few months to get it back from the state. they incur that floating finance charge for you. it's a real nice service and it lowers the cost right up front. so there is another incentive, two ways of lowering the cost. one is that rebate payment that i talked about with the state. this is from the federal g