like the california lottery. the chances of winning are the same, but to win, you have to play. i will be the last person to criticize the administration. this is what we need. a visionerary push from the president and vice president. it may be considered seriously. it it arrives as proposed, it is part of the game. but what a contrast. that is a big step at the federal level. we know parts of the a dvocacy program will be to make sure we show a set of projects ready to go in the bay area, to try to put the best face we can on the conflicts and issues about that, but make a clear link between high-speed rail and the caltrains service, for capital improvement. and finally, that we show a common front on california, those looking for high-speeld rail money. the state needs to claim a good portion of the moeny to -- money to generate this. the vice president made distinctions and i will circulate this to you. it was in terms of the types of corridors to be upgraded. he talked about true high-speed corridors, the trains could circulate at speeds of 230 mph. and others that would be

and then on the ceiling, there's california lottery stickers everywhere. if any one person draws all six numbers, the jackpot is $312 million. the winner has a choice of one payout of $198 million or a $12 million a year payout. you're looking at the co-owner. the last winner february 1st jackpot turned over 14 times to reach 312 million. if nobody wins, it will likely reach $390 million. the highest in history. i talked to a player today and says she only plays when it gets this large. why weren't you going to play? >> well, i didn't know it was a big pot this time. i usually play when it's a big pot. >> reporter: because you can't be bothered ered with 10, $15 million? >> no, i want the big stuff. >> reporter: and the drawing just opened. you can buy a ticket as of about ten minutes ago. and we talked to the person who bought the ticket. he said he only plays when it gets this large. we're going to talk to more people this morning and monitor the jackpot. it went up during the morning last time. >> all right. you got competition because we're buying ticke

the group's number 1 agenda item in sacramento is to get governor brown to assign a cabinet level position to keep california competitive. marie nailer, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the jackpot for the mega millions lottery has grown to $244 million. the odds of winning tonight's jackpot is one and 175 million. >>> coming up, how you could be the voice of one of america's most famous bird. >>> meteorologist rosemary orozco is tracking the storm's future will tell us which areas will be hit first. >>> if there's no tv nearby, you can watch bay area news at 7:00 on your computer. we are streaming live on >> a unique celebration for nasa's the shuttle program. more than two dozen workers at the kennedy space center stood on a chalk outline to form a human shadow. we are showing a time lapse video of the events. the first shuttle launch took place in 1981 and the final shuttle launch will take place in late june. >>> meteorologist rosemary orozco is here to talk to us about a lot of rain hitting is right now. >> it was a pretty start to the day. definitely a big change already. the winds are increasing as well. it's take a look at what is going on. storm tracker showing you the lightning that is widespread a

lottery. as a former businessman and i don't call recovering businessman because i hope to never forget the lessons i learned in business, if you came to the state of california and said, we'll give you, where it was $60 million or $600 million, but you got to take a small amount that have and put it out for lotteries and you ask the voters in california would they take it, you'd get the same 74%, 80% absolute approval. if it was absolutely new money they would. but if you went to a businessman, if you went to somebody who had to understand how to make a dollar go further, there's no question what you would find. you'd find, let's do the math. i spend between $17,000 and $28,000 on each student. $7,500 in expanding these students -- opportunity scholarships, using -- if they were to use their own in-district money, for every time they hand out $7,500 they would relieve themselves of over $17,000. it means that every student who remains would have more dollars. the fact is it's a self-inflicted wound for the district of columbia not just to take all of this money, but to take additional money because every student who exits is an opportunity to have more for t