this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we often cover history around here and history was made today-- a world record jackpot. at least $640 million in the megamillions lottery. the odds of getting all six numbers numbers right are long. 1-176 million. today in new york state three million tickets were sold every hour and the same type of thing is happening in 41 other states. have a look at the lines in new york and in california this evening. the drawing is just a few hours away. john blackstone is at a johnstand in los angeles. john? >> reporter: hi, scott. well, that $640 million has brought a steady stream of buyers into buyers into this lottery ticket shop in los angeles. here they've sold more than 6,000 tickets today alone and across the across the country today americans have spent about $100 million million buying lottery tickets. a third of those tickets have been bought here in california. >> thank you, good luck. >> reporter: as the jackpot goads up, the lines get longer and people like danielle evans from orange county, california, decide it's time to jump in. >> it's the largest one in the world. how can you not play? and it's so much and it's so much fun because serve so excited about it and everybody's talking about what they would do if they won. >> reporter: crowds from nevada-- one of eight states that that don't participate in megamillions-- have been crossing into california, waiting for hours to get in on the the action. the jackpot has been growing since the end of january. the last time there was a megamillions winner. when the total passed half a billion dollars, even those who never buy tickets started buying says lottery official russ lopez. >> it was like tens of millions of dollars then it was a hundred million dollars and before you know it it got so high that's when everybody started taking notice and buying tickets. >> reporter: but with odds of 1-176 million, you're likely to be be attacked by a shark or even be elected president. statistics expert mike orkin knows all that but can't resist this time. >> with the jackpot this high i'm going to buy a ticket. >> reporter: he does know of one way to beat the odds-- buy 176 million tickets and fill in every possible combination. but even that has a catch. >> if you start filling out tickets at the rate of three per minute 24 hours a day it will take you 110 years to fill out all the 176 million ticket combinations. >> reporter: so there's no sure sure thing, but there's one thing. with so many people buying so many tickets it does increase the odds that somebody will hit all the numbers when the drawing is is made at 11:00 tonight eastern. scott? >> pelley: one man said today "i know i'm not going to win but it gives me three days to dr dream." john, thanks very much. we were wondering today what happens to all that ticket revenue once the winners are paid, so we asked chief investigative correspondent ar armen keteyian to show us. >> reporter: in 2011, more americans played the americans played the lottery than regularly attended church, bringing in $56 billion last year alone. re revenue from that pie is divided in three ways: about 60% goes to prize winners, 15% to retailers, marketing and marketing and operations, with 25%-- or 25%-- or about $14 billion-- going back to the states for government services. duke economics professor charles clotfelter is the author of a book on state lotteries in america. >> it's very hard to say that these lottery these lottery dollars really make a difference. >> reporter: overall, 27 states earmark some or all lottery revenue for education. in colorado, the dollars go to environmental protection. in pennsylvania senior citizens programs. in kansas, some of the money pays for juvenile detention facilities. >> a dollar can go a long way. >> reporter: many states bought into the lottery based upon the belief they were adding more and more money for education. >> the real winner is oklahoma education. >> reporter: but a 2007 cbs news investigation discovered that was little more than a teth. that state lotteries covered only a fraction of state education spending. for example, in california last year, just year, just 1% of that state's $53 billion budget for k-12 education came from lottery funds. >> the net effect of, say, ea earmarked education lottery revenue on education expenditures is close to zero. >> reporter: the other big winner here will be the i.r.s., scott. the federal tax alone on a lump sum payment in the neighborhood of $100 million. >> pelley: armen, thank you. so what happens to the folks who win the lottery? our research department tells us that nine out of ten burn through through their winnings in five years. computer hackers appear to have hit an illegal jackpot. mastercard and visa revealed today that customer data have been stolen. they won't say how many customers, but anthony mason has more. >> reporter: the secret service is investigating the credit card security breach. mastercard and visa-- which combined have nearly 410 million cards issued-- said their own systems had not been compromised but pointed the finger at a third party. atlanta-ba atlanta-based global payments, a payment processing service, in a statement today acknowledged unauthorized access into a portion of its processing syst system. in early march, 2012 the company determined card data may have been accessed. but global payments did not say how many accounts might be vulnerable or how they were hacked. processors like global payments are the middlemen between retailers and the banks and sometimes their security systems are not as sophisticated. attacks are happening more frequently, says john ulzheimer of of www.smartcredit.com, because the payments are so big. >> they can try to buy merchandise online or they can take that information and just turn right around and resell it on the black market without having to co having to commit any sort of fraudulent activity other than the theft of the data to begin wi with. >> reporter: banks including chase, wells fargo, citibank and capital one all acknowledge being notified of the potential breach. the law limits a card holder's liability for fraudulent use of a card to $50. but with a debit card, if you don't notify the bank of fraudulent use within two business days liability can be as high as $500. scott? >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. now how is this for measuring the isolation of a country? there are only three count rise on earth that don't have coca-cola: cuba, north korea, and burma in southeast asia. but on sunday after five decades of military rule burma will vote in what are promised to be free elections. one candidate running for parliament is a woman who risked her life for freedom. seth doane was among those who were allowed to visit her today in rangoon. >> reporter: as they have for 2,000 years, this morning the faithful practiced ancient rituals. at burma's holiest buddhist temple. shwedegon pagoda seems locked in time, much like burma itself. but millions of people here have new hope new hope because of a 66-year-old wisp of a woman, aung san suu kyi. this nobel peace prize winner is running far seat in sunday's buy election. it's seen as a crucial test of the country's democratic reforms. she figured on a scale of 1-10 her country has a long way to go. >> we're trying to get to one. (laughter) >> reporter: this morning, kyi faced the world's media in a green tent in the garden of her ho home. it was here she spent 15 years under house arrest, a prisoner of the military government she opposed. >> it is the rising political awareness of our people which we regard as our greatest triumph. >> reporter: if she wins this sunday, it would give her a voice in government for the first time. her party won in a landslide victory in 1990 but it was never allowed to take power and hasn't campaigned since. these days its headquarters is bustling. it's the first election 30-year-old campaign worker ah-ah-nin has campaigned in. >> i feel happy and proud. >> reporter: why proud? >> because we are fighting for our rights and democracy. >> reporter: an icon worldwide, aung san suu kyi is almost an industry here with her party's pa a nail ya among the hottest hottest souvenirs. it's a big change. a little over a year ago any mention of aung san suu kyi or her party was only in whispers. your image is everywhere across this this country now. with your illness earlier this week, some question could this movement, could this party survive without you. >> the surge of public support has has gone up since i was taken ill, so i think this country can very very well survive without me. i've found that the people have the right spirit to survive. they have the guts and they have the commitment. >> pelley: seth doane is joining us now in burma. seth, i wonder, after 50 years of military rule, how do people there feel about voting? >> reporter: well, they are very excited. even in that campaign headquarters, and people working on a campaign like the woman you met in the piece, she can not actually vote. there is not someone standing for election in a district in which she lives. but she says aung san suu kyi is my hero and i would do anything to help this party. just on the streets you can hear parades going by, people on loudspeakers, the campaign is definitely in full swing. >> pelley: seth, thank you very much. we learned today why it took ten years to get osama bin laden. turns out he was moving around with a host of wives and apparently a lot of help from friends in pakistan. bob orr found out what we never knew in a pakistani police report. >> reporter: when osama bin laden fled the u.s. invasion of y heanistan in 2001 officials say he spent a year hiding in the rugged mountains near the pakistan border. but the decade between his escape and his killing by u.s. navy seals has always been a blank page. now this pakistani police report says bin laden's youngest wife, amall amall achmed abdul fateh say she and the al qaeda leaders spent nine years moving among safe houses scattered across pakistan. during those years she gave birth to four of bin laden's children. after the 9/11 attacks, fateh briefly split from bin laden and fled with their infant daughter to pakistan. for nearly nine months she and the baby took refuge in the teeming city of karachi. fateh says she then reunited with bin laden in 2002 in peshawar and that's when their series of moves began. they moved to swat and spent eight or nine months splitting their time in two houses. from there, the bin ladens tracked to haripur, a small town near the near the capital of islamabad. for two years they rented this four bedroom two story villa. then in mid-2005 they moved to their last hiding place in nearby nearby abbottabad. all of the moves, fateh told police, were coordinated by two pashtun brothers who lived with the family. one of them was the al qaeda currier whose actions ultimately led u.s. intelligence to bin laden's final lair. now, the wife's story is plausible but, scott, it leaves the key question here unanswered and that is how could the world's most notorious terrorist move so often over such a wide area without detection by pakistani intelligence or security officials? >> pelley: bob, thanks. more news ahead. plus steve hartman meets a teenage nuclear scientist "on the road," when the "cbs evening news" continues. been active al. that's why i'm excited about reclast. it's the once-a-year iv osteoporosis treatment. reclast helps to restrengthen my bones to help make them resistant to fracture. and with reclast, well, no other osteoporosis treatment is approved to help protect in more places: hips, spine, even other bones. 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