New this mornini morningif youre watching this its time to get up for work you did not win a billion dollars. Dollars. But lottery Officials Say three very lucky people will be spliting the onepoint6 billion dollar prize. Jackpot Winning Tickets were sold in california, tennessee and florida. Florida. The news caused celebration at this 7eleven in chino hills, california, where one of the tickets was purchased. That store will earar 1million bucks for selling the ticket. Right now, its unknown if there were any other Winning Tickets. If no one wouldve won last nights drawing, lottery Officials Say the next jackpot wouldve soared to 2billioiodollars. Here in iowa, no one matched all six numbers, but according to the iowa lottery, one person matched five, netting them 2Million Dollars with a power play option. Option. Iowa lottery players broke sales records trying to win that billion dollar prize. Prize. And that means more money coming back to iowans. 25 percent of ticket sales the maj
Percent of ticket sales goes to state causes. The majority of that goes to the states neral fund. The remainder goes to the Vision Iowa Program to help state tourism. Twopointfive Million Dollars goes to help the Iowa Veterans trust fund. I have e to approve applications for the Veterans Trust fund, which can be used to help veterans who are under 200 percent Poverty Level and under 15,000 in assets assetsby t t way, if there isnt a winner tonight, the jackpot for saturdays nights drawing could be close to cbs 2 news ten at ten continues now with more of the corridors top stories. Stories. Some area schools say governor branstads proposed boost in education ending isnt enough. Enough. During his condition of the state address, the governor proposed a twopoint45percent increase in funding next school year. Clear creek amana School Board President eve swenka tells cbs 2 news they need four percent just to keep up with the governor has made it clear to critics in recent yrs that hes conce
Called for iowa to go above that, but so far, it has not earned enough support to pass. Pass. In t t antime, leaders in Johnson County have authorized a new minimum wage. Right now, it stands at 820 an hour and will climb over the next sever months monthsbefore settling at 1010 an hour next year. Now, another corridor county is looking at following suit. Fox 28 News Reporter Marissa Scott has more on the debate debatenow spreing to linn county. County. If the skills set matches it, we dont have any problem with that. That one cupcake place owner John Pinkerton says he already pays his employees more, based on their age and experience. And down the river at batas restaurantntowner joel kane agreeslinn county should raise the minimum wage. One thing that it doesit gives people more incentive kane says when owners invest in their employees, employee turnover is down and they dont have to work two jobs to pay the bills. As cost of living tends to go up, its kind of one of those things you
This will be a first for the both of us. Its the morning that kicks off oscar madness. Surprise. Whos in the spotlight for oscar gold from carol to creed to Straight Outta Compton. And could the force be with star wars . Youll find out live, the Oscar Nominations right here on gma. Godspeed, good luck. Here we go. Smile we do say good morning, america. A lot of spies in california this morning. Not just for the Oscar Nominations. One of the three Powerball Jackpot winners from the golden state, oh, they were celebrating last night. They sure were. If you havent checked your ticket yet, 4, 8, 19, 27, 34 and the powerball is 10. Did you say 10 . The powerball is 1010 i got it. Congratulations. 4 bucks. It pays for the ticket. Came for the ticket. Its not that massive 1. 5 billion which was split among winners in chino hills, california, munford, tennessee and melbourne beach, florida. Youre looking live at the 7elelen in chino hills. Oh, good. They left some time ago. They were going nut
Knowing what they want, so i have to kind of explain it to them as weve got more people coming in, just out of the woodwork, so you have to tell them about whats going on. With each 2 dollar ticket sold the seller gets 12 cents. That can really add up if you sell thousands upon thousands of tickets like they do at this hyvee in iowa city, or at a gas station along a busy road. While they may not sell that many tickets at places like this True Value Hardware store in North Liberty. They do still benefit from as official swelling powerballll jackpot. People come in and are fired up about, they always say if i win ill take care of the store, and ill take care of you. And while customers may come in to buy a powerball at the true value or down at the hyvee they often pick Something Else up along the way. Aa date before the drawing it seems like we get a flow of traffic into the store just because its getting to that deadline time, so very good the big drawing is tonight. So far lottery Off