those who can least afford it. a bankrate.com a study found that households making less than $30,000 a year spent $412 of it on the lottery. four times what the wealthiest household spends. bret: right on the street, it looks like the line is they are. thank you. up next are predictions of a blue wave at the midterms drying up. we look at what early voting shows us so far. first, beyond our borders. a tanker at an alcohol factory in mexico exploded yesterday, one person was injured in more than 2,000 people were forced to evacuate from their homes as flames shot into the sky. clouds of black smoke fall that fireball. china has opened the world s longest sea crossing bridge, the 34-mile structure links hong kong to the mainland. the $20 billion bridge took almost a decade to build, major delays and cost overruns. it includes an undersea tunnel