Powerball jackpot grows to record $425 million

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-- about the powerball jackpot it's up to a whopping 425.

Million dollars.

And it's growing as another week goes by without a winner and a claimant is live in midtown Manhattan Times Square to be -- to try and get a ticket.

Where everyone's -- they get the tickets as you can get almost half a billion.

Dollars can you imagine of one person one that anyone JT and do they have enough zeros on an AT -- to do.

A half a billion dollars.

I can imagine as I know exactly what I would do with the Clinton.

Here's and I hate that I gets a ticket yet.

It -- and now I don't have my -- yet -- but I can tell you and it is up to 425.

Million dollars that area.

That jackpot could be growing even higher than that because typically.

-- four record -- sales will really increase and -- -- that few days leading up to it out here in the Big Apple of course across the country the holidays are in full swing and shoppers are thinking about what they could win if they hit it day.

I'm not say I would take that money and lives.

John what did I do something for humanity as -- -- people living out so publicly soften up ovals.

Subsidiary of powerball -- to win -- jackpot is one in over 175.

Million.

To win a million bucks this one in five million in the overall odds of winning a prize or about one in 32.

While many dreamers wanna buy -- travel the world -- -- sports -- more fund research to cure cancer.

Others are hoping to just make ends meet they get back in the black.

I think that everybody I know this struggle and I mean come on a lot of staircase here nobody -- -- -- anymore there.

Is that we like post is -- now so that's that many more people that don't have jobs I don't know who Dominic -- -- -- my family's not gonna hurt no more none out.

-- -- -- the keys so how would you go.

Uncle Sam and how much do you actually get to keep the board's analysis of the lump sum from the August 2012 win at 320 million dollars the tax bill on that bad boy it would have been 84 million dollars.

And he could be several million dollars higher as this jackpot.

Grows more and more and more.

The previous powerball jackpot was 365.

Million dollars remembered.

The winners of that ConAgra food workers in Lincoln Nebraska had happened back in the app that got back to you.

I thank them.

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