$1.2 billion Powerball jackpot up for grabs
(4 Oct 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Pineville, North Carolina - 4 October 2023 1. Zoom of Powerball sign 2. Wide of customer buying lottery tickets 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gale Groseclose, North Carolina resident: "What goes through my head is I don't even need all that. I just want a piece of it. And just 1 million would do. But yeah, that's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. I could do a lot of good to help people and be great for me and retirement for my family. And I would use it to help my family and friends and other other good charitable causes.” 4. Wide of Gale Groseclose buying lottery tickets 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gale Groseclose, North Carolina resident: "I don't usually do this on a regular basis, but like I said, when it gets to be, what is it? I don't even know what over $1 billion dollars. That's it's just something exciting. It's exciting. To think that you, if you don't play, you know you're not going to win. So that's my that's my thinking.” 6. Wide of customers picking lottery numbers 7. Zoom of Bruce Roddey buying a lottery ticket 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Roddey, North Carolina resident: “I pick these same numbers every day. Every day for the last ten years, 20 years. Same numbers. Never change of them. Yeah, the 2, 10 and the 12 came. But I did not win nothing. That was a couple weeks ago.” 9. Wide of Eric Warner buying a lottery ticket 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Warner, North Carolina resident: “If I had $1.5 billion, I'm going straight to Porsche. It's the first thing I'm doing. Probably buy a couple of properties, try and invest it all, and then give back to the community as much as I can. Nothing really too crazy.” 11. Wide of Eric Warner showing his lottery ticket 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Warner, North Carolina resident: “It's something that I run into and maybe I'm feeling lucky, then I'll go ahead and pick up a ticket and just kind of hope for the best. If not, it's okay. It's just a couple of hours. Always comes back in some way, shape or form.” 13. Mid of clerk selling tickets STORYLINE: A $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot will again be up for grabs after an 11-week stretch without a big winner but no matter how large the prize grows the odds stay the same — and they’re terrible. It’s those odds of 1 in 292.2 million that make the jackpot so hard to win and that result in such giant prizes for the lucky player or players who manage to pick the game’s six winning numbers. The Powerball jackpot on the line Wednesday night is the world’s seventh-largest lottery prize. In most states, Powerball tickets cost $2 and buyers can chose their own numbers and single Powerball or leave that task to a computer. North Carolina’s state-run lottery has for the first time exceeded $1 billion in annual net earnings, buoyed by record sales credited in part to interest in enormous multistate jackpot drawings, officials said Wednesday. AP Video shot by Erik Verduzco =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: [email protected]. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
