and high-fiving the manager and our abc's lauren lyster rushed to good morning. >> reporter: good morning, reena and kendis. someone who shopped at this southern california 7-eleven is 1 in 92 million this morning, the odds of winning the nearly $1.6 billion jackpot and california lottery officials say a winning ticket was sold here. >> can you believe it, america? a world record jackpot. it is coming to you right now. >> it was the more than billion dollar moment people across the u.s. were waiting for. >> all right, now for your winning powerball number, good luck to you. it is the number 10 tonight. >> reporter: and that moment undoubtedly changing the life of the lucky powerball player who bought one of the winning tickets here at this chino hills 7-eleven crowds showing up last night after it was revealed. [ cheers and applause ] >> happy and very excited. >> reporter: it's almost like we won even though we didn't >> reporter: call it a sign of powerball fever sweeping the nation. tickets ahead of the drawing selling at a frenetic pace of 1.3 $1.3 million a minute during rush

, as well. abc's lauren lyster has more. >> your winning powerball number -- >> reporter: the powerball grand prize climbing to $1.4 billion monday. after no one matched all six numbers to score saturday's $949 million prize. there were some million dollar winners, though, someone in maz. >> hopefully it's one of our regulars. >> reporter: in suffolk, virginia, too. >> maybe me. i come here all the time. >> reporter: others still thinking about how they'd spend the big winnings. >> pay off bills. live very comfortably for the rest of my life. >> toss the money around. you can't spend it all. >> reporter: it turns out winning a stash of megalottery cash can be squandered with stunning speed. 70% of people who hit it big lose big within just a few years. in 292 million, yes, you're still more likely to get attacked by a shark or struck by lightning but here's a virginia man whose car was struck by lightning and who's playing powerball with a message of hope. >> the reality is, people do get hit by lightning. they do get by sharks. all that sort of thing so it is possible to be t

from colorado as a possible homicide. lauren mann had been working in vienna as an au pair. her body found in her apartment. police say no weapons were found mystery, reports say her body was found in total darkness because all the lights in her apartment had been burned out. >>> well, here at home president obama set to take aim at what vice president joe biden called a moonshot to cure cancer. mr. obama about sign a presidential memorandum creating a task force on cancer appointing 3w50id appoint ing biden no lead the panel. he wants to sdid this. >>> it spawned a tornado and the twister tossed around cars and trucks, knocked down trees and damaged some rooftops there. at least one person was injured. the national weather service says the twister had winds estimated at 100 miles an hour. let's look at the radar, shall we? over south florida a thick line of storms, once again, continuing to rake across that area. some storms could be severe myers, as well as miami and might include some damaging winds and even a threat for a few weak tornadoes. >>> well, crews from the nfl are worki

first place. >>> good morning. i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm lauren lyster. our top story it was a tense but uneventful new year around the world. people turned out, not letting threats ruin their celebration. >> reporter: take a look at these live pictures of new york's times square. just hours ago, it was packed with a million revellers and 6,000 police officers. >> three, two, one -- happy new year! >> it's finally 2016. and people around the world are ringing in the new year with those three familiar worlds. >> all: happy new year! >> from a jam-packed times square in new york all of the colorful fireworks displays painted the night sky. new zealand was the first, with australia nipping at its heel. lighting up the famous sydney harbor. celebrations from hong kong to tokyo illuminating the night sky. in dubai, even with a hotel fire raging nearby, the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa, 1.6 tons of fireworks carried on their display as scheduled. all across the globe millions crowded historic landmarks just to get a glimpse of the fireworks. cities around the world are

austria investigating the death of a woman from colorado as a possible homicide. -year-old lauren mann had been working in vienna as an au pair, her body found in her apartment. police say no weapons were found at the scene, and deepening this mystery, reports say her body was found in total darkness because all the lights in her apartment had been burned out. >>> well, here at home president obama set to take aim at what vice president joe biden called a moonshot to cure cancer. mr. obama will sign a presidential memorandum today creating a white house task force on cancer appointing biden to lead the panel. ofof the uni address earlier this month to initiate a governmentwide push to cure the disease similar to the efforts in the 1960s to send a man to the moon. >>> parts of south florida cleaning up today. from a series of severe storms that spawned even a tornado. the twister tossed around cars and trucks, knocked down trees and damaged some rooftops there. at least one person was injured. the national weather service says the twister had winds estimated at 100 miles an hour. let's