Powerball jackpot soars to $1.7 billion

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00:00If you are still looking for the perfect Christmas gift, have you considered Powerball tickets?

00:06Nothing says ho ho ho holiday cheer like a lump sum or annuity. If you haven't been following

00:12this drama, there has not been a jackpot winner in the multi-state lottery since September 6th.

00:18That is 46 drawings with no winner, a new record losing streak. The result for tonight's drawing,

00:26yes, they will still be drawing numbers on Christmas Eve, is the fourth largest jackpot

00:30in the lotto's history, over $1.7 billion with a B dollars. That would make the winner roughly the

00:382,500th richest person on earth. Not bad among 8.2 billion people. But as we all know, the odds of

00:47winning are bleak, one in 292 million. It is more likely that you get eaten by a shark,

00:55eaten, the whole kit and caboodle, not just bitten, or killed by a vending machine, and vastly more

01:02likely that you get struck by lightning, which is kind of the gold standard for things that are

01:06unlikely to happen.