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>> they recently hit their second jackpot and are likely to start going for a third any day now. can we give them money for us. abcs ron claiborne has the details. >> reporter: these are some very lucky women. part of a group of 16 school workers a whole lot richer after winning the california lottery. >> i was in shock. >> its exciting. >> exciting. >> shocked. >> reporter: look familiar, they should. here they are just 11 months ago once again looking very happy after just winning the californ...

>> massive demonstrations at the state capital in madison. they delayed a vote on the plan. they are working on removing bargaining rights for public workers. he wants state, local and school workers to pay half their pensions and 12% of health care premiums. >> certainly the thousands of people here and outside the capital have every right to be heard. i want to make sure, not for one moment are their voices drowning out the voices of the millions of taxpayers across the state of wisconsin. as ...

Several state senators fled the state rather than vote on a budget plan being watched by just about every other state in the country. there have been huge demonstrations at the state capitol in madison. the absence of the democratic senators is delaying a vote on governor scott walkers budget plan. the governor wants to remove most collective bargaining rights for most public workers. walker says state, local, and school workers should pay 6% of their health care premiums. passions run deep on b...

Mississippi. authorities say the wreck sent at least 10 students to the hospital. the buses colliding with a tractor-trailer in calhoun county. among the dead, the big rigs driver and two school workers. a fire chief says the 18 wheeler sideswiped one bus and then hit the second one head on. minnesota. a fire raging through an apartment complex in bloomington. a police commander says adults dropped at least five kids from the windows of two apartments. >> me, my wife, my daughter, and my nephew ...

That left 13 people dead and now a subpoena from information from the obama administration. well detail it and explain what lawmakers would like to know now. plus, the laptop spying case. remember how school workers were accused of using web cams on school-issued computers to take a few photos of kids? it wasnt a few photos. were now talking tens of thousands of photos. and there is outrage tonight. the details straight away. is a luxury that we dont have anymore. the most obvious, common sense ...

The head of the national highway traffic safety commission is among those set to testify. congress is considering several steps aimed at improving road safety. and two i.t. school workers have been placed on leave while an fbi investigation into a webcam controversy continues. a suburban philadelphia school district secretly turned on webcams on students school-issued laptops. the district says the webcams were activated in a search for missing computers. one student is suing the school system...

Switching gears, floridas governor rick scott signed the states a most aggressive action on gun control in decades into law. the new law raises the minimum purees chasing age for a gun to 21 years old. it imposes a three-day waiting period for new gun purchases and allows some school workers to carry guns and bans bump stocks. a little over an hour after the the bill was signed into law, as you can imagine, the nra filed a lawsuit against florida. the nra claims that the laws minimum purchasing ...

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Win for city, county and school workers. what does the ruling mean for the union movement as a whole? >> there was concern that this could be a press departmecedent states. theyre out of cash and very reluctant to raise taxes, so as a result, many voters are hoping that instead public workers will bear the brunt of a lot of the cuts that are needed to balance those budgets. so the concern was that maybe this happening in wisconsin and will spread to other states. but no take looks less likely. >...

>> also today some big news from wisconsin. a judge there has struck down much of the state law championed by governor scott walker that virtually ended collective bargaining rights for most public work is in that state. the law remains largely in effect for city worker hes, but not for city, county and school workers. governor walker says the state will be appealing that decision. we will have more on these stories over the next three hours. thats right. three hours. with mitt romney off the ca...