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If it keeps rolling over until friday it could hit a billion dollars. in october, mega millions changed the game, increasing the number of white balls from 56 to 75. decreasing the number of mega balls from 46 to 15. so the odds went from 1 in 176 million to win to 1 in 259 million to win. youre wondering how the odds stack up, check it out. your odds of being struck by lightning, 1 in 775,000. being attacked by a shark, 1 in 11.5 million. con sec the tif holes in one, 1 in 156 million. just ima...

Tomorrow it could be the largest in history. surpassing $656 million. if it keeps rolling over until friday it could hit a billion dollars. in october, mega millions changed the game, increasing the number of white balls from 56 to 75. decreasing the number of mega balls from 46 to 15. so the odds went from 1 in 176 million to win to 1 in 259 million to win. youre wondering how the odds stack up, check it out. your odds of being struck by lightning, 1 in 775,000. being attacked by a shark, 1 in ...

Say it with milk-bone. from steve kings bird dog to ted cruzs poppycock. here are todays top lines. tally ho. >> im really pleased to welcome senator ted cruz here. >> i feel like a bird dog on opening day. >> this is one of the richest things i get to do in this life. >> i always say thats like a bird dog on opening day. >> there is nothing more eager than a bird dog on opening day, except maybe you and me. >> what are you looking forward to most with the hunt? and you said that youve never h...

Other countries because starbucks sources its coffee beans locally, so no freight charges are required and the operating costs are much lower. >> reporter: this is the way the cups stack up. whether its new york, london, sao paolo are a beijing. "p," "p," "p," some say, purchasing power parity. and a dollar here may not buy us as much here as somewhere else, well, maybe not. but the principle remains, enjoy your coffee. richard quest, cnn, new york. >> all right. hey, this just in in the sport...

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How did you feel about the fact that your kit had been sitting on the shelf for so many years? >> they have just let them stack up and stack up and stack up, and thats just unacceptable. >> reporter: you heard right. carol wasnt the only one. years earlier, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits, and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> theyre vital to our investigations,...

Never been processed. how did you feel about the fact that your kit had been sitting on the shelf for so many years? >> they have just let them stack up and stack up and stack up, and thats just unacceptable. >> reporter: you heard right. carol wasnt the only one. years earlier, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits, and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> theyre vital ...

Up, stack up, and stack up. thats just unacceptable. >> reporter: you heard right. carol wasnt the only one. years earlier, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> theyre vital to our investigations, no question about that. >> reporter: sergeant welsh turned to the team here at the southwestern institute of forensic science. he aske...

Threatened me that he would kill me. >> reporter: when it was over, carol drove herself to the hospital, where doctors took swabs from her skin, hairs and fibers from her clothes. all part of whats called a rape kit. it was humiliating but carol endured it because she thought the material collected would help police catch her attacker. more than two decades later, carols rapist still hadnt been identified. but a routine call in 2008 to check in on the case revealed something shocking. carols att...

Year and the threats that are being posed to the united states from all over the world, where does this stack up in the priority? and how do we strategize appropriately? >> well, in terms of of boots on the ground, jenna, its number one. remember, this is where the war on terror started. the taliban is still an active force, they still have enclaves in waziristan and pakistan. right next door is iran who doesnt seek to do us any favors. so if theres any one place where the united states can get ...