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Now california will become the 43rd powerball state, thanks to a vote yesterday by the lottery commission. californians can buy their tickets in april. rob, sunny. >> april 8th. to be exact. thank you, brandi. how many tens of millions live in california. now the jackpots will get even bigger with california jumping in. >> why not be a powerball state? >> think about the stat. how crazy people got. at the height of the frenzy day before, day of the drawing, they were selling 130,000 tickets a minute out there. >> i bought some. i bought some. did you buy any? >> who couldn't? >> you had to. yo...

Are rejoicing. abc's karen travers has all of the details. >> the voting has been completed. >> reporter: more than 2/3 of the general assembly voted to recognize a palestinian state, prompting applause at the united nations. in gaza, the west bank. it also generated hugs in the unfurling of the palestinian flag in the u.n. chamber, but got very little reaction from the israeli delegation. it grants the palestinians nonmember, nonvoting observer status at the u.n. >> the united nations general assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the state of palestine. ...

Today at the u.n.? >> the israeli reaction to the vote which is scheduled for thursday, martha is essentially one of resignation. there is not a lot of drum ma or uncertainty about the out cox the vote. israel and much of the world fully expects that the palestinian bid for a known observer status to pass overwhelmingly at the united nation. israel says it rejects the notion that the pal steup palestinians are acting eu unilaterally. israel has to be tkaeufl tha to to be careful that it doesn't impose sanctions or things that are damaging to mahmoud abbas. it could lead to a strengthening of h...

Way a strong leader in the west bank in terms of keeping his leadership position. by the way, we'll see on thursday when he goes to the united nations to try to win support for his application for observer status, nonmember observer status at the u.n. the same way hamas scored a victory among palestinians by fighting israel. that will be an equivalent kind of victory for abu mazen if the u.n. votes in the palestinians' favor. all signs as you know well, they will. >> in fact, the french joined the supporters of that and, of course, the u.s. will either abstain or figure some other way to not t...

That secretary of state hillary clinton did raise with president mahmoud abbas the issue that the palestinians have been planning to raise at the united nations on november 28th, the issue of a palestinian state with observer status. that really is the background to this fighting. the palestinians were going to take the issue of statehood to the u.n. on november 28th. the secretary of state asking mahmoud abbas not to do so. jenna: secretary clinton certainly hard at work. we were just hearing that thousands of marines and sailors are now being delayed from coming home for the holidays because...