"Now you know by selling the winning ticket there's also prize money for you," CNN's Martin Savidge told Young Soo Lee, the owner of the Gateway newsstand in Buckhead, Ga., just north of Atlanta.
"I know, but I don't know how much," she replied. "Long time ago, I heard it's $25,000."
"Let me tell you, it's a lot more than $25,000," Savidge replied. "It's about $1 million that you get."
"Really?" she gasped, clutching her chest. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! I never had so much money!"
Only one problem: she won't be getting $1 million. In fact, she won't be getting anything for selling the winning ticket.
While a store owner in California who sold the other winning ticket will be getting a $1 million bonus, Georgia rules aren't so generous.
Georgia lottery rules provide no retailer payout, spokeswoman Tandi Reddick said. Retailers get a flat 6 percent commission on the sales of the $1 tickets themselves, but no bonus for a winning ticket, she said.
Lee told NBC that she was “a little mad” after learning that she wasn’t getting the bonus.
Lottery officials say the other winning ticket was sold at Jenny's Gift Shop in San Jose, Calif., whose owner, Thuy Nguyen, a 37-year-old Vietnamese man and father of three, bought the store four months ago. Per California rules, Nguyen will receive a $1 million bonus.
Lee told NBC that she was “a little mad” after learning that she wasn’t getting the bonus.
Lottery officials say the other winning ticket was sold at Jenny's Gift Shop in San Jose, Calif., whose owner, Thuy Nguyen, a 37-year-old Vietnamese man and father of three, bought the store four months ago. Per California rules, Nguyen will receive a $1 million bonus.
Savage also told Romney that he had won, Obama that he was white, Harry Reid that he was scheduled to receive a "personality transplant," Nancy Pelosi that her facelift .... worked, and told weatherman Herman Wintermute that the country would get no snow, in December, 2913.
