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The #MegaMillions Jackpot for Friday, October 19, 2018 will be $970 MILLION!!! #WOW #calottery #jackpot #almostabillion
— California Lottery (@calottery) October 18, 2018
Lotto fever is hitting the Bay Area especially hard after a San Francisco Safeway employee won nearly two million dollars in Tuesday's drawing.
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The bakery clerk matched five of the six numbers, winning $1.9 million.
The next big drawing is Friday. The winner could walk away with nearly a billion dollars.
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