TV news employee Jacki Wells Cisneros won big last weekend. The Los Angeles TV station employee was going through her usual morning routine when she learned that the winning lottery ticket had been purchased at the Pico Rivera Hawaiian restaurant. Quickly remembering that her husband had purchased a ticket there she phoned home and had him check their numbers.

"My hand was shaking the phone, I went to hang up the phone and I was shaking, and my legs felt like they were going to buckle," said Cisneros. "I just cried, and laughed."

According to colleagues Cisneros had repeatedly asked her husband Gilbert to repeat the numbers back to her. "She thought he was kidding, thought he was messing with her," said co-worker Nicole Stevenson.

On Tuesday night, Cisneros had wanted to get Kentucky Fried Chicken, but her husband insisted on going to the barbecue joint where he bought the tickets, lucky for her she gave in. 

The $266 million jackpot is the eighth-largest in the history of the game.  Lottery officials said the odds of matching all six numbers drawn in Tuesday's multistate game was about 1 in 175,711,536.

Despite the new found riches Cisneros will continue her freelancing work. "She said she loves work and she doesn't want this to change her life that way. She says she needs the routine," said the newsroom’s assistant manager David Reese.  "She's usually the most pleasant and nice person to work with even when all hell is breaking loose…It renews your faith in the universe that something like this can happen to someone who really deserves it."

Congrats Cisneros!