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Federal government they have failed to register for the draft and are now facing that potential jail time. it turns out when the pennsylvania department of transportation passed along records from their database to the draft board, a computer operator entered 93-97 instead of 1993 to 1997 so it spewed out all males in the database born from 1893 to 1897 and from the 90s. a spokesman for the agency said, hey, we made a mistake. this just wasnt good. we do apologize. among those receiving the draf...

Now in her 80s. mr. minnick is one of 14,000 men in pennsylvania alone born in the 1800s, all informed by the federal government they have failed to register for the draft and are now facing that potential jail time. it turns out when the pennsylvania department of transportation passed along records from their database to the draft board, a computer operator entered 93-97 instead of 1993 to 1997 so it spewed out all males in the database born from 1893 to 1897 and from the 90s. a spokesman for ...

Night, 82 people have been shot, 14 of them died. dean reynolds is there. >> reporter: in the 13 hours between sunday afternoon and early monday at the worst of the weekend violence, four people were killed and 26 wounded. one of those killed this weekend was shot after apparently flashing the wrong gang sign. police have tried to fight that kind of bloodshed with better street intelligence so they can anticipate gang warfare. but while the murder rate has dropped, police superintendent gary mcc...

Really working hard. we are trying to be the best as we can. >> reporter: just the other night, jalal and her crew were roughed up, too, during a live report. their station may be off the air, but the reporters are committed to keeping their online news service up to date in the tense run-up to the referendum just nine days away. do you think that this will remain peaceful or are we headed to war? are we headed to a conflict? >> im afraid of national conflict on the day of this referendum. >> re...

Lindsey turrentine is with the technology web site cnet. >> bitcoin is very experimental. its absolutely a new thing, and if you look at the bitcoin web site, youll see that the bitcoin organization itself says, "hey, this is new, and it- - you shouldnt expect it to be stable." >> reporter: last week, one of the currencys largest exchanges filed for bankruptcy after about half a billion dollars worth of bitcoin were stolen by hackers. that was followed by the suspected suicide of an american c.e...

One of the encouraging things in the report today was construction. >> reporter: construction added 15,000 jobs in february as overall hiring rebound after two dismal months. more and more part-time workers are also finding full-time jobs. since last summer, the number of people forced to work part time because of the economy has been dropping dramatically from nearly 8.2 million to less than 7.2 million. >> i thought about it for a second and i said well, something is better than nothing so let...

Now, along with the dollar and euro, there is a new currency called the bitcoins. you cant put it in your pocket. it trades only on the internet, and today one of the biggest bitcoin exchanges based in tokyo went bust after it was revealed that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins were missing. we asked anthony mason to explain all this. >> reporter: in a manhattan park last fall, a small crowd gathered to buy and sell a new unregulated currency. on their smart phones, they traded a...

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And crew are able to keep warm. they have plenty of provisions. we spoke with professor turney by skype earlier today. >> weve got a couple of weeks worth of fresh food and then on top of that if things get really bad weve got two weeks of glorious dehydrated food. (laughs). >> reporter: jim, professor turney tweeted some good news today. the blizzard has passed and while theyre waiting to be rescued the scientists are carrying on with their research. now, when explorer douglas mawson made the s...

Out in applause. jade rabbits three month long mission consists of snapping pictures, analyzing rock samples, and mapping the lunar surface with radar. no other nation has visited the moon since 1976, begging the question, is there anything left to learn there? >> one of the big topics right now is what resources are available on the moon. can you perhaps mine it some day and bring things back to earth that would be of some value. and then youve always got the moon as a staging post, a place whe...