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>> burying your child, well never have an easy day again. what i think makes us very angry is that rory could have been saved. >> reporter: the stauntons say their greatest regret is not knowing about sepsis. now their mission is to make sure other families do. vanita nair, cbs news, washington, d.c. >> pelley: president obama goes head-to-head with school kids, in a moment. ♪ [music]

Misdiagnosed with the flu. three days later, rory died. >> our son was dead before we heard the word "sepsis." >> reporter: sepsis is a condition triggered by an infection entering a persons bloodstream, in rorys case, after he scraped his arm. the immune system has an overly aggressive response that can lead to organ failure. today, the stauntons held a national symposium on sepsis. theyve already helped change the law for new york hospitals where doctors are now required to use a checklist to ...

Software, found them, and took everything out. >> reporter: cyber-crime is a growing threat to the global economy. a june report pegs its cost at more than $400 billion a year. at this command center for the security firm mannediant, technicians constantly monitor internet activity, looking for cyber attacks. even jim lewis admits it is extremely difficult to protect yourself. >> i do online banking, right, but when you do it, you have to realize, maybe some guy names igor is also watching what ...

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...

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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...

Soldiers prince william and prince harry even pitched in, delivering sandbags to residents. the community spirit may have to hold up better than flood barriers. forecasters warn that britain will continue to be pounded by relentless rain not just for days but for weeks to come. >> if we werent seeing such cold air across the united states... >> reporter: meteorologist joanna robinson says the severe weather in the u.s. is to blame for wreaking havoc over here. so this is like a storm factory. >>...