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Thanksgiving day event, macys thanksgiving day parade. don dahler was there. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the largest contingent of heavily armed police officers in the parades history stood along the parades two-and-a-half-mile route. they were protecting the 3.5-million onlookers who crowded streets, 20 teen deepin some places. some were concerned about terrorism, some not. >> were super excited. the weather turned out perfect so we couldnt ask for anything better. >> reporter: in their midst, underco...

In a normal country." but they, like the families who made their escape by bus today know what theyre probably facing instead is life shattered by even more war. as for those peace talks, scott, in moscow, between the russian the french and the german leader aimed at finding some kind of a road map to peace, they ended without a breakthrough. however, they are due to resume on sunday as a four-way conversation with ukraines president poroshenko. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer covering ukraine for u...

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 ...

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...

But if you know you want to be a computer scientist or an engineer, there are two and three-year and one-year vocational colleges that are relevant and appropriate opportunity for you that will not amass as much personal debt. so i think it comes back to long-term planning. i dont think the federal government should be in the business of telling students how to think, but i do think that we should have a p.r. campaign collectively to say how are we going to prep long-term to ameliorate debt and ...

Controlled or not controlled and bottom line, brooke, we have to get the boxes. thats really where were going to be able to piece it together. even after we have that, i still caution everyone, as kid very well knows, were looking at a yearlong investigation if not longer to answer the how and why. >> thank you both very much here. texts, e-mails, attempted phone calls to loved ones. this information, did you know, could still be on passenger cell phones on board the plane and provide a lot of i...

Right? and weve had an increase of female doctors and lawyers because weve had so many positive images of women. but when young girls want to be a scientist or they want to be, you know, an entrepreneur or a hacker or computer scientist, theres no one who looks like them. and so we have to make sure that we have these popular images and that we take this on as a policy initiative. >> what policy changes do you think need to be implemented here? >> i believe that we need computer science in every...

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...

Shawn is an inform inventor. >> the idea of this came from a pin screen toy like this. we are thinking about the displays and they change color and shape. >> reporter: it works using an interactive table with a series of complex motors and links and pins. and they are all connected to a computer that translates the movement remotely. you didnt have architects in mind? >> enterior designer and computer scientist and mathmeticia mathmeticians. and a lot of things to touch. >> reporter: inform is c...