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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? >> i'm afraid of national conflict on the day of this referendum. >> reporter: and tonight, scott, there's been more violence. a group of armed men crashed a truck throug...

Lindsey turrentine is with the technology web site cnet. >> bitcoin is very experimental. it's absolutely a new thing, and if you look at the bitcoin web site, you'll see that the bitcoin organization itself says, "hey, this is new, and it- - you shouldn't expect it to be stable." >> reporter: last week, one of the currency's 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.o. of a bitcoin exchange in singapore. bitcoin users have seen the value of a single coin nearl...

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 me if ahead and take the assignment and that's what i did. >> reporter: in atlanta, 34- year-old na...

Now, along with the dollar and euro, there is a new currency called the bitcoins. you can't 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 digital money called bitcoins. you're a big believer in this currency. >> i'm a big believer in bi...

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 weren't 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. >> it certainly is. a conveyor belt of storms across the atlantic and hitting the u.k.. >> reporter: ...