With Florida's manatees dying in record numbers, groups are trying to save them
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Nearly every morning at Florida's Blue Spring State Park, Cora Berchem hand counts the manatees that flock there in the winter for the warm water.
"We've had days in here where we had over 600 manatees," Berchem, who works for the nonprofit Save the Manatee, told CBS News environmental correspondent Ben Tracy.
She knows most by name because of their distinctive scars from being hit by boat propellers.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.