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Cigarettes are not safe and should not be used. this after six vaping related death here in the united states was confirmed. tom foreman is looking into this for us. health officials, theyre sounding alarm. the alarm about all of this. >> yeah, worry id about the health effects is this is really erupting everywhere. r reports of people getting seriously ill and dying after using e cigarettes. this idea promoted by many that this is a safer alternative to smoking is under enormous scrutiny. >> it...

Manufacturers and distrib itors. its still pending. im glad these corporations are stepping up to the plate. they need to. we have lost thousands and thousands of lives in florida. when i was running for office in 2010 i couldnt go to any city in the state of florida without hugging a parent who had lost their child to an opioid overdose. the numbers are going down. i sat on president trumps opioid commission. he cares deeply about this issue. they have to accept responsibility. it is what you d...

The bike? too cheap to pay for the at-home exercise bike, the peloton? you can soon buy the stock instead. peloton gearing up to go public. the indoor fitness startup filed paperwork for the ipo looking to raise $500 million. it made $915 million this year, doubling last years revenue. the company was valued at $4 billion last year. >> we love our peloton here. >> i know. kind of addicted. a true bond of brothers displayed by two marine veterans in the mountains of utah. john nelson and jonath...

Its a tragic scene near residentialch areas and business in venice beach. the drug addicted, out of work or mentally ill have created roving encampments on the sidewalk. feces fills a bucket near this grocery parking lot. human waste is splattered on a nearby wall. the homeless collect urine in jars kepthe in their tents or makeshift shelters. and here in malibu, homelessness has increased 413%. now a lot of that issn attributable to people living in rvs and campers and trailers. buses along the...

Increase. thats 59,000 people on the streets every night looking for shelter. its a tragic senior residential areas and businesses in venice beach. the drug addicted, out of work, or mentally ill have created roving encampments on the sidewalk. fills a bucket near this grocery parking lot. human waste is splattered on a nearby wall. though all must collect in jars kept in their tents or makeshift shelters. and here in malibu, homelessness is increased 413%. now a lot of that is attributable to p...

Has come to this. it has become a crisis. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation. in the past ten years the number of people in this state who have fatally overdosed on drugs more nan double. in recent years at this hospital in huntington, one out of five babies was born exposed to opioids in the womb. it started because the cities and towns in this state were flooded with prescription opioids. enough to give 66 pills a year to every man, woman and chil...

Come to this. it has become a crisis. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation. in the past ten years, the number of people in this state who fatally overdosed on drugs more than doubled. in recent years at this hospital in huntington, one out of five babies was born exposed to open yo -- opioids in the womb. they were flooded with prescription opioids here. enough to give 66 pills a year to every man, woman, and child in west virginia from 2006 to 2012 a...

That the vice president has bragged about having his name on, and obviously leading. so, look, if the vice president ends up being our nominee, especially communities like detroit where i am, he is going to have to own up to what he did then. and he did it with the iraq war last night. he said i made a mistake, and was just very direct about that. these are the kinds of things with three-strike laws, incredibly long sentences, the time i was in law school and city of mayor in newark as our infra...

And i was running, gunning strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth nothing. so ill show i am worth it. so thats -- yay. im stuck on stuff today, so, yeah. >> in a few days, butcher will take her accep...

The per person average in 2012 is 36 of these pills for every man, woman, and child. 36. in norton, virginia, the smallest city in rare vvirginia were not shipping 36 per person. they were shipping 306 pills per person. over the course of just one year. its astonishing. the other thing thats amazing is it doesnt just tell us how they went up and up as the country got more and more addicted, but what the companies knew about their own behavior. this is what they knew they were doing. their own da...