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Is broken. dominican republic officials are pushing back to link any of the seven deaths. they say theyre independent of each other and theyre investigating all potential avenues that could be the cause, including the possibility that bootleg alcohol might have been used in some of the resorts. many of those who died took a drink from the mini bar before getting violently ill. a potential eighth victim, jonathan corcoran, his family is now saying he had a heart ailment. they believe he died from...

From the mini bar. about 1/5 of dominican republics economy depends on tourism. officials pushing back hard calling ate smear campaign against the island. trace, back to you. >> very sad for those families. steve harrigan live. thanks. also in the d.r., suspects from the david ortiz shooting being taken from police head quarter to court as people crowded around them. police have arrested nine suspects in the case including one woman and eight men. now the accused gunman says he didnt mean to sho...

To be. >> if someone paid for it, you would go. >> no, i would not. i will never go to the dominican republ republic. i bet a lot of americans would say the same thing. a huge part of the income is tourism. they better get on this. >> this is caribbean sabotage. there is competition amongst these islands for tourism dollars. the d.r. is really hot. they are getting a lot of vacationers spending a lot of money. im not saying it is puerto rico or aruba but maybe there is a network of sabateurs fro...

David harrison, jerry curren, robert wallace and miranda shop warner are also looking for more answers. remember a colorado couple says they drank from a mini bar in the dr and got violently ill but recovered. they were later diagnosed with pesticide poisoning. and a forensic professor now says the symptoms suffered by most victims who died are consistent with poison. martha? >> martha: trace, thank you very much for that report tonight from l.a. here now kelly browne, her father went on vacatio...

She called a friend that was vacationing with them, he was in a different building, his wife and him came over to help my mother, and he was unresponsive. and they took him to the hospital in bravario in the dominican republic where they put him on a ventilator in icu. and he eventually died. >> martha: im so sorry. this is just a terrible story. when you listen to these other peoples stories, does anything connect? you know, one of these people hard rock, another one place called the hea, where...

Solve this mystery. first, lets go to trace gallagher who breaks it down for us tonight and gives us the very latest developments this evening on this. hi, trace. >> hi, martha, lets begin with the common denominator pulmonary edema and fluid on the lungs is heart disease. american college of cardiology one in four americans will die of heart problems yet seven of the eight americans who died in the dominican had a heart attack and/or pulmonary edema. we dont yet know the last persons cause of d...

Counterfeit. and lord knows what they put in that stuff. i would look at that pesticides, insect at this sides and do a whole lot of introduce and also they have great surveillance cameras there. so there is a lots of potential to solve this case. i think they will do it. we will know what happened. >> martha: one aspect of it could be using pesticides that maybe we wouldnt use in this country that are poisonous. that would be -- that would look like it leads towards an unintentional cause. of t...

That have vacation there start to say, wait, i was in that hotel and i became violently illness long ago, there starts to be a lot of questions surrounding these. the state department isnt saying much right now, just that the fbi is -- has taken some samples from some of these people. they dont have the results of those yet. its difficult to put them all together as time passes. what we do know is that there were four people who died in one of the hotel chains. there were two that died in anothe...

>> >> harris, both of these stories each day and both providing separate blows to tourism in the dominican republic. first to that new announced death of jonathan corcoran. keep in mind he died back in april. as of yet, there has been no real public proof put forward that links his death to the other six mysterious deaths of americans here on this island. no evidence that he was like the others taking a drink in a resort from a mini bar and then suddenly collapsed lungs, failure to breathe. and ...

So as you can see, you know, drinking out of a mini bar, for example, is something that so many people will do while theyre on a vacation in a hotel. its tough to put together a common thread. theres enough there that theres scrutiny and investigation now surrounding these, jim. >> michelle kaczynski at the state department. thank you so much. six men in the dominican republic are now behind bars this morning accused of carrying out a hit attempt on boston red sox legend david ortiz. national ...