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Six people in the u.s. have died from vaping-related lung disease. the cdc, american medical association, and american lung association are warning people to now stop using e-cigarettes. tom, youre saying we still dont know what caused those six deaths exactly. >> reporter: no. thats part of the trouble here. we dont actually know what the link is. what we do know is that theres been this alarming rise both in incidents and awareness that there seems to be some kind of problem with people gettin...

>> reporter: in houston doctors are sounding the alarm as three people are hospitalized after using e-cigarettes. in new york the bloomberg charity is giving $160 million to fact an epidemic of vaping. >> the timeline is yesterday, not tomorrow. >> reporter: and in washington, the first lady herself has tweeted, i am deeply concerned. why is the worry exploding now? in just the past few days, the centers for bz control reported a huge jump in the number of people developing mysterious lung illne...

National football league. >> sounds like a lot might develop between now and the weekend. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i think watch the next few hours. watch and see if he is at the patriots practice. if he is, i think it means theyre going to go forward. if hes not, maybe he ends up on the exempt list. meanwhile, a sixth person has now died from vaping-related lung disease. this is prompting another major medical group to warn people to stop using e-cigarettes immediately. we have a...

>> did the presenter call juul, quote unquote, totally safe more than once? >> yes. >> reporter: juul says that school outreach program was ended in 2018 and the company will fully cooperate with probes into their marketing and products. >> we never wanted any non-nicotine user and certainly nobody underage to ever use juul products. >> reporter: but thats not enough for the governor of new york who is launching a state investigation complete with subpoenas. >> this is a frightening public pheno...

That people are injoi joining u vaping? the professionals say we do not know the answer but the anecdotal evidence is so strong, we need to stop this runaway industry while we sort it out, alisyn. >> tom, for people who dont vape, i think theres a lot of confusion. because there are so many brands and varieties of vaping devices. and so many different things you can put in those devices including nicotine and cannabis oil. so are doctors warning against all of it? >> yes. in a simple word, yes. ...