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They are describing 13 many people who want the product and im assuming they are talking about adults. the president specifically is focused on children. >> first, im glad you brought up the word oils. the liquid contains no oils and they cannot actually cause the boyd pneumonia. these illnesses are being caused by bootleg thc cartridges sold by drug dealers. its becoming increasingly clear with multiple state departments in the fda, specifically warning about these bootlegged thc containing car...

Admitted to the hospital, transferred to the icu and the best that they could tell him at first it looked like pneumonia, a diffuse pneumonia they said and whatever thing they would do for pneumonia wasnt helping her entry just really declined, her oxygen meets kept going up and up and she just got sicker and sicker until they figured out -- they asked her are you a smoker and when she said e-cigarettes that kind of took notice of all the cases that were popping up and started treating her accor...

Both a high schooler and a middle schooler, and ive got to tell you, during our august recess when i was at home, parents were just up in arms about this crisis. weve got to take appropriate measures right now to stop this epidemic, craig. >> congressman, really quickly, do you think part of the public health crisis that were talking about here, how much is about traditional e-cigarettes and how much is about people getting the black market stuff, whether its thc oil and inserting it into those ...

Rented condo, using mason jars filled with high grade thc oil. >> its not candy. its highly potent drugs. >> reporter: police say this was some of the packaging. sour patch and fruit flavors. >> this is packaging that ive seen in stores and other stories across the nation. >> reporter: its still not clear exactly what is getting users sick. dylan nelson barely survived. >> i didnt think he was going to come out of it. i thought that i was seeing my son the last time. >> reporter: the american va...

Cartridges a day, laced with thc and selling them to high school students huffheins has not entered a plea >> theyre actually packaging these or filling them with 1,000 milligrams of thc. so its 157 times the potency of what the labeling says its not candy its highly potent drugs. >> reporter: health officials suspect such counterfeit products may be behind the spike in the life-threatening illnesses. with an e-cigarette a battery fires electronic currents to heat up nicotine or thc enriched liq...

>> dana: i want to get a take on this because scott got leak him who is the former fda administrator says its probably something new that has been introduced into the market by an illegal manufacture and eat he mentioned thc to "the new york times." is that a possibility about these recent problems? >> its certainly a possibility. when weve got kids on ventilators, we dont have kids in an icu on ventilators with traditional smoking. that stuff usually takes years to kill you. we are seeing this ...

E-cigarettes and a vaping. correspondent kevin corke tells us what the president intends to do about it. >> president trump: people are dying with vaping. >> president trump flanked by first lady melania trump hope to snuff out a growing problem before its too late, announcing today and he white house efforts to take shape in the coming weeks tackling the sharp rise in e-cigarette illnesses sweeping the country. the pitch coming in the wake of a cdc report noting over 450 possible cases of vapin...

70% among high school students in 48% among middle school students in 2018. >> no child should ever use a vape or e-cigarette product and we are taking the steps today to get rid of the attractiveness and availability of these products for kids. >> critics argue that there is a big difference between e-cigarettes and thc vaporizers and most of the illnesses involved black-market products. the history of the united states, prohibition has never worked. it didnt work with alcohol and it hasnt work...

Confirmed in this date on this map that are listed in red. doctors say some patients needed breathing machines. antibiotics didnt work. its not clear whether steroids help. health officials say they are not completely sure whats causing it. some say it could be due to a chemical found in thc, the compound in marijuana that gets people high. doctors say they are also seen cases related to nicotine vape. the feds have said that people should stop vaping for now while they investigate. health offic...

Death linked to vaping. that person in kansas, over 50 years old with underlying health problems whose symptoms worsened rapidly. most of the cases are linked to vaping thc products, but doctors are scrambling for answers. >> we dont know, but something clearly has changed in the last month to six weeks in the products that are being vaped, and thats what the cdc is working to find out. >> reporter: 18-year-old simah herman vaped nicotine then thc over two years, getting sicker and sicker, endin...