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An eighth vaping related death confirmed in the u.s. now. the latest victim was a man in missouri who had normal lung function until he started vaping just in may. just a few months ago. the food and drug administration has now launched a criminal probe. let's bring in cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. a criminal probe? what is this? >> the fda has this authority. it's a division of the fda, an arm of the fda that can start looking into this from a criminal standpoint. the reason being that the numbers going in the wrong direction. let me quickly show you on the map what we're ...

Publish ed a report in morbidit and mortality report that is came out on friday and the it's available on the c drk cs web page, now we encountered five of these patients and as you've heard, there's an estimated 450 at least that have been found nationally. and that's probably an underestimate, those have included at least three in one additional death under investigation. and so that's terribly concerning. if i could, i was going to tell you about what in particular we're seeing with these patients. who we found. so interestingly, these are youpg, healthy parnlts witho pa without prior ail m...

So he did order a cat scan of the sinuses and scheduled surgery. >> this, ken allen told the jury, is the cat scan dr. weinberger did of phyllis barnes' sinuses. according to experts who testified at trial, the scan showed phyllis' sinuses were actually clear. >> weinberger -- and i hesitate to call him a doctor -- treated phyllis barnes as nothing more than an insurance paycheck. >> according to the ear nose and throat doctor who discovered phyllis' throat cancer two months later, the sinus surgery was not only unnecessary, it probably caused her cancer to grow more rapidly than it might have...

And polyps and he could make her headache-free if she immediately had surgery. >> how soon did it happen? >> within two weeks. >> how is she? >> the headaches didn't stop. the light sensitivity got worse. >> it wasn't until she took kayla to specialists that she finally discovered the cause of kayla's misery. >> they did a cat scan as well of her head, and they told us that evening that there was a tumor there. >> and what was that night like? >> that was the worst night of my life. >> though the tumor turned out to be noncancerous, it was growing. surgeons told the thomases kayla would need i...

In court documents, allen alleges that weinberger misdiagnosed phyllis' trouble breathing and gave her a surgery she didn't need while missing the advanced throat cancer that eventually killed her. >> he needs to understand it wasn't just the insurance companies that were harmed. it was people. lives were destroyed. people were hurt. >> phyllis barnes, it turns out, was just the tip of the iceberg. once mark weinberger fled, malpractice complaints began flooding in to lawyers like ken allen. among those new clients were kayla thomas and her mother valerie. in 2003, 8-year-old kayla began havin...