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Is broken. dominican republic officials are pushing back to link any of the seven deaths. they say they're independent of each other and they're 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 natural causes. so seven still unexplained deaths here. adds onto the more bad news from the shoo...

From the mini bar. about 1/5 of dominican republic's 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 didn't mean to shot the former red sox star. there's video of him speaking from his jail cell saying that he got con...

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. i'm not saying it is puerto rico or aruba but maybe there is a network of sabateurs from a competing island that goes in and mess with the bottles in the minibar. they put a little here,...

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 vacation in the dominican republic in january and died there just days later. kelly, we are very sorry for ...

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: i'm so sorry. this is just a terrible story. when you listen to these other people's stories, does anything connect? you know, one of these people hard rock, another one place called the hea, where was your mom and dad? >> my mom and dad were at the dreams resort. i do remember passing the hard...