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Legal. >> reporter: on day one, while pot will be legal, it won't be available everywhere. only a few smaller localities have approved licenses to start recreational sales on january 1st. cities like san francisco and los angeles won't be ready for legal sales under the new regulations for days or weeks. >> we're talking about an unregulated industry that's been thriving for at least 22 years. that now you have this set of rules and track and trace system and taxation and all these local agencies and bureaucrats and state regulators and licenses. it's a totally different beast. >> reporter: bu...

Pay, the one that wouldn't be hundreds of millions of dollars but billions of dollars would be paid by deutsche bank after the feds got through with them. it's one thing to have new york state regulators come to you and one thing to have the justice department coming after you. people expect it would be a ginormous fine against deutsche bank when the justice deputy case about money laundering finally came to its conclusion either in the courts or in the settlement. well, that russian money laundering case against deutsche bank had been run in the justice department by u.s. attorney for the sou...

But state regulators say the threat isn't imminent. >> husband and wife die from cancer across the street. husband over here died from cancer. both of his sons got cancer. where all this cancer coming from? >> the desperate calls for cleaner air. a cnn investigation up next. it's a match made in tech heaven. it's like verizon is the oil and google is the balsamic. no, actually they separate into a suspension. it's more like the google pixel 2 is the unlimited storage. and verizon is the best unlimited plan. what if it's like h2 and o? yeah. that's right. i had a feeling that would score with y...

>> they don't have any compassion for human life. my little girl is 10 years old. she innocent. >> reporter: and at 76 years old, watkins hopes that federal regulators, state regulators, someone will force denka to adhere to the cancer risk recommendation for her sake, and for the sake of her family. >> let me live. whatever time i have left, let it be decent. we need clean air. we need help to get this done. >> reporter: so an important question here, are there more actual cases of cancer in those communities with the highest risk of developing cancer? well, the state does not know, and here'...

People in a small louisiana community say that on some days it is literally sickening to be outside. the environmental protection agency says a local factory is releasing a chemical that's putting them at the highest risk in the country of developing cancer from air toxins. state regulators say the threat is not imminent but local people say cases of cancer are common. they're afraid and they're begging for help. victor blackwell has this cnn investigation. >> the air is so foul. the water's so messed up. and so many people are ill and dying of cancer. >> reporter: jar ral dean watkins is afre...