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Accused of running an illegal vaping operation. investigators are testing dozens of cartridges. those arrests come as federal health officials are trying to track down the exact source of lung illnesses linked to vaping that have killed six people and made hundreds more sick. holbrook, thank you for being here. first of all why would someone want to do this, to spike, you know -- to do the spiking? just to be malicious? >> the best we can tell they do it for economic reasons. synthetic marijuana is man-made, it's much cheaper to make that in a basement or lab than it is to grow hemp and extrac...

It's somebody else's kid and even if my kid isn't lost in this cloud of smoke it's not that harmful. exactly the opposite is true. we lost the sixth victim to vaping last night. over 450 have been hospitalized. a third of them go directly to the intensive care unit when they go to the hospital. and a third are on res pirators. this is a deadly epidemic and it's time for america and this government to step up. >> senator, why are you so passionate about this issue? >> it's the same bunch that brought us big tobacco. my family has been touched by death from tobacco related lung cancer and i can ...