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Closer so i think we can rejoice that this good work is taking place. jon: garrett tenney has that story from washington. >> after eight months of searching for answers health officials are calling this a breakthrough. vitamin e acetate is an oily substances found in a lot of food and skin care products but it's also used to dilute the liquid and vaping products that contain thc the psychoactive component of marijuana. vitamin e acetate quite to the skin or swallow the researchers believe when it's heated or inhaled it may interfere with normal lung function. despite the new findings health of...

Illnesses. reporter: after 8 months of searching for answers, health officials are calling this a breakthrough. vitamin eacetate is being used to dilute the thc. swallowed or applied to the skin, but when inhaled it may interfere with normal lung function. but despite these findings they are not ruling out that other chemicals may be responsible for the outbreak. >> now that we found vitamin e aeacetate in thing wrongs.

Jedediah: mother and four children laid to rest. traveling with family when they came under fire. in all nine family members were killed. mexican authorities believe they were caught in a shootout between rival cartels. some family men's believe they wer -- membersbelieve they. hundreds attended funeral services for the family. a form of vitamin e as a culprit behind the majority of vaping related illnesses. over 2,000 people gotten sick and 39 people have died from vaping related illnesses in the u.s. while most of the cases tested positive for thc or nicotine, the only substance to be discov...

Become so dangerous? >> reporter: what seems to be happening is the vitamin e vitamin e acetate causes a chemical burn in the paper thin section of the blood. kind of like mustard gas did in ww-i. now that burn causes the oxygen level in these patients to drop to dangerous levels. >> o'donnell: all right, jon lapook, thank you. coming up, a victory for the u.s. women's national soccer team in court. month after month i'm doing it all. the supplements... the veggies... the water. but i still have recurring constipation, belly pain, dr couldavea al medical conn called ibs-c. for my recurring con...

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