Two men on the run to help save lives. Its worth every ounce of pain that were experiencing. Odonnell and the virus that keeps spreading, sending tens of thousands of Children Home from school. This is the Cbs Evening News with Norah Odonnell, reporting tonight from washington. Odonnell good evening. And thank you so much for joining us. If you watched todays hearings, you saw two career Foreign Policy Officials School lawmakers on what they should really care about russia. Former white house Official Hona Hill told lawmakers she worried President Trump had fallen victim to a fictional narrative about ukraine. Hill testified, alongside Embassy Official david holmes, who says he overheard the president on the phone asking if ukraine would investigate the bidens. Slmes said today that phone call in the middle of a restaurant in kiev was unlike anything hed seen in his career. And tonight, it appears the house is on its way to impeaching the president. Hod we have late word that the white
te had he not been put on the life support machine he would have passed away from the felness. reporter: the likely diagnosis. a rare lung ailment called bronchiolitis obliterans. on the small airways were so inflamed and scarred they become obstructed. reporter: it was nicknamed popcorn lung after the lungs of microwave popcorn factory workers were inhaled by a chemical called diacetyl. it s the first time health efficials have seen this kind of injury from vaping. the canadian teen had been vaping flavored pods and t.h.c. for five months before he became ill. it s not confirmed if diacetyl was in his cartridges. onrlier this month, the c.d.c. identified a different chemical, vitamin e acetate, as a cause of some vaping injury. this new york state lab tests samples taken from the cartridges of patients. patoria derbyshire is the testing center s deputy director. we are under the impression the vitamin e acetate is being
now suspended extradition bill to china where there is a separate legal system. new this morning, a patient in illinois may be first to die of a mysterious lung ailment linked to vaping. the cdc said many acknowledged vaping but cannot confirm it is the actual cause of the problem. 193 cases of vaping-related respiratory illnesses have been reported across 22 states. new details this morning. investigators survived a mechanical malfunction that is currently being blamed for the hard landing that ended with the plane engulfed in flames. earnhardt jr., his wife, daughter and pilots escaped unharmed. thank goodness. now to politics. even by president trump s own
sign a nuclear test ban treaty. the keynote of cordiality established at the very first meeting and kennedy really believes in it. he believed in it from the day he became president. his move towards nuclear disarmament is a political triumph. but for jack, a more personal drama is unfolding. jackie is in cape cod, and she is eight months pregnant. the president was in washington then, the first week in august, when he got urgent word from cape cod that she had gone into an early labor. jackie gives birth to a boy, patrick. he said on the way, i m never there when she needs me. and the president arrives, the baby has been born by cesarean. but because he is so premature, it suffers from a lung ailment.
it suffers from a lung ailment. they arrange very quickly to have him sent to the children s hospital in boston. arriving at logan airport, the anxious father found the sympathetic crowd assembled. jack holds vigil at patrick s bedside. when it is clear the little boy is dying, the doctors bring him out to be with his father. patrick kennedy died at 4:04 a.m. the struggle of the baby boy to keep breathing was too much for his heart. patrick died after 39 hours. jack kennedy was just consumed with grief. jackie was still too weak and unwell to attend the funeral.