another way that he is allegedly ooh misusing welfare money in the state of mississippi, with $2 million in federal funding from the state that was meant for families to lift them out of poverty but the money was apparently used for human trials of nasal spray to treat concussions. since 2018. the research hasn t gone all that far yet. four years later there is no data on whether this spray actually works. and keep in mind that favre has been under fire and under investigation for also misusing mississippi welfare money for college sports facilities in a separate multi-million dollar fraud scheme. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is driving the story forward for us and is joining us now. hey, ken. we will have more tonight on nightly news but this is kind of an unexplored aspect of the mississippi welfare scheme and we node $5 million from a volleyball facility and another million, and this is now $2 million that went to a florida drug company to study a
plan because club owners did not recognize him when he opened fire in this club. we expect to get more updates from police later this afternoon. a few hours from now. a lot of people are looking for that. maura, thank you. on one hand, officials are filing hate-related charges. on the other, we haven t heard them specifically call this a hate crime. help us understand the distinction here. well, it s like any crime, there s just a specific element that you have to meet and that means that with the live shooter, as prosecutors, you know, i m from the fbi, i used to be a prosecutor, and as a prosecutor, you look at how can we prove the elements of the crime, and unless there is evidence that specifically indicates that this individual intended and the intent was to damage and injure people who are in this particular community, or a particular community, we see the same type of struggle with prosecutions that have to do with attacks that might be especially in the jewish community r
really at the health consequences. for that i want to bring in news medical correspondent doctor john torres. i was looking at an mpr report on this. eight teenagers were actually hospitalized in wisconsin just last month with seriously it said damaged lungs. they said they had been vaping in the weeks leading up to their hospitalization. what are the potential health hazards to vaping and to using things like juul? and that s one of the big issues. we don t know what they all will be, especially short time, meaning that the kids and the teenagers and the adolescents are using it. and what do we know when people are in the long term, but 40, 50 years down the road they start having lung cancers. we don t know about ecigarettes because a lot of times the research hasn t been done yet, and it s just now starting to come up.
maybe we can just confuse people or be part of a large effort to muddy the waters enough that we can just keep doing what we re doing. you know, we our research hasn t gone that far. and i think other people have done that research about what they were involved in. but there was some kind of decision made that the approach to have a seat at the table by doing cutting-edge research was just not the way to go for them, and they decided that it was not enough just to be neutral and to, you know, keep producing fossil fuels but that actually they needed to be a very loud and articulate voice about the uncertainty and about and use the uncertainty as a wedge to kind of confuse the issue, yes. neela banerjee. coming up, he s directed train spoting, slum
very few medical options out there. that s why i want to talk to you about medical myrrh marijuana, some 23 states including d.c. have approved this. florida the state you live in now has just approved a certain strain of it. why do you feel so strongly medical marijuana needs to be approved? i believe i really hope floridians think of it was a poe 0 terrible option to help someone that they may love. it may be their child. it may be their parent. but it can i want the full plant accessible for research. you don t want to be limited in a treatment for your child. you wouldn t want to get half of the prescription from the drugstore. you want to be able to have full access to the entire plant to research it and find out what is going to help. is it cbd? is it thc? doctor, that s the problem. the research hasn t been done. but there s research done in england that has actually shown for case fz epilepsy, possibly