h >> it's a distressing sight -- 17 year old trystan zohfeld fighting for his life in a hospital bed. >> i woke up just throwing up everywhere, and my heart was beating out of my chest going 100 miles an hour. >> coughing, wheezing,eventually his lungs failing, doctors hooking him up to a ventilator and placing him in a medically induced coma, his parents fearing for the worst. >> day they intubated him was the worst day of my life. everyday just kept getting worse, it's a very scary thing. we really had no idea if he is going to make it through or not. >> i was terrified for my life. >> hospitalized for 18 days last month, trystan lost 15 lbs, and says he had to relearn to walk. >> we don't see previously healthy 17-year-olds get that sick that quick. >> i woke up from the coma and i knew what i wanted to do. >> now he has a message to share about vaping. he says the habit he picked up in 8th grade is what almost killed him. >> this is what can really happen, and it's a big deal. >> this child almost died from -- this this is not a child got a little sick and got well. >> it's a scar

trystan. >> stephen: did you have a son?ou're an executive producer of a show with an interesting name, "on becoming a god in central florida." that's a heck of a title. >> you could call it "on becoming a god" as well. >> stephen: that's also odd. so what does that mean? >> what does that mean? what do you think it means? it's, like, the american dream, like, what you -- you know -- >> stephen: but the american dream is not to become a god, though, is it?e1 >> money and to rise to power and it's about the falsehead of the american dream and this ponzi scheme in the '90s which is kind of like an amway or an herbal life kind of thing. >> stephenit >> it's not. it's not exactly true s. >>en story. ( laughter ) >> oh, god -- >> stephen: do you want a lawyer present before you answer these questions? ( applause ) i likely feel like i should swear you in before you answer the rest of these. i'm so sorry. and who were you in this? >> i play crystal stubs. >> stephen: are you the god? i become a -- well, we'll see what happens. ( l

>> reporter: 25-year-old trystan scott wicks was arrested in a parking lot after his ex-girlfriend alertede that he had sent her several texts, allegedly threatening a mass shooting. experts say it shows the power of people paying attention. >> we need to have a reporting system and know that it's okay and actually it's required for us to move the needle on this. >> most of the tips that come into the fbi, they're filtered through the national threat operation center. that's in west virginia. and once they come in, they're assessed and analyzed, and depending on the threat, they could be passed on to local law enforcement. so wolf, it is possible that many of these increased tips that came in that first full week of august, they may have been passed on or really prompted some of those arrests that we saw that seemed like a spike in those arrests in the last few weeks of august. >> as they say, you see something, you say something. that's good advice for a lot of people out there. jessica, thanks for that report. >>> just ahead, we're going to get a new forecast on tropical storm dorian and