UPDATE: Karen Dobner and the 'Today Show' Segment

A mother whose son died June 14 in a Batavia Township crash told a national audience what she thought contributed to his death.

Karen Dobner appeared on the NBC Today Show in a segment that aired starting at 7:37 a.m., according to a timestamp given to each segment of the latest show on its website. To watch the entire segment or read the transcript, click here.

Dobner shared the same thing on the Today Show that she shared earlier this month with media—that a potpourri substance and others similar to it is likely synthetic marijuana being sold legally in tobacco shops.

Batavia Patch reported Wednesday that  on the afternoon of June 14 allegedly smoked a potpourri known as iAroma and later became panicked and hallucinatory with a rapid heartbeat. Karen Dobner thinks her son had those symptoms later that afternoon when he was seen traveling east at a high rate of speed on Mooseheart Road. To read more about what happened that day, click .

Editor's note: The following descriptions are meant to provide context to certain parts of a televised program broadcast nationwide. Each bullet lists the time at which a specific shot or scene appears, starting with 00:00 as the beginning of the segment.

• 00:16 After a brief introduction from co-anchor Ann Curry, the segment transitions to a standup featuring reporter John Yang at 375 N. Lincolnway in Batavia Township. This is the location for the  after heading off Mooseheart Road and across Route 31. The segment said Yang was reporting from Aurora, which is several miles south of Batavia Township. The Dobner family lives in Aurora.

• 00:48 Max Dobner is shown for the first time in the segment, in what appears to be home video footage in a backyard. In the next shot, Karen Dobner holds up a photo collage featuring pictures of Max with his family. 

• 01:11 Photos of the crash site taken for the Daily Herald and Sun-Times Media are shown in rapid succession, with a shutter clicking sound effect added while Yang reads a narrative about the crash.

• 01:37 Karen Dobner recalls how her oldest son Justin Dobner told her about Max's panicked call to him before the crash. In the background on the right-hand side of this shot, an an out-of-focus picture of Max Dobner is seen. This photo is Max's portrait from his senior year at West Aurora High School, according to Karen Dobner in a separate interview with Batavia Patch.
  
  
• 01:58 Similar to a CBS 2 News segment with Karen Dobner that aired July 7, the Today Show showed undercover camera footage of someone inside a store with some vague glimpse of products. The Today Show segment did not identify the store or its location. Read or watch CBS's full report here.

• 02:20 Jack Riley of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency appears on camera, talking about merchants who sell the potpourri. CBS also spoke to Riley for their report.

• 02:26 John Yang opens a bag of one of the potpourri products. The bag he opened says "1g" (one gram) in the front upper-left-hand corner of the packaging.

• 02:40 The back of one of the packages is shown. A description in the back uses the word "iAroma." The bottom of the packaging says "Not For Human Consumption" in all capital letters.

• 02:48 A brief YouTube clip is shown depicting people preparing to smoke potpourri.

• 02:59 Two males, whom Yang describes as ages 19 and 20, are shown in silhouettes and slightly out of focus. They describe what they felt after smoking potpourri products. Karen Dobner on Wednesday told Batavia Patch that the segment would feature teens who stepped forward to say they smoked substances that gave them the same symptoms as what Dobner had on June 14. To read more about what area teens allegedly experienced after smoking the substances, click .

• 03:22 The segment mentions the To the Maximus! Foundation, which Dobner started to educate people on the effects of these apparent synthetic substances. The website for the foundation is already live and is accessible under the short link 2themax.org. The website has undergone design revisions since Tuesday, when the background for the site was beige. A series of pictures featuring Max Dobner, under the heading "My Albums," has been added since Tuesday.

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