it seems like they might want to sugar coat it as well, at least that s what it looks like from the new website the obama administration has launched. it s all about the spill but may involve some spin as well. tom foreman has been looking at the site and joins us now. tom? the good news about the white house s new website restore the gulf.gov is that it does contain in useful information. you can find out how to make claims for damages if you need to. you can click on maps that will show you where the spill area is, where fishing has been closed, where beaches have been affected, that sort of thing. the bad news is all the information it does not contain or at least is very hard to find. how much oil has been spilled so far? how many jobs have been lost? how many reports of illness have been reported by cleanup workers? that s either not here or it s buried. how many birds have been killed in all of this? you can t find that. although there is a nice feature
restorethegulf.gov does contain some useful information. you can find out how to make claims for damages if you need to. you can click on maps that will show you where the spill oil is, where fishing is closed, where beaches have been affected. that sort of thing. the bad news is all the information it does not contain or at least is very hard to find. how much oil has been spilled so far? how many jobs have been lost? how many reports of illness have been reported by cleanup workers? that s either not here or it s buried. how many birds have been killed in all of this? you can t find that. although there is a nice feature here about some brown pelicans that they captured and cleaned up and set free again. if you re worried about the stench of oil near the coast and whether that might make you sick, there s not a whole lot of guidance here. earlier, they had a statement that said some people are more sensitive to smell than others. it looks like they ve been updating the site. we re
the world, making decisions for folks down here. randi kaye uncovered a smelly mess from one local community. they doesn t want it there. they passed a resolution, saying so but bp headquartered in london and an operator in houston dumped on them anyway. how did it happen? how could it happen? randi kaye is keeping it honest. reporter: if you ve been wondering where all that scooped-up, onshore oil ends up, here s your answer. this is mississippi s pecan grove landfill. what cleanup workers gather onshore, tar ball, oiled sand and vegetation, is hauled away and buried here. that even includes the cleanup crews gloves, suits, shovels and rakes, anything that s touched oil. it s one of nine landfills bp has cut deals with across the gulf to dump all this stuff. so, that must mean the communities are okay with it, too, right?
sugar coat it as well, at least by their website they ve launched. it s all about the spill but may involve some spin as well. tom foreman has been looking at the site and joins us now. tom? restorethegulf.gov does contain some useful information. you can find out how to make claims for damages if you need to. you can click on maps that will show you where the spill oil is, where fishing is closed, where beaches have been affected. the bad news is all the information it does not contain or at least is very hard to find. how much oil has been spilled so far? how many jobs have been lost? how many reports of illness have been reported by cleanup workers? that s either not here or it s buried. how many birds have been killed in all of this? you can t find that. although there is a nice feature here about some brown pelicans that they captured and cleaned up and set free again. if you re worried about the stench of oil near the coast and
them into this situation where bp holds all the cards and bp is letting these workers get sick. back in alaska, roy dalthorp s coughing had ans never stopped, he now has skin rashes. his health is literally crumbling. i m going blind. you think you were poisoned out there? yes. yes. silently poisoned. and that s what s happening to those people down in the gulf. drew is joining us now. drew, health officials are monitoring cleanup workers here in the gulf. we ve seen some of that. are you saying that there was no one monitoring in alaska and there was no follow up either? sanjay, there was something nothing near the type of monitoring that s going on right now in the gulf. and absolutely no follow up. in fact, exxonmobil even