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Bp again threatens cleanup workers. bring your own protective gear to bring your own help or youre fired. first, time for tonights worst persons in the world. lebrons, accused of plagiarizing at least 500 jokes from other comedians, mostly americans. the list includes the late george carlin and bill hicks. and emoe phillips and lewis black, chevy chase, woody allen, david letterman, jerry seinfeld, and dan savage. an example, the immortal hicks once complained that the audience at a club was s...

Do we know how many of these cleanup workers, a percentage, perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? >> the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bps oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that its their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order to minimize pay...

Perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? >> the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bps oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that its their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order to minimize payouts for a loss of compensation. >> whos actually government...

Bp again threatens cleanup workers. bring your own protective gear to protect your own help, youre fired. witness accounts next. first, time for tonights "worst persons in the world." lebrons, accused of plagiarizing at least 500 jokes from other comedians, mostly americans. the list includes the late george carlin and bill hicks. and emo phillips and lewis black, jay leno, chevy chase, woody allen, david letterman, jerry seinfeld and dan savage. dan savage? an example, the immortal hicks once...

>> what are you hearing about whether or not workers are even wearing their protective gear, are they being encouraged to wear it by bp or not? >> no, theyre not being encouraged at all. i serve on a small community foundation that has been giving emergency grants that enable local groups to purchase respirators and protective gear that are provided at no charge to people in the gulf who are involved in the clean up. what we have been told by the folks who are involved in the cleanup work is tha...

Not be closed. do we know how many of these cleanup workers, a percentage, perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? >> the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bps oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that its their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order ...

Bp again threatens cleanup workers. bring your own protective gear to protect your own help, youre fired. witness accounts next. first, time for tonights "worst peshs in the world." lebrons, accused of plagiarizing at least 500 jokes from other comedians, mostly americans. the list includes the late george carlin and bill hicks. and emo phillips and lewis black, jay leno, chevy chase, woody allen, david letterman, jerry seinfeld and dan salve saj. dan savage? an example, the immortal hicks onc...

That. we heard a will the of language that was military in nature. thank goodness our army does not go to war like this. >> it raises a good point, billy and garland. if this was a war, james carville has been saying this, you have, the president has been say this is an assault on our shores, if we wage war the same way we waged this, would we survive? >> absolutely not. when you go to war, you throw everything at it youve got. you dont take a ten-minute break and work 20 minutes because its 90 ...

Because its 90 degrees. you dont lay your weapons down if youre being shot at. this is attacking our way of life, our coastline. weve taken a two-hour boat ride to a location, working 20 minutes and resting ten. >> bp cleanup workers, thats the way it works? >> absolutely. were not getting anything accomplished. weve got a lot of things out there. were trying. but theres no organization in place, no sense of urgency to attack the oil before it destroys our coastline. >> what did you think of wha...

Amphitheater. used to call it touchdown jesus. now its being called terminator jesus. i guess thats why they call a lightning strike an act of god. anderson? >> sad news, joe. thank you very much. baby bird found dead, bird eggs crushed, nesting site that people say may have been destroyed by cleanup workers. culprits of the catastrophe. were naming names. who were adding to our list tonight.