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Which congress appropriated for the dedicated purpose. >> anyone in our zone, which is the pentagon sites or anywhere south of canal street, includes responders and survivors. >> the program has been updated a couple of times and today it has paid out over $3.1 billion, covering more than 14,000 compensation determinations. its currently funded under the james the driving 9/11 health and compensation act of 2010, a bill which president obama signed into law and reauthorized in 2015. a nypd offic...

To human or aquatic life. >> is this going to go on for years and years. >> however long it goes on the company is committed to cleaning up that is which is exposed and ma conda oil. >> they still appear. theres still oil. drew griffin joins us now. what are the people who live there on the coast tell you about this? >> theyre still nervous. the fish are back, oysters are back, beaches seem to be back, but this unknown, this oil out there. the remnants of millions of gallups according to some re...

Im going to let you prevent the 80,000 business owners who have been waiting for years from this corrupt, dismal company that frankly should have gotten the death penalty here. they should not be permitted to drill in the gulf at all. skalia has to decide am i going to stay on the case? >> tell me about corrects it. some of the workers, cleanup workers are coming forward sick. and the claim is that this corrects it put on there by bp and the coast guard, i might add, that pushed the stuff to the...

>> some of them are better than i drive sometimes. >> john: yet the politicians still say it was good idea. >> breathing rights back into the automobile sector. >> so if destroying cars is good how much wealth could i create if i did an earthquake. a disaster like this could help an economy some people think it can. >> i think this can be an opportunity for a boom economy in haiti. >> she can see the jobs created for cleanup workers and building new buildings. likewise, after september 11th, paw...

>> some of them are better than i drive sometimes. >> john: yet the politicians still say it was good idea. >> breathing rights back into the automobile sector. >> so if destroying cars is good how much wealth could i create if i did an earthquake. a disaster like this could help an economy some people think it can. >> i think this can be an opportunity for a boom economy in haiti. >> she can see the jobs created for cleanup workers and building new buildings. likewise, after september 11th, paw...

Member of the united states coast guard, no. now, the commandant of the coast guard, knowing that he had been sent up there by the white house told exxon that maybe they would have to take it up with the white house. exxon said, well, thats no problem. and a short time later, after receiving a call from exxon, the white house informed the commandant of the coast guard that actually, yeah, he was not getting those 5,000 cleanup workers that he had requested. fast forward to 2001. the state-owned ...

Guard, knowing that he had been sent up there by the white house told exxon that maybe they would have to take it up with the white house. exxon said, well, thats no problem. and a short time later, after receiving a call from exxon, the white house informed the commandant of the coast guard that actually, yeah, he was not getting those 5,000 cleanup workers that he had requested. fast forward to 2001. the state-owned oil company of india wants in on a giant oil drilling project happening off th...

Sent up there by the white house told exxon that maybe they would have to take it up with the white house. exxon said, well, thats no problem. and a short time later, after receiving a call from exxon, the white house informed the commandant of the coast guard that actually, yeah, he was not getting those 5,000 cleanup workers that he had requested. fast forward to 2001. the state-owned oil company of india wants in on a giant oil drilling project happening off the coast of russia. india theres ...

The good news, we have the oil pollution act which required a lot of immediate on the ground responses. it also required a lot of infrastructure to be put into place, andç a legal structure which lawyers could start responding to the disaster, and the result of all of that is that right now we have a medical settlement on the table which is the result of a lot of study, a lot of activism by gulf residents which looks at a minimum about 200,000 people basically considered to be part of this gro...

First responders in cleanup workers in submitting a claim for benefits. sterns also point outs there was no opposition to the amendment. we contacted new york democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney whos been a fighter for 9/11 responders. in a statement she said, regrettably, this amendment which i felt was unnecessary was just one of the compromises we had to accept to get the 9/11 health bill passed. but retired police officer james rider who suffers 9/11 related health problems says the ide...