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>> but, yet, something even more dangerous might be taking place under the ocean. >> absolutely. >> that what youre saying? >> bp has poured hundreds of thousands of gallons of it into the gulf not only by air but under water. that a process not only unprecedented but untested. now green wire reports bp has released monitoring data from as recently as june 29th. results of testing its cleanup workers and finding that 20% of offshore workers and 15% of near shore workers had ten parts per million...

20-year-old named floyd. nobody knew, not even the board of education, whether floyd was floyds first name or his last name. he apparently only had one. i went to sullivant on fridays with thurber. all the news and commentary now on "countdown." good evening from new york. one month after the deepwater horizon oil rig sank into the gulf of mexico environmental scientists testified to congress that the use of dispersants the chemicals that break up oil on the surface and under water does nothin...

Paul of kentucky also getting reminded of his support for bp at his first debate last night with democratic challenger jack conway. perhaps most telling was an interview with a republican no longer in power, johnny burton. for five years head of president bushs mms. the agency that oversaw drilling. burton the former owner of an oil company telling the wyoming star tribune, quote, when i was there it worked well. her successor also part of dick cheneys wyoming republican circle and once cheneys ...

It seems like they might want to sugar coat it as well, at least thats what it looks like from the new website the obama administration has launched. its 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 houses 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 wh...

>> 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? thats e...

The world, making decisions for folks down here. randi kaye uncovered a smelly mess from one local community. they doesnt 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 youve been wondering where all that scooped-up, onshore oil ends up, heres your answer. this is mississippis pecan grove landfill. what cleanup workers gathe...

Sugar coat it as well, at least by their website theyve launched. its 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 l...

Them into this situation where bp holds all the cards and bp is letting these workers get sick. >> back in alaska, roy dalthorps coughing had ans never stopped, he now has skin rashes. his health is literally crumbling. >> im going blind. >> you think you were poisoned out there? >> yes. yes. silently poisoned. and thats whats happening to those people down in the gulf. >> drew is joining us now. drew, health officials are monitoring cleanup workers here in the gulf. weve seen some of that. are ...

Years later, based on -- >> on one worker that i represented. >> who is still sick? >> who is still sick to this day. even exxon was forced to concede, eventually, that gary stubblefield was a very sick man. >> mestas client, gary stubblefield, filed a lawsuit. he traveled from alaska to an exxon office in houston where stubblefields medical records and thousands of others were being held, records exxon asked a court to seal for privacy reasons. of 11,000 cleanup workers, 6,722 had gotten sick. ...

>> for six weeks, he worked on a ship that super heated sea water to pressure wash exxons crude oil off rocks. his photos on board show the steam that he says was an oily smelling mist, permeating the ship where he worked 16-hour days and that is when the cough began. >> nobody ever checked with us, nobody. they never did a follow up on us, never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. im serious. there was no follow up. >> exxon told us it doesnt know how many c...