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In 1995. >> i was. >> youve been through a lot of this tragedy and despair before. what do you say to people who are facing such unimaginable horror, losing a child in a tornado like this? >> really, there is -- just your presence with them. you know, you cant really -- you cant say a lot. you just -- you just know that were all struggling together with their loss. the most difficult part for me was i checked in with incident command. >> and he sent me over to the church where we were bringing t...

and new documents in the case of the man charged with killing trayvon martin. could shed some light on whether or not race played a role. want to get right to it. u.s. military judge held a hearing at ft. hood, texas, today a few weeks before the court-martial begins for major nadal hassan. hassan, he is the army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage in -- back in 2009. he is accused of killing 13 people, all but one of them fellow soldiers. he also wounded 29 others. now attorne...

We are going to help clean this stuff up. so we put the boat through the hoops. we relied to them, their word, we were told, we will take care of it, we will take care of it. until it comes time to pay, they deny our claims. >> you had a $50,000 claim on damage this this boat. >> they agreed to $1200 of it. >> reporter: not only do they say bp denied most of their claim, the joint incident command featured the bone collector in a video promoting the vessel of tunopportunity program. we asked bp ...

>> not only do they say bp denied most of their claim, the joint incident command actually featured the bone collector in a video promoting the vessel of opportunity program. we asked bp about it but they said as a policy, they dont comment on individual claims. >> we worked, we went out there and busted our tail for bp to clean this oil up that they put in the gulf. we didnt put it there. yeah, they paid us well while we worked. but hows that going to factor in over five, six, seven years if ou...

Barely see the white on this boat. nothing but oil. were slipping and sliding, wearing tie vehicle suits, it was crazy. >> reporter: months of cleaning up oil caused serious damage to the boat. and joshs father ted, a charter captain himself says, bp is not making good on their agreement to fix it. >> we were one of those boats with the attitude were going to attack this oil, were going to work on it, were going to help clean this stuff up. so we put the boat through the hoops, and we relied on ...

Were going to work on it. were go to help clean this stuff up. so we put the boat through the hoops, and you -- we relied on them to their word. we were told every day "well take care of it, well take care of it." until it comes time to pay, then they deny our claims. >> reporter: denied the whole thing. you had a $50,000 claim on damage to this boat. and they said, "well, were not" -- >> they agreed to $1,-200 of it. >> reporter: not only do they say bp denied most of their claim, the joint inc...

In the process of plugging the well for good. appears theres a difference of opinion on what exactly the step should be. phil keating is live on the gulf coast, first, were hearing talk about a possible methane leak coming from the well. is there any confirmation for that? >> the associated press quoting an unidentified federal official is reporting that there is a methane leak seeping out somewhere into the gulf of mexico from the wellhead area, now, i talked with incident command in new orlean...

Of be coming into the waters around the text coastline? >> my independenting is we have had tar balls in a couple places in the boulevard coastline. some have the characteristics of this spill and some have not. those that have exhibits characteristics of oil that would have been far weathered than it was having gone that far. were looking at the fact of whether or not vessels working in the area transmitted oil out there and had it come ashore. that said, we set up an incident command in galves...

Bolivar peninsula. some have had the characteristics of the spill and some have not. the one with the characteristics exhibit characteristics of oil that has been weathered. were looking at the fact that whether vessels in the area have inadvertently transmitted oil and have it come ashore. that said, taking no chances, we is have set up an incident command posted in galveston, our folks are in touch with the general land office and the incident commander has been in touch with governor perrys o...

Our jonathan serrie is live in new orleans monitoring late details are we getting any information of any kind from bp on this, jonathan? >> no. no information whatsoever from bp. and immediately before that video was showing what appears to be the new cap on top of the well, the official incident command released the news release saying that they were planning tests on the cap which would indicate they were assuming it would be in position by tovment but no official word from bp confirming that ...