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And at this point 25 of whom are assigned 100% of their time to the gulf cleanup operation and we are bringing you -- bringing in a couple of dozen more as well. we have also been involved from the beginning with bp and with the command on the training that -- workers are going to need. we have been preparing and working with other groups to prepare educational materials and in a variety of languages, engli english, spanish, vietnamese. basically we have been aggressively assuring bp and the con...

Heartbreak of those birds when it comes to the wildlife affected by the spill. i understand you spent the weekend studying local sharks. tell us about that experience and what you learned. >> reporter: yes, we did. i can tell you an incredible experience. we headed out into the open water with a doctor, a marine biologist with the university of southern mississippis gulf coast marine laboratories and basically hes conducting a cutting-edge project, capturing live wild sharks, gathering data. hes...

Have as rigorous environmental safety health standards that we do here in the united states. and so when we do inspect seafood, less than 2%, things like salmonella or chemical residues, things we have banned in the united states that are known carcinogens, things like filth like rat hair, mouse hair all turn up in a lot of the samples. and so its certainly a concern for consumers to look toward imports as a better source of seafood. >> on a personal note and from your professional standpoint, w...

Theyre relatively inexpensive, or they will be? >> yes. so how people will use this, its aimed at the 1.6 billion people that actually use kerosene now for lighting their homes. but yet make it so inexpensive that the 2.8 billion people that live on less than $2 a day can afford it. the price right now, our website, which is nokaro.com, is $15 for the samples. however, when were dealing with ngos and large volume distributors, its around $6 right now. >> and how low can you get it? >> were worki...

Oils suspended deep beneath the ocean surface are of concern because they can poison the aquatic plants and animals and they also consume oxygen, potentialliesy asphyxiating mar life. on may 30, you stated that your samples showed no evidence of such plumes. on june 7, in a response to my letter, bp again denied the plumes existed, citing a bp document saying that there is no coherent body of hydrocarbons below the surface. even after noaa administrator corn firmed the plumes existence on june 8...

Oil of 0.5 parts per million. some of it is related to this spill. other samples have been tracked to other oil. >> you do not define that as a plume. >> im not an oceanographic scientist. >> ill take that as a continuing no from you. in your testimony continues to be at odds against all independent scientists. yesterday at the energy and commercial subcommittee on health during the hearing the director of the national institute of occupational health and safety told me in answer to my question ...

That in one locations, 0.5 parts per million, clearly attributed to this spill. >> are there plumes of oil beneath the ocean surface? >> there are concentrations of oil of about 0.5 parts per million in the water column. some of it is related to this spill. other samples have been types to other oil. >> so you do not define that as a plume? >> i think -- im not an ocean graphic scientist -- >> im going to take that as a continuing no from you. and your testimony continues to be at odds against a...

Beneath the surface. >> some of it is related to this spill, other samples have been typed to other oil. >> so you do not define that as a plume. >> i think im not a ocean graphicic skin cyst. >> yesterday at the energy and commerce subcommittee on health, the director of the national institute of occupational health and safety told me that he has asked bp for a roster of all workers multiple times and bp has failed to give him that information that is critical to tracking chemical exposure.

Industrial metals like lithium. according to the report, u.s. officials say that afghanistan could theoretically be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world. after a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey, a japanese space capsule has returned to earth landing overnight in the australian outback. scientists say it may contain the first-ever samples from an asteroid. the capture will be returned to tokyo where scientists will open it in about two weeks time. its 48 m...

Landed in the australian outback over night and it may hold the first-ever samples of an asteroid. back to the gulf, president obamas two-day trip to the oil-soaked region. tomorrow night the president will tell the country what so many are wondering -- and that is what now? with fish, birds and livelihoods dying quickly in the gulf, the governor of alabama is bashing the obama administration and demanding better coordination. jobs in that state are simply evapora evaporating. with crude was...