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His health is literally crumbling. >> i'm going blind. >> you think you were poisoned out there? >> yes. yes. silently poisoned. and that's what's happening to those people down in the gulf. >> drew is joining us now. drew, health officials are monitoring cleanup workers here in the gulf. we've seen some of that. are you saying that there was no one monitoring in alaska and there was no follow up either? >> sanjay, there was certainly nothing near the type of monitoring that's going on right now in the gulf. and absolutely no follow up. in fact, exxonmobil even confirmed that to us in an e-mai...

Occupation safety and health, was in agreement at the time. >> total bs. the only epidemiology was there was a few head colds they could identify and niosh didn't have any of the records. >> exxon never admitted fault in stubblefield's case but reportedly settled the lawsuit for $2 million. one of the very few workers to get compensation. exxon says the few lawsuits brought failed to show any evidence of injuries or illnesses known to be caused by exposure to crude oil or the chemicals they used to clean it up. keeping them honest, dennis mestas, the attorney, says that he is concerned that wo...

Illnesses known to be caused by exposure to crude oil or the chemicals they used to clean it up. keeping them honest, dennis mestas, the attorney, says that he is concerned that workers, cleaning up in the gulf today, may be headed for the same fate as the exxon valdez workers. they get sick while their medical records are controlled by bp. louisiana's health department has reported 128 cleanup workers believed to be sick from exposure to this spill but bp tells us they have recorded just five illnesses related to inhalation exposures in the entire gulf. bp is also insisting that government ai...

Exxon valdez spill 21 years ago. with this bp spill, she says, once again, out-of-work fishermen are lining up for cleanup jobs that she says will put them in harm's way. >> i feel like bp is forcing them into this situation where bp holds all the cards and bp is letting these workers get sick. >> back in alaska, roy dalthorp's coughing had ans never stopped, he now has skin rashes. his health is literally crumbling. >> i'm going blind. >> you think you were poisoned out there? >> yes. yes. silently poisoned. and that's what's happening to those people down in the gulf. >> drew is joining us n...

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. i'm serious. there was no follow up. >> exxon told us it doesn't know how many cleanup workers became sick. dalthorp never filed a lawsuit or a claim. he could never prove the work he did on the valdez made him sick. exxon did pay to study the health effects of almost every single creature that came in contact with oil in prince william sound. every creature, but one. >> fr...