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Bp again threatens cleanup workers. bring your own protective gear to bring your own help or you're fired. first, time for tonight's worst persons in the world. lebron's, accused of plagiarizing at least 500 jokes from other comedians, mostly americans. the list includes the late george carlin and bill hicks. and emoe phillips and lewis black, chevy chase, woody allen, david letterman, jerry seinfeld, and dan savage. an example, the immortal hicks once complained that the audience at a club was so stupid, that when he offered once of his priceless deep jokes, they stared at me like a dog. on...

Do we know how many of these cleanup workers, a percentage, perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? >> the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bp's oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that it's their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order to minimize payouts for a loss of compensation. >> who's actually governmentally responsible for ensuring the saf...

Perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? >> the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bp's oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that it's their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order to minimize payouts for a loss of compensation. >> who's actually governmentally responsible for ensuring the safety and health of the people trying to do the cleanup here? ...

Bp again threatens cleanup workers. bring your own protective gear to protect your own help, you're fired. witness accounts next. first, time for tonight's "worst persons in the world." lebron's, accused of plagiarizing at least 500 jokes from other comedians, mostly americans. the list includes the late george carlin and bill hicks. and emo phillips and lewis black, jay leno, chevy chase, woody allen, david letterman, jerry seinfeld and dan savage. dan savage? an example, the immortal hicks once complained that the audience at a club was so stupid, that when he offered once of his priceless...

>> what are you hearing about whether or not workers are even wearing their protective gear, are they being encouraged to wear it by bp or not? >> no, they're not being encouraged at all. i serve on a small community foundation that has been giving emergency grants that enable local groups to purchase respirators and protective gear that are provided at no charge to people in the gulf who are involved in the clean up. what we have been told by the folks who are involved in the cleanup work is that when they have come to the job site wearing their respirators and protective gear that they've be...