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>> but, yet, something even more dangerous might be taking place under the ocean. >> absolutely. >> that what you're 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 of the dispersant solvent, twice the toxicity limit of five parts per million dictated by the cdc'...

20-year-old named floyd. nobody knew, not even the board of education, whether floyd was floyd's 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 nothing except reduce the oil visibility. in other words it doesn't clean pollution. it just hides eviden...

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 bush's 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 cheney's wyoming republican circle and once cheney's intern refused to comment. he is now president of the trade group representing offshore drillers....

It seems like they might want to sugar coat it as well, at least that's what it looks like from the new website the obama administration has launched. it's 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 house's 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 where the spill area is, where fishing has been closed, where beaches have been affected, that sort...

>> 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? that's either not here or it's buried. how many birds have been killed in all of this? you can't find that....