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There, what if they make you sick? again, it's hard to find a definitive information out here that will help you make judgments about that. over and over again, what you see plenty of is the white house talking point, that you keep saying that the white house has responded competently and early to all of this. they're doing a great job all along. that's the message they're enforcing. in that way, it seems like the bp commercials we've been watching. >> replacing the lost income of fishermen and others until spill is cleaned up. our claims line is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> on t...

Bp continues to say there's no way to measure exactly how much oil is pouring into the sea. some say as high as 100,000 barrels, maybe more. a group of scientists say they have a way to directly analyze the flow. and they can do it at the oil spill site. their plan is called deep spill two. congressman ed markie urged bp to consider it in a letter sent back on june 10. so far, bp has not replayed. i spoke to representative markey a little earlier. congressman markey, you wrote a letter back on june 10 respecting specifically the funding for deep spill two. this is the thought. has bp responded...

Site, he said it's under my feet. he said the liner is supposed to contain everything that's dumped here in the landfill and protected from any leaks. he says the ground water and the air is monitored. and if anything goes wrong, they would know it. the epa told us bp, along with the epa, are also sampling the landfills regularly to make sure they are safe. the agency also said it directed bp to keep its waste disposal operations, quote, fully transparent. bp must post information about the disposal of all collected waste on their website along with any community complaints. connie rocco is fi...

Funding for deep spill two. this is the thought. has bp responded to the letter? >> i have not heard back from them yet. >> given the enormity of what we're talking about here, the impact across the entire country, why do we need bp's permission. why doesn't the government, for example, foot the $8.4 million bill and let the scientists get to work to answer some of the questions that you're raising. >> i think bp should pay for it. i think bp should stand for bills paid. and this is certainly something that bp should pay for. i think it makes a lot of sense for this experiment to take place, e...

Detailed proposal, 88 pages, $8.4 million to implement. as you guessed it, still nothing. bear in mind, it's 1500ths of a percent that bp earned in the quarter before the spill. it's about 2.5 hundredths of a percent sandra bernstein estimated the spill would cost bp. i spoke about it earlier with dr. ira lifer. dr. leifer, it's been more than three weeks since congressman ed markey asked bp to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impact overall of the oil on the ecosystem. you've heard nothing from bp is my understanding.