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I can spend time with my child and that to me has always been more valuable than my income. i earn three times that income my first year out of college. had a job in a real city and made choices and been for a decade working -- >> and now? >> i don't know. >> reporter: surgeon general benjamin had a chance to hear from michael and others and toured this area and she is from the gulf area. not only offering expertise but has an emotional connection as well. what they are doing, the communities up and down the coast will be applying for separate funding through bp and other programs so they can ...

Into deep depression or turn to alcohol or substance abuse. consider harming themselves or harming others. those are the people who rewe need to look out for. behavioral health effects could be now or long term, months out and years out, we may have some of those. >> reporter: so for now, what they are trying to do is coordinate with states. states will apply for funding for outreach programs and they'll base those programs on the community's needs. it will all come down to funding, a lot of people in this area wouldn't normally seek treatment themselves or normally want to talk about it. we'r...

That distrust and make sure that people can really rely on each other. >> and, clearly, they need help with that. more outreach programs like we saw randy reporting on a few minutes ago. sanjay gupta from new orleans. as always, sanjay, thank you very much, appreciate it. >> thanks, campbell. >> also, let me also mention that sanjay is going to have a lot more on new orleans tonight coming up on "a.c. 360" coming up at 10:00 eastern time right here on cnn. and next up, the verdict is finally in on those scientists caught up in the climate-gate scandal. what a brand-new report says. and, al...

Catastrophe, the state put $1 million of bp money toward mental health treatment. but they've already treated 2,000 people and that money is almost gone. today levine fired up another letter to suttles asking again for $10 million that will support six months of outreach programs, including medications and counselling. does it concern you that you've gone back to bp and said, look, we really need this money. >> that's why we've put a deadline on it. if you notice the last sentence, we said, we need it by next week. there's no more time to talk about this. >> reporter: you don't have to tell th...

Anxiety, stress. we have children involved. there's no time for dialogue. >> reporter: keeping them honest, we tried to ask bp why it isn't paying the mental health cots of the spill. bp told us, we have received a request for funding around mental health programs. we are discussing the request with several stake holder groups. the state put $1 million of bp money toward mental health treatment. but they've already treated 2,000 people and that money is almost gone. today levine fired up another letter to suttles asking again for $10 million that will support six months of outreach programs. d...