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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 air testing is showing, quote, we have not had a single reading above osha regulations to date. as for respirators, the company says there has been no demonstrated need for them, no single issue high enough to warrant a respirator. >> anything that i -- >> dr. rickie ott studied t...

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...

( tires squealing ) to have bad tires. come to meineke and save $20 on two or more tires. at meineke, you're always the driver. back to the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. the president toured the area today and also talk about bp being responsible for this spill, bp being responsible for the cleanup. but the federal government was going to try in the best supportive role as it can to reduce the crisis. so we're going to talk right now with a marine toxicologist, rickie ott. she's coming out of denver. we know bp is using dispersants to try to soak up some of that oil. i want to talk to you...

containers and consumer grade fireworks from the vehicle. they also removed a locked metal box after opening it with an explosive charge that they found what they described as a bird's nest of wires and firecrackers. the license plate on the car came from a connecticut auto shop as well. auto repair shop is what the police commissioner said. he also said there was -- there were many bags of fertilizer in that vehicle. meantime, president barack obama just talked about the car bomb situation. let's go to dan lothian at the white house. dan, the president having to tackle a couple th...