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Exxon valdez spill 21 years ago. with this bp spill, she says, once again, out-of-work fishermen are lining up for cleanup jobs that she says will put them in harm's way. >> i feel like bp is forcing them into this situation where bp holds all the cards and bp is letting these workers get sick. >> back in alaska, roy dalthorp's coughing had ans never stopped, he now has skin rashes. his health is literally crumbling. >> i'm going blind. >> you think you were poisoned out there? >> yes. yes. silently poisoned. and that's what's happening to those people down in the gulf. >> drew is joining us n...

ship where he worked 16-hour days and that is when the cough began. >> nobody ever checked with us, nobody. they never did a follow up on us, never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. i'm serious. there was no follow up. >> exxon told us it doesn't know how many cleanup workers became sick. dalthorp never filed a lawsuit or a claim. he could never prove the work he did on the valdez made him sick. exxon did pay to study the health effects of almost every single creature that came in contact with oil in prince william sound. every creature, but one. >> fr...

Storms. but allen says he doesn't expect the work to be completed until mid-august. >> the relief wells development driller three, which is the lead drilling rig for the relief wells, is now at 17,780 feet measured depth. within a couple hundred feet of the proposed penetration point of the well bore. we are down to the final days and weeks of closing in to a point where we could intercept the well. our target date remains the middle of august. >> more than 100 workers who have been helping clean up the oil spill have gotten sick and that sounds more than familiar to the fishermen from the exx...

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. riki ott studied the exxon valdez spill 21 years ago. with this bp spill, she says, once again, out-of-work fishermen are lining up for cleanup jobs that she says will put them in harm's way. >> i feel ...

Demonstrated need for them. no single issue high enough to warrant a respirator. >> anything that -- >> dr. ricky ott, an environmental activist studied the effects of the exxon valdez spill 21 years ago. with this bp spill, she says, once again, out of work fishermen are lining up for clean-up jobs, that she says will put them in harm's way. >> i'm feeling like bp is forcing them into this situation where bp holds all the cards. and bp is letting these workers get sick. >> back in alaska, roy dalthorp's coughing has never stopped. he has skin rashes, his health, literally crumbling. >> i'm go...