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>> all right. thanks very much. will bp ever be able to fork over the billions and billions and billions of dollars to pay all of the damage claims and all of the spill cleanup? we'll take a closer look at the demands coming in right now from top democrats here in washington and bp's finances. stand by for that. plus, cars and people simply swept away in terrifying flooding. torrential rains taking their toll for a second day. and in the midst of war, buried treasure in afghanistan. get this. worth a trillion dollars or more. you know, when i grow up,

Business because of this and some of them already are. there's a lot of anger about this, alex. >> and, mark, aren't some of them trying to get day labor or work to help with the spill cleanup, some of these fishermen? >> reporter: yeah, that's an irony here. these fishermen are out of work because of the spill and many of them are now trying to go to work to clean up the spill. that's what's out there for them, a sad fact. this is the start of the fishing season right now and they're out of business. you go to the docks and the boats are sitting. they probably would be anyway today because of...

Each burn consumes several thousand gallons of oil and lasts about an hour. >> it's a difficult procedure, and it's something that's got to be done. remember, it's a lot better to destroy the oil at sea rather than try to clean it up and work with it once it gets on shore. >> reporter: the slick is now 100 miles wide and less than 20 miles from louisiana's coast. we got to see the challenge up close at the leak site. here inside the spill, white caps are brown. and that scent of fresh salt sea air is no more. all you can smell is the pungent odor of oil. the louisiana responder is one of 16 sk...

Lasts about an hour. >> it's a difficult procedure, and it's something that's got to be done. remember, it's a lot better to destroy the oil at sea rather than try to clean it up and work with it once it gets on shore. >> reporter: the slick is now 100 miles wide and less than 20 miles from louisiana's coast. we got to see the challenge up close at the leak site. here inside the spill, white caps are brown. and that scent of fresh salt sea air is no more. all you can smell is the pungent odor of oil. the louisiana responder is one of 16 skimming boats working at the site. kenneth howland is a ...

Continued in the spill's aftermath. i hold in my hand a document called voluntary wafer of release that bp made unemployed fisherman sign before they could be hired for spill cleanup, and the wafer states i hereby agree on behalf of myself and representatives to hold harmless and endemocrat nifify and release, waif and forever discharge the bp exploration production from all claims and damages that i or my representatives may have with regard to my participation in the spill response activities. i know that you said this was an early misstep and a standard document, but this was the first resp...