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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 now. drew, health officials are monitoring cleanup workers here in the gulf. we've seen some of that. are you saying that there was no one monitoring in alaska and there was no follow up either? >> san...

And finished and bp's interest in actually conducting that research. >> as things stand now, congressman -- i'm down here looking at the health effects. do we know if there are any long-term health effects of this oil spill? do we know what they are and when they'll start to happen? >> well, at the hearing in our committee, i demanded from tony hayward that he make accessible to the national institutes of occupational health and safety all of the information about all of the workers down there in the gulf of mexico. and up until then, they had been equivocating. up until then, they had been re...

Oil spill like this. i keep coming back to this simple question, dr. leifer. i think it's really at the core of this whole thing. does bp, does the federal government want the american people to know what's really happening out there on the water or don't they? i mean, because you're trying to find out what's actually happening, how much oil is coming out and what the impact is. why can't we get that simple answer almost three months into this? >> i really do not know exactly why we are at this situation that we are in. still not knowing many very specific things. part of it has been the respo...

And they're just told this is all due to a virus. that didn't sound right to me. does that sound right to you? >> not being able to evaluate any specific examples, but we have 40,000 responders out there. people will get sick as well. so, we are not influencing the practitioners out there in any way. we are relying on them to use their clinical judgment, understand what the exposures are, what the symptoms are and give their best diagnosis for the situation. >> because of this concern that, you know, you're with bp, a worker may say, look, you've got a dog in that race. if they come to you, a ...

People will get sick as well. so, we are not influencing the practitioners out there in any way. we are relying on them to use their clinical judgment, understand what the exposures are, what the symptoms are and give their best diagnosis for ththe situation. >> because of this concern that, you know, you're with bp, a worker may say, look, you've got a dog in that race. if they come to you, a worker, and they're not happy with what you or your doctors have told them, can they go somewhere else? >> absolutely. >> and will it be covered by bp? >> as far as going somewhere else, we know people h...