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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 ...

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 refusing to do that. the next day, they began to turn over all of this information and there was, as a result, an increase in the transparency. but i think we're going to have to monitor this situation on an ongoing basis because nobody knows better than you, there are physical harms here, but there are also mental health consequences to this event because people's lives are being affected in a way that coul...

Why we are at this situation that we are in. still not knowing many very specific things. part of it has been the response mentality in that always dealing with the current problem, what's around the corner for the next two days instead of actually having plans that try to address more forward looking, which is what our team has put together so that we can actually make plans and get the data that's needed while the tornado is happening. a good analogy here is that if you study a tornado by looking at the broken houses, you don't learn how to build a house properly. you want to study it while ...