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Mind couldn't be further from reality. now that they've just return from this ten-day mission out in the gulf waters to study the oil spill, they say for the first time they're finding toxicity levels in the water affecting crucial marine organisms. this is the weather bird 2, a research vessel used by the university of south florida for the last ten days. investigating the oil spill. some 13 scientists have been on-board and they're just now coming home to st. petersburg. >> water in here has been -- was collected from 50 meters. >> reporter: david was one of the lead researchers on the missi...

Testing done before they were used. obviously this is a difficult decision. are you talking about oil which is highly toxic in the environment. epa looked at this issue. a decision was made to use dispersants. then a decision was made to dramatically reduce the amount of dispersants being used. a 72% reduction. we're going to continue to monitor, continue to test. right now there's no anomalies. toxicity levels are not above what you might normally see in the gulf but we need to remain vij leapt and we will. >> is the seafood safe to eat? >> we've been opening fisheries. they go through rigoro...

Paul of kentucky also getting reminded of his support for bp at his first debate last night with democratic challenger jack conway. perhaps most telling was an interview with a republican no longer in power, johnny burton. for five years head of president bush's mms. the agency that oversaw drilling. burton the former owner of an oil company telling the wyoming star tribune, quote, when i was there it worked well. her successor also part of dick cheney's wyoming republican circle and once cheney's intern refused to comment. he is now president of the trade group representing offshore drillers....

>> the smell out here is so strong right now. i mean, i don't know anything about toxicity levels and air quality and this kind of stuff. but i were in a place on land where it smelled this strong, i would -- my instinct would be to get away and get to fresh air. when you're out on this much open water and this isn't fresh air, it's scary. right there is ft. livingston. that marks essentially the start of the gulf. and right now you can see we're in a mess of oil. all of these little globs, these dark brown globs, smaller than the globs we saw yesterday, but much more widespread. these aren't ...

>> there you hear mine safety officials and joe mancion with the details. they're going to have to enter the upper big branch mine. the issue are the toxicity levels. they determined they are at safe enough levels that 16 rescue crew members are going to reenter this mine. they're still calling this a rescue effort. that's a good word. that gives some of the family members hope that the four missing miners are possibly still alive. the rescue members are going to be equipped with breathing apparatuses should there be any survivors. they will be able to offer them some kind of refuge so they'll...