company says there will be no demonstrated need for them. no single issue high enough to warrant a respirator. on anything that i caught reporter: ricky ott, an environmental activist studies the effects of this exxon valdez spill. with this, once again, fishermen are lining up for cleanup 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. reporter: back in alaska, roy s coughing has never stopped. he now has skin rashes. his health literally crumbling. i m going blind. reporter: you think were you poisoned out there? yeah, yes.
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 going blind. you think you were poisoned out there? yes, yes. silently poisoned.
the cars and they re letting the workers get sick. and he is the grand prize in the nba s free agency exam bell, and the lebron-athon playing out. your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. i m melting. i m melting. this is very hot. we re not used to this. it s pretty disgusting out here. it s hard to go to work in the morning. spending more time at work than i otherwise would because the air conditioning is awesome there. the whether is so hot, it s killing people. at least two. where is rob? there he is. at least two confirmed death at this point from the heat. sweltering in the northeast. rob, we mentioned a moment ago that the heat wave is starting to dip farther into the south. the question is, is the cooldown in sight? if not, how long will it stick around? it is cooling off around the northeast. this thing, this cold front you know that. even you know this. there s cold air behind that but at this time of the year, it creeps so slowly to
even as bp works to destroy or cover up the evidence of dead animals and decimated wetlands in the gulf, it appears it is also working to suppress news of an unfolding human health crisis in the gulf. bp blaming the headaches, sore throats, dizziness, nausea of first responders on fatigue, even on food poisoning as we heard, even as second in command doug suttles admitting the company s cleanup technology is not of this century. the associated press reporting yesterday workers were not given protective gear for the cleanup effort and if they were it was not the right kind. marine toxicologist ricky ott warning on this news hour just last night of invisible oil, underwater plumes coming ashore, also affecting public health. meanwhile, woai in san antonio, texas reporting that doctors have apparently given a name to the emerging illness, calling it t.i.l.t., or toxicant induced loss of tolerance. those finding themselves intolerant to everyday scents,
folks who go out and they re doing the cleanup work, they come back, they feel better, and they go back again because it s a choice between feeding their family and not having any money to feed their family. and they re willing to sacrifice their health to feed their family, and i think that s tragic. you re group has been distributing what protective gear you have to these workers. do we know what bp s reaction has been to workers showing up with their own protective gear? yes, i m glad that you brought that up. lean and the mississippi riverkeeper is distributing protective gear when our folks, our fishermen folks had their respirators on they were told to take them off, that they would be fired if they used them. fired for wearing they re not allowed to what was the premise of that? fired for using safety equipment. i think that perhaps they re afraid they ll admit some sort of liability, that there s a problem in the air if they allow them to use the respirators.