and the federal ban on same-sex marriage has been overturned in massachusetts. the judge in boston found the ban unconstitutional, saying it interferes it state s right to define marriage. some good news for haiti the report out today shows the united states relief organizations have raised $1.3 billion since the devastating earthquake six months ago. the question is, is the aid reaching those who need it most? anderson and i return to haiti next week to see if all of the promises to help are being kept. much more from the gulf. bp continues to say there s no way to measure exactly how much oil is pouring into the sea. some say as high as 100,000 barrels, maybe more. a group of scientists say they i want to know why my hair is falling out. how did this happen? how did this happen? a little pain in my knee. that s how it started. that s how it started, this rash on my face. now it s like my body is attacking me. i want answers. announcer: when you don t have the right answers, it
gets viral on the internet as you ve seen in doing this i try not to read the internet, by the way. i don t either. i go up looking for things that people who are doing things that i can help them do in the midst of this. that s where i focus. the moratorium is controversial. do you support it? you know, i don t know? you you know, you could you could say that. but the economy is going to go to hell, you know? this is an oil-based economy. the thing that i think i want to do is look at i ve got little projects going. i go, that s a decision someone else is going to have to make on a bigger level. but we re doing things like we ve got a project where we ve got oil from the restaurants and fueling shrimp boats on them. is that right? oh yeah. that s something i can do. we re doing it. it s successful. ironically, people are going to me is, this thing, hopefully, will eventually get fixed. what are we going to do? go back to where we were?
been from the people doing the cleanup? you can t tell here. you have to dig a long time to find hints about it. if you want to know how many birds have been killed. you can find a nice feature about pelicans that they caught and cleaned up and set free, but you cannot get a direct answer to that question. what if you re worried about the odors along the coast down there, what if they make you sick? again, it s hard to find a definitive information out here that will help you make judgments about that. over and over again, what you see plenty of is the white house talking point, that you keep saying that the white house has responded competently and early to all of this. they re doing a great job all along. that s the message they re enforcing. in that way, it seems like the bp commercials we ve been watching. replacing the lost income of fishermen and others until spill is cleaned up. our claims line is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
maybe it s a time for people to look at alternatives though it s controversial. much oil in our lives. much more so in the beaches today. what are we going to do about that? that s the question we try to ask ourselves. we try to get answers. you talk to shrimpers, hoister men in louisiana. they re afraid that a way of life is really threatened. they re right about that. that begs it big question to me is what else is out there? let s face it, when the air when the automobile came along, there were a lot of people shoveling horse manure when they were out of work, but they found out they could fix flat tires. kind of like that it s a simple statement. the fisherman facing a way of life change, you don t want to hear that. you have to think of those terms, but if you look at the history, that s how things happened and maybe this is the time when you go, how much can really be how many jobs can be created. how much demand in our lives can
symptoms are, and give their best diagnosis for the situation. because of this this concern that, you know, you re with bp. they re saying, look, you eve 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 you go somewhere else and are they covered by bp? as far as going somewhere else, we know people have bypassed the personnel that we have and have gone into see their personal doctors. and we re we don t have a problem with that. they just need to go through the claims process and worker s compensation process. and that would be handled that way. so, we know that it s happening. we re not forcing people to see any of the of the health facilities that we have out in the field. after valdez, they sai 11,000 workers were studied, some reports said more than 6,000 of them were eventually