KOIN (CBS Portland) 5:30 p.m. news - 1994-01-12 (partial)
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[0:00] determine how to protect workers from
[0:02] radiation. After answering the radiation
[0:04] hotlines for a few weeks, the government
[0:06] now believes that many more than 800
[0:08] people, that was the estimate, were
[0:10] exposed to radiation during government
[0:12] experiments. The special hotlines are
[0:14] handling between 400 and 700 calls an
[0:17] hour.
[0:18] >> Veterans are among those who claim
[0:20] they've been used as guinea pigs.
[0:21] Advocates for the veterans exposed to
[0:24] nuclear blast say they have a better
[0:25] chance of getting help from the
[0:26] government now that those documents have
[0:28] been released. But as Eric Mason
[0:30] reports, some veterans are wondering if
[0:32] they'll be alive when help comes.
[0:34] >> Go ahead.
[0:36] >> Floyd Weebi is 65 years old.
[0:38] >> But I have problems uh with this rash on
[0:41] my body now.
[0:42] >> James Packard is 68. Well, it kind of
[0:45] devastates you.
[0:46] >> They don't know each other, but they
[0:47] were both witnessed to an awesome event
[0:49] 47 years ago. One that would change
[0:51] their lives forever.
[0:55] This was the blast on Bikini Atoll, one
[0:57] of hundreds of nuclear weapons tests the
[0:59] military conducted following World War
[1:01] II. In the ocean and in the desert, the
[1:04] towering cloud of the atomic age is a
[1:07] symbol of strength, of defense, of
[1:10] security for freedom loving people
[1:12] everywhere.
[1:13] >> Thousands of atomic vets now suffer with
[1:15] health problems from cancer to heart
[1:16] disease.
[1:17] >> Drives me crazy sometimes. Scratch. Not
[1:19] only do strange skin rashes drive Floyd
[1:22] Weebi crazy, so do the ulcers and other
[1:24] health problems he and his chi