Bottom Kill News Today

Launching bottom kill. >> that could take place sometime the week after labor day. >> reporter: crews will also attempt to recover the wells blowout preventer and drill pipe, two key components in determining whether bp, transocean and halliburton were criminally negligent in the deepwater horizon disaster. thad allen says they will only proceed with bottom kill after they determine it is safe to do so and that his time line is simply his best guess. vinita, rob. heres a look at your weather a...

I would say this and this is a very positive statement, there is no oil flowing into the gulf of mexico. we have successfully shut in this well, we have had stability since the 15th of july and we have something we have not had before, we have the trade space to really consider alternatives in less than a high pressure situation to allow us to really do the right thing in relation to killing this well. we also need to be concerned about preserving evidence for the investigation thats going on as...

Mother nature. >> reporter: we are being rained on by the storm that halted the drilling of the relief well. they thought the storm would be a lot worse than it turned out to be. they resumed work today. they capped it before in anticipation of the storm. now they are in the process of removing the cap of that temporary relief well and will soon resume the drilling of it to reset last -- reach that last 30 feet and try to seal this well for good. they are telling us the bottom kill, the so-calle...

Coming through. it rains really hard for ten minutes and thats it. the worst has been in southeastern louisiana, including new orleans. its been dry in mississippi, alabama and the florida gulf coast. weve had rain around the tampa area. what you see here is a huge circulation, and its primarily due to this mid and upper level spin in the atmosphere counterclockwise low pressure. the center of the low right now, the center of the depression is about 175 miles south of pensicola. hurricane hunter...

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Our reynolds wolf is in pensacola beach florida. hello to you once again. a great analogy you used. i borrowed it and gave you credit for it. where are we in this procedure. we havent seen oil coming out of the well in some time, it has been capped, static kill went well. what is that next step and why still is this not over just yet? >> what they want to do is kill the well all together, the well all together and the way theyre going to do that is with the procedure referred to as a bottom kill...

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Bps crippled oil well could be sealed permanently by next weekend when the process called bottom kill takes place. additional mud and cement will be poured into a main well through a relief well, finalizing that capping process. a shakeup at the top of hewlitt-packard, following a sexual harassment claim against him. hp said while an investigation found that hurd did not violate company policy, he did violate company standards. an update now on super model naomi campbell, as she testified in...

Money at the spot where 11 workers died and an environmental nightmare began. experts estimate there could be $4 billion worth of oil in the reservoir beneath the blown-out well. and b.p. executives not ruling out trying to sell that oil some day. >> clearly, theres lots of oil and gas here and well have to think about what to do with that at some point. but what weve always stated is the original well, the well that had the blowout and the relief wells would be abandoned and thats what were doi...

Fun as watching cement harden. on day 108 of the disaster, the success of bps latest attempt to plug the gushing well hinging in our third story on watching cement harden, literally. at this hour, bp engineers now monitoring the well to determine the effectiveness of the cement they finished pouring down the well, needing to wait at least a day for the compound to set. it doesnt really dry. todays procedure coming a day after they pumped enough mud down to reverse the flow of the oil. admiral th...