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Cnns david mattingly has that part of the story from new orleans. question for you. is this going to work? >> reporter: it has to work. this is the plan theyve been planning on since the disaster happening hoping it to be the final nail in the coffin for this leaking well. in the last couple days they are looking at this window of opportunity thats come up with this whether it created a sense of optimism we have not seen for weeks here and what theyre doing with this cap is actually going to hav...

Has more weeks to go. watch bps online video and youll hear the companys technical expert praising progress in bps ultimate solution, a relief well. >> i walk away with tremendous confidence in our relief well operation. >> reporter: bp concedes though it is still weeks away from attempting a so-called bottom kill of the blown out well to shut it down after the failure of its top kill efforts. why is it taking so long? petroleum engineers say drilling a relief well is a pains taking process. esp...

They can have magnetic sensors on them, they certainly have temperature sensors. so i think that they will be able to hit the target. >> one expert said to me, i dont know if this is overblown or not, that there is still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation. if the rocks get moved, this thing could really explode and theyre sitting on a billion potential barrels of oil at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. is that a real concern or is that just out of the question un...

Sensors and they can have temperature sensors and different sensors, so i do believe they will hit the target. >> one expert said to me, and i dont know whether this is overblown or not, but they are concerned about the structural base of this whole operation if the rocks are moved, this thing could really explode, and think are sitting on a billion potential barrels of oil at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. is that a real concern, or is that just out of the question unrealistic? >> well, i ha...

Already flooded with complaints of irregularities and accusations of fraud. taliban attacks kept 20 polling places from even opening. the gulf of mexico tonight, a crucial pressure test of bps macondo oil well is set to begin in about two hours. if the cement dumped deep into the well is hopefully holding. the so-called bottom kill is holding. thad allen will have the final word on whether the well is officially dead. if and when he does, crews will pack up and probably be gone in about a week...

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In venice, louisiana. so another good morning. how is it going at this point? >> reporter: hey, good morning, alex. were still waiting for any word to come from about 50 miles off the coast here where that operation is under way. the last we heard from bp was some time yesterday afternoon that they had started the cementing process. that started at about 1:30 local time. it was expected to take a few hours. then they needed to let that cement cure. after that they were going to do their pressure...

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Incident command is mulling over is what form is the final killing of this well going to take? this graphic can help us here. what they are trying to do now is decide whether to do the bottom kill or not. thats the -- what theyve already done is the static kill. they pumped mud and cement to the point beneath the blowout preventer about right there and a little into the top of this well thats going down now. that succeeded in stopping the oil from flowing into the gulf. but the question is, do t...

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