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Wikileaks says it wasnt bow to u.s. demands to stop publishing classified information. it will go forward with publishing sensitive documents despite pleas from the pentagon that it endangers troops. the site, which is operated in iceland is now in sweden. its day 111 of the gulf oil disaster and bp says it now could begin drilling the last 100 feet of that relief well tonight. thats only the cement they plugged into the busted well has dried by then. after the relief well intercepts the spoken ...

On me in a joke asking if i was going to go there with my swim trunks. i told him my colleague ed henry would be making the trip not me. but if i were to go i would jump into the water. so certainly i think folks would love to see the president get into the water to say, listen. everything is okay here. were getting back to normal. still a lot of cleanup to be done but life has gone on there. >> we saw ed henry last year in hawaii or maybe last summer sometime in his swim trunks. not sure we wan...

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Been seeing for quite some time now. the only difference over the past couple weeks, not a lot going on. you dont see oil spewing out. that is a good thing. the oil right now is holding. its kind of a two-step operation. a static kill operation and then the other bottom kill. but right now, were giving you an example, theyre pushing this mud down into the well. its holding right now and might follow up with cement. this process, the static kill, will continue probably for the next several days. ...

All, the bottom kill, the next phase that should permanently plug that well for good. that should get under way in the next few days and that should wrap up by mid-august and that involves, also, pumping in cement at the bottom level, the sea floor level of that relief well that intersects with that mcconda well. >> michelle franzen, thank you. a tragic end this morning to the search for a 2-year-old boy missing in arizona. searchers found the body of emmett trapp about a mile from his home ne...

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Try to figure out how to kill the well from this condition, and the first thing is youre assuming that the wellbore has enough integrity to allow this kill to happen. any time you pump into the well, a static well the pressure will increase on the well. it has to. and that imparts risk, something could break. >> so, already, we have seen two weeks where no oil has leaked. why not leave things where they stand? >> well, i think thats a very good question. its a very fair question because the reli...

See one of the real risks of course is when they put this cap, this new cap on, if they dont pressurize it slowly enough, it could back pressure down the well bore and, you know, compromise the integrity of the existing well bore down near the reservoir which would preclude a successful relief well, bottom kill, thats the worst of the worst night marry sna nightmare scenario that we dont want. all of these rigs that operate in deep water havent thought through how to respond to this, so before t...

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