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Ahead but first to our new york newsroom where anita vogel is standing by the other headlines. >> reporter: work will go forward on the relief well in the gulf of mexico the word from the govenments point man. retired coast guard admiral thad allen is not satisfied with the mud and cement plug bp installed. he believes the bottom kill relief swell needed. weather-permitting drilling should restart in four days. >> an accused serial stab leaving atlanta without a fight. elias abuelazam will allow...

Get closer and closer. the key about intercepting this well at the bottom is then through the relief well they will put heavy mud and cement like they did during top kill. they will do it at the bottom. once that cement plug is in at the bottom of the well, national incident commander thad allen says he will consider this well killed. so they hope to intercept the well by this weekend, but it is tricky, delicate, precise work they have to do this week. chuck? >> hey, anne, does bp still own this...

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Some of the republicans wanted a promise from elena kagan that she would recuse herself from any such cases because he was solicitor general at the time the bill was signed into law and she declined to make such a promise. >> linda greenhouse, it is a pleasure to talk to you. well let you go back to looking at pictures on the wall there in your office. we appreciate you hopping on the line with us. >> thank you. bottom of the hour, about 20 minutes or so, were expecting to hear from the presid...

Oil from the macondo well will leak into the gulf of mexico. they are going to put -- they are going to as an insurance move, they are going to pour cement, the same way they did with the mud, down the top of the well, and put a cement plug at the top of the well, however, they still have to do the relief well. thad allen has said all along even if they plug the well from the top, they have to plug it from the bottom, because it is only then that he will consider this well permanently shut-in. r...

From the well will leak into the gulf of mexico. they are going to put -- they are as an insurance move, they are going to pour cement, the same way they did with the mud, down the top of the well and put a cement plug at the top of the well. however, they have to do the relief well. thad allen said all along if they plug the well at the top, they have to plug it from the bottom because it is only then when he will consider this well permanently shut in. rachel? >> nbc news chief environmental a...

So for all practical purposes right now, this well is dead. what theyre going to do now is look at how theyre going to cap this well. theyre talking about applying cement from the top now to create a plug at the top with cement. this will augment the plans they already have in motion to finish that relief well, to intersect the bp well sometime later this month and fill it up with cement, creating a cement plug down below, as well. so now at this point, the well, for all practical purposes, has ...

The next phase, the bottom kill or final kill as many are calling it. with the relief wells they have bern working on for the last few months, they are hoping to put a cement plug in there as early as thursday that could be finished by mid august. >> michelle, thank you very much. the government has reopened patches of fishing waters around louisiana and even declared seafood from some parts of the gulf safe to eat. both the fda and state of louisiana have been testing the fish and barely found ...

The mud will not push this oil back, but if that happens, they have the fail safe mechanism ready to go where they are drilling that relief well about a week from now where they will intersect that bp well and then begin filling it up with cement. a huge cement stopper to end the threat once and for all, and the procedure will have the same effect in killing the well, but because of the caution they have instituteded in proceeding with killing this well, they say it is not going to be done until...

Better sense now of just what went wrong. lets walk to the magic wall and get a sense. congressional hearings, other hearings down in the region starting to put together some of the pieces of just what happened. one point of inquiry is right here, the cement plug. they were pouring down cement from the rig into its ground, part of the effort to cap it to change this from an exploration to ultimately an oil drill aring platform. cement was being poured into this. there was a problem with the mixi...