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Time for todays "wordplay" where we take a term in the headlines that might be unfamiliar to a lot of people and explain it. today, weve got "mud," which doesnt mean what you think it means, at least in the context of the gulf oil disaster. your average mud is wet, soft earth, right? well, the mud everyones focused on today is drilling mud, a manufactured fluid, usually a bentonite clay base. right now, it is the main ingredient in bps static kill plan. v theyve got more than 1 million gallons o...

There is no flow. the reason for that is our students have injected drilling mud into the primary well which increased the weight of the fluid in the well. thin creased weight increased the pressure on bottom of this column of fluid and that was enough pressure to overcome the pressure of the reservoir. >> very simple model to explain whats going on. of course, actually in the gulf of mexico its on a much larger scale with much larger pressures. joining me now to talk about the process, a profes...

Highway accident. police are blaming a drunken driver and illegal immigrant convicted and released after earlier ducks i cases. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer and you are in im wolf blitzer and you are in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com breaking news from the gulf of mexico where the static kill operation is under way. it is bps effort to once and for all seal the ruptured oil well that led to a region-wise ...

It fixed in a matter of hours and as you said, theyll pump the heavy drilling mud down in to the well and if that is successful and can overcome the pressure of the oil that is trying to escape from the well, bp will then use cement and use this same system of piping, to shoot cement down there and could be over, at least, in terms of the oil leak itself. bill: that is one story today and the other one, theres reports bp is pulling out equipment, is that happening? how is that going over? >> rep...

Theyll pump heavy drilling mud and eventually cement at the top of the well. all of the pipes, all of the valves have to be able to withstand the pressure. thad allen was saying -- quoting him here, one of the things theyre looking for is if they start pumping mud in and all of a sudden, the pressure doesnt go down, they would hit just a flat line and the pressure stays there. that means its going somewhere and that would be of grave concern to them. heres something else thats happening. while t...

Night. first though tonight could be the beginning of the end of the oil leak in the gulf of mexico. a live look now a mile below the surface of the gulf where bp reports it started a procedure to pump heavy mud, drilling mud into that broken well. then cement, if that works. to permanently seal the gusher. if the plans successful it would end the first accidental marine oil spill in the history of planet earth. kris gutierrez live in slidell, louisiana. how will we know whether this works, chri...

Waters, the number three democrat on the financial services committee, vehemently denies any wrongdoing and is choosing to go to trial this fall, rather than admit violating ethics rules. the allegations come as democrat charles rangel, another prom length member of the congressional black caucus, faces trial on 13 ethics violations. bp will perform a crucial test this morning to determine if it can begin efforts to permanently seal the blowout well in the gulf of mexico. the test was initiall...

Speaker newt gingrich and 14 months later, the house ethics committee found the speaker guilty, guilty, guilty on one, two, three counts. >> bret: b.p. has begun what it hopes is the first step in the solution to the gulf oil spill. correspondent kris gutierrez is live in slidell, louisiana, to tell us how its going. good evening, kris. >> reporter: hello, bret. the much anticipated static kill procedure began two hours ago. b.p. plans to pump heavy drilling mud for several days, stopping only t...

Newsroom" page" or to marthamccallum.com and, the twitter page, a lot of information on the mosque issue, in particular, well continue to follow that. bill: bill has a question... martha: yes, bill. bill: i have a question every day. and testing underway in the gulf as bp gets ready to finally -- did i say that? finally stop the blownout well, and, at the moment engineers are getting ready to pump heavy mud into the riser cap. hoping to plug the pipe from the top down. top kill procedure, will i...

Sea in the gulf of mexico. well, its a new method, its called static kill. let me first show you whats going on under the ocean right now. let me show you that camera. as you can see, no oil flowing. this cap that has been on there since july 15th has actually been working quite effectively. but theyre getting ready to try something called static kill. a little bit different than the top kill method that didnt work well over a month ago. the difference right now, of course, is when they went in ...