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Drilling efforts. the one on the right is almost there. that will be helpful if they pump this mud into the well to alleviate pressure to make sure its sealed. those are basically the two efforts that are going to have to take place together. and that might mean a permanent kill of this well. i want to tell you something else. theres a critic in congress, congressman ed markey who says that bp went overboard in putting those dispersants into the ocean to disperse the oil. he said that they vastl...

The hardest hit areas, and what we saw down below was widespread devastation. village after village, especially those next to rivers and waterways, under water. we saw thousands of homes destroyed, if they werent destroyed, they were buried in mud. >> and in these pictures youll see some elderly survivors being evacuated from flood areas by pakistani army helicopters. u of m officials say thousands of others are stranded on rooftops. these are pictures i was telling you about, trying to get peop...

Drilling mud, possibly cement into the well. but even if its permanently sealed, will the gulf of mexico face lasting effects from the chemicals used to break up ors by percent the oil. we found out for the last two weeks no dispersants have been used in the gulf. still, the amount used between april and july is eye-opening. more than a million gallon of chemical dispersant, total, more than 1.8 million gallons poured into the gulf to combat this spill. and there are new questions tonight about ...

Showed the economy lost momentum in the spring. the manufacturing sector grew for the 15th straight month, but at the slowest of the year. construction spending was up .1 percent, the increase from the government work. the dow had a big day today gaining 208 after good news in the economic earnings reports particularly good news from china and europe. and the s&p was up 24.25 and the nasdaq was up 40. b.p. says it will start shoving mud and cement into the well at the bottom of the gulf of mexic...

Destroyed. if they werent destroyed, they were buried in mud. >> and in these pictures, these are more pictures where you can see some elderly survivors being evacuated from flooded areas by pakistani army helicopters. u.n. officials say that thousands of other people restrain stranded on their rooftops on higher ground. hundreds of survivors have expressed outrage over what they say has been the governments slow response. officials say theyre doing the best they can considering all the roads an...

>> two words. and there are four terms. top. >> okay. >> kill. bottom kill. they are completely different. >> right. >> one, 18,000 feet in the bottom of the ocean. the other one on top where the blowout preventter is. im going to make a familiar three tree here, just like at cnn. there was the dynamic part of the static kill they tried to do earlier. >> right. >> and now theyre going to do a static kill. they are both still top kills. >> i got it, okay. >> they both still pump mud down into and...

It is 105 days in. but weve not seen oil flowing out of that well since july the 15th. let me give you a sense of whats going on. thats a picture -- live picture, as you can see. no oil flying anywhere. the issue here is that we are going to start to see static kill. let me show you what static kill looks like. basically theyre going to be sending stuff down from the surface, mud, they call it mud. its drilling mud. its really a chemical, very heavy chemical that pushes anything underneath it, p...

We just received new word in an effort to permanently plug that oil gusher in the gulf, hearing now that that will be delayed. bp says it will push back the start of the so-called static killum tomorrow, this comes as bp launches a major offensive to stem the flow of lawsuits. the company will offer one-off combination pay payouts to gulf residents waiving the right to sue and the bp is looking at dispersants in the water, lawmakers want to know why bp continued to use chemicals despite concerns...

Heavy drilling mud into a larger ship with a series of pipes that lead to the well itself. theyll pump the drilling mud probably 30 to 60 hours. if all goes well with testing, they could follow the mud up with cement and permanently seal that well. >> this spill, as you dont need me to tell you, has been so tough for the fishermen who work in the gulf. you have talked to so many of them. with the cap on and no new oil coming out of the well, temporarily, has it helped the fishing industry? >> no...

Everything is a go, so they could start pumping that drilling mud as early as tomorrow. if that goes according to plan they could use that equipment to pump in the cement to finally, finally cap this well. megyn: thats the goal to get the permanent fix on, but in the meantime the temporary fix, the cap that they put on there, has been working, and it has stopped or slowed much of the oil flow. so how are the local fishermen now reacting to that, kris? >> its great news because they continue to o...