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Two oil men in houston and theyve been used for that purpose all these years. i think what youre seeing here, what were beginning to see in this extended testimony is the evidence of the complacency weve been talking about here for the months this has been going on. this confidence that the technology is perfect, this will never happen, we can waive these environmental regulations, and these companies will just do the right thing and youre seeing the result of that after three months now of this...

Surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didnt have any problems spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we shouldnt offer relief to middle class americans like jim or leslie or denise who really need help. >> larry: well have the group comment on that. but first, let me check in with anderson cooper. hell host "ac 360 at at the top of the hour. whats the lead, anderson? >> breaking news tonight. a new option on the table to p...

The same people who didnt have any problems spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we shouldnt offer relief to middle class americans like jim or leslie or denise who really need help. >> larry: well have the group comment on that. but first, let me check in with anderson cooper. hell host "ac 360 at at the top of the hour. whats the lead, anderson? >> breaking news tonight. a new option on the table to permanently seal the well in the ...

Completion engineer, he then needed to take the 14.2 pounds per gallon mud which was holding 12,000 bottom hole pressure that he was circulating that out and replacing it with sea water. good procedure if you had a cement job. but had no cement job, then -- >> larry: the mud is from the bottom, right? >> no, the mud is from the top. >> larry: the mud is from the top? >> sure. you mixed it up. its 14.2 pounds per gallon. and so he has that to keep the well dead. and -- but he doesnt know whether ...

Completion engineer, he then needed to take the 14.2 pounds per gallon mud which was holding 12,000 bottom hole pressure that he was circulating that out and replacing it with sea water. good procedure if you had a cement job. but had no cement job, then -- >> larry: the mud is from the bottom, right? >> no, the mud is from the top. >> larry: the mud is from the top? >> sure. you mixed it up. its 14.2 pounds per gallon. and so he has that to keep the well dead. and -- but he doesnt know whether ...

Technique to plug the leak, its called a static kill, it basically involves drilling mud into the cap, sort of like that top kill method. floridas governor wants a constitutional ban against deep water drilling. the judge says their claims dont have any merits. if youre wondering how much oil has spilled into the gulf so far, the math geniuses at cnbc did the map. the amount is the same as old faithful spews out in 76 days. gulf coast brewery is sending out an s.o.s. in the form of beer. t...

Because federal law requires any offshore rig operation to immediately suspend all operations if a leak is detected on one of its blow out preventers until that leak is resolved. >> but it had, you know, problems off and on with the shuttle valves. shuttle valves that makes fluid go from one place to the other to function to be different parts of the v.i.p. i reported it to john gadd the team leader at the time. i dont know if he reported it to the mms or not but thats usually the way it was don...

Blowout preventer. are they an indication of methane? theyre testing for that. the third problem is a small leak in the flange of the capping stack. that essentially is the bottom of the ceiling cap. and they dont seem too concerned about that. so, the government green lighted this test to go ahead for another 24 hours which takes us to about mid afternoon today. and well see if they get another 24 hours. but in the meantime, bp has announced yet another plan b. i call this one plan b to about t...

Apparently no new oil gushing into the gulf of mexico and the pressure readings under the new tight fitting cap steadily rising. they have not seen or detected any new oil over this integrity test via a small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and multiple seismic and sonar readings conducted from the surface. the data indicates the wells integrity appears to be sound. instead of leaving it corked and waiting for the bottom kill to happen with the relief well, the plan remains to open the riser...

And running? >> theyre still targeting interception point late july, but it could be days or weeks before they actually bore in, pump the drilling mud in there, keep the oil and methane gas down and the sphet is shut for good. it could be mid august. however the deepest of the relief wells is about 45 or 25 more feet deeper than it was at the last reading, so its now at 17865. the interception point is roughly 18,000 feet. here on gulf shores, mississippis beach, every time the tide comes in it ...