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Later on today. phil black for us this morning in london, thanks so much. meanwhile, efforts are resuming this morning to kill bps ruptured well once and for all. operations set back by about a week because of this weekends tropical storm but now crews are reconnecting equipment to resume drilling on those relief wells. rob marciano is live in gulfport, mississippi this morning for us. rob, we talk about this week. what is the new timetable for the static kill procedure? >> reporter: well, bas...

Into place tomorrow. these were actually defenses for the coastal areas to keep the oil from getting into lake pontchartrain. there are a lot of moving parts that have to move back to where they were, as they were fighting this oil. but right now, all eyes are on that drilling platform. how soon can they get that back up. theyre hoping within a matter of days to be back on track. but so far, this storm that actually didnt happen, as it fell apart on its way here, has actually cost this operation...

Got hit with more than 7 inches of rain, flooding streets and interstates, knocking out power to thousands and canceling airline flights. rescue teams in several suburban towns used boats and even a helicopter to search for people stranded by the rising water. in the gulf of mexico, the storm danger has passed and ships are now back at the site of the bp oil well. cnns david mattingly has more from louisiana. david, good evening to you. when will those boats be back on site, back to work? >> r...

And so bear in mind that in the earths crust there in the seafloor, you have a big pipe casing. then you put in a smaller one. it gets down all the way to seven inches. down very deep, almost two miles down, in the earths crust. so that whole drill string below the earths surface may have been rattled. and i had this model rigged up. heres the new cap which has a relief valve on it. this would go to the surface. but youve got to think of things below the seafloor. if this were the seafloor, this...

Hole theyve drilled and the drilling platform goes away. then a whole new platform, a whole different platform actually comes in, uncorks the hole and gets the oil out of the well. two different types of rigs. two different processes. theres drilling and then theres production. drilling done with a drilling rig, production done with a production rig. the production platform pumps the oil back to shore through all of the green pipe lines you see there on the map. those are the green lines. again,...

It was drilling for oil. there are two different things that happen on platforms in the gulf. you have a rig like the deepwater horizon that drills for oil. once its done drilling, they essentially put a cork in the hole for lack of a less descriptive phrase. they essentially stop up the hole theyve drilled and the drilling platform goes away. then a whole new platform, a whole different platform actually comes in, uncorks the hole and gets the oil out of the well. two different types of rigs. t...

Wus why wasnt something ready to go in the event of this kind of disaster? >> this has never happened in 25 years in the industry. >> yes, i understand that. but -- >> the blowout preventer, 25 years. >> there are risks involved in this. was this something that you just never ever thought would happen? >> it was considered to be an extraordinary low, low probability. and what we implemented is the response back. and that is what youre seeing, is what youre seeing all around us here. its what you...

Passenger bp for that and by statute and law, bp is the responsible party, but as i said, repeatedly, we are the accountable federal entity for oversight and intend to do that. >> couldnt you take over? i understand theyll have to pay for it under any circumstances, but couldnt you -- the federal government run the operation instead of letting bp run the operation? >> chris, we could, but they are -- there are resources in place and have a structure in place to do this and its a metro of how to ...

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Passenger bp for that and by statute and law, bp is the responsible party, but as i said, repeatedly, we are the accountable federal entity for oversight and intend to do that. >> couldnt you take over? i understand theyll have to pay for it under any circumstances, but couldnt you -- the federal government run the operation instead of letting bp run the operation? >> chris, we could, but they are -- there are resources in place and have a structure in place to do this and its a metro of how to ...