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For several hours and fingers crossed sometime later this afternoon they will start the stat i can kill procedure. jon: if bp is scaling back the cleanup that has to be hugely controversial. >> reporter: absolutely. over the weekend bob dudley, the american who will take over in october says its not too early to start talking about scaling back the cleanup efforts. obviously that doesnt sit well with people. take a look at this video here. the parish president says look at all of the oil spill i...

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...

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...

Of the operations will be discontinued if the winds are over 40 miles an hour. some of the vessels would have to pull away. in terms of the cleanup along the coast, a lot of that has already been suspended to get the ships in safe harbor as the storm moves over the coast, into the gulf of mexico over the next 24 hours or so, so what were looking at now is a stop in the action, thats for sure, because the relief well was just hours away from being poured, the final casing and they were hoping to ...

Pounds per square inch, climbing slightly. thats a little lower than they expected. they wonder, well, are there leaks anywhere? they did find some anomalies, some seepage in spots. they also found some methane bubbles but they dont think those are a concern or particularly from the leak in the well either. they think the reservoir has been depleted somewhat with oil the oil thats been leak into the gulf. thats certainly an option. theyre continuing these tests. when or if theyre going to pull t...

Tonight as always were keeping them honest. we have a right to know what is happening under the water and on the surface. thad allen told bp to provide information faster. he wants the information within four hours of whats going on down there. given how quickly things can change, and how slowly bp has communicated in the fast. youre wondering why the government isnt demanding four minutes. four hours would certainly be an improvement. weve been reporting on bps stranglehold on information for m...

Of how much oil poured out of the well each day. the good news tonight, the oils not flowing. the bad news tonight, neither is the information. tonight as always were keeping them honest. we have a right to know what is happening under the water and on the surface. thad allen ordered bp to provide vital data faster, information about anything thats really going on down there. he wants the information within four hours of whats going on down there. given how quickly things can change, and how slo...

Connect and disconnect from, hauling away and containing a lot more of the oil. the problem with that is that is still weeks if not possibly next month away. what about right now? the deadline that bp has to come up with this new plan. we dont have all the details yet. still waiting for that. could get it in the next few hours. but it may involve some hints of what theyve already talked about. take you back a little bit to that top kill procedure where they tried to pump the mud down to stop up ...

Look at all this oil thats washed ashore. so i think these reports coming from bp are going to be met with some skepticism down here, simply because of the ordeal they have been through the last 106 days. but no question about it. you know, we we want out to see the deepwater horizon site yesterday during the static kill procedure. and we were really taken aback by just how amazingly clear the gulf of mexico was out at the site of this major disaster. it was blue water almost as far as the eye c...