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The well bore, then eventually run the rest of the liner and cement that. that process is basically a five to seven-day process. until that is complete, they cant start the static kill process. that would put us at about a week from now. they tell me that -- i asked, why the static kill, if it aint broke, dont fix it, lets wait until the leaf well is drilled. but they are emphatic the static kill operation will make the bottom kill from that relief well much, much quicker an much, much easier. t...

Not such a big threat to lives or profit along the gulf coast. but this adds delay to the agony of the oil spill. we were so close to beginning the kill process on this well this weekend, and now its been delayed by at least 48 hours, perhaps as long as a week in order to get those vessels back on-site and reconnect the process of killing this well. thats the known process that has to take place to end the crisis in the gulf of mexico. the good news is that that cap remains on top of the well, s...

Tonight, tomorrow, those ships will return to the area and begin the relief well process, which was supposed to begin today. today we would have been telling you about the beginning of the end of the kill process for this well, but that will have to wait a couple more days. veronica? >> regardless, though, this is going to impede the progress being made there, charles. how much progress will it be impeded? >> reporter: well, by several days. the good news is, that cap is in place. theres no oil ...

To a point where it could intercept the corrupted well but they have to put in a steel reinforced casing the. that is the last step. they wont begin that until they get an all-clear from the forecasters who are watching the storm. they dont want to start this process and then have to disrupt it and move off scene for up to 10 to 14 days, the admiral says, if a storm does come through. theyre watching this system and they have everything in place right now to begin it. if the storm goes away, her...

Cap is holding, according to bps last technical briefing, they want to keep that cap in place until the relief wells are ready to go and that could be next week. they could start puncturing the well deep down and begin the kill process. thats expected to take another seven to ten days, however, but the end is in sight, no oil has been flowing into the gulf for the past six days and thats a big relief to the folks who live along the gulf coast here, tamron. >> well give you the updated informatio...

Breaking news right now for the first time in months there is no oil leaking into the gulf of mexico. that is because of a critical test bp is currently conducting on a new well cap. so what happens after this test is completed? should be completed within 48 hours, and the national incident commander and retired coast guard admiral thad allen explains the process. >> within 48 hours, we will terminate the task back to production with the q-4000 and the helix producer and evaluate where we are at...

The process. >> the president certainly has suffered a great deal. >> has paid a price. >> politically because of these three months. >> you remember during the crisis which is now almost fully three months, the people started comparing barack obama to jimmy carter during the hostage crisis, and theres a question of how competent barack obama was or if he -- if he was competent how compassionate barack obama is, and now hes got a political fight on his hands about a moratorium on drilling deepwa...

A huge moment in the course of what weve been covering over the last three months. i mean, i dont think theres any words that can add to this to explain why this is such a crucial moment in the hope that what we see on the right of your screen there is what we can hope -- would hope would continue from here on out so we know that were in the middle or the beginning of this integrity test. it will last a couple of days, and why this is significant, because if one of the two options that they hope...

Hurricane, and also this cap, is it going to be instrumental in helping them to ensure that the kill process runs properly. and the seismic test that is coming up is something that is very important, because it will tell them if any oil and gas is actually leaking into the layers of the rock, and actually displacing salt water that would normally be in the rocks with oil and gas and it is a clear-cut indication that there is a leak, but if they see nothing it will be a very good sign that there ...

Waited for, you know, 87 days for. obviously the cap that is -- that has been put on proves that cap could have been designed in 2003 when they knew these blowout preventers were not failsafe. having said that, good news is good news and we need to make sure that the focus returns to where it should have been which is keeping the oil from coming ashore, protecting habitat, seeking additional resources there. the money is obviously there. they have the resources that exist but putting the two to ...