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Pumping pressure, too, and that should have the mud pushing the oil back down through the well pipe, but officials are taking it very slow, very cautious approach and they say even they dont know when the process will be complete. although they say it could involve up to 70 hours of pumping. anderson? >> how do they know theyve reached the goal? how do they know its been stopped? >> reporter: yeah. thats a good question. its in that word static, anderson. theyre taking periodic readings and in c...

That green light at the static kill and so far, anderson, no signs of anything going wrong with it either. >> i should point out, tom, once again, we are reading tea leaves and waiting for press releases from bp because they have continued to refuse -- even though they once said they would do it -- to have some real-time explanation of whats going on in the live picture. correct? >> reporter: exactly. we get periodic updates through press releases or a brief phone conference. thats about it. >> ...

Water. theyre steadily increasing the pumping pressure, too, and that should have the mud pushing the oil back down through the well pipe, but officials are taking it very slow, very cautious approach and they say even though dont know when the process will be complete. although they say it could involve up to 70 hours of pumping. anderson? >> how do they know theyve reached the goal? how do they know its been stopped? >> reporter: yeah. thats a good question. its in that word static, anderson. ...