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Slidele, louisiana with more. good morning to you, chris. >> good morning to you guys, yeah. that debris that was found inside that relief well would probably delay the static kill inmrimenttation of that static kill procedure by a day, day and a half and the reason being that the coast guard and bp actually put caps on that, on those relief wells when thundersto tropical storm bonnie was coming through the gulf. the sediment or debris fell inside the well and thats not uncommon or that to happe...

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Crossing the half-hour right now. time to look at this mornings top stories. the disaster in the gulf in its final life cycle. those words coming from a top coast guard official who says there is hardly enough oil at least on the surface to skim. but it will be weeks still before we know if bp can successfully kill its ruptured well once and for all. the static kill procedure is now scheduled to start next week. the critical situation unfolding right now in the mountains of southern california...

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...

Cleanup efforts are shifting from immediately around the well to the shoreline, now that the oil has stopped flowing. wolf. >> all right. lisa, thank you. bp by the way is still hoping to move forward with the so-called static kill procedure that will seal the well once and for all. >> we are far from finished. we have clearly made progress offsho offshore, but we have much more to go offshore, and we will be pursuing with the approval from admiral allen and the government. we hope to pursue t...

Morning, stunning news, really, and it starts with this, bp declaring that the static kill procedure in their opinion is a success. this as we await the governments announcement thats going to come in a few hours that, listen to this, 3/4 of the oil in the gulf is already gone. where did it go, you may ask. a new report claim thank most of it is either evaporated, dispersed, and thats a big question about the dispersion part of all this, or its been cleaned up, and the rest, its alluded that it ...

Days have gone on? >> actually, very surprisingly, weve seen very little oil from the moment we got out here until today. >> reporter: but after leaving the static kill operation on our way back, we fine signs this crisis is far from over. this long stretch of oil sheen was floating just a few miles off the shorelines. and as you mentioned earlier, john and kiran, the federal government is expected to release a report later this morning showing that much of the oil has dissipated since the begin...

Bp is moving forward with cementing that well. for all intents and purposes, that will seal this well for good. we should point out, though, we dont know the flow rate and thats probably something that admiral thad allen will discuss with us later this afternoon when he holds that news conference to talk about how much cement is actually needed, because we dont know how long this will take. we know that the static kill procedure which used the same system of pipe thank choke line that pump the m...

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