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The blowout preventer there? it just pushes that down. if it goes all the way through, they might decide then to go ahead and pump cement in to seal off that main pipe. it looks like the top kill that failed back in may -- but there is this difference. back then the oil was just pouring out, stopping it was like trying to push a train. first you had to catch it while it raced toward you. now with the cap on top, its more like the train is stopped, although its still very hard to push it backward...

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Like trying to push a train. first you had to catch it while it raced toward you. now with the cap on top, its more like the train is stopped, although its still very hard to push it backward or down, its not as hard. anderson? >> if the static kill works and they pump the cement into the well, why would they continue with the relief well as they planned to, to be extra safe? >> yeah, thats really it. i mean, basically this is about redundancy, theres more to plug here also, than just the main p...

They hope to have that test finished within the hour. theyll take a couple of hours to look at the data, and sometime this afternoon start the data kill process, which involves pumping heavy mud down into the well and pump it from the top and seal it off. theyre going to start very slow slowly, a barrel or two a minute. they think it will take a 6 1rks 63 hours to get it all down into the mud. but they do hope to know well before that whether its working. theres some debate as to what working me...

I dont think they understood the economic devastation this moratorium would cause. everybody here on the coast, including fishermen and shrimpers and oystermen, who are most affected by the oil, are unanimous that the moratorium needs to be lifted. we can put major safety measures in place, and -- immediately, and lift the moratorium. martha: senator, we hope that the static kill works, and, solves at least one of the problems and you have a lot of stuff to deal with. >> absolutely. martha: and ...

The top down a process known as static kill. residents worry that the oil company and the coast guard will be pulling out of the region without cleaning up the spill. with me now is bob with an environmental action group. thanks for joining us pap lot of stress going on and defen defensiveness on the part of bp and thad allen. they say its almost over. what about the damage >> we hope the static kill works and that the permanent kill the permanent solution from tremendous leave well works and th...

That go unpredicted. well, that very small unseen low is now tearing this thing apart, and pulling the clouds away from the center which was right there. so, all of the cloud cover you see right here is caused by sheer, and when you get sheer in the thunderstorm or in a hurricane, you have two different things. sheer in a thunderstorm can cause big tornadoes, and sheer in a hurricane just simply takes top right off, and disorganizes it, and that is what we have right now. this is a tropical depr...

Do? >> reporter: well, a lethal injection, savannah, is a great way to describe it. excuse me. i have mixed minus in my ear. what theyre going to do is pump heavy mud through the choke line and into the blowout preventer and the goal here is to force all the oil back down into the reservoir. now, officials think theres somewhere around 2,000 barrels of oil in the wellbore. they have heavy mud on hand to do it. so why do the static kill? if you have to do the relief kill. thats the bottom kill. o...