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Withstand winds of 40 miles an hour, if it got up to that high, theyd start breaking apart and start drifting away so they didnt want that to happen. they started disconnecting them, bringing them inland and now this area and much the areas along the coast are pretty much defenseless right now as of what is left of that storm continues to push that oil around. so theyre hoping theyll be able to get all of these protective measures back out on the water, and back where they belong as quickly as p...

Students have injected drilling mud into the primary well which increased the weight of the fluid in the well, and this increased weight, increased the pressure on bottom of this column of fluid, and that was enough pressure to overcome the pressure of the reservoir. >> the national incident commander thad allen approved this static kill, but the final decision will be made by the federal government. we will watch it. a first ladys unflattering portrait of her husband and details of why her bo...

Static kill, and here is how it works. >> as you can see, the well is flowing from the top, and when the well is flowing, you cant do a static kill, because when you inject mud into the well, the mud is blown out into the ocean. to do a static kill, you have to have the apparatus at the top to control the flow. the brown area simulates mud. the blue area simulates the ocean. this is the primary well, and this is a cap and stack which are a series of controlling the flow. this is called a static ...

Wear, the we will be prepared to deal with this. >> this delays the static kill, which so kill it from the top, and does it delay the relief wells finishing the job and killing this well once and for all? >> it does, wolf, because they are actually connected. we dont want to start the static top kill until we have the final casing pipe in, because that assures us that the relief well wont be impacted if there is a problem in the wellbore, itself, caused by the static kill, so what we want to do ...

Bp. so we went to the white house, asking it, are they going to require bp to reopen the well so that accurate measure flow can be measured? the white house said take it up with thad allen. i spoke to james carville about this earlier today. >> if the weather holds, its possible they do the static kill and once and for all kill this well. that would mean we would never know the actual amount of oil pouring out of there on any given day. >> thats what it means, so bp lawyers would be able to argu...

Happen. earlier in the week, we were under the impression that they were trying to get the relief well into better shape. maybe line that thing before they tried the static kill. but it looks like they may very well go ahead with the static kill as early as tomorrow. again, no confirmation of that. the weather, a huge concern. even if they get just gale force winds in the gulf of mexico that would be a little over 30 miles an hour in winds that disrupts this thing by weeks, if not days. and they...

Youre hearing and seeing and whats happening there in advance of this weather system. >> reporter: well, a couple things have happened this morning. we have this thing thats now a tropical depression, likely to become a tropical storm. i know my colleagues back at the cnn weather center are tracking those models. we are dealing with a capped well, seventh day for that. all things okay. but we wanted to do the static kill, but thats requiring collaboration with the relief well which requires a fi...

Tropical depression or storm and stays on its current track it could cause serious delays in operations setting back the well by as much as two weeks. >> the timing will be critical. and if the weather does cooperate, and that is a wig "if" this year, the oil giant may try to seal the well with static kill. thats the procedure that could take place over the next 48 hours. our rob marciano has a look at the operations as they struggle to clean up the gulf. now, rob, static kill, we talk about tha...

And line that well before they do the static kill. so my guess is they are not going to try the static kill in the next day or two and we will have to wait out the weather and get official word from those officials later in this morning and later this afternoon, thats for sure. the problem is how strong is this storm? what is the track? i will lead this for my colleagues in the cnn hurricane headquarters. it looks like it will become a tropical depression if not a storm by the lunch hour. if win...

Gusher permanently. cnns rob marciano joining us live from gulf shores, alabama. >> reporter: yes. so far so good. we are into day six with the well-being capped successfully. there are minor leaks around some of the gaskets and some seepage outside away from the well. at this point the experts and scientists think thats not an issue. they are going at this on a day by day basis. today being day six, they are going to keep that cap on, continue to monitor the pressure. it is creeping up slowly. ...