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In venice, louisiana. so another good morning. how is it going at this point? >> reporter: hey, good morning, alex. were still waiting for any word to come from about 50 miles off the coast here where that operation is under way. the last we heard from bp was some time yesterday afternoon that they had started the cementing process. that started at about 1:30 local time. it was expected to take a few hours. then they needed to let that cement cure. after that they were going to do their pressure...

Preventer youre seeing on the deck. what theyve put in its place is a larger, pore powerful preventer on top of the well at the bottom of the gulf of mexico but on top of that, remember the static kill, that put almost a mile of concrete into that pipe so now you have a new blowout preventer on top and yesterday the coast guard commander thad allen said that because of the new blowout preventer and the cement in the well, this well is no longer a danger to the gulf of mexico. however, he still w...

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We have watched with some underwater pictures intently for nearly four months now. the worst environmental disaster in the countrys history ravaged the gulf, spilling more oil than the "exxon valdez" and put thousands of people out of work. 11 people died april 20th aboard the deepwater horizon rig. since the explosion, the government estimates 206 million gallons of oil spilled into the gulf. the governments man in charge of the spill, thad allen, has news conference planned to talk about the t...

Incident command is mulling over is what form is the final killing of this well going to take? this graphic can help us here. what they are trying to do now is decide whether to do the bottom kill or not. thats the -- what theyve already done is the static kill. they pumped mud and cement to the point beneath the blowout preventer about right there and a little into the top of this well thats going down now. that succeeded in stopping the oil from flowing into the gulf. but the question is, do t...

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Cement into the well and hopefully kill it off all together. but it has been a long-term process. i tell you, though, jim, here at this spot in pensacola, conditions are beautiful, the sun is out, the water is beautiful, iridescent blue, no sign of oil. they havent had oil here in weeks and weeks. its great here, but i tell you, they have still many problems with the oil certainly in parts of southeast louisiana where theyre still inundated with all kinds of tar balls, thicker patches of oil, ce...

Been seeing for quite some time now. the only difference over the past couple weeks, not a lot going on. you dont see oil spewing out. that is a good thing. the oil right now is holding. its kind of a two-step operation. a static kill operation and then the other bottom kill. but right now, were giving you an example, theyre pushing this mud down into the well. its holding right now and might follow up with cement. this process, the static kill, will continue probably for the next several days. ...