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All right. moving on in the gulf. bp is anxious to get the static kill under way and choke off that well for good. but first, engineers want to make sure the well can handle it. anne thompson is nbcs chief environmental affairs correspondent and you know where she is live in today, venice, louisiana. so, at what point today will we know the results of this test? and i guess when does this next version of the lethal injection which i think is my favorite way to describe this begin? >> reporter: w...

Original trial. the price of failure is $1.6 million thats how much ousted tony hayward will get in severance as he heads off to russia. yes, $1.6 million. and hes also guaranteed about $930,000 pension for life. while that is a big step down from the $4.7 million he made last year, not bad for a widely reviled executive. in the meantime, the company is reporting a record $17 billion loss for the court. bob dudley says his goals are to seal the well for good and make sure it doesnt happen agai...

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Talking about something called a static well. we have learned so much about the oil industry and what is static kill and why do they think it will work compared to top kill and the other things they have tried? >> well learn more about it. static kill is now basically top kill two. now that that temporary cap is in place bp would like to keep it there until a relief well is completed next week. but the static kill would be another way to kill the well a little earlier. you have the cap on top of...

Chances. theyre going the relief wells irrespective of whether the static kill works or doesnt work. >> part of the caution pre caution and redundancy. yes, they could kill the well with those procedure, with the static kill, but its not going to be done until they say theyve finished the relief well and filled it with a massive cement plug down there at the bottom. they may not need to do that, but it ee something theyre going to do as an insurance policy to make sure this threat is done for go...

Jim acosta covering the story in the gulf of mexico. lets listen to doug sut ls and a press conference he held down in louisiana talking about the dispersan dispersants. talking about how safe the food and seafood that comes for the gulf are. take a listen to this. >> theres been a tremendous amount of testing done by noaa and state agencies. theyre not boing to open the waters to sport fishing or commercial fishing if its not safe to eat the fish. i have a lot of confidence in those agencies. i...

To learn the mechanics of working with these strong-willed, very intelligent colleagues is going to be a challenge for her. >> very interesting. and thats a great point, bill. our supreme court producer bill mere meares, who always follows these nominations and the process that follows, and this was a very interesting process, i have to say, for this particular nomination. thanks for watching it to the very end there. shes on the supreme court now. elena kagan sworn in just a few moments ago. bi...

Almost psi right now in this bchl o.p. >> thats pressure going up. thats 7,000 pounds per square in. >> 7,000 pounds per square in this thing. so then youve got to have at least 710 psi, so im worried youre starting to raise the pressure even more. i say leave this darn thing alone. >> its working, right? >> if it saint work, dont fix it. its like my alpha romeo, if it is broken, ive got to find some guy named tony. they dont do this. there is a certain benefit for this when they go down to do t...

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