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It at bay. it is now 80% contained and no longer threatening any structures. crews in washington are fighting wildfires across that state. more than 250 firefighters are fighting a fire in northern washington. another 30 families may need to leave very soon. farther north, a wildfire has already charred 4,000 acres of land while one is burning in the middle of the state. were following big developments this morning in the gulf of mexico oil spill disaster and msnbcs michelle frandsen is live...

Cive civilian help. he was arrested weeks ago that he leaked aerial video. he was moved from a sealed jail in kuwait to a brig in virginia where he may face trial. julian asange he offered to let the white house view the documents to make sure that no innocent people were identified but the white house says there was no such offer and the claim is unequivocally not true. assange says the material will be posted within weeks on wiki leaks. >> julie: thank you molly. major preparations on a final ...

Building. >> reporter: government officials call it the worst natural disaster this area has ever seen with a million people impacted. they say they are trying to get helicopters, boats and relief crews here as soon as possible. as you heard, many of the people we spoke to, help isnt arriving soon enough and patience is running three, reza sayeh, cnn. now to the gulf where there is another delay in efforts to cap bps ruptured oil well. federal officials say it will be tuesday before they can b...

>> rob marciano is in orange beach, alabama this morning. rob, tell us about this static kill. how does it work and when might they undertake it? >> reporter: well, the reason that theyre considering it now is because the pressure that theyve been measuring this past few days, now were day five where weve had this well actually capped and weve been doing these tests. pressure is slightly lower than they anticipated. they were hoping to get it up to 8,000 to 9,000 psi. it is about 6,800 psi. they...

Skimming fleet of 780 skimmers. >> reporter: you realize when you say that it is so hard for people to believe that this spill was so enormous and yet were having trouble finding the oil to skim it? >> its not for lack of trying. we have 50 aircraft saturating this very location where satellites indicate there could be oil sheen in the area. so were going to look just like we would doing search and rescue to see where any possible target pocket of oil might be over this area. >> rob marciano is ...

This point, it appears lost. >> by the way, there are a handful of other sanctuary cities in america, san francisco and chicago, perhaps the most well-known and some experts say that judge boultons ruling will set a legal precedent and could ultimately affect policies in those parts of the country as well. julie. >> casey stegall, thank you very much. and were now waiting for the next step to begin in plugging the gulf oil spill. a procedure engineers dubbed static kill. this could plug the well...

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A substantial minority oppose it vocally. talk to the controversial sheriff, joe arpaio at the center of the battle. first, randi kaye has the latest. >> reporter: anderson, bps plan to permanently seal its ruptured well has hit a snag. it had hoped to start a static kill, pumping mud and cement from above into the blow-out preventers as early as sunday. today, the effort was postponed until possibly monday or tuesday because workers need to clean out debris they found in one of the relief wells...

The pressure. because that pressure is decreased, because it is below 7,000 psi or so, they think they may be able to try this static kill which in essence is the same as the top kill that we tried about a month ago, but we dont have that ongoing pressure of the oil coming out of the well. so its static pressure. the oils not spewing out. theres just that pressure there so it is a static pressure, a static kill. they pump mud through the choke-and-kill lines and try to suppress the well that way...