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Pumping drilling mud into the well to force that oil back down into the reservoir. essentially, pushing that oil back into the hole that it erupted out of and started this disaster back in april. what we are looking at right now is a matter of hours, possibly days for them to finish this operation called the static kill where they will pump enough mud in there to essentially drown the oil out and hold it at bay and beat back the pressure that the oil has built up over the days since they put tha...

Tapers as it goes down deeper. where they plan to hit it is only about this wide, maybe seven inches across. and this pipe sits inside of an outer sleeve. even if you seal the inner pipe, theres a lot of room for oil to maybe leak through around it. in fact, if you do the page on this, rate yus squared times pii. theres as much room around this pipe as inside. what theyre going to try to do if they can, they will pump into this area from the top with the static kill and fill up the middle of thi...

His students demonstrated the procedure for cnn earlier. look at this. >> as can you see, the well is flowing from the top. when the well is flowing, you cant do a static kill because as soon as you inject mud it is blown out into the ocean. to have the static kill you must have the apparatus at the top to control flowing. the brown there simulates mud. the blue area simulates the ocean. this is the primary well, and this is a capping stack which for a series of hours will control flow. this is ...

Dont ask me. jon: bp engineers are hoping to begin sealing that blown-out well thats caused such misery in the gulf. they are still conducting tests trying to figure out whether underwater equipment can handle the i increase in pressure. we are getting reports bp is winding down cleanup operations despite evidence of fresh oil reaching sensitive wetlands. chris is live for us in louisiana. what is the latest on the effort to kill this well. >> reporter: we learned overnight that bp actually mana...

A test that was a precursor to the so-called static kill procedure. but bp releasing a statement tonight saying that as engineers prepare to start the injectivety test they discovered what bp is calling a small hydraulic leak in the capping systems hydraulic control system. bp says the test and the static kill will wait until the leak is fixed. possibly by tomorrow. but even before bps engineers have tried, merely tried to pump mud and cement down the throat of the busted well, something it has ...

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End of the leak, anything special about how hes getting updated? >> i know secretary chu and others are down in houston today. i think he will likely touch base with them at some point. i dont have the schedule in front of me. but likely at some point today speak with secretary chu and others that are in houston and are monitoring the activities. i think it is important to note the stack particular kill -- static kill, injecting the mud into the top of the well is certainly one part of the long-...

In the spring. the manufacturing sector grew for the 15th straight month, but at the slowest of the year. construction spending was up .1 percent, the increase from the government work. the dow had a big day today gaining 208 after good news in the economic earnings reports particularly good news from china and europe. and the s&p was up 24.25 and the nasdaq was up 40. b.p. says it will start shoving mud and cement into the well at the bottom of the gulf of mexico tuesday. our corporate is like ...

New haven, and theyre giving them this terror home for about a year. they gave them some furniture at the same time, after that year is over, who knows what the mohammed family is going to be able to do. >> lets all hope the economy is back after that. thank you, poppy. thanks a lot. >> you got it. all right. and you know, you should watch poppy harlow and ali velshi every weekend, saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern and sundays at 3:00. for something called a static kill, the bp leak repair opera...

We could see that big cloud of oil coming up from the bottom. it was at that time that the scientific community at large was able to see that oil and make their own estimates. and then the government put a panel together of all these scientist and now this is what we are seeing, that continued refinement as the data comes in, now looking at in the early days, it was 62,000 barrels a day and later, as they capped that well, because of depletion, there was less oil coming out. they estimated at th...