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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 this if they possibly can do that, then once they fill that up, theyll come in and drill in from the side with that relief well near the bottom. theyll cut into the casing as weve seen on our graphic before, we can show you in this now, and theyll pump into this area, and when they d...

From the increase in pressure? >> as long as theyre careful. thats why they do it slowly so they dont increase the pressure. if it doesnt inject and pressure just keeps building, theyre not going to be able to do this static kill. thats what theyre checking to see if they can actually do it. >> at the same time they go ahead with this static kill operation if the injectivity test indicates they can in fact force that oilack down into the reservoir, theyre going ahead with the relief well operati...

Right now, exactly, drew. >> boy, that must have took some time. all right, alison kosik joining us from connecticut, site of a terrible workplace shooting. get back to us, okay? thanks. stories like this tend to focus on the gunman. its important to remember that the victims, those killed and wounded by this violent act. we dont know their names just yet or their stories. well bring them to you when we do, but governor jody rell says her heart and prayers go out to the families of the victims...

Waters, the number three democrat on the financial services committee, vehemently denies any wrongdoing and is choosing to go to trial this fall, rather than admit violating ethics rules. the allegations come as democrat charles rangel, another prom length member of the congressional black caucus, faces trial on 13 ethics violations. bp will perform a crucial test this morning to determine if it can begin efforts to permanently seal the blowout well in the gulf of mexico. the test was initiall...

>> the life jacket saved one boy. but six of the teenagers died. it took fire officials and divers three hours to recover all the bodies. bp hopes to attempt the first of two operations to permanently fix its ruptured gulf of mexico well today, despite a technical delay. a small leak at the site has to be fixed before the so-called static kill can proceed. despite the optimism about permanently stopping the leak, one louisiana official says the environmental damage is much greater than first t...

This afternoon, bp to have begun a test that was a precursor to the so-called static kill procedure. bp released a statement saying as engineers started the injectiveity test, they discovered a small hydraulic leak in the capping system. the test and the static kill will wait until the leak is fixed -- possibly by tomorrow. but even before bps engineers have tried to pump mud and cement down the throat of the busted well, something its tried and failed to do in similar fashion before, something ...

Different from the top kill they tried once before. >> it is different, because this time, there is a cap, if i can show you one of my crude renderings here on this draw/erase board. they have the cap on top of the ruptured well. thats the difference. before the top kill, there was no cap and so theyre trying to force the heavy fluid and mud into the rupture well without any kind of containment. thats different this time around with the static kill. and bp just wrapped up a technical briefing ju...

Sea in the gulf of mexico. well, its a new method, its called static kill. let me first show you whats going on under the ocean right now. let me show you that camera. as you can see, no oil flowing. this cap that has been on there since july 15th has actually been working quite effectively. but theyre getting ready to try something called static kill. a little bit different than the top kill method that didnt work well over a month ago. the difference right now, of course, is when they went in ...

Drilling efforts. the one on the right is almost there. that will be helpful if they pump this mud into the well to alleviate pressure to make sure its sealed. those are basically the two efforts that are going to have to take place together. and that might mean a permanent kill of this well. i want to tell you something else. theres a critic in congress, congressman ed markey who says that bp went overboard in putting those dispersants into the ocean to disperse the oil. he said that they vastl...

Government infrastructure. day 105 of the gulf oil disaster. the temporary cap holding and the permanent sealing of the well could be within reach as early as tonight. crews could begin pumping mud and she meant into the well from above like you are seeing there. thats phase one of the static kill. phase two likely some time next week. once the relief well intercepts the ruptured line, the bottom kill maneuver can get underway. today janet napolitano is going to meet with initials officials wi...