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Static kill, but the problems well be talking about for a very long time. developing now within the past hour, two people have been rescued from the water after a small plane crashed off the coast of cape cod. look at that video, a coast card spokesperson says the single engine cessna went down just before noon eastern time. life guards rescued the two people on board. the pilot suffered minor injuries, the passenger was not hurt. the cause of the crash was unknown. you see the person just han...

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Now. ethics charges against two long-serving house democrats could give the gop am nation ahead of the midterm elections. a house subcommittee saying charlie randel should be reprimanded for violating house rules. and a meeting between bank and treasury officials was put together by congresswoman waters. and bradley manning is suspected of giving incription software to the founder ofwikileaks. and the so-called static kill could begin tonight. it involves pouring cement and mud into the well...

Showed the economy lost momentum 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 mexic...

Can get it. >> im rob nelson. >> im tanya rivero in for vinita nair. work to permanently plug the gulf oil spill could begin as early as today. engineers are preparing to launch a static kill. >> now theres a battle over the long-term effects of a chemical used to break up all that oil. jeffrey kofman reports from belle chasse, louisiana. >> reporter: for days, the oil out here has become harder and harder to find. but the chairman of a congressional committee investigating the cleanup charges...

>> two words. and there are four terms. top. >> okay. >> kill. bottom kill. they are completely different. >> right. >> one, 18,000 feet in the bottom of the ocean. the other one on top where the blowout preventter is. im going to make a familiar three tree here, just like at cnn. there was the dynamic part of the static kill they tried to do earlier. >> right. >> and now theyre going to do a static kill. they are both still top kills. >> i got it, okay. >> they both still pump mud down into and...

It is 105 days in. but weve not seen oil flowing out of that well since july the 15th. let me give you a sense of whats going on. thats a picture -- live picture, as you can see. no oil flying anywhere. the issue here is that we are going to start to see static kill. let me show you what static kill looks like. basically theyre going to be sending stuff down from the surface, mud, they call it mud. its drilling mud. its really a chemical, very heavy chemical that pushes anything underneath it, p...

>> thats in the past, now. you know, weve just got to get this thing cleaned up. >> we have to stand up together, be united, and take some strong measures to try and prevent this from happening again. >> its not going to be back to normal for years, but, you know, got to get it cleaned up now. >> cnn "newsroom" continues right now with ali velshi. >> randi, thank you so much. so great to see you here in atlanta. ill be with you for the rest of the afternoon. im ali velshi, heres what ive got on ...

And should not delay at larger static kill. the epa says a study of dispersants used in the gulf found them to be no more harmful than the oil itself. senator john mccain is block president obamas nominee for director of national intelligence demanding that general james clapper provide a specific report. 12 people were killed in a deadly day of drive-by shootings in iraq. this as president obama reaffirmed his commitment today to having all u.s. combat troops out of the country by the end o...

Else it was called along the way, and sounds like a similar procedure with the cement and mud and is it more workable because were at a different stage of the game here. >> i think and i hope it is, because the flow has been stopped. so, hopefully, the static kill will work, and, permanently stop the flow, in addition, the relief wells are being finished off. but, the good news is the flow has been stopped for several weeks, and, were all hopeful that it will be permanently shut in very soon. ha...