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Reach a balance point, they hope, where no longer will the oil have the ability to force it out. thats when it is static, nothing is moving. the downward force is equal to the upward force. they say at that time you could take the cap off entirely and nothing would move. of course, they want to get it permanently sealed so that wont happen. tonight theyre anxiously watching to see if this first step can work. anderson? >> tom foreman, appreciate it. thanks, tom. well continue to follow the progr...

The mud itself will become so great it will start pushing that oil down, and at some point youll reach a balance point, they hope, where no longer will the oil have the ability to force it out. thats when it is static, nothing is moving. the downward force is equal to the upward force. they say at that time you could take the cap off entirely and nothing would move. of course, they want to get it permanently sealed so that wont happen. tonight theyre anxiously watching to see if this first step ...

Approach and they say even they dont know when the process will be complete. although they say it could involve up to 70 hours of pumping. anderson? >> how do they know theyve reached the goal? how do they know its been stopped? >> reporter: yeah. thats a good question. its in that word static, anderson. theyre taking periodic readings and in case -- in this case when we use the word static is not moving. static means not moving. right now, i want to show you this little demonstration here. the ...

If we can re-establish our link with diane well get back to you as soon as possible. jenna: interesting on that, both now criminal investigations in that area. very desay are. we are also watching this developing story the fight to cleanup the gulf. brand-new information from president obama who spoke moments ago. take a listen. >> it was very welcome news when we learned overnight that efforts to stop the well, through whats called a static kill appear to be working, and in a report -- that a r...

Louisiana. take us through the next steps here. >> if you think about the time and the months that we watched all that oil gush out of that blown out well now only to see it stabilize. that means static, pressure, theyre monitoring it and a little bit of an engineering success that bp and the government is celebrating today. but it doesnt necessarily mean that it is the end all and that comes from incident commander thad allen saying the next step in the next few days will be the ultimate plug i...

Down into the relief well through the static kill process. one thing weve learned in the last 24 hours listening to briefings from both bp and thad allen, there are a lot of variables in this. yesterday during a technical briefing one of the top executives for bp, kent wells, talked about this static well perhaps being the end-all/be-all of this process. they hopes static kill kills this well once and for all and that the relief well thats being drilled as part of the bottom kill procedure is so...

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 ...

Its all because they dont know -- they havent been able to look at this well this entire time with any sort of x-ray eyes or anything to get 100% confirmation that its in great shape and that the well can take this pumping of the mud. that test is very important. its going to tell them whether or not they can go forward with the static kill and how they can go forward with the static kill, how slowly or quickly they might be able to go. everything looking good. they got the leaky valve fixed. th...

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Gulf oil leak for good. >> but bp insists its only a temporary setback and that the busted well should be permanently fixed soon. diana alvear is joining us now with the very latest. hi, diana. >> reporter: vinita, rob, good morning. "operation static kill" has suffering another setback. bp announced a small leak has been found at the static well site and that must be repaired before the static kill can happen again. thats estimated to happen some time today. the operation will involve pumping m...