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Mahalsky, the director of public transportation for the emergency management services. thanks for taking a few moments, what is your agency doing right now. >> right now, we have been talk with the new york city officers and emergency management teams and emergency management offices and, have been in conference call throughout the day with them and, with the national weather service, and... storm preparations are in place. and they are. >> gregg: mr. michalski, there is a lot of static on your ...

Well and making that pin point -- literally, they have this big -- 18,000 feet down, they have to find a hole in the ground thats this big so they can get their little new drill popping. >> day 105, and this is necessary to understand that most people are not considering this a done deal yet, which is why were still talking about this, even though since july 15th, there hasnt been oil leaking in the gulf of mexico. >> i dont know how many times -- why do we call it dynamic, why do we call it dyn...

Whats called a static kill appear to be working. and that a report out today by our scientists show that the vast majority of the spilled oil has been dispersed or removed from the water. so the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end. >> david mattingly is standing by with more on the governments new report on where the oil is or has been but lets get more on the latest developments from brian todd. >> reporter: as of today, this is day 107 of this ...

Plug up the well thats been busted for good. whats the latest? >> reporter: they did the static kill this week that they poured thousands of pounds of heavy mud into the top of the blow out preventer and sealed it with cement. that effectively killed the well. but to be sure, the coast guard wants bp to perform the bottom kill. that basically is the same procedure except that the bottom of the well, 13,000 feet below the floor of the gulf of mexico. the relief well is now within about 30 feet of...

Try to figure out how to kill the well from this condition, and the first thing is youre assuming that the wellbore has enough integrity to allow this kill to happen. any time you pump into the well, a static well the pressure will increase on the well. it has to. and that imparts risk, something could break. >> so, already, we have seen two weeks where no oil has leaked. why not leave things where they stand? >> well, i think thats a very good question. its a very fair question because the reli...

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