kill? do things, operations out in the gulf of mexico look like they could get it underway tonight? >> reporter: yeah, that's the last that we heard. some time overnight, either late tonight or early tomorrow morning they are starting the static kill operation, and, you know, we have heard all the references for these attempts to kill the well, well, you have the static kill happening over the next 24 hours, we have the bottom kill that's potentially happening in the next couple of weeks. all that may sound like overkill, but down here in the gulf of mexico, overkill sounds like a pretty good idea. they are tired of this. essentially what's going to happen as we have been saying all morning is that this is an attempt to choke off this ruptured well. what they are going to do is they are going to start pumping the heavy mud and fluid and possibly some cement right into the area above the blowout preventer, right into the ruptured well, and they think this time around that this could be successful because they have the cap on top of the ruptured