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In venice, louisiana. so another good morning. how is it going at this point? >> reporter: hey, good morning, alex. we're still waiting for any word to come from about 50 miles off the coast here where that operation is under way. the last we heard from bp was some time yesterday afternoon that they had started the cementing process. that started at about 1:30 local time. it was expected to take a few hours. then they needed to let that cement cure. after that they were going to do their pressure test. then at that point they would be able to declare this well killed, that it would never again...

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Incident command is mulling over is what form is the final killing of this well going to take? this graphic can help us here. what they are trying to do now is decide whether to do the bottom kill or not. that's the -- what they've already done is the static kill. they pumped mud and cement to the point beneath the blowout preventer about right there and a little into the top of this well that's going down now. that succeeded in stopping the oil from flowing into the gulf. but the question is, do they let that stand as the final kill or do they do that so-called bottom kill that you just menti...

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