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Down to reverse the flow of the oil. the admiral repeating again today that to be safe the gusher will have to be plugged from two directions. think of the relief well as bottom kill. bp still refusing to say what they will be doing with the relief wells. kent wells saying, we need to take each step at a time. clearly we need to pump cement. if we do it from the top we might alter what we do with the well. the ultimate objective is getting this well permanently sealed. admiral allen responding, the well will not be killed until we do the bottom kill and do whatever needs to be done. i am the n...

From venice, louisiana, michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, and, craig, just to make sure, they are going to continue on what has always been their main goal and that to plug the reservoir from the bottom floor, this bottom kill, the final plug in this, should get under way in the next few days of them cementing that reservoir from the bottom. and hopefully they'll have that finished by mid-august. in the meantime, as you mentioned, doug suttles, just announcing he'll be returning to houston as coo for bp. this past weekend he took a media tour along the marshes here in plaquemi...

The effectiveness of the cement they finished pouring down the well, needing to wait at least a day for the compound to set. it doesn't really dry. today's procedure coming a day after they pumped enough mud down to reverse the flow of the oil. admiral thad allen having given his permission for the cement only if bp continued with the digging of the relief wells. the gusher will have to be plugged from two directions. think of the relief well as bottom kill. bp still refusing to say what they will be doing with the relief wells. kent wells saying, we need to take each step at a time. clearly w...

So-called bottom kill. more mud and cement will be injected into bedrock 2 1/2 miles below the sea floor. this as new estimates are out at the bp price tag. the company could be fined as much as $21 billion if it is found to have committed gross negligence or willful misconduct. the fine could drop to $17.6 billion if the government credits the company for the oil it has already recovered. joining us once again tonight, former oil executive, bob cavnar, who writes about the industry at dailyhurricane.com. he's also author of "disaster on the horizon," which is due out in october. good evening,...

They pump it down as far as they can get it to essentially plug this thing from the top. now, the relief well still going on, being dug from the angles, trying to intercept the well. but for right now, getting this mud down, the pressure is holding, things are working. static kill is working. we have been disappointed so many times in the past about thinking things might work, would work, and they didn't work. but right now, there is a lot of optimism about this effort. again, it's hard to get kind of mixed up in the static kill, bottom kill, what's the difference? well, they're essentially th...