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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,...

Different points. the yet to be finished relief wells will be used to execute a shof 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 confined to commit 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 au...

The next phase, the bottom kill or final kill as many are calling it. with the relief wells they have bern working on for the last few months, they are hoping to put a cement plug in there as early as thursday that could be finished by mid august. >> michelle, thank you very much. the government has reopened patches of fishing waters around louisiana and even declared seafood from some parts of the gulf safe to eat. both the fda and state of louisiana have been testing the fish and barely found traces of toxins. my big question today, when will families feel safe eating gulf coast seafood. i'd...

>> reporter: we're hoping this will be the beginning of the end of making sure that that well is capped for good, no more leaking from that well. as you mentioned, they're trying to get underway with the injekation tests, that is going to pump some light oil into that blown out well down the throat of that well so to speak, lethal injection that they hope will give them an idea on whether or not they can push the crude back into the reservoir, that will give them an indication of how much pressure they will need to put the mud in when they start that static kill. it's sort of an insurance poli...

Almost there. in fact, they're just about ready. they're casing and cementing the liner into that. and then what they're going to try and do is, they're going to do something called bottom kill. they're going to pump things into the -- into one of those pipes that they've dug. and push it up. and that should be the end of this well, we hope, once and for all. now, one of bp's biggest critics in congress, congressman ed marquet, has continued his claims that bp went overboard in its use of dispersants. vastly exceeding the amount that they were supposed to use. bp denies this. so does thad alle...