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That point in the oil sboorks the reservoir, where they're able to punch into the main well line and put in a combination of both mud and cement and actually kill the well off all together. but that's not something that's going to happen over might. the bottom kill may be put in place possibly later this month, maybe longer than that, guys. >> reynolds, i know you're going to be covering weather for us this morning as well. but out there, is weather cooperating? do they have a nice window right now to do this work without issues of weather? >> reporter: to get through the first steps they have...

They're doing their thing and for the most part, when you talk to russell pierce he says this bill is over. he doesn't want to see any changes to it and he says it's common to have legislative tweaks and so forth but in this particular situation he wants to go forward with it as is. he wrote it with the intention, again, that it would ultimately reach the supreme court and the tweaks that may or may not occur, he is really not in favor of that. >> good report, thank you very much, dan simon for us in arizona. let's go to the gulf of mexico. work to permanently seal the crippled well is appar...

Success of possibly the bottom kill which of course is the whole reason for the relief well all together. guys, back to you. >> reynolds, pretty good explainer. walking us through it as we're looking at a graphic there. but static kill, it sounds like it's killing the well, yes, but again, you said the ultimate solution we've got a static kill is one step, bottom kill is the next step. when possibly are we still, what's the time line of the bottom kill which we're told is the ultimate solution? >> reporter: that's a little more time consuming. looks like that is something that pay be put on to...

The blowout preventer on top is not working. nothing to stop the oil from pouring out. in fact, inside of the real well, there are 1,000 psi, pounds per square inch there, and the static kill is taking mud from the surface, from ships, pumping it into a couple of these small openings, the n manfolds and the valves of the blowout preventer and filling it with mud, and heavy mud and it is not dirt, but a solution, chemical solution, that is much heavier than water and push all of the oil back down into the reservoir. that is the top kill or the static kill. the bottom kill that they are working ...

Eliminating the threat of it, at least temporarily. and assisting those efforts to, sort of accelerate the so-called bottom kill, where they're going to drive that relief well and intercept that bp well and fill it up with cement so a lot of things could happen later this week, they'd be happening right now if that storm didn't come in forcing everything to dissipate. >> yeah, thank you. david mattingly, appreciate it. we have a special programming note that i want to tell you about, an in-depth look at shirley sherrod. she's the african-american woman who lost her job this week because of a...