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Either a permanent kill for this blowout or on the other hand make the problem much, much worse. so it's important that we all pay attention. clearly, the safest thing to do would be to reconnect the blowout preventers up to the surface vessels, open the valves, relieve the pressure on the well bore, connect the relief well, run that casing, and do a bottom kill. that's what they should be doing. that's the safest thing and most people agree it is. >> all right. so we have an animation dealing with some of the seepage near the oil well but experts think it is another well to blame. there are t...

That apparently could take between five days and a few weeks and then your other option that they've been talking about is the static kill shooting mud into the existing cap, the cap that's holding the oil in place. >> right. >> would you risk that? >> i don't think so. i think the static kill will put more pressure down the well bore. everybody knows that. and it could indeed compromise the integrity of the existing well bore which is already probably compromised. that's exactly what happened with the initial top kill attempt. the safest thing to do is open things back up, connect it to surfa...

They're still on target, they're still saying mid-august before those relief wells will kill the well or do a bottom kill. but they are on track and very, very close, at least to relief well number one, they're very close. status quo here on day five but there is very little, if any, oil seeping into the gulf for the fifth day in a row. that's good news. orange beach is an area that's seen oil come and go. over my left shoulder -- we've got a beautiful heron there. barriers have been installed in the past month to protect this inlet. just beyond that there is a vessel out there already, hundre...

Much larger calamity environmentally here. >> shepard: bp wants to keep it capped. never know how much oil was leak into the gulf and maybe have arguments forever about how bp should be punished for such a thing. that said, we now have an actual target date for when the relief well is to be in place for the so-called bottom kill, right? july 29th is the target date. coming in a week earlier than scheduled. it will take days if not weeks to pump it down there. regarding the amount of oil being collected at the ships, if they did open it back up to determine that number. admiral allen thinks at ...

Choice words just hours after the president came to stump for reid for the third time in his own backyard. >> i guess that's one way to say thank you. bottom kill, washington speak, oil speak, really, how the relief wells are supposed to work. you remember top kill drilling mud into the top of the leak site to stop it. bottom kill, they pump drilling mud into the relief well hole from the bottom and hope to cement that off. and seal it off for good. >> at least makes common sense. top and bottom. >> catchy names in the lexicon. if you have washington speak to clarify, please send us an e-mai...