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At this point. i think that's why there's a basis for optimism moving forward. >> so you think it's sealed? >> well, it needs to be sealed from the bottom. we've sealed the casing pipe from the top. we need to drill into the area outside the casing pipe and well bore and do that with the relief well. that will be happening this week. >> i want to play you some sort of things from april and june when we were trying to get a grip on what you were dealing with here. >> it has involved into an environmental challenge of the first order. >> already this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster...

Almost 100% confident, that as far as the gusher is concerned, it's been stopped. what's your nightmare scenario? >> well, the nightmare scenario has always been total loss of well control. there's basis for optimism moving forward. >> so you think it's sealed? >> well, it needs to be sealed from the bottom. we've sealed the casing pipe from the top. we need to drill into the area outside the casing pipe and well bore and do that with the relief well. that will be happening this week. >> i want to play you some sort of things from april and june when we were trying to get a grip on what you we...

We need to drill into the area with the casing pipe, and that will be happening this week. >> i want to play you some sort of things from april and june, when we were trying to get a grip on what you were dealing with here. >> it has ae solved into a challenge. >> already this is the worse environmental disaster america has faced. >> as we know there is no precedent of a leak of this size and of this depth. >> it was armageddon, and now we get a report, it's almost gone, and there is another quarter this there and it doesn't sound the environmental disaster is what we were told it was? >> if t...

>> well, we know that they have drilled most of the well, all of the way down the 100 feet from the intersection point. they have been casing wells, casing pieces of metal there, almost like an antenna, and you know the old antennas in the car and click, click, click, and get longer and longer, and the bot part of the antenna was fat and by the time you got to the 207, -- to the top, it was skinny, and they fit inside each other. well, they skinnier and skinnier as nay go down. well, the last piece of the casing pipe will be starting to be laid tonight as we get down to the last 100 feet of dr...

The gulf oil disaster is the far from over, but with a permanent fix now in site, there are now some shifting from response to recovery mode. some are trying to remove the boom along the mississippi coast citing lack of oil and potential danger from hurricanes. another positive sign, at the top of the hour, louisiana will reopen part of the mississippi river delta to recreational fishing. but the most crucial development has to do with the relief well. national incident commander thad allen says that the crews will start to lay casing pipe into it sometime tonight. well, for more on that relie...