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Was like caging a wild animal that's been terrorizing the gulf when they got the cap on and got control of the well. the static kill will put it to sleep, put it back down in the hole it crawl out of and leave it there. then they finish up with the relief well that will drill down deep and fill it up way big plug of cement to make sure that oil never comes out again. three steps, capping is already done and now they will fut to sleep before they finally kill it for good with that cement cap. >> david mattingly for us live in new orleans, thank you. boiliiologists are celebrata success. they ...

The disturbing findings by the findings by the associated press. thousands of abandoned oil wells on the floor of the gulf that could be leaking now or might be leaking in the future. but no one will ever know it. an ap analysis showed that drillers have temporarily abandoned more than 3,500 wells in the gulf. when the wells prove problematic or wait until gas prices go up, they put temporary, meaning less good caps on them, the same cement cap that failed to cap the deepwater horizon well. some abandoned for 50 years. 1,000 of them for more than a decade. secretary salazar is not inspecting t...

Implementation of the well. now, there are a series of valves that are in place in the event that something does go awry this, is called a blowout preventer and now there are reports, this coming from congressional testimony and others, that the blowout preventer had a problem with its hydraulics, and that problem may have prevented the blowout preventer from cutting the drill pipe and sealing it off. there's also a report that the blowout preventer has a control pod, it's two of them, one of them we are told had a faulty battery. also to throw into the mix very quickly, there is a cement cap ...

Calling that jump shot where they are going to be shooting solid and liquid material, junk, essentially, into that pipe, to clog it up and stop the flow of oil completely. this top hat is just sort of a band-aid to take part of the oil away while they prepare that jump p sh jump shot for next week that will stop the flow of oil completely. once they have done that, they will be able to drill down and put a cement cap on this and seal this well off completely. now, looking past the investigation to the human toll, month are than just jobs but family businesses caught up in the uncertainty of ...