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To implement the static kill procedure and late last night, just 89 hours into the procedure, word got out that it was working and huge -- that is great news, down in the gulf of mexico. the mud was actually heavy enough and was pumped at a rate strong enough to overcome the pressure of the oil trying to escape from that leaking oil well. today, he'll decide whether or not to move forward, with the pumping cement down the same choke line, a decision that he could make sometime today. regardless of the decision, though, bill as you said, he's already made it extremely clear, that he wants those...

Now seafood officials and the rest and the fishermen want the rest of the gulf reopened. jim, it seems like fishermen are going to need incentive to get them back in the water? >> reporter: that's right, with the oil dissipating faster than expected, experts are putting pressure to open the fishing. and this very important area is hoping that bp can provide incentive, put bait on the hook, if you will, get to commercial fishermen back to work. because so many louisiana fishermen grow up on the water, this is the only life they've ever known. the oil spill changed that. of the state's 12,000 fi...

Orleans area to outline what to do after the well is permanently sealed. bp plans to start the so-called static kill on the well as early as sunday and the relief well may be ready for the bottom kill in days. admiral thad allen says he is confident those will permanently seal the well. with no oil leaking from the well for two weeks now, fisherman are pushing for closed off areas to be reopened. >> reporter: because so many louisiana fishermen grow up on the water, this is the only life they've ever known. the oil spill changed that. many of the state's 12,000 fresher men have gotten accustom...

They know they have lost an awful lot of tourism here, and so, what you see is hotels and restaurants and pawnshops and gift shops and anything that you can putting out the welcome mat in many ways for all of the cleanup workers saying, that we have to get all of the business we can while we can. nobody here has any idea that it is going to fill in across the gulf for all that they have lost, but in some little pockets, particularly some of the smaller towns that didn't get so much of the tourist trade or the fishing trade, it has helped them, because it has forced people into the areas some. ...

Lawsuit to force the epa to release federal studies on the dispersants. let's bring in the president of the environmental working group, ken cook. thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you, kooetd. >> we know what the chemical dispersants were supposed to do to the oil. but what do the chemicals do to everything tried to live in the water, or do we not know the answer to that question? >> we don't really know the answer. lisa jackson, our epa administrate, said on a number of occasions with regard to our use of materials to disperse the oil n this fashion the quantity being used, the fact the...