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Made its mark. the second part is cleaning out the relief well. when they clean out the relief well with the sentiment, the other step they will have is putting in what they refer to is the casing, a hollow metal pipe. and then after that, they should start sometime, probably on tuesday, which is the status kill procedure, where they interject mud and cement into the containment cap, and that will top off the top of the well itself. and then finally into the middle of the month of august, or the middle of the month, they have what they have, the end game, and that's called the bottom well. tha...

Let's talk about what we have first and foremost with bp doug suttles taking a trip to the southern end of louisiana toward venice, the marshlands and see firsthand where some of the oil still has inundated much of the marsh. oil is hard to find in the gulf of mexico in the open waters they have plenty of it down there and he'll see it up close and personal. the second thing they'll continue cleaning out one of the relief wells the key component into the next procedure. the static well injecting mud and cement into the containment cap and thaens' going to be what they call static kill. the sec...

The relief wells, one step they had to take before they get to the static kill procedure. when they clean out the relief wells they'll remove sand and silt that dropped into the well when the remnants of tropical storm bonnie moved overhead. then they're going to lay what they refer to as casing, basically a hollow metal pipe. that's when they proceed with the static kill procedure, inject a combination of cement and mud into the containment cap and that's the first step. the second big step is the bottom kill, the bottom kill will occur sometime in the middle of this month or possibly toward ...

There was nothing rare about them granting these exemptions. >> there's been a lot of talk about these things, you use them because yes, it does disperse the oil. a lot of people are saying we can't find oil to skim. maybe the dispersants worked but a lot of people worry what is it doing to the environment. >> the longlasting effect. >> we might not know that for some time. reynolds wolf is in new orleans on this day 104 and reynolds, good morning to you once again. this could be a big week this week as it comes to trying to finally kill this well. >> reporter: that's right. you know, guys, we...

Operation from when they originally planned it, it was going to be on sunday and now it looks like monday or tuesday, possibly tuesday before they are able to get to that. the static kill procedure is where they go to the containment cap and they inject a combination of mud and cement which they call the static kill, because the oil is static, not able to get out because of the containment cap itself. that's step one. the second step, as you well know, is what they call the bottom kill. they use their relief well and go horizontally into the source of the oil and fire another injection of both...