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A week ago we were dealing with bonnie. it was the remnants of a tropical storm but enough of a stir to cause a silt on the ocean floor to sink boo the relief well. before they are able to proceed with the static kill operation, they have to clean out all the silt, all the sand out of the relief well. they expect it to be a minor operation but it is something that's going to cause a bit of a delay. we do have animation we're going of show you in mere seconds. one thing we're going to be seeing in terms of this is once it's removed they will proceed with the thing that they refer to as the stat...

A delay in the static kill operation. the static kill operation, you will remember, is basically when they go into the containment cap and inject a combination of mud and cement that kills off the top part of the well. that's only one part of the process. the second process is something that's going to come in the middle of august or perhaps towards the end of the month which they refer tos at as the bottom kill operation. they go through the relief well and inject the mud. back to you. reynolds, what about the cleanup? we have been talking about killing this well and things seem to be going...

Wells. relief wells are crucial to employing what they refer to as the bottom kill that will kill off the well all together. but before they can get to the static kill which was expected to take place possibly later tomorrow, then into monday, that's been pushed back to probably tuesday at the earliest. the reason is they first have to remove that sand and silt out of the relief well before they get to that process. they think that should be a fairly easy endeavor. then they'll proceed toward the static kill which basically they plan on going into the containment cap and injecting a combinatio...

They want a solution to the immigration problem. i just spoke with somebody who's here at portsmouth, new hampshire. we're going to head over to the jail and see what the situation there is like as we watch the arrests unfolding. >> msnbc's contessa brewer live for us in phoenix. local officials on the gulf coast expressed fear today that the cleanup effort from the worst oil disaster in u.s. history is about to be scaled back. the temporary new containment cap is totally stopped the oil from bp's damaged well to two weeks now, meantime the man in charge of the government's response, retired...

Altitude or went straight into the mountainside. that will be part of the very as they try and figure out answers, on a mountainside outside of islamabad, 152, everybody on board, dead, after this plane crashed a few hours ago this morning. more updates as soon as we get that. in the meantime, 9:32 here in new york now, the number of days in the disaster in the gulf hitting triple digits, it's day 100 of the national diseas and with this comes a new mystery, where did all the oil go that was on the surface? check out the map now, june 4th, this is the amount of oil spotted and this is the sa...