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>> two words. and there are four terms. top. >> okay. >> kill. bottom kill. they are completely different. >> right. >> one, 18,000 feet in the bottom of the ocean. the other one on top where the blowout preventter is. i'm going to make a familiar three tree here, just like at cnn. there was the dynamic part of the static kill they tried to do earlier. >> right. >> and now they're going to do a static kill. they are both still top kills. >> i got it, okay. >> they both still pump mud down into and into the blow out preventer, or in this case, even the secondary part they can pump it in, and it...

It is 105 days in. but we've not seen oil flowing out of that well since july the 15th. let me give you a sense of what's going on. that's a picture -- live picture, as you can see. no oil flying anywhere. the issue here is that we are going to start to see static kill. let me show you what static kill looks like. basically they're going to be sending stuff down from the surface, mud, they call it mud. it's drilling mud. it's really a chemical, very heavy chemical that pushes anything underneath it, particularly oil, deeper down. they're going to be mushing that mud all the way through these t...

We just received new word in an effort to permanently plug that oil gusher in the gulf, hearing now that that will be delayed. bp says it will push back the start of the so-called static killum tomorrow, this comes as bp launches a major offensive to stem the flow of lawsuits. the company will offer one-off combination pay payouts to gulf residents waiving the right to sue and the bp is looking at dispersants in the water, lawmakers want to know why bp continued to use chemicals despite concerns about impact on march enlife. kris gutierrez has the latest from slidell, louisiana. >> reporter: y...

Heavy drilling mud into a larger ship with a series of pipes that lead to the well itself. they'll pump the drilling mud probably 30 to 60 hours. if all goes well with testing, they could follow the mud up with cement and permanently seal that well. >> this spill, as you don't need me to tell you, has been so tough for the fishermen who work in the gulf. you have talked to so many of them. with the cap on and no new oil coming out of the well, temporarily, has it helped the fishing industry? >> not yet. but eventually it will. you can see how busy these guys are, fresh caught crab coming in. t...

Everything is a go, so they could start pumping that drilling mud as early as tomorrow. if that goes according to plan they could use that equipment to pump in the cement to finally, finally cap this well. megyn: that's the goal to get the permanent fix on, but in the meantime the temporary fix, the cap that they put on there, has been working, and it has stopped or slowed much of the oil flow. so how are the local fishermen now reacting to that, kris? >> it's great news because they continue to open up the commercial fishing areas. we could show thaw these guys just came in with several bucke...