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Students have injected drilling mud into the primary well which increased the weight of the fluid in the well, and this increased weight, increased the pressure on bottom of this column of fluid, and that was enough pressure to overcome the pressure of the reservoir. >> the national incident commander thad allen approved this static kill, but the final decision will be made by the federal government. we will watch it. a first lady's unflattering portrait of her husband and details of why her book has jaws dropping. ♪ when you have a different perspective on things you don't end up with jus...

Static kill, and here is how it works. >> as you can see, the well is flowing from the top, and when the well is flowing, you can't do a static kill, because when you inject mud into the well, the mud is blown out into the ocean. to do a static kill, you have to have the apparatus at the top to control the flow. the brown area simulates mud. the blue area simulates the ocean. this is the primary well, and this is a cap and stack which are a series of controlling the flow. this is called a static kill operation, because there is no flow of the well. we are going to kill the well by putting mud ...

We've been talking about here for the months this has been going on. this confidence that the technology is perfect, this will never happen, we can waive these environmental regulations, and these companies will just do the right thing and you're seeing the result of that after three months now of this disaster in the gulf. >> catching up to where we are today, bp seems to be saying it can safely pump drilling mud into the well at high pressure without spilling any more oil but cannot safely pump out oil at a lower pressure without spilling oil. is that essentially their position? >> that's wh...

He will sign the regulatory bill to a lot of hoopla, supporters and real people up on stage with him. >> mike at the white house this morning. the next big fight in financial reform, who is going to implement financial reform? anyway, thank you very much. gulf residents may have thought the day would never come, but the federal government and bp say the underground well could be permanently sealed within two weeks. ann thompson is nbc's chief correspondent in venice, louisiana. explain, ann, why is it this thing could be permanently sealed in two weeks? >> because they are very close to comp...

Evidence of the complacency we've been talking about here for the months this has been going on. this confidence that the technology is perfect, this will never happen, we can waive these environmental regulations, and these companies will just do the right thing and you're seeing the result of that after three months now of this disaster in the gulf. >> catching up to where we are today, bp seems to be saying it can safely pump drilling mud into the well at high pressure without spilling any more oil but cannot safely pump out oil at a lower pressure without spilling oil. is that essentially ...