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Technique to plug the leak, it's called a static kill, it basically involves drilling mud into the cap, sort of like that top kill method. florida's governor wants a constitutional ban against deep water drilling. the judge says their claims don't have any merits. if you're wondering how much oil has spilled into the gulf so far, the math geniuses at cnbc did the map. the amount is the same as old faithful spews out in 76 days. gulf coast brewery is sending out an s.o.s. in the form of beer. the brewery is paying out 75

Because federal law requires any offshore rig operation to immediately suspend all operations if a leak is detected on one of its blow out preventers until that leak is resolved. >> but it had, you know, problems off and on with the shuttle valves. shuttle valves that makes fluid go from one place to the other to function to be different parts of the v.i.p. i reported it to john gadd the team leader at the time. i don't know if he reported it to the mms or not but that's usually the way it was done. >> investigators say that word never emanated from bp houston to washington, d.c. instead, they...

Blowout preventer. are they an indication of methane? they're testing for that. the third problem is a small leak in the flange of the capping stack. that essentially is the bottom of the ceiling cap. and they don't seem too concerned about that. so, the government green lighted this test to go ahead for another 24 hours which takes us to about mid afternoon today. and we'll see if they get another 24 hours. but in the meantime, bp has announced yet another plan b. i call this one plan b to about the 20th power. it is called "static kill" and it is a version of top kill you'll remember. and es...

Apparently no new oil gushing into the gulf of mexico and the pressure readings under the new tight fitting cap steadily rising. they have not seen or detected any new oil over this integrity test via a small fleet of remotely operated vehicles and multiple seismic and sonar readings conducted from the surface. the data indicates the well's integrity appears to be sound. instead of leaving it corked and waiting for the bottom kill to happen with the relief well, the plan remains to open the riser to kill and choke lines for the large collection ships on the surface. as this continues the relie...

And running? >> they're still targeting interception point late july, but it could be days or weeks before they actually bore in, pump the drilling mud in there, keep the oil and methane gas down and the sphet is shut for good. it could be mid august. however the deepest of the relief wells is about 45 or 25 more feet deeper than it was at the last reading, so it's now at 17865. the interception point is roughly 18,000 feet. here on gulf shores, mississippi's beach, every time the tide comes in it brings in small, quarter nickel size tar balls, and here's one right there, there's a tar ball di...