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Night. first though tonight could be the beginning of the end of the oil leak in the gulf of mexico. a live look now a mile below the surface of the gulf where bp reports it started a procedure to pump heavy mud, drilling mud into that broken well. then cement, if that works. to permanently seal the gusher. if the plan's successful it would end the first accidental marine oil spill in the history of planet earth. kris gutierrez live in slidell, louisiana. how will we know whether this works, chris? >> shepard, it could take several days, according to the coast guard. anywhere from 30 to 60 hou...

Waters, the number three democrat on the financial services committee, vehemently denies any wrongdoing and is choosing to go to trial this fall, rather than admit violating ethics rules. the allegations come as democrat charles rangel, another prom length member of the congressional black caucus, faces trial on 13 ethics violations. bp will perform a crucial test this morning to determine if it can begin efforts to permanently seal the blowout well in the gulf of mexico. the test was initially scheduled for yesterday but engineers ran into a last-minute hitch when they discovered a small hy...

Speaker newt gingrich and 14 months later, the house ethics committee found the speaker guilty, guilty, guilty on one, two, three counts. >> bret: b.p. has begun what it hopes is the first step in the solution to the gulf oil spill. correspondent kris gutierrez is live in slidell, louisiana, to tell us how it's going. good evening, kris. >> reporter: hello, bret. the much anticipated static kill procedure began two hours ago. b.p. plans to pump heavy drilling mud for several days, stopping only to monitor the pressure levels. now b.p. could then use the same pipe to mint in the well. but today...

Newsroom" page" or to marthamccallum.com and, the twitter page, a lot of information on the mosque issue, in particular, we'll continue to follow that. bill: bill has a question... martha: yes, bill. bill: i have a question every day. and testing underway in the gulf as bp gets ready to finally -- did i say that? finally stop the blownout well, and, at the moment engineers are getting ready to pump heavy mud into the riser cap. hoping to plug the pipe from the top down. top kill procedure, will it work? can it solve all of this? kris gutierrez is live from louisiana, will it work, kris? is thi...

Sea in the gulf of mexico. well, it's a new method, it's called static kill. let me first show you what's going on under the ocean right now. let me show you that camera. as you can see, no oil flowing. this cap that has been on there since july 15th has actually been working quite effectively. but they're getting ready to try something called static kill. a little bit different than the top kill method that didn't work well over a month ago. the difference right now, of course, is when they went in to do top kill, there was still oil flowing. there isn't oil flowing right now, so what they're...