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Later on today. phil black for us this morning in london, thanks so much. meanwhile, efforts are resuming this morning to kill bp's ruptured well once and for all. operations set back by about a week because of this weekend's tropical storm but now crews are reconnecting equipment to resume drilling on those relief wells. rob marciano is live in gulfport, mississippi this morning for us. rob, we talk about this week. what is the new timetable for the static kill procedure? >> reporter: well, basically the earliest would be next monday. they are saying august 1st week would be the earliest th...

Into place tomorrow. these were actually defenses for the coastal areas to keep the oil from getting into lake pontchartrain. there are a lot of moving parts that have to move back to where they were, as they were fighting this oil. but right now, all eyes are on that drilling platform. how soon can they get that back up. they're hoping within a matter of days to be back on track. but so far, this storm that actually didn't happen, as it fell apart on its way here, has actually cost this operation probably, don, about a week. >> so that's the time frame for about a week. everyone, i ask you ev...

Got hit with more than 7 inches of rain, flooding streets and interstates, knocking out power to thousands and canceling airline flights. rescue teams in several suburban towns used boats and even a helicopter to search for people stranded by the rising water. in the gulf of mexico, the storm danger has passed and ships are now back at the site of the bp oil well. cnn's david mattingly has more from louisiana. david, good evening to you. when will those boats be back on site, back to work? >> reporter: they are all back on their way right now. in fact, the drilling platform that handles the ...

And so bear in mind that in the earth's crust there in the seafloor, you have a big pipe casing. then you put in a smaller one. it gets down all the way to seven inches. down very deep, almost two miles down, in the earth's crust. so that whole drill string below the earth's surface may have been rattled. and i had this model rigged up. here's the new cap which has a relief valve on it. this would go to the surface. but you've got to think of things below the seafloor. if this were the seafloor, this drill string goes down, down, almost two miles. so anywhere along this string, in the earth's ...

Hole they've drilled and the drilling platform goes away. then a whole new platform, a whole different platform actually comes in, uncorks the hole and gets the oil out of the well. two different types of rigs. two different processes. there's drilling and then there's production. drilling done with a drilling rig, production done with a production rig. the production platform pumps the oil back to shore through all of the green pipe lines you see there on the map. those are the green lines. again, drilling and production platforms, two different things. this is sort of oil industry 101. this ...