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These numbers keep moving. >> you heard his description about the emotional toll, the physical toll is an entirely different story, the slippery mud, heavy mud and the need to go through respectfully to clear through and be able to search for victims. the categorization is a complicated thing. earlier and for the last few days the death toll has been 16. we do expect that number to officially go up at the press briefing in a couple hours, but the missing list has been the one that's the most confounding. it was 176, now it's 90. they have whittled that down to 90 known people, not duplicates, ...

One. >> thanks. we'll watch for that. ed henry from the white house tonight. at least 12 are dead as powerful storms trigger a landslide. that's our top story. as we go around the world now in eight seconds. >> mexico. state media report heavy mud poured down a mountain, burying two homes in a bust east of mexico city. crews uncovered victims beneath the debris. it came after two tropical storms battered the country's gulf coast, killing dozens and forcing more than 20,000 to evacuate. china. rescuers say that an elderly woman trapped in a bog in the northwest. she says she was walking on a ...

How well the static kill operation may have worked that was done last week. that's where they poured thousands of pounds of heavy mud and cement into the top of the well. some of that cement may have gone all the way down 13,000 feet to the bottom of the well and then up the sides of the casing. well, that's exactly where the relief well would be drilling into. so admiral thad allen and the government scientists aren't convinced there's enough cement there to seal permanently. so they want to go ahead with the relief well operation. that would reseem in aboume in days. there is another possibi...

>> reporter: good morning, alex. >> a bit of talk earlier this week that the crews possibly would not have to finish drilling that relief well because the current cap was so successful when it stopped the oil from leaking. is that still the case? >> well, remember the cap on top that was placed there july 15th was only temporary. last week, bp at the direction of the coast guard began what they call a static kill where they pour thousands of pounds of heavy mud and cement into the top of the well. it's thought some of that cement made it all the way down 13,000 feet down to the bottom of the w...

Work in the gulf is starting to shift gears now that the well is not leaking oil. but some locals worry that bp won't finish the job. bp's tests show the well is cemented and it's holding and no oil has leaked since july 15th. but there are still questions over fishermen and restaurant owners getting paid. and the overall environmental impact of the worst spill the nation has ever seen has yet to be fully determined. nbc news correspondent charles hadlock is in venice, louisiana. charles, cha's next there? >> reporter: good morning, chris. this week ear going to be hearing about the bottom kil...