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Today. the nation is in the midst of a deadly heat wave. power companies are maxed out. cooler centers stay hope. and zookeepers giving animals popsicles. now comes word one federal agency is storing body scans. we're live with this developing story. first, bp is preparing for the final step in the static kill operation after 108 days, the oil giant's blownout well is almost shut for good. >> the government giving bp the green light, after heavy mud successfully forced the oil down into the reservoir. the government telling bp to move forward with the relief process. that process should be...

Operation smothers the ruptured well with heavy mud. i'll speak with the president's energy adviser, carol browner. stand by. was iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad the target of a grenade attack? we are sifting through the conflicting reports from teheran. it is president obama's birthday, but a latest poll shows that an astonishing percentage of americans still deny he was born in the united states. that has some significant political implications. we want to welcome the viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation roo...

Saying bp often carpet-bombed the ocean with these chemicals. and the coast guard allowed them to do it. in a second round of testing, the environmental protection agency found, when dispersants were mixed with the type of crude oil that has gushed into the gulf, the result was no more toxic to marine life than the oil itself. a look at louisiana marshlands showed oil is still a menace. thick, black gobs of it choke the shore. >> look at the oil oozing back u herfhh. >> reporter: louisiana governor, bobby jindal, said it's a sign the cleanup process is far from the cleadedg rocess is far from ...

Today is day 94 of the oil spill and vice president biden returns to the region this morning to meet with people affected by the disaster. but right now, a developing storm is stopping work on the well. there's a 40% chance that the storm which is now in the caribbean will become the tropical depression or possibly a tropical storm by tomorrow. crews are in the final stages of readying that relief tunnel and then they're going to be dumping heavy mud and cement into it and hopefully that will seal it for good once the storm passes. former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzalez will not be char...

Must have been damaged because of the power of that well, the pressure of that reservoir, and so let's kind of not go to the stress tests until we're ready to go with the -- with the relief wells because the relief well building up a column of heavy mud could be the best case to shut down the flow. >> now, as i understand it, john, correct me where i'm wrong here, the goal was to gradually close this cap so that you're like tightening the funnel so it gets stronger and stronger with pressure in the middle and decide at some point whether that strong pressure coming there is an indication that ...