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For several hours and fingers crossed sometime later this afternoon they will start the stat i can kill procedure. jon: if bp is scaling back the cleanup that has to be hugely controversial. >> reporter: absolutely. over the weekend bob dudley, the american who will take over in october says it's not too early to start talking about scaling back the cleanup efforts. obviously that doesn't sit well with people. take a look at this video here. the parish president says look at all of the oil spill in our sense sieve wetlands. here is how he responded to the possibility of scaling back the effort...

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...

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...

Of the operations will be discontinued if the winds are over 40 miles an hour. some of the vessels would have to pull away. in terms of the cleanup along the coast, a lot of that has already been suspended to get the ships in safe harbor as the storm moves over the coast, into the gulf of mexico over the next 24 hours or so, so what we're looking at now is a stop in the action, that's for sure, because the relief well was just hours away from being poured, the final casing and they were hoping to begin the final kill of the bottom well, of the bottom kill procedure this weekend, but that has b...