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They hope to have that test finished within the hour. they'll take a couple of hours to look at the data, and sometime this afternoon start the data kill process, which involves pumping heavy mud down into the well and pump it from the top and seal it off. they're going to start very slow slowly, a barrel or two a minute. they think it will take a 6 1rks 63 hours to get it all down into the mud. but they do hope to know well before that whether it's working. there's some debate as to what working means. bp thinks it could be the final solution. the relief well would be to verify that the stati...

There was nothing rare about them granting these exemptions. >> there's been a lot of talk about these things, you use them because yes, it does disperse the oil. a lot of people are saying we can't find oil to skim. maybe the dispersants worked but a lot of people worry what is it doing to the environment. >> the longlasting effect. >> we might not know that for some time. reynolds wolf is in new orleans on this day 104 and reynolds, good morning to you once again. this could be a big week this week as it comes to trying to finally kill this well. >> reporter: that's right. you know, guys, we...

In fact, fred and the commander do that every single day. they map out what they see and put the resources where the oil is. >> ok. thank you very much. ma'am, i'm sorry. we have to go. very sorry. >> well, that was the man in charge to b.p.'s reaction to the disaster in the gulf. he was saying that he is confident that the relief well, where they'll pump cement and mud into a second well by the end of this month, he thinks we'll succeed in permanently shutting that well. he also defended b.p. in dealing with the dispersants issue. very controversial. criticizing b.p. and the government where ...

The details. good saturday morning, anne. what's the issue now? >> reporter: well, alex, blame this one on tropical storm bonnie. as it passed over the gulf, it created a situation where some debris got stuck in the bottom of that relief well, the first relief well that is so close to the out of control well. so crews are trying to clean out that debris. they hope by monday night maybe tuesday to start the static kill process. it's the first. as crews prepare to run the final section of pipe in the relief well, bob dudley, bp's soon to be ceo tries to reassure a suspicious gulf coast. >> we ha...

That -- in the well that they were working on. so they have to remove that. that could take another day, day and a half before they can get started on this kill, this latest kill process. what does that involve? well, it's sort of several phases here. one is through the temporary cap, the static kill as they are calling it. you know, pumping more mud in there and hopefully sealing that with cement. and thn the second phase, the more permanent phase would be the bottom kill in the relief well. that, too, would permanently plug that well. that could still take many weeks. they're still giving an...