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Preventers as early as sunday. today, the effort was postponed until possibly monday or tuesday because workers need to clean out debris they found in one of the relief wells being drilled. the debris is preventing a final section of pipe casing from being installed. that casing is essential for reinforcing the relief well and keeping it secure during the static kill. tom foreman has more for us tonight. tom? >> hey, randi. what they want to do is make sure that relief well is ready in case the static kill doesn't work. let's explain the static kill first. they'll pump fluid down into that blo...

Final pipe casing right now, suzanne, and when they do that and get it cemented in they will go with a static kill. that will happen late sunday or monday. they will put mud down the top of the well that's heavier than the oil that's there right now and hopefully fill the well up. we'll still need to drill in from the bottom and kill the well from the bottom but at this point it looks like we'll be able to move ahead. we've got good well integrity and trying to move forward it's a positive turn. >> does this mean this will be completely capped and sealed, that we're now at final stage of resol...

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 ...

It had hoped to start a static kill, pumping mud and cement from above into the blow-out preventers as early as sunday. today, the effort was postponed until possibly monday or tuesday because workers need to clean out debris they found in one of the relief wells being drilled. the debris is preventing a final section of pipe casing from being installed. that casing is essential for reinforcing the relief well and keeping it secure during the static kill. tom foreman has more for us tonight. tom? >> hey, randi. what they want to do is make sure that relief well is ready in case the static kill...

To us once again what they are worried about could go wrong. >> reporter: well, they need to just by the name of the test. integrity testing. essentially what they're going to do in this test is close off all of the valves. you can imagine how intense the pressure with all of this oil shooting out into the gulf of mexico. we are talking about intense, intense pressure. when they cap that, all that pressure is kind of contained in there and they need to make sure that the cap that they've put on there will be able to withstand that and that everything down the line, deep into the earth, would b...