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As we said at the top of the program, bp has started efforts to hopefully seal the ruptured well for good. it's called static kill and involves pumping heavy mud into the well. it's new that is everyone affected by the spill obviously has been waiting to hear for three months. tom foreman joins us from new orleans with the latest details. tom? >> reporter: anderson, the static kill has been under way about seven hours now and officials are anxiously watching every dial, every readout, every sign of what's happening on the gulf floor this minute. the effort was launched after a series of tests ...

Permanently seal that ruptured well in the gulf. engineers must wait until tomorrow before they can test the strength of the well head because of a technical glitch. when that is finished they will begin operation static kill which involves pumping heavy mud down well which might plug the leak for good. bp cannot be certain until the relief well is finished next week. >> two men accused of plotting to blow up buildings in new york have been found guilty. one worked as a cargo handler and familiar with the layout of airport. accomplice an engineer helped can with the technical aspects. theirs a...

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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...

Laden." it is all systems go for the static kill operation. bp engineers could begin pumping heavy mud into their ruptured oil well in the gulf by tonight. this procedure could take up to 48 hours and if it works the well will be permanently plugged. there is a problem with the cooling system on-board the international space station. crew members may be forced to conduct unscheduled space walks this week to fix it. nasa says the astronauts are not in danger. alarms woke up the crew saturday night after a circuit breaker shut off a pump that feeds ammonia to a cooling system. some are cal...