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They pump it down as far as they can get it to essentially plug this thing from the top. now, the relief well still going on, being dug from the angles, trying to intercept the well. but for right now, getting this mud down, the pressure is holding, things are working. static kill is working. we have been disappointed so many times in the past about thinking things might work, would work, and they didn't work. but right now, there is a lot of optimism about this effort. again, it's hard to get kind of mixed up in the static kill, bottom kill, what's the difference? well, they're essentially th...

All right. we're expecting this to start at any moment. just got a head's up this was going to take place, kind of a two-minute warning, and you see the reporters getting in their spots at the white house. the daily briefing about to take place. taking on more significance because of what is happening in the gulf and also because of who is going to be at the brifg, not just robert gibbs, but also that had allen, the incident commander and head of noaa, the national oceanic and atmospheric association. the update today is siblth significant. it's significant because the static kill effort is wo...

To that end, bp has talked about sort of rejiggering that top kill procedure that didn't work. that was a ship that tried to pump mud down to shut off the well. this time they use the same device, but instead of pumping mud down, it would suck oil out of there. they think they can get that going by later in this week. and the hope is that that could collect somewhere in the realm of about 400,000 gallons a day. the problem with throwing all these numbers out there to you is that right now they still don't have an accurate gauge of how much is coming out. you don't know whether to take these nu...