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She hit the warehouse while trying to land, and was killed instantly. the faa confirming that death to us now. we are working as many details as possible on how exactly it happened. and who exactly this female pilot was. of we'll keep on top of this story for you and bring you the information as it develops. other top stories happening now. police saying a man shot and killed eight people at his job yesterday and then turned the fwun on himself. it happened in manchester, connecticut. authorities say the gunman was forced to resign after being accused of stealing beer. bp officials say the...

Kill. it involves pumping mud and then cement into that well, eventually sealing it off. t.j. winick has our progress report. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. according to a leader of the operation to plug the blown out well, the process is going well. along the gulf, there is real hope it is the beginning of the end. bp has begun the static kill that is expected to choke the busted oil well once and for all. >> this is a really positive step forward. it's going to be good news in a time when there hasn't been a lot of good news. but i don't think it should be caus...

Those are things we need to learn. regarding the total volume of mud that we pumped in, it will vary on whether or not we are pumping into the casing or the anulus as well. we need pressure readings and there are various lines to describe how much volume and pressure there is if you had the casing and the anulus and filling it up or just dealing with the casing. there are charts and automatic pressure readings on screens launched by the senior leadership up there and i'll be joining them when i finish the briefing here as that moves forward. >> from the ap. how serious was this leak and how lo...

It's all because they don't know -- they haven't been able to look at this well this entire time with any sort of x-ray eyes or anything to get 100% confirmation that it's in great shape and that the well can take this pumping of the mud. that test is very important. it's going to tell them whether or not they can go forward with the static kill and how they can go forward with the static kill, how slowly or quickly they might be able to go. everything looking good. they got the leaky valve fixed. they were able to take care of that overnight and now they'll get started on what they hoped to d...

At that point, they'll begin to pump mud into the choke line, and the horizon blowout preventer. it will start at one barrel per minute and move that up to two barrels her minute. there's going to be a very low rate of injection into the well because we don't need to do it in a higher rate as we did with the top kill because there's pressure back on the well with the capping stack. we don't know exactly how much mud will be pumped in. it will depend on the condition of the well itself. there are three areas that need to be filled, the drill pipe, the casing itself and the area outside the casi...