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Gulf oil leak for good. >> but bp insists it's only a temporary setback and that the busted well should be permanently fixed soon. diana alvear is joining us now with the very latest. hi, diana. >> reporter: vinita, rob, good morning. "operation static kill" has suffering another setback. bp announced a small leak has been found at the static well site and that must be repaired before the static kill can happen again. that's estimated to happen some time today. the operation will involve pumping mud into the damaged well. that will help plug it permanently. engineers are deciding whether or no...

Pressu pressure. we found that out in time and locked the valve shut and had the valves failed for any particular reason that might have caused hydrocarbons to go into the environment and that's not good. in the course of the checks done to leading up to the injection tests, twa located and they were able to deal were it over night. >> it's been stopped? >> it's been stopped. as soon as we get the injection test completed, which we hope to start very, very soon. we are on a minute-to-minute basis. we will do the injection test and they'll probably need a couple of hours just to look at the dat...

And community development proje projects, and those, too, will start to wind down soon and what we are left with is a mountain of debt to put a drag on the economy and not a boost. >> reporter: now the vice president's office which is overseeing the stimulus plan defended the program noting that the examples given by the two senators account for 25% of 1% of all of the money spent on all stimulus projects. >> wolf? >> thank you, lisa. and in "the situation room" right now, breaking news, bp begins the critical attempt to plug up the blown out well in the gulf of mexico. they are pumping mud ...

How this is all going to go down. >> reporter: listening to admiral thad allen, you can see why it always takes a little bit of translation to really understand what he's talking about. this is the single biggest moment in ending the threat of this well since they got that cap on and once they have been able to do that static kill that procedure they're talking about, they will pump it full of mud and push the oil back down in the reservoir where it can't be of trouble been again. before they do that, they have to do a series of tests that will take a few hours, and then they expect to be able...

They'll pump heavy drilling mud and eventually cement at the top of the well. all of the pipes, all of the valves have to be able to withstand the pressure. thad allen was saying -- quoting him here, one of the things they're looking for is if they start pumping mud in and all of a sudden, the pressure doesn't go down, they would hit just a flat line and the pressure stays there. that means it's going somewhere and that would be of grave concern to them. here's something else that's happening. while the efforts are being made to create the right situation for that static kill of the well, abov...