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Tonight, tomorrow, those ships will return to the area and begin the relief well process, which was supposed to begin today. today we would have been telling you about the beginning of the end of the kill process for this well, but that will have to wait a couple more days. veronica? >> regardless, though, this is going to impede the progress being made there, charles. how much progress will it be impeded? >> reporter: well, by several days. the good news is, that cap is in place. there's no oil of appreciable amounts of oil flowing into the gulf of mexico. and haven't been for the last eight ...

Design the killing process, the relief well process, to try to cement both inside and outside the casing. that would be a little different than what their intentions have been, but i don't see any technical reason why they couldn't do that. >> does it matter whether the break in the pipeline, the well is above or below where they intersect it with the relief well operation? >> yeah, i think if the break is below and they cement outside the casing as well as inside the casing, that should bring it to a stop. and that is, of course, what they want to do. if for some reason the break is above, an...

Shut, and that's shut down. but outside the casing in the perimeter where the well bore is that they get continued leakage. what they can try to do is design the killing process, the relief well process, to try to cement both inside and outside the casing. that would be a little different than what their intentions have been, butty don't see any technical reason why they couldn't do that. >> does it matter whether the break in the pipeline, the well is above or below where they intersect it with the relief well operation? >> yeah, i think if the break is below and they cement outside the casin...

Design the killing process, the relief well process, to try to cement both inside and outside the casing. that would be a little different than what their intentions have been, but i don't see any technical reason why they couldn't do that. >> does it matter whether the break in the pipeline, the well is above or below where they intersect it with the relief well operation? >> yeah, i think if the break is below and they cement outside the casing as well as inside the casing, that should bring it to a stop. and thaerkts of course, what they want to do. if for some reason the break is above, an...

Readings. and what's interesting, and also to kind of get people on the same page here is that after they do that. they will have to compare notes to what their readings were before the integrity tests. so we're still quite a ways away from figuring out exactly how this new system is going to work. but clearly, everything ramping back up after the leak was taken care of. but really, all of this has been slowed down and delayed because of concerns, getting back to the question we asked the admiral a short while ago. is how this entire process might affect the relief well process. which as every...