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Invest with confidence. welcome back. bp says the static kill effort has gone swimmingly. for people liing along the coast, this is far from over. the economic impact is devastating. they've been out of work for months. thousand they face the task of convincing a skeptical public that the fish is fine and the gulf is open for business. we're joined by pete gernka. how is the fish? how is the food? how are the oyster beds? >> from what i'm hearing from the oyster men, we have oyster beds in bad shape from the silt from the diversions they opened up to keep the river out. we have some oyster b...

As they continue to push it in there, gradually the pressure of the mud its will become so great that it starts pushing that oil down and, at some point, you'll reach a balance point, they hope, where no longer will the oil have the ability to force it out. that's when it is static, nothing is moving. the downward force is equal to the upward force. they say at that time you could take the cap off entirely and nothing would move. of course, they want to get it permanently sealed so that won't happen. tonight they're anxiously watching to see if this first step can work. anderson. >> tom forema...

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 ...

Once again, we have expanded our language at the trivial expense of just a little oil in the gulf of mexico. static kill. our third story in the countdown, after allowing 5 million barrels of oil to poison the ocean, bp is once again putting its hopes into a glorified injection of mud. the obvious question is, will it work? perhaps the more important one is, how will we know? in a moment, bob cavnar will join us. tests earlier in the day prompting bp to go ahead with its critical so-called static kill effort, in which once again heavy drilling mud is pumped into the top of the well. the operat...

This work by his garage today did not want to appear on camera, but let us tape the story on his property. what he told us was i didn't ask whether he was legal or illegal. i just knew he was a good worker. >> gary tuchman, appreciate it. coming up, what could be the beginning of the end of the worst offshore oil spill in history. or maybe the end of the beginning. the latest on the static kill effort in the gulf and whether it will seal the ruptured well once and for all. is craigslist profiting from prostitution? critics say it is. police say it is. a special 360 investigation amber lyons ...