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Time for today's "wordplay" where we take a term in the headlines that might be unfamiliar to a lot of people and explain it. today, we've got "mud," which doesn't mean what you think it means, at least in the context of the gulf oil disaster. your average mud is wet, soft earth, right? well, the mud everyone's focused on today is drilling mud, a manufactured fluid, usually a bentonite clay base. right now, it is the main ingredient in bp's static kill plan. v they've got more than 1 million gallons of this mud standing by. the plan is to start pumping it right down into that ruptured wellhead...

The capped oil well with one question in mind. where is the leak? there are low pressure readings that suggest there might be one somewhere, even though scientists say that the gas bubbling up from the ocean floor and methane gas occurs naturally. >> there is a dramatic new development unfolding right now. a technique called static kill may be attempted to try to seal that well for good. it involves pumping heavy mud to force all of the oil and gas back down to the reservoir where it came from. earlier on american morning, arthur berman told us he doesn't see a downside to trying the procedure...