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Will be injecting heavy fluids into the cap in an attempt to try to seal this damaged well once and for all. it's likely that it won't do that. it will simply just prime the pump, prime this well for the bottom kill operation that suttles says will take place in mid-august. at this point, suttles says all of these operations are moving in the right direction and that he says he is, quote, confident that this will all end with success. don, back to you. >> jim acosta, thank you very much. some encouraging signs elsewhere along the gulf coast. in gulf shores, alabama, swimming advisory has final...

Earlier in the day that it was thad allen's office, the united states coast guard that was in control of just how much disper sanities was used over the gulf of mexico. the united states coast guard that was in control of just how much dispersants was used over the gulf of mexico. at one point, during the press briefing, i asked doug suttles whether or not he would serve seafood out of the gulf of mexico to his own family, whether he'd heat that himself given the fact commercial fishing has reopened off the coastline. here's what suttles had to say. >> there's been a tremendous amount of testi...

Been to underanticipate and over deliver. they are going to go forward with the bottom kill operation five to seven days after the static kill operation. so sometime around mid-august they are going to use the relief well they have been drilling continuously since the start of this. and they are going to use that relief well, they hope it will intercept with the ruptured well at some point in the next week or so and then they are going to pump the heavy fluid, the mud and cement, down into the reservoir. they hope with the next 1-2 punch, the double whammy, this will seal off the well once and...

Laden." it is all systems go for the static kill operation. bp engineers could begin pumping heavy mud into their ruptured oil well in the gulf by tonight. this procedure could take up to 48 hours and if it works the well will be permanently plugged. there is a problem with the cooling system on-board the international space station. crew members may be forced to conduct unscheduled space walks this week to fix it. nasa says the astronauts are not in danger. alarms woke up the crew saturday night after a circuit breaker shut off a pump that feeds ammonia to a cooling system. some are cal...

Experts think this home-grown terrorist could be the next osama bin laden. the difference though, al awlaki was born in new mexico and went to college in colorado. the static kill is set to begin some time in the next 48 hours. engineers could start pumping heavy mud down the throat of bp's ruptured oil well by tonight if everything is in place. the goal is to kill the beast by literally choking it to death. a congressional report is accusing bp of using excessive amounts of dispersant during the worst days of the oil spill. one lawmaker who we'll speak with in the next hour says that the ...