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Cleanup efforts are shifting from immediately around the well to the shoreline, now that the oil has stopped flowing. wolf. >> all right. lisa, thank you. bp by the way is still hoping to move forward with the so-called static kill procedure that will seal the well once and for all. >> we are far from finished. we have clearly made progress offsho offshore, but we have much more to go offshore, and we will be pursuing with the approval from admiral allen and the government. we hope to pursue the static kill when the weather allows us to do that. we have to finish the relief well. we have to ...

Morning, stunning news, really, and it starts with this, bp declaring that the static kill procedure in their opinion is a success. this as we await the government's announcement that's going to come in a few hours that, listen to this, 3/4 of the oil in the gulf is already gone. where did it go, you may ask. a new report claim thank most of it is either evaporated, dispersed, and that's a big question about the dispersion part of all this, or it's been cleaned up, and the rest, it's alluded that it doesn't pose any additional risk. advisers are saying a lot of the good news has to do with the...

Days have gone on? >> actually, very surprisingly, we've seen very little oil from the moment we got out here until today. >> reporter: but after leaving the static kill operation on our way back, we fine signs this crisis is far from over. this long stretch of oil sheen was floating just a few miles off the shorelines. and as you mentioned earlier, john and kiran, the federal government is expected to release a report later this morning showing that much of the oil has dissipated since the beginning of this crisis. that report is also expected to caution that the federal agencies monitoring t...

Bp is moving forward with cementing that well. for all intents and purposes, that will seal this well for good. we should point out, though, we don't know the flow rate and that's probably something that admiral thad allen will discuss with us later this afternoon when he holds that news conference to talk about how much cement is actually needed, because we don't know how long this will take. we know that the static kill procedure which used the same system of pipe thank choke line that pump the mud down in there took just eight hours, so we're still not sure, still not clear, how long this w...

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