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The blowout preventer there? it just pushes that down. if it goes all the way through, they might decide then to go ahead and pump cement in to seal off that main pipe. it looks like the top kill that failed back in may -- but there is this difference. back then the oil was just pouring out, stopping it was like trying to push a train. first you had to catch it while it raced toward you. now with the cap on top, it's more like the train is stopped, although it's still very hard to push it backward or down, it's not as hard. anderson? >> if the static kill works and they pump the cement into th...

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Like trying to push a train. first you had to catch it while it raced toward you. now with the cap on top, it's more like the train is stopped, although it's still very hard to push it backward or down, it's not as hard. anderson? >> if the static kill works and they pump the cement into the well, why would they continue with the relief well as they planned to, to be extra safe? >> yeah, that's really it. i mean, basically this is about redundancy, there's more to plug here also, than just the main pipe. you may recall, anderson, how we stood about this spot sometime back -- and i said near th...

They hope to have that test finished within the hour. they'll take a couple of hours to look at the data, and sometime this afternoon start the data kill process, which involves pumping heavy mud down into the well and pump it from the top and seal it off. they're going to start very slow slowly, a barrel or two a minute. they think it will take a 6 1rks 63 hours to get it all down into the mud. but they do hope to know well before that whether it's working. there's some debate as to what working means. bp thinks it could be the final solution. the relief well would be to verify that the stati...

I don't think they understood the economic devastation this moratorium would cause. everybody here on the coast, including fishermen and shrimpers and oystermen, who are most affected by the oil, are unanimous that the moratorium needs to be lifted. we can put major safety measures in place, and -- immediately, and lift the moratorium. martha: senator, we hope that the static kill works, and, solves at least one of the problems and you have a lot of stuff to deal with. >> absolutely. martha: and let us know if you hear back from the white house on the memo. >> absolutely. martha: we'll stay on...