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The top down a process known as static kill. residents worry that the oil company and the coast guard will be pulling out of the region without cleaning up the spill. with me now is bob with an environmental action group. thanks for joining us pap lot of stress going on and defen defensiveness on the part of bp and thad allen. they say it's almost over. what about the damage >> we hope the static kill works and that the permanent kill the permanent solution from tremendous leave well works and that we're over with putting oil toin in the ocean. there is oil toings right now and what we learned...

That go unpredicted. well, that very small unseen low is now tearing this thing apart, and pulling the clouds away from the center which was right there. so, all of the cloud cover you see right here is caused by sheer, and when you get sheer in the thunderstorm or in a hurricane, you have two different things. sheer in a thunderstorm can cause big tornadoes, and sheer in a hurricane just simply takes top right off, and disorganizes it, and that is what we have right now. this is a tropical depression, and it may never come back, and may never get to be tropical storm again. the forecast is fo...

Do? >> reporter: well, a lethal injection, savannah, is a great way to describe it. excuse me. i have mixed minus in my ear. what they're going to do is pump heavy mud through the choke line and into the blowout preventer and the goal here is to force all the oil back down into the reservoir. now, officials think there's somewhere around 2,000 barrels of oil in the wellbore. they have heavy mud on hand to do it. so why do the static kill? if you have to do the relief kill. that's the bottom kill. officials say the static kill is an shurns policy against hurricanes. they will have permanently c...