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Reporting there in shreveport. let's move on to another story off the coast of louisiana where bp is testing a blown out well making sure they could form a process to kill it permanently. they were going to start it yesterday but the static kill was pushed back again because of a leak. we heard from the man in charge a short time ago. >> there was a hydraulic leak discovered last night. bp crews and contractors on scene spent the night repairing the leaks. they are repaired right now. we're going through final saf y safeties and check lists right now. >> nbc's kristen dahlgren is in venice, ...

So-called static kill procedure. bp released a statement saying as engineers started the inject tifty test, they discovered a small hydraulic leak in the capping system. the test and the static kill will wait until the leak is fixed -- possibly by tomorrow. but even before bp's engineers have tried to pump mud and cement down the throat of the busted well, something it's tried and failed to do in similar fashion before, something it cannot now start, the company is acting as if it's succeeded. bp officials not sure they'll use the relief wells they are digging for months to plug the ruptured o...

Today from thad allen, the national incident commander. he is going to be able to tell us probably whether or not a static kill is going to happen today barring some announcement from bp this morning that static kill is under way. so we're still waiting and still hoping down here on the gulf. >> also, we talked about these new figures out about just how much oil is spilling into the gulf. there has been talk over the past several months since this spill that it was much higher than previously reported by bp. what is the final analysis, i guess, from the federal government? >> reporter: well, a...

To be greasily negligent. a crucial test is being rescheduled until tomorrow at the earliest, a test that needs to take place before the company goes ahead with the static kill plan to seal off the well. bp says a small leak was discovered that needs to be prepared. tom foreman joins me now from new orleans with a look at what that static kill involves. >> reporter: federal authorities are preparing out in the gulf, off the shore here for this test. they'll pump small bursts of another type of oil in that well to see if they can force it down against the current, so to speak, two miles below t...

Hartford. we had been reporting seven people dead, now we are told nine people have died, including the shooter. this is an area, again, in manchester, connecticut. we're having more details brought into us moment by moment, and we're going to have a live report from the scene in about 20 minutes away. but, again, this breaking story getting worse and worse coming out of connecticut, where nine people have now died in a pork place shooting there. let's talk about the gulf, and the efforts to contain the leak and the final kill, which is called static kill. and we're going to take a look at j...