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>> two words. and there are four terms. top. >> okay. >> kill. bottom kill. they are completely different. >> right. >> one, 18,000 feet in the bottom of the ocean. the other one on top where the blowout preventter is. i'm going to make a familiar three tree here, just like at cnn. there was the dynamic part of the static kill they tried to do earlier. >> right. >> and now they're going to do a static kill. they are both still top kills. >> i got it, okay. >> they both still pump mud down into and into the blow out preventer, or in this case, even the secondary part they can pump it in, and it...

It is 105 days in. but we've not seen oil flowing out of that well since july the 15th. let me give you a sense of what's going on. that's a picture -- live picture, as you can see. no oil flying anywhere. the issue here is that we are going to start to see static kill. let me show you what static kill looks like. basically they're going to be sending stuff down from the surface, mud, they call it mud. it's drilling mud. it's really a chemical, very heavy chemical that pushes anything underneath it, particularly oil, deeper down. they're going to be mushing that mud all the way through these t...

>> that's in the past, now. you know, we've just got to get this thing cleaned up. >> we have to stand up together, be united, and take some strong measures to try and prevent this from happening again. >> it's not going to be back to normal for years, but, you know, got to get it cleaned up now. >> cnn "newsroom" continues right now with ali velshi. >> randi, thank you so much. so great to see you here in atlanta. i'll be with you for the rest of the afternoon. i'm ali velshi, here's what i've got on the rundown, static kill. the first step in a two-part strategy that could plug the gulf oil ...

And should not delay at larger static kill. the epa says a study of dispersants used in the gulf found them to be no more harmful than the oil itself. senator john mccain is block president obama's nominee for director of national intelligence demanding that general james clapper provide a specific report. 12 people were killed in a deadly day of drive-by shootings in iraq. this as president obama reaffirmed his commitment today to having all u.s. combat troops out of the country by the end of this month. and wall street kicked off august with a huge rally on better than expected reading...

Else it was called along the way, and sounds like a similar procedure with the cement and mud and is it more workable because we're at a different stage of the game here. >> i think and i hope it is, because the flow has been stopped. so, hopefully, the static kill will work, and, permanently stop the flow, in addition, the relief wells are being finished off. but, the good news is the flow has been stopped for several weeks, and, we're all hopeful that it will be permanently shut in very soon. having said that, we have a lot of remaining challenges. we still have oil coming into our marsh, nu...