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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...

With reporters yesterday. >> i trust their recommendations and i would eat the seafood out of the gulf here and i would feed it to my family. >> overton is a professor of environmental science. thanks for joining us today. i want to talk about the static kill. as i understand it, bp plans to plug the well with mud from the top and plug it with mud and cement from the bottom. >> i think that's what is exactly happening there. this is going be a well sealed

Engineers hope they'll deal a death blow today to the broken well and the work will started tonight, engineers will begin a process, static kill, it may sound a little bit familiar, junk, you know, all the different things they tried, this is a similar process, 1-2 punch and will pump mud and cement into the top of the broken well, kris gutierrez joins us live from slidell, louisiana with the latest. how is it looking. >> reporter: the implementation of the static kill and the drilling of the relief wells, should seal the leak once and for all but the lingering effect of the natural disaster w...

>> we haven't ignored the epa guidelines. there is no disagreement between lisa jackson and i regarding what we want to do with dispersant. >> i think we all worked hard not to use more than we had to. but i would say it was a very effective tool. >> reporter: despite the reopening of some fishing grounds, gulf fishermen are still wary. >> nobody is talking about the dispersants. you can see the oil but you can't see dispersants. >> reporter: bp is getting ready for the final push to permanently kill the troubled well. >> we've got the equipment all hooked up to perform the static kill. right ...

Longstanding house democrats could give the gop ammunition ahead of the midterm elections in october. charlie rangel was reprimanded, and maxinewares says she will face a trial. two mit students allegedly helped bradley manning. one of the students told hacker adrian lamo they gave encryption software to manning and taught him how to use it. pentagon officials say manning is the prime suspect in last week's leak of thousands of field reports from the afghanistan war. the seal of the ruptured well could begin tonight, the so-called static kill that involves pouring mud and cement into the w...