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Oil disaster day 98. ships and crews are back at work in the gulf of mexico after evacuating for two days because of tropical storm bonnie. rob marciano is in gulf port, mississippi. rob, first of all, good to see you. what is the time line now? the latest information you're getting for the static killy maybe you can describe what that is. >> reporter: yeah, yeah. that's -- you know, before bonnie, we talked about them needs a window of five to seven days of good weather to do the prep work to attempt the static kill. so now that pretty much begins today, tomorrow. they just got the drilling p...

The well bore, then eventually run the rest of the liner and cement that. that process is basically a five to seven-day process. until that is complete, they can't start the static kill process. that would put us at about a week from now. they tell me that -- i asked, why the static kill, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, let's wait until the leaf well is drilled. but they are emphatic the static kill operation will make the bottom kill from that relief well much, much quicker an much, much easier. that's where we are right now. as far as oil that was affected by the storm, it is getting more d...

>> well, i wouldn't consider it a good idea because of all the pain we went through, but we have a safer community. >> reporter: but for mamaria, t pain is still very real. >> people should come into my shoes and feel what latino people is feeling. >> reporter: sandra endo, cnn, prince william county, virginia. it is time for your top stories. bp boss tony hayward could be on his way out today. reports say the company will announce his exit at a blooard meeting in london. bp insisting for the moment at least he is still in charge. clean-up crews and relief workers are back in the waters of...

Down there, flush things out, and cement the casing. that's a five to seven day process, so that's the beginning of next week before we consider the static kill. i'm told that will speed up the bottom kill and make that ail lit easier. still, the whole process, tony has been delayed a week, maybe as much as nine days because of the bonnie fiasco. >> we'regoing to talk to david mattingly about this, but what about report the of a lack of oil now. as i independence you were out on a skimmer vessel, command vessel, and that was coordinating the activity of all of the other vessels of opportunity....

Earnings report is released. in the oil disaster zone crews are back at work on the relief well now that the weather has cleared. they're said to be making some headway toward permanently sealing the leak. they're also moving forward on the static kill that is the operation to pump mud and cement into the well. cnn's david mattingly is joining us from new orleans. david, tell us what's the latest from thad allen and how much damage did the storm bonnie actually cause in the area? >> reporter: well, the storm was really negligible in its effect, negative on the oil. also it was really negligibl...