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Withstand winds of 40 miles an hour, if it got up to that high, they'd start breaking apart and start drifting away so they didn't want that to happen. they started disconnecting them, bringing them inland and now this area and much the areas along the coast are pretty much defenseless right now as of what is left of that storm continues to push that oil around. so they're hoping they'll be able to get all of these protective measures back out on the water, and back where they belong as quickly as possible. don? >> so, david, what about the status of those relief wells? >> reporter: what we're...

Students have injected drilling mud into the primary well which increased the weight of the fluid in the well, and this increased weight, increased the pressure on bottom of this column of fluid, and that was enough pressure to overcome the pressure of the reservoir. >> the national incident commander thad allen approved this static kill, but the final decision will be made by the federal government. we will watch it. a first lady's unflattering portrait of her husband and details of why her book has jaws dropping. ♪ when you have a different perspective on things you don't end up with jus...

Static kill, and here is how it works. >> as you can see, the well is flowing from the top, and when the well is flowing, you can't do a static kill, because when you inject mud into the well, the mud is blown out into the ocean. to do a static kill, you have to have the apparatus at the top to control the flow. the brown area simulates mud. the blue area simulates the ocean. this is the primary well, and this is a cap and stack which are a series of controlling the flow. this is called a static kill operation, because there is no flow of the well. we are going to kill the well by putting mud ...

Wear, the we will be prepared to deal with this. >> this delays the static kill, which so kill it from the top, and does it delay the relief wells finishing the job and killing this well once and for all? >> it does, wolf, because they are actually connected. we don't want to start the static top kill until we have the final casing pipe in, because that assures us that the relief well won't be impacted if there is a problem in the wellbore, itself, caused by the static kill, so what we want to do is to put the final section of pipe in to relieve the wellbore and then do the static top kill and...

Bp. so we went to the white house, asking it, are they going to require bp to reopen the well so that accurate measure flow can be measured? the white house said take it up with thad allen. i spoke to james carville about this earlier today. >> if the weather holds, it's possible they do the static kill and once and for all kill this well. that would mean we would never know the actual amount of oil pouring out of there on any given day. >> that's what it means, so bp lawyers would be able to argue that. last night i said it was a $7,000 fine. that's incorrect. i stand corrected on that. that'...