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The controversial case of a former agriculture department official. >> i was faced with helping a white person save their land. >> an explosive story that brings together race, politics and modern media. static kill. that's what bp wants to try at its busted oil well in the gulf. how it's done, and what are the chances of success? and, plenty of pets. >> i have a hard time saying no to a cat in need. >> why do some people keep so many animals around the house? it's wednesday, july 21st. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> you've got to stay tuned for the animal horror story. tha...

Steve. >> reporter: jon, we're getting ready to go out with one of these small fishing vehicles that's going to have to try and prepare this area for the storm ahead. the tropical storm is brewing towards puerto rico and there are fears it could churn up the water and throw a lot of oil on this beach, even over into lake pontchartrain. as far as progress in capping or killing that well, certainly progress has been made. on thursday, it will be a week since that temporary cap has been put in place. so far -- so far, officials say it is holding strong and they're going to try to attack the well ...

That apparently could take between five days and a few weeks and then your other option that they've been talking about is the static kill shooting mud into the existing cap, the cap that's holding the oil in place. >> right. >> would you risk that? >> i don't think so. i think the static kill will put more pressure down the well bore. everybody knows that. and it could indeed compromise the integrity of the existing well bore which is already probably compromised. that's exactly what happened with the initial top kill attempt. the safest thing to do is open things back up, connect it to surfa...

Player until '96. that's when the company emerged. and it really had a lot of downfalls and upswings. it really is fascinating. the man who created this company is kind of a genius. he realized there was even more market space aside from nike and adidas and he found it. >> got his way in there. >> stick around for that. >> good morning and thanks for being with us, i'm vinita nair. >> i'm rob nelson. to the news now. the government is downplaying fears that the cap on the gulf oil spill might be buckling under pressure. >> admiral thad allen compared the small drips to an oil leak in a car. ...

Surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn't have any problems spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle class americans like jim or leslie or denise who really need help. >> larry: we'll have the group comment on that. but first, let me check in with anderson cooper. he'll host "ac 360 at at the top of the hour. what's the lead, anderson? >> breaking news tonight. a new option on the table to permanently seal the well in the gulf called the static kill. we're drilling mud is pumped into ...