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In venice, louisiana. so another good morning. how is it going at this point? >> reporter: hey, good morning, alex. we're still waiting for any word to come from about 50 miles off the coast here where that operation is under way. the last we heard from bp was some time yesterday afternoon that they had started the cementing process. that started at about 1:30 local time. it was expected to take a few hours. then they needed to let that cement cure. after that they were going to do their pressure test. then at that point they would be able to declare this well killed, that it would never again...

Preventer you're seeing on the deck. what they've put in its place is a larger, pore powerful preventer on top of the well at the bottom of the gulf of mexico but on top of that, remember the static kill, that put almost a mile of concrete into that pipe so now you have a new blowout preventer on top and yesterday the coast guard commander thad allen said that because of the new blowout preventer and the cement in the well, this well is no longer a danger to the gulf of mexico. however, he still wants bp to go ahead and with the bottom kill maneuver to make sure that the well is sealed both th...

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We have watched with some underwater pictures intently for nearly four months now. the worst environmental disaster in the country's history ravaged the gulf, spilling more oil than the "exxon valdez" and put thousands of people out of work. 11 people died april 20th aboard the deepwater horizon rig. since the explosion, the government estimates 206 million gallons of oil spilled into the gulf. the government's man in charge of the spill, thad allen, has news conference planned to talk about the test results. go to nbc news correspondent charles hadlock in venice, louisiana, now. so they are l...

Incident command is mulling over is what form is the final killing of this well going to take? this graphic can help us here. what they are trying to do now is decide whether to do the bottom kill or not. that's the -- what they've already done is the static kill. they pumped mud and cement to the point beneath the blowout preventer about right there and a little into the top of this well that's going down now. that succeeded in stopping the oil from flowing into the gulf. but the question is, do they let that stand as the final kill or do they do that so-called bottom kill that you just menti...