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All right. moving on in the gulf. bp is anxious to get the static kill under way and choke off that well for good. but first, engineers want to make sure the well can handle it. anne thompson is nbc's chief environmental affairs correspondent and you know where she is live in today, venice, louisiana. so, at what point today will we know the results of this test? and i guess when does this next version of the lethal injection which i think is my favorite way to describe this begin? >> reporter: well, it actually -- i love that description, too, chuck, because it makes sense. that's what the st...

Original trial. the price of failure is $1.6 million that's how much ousted tony hayward will get in severance as he heads off to russia. yes, $1.6 million. and he's also guaranteed about $930,000 pension for life. while that is a big step down from the $4.7 million he made last year, not bad for a widely reviled executive. in the meantime, the company is reporting a record $17 billion loss for the court. bob dudley says his goals are to seal the well for good and make sure it doesn't happen again. >> i wish him well in retirement. i hope he'll donate some of that money to the gulf coast. >>...

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Talking about something called a static well. we have learned so much about the oil industry and what is static kill and why do they think it will work compared to top kill and the other things they have tried? >> we'll learn more about it. static kill is now basically top kill two. now that that temporary cap is in place bp would like to keep it there until a relief well is completed next week. but the static kill would be another way to kill the well a little earlier. you have the cap on top of the blowout preventer and the hoses attached, it could pump mud into the top of the blowout preven...

Chances. they're going the relief wells irrespective of whether the static kill works or doesn't work. >> part of the caution pre caution and redundancy. yes, they could kill the well with those procedure, with the static kill, but it's not going to be done until they say they've finished the relief well and filled it with a massive cement plug down there at the bottom. they may not need to do that, but it ee something they're going to do as an insurance policy to make sure this threat is done for good. wolf? >> a critical moment right now. david, thanks very much. and none of this can come to...