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They pump it down as far as they can get it to essentially plug this thing from the top. now, the relief well still going on, being dug from the angles, trying to intercept the well. but for right now, getting this mud down, the pressure is holding, things are working. static kill is working. we have been disappointed so many times in the past about thinking things might work, would work, and they didn't work. but right now, there is a lot of optimism about this effort. again, it's hard to get kind of mixed up in the static kill, bottom kill, what's the difference? well, they're essentially th...

So-called bottom kill. more mud and cement will be injected into bedrock 2 1/2 miles below the sea floor. this as new estimates are out at the bp price tag. the company could be fined as much as $21 billion if it is found to have committed gross negligence or willful misconduct. the fine could drop to $17.6 billion if the government credits the company for the oil it has already recovered. joining us once again tonight, former oil executive, bob cavnar, who writes about the industry at dailyhurricane.com. he's also author of "disaster on the horizon," which is due out in october. good evening,...

Running for two weeks. and then we started hearing about the static kill, where they wanted to try to kill the well from the top again. so that actually started this morning after a lot of discussion about whether that's actually the right thing to do, and it's one that i actually disagree with what they're doing right now. >> what happened with the relief wells that have been portrayed until the last few days, as the ultimate solution. no matter what else you did, if you got those relief wells, you would be sure that this thing would be mastered? >> this is the one thing i just don't understa...

Once again, we have expanded our language at the trivial expense of just a little oil in the gulf of mexico. static kill. our third story in the countdown, after allowing 5 million barrels of oil to poison the ocean, bp is once again putting its hopes into a glorified injection of mud. the obvious question is, will it work? perhaps the more important one is, how will we know? in a moment, bob cavnar will join us. tests earlier in the day prompting bp to go ahead with its critical so-called static kill effort, in which once again heavy drilling mud is pumped into the top of the well. the operat...

I'm lynn berry and here's what's happening. bp says the so-called static kill is going smoothly so far. they are hoping to create a permanent plug thnchths u.s. is imposing sanks on a hand full of senior iranian officials accusing them of providing direct support to the taliban. a senate panel has delayed a vote on a nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia saying they need more time to build bipartisan consensus. a delivery driver facing dismissal for stealing wept on at shooing rampage in connecticut on tuesday. killing the co-workers before turning the gun on himself. saudi arabia wi...