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Rescuers cut through brush to get to the survivors, some of whom rescuers cut out of the plane wreckage. the aircraft went down in the southwest part of the state near dillingham in very rough terrain. bp back to work now on a relief well for the blown outwell after a tropical storm depression fizzled out in the gulf. the relief well 30 feet from intercepting the busted well but officials say the last stretch is the toughest part. bp already performed a top kill and hope to pump mud and cement no the well from underneath to permanently seal the well. officials in the gulf say this could be d...

Get closer and closer. the key about intercepting this well at the bottom is then through the relief well they will put heavy mud and cement like they did during top kill. they will do it at the bottom. once that cement plug is in at the bottom of the well, national incident commander thad allen says he will consider this well killed. so they hope to intercept the well by this weekend, but it is tricky, delicate, precise work they have to do this week. chuck? >> hey, anne, does bp still own this well? >> bp still owns the well, yep. it shares it with two other companies. >> could they at any p...

Now bottom kill. bp is taking one final step to make doubly, triply sure that the well in the gulf will never leak again. anne thompson is live in her second home of venice, louisiana. we got the relief well. that's done. is there any -- they wanted to drill two relief wells. what happened to the second relief well now? >> well, the second relief well is on hold while they finish drilling the first relief well, chuck. it is through the first well that they will do the bottom kill procedure. they have about 100 feet more to drill with the first relief well before they intersect the macondo well...

Jeff morrow demanded that wikileaks turn over the remaining documents to the united states government and erase all the current documents on their website from the internet. that was more of a plea rather than a demand. it's really sparked a rhetorical battle between wikileaks and the u.s. government. wikileaks saying, look, we have asked the government to help us expunge any harmful material from the remaining 15,000 documents they say they have. but a chief senior official here at the pentagon said, that's a devil's choice. to do that would, in fact, make the u.s. government complicit in wha...

Has been building under it. >> reporter: well, you know, this is sort of the difference between the static kill and the top kill. during the top kill there wasn't the containment cap on top. they were able to keep pressures monitored by the engineers watching this. with the cap in place, they will be able to pump the mud and cement through the blownout preventer and down into the well during this procedure. and as the procedure is going on, those engineers are going to be taking pressure readings minute by minute throughout the course of the night, throughout the next 24 to 48 hours, and they ...