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Usually when people get new jobs i congratulate you but i think you may have picked the old maid card this time sir. >> i hope not greta, but thank you. good to talk with you again. >> greta: nice to talk to you. i'm not going to clobber you over the head or bp today, because i know your company has gotten that and admittedly it is well deserves. i'm curious as to the current status. where are we? we've temporarily sealed that well but give me an overview? >> 13 days ago we put a cap on the well, sealed it and we've been monitoring it closely to test the integrity. you remember tropical storm ...

The static kill operation is on for early next week and is hopeful we have seen the last drop of spilled oil. >> by monday, we are likely to begin something called the static kill. man folds and pumping heavy mud and cement down into the well. the objective is to stop the flow and then we can come back in after that with the relief well. what i say we are now 13 days with the well cap and came back after the storm, integrity of the well was good. i think, john, no guarantees, i believe there will be no more oil flowing into the gulf as of the 15th of july. >> could take months, even years, to ...

Two, there is still oil on the beaches. it is not easy to clean up if at all and there will likely be more particulates rolling up on the beaches in the weeks to come. this story is not over. >> it's fascinating that you can't actually see the oil and you used that equipment and it becomes very visible. still a big mystery in terms of where all of this oil has gone. there is a new snap shot here of the oil disaster after a hundred days, an estimated 3 million to 5.2 million barrels of crude that oozed into the gulf before the new well cap sealed that leak about two weeks ago. now more than 1 m...

The whole delay on this operation is going to be on the order of five to seven days. but that's certainly better than 10 to 14 which we once feared. skimming operations also have been halted, at least temporarily, for this storm. but they've slowed down as well because they've done a really good job over the last eight, nine days with the help of the well cap. i've had the opportunity to talk to some of these hard-working people trying to clean up the gulf of mexico. one was a u.s. coast guard cutter. on the deck of that skimmer, it's pretty slippery and dirty work. check it out. using the equ...

Also underwater cameras are being pulled out. the extent of this delay still to be determined. maybe 10 days? also this means that that new well cap that stopped the flow of the oil will be untouched for 48 hours. meanwhile, the reason they ire all down there, this picture. that massive explosion in the gulf. chief engineer tech for transocean testified that the night of april 20, k in the m3: morning, the fire alarm did not sound. why? hear it for yourself pop i discovered it was inhibited about a year ago. i inquired as to why it was inhibited. the explanation i got was that they did not wan...