vessels continue to be active in the gulf, and are under way to understand the concentrations of subsurface oil, and exactly what rate at which it is being biodegraded. we ll continue to monitor and sample this oil, and report new results as they emerge. thank you. good afternoon. the last 24 hours have been fairly consequential in the life cycle of this response. i would like to go over a couple of things that have transpired. after a successful injection test yesterday, allowed us to understand the path of which liquids would go down the well, the amount of volume we could put in the well, and the pressure readings that we could take at the various places where the gauges were placed, gave us confidence we could go ahead. and we directed bp to proceed with the static kill. that began yesterday afternoon, went on throughout the evening and into the night and resulted