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two words. and there are four terms. top. okay. kill. bottom kill. they are completely different. right. one, 18,000 feet in the bottom of the ocean. the other one on top where the blowout preventter is. i m going to make a familiar three tree here, just like at cnn. there was the dynamic part of the static kill they tried to do earlier. right. and now they re going to do a static kill. they are both still top kills. i got it, okay. they both still pump mud down into and into the blow out preventer, or in this case, even the secondary part they can pump it in, and it will probably go into the bop, because it s just easier, and the valve is already there. and then this mud, this very heavy mud. we call it mud, but it s drilling mud. it s a chemical. it is a heavy almost mercury-like fluid. i mean and it s so heavy that it will push, literally, it will push the oil back down into the well, all the way down into the reservoir. right. problem is, you ve got 7, ....
It is 105 days in. but we ve not seen oil flowing out of that well since july the 15th. let me give you a sense of what s going on. that s a picture live picture, as you can see. no oil flying anywhere. the issue here is that we are going to start to see static kill. let me show you what static kill looks like. basically they re going to be sending stuff down from the surface, mud, they call it mud. it s drilling mud. it s really a chemical, very heavy chemical that pushes anything underneath it, particularly oil, deeper down. they re going to be mushing that mud all the way through these twisted pipes and throughout blowout preventer into that well, pushing it down. you ll see it go down into the well and basically after the med mud, they ll send cement in and that should do it. that should totally do the job. it should close that well off permanently. they re also needing to they need to drill this relief well. i m going to show you this. two wells are being drilled, into the bot ....
Leading cause of incorrect convictions. unvalidated or improper forensic science is a factor in half the cases. false confessions and incriminating statements are a quarter, and jailhouse inform ants and snitches are a factor in 19% of wrongful convictions. i should tell you. be the thing about michael green that caught my attention is he got into a verbal scuffle with one of the guards on his way out as he was being released and as a result they delayed his release for another day. so 27 years wrong flee convicted and they didn t let him out because he got into it with one of the guards. wow, what if there were a way for those in wheelchairs to be able able to stand up, walk upright, go upstairs? two high school friends have invented a robot that can do this. check out our big i after the break. ....
Fulfilling the mandate, what is it going to look like, and there are questions about when the u.s. troops are going to leave afghanistan? the president is saying next summer, they re going to pull some, not saying how many. but will the afghan government be stable enough? so it s possible we could be pulling our troops out of everywhere and no one is left more stable than when we started, and we were in afghanistan ten years ago. when i was covering the end of the bush administration, you know, all the criticism from the obama campaign, for example, in 2008 was that the bush administration took their eye off of afghanistan after 9/11 and put all of it on iraq. yeah. you have to wonder now whether the pendulum is going to shift, and all of a sudden because we re in a bit of a rush to fulfill this deadline to get out of iraq, all of the attention is focusing on afghanistan, and the u.s. has had a tough time finding that balance. by the way, you notice i like the vest. i d ....
That s not a good thing. don t keep watching the clock. just avoid it. but if you feel like you ve been up for a while, like more than 15 minutes, just get up. turn the light on, go read something calming go somewhere else and work but get it out of your bedroom. no, don t work. get out of your bedroom and read a nice novel, watch a nice movie, something like that. do something soothing. if you get up and work, the brain cells are churning again. want to calm the little brain cells i start e-mailing the doctor says keep everything out of the room. sleep hygiene. that s a good way to put it. electronics doesn t that tweet can wait. you don t have to tweet right now. i guess. i m ready to try anything. great to see you again. listen, talk about trying to get some sleep. alarms were blaring at the international space station this weekend. it looks like the astronauts are going to be okay. we re going to tell you what was going on and what they re doing about it whe ....