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Its bp following the pressure. bp with the remote operating vehicles on the bottom thats actually visually scanning the area, watching for any signs of seepage up from the ocean floor, watching for any bubbles of perhaps methane coming up. also doing sonic testing, acoustic testing to see if theres some oil detected, some movement they may not be able to see visually. theyre also conducting seismic testing to check sort of like an mri sort of the ocean floor to see if theres any place where a wa...

Line? and, secondly, there seems to be recurring questions as to what this solution -- why wasnt this solution considered earlier in the process? >> first of all, i would say were probably -- the relief well is a little over 100 feet above the proposed intersection point, but they are pulling the bit back to the last cased section where they have the pipe in. theres another section theyre going to put pipe in. they are going to withdraw, got the rest of that wellbore filled with mud all of the w...

Oclock six, 24, or 48 hours, and at that point we will have a better in order not only the pressure, it will tell us something about the condition of the well bore itself and ultimately tell us manager about the flow rate which today has been based on estimates, based on the digitical imagery, acoustic testing and so forth. so a consequential day, somewhere in the afternoon, we will start the technical team, its being assembled. after this press conference ill be meeting with secretary kh*u from...

Good morning. >> good morning, tony. an historic vote expected to begin in a few moments. this stt bill that is supposed to reform wall street. its supposed to be the answer to the scary days we saw almost two years ago when the u.s. economy was teetering on a cliff and so much of the economic pain that americans have felt since. this is the final hurdle for this mainly democratic passed bill. bps latest effort to stop the oil gusher in the gulf appears to be on track. day 87 and testing on th...

And we were told today that that relief well is about 30 feet away from wear it will intersect, and were going to hear from admiral thad allen shortly about the progress of everything here. >> 30 feet, thats really close. looks like progress happening now. lets get to the retired admiral thad allen for the daily update. >> take a look at the implications of the test related to pressures in the wellbore and make sure we exhausted every means to consider low probability high consequence outcomes. ...

Cap, thats when they noticed that there was a leak in what they call the choke line. well, over night, they were able to remove that choke line, replace it. its fixed, good to go. that was told to us a couple of hours ago, and bp also saying that they expected later this morning to be able to get started with that testing again where they would close off this cap and do all of those important pressure readings every few hours to see if this well might be leaking down below. if theyre able to bui...