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Youve been talking about, were watching that. essentially as admiral allen says, they believe they could go either that containment cap moves into place and presuming that everything continues to work according to plan, that that would either cap off and there would be no more oil flow, probably at least 48 hours away from knowing whether or not that indeed will be the case. or if it does continue to work and some flow continues to come out, that they would move these vessels into place on the s...

Well area. >> eric: so they took the old cap off, and then theyre going to put the new cap on, but that means that oil is still gushing out before they get the new cap on. what are they trying to do to contain that? >> reporter: thats right. potentially 5 million gallons could be leaked as a result of the operation. federal officials, though, signed off on it believing that the long-term gain will outweigh the short-term risk. b.p. says that there are more than 500 skimmer vessels in the gulf of...

The vents on the side. the plan is to go down here to the bottom where they will take -- let me turn on the telestration here for a moment. they will take this cap at the bottom, and they are going to take the existing cap off, and they have a any cap which is much tighter fitting and put it on. for a little while, the oil will spew out. now, he said not all of the oil and the reason he said that is because right now they have one line coming off of the cap to a ship up top and that smip is rece...

Day three is going to start this hour. but, lets begin with the worst oil weve seen on floridas shore. oil globs stretching for miles along those normally beautiful pensacola beaches. take a look at what washed up on an eight-mile beach of sand. this is not just tar balls but has the potential to devastate tourism in the short term. a large section of gulf waters are back open for fishing and the largest area south of mississippi. oil was never spotted there, but the feds had closed those wate...

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Will attempt to reinstall it and begin producing later on today. if there are hydrates theyll probably have to re-run the pipe line and that will take considerably longer. >> admiral allen is referring to those hydrates that can form and clog up things if hydro carbons are exposed to cold water which could have occurred when they took the cap off and moved it aside. this is what the cap looks like when it is not connected. we just spoke with bp officials. there does seem to be activity around th...