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Place. working with the coast guard, local and state authorities we have an extensive severe weather plan so im confident that will work. a week ago today we got the capping stack in place and closed it in. once again, this vessel and this crew played a critical role in that. it has been a week since weve had any new oil flow into the gulf. when you fly over the gulf of mexico, you see a dramatic difference in the last week. to give you some sense of that, the week before we got the capping stac...

Blowout preventer. are they an indication of methane? theyre testing for that. the third problem is a small leak in the flange of the capping stack. that essentially is the bottom of the ceiling cap. and they dont seem too concerned about that. so, the government green lighted this test to go ahead for another 24 hours which takes us to about mid afternoon today. and well see if they get another 24 hours. but in the meantime, bp has announced yet another plan b. i call this one plan b to about t...

When the new, more tightly fitting cap placed on the wellhead, a fraction of the amount of oil that escaped to the gulf of mexico for three months escaped in the water. another sign of seepage has been ruled to be not related but there are still great concerns. >> the leakage is occurring located right about here. there is hydrate formation on the side of the capping stack as we move forward. >> admiral allen showing everyone on top of thecaing stack the new leak of oil has been detected. spotte...

It was clean and solid and had a nice ring on the top of it and that ring was able to be clamped to this new capping stack that has all of the valves in it. and then all of a sudden this well made aluminum and iron down to a piece of 150,000 pound stack dropped on top of this, bolted together and sealed together, all of a sudden we have the oil coming out the top of this. well, yesterday, and of course today, they started closing the valves, cranking them ever so slowly. they wanted the pressure...

Live pictures from what weve been calling the leak cam. as you can see, there is nothing leaking now. so far the capping stack is holding, we presume. otherwise engineers would have started venting oil to relieve the oil. probably relieving some political pressure on the white house, which has take answer lot of fire over the last 80 or so days for it is handling of the crisis. henry joins us now. ed, what are you hearing? >> reporter: earlier today the president was giving a statement on the so...

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Preventer, it was there, it was not a good seal. they came out, took the bolts out and took it away. then they brought in a new one, a new top. it was clean and solid and had a nice ring on the top of it and that ring was able to be clamped to this new capping stack that has all of the valves in it. and then all of a sudden this well made aluminum and iron down to a piece of 150,000 pound stack dropped on top of this, bolted together and sealed together, all of a sudden we have the oil coming ou...

Live pictures from what weve been calling the leak cam. as you can see, there is nothing leaking now. so far the capping stack is holding, we presume. otherwise engineers would have started venting oil to relieve the oil. probably relieving some political pressure on the white house, which has take answer lot of fire over the last 80 or so days for it is handling of the crisis. henry joins us now. ed, what are you hearing? >> reporter: earlier today the president was giving a statement on the so...

Stand. at first it can look pretty complicated. once upon a time, there was one ship, two ships out there. now there is a whole bunch of stuff going on. ignore everything except what i point to. this is the basics. this down here is the key. this is where all the work is going on, where the capping stack, where for a moment weve seen a pause in whats going on. what they will be doing is they will be reopening the lines that lead up to two ships on the surface. you have the q4000 and the helix pr...

Stop? >> good afternoon, michael. they cloegsed the last valve, t choke valve in, just about an hour ago. i was actually watching the feed when the announcement was made, and the feed is obviously still flowing at that point, but it did stop. i just saw a good shot of the entire stack from the top of the old blowout preventer to the top of the new capping stack, and it is indeed shut in. >> we just showed the feed right now and people can see it at home. it looks aç heck of a lot different tha...