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At this point. i think thats why theres a basis for optimism moving forward. >> so you think its sealed? >> well, it needs to be sealed from the bottom. weve sealed the casing pipe from the top. we need to drill into the area outside the casing pipe and well bore and do that with the relief well. that will be happening this week. >> i want to play you some sort of things from april and june when we were trying to get a grip on what you were dealing with here. >> it has involved into an environme...

Almost 100% confident, that as far as the gusher is concerned, its been stopped. whats your nightmare scenario? >> well, the nightmare scenario has always been total loss of well control. theres basis for optimism moving forward. >> so you think its sealed? >> well, it needs to be sealed from the bottom. weve sealed the casing pipe from the top. we need to drill into the area outside the casing pipe and well bore and do that with the relief well. that will be happening this week. >> i want to pl...

We need to drill into the area with the casing pipe, and that will be happening this week. >> i want to play you some sort of things from april and june, when we were trying to get a grip on what you were dealing with here. >> it has ae solved into a challenge. >> already this is the worse environmental disaster america has faced. >> as we know there is no precedent of a leak of this size and of this depth. >> it was armageddon, and now we get a report, its almost gone, and there is another quar...

>> well, we know that they have drilled most of the well, all of the way down the 100 feet from the intersection point. they have been casing wells, casing pieces of metal there, almost like an antenna, and you know the old antennas in the car and click, click, click, and get longer and longer, and the bot part of the antenna was fat and by the time you got to the 207, -- to the top, it was skinny, and they fit inside each other. well, they skinnier and skinnier as nay go down. well, the last pi...

The gulf oil disaster is the far from over, but with a permanent fix now in site, there are now some shifting from response to recovery mode. some are trying to remove the boom along the mississippi coast citing lack of oil and potential danger from hurricanes. another positive sign, at the top of the hour, louisiana will reopen part of the mississippi river delta to recreational fishing. but the most crucial development has to do with the relief well. national incident commander thad allen says...

Hours. president obama was briefed on that and much more in the white house situation room earlier today with the top coast guard homeland security and fema officials on hand. i spoke about all of this a little while ago with the presidents man in charge of the gulf oil disaster. and joining us now from new orleans, admiral thad allen, the national incident commander for the u.s. government. admiral, the weathers impact right now, bottom line, how much of a setback is this in dealing with the im...

There. but as close as the relief well is now to the well bore, even though its significantly below where we think there might be a problem, what weve done is the relief well right now is between four and five feet away from the well bore. they need to go down probably another 100 feet before they actually try to do the penetration. they were making arrangements to actually put a casing pipe down there to finish that part of the well bore before they did the penetration. theyve pulled back to th...

Else. if we get high pressure readings, that says the wellbore is intact and talk about the casing pipe, and that all relates to how much mud is needed to kill the well down below. >> that makes all of the sense in the world. i get that. the helix producer is collecting oil, good news there. is and winds are out of the south and east, pushing the oil away a bit or providi a bit of a break. >> more importantly, theyre light, and things are calm. pretty much any operation that they have to fix a s...

If something like that were to happen, could this affect the relief well process. >> im glad you asked that, that came up yesterday and there was an assessment done on that. heres what weve done to mitigate the risk. we dont think theres a problem about there, but as close as the relief well is to the bore, even though its significantly below where we think there might be a problem, what weve done, the relief well is four and 5 feet away from the well bore. they need to go down probably another ...

Jenna: hi, everybody, im jenna lee, welcome to the second hour of "happening now". jon: and im jon scott. bp announces it is moving forward on pressure tests of a new 75-ton containment cap sitting on top of the blown-out well. after fixing a leak in that cap today, a cap that can, hopefully, stop the flow of crude thats gushing into the gulf. thad allen explaining the importance of pressure a short time ago. >> if we get very low pressure readings, itd be the equivalent of putting your thumb ov...