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Spillway. >> jamie: and a lot of people are asking why this will be undertaken and people will lose their home. it was put into motion in the 1930s, built in 1954 and last opened in 1973. and its set to open when the mississippi reaches a flow rate of one and a half million cubic feet per second and to put at that in perspective, consider the amount of water flowing past vicksburg, mississippi right now and weve been told it would fill the new orleans silverdome, get this in 50 seconds. >> wow, ...

Hour. and good day. im andrea mitchell in washington, and we start today with a pivotal day in the gulf, where engineers are now preparing to test the new containment cap on the leaking oil head. the tests could take two days to complete. the results should give us the clearest picture yet of just how damaged that well is. >> maybe counterintuitive to some. in this exercise, high pressure is good. whatever information we get out of this well integrity test will lead us to a more refined estima...

Bp is moving forward with cementing that well. for all intents and purposes, that will seal this well for good. we should point out, though, we dont know the flow rate and thats probably something that admiral thad allen will discuss with us later this afternoon when he holds that news conference to talk about how much cement is actually needed, because we dont know how long this will take. we know that the static kill procedure which used the same system of pipe thank choke line that pump the m...

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...

Wolf? >> theres a huge fine bp will have to pay for all the oil went out. heres the question, are they going to have to reopen that well to determine precisely the flow rate in order to assess how much bp owes the federal tax payers? >> admiral allen talking about that very thing today, saying that is one of the big decisions on his plate he has to work through. right now theyre looking at ways they can possibly determine an accurate flow rate using temperature readings theyre learning now, pres...

Dudley, who promises to learn from the spill. the old ceo, tony hayward, hasnt learned much. he got his life back and more, and $18 million in severance, he says he was demonized in a conference call says, quote, about. ps response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility. it has mounted an unprecedented response. well, the response was unprecedented. of course, so was the size of the spill. its not saying very much. claiming that bp has been a model of good corpo...

Businesses and tourism and mundane aspects of their daily lives. >> i pray to god it works this time because i want my life -- i used to complain about my rug. it turns out i loved it. >> the oil flow is not going to be there. i hope we can clean up the mess and things get back to normal. >> reporter: right now they have rough estimates of how much oil leaked into the gulf but they hope that todays pressure test will give them a more accurate flow rate and much better estimate of just how much o...

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To go to 24 hours, and if its at 8,000 or 9,000, we will go 48 hours to make sure it can sustain the pressure. based on the pressure readings we find, this could be 6, 24 or 48 hours, and at that point we will have a better idea not only of the pressure. it will tell us something about the condition of the wellbore itself and ultimately will tell us about the flow rate, which to date was based on estimates, digital imagery. somewhere after noon we will start. the technical team is being assemble...