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Lets update you now on the top stories of the day. day 87 of the gulf oil disaster. bp has replaced a leaking pipe and hopes to resume an important test later on today. the integrity test is intended to determine the wells pressure to see if a new container cap can stop the oil flow. a key senate vote expected today on wall street reform, the final procedural hurdle to be sure that the bill moves on to president obama for signing next week. the vatican is vee leasing a new rule book making i...

President for the naacp. join the live conversation now. go to cnn.com/amfix. enough out there to talk about. >> sure is. the setback in the gulf and the efforts to cap the oil leak. bp discovering a leak in the new 75 ton containment cap its using to stop the spill. thats forced integrity tests to be delayed. >> testing whether it can hold up under extreme pressure once that cap stems the oil flow. david mattingly is live in new orleans and, david, do we know how long this problem will dela...

The ideal kind of best-case scenario would be that this containment cap system essentially works by itself and seals off the oil flow. but perhaps what i think officials here seem to be the more likely process that will happen, is that they will be able to reconnect all the riser pipes to containment ships on the surface of the water and at the very least, collect all of the oil that is, that is spewing into the gulf of mexico. so one of those two options they hope will be how all of this plays ...

The story is unfolding as we speak. the past hour said they had given b.p. the green light for pressure test after a delay, and they needed the time to get assurances from scientists and b.p. that the cest would not do any damage. look at the sea under the spilled site. it will put it on the new cap and then measuring the oil pressure building up inside the cap. high pressure would suggest the cap is holding back the oil flow. low pressure will indicate a leak somewhere else in the well. but its...

Delay. good evening, jonathan. >> hi, bret. the story is unfolding as we speak. the past hour said they had given b.p. the green light for pressure test after a delay, and they needed the time to get assurances from scientists and b.p. that the cest would not do any damage. look at the sea under the spilled site. it will put it on the new cap and then measuring the oil pressure building up inside the cap. high pressure would suggest the cap is holding back the oil flow. low pressure will indicat...

Im kiran chetry. >> im drew griffin in for john roberts. day 85 of this bp oil spill in the gulf. the company though successfully put a new containment cap on the leak yesterday. still unclear if it will stop the oil flow. theyre testing right now as we speak. we are live in the gulf ahead. also former cuban dictator fidel castro making a rare appearance with words of warning to the u.s. castro says any u.s. military action against iran would likely turn nuclear and hes also blaming the u.s....

Of the o spill, clinton would be down there, how you doing, i want to help you out. he wouldnt be outgoing on his third vacation. he wouldnt be playing golf every weekend. >> lets remember, when one talks about obama having no experience. a governor of the state has to learn about hurricanes, forest fires, clear-cutting, tornadoes, all kinds of stuffs, they are lawyers, politicians what do they know from forest fires? they have to learn how to learn about it. obama has never had that experience ...

Of the oil spill, clinton would be down there, how you doing, i want to help you out. he wouldnt be outgoing on his third vacation. he wouldnt be playing golf every weekend. >> lets remember, when one talks about obama having no experience. a governor of the state has to learn about hurricanes, forest fires, clear-cutting, tornadoes, all kinds of stuffs, they are lawyers, politicians what do they know from forest fires? they have to learn how to learn about it. obama has never had that experienc...

Oh, the terms we have learned lately because whats happened in the gulf. that whole new vocabulary, today in "wordplay" were going to get another jargony term taken straight from the gulf oil disaster and response. have you heard the headlines about this capping stack? this is bps latest attempt to choke off its busted wellhead a mile down on that gulf sea floor and the companys reporting some progress. basically this capping stack as you take a look, is at issue. its a better, tighter containme...

Fitting cap onto its leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico. look at these pictures as you see them unfold. ill turn around to show you. thats the new cap they dropped it on top. thats above. you see pictures from the side. the remote operated vehicle is down there undersea a mile under the water trying tosea, a mile underwater, try to attach the new cap get, on snug. once they have a good fit, they will be closing and testing the valves and by this time tomorrow, we will know if this cap will n...